Keyhole (Playwrights '56)
"Keyhole" is a 1956 American television play written by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was an episode of Playwrights '56 and was directed by Fred Coe better known as a producer. The play was more experimental than usual, using a narrator device who would address the audience.
The story was based on a real 1889 British trial.
Premise
Helen Cartwright is accused of murdering her husband.Cast
- Norman Barrs as Mr. White
- Lee Grant as Helen Cartwright
- Maureen Hurley as Ivy Rumble
- John Mackwood as Ernest Parker
- E.G. Marshall
- John Suttong
Reception
Variety called it "nothing if not a vigorous vehicle for displaying a director’s approach to staging a live show in a manner that compared favorably with the “liquid assets” of the motion, picture."The Philadelphia Inquirer said "the whole thing seemed like a one set stage play."