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Flesh Peddler

Suspense · August 4, 1957 · 30 min · 4,312 words

The transcript of “Flesh Peddler”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast August 4, 1957. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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suspense, and the producer of radios outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William and Robeson. One of the greatest pleasures we find in this business of keeping you in suspense is the discovery of new talent and of unusual story twists.

And what you are about to hear, we think we have combined both. The twist, you'll never guess it no matter how familiar you are with that mystical literary device the ventriloquist dummy and the new talent two young men Bob Journe whose first radio play this is and DeForest Kelly a bright new luminary in the Hollywood

firmament put them all together and you have a strange half hour ahead listen listen then as DeForest Kelly stars in flesh peddler which begins in exactly one minute it took mighty men to conquer mighty America and the men set before themselves even might hear heroes, some real, some not.

For instance, there was the legendary Keelboatman, Mike Fink, let Mike tell you about himself. I'm a salt-river-roarer. I'm a ring-tailed squealer. I'm a regular screamer from the old messa-sip. Whoop! I'm the very infant that refused his milk before its eyes was opened and called out for a bottle of old rye.

I love the women and I'm chock full of fat. I'm half wild horse and half cock-eyed alligator. I can hit like fourth proof lightning and every lick I make in the woods lets in an achoros sunshine.

I can outrun, out jump, out shoot, out brag, out drink and out fight. Any man from Pittsburgh to New Orleans and back again to St. Louis. Come on, you flatters, you bodgers, you milk-white mechanics, and see how tough I am to chore.

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