Limbo (1972)

Director:

Mark Robson

Writers:

James Bridges, Joan Micklin Silver (screenplay),

Stars:

Kate Jackson, Katherine Justice, Stuart Margolin

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kate Jackson	...	Sandy Lawton
Katherine Justice	...	Sharon Dornbeck
Stuart Margolin	...	Phil Garrett
Hazel Medina	...	Jane Work
Kathleen Nolan	...	Mary Kay Beull
Russell Wiggins	...	Alan Weber
Joan Murphy	...	Margaret Holroyd
Mike Bersell	...	Joe Beull
Kim Nicholas	...	Kathy Beull
Ken Kornbluh	...	Pete Beull
Laura Kornbluh	...	Julie Beull
Dick Callinan	...	Col. Lloyd
Charles Martin	...	Col. Gunderson
Frank Logan	...	Gen. Gibbs
Andy Jarrell	...	Ed Baldwin (as Andrew Jarrell)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

friendship | husband wife relationship | vietnam war | family relationships | military base | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

November 1972 (USA)

Also Known As:

Chained to Yesterday

Company Credits

Production Co:

Omaha, Orange, The Filmakers Group

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Did You Know?

Trivia

Kate Jackson's film debut.

User Reviews

Missing in Action, Killed in Action or Prisonner of War

For the first time I'll comment another thing than a B movie. This one is a drama. Pretty well done. Of course, Mark Robson is more comfortable with action films. But this one is the first, as far as I know, which talks about soldiers's wives. Missing in Action, Killed in Action or Prisonner of War's wives. Women who expect the unexpected. Women who try to survive. Women who try to help themselves, share their pain, their hope. That reminds me a film shot in 2002 or 2003, starring Mel Gibson : WE WERE SOLDIERS. In this movie, the women's lives were also evoked, even if the film focused also on warfare, in Nam.

In LIMBO, we see these women prey to guilt, doubt, especially when some men are snooping around, trying to date with them. These women who suffer of loneliness. Women who don't know if their missing husbands are dead or not.

A sensitive movie. Very interesting one. But I guess that there were some other films about that subject.