Elegy (TV play)

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"Elegy (TV play)"
The Philco Television Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 5
Episode 12
Directed by Delbert Mann
Written by Sumner Locke Elliott
Based onstory by Anthony Boucher
Original air dateJanuary 25, 1953 (1953-01-25)
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Elegy is a 1953 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. [1]

Contents

Premise

A writer, Alan Hanford, pens an elegy for a deceased friend, Larry Winters. One year later Larry turns up to blackmail Alan.

Cast

Reception

The Tablet found it "trying". [2] The Journal called it "a splendid story, thrillingly enacted." [3]

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References

  1. "Heston Portrays subject of 'Elegy'". The Portsmouth Star. 25 January 1953. p. 19.
  2. "The arts on TV". The Tablet. 31 January 1953. p. 17.
  3. "TV and radio". The Jersey Journal. 29 January 1953. p. 31.