MEDIUM COOL (WIDESCREEN) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Plot: Beyond the age of innocence… into the age of awareness.; ; The time: 1968. The place: Chicago, setting of the Democratic National convention and a hotbed of political and social change. As protesters and police face off in the streets, fate brings together an unlikely pair: John (Robert Forster), a dispassionate TV news cameraman, and Eileen (Verna Bloom), a warmhearted Appalachian raising her son in a Chicago ghetto.; Their relationship deepens and so does the impending danger, as John and Eileen are swept into the maelstrom of fear of violence that has captured the attention of an entire nation.; ; Filmed against the backdrop of the '68 convention by Oscar®-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool captures the soul of a turbulent era and takes a penetrating look at America's continuing fascination with sensationalism and violence.
• Cast: Christine Bergstrom, Harold Blankenship, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Peter Boyle, Robert Forster, Charles Geary, Marianna Hill, Doug Kimball, Robert McAndrew, Sid McCoy, William Sickinger, Haskell Wexler, Beverly Younger, Marrian Walters, Edward Croke, Georgia Todda, Sandra Ann Roberts, Janet Langhart, Jeff Donaldson, Bill Sharp, Robert Paige, Richard Abrams, Walter Bradford, Russell Davis, Felton Perry, Val Grey, Livingston Lewis, Barbara Jones, John Jackson, Linda Handelman, Maria Friedman, Kathryn Schubert, Barbara Brydenthal, Elizabeth Moisant, Rose Bormacher, China Lee, Jim Jacobs, Spence Jackson, Dorien Suhr, Kenneth Whitener, Connie Fleischauer, Mary Smith, Nancy Lee Noble, Simone Zorn, Madeleine Marcou, Mickey Pallas, Morris Bleckman, Lestre Brownie, Linn Ehrlich, Wally Wright, Sam Venture, George Bouillet, Richard J. Daley, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Sirri Murad
• Director: Haskell Wexler
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: Paramount Pictures
• Media Format: movie