Claire Trevor plays a socially prominent heiress who tells the local police chief that she shot her husband's twin brother in self-defense. He had escaped from the state hospital for the criminally insane four years earlier and just showed up at their doorstep. This is Suspense, so it’s never quite that simple. Her husband had never mentioned over their years of marriage that he had a twin brother. The stigma of mental illness in the family stopped him from doing so. Think about it… twin brother… Suspense… that can only mean one thing… which brother is the one with the challenge of mental illness? Whom did she really shoot?
The script was by Cyril Endfield, who also authored The Argyle Album. His personal background is quite interesting and was summarized at that blogpost https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/07/1945-12-13-argyle-album.html
There are two surviving recordings, one network with an unspecified coast, and an Armed Forces Radio Service recording (#155). The network recording is the better of the two, and has three seconds to the network ID. It is marked as “(3s).”
The AFRS recording is drawn from the missing the network recording; times are approximate:
3s 25:41 “But...but I didn't do it to avoid a scandal”
AFRS 22:53 is “But I didn't do it to avoid a scandal”
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https://archive.org/details/TSP460516
THE CAST
CLAIRE TREVOR (Helen Anderson), Bill Johnstone (Al Anderson), Elliott Lewis (Harvey Anderson / Officer), Jerry Hausner (Door to door salesman), Wally Maher (Detective Lieutenant), Horace Willard (Rutherford), Joe Kearns (Signature Voice / Doctor / Ralph), unknown (Matilda / Pearl)
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