Thursday, September 29, 2011

Radio review – Suspense – “The Diary of Captain Scott” (1952) ***

Herbert Marshall often played noble losers in films (he was always being cheated on) so he was ideal to play the noblest loser of them all, Captain Scott. Polar stories adapt well to radio - all that wind and diary entries, and the story has always worked. They have some conversations between Scott and his wife in the form of a hallucination - a device which works well.

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