Rope

Summary: BBC production of Patrick Hamilton’s play Rope.
Theatre play: Rope by Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'The play is set on the first floor of a house in Mayfair, London in 1929. The story, thought to be based loosely on the Leopold and Loeb murder case, concerns two young university students, Wyndham Brandon and Charles Granillo (whom Brandon calls "Granno"), who have murdered fellow student Ronald Kentley as an expression of their supposed intellectual superiority. At the beginning of the play they hide Kentley’s body in a chest. They proceed to host a party for his friends and family at which the chest containing his corpse is used to serve a buffet’ (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_%28play%29).
Production history: Produced at the Strand Theatre in London in on 3 March 1929; a few months later it transferred to the Masque Theatre in New York. Published by Constable in the same year.
Date of transmission: Wednesday 8 March 1939
Time: 9.05-10.35pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Dallas Bower (1907-1999)

Playwright

Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962)

Cast

Title: Radio Times, 3 March 1939 (Magazine)
Linking notes: discussed in an article by ‘The Scanner’ on p. 15; listing on p. 16

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