Richard Donner made THIS before Superman? A gritty 70s TV curio that time forgot.
An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental project to help former inmates.
Acting
Tony Lo Bianco's simmering ex-con trying to believe in the system.
Direction
Donner's early lean, muscular style before blockbuster polish.
Director
Richard Donner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Richard Donner's second TV movie of 1975; he'd direct 'The Omen' the following year, then Superman in '78.
Part of a brief 70s wave of 'rehabilitation cinema' reflecting real parole system experiments before Reagan-era tough-on-crime backlash killed the genre.
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