"DARKNESS AT NOON"

(5/2/55)

adapted by Robert Alan Arthur from the stage play by Sidney Kingsley (winner of Drama Critics Circle Award, 1951), from the Arthur Koestler novel; produced by Fred Coe, directed by Delbert Mann, Associate Director Dominick Dunne, music composition and direction by Harry Sosnick; set in Russian prison during purge trials of 1930s, with prisoner Rubashov, an old Bolshevik, reviewing his life in series of flashbacks and tapped conversations with prisoner in adjoining cell; starred Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Wiseman, Oscar Homolka, David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, Nehemiah Persoff, Mikhail Rasumny, Ruth Roman, Henry Silva; program closes with 58-second film clip of praise by Vice President Richard M. Nixon.