Gene Lyons, Betsy Palmer, Ralph Dunn, James Dean. From a story by Thomas Walsh. Originally presented on Studio One on CBS-TV in 1953. Bonus feature: The night America trembled / CBS Television Network production ; produced by Gordon Duff ; written especially for Studio One by Nelson Bond ; directed by Tom Donovan ; starring: Edward R. Murrow, Alexander Scourby, Robert Blackburn, Casey Allen, Norman Rose, Warren Oates, Warren Beatty. Special features: Watch the features with or without period commercials with Betty Furness demonstrating Westinghouse products; documentary on the history of Studio One; cast bios.
Contents:
Sentence of death (ca. 60 min.) -- The night America trembled (ca. 60 min.) -- Documentary (ca. 10 min.).
Summary:
Sentence of death: A young James Dean plays a young man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The night America trembled: A re-enactment of the night in 1938 when Orson Welles' War of the worlds was broadcast on the radio.
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