The Other Side of Hell

(NBC, 1/17/1978, 180 mins). Alan Arkin plays a man who enters a hospital for the criminally insane in an irrational state but regains his sanity after several years and then desperately tries to win his release after witnessing attacks on patients by guards. Production on this three-hour movie began on this as “The Next Howling Wind” and then it was to have been called “Escape From Hell.”

Production Companies Aubrey-Lyon Productions, NBC Productions. Director Jan Kadar. Executive Producer James T. Aubrey. Producers Jim Milio, Ronald Lyon. Teleplay Leon Tokatyan. Photography Adam Holender. Music Leonard Rosenman. Editor Ralph E. Winters. Art Director James Murakami. Associate Producer Russell Vreeland.

Cast Alan Arkin (Frank Dole), Roger E. Mosley (Jim Baker), Morgan Woodward (Johnson), Seamon Glass (Donahue), Shay Duffin (Miller), Richard Hawkins (Reverend Wyler), Al Checco (Pudgy Man), Leonard Stone (Morelli), Tony Karloff (Carlo), Nicky Blair (Di Salvo), Barbara Dana (Louise Dole), Rocky Soriano (Baby), Ron Ben Jarrett (Benton), Robert Ferguson (Crying patient), James Bradley (Charlie), Harry Helm (Shaking patient), James Minahan (Kid), Jack Dove (Sam), George Peckham (Piano player), Stanley Yale (Mitchell), Jeffrey Bingham (Hank), Alexander Conley III (Sal), Bob Hoy (Fighter), Richard Riehle (Tattooed man), John Graham (Dr. Brink), James Schuster (Dr. Hazlitt.), Jack Wax (Dr. Menzies), Joel Fredrick (Social worker), Richard Arnold (Frank’s attorney), Donald Einarsen (District Attorney), Gary Boone (1st deputy), Bill Buck (2nd deputy), Mickey Butorovich (Lyon), Vern Taylor (Taniner), Jim Mendenhall (Coleman), Frank Magan (Greenberg).