# _Dangerous Corner_

## Contents

[_Dangerous Corner_](!W) is a 1932 play by writer J. B. Priestley. It deals with the danger of uncovering secrets and how a small alternation can lead to drastically different timelines. In the former Soviet Union it was made famous by the 1972 miniseries adaptation [_Опасный поворот_](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82_\(%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC\)) starring Yury Yakovlev, Vladimir Basov, and Valentina Titova.

## Relationship chart (spoiler!)

![A graph rendered with GraphViz from the source below](/media/dangerous-corner/relationship-chart.png)

### Source code

In the [DOT language](!W "DOT (graph description language)").

```
digraph {
    graph[ splines = "spline" ];

    edge[ fontname = "Arial" ];
    node[ fontname = "Arial" ];

    edge[ label = "❤" ];

    "Robert Caplan" -> "Betty Whitehouse";
    "Olwen Peel" -> "Robert Caplan";
    "Gordon Whitehouse" -> "Martin Caplan";
    "Charles Trevor Stanton" -> "Olwen Peel";

    edge[ label = "cheated with" ];

    "Freda Caplan" -> "Martin Caplan";
    "Betty Whitehouse" -> "Charles Trevor Stanton";

    edge[ label = "cheated with?" ];
    "Gordon Whitehouse" -> "Martin Caplan";
}
```

## Page metadata

URL: <https://dbohdan.com/dangerous-corner.md>

Published 2021-02-28, updated 2021-08-21.

Tags:

- film
- notes
- theater

Index: [Notes and reviews](/notes).