The Plot to Kill Stalin (1958)
September 25, 1958Release Date
The Plot to Kill Stalin (1958)
September 25, 1958Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Melvyn Douglas
Stalin
Eli Wallach
Poskrebyshev
Oskar Homolka
Khrushchev
E.G. Marshall
Beria
Delbert Mann
Director
David Karp
Writer
Fred Coe
Producer
Lawrence Dobkin
Shtemenko
Luther Adler
Molotov
Bert Freed
Sokolovsky
David J. Stewart
Ignatiev
Thomas Gomez
Malenkov
Marian Seldes
Mme. Molotov
Paul Bryar
Zhukhov
Paul Lambert
Rassine
Ethel Winant
Casting
Robert Tyler Lee
Art Direction
Russell Stoneham
Associate Producer
Buck Henshaw
Set Decoration
Bo Goldman
Associate Producer
Details.
Release DateSeptember 25, 1958
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 19m
Genres
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"The Plot to Kill Stalin" was an American television play broadcast on September 25, 1958, on the CBS television network. It was the first episode of the third season of the anthology television series Playhouse 90. Delbert Mann was the director, and the cast included Melvyn Douglas as Joseph Stalin, Eli Wallach as Stalin's personal secretary, and Oskar Homolka as Nikita Khrushchev. It was nominated for two Sylvania Television Awards: as the outstanding telecast of 1958 and for Douglas as outstanding actor in a television program.
The production, set during the final months of Stalin's life, received generally positive reviews in the American press, but the Soviet Union protested the depiction of Krushchev's alleged role in Stalin's death and retaliated by closing CBS's Moscow news bureau and ordering its Moscow correspondent to leave the country.