What happens
Private investigator Sam Wires is hired to track down Kay Carrigan, a woman suspected in the shooting death of playboy Tommy Broome in San Francisco. Sam follows her to Singapore, where he poses as a suitor and grows close to her. As the pursuit deepens, Sam must decide where his loyalties lie. The Screen Directors Playhouse presented this adaptation on the NBC Theater on May 29, 1949, starring Frederick March and Lorraine Tuttle. Director Tay Garnett introduces the program.
San Francisco, Honolulu, Singapore, and Colombo in the 1940s
Characters: Sam Wires, Kay Carrigan, Tommy Broome, Jean Flannery, Commissioner, George Faulkner, Mrs. Cornell
Listen for: Sam's first meeting with Kay on the ship, and the tense moment when a snake threatens them in Colombo
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.