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The Shanghai Jester

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A traveling swindler repeatedly sells bogus sugar-making ventures, and his international flight from justice includes a clever escape that leaves an innocent man imprisoned in his place.

This Calling All Cars broadcast aired on December 21, 1937. Don Lee Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Jesse Rosenquist and Lyle Talbot. Other credited names include Harvey O'Dell as host.

The surviving recording runs about 29 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Rio Grande Oil.

Early police procedural/true-crime dramatization based on Los Angeles-area law-enforcement cases.

Listeners can expect crime, episodic drama in format, and serious and tense in tone.

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