Cast the First Stone (1989) (TV)

Director:

John Korty

Writers (WGA):

Brian L. Ross (story) and
Vickie Patik (story) ...
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Release Date:

13 November 1989 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Title From Bible | Based On True Story

Cast

Jill Eikenberry	...	Diane Martin
Richard Masur	...	Refson
Elizabeth Ruscio	...	Sandy
Joe Spano	...	Bill Spencer
Lew Ayres	...	Martin
Charles Kimbrough	...	Frank Murdoch
Salome Jens	...	Sister Angela
Dick Anthony Williams	...	Jackson Phillips
Anne Schedeen	...	Elaine Stanton
H. Richard Greene	...	Martin Daly
George McDaniel	...	Larry Stanton
Holly Palance	...	Ellen Armstrong
Jeff McCarthy	...	Neil Douglas
Richard Riehle	...	Dickson
Lorinne Vozoff	...	Psychiatrist #1
Sandy Bull	...	Andy
Adilah Barnes	...	Nun
Thomas Bellin	...	Judge
Edward Blanchard	...	Janitor
Dah-ve Chodan	...	Cathy
Michael Collins	...	Foreman
Sam Dalton	...	Reporter
E.R. Davies	...	Bailiff
Steven M. Gagnon	...	Mike
Cordis Heard	...	Parent
John Ingle	...	Charles Drake
Patrick Johnston	...	Man in Drugstore
Jack Kehler	...	Keeler
David A. Kimball	...	Psychiatrist #2
Mary McCusker	...	Doctor
Udana Power	...	Miss Kramer
Michael Rich	...	Cary Peters
Myra Turley	...	Lunch Supervisor
Joan Welles	...	Mrs. Adams
Rudolph Willrich	...	Moss

Directed by
John Korty

Writing credits (WGA)
Brian L. Ross		(story) (as Brian Ross) and
Vickie Patik		(story)
Brian L. Ross		(teleplay) (as Brian Ross)

Produced by
Mark A. Burley	....	producer
Janet Faust Krusi	....	supervising producer
Sheri Singer	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Ira Newborn

Cinematography by
Tak Fujimoto

Film Editing by
Jim Oliver

Casting by
Nan Dutton

Production Design by
Josan F. Russo

Set Decoration by
Jerry Adams
Audrey A. Blasdel

Costume Design by
Dianne Kennedy

Makeup Department
Candida Conery	....	hair stylist
Jeff Cox	....	makeup artist
Dick Dawson	....	makeup artist
Susan Schuler-Page	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Morris Chapnick	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Michael Amundson	....	second assistant director
Jack Philbrick	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Carroll Bob Johnson	....	set designer
John Sexton	....	property master
Hank Stonecipher	....	construction coordinator

Sound Department
Martin Raymond Bolger	....	sound mixer (as Marty Bolger)
Kenn Fuller	....	sound mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Jack Harmon	....	chief lighting technician
Buzz Jochheim	....	key grip (as Robert 'Buzz' Jochheim)
Anthony R. Palmieri	....	camera operator (as Tony Palmieri)
Ray Wilbar	....	first assistant camera

Editorial Department
Hope Moskowitz	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Jeff Carson	....	supervising music editor

Transportation Department
Dana Crocker	....	transportation captain

Other crew
Louis H. Goldstein	....	location manager
Kisuna Jacobsen	....	script supervisor
Margaret Linn	....	assistant to producers
Betty Petitt	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Television
• Mench

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures
• Columbia TriStar Domestic Television
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1995) (USA) (VHS)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1989) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Sony Pictures Television (2002-)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:Not Rated

Company:

Columbia Pictures Television

A somewhat interesting story of a pregnant unmarried teacher who is being pressured to resign.

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I can't tell if this was based on a true story, but it could have been. Jill Eikenberry is good as Diane Martin, a public school teacher who is single, and also a devout Catholic. Coming home from a retreat, she picks up a hitcher, a young man, simply as a good deed. That's her nature. Everything goes well, she takes him as far as she can, then lets him off as she checks into a roadside motel. The story gets going when, at night and raining, the young man has not yet caught another ride. The rest plays out in a fairly predictable manner, but tells a good story of a teacher being treated unfairly.

SPOILERS FOLLOW. She reluctantly lets him into her room to sleep on the floor. But he awakes to sexual feelings (male stereotype?) and with his knife as a weapon, forces himself upon her then escapes. Being afraid and ashamed, she did not report this to anyone. But things came to a head when she found out she was pregnant.

When the school board becomes aware of all this they want her to resign, or she will be fired for "immoral behavior", assuming her pregnancy was a result of an affair. Since she doesn't cooperate they begin to build trumped up charges, fire her, but she eventually, after counseling, decides to fight the dismissal. A pivotal scene was meeting another young man, a former student of hers, who was going to become a teacher because of her inspiration. She won her case. In the last scene we see her son who appears to be 5 or 6 years old by that time.