The Last Letter of Dr Bronson
Suspense · July 27, 1943 · 29 min · 4,679 words
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Suspense! This is the man in black here again to introduce Columbia's program Suspense Heading our starring Hollywood cast tonight is mr. Laird Krieger who will be seen shortly in the 20th century Fox production of one of the great suspense stories of all time the lodger Tonight mr. Krieger appears as a cynical gentleman who made an unusual bet with death
With Mr. Krieger as a cast of the screen's most distinguished and characteristic players, Ms. Helen Vincent, Mr. Walter Kingsford, Mr. George Koulores, Mr. Harold Huber, and Mr. Ian Wolf, here to bring us the suspense play called The Last Letter of Dr. Bronson.
And so will the performance of Laird Krieger as he writes for us this last letter of Dr. Bronson. And with the performances of, in the order of their appearance, Walter Kingsford, Ian and Wolf, Harold Huber, Helen Vincent and George Collorus, we again hope to keep you in.
SUSPEN! My dear Dr. Mosher, forgive me if I dash this letter off rather hurriedly. There are but a very few minutes remaining for me. The few minutes between now and midnight. You have always protested my fascination with the subject of death. It irked you to hear me discuss the latest electrocution or hanging. I remember your sarcasm the day you found me
staring down from the top of the Empire State Building, speculating on the thoughts of a man about to leap from that pinnacle. You alone, Moshe, know how this fascination led to my latest experiment. I should say, my last experiment. I promised you a complete account of it all. Here is that account. First of all, let me recall a conversation which we held
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