Getting Away

Duration: 14

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Peter Winograd Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Dramatizes Dorothy Thomas' short story, The Getaway, which focuses on Gladys Riggs, a young midwestern housewife bored with her existence. Shows Gladys preparing to run off with a traveling salesman who offers what appears to be a temporary escape from her dreary life. Records the reactions and results as Junior, Gladys' 11-year-old son, plans to go along with the couple despite efforts to the contrary., In this telling glimpse of midwestern Americana, Gladys Riggs, an attractive mother of three bored with her lot in life, decides to leave home. Married to a truck driver whom she considers unappreciative, Gladys prepares to escsape with a traveling salesman. Her son confronts her, however, and refuses to be left behind.

Complete Record: Dramatizes Dorothy Thomas' short story, The Getaway, which focuses on Gladys Riggs, a young midwestern housewife bored with her existence. Shows Gladys preparing to run off with a traveling salesman who offers what appears to be a temporary escape from her dreary life. Records the reactions and results as Junior, Gladys' 11-year-old son, plans to go along with the couple despite efforts to the contrary., In this telling glimpse of midwestern Americana, Gladys Riggs, an attractive mother of three bored with her lot in life, decides to leave home. Married to a truck driver whom she considers unappreciative, Gladys prepares to escsape with a traveling salesman. Her son confronts her, however, and refuses to be left behind. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.