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Desperate

9.019871h 10mMovieThrillerTV Movie

In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in Key West, chartering out boats and struggling to forget his past, is lured into a dangerous rendezvous with Cuban gunrunners.

DirectorPeter Markle
WriterMichael Braverman
ProducersAlex Beaton·Michael Braverman

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Cast · Directed by Peter Markle

JSJohn Savage
John Savage
Noah
MFMeg Foster
Meg Foster
Dorymae
CBChris Burke
Chris Burke
Louis
LLLiane Langland
Liane Langland
Deirdre O'Donohue
ARAndrew Robinson
Andrew Robinson
Seamus
JPJ.A. Preston
J.A. Preston
Wiggee
GDGeorge Dickerson
George Dickerson
LeClerc
CGCastulo Guerra
Castulo Guerra
Estabumante
FFFrances Foster
Frances Foster
Loretta
BPByrne Piven
Byrne Piven
Law Judge
NBNed Bellamy
Ned Bellamy
Agent Carter
PHPatrick John Hurley
Patrick John Hurley
Mullen

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