Birthright

A serious subject, immigration and American policies covering same, is bungled in a lousy screenplay that lacks subplots and subtexts in favor of an "in your face" one-note approach.

It's a standoff between Martin Balsam and Eli Wallach when Wallach is interrogated by an Immigration officer upon entering the United States, as Wallach is living happily under the name Wallach claims.

The suspense revolves around which one is telling the truth, the other being a liar, and the ramification that one of the two will be deported. Wallach's overacting is quite poor, and the show ends with a poor, dare I say corny, resolution of the dilemma, trivializing the issue.

Saddest thing for me is that the basic issue here has been made much worse over 63 years later, now that cretins like Trump's #1 jerk Stephen Miller have scapegoated immigrants -his solution to this Goodyear Theatre story would be to deport both men!