RADIO ACTION THEATER - SPOTTED HORSES -- Based on a story by William Faulkner

SPOTTED HORSES -- Based on a story by William Faulkner

03/11/20 • 47 min

Part of a drama series hosted by Stacy Keach, based on short stories by William Faulkner. Spotted Horses, one of his greatest stories, introduces the Snopes clan, a humorless, devious bunch who descend on Yoknapatawpha County like locusts, in this case to sell a herd of worthless wild horses to the local residents. Recorded in New York City, with:

John Glover as Buck Hipps
Betty Buckley as Mrs. Armistid
Lois Smith as Mrs. Littlejohn
Will Patton as the Narrator
Bill Raymond, Lanny Flaherty, David Little, Rusty DeWees, David Costabile, Frank Licato as townsmen.
Music composed/performed by Donald Stark
Produced, written and directed by Robert Clem

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John Glover as Buck Hipps
Betty Buckley as Mrs. Armistid
Lois Smith as Mrs. Littlejohn
Will Patton as the Narrator
Bill Raymond, Lanny Flaherty, David Little, Rusty DeWees, David Costabile, Frank Licato as townsmen.
Music composed/performed by Donald Stark
Produced, written and directed by Robert Clem

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Part of a dramatic series based on short stories by William Faulkner. Mountain Victory, a dark tale written in 1932 at Faulkner's peak, tells of a Confederate officer and his former slave traveling home to Mississippi after the war's end who find their way blocked by embittered Unionists in the mountains of Tennessee. With:

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William Fichtner as Vatch
Jeff DeMunn as the Father
Welker White as Liddy
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Broadcast worldwide as part of a radio series celebrating William Faulkner's 100th birthday, the short story "Honor" from 1930 shows Faulkner in his Hollywood mode. He worked as a screenwriter on several films directed by Howard Hawks, including To Have and Have Not, and many of his novels were adapted as films including Douglas Sirk's Tarnished Angels (1957) based on Faulkner's 1935 novel Pylon and starring Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone. In the story "Honor" a former World War I pilot becomes a wing-walker in a flying circus and takes a step too far with a dangerous woman. Recorded in New York City with: