Saturday, July 25, 2015

The Man Who Corrupted Handleyburg (TV)



Człowiek, który zdemoralizował Hadleyburg – Polish title
Der Mann, der Hadleyburg korrumpierte – German title
The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg – English title

A 1967 Polish production [Zespół Filmowy Iluzjon (Lodz)]
Producer: Jerzy Rutowicz
Director: Jerzy Zarzycki
Story: “The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg” by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Screenplay: Zdzislaw Skowronski
Cinematography: Wieslaw Rutowicz
Music: Andrzej Mundkowski
Running time: 28 minutes

Cast:
Mary Richards - Hanna Małkowska
Katie Cox - Zofia Jamry
Stevenson - Leon Niemczyk
Edward Richards - Kazimierz Opaliński
Jackie Cox - Bronislaw Pawlik
Judge – J. Ćwikliński (Jerzy Ćwikliński)
John Wharton Bilson – W. Kowalski (Waclaw Kowalski)
Attorney Wilson – J. Przybylski (Jerzy Przybylski)
Sheriff Cooligen – M. Wojtczak (Marian Wojtczak)
Smoller – M. Vloit (Mieczyslaw Voit)
Pinkertons – Z. Zintel (Zygmunt Zintel), Jerzy Przybylski
Photographer – M. Szewczyk (Michael Szewczyk)
State press journalist – M. Szonert (Miroslaw Szonert)
Mailman – K. Talarczyk (Kazimierz Talarczyk)
Hadleyburg citizens - Henryk Staszewski, Eugeniusz Priwieziencew, Czeslaw Piaskowski, Tadeusz Ordeyg, L. Benoit (Ludwik Benoit), H. Boratynska (Hanna Boratynska), B. Darlak-Ostrowska (Bozena Darlakówna), K. Karkowska (Krystyna Karkowska), B. Majda (Bohdana Majda), N. Szymanska (Natalia Szymanska)


In the small town of Hadleyburg, the smug townspeople stay honest by avoiding temptation, until a stranger arrives and plots revenge on the hypocritical residents by promising a fortune to one of the citizens who once showed him charity years before.


 

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