Footsteps

(CBS, 10/3/1972, 90 mins). Richard Crenna stars as a win or else coach who was hired to whip a small college football team into shape and finds himself in trouble with heavy gamblers on the squad’s success, who plan to set the odds. Based on the novel “Paddy” by Hamilton Maule. Subsequently titled “Footsteps: Nice Guys Finish Last.”

Production Companies Dick Berg-Stonehenge Productions, Metromedia Producers Corp. Director Paul Wendkos. Executive Producer Dick Berg. Producer Lynn Stalmaster. Teleplay Alvin Sargent, Robert E. Thompson. Based on a Novel by Hamilton Maule. Photography Alan Stensvold. Music Ernest Gold. Editor John A. Martinelli. Art Director Peter M. Wooley.

Cast Richard Crenna (Paddy O’Connor), Joanna Pettet (Sarah Allison), Forrest Tucker (Bradford Emmons), Clu Gulager (Jonas Kane), Ned Beatty (Frank Powell), Mary Murphy (Martha Hagger), Beah Richards (Jessie Blake), Bill Overton (J.J. Blake), Allen Garfield (Brewster), Al Lettieri (Zimmerman), Robert Carradine (Gas station attendant), Lou Frizzell (Meat inspector), James Woods (Reporter), Jack Colvin (Crowther), Jennifer Lee (Doreen), Woodrow Chambliss (Minister), Michael Shaw (Drill Major).