Apparently everyone got this old Studio One teleplay from the same source, in a pack of horror films of varying quality. I too am wondering how it got to be included. Perhaps as a study of paranoia.
Captain Colin Keith-Johnstone in a moment of charity agrees to take Berry Kroeger who is passing himself off as a Dutch missionary to the island of Bali. But when he refuses to let him get off the ship prematurely in the dead of night in a lifeboat he finds he can't get rid of the guy. The Dutch in Bali because this was not yet Indonesia won't have him, the French in Saigon, nor the British in Hong Kong nor any place else. It is discovered his luggage consists of political tracts and quantities of gin.
Remember this was the McCarthy Era and these tracts were presumably Communist stuff. And this is the remedy. So Kroeger can't go anywhere and Johnstone is just stuck with him. It does get resolved however for the rootless, stateless, Kroeger.
Kroeger realizes this is unbelievable junk and overacts outrageously. Someone said he reminded him of Orson Welles, he reminds me here of Charles Laughton without direction.
Winston Churchill wrote that Lenin was introduced into Russia from his Swiss exile by the Germans as a tubercular bacillus in their body politic. Kroeger must have been a political plague carrier of the worst sort. Just how do you get a reputation like his?
Captain Colin Keith-Johnstone in a moment of charity agrees to take Berry Kroeger who is passing himself off as a Dutch missionary to the island of Bali. But when he refuses to let him get off the ship prematurely in the dead of night in a lifeboat he finds he can't get rid of the guy. The Dutch in Bali because this was not yet Indonesia won't have him, the French in Saigon, nor the British in Hong Kong nor any place else. It is discovered his luggage consists of political tracts and quantities of gin.
Remember this was the McCarthy Era and these tracts were presumably Communist stuff. And this is the remedy. So Kroeger can't go anywhere and Johnstone is just stuck with him. It does get resolved however for the rootless, stateless, Kroeger.
Kroeger realizes this is unbelievable junk and overacts outrageously. Someone said he reminded him of Orson Welles, he reminds me here of Charles Laughton without direction.
Winston Churchill wrote that Lenin was introduced into Russia from his Swiss exile by the Germans as a tubercular bacillus in their body politic. Kroeger must have been a political plague carrier of the worst sort. Just how do you get a reputation like his?