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The Rape of Richard Beck (1985) (TV)
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James G. Hirsch (writer)
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27 May 1985 (USA)
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Cop Beck (Crenna) thinks rape victims "bring it upon themselves" to be raped but has a mind-changing...
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 2 wins
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Perhaps The Characterisation Should Have Been Changed
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Richard Crenna | ... | Richard Beck | |
| Meredith Baxter | ... | Barbara McKee (as Meredith Baxter Birney) | |
| Pat Hingle | ... | Chappy Beck | |
| Frances Lee McCain | ... | Caroline Beck | |
| Cotter Smith | ... | Lt. Hugo | |
| Joanna Kerns | ... | Anita Parrish | |
| Mark Dickison | ... | Eric Gibbs | |
| Jason Bernard | ... | Sgt. Wally Rydell | |
| George Dzundza | ... | Blastig | |
| Nicholas Worth | ... | Ray | |
| M.C. Gainey | ... | Sonny | |
| Stanley Kamel | ... | Dr. Greenberg | |
| James Goodwin Rice | ... | Stan Weatherspoon | |
| Jonas Marlowe | ... | Joey Beck | |
| Gregory Wagrowski | ... | Harlan Bozer |
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This TVM features rape as the dramatic centre point but there`s a difference in that the victim is a middle aged streetwise cop who is MALE . The crime itself is thankfully understated ( This is a TVM after all ) and the teleplay revolves around the victim Richard Beck struggling to come to terms with his rape as he finds sympathy in short supply
Casting Richard Crenna as Beck is a double edged sword . Crenna is best known as playing supporting roles usually as good guys and he gives a very good performance here . Unfortunately he does come over as being far too nice to be entirely convincing as a tough streetwise cop . I couldn`t help notice that the script also seems to play up to the nice guy character of Beck . We the audience are supposed to empathise with the victim but if they`d made Beck a rather more hard edged or just plain nasty and cynical character we`d have still felt sorry for him . Considering the theme is one of rape I can`t feeling the producers have made a mistake in making Beck too likable . Were they frightened that if we saw Beck give someone a few slaps now and again we would have thought he deserved to be raped in some way ?
I can`t help thinking everything would have worked a bit better if there had been more in the way of " Rape victims deserved it " from a sneering cynical arrogant pre rape Richard Beck which would have made a few scenes work even better , scenes like where his police chief says " Get out of here punk " when Beck goes to pieces at the ID parade or when Beck desparately explains to his unsympathetic relative that " There was nothing I could do , they had a gun to my head "
As it is THE RAPE OF RICHARD BECK is a very good TVM but probably tries a little too hard to make us empathise with the rape victim which isn`t necessary because no one deserves to be raped