Betrayal (1978 film)

For other films, see Betrayal (disambiguation) § Films.

Betrayal is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Rip Torn and Lesley Ann Warren, based on a non-fiction book by Julie Roy with Lucy Freeman. The subject is a real life lawsuit^[1] about a woman who sued her psychiatrist after he allegedly lured her into a sexual relationship. The film was first aired on NBC Monday Night at the Movies on November 13, 1978.^[2][3]

Betrayal
Lesley Ann Warren and Rip Torn
Genre	Drama
Based on	Betrayal by Julie Roy and Lucy Freeman
Teleplay by	Joanna Crawford Jerrold Freedman
Directed by	Paul Wendkos
Starring	Lesley Ann Warren Rip Torn
Theme music composer	Paul Chihara
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Roger Gimbel Tony Converse
Producer	Marc Trabulus
Cinematography	Gayne Rescher
Editor	Dana Cahn
Running time	96 minutes
Production companies	EMI Television Roger Gimbel Productions
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	November 13, 1978 (1978-11-13)

Plot

When Julie Roy, a young woman, approaches a maverick attorney Bob Cohen who handled her divorce several years earlier, she was desperate. She needed money to move to San Francisco to escape her painful past and wanted to sue her psychiatrist because he hadn't helped her. What was then revealed by Julie to Bob and his associate, Loren Plotkin, was a frightening expose of how Julie was, in fact, claiming that her psychoanalyst, Doctor Renatus Hartog, raped her, and over a period of time used her for sex before discarding her.

At first skeptical, the two lawyers were finally persuaded that Julie was telling the truth and they had the grounds for an unprecedented malpractice case that became a landmark decision in legal history.^[4]

Cast

• Lesley Ann Warren ... Julie Roy
• Rip Torn ... Doctor Hartogs
• Richard Masur ... Loren Plotkin
• Ron Silver ... Bob Cohen
• Bibi Besch ... Pat
• John Hillerman ... Victor Slavin
• Jane Marla Robbins ... Jane
• Peggy Ann Garner ... Mrs. Carol Stockwood
• Fred Sadoff ... Dr. Todson
• Stephen Elliott ... Judge Allan Myers
• Richard Karlan ... Adam
• Bob Delegall ... Man in Bar
• Richard Seff ... Dr. Van Hoving