Broadcast March 22nd 1953 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic and Sylvania Television
This is a lost episode and no recreation of it has yet been made. If you have a copy of the script please let me know.
Written by: Max Ehrlich
Announcer: Sandy Becker
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Eddie Leonard, one-time henchman of Big John Brady, almost goes stir crazy while serving a two-year sentence, having been put in jail by Brady’s mortal enemy, Lamont Cranston. When Brady offers Eddie a job as triggerman, the ex-con rejects the offer, claiming he’d rather starve while going straight. Lamont arranges for Eddie to get a job as an elevator boy at Lamont’s apartment complex. When Big John Brady learns of Eddie’s new fortune, he blackmails the ex-con to become a triggerman and shoot Cranston, or else papers verifying a previous crime will be delivered to the police. Brady wants Cranston dead because he has been breaking up his gang piecemeal. When Eddie wastes a week doing the job, Brady takes control of the elevator by shutting off the power with Eddie and Margot inside. Suffering from claustrophobia, Eddie dreads being closed in. Before Brady can murder Margot, The Shadow forces his hand. Attempting to escape, Brady jumps out a window leading to the roof but discovers the window is on an outside wall seven stories above the street and falls to his death. At the request of Lamont, the district attorney agrees to suspend all charges and put Eddie on probation.
Note:
This episode was a rewrite of “A Date With Death” broadcast on April 9th 1944.
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