A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

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).

Cast

F

Florence Anglin

Landlady

Martin Balsam

Charlie Malick

J

Joe Comadore

Second Man

D

Don Gordon

First Man

J

Joanna Douglas

Mother

B

Betty McDonald

Girl

Don Murray

Axel Nordman

K

Kathleen Murray

Katherine

Sidney Poitier

Tommy Tyler