and an intruder embark on a complicated exposition. Provided you can accept such unreality and the abysmal humour, there is an ingenious display of suspects, as if lids were being taken off wells of depravity and hastily put back." The Guardian reported that The Queen attended a performance of the play on the evening of 16 February 1959 with Lord and Lady Mountbatten. The cast were unaware that she was in the audience. It was also the night that Christopher Sandford fell ill part way through the performance and had to be replaced by his understudy after the interval. Credits of London production Director: Hubert Gregg Cast: Philip Newman as Richard Warwick Renée Asherson as Laura Warwick Nigel Stock as Michael Starkwedder Winifred Oughton as Miss Bennett Christopher Sandford as Jan Warwick Violet Farebrother as Mrs Warwick Paul Curran as Henry Angell Tenniel Evans as Sergeant Cadwallader Michael Golden as Inspector Thomas Roy Purcell as Julian Farrar Publication The play was first published in 1958 by Samuel French Ltd. in a paperback edition priced at six shillings. Like Black Coffee (1998) and Spider's Web (2000), the script of the play was turned into a novel by Charles Osborne. It was published in the UK by HarperCollins in 1999. Adaptations It was adapted into a 1980 Italian television movie, L'ospite inatteso. Many languages of Indian films have adapted the same story and made several versions. The 1973 movie Dhund produced and directed by B. R. Chopra in Hindi language was one of the earliest adaptation and it went on to be remade in Marathi in 2012 as Don Ghadicha Daav. The Kannada language adaptation of the play (with only the core plot retained) was titled Tarka and released in 1988. The Kannada movie was remade in Tamil in 1990 as Puriyaadha Pudhir. A Malayalam remake version titled Chodhyam also made in 1990 never had a theatrical release. The Kannada movie was remade in 1997 in Hindi as Chupp. A radio dramatisation adapted and directed by Gordon House was broadcast by the BBC on 30 May 1981. Raagala 24 Gantallo a 2019 Indian Telugu-language film was inspired by the play. References External links Plays by Agatha Christie 1958 plays British plays adapted into films