The Plot to Kill Stalin (1958)
September 25, 1958Release Date
The Plot to Kill Stalin (1958)
September 25, 1958Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
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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This Movie Is About.
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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.