Alan Alda
Caryl W. Chessman
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Kill Me If You Can: Directed by Buzz Kulik. With Alan Alda, Talia Shire, John Hillerman, Barnard Hughes. The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.
In 1977, Alan Alda starred in an NBC television movie about Chessman's life, Kill Me If You Can. This was sometimes shown, subsequently, as The Caryl Chessman Story. [ 43 ]
Kill Me If You Can is a fast paced action thriller which leaves little time for the reader to catch their breath. Each scene is a near shot of adrenaline as authors Patterson and Marshall tell a deep and engrossing story encompassing assassins, art students, blood diamonds, and the Russian Mafia.
Kill Me if You Can. Convicted of sexual assault, kidnapping and robbery, intellectual sociopath Caryl Chessman (Alan Alda) spends his days on death row waiting to die in the gas...
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Alan Alda strikes a convincing note as the cocky Caryl Chessman, convicted and sentenced to death in a string of crimes known as the Red Light Bandit attacks. The movie's creators, however, cheat a bit by making Chessman a little too sympathetic.
A bleak, but finest kind of TV Movie with Hawkeye delivering all the self-righteous indignation he can deliver on M*A*S*H but this time it's for a lost cause. While on that show he usually wins, in this tragic true story it's truly a losing battle.
