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Power (1980)

| Action, Biography, Drama | TV Movie 14 January 1980
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Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind... See full summary »

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Tommy Vanda
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Rose Vanda-Buchanan
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Tony Guidice
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Jack Eisenstadt
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Buck Buchanan
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Armstrong
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Hillman
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Jack Vanda
Suzanne Lederer ...
Catherine
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Sham Murphy (as Bill Lucking)
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Loading Dock Foreman
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Arthur 'Art' Konigsburg
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Norma Greer
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Vince Yanelli
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Mother Vanda
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Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again. Written by Anonymous

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