LUX RADIO THEATER -- "THE MALTESE FALCON" (2-8-43)

[@the1jmacify]

What a treasure. Thanks soo much!

[@trevordance5181]

Radio dramas, serials, comedy shows, and panel games etc are still very popular in the UK and are regularly broadcast on BBC radio, especially on BBC Radio 4.

[@kathywright6853]

Thank you so much for posting this,great entertainment of the past beats every thing today❤

[@doreekaplan2589]

A friend of Dads family when we were kids,Edward with his wife came to our yearly Christmas Eve dinners. Uncle Mendal was his attorney.

[@drewdee7420]

thank you very much for posting this.

[@dennisfarabee5216]

Love radio drama. Theater of the imagination.

[@billlittlefield6905]

Edward G was good as Sam Spade. I love old radio shows!I can picture families gathered around the radio, hanging on every word.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

Radio shows restore the imagination too much visuals have taken away.

[@kittenfuud]

Oh, isn't it wonderful! I'm totally into OTR! My folks have passed on, I wish I had asked them about their radio faves they were right in that era. Glad YT has so many playlists, I listen all night! The Whistler is a good one and Lux Radio Theater is the best for old movies done for radio - but for great writing of a detective show I love Broadway is My Beat! Very corny now but provocative! Cheers! 🍻 📻

[@kittenfuud]

@@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE Indeed. Video Killed the Radio Star...

[@lavieenrose5954]

@@kittenfuud Broadway is my Beat is one of my absolute favourites..... The writing is spectacular and Detective Danny Clover’s descriptions of his beloved city are pure gold. 👍🏽 Have you listened to Candy Matson (my favourite private ‘eyelash’).. This show is so well written and enjoyable - i wish I had a time machine :) I’m so very grateful to the people who bring us these great shows - we can escape the insanity of 2020 for a while 🖤

[@TheEdgeOfNightfall]

De r Dre*ys red

[@augustwo]

Edward G. Robinson as Spade. Loved Bogart and loved this

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

I like Edward G. Robinson. There is one episode of either Suspense or Lux Hollywood Theater where Mr. Robinson plays a guy who wants to be be Edward G. Robinson. It showed his comedic side.

[@francoaragosta4285]

Edward. G. Robinson's physical appearance was tailor made for RADIO. His performance works here,only because we can't SEE him. NO ONE but NO ONE could ever even DREAM of replacing BOGART as Sam Spade.

[@nothankyou5524]

Nice of you to do this. Makes staying up late to get work done very pleasurable, rather than mildly interesting.

[@michaelwilkins5841]

Thank You well done👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@ed2939]

Housework at night, this sure helps

[@xermat4]

Awesome. Thank you

[@gloworm6387]

Thanks David. I grew up with my parents telling about these & the advertisements, the little news bites between shows. They grew up in this era.

[@zoyablake9538]

I'm subscribing! Great downloads!

[@marcuskurtz7778]

i loved peter lorrie in the movie version of this , he did an aswensome job

[@hyramesshiramess1035]

Gail Patrick had Mary Astor down pat -- a near-perfect imitation of Astor's screen performance. I love the way these shows recapture a big part of my childhood. Laird Creegar is very good here, but no one could ever fill Sidney Greenstreet's shoes. In fact no one has ever taken his place in the world of entertainment. He was unique.

[@georgehooker5134]

ข

[@flaggerify]

Couldn't top Astor in that role.

[@JustMe-ed1cq]

This was Greenstreet's first role IIRC.

[@ciroalb3]

lots of irony in this. Maltese Falcon was the film that got Bogart out of a sequence of gangster films playing second fiddle to Robinson

[@mei-xy1no]

To place the price of the falcon; $5000 in 1931 is $49,449 in 2018.

[@ciroalb3]

more like 75K+

[@doreekaplan2589]

This is 2024

[@jeffde-costa2366]

total atmos , edward g an actor and more , little ceaser a classic !

[@jamesryan6008]

Gail Patrick as Brigid O'Shaughnessy? Good casting.

[@richardmcleod5967]

Hopefully the LUX Video Theatre version of Sunset Boulevard can be added to this list one day. It was aired about 1955 and starred Miriam Hopkins as Norma Desmond.

[@99slaya99]

It's been added....

[@terencejones9044]

just as good as the movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@timoakes450]

'It's the Generals work and no mistake"-Gutman

[@mauragarofalo8884]

Edward G.Robinson: what a great actor

[@Mr22thou]

Not bad. It doesn't take long to get used to E.G.Robinson instead of Bogie as Spade.The rest of the cast is pretty good, too. An hour, however, is not nearly enough time to do justice to the story. Still, a good listen.

[@curtisjones400]

i wonder if the people of today could sit and listen to a hour radio story lol-probably not-wishful thinking

[@MsLoopyLoops]

Well, I'm a person of today, and I can. So I'd say yes.

[@nothankyou5524]

No reason why not, if the show was good. The stories I used to listen to about 20 years ago while working or just catching up on things just weren't that captivating. More's the pity.

