September 14 - Missing

This film has a scene that happened today – September 14. I hope you will enjoy this film and watch it tonight.

MISSING

After the 1973 Chilean military coup, Capt. Ray Tower drives Charlie Horman and Terry Simon back to Santiago. Charlie meets his wife, Beth but they later become separated. When Beth returns to her house she finds it has been looted and Charlie is gone. Charlie’s father Ed gets the run around in Washington and later flies to Chile where he gets the same treatment from the embassy there. He and his daughter-in-law don’t get along well at first because she thinks he’s naïve about what has happened, while he thinks she’s anti-American.  Charlie and Terry were caught out of town on the day of the coup and couldn’t get back to the capital. The neighbors give differing accounts of what happened when Charlie was taken from the house. One witness says he was taken to the National Stadium, which is being used as a holding facility by the military.  David Holloway tells them how he and Frank Teruggi were arrested and Frank vanished. Ed and Beth tour the hospitals and the Stadium, looking for Charlie, without success. A man tells them that someone told him that the head of the local CIA decided Charlie needed to disappear. Terry tells them that on the day of the coup they met Capt. Ed Tower and Andrew Babcock who say they helped organize the coup. On September 14, 1973 [1:18: 20 to 1:19:50] on their drive back to Santiago, Charlie uses the radio to send a message to his father in America. A guy at the Ford Foundation office tells Ed he’s heard Charlie was executed. Some of the embassy officials tell Ed basically that Charlie deserved what happened to him for poking around where he shouldn’t have been.  Later the embassy confirms Charlie is dead and to add insult to injury they have to pay to have Charlie’s body returned to the USA.  

A must see film.

Date given in film at 1:20:04

Producer - Edward Lewis and Mildred Lewis

Director - Costa-Gavras

Screenplay - Donald E. Stewart and Costa-Gavras

Awards – The movie won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. The film was also nominated for the Best Actor (Lemon), Best Actress(Spacek) and Best Picture Oscars at the 55^th Academy Awards.

 

Runtime – 2 hours 2 minutes

Released – February 12, 1982

Starring –

Jack Lemmon as Ed Horman

Sissy Spacek as Beth Horman

Melanie Mayron as Terry Simon

John Shea as 'Charlie' Horman

Charles Cioffi as Capt. Ray Tower, USN

David Clennon as Consul Phil Putnam

Richard Venture as U.S. Ambassador

Jerry Hardin as Colonel Sean Patrick

Richard Bradford as Andrew Babcock

Joe Regalbuto as Frank Teruggi

Keith Szarabajka as David Holloway

John Doolittle as David McGeary

Janice Rule as Kate Newman

Ward Costello as Congressman

Hansford Rowe as Senator

Tina Romero as Maria

Richard Whiting as Statesman