Title: Playhouse 90: Forbidden Area
Original format: VHS
Item Id.: SCV2_2.mp4; preservation master SCV2.mkv
Description: This episode of Playhouse 90 was the first of that TV anthology series. Airing October 4, 1956, it was Rod Serling's adaptation of Pat Frank's novel Forbidden Area about Soviet sabotage, and starred Charlton Heston and Vincent Price.
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Credits
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writers: Rod Serling, Pat Frank
Producer: Julian Claman, Martin Manulis
Cast: Charlton Heston, Tab Hunter, Diana Lynn, Vincent Price, Victor Jory, Charles Bickford, Jackie Coogan, Tyler McVey, David Lewis, John Gallaudet, Eddie Ryder, Harold Dyrenforth, Howard Price, Richard Gaines, Tom Palmer, Arthur Batanides, William Schallert, Robin Morse, Don Donaldson, Don Lutz, Jason Wingreen, Gil Frye, Douglas Marland, Joel Fluellen