Television episode of Screen Director's Playhouse, "Number Five Checked Out", directed and co-written by Ida Lupino, starring Teresa Wright, William Talman, and Peter Lorre, 1956.
Two really talented artists at work here: Ida Lupino and Teresa Wright. Never forgot Wright's performance in Shadow of a Doubt, one of Hitchcock's best.
Sorry, William...in those days, the Hollywood Production Code- AND the Television Code- made it clear that those guilty of murder MUST be punished....if not taken away by the authorities, than dispatched by "other means". Oh, well.
Bill was wonderful in this, but very sad ending...can only imagine the horror that girl experienced when she turned around and found both men dead behind her. Of course, I would have had the story end differently...Barney would have lived, nursed back to health by Mary, turned himself in and she patiently waited for him to get out of jail for them to be married. But that's my just my sappy romantic opinion.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" offered a venue for directors as well as actors to display their artistic and creative talents. I wish these shows would be rebroadcast today as they were extremely interesting as well as entertaining.
Teresa Wright was a 3x Academy Award nominee and one time winner. She was an A-lister throughout the 1940's and then her career just died: reduced to TV and supporting roles (including playing mother to actresses who weren't much younger than she was!). She claimed her independent streak and her 1950 film "The Men" (which was Marlon Brando's film debut) being a huge bomb killed her film career. However, I wonder if her "independent" streak may have also included a refusal to be a casting-couch victim with Hollywood's then movers-and-shakers. Harvey Weinstein certainly wasn't the first of his kind in Hollywood. There had to be something more than just one box office bomb and a refusal to take silly publicity shots that caused this terrific actress's film career to fizzle-out so quickly.
Not only a 3 time Oscar nominated actress but was nominated for her first 3 films which hasn’t happened before or since. Also was the youngest actor to receive a third nomination which was held for nearly 70 years until Jennifer Lawrence broke her record.
This was the 18th episode of this program which started in the Fall of 1955. Ida Lupino directed William Talman in The Hitch-Hiker in 1953 and was the first woman to direct a film noir. And Talman starred as DA (HamBurger) Hamilton Burger on Perry Mason right at its start in September 1957. His bright red hair never showed since all of the episodes were filmed in black and white
I just realized something - if she were deaf, why did she turn on the radio? I love this and I've seen it so many times, yet just now noticed it. Any thoughts?
It seems that Hollywood personnel did not know in 1950s that deaf persons could not speak as well as this character. Just saw another 50s show that had the same flaw.
At about 13:21 she said she's been reading lips since she was twelve. I wonder if this was supposed to tell us her hearing loss was around that age. That would explain her speech. It is so Hollywood for them to have deaf people speaking with that Mid-Atlantic accent, and blind ladies decked out in makeup done with an expert touch. My personal favorite is the ladies who wake up in the middle of the night with their hair perfectly fixed and their false eyelashes intact. But I guess that's why it's called a work of fiction.
We got our first TV in 1948 and there were only 3 channels. TV didn't broadcast all day and went off the air with the National Anthem around midnight to 1am. I don't think the studios would present anything the general audience wouldn't be able to readily understand. When Lucille Ball was pregnant even that word wasn't allowed on tv. I think they used the French "enceinte" and not even married couples could share a double bed. They were always singles with a nightstand between. If they shared a hug or kiss on a bed, at least one of them had to have a foot on the floor. Reality in TV didn't really start in earnest until the 1970s when HBO and cable started. Even the words "damn" and "hell" were strictly forbidden and if someone slipped on live shows it made the news because the network got fined. Sorry to be so long-winded. Your point is well made but the time period was radically different in what was allowed
...and then Mary goes to their cabin, discovers the heist loot, buries it on the property, hauls the 2 lifeless corpses into the Sheriff's office, claims the reward or bounty on each ...and after IDing the 2 dead bodies authorities are able to arrest the 2 other members of the bank robbery gang. Mary is given even MORE money. She is so rich -even though the money was never "found" that Mary starts a school for the deaf and those who cannot see or talk! One day, she decides to dig up the stash and uses it to buy a one way ticket to Paris, France , she goes to Monaco, the French Rivera, Provence, and to Rome! There she meets an awesome Italian guy, they marry and have a dozen children and they open up a chain of pizzerias called MAMA MIA Pizzas... and it is so successful they go WORLDWIDE and put Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza out of business when she and her Italian hubby "buy them out" with an offer they cannot refuse. She lives happily ever after! The End!
