ID

FBW001455      TV play

Country / Year

USA, 1957

Original Title

Homeward Borne \\ Playhouse 90

Directed by

Arthur Hiller

Produced by

CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Eva Wolas; Executive producer: Fred Griskin; Script: Hallsted Welles; Based on: Ruth Chatterton (Novel)

Cast

Linda Darnell; Richard Kiley; Keith Andes; Pauline Myers; Richard Eyer; Rene Korper; Sarah Selby

Length

90'

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 09 May 1957: Premiere, TV, CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System)

Abstract

The film shows how a ten-year-old jewish boy, who escaped from a concentration camp and stayed with a family with a child of the same age, suffers again from his traumatizations. In the end, the boy is adoptet.

Subject Terms

Survivors of the Holocaust; Concentration camps

Bibliography

- Fox, Stuart: Jewish Films in the United States. New York, NY: K.G. Hall, 1976
- Shandler, Jeffrey: While America Watches: Television and the Holocaust in the United States, from 1945 to the Present. New York, NY: Columbia University (Dissertation), 1995
- Shandler, Jeffrey: While America Watches. Televising the Holocaust. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999