Audiobooks narrated by Alan Ladd

Nostalgia Radio’s Detective Favorites, Vol. 1

Enjoy sixteen of the greatest detective programs from radio’s golden age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them. Nostalgia radio had incredible comedy, mystery, western, sci-fi, drama, and detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in fully-dramatized broadcasts that entertained millions. In this collection of sixteen detective episodes, you’ll hear Frank Sinatra as amateur detective Rocky Fortune, Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Alan Ladd on Box Thirteen, Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, William Gargan as Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, Vincent Price as Simon Templar aka “The Saint” and many more! The Adv. of The Falcon 10/22/50 “The Case of the Double Nephew”The Adv. of Philip Marlowe 10/3/48 “The Persian Slippers”The Adv. of the Saint 12/3/50 “Martin Hickerson, Private Eye”The Adv. of Sam Spade, Detective 12/15/50 “The 25-12345679 Caper”The Adv. of Sherlock Holmes 11/6/39 “The Bruce Partington Plans”Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator 10/17/51Boston Blackie 6/18/48 “The Hooded Gang Protection Racket”Box Thirteen 1948 “Delinquent’s Dilemma”Broadway is My Beat 8/25/49 “Val Dane”Candy Matson 9/21/52 “The Fortune Teller” (audition show)Casey, Crime Photographer 11/2/50 “The Deadly Wolf”Dragnet 8/7/52 “The Big Impression”The New Adv. of Nero Wolfe 12/8/50 “The Impolite Corpse”Philo Vance, Detective 2/13/47 “The Blackjack Murder Case”Richard Diamond, Private Detective 1/4/52 “The Merry-Go-Round Case”Rocky Fortune 11/17/53 “Rocky is a Bass Player”

CBS Radio (Author), A Full Cast, Alan Ladd, Basil Rathbone, Dick Powell, Frank Sinatra, Jack Webb, Vincent Price, William Gargan (Narrator)

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Box Thirteen, Volume 2

"Adventure Wanted. Will Go Anywhere, Do Anything. Box Thirteen." More than just the show's title, 'Box Thirteen' was an address for action and two fisted adventure. Dan Holiday, played to tough guy perfection by movie star Alan Ladd, was a newspaper reporter turned mystery writer with a unique approach to obtaining new material for his stories. Using an ad placed in the paper he works for, Holiday helps those who contact him, often putting his life on the line. Mix that with his scatterbrained gal Friday named Suzy along with over the top colorful characters played by such radio veterans as Betty Lou Gerson, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Frank Lovejoy, and Joseph Kerns, and what you have is 6 hours of pulse pounding, nail biting, roller coaster pulp style action.

Author Various (Author), Alan Ladd (Narrator)

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Box Thirteen, Volume 3

Dan Holiday, risk taking reporter turned author, is back! Played to tough guy perfection by movie star Alan Ladd, Holiday continues to find mystery and mayhem around every corner thanks to his unique approach to obtaining new material for his stories. Using an ad placed in the paper he works for, Holiday answers each response, either offering help to those in trouble or finding out someone wants him framed, injured, or even dead. Hard as nails when he needs to be, Holiday also presents a very human everyman character in each adventure, thanks largely to Ladd's trademark ability to play a 'tough guy with a heart' in various roles. Follow Holiday on a roller coaster of death and danger in this new collection restored to the highest sparkling audio quality possible!

Author Various (Author), Alan Ladd (Narrator)

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Box Thirteen, Volume 4

"Adventure wanted. Will go anyplace, do anything. Box Thirteen." These words sent Dan Holiday, reporter turned author, into mystery and action for fifty-two episodes of 'Box Thirteen', a stand out radio program produced in 1948-49. Mayfair Productions, Ladd's own radio syndication company, produced the program, one of the best of its era. This final Volume of the classic well-produced show contains thrills, chills, and the conscientious tough guy persona of Alan Ladd to boot! Hang on tight and read over Dan Holiday's shoulder as he learns what danger and death awaits him when he checks in at the Star-Times. All the mystery, suspense, and pure adventure you can handle await you in Box Thirteen, Volume 4, the last episodes in this classic program.

Author Various (Author), Alan Ladd (Narrator)

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Screen Directors Playhouse - Chicago Deadline & The Fighting O'Flynn

In Hollywood's Golden Age stars were everywhere. As well as entertaining us in the local movie theatre many of them came to our home, our very own living room. Here they would perform radio versions of big-name films. Screen Directors Playhouse was famous for the lavish use of stars in their productions. Listen now and find out why it really was just like having your very own film studio in your living room.

Justin Huntly Mccarthy, Tiffany Thayer (Author), Alan Ladd, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr (Narrator)

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Short Stories of the Great War - Volume I

The short stories written during and about World War I are often over shadowed by the excellent verse of the War Poets.Yet the short story is perhaps their equal in other ways. Within these succinct little time capsules of words are captured ideas, attitudes, feelings and life that are expressed in a few pages just as movingly, imaginatively and tellingly as in any other form.Some of these stories will be familiar but some may not. From Virginia Woolf to Katharine Mansfield and John Buchan to C. E. Montague various writing styles try to make sense of this world at war.Some may do so directly and some obliquely. Some speak of class others of the masses but all reveal their author's intent and their mastery of war and its effects and consequences upon the human condition as told through their words.

C.E. Montague, John Buchan, Justin Huntly Mccarthy, Rudyard Kipling, Tiffany Thayer (Author), Alan Ladd, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Hollywood Stage - Casablanca

Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the 'go-to' place for entertainment and has been for decades. When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays - on the sponsors dime of course. Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Casablanca starring Hedy Lamarr & Alan Ladd.

Hollywood Stage Productions (Author), Alan Ladd, Hedy Lamarr (Narrator)

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Hollywood Stage - This Gun For Hire

Hollywood Stage Productions (Author), Alan Ladd, Joan Blondell (Narrator)

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Classic Radio's Greatest Westerns, Vol. 2

Here are twelve episodes from the greatest Western shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You'll hear William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke; John Dehner as the man called Paladin in Have Gun-Will Travel; Alan Ladd in a Western tale well-calculated to keep you in suspense; John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Gregory Peck reprising their film roles in Fort Apache, Destry Rides Again, and Yellow Sky; plus other great Western radio episodes, including four episodes of the high-adventure series Escape. Relive six hours of the best classic radio Westerns of yesteryear and the legendary stars that made them great. Escape: "The Pistol" with Gerald Mohr and Betty Lou Gerson (3 Jan 50), Escape: "Command" with Harry Bartell (26 May 50), Escape: "Sundown" with Sam Edwards (23 Jun 50), Escape: "Wild Jack Rhett" with John Dehner (17 Dec 50), Fort Laramie: "Never the Twain" with Raymond Burr (6 May 56), The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre: "Destry Rides Again" with Henry Fonda (2 Feb 41), Gunsmoke: "Lochinvar" with William Conrad (17 Oct 52), Have Gun-Will Travel: "Bitter Wine" with John Dehner (14 Jun 59), Screen Director's Playhouse: "Yellow Sky" with Gregory Peck (15 Jul 49), Screen Director's Playhouse: "Fort Apache" with John Wayne (5 Aug 49), Suspense: "A Killing in Abilene" with Alan Ladd (14 Dec 50), and Tales of the Texas Rangers: "Quick Silver" with Joel McCrea (12 Aug 50)

Hollywood 360 (Author), A Full Cast, A Full Cast, Alan Ladd, John Wayne (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Alan Ladd