One Way Out (TV-1955) IDA LUPINO

The GOLDEN AGE of TELEVISION:: This episode, originally from season 4 of the anthology series Four Star Playhouse, was first broadcast by CBS on December 15, 1955. Restored and edited by PizzaFLIX with recreated titles.
Stars: Ida Lupino, Scott Forbes, Frances Robinson
Director: Roy Kellino
Diana finally leaves her playboy husband and moves to an apartment in New York. Soon after arriving at her new place, she finds herself locked in with no electricity and very little food. Gradually Diana becomes unhinged which is the goal of the husband and his girlfriend who booby-trapped the place to send her over the edge.

[@anonagain]

I fell in love with Ida Lupino the first time I saw her in High Sierra with Humphrey Bogart - such a tough but vulnerable character. I didn't know how many TV shows she directed episodes of until recently - The Donna Reed Show, 77 Sunset Strip, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Have Gun Will Travel, Thriller, The Fugitive, Dr. Kildare, The Twilight Zone, and Bewitched. She is the only woman to have directed an episode of the original Twilight Zone and star in one as well. Thanks for the sauce PizzaFlix!

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you.

[@rainwalker2254]

anonagain Don't forget the 1953 movie "The Hitchhiker," which she directed.

[@esmeephillips5888]

@@rainwalker2254 Best film noir ever directed by a woman- in fact, possibly the best Hollywood movie by one. Dorothy Arzner never did better, anyhow.

[@ThePiratemachine]

anonagain The twilight Zone episode was good. I can remember as a boy people talking her name in admiration. I think she was from Shoreham not far from my place then. ( name dropper I am! )

[@Germinator1971]

I think Ida Lupino is a good actress and I always enjoy her movies...was almost in tears to see her going through that but the ending brought me joy

[@garymazzeo3490]

Anything with Ida Lupino is worth seeing.She was a wonderful actress.

[@Germinator1971]

I agree ....🙂

[@janicemahan4772]

That was outstanding! What a terrific actor Ida Lupino was!

[@KJ-xc6qs]

Stories were so intelligently written and well-acted back then. It's a joy to watch these programs. Thank you, PizzaFlix!

[@gogo-word]

When all seems lost... A spark of brilliance. Ida Lupino, Bravo!

[@sherylwhiteman9895]

Great ending! They definitely reaped what they'd sown.

[@francesaustrawski7276]

Ida Lupino was a very underrated actress. Love her.

[@johnrogers9481]

Ida was and.still is HIGHLY RATED.!

[@ThePiratemachine]

Frances Austrawski She wasn't underrated ( with respect ). She was a big star - with Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart - lots.

[@sylviaroberts8103]

@@ThePiratemachine EXACTLY !

[@davidcopperfield-notthemag397]

Magnificent storytelling in only 24 minutes! Talent all around. AWESOME story!

[@krystallovesclassics508]

Why is she so perfect in everything.

[@sonbahar5296]

I loved the ending ! it was beautiful absolutely beautiful!

[@barbaramitchelle2497]

that was a good movie i love all her movies shes a real actor

[@CammieInOz]

Fantastic, and Ida Lupino wonderful as always. Nothing Hollywood can offer today compares to the era where there was real talent and imagination in filmmaking.

[@saltydawg7078]

She knocks the ball out of the park in every movie. Thanks for sharing this!!

[@kayjackson8922]

10 STARS!!!!

[@annprince5298]

That was blooming brilliant , she caught them out ! Did she direct this superb

[@jett8193]

More proof Ida Lupino is always worth watching! Thanx for another delicious slice of vintage tv pizza. You spoil us PizzaFlix!

[@stephaniealexander3314]

Those were the days when your friends ALWAYS knew someone to introduce you to! Not today...go to the internet. Another thing was....people would actually “Ring” your phone, TILL-YOU picked Up!

