Radio Drama · Old Time Radio · Drama

Whistler, The - Curtain - File Fill

Heard
1953
Episodes
1

Curtain - File Fill The Whistler August 16, 1953 An episode of The Whistler not currently found in the OTRR collection. Like most Whistler episodes of this era, this is a rather subdued tale concentrating on the motives and modus operandi of the central character, rather than an over-the-top story of violence. In that context, Curtain is a very satisfying listen. Bill Forman plays The Whister, and featured in the cast are Lamont Johnson, Frances Robinson, Eddie Marr, and Bob Bruce, in a story by Doris Litterly. As usual, this Whistler episode was directed by George W. Allen, with music by Wilbur Hatch. This mp3 file is named to conform to OTRR's standard used in their Whistler collection, so it should slip right into its proper place in your Whistler folder. The August 16 1953 date was associated with this mp3 when found on the internet (although this is an AFRS rebroadcast). While the Los Angeles Times did list an episode of The Whistler on that date, at 7:30pm on KNX, they did not give a title or summary for that episode. The 'episode 583' number was established by interpolation of episodes 579 (July 19) and 590 (October 4), both of which are in the OTRR collection. Links: To visit the OTRR The Whistler page, with over five hundred episodes available, click here. Pictures are from Quality Comics' publication The Whistler, which actually seems to have no connection with the radio show. Don't try this in a bar fight. Trust me. Text © 2018 W.H.Wilson

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Curtain (AFRS)

    · No. 583 · 26 min

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Whistler, The - Curtain - File Fill

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

More Drama

Radio drama, old-time radio and historic broadcasts from the Internet Archive (its Old Time Radio collection with the Old Time Radio Researchers' sets, WWII Era Audio Recordings, the Pacifica Radio Archives, the Radio Haiti Archive, German radio plays and listeners' uploads), Wikimedia Commons (with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision's broadcasts) and the Library of Congress. Every episode plays from its archive, which this site does not copy; rights are as each archive states them. Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is. Horror, crime, war and westerns are for teenage and adult profiles, racist caricature for adults only, and children’s profiles hear what was made for children. More about these archives.