Description:
This collection contains twelve of the greatest mystery shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You'll hear Richard Widmark starring in Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Orson Welles in The Black Museum, Peter Lorre in Mystery in the Air, William Conrad in The Whistler, Ernest Chappell in Quiet, Please, Everett Clarke in Lights Out, Harry Bartell in Escape, and Fredric March in a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense, plus such others as The Weird Circle, Molle Mystery Theatre, The Hall of Fantasy, and Crime Classics. Pull the covers up close and relive twelve of the best classic radio mystery shows from yesterday and the legendary stars who made them great in this incredible collection.
Contents include:
The Black Museum, "A Lady's Shoe," starring Orson Welles
Crime Classics, "Blackbeard's Fourteenth Wife and Why She Was No Good for Him," starring Lou Merrill
Escape, "The Second Class Passenger," starring Harry Bartell
The Hall of Fantasy, "Death in the Bayous," starring Richard Thorne
Inner Sanctum Mysteries, "The Shadow of Death," starring Richard Widmark, with Paul McGrath (host)
Lights Out, "The Battle of the Magicians," starring Everett Clarke, written and directed by Wyllis Cooper
Molle Mystery Theatre, "Female of the Species," starring Lizabeth Scott
Mystery in the Air, "Beyond Good and Evil," starring Peter Lorre
Quiet, Please, "The Thing on the Fourble Board," starring Ernest Chappell
Suspense, "Actor's Blood," starring Fredric March and Hans Conried
The Weird Circle, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," by Edgar Allan Poe
The Whistler, "Whirlpool," starring William Conrad
Brief description:
Orson Welles (1915-1985) was an iconic Academy Award-winning director, writer, actor, and producer for film, stage, radio, and television. He won the 1941 Academy Award for best original screenplay for Citizen Kane and in 1970 received the Academy Honorary Award. Known for his baritone voice, he was well regarded as a radio and film actor, a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor, and an accomplished magician. He first gained notoriety for his October 30, 1938, radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Winner of multiple awards, he is now widely acknowledged as one of the most important dramatic artists of the twentieth century. In 2002, two British Film Institute polls of directors and critics voted Orson Welles the greatest film director of all time.