Featured tonight are Two Classic Radio Dramas. First aired in 1949, Edward G. Robinson stars in this episode of the CBS Radio series Suspence adapted from the film noir classic Night Has A Thousand Eyes. The original story, by Cornell Woolrich, follows a young couple dealing with a prophecy of empending death. Robinson portrays a sideshow menatlists who discoverys, to his horror, that he can forsee a person's death. Sometimes his warnings can can change events. But, other times . . .?
Tonight's second feature comes from a limited-run radio series produced by and starring Jack Webb. Set in Kansas City in the prohibition, speakeasy era of the early 1920's, Webb portrays Pete Kelly, a jazz cornet player,who people always seem to come to when they're in trouble. Tonight, Pete is visited by the police who are looking for an old friend of Pete's who;s recently busted out of prison. The bulls believe that the fugitive will come see Pete for money to get out of town. The cornet player doesn't have to be a mentalist to foresee that he could end up in some sort of deadly crossfire.