The Cradle Will Fall

May 24, 1983

1h 40m

★ 4.0

This doctor's a killer. Is the woman tracking him his next patient or his next victim?

Overview

Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.

Genres

Thriller

Horror

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Cates Films

Telepictures

Procter & Gamble Productions

CBS

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Cast

Kathy DeMaio

Lauren Hutton

Dr. Richard Carroll

Ben Murphy

Dr. Edgar Highley

James Farentino

Bert Bauer

Charita Bauer

Leslie Ann

Carolyn Ann Clark

Larry Wyatt

Joe Ponazecki

Hope

Elvera Roussel

Ross Marler

Jerry Ver Dorn

Edna Burns

Doris Belack

Dr. Emmet Salem

Michael Higgins

Christopher Lewis

Ralph Byers

Vangie Lewis

Debra Mooney

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