LUX RADIO THEATER -- "DOUBLE INDEMNITY" (10-30-50)

[@55bigyin]

These radio plays are so good ... Great to just listen to in bed and use your imagination and soak up the atmosphere Excellent adaptation

[@jubalcalif9100]

Well said ! :-)

[@thisisme3238]

Agree 👍

[@dancelli714]

This condenced (sic ?) version was so well done. LUX radio Theater is the best for doing movies for radio.

[@plicketyplunk]

David, thank you again for so much good entertainment. Netflix has nothing on you. Old-Time Radio Channel and Chill!!

[@d.o8616]

The hardboiled dialogue was never delivered more stylishly and magnetically. It's that polished cynicism that only certain actors of that era could carry off with such conviction. What a great accompaniment to the Wilder 'picture'. Thank you for this rare treat.

[@marccotter2726]

Thank God these classic radio theater productions have been preserved for people to enjoy forever! I listen to them for hours. People should check out the Museum of Radio and Television in NYC. I have been there many times and enjoy it immensely. There may be a museum in LA as well. Good luck and enjoy the show!

[@thisisme3238]

So glad to find this on Lux Theater, thank you! One of my favorites. I subscribed, looking forward to more!

[@okay5045]

Thank you I loved this movie and hearing this was wonderful.

[@christopherdixon6305]

TY so much again, for an utterly compelling radio version of one of my favourite Noir movies!

[@user-qx2pd2yh7k]

"I wonder, if you wonder?" Beautiful line ❤️

[@holgerfiallo1343]

Love Barbara on These Wilder Years with Cagney. Great movie. See it every year during Cristmas.

[@jannagazzola679]

I could listen to this on repeat every night

[@vickiguntergraham4712]

I love these! I work night shift and I plug in my earphones and work away!

[@mrsbluesky8415]

I love listening to these radio plays as I’m falling asleep. No light to disturb me and the voices are nice.

[@j.d.honeyheart1991]

"There is a speed limit in this state"...."45, you were going around 90!"!! Love it...thanks bunches. I think Bette Davis took alot of roles that Stanwyck would have been as good, or better in. Just my preference and observation. Tanks...again!

[@pukumahi1]

Fred MacMurray. Awesome as always

[@magnoliasouth]

Awesome! This is my favorite movie of all time and I was thrilled to find the radio program. Many, MANY thanks for sharing. :)

[@martinmarcus8079]

magnoliasouthq🏏🏏

[@cliffordrodgers5268]

Your right this show is the best. Barbra Stanwick ? Fred Mc Murray? REALLY THE BEST.

[@beatnikmgk]

"Nothing sloppy, nothing weak......" Ya gotta love it!

[@marccharboneau4463]

Nothing like this classic. Radio is the theater of the mind.I have both versions of the movie...the '44 verson and the '73 version with Richard Crenna in a boxed set.

[@REALcatmom]

Wow! Great version of the movie, the only thing missing is Edward G Robinson, as Keyes.

[@dancelli714]

Yes, it would have been perfect otherwise I'd rate this production a B + LUX Radio Theater did a great job.

[@thisisme3238]

Agree, wish Edward G Robinson was included, however the episode is perfect as it is ..just could have been better

[@noshirm6285]

Brilliant!! 👏🏻

[@violetfemme411]

These are great fun! Just the thing when I'm bored on a rainy night 👍

[@nick6158]

Especially when you have low internet speed and Your imagination enhances.

[@craigdallas784]

Nick Loquellano my internet is soo slow. It's really my neighbor's intetnet. She is so cheap and inconsiderate. For a few bucks a month more she could get the high speed.

[@mikewellwood1412]

@@nick6158 In the UK, people of my generation used to say "the pictures are better on radio". :-) (Mind you, I can visualise the movie scenes almost perfectly).

[@DLSheaux]

Thank you. Love this!

[@stevewilsonsr.-ul6wh]

Fresh, Exciting, so inviting to me/. 3 /31/2023.

