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STUDIO ONE: THE NIGHT AMERICA TREMBLED (TV)
Summary
One in this live dramatic anthology series. This docudrama, narrated by Edward R. Murrow, recreates the events leading up to and the panic that resulted from the radio broadcast by Orson Welles and his "Mercury Theatre" of H. G. Wells's science-fiction tale "The War of the Worlds" on October 30, 1938, which reported on an invasion of the earth by monsters from Mars. Includes commercials for Westinghouse.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: September 9, 1957 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:21
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T76:0140
- GENRE: Docudrama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Docudrama; Radio - History - Drama; She Made It Collection (Betty Furness)
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1948-1958
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Westinghouse
CREDITS
- Gordon Duff … Producer
- Tom Donovan … Director
- Nelson Bond … Writer
- Hank Sylvern … Music by
- Edward R. Murrow … Host, Narrator
- Alexander Scourby … Cast, Phillips
- Freda Holloway … Cast, Mary
- Edward Asner … Cast, an Actor
- Frank Marth … Cast, an Actor
- Ray Boyle … Cast, an Actor
- Vincent Gardenia … Cast, Dick
- James Coburn … Cast, Sam
- Warren Beatty … Cast, a Card Player
- Warren Oates … Cast, a Card Player
- Robert Blackburn … Cast, the Director
- Norman Rose … Cast, an Announcer
- Casey Allen … Cast, an Announcer
- Tom Clancy … Cast, Tom
- Fred Scollay … Cast, Harry
- Priscilla Gillette … Cast, Elaine
- Susan Hallaran … Cast, Millie
- Crahan Denton … Cast, Mack
- Al Markim … Cast, Brownie
- Freda Holloway … Cast, Mary
- Clint Kimbrough … Cast, Bob
- John Gibson … Cast, the Father
- Frank Daly … Cast, the Editor
- Fritz Weber … Cast, a Card Player
- Larry Robinson … Cast, a Card Player
- Bob Kilgallen … Cast, the Student