Title: “Kraft Television Theatre” Films
Inclusive Dates: 1957-1958

Call Number: see list below

Quantity: 51 film reels

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Contact Information

Archival Location:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Twenty-one episodes of Kraft Television Theatre, an hour-long dramatic anthology series that ran from 1947 to 1958. The series aired on NBC except for the period between Oct. 15, 1953 and Jan. 6, 1955, when it aired on ABC. The name of the series was changed from Kraft Television Theatre to Kraft Theatre in April 1958 and to Kraft Mystery Theatre in June 1958. The executive producer was David Susskind. All the films are 16 mm kinescopes in black and white with sound and include commercials for Kraft products.

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Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-kraft

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Acquisition Information

Presented by the David Susskind Estate in 1991 as part of the David Susskind Papers. Accession Number: M91-034

Access Restrictions

These films may be viewed on the Steenbeck only.

Use Restrictions

No duplication or public screening without consent of copyright holder.

DE 456-457	POLKA, 12/18/1957 Note: Fiedler Cook's Production Adapted by Lee Pogostin Cast: Shelley Winters, Glenda Farrell, James Gregory, Phyllis Love, Torin Thatcher
DE 444-445	ANGRY HARVEST, 4/23/1958 Note: From the novel by Hermann Field and Stanislaw Mierzenski Director: Alex Segal Producer: Robert Herridge Cast: Theodore Bikel, Ina Balin, George Voskovec, Ludwig Donath, Elliott Sullivan, Margot Lassner, John Van Dreelen, Ted Gunther
DE 476-478	THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT, 5/7/1958 Note: From the short story by Bret Harte Adapted by Phil Reisman, Jr. Producer: Robert Herridge Director: Paul Stanley Cast: George C. Scott, Ruth White, Janet Ward, Larry Hagman, Lane Bradley, Ford Rainey, Burton Mallory, Ramsey Williams, John Kellogg
DE 458-459	ALL THE KING'S MEN [PART I], 5/14/1958 Note: From the novel by Robert Penn Warren Adapted by Don Mankiewicz Producer: Robert Herridge Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Neville Brand, William Prince, Frank Conroy, Robert Emhardt, Fred J. Scollay, Maureen Stapleton
DE 460-461	ALL THE KING'S MEN [PART II], 5/21/1958 Note: From the novel by Robert Penn Warren Adapted by Don Mankiewicz Producer: Robert Herridge Director: Sidney Lumet Cast: Neville Brand, William Prince, Frank Conroy, Robert Emhardt, Fred J. Scollay, Maureen Stapleton
DE 478-479	LAST OF THE BELLES, 6/4/1958 Note: From the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald Adapted by James P. Cavanagh Producer: Alex March Director: Daniel Petrie Cast: Jody McCrea, Ann Williams, Al Morgenstern, Nicholas Pryor, Joan Wetmore, Neil Vipond, Henry Sutton, Freeman Hammond, Mark Weston, Morris Rixon, Pat Patterson
DE 419-420; DE 646-647	KILLER'S CHOICE, 6/11/1958 Note: From the novel by Evan Hunter Adapted by Alvin Boretz Producer: Alex March Director: Paul Bogart Cast: Michael Higgins, Staats Cotsworth, Joanne Linville, Martin Rudy, Joan Copeland DE 419-420 is a user copy
DE 381-382	NOW, WILL YOU PLAY FOR MURDER, 6/18/1958 Note: Adapted from the novel by Harry Olesker Director: Frank Pacelli Producer: Alex March Cast: Lois Nettleton, Al Morgenstern, Fred J. Scollay, Thomas Carlin, Carl Frank, David Bauer, Doreen Lang, Rebecca Sand, John Fiedler
DE 345-346; DE 377-378	87TH PRECINCT, 6/25/1958 Note: Writer: Larry Cohen Based on the characters created by Evan Hunter Director: Paul Bogart Producer: Alex March Cast: Robert Bray, Martin Rudy, Joseph Sullivan, Joan Copeland, Pat Henning DE 377-378 is a user copy without commercials
