Buick-Electra Playhouse (1959-60)
Sponsors - Buick Motors
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV
Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive Writers Guild
of America (wga)
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BUICK-ELECTRA PLAYHOUSE
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CBS Production (Thursdays 9:30-11:00pm)
Executive Producer A.E. Hotchner
Producer Gordon Duff
Director John Frankenheimer
US Anthology of Specials 1959-60 4 episodes x 90 min
These specials aired randomnly and were usually based on Ernest Hemingway's
work.
Sponsored by Buick Motors
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CBS Thursdays 9:30-11:00pm
Shared this time slot with "Playhouse
90
" "The
Big Party for Revlon" then "The
Revlon Revue"
[01] Buick-Electra Playhouse: THE KILLERS
19Nov1959 CBS Thur
Executive Producer A.E. Hotchner
Producer Gordon Duff
Teleplay by A.E. Hotchner
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway
starring
Dean Stockwell ...... Nick Adams
Ingemar Johansson ... Ole Anderson
Diane Baker ....... Holly
Dane Clark
Ray Walston
Robert Middleton
Glenda Farrell
Frank McHugh
Synopsis:
The story of a young man who attempts to save the life of an ex-boxer who is
marked for death by two gunment who arrive
in a small town. World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar
Johansson
Synopsis:
An ex-heavyweight fighter hires a gunman to do him in. [RF]
*Note: First of four 90-minute programs based on the writings of Ernest
Hemingway.
[02] Buick-Electra Playhouse: THE FIFTH COLUMN 29Jan1960 CBS Friday? Executive Producer A.E. Hotchner Producer Gordon Duff Teleplay by A.E. Hotchner Based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway Directed by John Frankenheimer Music by David Amram starring Richard Burton Maximilian Schell George Rose Betsy von Furstenberg Milton Selzer Sally Ann Howes Shai K. Ophir Elisa Loti Robert Dowdell Tonio Selwart Sydney Pollack Alfred De La Fuente R.G. Brown Philip Kenneally Andreas Voustsinas James Patterson with talent Bob Hope. Synopsis: The saga about an almost-deaf Nazi officer in a group of Fifth Columnists operating behind the lines in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's. [RF]
[03] Buick-Electra Playhouse: THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO 25Mar1960 CBS Friday? Executive Producer A.E. Hotchner Producer Gordon Duff Associate Producer Joe Scully Based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway Teleplay by A.E. Hotchner Directed by John Frankenheimer Theme Music by Laurence Rosenthal Music by Fred Steiner starring Robert Ryan ............. Harry Walters Ann Todd .................. Helen Walters James Gregory Janice Rule Norma Crane Mary Astor Frank Puglia Brock Peters Liliane Montevecchi Clancy Cooper Clegg Hoyt Albert Paulson with talent Bob Hope Lucille Ball Ernie Kovas Desi Arnaz and the voice of Rod Serling. Synopsis: A writer recalls his life as he lies dying of gangrene in a campsite near Mount Kilimanjaro. Harry is alternately cruel and kind to his wife Helen, who attends to him as they wait for a rescue party on the isolated mountaintop. In a series of flashbacks, Harry remembers his first love, a young Parisian dancer who eventually left him; his early literary successes; his first marriage, which self-destructed in a series of bitter fights and accusations; his introduction to Helen, a wealthy widow who longed for passion and excitement; his editor's attempts to get him to write more honestly about his inner feelings; his own fears that he was destroying his talent with drinking, laziness, and insecurity; and the events leading to his and Helen's desperate flight to Africa, where Harry had planned to "burn the fat off his soul." [RF]
[04] Buick Electra Playhouse: THE GAMBLER, THE NUN AND THE RADIO
19May1960 CBS Thurs (90min taped play).
Adapted by A.E. Hotchner
Based on a novel by Ernest Hemmingway
Directed by James Clark & Albert Marre
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Produced by Gordon Duff
Cast:
Eleanor Parker .......... Sister Cecilia
Richard Conte ........... Cayetano Ruiz
Charles Bickford ........ Mr. Frazer
William Schallert ....... Dr. Milling
L.Q. Jones .............. Rodeo Rider
George Chandler ......... Carpenter
Frank Killmond .......... Farm Boy
Mary Wickes ............. Nurse
Jorge Moreno ............ Big Mexican
Jose Gonzales-Gonzales... Small Mexican
Martin Garralaga ........ Thin Mexican
Rodolfo Acosta .......... Killer
Synopsis:
Set in 1932.
Cayetano Ruiz is a gambler. He always wins, and this doesn't make him the most popular
man in Halley, Montana. In fact, somebody wants to kill him, and during a card game Cayetano is shot.
At the hospital, the doctors don't think he'll live. But his nurse, Sister Cecilia, prays fervently to
St. Francis for Cayetano's recovery. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
The 1933 story of a wounded man in a Montana hospital, in which Hemingway
makes one of his rare philosophical observations: "Bread is the opium of the people." [RF]
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