Family Theater: Hans Brinker

Family Theater presents Dean Stockwell and Roddy McDowell. I'm Hollywood, the mutual network, in cooperation with Family Theater presents Dean Stockwell in Hans Brinker. To introduce the drama, your host, Roddy McDowell. Thank you, Tony Lefrano.

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 theatre urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. At 1855, a great gale roared in from the Atlantic, hurling the waters of the North Sea against the sea walls and dikes of Holland.

The Netherlands fought the ocean back with open piles, braced with stone, with huge straw mats covered with clay. Baff Brinker, a tall, powerful Dutchman, leaned into the wind as he made his way towards the dikes.

Under the voice of the storm, he heard a faint frantic shout. In here! In here! Eh? What's that? Wait! Will you roll me down the river? Oh, I'm on my way to the dikes. I'm no boatman.

In there. It's a matter of life and death. It's always my work. See his pounding against the piling. Please, Spinaire. Roll me down the river to the bridge. If ever a man needed help, I needed now.

In trouble, eh? Yeah. I've got to get away. I've got to leave Holland. I don't know what you've done, but you don't look like a bad lad. All right, young fellow. I'll roll you to the bridge.

Scary climbs! A man down the river! Late! Yeah, but not much. What a storm this is, this dyke is starting to crumble! I'll climb up on the scaffold, tighten those ropes. Careful, rough. Those boards are covered with sleet.