🏴‍☠️Treasure Island [⬛Black Screen] 🎙️Orson Welles and The Mercury Theater Company On The Air

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The Mercury Theater on the Air was an hour-long dramatic radio program that began in the summer of 1938 on the CBS radio network.
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July 18, 1938: Treasure Island
I have, as usual, edited and optimized the original, somewhat 'scratchy', recording as best I can for this upload.
You can download the original archived version from:
🔗bit.ly/OrsonWe...
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Adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Cast: Orson Welles (adult Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver[, Arthur Anderson (Jim Hawkins), George Coulouris (Captain Smollett), Ray Collins (Ben Gunn), Agnes Moorehead (Mrs. Hawkins), Eustace Wyatt (Squire Trelawney), Alfred Shirley (Blind Pew); with William Alland, Stephen Fox, Richard Wilson.
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✅ NO nudity, gore, or profanity guaranteed!
A Classic Radio Show from a bygone era.
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As a kid, the 'Treasure Island' film with Robert Newton as Long John Silver really struck a chord. Mainly, I guess, as one of the principal characters was a young boy. I got the fact that the pirate, Long John, would be hero-worshipped by a young lad but, in the end, a 'baddy' is always a baddy!