The Night the Bridge Fell Down
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Georg Fenady
Marlina Vega
Richard Gilliland
Colleen Davis
Buck Young
Philip B. Hall
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Synopsis
Movies' "disaster master", Irwin Allen, was the man behind this adventure yarn that strands a group of motorists and fleeing bank robber, Desi Arnaz, Jr., and his girlfriend, Char Fontane, on a bridge that is collapsing because of shifting sands near the pylons. Its unique history is more interesting than its premise: made in 1979 as a two-part four-hour film called "The Night the Bridge Collapsed", it was set to premiere in early January 1980. Pulled from the schedule at the last minute, it was given its first showing in this form in Australia several months later. Subsequently cut to three hours as a single-part film, it was re-scheduled for a mid-October 1980 showing but was pre-empted by the World Series. It then went into limbo until finally being dragged off the shelf for its ultimate U.S. premiere in early 1983. Its star, James MacArthur, hot off "Hawaii Five-0", at the time the film was shot long had been in semi-retirement from acting.
Director
Georg Fenady
Cast
Marlina Vega
Richard Gilliland
Colleen Davis
Buck Young
Philip B. Hall
James Macarthur
Char Fontane
Peg Stewart
Barbara Rush
Gregory Sierra
Leslie Nielsen
Joseph Della Sorte
Desi Arnaz
Ted Gehring
Larry Pennell
Eve Plumb
Steven Marlo
Susan Lanier
Crew
Irwin Allen
Duane Alt
Jim Avuelt
Alvin Boretz
Don Bush
Michael Robert David
Ray Goldstone
Axel Hubert
Richard La Salle
Jim Mccoy
Joe D Mitchell
Marlowe Newkirk
John M Nicholaus
Don Rush
Arthur Weiss
Paul Zastupnevich
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Aired in United States February 28, 1983
