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Torrid Zone
Screen Guild Theater · December 8, 1940 · 28 min · 5,167 words
The transcript of “Torrid Zone”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast December 8, 1940. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Guild Theater plays Screen Guild Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Joan Bennett, James Kagnie, Brian Don Levy, George Tobias. The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre. Your host, the director of the Star's own theatre, Roger Pryor. Good evening, everyone.
Your neighborhood good goat dealer and the goat oil companies welcome you once again to the Gulf Screen Guild Theatre. Tonight the Gulf Theater stars James Cagney, Joan Bennett, Brian Donilevi and George Tobias. The story is that sizzling tropical scorch hit Tarred Zone.
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, the stars who appear here in the Gulf Theater donate their talents. In return, Gulf gives generously the motion picture really fondly. And this money is used to provide for those people in any branch of the motion picture industry who may be in need of help.
That abroad is for all of stars who have just taken their places before the goat microphone. And so, on with Torezzone, starring Joan Benadis Lee Donley, James Cagney as Nick Butler, Brian Donley as Steve Case, and George Tobias as Rosario.
I'll try out the dialect of Captain Rodriguez. Frank Dours conducts Oscar Bradley's golf orchestra in the overture and the show is on. Hot midday sun of the tarot zone beats down fiercely on the jail of the little Central American banana port of Puerto Aguilar.
In adjoining cells I'll lead Donley, a cafe entertainer from the States, and Rosario, the greatest band in all Central America. As our story opens they're talking to the boss. Okay Rosie, Rosie Porgie, you've now learned the great American pastime called Poker and you owe me exactly two hundred bucks.
Alright, I pay you the very next time I raid senior cases for nano plantations, senior Oh not in bananas I hope. Say look, see you owe me so much dough why don't you just call me Lee?
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