Prisoner of Second Avenue
Neurotic middle-aged New Yorker Mel Edison is fired from his advertising job, forcing his loving wife, Edna, to become the couple’s sole breadwinner.
Neurotic middle-aged New Yorker Mel Edison is fired from his advertising job, forcing his loving wife, Edna, to become the couple’s sole breadwinner.
Inherit the Wind is an American play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, which debuted in 1955. The story fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials.
In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a small roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and the weary travelers on board have to take refuge in the diner until morning.
A sinister con man, Roat, and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious doll, which they are much interested in, to the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam Hendrix and his blind wife, Susy. Sam had apparently been persuaded by a strange woman to transport the doll across the Canadian border, not knowing that sewn inside were several grams of heroin.