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Episode 453 – This Ladd for Hire (Box 13 & Lux Radio Theatre)
Episode 453 – This Ladd for Hire (Box 13 & Lux Radio Theatre)
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Length:
95 minutes
Released:
Sep 5, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
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.
Released:
Sep 5, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 1 - Spadework (Adventures of Sam Spade): We kick things off with "the greatest private detective of them all," Sam Spade. Hear Howard Duff as Spade in "The Apple of Eve Caper," first broadcast on CBS on June 19, 1949. by Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)