Radio review – BP#3 – “Angel Street” (1952) **1/2

Thrillers didn’t always enjoy the best success on Broadway; this was a rare exception – indeed it remains one of the longest-running non-musicals on the Great White Way. It’s a decent enough melodrama with a great concept - driving someone insane (it was much copied) - plus Vincent Price and Judith Evelyn reprising their stage roles.

I always thought though that Price’s character seems to go to an awful lot of convoluted trouble in order to retrieve jewels – surely there were other ways to search for jewels other than marrying someone? Also not being visual you don't get all the little clues of how he drives his wife mad, eg dimming lights. There is a great ending where she tricks him. Melville C Cooper plays the detective.