The Man with the Steel Teeth: Suspense (February 17, 1955)

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“The Man with the Steel Teeth” is an episode of Suspense, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 17, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Arthur Henderson-Lutrell, an American resident of Moscow, is arrested by the Soviet secret police at the opera and taken to a prison run by the MVD. Inspector Golovin, a small man with a set of steel teeth, presses him to sign a confession of espionage and sabotage. Lutrell refuses, and after a period of psychological pressure he wakes to find his cell door open. He takes a black limousine and drives west, pursued by Golovin, toward Warsaw and Berlin. The story is the Suspense radio drama The Man with the Steel Teeth, broadcast on February 17, 1955, starring John Dehner.

Moscow, Soviet Union, with later scenes in Warsaw and Berlin, 1950s

Characters: Arthur Henderson-Lutrell, Inspector Golovin, Maria, Bronislav

Listen for: Golovin's steel teeth and the moment Lutrell wakes to find his cell door open

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.