This episode of The Screen Directors Playhouse: The Dream kind of had me reaching at the end. What did it all mean?
I've got to believe that the Turgenev short story on which this short telefilm had a lot more in it. France in the 1880s has young Sal Mineo with this recurring dream, going down a street and meeting a man who is not all that happy to see him. Sal thinks it's his father.
Who it is is a mysterious man called The Baron played by George Sanders and Sanders invites him to take a trip to gain wealth in the West Indies as he did. It's a tempting prospect, but Sal's mother Patricia Morison is against it.
The story might have been better served with an hour long or maybe even a feature film length. I get the feeling a lot of what Turgenev was trying to say just didn't make it in. The ending is definitely anti-climatic.
Still it's a curiosity from the days of early television drama.
I've got to believe that the Turgenev short story on which this short telefilm had a lot more in it. France in the 1880s has young Sal Mineo with this recurring dream, going down a street and meeting a man who is not all that happy to see him. Sal thinks it's his father.
Who it is is a mysterious man called The Baron played by George Sanders and Sanders invites him to take a trip to gain wealth in the West Indies as he did. It's a tempting prospect, but Sal's mother Patricia Morison is against it.
The story might have been better served with an hour long or maybe even a feature film length. I get the feeling a lot of what Turgenev was trying to say just didn't make it in. The ending is definitely anti-climatic.
Still it's a curiosity from the days of early television drama.