Katherine
DVD cover
GenreDrama
Written byJeremy Kagan
Directed byJeremy Kagan
StarringSissy Spacek
Art Carney
Henry Winkler
Julie Kavner
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersGerald I. Isenberg
Gerald W. Abrams (associate producer)
Production locationsOld Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona
Tucson Mountains
Sonoran Desert
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Tucson, Arizona
CinematographyFrank Stanley
EditorPatrick Kennedy
Running time97 min.
Production companyThe Jozak Company
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseOctober 5, 1975 (1975-10-05)

Katherine (also known as The Radical) is a 1975 American TV movie written and directed by Jeremy Kagan, and starring Sissy Spacek, Art Carney and Henry Winkler. Intended to portray the time period of the Vietnam War, the title character was loosely based on Diana Oughton of the Weather Underground, who died in the 1970 Greenwich Village townhouse explosion when a bomb she was building accidentally exploded.[1] Reviewers have also noted that Katherine also "borrowed from the then-current headlines involving Patty Hearst, another heiress whose exact level of voluntary involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army remained hazy in 1975.[2][3][4]

Through a series of flashbacks, the film, told in semi-documentary fashion,[5] retraces the main characters' lives through the years 1964–1972.[6]

Katherine originally aired in a two-hour time slot on October 5, 1975, and later was syndicated in a 78-minute version.[7]

References

  1. ^ Ed Rampell (2005). Progressive Hollywood: A People's Film History of the United States. Red Wheel Weiser. ISBN 9781932857108.
  2. ^ Phil Hall (October 31, 2008). "THE BOOTLEG FILES: KATHERINE [BOOTLEG FILES 257 "Katherine" (1975 TV movie with Sissy Spacek, Henry Winkler and Art Carney).]". FilmThreat.
  3. ^ "Katherine (1975)". TCM (Turner Classic Movies). Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  4. ^ Ed Rampell (2005). Progressive Hollywood: A People's Film History of the United States. Red Wheel Weiser. ISBN 9781932857108.
  5. ^ Hal Erickson (2014). "Katherine (1975), Alternate title: The Radical". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-03-09. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  6. ^ Ed Rampell (2005). Progressive Hollywood: A People's Film History of the United States. Red Wheel Weiser. ISBN 9781932857108.
  7. ^ Hal Erickson (2014). "Katherine (1975), Alternate title: The Radical". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-03-09. Retrieved 5 February 2014.

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