The Maltese Falcon

Jan 30, 2021

The Maltese Falcon

The Waterfront Playhouse Radio Series, Waterfront On The Air, produced with US1Radio will present the murder mystery The Maltese Falcon on Saturday, January 30 at 8pm.
Broadcast live from the stage of the Waterfront Playhouse, the cast will feature Pony Charvet, Barbara Mundy, David Black, Ross Pipkin, Carolyn Cooper, Ervin Tumm, Christopher Peterson and John McDonald. Published in 1930, The Maltese Falcon was Dashiell Hammett’s third novel in two years. Here he creates a new detective, Sam Spade. When the intriguing Miss Wonderly appears in his office and asks him to tail a fellow named Floyd Thursby, Spade puts his partner, Miles Archer, on the case. In short order, Thursby and Archer turn up dead, and the beautiful woman is back in his office, this time telling him her real name, Brigid O’Shaughnessy, and imploring him, in a dramatic plea, to help her. Spade relents, though not before extracting a hefty retainer–almost all her money. Then a “small-boned man” named Joel Cairo calls on Spade. He has his own special interest in Thursby, and to Thursby’s relationship to a missing statuette of a black bird. The encounter leads the detective to the third main character, Casper Gutman. The fat man reveals the value of the Maltese falcon, and the treasure hunt is on.
The broadcast will be at 8pm January 30 on 104.1 FM or you can listen on US1Radio.com.
Due to current restrictions, tickets are not available for live viewing of the broadcast. For those patrons who would like to make a contribution, please click here
This show, as with all of the Waterfront Playhouse On the Air broadcasts are available following the show by going to us1radio.com/old-fashioned-radio-drama/
Upcoming Radio dramas include: Treasure Island, It Happened One Night, The Hitchhiker, Tales of Poe and numerous others.

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