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Night Train
Academy Award Theater · November 13, 1946 · 29 min · 4,141 words
The transcript of “Night Train”, an episode of Academy Award Theater first broadcast November 13, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Academy Award Theater plays Academy Award Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The House of Squib presents Academy Award. Tonight, Rex Harrison in Night Trade. Every week, Squib brings you Hollywood's finest. The great picture plays, the great actors and actresses. Techniques and skills chosen from the honor roll of those who have won or been nominated for.
The famous golden Oscar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. For generations, the House of Squib has been known for the high quality unfailing dependability of its products, each the result of a never-ending quest for perfection.
Today, the great family of Squibb Products reflects the tremendous advance of science in its contribution to human health and well-being. The name Squibb stands for progress through research. Squibb is a name you can trust.
Tonight, Squibb brings to Academy Award the well-known Screen Actor Rex Harrison. You will hear Mr. Harrison in the role he created for the screen in the Thrilling Mystery Night Train. The picture which for the best original screen story of the year was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award.
My real name is Randall, but I was known once as Major Headstock. I have a number somewhere around the place and some newspaper clippings and a medal.
Yes, I have about everything one needs, including nightmares to remind me that not so long ago I was one of those calm, nervous chaps, the books describe as a British agent. Right now I'm addicted to gardening and I propose to cultivate the gentle passion for the rest of my days, unless of course they need me, which God forbid.
My little excursion into Darkest Intrigue began about the time Mr. Chamberlain's umbrella failed to open at Munich, And we entered that Gilbert and Sullivan era known then as the phony war. You know, believe me, there was nothing phony about mine.
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