The Man Who Corrupted Handleyburg (TV)

Człowiek, który zdemoralizował Hadleyburg – Polish title

Der Mann, der Hadleyburg korrumpierte – German title

The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg – English title

A 1967 Polish production [Zespół Filmowy Iluzjon (Lodz)]

Producer: Jerzy Rutowicz

Director: Jerzy Zarzycki

Story: “The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg” by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Screenplay: Zdzislaw Skowronski

Cinematography: Wieslaw Rutowicz

Music: Andrzej Mundkowski

Running time: 28 minutes

Cast:

Mary Richards - Hanna Małkowska

Katie Cox - Zofia Jamry

Stevenson - Leon Niemczyk

Edward Richards - Kazimierz Opaliński

Jackie Cox - Bronislaw Pawlik

Judge – J. Ćwikliński (Jerzy Ćwikliński)

John Wharton Bilson – W. Kowalski (Waclaw Kowalski)

Attorney Wilson – J. Przybylski (Jerzy Przybylski)

Sheriff Cooligen – M. Wojtczak (Marian Wojtczak)

Smoller – M. Vloit (Mieczyslaw Voit)

Pinkertons – Z. Zintel (Zygmunt Zintel), Jerzy Przybylski

Photographer – M. Szewczyk (Michael Szewczyk)

State press journalist – M. Szonert (Miroslaw Szonert)

Mailman – K. Talarczyk (Kazimierz Talarczyk)

Hadleyburg citizens - Henryk Staszewski, Eugeniusz Priwieziencew, Czeslaw Piaskowski, Tadeusz Ordeyg, L. Benoit (Ludwik Benoit), H. Boratynska (Hanna Boratynska), B. Darlak-Ostrowska (Bozena Darlakówna), K. Karkowska (Krystyna Karkowska), B. Majda (Bohdana Majda), N. Szymanska (Natalia Szymanska)

In the small town of Hadleyburg, the smug townspeople stay honest by avoiding temptation, until a stranger arrives and plots revenge on the hypocritical residents by promising a fortune to one of the citizens who once showed him charity years before.

YouTube entire film:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDz4h-yDilQ