Ben Wright stars in an Antony Ellis script that was originally used on Pursuit 1951-07-31 and bore the same title: Pursuit Of The Lonely Heart. A man is suspected of killing his wife, but the authorities can’t find her body. For two years, a Scotland Yard inspector labors with interviews and evidence gathering until he’s ready to confront the husband. That interrogation creates the framework for the story. The man (played so innocently by Joe Kearns) explains her disappearance after their falling away from each other, and that he knows she is alive, somewhere. The inspector, and his boss, are convinced of the husband’s guilt, but they can’t make an arrest until they find the body or extract a confession. The inspector persists in his investigation. The pieces come together when he learns of a baby and a skeleton sold to an artist’s studio!
The surviving copy is believed to be a home-recorded aircheck from an Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) station. The recording is listenable but has narrow range. No network copy has surfaced. The Pursuit production survives as an AFRS recording in slightly better sound, but also has narrow range.
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THE CAST
Ben Wright (Chief Inspector Finchley), Joe Kearns (Leech), Peter Gordon (Blaine), Richard Peel (Richard Cade), Ellen Morgan (Ada Willis), Raymond Lawrence (Harris), Herb Butterfield (Commissioner Palmer), Stanley Jones (Heath / Bob), George Walsh (Narrator)
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