Frank Lovejoy stars in a Les Crutchfield story about an American oil executive working in Aden (in Yemen). He has fallen in love with a young native woman, and they desire to marry. She has, however, been promised as a child to marry a tribal chief of the village when she became of age. She has been kidnapped to preserve that pledge, and the marriage is imminent. Cultural “desert ways” have her reluctantly agreeing to a marriage she does not want, and she will not be able to leave with Lovejoy’s character to Arizona as man and wife. He searches for her and finds her, but he may not be allowed to leave with her… or leave alive.
This is unfortunately one of the worst-sounding surviving Suspense recordings. The recording is a very low quality home recorded aircheck likely from an Armed Forces Radio station. All of the announcements and other non-drama elements have been removed. The script was first broadcast on Romance with Bob Bailey as star on 1954-05-29, and that recording is much better. The Romance recording is also provided because of the extremely poor quality of the Suspense audio. It is hoped that an Armed Forces Radio Service transcription of the Suspense production will be found to replace it and allow us to appreciate another Frank Lovejoy performance.
The program was recorded on Wednesday, November 5, 1958. Rehearsal began at 1:00pm with recording commencing at 3:30pm, and completed with studio-edits at 5:00pm. Additional production edits were done on Thursday, November 6, from 12:30pm to 2:30pm.
No network recording is known to have survived. The ad slots were taken by Lysol, Grove Laboratories, Studebaker, and Kent cigarettes.
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THE CAST
FRANK LOVEJOY (John), Lillian Buyeff (Beth), Berry Kroeger (Fahad), Alan Manson (Commissioner), Tracey Roberts (Tarah), Don Diamond (Arab), George Walsh (Narrator)
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