Deathwatch Movie

Deathwatch
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Run Time: 88 min
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Released: 1966
Directors: Vic Morrow
Genre/Type: Crime
Drama
Crime Drama
Prison Film
Producers: Vic Morrow
Leonard Nimoy
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Who'd have thought that hardcase Combat star Vic Morrow would choose a Jean Genet play as his directorial debut? Deathwatch is set in a dank prison cell, where three inmates while away their time jockeying for power. Leonard Nimoy (who also produced) plays a condemned murderer, the unofficial leader of the group, while Paul Mazursky and Michael Forest portray the other prisoners, one of them homosexual. The film looks like the photographed stage play that it is, but the intensity of the cast and direction makes up for any cinematic shortcomings. Featured in the cast on the "outside" are Gavin McLeod and Robert Ellenstein. Morrow adapted Deathwatch for the screen in collaboration with his then-wife Barbara Turner.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Leonard Nimoy Jules LaFranc Mar 26, 1931 in Boston, MA
Michael Forest Greeneyes Apr 17, 1929
Paul Mazursky Maurice Apr 25, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Gavin MacLeod Emil Feb 28, 1931 in Mount Kisco, NY
Robert Ellenstein Guard Jun 18, 1923

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