OT: Before the TV years - the Radio Days
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 12 years ago(April 02, 2014 08:53 PM)
I just finished listening to
The Furnished Floor
. It was well done, but I have to admit that it was extremely predictable. Also, Agnes Moorehead didn't do any of the voices here at all. I appreciate the recommendation.
This radio play reminded me a bit of a play which I read once, about tenants who eventually take over the house and lock the landlady in the attic. Obviously this radio play has a different ending.
Thank you again!
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telegonus — 12 years ago(April 03, 2014 12:03 AM)
You're right. There was absolutely no surprise in
Furnished Floor
. The presentation was all; and that's what I loved about it. How's you like Don DeFore's reniditon of (I think it was)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
?
I think that's what he was singing at the end. It was a novel way to tell a story, and I always enjoy it when writers, directors and actors do some stretching on those shows. -
MsELLERYqueen2 — 12 years ago(April 03, 2014 03:18 PM)
Oh yes, he was excellent in the role, and his rendition of that song was spot on.
The movie really was more about the atmosphere than anything.
I remember reading a play in which the tenants eventually take over the house, locking the landlady in the attic. It starts out with one tenant only, and then he brings his girlfriend, then some friends, and suddenly the landlady has lost all control.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 12 years ago(April 02, 2014 10:53 PM)
I did look up
The Three Skeleton Key
(starring Vincent Price). It's part of the
Escape
series. A bit too gruesome for me. I only listened to about 2/3 of it before I had to give up on it. This is a Gentlemen's radio program, I think.
All those ratsnot for me! Still, I think that Vincent Price was excellent in the leading role. Normally I find his voice irritating, but he was perfect in this radio play.
If this radio play had been about snakes, I wouldn't have gotten past the first minute or so. I have a deadly fear of snakes.
In the other thread, you recommended an
Escape
radio play called
Nightmare in Wax
. I couldn't find such a title, but I did notice one called
Study in Wax
. Is that the one you were thinking of? I'd still like to hear it.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 11 years ago(May 26, 2014 08:27 PM)
Have you ever heard any of the Philo Vance radio plays? I had no idea that they existed until someone mentioned them to me. I'm listening to a couple of them now, and I recommend them to you.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 12 years ago(February 01, 2014 11:15 PM)
So far, the shortest radio plays I've been able to find are the Ellery Queen minute mysteries. Basically Ellery solves the case just by pointing out a flaw in a brief statement presented to him.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 12:55 AM)
A few months ago, I found a lot of them on archive.org.
Enjoy!
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Thor-Delta — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 01:05 AM)
archive.org also has a classic TV section (I'm one of the uploaders on there, under the awful username "The Emperor of Television"):
Old time radio:
https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
Classic TV:
https://archive.org/details/classic_tv
Do any episodes survive of 1950s Australian version of "What's My Line"?