Suspense - The Black Path of Fear (#106)
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 22/04/2023

Suspense - 08/31/44, episode 106
Brought to you by the Old Time Radio Researchers, courtesy of The Suspense Project

Suspense presents another Cornell Woolrich story, adapted by Robert Tallman. Set in Central America, the wife of a gangster is stabbed and killed just as a photographer snaps her picture. Her companion on the trip, the gangster’s chauffeur, fled to escape her gangster husband. The chauffeur is accused of the crime. He has to clear himself of the crime.

Only the east coast network broadcast has survived.

The Woolrich story was adapted for the movie The Chase with Robert Cummings. It can be viewed at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/thechase1946_202002 

The Black Path of Fear was also adapted for the first TV episode of Suspense. Retitled “Revenge,” it aired on 1949-03-01 and starred husband and wife Eddie Albert and Margo. Unfortunately, a kinescope of the broadcast has not survived.

The cast: BRIAN DONLEVY (Bill Scott), Lurene Tuttle (Eve Spinelli), Joe Kearns (Man in Black / Pepe Campos), Wally Maher (Spinelli), Hans Conried (Driver / Officer), John McIntire (Inspector Acosta), Jeanette Nolan (Midnight), Charlie Lung (Mr. Chin), Jay Novello (Clerk)

For more information, visit https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2023/04/1944-08-31-black-path-of-fear.html