Pengallen's Bell

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"Pengallen's Bell"
Lights Out episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 10
Directed by Delbert Mann [1]
Written by Sumner Locke Elliott
Presented byJack La Rue
Original air dateNovember 14, 1949 (1949-11-14)
Running time30mins

Pengallen's Bell is a 1949 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was broadcast as an episode of the series Lights Out. [2] The script was an original of Elliott's and one of his first American television scripts. [3]

Contents

Premise

A housewife, Lucy, murders her husband, but it appears he might not be dead. Her housekeeper offers a supernatural explanation.

Cast

Reception

The St Louis Globe said "there's not enough left to the imagination." [4]

The Cincinnati Post wrote "I can recommend Lights Out for the chilling of the blood." [5]

References

  1. ↑ Pengallen's Bell at Delbert Mann Collection
  2. ↑ Ross reports on television programming. 1949. p. 5.
  3. ↑ "MUSIC AND THE THEATRE "Radio Is Doomed"As "Rusty Bugles" Author Sees It". The Sunday Herald (Sydney) . No. 50. New South Wales, Australia. 8 January 1950. p. 6 (Features). Retrieved 24 September 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Dial side street". St. Louis Globe-Democrat December 1949. p. 7.
  5. ↑ "Lights Out". The Cincinnati Post. 17 November 1949. p. 38.
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