I just listened to the first couple of minutes of each of
these episodes and they are virtually the same and are drawn
pretty much straight from the original story. The only
difference I noted in the first couple of minutes was when
the bartender mispronounced Marlowe's name as Marlin and
Marlowe replied that marlin is a fish and also the name of a
female radio personality. The latter line only appeared in
one of the episodes. My guess is that the two shows are very
similar.
John
JIM DOHERTY wrote:
>If any of you are old-time radio buffs, I need
a
>question answered.
>
>During the first season of the PHILIP MARLOWE
radio
>series, the one with Van Heflin in the title role
that
>ran on NBC, one of the episodes was based on the
short
>story "Red Wind."
>
>When the show, now on CBS, returned a year later
with
>Gerald Mohr in the role, the first Mohr episode
(and,
>apparently, the only one of the Mohr episodes
directly
>based on Chandler material) was also adapted from
"Red
>Wind."
>
>Does anyone here know whether or not the same
script
>was used? Was it just a reperformance with
a
>different cast (not unusual in OTR), or was it
an
>entirely new script?
>
>Thanks for any information.
>
>JIM DOHERTY
>
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