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MS
Senior Member Usergroup: Member Joined: Mar 14, 2003 Total Topics: 71 Total Posts: 216 |
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There's a trio of new QP transcripts in the "Scripts" section of the message board: "Camera Obscura," "If I Should Wake Before I Die," and "A Night to Forget." There's also two transcripts of "Lights Out" episodes with Cooper scripts: "Death Robbery" and "The Coffin in Studio B." "Coffin" is sort of hidden -- it's in the same thread as "A Night to Forget." The episodes were broadcast in the 1940s but I'm guessing that the scripts were written during Cooper's stint as the series writer-director from 1934 to '36. "Death Robbery," broadcast from California a few weeks after QP debuted in New York, is credited to Cooper and someone named Paul Pierce. Anybody know anything about this collaboration? |
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MS
Senior Member Usergroup: Member Joined: Mar 14, 2003 Total Topics: 71 Total Posts: 216 |
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Three more transcripts of Cooper's non-QP radio material are online. Coincidentally, they're all about husbands with wife trouble. "Reunion After Death" (from Lights Out!), which has a few things in common with QP's "The Evening and the Morning," is about a bereaved widower who believes he has doomed his dead wife to haunt a dark cemetery for eternity: http://www.geocities.com/emruf6/reunion.html "Man in the Middle" (a.k.a. "After Five O'Clock" -- also from Lights Out!) is an interesting experiment in stream-of-consciousness narration about a businessman who cheats on his wife with his secretary while his subconscious mind haunts his every move: http://www.geocities.com/emruf6/middle.html Cooper's 1944 adaptation of the Broadway play "Redemption" (based on Tolstoy's "The Living Corpse") from the prestige anthology series "Arthur Hopkins Presents" is about a free-spirited alcoholic who leaves his wife, lives among the gypsies, and fakes his own death: http://www.geocities.com/emruf6/ah2.html |
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