The play of events that caused these seems obvious to everyone, but obvious never is the case in cases like this. He goes crazy, and before the night is over, Donnie has been kidnapped. But the story really begins when McMurtry learns that his son is dead. Laine is a slim seductive blue-eyed blonde with many secrets, and it is fascination at first sight, or at least it is in one direction, from Asch’s point of view. Donnie (played by Johnny Depp) is her stepson. Laine has now remarried, and as Asch discovers, her son has been killed in an auto accident. Berry) has asked Asch to find his son, regretting now having abandoned both the boy and his mother (Laine) some 10 years earlier. A famous artist named McMurtry (Raymond J. Perhaps now is a good time for me to back up. In part that may be because he has already become infatuated with Laine Fleischer (Beverly D’Angelo), the mother of the boy he was hired to locate. His girl friend, Pam Draper, played by Emily Longstreth, I do not have a year of birth for, but she acts a lot older (and sexier) than a teen-aged girl is supposed to be - she is dating an older man, for example, and later on, she dares Asch to take advantage of her. He was 23 at the time and playing a high school student of perhaps 18, perhaps he was guilty of pushing it a little the other way. The appearance of Johnny Depp in this film came before he was known for much of anything. You may have to sit through a short commercial first, but I think it’ll be worth the wait. What I found is even better: a online video of the trailer for the film. ![]() I had found a small photo of Johnny Depp that was taken from the film, as was one of Emily Longstreth, both seen below.īut neither of these two are the lead players, so I kept hunting. At first I thought they were close, but the more I thought about it, the less close and less appropriate they became. This post originally included photo images of both Eric Roberts and Beverly D’Angelo, but unfortunately neither of them came from the movie itself, and I’ve deleted them. Nonetheless, I still think of Jacob Asch as being a much older fellow.Ī brief explanation is inserted here. ![]() In 1986 I was a lot younger, too, but that was then, and this is now. ![]() Of course it may simply be a matter of perspective. He was 30 at the time, and in the movie he looks younger, a lot younger, or maybe he only acts that way. It’s based on the fifth of eleven private eye novels that Lyon wrote, all of them cases for Jacob Asch, a former reporter who went to jail rather than reveal his sources.Īsch is portrayed by Eric Roberts in this movie. If it hadn’t been for Arthur Lyons’ recent passing, reported here a few weeks ago, I might have never heard of this movie. Based on the novel Castles Burning, by Arthur Lyons. Berry, Emily Longstreth, Johnny Depp, Henry Gibson. Eric Roberts, Beverly D’Angelo, Raymond J.
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