The Classic TV Archive - US Dramatic Anthology Series

BUICK-ELECTRA PLAYHOUSE

Episode Guide
version 3.0 June 2009
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
http://ctva.biz/index.htm

with contributions by:

Rina Fox
references:
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive

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BUICK-ELECTRA PLAYHOUSE

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CBS Production

90mins

Specials which were usually based on Ernest Hemingway's work.

Sponsored by Buick Motors

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Buick Electra Playhouse: THE KILLERS

19Nov1959

Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway

starring

Dane Clark

Dean Stockwell

World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson

Synopsis:

An ex-heavyweight fighter hires a gunman to do him in. [RF]

Buick Electra Playhouse: THE FIFTH COLUMN

1960

Producer Gordon Duff

Adapted by A.E. Hotchner

Based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway

Directed by John Frankenheimer

starring

Richard Burton

Maximilian Schell

Sally Ann Howes

Betsy von Furstenberg

Shai K. Ophir

Milton Selzer

Robert Dowdell

Tonio Selwart

Synopsis:

The saga about an almost-deaf Nazi officer in a group of Fifth Columnists operating behind 

the lines in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's. [RF]

Buick Electra Playhouse: THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO

25Mar1960 CBS Thurs

Based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway

starring

Lucille Ball

James Gregory

Buick Electra Playhouse: THE GAMBLER, THE NUN AND THE RADIO

19May1960 CBS Thurs 90min taped play.

Adapted by A.E. Hotchner

Based on a novel by Ernest Hemmingway

Directed by James Clark & Albert Marre

Music by Jerry Goldsmith

Produced by Gordon Duff

Cast:

Eleanor Parker .......... Sister Cecilia

Richard Conte ........... Cayetano Ruiz

Charles Bickford ........ Mr. Frazer

William Schallert ....... Dr. Milling

L.Q. Jones .............. Rodeo Rider

George Chandler ......... Carpenter

Frank Killmond .......... Farm Boy

Mary Wickes ............. Nurse

Jorge Moreno ............ Big Mexican

Jose Gonzales-Gonzales... Small Mexican

Martin Garralaga ........ Thin Mexican

Rodolfo Acosta .......... Killer

Synopsis:

Set in 1932.

Cayetano Ruiz is a gambler. He always wins,  and this doesn't make him the most popular 

man in Halley, Montana. In fact, somebody wants to kill him, and during a card game Cayetano is shot. 

At the hospital, the doctors don't think he'll live. But his nurse, Sister Cecilia, prays fervently to 

St. Francis for Cayetano's recovery. [RF]

Synopsis 2:

The 1933 story of a wounded man in a Montana hospital, in which Hemingway

makes one of his rare philosophical observations: "Bread is the opium of the people."

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