Series Notes: ABC; 30m; b/w, 10/53-6/55; Dramatic Anthology
Hosts: Arlene Dahl (10/53-3/54); Anita Colby (4/54-9/54); Polly
Bergen (10/54-6/55)
Cast: Jorja Curtright (Julie); Morris Ankrum (Tom)
Episode Summary:
Jeff and Julie have been prospecting in the Alaskan wilds for three
years. Jeff has told Julie that he went to visit his friend Arthur McLain
-- who had recently struck it rich -- and found him dead. Believing
he'll be blamed, Jeff insists on running away, but a blizzard blocks
the pass and the couple seek refuge with blind Tom, stating that they'd
been hunting. Tom confronts Jeff, saying that the radio just reported
Arthur McLain and his dog killed in their cabin. As Jeff starts arguing
threateningly with Tom, Tom's dog starts growling. Tom points out that
Jeff is stuck there until the storm, because the only other way out
is past the Ranger station. Julie tries to talk Jeff out of running
away, insisting that "they don't hang innocent people." Jeff is unconvinced.
However, Tom gets Julie alone and explains that Jeff must have been
the murderer. That night, Tom offers to let Jeff escape if Jeff will
give him the gold he must have stolen from Arthur -- since only Jeff
was a good enough friend of Arthur's to have known where the gold was.
Jeff demurs, trying to hide the gold in his pocket. Tom attacks Jeff,
and the scuffle brings in Julie, who sees the gold and is now convinced
of her husband's guilt, despite Jeff's protestations that he took it
in a panic when he found Arthur dead. Jeff frantically insists to Julie
that Tom must have done it, and they set up a trap to see if Tom is
really blind. He is. Whereupon Jeff hands his gun over to Julie in despair.
Julie finds Tom's hand bleeding and tends it. She steps out, finds a
torn blanket on Tom's sled, and on returning overhears Tom telling Jeff
that actually, Julie must be the murderer, that she and Arthur were
probably having an affair. Jeff tells him to shut up. Julie goes to
Tom's dog and starts to untie it. Jeff begs her not to set the dog on
him. But the dog, freed, attacks Tom instead. Julie explains that she
noticed that the dog was really growling at Tom, not Jeff; the attack
proves that it's not really Tom's dog, it's Arthur's. Tom's dog is dead
in the cabin where he killed Arthur.
Notes:
Kelley gets to do some very fine acting in this one as the panicky suspect.
Gianakos reports the title as "Frozen Justice" (with Morris Ankrum)
but the film has "Frozen Escape" right in the credits.
| Sources:viewing;
Gianakos; Brooks & Marsh |
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