The Slender Thread

The Slender Thread

The Slender Thread

Genres
Drama

Release Date: Dec 15, 1965

Runtime: 98 minutes

Rating: 7.118/10

Status: Released

Production Companies
  • Paramount Pictures
  • Athene Productions

Overview

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?

"When a woman's emotions sway away on a slender thread, expect anything…"

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Cast

Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Ed Asner ,

Indus Arthur, Paul Newlan, Dabney Coleman, H.M. Wynant, Robert F. Hoy, Greg Jarvis, Jason Wingreen, Marjorie Nelson, Steven Marlo, Thomas Hill, Lane Bradford, Janet Dudley, John Napier, Stephen Pellegrini, Jerome R. Brand, Kay Doubleday, Jo Helton, Richard Doorish, Charlotte Stewart, Viola Harris, George Savalas, O.L. Haavik, Nicholas Prebezac, Drew Eskenazi, Erin Almond, Pam Bagby, William R. Rhodes, Charles C. Andrews, Melody Greer, Sons of Adam, Walter Maslow, Allen Emerson, Lou Clark, David Harris, Phillip Browne, Archie Smith, Joseph R. Denini, Fay Baker, Susan Bartel, John Benson, Regina Carrol, Karen Norris

Crew

Sydney Pollack, Stirling Silliphant, William R. Poole, Donald Roberts, David Rayfiel ,

Hal Pereira, Jack Poplin, Stephen Alexander, Quincy Jones, Thomas Stanford, Loyal Griggs, John R. Carter, William Davidson, Robert R. Benton, Edith Head, Joseph Kish, Nellie Manley, Wally Westmore, Nelson Tyler, Farciot Edouart, Charles Grenzbach, Frank London, Shana Alexander, James A. Corbett, Jack Hayes, Quincy Jones, Dave Grusin, Carol Kaye, Leo Shuken