The Candidate

The Candidate

84 mins | Drama | Oct. 7, 1964

Mamie Van Doren plays Samantha, a hard working modern woman who, because of a chance encounter with senatorial candidate Frank Carlton (Ted Knight), is offered a job by conniving campaign runner Eric (Buddy Parker) aiming to work for the prospective senator. She agrees and we are then shown the complicated way various relationships shape the campaign and how it all falls apart.

The Candidate

84 mins | Drama | Oct. 7, 1964

The Candidate
Mamie Van Doren plays Samantha, a hard working modern woman who, because of a chance encounter with senatorial candidate Frank Carlton (Ted Knight), is offered a job by conniving campaign runner Eric (Buddy Parker) aiming to work for the prospective senator. She agrees and we are then shown the complicated way various relationships shape the campaign and how it all falls apart.
Producers Cosnat Productions
Original title The Candidate
Directors Robert Angus
Writers Quentin Vale, Frank Moceri, Joyce Ann Miller

Cast

Mamie Van Doren

as Christine Ashley

Ted Knight

as Frank Carlton

June Wilkinson

as Angela Wallace

Ernesto Macias

as Buddy Barker

Calvin Brown

as Capitol Guard