Harry Bartell and Virginia Gregg star in the third production of the famous script about a couple lost on Long Island south shore roads in a heavy rain. Police have warned that there is an escaped homicidal psychiatric patient in the area. The script was by “one-hit-wonder” Walter Bazar who went on to have a successful career as a newspaper journalist. There were productions in April 1950 with Cary Grant and in January 1954 with Frank and Joan Lovejoy. It was a very popular script. It was also performed later in the series (with Howard Duff and Ida Lupino) and there was a television production, too.
November 1950 production with Cary Grant
The blogpost for the first broadcast has details about the story, Walter Bazar, the Suspense television production (with the top-down convertible riding in the rain) and other aspects of the story https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/04/1950-11-16-on-country-road.html
The network and AFRS recordings related to the 1950 broadcast can be downloaded or streamed at https://archive.org/details/TSP501116
January 1954 production with Frank Lovejoy and Joan Banks
The background for the January 1954 production can be found at https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/09/1954-01-04-on-country-road.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP540104 has download and streaming resources.
LISTEN
TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP541209
THE CAST
Harry Bartell (David), Virginia Gregg (Dorothy), Helen Kleeb (Nellie), Thomas McKee (News Announcer), Jack Carol (Cop), Larry Thor (Narrator)
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