Broadcast August 30th 1953 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic and Wildroot Cream Shampoo
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:
Attending a church wedding one Sunday afternoon, two bell-ringers in the tower at the Blackstone Memorial are found hanged by the bell rope. Weston believes it is suicide until Lamont proves it was murder. But no one was seen entering or exiting the bell tower. When architect John Parkhurst is crushed by the fall of the middle bell, Lamont works alongside Weston to bait a trap for the killer. Spreading word that the police lab plans to take plaster casts of the footprints in the morning, Lamont and Margot wait in the belfry to see if the killer visits the scene of the crime. Sexton Andrew Morton was responsible for sawing through the bell supports, by order of Allen Blackstone. The Shadow questions the two men to learn the motive: Allen’s parents left him nothing in their wills and realizing the bells shipped from London are worth a fortune, he ‘haunted’ the bell tower in hopes of having the place condemned and torn down. Blackstone used a hidden passageway to enter and exit the tower, baffling the police. Firing his gun in an effort to shoot the Shadow, Blackstone then attempts to commit suicide — but the Shadow knocks the gun out of his hand to allow the law to deal with him.
Note:
This episode was a rewrite of “The Bells Toll Death” broadcast on December 13th 1942.
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