The Gazebo
( dir. George Marshall
)
United States of America (USA)
:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Avon Productions
,
1959
6396519
1959
single work
film/TV
crime
humour
A television script-writer, believing that he has murdered the man who is blackmailing him over nude photographs of his wife, buries the body under the gazebo, but still has to deal with the other three members of the man's gang.
Der Aussichtsturm
Erni Friedmann
(translator),
( dir. Wilm ten Haaf
)
Germany
:
Radio Bremen
,
1964
6397007
1964
single work
film/TV
humour
crime
An adaptation of Alec Coppel's play The Gazebo for West German television broadcaster Radio Bremen.
The Gazebo
Jo the Busy Body;
Jo
( dir. Jean Girault
)
France
:
Trianon Productions
,
1971
6397642
1971
single work
film/TV
crime
humour
The first film made from Claude Magnier's French adaptation of Alec Coppel's play The Gazebo: Magnier's script was filmed again in 1995 as Une Femme dans les Bras, Un Cadavre sur le Dos.
Une Femme dans les Bras, Un Cadavre sur le Dos
( dir. Daniel Colas
)
France
:
1995
6397211
1995
single work
film/TV
crime
humour
The second production of Claude Magnier's French adaptation of Alec Coppel's play The Gazebo, which had been previously filmed in 1971 as The Gazebo/Jo the Busy Body.
First produced at the Lyceum Theatre, New York City by the Playwrights Co., 12 December 1958.
Premiered in London at the Savoy Theatre on 29 March 1960, produced by Anthony Sharp.
London cast members included Ian Carmichael (Elliott Nash), Michael Goodliffe (Harlow Edison), Moira Lister (Nell Nash), Edith Macarthur (Mrs Chandler), J. Grant Anderson (Mr Thorpe), Philip Latham (The Dook), Robert Robinson (Louie), John Harvey (Ryan), and Michael Ellison (Druker).
Source:
'The Arts. Murder as a Joke', The Times, 30 March 1960, p.15.
