Radio review - Lux - "Johnny Apollo" (1941) ** (warning: spoilers)

Burgess Meredith isn't the first actor one thinks of as a replacement for Tyrone Power, but it was radio and his voice has presence and authority, and he ends up giving a fine performance as the young man who becomes a gangster after his corrupt millionaire father is revealed to be a crook. Edward Arnold plays Dad and Dorothy Lamour is the girl he falls for (she sings a song). There's a soft element at the centre of this - Meredith never becomes much of a gangster, Arnold is set up to die at the end to save his son but he doesn't, and Meredith doesn't go down in a blaze of glory but only for a couple of years.