Love is Forever

Love is Forever (1983)

Comeback. A True Story.

Michael Landon stars in this real life story about a journalist in Laos, and the extent to which he will go for his girlfriend.

Date of release
1983-10-20
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
TV Movie, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Director
Hall Bartlett

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Thailand

Love Is Forever is a 1982 adventure drama film based on the experiences of Australian journalist John Everingham in Laos and Thailand. It was written, directed and co-produced by Hall Bartlett and co-produced by Michael Landon, who played the lead role in the film. Filmed in Thailand, it was released outside the United States in cinemas under the titles Comeback and Passion and Valor and shown first in America on television.

Production

John Everingham's account of his exploits was originally published in Newsweek. Producer Hall Bartlett purchased the rights. "I'd wanted to make a love story for a long time," said Bartlett, "but I wanted one that was true. When I read this one in Newsweek I knew that I'd found it." He spent months researching the story.

Upon the recommendation of his daughters, who enjoyed Little House on the Prairie, Bartlett cast Michael Landon as Everingham.

Landon said "there are a lot of anti heroes around but this is a true life hero who did something extraordinary for the woman he loved."

Landon later claimed his casting enabled Bartlett to raise $5 million from NBC. The movie was intended to be shown on NBC in the US but released theatrically by 20th Century Fox elsewhere in the world.

It was Landon's first lead in a feature since I Was a Teenage Werewolf.

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