John Justin in Rope
A thriller by Patrick Hamilton
Arranged for broadcasting by RAYMOND RAIKES
The scene is a room of the house in Mayfair shared by Brandon and Granillo.
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
From Patrick Hamilton's preface to the play (1929): ' Nearly all of us at some time are animated by the fancy that we could write a good " thriller " and that is what I have set out to do. And what 1 wish to reaffirm is that it is a thriller, a thriller all the time. and nothing but a thriller ... But when Rope is accused of delving into morbid psychologies and so forth, of being anything but a sheer thriller, of being anything but a De Quinceyish essay in the macabre, I am at a wretched loss....'