Kraft Suspense Theatre: A Cause of Anger (1964)
Season 1, Episode 19
2/10
No motivation in a nonsense story.
22 April 2024
Director Bare, and writers Gordon and Wormser, combine for a very underwhelming story.

Brian Keith and the other actors do their best to sell this story, but it's just full of hate, and unmotivated characters.

An ex officer has a job for one of the secret services to transport a boy genius several hundred miles in the Southwest, beginning in LA. A woman who appears to be a social worker accompanies them.

They are followed by a car on the way.

The car breaks down, and that's not explained whether it's part of a conspiracy or not, but it helps the people following them.

While the car is broken down, a young woman helps them. They go to a diner, where a beautiful Native American girl waits on them. The boy is allowed to go to a party with her.

The girl is beaten up badly, and for the rest of the story lies unconscious in a hospital. Her father is a lawman who winds up assisting the "good guy" played by Brian Ketih.

Throughout all of this, the story has no real motivation, and no one but the father seems to care one whit about the beautiful girl who is hurt so badly.

None of this makes any sense, and there is no payoff. It's a sick story about sick people with no motivation. In fact, the boy genius, who is supposed to be the disturbed one, is the only one who seems to have any motivation at all.
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