We have one more episode dedicated to saying thanks to our listeners! This time we are joined by Brent, a Patreon supporter at the highest tier! He’s brought us “The Long Wait” from Suspense featuring Burt Lancaster! Lancaster plays Dan, a man fresh out of prison for a crime he didn’t commit. When he goes to take revenge on Lois, the woman responsible for his incarceration and the death of his brother, he finds his feelings won’t let him follow through. Will his brother’s dangerous friends tolerate this change of heart? Can Lois’ happiness fulfill Dan? Would this story have worked better as an episode of Super Friends? Listen for yourself and find out! Then vote and let us know what you think!
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I’m 24 years old and I’ve listened to your 51st episode onward so far, still going backwards. But I love you guys and that you grab good radio stories for me to listen to while I work. I dont think I’d listen to as many radio stories as I have if it weren’t for you guys picking them out for me. So just thank you so very much.
Regarding favorite lines of the episode, I liked the opening lines: “When I stepped of the train at Grand Central I spotted Len Busch waiting for me. All the heat of my body sucked into my head. I knew that feeling – I felt that way every time I wanted to kill a man.” A nice match for Lancaster’s delivery.
Classic Suspense: I felt like Freiburger played fair with the setup and denouement. When Dan first meets Lois, after assessing her current lot in life, he decides she’s not worth killing. He then goes about improving her lot, then has his revenge. There are certainly other ways you could have taken a story like this, but none would have been a true Suspense story. Kudos to you three for keeping the art form green in our memories. Even better is that you are building a new audience as well. I was introduced to OTR by a fourth grade teacher, who… Read more »
Enjoyable episode with some good hardboiled dialogue.
“I watched hope push some of the unhappiness off of her face”