Elegy (TV play)

"**Elegy (TV play)**"
"Elegy (TV play)"
The Philco Television Playhouse episode
Episode no.	Season 5; Episode 12
Directed by	Delbert Mann
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Based on	story by Anthony Boucher
Original air date	January 25, 1953
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Elegy is a 1953 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott.^[1]

Premise

A writer, Alan Hanford, pens an elegy for a deceased friend, Larry Winters. One year later Larry turns up to blackmail Alan.

Cast

Charlton Heston as Larry Winters
William Prince as Alan Hanford
Lydia Clarke
Constance Ford

Reception

The Tablet found it "trying".^[2] The Journal called it "a splendid story, thrillingly enacted."^[3]

References

^ "Heston Portrays subject of 'Elegy'". The Portsmouth Star. 25 January 1953. p. 19.
^ "The arts on TV". The Tablet. 31 January 1953. p. 17.
^ "TV and radio". The Jersey Journal. 29 January 1953. p. 31.

External links

Elegy at IMDb

[1] "Heston Portrays subject of 'Elegy'". The Portsmouth Star. 25 January 1953. p. 19.

[2] "The arts on TV". The Tablet. 31 January 1953. p. 17.

[3] "TV and radio". The Jersey Journal. 29 January 1953. p. 31.

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v t e Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
Novels	Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) Some Doves and Pythons (1966) Edens Lost (1969) The Man Who Got Away (1972) Going (1975) Water Under the Bridge (1977) Signs of Life (1981) About Tilly Beamis (1984) Waiting for Childhood (1987) Fairyland (1990) Radio Days (1993)
Plays	The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937) Interval (1939) The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940) Goodbye to the Music (1942) Your Obedient Servant (1943) The Invisible Circus (1946) Wicked Is the Vine (1948) Rusty Bugles (1948) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951) John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
TV scripts	Wicked Is the Vine (1949) The Crater (1949) Pengallen's Bell (1949) Of Human Bondage (1949) Jane Eyre (1949) The Willow Cabin (1950) The Passionate Pilgrim (1950) The Shadow of a Man (1950) Little Women (1950) The Rose Garden (1951) The Devil in Velvet (1952) The Thin Air (1952) Dusty Portrait (1952) Miss Hargreaves (1952) We Were Children (1952) Elegy (1953) Wish on the Moon (1953) Before I Wake (1953) The Shadow of a Man (1953) The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Moment of Panic (1954) Friday the 13th (1954) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1954) Time Bomb (1954) Run Girl Run (1954) The Women (1955) Beloved Stranger (1955) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Peter Pan (1955) Daisy, Daisy (1955) You and Me and the Gatepost (1956) Keyhole (1956) Company Manners (1956) Peter Pan (1956) Love at Fourth Sight (1957) Whereabouts Unknown (1957) Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957) Babe in the Woods (1957) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) The Winslow Boy (1958) We Haven't Seen Her Lately (1958) The Laughing Willow (1958) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US) Peter Pan (1960) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust) The Prisoner of Zenda (1961) Notorious (1961) Spellbound (1962)
Adaptations	Rusty Bugles (1965) Water Under the Bridge (1980) Rusty Bugles (1981) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
Radio	Crazy Family (1939) Tradesman's Entrance (1941) Jezebel's Daughter (1941) Grand City (1942) Girl of the Ballet (1942) The Man in the Dark (1944) The Army Hour (1944) Lily Parker (1947) Scarlet Rhapsody (1947) Wicked Is the Vine (1947) Ride a Cock Horse (1948) The Crater (1948) The Rose Garden (1950) Dusty Portrait (1953) The Thin Air (1954) We Were Children (1954) Friday the 13th (1955)

"Elegy (TV play)"
The Philco Television Playhouse episode
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 12
Directed by	Delbert Mann
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Based on	story by Anthony Boucher
Original air date	January 25, 1953 (1953-01-25)
List of episodes