"STATE OF THE UNION"

(11/15/54)

directed by Arthur Penn, teleplay based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize Broadway show by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse adapted by them for television; comedy with serious theme about national politics, in which a extremely successful and fundamentally honest businessman is lured into presidential ambitions, and is forced to make compromise after compromise until he withdraws from the race, determined to reform the system; stars Joseph Cotten, Margaret Sullavan, Nina Foch, Ray Walston.