The Burning Bed (1984) DVD-R NTSC

The Burning Bed (1984)



Directed by Robert Greenwald
Produced by Carol Schreder
Executive Producers Jon Avnet,Steve Tisch
Music by Charles Gross
Teleplay by Rose Leiman Goldemberg
Based on the book by Faith Mcnulty
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Starring Farrah Fawcett
Paul Lemat
Richard Masur
Grace Zabriskie
Penelope Milford
Christa Denton
James Callahan
Gary Grubbs
Country United States
Language English
Run Time: 95 minutes
Release Date:8 October 1984 (USA)





The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered Dansville, Michigan housewife, Francine Hughes. After thirteen years of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband James Berlin ("Mickey") Hughes, she set fire to the bed he was sleeping in on March 9, 1977. James Hughes was killed and the house destroyed in the resulting inferno.

On the night of the fire, Hughes told her children to put their coats on and wait for her in the car. She then started the fire with gasoline poured around the bed Mickey Hughes was sleeping in. After the house had caught fire, Hughes drove with her three children to the local police station in order to confess.

Hughes was tried in Lansing and found by a jury of her peers to be not guilty by reason of insanity.

Having turned the book into a made-for-television movie, McNulty's screenplay, "The Burning Bed" premiered on NBC on October 8, 1984. The movie, directed by Robert Greenwald, starred Farrah Fawcett as Francine Hughes and Paul LeMat as Mickey Hughes.



Languages: English, Spanish

Subs: English, French, Spanish

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
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R.I.P
Farrah Fawcett
(February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009)