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THE BLANCHE TAYLOR MOORE STORY
Network: CBS
Date of Release: May 3, 1993
Running Time: 92 minutes
Director: Alan Metzger
Screenplay: Judith Paige Mitchell
Based on the book Preacher's Girl by Jim Schutze
Cinematography: Geoffrey Erb
Film Editing: Seth Flaum
Production Design: Philip Dean Foreman
Set Decoration: Rick Gillis
Costume Design: Guy C. Verhille
Producer: Patricia Finnegan; Judith Jordan Cline (associate);
Andrea Baynes (executive); Judith Paige Mitchell (executive)
Original Music: David Michael Frank
Elizabeth Montgomery...Blanche Taylor Moore
David Clennon...Dwight Moore
John M. Jackson...Raymond Reid
Grace Zabriskie...Ethel
Bruce McGill...Morgan
Mark Rolston...O'Keefe
Guy Boyd...Kevin Denton
John Philbin...Ray, Jr.
Phoebe Augustine...Kathy
Matt Ryan...Stevie
Katy Boyer...Lujane
Tom Wood...Dwight's Son
Paul Collins...Dr. Nesbitt
David Wells...Medical Examiner
Lisa Blake Richards...Linda Reid Sykes
E.R. Davies...Reverend Jim Rosser
Henry Brown...Officer Daniels
Lynn Llewelyn...Victoria
Stephen Root...Dr. Kirby
Tim Halligan...Dr. Gardner
Patricia Belcher...Nurse Kitty
Heather Lind...Young Blanche
Wendy Way...Nurse Amy
Peggy Mannix...Nurse
E.E. Bell...Quicky Mart Owner
Michael Chieffo...Harvey
Rick Scarry...Raymond's Attorney
Douglas Roberts...Interrogator
Rick Hall...Deputy Sheriff Bob
Erika Rosenzweig...Dwight's Daughter
Michael Shamus Wiles...Guy in Bar
Wynn Reichert...Intern
Walter Beery...Man in Woods
In this fact-based drama, Elizabeth (Bewitched) Montgomery stars as Moore, a North Carolina woman currently on death row.
As the movie begins, this trailer-park dolly always has some man on the hook while she's flirting with the next. Romantically she runs hot and cold, seductive one minute and dismissive the next. But, as you might have surmised from the title, this isn't the tale of a mere serial lover.
After eating her banana pudding, her boyfriend (John M. Jackson) takes sick and is hospitalized with severe gastrointestinal problems. On his deathbed, he makes her executor of his will. She then marries a minister (David Clennon), who develops the same grave symptoms. That leads authorities to examine her past. They start exhuming the bodies of men in her life--including her father--and find arsenic in all of them. Seems she's been using Anti-Ant, an insecticide, in her recipes, the way some cooks use Mrs. Dash.
The chronology and narrative are a little confusing and the childhood flashbacks murky. But as far as grotesque reenactments go, this one's pretty gripping. Montgomery is a marvel. Grade: B