Bernard Grant stars in this second Suspense broadcast of the famous 1904 HG Wells short story. It was presented three prior times on Escape. The story was adapted by John Dunkel.
Grant plays a mountaineer lost in the rocky peaks of Ecuador and finds a valley of blind people, cut off from the world for generations. They have a vibrant society and culture that has found ways to thrive. He lives with them as an outsider, and becomes integrated in their way of life. That is, until they truly want him to be just like them. The story has a surprise ending.
The story was done on Suspense two years earlier with Raymond Burr. Details about that broadcast and the original story are at
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2025/04/1957-10-27-country-of-blind.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP571027 is where recordings can be downloaded and streamed
No script can be found to identify the program recording date.
For many years, the only copy of this program was a low quality highly edited network aircheck. The surviving network recording is fully intact and is highly listenable with mildly narrow range. There is an Armed Forces Radio Service recording (AFRS#765) that is the much better of the two.
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https://archive.org/details/TSP591213
THE CAST
Bernard Grant (Juan Nuñez), Lynn Loring (Medina-Saroté), Ralph Camargo (Pedro), Arthur Kohl (Señor Cartwright), Jackson Beck (Gregor), Santos Ortega (father)
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