The Shady Hill Kidnapping (1982)
John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.
- Date of release
- 1982-01-12
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Paul Bogart
Casting
- Garrett Hanf — Toby
- George Grizzard — Mr. Wooster
- Polly Holliday — Mrs. Wooster
- David Marshall Grant — Bob
- Judith Ivey — Louise
- Celeste Holm — The Celebrity
- E. Katherine Kerr — The Woman
- Alan Leach — Clerk
- Katherine Balfour — Mrs. Brown
- Paul Dooley — Detective
- George Hamlin — Bank Officer
- Beverly May — Chairwoman
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