David Niven stars in an E. Jack Neuman story about jewels and insurance fraud. He plays an insurance appraiser who arranges a (supposedly) foolproof plan to collect insurance on a fraudulent claim. He takes out an $18,000 insurance policy (more than $200,000 in US$2024) on some false jewelry which, he says, has been in the family for 60 years. (If it never existed, it can never be found!) A short time later, he reports the jewels stolen. An insurance investigator conducts a routine examination of the case. As part of his plan, the fraudster gets his girlfriend’s elderly grandmother to corroborate his story that the jewels are family heirlooms. Just when the investigator is about convinced the theft actually occurred, a strange twist of fate leads to a surprising outcome. His pattern of appraising followed by robberies is finally detected… and the scheme falls to pieces… He’ll not be going to travel to Paris like he was planning to…
This is not the most fascinating or most exciting of episodes. It’s mainly petty thievery stuff, with no real big score in the heists like a famous jewel that would add some intrigue to the plotline.
The surviving network recording is complete. The second half of an Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS#482) has survived; the first half has not been found at this time.
LISTEN
TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP540405
ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK FOR FLAC and mp3
while Internet Archive recovers from its DDoS attack
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/0v5wm7m9io0z6/Suspense_-_Grand_Theft
The program can be streamed at YouTube starting at 9am US ET on Oct 15, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJaXF-AwtUs
THE CAST
DAVID NIVEN (Ben Bentley), Mary Jane Croft (Maude), Florence Walcott (Grandma Mullin), Truda Marson (Mrs. Payne), Paula Winslowe (Mrs. Prescott), Vic Perrin (Pawn Shop Clerk / Detective Ivers), Joseph Kearns (Mr. Coombes), Larry Thor (Narrator)
COMMERCIAL: Tom Holland (Hap), Harlow Wilcox (Announcer)
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