The Betsy (1978) - Turner Classic Movies

Brief Synopsis

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90-year-old Loren Hardeman is the head of an American car manufacturing dynasty. He has given his grandson control of the family business, but still has one project that he desperately wants the company to complete for him. Loren's dreams of an efficient, economical car to be called The Betsy after his great-grandaughter, and he hires injured race car driver Angelo Perino to design it in secret. But Loren doesn't know that Angelo is also seducing Betsy, as well as having an affair with his grandson's mistress, and that his project is not a secret from rest of the auto industry who are determined to sabotage it.

Cast & Crew

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Daniel Petrie

Kathleen Beller

Patrick J Monks

Titos Vandis

Fred Carney

Edward C Higgins

Film Details

Also Known As

Betsy

MPAA Rating

Genre

Drama

Release Date

1978

Technical Specs

Duration

2h 5m

Sound

Mono

Color

Color (Technicolor)

Synopsis

90-year-old Loren Hardeman is the head of an American car manufacturing dynasty. He has given his grandson control of the family business, but still has one project that he desperately wants the company to complete for him. Loren's dreams of an efficient, economical car to be called The Betsy after his great-grandaughter, and he hires injured race car driver Angelo Perino to design it in secret. But Loren d sn't know that Angelo is also seducing Betsy, as well as having an affair with his grandson's mistress, and that his project is not a secret from rest of the auto industry who are determined to sabotage it.

Director

Daniel Petrie

Cast

Kathleen Beller

Patrick J Monks

Titos Vandis

Fred Carney

Edward C Higgins

Laurence Olivier

Inga Swenson

Russell Porter

Robert Duvall

Robert Phalen

Whitney Blake

Edward Herrmann

Warney H Ruhl

Jane Alexander

H August Kuehl

Norman R. Palmer

Roy Poole

Paul Rudd

Clifford David

Carol Williard

Charlie Fields

Mary Petrie

William Roerick

Anthony Steere

Sadie Hawkins

William B Cain

Teri Ralston

Maury Cooper

Joseph Wiseman

Richard Venture

Lesley-anne Down

Tom Lee Jones

Katharine Ross

Nick Czmyr

Robert Hawkins

Read Morgan

Crew

Lee Alexander

Del Armstrong

Darryl Athons

Greg Auer

Special Effects

John Barry

Orpha Barry

William E. Bast

Walter Bernstein

Else Blangsted

Herman A Blumenthal

Production Designer

Sal Blydenburgh

Bill Couch

Stunt Coordinator

Sylvia Fay

Kathy Fields

Brian E Frankish

Location Manager

Wolfgang Glattes

Assistant Director

Adrian Gorton

Assistant Art Director

Allan Greedy

Script Supervisor

Eugene Griffith

Jack Grossberg

Production Manager

Jack Grossberg

Associate Producer

Rich Harrison

Lori Imbler

Production Coordinator

Dorothy Jeakins

Costume Designer

La Reine Johnston

Assistant Editor

Lynn Del Kail

Joel King

Camera Operator

Lynn J Lewin

Jack M Marino

Property Master

James W. Payne

Joseph Pender

Dan Perri

Dan Perri

Don Petrie

Production Assistant

Theodore Racing

Harold Robbins

Source Material (From Novel)

Rita Roland

Geoffrey Ryan

Production Assistant

Jack Frost Sanders

Assistant Director

Lynn Stalmaster

Scott Ira Thaler

Production Assistant

Mario Tosi

Director Of Photography

Frank A Tremonti

Transportation Coordinator

Rimas Tumasonis

Mark Weston

Production Assistant

Robert R Weston

John Wilkinson

Film Details

Also Known As

Betsy

MPAA Rating

Genre

Drama

Release Date

1978

Technical Specs

Duration

2h 5m

Sound

Mono

Color

Color (Technicolor)

Quotes

Trivia

Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States Winter January 1978

Released in United States on Video October 5, 1989

Re-released in United States on Video September 21, 1994

Formerly distributed by CBS/Fox Video.

Completed production March 1977.

Released in United States Winter January 1978

Released in United States on Video October 5, 1989

Re-released in United States on Video September 21, 1994

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