[@bryanfrombuffalo7685]

Shit you're gonna end up dead meeting ppl today

[@bryanfrombuffalo7685]

Call waiting or u went home and would check your machine...and be like damn she hasn't even called

[@mauricedavis2160]

Actress, writer, director, producer... Ms Lupino is legendary in my book!!! ♊✨🙌

[@carryon2197]

Nice! Upto the viewer to decide whether she went insane. I believe she wasn't. She hid the record & locked them in. It shows intent. 2 things cant be random. Also she escapes by foing those 2 things. Clever Diana.

[@pinkbeautytwinkle]

What an ending!

[@pikemeredith5604]

Just recently seen Ida Lupino in a 1974 episode of TV's Columbo. Episode titled Swan Song. It also starred the man in black himself Johnny Cash. Ida still looked good even in this. Alas, she was killed off only 10 minutes or so into this episode but still worth watching.

[@nancydorn2524]

It is refreshing to watch something that doesn’t have a flashback every few minutes!

[@mauricedavis2160]

I've been impressed with Ida Lupino since childhood, she is Golden ♊✨🙏

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Ida Lupino is one of the best! Greatly underappreciated, but well appreciated here. Thank You, PizzaFlix.

[@BLESSFUL-Bliss]

“Ida Lupino was an English-American actress, singer, director, and producer. She is widely regarded as one of the most prominent female filmmakers working during the 1950s in the Hollywood studio system.” _Hardly under-appreciated, eh?_

[@ThePiratemachine]

NuncNuncNuncNunc She wasn't underappreciated.

[@sunniharley1745]

Wow! This was the best irony I’ve seen in a long time.

[@daisystanley7103]

there should be more thrillers like this....loved it...…..short but very sweet (revenge)

[@julieshaw4142]

Wow what a position to be in, very spooky. Oh how they don't make films like this, thank you ........

[@rubymcclain5078]

Love the short films. They tell a long story in a short time. ❤️

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the sauce be with you. 🍕🍕🍕

[@melodiefrances3898]

I love Ida Lupino.

[@lavendardust]

That was full of surprises. A lot packed in a short story. Didn't take 2 hours at all.

[@anthonydubose5779]

Another great movie. I loved the ending. Ida Lupino was a great actress and director. Thank you for this program from the 1950's

[@bobhollabaugh8044]

hahahahaha...i knew when they went in the kitchen she was going to walk out ....and then she pulled the door knob out...really good show...Four Star shows were always good....love Dick Powell as Dante and all his quick witted comebacks.

[@karenblackwood5883]

Cheers pizza 🍕 flix that was one great short film!

[@mauricestanley6859]

I love Ida Lupino!

[@pangorban1]

Loved it. Ida Lupino made this just after her production company, which produced such classics as The Hitchhiker and Not Wanted, went bust. The studio made it clear that her directorial skills, along with her social justice themes, were not wanted. They only wanted her as an actress. She went along, but eventually got to direct many TV episodes and films in the 1950s and 1960s. This TV film was short but packed a huge punch. It was a worthy forerunner to the Hammer House of Horror, the Twilight Zone and others.

[@esmeephillips5888]

The director, Roy Kellino, was the first husband of James Mason's wife Pamela. The three had worked together in England before the war. Like Ida Lupino, Pamela Mason remolded herself into an American.

[@esmeephillips5888]

@lana lake Didn't know that, thanks. Mason was a fascinating fellow who has never been properly written up. He was a top student at Cambridge University (architecture) who got the acting bug and went full Hollywood, but never lost touch with his Yorkshire roots and played some northern English characters (e.g. 'Spring and Port Wine') as well as domineering millionaires as he aged. He could do rich or poor, Brit or American. Perhaps his versatility limited his renown- lazy critics tend to praise stars who have one image and stick to it. Mason always liked to walk the hero-villain line: from his UK days as the glowering matinee idol you loved to hate through to 'Dr Fischer and the Bomb Party'. He could play the vulnerable ordinary guy, e,.g. in 'Bigger Than Life', and was wonderful as Brutus in 'Julius Caesar' amid the big theater names, but was a scene-stealer as a black hat. For my money he purloins 'North by North West; from Cary when he shows up at the denouement, just as he beat Brando in 'Caesar'. When the aged DW Griffith first saw JM he said 'That Mason is the greatest actor'.

