Actors: Charlton Heston,Tab Hunter,Diana Lynn,Vincent Price,Victor Jory,Charles Bickford,Jackie Coogan,Tyler McVey,David Lewis,John Gallaudet,Eddie Ryder,Harold Dyrenforth,Howard Price,Richard Gaines,Tom Palmer
Genre: Year: 1956
Imdb: click here " Another notable character is that of Charles Bickford, Heston's ex-Commandant, to whom he turns for support in presenting his 'wild' theory to the Washington big-wigs (their relationship actually anticipates that in William Wyler's epic Western THE BIG COUNTRY {1958}); eventually, since he is directly responsible for the planes, Bickford takes to the air himself to discern what he thinks is the mechanical flaw that is destroying his crafts – little does he know that it is upon craving coffee that his doom is spelled!While it may not retain the immediacy it must have had at the time, the film makes for a gripping 77 minutes: being the inaugurating "Playhouse 90" episode (introduced by Jack Palance!) and the first of Frankenheimer's TV efforts that I have watched, I can see how he honed his artistry on them and would expand on some of their topics in his cinematic oeuvre (in fact, he would re-unite with Serling on the similarly fanta-political SEVEN DAYS IN MAY {1964})"
