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This is just another example of how good Suspense is. They knew how to write great shows back then and to illuminate thank you so much for ur excellent synopsis.
The writing is so good, and so is the acting. Nowhere does one hear vocabulary and dialog like this today. Most films one can watch with the sound off. There is little radio drama.
Well, yeah, no kidding people talk differently now. These radio shows are quickly coming up on a hundred years old. These people didn't speak in a dialect eighty years before their time, either.
Fritz Lang's name doesn't appear among the credits, how do you figure he factors in it? I LOVE Fritz Lang's works, that's why I'm asking. ua-cam.com/video/HsUgIk6V690/v-deo.html
A hiccup at 54.26. Stephen says he wants to go home, and then the narrator has John searching for him in the water. Stephen must have jumped in, but nothing in the dialog, narration or even the sound effects indicate that.
Air Date:02.28.1948 ( February 28, 1948) Plot:+ "The House By The River". Who killed Emily Gaunt? A British murder mystery involving a poet, his brother, and the house...by the river! + Stephen Burns was a poet who’d found fame and fortune early and lives richly in comfort and adulation and who at 35 was already being compared with Keats and Shelly. He had in a few slender volumes made himself the voice and conscience of all England. His home standing on the banks of the Thames was known to a million Englishmen as the House by the River. Here he lived in peace and contentment with his wife Marjorie and his brother John. Then on the evening of June 15th last summer while Marjorie was out of the house and John not yet home he tried to kiss the maid Emily and when she protests he tries to shut her up with his hands around neck but he goes too far and kills her. When his brother John arrives home from his work in London he helps him to dispose of her body by dumping her in the river in a sack. As they are rowing back to shore Stephen remembers that his name and address are on the sack. Later when a police officer turns up with the sack Stephen tells him that it was kept in the cellar and used for collecting kindling wood. He tells the officer that his brother John was in charge of collecting the wood putting him under suspicion. It becomes impossible for the brothers to go on living as if nothing had happened and the differences between them becomes apparent. John is wracked with remorse and torn between wanting to protect his brother and Stephen tells him that since the murder he feels alive and he is going to write it all down in a poem, the story of two men the Black Knight and the White. This is truly Suspense at its best. www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/thriller/suspense/house-by-the-river-1948-02-28
@@lisadouglas3583 hi, I am trying to upload all of these for all 900 episodes. It's going to take some time. The website keeps crashing. But I'll get them all eventually
I love these shows but had to stop after about 10 minutes into this one. Not only did I not sympathize with the main character for what he did, I thought he was a moron for leaving his name on that sack. Next...
This is a top story! 10/10 points.
Thank you! For...keeping me in Suspense!.👍
This is just another example of how good Suspense is. They knew how to write great shows back then and to illuminate thank you so much for ur excellent synopsis.
I've seen the film(s), yet, enjoy these as well. Thank you.
Happy New Year 2023 to All!
The writing is so good, and so is the acting. Nowhere does one hear vocabulary and dialog like this today. Most films one can watch with the sound off. There is little radio drama.
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Well, yeah, no kidding people talk differently now. These radio shows are quickly coming up on a hundred years old. These people didn't speak in a dialect eighty years before their time, either.
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Unsetlling l! Binge listening during June 2020 Pandemic.
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Watch fritz langs film..."house by the river" 1950.... With Louis Hayward 👌👊
Fritz Lang's name doesn't appear among the credits, how do you figure he factors in it? I LOVE Fritz Lang's works, that's why I'm asking.
ua-cam.com/video/HsUgIk6V690/v-deo.html
A hiccup at 54.26. Stephen says he wants to go home, and then the narrator has John searching for him in the water. Stephen must have jumped in, but nothing in the dialog, narration or even the sound effects indicate that.
This must have been corrected since you listened. It clearly has Stephen jumping in and looking for John now.
@@Fannin7 54:00 He found him in the boat, then seconds later he dove into the water to look for him. Definitely has a hiccup.
What an unpleasant story!
Thanks! Will skip!!
Yes, "unpleasant" in the evil story of the brothers but, what great writing!
I saw this ad a movie sometime back.
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Air Date:02.28.1948 ( February 28, 1948) Plot:+ "The House By The River". Who killed Emily Gaunt? A British murder mystery involving a poet, his brother, and the house...by the river! + Stephen Burns was a poet who’d found fame and fortune early and lives richly in comfort and adulation and who at 35 was already being compared with Keats and Shelly. He had in a few slender volumes made himself the voice and conscience of all England. His home standing on the banks of the Thames was known to a million Englishmen as the House by the River. Here he lived in peace and contentment with his wife Marjorie and his brother John. Then on the evening of June 15th last summer while Marjorie was out of the house and John not yet home he tried to kiss the maid Emily and when she protests he tries to shut her up with his hands around neck but he goes too far and kills her. When his brother John arrives home from his work in London he helps him to dispose of her body by dumping her in the river in a sack. As they are rowing back to shore Stephen remembers that his name and address are on the sack. Later when a police officer turns up with the sack Stephen tells him that it was kept in the cellar and used for collecting kindling wood. He tells the officer that his brother John was in charge of collecting the wood putting him under suspicion. It becomes impossible for the brothers to go on living as if nothing had happened and the differences between them becomes apparent. John is wracked with remorse and torn between wanting to protect his brother and Stephen tells him that since the murder he feels alive and he is going to write it all down in a poem, the story of two men the Black Knight and the White. This is truly Suspense at its best.
www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/thriller/suspense/house-by-the-river-1948-02-28
IImitateVince Thank you!
@@lisadouglas3583 hi, I am trying to upload all of these for all 900 episodes. It's going to take some time. The website keeps crashing. But I'll get them all eventually
They should have used a heavier anchor.....but then, no story!
Is it just me or did Emily sound like an old lady 🤨 I know she was supposed to be a young lady but she just sounds elderly to me.
What a horrible story
I love these shows but had to stop after about 10 minutes into this one. Not only did I not sympathize with the main character for what he did, I thought he was a moron for leaving his name on that sack. Next...
I literally just stopped listening at that point too and came to look at the comments. Just an absolute moron lmao!
We aren't supposed to sympathize with him.
@@TreadwellJay If I don't care about the main character I don't care about the story.
Hate Robert Montgomery.....he's so full of himself
Hating dead people is unhealthy!
Robert had so much to fulfill himself.
Hate is not a good attribute.