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. (CONQUERING kings their titles take | from the foes they captive make, but the broadcasting services are even less particular about where they get theirs from. Not that I feel unduly perturbed _by the BBC’s conversion of Craig Rice’s | Having a Wonderful Crime for the new _Wayne-Radford vehicle from 2YA. But I would describe as felonious the use of John Dickson Carr’s title It Walks by Night to lure innocents like myself into listening to Max Afford’s second-rate serial. In all my years of thriller-listen-ing I have seldom met anything less convincingly written or less convincingly acted. Possibly our intelligent NBS cast finds it difficult to believe in werewolves (so do we all), but they should not lose sight of the fact that it is their professional if not their moral duty to convince us. Admittedly the author has made it harder for them by refusing to make his characters anything more than caricatures, and I defy any actress to make convincing the scene where the young ingenue mentions. casually over a knitting pattern the fact that she noticed a werewolf skulking in the courtyard the night before. The sooner young Janet gets round to telling the authorities and getting the dreary business cleared up the better, but I feel the production is doomed to proceed at walking’ pace at any rate. till the cast is more familiar with its lines.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 550, 6 January 1950, Page 10
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231Walkie-Talkie New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 550, 6 January 1950, Page 10
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