AMERICAN SHORT STORY, THE: THE DISPLACED PERSON (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramatized American short stories. In this adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Displaced Person," Mr. Guizac, a Polish immigrant, arrives in the U.S. after World War II to work as a laborer on a Southern farm. Mrs. McIntyre, the widow who owns the farm, is thrilled at first with the industrious and skillful employee whom Father Flynn has brought. Mrs. McIntyre -- who is more concerned with the money Guizac will save her than with Guizac's need for shelter -- decides that she no longer needs the shiftless Mr. Shortley, her other farm worker, and she dismisses his family from her land. Complications arise when she learns that Guizac has arranged for his Polish cousin to marry Sulk, a black laborer who has paid for the Polish woman's passage. Mrs. McIntyre forbids the interracial marriage, rehires Shortley, and wants to fire Guizac, but Father Flynn asks her to reconsider. Shortley, however, attempts to rid the farm of the foreigner.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS WNET New York, NY
- DATE: April 12, 1977 Tuesday 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:51
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:17546
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Immigrants -- United States; Literature - Adaptations
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1977-1980
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- For "The American Short Story":
- Robert Geller … Executive Producer
- Paul Morgan … Producer, Director, Writer
- Brian Benlifer … Producer
- Marjorie Lebow Ruttiman … Associate Producer
- Bishop, Phyllis M. G. … Associate Producer
- Henry Fonda … Host
- For "The Displaced Person":
- Robert Geller … Executive Producer
- Matthew N. Herman … Producer
- Calvin Skaggs … Associate Producer
- Glenn Jordan … Director
- Horton Foote … Writer, Teleplay by
- Flannery O'Connor … Writer, Based on a short story by
- Bill Conti … Music by
- John Houseman … Cast, Father Flynn, Special Guest
- Irene Worth … Cast, Mrs. McIntyre
- Shirley Stoler … Cast, Mrs. Stoler
- Lane Smith … Cast, Mr. Shortley
- Robert Earl Jones … Cast, Astor
- Samuel L. Jackson … Cast, Sulk
- Yerushalmi … Cast, Mr. Guizac
- Carolyn L. Bloodworth … Cast
- Mildred Brown … Cast
- Brad Deal … Cast
- Dina Herrington … Cast
- Deborah Lee Jones … Cast
- Vickie Tooke … Cast