94 - The Crack In The Wall - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2012
- 94 - The Crack In The Wall - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
Original air date May 20, 1974 (Repeated: August 9, 1974)
Directed by: Himan Brown, Written by: Sidney Sloan
Hosted by E.G. Marshall
Starring Celeste Holm, Anne Costello, Robert Dryden, Robert Maxwell, Wesley Addy - Розваги
Usually I can listen to CBS RMT as I’m drifting off to sleep no problem but this one freaked me out!
I just discovered this channel ,and another, that plays these old radio mysteries. Restful night time listening, gives my eyes a break from watching you tube.
First cbsrmt I ever heard. Scarier than hell.
I listened to these on the radio for many years on WAKR AM in Akron, Oh. And I'm enjoying listening to them again.
I used to listen to this when I was a kid, scared the shit out of me, some very well acted dramas - the best of it's kind Thnx for uploading!
Just listening to this in 2021. Survived covid so far.
@@elainetalling1797 I broadcast throughout my neighborhood (using an FM transmitter) 2 episodes of CBS Mystery every Friday night.
@@3dsmaxrocks699 Bet that was brilliant .
Great channel! I remember listening to this series as a kid.
The creepiest one yet.I loved it.
Great episode! This story reminds me of the classic story The Monkey Paw. It was a story were a husband and wife lost their son in a car racing accident and she wished on a monkey paw to bring him back. He returned as a zombie and the husband wished him dead again.
Oh it makes up the elements of several stories, all unpleasant. Wanting to bring bfff ack the dead always is horrible.
Almost sounds like the plot to the movie "Pet Semetary"
This was a modern version, at the time of broadcast, of "The Monkey's Paw" which had several TV versions through the years. It is based on the English short story which was written by W. W. Jacobs in 1902. The story can be found complete and free on the internet. It is well worth reading because it does have a few differences from each presented version, no matter what the media may have been, and because it is quite well written.
a really classic show, great!
I grew up in a old building, there was a cubby door next to my bed that pulled out and I thought people lived in the walls,. Sad, creepy story
That was creepy! Thanks 🎃
This show was genuinely CREEPY.
After reading over some comments, I'm surprised to see people actually debating about what they might do in a similar situation. Firstly, unless you have been unfortunate enough to have lost a child, you can't begin to understand just how deep one can spiral into a black abyss of depression. I saw this as metaphor for a descent into madness, and how these 2 unfortunate people, in attempting to make sense of the finality of death, actually shared a delusion. They fed into each other's grief, and in the end.....
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Well said Violet.
We had loads of cracks in our new house, but it was guaranteed under nhbf rules, come to think of it, the chap who came to repair them looked like an evil little dwarf .
Death can really mess up your mind!
The mother said, "I paid dearly for this boon (wish)." We're not told specifically what the price was, but we know there was a price.
Yeah. I actually thought that she was going to wish that she and her daughter were together, and her husband would have come home to hear TWO voices from the crack in the wall. One way or another, the story ended too soon.
@@christosvoskresye I like your ending...
"Our little girl was burnt to death..." ha! (subtlety was NOT her husband's forte!!!)
The actor who played the father is off, not a good fit for this character
You overestimate yourself terribly. Think and feel vastly more deeply, especially when warned by a fine piece of audio-based literature created by folks brighter than we. It might help you make a sophisticated decision in real life someday, rather than feeling that your regular way of thought is sufficient for the unexpected in the real world...rather than feeling filled with self-admiration, and innocently calling up darkness when you might have saved the day. I certainly feel so about myself.
Thanks for this.
Husband was also a dumb coward. All the way through he denied everything, even when faced with the obvious.... and even when KNOWING his daughter could be brought back, preferred to deny her the second chance at life out of fear.
SPOILER WARNING:
Can someone help me? I don't understand something. The parents are given two wishes to bring their daughter back. So when they use the first wish to bring her back, they are upset that their daughter is mutilated from the fire that caused her death. And so they use the second wish to make her dead again and put back in her grave.
But why didn't they use that second wish to completely heal her instead of sending her back to the grave?
What Burns My Bacon The daughter would still know she had died in a fire. Despite no longer showing physical injury, psychologically she would have been a disaster waiting to happen.
The moral of this kind of story is always that you get what you ask for, not what you want. Who knows if the problem would have been psychological damage or what. For example, maybe the girl comes back, only for it to turn out that ANOTHER girl was the one burned to death, and now there is evidence that the daughter and parents had murdered the other girl and faked the daughter's death, perhaps for insurance fraud. No one would believe their supernatural story, of course, and they all go to the gas chamber.
