The Shadow Halloween 1937
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- The Shadow Episode Titled The Three Ghosts From Halloween. Original Air Date Was 10/31/1937. This was during the first season when Orson Welles appeared as "The Shadow" (the opening and closing were recorded by Frank Readick [the previous "Shadow"], because Orson could never quite master that sinister laugh), on Sunday afternoons at 5:30pm(et).
"This is Mutual."
Amazing special effects! Awesome set design and costumes! Beautiful lighting and the best cinematography ever! Radio! Wow, this media brought "story telling" as it was always meant to be - a high art!
How can you put thumbs down 👎 to this!!! Some of the scariest stuff on the airwaves. I love it 🥰
I know! Some people just don't like anything and live to be miserable. We are just going to keep on enjoying what we like. Ha!
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Thank you for uploading this. My family is used to hearing me listening to Old Time Radio Programs, but I don't have the Shadow, or Dark Destiny, so they wondered if I was okay when they heard the deep dark voice and screaming! lmfao
Love these old radio shows. Better than television
Thank you, I used to listen to The Shadow on AM radio with my Dad, on a channel we could only get in a certain area as we drove home from our mobile home at the river. We couldn't find it anywhere else, he actually pulled off the freeway once so we could "eat" although we'd already eaten, we just got dessert & hung out in the car listening until it ended so we could hear the whole episode. This was really a present to me you didn'tknow you gave, entertainment and a wonderful memory, my Bday is Saturday. 😉 Bless You & Happy Halloween tomorrow!!!!!
Yes, it was Orson that broadcasted " War of the Worlds " on the Mercury Theatre radio show in 1938. The Shadow knows!
The. Best. Radio Shows.
I see why my mother reminisces about these radio shows, they are fantastic!
In this episode it sounds like Orson Welles had a long Saturday night before perfprming on Sunday afternoon. His pace is sleepy and his voice is deeper and coarser than normal. At this time he was directing the Mercury Theatre, so he may have been up all night working on a new production.
I was born in anthracite country, the home of blue coal. My dad mined it until the cave in. Blue coal was the best of the hardest coal. The coal was sprayed blue only so they could charge more per ton. It was not really blue.
The character had been on radio since 1930, portrayed by James La Curto, Frank Readick, Jr., and Robert Hardy Andrews. Recordings of these episodes are lost, or non-existent. A young actor from Kenosha, Wisconsin, Orson Welles, took over in 1937; the first preserved Welles episode is "Death House Rescue". Bill Johnstone and Bret Morrison played the role after Welles left.
Awesome stuff. Thanks so much for posting. 🎃
Originally, when The Shadow was first heard on radio, it was as the host of "The Street And Smith Detective Hour" (Street And Smith was the name of the company that published the "Shadow" mystery magazine, as well as other periodicals). Here, the Shadow (first played by James LaCurto, then by Frank Readick, then by Robert Hardy Andrews) wasn't a character in any of the episodes, but the narrator of stories from the mystery magazines published by Street And Smith. In other words, he was the equivalent of other radio mystery emcees like "The Whistler," "The Mysterious Traveler," the "Man In Black" on "Suspense," "Raymond" on "Inner Sanctum Mysteries," and so on.
The producers of the show felt that having an unknown voice telling the stories on the air would boost sales of the "Street And Smith Detective Stories" magazine, but when the public went to buy the magazine, they referred to it as " 'The Shadow' magazine," so the publishers had to come up with a "Shadow" character to appear in the mags. Author Walter Gibson wrote the original "Shadow" tales, first in the mags, then in novels, under the pen name "Maxwell Grant."
This went on from 1930 to 1937, when the producers of the program decided to revamp it by making "the Shadow" the main character, a mysterious man who had "the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so that they cannot see him" (this is in contrast to the novels and magazine stories, where the Shadow is shown as a man dressed all in black, with a slouched hat, and a scarf covering his mouth). Orson Welles was the first actor to play the Shadow as the principle character.
As for Welles' first episode, "The Death House Rescue" (1937), here's a couple of interesting footnotes:
1) the episode was about a young man named Paul Gordon, who's falsely convicted of being involved in a bank robbery during which a police officer was shot to death, and is sentenced to death in the electric chair. Gordon was played by William Johnstone, who a year or two later, would replace Orson Welles as the Shadow.
2) one of the two gangsters who actually committed the crime, and had framed Gordon, was played by future movie director, Elia Kazan.
