LUX RADIO THEATRE: KEY LARGO {EDWARD G. ROBINSON, CLAIRE TREVOR & EDMOND O'BRIEN} (RADIO)
Summary
The first of two programs on this tape. One in this
dramatic anthology series which presents radio
adaptations of motion pictures featuring Hollywood
stars, often in roles they originated on screen. In
this program, Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor
reprise their roles from the 1948 Warner Bros. film.
Act one begins in the southernmost part of the United
States, Key Largo, where it is the dead summer season at
a resort hotel. Former soldier Major Frank McCloud
(Edmond O'Brien in the Humphrey Bogart film role) shows
up looking for the family of an army buddy, now
deceased. Frank finally finds his buddy's sister, an
alcoholic gangster's moll named Gaye. As a world-class
hurricane approaches the town, Gaye's beau, the infamous
Johnny Rocco, takes the inhabitants of the hotel
hostage. The second act begins with the hurricane fully
raging. Gaye and Frank fear Rocco and look for an
escape from their capture. Meanwhile, everyone ponders
what it is that Rocco desires. At the second
intermission, Warner Bros. starlet Debbie Reynolds
discusses her upcoming film. The third act begins as
the hurricane has ended, the hotel amazingly still
standing. It is ten at night and Frank wants to leave
town. However, Gaye wants him to stay and rescue her
from the clutches of Rocco. Includes commercials.
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Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: November 28, 1949 Monday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:00
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R:22444
- GENRE: Radio - Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Films; Theater Collection, The
- SERIES RUN: CBS - Radio series, 1935-1954
- COMMERCIALS:
- Radio - Commercials - Lux toilet soap
CREDITS
- Frederic MacKaye … Director
- Richard Brooks … Based on the screenplay by
- John Huston … Based on the screenplay by
- S. H. Barnett … Adapted by
- Louis Silvers … Music (Misc. Credits), Music Director
- William Keighley … Host
- John Milton Kennedy … Announcer
- Debbie Reynolds … Guest
- Edmond O'Brien … Cast, Frank
- Edward G. Robinson … Cast, Johnny Rocco
- Claire Trevor … Cast, Gaye
- Frances Robinson … Cast, Nora
- Herbert Butterfield … Cast, Temple
- Bill Johnstone … Cast, Ben
- Howard McNear … Cast, Deputy Sawyer
- Eddie Marr … Cast, Radio Operator
- Harry Lewis … Cast
- Paul Dubov … Cast
- Frank Richards … Cast
- Jay Novello … Cast
- Lou Krugman … Cast
- Don Diamond … Cast
- Dorothy Lovett … Talent, "Libby Collins" for Lux Soap
- Humphrey Bogart