NBC, 10/2/55
Directed by Robert Mulligan
In this powerful early television anthology directed by Robert Mulligan (To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962), Don Murray stars alongside future cinema legend Sidney Poitier as an AWOL soldier that forms an unexpected deep friendship with an African American dockworker. As racial tensions on the waterfront escalate to unbridled brutality, the fates of the two men become intractably intertwined.
Producer: Gordon Duff. Screenwriter: Robert Alan Aurthur. Cast: Don Murray, Sidney Poitier, Martin Balsam, Michael Strong, Hilda Simms.
Digital betacam, b/w, 60 min.
Use of The Philco Television Playhouse: “A Man is Ten Feet Tall” courtesy of Films Around The World.
