Manpower - Marlene Dietrich - Edward G. Robinson - George Raft - Lux Radio Theater

A leg injury causes Los Angeles power line worker Hank McHenry to give up field work and accept a promotion to foreman. His crew includes good friend Johnny Marshall and old Pop Duval.

Manpower is a 1941 comedy drama directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft. The picture was written by Richard Macauley and Jerry Wald, and the supporting cast features Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Eve Arden, Barton MacLane, Ward Bond and Walter Catlett.

Robinson and Raft got into a fistfight on the set that was eagerly splashed all over the front pages of the nation's newspapers. Victor McLaglen was originally going to play Robinson's role, which would have made it a supporting part, and Raft reportedly resented sharing leading man status on the film as a result of Robinson being cast instead.

Raft chose Manpower over the remake of the 1931 pre-Code version of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, partly because it was a choice between untried first-time director John Huston and Walsh (the veteran director of Raft's 1933 hit The Bowery), plus Raft understandably reasoned that a Hayes Code-era remake may not be able to live up to its pre-Code predecessor, so the career-catapulting role of Sam Spade went to Humphrey Bogart instead. (Wikipedia)

Originally Broadcast 3/16/1942
Episode 343

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