Sweet Hostage
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| Genre | Drama Romance |
| Written by | Edward Hume Nathaniel Benchley Antonio Calderón William Douglas Lansford |
| Directed by | Lee Philips |
| Starring |
Linda Blair Martin Sheen Jeanne Cooper |
| Theme music composer | Luchi De Jesus |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) | George Barrie |
| Producer(s) | Sidney Balkin Richard Lyons |
| Location(s) | Taos, New Mexico |
| Cinematography | Richard Glouner |
| Editor(s) | George Jay Nicholson |
| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Brut Productions |
| Distributor | ABC |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | October 10, 1975 |
Sweet Hostage is a 1975 American made-for-television romantic drama film based on the novel Welcome to Xanadu by Nathaniel Benchley. The film stars Linda Blair and Martin Sheen. It was filmed in Taos County, New Mexico. It was featured in ABC's Friday Night Movie series. Film and television critic Leonard Maltin rated the movie as "Average" in his biennial ratings guide "TV Movies". In his capsule review, Maltin said the performances by Sheen and Blair almost made this talky adaptation of the Nathaniel Benchley novel worthwhile. The film was only a moderate success in the Nielsen ratings, and failed to generate the type of provocative press which was then-standard for a Linda Blair movie.
Leonard Hatch (Martin Sheen), a fugitive mental patient, kidnaps Doris Mae Withers (Linda Blair), a semi-illiterate farm girl, and takes her away to his remote mountain cabin. There the poetic Leonard becomes her teacher, friend, and lover.
Sweet Hostage was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on November 2nd, 2011, as a Region 1 MOD DVD made available through Warner Archive.
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