Word: denker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debut as a dramatic actor, he chose Material Witness, by Henry (Time Limit) Denker, and the title role of an average householder who sweated out 50 dreary minutes in fear that gangland killers would learn of his presence at one of their crimes. The show was just another dipperful of clabber out of Kraft Theater's antique churn. Berle played the shallowly written role with egregious self-control. Conscious of his dignity as a TV elder statesman, he liked the part because it was, said he proudly, "something unbrash, unflippant and unaggressive-I wanted to get away from...
Time Limit! (by Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey) is an effective thriller with a head in its tail. For most of the evening a flashback melodrama about a U.S. Army officer who went over to the Communists in a Korean prison camp, it winds up in what Balzac called "the trenches of the intellect," with a barrage of moral and mental queries...
...drama dealing with war psychology and ethics, Time Limit is not just another drama of this sort. Focusing their attention on the very current issue of brainwashing, playwrights Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey make distinctive contribution to a crucial problem of modern ethics...