Wealthy businessman Daniel Grudge (Sterling Hayden) is bitter from the lost of his son in WWII. He is a militarist isolationist and powerful influence. His nephew Fred (Ben Gazzara) comes to complain about his blocking of a professor going to Poland for cultural exchange. He is visited by the Three Ghosts of Christmas.
This is a TV movie preaching detente in the Cold War and against isolationism. It's doing a simplified world politics discussion. This airs a couple of years after The Cuban Missile Crisis, but before Vietnam really heats up. I can see this academic discussion taking place, but it's a lot of surface work. In that sense, this is compelling for the time period in world history. On the other hand, the discussion would change soon enough.
This is a TV movie preaching detente in the Cold War and against isolationism. It's doing a simplified world politics discussion. This airs a couple of years after The Cuban Missile Crisis, but before Vietnam really heats up. I can see this academic discussion taking place, but it's a lot of surface work. In that sense, this is compelling for the time period in world history. On the other hand, the discussion would change soon enough.