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Family Theater: The Man Without a Country

Family Theater · June 7, 1950 · 29 min · 3,809 words

The transcript of “The Man Without a Country”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast June 7, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Family Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Family Theater presents Elizabeth Scott and Edmund O'Brien. Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater brings you Edmund O'Brien, Ed Begley and Carlton Young in The Man Without a Country. To introduce the drama, your hostess, Elizabeth Scott.

Thank you Gene Baker. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if were to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world.

Family theatre urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. Edward Hale was born of a prominent and distinguished Boston family. His father, owner and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, his uncle Edward Everett, the author and statesman, and his great uncle Nathan Hale, the martyr spy.

His best known work was the story we present in all. And it's with real pleasure that we bring you Edmond O'Brien, as Philip Nolan, Ed Begley, as Ingham, and Carlton Young as Danford in Edward Hales, the man without a country.

When I bought my steamer ticket that you'd be aboard Captain Ingham, what's an old Navy man like you doing aboard a ferry boat? The same thing you are, Danford, crossing Lake Superior. You mean you're not the captain of this magnificent steamship?

I'm afraid not, Danford. I've been pretty much the landlubber since the Navy retired me. How is everything on board the Levant? Couldn't be better. And household plane buttons. Haven't you heard? He died about six months ago aboard my ship.

Maybe it's for the best. I have a clipping on it here somewhere. Probably some of the New York Herald. Here it is. Nolan died on board US Corvette Levant. latitude two degrees eleven minutes south, longitude 131 degrees west. On the 11th day of May, Philip Nolan.

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