Posted on 03/12/2022 3:24:12 PM PST by ex91B10
When a lawyer (Raymond Burr) gets his client (Angela Lansbury) acquitted of murder, he later finds out that she was really guilty. He devises his own plan for justice
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Thanks, I love Noir!
As an aside, I'm reading "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. I've never seen the movie version of that but maybe that can be a choice for another week.
Was it a Murder She Wrote?
Excellent. John Dehner was a great bad buy in many films and TV shows. He was reported to be the original choice to play Matt Dillon but turned it down.
“Murder, She Acquitted”
“He was reported to be the original choice to play Matt Dillon but turned it down.”
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On radio, William Conrad was Dillon. He didn’t carry over to TV version for some reason - but I’m sure it was a well-rounded decision to go with someone else.
:) I loved Cannon!
Thanks!
She looked like my granny even when she was younger! Except my granny was a red head.
I have an old Ipod with old radio shows and a portable speaker for camping.
Listened to a lot of Gunsmoke, CBS radio mystery theater, X-1, etc
“Will watch after the Trump rally.”
Is there a Trump rally tonight?
Another great film of the genre:
“Cause for Alarm! (1951)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_bNDDM5ABQ
As the delusional George Jones (Barry Sullivan) struggles to recover from a crippling heart attack, he begins to believe his wife, Ellen (Loretta Young), and friend, Dr. Grahame (Bruce Cowling), are planning to kill him in order to be together. George decides to write the authorities about his wife’s supposed murder plot. But when he really does die, of health complications, the innocent Ellen realizes that she must stop the letter before she’s accused of killing her husband.
Not that it makes any difference, as Raymond Burr was a good actor, but I wonder how many people know he was gay. Wasn’t talked about much back during his heyday.
The 70s was a decade of odd TV detectives.
I suppose you already know about Internet Archive old time radio mp3s? Got prit-near everything for free. In case you hadn’t run into it yet:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=otr&and[]=mediatype%3A%22audio%22&and[]=subject%3A%22Old+Time+Radio%22&and[]=collection%3A%22oldtimeradio%22
Same as Rock Hudson
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