Blatant Plagiarism - S0613 - An Angel Cried

In fact, Mariette Hartley even portrays Deborah Kerr's accent and hairstyle specifically from the movie!

I can't imagine the Studio licensing an Oscar, WGA, and Golden Globe nominated movie for a silly weekly tv show, but who knows? Producer Buddy Adler was dead before this episode aired, maybe someone else had control.

Both this series and "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" were produced by Fox, so they were stealing from themselves.

In another thread I pointed out that Season 5, episode 5, "The Plague That Came to Ford's Run," was a pretty blatant ripoff of the 1955 film Bad Day at Black Rock, with Jimmy Dean in the Spencer Tracy role, right down to specific scenes such as finding flowers growing together in one spot and nowhere else nearby.

Hey, thanks for the recommendation of the great movie! I watched Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison last night an "An Angel Cried" tonight. You are absolutely right about the blatant plagiarism. Native Americans are substituted for the Japanese and an underground food storage area for the cave. A number of specific scenes are repeated, such as the hero salvaging a metal cross from a burned-out church and returning it to the nun, being forced to eat raw meat while unable to start a fire in hiding, and stealing a blanket from an enemy the hero is forced to kill. The drunk scene is a pretty direct repeat. Large chunks of dialogue say the exact same things in slightly different wording. Mariette Hartley imitates Deborah Kerr's Irish accent and mannerisms as much as possible while Jimmy Dean plays his character of Josh Clements. Jimmy Dean had some big cinematic shoes to fill in assuming Robert Mitchum's role here and Spencer Tracy's role in another Daniel Boone ripoff, Season 5, episode 5, "The Plague That Came to Ford's Run," a sort of remake of Bad Day at Black Rock from 1955. I wonder if there are any other not so original Daniel Boone episodes and we just don't happen to have seen the movies they were copied from. From another thread, it looks like "The High Cumberland" episodes ripped off the film Bend of the River.