[@esmeephillips5888]

@lana lake Fun fact: Mason's ex, Pamela Kellino, is one of the panelists on 'What's My Perversion?', the spoof game show in Woody Allen's 'Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex'. But if I ramble on like this, KZbin mods will bust me for going OT. I do think Ida Lupino's career was remarkable. No Brit ever Americanized more flawlessly- many US fans had no notion she was a Limey. She came from a cockney vaudeville family, yet her persona aligns her with the great tough ladies such as Crawford, Davis and Stanwyck. Margaret Lockwood, who is unknown in the States, was probably the closest British equivalent, but she stayed home. She co-starred with James Mason in the trash classic 'The Man in Grey'- oh dear, there I go again.

[@esmeephillips5888]

@lana lake No, Hitch was in the States by the time 'Man in Grey' came out. He never cast Ida, but she directed two episodes of his TV series.

[@BLESSFUL-Bliss]

If you are referring to Four Star, the production company (with Charles Boyer and David Niven, and another whom I can’t presently recall), which she joined to replace Joel McCrea after he left... I was disappointed and disheartened to learn that she was the sole producer who never owned stock in the company. 😔 I think that company lasted many years, though, so perhaps you are referring to another, previous to that.💙

[@robertgalbreath6239]

Always loved Ida Lupino...class, charm, intelligence, talent, and a pioneer when there were no female film directors. Thanks for sharing.

[@jamesryan6008]

Actually, Dorothy Arzner directed movies in the thirties and forties then directed for TV.

[@nolawest5183]

OMGosh - What a Great Ending!!!

[@diankreczmer6595]

Surprisingly really good movie. Ida lupine never disappoints

[@paulpearce1161]

Thanks for showing.The old ones are still the best.

[@RetiredSchoolCook]

WOW WHAT A GREAT STORY THANK YOU

[@maritesangeles9955]

Short but with great substance... Betrayal has always been indeed the most painful thing in this world most especially if it involves ur trusted best friend o just a friend with ur own husband/wife.... so watch out... choose very well your circle of friends and ur best friend lol... Anyways thanks for sharing this short but wonderful movie!! always have loved watching Ida's movies!!!

[@mauricedavis8261]

Loves me some Ida Lupino!!!😍 Thank you!!!🙏😷

[@yolandajones9736]

Oh…THAT WAS EXCELLENT!!!!Bravo Ida,,,Bravo 👏

[@gailbetty1392]

Thank you for this episode of the Four Star Playhouse series. Ida Lupino is one of my most favorite artists!

[@seosamhofionnaghain8699]

Ida lupino directed a number of episodes of the Fugitive and also have fun will travel!

[@DancingQueenie]

Seosamh O'Fionnaghain Have fun will travel. That’s funny! I’m going to use that.

[@benjamlnlewis6836]

All that's said about Ida is true. But this is a gem of twist, plot & intriguing writing in the story itself.

[@ladyamba1]

Excellent ending!

[@MsBackstager]

Chilling and superb.

[@rescuepetsrule6842]

Very cool! I smelled a rat when the porter in such a swanky place was smacking gum- not the way to get a big tip. The real Ida would never have panicked- she never let the Moguls intimidate her, and IdaLu Studios was proof of her strength. TY- great post.

[@isabelmcdonald2855]

Pizza Fix, this was brilliant only one complaint it was to short, but I loved it thank you.

[@MOGGS1942]

Sometimes, just sometimes, less is more.

[@johnrogers9481]

I think it was too short too.!

[@rubywalters8515]

Very nice story, very short and to the point. Yes...

[@badbag9625]

Ms. Lupino seldom received enough recognition deserved for the more then good actor she was ! ! As a young girl she came off as trail , even tragic....later Ida's attempts at playing sex symbols were okay yet not really HOT as they say ! Most actors enjoyed co-staring with her....they knew she'd make THEM look great when she was both on screen or behind cameras as well ! ALWAYS tried to watched her ...... STILL do ! PIZZAFLIX always enjoy your slices.... you NEVER FAIL to DELIVER . Thanks for making sure we ALL get our share of entertainment !

