Kraft Suspense Theatre: "The Trains of Silence" (1965)

[@simonf8902]

Just discovered this fabulous series. Great scripts. Famous actors. Tight direction. Great setttings. Luscious colour. Way ahead of any thing today.

[@darnellsmith599]

Simon F...and this series was yesterday

[@thisisme3238]

@Simon F These are from a period of time with maybe 4 or 5 TV channels that were free and no cell phones. Good days indeed.

[@blaizecalisthenic1904]

Such classic shows and movies from this time. My dad put me on to these. Childhood memories… they all I got left

[@AstralPixie]

60's style is beautiful. Love the fireplace in the middle of the living room.

[@shydreamguyman4098]

everything is still in style

[@michaelwertzy9808]

@@shydreamguyman4098, early to mid-sixties kitsch! How about a "cocktail table" with a miniature creek with a waterfall!? Not kidding!

[@JaneDoe-zr4px]

Mid Century Modern style is the greatest.

[@userSISSY]

When I was a kid this was so real to us. We loved it.

[@angelcitygirl]

Jeffrey Hunter and Tippi Hedren! AWESOME! 😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰

[@lavellhall7650]

I see she survived the birds. She's good

[@vickyabramowitz2885]

​@@lavellhall7650 She survived Alfred Hitchcock, too.

[@McIntyreBible]

I remember watching this series with my mom in 1965 when I was 5 years old. The prelude music and opening scenes with the cartoonish characters use to terrify me!

[@loupole5654]

One thing is for sure, the writers of anthology series of the late 50's and early 60's were amazing, They had a keen insight into the human condition and all its failings. Today's writers can do nothing but recycle endlessly the same old crap . I doubt today's writers could even get the skills set back, as the concepts are so foreign to them . . .. What a shame.

[@malachimaxxel]

Lou Pole so true i am a writer myself these writers from 50 's and 60's were really on point with content and delivery of the story..

[@gil8132]

WELL SAID THEY DONT MAKE THEM LIKE THEY USED TO

[@rentslave]

This condition exists in all fields today.My theory is that the culprit is modern birth control has allowed the intelligent people to limit their family size resulting in far fewer intelligent people.

[@janholder2286]

Lou Pole w

[@ronaldmayle1823]

@Southeastern777 You're very condescending. You're watching some one else's work and taking credit for his creativity and imagination.

[@beachcomberbloke462]

Tippi Hedren,such elegance and style in an intriguing and mesmerising movie

[@johnshields6852]

I was 5 and would watch TV with my dad, all the detective shows. Thanks for video.

[@larrynelson3329]

The 60s were so stylish. Tippi Hedren will for ever be Melody and Marnie from Hitchcock movies.

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

Only until 1965-66.

[@BrentWilkins7777]

@@bovnycccoperalover3579 That's when the hippies took over, and the 60s became better.

[@suraya1224]

​​@@BrentWilkins7777Did they, really? I was a member of that "hippie" generation, & at the time, I thought everything was "better", too. "You can't put an old head on young shoulders." Real-life experience eventually woke me up. Looking back, I now realize it was the beginning of the end... for our culture, our values, & our country.

[@josiahbirthright24]

@@suraya1224 Oh brother...The hippies were dumb kids alright. But their biggest mistake was voting for Ronnie Raygun when they grew up.

[@silkyway6575]

I love how their hair is so perfectly coiffured. Not a single lock out of place.

[@E-Kat]

Hair spry, this is how it was done those days.

[@nanniewallace6411]

0😊😊😊😊

[@REALTV30]

Shutup😂😂😂😂 yall sound stupid hair spray they still use it 2023 hahaha goofy

[@michica1derful]

A can of hair spray

[@terridemaio7334]

Perfect.Nothing out of place. this was A year Before I was Born

[@PerAllwin1963]

Men looked so handsome back then in form-fitting dark sleek suits and narrow ties and shiny shoes.

[@josephinewhite6224]

People used to care what others thought about them, so we never left our house without looking our best.

[@thomasceneri867]

Oh, here we go….nostalgia and tropes galore

[@jacquelinehoff9234]

Our Dads were the last Men Gentlemen😢 how sad

[@jannawalters232]

Loved the eyeglasses!

[@hello-xm5il]

I think it is strange that the comments under this video seem to blame Wolf for his mental illness. Wolf did not choose to go insane. Neither is he a bad man because he is insane. The real villain of this movie is Wolf's brother, who willingly kept Wolf away from anyone who might have been able to help him, in the pursuit of financial benefit.

[@lonnieclemens8028]

Good movie! It reminds me of the good old days.

