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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.
