ID

FBW001458      TV play

Country / Year

USA, 1957

Original Title

Walk Down the Hill \\ Playhouse 90

Directed by

Norman Felton

Produced by

CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Herbert Brodkin; Script: Ernest Kinoy

Cast

William Smithers (Private Bernhard Linton); David Lewis (John Wills); Don Gordon (Private Al Rossi); Lonny Chapman (chaplain); Frank Sutton (Lawton); David Mason (Cohen); Stefan Gierasch (Goldstein)

Length

60'

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 18 Mar 1957: Premiere, TV, CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System)

Abstract

The movie focuses on the plight of american POW's in a camp. It shows up the struggles of an american Jew with the significance of his Jewishness.

Subject Terms

Jewish identity; Prisoners of war; Sagan (Prisoner-of-war camp); World War II

Bibliography

- Bard, Mitchell,G.: Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitlers Camps. Boulder, Colorado: Westview 1994
- 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