Rope - Thriller By Patrick Hamilton - Best Plays of the New York Stage

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" I have killed for the sake of killing... yet I am alive"

The play is set on the first floor of a house in Mayfair, London in 1929. The story, thought to be based loosely on the Leopold and Loeb murder case in 1924, concerns two young university students, Wyndham Brandon and Charles Granillo (whom Brandon calls "Granno"), who have murdered fellow student Ronald Kentley as an expression of their supposed intellectual superiority. At the beginning of the play, they hide Kentley's body in a chest.

Rope, retitled Rope's End for its American release, is a 1929 British play by Patrick Hamilton. In formal terms, it is a well-made play with a three-act dramatic structure that adheres to the classical unities. Its action is continuous, punctuated only by the curtain fall at the end of each act.

Originally Broadcast 11/30/1952
Episode 22

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