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Us (1991) -- For 16 consecutive inaugurations, Earl Hargrove has created countless parade floats.  This year he is building seven floats and decorating ten official balls. CBS News' Bill Plante interviews this legend.
Us (1991) -- CBS News' Bob Schieffer walks us through the highs and lows of President Bush's eight years in the White House.
Us (1991) -- "CBS News RAW:" At the US Airways headquarters in Tempe, Ariz., chief executive officer Doug Parker speaks about the recent A320 jetliner which crashed into the Hudson River in New York City.
Us (1991) -- "Breaking News": Passenger Jeff Collogi describes being warned by the pilot about the impending crash of U.S. Airways flight 1549. And passengers leave their rescue boats in the freezing Hudson River.
Us (1991) -- CBS News' Jim Axelrod asked President Bush during his final press conference how he feels he was treated by critics.

Overview

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Director:
Michael Landon
Writer (WGA):
Michael Landon (written by)
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Release Date:
20 September 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
When the police finds a necklace with some criminal, a detective remembers that it was missing evidence in a murderer case many years ago... more | add synopsis
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His Last Healthy Television Project... more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Michael Landon ... Jeff Hayes
Barney Martin ... Jack Hayes
Casey Peterson ... Cary Hayes

Meg Wittner ... Ellen

David Spielberg ... Paul Kramer

Deborah Benson ... Liz
Luke Reilly ... Martin Dunne
David Kriegel ... Robbo
Eddie Jones ... Det. Harry Boland
Cynthia Geary ... Crystal

Jack Yates ... Big Man in Bar
Claude Earl Jones ... Att. General Lindsay
Christopher Morley ... Man / Woman
Andrea Aal ... Woman #1
Vali Ashton ... Woman #2
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Additional Details

Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This was the pilot for a planned series, but Michael Landon died a month after it aired. more

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His Last Healthy Television Project..., 11 May 2004
Author: ponderosaexplosion from Ca, USA



Michael Landon was at his full peak of best health at the time he wrote, filmed and assembled the pilot film in November and December of 1990. The story and characters are somewhat more realistic and edgier and Landon himself has elements of the last 3 characters he played ( Bonanza-Joe, Little House-Charles, Highway to Heaven-Jonathan ) in the new character of Jeff Hayes. Landon himself, in his own self is very evident in the character of Jeff. His master technique of acting is certainly very well evoking in this pilot film. His new hairstyles, trimmed-down muscular build and his own clothing ( except the MGM wardrobe prison garb ) and the 90's suburb-settings are more then a sign he did not look back to the past for limitless creativity, but the future. He was working out several weeks at the gym and at MGM, before he filmed this and many assumed this was made when he was sick with cancer, which is a big misconception to many of his fans. Untrue. Filming of the first 12 episodes was set for early June 1991, but tragedy occured some months before that would make this new series impossible. It's a showcase of something that would have been, perhaps his most satisfying role, had he not fell sick some 4 months later in February 1991, with pancreatic cancer, then diagnosed with it in April after sensing he was not well, spanning 5 months through July 1, 1991, to his demise. The US pilot was aired on CBS a few months after he died, in September 1991 and later reran in 1992. Since then on cable television and dish TV. Perhaps a most disturbing scene is in the first act of the film, he is walking down a Los Angeles street at night--and for the first time in his career--he is not accompanied by a sidekick, as with Victor French, Dan Blocker or Merlin Olson. Somewhat detached, seeing him alone in a scene, where most of the time, he's in the presence of another lead actor, as a co-hero. Ten months earlier in January 1990, while on Larry King, he recalled how a "Bonanza" remake would be impossible, since his closet co-stars had all died ( Pernell Roberts excluded, who is still living ), and some of the reality of these tragedies surface in US, in a subtle sense. Michael is there--but he should have his old-co-stars with him at some point of a scene--a modern and somber reminder time has marched on and they have been lost in death. He made an appearance on Entertainment Tonight-the Christmas 1990 edition and sadly the next one would be in April 1991, when he held the press conference at his Malibu home, announcing his grim illness to the world on television. He can never be replaced as the Master of Family Television and a good man, in every sense of the word.





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