The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV Series) Dark Morning (1959) User Reviews

Quite good but way too short

[planktonrules · 8/10 · 10 June 2018]

"Dark Morning" is an installment of "The DuPont Show with June Allyson". Allyson herself has nothing to do with the show apart from a very perfunctory introduction. Otherwise, it's a nice little show starring Bette Davis and Leif Erickson.

When the show begins, Sarah (Davis) is bringing her niece to live with her. But this is no ordinary child. It seems that Whitney's parents were murdered and the press blamed young Whitney...and without any evidence of another perpetrator, the town is quick to assume she's a child psychopath and folks seem to do everything they can to make the child feel unwelcome. What's to come of this?

The finale to this one is satisfying and the show itself quite nice. But there is a problem that the folks who made it couldn't tackle...the 30 minute time slot which is way too short for this story. If given more time to unfold more naturally, the score would have no doubt been higher.

It's Always Innocent Until Proved Guilty

[julianhwescott · 9/10 · 8 June 2015]

***May contain some minor spoilers***

This is a very good story with a good message for all of society! To find out what the message is, you will have to watch the show. A television show starring the great Bette Davis and actor Leif Ericson is what drew me in to watching this little treat! Bette was always such a fantastic actress and always gave her all in a performance even if she didn't think the piece she was acting in was a good piece or a bad piece to appear in! The story is about a teenage girl who was accused of killing her Mother and her Father but she was never arrested or tried for the offense. She was way too young to be on her own so they placed her with her Aunt Sarah (Davis), a former schoolteacher. The town is all in an uproar because they think that Aunt Sarah is going to place the girl in school with the other so called 'normal' kids. A friend of Aunt Sarah's named Andrew (Ericson) is a help to Sarah even though she may not realize it! I feel that he is imperative to the story line - he is what makes it work out so evenly! The young niece is looked unfavorably upon by almost everyone in town and the story goes from there. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

A bad seed?

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 12 September 2020]

Bette Davis stars in this half an hour short telefilm about a spinster schoolteacher who takes in her niece Sandy Descher after her parents were slain. The girl's story was that she was asleep upstairs, but there were a lot of folks who think she did the deed.

Has Bette taken a proverbial bad seed?

Bette was good and didn't overact as she was prone to do in some of her less than classic films. The problem is that the half an hour time frame left little room for character development especially for Descher and for Leif Erickson a neighbor of Davis who happens to be a cop.

Still a chance o see Bette Davis is never to be passed up.