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]

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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.