Unmade Movies Hitchcock's The Blind Man

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Unmade Movies: Hitchcock’s The Blind Man Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman’s unfinished screenplay, the follow-up to North by Northwest - completed by Mark Gatiss in 2015. Adapted for radio by Laurence Bowen. Set in 1961, a famous blind jazz pianist, Larry Keating, agrees to a radical new medical procedure - an eye transplant. The operation is a success but his new eyes are those of a murdered man, and captured on their retina is the image of his murderer. Larry and his new nurse, Jenny, begin a quest to track him down - before someone else dies. Cast: LARRY KEATING ............ Hugh Laurie SYLVIA WHITEHEAD ............ Rebecca Front VICTOR FARMER ............ Nicholas Woodeson JENNY STILES ............ Kelly Burke MORTIE LEVITT / CAPTAIN BARZONI ............ Andy Nyman LINDA WHITEHEAD ............ Hilary Connell HERMAN GRAUBNER ............ John Guerrasio DR. MCGRAW ............ John Light AUTOGRAPH GIRL ............ Hollie Burgess NARRATOR, ALFRED HITCHCOCK ............ Peter Serafinowicz Music by Blair Mowat Sound Design by Wilfredo Acosta Produced by Laurence Bowen and Peter Ettedgui Co-Producer Laurent Bouzereau.Directed by Mark Gatiss A Feelgood Fiction production for BBC Radio 4  Drama First broadcast:  Sat 31st Oct 2015 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

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