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Excellent "Battler" with Almost Unrecognizable Paul Newman more (1 total)Cast
(Series Cast [15]) | Gene Saks | ... | Doctor / ... (3 episodes, 1955-1956) |
| Albert Dekker | ... | Major Tobey / ... (2 episodes, 1955-1956) |
 | Nina Foch | ... | Belle Thurmond / ... (2 episodes, 1955-1956) |
| Russell Hicks | ... | General Riller / ... (2 episodes, 1955-1956) |
| Steven Hill | ... | Stobin / ... (2 episodes, 1955-1956) |
| Meg Mundy | ... | Louise Lang / ... (2 episodes, 1955-1956) |
| Frederick O'Neal | ... | Boots / ... (2 episodes, 1955-1956) |
 | Kim Stanley | ... | Abby / ... (2 episodes, 1955-1956) |
| James Reese | ... | Adrian Terhune / ... (2 episodes, 1955) |
| Sidney Armus | ... | Mike / ... (2 episodes, 1956) |
| Allen Leaf | ... | Ben (2 episodes, 1956) |
 | E.G. Marshall | ... | Mr. X / ... (2 episodes, 1956) |
| Dina Merrill | ... | Mrs. Neville / ... (2 episodes, 1956) |
| J. Pat O'Malley | ... | Doc Phelps / ... (2 episodes, 1956) |
| Katherine Squire | ... | Minna / ... (2 episodes, 1956) |
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A lot of the so-called Golden Age of Television really isn't any good, but this episode of "Playwrights 56" is.
Dewey Martin plays Hemingway's Nick Adams, who sets out on the road and is victimized twice in quick succession, in well-paced, well-directed vignettes.
He then meets up with Paul Newman's Battler, so disfigured that a viewer might not immediately recognize him. The Battler is a brain-damaged ex-fighter, and is a role like nothing else I've seen from Newman, who is very good.
Interestingly enough, the TV adapter of this short story is A E Hotchner, who was friends with Hemingway and also the cofounder of the "Newman's Own" lines of salad dressing, etc.