[@markward6076]

This was the world when I was a baby.

[@dameaustel]

Love Tippi Hedren. Marnie was my favorite film, I think she's wonderful. Thanks for the upload!

[@thisisme3238]

Same here, Tippi was a good actress.

[@bruceb.8469]

Theme by John Williams. What a legend 👍🏻. There's 2 versions of the theme. This show was also called Crisis.

[@arneldobumatay3702]

You mean "Johnny" Williams.

[@JayB2]

They really understand the importance of sound in these old movies. Great job of using suspenseful and dreary sounds in this movie.

[@san5sparkle]

I just discovered this series I am watching all you have while I clean house.. I love it

[@Joeblow-ms3cv]

Tippi, excellent actress and attractive. Jeffrey Hunter, the ORIGINAL Star Trek Captain! An all-star cast. 😃

[@annwalsh8079]

He also portrayed "Jesus of Nazareth"! Beautiful film!

[@marbleman52]

@Joeblow-ms3cv....Yes about Jeffrey Hunter. And the man who played the business manager, Warren Stevens....I think...also was on the original Star Trek.

[@rosannavitale9922]

Thank you for these gems. Smiles to you.

[@tomrennick5130]

*Two sci-fi connections here: Jeffrey Hunter, Warren Stevens, and Roy Jenson all appeared in original Star Trek. Secondly, the show's theme song was composed by the same composer who created the theme music for the original Lost In Space TV series, as well as the Star Wars and Jurassic Park movies.*

[@2up3rm4n1]

I'd kind of say Hedren being attacked by those birds does qualify her a scifi connection, near Twilight zone, actually.

[@louisbrugnoni7639]

Love that music!

[@katg6274]

🤯🙉 I love this guy's black rimmed glasses

[@marcchervin8905]

You would be thinking of the young Johnny Williams who would obviously grow to become one of cinemas greatest film composers, if not the greatest

[@tomrennick5130]

@@2up3rm4n1 I agree. 👍

[@betsya7054]

This was excellent, thank you

[@ChristopherRosato]

Jeffrey Hunter was a good actor as well as handsome. Sad how he died so young.

[@Vps-eb7ej]

Unfortunate for him his wife at the time urged him to decline the role of the Captain in Star Trek because she felt it was beneath him and wanted him to focus on the movies. Fortuitous for a 40 year old Canadian Shakespearean actor☺

[@nightowl5475]

@@Vps-eb7ej What a dumb broad! He would of been set for life! Not to mention, all the Star Trek movies.

[@Palletknifepaint]

Hope the cat was ok

[@laraoneal7284]

Died at 42 years old.

[@ArsPraestigium]

The not so thinly-veiled reference to Howard Hughes is evident in this, which was pretty gutsy at the time, as Hughes still owned a good deal of the entertainment industry at the time. He, like the extremely eccentric character seen here, was a real nut in the last couple of decades of his life.

[@Fred-mp1vf]

He was an example of what happens to people who live without moral values (or without faith)

[@xmaseveeve5259]

A fake character.

[@kimkauffung7687]

@@Fred-mp1vf Left to a reprobate mind perhaps?

[@briananderson8428]

@@Fred-mp1vf Like all billionaires.

[@garyc39]

Why is it a crime to be sick and want to be left alone

[@rosiloverosilove9512]

Thank you many.....more please

[@chuffpup]

I love the color, it's perfect to be viewed on my vintage tv set. Thanks.

[@san5sparkle]

I am watching it on youtube wow isn't it wonderful???

[@jorgeestomba9888]

The beautiful & special Tippi !

[@stephensorenson6380]

I first saw"kraft suspense theatre"when it was in reruns under the title"crisis!"on new York's ch.7 as a kid on Saturday nights at 7:00.what a great show and oh,that theme music!

[@charlynegezze8536]

I always loved Lloyd Bochner. Fabulous cast.

[@sheiladavis6523]

I remember he played Cecil Colby on Dynasty as one.of Alexis husband's .

[@EdelweisSusie]

One of the all-time greats.

[@janjerge1484]

@charlymegezze8536 - Lloyd Bochner was always so elegant & intelligent!! A real class act!! Warren Stevens was right there, a mere step or two behind, until he discovered how thrilling it was to play the sleazy, smarmy character lurking in the shadows!!

[@JanetElson]

Hong Kong with Rod Taylor

[@grandmafran1361]

Also, guest appearances on The Golden Girls. He was fabulous and funny.

[@sewsewsewist785]

I love this series!

[@CarmelMaguire-m1h]

me. too

[@dawin6710]

People were good looking back then.

