Such Men are Dangerous
- Summary
- 1954 BBC live studio production of Ashley Duke’s historical drama Such Men are Dangerous, which was an adaptation of Alfred Neumann’s German novel and play.
- Theatre play
- Such Men are Dangerous by Ashley Dukes (1885-1959) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 28 February 1954
- Time
- 8.10-10.10pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Rudolph Cartier
- Playwright
- Ashley Dukes (1885-1959)
- Original Story by
- Alfred Neumann
- Sets / Settings
- Stephen Taylor
- Cast
Garth Adams Bart Allison Peter Augustine Ivan Peter Bryant Alexander Andrew Crawford Stepan Peter Davey Greta Gynt Anna Ernest Hare General Valerian Suboff Edward Higgins Arthur Hosking Toby Lenon Arthur Mason Manny Michael Guy Mills Brian Moorehead Stephen Murray Count Pahlen Henry Oscar (1891-1969) Adjutant Stanley Platts Footman Donald Pleasance Chamberlain Charles Price Arnold Ridley English Doctor Derek Sydney Staff Captain Peter Roy Taylor Gregori Tcherniak Balalaika Player Donovan Ubadell Duke Plato Suboff André Van Gyseghem Chancellor Sydney Woolf Arthur Young Paul I
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 7.00pm on Thursday 4 March 1954.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; German drama; Russia (Soviet Union etc), as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Don’t ask me (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 4 March 1954, p. 396
- Title
- Radio Times, 26 February 1954 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and article by Rudolph Cartier, ‘Count Pahlen, Hero or Villain?', p. 14
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