The Arena (1956)
1h
Running Time
April 9, 1956Release Date
Plot.
Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.
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Cast & Crew.
Wendell Corey
Senator James Norton
Chester Morris
Jack Feeney
John Cromwell
Senator Harvey Rogers
Leora Dana
Margaret Norton
Franklin J. Schaffner
Director
Peter Turgeon
Humphreys - Reporter
Frances Sternhagen
Betty - Secretary
Fletcher Markle
Writer
Rod Serling
Writer
Harry Holcombe
Senator George Smithson
Felix Jackson
Producer
Vic Oliver
Composer
Edgar Stehli
Frank Norton - Retired Senator
Alfredo Antonini
Music Director
Georg Olden
Title Graphics
Willard Levitas
Settings
Florence Britton
Story Editor
Wesley Laws
Set Decoration
Ted Miller
Technical Supervisor
Bob Barry
Lighting Design
Robert J. Serling
Researcher
Charles H. Schultz
Producer's Assistant
Betty Furness
Paul Brinson
Details.
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Wiki.
"The Arena" is an American television play broadcast live on April 9, 1956, as part of the CBS television series, Studio One. Written by Rod Serling and directed by Franklin Schaffner, the story concerns a young U.S. Senator who seeks to avenge his father's political downfall by destroying his father's rival. He threatens to reveal the rival's membership 25 years earlier in "The Vindicators", an organization that the government has now classified as subversive.