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The Fat Man & The
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Apart from Sam Spade
(available separately from this website), another detective character created
by Dashiell Hammett was The
Fat Man: "There he goes across the street into the
drugstore, steps on the scale, height: 6 feet, weight: 290 pounds, fortune: Danger! Who is it? The Fat Man." The Fat Man was Brad Runyon, played to perfection by the subterranean
bass-voiced J. Scott Smart, who
actually outweighed his character by over thirty pounds. When he spoke, there
was no doubt that this was the voice of a big guy. Dashiell Hammett created
Brad Runyon, the Fat Man, specifically for radio and even wrote a few scripts
to help "set" the series. Runyon, known as The Fat Man, was a
tough, at times world-weary private eye. He worked out of an office manned by
the obligatory secretary, in this case Lila North. Smart gave a witty, tongue-in-cheek performance
and helped make The Fat Man one of the most popular detective programs on
the air. Nick and Nora Charles are Dashiell Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple
who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis in The Thin Man Both The Thin Man and After The Thin Man films were dramatized for radio as part of the Lux
Theatre. These two 50 minute shows starred
William Powell and Myrna Loy and were obviously designed to promote the movies. Thirty minute The Thin Man
"stories" also appeared as part of Mystery Theatre (twice) and Frontline Theatre (once). Meanwhile The Thin Man Radio Show endured for many years as a popular 30 minute
program in its own right about
"happiest married couple in radio" - only 4 episodes of this
latter series have survived. This MP3 CD contains: A. The
Fat Man 1.
TFM_1946-01-21 The
19th Pearl.mp3 2.
TFM_1946-02-xx The
Twice Told Secret.mp3 3.
TFM_1946-07-08 The
Black Angel.mp3 4.
TFM_1946-09-09 The
Crooked Horse.mp3 5.
TFM_1947-10-03 A
Window for Murder.mp3 6.
TFM_1948-01-02 Murder
Plays Hide and Seek.mp3 7.
TFM_1948-04-09 Murder
Rents a Flat.mp3 8.
TFM_1949-04-01 Murder
Wins the Draw.mp3 9.
TFM_1949-07-22 Murder
is the Medium.mp3 10. TFM_1951-01-17 The Nightmare Murder.mp3 11. TFM_1951-09-05 Order for Murder.mp3 B. The Thin Man - Lux
Theatre 1.
LT_1936-06-08 The Thin
Man.mp3 2.
LT_1940-06-17 After
The Thin Man.mp3 C. The Thin Man -
Regular Series 1.
TM_1943-10-10 Nick
& Nora's Anniversary.mp3 2.
TM_1944-12-01 Plunger
and Joan Winslow.mp3 3.
TM_1948-07-06 Adv. of
the Passionate Palooka.mp3 4.
TM_1948-07-13 The
Haunted Hams.mp3 D. The Thin Man -
Mystery Playhouse 1.
MP_1944-10-06 Nora's
Night Out.mp3 2.
MP_1944-12-01 Murder
in the Record Shop.mp3 E. The Thin Man -
Frontline Theatre 1.
FT_1948-xx-xx The
Strange Case of Professor Wainger.mp3 |