For Love of Olivia (2001)

[Spenser]

Regie
Douglas Barr

Buch (WGA)
H. Haden Yelin (written by)

Jahr
2001

Cast:

Louis Gossett Jr. ....  Daniel Stewart
Robert Urich ....  Horton Roundtree
Lonette McKee ....  Olivia Stewart
Kathryne Dora Brown ....  Camille Stewart
Sterling Macer Jr. ....  Curtis Gallagher (as Sterling Macer)
David Fox ....  Jack Martin
Virginia Capers ....  Ida Mae Boudreau
Jeff Clarke   
David Gardner ....  Judge Finch
Karen Glave   
Delores Mitchell ....  Louise Reynolds
Nancy Palk   
Douglas Turner Ward ....  Walter Reynolds
Oren Williams ....  Henry

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After dedicating years of his life to the practice of law in the small town of Silver Shade, Daniel Webster Stewart (Louis Gossett Jr) has closed his office in order to devote his time to his lifelong dream of running for Congress. But when the beautiful young wife of his political opponent Horton Roundtree (Robert Urich) is brutally murdered, Daniel finds that he must go back into the courtroom again. Daniel's friend Curtis Gallagher has been falsely accused of the murder and someone has threatened to reveal a shocking secret about Daniel's wife Olivia if he refuses to defend Curtis. However there is someone else in town who is just as anxious to keep Daniel off the case.

The scene is the small Missouri town of Silver Shade in the mid-'60s. Despite deeply ingrained prejudice, black lawyer Daniel Webster Stewart (Louis Gossett Jr.) has managed to achieve success, and is now on the verge of winning an important political race. Things take a startling turn when Stewart's friend Curtis Gallegher (Sterling Macer) is accused of killing the wife of Daniel's white political opponent, Horton Roundtree (Robert Urich). Fearing accusations of "conflict of interest," Stewart at first refuses to defend Curtis in court, but a hitherto unrevealed secret in the past of his own wife Olivia (Lonette McKee) forces him to change his mind. Meanwhile, someone in town is determined to prevent Daniel from taking up Curtis' defense -- and that someone is clearly willing to stop at nothing. A sequel to the 1997 TV movie To Dance With Olivia, which also starred Louis Gossett Jr. and Lonette McKee, For Love of Olivia was telecast by CBS on March 18, 2001

[Spenser]

Dieser Film liewf nur einmal bislang im TV...vor 7-8 Jahren im ZDF Spätprogramm! Und ich hatte den tatsächlich verpasst....war so verwinkelt in der Fernsehzeitschrift...hatte mich total geärgert - nun nochmehr, weil der seitdem nie wiederholt wurde.

Robert Urich in einer seiner letzten Rollen

[Spenser]

Douglas Barr ("Howie Munson" aus "Ein Colt für alle Fälle" führte hier Regie

[Mr. Stepinfatchit]

Stimmt, das war mir beim Runterscrollen auch gleich aufgefallen !
Kein Wunder, hat er bestimmt auch ein paar Semester an der Uni gelernt .

[Spenser]

Kein Wunder, hat er bestimmt auch ein paar Semester an der Uni gelernt .