Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: The Speckled Band

  • The Sound’s the Thing:Audio Clues on Mystery Theatre

    The Sound’s the Thing:
    Audio Clues on Mystery Theatre

    In Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Conversation (1974) surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) becomes obsessed with a cryptic recording that he believes suggests a young couple is in danger. Similarly, in Brian De Palma’s Blow Out (1981), sound engineer Jack Terri (John Travolta) investigates a mystery by listening to a recording made at the…

  • Countdown to Mystery: Locked Doors

    A woman enters a room. Closes the door. Then, from inside, a voice cries “Murder!” When her father breaks down the door, he finds her bleeding on the floor. She is alone. The windows are barred. There is no other exit. Yet the perpetrator is gone! And so begins The Mystery of the Yellow Room…