Hard-boiled radio
The Noir Microphone
The private-eye voiceover — world-weary, first-person, a little too clever — was a radio invention before it was a film cliché.
1943 – 1953 · 5 stops · 2h 46m
- 1
Hammett's detective, adapted with more comedy than the novels allow.
- 2
Chandler's detective, closer to the source's own tone.
- 3
The style pushed almost to parody — simile piled on simile.
- 4
The lighter version, closer to musical comedy than crime fiction.
- 5
The same voice relocated from the waterfront to Times Square.
