Portrait In Black

Portrait In Black

Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts

Portrait In Black

Portrait In Black

Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts

Overview

Tannis, a shipowner's widow, is in love with the doctor who helped kill her husband, and is loved by a lawyer who manages her husband's estate. That murder is out and the murderers are on the loose is apparent from the shocking second when the first scene curtain descends on the confession. An anonymous letter informs the guilty pair that the crime is known. To protect themselves they must commit another murder, but the second crime fails to bring them security and the anguished couple feel the grip of destiny tightening on them until the explosive denouement in which their nemesis is finally unmasked. The action of the play is breathlessly uphill, racing into peaks of suspense, terror, discovery, and confession. There is a young love story between the dead man's daughter and a labor organizer who is fighting the shipline. All the parts supplement each other and sum up to a compelling totality.

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Cautions

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Authors

Author

Ivan Goff

Ben Roberts

SIDNEY SHELDON and BEN ROBERTS met in Los Angeles, when they both lived in the same boarding house. The two writers soon began collaborating on screenplays: B-movie credits include South of Panama, Gambling Daughters (both 1941) and Fly-By-Night (1942). After World War II, Sh ...

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