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The Five Forty-Eight
Based on	The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever
Screenplay by	Terrence McNally
Directed by	James Ivory
Starring	Laurence Luckinbill Mary Beth Hurt
Music by	Jonathan Tunick
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Jac Venza
Producer	Peter Weinberg
Cinematography	Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editor	David E. McKenna
Production company	WNET
Original release
Network	PBS
Release	November 7, 1979 (1979-11-07)

The Five Forty Eight is a 1979 American television adaptation of John Cheever's short story of the same name, directed by James Ivory.

Cast

Laurence Luckinbill as Blake
Mary Beth Hurt as Miss Dent
Laurinda Barrett as Louise Blake
Dale Hodges as Receptionist
Kathy Keeney as Anne Blake
Philip Scher as Charlie Blake
Jon De Vries as Henry Watkins
Nicholas Luckinbill as Tad Watkins
Ann McDonough as June Thorpe
Robert Hitt as Price
Tiger Haynes as Guard
Susan Hovey as Girl in elevator
John Ramsey as Bartender
John Harkins as Trace Bearden
Adam Petroski as Conductor

External links

Merchant Ivory Productions

Merchant Ivory Productions

The Householder (1963)
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
The Guru (1969)
The Night of Counting the Years (1969)
Bombay Talkie (1970)
Savages (1972)
The Wild Party (1975)
Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
Roseland (1977)
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)
The Five Forty-Eight (1978)
The Europeans (1979)
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
Quartet (1981)
The Courtesans of Bombay (1983)
Heat and Dust (1983)
The Bostonians (1984)
A Room with a View (1985)
Maurice (1987)
The Deceivers (1988)
The Perfect Murder (1988)
Slaves of New York (1989)
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
Howards End (1992)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
In Custody (1994)
Feast of July (1995)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
The Proprietor (1996)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
Side Streets (1998)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
Cotton Mary (1999)
The Golden Bowl (2000)
The Mystic Masseur (2001)
Le Divorce (2003)
Heights (2005)
The White Countess (2005)
Before the Rains (2008)
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Make the Wiseguys Weep (2018)

Films directed by James Ivory

Films directed by James Ivory

The Householder (1963)
The Delhi Way (1964)
Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
The Guru (1969)
Bombay Talkie (1970)
Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (1972)
Savages (1972)
Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
The Wild Party (1975)
Roseland (1977)
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)
The Five Forty-Eight (1978)
The Europeans (1979)
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
Quartet (1981)
Heat and Dust (1983)
The Bostonians (1984)
A Room with a View (1985)
Maurice (1987)
Slaves of New York (1989)
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Howards End (1992)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Lumière and Company (1995)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Le Divorce (2003)
The White Countess (2005)
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)

John Cheever

John Cheever
Novels	The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) The Wapshot Scandal (1964) Bullet Park (1969) Falconer (1977) Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982)
Short story collections	The Way Some People Live (1943) The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1953) The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958) Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel (1961) The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964) The World of Apples (1973) The Stories of John Cheever (1978) Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever (1994)
Short stories	"Expelled" (1930) "Fall River" (1931) "Late Gathering" (1931) "The Brothers" (1937) "Publick House" (1941) "The Enormous Radio" (1947) "Torch Song" (1947) "The Hartleys" (1949) "Goodbye, My Brother" (1951) "O Youth and Beauty!" (1953) "The Five-Forty-Eight" (1954) "The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well" (1954) "The Country Husband" (1954) "The Wrysons" (1958) "The Scarlet Moving Van" (1959) "The Music Teacher" (1959) "The Seaside Houses" (1961) "Reunion" (1962) "The Swimmer" (1964) "The Geometry of Love" (1966) "The World of Apples" (1966) "The Fourth Alarm (1970) "Artemis, the Honest Well-Digger" (1972)
Adaptations	"The Country Husband" (Playhouse 90) (1956) The Swimmer (1968) The Five Forty-Eight (1979) Parc (2008)

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