[@patrickryan1515]

You might say she did come off 'HOT' in the movie, "Roadhouse" (available here on KZbin). 8/2019

[@mauricestanley6859]

I thought she was hot always!

[@badbag9625]

@@patrickryan1515 THANKS ! Forgot Roadhouse. Ida & Mr.Wild were hot together. Will catch it again Aug 20.... .

[@barbaracrickley6191]

@@mauricestanley6859 , hate that expression HOT, sexy sounded much better.

[@mauricestanley6859]

@@barbaracrickley6191 Sexy, yes. I felt lots of lust for her when she was sweetest, as in MOONTIDE.

[@csrollyson]

So simple, noir, powerful. Lupiino is stunning. Thank you @pizza

[@Riogi]

You are my favourite PIZZA! :). Thank you for all the amazing films you provide to us.

[@WCaron23001]

Yes Pizza here is great at digging up these gems

[@rainwalker2254]

Excellent! Thanks for this great film. I always think I've seen all the good ones, and then one like this comes along.

[@rogersledz6793]

@PizzaKix Thank you for uploading this delightful video. YOU are providing an ESSENTIAL SERVICE for all socially responsible people who chose to minimize their non-essential direct personal contacts, even though it is no longer mandatory. These shows help KEEP US SANE. God bless, be strong and remain hopeful. Roger J. Sledz, Staten Island ( NYC ) 9/28/2020 👍☺️🇺🇸🗽

[@jeffreyberkin-ez3uh]

Great production on all these. Just saw "The Man Who Walked Out on Himself." That was well done as well.

[@lopa2828]

Great suspense movie with great ending

[@mikenixon2401]

Bravo. Love the twist. I'll have to remember that just in case. LOL

[@peekaboots01]

That GIANT FURNISHED apartment with a PIANO in NEW YORK?! WOW 1955

[@michelleregis6181]

Ive loved Ida Lupinos personality snd her acting has always been top notch. This tv show is most memorable amd enjoyable, i like the early tv prductiòns they hold many memories for me ,thanks P F

[@stephenperretti8847]

I am 77 years old. When I was a little boy I saw pretty much this same story on a different program. I'm sure it was a different program because I recall the sets and the actress who played the captive girl. I also remember, very distinctly that she tried to break the window by throwing something at a window, but the item crumbled in her hand. It ended the same way, by the captive young woman walked out the opened door which closed as she left, locking the couple in the un LEAVEABLE apartment. It made a great, life long impressions on me. I have described the plot and the sets to others many times over the years. I am 100% certain it was a different production. Gee, it is spooky to have seen this production. Wow. Such a clear and ancient memory. Wow.

[@georginafraser451]

I was shocked the way the story finishes i bever thought it would end that way good job she did by tricking the two of them. Very intelligent !!!!!

[@bonnizajac8916]

My favorite four star playhouse episode ✨🌟✨

[@Watkinsstudio]

Great ending. The feel good feature of the year!

[@guineapig102860]

I loved how the bad guys got it at the end!

[@joemifsud981]

The first time I noticed Ida Lupino was in a glowing TIME magazine piece. In those days, TIME flayed almost everyone that came within its whip-cracking distance. So the woman must have been something special.....and from then on every time I saw her name on screen I quickly began to realise why that TIME piece almost tied itself up in knots over her.

[@fmih]

Very interesting and bizarre. Loved the ending.

[@RETard-me4mj]

They had some really dark shit on TV sixty years ago.

[@OofusTwillip]

You should hear what they had on tbe radio back then. Listen to Ida Lupino in the "Suspense" radio episode "The Bullet".

