Desperate Characters
Desperate Characters
Release: 1971-09-22
·Runtime: 97m
·★ 4.9
Drama
Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
United States of America
Production Companies
T.D.J. Productions Inc.
ITC Entertainment
Cast
Jack Somack
as Leon
Kenneth Mars
as Otto Bentwood
Sada Thompson
as Claire
Robert Bauer
as Young Man
Rose Gregorio
as Ruth
Shirley MacLaine
as Sophie Bentwood
Carol Kane
as Young Girl
Michael Higgins
as Francis Early
Patrick McVey
as Mr. Haynes
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
as Charlie
Wallace Rooney
as Man on Subway