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- Playhouse 90: Season 4, Episode 14
Alas, Babylon: Directed by Robert Stevens. With Dana Andrews, Robert Crawford Jr., Judith Evelyn, Gina Gillespie. Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Robert Stevens
- 1960-04-03
- Plot
- Production
- Reception
A nuclear war is triggered when a young Navy pilot accidentally blows up a port in a foreign country during a time of heightened tensions, and the Soviet Union fires its missiles. The missiles destroy the American Midwest and most of the eastern United States. The story follows residents of a small Florida town and how they react after learning of ...
Peter Kortner was the producer. Robert Stevens was the director. David Shaw wrote the teleplay, based on the novel, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. The cast included Don Murray as Randy Bragg, Barbara Rush as Liz, Kim Hunter as Helen Bragg, Dana Andrews as Mark Bragg, Everett Sloane as Dr. Gunn, Rita Moreno as Rita Herndon, and Burt Reynoldsas Ace. A c...
In The New York Times, John P. Shanley praised the "dramatic efficiency" and "technically excellent presentation," but questioned the judgment of presenting the "unwarranted horror" of a Soviet nuclear attack, all depicted "in chilling detail." John Crosby of the New York Herald Tribunecalled it "an excellent production" with " splendid cast." TV c...
- Season 4, Episode 13
- David Shaw
- April 3, 1960
- Robert Stevens
Mar 28, 2015 · CBS, 4/3/60. Airing on primetime network television in the spring of 1960, a full two years before the Cuban missile crisis confronted the world with the dire possibility of a catastrophic thermonuclear war, CBS’s Playhouse 90 presentation of “Alas, Babylon” provided a reported audience of 24 million viewers with a shockingly realistic ...
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Playhouse 90: “Alas, Babylon”. The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents classic film and contemporary cinema in the Hammer's Billy Wilder Theater. Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.
Playhouse 90: With Richard Joy, Paul Lambert, Helen Kleeb, Charles Bickford. Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season.
Dec 17, 2021 · Adapted by Tony Award-winning writer David Shaw (Redhead) from the best-selling novel by Pat Frank (nom de plume of journalist Harry Hart Frank), the Playhouse 90 production of “Alas, Babylon” unflinchingly portrays the tragic aftermath of a major nuclear conflict with the U.S.S.R, including scenes featuring a child rendered blind by a ...
