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Crisis at Central High is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lamont Johnson released in USA on 4 february 1981 with Joanne Woodward
Crisis at Central High (1981)
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Add to a movie listCrisis at Central High is a 1981 made-for-television movie about the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957, based on a draft of the memoir by the same name by former assistant principal Elizabeth Huckaby.
William Link and Richard Levinson wrote the screenplay and were executive producers together with David Susskind of Time-Life Productions. The film starred Joanne Woodward as Huckaby and told the events from that character's point of view, although one obituary at the time of Huckaby's death cited her as saying the TV-movie enlarged her role. Woodward was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special and a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, in 1981 and 1982 respectively.
Actors
Joanne Woodward
(Elizabeth Huckaby)
Charles Durning
(Jess Matthews)
Henderson Forsythe
(Glenn Huckaby)
Calvin Levels
(Ernest Green)
William Russ
(J.O. Powell)
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