Set This Town on Fire

Set This Town on Fire

106 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 8, 1973

After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has second thoughts, and the town drunk has confessed to the crime.

Set This Town on Fire

106 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Jan. 8, 1973

Set This Town on Fire
After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has second thoughts, and the town drunk has confessed to the crime.
Producers Public Art Films, Universal Television
Original title Set This Town on Fire
Directors David Lowell Rich
Writers Roy Huggins

Cast

Chuck Connors

as Buddy Bates

Carl Betz

as Andy Wells

Lynda Day George

as Molly Thornburgh

Charles Robinson

as Brad Wells

John Anderson

as Henry Kealey

Jeff Corey

as Walter Stafford

Charles Robinson

as Brad Wells

James Westerfield

as Cark Rickter

Paul Fix

as Sen. Porter

Nancy Malone

as Shirley Hammond

Vaughn Taylor

as Stabler

Joan Tompkins

as Alice Whittier

Tol Avery

as Chief Murdoch

Sam Edwards

as Motel Manager

Bing Russell

as Chuck

Bobby Rhodes

as Ralph

Bill Quinn

as Chairman

William Bakewell

as Desk Clerk

Maurice Wells

as Doctor

Drew R. Handley

as Harold Kline

Ray Montgomery

as Emcee

James W. Gavin

as Fat Man

Michael Masters

as Plainclothesman

Jim Neumarker

as Hanson

Vince Deadrick Jr.

as Motorcycle Officer

Mary L. DeCinces

as Blonde