Archives for March 20, 2019

Playhouse 90’s TV version of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” originally telecast live by CBS on November 6, 1958. The adaptation is by Stewart Stern and the telecast was directed by Ron Winston. The cast includes Roddy McDowell, Eartha Kitt, Oskar Homolka, Richard Haydn, and Boris Karloff as Kurtz:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.”

Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”