Family Theater: A Kind of Treasure

Family Theater presents Walter Brennan and Natalie Wood. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents a kind of treasure starring Walter Brennan. To introduce the drama, here is your hostess, Natalie Wood.

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 were 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. And now to our drama, A Kind of Treasure, starring Walter Brennan as Mr. Alex. ["Pomp and Circumstance"] Merry treasure. What boy hasn't envisioned himself searching out such a treasure, returning triumphantly home to buy out the candy store.

But such dreams don't always perish with childhood. There are those stubborn romantics for whom buried treasure remains allure throughout their lives. In the midst of their workaday routine, the glittering horde shines like a beacon-mite.

Such a man was Mr. Alex, and he never tired of talking about the treasures he knew to exist, and that one day he would find. Taking a few minutes out from his chores as daytime guard at the First National Bank of Middle Falls, he holds a circle of youngsters and thralls.

and so this arrived buried that chest in the golden sands of the cave. All that gourd, all those beautiful ruby sapphires and emeralds covered over with the sand. And no more had they finished hiding that treasure, than they were attacked by a ship in the king's service in every man's life.

And as Alex talked of buried treasure, sometimes it happened that grown-ups listened to. Grown-ups like me, Jed Marshall, the president of the bank, and a friend of mine from out of town. Who's the old windbag telling tales about buried treasures yet?