Rope: A play
Rope: A play
by Patrick Hamilton.
by Patrick Hamilton.
First published 1929.
a.k.a. Rope’s End.
a.k.a. Rope’s End.
Filmed as Rope (1948), directed by Alfred
Hitchcock.
Published by Constable.
Paperback.
Published by Constable.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0094508607
ISBN-13: 978-0094508606
ISBN-13: 978-0094508606
Description:
Genre: Drama.
Characters: 6 males, 2 females.
Scenery: Interior.
For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and
the "fun of the thing," Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak-minded
friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow
undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the
body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few
acquaintances, including the dead youth's father, to a party, the chest with
its gruesome contents serving as a supper table. The horror and tension are
worked up gradually; thunder grows outside, the guests leave, and we see the
reactions of the two murderers, watched closely by the suspecting lame poet,
Rupert Cadell. Finally, they break down under the strain and confess their
guilt.