Suspense - The Black Angel (#280)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 11/11/2023

Suspense: 01/24/48, episode 280
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This is another reworked script to fit the new 60-minute format of the series. The original broadcast was 1944-10-19 with the title “Eve.” The Cornell Woolrich story is renamed with the title of the novel from which it was drawn: The Black Angel.

The story is about a woman whose husband was wrongly convicted of murder. Her frantic efforts to vindicate him take a wrong turn and make the circumstantial evidence against him stronger. Details about the 1944 broadcast with Nancy Kelly are at https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/04/1944-10-19-eve.html

June Havoc stars in this version. The 1944 script, adapted by Robert L. Richards, was expanded for this broadcast by producer William Spier. The pseudonym “Sebastian Moriarty” is used in the credits.

There are differences between the 1944 and 1948 productions, most notably that the ending is different! 

The cast: JUNE HAVOC (Eve Jeremy), Bill Johnstone (Signature Voice / Frank Jeremy), Wally Maher (Jerry Jordan / Foreman), Jack Moyles (Lieutenant Trout), Michael Romanoff (Himself), Lurene Tuttle (Shirley / Girl), Jack Kruschen (Detective Brennan / Prosecutor), Dick Ryan (Judge / Prison guard), Jerry Hausner (Mort / Pawnbroker), Frank Albertson (Jack Gordon), Alan Reed (Benedict / Brown Derby waiter)

For more information visit https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/11/1948-01-24-black-angel.html