Strange Wills · August 3, 1946 · 29 min · 3,809 words
The transcript of “Seven Flights to Glory”, an episode of Strange Wills first broadcast August 3, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Strange Wills plays Strange Wills free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Strange Wills. Stories of Strange Wills made by Strange People. Starring the distinguished Hollywood actor Warren William. And featuring Lorraine Tuttle and Carlton Young with Howard Culver and an all-star Hollywood cast. Original music by Del Castillo.
I devise and bequeathe to my heirs the seven deadly sins. greed, despair, envy, hate, jealousy, pride and anger. And here is Warren William. These are the stories about strange wills and the secret lives of the even stranger people who made them.
Time places and names have all been changed so that no reflection can fall on any person or persons living or dead. Only the sin remains. remains like a shrouded ghost of the dead departed, offering neither understanding or solution.
You'll presently see what I mean, but first here is a brief message from your announcer. Now here is Warren William as John Francis O'Connell in Seven Flights to Glory.
Everybody in town knew Lucy with a spoon. She not only was a leader in the charmed 400 circle, but had more than doubled her deceased husband's fortune ten years that she had taken over the actual management of his sprawling industrial empire.
But even Lucy was not immune to the call of the Black Angel of Death. All her doctors, all of her power, could not keep Lucy with her spoon in the land of the living. And when she finally realized that death was but a matter of days, she called me to her country estates to help put her affairs in order.
Now see here John Francis O'Con, I want no high sounding platitudes or advice on how I am to distribute my estate. After all I own it, not you. That's the trouble with you lawyers. You think you know everything when you don't.
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