1937-9-26 The Death House Rescue

Broadcast September 26th 1937 on Mutual 5:30-6:00 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal"

This episode is included on Radio Spirits CD set The Shadow: Radio Treasures*

Writen by: Edward Hale Bierstadt

Announcer: Arthur L. Whiteside or Ken Roberts

Cast: Orson Welles (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Agnes Moorehead (Margot Lane) Ray Collins (the judge and the warden and Commissioner Weston) Elia Kazan (Lefty Collins and the warden’s assistant) William Johnstone (Paul Gordon) Jeanette Nolan (Grace Gordon) Everett Sloane (police officer and the newsboy and the bailiff) Paul Stewart (Red Sloane and guard one and prisoner)

Music: Elsie Thompson

Synopsis:

Paul Gordon, desperate to earn money to pay medical expenses for his ill child, accepts a job as a driver without asking any questions. He is soon framed for a bank robbery he did not commit, convicted and sentenced to the electric chair. While Gordon counts down the hours in the death house, The Shadow probes his mind to learn the identities and whereabouts of the two crooks responsible for the robbery and to find proof that will save Gordon’s life. Racing against time, The Shadow convinces the crooks to return to the scene of the crime to eliminate evidence they left behind. When the police arrive, a shoot-out occurs killing the guilty parties. Before one man dies he confesses his crime, thus saving Gordon from the electric chair.

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*This episode is also available on Legends of Radio: The Shadow - Greatest Radio Adventures