The Cradle Will Fall

The Cradle Will Fall

This doctor's a killer. Is the woman tracking him his next patient or his next victim?

1983 · 100 min · ★ 4.0 · Thriller, Horror, Drama, TV Movie

Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.

Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey

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