"Who's killing young kids with drugs and crime?" 03 March 1982 Drama, TV Movie 96 mins
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
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Diana Scarwid as Eileen Phillips
Doug McKeon as Scott Cameron
Helen Hunt as Sandy Cameron
William Windom as Dr. Jarvis
Art Hindle as Stan
Tom Atkins as John Cameron
Norman Alden as Coach
Tricia Cast as Susan Garber
Sam Bottoms as Ken Baynes
Diane Ladd as Carol Cameron
Michele Greene as Julie Jordan
Terry Alexander as Robert Walsh
Joyce Brothers as Mrs. Watson
Aggie Terry as Cindy
Katherine Kelly Lang as Mary
Jane Milmore as Jane
Robert Michael Lewis Director
Lew Hunter Screenplay
Irene Mariano Casting
Tom Fairbanks Property Master
Victor Guarnier Sound Effects Editor
Arthur Fellows Executive Producer
John Norin Makeup Artist
Sherry Peterson Stunts
Donald C. Klune Unit Production Manager
Lisa Hackett Production Coordinator
Joseph F. Biroc Director of Photography
Peggy Shannon Hairstylist
Wolfgang E. Marum First Assistant Director
Dellasanchez Pollack Costumer
Les Green Editor
Mitch Ackerman Production Supervisor
United States 03 March 1982
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When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
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In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
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