If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band (1972)

Directed by

Fred Coe

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 13m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man navigates difficult choices in his life. The story follows his personal struggles and the consequences that follow.

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What happens

If You Give a Dance You Gotta Pay the Band is a 1972 American TV movie. It was the first program shown under the umbrella ABC Theater. The production (at the time referred to as a "dramatic special" or "teleplay" rather than a made-for-TV movie) was the first screen credit for Laurence Fishburne and led to him getting a role later on in the soap opera One Life to Live. The teleplay first aired on ABC at 8:30pm ET on Tuesday, December 19, 1972 and was rerun on Wednesday, June 6, 1973 at 9:00pm ET. In TV listings of the era, the title was generally given as If You Give a Dance You Gotta Pay the Band without a comma. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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