Radio review – Command Performance – “Superman with Bob Hope” (1946) **

The cast and idea would have made a great film – Bob Hope as Superman, Paulette Goddard as Lois Lane, and Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist bad guy. Although having said that they don’t use the Hope as Superman as much as they could have – maybe it needed something visual. He throws in some various contemporary ad libs. Lugosi does his regular stuff, and Goddard’s not-quite-right timing is more noticeable when you’re not distracted by her prettiness.