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80 Steps to Jonah: Directed by Gerd Oswald. With Wayne Newton, Jo Van Fleet, Keenan Wynn, Diana Ewing. A young man hiding from the law takes refuge in a summer camp for blind children.
80 Steps to Jonah is a 1969 American drama film directed by Gerd Oswald, written by Frederick Louis Fox, and starring Wayne Newton, Jo Van Fleet, Keenan Wynn, Diana Ewing, Mickey Rooney and Sal Mineo.
Drifter Mark Jonah Winters is arrested in Nevada after a stolen car in which he is a passenger crashes, killing hoodlum Jerry Taggart. Jonah claims that he was merely a hitchhiker but, fearing that he has no chance of establishing his innocence, he flees. Sleeping in a field, he is startled by Nina, a little blind girl.
A young man hiding from the law takes refuge in a summer camp for blind children. Nevada police take into custody drifter Mark Jonah, although he claims he was an innocent hitchhiker, after the crash of a stolen car in which hoodlum Jerry Taggart is killed.
80 Steps to Jonah (1969) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
A man (Wayne Newton) mistaken for a thief flees to a camp for blind children, whose manager (Jo Van Fleet) mistakes him for a handyman.
- Drama
Build 3fc55b6 (7699) Wayne Newton stars as an accused thug hiding out at a camp for blind children.
80 Steps to Jonah (1969) This failed attempt to make a movie star of singer Wayne Newton saw him playing Mark Jonah Winters, a hitchhiking vagrant fruit picker accused of manslaughter following a car accident (in which bad guy Sal Mineo dies).
1969 Directed by Gerd Oswald. Take the whole family to a happy movie for a change. Wayne Newton stars as an accused thug hiding out at a camp for blind children. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
Original title: 80 Steps to Jonah. Synopsis: Nevada police take into custody drifter Mark Jonah, although he claims he was an innocent hitchhiker, after the crash of a stolen car in which hoodlum Jerry Taggart is killed.
