Whistling in the Dark

Summary

1959 BBC Television production of the comedy-thriller play Whistling in the Dark by Edward Childs Carpenter and Laurence Gross.

Theatre play

Whistling in the Dark by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter [more information]

Play synopsis

The plot concerns a mystery writer whose scheme for a perfect murder comes to the attention of a gangster who plans to use it.

Production history

Performed on Broadway in 1932-33 and filmed in 1933. Published: London, Samuel French, 1933.

Date of transmission

Sunday 16 August 1959

Time

8.30-9.45pm

Series

Sunday-Night Theatre

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

James Bould

Playwright

Edward Childs Carpenter

Playwright

Laurence Gross

Designer

James Bould

Cast

Edwin Brown	Benny
Petra Davies	Toby Van Buren
William Forbes	Cap O’Rorke
John Phillips	Jacob Dillon
J. Mark Roberts	Slim Scanlon
Peter Sallis	Wallace Porter
Ann Tirard	Hilda
Ralph Tovey	Police Sergeant
Dervis Ward	Joe Salvatore
Jerold Wells	Charlie Shaw
Vic Wise	Herman Lefowitz

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

American drama; comedy; mystery; thriller

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 14 August 1959 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article and listing, pp. 8 and 9

Title

To-Day’s TV and Radio (Newspaper listing)

Reference

The Observer, 16 August 1959, p. 13