The Ledge (segment of Cat's Eye)

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The Ledge is a suspenseful segment from the 1985 horror anthology film Cat's Eye, based on a Stephen King short story about a man forced to walk around the narrow ledge of a high-rise building as part of a deadly bet.

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instanceOf anthology film segment
film segment
short story adaptation
adaptationType short story to film
associatedWithAuthor Stephen King
basedOn The Ledge
surface form: The Ledge (short story)
basedOnWorkAuthor Stephen King
belongsToFranchise Stephen King film adaptations
centralTheme revenge
risk and survival
sadistic games
cinematographyBy Jack Cardiff
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Lewis Teague
distributedBy MGM/UA Communications Co.
surface form: MGM/UA Entertainment Company
featuresActor Candy Clark
Kenneth McMillan
Robert Hays
featuresCharacter Cressner
Johnny Norris
followsSegment Quitters, Inc.
surface form: The Quitter's Inc. (segment of Cat's Eye)
genre horror
suspense
thriller
hasTone darkly comic
suspenseful
medium live-action film
musicBy Alan Silvestri
narrativeDevice deadly wager
notableElement extended sequence on a narrow exterior ledge high above the ground
use of vertigo-inducing camera angles
originalLanguage English
partOf Cat's Eye (1985 film)
partOfAnthologyStructure third segment
plotSummary A man is forced to walk around the narrow ledge of a high-rise building as part of a deadly bet.
precedesSegment General (wraparound segment of Cat's Eye)
producer Dino De Laurentiis
productionCompany Dino De Laurentiis Corporation
surface form: Dino De Laurentiis Company
releaseYear 1985
screenwriter Stephen King
setting high-rise building
shortStoryFirstPublishedIn Night Shift
shortStoryPublicationAuthor Stephen King
targetAudience adult

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Night Shift hasAdaptation The Ledge (segment of Cat's Eye)