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Where is it noted who wrote this play? The playwright is John Forrest, who also wrote "Daisy Chain" for Suspense. John R. Forrest’s “Mission Completed” is a solid gold Suspense classic; a gripping, sweat-inducing drama that benefits from an amazing performance from James Stewart. The show, broadcast December 1, 1949, aired to commemorate the event of the bombing of Pearl Harbor eight years previous! www.escape-suspense.com/2010/05/suspense-mission-completed.html
SPOILER ALERT: DON'T read this if you haven't played the episode. What kept me in suspense was my impatience with the implausible secret recovery of Tom the prison camp victim. There just wasn't any way he could have gone through the long laborious process of fully regaining his speech, bodily strength and movement without being observed. Then in the last minutes the truth was revealed and OF COURSE the staff knew. Of course it's still unlikely they'd have built up such an elaborate hoax instead of just putting him in physical therapy and speech therapy but I'm willing to suspend that much disbelief. My only other plausibility problem was that they announced they were shipping him home immediately when I'm sure that in real life they'd have had to hold him for at least a few weeks' transition - but hey, it's a 30-minute show and they chose not to spend the short remaining broadcast time explaining all that. Makes sense to me, I'm ok with it.
So subtle it's actually a REBUTTAL not a condemnation. This was broadcast before the polarizing project of the 1980s culminated in our present era when perspective is always Trumped by accusation and condemnation. It was a more civilized time, even with all its flaws, and I remember it fondly.
Where is it noted who wrote this play? The playwright is John Forrest, who also wrote "Daisy Chain" for Suspense. John R. Forrest’s “Mission Completed” is a solid gold Suspense classic; a gripping, sweat-inducing drama that benefits from an amazing performance from James Stewart. The show, broadcast December 1, 1949, aired to commemorate the event of the bombing of Pearl Harbor eight years previous! www.escape-suspense.com/2010/05/suspense-mission-completed.html
Woah, this is a good story.
The. Best. Story. Ever.
SPOILER ALERT: DON'T read this if you haven't played the episode.
What kept me in suspense was my impatience with the implausible secret recovery of Tom the prison camp victim. There just wasn't any way he could have gone through the long laborious process of fully regaining his speech, bodily strength and movement without being observed. Then in the last minutes the truth was revealed and OF COURSE the staff knew. Of course it's still unlikely they'd have built up such an elaborate hoax instead of just putting him in physical therapy and speech therapy but I'm willing to suspend that much disbelief. My only other plausibility problem was that they announced they were shipping him home immediately when I'm sure that in real life they'd have had to hold him for at least a few weeks' transition - but hey, it's a 30-minute show and they chose not to spend the short remaining broadcast time explaining all that. Makes sense to me, I'm ok with it.
There is a subtle condemnation of racism. Well done.
So subtle it's actually a REBUTTAL not a condemnation. This was broadcast before the polarizing project of the 1980s culminated in our present era when perspective is always Trumped by accusation and condemnation. It was a more civilized time, even with all its flaws, and I remember it fondly.
A strange crossover to have gracie Allen pop up at the end, I wonder if that's the earliest crossover