A school bus driver (Jack Warden) is fired by the local school board when he refuses to sign a loyalty oath. This was a pilot for a proposed anthology series that didn't sell.
Direction
Lumet's live-TV urgency in every cramped frame.
Acting
Warden's quiet devastation says everything.
Director
Sidney Lumet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Lumet's second TV pilot that failed to sell; his first was *12 Angry Men*.
Sponsors fled blacklist-themed pilots in 1955, making this a fossil of what network TV refused to become.
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