She got arrested for telling women they could say no to babies. The audacity!
The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.
Acting
Bonnie Franklin transforms from sitcom mom to revolutionary firebrand.
Production
Ridiculously authentic 1910s Brooklyn poverty, not prestige-picture pretty.
Writing
Courtroom scenes where 'obscenity' gets dismantled word by word.
Director
Virgil W. Vogel
Bonnie Franklin
Margaret Sanger
David Dukes
Bill Sanger
Richard Johnson
Havelock Ellis
Stacy Keach
Judge Murdock
Frances Lee McCain
Ethel Higgins
Milo O'Shea
Michael Higgins
Albert Salmi
Big Bill Haywood
Yvonne Wilder
Fania Mindell
William Windom
Monseigneur Soldini
Carol Eve Rossen
Anita
Garn Stephens
Mollie Farber
Kathleen Doyle
Marvis
James Karen
Untermeyer
F. William Parker
Warden Hale
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bonnie Franklin fought for this role for three years; CBS only greenlit it after 'One Day at a Time' made her household-name famous.
The Comstock Law scenes hit different post-Dobbs; this 1980 TV movie accidentally became prophecy.
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