Suspense: The Mountain (LQ) (

Suspense: 11/01/55, episode 621
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Parley Baer and Ben Wright star in the second performance of this Antony Ellis script a dangerous climb up one of the world’s tallest peaks. The story begins with a team of six tired and half-frozen climbers at the 24,000-foot level. The peak is hidden in mist, and towers almost a mile above them. As they climb to the peak, there is a scream and a terrifying tug of the rope as one of the climbers plunges over the edge of a crevasse. That incident is all the more concerning as one climber has lost total trust in the other.
The script was previously used on 1953-03-16 and starred John Hodiak. For details about that broadcast and how Ellis’ script relates to climbs of Mount Everest at that time, go to suspenseprojec...
The script was originally planned for broadcast on October 25. 1955. It was held for another week, and was broadcast live.
The surviving recording is of low quality with narrow range. It is hoped that an Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) transcription might be found to replace it sometime in the future.
The cast: Parley Baer (Bob Foster), Ben Wright (John Eldridge), Jim Nusser (Thomas), Herb Ellis (Harry Feldman), Vic Perrin (Perrucci), Bill James (Gaines), Larry Thor (Narrator)
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