Wednesday, January 4, 2023

ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT: MALICE AFORETHOUGHT (MAY 11, 1945)

 Once Upon a Midnight was a proposed series from ABC Radio.  It was narrated by Alfred Hitchcock.  The series failed to find a sponsor and died aborning.  The pilot episode was based on a novel by "Francis Iles," a pen name for Golden Age mystery author Anthony Berkley (as "Iles," Berkley also wrote Before the Fact, which Hitchcock filmed as Suspician).  Malice Aforethought has also been telvised twice -- once as a four-parter on Mystery in 1979 and once as a television movie in 2005.

Married actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy lent their voices to this program, which attempted to cramp an awful a half hour.

Enjoy this great old-time radio experiment.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM3UpQUdBGo

1 comment:

  1. I remember reading it but not sure about seeing or hearing it;

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