Horton Foote: Selected Television Work

Playhouse 90: Old Man

Aug 26, 2012
12:30 PM ET
New York

In conjunction with the Primary Stages Off-Broadway production of Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote—which runs from July 24 to September 15 at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters—The Paley Center for Media is screening teleplays by the Oscar, Emmy, and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, who died in 2009 at the age of 92.

 

Playhouse 90: Old Man

With Sterling Hayden and Geraldine Page. In this adaptation of a work by William Faulkner, a chain-gang inmate is stranded on the flooding Mississippi River, where he rescues a pregnant woman. Dir: John Frankenheimer. (1958; CBS; 90 minutes)

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