Sweet Hostage

Sweet Hostage
Film poster
Genre Drama
Romance
Written by Edward Hume
Nathaniel Benchley
Antonio Calderón
William Douglas Lansford
Directed by Lee Philips
Starring Linda Blair
Martin Sheen
Jeanne Cooper
Theme music composer Luchi De Jesus
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) George Barrie
Producer(s) Sidney Balkin
Richard Lyons
Production location(s) Taos, New Mexico
Cinematography Richard Glouner
Editor(s) George Jay Nicholson
Running time 93 minutes
Production company(s) Brut Productions
Distributor ABC
Release
Original network ABC
Original release October 10, 1975

Sweet Hostage is a 1975 American made-for-television romantic drama film based on the novel Welcome to Xanadu by Nathaniel Benchley.[1] The film stars Linda Blair and Martin Sheen.[2] It was filmed in Taos County, New Mexico. It was featured in ABC's Friday Night Movie series.[3] Film and television critic Leonard Maltin rated the movie as "Average" in his biennial ratings guide TV Movies. In his capsule review, Maltin said the performances by Sheen and Blair almost made this talky adaptation of the Nathaniel Benchley novel worthwhile. The film was only a moderate success in the Nielsen ratings, and failed to generate the type of provocative press which was then-standard for a Linda Blair movie.

Synopsis

Leonard Hatch, a fugitive mental patient, kidnaps Doris Mae Withers, a semi-illiterate farm girl, and takes her away to his remote mountain cabin. There the poetic Leonard becomes her teacher, friend, and lover.

Cast

  • Linda Blair as Doris Mae Withers
  • Martin Sheen as Leonard Hatch
  • Jeanne Cooper as Mrs. Withers
  • Lee de Broux as Sheriff Emmet
  • Bert Remsen as Mr. Withers
  • Dehl Berti as Harry Fox
  • Al Hopson as Mr. Smathers
  • William Sterchi as Hank Smathers
  • Roberto Valentino De Leon as Juan
  • Michael Eiland as Tom Martinez
  • Mary Michael Carnes as dry goods clerk
  • Don Hann as liquor store proprietor
  • Ross Elder as hospital attendant
  • Chris Williams as man in bungalow

DVD

Sweet Hostage was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on November 2nd, 2011, as a Region 1 MOD DVD made available through Warner Archive.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/560010.Welcome_to_Xanadu_
  2. ↑ http://martinsheen.net/id236.html
  3. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073772/trivia
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