A Cry for Help

A Cry for Help

73 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Feb. 12, 1975

A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. After first encouraging her, he has a change of heart and frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.

A Cry for Help

73 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Feb. 12, 1975

A Cry for Help
A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. After first encouraging her, he has a change of heart and frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Universal Television
Original title A Cry for Help
Directors Daryl Duke, Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writers Peter S. Fischer

Cast

Robert Culp

as Harry Freeman

Elayne Heilveil

as Ingrid Brunner

Ken Swofford

as Paul Church

Julius Harris

as George Rigney

Chuck McCann

as Buddy Marino

Michael Lerner

as Phillip Conover

Bruce Boxleitner

as Richie Danko

Lee de Broux

as Sgt. Lou Shirley

Granville Van Dusen

as Brother Stephen Tyler

Ken Sylk

as Hank Buchek

Joe George

as Eddie Frisch

Jean Allison

as Irene Schullman

Don Mantooth

as Arthur Schullman

Rudolph Willrich

as Quinn Shaw

Lieux Dressler

as Mae Dowd

Ralph Manza

as Tony Garafolas

Barbara Baldwin

as The Woman

Gordon Jump

as Lloyd Hogan

Stack Pierce

as Sgt. Mike Reese

Jerry Bishop

as The Waiter