The Executioner’s Song Tommy Lee Jones Christine Lahti Rosanna Arquette Eli Wallach Steven Keats

The Executioner’s Song

Based on the true story of murderer Gary Mark Gilmore, spanning the last nine months of his life (May 1976- January 1977) in which at age 35, after being released for serving a long prison term in Utah for armed robbery, the unstable Gilmore murdered two men in two seperate and senseless robberies in which after a brief public trial in October, he was sentenced to death by firing squad which drew a lot of media attention when Gilmore insisted that his execution be carried out and he became the first man to be executed in the USA since the government reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Cast

• Tommy Lee Jones as Gary Mark Gilmore
• Christine Lahti as Brenda Nicol
• Rosanna Arquette as Nicole Baker
• Eli Wallach as Uncle Vern Damico
• Steven Keats as Larry Samuels
• Richard Venture as Earl Dorius
• Jenny Wright as April Baker
• Rance Howard as Lt. Nelson

Release Date: November 28, 1982

Runtime: 136 mins

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