I Killed the Count is a 1937 play by Alec Coppel. Its success launched Coppel's career.Stephen Vagg, "Alec Coppel : Australian playwright and survivor", Australasian Drama Studies, 56, April 2010, 219-232
1937 London production Cast Eric Maturin as Count Victor Mattoni Athole Stewart as Viscount Sorrington Alec Clunes as Detective Raines Anthony Hollesas Samuel Diamond Kathleen Harrison as Polly George Merritt as Divisional Inspector Davidson Meriel Forbes as Renee La Lune Barbara Francis as Louise Rogers Edward Petley as Johnson Hugh E. Wright as Mullet Anthony Bushell as Bernard K. Froy John Oxford as PC Clifton Frederick Cooper as Martin.
1942 Broadway production
The play was produced on Broadway in 1942.Review of 1942 Broadway production at Variety
1939 novelisation A novelisation of the play was published in 1939.Novel version at AustLit
1939 film adaptation
Radio adaptations
The play was adapted for Australian radio in 1941. Max Afford did the adaptation.1941 radio adaptation at AustLit
It was also adapted for BBC radio in 1938, 1945,1945 Radio adaptation at AustLit 1950 (with Jack Hulbert), and 1962.
1948 BBC TV adaptation A second adaptation I Killed the Count was made by the BBC in 1948.1948 TV Adaptation at AustLit It was directed by Ian Atkins. Freda Bamford as Polly Philip Leaver as Count Victor Mattoni Frederick Bradshaw as Detective Sergeant Raines Frank Foster as Detective Inspector Davidson Erik Chitty as Martin Diarmuid Kelly as P.C. Clifton Olga Edwardes as Louise Rogers Mildred Shay as Renee la Lune Val Norton as Samuel Diamond Howard Douglas as Johnson Arthur Goulett Guy Kingsley Poynter as Bernard K. Froy Bruce Belfrage as Viscount Sorrington
1956 ITV TV adaptation The play was adapted by ITV in 1956.1956 TV Version at AustLit The cast included Terence Alexander and Honor Blackman.
1957 Alfred Hitchcock Presents version See I Killed the Count (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)
1959 Belgian TV version The play was adapted for Belgian TV in 1959.1959 Belgian TV version at AustLit
References
External links
I Killed the Count at the British Film Institute
Who is Guilty? review at Motion Picture Daily Who is Guilty? review at Film Daily