A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

52 mins | Oct. 2, 1955

Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry. Television film for The Philco Television Playhouse later remade as Edge of the City (1957).

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

52 mins | Oct. 2, 1955

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry. Television film for The Philco Television Playhouse later remade as Edge of the City (1957).
Producers Showcase Productions
Original title A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
Directors Hal Tulchin, Robert Mulligan
Writers Robert Alan Aurthur

Cast

Florence Anglin

as Landlady

Martin Balsam

as Charlie Malick

Joe Comadore

as Second Man

Don Gordon

as First Man

Joanna Douglas

as Mother

Betty McDonald

as Girl

Don Murray

as Axel Nordman

Kathleen Murray

as Katherine

Sidney Poitier

as Tommy Tyler

Hilda Simms

as Lucy Tyler

Michael Strong

as Lloyd Mills

Edward Walsh

as Policeman

Meg Wyllie

as Operator