Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - The Amazing Mister Malone "A Strong Offense" (05-25-51)


A Strong Offense (Aired May 25, 1951)


Based on Craig Rice’s (a female crime novelist who rivaled Agatha Christie in book sales) novels of crime drama, Frank Lovejoy (and later Gene Raymond and George Petrie) plays “fiction’s most famous criminal lawyer,” John J. Malone. Mr. Malone is our amazing hero, a Chicago lawyer whose bar is more famous than Cheers. His hobby is collecting clichés, and each weeks show is based off of one: cleanliness is next to Godliness, a strong offense is the best defense, seek and ye shall find, and so on. Stories are gripping, from tales of Chicago’s biggest operator who runs a nightclub and his right hand man, to a man looking for trouble in a hotel and finds it in room 419, to a story of a man who owns the most luscious gambling joint this side of Vegas. So brush up on your one liners, and grab your gun, because you’ll want to tune in for this exciting half hour of mystery!


THIS EPISODE:

May 25, 1951. NBC network. "A Strong Offense Is The Best Defense". Sustaining. Willard Grant has been shot and killed, shortly after being threatened by Steve Kemper for romancing his daughter. The series is based on a character created by Craig Rice. The adventures of a Chicago detective-lawyer. George Petrie, Craig Rice (creator), Arthur Gary (announcer), Eugene Wang (writer), Richard Lewis (director), Bernard L. Schubert (producer), Larry Haines. 29:32.

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