The Five Forty-Eight

Drama · 1979

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.

Starring

Laurence Luckinbill, Julie Weiss, Andrzej Bartkowiak, Mary Beth Hurt, Laurinda Barrett, James Ivory, Terrence McNally, Terrence McNally, Philip Scher, Dale Hodges, Robert Hitt, Jonathan Tunick

Director

James Ivory

Producer

Peter Weinberg