Pengallen's Bell

"Pengallen's Bell"
Lights Out episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 10
Directed byDelbert Mann[1]
Written bySumner Locke Elliott
Presented byJack La Rue
Original air dateNovember 14, 1949 (1949-11-14)
Running time30mins

Pengallen's Bell is a 1949 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was broadcast as an episode of the series Lights Out.[2] The script was an original of Elliott's and one of his first American television scripts.[3]

Premise

A housewife, Lucy, murders her husband, but it appears he might not be dead. Her housekeeper offers a supernatural explanation.

Cast

  • Neva Patterson
  • Allan Frank
  • Grant Gordon
  • Zolya Talma
  • Al Patterson
  • Dorrit Kelton

Reception

The St Louis Globe said "there's not enough left to the imagination."[4]

The Cincinnati Post wrote "I can recommend Lights Out for the chilling of the blood."[5]

References

  1. ^ Pengallen's Bell at Delbert Mann Collection
  2. ^ Ross reports on television programming. 1949. p. 5.
  3. ^ "MUSIC AND THE THEATRE "Radio Is Doomed"As "Rusty Bugles" Author Sees It". The Sunday Herald (Sydney). No. 50. New South Wales, Australia. 8 January 1950. p. 6 (Features). Retrieved 24 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Dial side street". St. Louis Globe-Democrat December 1949. p. 7.
  5. ^ "Lights Out". The Cincinnati Post. 17 November 1949. p. 38.