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Across the Pacific: Humphrey Bogart

1943: America is at war with Japan. Can one man thwart a dangerous spy network? Humphrey Bogart leads The Screen Guild Players.

Selected shows from the golden days of American radio in the 1940s and 50s, when many of Hollywood's greatest screen stars were regular performers - often re-enacting their famous film roles.

Across the Pacific re-unites the original 1942 Warner Brothers' film cast for radio with the Screen Guild Players.

Humphrey Bogart stars as Captain Rick Leeland (US Army intelligence officer), Mary Astor as Alberta Marlowe and Sydney Greenstreet as "Dr Lorenz, a spy in the employ of the Japanese government".

With the melodramatic orchestra poised, prepare for "a suspenseful programme of espionage and counter-espionage" Recorded with an audience on 25 January 1943, America is at war with Japan. Can one man thwart the plans of dangerous spy network?

Adapted from the film script by Bill Hampton

With a variety of on-air sponsors in the 1940s, the Screen Guild Theater was created to help raise funds for the Motion Picture Relief Fund which maintained a Country Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ offering assistance to people from across the film industry.

First broadcast in the USA on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in 1943.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 28 Jun 2015 19:00

Broadcasts

  • Sun 28 Jun 2015 11:00
  • Sun 28 Jun 2015 19:00