Appointment at Eleven story
Seventeen-year-old David Logan spends a night on the town talking to various sympathetic people: a blonde in a bar, a sailor and an Irish pub patron, all of whom are disconcerted by David's virulent hatred of his father. However, David's father is a murdered, and his execution is at that night at 11:00. Directed by: Robert Stevens. Story by: Robert Turner, Evan Hunter.
9 total · 2 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with the death of a parent | major | The story culminated in David reacting to the long anticipated execution of his old pa, with mixed feelings. |
| hatred | major | Various people who David encountered at the bar were disconcerted by his virulent hatred of his father. |
| absentee father | minor | David was deeply disturbed owing to his father having been put on death row. |
| coping with unwelcome romantic attention | minor | David blew hot and cold regarding the attention he received from an attractive blonde. |
| cowardice | minor | David kept insisting he was not afraid of a sailor who he'd gotten into a fight with at the bar. |
| extramarital affair | minor | David spoke of how his father had been running around with a blonde woman. |
| father and son | minor | David spoke of hating is father. |
| mother and son | minor | David spoke to his mother. |
| murder | minor | It was revealed at the end that David's father (a.k.a. the Loveness Slayer) had been convicted of murdering his own girlfriend after having found her with another man. |