Love Leads the Way: A True Story is a 1984 television film that originally aired on the Disney Channel on October 7, 1984. It was later reaired on The Disney Sunday Movie on ABC on May 4, 1986 as Love Leads the Way. The telefilm was directed by Delbert Mann and written by Henry Denker and Jimmy Hawkins.
Synopsis
A recently blinded man becomes one of the first American users of a seeing eye dog and must fight to remove the legal barriers impeding its use.
Cast
- Timothy Bottoms as Morris Frank
- Susan Dey as Beth
- Glynnis O'Connor as Lois
- Richard Speight Jr. as Jimmy
- Arthur Hill as Mr. Frank
- Patricia Neal as Mrs. Frank
- Eva Marie Saint as Mrs. Eustes
- Bill Ewin as Emmett (the postman)
- Ralph Bellamy as Sen. Christi
- Ernest Borgnine as Sen. Brighton
- Pilot as Buddie - the dog
- Michael Anderson Jr. as Hank
- Gerald Hiken as Jack
- Richard Roat as Proprietor
- Stephen Young as Mike McShane
- Eugene Pidgeon as Nate
- Henry O. Arnold as Bus Driver
- George Wallace Blind as Institute Director
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