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The Long Silence: Directed by Robert Douglas. With Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Rennie, Phyllis Thaxter, Jim McMullan. A paralyzed woman is terrified her husband will learn she is recovering.
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- Crime, Drama, Horror
- Robert Douglas
- 1963-03-22
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"The Long Silence" was originally broadcast on 22/Mar/1963 as part of the first season of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
In an elaborate con, Ralph Mason marries a rich woman named Nora Cory for her money. Unfortunately his schemes goes awry when he murders one of her sons from a former marriage. As he attempts to make the death look like a suicide, he is caught by Nora as he is writing a fake suicide note. Nora collapses and falls into a paralyzed, yet conscious, st...
Directed by: 1. Robert Douglas Produced by: 1. Robert Douglas- producer 2. Gordon Hessler- associate producer Written by: 1. Charles Beaumont- teleplay 2. William D. Gordon- teleplay 3. Hilda Lawrence- story "Composition for Four Hands" Starring: 1. Alfred Hitchcock — cast: Himself - Host 2. Michael Rennie — cast: Ralph Manson 3. Phyllis Thaxter — ...
Nov 21, 1995 · As each leader announced his portion of the sentence, loud murmurs of approval went up from the throng of people assembled. When the last had finished pronouncing sentence, there was a long silence. No one uttered a word. No one moved. For suddenly, all knew that God had already served His sentence. Anon (written before Summer 1982)
Plot Summary. Indian feminist author Shashi Deshpande’s fifth novel, That Long Silence (1989), won the Sahitya Akademi Award, given by the Indian Academy of Arts and Letters to outstanding works written in any of India’s twenty-four major languages in 1990.
Jun 6, 2021 · Shashi Deshpande in her novel That Long Silence on one level presents the condition of the woman in Indian society-her role model and how the different types of woman act out their roles with their silence.
Because she knows he killed her son Robbie, he has to silence her before she possibly regains memory and speech. Her mental cries (voice-over) for help to the nurse and other son add to the suspense as we suffer with her desperate frustration.
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The Long Silence. Written by Gerard O’Donovan. Review by Ellen Keith. This is my kind of mystery. Set in Hollywood in 1922, it begins with “As soon as he wrestled Swann’s lifeless form into the roadster…”. No, protagonist Tom Collins isn’t a murderer.
