In this installment of "Telephone Time", Claudette Colbert plays the famous American mystery writer, Mary Roberts Rinehart, who was to pass away a year after this TV episode. According to the host, this is a true life story and the epilogue at the end would seem to substantiate it, though when I checked the internet, I found nothing about it other than the name of the story Rhinehart wrote, "The After House".
According to this story, Mrs. Rinehart was doing some research for her stories by interviewing a murderer. However, after meeting with Mr. Weber, she was thoroughly convinced he hadn't killed the three people he was convicted of killing aboard a ship. The rest of the effort shows her trying to come up with an alternative account for the murders...and which ended up influencing her fictionalized version of the killings.
The acting is very good here, as you'd expect from a professional like Colbert. Well worth seeing and very interesting. I just wish I could find out more about what actually occurred.