Screen Director's Playhouse - Lifeboat (Aired November 16, 1950)
From 01/09/49 to 09/28/51 this series was greatly enjoyed by the radio listening audience. It opened as NBC Theater and was also known as The Screen Director’s Guild and The Screen Director’s Assignment. But most people remember it simply as Screen Director’s Playhouse. Many of the Hollywood elite were heard recreating their screen roles over the radio. John Wayne in his rare radio appearances, Cary Grant, Edward G. Robinson, Lucille Ball, Claire Trevor, Tallulah Bankhead and many others were on the air week after week during these broadcasts. Many of Hollywood’s directors were also heard in the recreation of their movies. The President of the Screen Director’s Guild appeared on 02/13/49, and Violinist Isaac Stern supplied the music for the 04/19/51 broadcast.
THIS EPISODE
A classic from the mind of Alfred Hitchcock. The movie was a war time allegory that didnt lose any of its drama with its flag waving messages. John Steinbeck wrote the script with additional input from Hitchcock. The story concerns the survival efforts of nine passengers of a torpedoed liner in a wrecked lifeboat. Starring Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezack, John Hodiak among others. The movie is a great character study of how people from different walks face life and death situations.It was a big hit when it was released, but was criticized for being to political, and possibly (with good editing) a tool of propaganda for the Nazis.
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