AThis TV movie has fallen out of copyright and into the public domain, which means that any cheapjack DVD producer can sell it legally. Few will take the trouble to find a good copy when they can pair it with a second public domain film on the same disk and sell them both for a dollar.There may be good copies out there. Shop around.
ANo, the play came later. Here is what pholmer, an IMDb poster, wrote on this title's message board October 10, 2006:"The play was adapted from the Levinson-Link TV movie by D. D. Brooke. It was changed a little to allow for more female characters. In the play, for example, the producer Walter played by William Daniels in the film is changed to a woman named Bella. Likewise the small part of the cop played by Charles Robinson (from the "Night Court" TV series) was changed to a female role. No harm to the story, but the play is intended for community theatre and high school theatre productions where there are often more females than males auditioning."Another change was that instead of Karen and Leo living together as the film indicates, all references were changed in the play to indicate that they had been married. I assume this was done to make the play acceptable to the most conservative of potential producers (e.g. a Catholic or other religious high school) who don't want their students to deal with anything they consider inappropriate. I'm currently directing a production at our local community theatre and we are changing these references back to the film version. I just think it is more believable that they simply broke up in one year's time than that they reached the point of getting a divorce, decided to get a divorce, went through the whole legal process, etc. in only one year. Did the same thing when I directed it about 12 years ago at a public high school."However, it is a good play which keeps the audience guessing until the final twist at the end."
