Suspense is a TV show that aired from 1949 to 1954. Season 2, episode 6 is titled “A Cask of Amontillado”. The episode is a loose adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado”.
In the episode, a vengeful Italian count lures a Nazi general to his wine cellar to taste a rare Amontillado wine. The count’s former stable boy became a powerful Nazi general and murdered the count’s sister and stole his wife. The count knows the general plans to murder him.
The episode aired live on Tuesday, October 11, 1949 at 09:30 PM.
Director Robert Stevens
Writers Edgar Allan Poe, Halsted Welles
Stars Bela Lugosi, Romney Brent, Rex Marshall