y separately published work icon A Man about a Dog single work   novel   thriller   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1947... 1947 A Man about a Dog
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Obsession The Hidden Room Alec Coppel , ( dir. Edward Dmytryk ) United Kingdom (UK) : Independent Sovereign Films , 1949 6393525 1949 single work film/TV crime thriller

'Melodrama of a jealous husband who discovers his wife's infidelity and keeps the lover in a cellar planning to murder him, but the plot is discovered in time.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44692). (Sighted: 3/9/2013)

A Man about a Dog Alec Coppel , 1949 single work drama crime thriller

A contemporary review of the play offers the following synopsis:

'Dr, Riordan is undoubtedly a far-seeing murderer, but his method–which is to tether his victim in a secret dungeon until the disappearance has been taken for granted, quietly poison him, and dissolve away the remains–has one big and perhaps fatal drawback for the stage. There is nothing for the doctor to do in the necessary time of waiting but lecture. Dr Riordan lectures his bearded Monte Christo until we begin to fear he may die untimely of sheer ennui. He survives, but the gallery has not his patience, and the clumsily written last act runs a perilous course.'

Source:

'Princes Theatre. "A Man about a Dog" by Alec Coppel', The Times, 18 May 1949, p.7.

form y separately published work icon A Man about A Dog Alvin Rakoff , England : ITV Anglia Television , 1972 6397476 1972 single work film/TV crime thriller

An adaptation of Alec Coppel's novel A Man about A Dog, which had been previously filmed as Obsession in 1949.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Harrap ,
      1947 .
      Extent: 192p.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Doubleday ,
      1947 .
      Alternative title: Over the Line
      Extent: 191p.
Alternative title: Angaende Hunden
Language: Swedish

Works about this Work

Dogs, Duchesses and Death H. J. Hamlyn , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , March vol. 2 no. 9 1948; (p. 475-476)

— Review of A Man about a Dog Alec Coppel , 1947 single work novel
Dogs, Duchesses and Death H. J. Hamlyn , 1948 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal , March vol. 2 no. 9 1948; (p. 475-476)

— Review of A Man about a Dog Alec Coppel , 1947 single work novel
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