Family Theater: The Black Tulip

Family Theater presents William Lundigan and Rod Cameron. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Rod Cameron in the Black Toolit. To introduce the drama, your host and narrator, William Lundigan. Thank you, Gene Baker.

Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world.

Family theater urges you to pray, pray together as a family. It's been said that the glory of Holland lies in the soil of her tulip beds, tulip's daughter countryside, tulips are bound in her marketplaces, and legend tells us that a certain tulip once acted as a symbol of freedom for the people of the Netherlands.

Yes, just as a rattlesnake with 13 rattles was an early symbol for the American colonies and just as the French rallied to the stirring music of the Marseilles is. So the people of Holland at one time in their history looked to the sign of a tulip, completely black in color.

Rod Cameron stars tonight as the young tulip grower Cornelius Van Berled in the remarkable legend of the black tulip. The year was 1673, the tulips growing in the free air of Holland were trampled by the boots of a conqueror.

William of Orange had risen to power in the Netherlands. Late in that year, the stealthy approach of night on the plains just outside the town of Dorth, two men make their way toward a fanta-mogic, a windmill, lonely, abandoned, with arms moving restlessly to be free of its heavy bonds of mist and fog.