Episode 660 - Statues for the Sleuths: Rex Harrison (Private Files of Rex Saunders)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Our month of Oscar-winning radio detectives continues with Rex Harrison, winner of the Best Actor prize for My Fair Lady and the debonair sleuth of The Private Files of Rex Saunders. We'll hear Rex as Rex in "When You Play a Game With Death" (audition recording from April 13, 1951), "A Shocking Still Life" (originally aired on NBC on May 9, 1951), "Diamonds Can Be Done to Death" (originally aired on NBC on May 16, 1951), and "A Murder Deep in A Killer's Mind" (originally aired on NBC on June 20, 1951).
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. |
| 0:02.1 | Crime is a sucker's road. |
| 0:03.9 | And those who travel |
| 0:04.6 | it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:12.3 | The story you were about to hear is true. |
| 0:15.2 | Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.6 | The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective. |
| 0:21.7 | The Adventures of the Saint, |
| 0:23.4 | starring Vincent Price. |
| 0:25.5 | Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures |
| 0:27.7 | of the man with the action-packed expense account. |
| 0:30.6 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator... |
| 0:33.4 | Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. |
| 1:04.3 | ... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers. |
| 1:12.6 | In honor of this month's Academy Awards ceremony, we're spending Sundays and March with radio Detective stars who took home Oscars for their big screen performances. |
| 1:16.6 | Today's award winner is Rex Harrison, who won the Best Actor Trophy for his performance |
| 1:22.6 | in My Fair Lady. |
| 1:24.6 | But before he was Professor Henry Higgins on stage and screen, Rex Harrison was Rex |
| 1:31.3 | Saunders, a debonair detective on NBC in the private files of Rex Saunders. The show was produced and |
| 1:41.0 | directed by Hyman Brown, who was also behind the scenes of Inner Sanctum Mysteries, |
| 1:47.0 | and another radio show about a debonair sleuth, Bulldog Drummond. |
| 1:52.0 | In fact, if you listen to them side by side, Rex Saunders feels like a copy of Drummond. |
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