Yahoo Web Search

  1. Trending Movies
  2. The Executioner's Song

    The Executioner's Song

    1982 · Docudrama · 2h 37m

Search results

  1. Original release. Network. NBC. Release. November 28, 1982. ( 1982-11-28) The Executioner's Song is a 1982 American made-for-television biographical crime drama film. It is a film adaptation of Norman Mailer 's 1979 Pulitzer Prize -winning novel of the same name. The film is directed by Lawrence Schiller from a screenplay by Mailer.

    • Biography Drama Crime
  2. Nov 28, 1982 · The Executioner's Song: Directed by Lawrence Schiller. With Tommy Lee Jones, Christine Lahti, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach. The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.

    • (2.1K)
    • Biography, Crime, Drama
    • Lawrence Schiller
    • 1982-11-28
  3. The Executioner's Song (1979) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events related to the execution of Gary Gilmore ...

    • 136 min
    • 75.9K
    • SERIAL KILLER'S AND TRUE CRIME
  4. The Executioner's Song. The Executioner's Song (1979) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning true crime novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events related to the execution of Gary Gilmore for murder by the state of Utah. The title of the book may be a play on "The Lord High Executioner's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan 's The Mikado.

    • Norman Mailer
    • 1979
  5. In this fact-based film, Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones), an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill ...

    • (35)
    • Lawrence Schiller
    • TV-PG
    • Tommy Lee Jones
  6. The Executioner's Song. 1982. 3 hr 20 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. Adaptation of Norman Mailer's Pulitzer chronicle of the Gary Gilmore case. Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach ...

  7. People also ask

  8. A TV movie based on the true story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who chose to be executed by firing squad in 1977. The plot follows his last nine months of life, his crimes, his trial, and his media attention.

  1. People also search for