Dupont Show Of The Month - The Bridge Of San Luis Rey (1958)
1958 · Television · 78 min
- Drama
Synopsis
21 Jan 1958 Director: Robert Mulligan Writers: Walter Bernstein, Ludi Claire, Thornton Wilder Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Viveca Lindfors In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge. DuPont Show of the Month was a 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Details
- Running time
- 78 minutes
- Collection
- 1950s Classic TV, Classic TV
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Inquisition
- Thornton Wilder
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · production note · Gov Bud Hudnut · 2024-04-27
One of the writers for the show appears in the accompanying description as Walter Bernstein, blacklisted for many years for his communist affiliations and refusal to give evidence to HUAC. Because this episode was broadcast during that period, his name didn't appear in the original credits. Bernstein's classic account of the blacklist, its effect on himself, his colleagues, and the industry as a whole, is entitled "Inside Out: a Memoir of the Blacklist", published in 1996.