Daniel Cooper Collection
Idealized account of director/producer Dan Curtis' youth in the 1930s.
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
The Long Days of Summer
In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of his youth during the late '30, and follows a fictionalized family where the father has jeopardized a promising law career to defend a Jewish immigrant against the prejudices of a staid New England town.