DE 464-465	NEXT DOOR TO DEATH, 7/2/1958 Note: Writer: Michael Dyne Based on the short story by Charlotte Armstrong Producer: Alex March Director: David Greene Cast: Patrick Macnee, Abigail Kellogg, Leora Dana, David Hurst, Martin Kosleck, Rex O'Malley
DE 437-438; FF 987	COP KILLER, 7/9/1958 Note: Adapted by Art Wallace from the novel by George Bagby Producer: Alex March Director: William A. Graham Cast: Edward Binns, Fred J. Scollay, Martin Brooks, Paul Hartman, Rudy Bond, Richard Bright, Harold Gary, John McQuade, Anne Meara, Fred Kareman, Frank Downing, Gino Ardito, Peter Turgeon, Robert Sinclair FF 987 is a user copy without commercials
DE 470-471; DE 640-641	THE MAN WHO DIDN'T FLY, 7/16/1958 Note: Writer: Jerome Coopersmith Based on a novel by Margot Bennet Producer: Alex March Director: Michael Dreyfuss Cast: William Shatner, Patricia Bosworth, Walter Brooke, Jonathan Harris, Louis Hector, Patricia Wheel, Milton Seltzer, Charles Mendick, Paul Mazursky, Robert Fitzsimmons DE 470-471 is a user copy
DE 450-451; DE 644-645	FOCUS ON MURDER, 7/23/1958 Note: Writer: Mel Goldberg Based on the novel by George Harmon Coxe Producer: Alex March Director: William Corrigan Cast: Simon Oakland, Phyllis Hill, Olive Deering, Bill Zuckert, Roy Poole, Val Avery, Therese Hunter, Joey Walsh, James Bender, Ferdi Hoffman, Norman Shelly DE 450-451 is a user copy
DE 466-467	DEATH WEARS MANY FACES, 7/30/1958 Note: Writer: Doug Taylor Producer: Alex March Director: Paul Bogart Cast: Mark Richman, Warren Berlinger, Robert Emhardt, Milton Selzer, Crahan Denton, Jane McArthur, Donald May, Martin Brooks, Clifton James, Paul Tremaine, Patty Duke
DE 468-469	WE HAVEN'T SEEN HER LATELY, 8/20/1958 Note: Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott Based on the novel by E. X. Ferrars Producer: Alex March Director: Paul Bogart Cast: George C. Scott, Angela Thornton, Mary Finney, Myra Carter, Louis Edmonds, Patrick Horgan, Carolyn Brenner, Sasha Von Scherler, Stafford Dickens
DE 439-440	WEB OF GUILT, 8/27/1958 Note: Writer: Mel Goldberg Producer: Alex March Director: William Corrigan Cast: Simon Oakland, Fred J. Scollay, Michael Higgins, Lois Wheeler, Ann Hilany, Jane Rose, Frank Thomas, David Bauer, Jay Barney, Tony Mitchell, James Dukas
DE 411-412	BACK TRACK, 9/3/1958 Note: Writer: Sam Elkin Producer: Alex March Director: Murray Golden Cast: John Baragrey, Victor Thorley, Phyllis Hill, Lawrence Weber, Ward Costello, Martin B. Rudy, Dan Morgan, Pat Henning
DE 347-348	A CUP OF KINDNESS, 9/17/1958 Note: Writer: Alvin Boretz From a story by William Iverson Producer: Alex March Director: William A. Graham Cast: Philip Bourneuf, Norman Crane, Leo Penn, John McQuade, Read Morgan, Jane Moultrie, W. W. Post, Freeman Hammond
DE 386-387	TRICK OR TREAT, 9/10/1958 Note: Adapted for television by M. L. Davenport Based on the novel by Doris Miles Disney Producer: Alex March Director: David Greene Cast: Robert Pastene, Will Kuluva, Robert Mandan, Mary Finney, Perry Wilson, Ellen McRae [Burstyn], Ken Harvey, Joseph Campanella, Alfred Sandor, Effie Afton, Anne Draper
DE 454-455	RIDDLE OF A LADY, 9/24/1958 Note: Writer: Jerome Coopersmith Based on the novel by Anthony Gilbert Producer: Alex March Director: Jack Klugman Cast: David White, David Hurst, Nancy Marchand, Clarice Blackburn, Lee Richardson, Joe Silver, Lisa Daniels, Myra Carter, Robert Eckles, Jeremiah Morris
DE 388-389	PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE, 10/1/1958 Note: Writer: Harry Julian Fink Producer: Alex March Director: Michael Dreyfuss Cast: Philip Abbott, Colleen Dewhurst, Martin B. Rudy, Michael Wager, Val Avery, Lois Nettleton