Here's something else: Frank Readick, who was one of the actors who played the Shadow when he was the host of "The Street And Smith Detective Hour," had been in countless other radio shows, including Orson Welles' famous (or infamous, if you prefer) "War Of The Worlds" broadcast (10/30/1938), which supposedly scared millions of Americans into believing that the earth was being invaded by Martians. Readick was the voice of the fictitious radio reporter Carl Phillips, who conducts a live "news report" of the landing of the Martian cylinder in Grover's Mills, New Jersey, but then is killed, along with many others, by the Martian heat ray.
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Right. Welles couldn't do the sinister laugh, so that bit in the Welles episodes is from an earlier recording (Readick or La Curto?). Posted on RUclips are three short "Shadow" films from the early Thirties which reveal what the original radio narrator character must have been like. The character in print, of course, had a different development.
I love the old time Radio
Have tons of Halloween Shows for your enjoyment! Thanks so much for listening! We love it!
I grow up reading doc savage books I have p.d.f's of all 220
Sounds like a good title to a movie "Doc Savage".
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Crazy thing is for a book series from the 19 thirties it has proven that science fact and science fiction is merely a matter of time
I was born in 1954 and began listening to OTR in 1976. Have listened ever since.
according to Jerry Heandiges Vintage Radio Logs CBS ran the shadow in early 1932. 1932-33 it was NBC (blue coal). 34 to 37 it was back to CBS. Mutual ran it from 1937 to 1954 (the end for us shows). Mutual used various sponsors, blue coal, wildroot camel etc. There was a show in Australia that ran for a time but 1954 was end of the road for us audiences.
The Australian version was unintentionally funny, Australian actors reading lines written for New York City characters.
This is incredible to think that this was recorded 82 yrs ago, that's astounding to me and that everyone who had anything to do with it has passed away!! A weird thing to say I no but still nothing says more than even so after all those years it's still very very good and not a shadow of its former self sorry terrible pun!! Thanx for the upload too much appreciated from all of us in you tube land!!!! Ps. It may have already been said but The Shadow sounds awfully like a certain Mr Orson Wells?? Such a fantastic series.
Shadow was a well written show. You would think Orson Welles would have had something to do with it as most people would say. Ha!
This was during the first season when Orson Welles appeared as "The Shadow" (the opening and closing were recorded by Frank Readick [the previous "Shadow"], because Orson could never quite master that sinister laugh), on Sunday afternoons at 5:30pm(et).
"This is Mutual."
I think Orson really liked Halloween. Here, Orson Wells as The Shadow is doing a "Halloween" RADIO play that's about a plot to SCARE someone to death? Hmmm… wasn't it later on that Orson did the infamous Halloween radio version of "War of the Worlds" that scared listeners so badly it caused wide spread panic? Maybe this was a seed for that play? Jeepers Creepers! It seems, radio, a good story, and your imagination, (plus that amazing, hypnotic voice) are all that is needed for the most frightening special effects ever produced in any form of media!
The story of the panic is overblown
@@stevenrais9360 People committed suicide.
Thanks, OTR.
The shadow really does know!
The. Best. Shows. On. Radio. 1400Am. And. 590. Am. 😜
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In what city and state is this?
Marvellous stuff, especially the creepy beginning ...
"He was certainly struck by an automobile." Oh Orson, you snarky son of a bitch.
Great Rating!
been listening to these the past few months, in this one welles sounds hungover something wich he claimed happened sometimes according to interviews he did on the dick cavett show 40 yrs ltr, and when he had to rush off to other stations after doing this show to do other one's he would travel by private ambulance, not because he was sick but to get through the traffic. thanks for upload.
Welles really DIDN'T have the Shadow laugh !!
He got it down more in the second season. By '38, he nailed it.
Who played Margo Lane? Was it Agnes Morehead from the Mercury Theatre?
Yes it was Agnes Morehead. The part was created for Margot Stevenson, but she was unavailable as she was on stage in the original version of "You Can't Take It With You." Stevenson did play the role in the 2nd, or summer, season.
Agnes Morehead was the first of several actress who played Margot/Margot Lane.
dang I can't understand it. Wish I could turn bass down and treble up.
That's how the radio sounded back then there's not much you can do recording equipment just wasn't Advanced like this today
I could understand it. It sounded clear enough to me.
Welles is the BEST Shadow- Bill Johnstone is the second best. Don't send a mob after me, but I don't care for Bret Morrison.
Whatever happened to Mutual it was the largest network at one time?
4 stars outta 4.
I am the shadow!! Boo waaaa
Sound quality is poor. Unlistenable
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