[@SteamvilleQuintet]

I love radio shows. I look for films that play like you don't have to watch them while I work.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Bogart actually starred in a *30 minute* version for radio once. How they crammed _that_ movie into half an hour ... wow. I don't even want to try it.

[@fabianasantoro4597]

Bogey the best ever,they don' thave stars like these anymore,we have pretty boys and skinny women.

[@MsLoopyLoops]

and judgemental people with opinions on what a woman should weigh.

[@Cryptonymicus]

Stars like them: Anthony Hopkins. Helen Mirren.

[@haraldkonrad353]

J LP the world was better then...fewer judgement all people judging those they perceive as judge mental...

[@MsLoopyLoops]

@@haraldkonrad353 How do you manage to spell so many words wrong in one little sentence? You must work hard at it. How's that for judgemental?

[@joegillis7493]

'Keep ridin' me and you'll be pickin' Iron out of your liver'

[@JMDinOKC]

Edward G. Robinson was quite different from Humphrey Bogart, but no less tough and hard-boiled.

[@annelivalkama7451]

Didn't the Rugrats reference this one in an episode where Tommy played the main role or am I thinking of something else because of the name?

[@dancelli714]

ACADEMY AWARD THEATER, Has BOGART, ASTOR & GREENSTREET Only 24:19. . . the original actors, not these substitutes even though I find them ok. Why Bogart and company didn't work here, I just don't know ?

[@kristinawashington1773]

Cool video.

[@elsenored562]

2:38 start 23:39 Act 2 38:52 Act 3 57:22 end

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

What IS it about the police and detectives, from this story to the Philip Marlowe cases, Sherlock Holmes and Poirot, detectives and cops seem to have something of an adversarial relationship.

[@francoaragosta4285]

"The essence of drama is CONFLICT." Have you never heard that before?

[@RichardHannay]

Oooh, Laird Cregar!

[@aDogNamedHandsome]

Thanks for posting. Has the pronuncaitation of 'falcon' changed over the years? Sounds like they're all saying 'fall-con'.

[@DVPOldTimeRadio]

Good point. I think you're right.

[@MsLoopyLoops]

I would say fall-con too. How would you say it?

[@aDogNamedHandsome]

@@MsLoopyLoops I've always said the 'fal' to rhyme with gal, pal, Sal.

[@davidhull1481]

I think it’s the difference between the American and the British pronunciations

[@donhaggard1971]

Tomato

[@user-pt4ix4kd9l]

Did they have a live audience for this?

[@Mr22thou]

Yes, they did. They can be heard at the beginning, end and the commercial break about 2/3's way through.

[@marcuskurtz7778]

i have the movie version of this, the radio version is good to

[@marcuskurtz7778]

i loved edward g robinson in the red house i thought he did a great job in it

[@francoaragosta4285]

YES! He did.

[@mwatts-riley2688]

Re: could people today sit and just listen to a radio show? Well, you just did, I do, ppl blind or without tv and computers do it all over the world, only 22% of world pop have the ongoing inceasible need to be constantly fed with entertainment and thats in the western hemisphere. Us. The other 78% do just fine with radio, or once a month live little stage shows, they're too busy farming, ir hunting, or sewing or services to others to care about whats on the tv, night after night. Ps, when did you last read a book? The whole thing? Me? Monday, Tale of Two Cities. Today is Wed. Mk riley, il.

[@stevewilsonian2991]

It,s a very long story..._🆚

[@RoadhouseTitshaw]

I mean, that’s thought provoking so thanks. But damn that was condescending

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Hi, Mr. Braggadocio! One day you might learn not to judge an entire country (and in such a haughty manner). Must be interesting for you to be so high and mighty, and oh so better-than-thou. Enjoy your novels. Race through another one by Tuesday. Too funny.

[@drko88]

English isn't my native language I have to ask what are they advertising in between acts?

[@chrisnewcomb7118]

Lux flakes as is talked about in the commercials was used to wash clothes in the 1940's.

[@doreekaplan2589]

Laundry detergent, soap

[@chuckcreecy6904]

A bit of a spoiler, Curious how they didn’t use the classic line at the end .

[@GalaxyJazzGirl]

80s TMNT did a spin off of of that calling it “The Maltese Hamster” 😂

[@paulsiegle8344]

The adaptation is adequate. As good as Ed Robinson is in his performances, he is not Humphrey Bogart in this role. Bogart takes mediocre stories and turns them into classics. Clearly, this radio performance is only as good as it is because it follows the original movie. Enjoy it though!

[@DrVornhoff]

$5000 in 1940=$94,461.43 in 2019

[@redwing1273]

Won’t be long until the progressive movement comes after these radio productions. So enjoy while you can

[@GalaxyJazzGirl]

Subbed

[@jimhawkins3765]

Brilliant. The one with English actors is much inferior.I believe in English actors for English drama and American actors for American drama.

[@francoaragosta4285]

BALLS!

[@MsLoopyLoops]

Seconded. Balls.

[@donhaggard1971]

Third balls!

[@kimmyvandamme1524]

me too jp. x

[@gayleg8062]

FY

[@nouphilakhone4391]

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[@jeff4946]

My grandma always said I was born too late that I have a great way of appreciating old time radio audio thank you for having it available