“The Life You Save,” a TV adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” written by Nelson Gidding, directed by Herschel Daugherty, and starring Gene Kelly, Janice Rule, and Agnes Moorehead. This film was originally telecast by CBS on March 1, 1957, as an episode of Schlitz Playhouse of Stars. After watching the program, O’Connor told a friend, “The best I can say for it is that conceivably it could have been worse. Just conceivably”:
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