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Key Largo
Lux Radio Theatre · November 28, 1949 · 60 min · 9,565 words
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Lux presents Hollywood. Leave your brother's company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, and Edmund O'Brien in Key Largo. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Key.
Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's recipe for your enjoyment is melodrama. that spine-tingling compound of mystery, murder, and romance, Keelargo. It brings back to this theatre a famous star of melodrama on both stage and screen, Mr. Edward G. Robinson.
And Keelargo gives Eddie the kind of part he made famous in the days of Little Caesar. Co-starring with him are Claire Trevor, who repeats the brilliant performance performance which won her an Academy Award in the picture, and Edmond O'Brien, an actor with a fine talent for action drama. Maxwell Anderson was the author of the stage play,
and Warner Brothers repeated the Broadway success with their screen version. You know it takes just the right ingredients and the playwrights know-how to make a successful drama. And it takes just the right ingredients and scientific know-how to make a product like Lux Toiletsope. But women everywhere recognize its quality, and like nine out of ten screen
stars, choose Lux Toiletsope as their own complexion care. It's curtain time, and here is Act 1 of Key Largo, starring Edward G. Robinson as Johnny Rocco, Claire Trevor as Gay, and Edmund O'Brien as Frank.
At the southernmost point of the United States are the Florida Keys, a string of small islands connected by a concrete causeway. Largest of these remote islands is Key Largo. Key Largo has very few visitors this time of year.
It's mid-summer, and the old wooden hotel is drowsing in the heat. But there are guests in the hotel. A few men and a girl gathered at the little bar just off the lobby. And now a newcomer walks in.
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