[@Meatcity-sf8fm]

Lois Degeneffe they certanly did was a child in the early days of television . I had nightmares every night . This is mild compared to some early dramas

[@Magnet423]

Did I miss it ? What did she do with the record? It was enough to send the two THUGS to Jail. Thanks, for a 24 minute HEAVENLY DELIGHT. The fact that the perpetrators GOT CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN TRAP IS DELICIOSO.

[@Nixfix76]

Whoa that was a creepy mind blower! Farout! Thanks for this gem.

[@manuelmaldonadojr2526]

once again thank you send is old movies.

[@elle-sissyfedor3185]

Wow! Great one! I actually got the chills at the end

[@girlygirlwoman]

That was AWESOME!!! I'm glad she did that. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it. Ha

[@samtopeka2535]

It's worth watching for a great ending. I won't give it away!😇

[@TheViewmaster1971]

That was GREAT!! Love Ida Lupino!!!!!!!!!!

[@mitzie-annjackson4437]

Great acting.

[@mauricedavis2160]

Excellent episode ♊✨🙌 Loves me some Ida Lupino 😍

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

I like watching these noir-ish episodes, often done like films. Ida was the best...Everybody smokes like crazy, motives are murky, men are up to no good, and women get tangled up in danger. Ah, the old days of real dramatic tv and movies...

[@johanneslundie]

To enjoy Ida Lupino in a really "tough" role, watch her in 'Women's Prison' (1955)

[@lafleurcheri8486]

Thx for the recommendation. Gonna look for it on KZbin. 👍🏾

[@tonyshort1623]

ida lupino what a beautiful lady and great actress 😍😍😍😍😍😚😚

[@qormi1000]

This was a real scary one.

[@suzih.6687]

Well that was enjoyable! Thank you for this!

[@mariruthhitt-kim8958]

Great movie. Watching for fourth time.

[@WhatstheSizzle]

Ida Lupino is such a fine actress. I really really felt her panic in this episode. I knew there was an explanation for this happening, but I couldn't see it as I was as anxious as she was. I remember her when I was a young-in. I remember I heard she was married to Howard Duff (another actor) & being sad when they divorced. (I was sad when Lucy & Desi divorced too). Ah, nostalgia. (ok, I am 75 this year).

[@creamcornsurprize6608]

What a flick, keep them coming. Thank you for sharing 🎥. ❤

[@michaelwertzy9808]

Speaking of flicks, King did a fine flick of his cig while on the bed! Dang funny as a blooper. Or was he directed to do it? Funny either way!

[@Laura-tp8wz]

Brilliant

[@karenblackwood5883]

I’m thoroughly enjoying this

[@alicia1396]

Wow love it

[@pattihawks353]

Good one; applaud the ending!!!👏👏👏

[@rogerrendzak8055]

A decent actress, and director!! She's been in many shows and films, that I have always liked. She directed Bogie's "HIGH SIERRA" (1941), a story about someone's that a criminal, but also has a heart. @07:07 there's a cabdriver, played by Gayle Kellogg. I wonder, if any relation to 'Ray Kellogg', director and actor of the same time, period.

[@garrysekelli6776]

The Guy who designed that apt was probably the grandfather of the Jigsaw killer.

[@katiezee2]

Back when ladies going out in public wore hats, gloves and furs! Great story, suspenseful, and different for the times

[@orchidlilly7518]

Thanks so much Pizzaflix*

[@itsmesia2469]

Good one...!! 👍👍

[@deguilhemcorinne418]

Makes your adrenaline climb very efficiently .I dont care for the details, I was so surprised by the horrific situation, and the "way out" leaves you with kind of sadistic revenge pleasure and own imagination about possible developments. Wow for Ida Lupino, i didnt know she was great also in that kind of story.

[@waynemorris9133]

This one was a real surprise! Totally unexpected!

[@MOGGS1942]

Great little film. I would have shouted " ' Bye ", as I closed the door. 😃😃

[@karma133]

Didn't expect this- terrific

[@PizzaFLIX]

Ida Lupino- First Lady of PizzaFLIX 🍕🍕🍕🍕

[@adrianfitch8387]

Excellent !!

[@catherineeckstein2705]

Great ending!