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Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann

Leonard Hill Films

Ron Gilbert Associates

United States of America

English

David Morse

Megan Follows

Dion Anderson

Tom Atkins

David Soul

Travis Swords

Jack Kehler

Taylor Fry

James Cranna

Michael Girardin

Kathryn Howell

Michelle Leaman

Jason Rojek

Zachary Barton

Gregory Fortescue

Stacy Sadurni

Robert Zameroski

Michael Richard O'Rourke

John Gavigan

Douglas Rowe

Betsy Andrade

Terry Ward

Peter Fitzsimmons

Johnathan Carlson

Steven Shaw

Sylvester Levay

Mark W. Rosenbaum

Ronald H. Gilbert

Leonard Hill

Joel Fields

George B. Colucci Jr.

Nan Dutton

Ardythe Goergens

Tana M. Manners

Robert J. Mooney

Bernadette Caulfield

Joan Marechal

Jay Patterson

Randall B. Burak

John Caper Jr.

Paula Sutor

Cheri Medcalf

Brian Rogers

Candy Bennici

William Curtain

Shawn Barry

Blanche Sindelar

Lynda Foote

Richard Rollison

Dennis Madalone

Stephanie Taunton

Cheri Jacobs

Susan Daria Landino

Nancy J. Caldwell

Joe Del Hierro

Kristin Killey

Rean C. Luttrell

Joshua Michael David

Hibah Schweitzer

Douglas M. Lackey

Donise Hardy

Donna Larson

Judith M. Crary

Alan Dierksen

Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc

Richard D. Rogers

Don MacDougall

Grover B. Helsley

Charles Correll

Durrell Royce Crays

George Palmer

Cheri Montesanto

_**What do you do when a psycho “mountain man” apprehends you at gunpoint?**_

On May 11, 1966, a 17 year-old school girl from Shade Gap, Pennsylvania (Megan Follows), is kidnapped by some recluse hillbilly (David Morse) and forced to live in the wilds while on the run from authorities. David Soul plays an FBI agent while Dion Anderson is on hand as a Sheriff. 

“Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann” (1991) is a TV flick that closely follows the true story with minor alterations. It was the most-watched primetime show of the week.  

There are elements of "Deliverance" (1972), "First Blood" (1982) and another well-done TV movie, "Nightmare at Bittercreek” (1988). Of course it doesn’t have the budget of the first two, but that doesn’t prevent it from being a first-rate television film, realistic and compelling.

After watching, be sure to check out the 27-minute interview with Peggy Ann Bradnick on Youtube done on the 50th anniversary of the harrowing abduction in 2016. (The movie itself is also available on Youtube for free).    

The film runs 1 hour, 35 minutes, and was shot in Los Altos Hills, California, as well as nearby Cupertino & San Jose, at the south end of San Francisco Bay. While these locations are a far cry from south-central Pennsylvania, the producers did a good job of picking a lush, hilly area as a decent stand-in for the real locations. 

GRADE: B

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David Morse

Megan Follows

Dion Anderson

Tom Atkins

David Soul

Travis Swords

Jack Kehler

Taylor Fry

James Cranna

Michael Girardin

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