[@megsarna7429]

And More Stylish

[@arneldobumatay3702]

Agree!

[@trailblazer3454]

I think the executive building office decor in this was the blueprint for the entire "Mad Men" TV series set! 🛋

[@MsBackstager]

What a great cast.

[@suir52]

The piece of music playing at the start of this, "Tomorrow" was written for a Wagon Train episode by John(ny) Williams and then used extensively in The Virginian. Fans of that show will recognise it as the music played at dances.

[@Vps-eb7ej]

Excellent show!

[@JaneDoe-zr4px]

Jeffrey Hunter is adorable in his professor glasses.

[@LTSJR1]

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[@BAM-jc7uy]

Intro music and atmosphere sounds & feels like the vintage TV series "the Invaders." Petite Tippi's daughter: Melanie Griffith and granddaughter Dakota Johnson. During the 60s we missed alot of TV shows because we were out cruising...thanks for posting this missed series. gr-granny NM

[@PE-dq2em]

When we see these clips of ordinary life we realize how disgusting 2024 is: awful clothes, awful shoes, awful hair, awful tattoos ... humanity has sunk.

[@SM-gl8yo]

Thank you for posting this. Bochner, Hedren and Hunter terrific. Douglas Heyes directed a number of classic Twilight Zones.

[@dereklarsen]

Tippi Hedren is sublime. There should be a movie about Tippi and the sexism this genuine lady endured.

[@bogeythedog163]

Love her voice

[@stevengrotte2987]

Thank you.....many more please.

[@mariakelly90210]

Jeffrey Hunter was always Drop Dead Gorgeous.

[@joyamongstforeverspark5422]

Wonderful!!! God bless your heart!!

[@rafaellewis4528]

I love Hunter's glasses!

[@E-Kat]

They look like fake glasses, strange. Maybe I like them too, can't decide if they're strange- good or strange - bad. 🤔

[@McIntyreBible]

15:10, J.Hunter goes up to the penthouse.

[@moggridge1]

Suspenseful! And the moral of the story is: never trust a man in a silk dressing gown.

[@E-Kat]

Hmmm, if you see a man in his dressing gown, then that means you must know him pretty well, therefore must trust him, as otherwise you wouldn't be there! Unless it's a "one night stand" but then, he wouldn't bother with a dressing gown but I don't know, as have not taken a part in one night stand!🤭

[@moggridge1]

@@E-Kat 😂👍

[@ThePiratemachine]

Last scene rather frightening when you think what ( unfortunately ) happened in real life to Jeffrey Hunter ( a good actor )

[@mortalclown3812]

Lloyd was gorgeous. Always enjoyed his intensity.

[@juliam7056]

Awsome. Enjoying this old show immensely.

[@shivasirons6159]

1:20. The best acting advice tony Curtis ever got, his first role was a bellhop, the cab pulls up ,but before the scene the director says to tony, " you just want a tip".

[@vickyyphelps]

Tipping still wearing green, same as in the Birds!

[@BeverlyM52]

Tippi can act!

[@davidcrabbe1243]

Wow great theme time..spinetingling

[@djchiesa3567]

Greed pure greed. I see it today. I see it in the "loser" children of elders who are abused by their children for their assets for their homes. I've watched as people sell their souls for a home as they kill their parents and destroy others for stuff. Incredible show!

[@rodericksloan1255]

@Gary Nelson How right you are Gary Happy Trails my Freind.

[@DerredmaxTRIAX]

We must live on the same street! I seen the same shit......

[@kaydee4296]

If you're referring to the Menendez brothers you never heard THEIR stories & it's horrific. And it "souls".

[@ralphromeo7066]

Souls*

[@E-Kat]

This is fiction!! Why do you comment as if it were a documentary?

[@juliebarnett9812]

Tippi Hedren. Love it.

[@davidhewson8605]

Terrific 60s gear . !. ❤ Ta all . Dave

[@FuzzyTheBear]

Fun to see Captain Christopher Pike from the first episode of Star Trek and both episodes of The Menagerie in another role.

[@mohammadayub2760]

I like thees old movies people have recpect for dressing properly not like nowadays sex sex sex wtf their is a time and a place for that kind of thing ❤️❤️❤️

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Still not sure if your kind of place is y kind of place for that thing. lol As a slightly aging USA Polock, I do agree that sex has been used (progressive, started with the 60 hippy counter culture), to create dysfunction in a society. Great minds that could have created great things with free enterprise have massively been sabotaged and sacrificed. For a real life example, I have a slightly older brother with a 145 IQ, who was sharper than Bill Gates, (and worked for him early, but 10 years younger), who could have competed with the limes of Bill Gates, created a fantastic company hiring hundreds or thousands of employees, (how mankind got out of poverty), getting them out of poverty and giving them opportunity just like gated gave my brother. But what happened is he discovered he was Gay in late 70's HS, he did get rich working for Gates, but he became a gay political activist instead. What a waste of mind! How "Progressive!" How do we measure those losses? Really, how do we measure those losses?

