Small House of Everything

Small House of Everything

Thursday, October 19, 2017

ESCAPE: ANCIENT SORCERIES

The February 15, 1948 episode of Escape presented an adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's classic horror story "Ancient Sorceries."  Paul Frees stars as Arthur Llewellyn, a man whom people recognize in a Welsh town where he had never been before.  Also featured are Kay Brinker, Ann Morrison, and -- playing double duty on this show as both a cast member and the show's announcer -- William Conrad.  Produced by William N. Robson, directed by Norman McDonnell, and adapted by Les Crutchfield, the story was considerably shortened and altered to fit into Escape's half hour format.

Time to shiver:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLywnQsj9g&index=100&list=PLYO82KWcAA-tz9AxyxFCKriALtLQA2u_V


For those interested in Blackwood's original story, it was the second story in his collection John Silence, Physician Extraordinay, at the link below:


http://www.gutenberg.org/files/49222/49222-h/49222-h.htm

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