Drama
Characters: 11 male, 4 female
Interior Set
Two of Hollywood's top-drawer writers have here written a play
that begins with an American family on any normal morning, and
culminates in one of the most chilling dilemmas in the literature
of the theatre. Davie's father is a rich manufacturer who promises
to help him build a tree-house when he comes home from school. But
Davie does not come home today. From their worried calls, his
mother and father learn that he has been kidnapped from school by a
woman impersonating his pediatrician's nurse. Then comes the demand
for ranson: half a million dollars. His father is to give the
kidnappers a signal on the TV program which his firm sponsors.
Meantime, they sweat out the waiting period and wonder if Davie
will ever be seen alive again. At the very last moment, Davie's
father makes the ultimate moral decision in the life of himself and
his family. He preempts the MC's spot to make one of the most
startling extemporaneous speeches ever heard. He shows the money
and then says that he will not pay it. He demands the return of the
boy unharmed, and promises not to prosecute. But failing this, he
promises to offer the half million as a reward for the apprehension
of the kidnappers, and he asks if they think their associates would
prefer them to half a million dollars. For this speech, Davie's
father is universally condemned, and the mother collapses in
hysterics. In the calm eye of this storm comes the shattering
denouement. "Appeals to the noblest, most decent, most universal
emotions in all humanity." Hollywood Reporter. "Tense, harrowing,
and well worthwhile." London Daily Herald.
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