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Tarzanrock

(1,250 posts)
31. Delbert Mann's "Darkness at Noon."
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 07:34 PM
Feb 2025

The 1955 Producer's Showcase for television aired the film production of Arthur Koestler's 1940 masterpiece: "Darkness at Noon."
"On May 2, 1955, as its tenth production, Producers' Showcase aired Darkness at Noon, an adaptation of Arthur Koestler's chilling 1940 novel about persecution in the Soviet Union during Stalin's Great Purge. Darkness at Noon was directed by Delbert Mann from a script by Robert Alan Aurthur (based in turn on the stage play by Sidney Kingsley), and starred Lee J. Cobb as Rubashov, a former high-ranking Party official now in prison, charged with treason for betraying the cause."

Fabulous direction from Delbert Mann and a most impressive cast besides Lee J. Cobb: Ruth Roman; David Wayne; Oscar Homolka;Joseph Wiseman; Nehemiah Persoff; and, Henry Silva.
https://www.itsabouttv.com/2021/02/the-descent-into-hell-darkness-at-noon.html

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Delbert Mann's "Darkness at Noon." Tarzanrock Feb 2025 #31
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