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Lamb to the Slaughter" is a 1953 short story by Roald Dahl. It was initially rejected, along with four other stories, by The New Yorker, but was published in Harper's Magazine in September 1953. [1] It was adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (AHP) that starred Barbara Bel Geddes and Harold J. Stone.
Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a collection of 16 short stories written by British author Roald Dahl and first published in 1979. All of the stories were earlier published in various magazines, and then in the collections Someone Like You and Kiss Kiss. [1]
1979: The Aphrodite Inheritance: Basileos: Main role [9] Tales of the Unexpected: Detective Sergeant Jack Nolan: Episode: "Lamb to the Slaughter" 1980: The Joy of Bach: J.S. Bach himself: 1981: The Little World of Don Camillo: Peppone: 1983: Great Little Railways: Himself: The Hound of the Baskervilles: Geoffrey Lyons: Television film [2] The ...
Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". [2] Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section".
Her first film shot on American soil was the William Lustig production Maniac (1980). [21] This was soon followed by the "multi-award winning, shot during the Cannes Film Festival" shocker The Last Horror Film (1982) [11] (directed by David Winters), in which she was reunited with her Maniac (and Starcrash) co-star Joe Spinell.
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Dahl was credited with teleplay for two episodes, and four of his episodes were directed by Alfred Hitchcock himself, an example of which was "Lamb to the Slaughter" (1958). [ 116 ] Dahl acquired a traditional Romanichal vardo in the 1960s, and the family used it as a playhouse for his children at home in Great Missenden , Buckinghamshire.
A Lamb to the Slaughter: An Artist Among the Battlefields, a 1984 book by Jan Montyn and Dirk Ayelt Kooiman, ISBN 0-285-62621-3 "Lamb to the Slaughter", a song by a-ha from their 1993 album Memorial Beach; Lambs to the Slaughter, a 1979 memoir by Australian cricketer Graham Yallop