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Fatal Vision is a 1984 American true crime drama television miniseries directed by David Greene from a teleplay by John Gay, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Joe McGinniss. The miniseries stars Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Barry Newman, Gary Cole, and Andy Griffith.
Fatal Vision: With Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Barry Newman, Gary Cole. A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters.
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- 1984-11-18
- Crime, Drama, History
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The controversy over Fatal Vision, journalist and author Joe McGinniss 's best-selling 1983 true crime book, is a decades-long dispute spanning several court cases and discussed in several other published works. Fatal Vision focuses on Captain Jeffrey R. MacDonald, M.D. and the February 17, 1970 murders of his wife and their two children at ...
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The 1984 American television miniseries Fatal Vision is directly based on McGinniss's 1983 book focusing upon the MacDonald murders. The series casts Gary Cole as Jeffrey MacDonald, and was first broadcast on NBC on November 18, 1984.
Jan 1, 2001 · Fatal Vision. Joe McGinniss. 4.12. 24,143 ratings660 reviews. Fatal Vision is the electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children, murders he vehemently denies committing.
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Technical Specs. Duration. 2h. TCM Emails. The much-acclaimed dramatization of Joe McGinniss' best-seller about Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the former Green Beret captain accused, then cleared, in the brutal murders of his wife and daughters in February 1970, won Emmy Award nominations for the film itself as Outstanding Drama Special as well...
In 1970, military doctor Jeffrey McDonald (Gary Cole) reports a hideous and confusing story: A gang of hippies akin to the Manson Family broke into his North Carolina home and slaughtered his wife...
- Drama
