Dupont Show Of The Month - The Bridge Of San Luis Rey

1958 · drama

21 Jan 1958 Director: Robert Mulligan Writers: Walter Bernstein, Ludi Claire, Thornton Wilder Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Viveca Lindfors In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge. DuPont Show of the Month was a 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.