Saturday, September 12, 2009

Radio review – CP#31 – “Algiers” (1939) **1/2

Orson Welles enjoyed success as a dashing mysterious lover in a number of productions, notably Jane Eyre and Rebecca – he no doubt would have played more on screen had he not gotten so fat. But here is it as a master criminal hiding out in the Casbah, and very effective he is too. Paulette Goddard isn’t quite so happily cast – she wasn’t the best actor, Goddard, but she was pretty… which doesn’t help a lot on radio. This is still pretty good silly fun and you can really imagination as to what the Casbah is like.

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