Boxcars711Old Time Radio Pod - The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe "The Easy Mark" (01-29-49)

The Easy Mark (Aired 01-29-49)


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:

January 29, 1949. CBS network. "The Easy Mark". Sustaining. "I was hired to find a blackmailer and I did. But first I found a badly beaten Adonis, a Jezebel with an accent and a man who had been an easy mark for murder." Internal evidence points to an March 15th broadcast date. Norman Macdonnell (producer), Mel Dinelli (writer), Robert Mitchell (writer), Gene Levitt (writer), Ralph Rose (director), Sylvia Syms, Ken Harvey, Paul Dubov, Laurette Fillbrandt, Richard Aurandt (music), Gerald Mohr, Roy Rowan (announcer), Raymond Chandler (creator). 28:56.

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