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Spellbound (1962 TV play)

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"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

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Reception

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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

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