The Suspense welcome mat was always ready for Cary Grant, but he was not always able to make a visit. Like he was just two weeks ago for The Most Dangerous Game, he was intended guest star for this week to make up for his lack of availability. He was announced in CBS publicity as this week’s guest but there was a change to Lee Bowman announced it the prior week’s show. Bowman was a good and versatile actor in radio and movies, and he was called on to fill in. Newspaper listings imply that this script had no name until a few days before broadcast. It is possible that there was a script switch in the week leading up to broadcast, but that seems less likely.
A suicidal man, fearful of being accused of a crime he did not commit, is saved from that fate by a wealthy woman. She hires him as her bodyguard. Of course, it becomes a plot to frame him for a murder. The script was written by Emil C. Tepperman and adapted by Harold Medford.
There is only one recording available for this broadcast, and it is a network recording in superb sound.
At the end of the program, Truman Bradley reads a PSA about V-Mail, or “Victory Mail.” Details about this wartime US Post Office program can be found at https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/mail-call-v-mail
LISTEN
TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP450215
THE CAST
LEE BOWMAN (Joe Bland), John McIntire (Lieutenant Vance), Joe Kearns (Man in Black / Sergeant Tannen the cop), Lurene Tuttle (Lenore Bodine), Joe Forte (Police radio voice / Photographer), Wally Maher (Foraday)
###
