The Sound of Anger (1968) (TV)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Michael Ritchie

Writers:

Roy Huggins (story)
Dick Nelson (writer)

Release Date:

10 December 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman

Cast

Burl Ives	...	Walter Nichols
Guy Stockwell	...	Brad Darrell
James Farentino	...	Neil Darrell
Dorothy Provine	...	Marge Carruthers
Charles Aidman	...	Gerald Thompson
Jay C. Flippen	...	Judge Prentiss
Lynda Day George	...	Barbara Keeley
David Macklin	...	Barry Kochek
Dana Elcar	...	Andrew Pearce
Collin Wilcox Paxton	...	Ann Kochek
John Milford	...	Sheriff Turner
Shannon Farnon	...	Dorothy Daley
Nina Roman	...	Jody Schaeffer
George Murdock	...	Grebe
Gene Dynarski	...	Lieutenant Morrisey

Runtime:

USA:100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company:

Universal TV

Movie Connections:

Followed by The Whole World Is Watching (1969) (TV)

I Remember It So It Must Be Memorable

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

I have a special fondness for those great TV movies of the late 60s and early 70s which actually had original plots and fully developed characters. (The Plug-in-the-B List-Actress into the True Crime or Medical Drama Syndrome began later.)I can get pretty nostalgic about them, probably because it's unlikely I'll ever see them again. The snows of yesteryear... Because they are kind of obscure yet memorable in the best sense of the word it's fun to list and describe some of them with fellow TV and movie fans when you're just hanging out, with beers on the patio on a summer night... "I LOVED that one! It was on, like, every Wednesday night on the Late Show until 1978!" Much more fun than analyzing Nick Ray's use of POV...

THE SOUND OF ANGER, a crime drama about a young couple accused of cutting wires or something to cause the crash of the girl's disapproving (and very wealthy) father's private plane, was one of the best. I must have seen it five times. I think it WAS on every Wednesday night in the 70s. It's been too long for me to critique the performances or the film editing: What has stayed with me is its unusually trenchant and realistic (for TV anyway)view of the Jury System, in which the Quest for Truth can get lost in the shuffle of petty local politics. Also, the sun-baked dreariness of the desert locale. The twist ending (is it a POSSIBLE SPOILER even to say there's a twist ending? Somehow, I don't think it'll matter much to anyone in this case...)is a beauty.