The Star and the Story: Dark Stranger
A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out. Ray Ericson writes of a lovely woman who leaves her steady boyfriend for a man out to kill her. Suddenly he realizes life is imitating art: he is in the killer role! How can the novelist prevent destroying the woman he's come to love?
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Half-hour anthology series of the 1950s. This episode stars Charles Coburn and George N. Neise. In this episode, a businessman wants to force a compulsory retirement age at his firm, but an aging man outsmarts him. Very amusing stuff.
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