Main Cast: Linda Purl, Desi Arnaz, Jr., Jessica Walter, David F. Doyle, Tom Bosley
Release Year: 1977
Country: US
Run Time: 100 minutes
Plot
Elizabeth Christman's novel A Nice Italian Girl was the source for the TV-movie Black Market Baby. Desi Arnaz Jr. plays a slick lothario who is paid by an illicit adoption agency to impregnate impressionable college student Linda Purl. The racketeers stand to make $50,000 by selling the baby to an anxious middle-aged couple. When Arnaz falls in love with Purl and tries to help her keep her baby, the crooks take swift and violent action. Originally titled A Dangerous Love, Black Market Baby was released theatrically overseas as Don't Steal My Baby--a title more appropriate to the overall tawdriness of the film. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Bill Bixby - Herbert Freemont; Lucille Benson - Mrs. Krieg; Annie Potts - Linda Cleary; Tracy Brooks Swope - Babs; Allen Joseph - Albert Macarino; Mark Thomas - Mario Macarino; Argentina Brunetti - Aunt Imelda; Tom Pedi - Uncle Sanchi; Beulah Quo - Mrs. Yamato; Robert Resnick - Rick; Stuart Nisbet - Prof. Wellman; James Oliver - Waterman; James Faracci - Victorio; Shelly Hoffman - Sylvana; Ivana Moore - Gina; Andrew Peter Marin - Watcher
Credit
Carl Anderson - Art Director, Robert Day - Director, George Jay Nicholson - Editor, Jim Green - Executive Producer, Richard Bellis - Composer (Music Score), George Wilkins - Composer (Music Score), Richard C. Glouner - Cinematographer, Milton Sperling - Producer, Allen S. Epstein - Producer, Andrew Peter Marin - Screenwriter, Elizabeth Christman - Book Author
