Rooster (film)
Appearance
Rooster | |
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Written by | Glen A. Larson Paul Williams |
Directed by | Russ Mayberry |
Starring | Paul Williams Pat McCormick J. D. Cannon Ed Lauter Jill St. John Kathrine Baumann Amy Botwinick |
Music by | Stu Phillips |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Glen A. Larson |
Producers | Keith Pierce (associate producer) Harker Wade (supervising producer) |
Cinematography | Chuck Arnold (as Charles G. Arnold) |
Editor | David Howe |
Running time | 85 minutes |
Production companies | 20th Century Fox Television Glen A. Larson Productions Tugboat Productions |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
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Rooster is a 1982 made-for-TV film, starring Paul Williams and Pat McCormick who were reunited after their pairing in the Smokey and the Bandit movies. Rooster is an unsold television pilot written and produced by Glen A. Larson for 20th Century Fox Television and broadcast as a two-hour movie on the ABC Television Network in 1982.
Plot summary
A physically small police psychologist (Paul Williams) and a physically large insurance detective (Pat McCormick) team up on an arson case.
Cast
- Paul Williams as Rooster Steele
- Pat McCormick as Sweets McBride
- J. D. Cannon as Chief Willard T. Coburn
- Ed Lauter as Jack Claggert
- Jill St. John as Joanna Van Eegan
- Kathrine Baumann as Amy Hammond
- Amy Botwinick as B.B.
- Robert Henry Bryant as Fire Chief (as Robert Bryant)
- Delta Burke as Laura DeVega
- Charlie Callas as Francis A. Melville
- Henry Darrow as Dr. Sanchez
- Pamela Hensley as Bunny Richter
- Lara Parker as Janet
- William Daniels as Dr. DeVega
- John Saxon as Jerome Brademan
- Eddie Albert as Rev. Harlan Barnum
- Marie Osmond as Sister Mae Davis
- Dan Pastorini as Himself
- Dusty Baker as Himself
- Jerry Reuss as Himself
- Mike Scioscia as Himself