The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - November 12, 1939 - 00:55:02 - 25.1 MB

On November 12, 1939, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater Players present
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. Adapted by Howard Koch and 
Wyllis Cooper. Music by Bernard Herrmann. Directed by Orson Welles. Cast:
Orson Welles (Hercule Poirot, Dr. James Sheppard), Edna May Oliver (Caroline
Sheppard), Alan Napier (Roger Ackroyd), Brenda Forbes (Mrs. Ackroyd), Mary
Taylor (Flora), George Coulouris (Inspector Hempstead), Ray Collins (Mr.
Raymond), Everett Sloane (Parker, the butler). Welles interviews Edna May 
Oliver following the play. (Alan Napier, pictured above, later played Bruce
Wayne's butler Alfred in the 60s Batman TV series.)

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was published in 1926. Adapted as a play by Michael
Morton and retitled Alibi, it opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London
in May, 1928, and ran for 250 performances with Charles Laughton in the role
of Hercule Poirot. A British movie version was produced in 1931, again under
the title Alibi, with Austin Trevor as Poirot. Laughton took the play to
Broadway in 1932, starring and directing, but it failed after 24 performances.
ITV produced a feature-length adaptation of The Murder of David Ackroyd for
television in 2000, with David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.

"Howard Haycraft, in his seminal 1941 work, Murder for Pleasure, included The
Murder of Roger Ackroyd in his 'cornerstones' list of the most influential
crime novels ever written." - wiki