Episode 453 – This Ladd for Hire (Box 13 & Lux Radio Theatre)

Alan Ladd broke out on screen with his performance as a professional killer in This Gun for Hire . He'd go on to find success on screen in noir dramas and westerns and on radio as mystery writer turned amateur sleuth Dan Holiday in Box 13 . We'll hear a Lux Radio Theatre recreation of This Gun for Hire (originally aired on CBS on January 25, 1943). Plus, Dan Holiday takes a sea voyage with a killer in "One of These Four" from Box 13 .