1944-10-08 Death Pays the Premiums

Broadcast October 8th 1944 on Mutual at 5:30 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal" and syndicated for the summer by Goodrich Tires

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: Don Hancock

Cast: John Archer (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane)

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

Stuart Burton knows all the tricks for collecting insurance claims and death benefits. He operates a shady business in which he loans out large sums of money to clients in need on the condition that, as payee of their life insurance policy, he receives a larger payoff one year from the day of the advance. Using hoodlums named Daley and Martin, he succeeds by creating “accidents.” Louise Corey needs money to pay for her husband’s recovery in a sanitarium but she deliberately avoids her good friend, Margot. Lamont investigates and discovers the plot. Finding out that today is the one-year anniversary of the loan and Louise is about to become a victim of the scheme by having poison forced down her throat, The Shadow interferes. Burton shoots at the voice of The Shadow and misses, learning that he cannot hide from the long arm of justice.

Note:

This script would later be rewritten as “Policy of Death” broadcast on June 28th 1953.