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The Conspirators (1956)
Season 1, Episode 11, of Broken Arrow (ABC)

This television episode is not “about” Emperor Norton as such. But, the Emperor is a significant supporting character in the story.

The Emperor Norton Trust will be contributing this film to the Internet Archive, at which point it will join the Trust’s collection of Norton-related films there and will have a dedicated link at the Archive, Until then, the YouTube version of the film can be viewed below. *

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Production company 20th Century Fox

Filming location TCF Television Production studios, Hollywood
Executive in charge of production Irving Asher

Audio-Visual sound, b/w

Run time 26 minutes 

Original air date 18 December 1956

CREW

Producer Mel Epstein

Director Hollingsworth Morse
Assistant director K.M. Kenny Kessler

Teleplay Harold Swanton — based on characters from Elliott Arnold’s 1947 novel Blood Brother

Director of photography Karl Struss, A.S.C.

Art direction Lyle Wheeler; Ben Hayne

Set decoration Walter M. Scott; Jack Stubbs

Makeup Mel Berns

Wardrobe supervisor Dick James

Properties Eddie Jones

Sound editor Gene Eliot, M.P.S.E.

Sound recordist James F. Mobley

Editorial supervisor Art Seid, A.C.E.

Music supervisor Alec Compinsky

Composer (theme music) Paul Sawtell

Script supervisor Cosmo Genovese

CAST

Tom Jeffords John Lupton

Cochise Michael Ansara (credit only)

Terry Weaver Angie Dickinson

Emperor Joshua Norton Florenz Ames

Chenoweth Edgar Barrier

Wilkins Booth Colman

Carmody Richard Collier

Stagecoach passenger Cyril Delevanti

Stagecoach driver Hank Patterson

Jollyman Ted Stanhope

Deputy Commissioner Tris Coffin

Secretary of Interior Edward Earle

Thug Charles Horvath (uncredited)


Added to the Archive
2 August 2022


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