https://ia600604.us.archive.org/13/items/OTRR_Suspense_Singles/Suspense_511203_450_A_Murderous_Revision_-64-44-_14104_29m54s.mp3
12 March 1951
Richard Widmark stars as they psychotic crime-writer pushed to the edge by a radio director who keeps changing his plots. Really good baddie character, dripping with menace. Of course he was well established as a movie villain by this time, but I suspect there may be other radio plays out there which I've yet to track down or listen to.
Update - there's a lot more plays out there! See this link.
http://search.tb.ask.com/search/GGmain.jhtml?searchfor=richard+widmark+suspense&st=kwd&ptb=5B94881A-0FF2-4E21-8C58-B9812D350480&n=780bd735&ind=2014041909&p2=^HI^xdm005^YYA^gb&si=CO_rmLGN7L0CFe6WtAodHDQAnQ
And this gives a definitive list. Not only did Widmark do Shakespeare (and what an excellent bad guy to do - Iago of course - but it seemed also found time during what must have been a pretty hectic filming schedule under his Fox contract in the late 1940s and 1950s to still produce radio drama.
Richard Widmark made thirteen appearances on Suspense between 1942 and 1954. His first appearance occurred as early as episode #4, when he appeared in Suspense's presentation of "Rope," Patrick Hamilton's 1929 play about the Leopold and Lobe murder case. On Suspense he played roles that ranged from Iago in Shakespeare's Othello to a radio-script writer gone mad in "A Murderous Revision."
12 March 1951
Richard Widmark stars as they psychotic crime-writer pushed to the edge by a radio director who keeps changing his plots. Really good baddie character, dripping with menace. Of course he was well established as a movie villain by this time, but I suspect there may be other radio plays out there which I've yet to track down or listen to.
Update - there's a lot more plays out there! See this link.
http://search.tb.ask.com/search/GGmain.jhtml?searchfor=richard+widmark+suspense&st=kwd&ptb=5B94881A-0FF2-4E21-8C58-B9812D350480&n=780bd735&ind=2014041909&p2=^HI^xdm005^YYA^gb&si=CO_rmLGN7L0CFe6WtAodHDQAnQ
And this gives a definitive list. Not only did Widmark do Shakespeare (and what an excellent bad guy to do - Iago of course - but it seemed also found time during what must have been a pretty hectic filming schedule under his Fox contract in the late 1940s and 1950s to still produce radio drama.
Richard Widmark and Suspense
This week saw the passing of actor Richard Widmark (1914-2008), who died at age 93. Though he is known primarily for his film and television work, he began his career in radio and left behind an interesting collection of performances.
Richard Widmark made thirteen appearances on Suspense between 1942 and 1954. His first appearance occurred as early as episode #4, when he appeared in Suspense's presentation of "Rope," Patrick Hamilton's 1929 play about the Leopold and Lobe murder case. On Suspense he played roles that ranged from Iago in Shakespeare's Othello to a radio-script writer gone mad in "A Murderous Revision."
Here is the list of episodes in which he appeared:
1) "Rope" (07/08/1942) - Considered a lost episode. No known recordings of this broadcast exist.
2) "Too Hot to Live" (10/26/1950)
3) "Tell You Why I Shouldn't Die" (06/07/1951)
4) "The Hunting of Bob Lee" (10/29/1951)
5) "A Murderous Revision" (12/03/1951)
6) "The Track of the Cat" (02/18/1952)
7) "Mate Bram" (04/14/1952)
8) "How Long is the Night" (10/13/1952)
9) "The Spencer Brothers" (1/26/1953)
10) "Othello" Part One (05/04/1953)
(Suspense's presentation of Othello was the first on radio.)
11) "Othello" Part Two (05/11/1953)
12) "A Message to Garcia" (09/14/1953)
13) "The Card Game" (04/19/1954)
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