Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio

Adventure Ahead: Hill Lawyer (A0109)

Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio

Show Notes

Today's Adventure: Young attorney Jim Martin travels into the Blue Ridge Mountains expecting to handle a routine title search, only to find himself caught in a battle against ruthless swindlers who are terrorizing an isolated mountain community in their quest to seize valuable coal rights.

Original Radio Broadcast: October 14, 1944

Originating in New York

Starring Lawson Zerbe as Jim Martin. Also featuring Jim Boles, Kermit Murdock, Walter Vaughn, Richard Keith, Jack McBride, and Tony Muro.

From the novel by Hubert Skidmore. Adapted for radio by Howard Carraway.

Music conducted by Andre Kostelanetz.

Production by Herbert Rice.

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