Howard Duff has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 8 ratings. The most-rated is The Adventures of Sam Spade: Lawless.
The Adventures of Sam Spade: Lawless
Summary
No bigger fad swept across postwar radio than that of the hard-boiled private detective - and nobody had more fun with their wink-and-nudge take on the genre than the producers, writers, and cast of The Adventures of Sam Spade. Dashiell Hammett's legendary private eye had a sardonic sense of humor, which wavy-haired, rugged-voiced Howard Duff played to perfection. Produced and directed by William Spier, costarring Lurene Tuttle, and featuring one episode with Stephen Dunne in the title role, we bring you 16 capers with the greatest private detective of them all. Episodes include: The Adam Figg Caper 10-05-47; The Rushlight Diamond Caper 07-04-48; The Mad Scientist Caper 07-25-48; The Dry Martini Caper 08-01-48; The Critical Author Caper 08-15-48; The Lawless Caper 08-29-48; The Sugar Kane Caper 10-03-48; The Quarter-Eagle Caper 11-28-48; The Bouncing Betty Caper 12-12-48; The Stopped Watch Caper 04-10-49; The Apple of Eve Caper 06-19-49; The Queen Bee Caper 07-10-49; The Prodigal Daughter Caper 08-28-49; The Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail Caper 12-04-49; The Honest Thief Caper 05-28-50; The Chateau McLeod Caper 01-26-51.
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Suspense
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For 20 years Suspense brought radio listeners incalculable sharp inhales, tingled spines, and shortened breaths. Every week brought a fresh slate, a fresh cast, and a fresh challenge with an attention to detail and consistent script quality that never lost ground. From beginning to end, Suspense stands as one of radio’s lasting achievements - and the creative peak of the broadcast anthology format. Suspense: Omnibus includes 20 of the best episodes from the series that, true to form, feature ordinary people - painfully ordinary - who through no fault of their own, find themselves immersed in extraordinary circumstances. Small, innocuous, it-doesn’t-really-hurt-anyone crimes spiral wildly out of control. Innocent white lies turned dark and terrifying in their consequences. Playing these ordinary people are extraordinary stars including John Dehner, Charles Laughton, Howard Duff, Rosalind Russell, Dick Powell, Ray Milland, Gregory Peck, Sheldon Leonard, Vincent Price, Dana Andrews, William Bendix, Lena Horne, Orson Welles, Ed Gardner, and more. For radio enthusiasts, there’s nothing quite like Suspense! Digitally remastered for your listening enjoyment. Episodes include: The Bodysnatchers 11-24-42; Life Ends at Midnight 02-17-44; The Palmer Method 04-20-44; The Dark Tower 05-04-44; You Were Wonderful 11-09-44; A Guy Gets Lonely 04-05-45; Pearls Are a Nuisance 04-19-45; Two Birds With One Stone 05-17-45; My Dear Niece 01-24-46; The Name of the Beast 04-11-46; Feast of the Furies 07-11-46; Tree of Life 01-02-47; The Twist 09-11-47; Nightmare 09-01-49; Chicken Feed 09-08-49; Blind Date 09-29-49; Slow Burn 02-23-50; When the Bough Breaks 05-03-51; Neil Cream, Doctor of Poison 09-17-51; The Man with the Steel Teeth 02-17-55.
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The Adventures of Sam Spade
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When Howard Duff, radio’s regular Sam Spade, was dropped from the show, Steven Dunne donned the trench coat. Finding his own brash and boyish style with the role, Dunne’s Spade was much like creator Dashiell Hammett himself - a grown-up teenager who loved a put-on, but could be depended on to be loyal and true despite his own troubles. In these digitally remastered capers, Hammett’s hard-boiled hero delves in to the domains of daytime serials, journalism, the waterfront, and international intrigue. He comes to the aid of old ladies, little boys, and alluring red-headed ladies by solving cases of missing jewels, mysterious money, and murder. Features the voice talents of Jack Kruschen, Paul Frees, Cathy Lewis, Fritz Feld, Georgia Ellis, Olan Soule, Virginia Gregg, William Conrad, Joan Banks, Alan Reed, Hans Conried, Verna Felton, and many more. Includes an episode of The McCoy starring former Sam Spade star Howard Duff - a decidedly tongue-in-cheek play on the idea that Duff had been “the real McCoy” as Sam Spade. Episodes Include: The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Dog Bed Caper 12-01-50, The 25-1235679 Caper 12-15-50, The Prodigal Panda Caper 12-29-50, The Biddle Riddle Caper 01-05-51, The Red Star Caper 01-12-51, The Cloak and Dagger Caper 01-19-51, String of Death Caper 02-02-51, The Soap Opera Caper 02-16-51, The Shot in the Dark Caper 02-23-51, The Crab Louis Caper 03-02-51, The Spanish Prisoner Caper 03-09-51, This Sinister Siren Caper 03-16-51, The Kimberly Cross Caper 03-23-51, The Denny Shane Caper 04-06-51, The Civic Pride Caper 04-13-51; The McCoy: Three Wayward Girls 04-25-5. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Suspense: Beyond Good and Evil
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Agonizing predicaments, stellar sound effects, and high wattage Hollywood star power combine in radio's top thriller. Myrna Loy, Joseph Cotten, Lucille Ball, Robert Taylor, Ronald Colman, and Agnes Moorehead give brilliant performances in blood-chilling stories. Twenty white-knuckled episodes (produced and directed by the legendary William Spier) feature a superior supporting cast, including John Dehner, Howard Duff, Elliott Lewis, William Johnstone, Joseph Kearns, and more. The tension and excitement of this Peabody Award-winning series are well calculated to keep you in...Suspense! Episodes Include: The Story of Ivy 06-21-45; The Dealings of Mr. Markham 06-28-45; The Last Detail 07-05-45; A Man in the House 08-02-45; Murder for Myra 08-09-45; Library Book 09-20-45; Beyond Good and Evil 10-11-45; A Shroud for Sara 10-25-45; The Dunwich Horror 11-01-45; The Bet 11-08-45; The Argyle Album 12-13-45; Double Entry 12-20-45; The Long Shot 01-31-46; No More Alice 03-14-46; Out of Control 03-28-46; Post Mortem 04-04-46; The Night Reveals 04-18-46; The Leading Citizen of Pratt County 05-30-46; The High Wall 06-06-46; Can't We Be Friends 07-25-46.
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The Zero Hour, Program Six
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"Rest your eyes, and listen here....I'm Rod Serling, and this is The Zero Hour." From 1972 to 1974, The Zero Hour brought potent thrillers to the radio waves, edge-of-your-seat original radio dramas from best-selling mystery novels, featuring stars from radio's Golden Age and popular television personalities. Rest your eyes and experience a provocative episode from this legendary radio program. Featuring original music, sound effects, and a full cast of characters, this is theater for the mind.
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