Screen Guild Theater
Twelve O'Clock High
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Screen Guild Theater brings Hollywood films to radio, adapting stories for an ensemble of screen performers. Its broadcasts offer a chance to hear familiar movie stars in a different setting, using their voices and the imagination of the listener to create the drama.
This recording presents Twelve O'Clock High, a wartime story centered on the pressures of military leadership and the demands placed on an aircrew. The radio adaptation condenses the film’s dramatic material into a performance shaped by dialogue, narration, and sound, with the cast carrying the story through voice rather than images.
The result combines the immediacy of live-style radio drama with the appeal of a Hollywood cast taking on a well-known screen story. Listeners can enjoy the tension of the military setting and the focused, theatrical storytelling that makes a film adaptation work through sound.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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