AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE: CONCEALED ENEMIES, PART 1: SUSPICION (TV)
Summary
Part one of four. One in this dramatic anthology series. This docudrama deals with the actual events of the Alger Hiss spy case and examines the role played by Whittaker Chambers, the man whose accusations brought Hiss down. Set in the Cold War era, this drama also provides an incisive portrait of the times that produced the House Committee on Un-American Activities and vaulted the young Richard Nixon to national attention. In this part, Chambers voluntarily testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, stating his involvement with the Communist Party ten years earlier and providing the committee with a list of names of alleged Communists. Among those named is Hiss, president of the prestigious Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Hiss appears before the committee and denies the charges, but Nixon, a congressional committee member, insists on pursuing the issue and begins to build a case against Hiss. Chambers and Hiss are brought together in a private meeting of the committee at the Commodore Hotel in New York. Hiss loses his temper and challenges Chambers to make his accusations publicly, outside the committee, where he will have no immunity and can be sued for libel. Continues with T88:0239.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: May 7, 1984 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:55:23
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T88:0238
- GENRE: Docudrama; Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Communism - Drama; Drama; Espionage, Communist; U S House Committe on Un-American Activities
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1982-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- David Elstein … Executive Producer
- Lindsay Law … Executive Producer
- Peter B. Cook … Producer
- Penelope Pigott … Associate Producer
- Jeff Bleckner … Director
- Hugh Whitemore … Writer
- Jonathan Tunick … Music by
- Gerry Bamman … Cast, Father John Cronin
- John Harkins … Cast, Whittaker Chambers
- Herrmann, Edward (See also: Herrmann, Ed) … Cast, Alger Hiss
- Maria Tucci … Cast, Priscilla Hiss
- Jamie E. Pierce … Cast, Tony Hiss
- Alice Drummond … Cast, Hiss's Secretary
- Kurt Knudson … Cast, Walter Sarnoff
- Peter Riegert … Cast, Richard Nixon
- Alan North … Cast, Karl Mundt
- MacIntyre Dixon … Cast, John McDowell
- Lee Wallace … Cast, Ben Mandel
- Stuart Burney … Cast, Louis Russell
- Jack Dodson … Cast, F. Edward Hebert
- Kevin O'Morrison … Cast, John E. Rankin
- Wayne Tippit … Cast, Robert Stripling
- Mart Hulswit … Cast, Charles Dollard
- Henderson Forsythe … Cast, John Foster Dulles
- Priscilla Reetz … Cast, Dulles' Secretary
- George Hamlin … Cast, Allen Dulles
- Frank Maraden … Cast, Julian Wadleigh
- Jean De Baer … Cast, Edythe Wadleigh
- John McMartin … Cast, William Marbury
- Eunice Anderson … Cast, Hisses' Neighbor
- Marcia Jean Kurtz … Cast, Esther Chambers
- Barton Heyman … Cast, Mr. Oseas
- Richard Hamilton … Cast, Club Member
- Stephen Mendillo … Cast, Mr. Appell
- Michael Tucker … Cast, Harold Rosenwald
- Melissa Ann Green … Cast, Rosenwald's Secretary
- Vic Polizos … Cast, Mr. Wheeler
- Ron Rifkin … Cast, Samuel Roth
- Peter Bigelow … Cast, James Reston
- Mort Kaplan … Cast, Radio Announcer
- John Valentine … Cast, Edward T. Folliard
- Jess Cain … Cast, Lawrence E. Spivak
- Tim Wise … Cast, Tom Reynolds
- Richard Jenkins … Cast, Nicholas Vazzana
- Peter C. Kovner … Cast, Journalist
- Saul Rubinek … Cast, Harold Shapero
- Frederick Coffin … Cast, Thomas Murphy
- Bob Owczarek … Cast, Walter H. Anderson
- Richard Dysart … Cast, Lloyd Paul Stryker
- Richard Grusin … Cast, Theo Becker
- Sam Gray … Cast, Judge Samuel Kaufman
- Ed Van Nuys … Cast, Ramos Feehan
- Alexandra Bleckner … Cast, Girl on Piano
- Will Lyman … Cast, Gabriel Javsicas
- Theresa Merritt … Cast, Clytie Catlett
- Paul Bates … Cast, Mike Catlett
- William E. Kennedy … Cast, Pat Catlett
- Walter Covell … Cast, Court Clerk
- Charles W. Wolf … Cast, Caretaker
- Leonard Zola … Cast, Jury Foreman
- Scott Richards … Cast, Journalist
- Earl Hindman … Cast, Lombardo, FBI
- Christopher Childs … Cast, Burdick, FBI
- David Ellsworth … Cast, Juror
- Remark Ramsay … Cast, Dr. Carl Binger
- Raymond Serra … Cast, J. Edgar Hoover
- Eric Swanson … Cast, Timothy
- Jonathan Baltzer … Cast, Ralph
- Mary Alice … Cast, Edith Murray
- Robert Milli … Cast, Claude Cross
- Hansford Rowe … Cast, Judge Henry Goddard
- Louis Farrah … Cast, Press Room Reporter
- David Thomas … Cast, Court Clerk
- June Lion … Cast, Jury Foreman
- Maurice Plasse … Cast, Richard Cleveland
- Charles Kimbrough … Cast, Edward McLean
- Holland Taylor … Cast, Mrs. Marbury
- Victoria Howard … Cast, Marburys' Maid
- Remak Ramsay … Cast, Dr. Carl Binger
- William Miller … Cast, Miami Journalist
- Bart McCarthy … Cast, Miami Journalist
- Anne Pitoniak … Cast, Chambers' Mother
- J. Bradford Jones … Cast, Seed Salesman
- Peter Gerety … Cast, Edwin H. Fearon
- William Prince … Cast, John W. Davis
- Michael Ryan … Cast, Raymond Whearty
- Madison Arnold … Cast, Alexander Campbell
- Ted Kazanoff … Cast, Grand Juror
- Charles Werner Moore … Cast, Grand Juror
- Eugene Boles … Cast, Grand Juror
- Tom Griffin … Cast, Grand Juror
- June Judson … Cast, Grand Juror
- W. Clapham Murray … Cast, Grand Jury Official
- David Ian … Cast, Nixon Aide
- James Spruill … Cast, Bill
- Joe Ponazecki … Cast, Leon Herald
- Evan Bell … Cast, Sam Noisette
- Roger Curtis … Cast, Young, FBI Agent
- Bill L. McDonald … Cast, Cab Driver
- Regina Taylor … Cast, Burnetta
- Mel Winkler … Cast, Mr. Marlow
- Frank Adu … Cast, Vernon
- Ralph Byers … Cast, Clyde Tolson
- Linda Peterson … Cast, Stryker's Secretary
- Sloane Shelton … Cast, Psychoanalyst