Episode 551 - Ladd and Lasses (Box 13, Screen Guild Theatre, & Hollywood Star Time)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Actor Alan Ladd was born 110 years ago this month, and we're celebrating his life and career with four of his old time radio appearances. He plays mystery writer and amateur gumshoe Dan Holiday in "Diamond in the Sky" and "The Professor and the Puzzle," a pair of syndicated adventures from Box 13. Plus, he recreates his big screen role (and reunites with Veronica Lake) in The Blue Dahlia from The Screen Guild Theatre (originally aired on NBC on April 21, 1949) and he steps into the shoes of Walter Neff in Double Indemnity from Hollywood Star Time (originally aired on CBS on June 22, 1946).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.0	Crime is a sucker's road,
0:04.0	and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:07.0	The story you're about to hear is true. The
0:12.5	The story you were about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.5	The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
0:21.5	The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize.
0:25.0	Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.0	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
0:33.2	yours truly Johnny Deller The Hello and welcome to down these mean streets with more old-time radio
1:00.4	detectives and crime solvers. This week we're celebrating the birthday of
1:06.1	actor Alan Ladd and around here we know the star of Shane and this gun for hire as Mystery Writer and Amateur Sleuth Dan Holiday in Box 13.
1:20.6	It's one of my favorite old-time radio detective shows and this week we'll hear a pair of episodes from the series.
1:28.0	I've also got Alan Ladd in two movies recreated for radio.
1:34.0	The first finds him reprising his role from the Blue Dahlia on the Screen Guild Theater.
1:41.0	Originally aired on NBC on April 21st, 1949,
1:46.0	this adaptation reunites Ladd with his frequent co-star
1:50.0	Veronica Lake.
1:52.0	The two appeared in several films to get co-star Veronica Lake.
1:52.8	The two appeared in several films together, including this 1946 crime picture featuring
1:59.6	an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler.
2:03.0	Ladd plays a soldier home from the service who discovers his wife is having an affair with a nightclub owner.
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