After ten years, Glenn Ford makes a return appearance on the series. The script is the second broadcast of a Lou Huston script that has a good Whistler-like ending. Ford plays an opportunistic low-life, hitch-hiking in the Arizona desert. A driver stops and picks him up when he realizes Ford’s character has a strikingly similar resemblance to him. The driver is headed to California to visit his only living relative, a wealthy, elderly, and frail aunt. She haven't seen him since he was a small child. He thinks he’s going to inherit a lot of money once she dies. Ford’s character starts thinking about how he can get in on the deal by impersonating the driver. He pumps the driver for information, in the most minute detail, that he can use to swindle the old woman. It’s obvious what’s next… the driver is killed, his body buried in the desert, and he arrives at the woman’s doorstep to start the charade. The plan is working, but a surprise fact revealed at the conclusion gives the story that Whistler-like ending.
The script was first presented in 1949 with Van Heflin. For details about that broadcast, go to
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/03/1949-11-10-murder-of-aunt-delia.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP491110 also has the recording for download or streaming.
The title in 1949 was Murder of Aunt Delia and was changed to Murder and Aunt Delia for this broadcast. The change was likely made close to broadcast as the script cover has “of” crossed out in red, with “AND” typed in red above it.
The program was recorded on Wednesday, February 13, 1957. Rehearsal began at 12:00pm and ended at 5:30pm. Recording started at 5:30pm and ended at 6:00pm.
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THE CAST
Glenn Ford (Dort Sharples, aka John Braley), Ellen Morgan (Rena), Lillian Buyeff (Delia), Shepard Menken (Braley), Herb Butterfield (Bryce Crittenden), George Walsh (Narrator)
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