Film

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

195552mTV Movie

Director: Robert Mulligan
Year: 1955

Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry. Television film for The Philco Television Playhouse later remade as Edge of the City (1957).

Top cast

Florence Anglin

Landlady

Martin Balsam

Charlie Malick

Joe Comadore

Second Man

Don Gordon

First Man

Joanna Douglas

Mother

Betty McDonald

Girl

Don Murray

Axel Nordman

Kathleen Murray

Katherine

Sidney Poitier

Tommy Tyler

Hilda Simms

Lucy Tyler

Michael Strong

Lloyd Mills

Edward Walsh

Policeman

Meg Wyllie

Operator

Directed by

Robert Mulligan, Hal Tulchin

Written by

Robert Alan Aurthur

Produced by

Gordon Duff