Angel City

Angel City (1980)

The Only Escape Is Death!

Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.

Date of release
1980-11-12
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Drama, TV Movie
Director
Philip Leacock, Steve Carver

Casting

Interesting facts

Angel City is a 1980 American drama television film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Ralph Waite, Paul Winfield, Jennifer Warren, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Mitchell Ryan. The teleplay by James Lee Barrett is based on the 1978 novel by Patrick D. Smith. It aired on CBS on November 12, 1980.

Production

It was originally known as Angel's Gates. Filming took place in June 1980 at the migrant camp in Homestead, Florida where Smith had worked himself. Two weeks into filming, original director Steve Carver was replaced by Leacock after a dispute between Carver and Waite (Waite had worked with Leacock on The Waltons).

Carver later claimed "I had a problem with actor Ralph Waite who came on the set drunk. I told the producers to remove him or I would leave. They said they couldn't remove him, so I left. Then they blackballed me." He said this damaged his career.

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