Elegy (The Philco Television Playhouse)

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"Elegy"
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]

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.
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