NBC University Theater "At Heavens Gate" (1-22-50) - Boxcars711 Sunday Matinuee Three

NBC University Theater is an unusual series that focused on reenacting novels by great authors for college classes. Many accredited American universities such as Washington State College, University of Louisville, and University of Tulsa, used this dramatic series as a supplement to correspondent college courses. The series' creators made study guides to accompany the courses. Students studying great literature by Steinbeck, Faulkner, Hemingway, Huxley, and many others listened to these shows every week. It was an ambitious series that remained popular despite its academic and non-commercial appeal. The shows are high quality and will please many fans of great literature.THIS EPISODE:At Heaven's Gate is the story of Sue Murdock, daughter of the powerful and wealthy Bogan Murdock. Sue struggles to escape her father's control in a southern American city before the Great Depression. She takes up with Jerry (Bull's Eye) Calhoun, a college football star who graduates to work in a bank controlled by her father. She leaves Jerry when he defends Sue's grandfather's honor. Sue takes her own apartment in a seedy part of town and starts associating with Slim Sarrett, a writer and intellectual. Her relationship with Slim falls apart after he is visited by an old lover. Sue falls into the care of a labor organizer named Sweetwater. Sarrett returns, but Sue will not have him.