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.