The 20th Century-Fox Hour

Man on the Ledge

Directed by Lewis Allen
S1 • E7    Dec 28, 1955    60m
Sure and it's a fine St. Paddy's dawn in New York City, and beat cop Bragan is finishing up his all-night midtown shift and heading back to his family. Mrs. Bragan is making waffles today, and there's no school for young Mike, and they're all looking forward to the big parade. It's Bragan's day. He's got his buttons already polished.

But he won't make it home after all. A scream pierces the daybreak, and Bragan looks up and gasps: Way up high, near the top of one of the avenue's fine hotels, there's a guy standing on a ledge, clinging to a cornice, looking down, teetering.

Jumper. Bragan breaks into a run, straightaway gets up to the hotel's 15th floor, collides with the manager who's fretting that his suicidal guest is going to bring unwelcome publicity. ""This is the worst possible thing that can happen to a hotel!"" the manager moans. Bragan disgustedly shoos him out, and now he's alone with the man on the ledge, the first cop on the scene, and he leans out the window, high over the d

Where to Watch The 20th Century-Fox Hour - S1 • E7

  • Sylvia SidneyMrs. Cosick
  • Eduard Franz
  • Cameron Mitchell
  • Barbara Woodell
  • William GarganOfficer Bragan
  • Vera MilesVirginia
  • Willis BoucheyCapt. Kane
  • Alan Hale Jr.Boyle
  • Joey RayTribune Reporter
  • Joseph CottenSelf - Host
  • James BellMr. Cosick
  • Barbara WooddellMrs. Bragan
  • Paul WexlerParkinson
  • Howard WendellHotel Manager
  • Clark HowatFarley
  • Than WyennMax
  • Frank SullySergeant
  • Richard CollierWaiter
  • Jess KirkpatrickMirror Reporter
  • Ralph PetersCabbie

 

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