| Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play
is an evening of adaptations of three early films directed by
Alfred Hitchcock: "The Lodger," "Sabotage" and "The 39 Steps."
These stories come to life in the style of a 1940s radio
broadcast, with five actors playing dozens of characters, live
sound effects and musical underscoring.
The Lodger: A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the
loose in London, murdering blonde women. A mysterious man
arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for a
room to rent. The Bunting's daughter is a blonde model and is
seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The
detective becomes jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect
he may be the avenger.
Sabotage: Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs
operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his
wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing
of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to
work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the
gang.
The 39 Steps: Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's
London. After a disturbance at a music hall, he meets
Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign agents. He
takes her back to his apartment, but they are followed and
later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run
to break the spy ring and thus prove his innocence.
Synopses copyright IMDB
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