Showing posts with label Patrick Hamilton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patrick Hamilton. Show all posts

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Recommended reading - Gas Light, a play by Patrick Hamilton (1939):


Gas Light

a play by Patrick Hamilton.

Filmed as:
Gaslight (1940), directed by Thorold Dickinson.
Gaslight (1944), directed by George Cukor.

Published by Constable and Company Ltd.
First published 1939.
ASIN: B0DSZRVND4
Paperback.

Description:

This classic Victorian thriller was first produced in 1935. Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately driving his wife, Bella, insane. He has almost succeeded when help arrives in the form of a former detective, Rough, who believes Manningham to be a thief and murderer. Aided by Bella, Rough proves Manningham's true identity and finally Bella achieves a few moments of sweet revenge for the suffering inflicted on her.

Monday, March 17, 2025

Born on this day – Patrick Hamilton:


Patrick Hamilton


Writer

March 17, 1904 – September 23, 1962

Credits:

Books and plays:

Craven House (1926); Gas Light / aka Angel Street (1942); Hangover Square (1941); Impromptu in Moribundia (1939); John Brown's Body (1930); Monday Morning (1925); Money with Menaces (1939); Rope / aka Rope's End (1929); The Charmer / aka Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse (1953); The Duke in Darkness (1942); The Man Upstairs (1954); The Midnight Bell (1929); The Plains of Cement (1934); The Siege of Pleasure (1932); The Slaves of Solitude (1947); The West Pier (1952); Twopence Coloured (1928); Unknown Assailant (1955).

Movies and television:

Alta comedia (1971); Anatomie eines Unfalls (1965); Angel Street (1946); Au théâtre ce soir (1971); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1957); Bitter Harvest (1963); Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1953); Craven House (1950); De strop (1965 / 1968); Der Herr im ersten Stock (1957); Drohung bei Mondlicht (1987); El mundo del espectáculo (1979); Encounter (1952–1954); Gas Light (1939 / 1948); Gaslicht (1956 / 1960 / 1962 / 1977); Gaslight (1940 / 1944 / 1947 / 1958 / 1959); Gaslight / Podcast Series (2023); Gaslys (1957); Grande Teatro Tupi (1952–1958); Hangover Square (1945 / 2009); ITV Play of the Week / Angel Street; Rope's End (1957–1960); ITV Television Playhouse (1963); Köysi (1967); Luce a gas (1958 / 1966); Matinee Theatre (1958); Obsession (1966); Ponds Theater (1954); Rope (1939 / 1947 / 1948 / 1953 / 1957 / 2020); Saturday Playhouse (1958); Shell Presents (1959); Suspense (1963); Suspicion (1958); Teatro de misterio (1970); The Charmer (1987); The Duke in Darkness (1948 / 1957); The Ford Theatre Hour (1950); The Governess (1949 / 1957 / 1958); The Man Upstairs (1954); To the Public Danger (1948); To theatro tis Defteras (1981); Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (2005).

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Recommended reading - Rope: A play (1929):


Rope: A play

By Patrick Hamilton.

First published 1929.

a.k.a Rope’s End.

Filmed as Rope (1948), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Published by Constable.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0094508607
ISBN-13: 978-0094508606

Description:

Genre: Drama.

Characters: 6 males, 2 females.

Scenery: Interior.

For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the "fun of the thing," Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth's father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table. The horror and tension are worked up gradually; thunder grows outside, the guests leave, and we see the reactions of the two murderers, watched closely by the suspecting lame poet, Rupert Cadell. Finally, they break down under the strain and confess their guilt.