Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Adventures Of Philip Marlowe "The Long Rope" (02-05-49)

The Long Rope (Aired February 5, 1949)


The first portrayal of Phillip Marlowe on the radio was by Dick Powell, when he played Raymond Chandler's detective on the Lux Radio Theater on June 11, 1945. This was a radio adaptation of the 1944 movie, from RKO, in which Mr. Powell played the lead. Two years later, Van Heflin starred as Marlowe in a summer replacement series for the Bob Hope Show on NBC. This series ran for 13 shows. On September 26, 1948, Gerald Mohr became the third radio Marlowe, this time on CBS. It remained a CBS show through its last show in 1951.

THIS EPISODE:

February 5, 1949. CBS network. "The Long Rope". Sustaining. "There was a man with a bad heart, a telephone number scribbled on a cash register receipt and a corpse on the other side of town. I couldn't see the connection between them until I realized that they were all tied together by the same long rope...worth $30,000!" Gerald Mohr, Raymond Chandler (creator), Roy Rowan (announcer), Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Mel Dinelli (writer), Robert Mitchell (writer), Gene Levitt (writer), Junius Matthews, Luis Van Rooten, Fay Baker, David Ellis, Lillian Buyeff, Ed Begley, Jeff Corey, Richard Aurandt (music). 29:28.

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