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Whispering Smith

Screen Directors Playhouse · September 16, 1949 · 29 min · 3,445 words

The transcript of “Whispering Smith”, an episode of Screen Directors Playhouse first broadcast September 16, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Directors Playhouse plays Screen Directors Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Directors' playhouse. Production. Whispering Smith. Director. Leslie Fenton. Star. Outwards Green Directors.

Present an adventure of the Western Rails. Whispering Smith. starring Alan Land, and introduced by the director of the film, Leslie Fett, and the director tonight, is a gentleman who was equally adept on either side of the camera.

As an actor, he enjoys the distinction of being perhaps the most black-hearted villain who ever scowled at a movie audience. And as a director, he's brought you such exciting film fair as Saigon, The Streets of Al-Arrado, and tonight's story, Whispering Smith.

Ladies and gentlemen, the villain who became a director, Mr. Leslie Fenton. Thank you. Tonight, fortunately, we're not concerned only with villains. Our story is fully equipped with a hero and all the other paraphernalia of a classic western, plus the added ingredient of a railroad yarn.

All together it made pretty good entertainment for me, as I sat behind the camera. Now for the first time on the air, Whispering Smith, starring Alan Lad in his original role. 1890. Two narrow bands of iron slashed through a sweeping roll of hills and valleys.

The railway piercing to the division point at Medicine Bend. Under a clump of trees outside the town, two men crouch in the shadows, watching a solitary mounted figure riding toward them alongside the railroad tracks.

A few rays of sunlight glint brightly from the objects in their hands. Get your rifle ready, Roy. Don't miss. Whisperinks, myth. You don't look so tough. He's tough like... No... Whisperinks, myth. Crazy name. He talks quiet.

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