I Killed the Count

• Eric Maturin as Count Victor Mattoni
• Athole Stewart as Viscount Sorrington
• Alec Clunes as Detective Raines
• Anthony Hollesas Samuel Diamond
• Kathleen Harrison as Polly
• George Merritt as Divisional Inspector Davidson
• Meriel Forbes as Renee La Lune
• Barbara Francis as Louise Rogers
• Edward Petley as Johnson
• Hugh E. Wright as Mullet
• Anthony Bushell as Bernard K. Froy
• John Oxford as PC Clifton
• Frederick Cooper as Martin.

The play was produced on Broadway in 1942.{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=1212 |title=I Killed the Count|publisher=IBDB|accessdate=2015-10-19}}[https://archive.org/details/variety147-1942-09/page/n105/mode/1up?q=%22ben+lyon%22+%22i+killed+the+count%22 Review of 1942 Broadway production] at Variety

A novelisation of the play was published in 1939.[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C382051 Novel version] at AustLit

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The play was adapted for Australian radio in 1941. Max Afford did the adaptation.[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/8013921 1941 radio adaptation] at AustLit{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141580972 |title=I KILLED THE COUNT |newspaper=Barrier Daily Truth |volume=XXXIII |issue=9888 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=21 February 1941 |accessdate=11 June 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}

It was also adapted for BBC radio in 1938, 1945,[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/6432107 1945 Radio adaptation] at AustLit 1950 (with Jack Hulbert), and 1962.

A second adaptation I Killed the Count was made by the BBC in 1948.[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/6392130 1948 TV Adaptation] at AustLit It was directed by Ian Atkins.

• Freda Bamford as Polly
• Philip Leaver as Count Victor Mattoni
• Frederick Bradshaw as Detective Sergeant Raines
• Frank Foster as Detective Inspector Davidson
• Erik Chitty as Martin
• Diarmuid Kelly as P.C. Clifton
• Olga Edwardes as Louise Rogers
• Mildred Shay as Renee la Lune
• Val Norton as Samuel Diamond
• Howard Douglas as Johnson
• Arthur Goulett
• Guy Kingsley Poynter as Bernard K. Froy
• Bruce Belfrage as Viscount Sorrington

The play was adapted by ITV in 1956.[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/6392298 1956 TV Version] at AustLit The cast included Terence Alexander and Honor Blackman.

See I Killed the Count (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)

The play was adapted for Belgian TV in 1959.[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/6416049 1959 Belgian TV version] at AustLit

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• {{AustLit|8014656|I Killed the Count adaptations}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20210520013208/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ace535b I Killed the Count] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
• {{IMDb title|qid=Q5977780}}
• {{AusStage|work/6961|i=yes}}
• [http://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/motionpicturedai48unse_0478 Who is Guilty? review] at Motion Picture Daily
• [http://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/filmdaily78wids_0448 Who is Guilty? review at Film Daily]
• {{AustLit|C381827|Original play}}

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