Sumner Locke Elliott

 Credits

*Wicked is the Vine, The Crater 

*Wicked is the Vine (30 March 1949)**

*Of Human Bondage (12 Nov 1949) - st Charlton Heston.  See complete copy here.

*Pengallen's Ball (14 Nov 1949) - script at Delbert Mann papers see here

*Jane Eyre (12 Dec 1949) - After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter. St Charlton Heston dir Franklin Schaeffner

*Studio One - Willow Cabin (27 Feb 1950) -  A young British actress falls in love with a married American surgeon and devotes herself to his happiness.

*The Passionate Pilgrim (2 Oct 1950) - The story of Sister Elizabeth Wheeler, who accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea to help the British wounded.

*Little Women: Meg's Story (18 Dec 1950) - review here.

*Little Women: Jo's Story (25 Dec 1950) - see complete copy here. Review here.

*The Devil in Velvet (7 Jan 1952) - A professor goes back in time to the 17th Century to save a woman from poisoning

*Dusty Portrait (9 Mar 1952) - A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

*Miss Hargreave (24 Mar 1952) - Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.

*We Were Children (4 May 1952) - A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion. Review here.

*The Thin Air (21 Sept 1952) - a young girl's disappearance on the night of her engagement party leads investigators and her fiancee on a long perplexing case that ends in a London pub 24 years later. 

*Elegy (25 Jan 1953) - A young writer hears that his friend has died so he writes an "Elegy - A Tribute to Larry" that brings him fame and fortune. A year later his friend turns up very much alive and with plans for blackmail.. 

*Dusty Portrait (1953) commercial radio in Oz

*Wish on the Moon (29 Mar 1953) - A chronicle of two women-friends whose lives take unexpected turns.

*Before I Wake (31 May 1953).

*The Shadow of a Man (20 Jul 1953) - After the death of his mother, a young man begins his journey to maturity. His grief opens his eyes not only to himself but to his stepfather whom he's always disliked  

*Fade Out (23 Aug 1953).  Review here. Another review is here.

*The Girl with the Stop Watch (25 Oct 1953). A woman of 30 is preoccupied with her work as a television script writer. Review here

*A Moment of Panic (3 Jan 1954) - A man is tortured by guilt after failing to report a hit-and-run accident..

*Buy Me Blue Ribbons (28 Feb 1954) - dir Arthur Penn. Review is here.

Time Bomb (3 Oct 1954) - A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder..

*The King and Mrs Candle (18 Apr 1954) - The King of Brandovia is overthrown and exiled. He winds up in America, where he gets a job as a dancing instructor.Dir Arthur Penn.

*The Chase (30 Nov 1954) - Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare. (Based on film). 

*Run Girl Run (26 Dec 1954) - An aspiring young actress loses her big chance on Broadway and returns home. Her mother shows why she may have failed and inspires her to try again. Review here.

*The Women (7 Feb 1955) - review here.

*Peter Pan (7 Mar 1955) - review here.

*Beloved Stranger (10 Apr 1955) - No fewer than three women could be the 'beloved stranger'. One of these three persons is to inherit the possessions from a sea captain.

*The King and Mrs Candle (22 Aug 1955) - as above but with songs. Review here.

*Daisy Daisy (22 Nov 1955)** - A minor novelist becomes a literary sensation when he pretends that the flimsy story he wrote in one night as really the diary of a simple Australian girl's first love

*1956 Invisible Circus on ABC radio

*The Crater (1956) - ABC radio  

*Friday the 13th (13 Jan 1956)

*Company Manners (19 Jan 1956) - Company rules dominate the private lives of a young couple who live in a housing development. Complications result when they learn that one rule forbids children

*Wish on the Moon (2 Feb 1956)

*You Me and the Gatepost (10 Apr 1956) - In this comedy of manners which spoofs the New York society crowd, a wealthy, aging socialite champions a play by an untalented but likable boy from Utah. Review here.

*Keyhole (22 May 1956) - In this courtroom drama, a defense act allows the defendant to testify under oath at their own trial.  Review here.

*Buy Me Blue Ribbons (19 Jun 1956) - British TV version review is here 

*Love at Fourth Sight (24 Jan 1957) - A young bachelor has a recurring dream about a girl named Pat who calls to him and then disappears. His mother is startled when he claims to have actually found the girl. Dir Robert Mulligan. 

*Whereabouts Unknown (26 Feb 1957) - n 1920 San Franciscan Howard Crane becomes engaged to the proper Louise Madden. During the party to announce their betrothal Louise mysteriously disappears, leaving no trace.

*A Babe in the Woods (13 May 1957) - A tall handsome and extremely naive young man from the Midwest arrives in New York and is bewildered by the series of situations he stumbles into. Review here. Another review here.

*Mrs Gilling and the Skyscraper (9 Jun 1957) - An elderly lady tries to save her apartment from the owners of her building who intend to demolish it to make way for a skyscraper.

*Laughing Willow (3 Feb 1958) - Belinda is one of the popular bachelor girls called on when guest lists are made up for Washington, D.C. parties. However, beneath her gaiety, Belinda fears a life of loneliness, for she has frightened away suitors by her eagerness to marry.  Review here.

*We Haven't Seen Her Lately (20 Aug 1958) - Elderly Aunt Violet lets it be known that she's particularly afraid of one of her heirs, who she thinks is greedy enough to do away with her to get her money.  

*The Count of Monte Cristo (28 Oct 1958) - review here. Dir Sidney Lumet.

*The Winslow Boy (13 Nov 1958)- review here.

*The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (26 Nov 1959) (US TV) **

** I heard you calling me (1961 TV) - see here

*Prisoner of Zenda (Du Point) (18 Jan 1961) 


Golden Age of Television p 32

Golden Age of Television p 128

Variety 22 Sept 1948


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