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."

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