Playhouse 90's version of Clifford Odets' "trio play," Clash by Night, was mostly a triumph of mien over message. When he wrote the play (a Broadway flop in 1942), Odets said he was trying to show "how men irresponsibly wait for the voice and strong arm of Authority to bring them to life and to shape ... So can come Fascism to a whole race of people." But TV Adapter William F. Durkee Jr. chose to tread the simpler level of the story—the interplay between a clod husband, a deceitful lodger, and a restive wife who dreams of escape from the...
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