Joan Lorring stars in a Walter Black story as the focus of a love triangle. Two commuters, one of them her husband, strike up a casual acquaintance aboard a train. The relationship of the two men grows less casual and more problematic when the other man finds the wife extremely attractive. Later, the man and the wife have a rendezvous. They decide that her husband’s “accidental” demise would prove selfishly beneficial from both a romantic and a financial point of view. The intended victim, however, has ideas of his own as he knows about the affair but did not let on that he did. The murder plot comes to a surprise ending. The husband has actually planned his own murder in an unexpected manner and circumstance to the wife’s shock.
The program was recorded on Tuesday, July 11, 1961. The session began at 10:30am and concluded at 2:30pm.
The best sounding network recording is a network aircheck. It includes the closing credits of the The Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar that preceded it, The Fiddle Faddle Matter. There are network announcements and then Suspense begins at the 1:18 mark. The Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar episode the preceded it was The Fiddle Faddle Matter. The Armed Forces Radio Service recording (AFRS#842) is also in very listenable sound quality.
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THE CAST
Joan Lorring (Grace Larabee), Leon Janney (Peter Friendly), Bill Smith (Moran), Robert Dryden (Albert Larabee), Barbara Kasarr (Woman), Walter Black (Conductor)
Barbara Kasarr was the stage name of Barbara Kossower. She was married to actor Robert Readick at this time. An article about the couple can be found at https://archive.org/details/radiotvm00mac/page/50/mode/1up?view=theater
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