Besides his fictional noir crime stories, author Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym, William Irish, also explored exotic noir creating stories from the bayou among other locales. With Music From the Dark, aka Papa Benjamin, he created dark stories of voodoo and cult.
The CBS radio series Escape under William N Robeson and Norman MacDonnell, took Irish’s story and added smokey, dark jazz riffs built into a mystery story involving voodoo and created an even darker version of the original text. Story the gravelly-voiced Frank Lovejoy, the adaptation called Papa Benjamin takes on a life of its own to create an interesting study in human crime.
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