Ep.448 Philo Vance: The Magic Murder Case

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Philo Vance is the detective creation of S. S. Van Dine first published in the mid 1920s. Jose Ferrer played him in 1945. From 1948-1950, the fine radio actor Jackson Beck makes Vance as good as he gets. George Petrie plays Vance's constantly impressed public servant, District Attorney Markham. Joan Alexander is Ellen Deering, Vance's secretary and right-hand woman. The organist for the show is really working those ivories, and fans of old time radio organ will especially enjoy this series. ...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio.
0:21.8	I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.
0:27.1	For this episode, I bring you, Philo Vance, episode titled The Magic Murder Case, originally aired March 20th, 1947, where a hated magician is found murdered in a locked room.
0:42.2	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:48.7	Thank you for listening. The It will do you know good to stay here and watch me. For you, I have no magic tricks to build or to sell.
1:31.6	Now, look, Pop, I'll pay you just as much as any magician. Maybe more.
1:36.8	Oh, no. For you, I have nothing. I build a trick or an illusion for you, and what do you do with it?
1:43.8	Expose it at the stage.
1:45.3	Show the public how it works.
1:47.3	You are not a magician.
1:49.5	You make it get impossible for magicians to work.
1:52.0	Get out of my shop.
1:52.8	Now, Pop, all I want is one trick.
1:56.7	Nobody can make them like you.
1:59.0	A Pop Baker false bottom table looks two inches high to an audience.
2:03.8	Actually, it's about six.
2:05.8	Nobody's as good as you, Pop.
2:08.4	The great Mento says nobody is as good as me.
2:12.4	So I relent.
2:13.5	I sell him my tricks.
2:15.1	Oh, no.
2:16.6	Now, not for you, Manto. No tricks. Look, no. No, not for you, Menton.
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