Keyhole (Playwrights '56)

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"Keyhole"
Playwrights '56 episode
Episode no.	Season 1
Directed by	Fred Coe
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	May 22, 1956 (1956-05-22)

"Keyhole" is a 1956 American television play written by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was an episode of Playwrights '56 and was directed by Fred Coe better known as a producer.^[1] The play was more experimental than usual, using a narrator device who would address the audience.^[2]^[3]

The story was based on a real 1889 British trial.^[1]

Premise

Helen Cartwright is accused of murdering her husband.

Cast

Norman Barrs as Mr. White
Lee Grant as Helen Cartwright
Maureen Hurley as Ivy Rumble
John Mackwood as Ernest Parker
E.G. Marshall
John Suttong

Reception

Variety called it "nothing if not a vigorous vehicle for displaying a director’s approach to staging a live show in a manner that compared favorably with the “liquid assets” of the motion, picture."^[1]

The Philadelphia Inquirer said "the whole thing seemed like a one set stage play."^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Playwrights 56". Variety. 30 May 1956. p. 23.
^ "Coe wants more experimenting". Newsday (Nassau Edition). 22 May 1956. p. 55.
^ "Tuesday, May 22" (PDF). Ross Reports on Television. May 20, 1956. p. B. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
^ "Screening TV". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 23 May 1956. p. 35.

External links

"Keyhole" at IMDb

v t e Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
Novels	Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) Some Doves and Pythons (1966) Edens Lost (1969) The Man Who Got Away (1972) Going (1975) Water Under the Bridge (1977) Signs of Life (1981) About Tilly Beamis (1984) Waiting for Childhood (1987) Fairyland (1990) Radio Days (1993)
Plays	The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937) Interval (1939) The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940) Goodbye to the Music (1942) Your Obedient Servant (1943) The Invisible Circus (1946) Wicked Is the Vine (1948) Rusty Bugles (1948) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951) John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
TV scripts	Wicked Is the Vine (1949) The Crater (1949) Pengallen's Bell (1949) Of Human Bondage (1949) Jane Eyre (1949) The Willow Cabin (1950) The Passionate Pilgrim (1950) The Shadow of a Man (1950) Little Women (1950) The Rose Garden (1951) The Devil in Velvet (1952) The Thin Air (1952) Dusty Portrait (1952) Miss Hargreaves (1952) We Were Children (1952) Elegy (1953) Wish on the Moon (1953) Before I Wake (1953) The Shadow of a Man (1953) The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Moment of Panic (1954) Friday the 13th (1954) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1954) Time Bomb (1954) Run Girl Run (1954) The Women (1955) Beloved Stranger (1955) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Peter Pan (1955) Daisy, Daisy (1955) You and Me and the Gatepost (1956) Keyhole (1956) Company Manners (1956) Peter Pan (1956) Love at Fourth Sight (1957) Whereabouts Unknown (1957) Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957) Babe in the Woods (1957) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) The Winslow Boy (1958) We Haven't Seen Her Lately (1958) The Laughing Willow (1958) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US) Peter Pan (1960) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust) The Prisoner of Zenda (1961) Notorious (1961) Spellbound (1962)
Adaptations	Rusty Bugles (1965) Water Under the Bridge (1980) Rusty Bugles (1981) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
Radio	Crazy Family (1939) Tradesman's Entrance (1941) Jezebel's Daughter (1941) Grand City (1942) Girl of the Ballet (1942) The Man in the Dark (1944) The Army Hour (1944) Lily Parker (1947) Scarlet Rhapsody (1947) Wicked Is the Vine (1947) Ride a Cock Horse (1948) The Crater (1948) The Rose Garden (1950) Dusty Portrait (1953) The Thin Air (1954) We Were Children (1954) Friday the 13th (1955)

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