The Mysterious Traveller: The House of Death
4 Extra Debut. 1944: Maurice Tarplin conjures a tale of two greedy paranoid spinsters - and an unforgettable train journey. With Irene Hubbard.
The Mysterious Traveller, Maurice Tarplin, conjures up a dark tale of two greedy, paranoid spinster sisters, Louise and Martha.
Starring Irene Hubbard as Martha and Elizabeth Morgan as Louise.
No rail replacement bus for this strange and forbidding narrator - every week the Mysterious Traveller would bid American listeners welcome to a story with a twist. It ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1943 to 1952. It was one of many anthology series embracing the macabre, the uncanny or just the downright unnerving. Actor Maurice Tarplin was a veteran of radio noir.
One of a series of selected shows from the golden days of American radio in the 1940s and 50s, when many of Hollywood's greatest screen stars were regular performers - often re-enacting their famous film roles.
Written by Robert Arthur and David Cogan
Director: Jock McGregor
First broadcast in the USA in 1944.
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