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Old Time Radio Adventure — Escape: "The Man Who Would Be King" (1947) | Full Episode
Escape was CBS radio's half hour of high adventure, and this is the night it began: the series premiere of July 7, 1947, produced and directed by William N. Robson. Les Crutchfield adapts Rudyard Kipling's tale of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan, two loafers who sign a contract to swear off liquor and women until they become kings of Kafiristan, a land no Englishman has entered and left alive. With twenty smuggled Martini rifles and a working knowledge of Freemasonry, they find their kingdom in the snowbound mountains. Then Dravot decides a king needs a queen. Raymond Lawrence is Peachy…
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