[@privateprivate1865]

I never heard of this show. ❤❤❤

[@csl9495]

Such classic writing

[@Frank-pi2gz]

I don't think you will find a better looking man than Jeff Hunter. Certainly not in Hollywood today. Clean cut and handsome as one can be.

[@pattimaeda6097]

Hot for Jesus

[@fiveYqueue]

Some of the background music and the "enforced consumption of alcohol" reminds me of North by Northwest.

[@carolbrewster1907]

An mistaken jeffer hunter eyes beautiful great actour❤❤😊

[@RhymesChant]

Love this episode

[@hamedmohamed8594]

That was amazing

[@lisagiacomini9635]

Wow, great!

[@SusanMolloy]

🎉😂❤Thank you for a fun rainy day!!

[@Fred-mp1vf]

When we abandon the anchor of faith, we live without purpose and we lose everything -- including our sanity.

[@emf49]

That’s what’s happened to our world.

[@willaknotts1298]

And America. They are coming for us now!

[@TheWanderingFinnegan]

Cultists are such a bore.

[@davidcrabbe1243]

Why oh why did Timeless video not release this..I recently discovered this and some of these are so good...

[@NidgeOSullivan]

Never heard of Kraft theatre before and only was randomly suggested this. Although I will seek out more of these now, I do agree with a lot of comments, Tippi Hedren cannot act, is more wooden than the table she sat at, the storyline didn't make much sense. How any people can strike up such as close relationship as the two leads within only a few hours of meeting is ridiculous also. Plus the cat scene was very unpleasant and a ridiculous idea of a distraction.

[@blueduck9409]

This was much better than the garbage on tv today for sure.

[@ssppeellll]

At 25:15, I would take the check, go home and cash it. THEN, I would come back to attend to 'unfinished business'. But that wouldn't make as good a plot, and I don't think he will. (No spoilers here, because I haven't seen it beyond this point yet. I'm just conjecturing.)

[@Spsuperstar]

crazy sick episode.

[@drbonesshow1]

Jeffrey Hunter the Clark Kent look-a-like: 1:41 Why be Clark Kent, when you can be Superman.

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

+Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. I still remember the classic MAD Magazine satire "Superduperman"...

[@nicholassassatelli1359]

Tippi Hedren is great in The Birds.

[@JaneFrieman]

A story plot with a bizarre tone to it. Wolf was the one who was trapped by the man who took over the world wide business. This man would deal with those who did not conform in such a sinister manner, which includes murder.

[@birchtree28]

Gosh dang . Creepy back then and still creepy now. what a great show.

[@TheIsreal0312]

Jefferey Hunter played Christopher Pike in the original Star Trek pilot but turned down the tv series to concentrate on films. He died as a result of an explosion on the set of a movie resulting in a concussion and later a fall in his home and brain hemorrage and untimely death at only 42.

[@RichardFallstich]

He takes "extraordinary precautions" to keep the world out of his home; but doesn't buy a $10 lock for the penthouse door?

[@asully3006]

Qiut you idiotic nitpicking..It a goddamn movie you idiot!

[@haydnd8866]

Richard Fallstich uncensor

[@marklittler784]

Probably no change left after buying the appartment, many expensive houses have big older cars with private plates so they look rich without spending and wasting money on new cars they don't need.

[@shydreamguyman4098]

Back then it wouldn't have cost $3.00 A well paid working man's monthly salary was about $75.00

[@scronx]

Wellll, if we're going to start picking, Gerard wouldn't have heard the train record from the elevator or even the terrace -- ditto Miss W. reading to Hastings, the elevator to "penthouse" opens onto the terrace. I don't think the cat would have logistically made a very good decoy, and when Wilton and his thugs showed up at the penthouse (opening its door wide no less) the 3 people in the living room would have seen them a lot sooner. That's simply how acted things are, from the greatest movie to the lowliest soap episode -- even operas. But The Trains of Silence is still a damn good show and I'm watching it repeatedly, seeing something new each time.

[@tarnsand]

I think Jeff Hunter was offered about 16 drinks in this epi. I agree with everyone here; no one of my faves either. Tippi Hedren was pretty/ perfect figure and I'm sure a nice lady. But her acting was always very stiff with no expression in her dialogue nor any emotion in her face/or body movements. She had the very same expression if she laughed or cried.

