Double Jeopardy: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation Audiobook
Double Jeopardy: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation Audiobook
- Patrick Stewart, Adrian Scarborough
- BBC Worldwide Ltd
- 2011-07-01
- 0 h 43 min
Summary:
Patrick Stewart famous actors as Raymond Chandler and Adrian Scarborough as Billy Wilder in BBC Radio 4’s entertaining glimpse inside the Hollywood film industry. In 1944 Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder emerged together to work on a display screen adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel ‘Increase Indemnity’. Wilder is an ambitious 36-year-old German Jewish émigré simply producing his name like a director, and Chandler is usually a reformed alcoholic using a developing popularity being a novelist but absolutely no experience of about Double Jeopardy: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation composing for movies. The play follows their famously tough collaboration. Paramount studios put Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder together because none from the big titles would touch Adam M. Cain’s novel. With its adulterous fans and a criminal offense that might be copied, it had been judged as well controversial to adjust because of the censorious Production Code recommendations. Chandler and Wilder famously hated one another but in an area of some four weeks locked in an office together they made a superb screenplay for a ground-breaking traditional film. With Patrick Stewart (‘Macbeth’, ‘Superstar Trek’) as Chandler and Adrian Scarborough (‘Cranford’, ‘The King’s Speech’) as Billy Wilder, ‘Double Jeopardy’ is directed by Claire Grove. ‘Double Jeopardy’ was originally broadcast as the ‘Afternoon Play’ on 4 February 2011.