What a find! Eight radio adaptations of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies. It includes recordings for The Lodger, Suspicion, Foreign Correspondent, Shadow of a doubt, Notorious, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Information Please. They appear in various radio programs from CBS and NBC under the name of Screen Directors Playhouse Spellbound (also known as Screen Directors Guild Assignment or Screen Directors Assignment). This series had Hollywood actors performing adaptations of popular movies of the time that were broadcast between from 1939 until 1952.
We get to hear some of the original actors of the movies, like Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Robert Montgomery or Glenn Ford. It’s also funny to hear to the sponsors commercials, it brings memories of ‘Radio Days‘ the 1987 film by Woody Allen.
You can listen to the Spotify selection clicking on the image or the links below, there’s also a huge collection of the Screen Guild Theater radio plays at Archive.org.
Artist Alfred Hitchcock
Album The Master Of Suspense
Year 2008
- Alfred Hitchcock / The Lodger 30 minutes, 48 seconds
- Alfred Hitchcock / Suspicion 24 minutes, 43 seconds
- Alfred Hitchcock / Foreign Correspondent 29 minutes, 17 seconds
- Alfred Hitchcock / Shadow Of A Doubt 28 minutes, 32 seconds
- Alfred Hitchcock / Notorious 59 minutes, 6 seconds
- Alfred Hitchcock / The Thirty-Nine Steps 1 hour, 3 minutes, 4 seconds
- Alfred Hitchcock / Mr. & Mrs Smith 30 minutes
- Alfred Hitchcock / Information Please 28 minutes, 14 seconds
(Tracks link to Spotify)
Related links:
- Alfred Hitchcock (IMDB.com)
- Alfred Hitchcock (Wikipedia)
- The Screen Guild Theater (Wikipedia)
- The Screen Guild Theater (recordings at Archive.org)
