About this episode
Best known as the kindly attorney who takes on Kris Kringle's case in Miracle on 34th Street , John Payne starred in crime dramas, westerns, and adventures on the big screen and as a TV gunslinger in The Restless Gun . We'll hear him as a small town police chief with a big-time mystery on his hands in Dashiell Hammett's "Two Sharp Knives" (originally aired on CBS on June 7, 1945). Plus, he recreates his celebrated movie role as the Lux Radio Theatre presents "Miracle on 34th Street," also featuring Maureen O'Hara and Edmund Gwenn (originally aired on CBS on December 20, 1948).