MVD Entertainment Group Selects Apr. 14 For The DVD Release of Director Alex Segal's The Crucible Starring George C. Scott And Colleen Dewhurst

MVD Entertainment Group announced this past week that the 1967 Emmy-nominated broadcast of Arthur Miller’s 1953 four-act stage play, The Crucible, will be making its DVD debut on Apr. 14.

This live broadcast (or perhaps kinescope) of Miller’s tale about the Salem witch trials stars George C. Scott as the doomed John Proctor (he was nominated for an Emmy for his performance), Colleen Dewhurst as his wife, Elizabeth (Dewhurst was also nominated for an Emmy), Tuesday Weld as the duplicitous Abigail Williams, plus Henry Jones as the evil Reverend Samuel Parris, Thayer David as the corrupt Thomas Putnam and Fritz Weaver as the Reverend John Hale, who suffers a crisis of conscience during the trial and tries to undo the damage that he has done.

Alex Segal handled the direction and was nominated for Best Direction.  During the 1950s and 60s, Segal specialized in bringing drama works to television … he was nominated for Emmy Award five times, winning in 1966 for his adaptation of another Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman.