Hollywood Playhouse - The Humphrey Bogart Collection

Adapted for Radio & Performed in Front of a Live Studio Audience by Many of the Original Film Stars

By: Mr Punch Audiobooks

Narrated by: Humphrey Bogart, Greer Garson, Ingrid Bergman, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Walter Huston

Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Hollywood Playhouse - The Humphrey Bogart Collection is a unique compilation of four Oscar-winning films specially adapted for the radio and performed by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. Originally broadcast on the radio, they were to become as popular with the public as the movies themselves.

These programmes have been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast.

Mr Punch Presents:

The African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson

Adapted from the novel by C.S. Forester, it is set in 1915 during the First World War on the treacherous rivers of war-torn Africa. Rose Sayer, the prim missionary is offered safe passage by Charlie Allnut, the gin-drinking river trader who reluctantly agrees to help her travel down river and destroy a German gun boat.

Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman

Perhaps the most watched of all Hollywood movies, tells the story of Rick Blaine, a night club owner in Casablanca and his former lover, Ilse Lund, who persuades Rick to help her husband to escape from the Nazis. Featuring the classic song ‘As Time Goes By’.

In The Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart stars as the private detective Sam Spade, who becomes involved in the quest for the priceless and much-coveted black falcon statuette.

The Treasure of The Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston

We follow the fortunes of three ill-matched gold diggers, who are searching for treasure in Mexico. As they hunt for their elusive prize, the three prospectors become progressively more corrupt and greedy and fall foul of each other’s all-consuming greed, in this exciting adventure story.

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Critic reviews

"One of the best things Hollywood has done since it learned to talk; and the movie can take a place, without blushing, among the best ever made." (Time Magazine)

"These radio dramas were...to become as popular as the movies themselves." (Hollywood Movie Memories)

"A lovely series to add to any film, audio or crime lovers’ collection." (Audio World)