The Five Forty-Eight
1979 · Dir. James Ivory
The Five Forty-Eight, drawn from a Cheever story about the fictional New York suburb of Shady Hill, concerns an advertising man, John Blake (Laurence Luckinbill), who is emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him. His disturbed secretary, Miss Dent (Mary Beth Hurt), whom he has seduced and then fired and discarded, pursues him harrowingly, and in a final scene in which she holds him at gunpoint in a field beyond the Shady Hill railroad station, she forces him to confront the squalor of his life.
- Released
- 1979-11-07
- Runtime
- 58 min
- Language
- EN
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Laurence Luckinbill
John Blake
Mary Beth Hurt
Jane Dent
Laurinda Barrett
Louise Blake
Philip Scher
Charlie Blake
Dale Hodges
Receptionist
Kathy Keeney
Anne Blake
Jon DeVries
Henry Watkins
Nicholas Luckinbill
Tad Watkins
Ann McDonough
June Thorpe
Robert Hitt
Price
Tiger Haynes
Guard
Susan Hovey
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