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With Henry Fonda, Allen Case, Read Morgan, Whit Bissell. A drunken newspaper editor takes on Silver Creek's newest employer, a large tannery, claiming that the company's by-products are polluting the town's only river.
- (19)
- Western
- Frank Arrigo
- 1961-05-06
Analysis. The narrator provides an account of the town of Eatanswill, known for its deeply divided political scene, where everyone aligns themselves with one of the two main factions: the Blues and the Buffs. The citizens of Eatanswill take great pride in their town’s importance, and each man considers his political stance a matter of utmost ...
An Enemy of the Town is the thirty-second episode of the second season of The Deputy, and the seventy-first episode overall. Starring: Henry Fonda (Marshal Simon Fry) and Allen Case (Deputy Clay McCord) Also Starring: Read Morgan (Sgt. Hapgood Tasker)
- May 6, 1961
- Michel Kraike
- Frank Arrigo
- Jerry Sackheim andCurtis Kenyon
May 14, 2020 · In her essay from 1964, The Deputy: Guilt by Silence?, Hannah Arendt describes the play as "almost a report, closely documented on all sides, using actual events and real people, reinforced...
A drunken newspaper editor takes on Silver Creek's newest employer, a large tannery, claiming that the company's by-products are polluting the town's only river. Clay doesn't believe the stories until several townspeople come down with mysterious fevers.
Synopsis. The controversial story is based on Rolf Hochhuth's research into the Vatican activities during World War II. The play's treatment of Pope Pius XII -- the "deputy" of Christ on earth -- and the Church during the Nazi persecution of the Jews made it the object of impassioned praise and violent denunciation.
The story takes place one morning between ten o’clock and noon on 27 June, in a village somewhere in (presumably) the USA. The year is not stated. The three hundred villagers are gathering to undertake the annual ritual of the lottery, which is always drawn on this date every year.
