FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE – The Listener – 1956
This is an episode from "Four Star Playhouse". This anthology series ran for 130 episodes between 1952 and 1956. The series was produced by, Dick Powell, David Niven, Ida Lupino and Charles Boyer. It was a popular series that drew many well-known Hollywood types as guest stars. This is the 105th episode of the series.
Ida Lupino headlines this Cornell Woolrich penned episode. Lupino has had enough of her loveless marriage to Walter Coy. She enlists the help of her just out of prison, younger brother, Richard Lupino. They plan of gassing dear hubby at night while he sleeps.
Also in the house is Coy's father, Ralph Moody. Moody is an invalid laid up from a stroke. He cannot move or speak. The plan goes smooth and by the numbers. The Police write it off as an accident with a faulty water heater. Now all Lupino needs to do is wait for the insurance payoff.
Needless to say that would be too simple. Moody had overheard Lupino and her brother plotting to kill his son. He just has no way to tell anyone. That is till Lupino hires a nurse to look after Moody. The nurse, Nan Boardman soon discovers that Moody can communicate using his eyes.
Boardman realizes something is amiss with the picture and contacts the Police. The boys in blue show up just as Miss Lupino decides she has had enough of the old man as well. Both Lupinos are grabbed up for a date with judge and jury.
The episode was directed by Roy Kellino. Kellino was an up and coming director who died at age 44 just a few months after making this episode. The d of p was big screen regular, George Diskant. Diskant is well known to film noir fans as the cinematographer on, RIFF-RAFF, DESPERATE, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, PORT OF NEW YORK, BEWARE MY LOVELY, K.C.C., THE RACKET, BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN, THE NARROW MARGIN and ON DANGEROUS GROUND.
Actor Richard Lupino was the second cousin of the episode lead, Ida.
This is an episode from "Four Star Playhouse". This anthology series ran for 130 episodes between 1952 and 1956. The series was produced by, Dick Powell, David Niven, Ida Lupino and Charles Boyer. It was a popular series that drew many well-known Hollywood types as guest stars. This is the 105th episode of the series.
Ida Lupino headlines this Cornell Woolrich penned episode. Lupino has had enough of her loveless marriage to Walter Coy. She enlists the help of her just out of prison, younger brother, Richard Lupino. They plan of gassing dear hubby at night while he sleeps.
Also in the house is Coy's father, Ralph Moody. Moody is an invalid laid up from a stroke. He cannot move or speak. The plan goes smooth and by the numbers. The Police write it off as an accident with a faulty water heater. Now all Lupino needs to do is wait for the insurance payoff.
Needless to say that would be too simple. Moody had overheard Lupino and her brother plotting to kill his son. He just has no way to tell anyone. That is till Lupino hires a nurse to look after Moody. The nurse, Nan Boardman soon discovers that Moody can communicate using his eyes.
Boardman realizes something is amiss with the picture and contacts the Police. The boys in blue show up just as Miss Lupino decides she has had enough of the old man as well. Both Lupinos are grabbed up for a date with judge and jury.
The episode was directed by Roy Kellino. Kellino was an up and coming director who died at age 44 just a few months after making this episode. The d of p was big screen regular, George Diskant. Diskant is well known to film noir fans as the cinematographer on, RIFF-RAFF, DESPERATE, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, PORT OF NEW YORK, BEWARE MY LOVELY, K.C.C., THE RACKET, BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN, THE NARROW MARGIN and ON DANGEROUS GROUND.
Actor Richard Lupino was the second cousin of the episode lead, Ida.
