Paul Lukas is the star of Suspense as a magician who finds himself working to solve the murder of an actress. She was in the audience watching a performance of Macbeth. Spoiler alert: be careful about the opera glasses you bring to the theater. It is rather gruesome to think about a spring-loaded needle… sorry, too much information.
Just months after this broadcast, the movie Watch on the Rhine would be released. Lukas would win an Academy Award for his performance in the same role that also won him acclaim on Broadway.
This script was used in BBC’s Appointment with Fear series 1943-10-28.
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THE CAST
PAUL LUKAS (Ludwig Von Arnheim), Alfred Shirley (Howard White), Ted Osborne (Man in Black), others
Studio technician Robert Sammon was credited on-air, which was kind of a rarity at the time.
This was the final show originating from CBS New York, and the final Suspense directed by CBS staff director John Dietz. Suspense would relocate back to New York in 1959.
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John Barker, aka "chasedad" at the classic radio forum Cobalt Club notes that such a pair of opera glasses were on display at a London Museum exhibition in 2016. Here's the article https://we-make-money-not-art.com/140-years-of-crime-and-policing-scotland-yards-black-museum-goes-on-show/ and here;s the picture https://we-make-money-not-art.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/24023768124_f49b19a2fb_c.jpg
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