Thursday, October 29, 2015

The Birds (ESCP)

A family on the English coast fends of an attack by crazed birds.

This is a great episode, despite a bit of echo at the beginning. (It only lasts about 20 seconds and doesn't obscure the dialogue.) The script is closer to du Maurier's story than the Hitchcock movie, and has a different ending than either. The cast is pretty amazing Ben Wright, John Denner, and Virginia Gregg all worked together on Have Gun, Will Travel. Virginia Gregg was probably the most accomplished. She was all over radio drama, doing over 1,200 shows between 1942 through 1979!

Escape #217
The Birds
10 July 1954
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CBS. Paul Frees, Daphne du Maurier (author), Robert Wright (adaptor), Leith Stevens (composer, conductor), Virginia Gregg, Ben Wright, John Dehner, Anne Morrison, Anne Whitfield, John Dodsworth, Norman Macdonnell (director).



Daphne du Maurier

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