Top cast:Augustus Phillips,Miriam Nesbitt,Charles Sutton
Director:W.J. Lincoln
Genre:Biography
Region:United States
Year:2011
Storyline:"Charity - to some a duty, to others a joy." The Woman had volunteered to devote some of her time to charity work in the slum area, to substitute for the abandonment and loss of her child, and to relieve herself of the guilt and void within.The Mayor decides to "agree to pay" the criminal, enhancing the slow-burning, angry gaze of Callahan who disputes the decision:Callahan: You're gonna play this creep's game?."During weeks of dehumanizing training in the camp, seen in a montage, the branded slaves were kept in cells, and during the day were mercilessly instructed and exercised on the brutal skills of how to strategically kill to the death in the arena - for purposes of the "sport" of entertainment to be watched by wealthy patricians.(The 48-minute TV comedy-drama was originally presented on NBC-TV's "Philco-Goodyear Playhouse" series on May 24, 1953 as a 60-minute broadcast, with leads Rod Steiger and Nancy Marchand, during a period now recognized as the "Golden Age of Television.Plot SynopsisThe film has two sections - beginning with a fairly brief prologue in Venice.It opens with a realistic view of a back porch in a dark, back alley with brick walls, a garbage pail by a door, and a dog sniffing at the trash.