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From an Ingmar Bergman script. Previously produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" and for the BBC as "The Lie" (both 1970). In this Emmy award winning American version for CBS’s reboot of Playhouse 90, an American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
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George Segal
Andrew
Shirley Knight
Anna
Robert Culp
Lawrence
Victor Buono
Bancks
William Daniels
Albert
Dean Jagger
Arnold Edgarton
Louise Lasser
Karen
Mary Ann Mobley
Esther
Elizabeth Wilson
Miss Pratt
Allan Arbus
Edward Fredericks
Robert Easton
Steve Olman
Connie Hines
Paula Olman
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