Episode 315 - Charles McGraw

Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 3 a.m.

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With a tough face, a gravelly voice, and a demeanor that meant business, Charles McGraw made memorable impressions on screen as both cops and criminals in movies like The Narrow Margin\\xa0and\\xa0The Killers.\\xa0McGraw starred on the big and small screens as well as the stage over the course of his long career. We\'ll hear him in a pair of "tales well calculated to keep you in\\xa0Suspense" plus the audition recording for a hardboiled police procedural drama. First, he\'s trying to avert a disaster in the sky in "Two Hundred and Twenty Seven Minutes of Hate" (an AFRS rebroadcast from February 24, 1957). Then, he\'s fresh out of prison with a plan to get revenge on the prosecutor who sent him there in "The Silver Frame" (originally aired on CBS on February 2, 1958). Finally, McGraw stars as Lt. Lou Dana in the audition recording for\\xa0The Man from Homicide (recorded on or around September 16, 1950).

Coming up next: A bonus episode featuring the best of Ray Milland on\\xa0Suspense and on Sunday, 12/11 William Conrad returns to the podcast!

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