Favoriting Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 31, 2023 Favoriting

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Join us for two hours of old time radio dramas, as we present four different pulp fiction stories, every week! Noir Stories with everymen getting wrapped up in dangerous adventures! Sea-faring Tales that are as two-fisted as they are filled with romance! Mysterious Magicians from the Far East, or maybe a Science Fiction yarn from the Atomic Age! Dimestore Radio Theater offers a chance to engage in Theater of The Mind, and enter a world of incredible tales from both yesterday and tomorrow!

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Favoriting July 31, 2023: Movies On The Radio Double Feature: Alan Ladd!

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Lux Radio Theater  "Shane"   Favoriting 22 February 1955  CBS 
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Lux Radio Theater  "Casablanca"   Favoriting 24 January 1944  CBS 
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Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 5:36pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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AI Robot:

Hey Mr Austin!
Are my calculations off? Isn't there supposed to be a show on now? Or are my circuits crossed?
Avatar 7:17pm
AI Robot:

I can't wait for my favorite shows Chandu the Magician and X - Minus 1!!!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Austin Rich:

↳ AI Robot @7:15
I'm not sure? I can never tell anymore.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Austin Rich:

↳ AI Robot @7:17
Tonight we're on "Summer Vacation," so we're just listening to some movies on the radio. This week: two features with Box 13 Star, Alan Ladd!
Avatar 8:38pm
AI Robot:

↳ Austin Rich @7:59
Yeah.
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AI Robot:

↳ Austin Rich @8:00
No X - Minus One?????
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Austin Rich:

↳ AI Robot @8:39
Not for two weeks. Sorry!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Ahoy!
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AI Robot:

I don't want to cry, as my eyes get rusty!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:56
Imaginos! Wonderful to see you.
  9:03pm
Charles:

It's Ladd!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:02
You too
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Austin Rich:

Alan Ladd's bow tie is most excellent in the show art this week. Damn, what a style icon!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:03
Yeah, when I saw he was in QUITE A FEW episodes of Lux Radio Theater, I figured it was time to bring him back for an episode.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Webhamster Henry:

Oh yeah, there were lots of Westerns in the OTR days. As well as film adaptations - with the original casts!
  9:05pm
Charles:

Oh how I missed that voice :,)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:04
I think... and I could be wrong... but a few of the original cast are reunited for this show. I'm not the biggest fan of "Shane," but it's not bad, and I do love Alan Ladd.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Charles @9:05
Yeah, I do love that voice. And the musical sting when Shane says his name is pretty great.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Austin Rich:

If I recall correctly, I think Bill Hicks had a routine that involved some riffs on Alan Ladd in Shane. I haven't listened to him in years, but I seem to recall it was pretty good.
Avatar 9:21pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

A nun once told me that if you see a face down penny on the ground you flip it and it brings good luck to you and the next person.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
Austin Rich:

This broadcast aired two years after "Shane" was released in theaters. Originally, Montgomery Cliff was cast as the lead, but the move was delayed for so long, he backed out. Alan Ladd was then cast, and reshoots / editing caused the film to take two years longer than expected. (Principle filming was done in 1951.)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:21
"Lucky Penny." I never heard the "flip it" version. Only that if you saw one "heads" up, it was good luck. Now I know why!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:24pm
Austin Rich:

Woah! Turpentine on a cut. Ouch.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

Joey is falling in love with Shane. I never realized this was a romance.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Austin Rich:

Now Shane is gonna teach Joey how to play with his gun. Oh my.
Avatar 9:27pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

But did Shane aim with his hand or his eye?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

I think mom and dad are falling in love with Shane, too. Why not? There's plenty of Shane to go around.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

This part of the story is set during the Fourth of July, so we're playing this close to an appropriate time of year... right?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Austin Rich:

The principle complaint here is that this cattle rancher is angry that other people are putting up fences, preventing him from taking his cattle to water. Out here, in this neck of the woods, we had a problem with this exact argument, that led to a government stand-off with the ranchers, who occupied public buildings to make their point.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Austin Rich:

"The more things change..."
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
Austin Rich:

Things are getting dramatic in this Old West town.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Austin Rich:

Joey's incessant "banging" is really the only annoying thing in this story.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
WR:

↳ Song: ""Shane"" by "Lux Radio Theater"
From Wikipedia, regarding Ruth Hussey: "She filled in for Jean Arthur in the 1955 Lux Radio Theater presentation of Shane, playing Miriam Starrett, alongside the film’s original stars Alan Ladd and Van Heflin."

