July 11, 2021
Episode 445 – Summer Movies (Suspense & Screen Guild Theatre)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)About this episode
Make some popcorn for a double feature with two classic film noir dramas recreated for radio. First, Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, and Robert Young reprise their roles from Crossfire - a murder mystery that shines a spotlight on the horror of anti-Semitism recreated for Suspense (originally aired on CBS on April 10, 1948). Then, John Garfield and Lana Turner recreate their smoldering chemistry in James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice , adapted for The Screen Guild Theatre (originally aired on CBS on June 16, 1947).