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The Black Curtain ()

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  • Season 1
  • Episode 9
A mugging restores the memory of a man with amnesia.
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Phillip Townsend
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Ruth Burke
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The Taxi Driver
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Virginia Carlin
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Bernie
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Chuck (as Neil Nephew)
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Mrs. Fisher
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The Druggist
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The P.A.L. Officer
William Sharon ...
The Man
Joseph Trapaso ...
The Motorcycle Policeman (as Joe Trapaso)
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The Drunk
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Frank Carlin
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Rudy Solari ...
Mugger (uncredited)

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Sydney Pollack

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Joel Murcott ... (teleplay)
 
Cornell Woolrich ... (novel "The Black Curtain") (as William Irish)

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Gordon Hessler ... associate producer
Norman Lloyd ... producer

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Lyn Murray

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John L. Russell ... director of photography

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Douglas Stewart

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David J. O'Connell ... editorial department head

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Alexander A. Mayer

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Robert C. Bradfield
John McCarthy Jr. ... (as John McCarthy)

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Jack Barron ... makeup artist
Florence Bush ... hair stylist

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Ronnie Rondell Jr. ... assistant director (as Ronnie R. Rondell)

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William Russell ... sound

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Vincent Dee ... costume supervisor

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Stanley Wilson ... music supervisor

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  • CBS (1962) (United States) (tv) (original airing)
  • Elephant Films (2015) (France) (video)

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Plot Summary

Getting conked on the head with a thug's slapjack during a mugging causes a man lose consciousness and, when he awakens, to revert to his memory of events 3 years earlier, but he conveniently forgets that he's currently wanted for murder under an assumed identity. It's 1 AM, but Phil Townsend believes he's en route to his wedding to a fiancée named Virginia. His mug bursts from the front page of the local newspaper as Dave Webber, dressed-to-kill bodyguard for a gangland mouthpiece. The compassionate taxi driver who rescued Phil from the Bowery alley, drives him to Phil's fiancée's new address, where Virginia answers the door clutching her newborn. She's terrified that her former lover, now a fugitive, is there and fears that her abusive husband will assume the worst. When gentle, reliable Phil didn't show for the ceremony 3 years earlier, the distraught young woman hired a PI to find him to no avail. Phil is horrified when Virginia tells him she's now married to the gumshoe. Written by David Stevens / Hans Delbruck

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  • 48 min
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Did You Know?

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Trivia One of Richard Basehart's names was David Webber. Another amnesiac, Jason Bourne's real name David Webb. See more »
Goofs When Phillip Townsend (Baseheart) asks the taxi driver (Harold J. Stone) what day is it the Taxi Driver responds "It's Friday, no now it's Saturday September the 24th". He stated while checking his watch it as if it had just then past midnight into the next day. In fact he had remarked much earlier in the drug store that it was 1:00 AM. In addition September 24th fell on a Saturday in 1960 and not again until 1966. "The Black Curtain" aired in November of 1962. See more »
Movie Connections Version of Street of Chance (1942). See more »
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