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Pitfall
Lux Radio Theatre · November 8, 1948 · 55 min · 8,481 words
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The Hollywood Radio Theater. The Hollywood Radio Theater. Adaptation to famous motion pictures. The Hollywood Greatest Star. There's your host, Frank Brzeid.
Greetings again, ladies and gentlemen. When the average man starts out in the morning for his average job, he may sometimes hope for an escape from the routine he knows to what he thinks might be a glamorous adventure.
Our play Pitfall is the story of such a man, who, through the accident of a single mistake, stepped across a narrow boundary separating his world from the world of danger, violence, and death. We have the same stars who were in the popular screen success.
With Dick Powell as our average citizen, Elizabeth Scott is the girl who completely disrupts his way of life, and Jane Wyatt at his wife. And now the first act of pitfall, starring Dick Powell as Johnny, Elizabeth Scott as Mona, and Jane Wyatt as Sue, with Raymond Burr as McDonald.
MUSIC Before, live in a suburb of Los Angeles, a typical family, husband, wife, and nine-year-old son, exactly the sort of family living exactly the sort of life But people classify as that good old middle class average.
Oh, and your breakfast is on the table. Where else would it be? Huh? No, nothing, so nothing. What again? All right. Don't forget, you're gonna give me five dollars. Five dollars? Don't you remember DA schools raising money for some account?
Well, the way prices are these days, the kids better start raising money for us. All right. All right. Just make sure you don't spend it all on women. Get going, finish. Yeah. Until my wrench uncle dies, stop going.
stop going goodbye dear hope it's telling better than today bye you better finish breakfast Johnny, it's getting late so what? what? I said so what if I am late? oh nothing, I just thought you'd like to know oh let's don't go to work today, let's go fishing oh fine let's pick Tommy up and get the car and just keep going
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