Suspense Sundays (191) The Pasteboard Box

Suspense was a radio series from 1942 to 1962.  I have a fondness for "Old Time Radio" as we call it now, and Suspense is my favorite show.  It sets up weird, dark, scary, or intriguing stories with a plot twist in the end, and all in half an hour.  For Suspense Sundays I'll give a short review of an episode.

"The Pasteboard Box"

Air date: January 17, 1946
Starring Joseph Cotton

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Walter and Jack are twin brothers.  Jack is the bad seed - he's grown up resentful of his brother Walter who was favored by his father and in the end inherited the bulk of the family money.  Jack decides that maybe it's better if he takes over his brother's life and let's "Jack" die.  He puts the evidence of his crime in a pasteboard box, intending to get rid of it, but that proves surprisingly difficult.

The ways in which Jack or "Walter" tries by fails to get rid of that box was pretty inventive.  And entertaining, especially when he thought he'd gotten rid of it, only for it to come back to him.  Of course there is the all important irony of him needing that box in the end, and not being able to get to it.  This story was very entertaining, despite how awful a person Jack is, but then, the irony that maybe his brother was not much better was fantastic!