23 Jul 2014
A Master Builder
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
The World of Sholom Aleichem
Based on the Writer Whose Stories Inspired The Fiddler on the Roof
This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each "tale" in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the "Yiddish Mark Twain". Included are: "A Tale of Chelm" starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; "Bontche Schweig" about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and "The High School" about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.
Top Billed Cast
Gertrude Berg Hannah
Sam Levene Mendele
Zero Mostel Melamed / Maxel
Morris Carnovsky Aaron Katz / Presiding Angel
Lee Grant The Goatseller / Avenging Angel
Nancy Walker Rifkele
Jack Gilford Bontsche Shveig / Angel
Charlotte Rae The Angel Rochele
Elsa Freed 
Henry Lascoe Dodi the Innkeeper
Frederick Rolf Rabbi David / Prosecuting Angel
Dora Weissman 
Carl Reindel
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