After serving time in prison for attempted murder of the man who caused his wife's death, hard-luck loser Lonnie comes home to find that all of his belongings have been sold and his two boys have been given to strangers to raise. He sets out across the country to find them and possibly to find himself.
Acting
Dennis Weaver's wounded desperation—McCloud goes mean.
Direction
Peter Hyams' lean, mean TV movie economy—every frame counts.
Director
Peter Hyams
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Peter Hyams' feature debut—he'd later direct Capricorn One and Outland.
Part of a wave of 1970s 'vigilante dad' TV movies reacting to post-60s anxieties about family collapse and institutional failure.
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