I Killed the Count

I Killed the Count
Written by	Alec Coppel
Date premiered	10 December 1937
Place premiered	Whitehall Theatre, London
Original language	English
Setting	London

I Killed the Count
Directed by	Frederic Zelnik
Produced by	Isadore Goldsmith
Starring	Ben Lyon
Production company	Grafton Films
Release date	1939
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

I Killed the Count is a 1937 play by Alec Coppel. Its success launched Coppel's career.

Eric Maturin (Count Victor Mattoin), Athole Stewart (Viscount Sorrington), Alec Clunes (Detective Raines), Anthony Holles (Samuel Diamond), Kathleen Harrison (Polly), George Merritt (Divisional Inspector Davidson), Meriel Forbes (Renee La Lune), Barbara Francis (Louise Rogers), Edward Petley (Johnson), Hugh E. Wright (Mullet), Anthony Bushell (Bernard K. Froy), John Oxford (PC Clifton), and Frederick Cooper (Martin).

The play was produced on Broadway in 1942.

A novelisation of the play was published in 1939.

I Killed the Count is a 1939 British, black-and-white, comedy, crime, mystery film, directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Ronald Shiner as Mullet, Ben Lyon, Syd Walker, Terence De Marney, Barbara Blair and Athole Stewart.

It was produced by Grafton Films.

Cockney comedian Syd Walker plays it more or less straight as Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson, at present trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Mattoni (Leslie Perrins). The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses. In fact, four different people come forth to confess to the killing – each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.

Originally released in the US by Grand National Films Inc. in 1939, I Killed the Count was reissued the following year as Who is Guilty? by Monogram Pictures in America.

The play was adapted for Australian radio in 1941. Max Afford did the adaptation.

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