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Amos (TV),
USA 1985, color

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Distributed by: CBS

Produced by: Peter Vincent Douglas

Genre / keyword: Drama / based-on-novel

Runtime: no data available

Directed by: Michael Tuchner

Summary:

The best of Kirk Douglas´ films for television, and the one of which he is most proud of. "Amos" was brought to Douglas´ attention by his son Peter, who knowingly inveigled his father´s interest by saying: "Dad, here´s a role you´re too young to play".

Amos (Kirk Douglas) is about a terminally ill man in his late seventies, who is confined to a nursing home following a car accident in which his wife was killed and he badly hurt. Once he recovers from his injuries, Amos, an ex-baseball player, returns to his feisty, energetic self, although aware that cancer gives him little time. He also becomes aware that the head nurse (Elizabeth Montgomery) is running the home at great profit and that she is not only bilking patients but also including their deaths in order to acquire insurance funds they have assigned to the home. Amos falls in love with a fellow patient (Dorothy McGuire) but when she is abused by the nurse, he plans his clever revenge. He commits suicide but arranges it to appear like murder, cunningly planting evidence he knows will bring about the arrest of the nurse.

Douglas put his heart into the making of "Amos", which won deser-
vedly high ratings. He researched the business of nursing homes and found that many were operated at unsatisfactory levels. He wrote an editorial for the New York Times to that effect and followed it with a trip to Washington where he testified before Representative Claude Pepper´s Select Committee on Nursing Homes.

Cast (in credits order): Kirk Douglas ... as Amos

Elizabeth Montgomery ... as Daisy Daws

Pat Morita ... as Tommy Tanaka

Other cast (alphatecial): Frances Bay ... as Lydia

Jack Blessing ... as Scott Lasher

Jordan Charney ... as Commissioner Bert Daniels

Frederick Coffin ... as Roland

Lois De Banzie ... as Dorothy Dearborn

Don Keefer ... as Winston Beard

Helen Martin ... as Mrs. McKenzie

Dorothy McGuire ... as Hester Farrell

James Sloyan ... as Sheriff John Thomas

Ray Walston ... as Johnny Kent

Written by: Richard Kramer (based on the novel by Stanley West)

Photographed by: no data available

Music by: Georges Delerue

Film Editing by: no data available

Distributed by:	CBS
Produced by:	Peter Vincent Douglas
Genre / keyword:	Drama / based-on-novel
Runtime:	no data available
Directed by:	Michael Tuchner
Summary:	The best of Kirk Douglas´ films for television, and the one of which he is most proud of. "Amos" was brought to Douglas´ attention by his son Peter, who knowingly inveigled his father´s interest by saying: "Dad, here´s a role you´re too young to play". Amos (Kirk Douglas) is about a terminally ill man in his late seventies, who is confined to a nursing home following a car accident in which his wife was killed and he badly hurt. Once he recovers from his injuries, Amos, an ex-baseball player, returns to his feisty, energetic self, although aware that cancer gives him little time. He also becomes aware that the head nurse (Elizabeth Montgomery) is running the home at great profit and that she is not only bilking patients but also including their deaths in order to acquire insurance funds they have assigned to the home. Amos falls in love with a fellow patient (Dorothy McGuire) but when she is abused by the nurse, he plans his clever revenge. He commits suicide but arranges it to appear like murder, cunningly planting evidence he knows will bring about the arrest of the nurse. Douglas put his heart into the making of "Amos", which won deser- vedly high ratings. He researched the business of nursing homes and found that many were operated at unsatisfactory levels. He wrote an editorial for the New York Times to that effect and followed it with a trip to Washington where he testified before Representative Claude Pepper´s Select Committee on Nursing Homes.
Cast (in credits order):	Kirk Douglas ... as Amos
	Elizabeth Montgomery ... as Daisy Daws
	Pat Morita ... as Tommy Tanaka
Other cast (alphatecial):	Frances Bay ... as Lydia
	Jack Blessing ... as Scott Lasher
	Jordan Charney ... as Commissioner Bert Daniels
	Frederick Coffin ... as Roland
	Lois De Banzie ... as Dorothy Dearborn
	Don Keefer ... as Winston Beard
	Helen Martin ... as Mrs. McKenzie
	Dorothy McGuire ... as Hester Farrell
	James Sloyan ... as Sheriff John Thomas
	Ray Walston ... as Johnny Kent
Written by:	Richard Kramer (based on the novel by Stanley West)
Photographed by:	no data available
Music by:	Georges Delerue
Film Editing by:	no data available