Playhouse 90 A Sound of Different Drummers (Season 2, Episode 4)
TV Episode | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

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Playhouse 90

A Sound of Different Drummers (Season 2, Episode 4)

TV Episode | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A young security police officer in a future totalitarian state is assigned to suppress illegal intellectual activity, including executing book readers. He catches a librarian hiding a banned book and joins her in reading books.

Director

John Frankenheimer

Writers

Robert Alan Aurthur | Ray Bradbury (story)

Producer

Martin Manulis

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Edit Released

Updated Oct 3, 1957

Release date

Oct 3, 1957 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 13 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 6 wins & 36 nominations

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13 cast members

Name	Known for
Arthur Batanides Watkins Watkins See fewer	Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
Paul Bryar The Informer The Informer See fewer	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
James Edwards Actor Actor See fewer	The Killing (1956)
Sterling Hayden Gordon Miller Gordon Miller See fewer	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Jean Inness Mildred Mildred See fewer	The Twilight Zone (1959)
John Ireland Ben Hammond Ben Hammond See fewer	All the King's Men (1949)
Helen Kleeb Informer's Wife Informer's Wife See fewer	The Party (1968)
Paul Lambert The Prosector The Prosector See fewer	Planet of the Apes (1968)
Diana Lynn Susan Ward Susan Ward See fewer	The Major and the Minor (1942)
George Meader George George See fewer	On the Town (1949)
David Opatoshu Howard Ellis Howard Ellis See fewer	Exodus (1960)
Tony Randall Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	The Odd Couple (1970)
Adam Williams Kimbrough Kimbrough See fewer	North by Northwest (1959)