[@Mr22thou]

I highly recommend the novel to those who enjoyed this radio play and/or the movie and who've never read it. James M. Cain was a fine American fiction writer and "Double Indemnity" was one of his best.

[@sohara....]

Starts 1:45 intro & names of stars MccMurry & Stanwyck

[@dancelli714]

You got to have the main stars at least, though I do miss Robinson@@sohara....

[@DonnielSeymour]

The Movie is great!

[@kellygnow1]

Thank you

[@DressedForDrowning]

I read the book twice, and surely will read it a third time. It's superb. Also is this radio play.

[@DaveBeckerman]

Great movie. But the book is great.

[@flaggerify]

I thought the movie far better.

[@heterosectional]

William Conrad played Keys. He was Matt Dillon on radio GUNSMOKE. Some other familiar radio actors. Bill Johnstone of MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY and Howard McNear, who was Doc on radio GUNSMOKE and later Floyd, the barber on TVs ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW.

[@mikewellwood1412]

I remember hearing some of the Gunsmoke episodes on radio.

[@jmccracken1963]

Who did Bill Johnstone play? Mr. Dietrichson or young Norton?

[@rdt6234]

I find it an interesting exercise to work out which movies could be transferred to radio and which couldn't (and why). The best is working out how to make the transfer on movies that should be difficult.

[@maggieb369]

this is pretty good , but how disappointing they did not have E.G. Robinson as Keys! He made the film...

[@heterosectional]

Bill Conrad was Keys. He was Matt Dillon on radio GUNSMOKE.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

Nope, Edward G. Robinson was Keyes. I was surprised because the first time I ever saw him in a movie was the Ten Commandments. www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/ As I write this, I'm listening to Double Calamity with Carol Burnett and Steve Lawrence.

[@MarkEvanWhite]

Roger Regor and Howard Mcnear as Chester was the witness on the train

[@mikewellwood1412]

Loved this! - Every minute of it, including the chat with Barbara and Fred at the end, and her little "ooh!" when they announced Olivier and Leigh the following week. And Fred McMurray accidentally calling Lola "Mrs Dietrichson...oh, sorry Miss Dietrichson", and then sniggering. Bet that wasn't in the script! :-) Mind you, one thing I found slightly unconvincing was Walter's walking from his apartment to the Dietrichson residence - I thought nobody walked in California! Not even in those days! :-) Always loved this movie - I have it on DVD - Love it even more now.

[@scotgat]

Not every great actor of the screen is a natural on radio too. Fred MacMurray and Barbra Stanwyck ARE naturals.

[@mikewellwood1412]

Interesting that her blonde hair in the film wasn't natural. I loved her as a blond. Well, she was still blonde in the radio version, as far as I am concerned! :-)

[@DavidBrown-jk2pm]

Never was able to get into the Fred thing. Certainly not for film noir.

[@jamescsevfrontiercom]

Great 👍

[@rodericksloan1255]

Super Cool.

[@tommiethomas5813]

Great movie Love the Actors Fred,and Barbara

[@proceduralism376]

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[@PacificEdibleSeaweed]

That was fun.

[@stardust_memories2260]

Straight down the line

[@nickstoli]

Thanks for the upload!

[@brianhale6800]

An

[@stevewilsonsr.-ul6wh]

Undercover Congo Radio.

[@Pluscelamemechose]

Wow, an ad asking people to attend church. It stabilizes the family and helps relieve burdens. I'll bet that would be cut for sedition, these days. Shh, don't tell anyone.

[@isotopefeeney]

BTW, for anyone who likes the movie (and who likes this as an adjunct), you should read the James M Cain book. The [Billy Wilder] ending of the movie id heavy, but the ending of the book is HEAV-Y!!

[@robb7398]

MacMurray is exactly like his screen performance. Stanwyck doesn't seem as seductive, sounds older and tougher.

