Saturday, July 25, 2009

Boxcars711Old Time Radio Pod - The Crime Club "The Self Made Corpse" (07-31-47)

The Self Made Corpse (Aired July 31, 1947)


Crime club was a Mutual Network murder and mystery series, a product of the Doubleday Crime Book Club imprints found weekly in bookstores everywhere. The telephone rings"Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club. I'm the Librarian. Murder Rents A Room? Yes, we have that Crime Club story for you.Come right over. (The organist in the shadowed corner of the Crime Club library shivers the ivories) The doorbell tones sullenly"And you are here. Good. Take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on this shelf." (The organist hits the scary chord) "Let's look at it under the reading lamp." The Librarian, played by Raymond E. Johnson, begins reading the tale. Veteran Willis Cooper (Lights Out, Quiet Please) did some of the scripts from the Crime Club books.


THIS EPISODE:

July 31, 1947. Mutual network. "The Self-Made Corpse". Sustaining. A mild little man visits a bunch of gangsters to have them help him with a bank robbery. They agree. Bruce Smith, Arthur Vinton, Irene Hubbard, William Quinn, Barry Thomson, Joan Constance, Stedman Coles (writer), Roger Bower (producer, director). 29:32.

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