Her character wasn’t born deaf. After she tells Barney she's deaf and he comments she's good at reading lips, she says "I've been doing it since I was 12". Indicating she went deaf at age 12. Even so she probably wouldn't speak this well after having not heard for so many years. But it’s confirmed at 13:27 into the episode she wasn’t born deaf.
This one was exceptional. Some of the best acting I've seen in this series. Teresa Wright was an amazing actress. I think I like her best in Shadow of a Doubt. In the end, she lost her innocence. A small town girl who grew up overnight. Hitchcock was wise in casting her.
So wonderful to see the great Teresa Wright and the fabulous William Tallman(along with Mr. Lorre) in an episode together. The legendary Ida Lupino as director too.Thank you for posting!
"EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY presents.....'SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE'...."/0:38- ''SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE' is brought to you on film by the men and women of EASTMAN KODAK....and KODAK dealers, everywhere."
25:05- ANNOUNCER: "Each week at this time, the EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY invites you to see an outstanding screenplay- produced on Eastman Kodak film, with all the scope and realism that only modern motion picture techniques make possible....and brought to you on 'SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE'! A Hal Roach Studios production."
Two really talented artists at work here: Ida Lupino and Teresa Wright. Never forgot Wright's performance in Shadow of a Doubt, one of Hitchcock's best.
Dont be sexist! Peter Lorre and Mister Talman do a great job too!
Ernest Kovach Luv Peter Lorre too!
Sad but great acting with a decent plot.
Sorry, William...in those days, the Hollywood Production Code- AND the Television Code- made it clear that those guilty of murder MUST be punished....if not taken away by the authorities, than dispatched by "other means". Oh, well.
Bill was wonderful in this, but very sad ending...can only imagine the horror that girl experienced when she turned around and found both men dead behind her. Of course, I would have had the story end differently...Barney would have lived, nursed back to health by Mary, turned himself in and she patiently waited for him to get out of jail for them to be married. But that's my just my sappy romantic opinion.
William Talman I love that sappy romantic ending!👍❤
Please, no spoilers!
14:16
"I work at the ... Institute For The Deaf. Ever hear of it ??"
No?? Neither did they.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" offered a venue for directors as well as actors to display their artistic and creative talents. I wish these shows would be rebroadcast today as they were extremely interesting as well as entertaining.
Jim Thompson They are rebroadcast today. You are looking at it.
Jim LaGuardia Lol!!!
Teresa Wright was a 3x Academy Award nominee and one time winner. She was an A-lister throughout the 1940's and then her career just died: reduced to TV and supporting roles (including playing mother to actresses who weren't much younger than she was!). She claimed her independent streak and her 1950 film "The Men" (which was Marlon Brando's film debut) being a huge bomb killed her film career.
However, I wonder if her "independent" streak may have also included a refusal to be a casting-couch victim with Hollywood's then movers-and-shakers. Harvey Weinstein certainly wasn't the first of his kind in Hollywood. There had to be something more than just one box office bomb and a refusal to take silly publicity shots that caused this terrific actress's film career to fizzle-out so quickly.
There's probably a lot to what you say. If you read the Wikipedia article her original contract is rather specific in its decency requirements
Not only a 3 time Oscar nominated actress but was nominated for her first 3 films which hasn’t happened before or since. Also was the youngest actor to receive a third nomination which was held for nearly 70 years until Jennifer Lawrence broke her record.
Underrated (despite having won an Oscar for "Mrs. Miniver") Teresa Wright shines!!!
This was the 18th episode of this program which started in the Fall of 1955.
Ida Lupino directed William Talman in The Hitch-Hiker in 1953 and was the first woman to direct a film noir.
And Talman starred as DA (HamBurger) Hamilton Burger on Perry Mason right at its start in September 1957. His bright red hair never showed since all of the episodes were filmed in black and white
Ida was great
I just realized something - if she were deaf, why did she turn on the radio? I love this and I've seen it so many times, yet just now noticed it. Any thoughts?
Thanks for showing this. We really enjoyed it. Do you have any more?
Overjoyed to find Teresa Wright in other roles!.
I love Miss Ida
It seems that Hollywood personnel did not know in 1950s that deaf persons could not speak as well as this character. Just saw another 50s show that had the same flaw.
