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Right of Way is a 1983 American made-for-television drama film written by Richard Lees and starring Bette Davis and James Stewart, and directed by George Schaefer. The film was originally broadcast on HBO on November 21, 1983. It was based on a play by Richard Lees of the same name.
Right of Way is a new feature-length programme that mixes stunning new artists’ commissions with historical archive films that give a bigger picture of questions of access and inclusion in the UK countryside.
The story of a woman her parents decision to take their lives together, Right of Way was deemed too controversial for its intended network television broadcast and instead became a successful...
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Nov 21, 1983 · Right of Way: Directed by George Schaefer. With Bette Davis, James Stewart, Melinda Dillon, Priscilla Morrill. A dying woman and her husband agree to a joint-suicide pact, whether others like it or not.
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- Drama
- George Schaefer
- 1983-11-21
This made-for-cable movie, uniting two screen legends for the first time, deals with the conflict between an elderly couple who decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact when the wife learns she has a terminal illness, and their married daughter who, with the help of local social service.
- George Schaefer
- Bette Davis
Right of Way is a new feature-length programme that mixes stunning new artists’ commissions with historical archive films that give a bigger picture of questions of access and inclusion in the UK countryside.
It stars films veterans Bette Davis and James Stewart as an elderly long-married couple, who must decide how to deal with the situation of one of them being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
