Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
Genre	Drama
Written by	Walter Dallenbach Dalene Young Walter Dallenbach Dalene Young
Directed by	John Erman
Starring	Leigh McCloskey Eve Plumb Juliet Mills Jean Hagen
Theme music composer	Fred Karlin
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Wilfred Lloyd Baumes Douglas S. Cramer
Editor(s)	Neil Travis
Cinematography	Gayne Rescher
Running time	96 minutes
Production company(s)	Douglas S. Cramer Company
Distributor	NBC
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	May 16, 1977

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn is a NBC made-for-television movie that was first telecast on May 16, 1977, and was directed by John Erman. It was a sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, which came out the previous year.^[1] Alexander was the last appearance by actress Jean Hagen, who died August 29, 1977.

Cast

• Leigh McCloskey as Alexander Duncan
• Eve Plumb as Dawn Wetherby
• Juliet Mills as Myra
• Jean Hagen as Landlady
• Lonny Chapman as Eddie Duncan
• Earl Holliman as Ray Church
• Alan Feinstein as Charles Selby
• Asher Brauner as Buddy
• Diana Douglas as Clara Duncan
• Pat Corley as Marty
• Frances Faye as Singer
• Alice Hirson as Judge White
• Jonathan Banks as Michael
• Fred Sadoff
• Doria Cook-Nelson as Della

Reception

Phil Hall of Film Threat called it "not a great film" but "a breakthrough, of sorts, in LGBT television."^[2]

References

1. Levine, Elana (2007). Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television. Duke University Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 9780822339199.
2. Hall, Phil (2013-02-01). "THE BOOTLEG FILES: ALEXANDER: THE OTHER SIDE OF DAWN". Film Threat. Retrieved 2014-06-05.

External links

• Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn at the Internet Movie Database