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CAST AND CREW / FULL CREDITS
| Director: |
| Robert Wise |
Director |
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| Cast: |
| Peter Fonda |
as Evan Bonner |
| Lindsay Wagner |
as Deirdre Mccluskey |
| Estelle Parsons |
as Barbara Newman |
| Alan Fudge |
as Embassy Official |
| Philippe March |
as Gilles |
| Frances Sternhagen |
as Mrs Mccluskey |
| Brian Lima |
as Marcus Mccluskey |
| Geoffrey Horne |
as Ron |
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| Cinematography: |
| Henri Decae |
Director Of Photography |
| Gerald Hirschfeld |
Cinematography (New York Sequences) |
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| Writer: |
| Richard Deroy |
Screenwriter |
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| Producer: |
| Robert Wise |
Producer |
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| Editing: |
| William Reynolds |
Editor |
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| Music: |
| David Shire |
Music |
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| Assistant Direction: |
| Denis Amar |
Assistant Director |
| Larbi Bennani |
Assistant Director (Morocco) |
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| Art Director: |
| Henry Michelson |
Art Direction |
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| Art Department: |
| Eric Simon |
Set Decorator |
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| Sound: |
| Antoine Petitjean |
Sound |
| Waldon O. Watson |
Sound |
| Ronald Pierce |
Sound |
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| Production Companies: |
| Filmmakers Group |
Production Company |
| Universal Pictures |
Theatrical Distributor |
"Ms. Wagner's debut qualifies as one of those star-is-born occasions that herald the arrival of someone like Ingrid Bergman or Lauren Bacall". - Playboy Magazine
Synopsis
Morocco. At a café in the Arab quarter of Marrakech, a U.S. Embassy official named Fitzgerald gives a young American, Evan Bonner, a one-way plane ticket to New York. Also in the café at this moment are three Americans: New York model Deirdre McCluskey, her photographer-lover Ron Kesselman, and their highstrung, chain-smoking fashion editor Barbara Newman. Although they have just successfully completed a magazine assignment, tension exists among the threesome because Ron has decided to visit the Sahara rather than return with Deirdre to New York and their out-of-wedlock son Marcus.
The next morning, while Deirdre and Barbara are riding the train to Casablanca, Deirdre confesses that all love between herself and Ron has died; with that truth finally spoken, Deirdre suddenly experiences a nervous craving for kif, the potent local version of marijuana. Noticing Evan on the train (and recognizing him from the café), Deirdre assumes he will have some kif and enters his compartment. But when she sees him staring out the window and weeping, she retreats back to her own car.
Later, however, Evan approaches Deirdre ands initiates a conversation; and when the train breaks down, they use the delay to explore a nearby Arab village. Finding themselves attracted to each other, Deirdre offers herself, but is put off by Evan's feeble disclaimer: touching her might make him want to stay -- and that is something he cannot do. Once aboard a Casablanca-to-Paris plane, Evan tells Deirdre that he fled from combat in Vietnam, was taken to Moscow by a peace group, and subsequently lived in Sweden and Morocco; exhausted by his years of aimless wandering and convinced that desertions such as his have not affected the progress of the war, he was arranged to surrender voluntarily and face court martial and prison.
Aghast that Evan intends to turn himself in, Deirdre at first refuses to spend the night in Paris with him; later, however, she relents, and following a walk through the glittering streets and a quiet dinner, the couple returns to a hotel for the night. In the morning, Deirdre tries to persuade Evan not to give himself up, arguing that as a $100,000-a-year model, she earns enough for them to live comfortably and safely in Europe with Marcus. But Evan cannot be swayed from his decision.
Returning to New York together, the lovers go to Deirdre's lavish townhouse and receive a warm welcome from both her mother and son.
Finally, while spending a day in Central Park with Marcus, Deirdre makes one last plea to Evan that they return to Europe as a family -- but Evan again asserts that he hasn't the right to make promises about the future. And later that afternoon, Evan goes to a Federal building, firmly resolved to settle all the old scores and begin life anew.
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