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