The Quinns

• Director: Daniel Petrie
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Family Drama
• Themes: Parenthood, Generation Gap
• Release Year: 1977
• Country: US
• Run Time: 78 minutes

Plot

The Quinns follows the exploits of four generations of an Irish-American family. Much of the screen time is spent on domestic problems regarding growing pains, romance, and the generation gap. Amidst these personal travails, director Dan Petrie inserts several moderately exciting fire sequences involving the firefighting members of the Quinn family, intercut with stock shots of actual conflagrations. The Quinns was well cast and attractively assembled but failed to sell as a series. Perhaps the "firehouse" concept had already been played to death by the popular series Emergency, while the "extended family" notion had been exhausted by such series as The Waltons and Eight is Enough. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Barry Bostwick; Blair Brown; Susan Browning; Geraldine Fitzgerald; Penny Peyser; Virginia Vestoff; Pat Elliott

Credit

Mel Bourne - Art Director, Daniel Petrie - Director, Virginia Scott - Editor, Sidney Scott - Editor, John Scott - Composer (Music Score), Arthur Ornitz - Cinematographer, Daniel Wilson - Producer, Sidney Carroll - Teleplay By, Fran Sears - From Idea By, Phyllis Minoff - From Idea By

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