Jackie Cooper stars in the third performance of a Gus C. Bayz script about a cheap bandit who kills an old grocery store owner for resisting his robbery attempt. A young woman enters the store just after the incident, and it turns out she knows the bandit from high school! As they interact, he realizes that the more she remembers, the more he knows he has to eliminate her because she will become a witness against him. Cooper had not appeared on Suspense for almost eleven years.
Dan Duryea had the definitive performance of the three because of his unsavory characterization, which seems so natural to his style. There is no weak performance of the three.
1952 Dan Duryea: Details about the performance, Bayz, and other background, including the television production of the script are at these resources:
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/07/1952-04-07-remember-me.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP520407 has the recordings that can be downloaded or streamed.
1955 Tony Barrett
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/12/1955-05-03-remember-me.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP550503 has the recordings that can be downloaded or streamed.
The program was recorded on Wednesday, August 6, 1958. Rehearsal began at 3:30pm and recording started at 6:00pm. Including in-studio edits, the session concluded at 8:00pm. Additional production edits were handled separately, from 8:00pm to 10:00pm.
No network recording is known to have survived. Of the four ad spots, GMC Trucks and Congoleum floors were booked before the recording date. The two remaining spots were allocated before the broadcast day.
There are two surviving Armed Forces Radio Service recordings, AFRS#692 and AFRS#993. The better recording is AFRS#993. The two AFRS recordings can be differentiated by the announcements after the Robson opening monologue:
AFRS#692: Free choice in elections
AFRS#993: Joe & Daphne Forsythe skit about US Savings Bonds
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TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP580824
THE CAST
JACKIE COOPER (Harry Norris), Sandra Gould (Ruth Shaw), Barney Phillips (Liebowitz / Police Lieutenant), Norm Alden (Jimmy), George Walsh (Narrator)
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