Lux Radio Theater - King Solomon's Mines (12-01-52)
b'Lux Radio Theater - In October of 1934, "Lux Radio Theater" debuted in New York on NBC\'s Blue radio network. Presenting audio versions of popular Broadway plays, the show failed to garner an audience and soon ran out of material. After switching networks to CBS and moving to Hollywood, Lux found its true market. The show began featuring adaptations of popular films, performed by as many of the original stars as possible. With an endless supply of hit films scripts and an audience of more than 40 million, Lux enjoyed a prosperous run until the curtain fell in 1956.
THIS EPISODE:
King Solomon\'s Mines aired December 01, 1952 starring Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger in their original roles from the1950 film. Adventure stories don\\u2019t come more ripping than King Solomon\\u2019s Mines, the classic Great White Hunter tale. Novelist H. Rider Haggard\\u2019s hero, Allan Quatermain (Stewart Granger), reluctantly agrees to lead an Englishwoman (Deborah Kerr) and her brother deep into uncharted territory in Africa, in search of the lady\\u2019s lost husband. Stewart Granger plays Allan Quatermain, the intrepid hero of a whole series of adventure novels by Haggard over a period of almost thirty years. Quartermain is a big-game hunter and guide, brave, resourceful, wise, weary, cynical, and very, very British. Granger is perfect for the role; he sounds, and acts like the Quatermain of the novels. It\'s a spectacular adventure story with romance, while they fight with wild animals and cannibals.
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