Murder in Slow Motion

Summary

1958 ABC Television production for ITV of an adaptation for television of the French play Murder in Slow Motion by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.

Theatre play

Murder in Slow Motion by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac [more information]

Play synopsis

'A young wife tries to make her famous husband give up motor racing during the international Grand Prix at Le Mans. His refusal sets off a chain reaction of jealousy and violence, with his brother as the third corner of the triangle’ (TV Times, 3 October 1958, p. 25).

Production history

Both the TV Times and the 1959 The Armchair Theatre book attest that this is a stage play, but further work is needed to locate the details of its stage history.

Date of transmission

Sunday 5 October 1958

Time

10.05-11.10pm

Series

Armchair Theatre

Channel

ITV

Production company

ABC Television (1955-1968)

Credits

Director

John Nelson Burton

Producer

Sydney Newman (1917-1997)

Playwright

Pierre Boileau

Playwright

Thomas Narcejac

Adapted for Television by

Dail Ambler

Adapted for Television by

Anthony Juan Skene

Designer

Assheton Gorton

Cast

Patrick Blackwell	O’Daly
Eddie Byrne	Raymond Sibley
Patrick Carter	First Mechanic
André Charise	A Doctor
Richard Coleman	Patrick Sibley
Harry Landis	Press Photographer
Daniel Moynihan	Bill Beamish
Elizabeth Sellars	Jennifer Sibley
Philip Stewart	Second Mechanic

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

France, as theme or setting; French drama; motor racing

Print sources

Title

The Armchair Theatre: How to Write, Design, Direct, Act and Enjoy Television Plays (Book)

Reference

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959

Linking notes

pp. 110-11

Title

TV Times, 3 October 1958 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 25; article, p. 20