All the Kind Strangers
About All the Kind Strangers
Photojournalist Jimmy Wheeler, driving through the country, stops for a boy, Gilbert, who is hauling groceries. At the isolated house the children are keeping a woman, Carol Ann, as their mother, and they expect Jimmy to stay as their father. Peter, the oldest, runs the place. John puts Gilbert's pet rattlesnake in Jimmy's bed. Peter then orders Jimmy to whip John with a willow branch. Jimmy refuses the beating and tells John to think about what he did. Peter walks him up the road.
Cast & crew
More about All the Kind Strangers
Burt Kennedy directed Clyde Ware's script. It aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on 12 November 1974. Gene Polito photographed it. Ron Frangipane wrote the music. An alternate title is Evil in the Swamp.
Themes
Background
An ABC Movie of the Week from 12 November 1974.
Making
Kennedy shot Ware's television thriller as a house the children already run before the driver arrives.
Look
Gene Polito photographed the back road and the isolated house.
Music
Ron Frangipane wrote the score.
Preservation
The television film survives on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Stacy Keach plays Jimmy Wheeler. Samantha Eggar plays Carol Ann. John Savage plays Peter. Robby Benson plays John.
- Tim Parkison plays Gilbert. Arlene Farber plays Martha.
- A circulating copy runs 1 hour, 13 minutes, and 52 seconds.
Scenes
- Gilbert gets into the car with a load of groceries.
- John leaves the rattlesnake in Jimmy's bed.
- Jimmy will not use the willow branch.
Also available
- Internet Archive (AlltheKindStrangers)
- Wikimedia Commons (All the Kind Strangers.ogv)