A year before this half an hour teleplay aired on Telephone Time, Bette Davis played a schoolteacher who was pilloried by the community in Storm Center for the big screen. In this short film Davis dons the schoolteacher role again, but
this time she's saddled with the awesome responsibility of keeping safe and
warm five children at a rural one room schoolhouse.
It's also Minnesota and there's an epic blizzard approaching and it hits hard when it comes. Davis does a fine job in conveying the scope of the problem
she is facing. Curiously enough a lot like John Wayne and what he dealt with
with his crew in Island In The Sky.
John Nesbitt's voiceover narration tells of the outside world, but Davis with
minimal dialog really dominates this shprt teleplay.