The final appearance of Van Heflin is in the third performance of an excellent Sam Rolfe script. Heflin plays an unemployed drifter who inadvertently finds himself in a strange town and ends up accused of murder. The police are after him, and he has to escape their pursuit in his bare feet, and find the real killer, too.
1950-10-26 Richard Widmark – these resources have further background about the script and Rolfe
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/04/1950-10-26-too-hot-to-live.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP501026 also has the recordings for download or streaming
1954-06-29 Sam Edwards
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/10/1954-06-29-too-hot-to-live.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP540629 also has the recordings for download or streaming
The program was recorded on March 25, 1959. Rehearsal began at 2:00pm and recording began at 4:30pm, including in-studio edits. The session ended at 6:00pm and production editing continued until 8:00pm.
Two recordings have survived, and both are network broadcast airchecks. The better sound recording is from WROW of Albany, New York. The other recording is an aircheck from a different station. It has the CBS network tease for upcoming programs, which is lacking in the other recording, and is in lower quality sound. It is not known what station it was recorded from.
LISTEN
TO THE PROGRAM or download in FLAC or
mp3
https://archive.org/details/TSP590412
THE CAST
VAN HEFLIN (Jefferson Casey), Doris Singleton (Rachael), Berry Kroeger (Benjamin Maxwell), Charles Seel (Pop Clovis), Barney Phillips (Kenny), Norm Alden (Stranger / Driver), George Walsh (Narrator)
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