In 1973, Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie was adapted into a made-for-TV movie. I hated the play when I read it for a class. I did not hate this movie, however, because of these two gentlemen pictured above.

Your eyes do not deceive you: Jack McCoy and Ben Stone coexisted on the small screen. Sort of. Sam Waterston played Tom Wingfield, while Michael Moriarty played Jim O’Connor. Both were nominated for Emmys, and Moriarty won his. I thought they were both extraordinary, even though Sam’s accent had me in stitches throughout the film.

My fellow Law & Order buffs ought to find it within themselves to see this movie and see these guys in their youth (both about 32 years old) playing men completely different from those we’ve become used to seeing in the courtroom. Do yourself the favor. It’s available on Netflix Instant and well worth the hour and a half, regardless of your opinion of the play.