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Friday May 21, 2010
Police Reporter - Pgm 2
Friday May 21, 2010
Friday May 21, 2010
This week, the second episode in the previously lost/uncirculated 1930s syndicated series, "The Police Reporter". We'll be running through all 26 episodes in the series over the next few months.
Program 2 deals with a gruesome series of murders that occurred in Duseldorf, Germany in 1929 by the "Vampire Killer". It's the true story of Peter Kürten, the basis for Fritz Lang's classic film "M". Feel free to add in the comments any info you find out about the series; it's not well documented and I only found a bit about it through some Google Books and online newspaper archive searches. Programs 13 and 26 in the series include a cast list for the series, so I'm assuming that the programs were recorded in two series of sessions. The cast list in program 13 includes Noreen Gammill, C. Whitney Sheeley, Hugh Lester, Sid Bracey and Jack Lewis. The cast list in program 26 is similar, adding Elzabeth Russell and Blaire Davies and omitting Sid Bracey. Both Gammill and Lewis have several credits at Goldin, primarily for 1930s shows that originated in Hollywood. The show was transferred from original shellac Radio Release, Ltd transcription, pressed by Allied Recording in Hollywood, matrix number A-1069. If you're wondering how I know who pressed the discs in the series, it's because one of the discs was pressed out of sequence and is one-sided - the back has an Allied Recording dead side design. Next week: The true story of the shocking 1921 case of the so-called "Georgia Slave Murders"...Version: 20240320
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