Episode 562 - Greenstreet and Ham (Nero Wolfe & Screen Guild Theatre)

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

🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

It's a birthday month tribute to Oscar-nominated actor Sydney Greenstreet. He made his film debut as the heavy in The Maltese Falcon, and he'd go on to appear in Casablanca, Christmas in Connecticut, and many more. He also spent a year starring on radio as Rex Stout's "gargantuan gourmet," Nero Wolfe. We'll hear him as Wolfe in "The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds" (originally aired on NBC on March 9, 1951) and "A Slight Case of Perjury" (originally aired on NBC on April 6, 1951). Plus, Greenstreet reunites with Peter Lorre as they recreate their roles from The Mask of Dimitrios on The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre (originally aired on CBS on April 16, 1945).

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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
1:00.1	detectives and crime fighters.
1:03.0	After several days of illness working its way through the Mean Streets family and some other holiday
1:09.5	business that couldn't be postponed, we're back with a new episode this week.
1:15.0	It's an old time radio salute to the Great Sydney Green Street,
1:20.0	born December 27th, 1879.
1:25.0	Green Street will forever have a special connection to the mystery genre.
1:30.0	He made his screen debut with an Oscar nominated performance as Casper Gutman, the Fat Man of the Maltese Falcon.
1:38.0	And from 1950 until 1951, he starred on radio as Rex Stout's Nero Wolf.
1:45.8	In honor of Mr. Green Street's birthday this month,
1:48.5	we'll hear two of his Nero Wolf adventures.
1:51.8	Plus, a recreation of one of his film roles that reunites him with
1:56.7	his frequent co-star Peter Lorry. Up first is the case of the disappearing diamonds, originally aired on NBC on March 9, 1951.
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