Continue searching the Collection
PLAYHOUSE 90: OLD MAN (TV)
Summary
One in this dramatic anthology series. In this adaptation of William Faulkner's novel, a chain-gang inmate, stranded on the flooding Mississippi trying to save a pregnant woman, finds himself with an opportunity to escape. He rescues a mother-to-be, the woman gives birth, and the three go downriver on a boat. They arrive at a Cajun fisherman's house. The convict and the woman with a newborn baby are forced to the leave the Cajun's house where the convict has enjoyed freedom. The convict, turning himself in at the prison where the warden believed him drowned, is "rewarded" with an additional ten years added to his prison sentence. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: November 20, 1958 9:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:28:07
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T78:0086
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Literature - Adaptations
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1956-1961
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Allstate Insurance
- TV - Commercials - Maxwell House coffee
- TV - Commercials - Piel's beer
CREDITS
- Fred Coe … Producer
- Robert Goldman … Associate Producer
- Russell Stoneham … Associate Producer
- John Frankenheimer … Director
- Horton Foote … Writer
- William Faulkner … Based on the novel by
- Sterling Hayden … Cast, Tall Convict
- Geraldine Page … Cast, The Young Woman
- Milton Selzer … Cast, The Second Convict
- James Westerfield … Cast, The Warden
- Malcolm Atterbury … Cast, The Doctor
- Sandy Kenyon … Cast, The Deputy
- Marc Lawrence … Cast, The Cajun
- Len Lesser … Cast, Man With Gun
- Richard Le Pore … Cast, Man on Cotton House
- Naomi Stevens … Cast, Woman on Shanty Boat
- Stafford Repp … Cast, The Steamboat Captain
- Jamie Forster … Cast, Motor Boat Pilot
- Alvin Childress … Cast, Farmer on Levee
- Clegg Hoyt … Cast, Army Officer
- Bob Duggan … Cast, Steam Launch Pilot
- Ned Roberts … Cast, Machine Gun Sergeant