[@terencejones9044]

great story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@55bigyin]

Great acting

[@REALcatmom]

Best Line: (Walter makes a pass at Phyllis, early in the show) Phyllis: I wonder if I know what you mean! Walter: I wonder if you wonder…

[@mrdarklight]

You're all imagining things! She's innocent! INNOCENT!

[@j.d.honeyheart1991]

Says you..However, she's guilty of delivering a fantastic and award winning performance.

[@DavidBrown-jk2pm]

Certainly not young and innocent.

[@holgerfiallo1343]

She is. All beautiful women are. He did it and blame her. Love Barbara and she was great. Love her voice.

[@user-pd5fv1cb4c]

I think Keyes is played by William Conrad.

[@terridevi]

That's Floyd the barber as the witness from the train.

[@Mr22thou]

Yeah! I've been listening to a lot of old time radio lately and have found that Howard McNear was a very busy voice actor. He also did a lot of TV. In one of The Andy Griffith Show tributes I saw, one of his fellow cast members said he was a lot like Floyd in real life. Yet in these radio performances, he shows some pretty good range and skill. He had a wonderful and unique voice - instantly recognizable. Sadly, he died not long after he left The Andy Griffith Show (1969). It's fun to spot these familiar voices in OTR shows.

[@DavidBrown-jk2pm]

Floyd the barber should have played Fred's role in this story. Same difference.

[@jennygibbons1258]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@RepentfollowJesus]

With all the great reviews ,I'm going to try to give this a chance. I have never been a fan of Barbara. I think the western serial she starred in when I was a kid ruined her for me. We'll see... Well I liked the story. It's great they advertise for church.

[@TerryUniGeezerPeterson]

William Conrad takes place of Eddy G. Not as good but oh well.

[@ericmoulton376]

Sorry. Just can't buy into Fred MacMurray being "bad". I might need to look at other movies and such with him in. Would Christopher Plummer call Fred MacMurray the male version of a Valentine's card? I loved this one. One of Lux's better shows.

[@danielstanwyck2812]

Better by far in his few bad guy roles than in his simpleton Disney films. Great in screwball too

[@DavidBrown-jk2pm]

@@danielstanwyck2812 LOL. Me neither. Frankly didn't "like" him anyway but to each his own.

[@Mr22thou]

Read the book. It's 1000 times better.

[@flaggerify]

I doubt that.

[@lavieenrose5954]

Mr22thou Yes, but this is fabulous in a different way - it's theatre of the mind....

[@beatnikmgk]

Mr22thou Yes, the book is fantastic! I love all James M. Cains, work.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

I don't mind the book but the last name of Barbara Stanwyk's character in the book wasn't pleasant or barely memorable *Deidrickson* has more of a ring to it.

[@mikewellwood1412]

@@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE I seem to remember the ending was quite different. I won't give it away here, obviously.

[@jamesm.taylor6928]

Everything, mostly, was just so much better. The nation, life, especially the people. No millennial generations then, just that alone would make life 100 percent better but can you imagine the millennial generations back in 1941? There would be no greatest generations today, more like the greatest cowardly generations. They would even surpass all the Vietnam war draft Dodgers, hippies, flower child, love child where they claimed all those Nobel, morally superior reasons for burning their draft cards, running to Canada etc.. marching around in big demonstrations so quick to point to everyone's faults, condemning them as evil people etc...Even bashing America, living in hippy communes saying all anyone needs is love... Then as soon as the danger of the draft was over magically no more demonstrations, you never heard of "those poor abused Vietnamese communists" etc. No no more of that as those of those generations proceeded to do a complete 180 and went on to become the most materialistic, the most greedy generations America had ever seen, even coming close to destroying the economy of the entire world in the process of stealing billions from their own clients, even secretly purchasing the firm standard and poors to use as a tool to guide people to their fixed stocks. Millennials are far worse than that. I just wish I could have been of these wonderful times when this was recorded and before.