Spellbound (1962 TV play)

"Spellbound (1962 TV play)"
Theatre '62 episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 5
Directed byPaul Bogart
Written bySumner Locke Elliott
Based onscreenplay by Ben Hecht
novel by Francis Beeding
Original air dateFebruary 11, 1962 (1962-02-11)
Running time60 mins

Spellbound is a 1962 American television play which adapted the 1945 feature film of the same name.

Cast

Reception

Variety claimed the adaptation "was so abbreviated that the keen character development and surprise of the Hecht screenplay were lost."[1] Newsday called it "an unsatisfactory shadow of the earlier film."[2]

References

  1. ^ "Spellbound". Variety. 14 February 1962. p. 36.
  2. ^ "On television". Newsday (Suffolk Edition). 12 February 1962. p. 50.