What happens
Nick Bianco, a small-time criminal, is arrested after a robbery and refuses to name his partners to assistant district attorney Louis D'Angelo. Bianco's wife later commits suicide, and Bianco turns informer to win parole and see his children. This Screen Guild Theater broadcast of the 1948 film Kiss of Death was aired on October 28, 1948, and stars Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Coleen Gray and Leon Ames. The story follows Bianco as his dealings with D'Angelo draw him into a dangerous confrontation with Tommy Udo, a violent former partner.
New York City, late 1940s, including a courtroom, a prison, a restaurant and city streets
Characters: Nick Bianco, Louis D'Angelo, Tommy Udo, Pete Rizzo, Nettie, Luigi
Listen for: Tommy Udo's menacing dialogue and the tense exchanges between Nick Bianco and Louis D'Angelo
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.