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

Season 2 episode 28, written by Ben Maddow & William Wood and directed by Douglas Heyes; with Jeffrey Hunter, Tippi Hedren, Warren Stevens, Lloyd Bochner, Patrick Whyte, Dale Johnson, Francis De Sales, Paul Bradley, Brenda Howard, Roy Jenson, Chuck Roberson, Bob Bernard and Hal Hopper. 'Kraft' theme by John Williams. Original air date: 10 June 1965.

[@userSISSY]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@angelcitygirl]

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

[@lavellhall7650]

I see she survived the birds. She's good

[@bruceb.8469]

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

[@johnshields6852]

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

[@dawin6710]

People were good looking back then.

[@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.

[@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.

[@beachcomberbloke462]

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

[@JayB2]

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

[@charlynegezze8536]

I always loved Lloyd Bochner. Fabulous cast.

[@sheiladavis6523]

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

[@susannefitzpatrick9955]

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!!

[@betsya7054]

This was excellent, thank you

[@markward6076]

This was the world when I was a baby.

[@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

[@san5sparkle]

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

[@sewsewsewist785]

I love this series!

[@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???

[@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. 👍

[@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!

[@Vps-eb7ej]

Excellent show!

[@SM-gl8yo]

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

[@lonnieclemens8028]

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

[@mariakelly90210]

Jeffrey Hunter was always Drop Dead Gorgeous.

[@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.

[@rosiloverosilove9512]

Thank you many.....more please

[@rosannavitale9922]

Thank you for these gems. Smiles to you.

[@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

[@Joeblow-ms3cv]

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

[@stevengrotte2987]

Thank you.....many more please.

[@mortalclown3812]

Lloyd was gorgeous. Always enjoyed his intensity.

[@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

[@ThePiratemachine]

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

[@JaneDoe-zr4px]

Jeffrey Hunter is adorable in his professor glasses.

[@LTSJR1]

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[@hamedmohamed8594]

That was amazing

[@joyamongstforeverspark5422]

Wonderful!!! God bless your heart!!

[@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.

[@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 😂👍

[@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

[@davidcrabbe1243]

Wow great theme time..spinetingling

[@davidhewson8605]

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

[@vickyyphelps]

Tipping still wearing green, same as in the Birds!

[@csl9495]

Such classic writing

[@user-xg1qv6jl8p]

Love this episode

[@lisagiacomini9635]

Wow, great!

[@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. 🤔

[@juliam7056]

Awsome. Enjoying this old show immensely.

[@Spsuperstar]

crazy sick episode.

[@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.

[@BeverlyM52]

Tippi can act!

[@nataliya2641]

Thank you.

[@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".

[@davidcrabbe1243]

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

[@dinacox1971]

This is a surprise. Tippi Hedren was Hitcick's star in The Birds and Marnie a year later. Now one year later she is doing television? Makes one wonder who she crossed.

[@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.

[@dereklarsen]

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

[@bogeythedog163]

Love her voice

[@gigigiseleworld]

Tippi H and Jeffrey Hunter... ...🎭 📺

[@TruAnRksT]

Great Ceasers Ghost, it's Superman!

[@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.

[@user-pt4nb3gt3b]

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

[@MsMojoworks]

Capt Pike!

[@stevesloan7132]

Hastings is a stand-in for Howard Hughes.

[@McIntyreBible]

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

[@glengrant3884]

Great story

[@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.

[@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.)

[@francinebarr1204]

Good Thrills🌞

[@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?

[@sylviaphelps8518]

Tippi Hendren is Melanie Griffin's mother

[@sylviaphelps8518]

I meant Griffith

[@mississippimud7046]

And Dakota Johnson's grandmother

[@bobk4404]

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

[@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.

[@Andrewjenkin-kt7jq]

Another Star Trek connection

[@carolbrewster1907]

An mistaken jeffer hunter eyes beautiful great actour❤❤😊

[@Laura-tp8wz]

Thanks

[@brianhaskard1042]

The thing with the specs really got on my wick!

[@birchtree28]

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

[@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.

[@danielyoung6630]

interesting casting

[@brianbavosa877]

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

[@joyamongstforeverspark5422]

Huh?? Really

[@diankreczmer6595]

Sounds like Howard Hughes in the day!

[@loisrossi841]

Fun, thank you.

[@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.

[@christopherharmon2433]

Captain Pike, is that you?

[@SusanMolloy]

🎉😂❤Thank you for a fun rainy day!!

[@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"...

[@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?

[@dalebaker9109]

Jeff Hunter looks young here. It’s only his grey hair that stops him looking in his mid 30’s

[@danielyoung6630]

wow!

[@sorinam4341]

Captain Pike at his best :)

[@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!

[@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

[@MrRatherino]

1965!!!!!!!!

[@paulbrasier372]

They just took a page out of the Howard Hughe story.

[@asitriresearch]

Strange parallel to Howard Hughes, but didn't he become a recluse later in the 60s?

[@E-Kat]

Yes!

[@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 !!