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Night Must Fall

Screen Guild Theater · July 24, 1944 · 29 min · 3,961 words

The transcript of “Night Must Fall”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast July 24, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Guild Theater plays Screen Guild Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. Lady Esther Screen Guild Play Tonight, Night Must Fall. The starring players...

This is James Kagnie. This is Roden Iredy Cam. And this is Mae Whitty. Tonight Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in Emlyn Williams, fascinating study of a psychopathic mind. Night Must Fall. Adapted from the Metro-Goulren mayor picture.

It stars Rosemary De Camp as Olivia. James Cagney as Danny and a day may hoodie as Mrs. Bramson the lady Esther screenguild players in night must fall I can still hear him sometimes. I can still hear him whistling that tune It's only in my mind. I know

But I'm like a child. It's been left alone in the dark frightened terrified Did I think I'm going mad? I know now that it began for me with that little paragraph in our local paper a A tiny item that didn't concern me, but somehow I never knew why.

I was secretly disturbed. I remember that I turned to my aunt and said, Aren't they the paper say a woman has disappeared from the summer hotel? Mrs. Chalfont. Mrs. Chalfont, what's that to us? We don't know her, do we?

No, but suppose something's happened to us, suppose she's been... Now you're going to say she's murdered, rubbish. I'd have another one of those chocolates. My aunt was like that. I was sharp and irritable. She wasn't well, you see. At least she'd convinced herself she wasn't.

A professional invalid who loved her wheelchair. She'd been in a horrible mood that morning. Dora the maid had broken several cups. That had meant a scolding, of course, and a threat of dismissal. The girl had cried and said she hadn't been herself.

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