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Post by Richard Kimble on Oct 18, 2017 16:00:57 GMT
For those who don't know, you can stream or download virtually all extant OTR programs for free at Archive.org/It's not easy to search -- you really need to know what you're looking for -- but if they don't have it, likely no one will. |
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Post by telegonus on Oct 21, 2017 8:01:56 GMT
Thanks, Richard. Archive.org is probably the best for OTR. The search function isn't easy and even now, when I know what I'm looking for I get different responses, individual episodes rather than series as a whole. I love listening to back to back stuff. Suspense and Dragnet work especially well in that format, but then I'm a sucker for radio Noir.
BTW,--and a heads up--I heard a radio Dragnet new to me, titled The Big Cast, which the title doesn't do justice to, that may be the best ever. I don't want to give it away too much but to say that it has to do with the search for and apprehension of a serial killer. Even today, the matter of factness of it is extremely creepy and unsettling. Jack Webb did a great job with this one. No real banter, certainly no humor. It's all business.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Oct 22, 2017 18:26:09 GMT
This is one of my favorites from that site that might appeal to others: Screen Directors PlayhouseRight now there are about 120 episodes of half hour to one hour films - everything from Stagecoach to Wuthering Heights, very often with the same cast and director. Worth a look to film and radio lovers. Shows that interesting really deserve their own threads rather than be crowded into here. SDP had a short lived TV version in the mid-50s, in which the directors actually appeared on camera. Some spoke -- if you've ever wanted to see and hear H.C Potter, here's your chance. A few years ago TCM showed some SDP episodes. By that time I no longer had cable TV, so I missed most of them. The series did an adaptation of R.L. Stevenson's story "Markheim" (also done on radio) w/IIRC Ray Milland that was supposed to be very good. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 23, 2017 7:44:58 GMT
Listened to Three Skeleton Key--two versions, and now the Lives of Harry Lime again.
Archive.org is great!
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Post by hardball on Apr 2, 2018 3:50:34 GMT
This is where I downloaded the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 2, 2018 3:56:43 GMT
This is where I downloaded the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Yet another show that merits its own thread Maybe someday I'll get around to it... |
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Post by hardball on Apr 2, 2018 4:14:44 GMT
This is where I downloaded the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Yet another show that merits its own thread Maybe someday I'll get around to it... More than the plot - which were good - what really got me was the dialogue, the witty and sharp exchanges between the characters. Listening to episodes like Red Wind (the Mohr version), Green Flame and Heat Wave, I can see them in my mind's eye, in black and white. |
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