Not familiar with Jean Arthur besides what I'm reading today on Wikipedia but seems Shane, the movie, was her last major role.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:27
Hard to say. I didn't see this comment at first. Maybe he's aiming with both?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @9:47
Good research! Thanks for the tid-bit.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:47
I hope so. Would hate to think a good hearted gunslinger had forgotten the face of his father.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Austin Rich:

Van Heflin, Alan Ladd's co-star in this movie, was well known on The Radio as the voice of Phillip Marlowe. But he also did a lot of other guest-star roles, which are all quite enjoyable.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
WR:

↳ Austin Rich @9:46
yes, the banging is very obnoxious and I'm assuming they meant it to increase the tension.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Trying to imagine Max Headroom as a western. I can see Dominique running a saloon.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:53
Max would probably have to be some sort of steam-powered creation... or just a regular person.
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Webhamster Henry:

↳ AI Robot @8:39
AI Robot, you can binge listen to X-1 on archive.org!
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @9:54
Max could be one of those fortune teller devices that's been modified by Bryce.
Avatar 9:57pm
AI Robot:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:56
Oh yeah! What was my memory card doing????
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Webhamster Henry @9:56
Or on the Old Time Radio app.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
Austin Rich:

A slight re-casting of the story... but... I think you'll see why it's still interesting.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:56
Hmmmm... That could work. It suddenly occurs to me that Edison and Max could be twins... would be could be funny, but wouldn't have a tech angle.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Austin Rich:

Famously, Bogart was not interested in doing a Casablanca radio show, in spite of being asked to turn it into a series. His compromise, many years later, was to do "Bold Venture," which took some gimmicks from a few of his films, and sort of mashed them all together, which we've been listening to on this show, as one of our Hour 1 features.
Avatar 10:04pm
AI Robot:

Alan Ladd as "Rick"? Not Humprhey Bogart? Does not compute!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Austin Rich:

↳ AI Robot @10:04
I know... it's really weird.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:08pm
Austin Rich:

Radio did finally get their "Casablanca" radio series, in the form of a show called, "Rocky Jordan," with the lead played by Jack Moyles, and briefly by George Raft. Rocky Jordan is often embroiled in local and international political problems, and is an American ex-pat who runs a place called Café Tambourine, much like Rick's Place. I've played a lot of Rocky Jordan in the past, but I think I'll will air the show, chronologically, when Bold Venture wraps up.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:15pm
Austin Rich:

Oh no! My internet dropped for a second. Sorry about that.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

Lot of "queer" commentary tonight, between the two movies. Huh.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Austin Rich:

"As Time Goes By" is one of my fave songs, and if I've had a few drinks, it might even bring a tear to my eye. It's absolutely beautiful.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Thinking about Great Gatsby. What if the green light was the Loc-Nar? Would explain the eventual misfortune.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Austin Rich:

I'm not sure this is the best "drunk" acting I've heard, but it is sort of charming to hear Alan try. His character on Box 13 is pretty straight, so I wonder if he just wasn't good at drunk acting?
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Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:22
I just got several boxes of Heavy Metal magazines / comics from a friend. We were doing Heavy Metal lines on the radio last night, on my other OTHER show.

That movie rules.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:24
True. Loc-Nar also makes an appearance in This Island Earth.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Austin Rich:

While "Shane" is not my fave western, it's not bad, and it's a classic of the canon, and very well loved by film nerds.

However, I really love "Casablanca," and while this version is weird, I don't mind it. I usually don't go for any of that "best movie ever" nonsense, and usually the ones mentioned as "best" are anything but. However, I think "Casablanca" does hold up pretty well, and is VERY good. Even in this form.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:27
Is that a "This Island Earth" reference? I guess I missed that. I only remember the MST3K version of that movie... I don't think I've seen the original version of that since I was a teen.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Austin Rich:

A few times during this show, you'll hear the sound "shift." Since these songs were on transcription discs, and since this was an "hour long" show, to play the whole show was a couple discs. Often, when they had to "flip" the disc over, you can hear the sound change, slightly.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:28
Yes. Sent a pic
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:30
I just saw! Of course! I do sort of remember that scene. How funny...
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

In a western Max I could see Bryce as an orphan living in a barn that s the remnants of his parents' farm.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:34
Oh, yes! With is lab sort of all over, boxes of parts and stuff everywhere.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Austin Rich:

Blank Reg probably doesn't have a TV station in the bus. But he probably has a stagecoach, and maybe he has a broadside he prints / puts up all over town, with all his subversive ideas in them.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Austin Rich:

I suspect that Theora would be a tinkerer too, sort of like Bryce. Has her own lab, can fix trains and steam powered stuff. Probably works for the proper newspaper in town, not the "indie" press.
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @10:38
Reg could have a Caravan style coach like in the Wizard of Oz
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:43
Yes! I love that!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:44pm
Austin Rich:

I do feel that the world missed an opportunity to do a story set in the US, before The Wizard of Oz, with Frank Morgan playing Professor Marvel. I always liked the idea of him traveling the country, getting into scrapes, coning his way out of trouble.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Austin Rich:

I've never tried to board a plane at the last minute. I'm astonished when I see people try to do it. Seems crazy to me.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:51pm
Austin Rich:

We're wrapping up here. Thanks everyone for joining us!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
Austin Rich:

The Usual Suspects? Oh my...
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ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Excellent show tonight
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:54pm
Austin Rich:

Thank you.
  10:58pm
asheville jon:

Thanks Rich!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:58pm
WR:

Thank you, Austin.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 10:59pm
Austin Rich:

Thanks WR!
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