Warn That Man!
{{short description|1941 play}}
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| writer = Vernon Sylvaine
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| date of premiere = 15 December 1941
| original language = English
| place = New Theatre, Oxford
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| genre = Comedy thriller
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Warn That Man! is a 1941 comedy thriller play by the British writer Vernon Sylvaine. A comedy-thriller, its plot concerns an attempt to kidnap wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill from an English country house.
Having debuted at the New Theatre, Oxford, it then ran for 352 performances at the Garrick Theatre in the West End between December 1941 and September 1942. Amongst its cast were Gordon Harker, Veronica Rose, Basil Radford, Ethel Coleridge and Judy Kelly.Wearing p.57
Adaptation
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In 1943 it was turned into a film directed by Lawrence Huntington and made at Welwyn Studios. Gordon Harker reprised his role from the play while Raymond Lovell and Jean Kent also starred.
References
Bibliography
- Wearing, J.P. The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Category:British plays adapted into films
Category:Plays by Vernon Sylvaine
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