The Five Forty-Eight 45 years old

The Five Forty-Eight, drawn from a Cheever story about the fictional New York suburb of Shady Hill, concerns an advertising man, John Blake (Laurence Luckinbill), who is emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him. His disturbed secretary, Miss Dent (Mary Beth Hurt), whom he has seduced and then fired and discarded, pursues him harrowingly, and in a final scene in which she holds him at gunpoint in a field beyond the Shady Hill railroad station, she forces him to confront the squalor of his life.

Credits

The Five Forty-Eight Cast

Name Character
Mary Beth Hurt She was 33, now 78 years old
Laurence Luckinbill He was 44, now 90 years old
Laurinda Barrett She was 48, now 93 years old
Robert Hitt

The Five Forty-Eight Crew

Name Department
Andrzej Bartkowiak as Cinematography. He was 29 (now 74) years old Crew
James Ivory as Director. He was 51 (now 96) years old Directing
John Cheever as Story. He was 67 (70) years old when He died Writing
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The Five Forty-Eight (45 years)

  • Release day: Wednesday, November 07, 1979
  • Runtime: 58 minutes