Love from a Stranger is a 1936 play by Frank Vosper. It is based on "Philomel Cottage", a 1924 short story by British mystery writer Agatha Christie. The play was adapted by Frank Vosper and opened at the New Theatre on 31 March 1936. Vosper starred in the play, which was later turned into a successful film. Promotional extracts were broadcast on the BBC Regional Programme on 1 May 1936 in a 20-minute programme with members of the then-current stage cast. On 9 May 1936, the final performance was given at the New Theatre, and the play immediately transferred to the Queen's Theatre on 11 May, where it ran until 8 August 1936. It reopened two days later at the Streatham Hill Theatre for one week.
Adaptations (3)
Love from a Stranger has been adapted 3 times, across film and television film, from 1937 to 1967. The most recent is Ein Fremder klopft an (1967).
Love from a Stranger1937 · film · 86 min · dir. Rowland V. Lee · IMDb ↗IMDb6.5Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.
Love from a Stranger1947 · film · 81 min · dir. Richard Whorf · IMDb ↗IMDb5.9Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
Ein Fremder klopft an1967 · television film · 87 min · dir. Kurt Früh · IMDb ↗IMDb8.1A suave ladies man sweeps a working class girl, who has just won the lottery, off her feet.She doesn't yet realize that he is a serial killer.
