Cirrus@Austlit

'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 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.

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