Off the Sound Track
OOSE, which I heard from 2YA last Tugsday (April 19) is an adaptation from the sound track of a film based on a play, and really this seems to be as good a way of getting a radio thriller as any other. It enjoyed the advantage of terse, nutty wise-cracking film dialogue, with the further advantage that one could hear every word, and the loss of visual action was no grave drawback since any reasonably experienced cinema-goer could use his mind’s eye in these heayily-chorded intervals between bouts of dialogue, The only thing listeners would have found at all jolting was the extreme suddenness of the finish, Cinema-goers, of course, are used to unravelling the plot on the way home with the aid of another sheep’s head, but radio whodunites like to be fed with a spoon rather than a fait accompli, And NZBS addicts may have been further bamboozled by having the baddie speak in one of those affable Cockney accents that we tend to associate with Harry Painter benevolence.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 10
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175Off the Sound Track New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 10
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