Sunday, November 12, 2017

TV review - "Lights Out - episode "Another Country"" (1952) **

Lights Out is a little remembered TV anthology - I'd never heard of it. It was based on a radio show and you can tell.

This runs for 22 minutes and is a simple effective story most notable for giving Yvonne de Carlo her TV debut. She's a mystery woman who turns up at a house attracted by Beethoven's music being played there by three people. It turns out she's a ghost of Beethoven's ex. That's not a bad little story - it does come across as silly here when we flash back to Beethoven.

It's very rickety. I didn't recognise any of the other actors. De Carlo acquits herself well - I was surprised she didn't do more ghost/horror stories, she suited them.

Occasionally an interesting name pops up on the credits for these and in this case its Richard Sylbert who did sets.

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