[@SM-gl8yo]

Miss Hedren was first rate as usual and well cast in this episode. The role required a woman of mystery and Miss Hedren delivered.

[@sandraelder1101]

Agree about T. H. She was lovely to watch but I never believed her characters. She seemed to play them all exactly the same.

[@RhymesChant]

I would say Tippi's acting is subtle ❤she is a gracious woman too

[@MsMojoworks]

Capt Pike!

[@bettysims9284]

I love the time period when people cared about how they looked and dressed.

[@privateprivate1865]

Looks like hats fell out of fashion by the 60s..at least not to the degree they once were

[@brianhaskard1042]

The thing with the specs really got on my wick!

[@stevesloan7132]

Hastings is a stand-in for Howard Hughes.

[@davidweston9115]

Hastings is Howard Hughes, for those young folks who might be watching. Played by Lloyd Bochner (Cecil Colby of Colbyco Oil, rival of Denver Carrington Co. owned by Dynasty family, with Mr. Carrington)

[@brianbavosa877]

That episode is from night gallery about the nuclear scientist gone nutty

[@joyamongstforeverspark5422]

Huh?? Really

[@louisbrugnoni7639]

Funny how I’ve seen Warren Stevens a hundred times and never knew his name!

[@stephencarter7266]

Oh I thought it was 101 times before you learned his name. I guess I was off by one. I was close, though.

[@nataliya2641]

Thank you.

[@dianevitale1214]

Thanks GR. Glad I watched, but at the same time won't be one of my favorites. Does have a bit of intrigue, as to what is really going on. Jeffrey Hunter was a good looking man. Know I've seen him in other roles hopefully that were better, but no memory of anything that stuck in the memory bank. Tippy was a pretty woman, yet I've never cared for her acting. Hitchcock must have been in love with her looks.

[@curtchildress7160]

Jeffrey Hunter was the first captain of the starship Enterprise on Star Trek the pilot episode..he played Capt. Christopher Pike. He also played Jesus Christ in a much later film.

[@cm9439]

He was one of the hottest guys to play Jesus.

[@waderaney7]

Great story

[@kdtrimble]

Was this guy Fred the same actor as Pike on the Star Trek pilot?

[@CarmelMaguire-m1h]

lov. watching. entertaining sleek. polished

[@JohnCasciello]

Great veteran actor WARREN STEVENS arguing with JEFF HUNTER!!!!

[@brianbavosa877]

Believe it or not John Williams wrote the theme for this show back then he was known as Johnny williams

[@brianbavosa877]

@castletriglav do they really most people don't care one way or another

[@E-Kat]

It's the same name!

[@seanstewart6893]

Jeff Hunter,a fabulous star,not a method actor,but he had a great style,very busy star,always in movies and TV shows,interesting that his wife controlled what he would do and negotiated his fees,would he of been a affective lead for Star Trek, if his wife hadn't made exorbitant demands to the producers ,he would of been the lead,yes he would of been good,but no were near as effective as Shatner,interesting to speculate,

[@へのへのもへじへへののもへじ]

Kraft Cheese makes a great suspense! Great episode!!

[@loisrossi841]

Fun, thank you.

[@koln1996]

Mr. Hitchcock allegedly prevented Hedren from appearing in anything!!! How did she get to make this one???

[@yatabazah]

my thoughts exactly!

[@sandrashevey8252]

She was loaned out I think and then she did get Hitchcock to release her from a 7 year contract. She had served about 4 years of it maybe less. Fact is though who would take such a filthy role in `The Countess from Hong Kong`. Here was the Golden Girl whom hitchcock had spent millions top create. She takes a cheap shoddy role as the wife of the American ambassador, Chaplin`s mouthpiece for all he hated about America. She says `If you can`t make love, make money`. Hitchcock parodies this in `Frenzy` when Blaney says of Barbara, `She can`t make love so she sells it and she makes money`.

[@deegeraghty3421]

Incomprehensible and boring !!

[@diankreczmer6595]

Sounds like Howard Hughes in the day!

[@jjayaraman3191]

05jun2024 KST.Kraft Suspense Theatre.[S2E28].-The Trains of Silence.(_6.9_/ A geologist from Vancouver,Canada comes to the U.S. to see his old college roommate who is now a reclusive Howard Hughes-ish multi-millionaire industrialist. He has a mining investment to propose but is not allowed to see his friend,is rudely treated by the man's staff and is almost murdered.After being "bought off", he persists and finds an unexpected result.//

[@francinebarr1204]

Good Thrills🌞