The Shattered Silence
The Fugitive
The ceramicist
who lives alone and needs a handyman for a show and comes to Kimball on a rainy
two o’clock in the morning is an old hermit in the hills with two fierce
dogs and a possessive streak.
They are played
by Antoinette Bower and Laurence Naismith.
The exceptional
skill with actors deployed by Morse keeps the whole thing on an even keel to the
very last, betraying nothing.
Paul Mantee is
the deputy she spurns in a friendly, objective way (cp. Hazel Court and Peter
Mark Richman in “The Fear” on The Twilight Zone, dir. Ted
Post).
The story of
Rabbi Akiba and Rabbi Ben So-and-so, the Evans gambit, Thoreau at Walden Pond,
make up the teleplay by Barry Oringer from a story by Ralph Goodman.