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AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE: THE THIN BLUE LINE (TV)
Summary
Filmmaker Errol Morris's innovative, award-winning documentary played a major role in the release of Texas Death Row inmate Randall Dale Adams. Through dramatic re-enactments and interviews with parties involved with the case -- the 1976 murder of a Dallas police officer -- Morris re-examines the evidence, creates doubt about the facts in the case, and uncovers details about the police using their influence to unjustly convict Adams. Also included is a segment in which Bill Moyers interviews Morris about the then-current conviction of Adams as well as the production stages of this documentary.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: May 24, 1989
- RUNNING TIME: 1:57:21
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:24370
- GENRE: Documentary
- SUBJECT HEADING: Documentary; Crime and criminals; Death row; Criminal justice, administration of
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1982-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Lindsay Law … Executive Producer
- Roger L. Downey … Coordinating Producer
- Mark Lipson … Producer
- Nondas Voll … Associate Producer
- Brad Fuller … Associate Producer
- Rory Johnston … Associate Music Producer
- Gary McDonald … Prison Interview Producer
- Errol Morris … Director
- Philip Glass … Music by
- Adam Goldfine … Cast, Randall Adams (Re-Enactments)
- Derek Horton … Cast, David Harris (Re-Enactments)
- Ron Thornhill … Cast, Robert Wood (Re-Enactments)
- Marianne Leone … Cast, Teresa Turko (Re-Enactments)
- Amanda Caprio … Cast, Popcorn Lady (Re-Enactments)
- Michael Nicoll … Cast, Interrogation Officer (Re-Enactments)
- Michael Cirilla … Cast, 2nd Interrogation Officer (Re-Enactments)
- Phyllis Rodgers … Cast, Stenographer (Re-Enactments)
- Randall Dale Adams
- For the Bill Moyers segment:
- Nondas Voll … Producer
- Bill Moyers … Interviewer
- Errol Morris … Guest