At about 13:21 she said she's been reading lips since she was twelve. I wonder if this was supposed to tell us her hearing loss was around that age. That would explain her speech.
It is so Hollywood for them to have deaf people speaking with that Mid-Atlantic accent, and blind ladies decked out in makeup done with an expert touch. My personal favorite is the ladies who wake up in the middle of the night with their hair perfectly fixed and their false eyelashes intact. But I guess that's why it's called a work of fiction.
We got our first TV in 1948 and there were only 3 channels. TV didn't broadcast all day and went off the air with the National Anthem around midnight to 1am. I don't think the studios would present anything the general audience wouldn't be able to readily understand. When Lucille Ball was pregnant even that word wasn't allowed on tv. I think they used the French "enceinte"
and not even married couples could share a double bed. They were always singles with a nightstand between. If they shared a hug or kiss on a bed, at least one of them had to have a foot on the floor. Reality in TV didn't really start in earnest until the 1970s when HBO and cable started. Even the words "damn" and "hell" were strictly forbidden and if someone slipped on live shows it made the news because the network got fined.
Sorry to be so long-winded.
Your point is well made but the time period was radically different in what was allowed
What a treat. I don't have this episode. Thank you.
...and then Mary goes to their cabin, discovers the heist loot, buries it on the property, hauls the 2 lifeless corpses into the Sheriff's office, claims the reward or bounty on each ...and after IDing the 2 dead bodies authorities are able to arrest the 2 other members of the bank robbery gang. Mary is given even MORE money. She is so rich -even though the money was never "found" that Mary starts a school for the deaf and those who cannot see or talk! One day, she decides to dig up the stash and uses it to buy a one way ticket to Paris, France , she goes to Monaco, the French Rivera, Provence, and to Rome! There she meets an awesome Italian guy, they marry and have a dozen children and they open up a chain of pizzerias called MAMA MIA Pizzas... and it is so successful they go WORLDWIDE and put Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza out of business when she and her Italian hubby "buy them out" with an offer they cannot refuse. She lives happily ever after! The End!
Why aren't you writing screenplays. You're creative and have a good imagination as well as a flair for humor
@@michaeldanello3966 Thank you Michael for the nice compliment .
Peter Lorres laughter is great! 😅
A person who is born deaf, cannot pronounce words so clearly, with proper pronounce like this.
Anja Gambolputty
I get a kick out of Richard Widmark's insane laughter!
Her character wasn’t born deaf. After she tells Barney she's deaf and he comments she's good at reading lips, she says "I've been doing it since I was 12". Indicating she went deaf at age 12. Even so she probably wouldn't speak this well after having not heard for so many years. But it’s confirmed at 13:27 into the episode she wasn’t born deaf.
Anja Gambolputty Brilliant portrayal of a psychopath was Lorre’s specialty.
Teresa Wright was the first person to receive Oscar nominations for each of her first three films.
She died of a heart attack at age 86 in 2005
Bill Talman was wonderful!!!
Terri Lynn Merritts Died of lung cancer at an early age, like many others of his day.
@@jimlaguardia8185 The dying Talman, his voice slurred by the painkillers, made a short anti-smoking appeal which is on the 'Net.
This one was exceptional. Some of the best acting I've seen in this series. Teresa Wright was an amazing actress. I think I like her best in Shadow of a Doubt. In the end, she lost her innocence. A small town girl who grew up overnight. Hitchcock was wise in casting her.
Watching on TCM now.
So wonderful to see the great Teresa Wright and the fabulous William Tallman(along with Mr. Lorre) in an episode together. The legendary Ida Lupino as director too.Thank you for posting!
"EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY presents.....'SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE'...."/0:38- ''SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE' is brought to you on film by the men and women of EASTMAN KODAK....and KODAK dealers, everywhere."
.take me away!..
Its Ham Burger!
25:05- ANNOUNCER: "Each week at this time, the EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY invites you to see an outstanding screenplay- produced on Eastman Kodak film, with all the scope and realism that only modern motion picture techniques make possible....and brought to you on 'SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE'! A Hal Roach Studios production."
Teresa Wright the GOAT actress
Ralph Moody was one of the most prolific character actors of 40s-60s.
He played a doctor on several episodes of The Rifleman, appeared on Dragnet, Richard Diamond and, as I'm sure you know, dozens of other series
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