Peril at End House is a radio version, based on the Arnold Ridley play rather than the novel. It was presented on the BBC Home Service on Saturday, May 29, 1948 from 9.20 to 10.45pm as part of the Saturday Night Theatre strand. The play was adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh, produced by William Hughes and starred Austin Trevor who had appeared in three films in the 1930s as Poirot: Alibi (1931), Black Coffee (1931) and Lord Edgware Dies (1934). Ian Fleming also reprised his role as Hastings from the stage version. The broadcast was repeated on Monday, May 31, 1948 on the Light Programme at 4.15pm as part of Monday Matinée.
Cast[]
- Austin Trevor as Hercule Poirot
- Donald Bisset as Henry
- Graeme Muir as Terry Ord
- Althea Parker as Frances Rice
- Wilfred Fletcher as a Stranger
- Ian Fleming as Captain Hastings
- Jenny Lovelace as 'Nick' Buckley
- William Senior as Commander Challenger
- William Collins as Stanley Croft
- Josephine Middleton as Ellen
- Meg Simmons as Maggie Buckley
- Brian Oulton as Charles Vyse
- May Hallatt as Mrs Croft
- Howieson Culff as Inspector Weston
- Joan Clement Scott as Dr. Helen Graham
- Joan Hart as Janet Buckley