The Lie

Overview

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.

Directed by Alex Segal

Top cast

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

Priscilla Morrill

Carol Bancks

Neva Patterson

Mary Forman

Ann Prentiss

Elaine Fredericks

Milton Selzer

Dr. Ernest Foreman

Ellen Weston

Eva Anderson

Robert Emhardt

Busybody

Maidie Norman

Janine

John Ritter

Bauer

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