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I disagree with you there, the second wish was the price, remember the helper told her she would need 2 instead of one, the cost was...well I don't want to spoil it for anyone who sees this and hasn't listened to the show. I thought that was very clever writing... But to each his own.
No, I think there is more price than that still to be paid.
My First Wish Would Have Been ■ The First House To Never Caught Fire ● ( Then There Daughter Would Of Never Died In The First Place ! ) ■ Second Wish ■ To Have A Never Ending Supply Of Wishes.. .. Now I Can Wish On Forever ..... Next Wish ☆ No More Covid 19 ! And I Would Go On And On ¤ ¤
A Man and his Ostrich
A man walks into a restaurant with a full-grown ostrich behind him. The waitress asks for their orders. The man says, "A hamburger, fries and a coke," and turns to the ostrich, "What's yours?"
"I'll have the same," says the ostrich.
A short time later the waitress returns with the order. "That will be $9.40 please," and the man reaches into his pocket and pulls out the exact change for payment.
The next day, the man and the ostrich come again and the man says, "A hamburger, fries, and a coke." The ostrich says, "I'll have the same."
Again the man reaches into his pocket and pays with exact change. This becomes routine until, the two enter again.
"The usual?" asks the waitress. "No, this is Friday night, so I will have a steak, baked potato, and salad," says the man. "Same," says the ostrich.
Shortly the waitress brings the order and says, "That will be $32.62." Once again the man pulls the exact change out of his pocket and places it on the table. The waitress can't hold back her curiosity any longer. "Excuse me, sir. How do you manage to always come up with the exact change out of your pocket every time?"
"Well," says the man, "several years ago I was cleaning the attic and found an old lamp. When I rubbed it a Genie appeared and offered me two wishes. My first wish was that if I ever had to pay for anything, I would just put my hand in my pocket and the right amount of money would always be there."
"That's brilliant!" says the waitress. "Most people would wish for a million dollars or something, but you'll always be as rich as you want for as long as you live!"
"That's right. Whether it's a gallon of milk or a Rolls Royce, the exact money is always there," says the man.
The waitress asks, "But, sir, what's with the ostrich?"
The man sighs, pauses, and answers, "My second wish was for a tall chick with a big butt and long legs who agrees with everything I say."
@@Alwis-Haph-Rytte LOL
NO. 1 ( Today, Wensday -- June 29th , 2016 )
it's now currently 1:08 Pm no I'm not sure of how many people out there actually accept that an entity a ghost could actually NOT show themselves but there has been times where it's more than most likely that you could identify a certain person that is passed.
No I don't know anyone does thinks on the same terms and it's a very good possibility that there is. But on the other side of this subject of what I wrote there's people out there vinyl think I'm totally crazy. That's all well and fine, but at the same time the people out there that have experience smaller or larger experiences they don't think I'm nut's
so with that said everybody enjoy the old radio stories like we did when I was a kid and what everybody else was a kid too it's all in your memories.
That husband/father is creepy, creepier than the little man.
It's the devil.... Run.
WHY do people fear death and the dead so much they would cause so much pain to the unliving? If they KNOW there is an afterlife, they should be glad, and also why be scared of the unliving? And if there is a way to coexist, even better! A way to bring one back to life? Great! Why the terror? Makes no sense! Why would people lose their heads like they do in all these stories? WTF?
Because, so very sadly, humans are imperfect at best, due to innocence/ignorance. You clearly would've been wiser. But not without hearing this show. At least, I would not have been so wise. Thus the real moral of the show...in my less-than-wise opinion. This tale is a variation of "The Monkey's Paw", where similar honestly innocent desire leads to fate's horror.
What about the price she paid to have 2 wishes...never mentioned. Bad script.
The price was the 2nd wish. She wished her daughter back in the grave.
I was really disappointed in the story line. This was just another unimaginative retelling of "The Monkey's Paw", when it could have been a fresh, interesting variation on that dreary old tale.
1. The priest could have pointed out two things - that even though it SOUNDED like their dead daughter, it could easily be something else mimicking her voice, and that it's highly likely that their daughter was already in heaven. Therefore their attempts to "bring her back" could have brought an evil imposter, instead.
OR that their selfish efforts to "bring her back" might have dragged her out of the bliss of heaven.
2. The CORRECT wish should have been that the fire never happened, in the first place. Somehow minor time travel seems beyond the capabilities of otherwise astoundingly powerful supernatural beings...
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It almost seems part of the norm for wives to use their cracks to drive their husbands straight into hell.
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