The Glass Menagerie: Directed by Paul Newman. With Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton. A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

The Glass Menagerie: Directed by Irving Rapper. With Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy. Merchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura.

The Glass Menagerie (1987) A wonderful dramatisation of the work and everyone giving a super performance, although I felt that Malkovich had a somewhat dispassionate edge to his. The drama demands every attention to the script which pays off beautifully, despite the slow-moving storyline.

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1974 Nominee DGA Award Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television Anthony Harvey

The Glass Menagerie: Directed by Gordon Edelstein. With Patch Darragh, Judith Ivey, Keira Keeley, Michael Mosley. A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

Tom Wingfield: I'm going to the movies. Amanda Wingfield: I don't believe that lie! Tom Wingfield: No? Well you're right, Mother. I'm going to opium dens. Yes, mother. Opium dens. Dens of vice and criminal's hangouts, mother, I am a hired assassin, I joined the Hogan gang, I carry a tommy gun in a violin case, and I run a stream of cat houses in the valley, they call me Killer, Killer ...

In The Glass Menagerie, an overbearing mother with good intentions wishes her shy, crippled daughter to have male attention, or as she calls it, "gentlemen callers" as she had when she was a debutante.

Tom Wingfield : I'm going to the movies. Amanda Wingfield : I don't believe that lie! Tom Wingfield : No? Well you're right, Mother. I'm going to opium dens. Yes, mother. Opium dens. Dens of vice and criminal's hangouts, mother, I am a hired assassin, I joined the Hogan gang, I carry a tommy gun in a violin case, and I run a stream of cat houses in the valley, they call me Killer, Killer ...

The Glass Menagerie: Regie: Michael Elliott Mit Shirley Booth, Hal Holbrook, Barbara Loden, Pat Hingle Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past.