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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.
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- Lawrence Schiller
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
Jun 4, 2022 · The Executioner’s Song — both Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1979 novel and the NBC adaptation that won Tommy Lee Jones an Emmy in 1983 — are now considered classics of the true-crime...
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Language. English. Publisher. Little, Brown. Publication date. 1979. Media type. Print (hardback & paperback) 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.
- Norman Mailer
- United States
- 1979
- 1979
There's no humor in the movie. It's a straightforward, plain-vanilla telling of Gilmore's brief period between his release from prison and his death by firing squad. Tommy Lee Jones is very good as Gary Gilmore. His energy is barely contained.
The Executioner's Song. 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....
- Drama
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.
