Michael O’Shea plays a cab driver turned comedy writer. His career change came after he met a gag writer in his taxi. O’Shea’s character thinks of comic situations and his partner makes little twists to the many old gag lines he remembered to fit the situation. Their partnership is business-only as they do not get along but need each other’s unique skill to succeed. When his partner announces he’s going to marry a club dancer and leave, he realizes that the lucrative partnership (“a grand-and-a-half-a-week” is $20,000 in US$2023!) will come to a crashing end. Then an idea… the dancer just broke up with a gangster, and perhaps by murdering Julie, he can frame the gangster, and keep the comedy-writing partnership going. The gangster has a different idea. The ultimate twist: guilty parties are each convicted of the wrong crimes, but justice is still served.
Sidney Miller is in the production and has almost as big a role as headliner O’Shea.
The script is by Bafe Blau who wrote for Words at War, Murder at Midnight, Haunting Hour, and others.
One network recording has survived and it is not known to which coast it was broadcast. It has a 10 second pause to the network ID (“10s”). An Armed Forces Radio Service recording (#224) has survived; it is from the missing network broadcast as indicated by some Wally Maher dialogue. Times are approximate:
10s 26:13 “But like they say, there ain’t no sitchy-ation that can’t take a new twist. Here’s the twist to this one….”
AFRS 23:01: “But like they say, there ain’t no situation that can’t take a new twist. Here….here’s the twist to this one….”
The network recording is the better of the two.
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THE CAST
MICHAEL O’SHEA (Gus Green), Wally Maher (Nick Edwards), Olive Deering (Julie Phelps), Sidney Miller (Van Hauser), Joe Kearns (Signature Voice / Inspector Martin), Frank Albertson (Voice)
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