Radio Adaptations as Special Features

[canem]

I couldn't find a list of radio adaptations included on Blu-ray compiled anywhere so thought I would start one.

These are fun to listen to or just put on in the background, and often had actors from the movie reprising their roles. Please add any and all radio programs you know of, and if there are any especially good ones worth seeking out!

Criterion

All About Eve- Radio adaptation from 1951.
The Awful Truth - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1939, starring Grant and Claudette Colbert.
Cluny Brown - Screen Directors Playhouse radio adaptation from 1950, featuring Dorothy McGuire and Charles Boyer.
Destry Rides Again - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1945, featuring actors James Stewart and Joan Blondell.
Dietrich & von Sternberg - The Legionnaire and the Lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Morocco, featuring Dietrich and Clark Gable.
Foreign Corespondent - Radio adaptation from 1946, starring Joseph Cotten.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Here Comes Mr. Jordan from 1942 starring Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, and James Gleason.
His Girl Friday - Radio adaptation of His Girl Friday from 1940, and Radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946.
In a Lonely Place- Radio adaptation from 1948 of the original Dorothy B. Hughes novel, broadcast on the program Suspense.
The Killers- Screen Directors’ Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters.
The Lady Eve - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1942 featuring Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Milland.
The Magnificent Ambersons - Two Mercury Theatre radio plays: Seventeen (1938), an adaptation of another Booth Tarkington novel by Welles, and The Magnificent Ambersons (1939).
My Darling Clementine - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1947 starring Henry Fonda and Cathy Downs.
My Man Godfrey - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1938.
Now, Voyager - Two radio adaptations from 1943 and 1946.
Only Angels Have Wings - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1939, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess, and Thomas Mitchell, and hosted by filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille.
The Palm Beach Story - Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation of the film from March 1943.
The Philadelphia Story - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1943, featuring an introduction by filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille.
Rebecca - Three radio versions of Rebecca, from 1938, 1941, and 1950, including Orson Welles’s adaptation of the novel for the Mercury Theatre.
Red River - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Red River from 1949, featuring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, and Walter Brennan.
Show Boat - Two radio adaptations: Campbell Playhouse from 1939 produced and narrated by Orson Welles, featuring Helen Morgan and stage and author Edna Ferber. Radio Hall of Fame from 1944 featuring Allan Jones and Charles Winninger.
Stagecoach - Screen Director's Playhouse 1949 radio dramatization of Stagecoach, with John Wayne, Claire Trevor, and Ford, downloadable as an MP3 file.
To Be or Not To Be - Two episodes of The Screen Guild Theater: Variety (1940), starring Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, and Lubitsch, and To Be or Not to Be (1942), an adaptation of the film, starring William Powell, Diana Lewis, and Sig Ruman.
The Uninvited - Two radio adaptations, from 1944 and 1949, both starring Ray Milland.
The War of the Worlds - The Mercury Theatre on the Air radio play of The War of the Worlds from 1938, adapted by Howard Koch and directed and narrated by Orson Welles.
Young Mr. Lincoln - Academy Award radio dramatization of the film.


Warner Archive / Warner Bros.

A Christmas Story (steelbook only)- two recordings from Jean Shepherd's radio show.
Casablanca - Two radio adaptations: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater Radio Broadcast" from 1943 featuring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid. "VOX Pop Radio Broadcast" from 1947.
Easter Parade - The Screen Guild Theater Broadcast from 1951, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire.
Gaslight - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1946 starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman, with introduction by William Keighley.
Petrified Forest - Gulf Screen Radio Broadcast from 1940, starring Humphrey Bogart.
The Thin Man - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1932, guest-hosted by director W.S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.
To Have and Have Not - Lux Radio Theatre broadcast from 1946 featuring Bogart and Bacall.
Yankee Doodle Dandy - Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater Radio Show from 1942, radio presentation of highlights featuring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Jean Cagney.

Arrow Academy

The Big Clock - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1948 starring Ray Milland.
The Major and the Minor - Radio adaptation from 1943 featuring Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland.
My Darling Clementine (Region B) - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1947 starring Henry Fonda and Cathy Downs. (Also included on the Criterion release)
Phantom Lady - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1944 with Alan Curtis and Ella Raines.


Twilight Time

Dragonwyck - Two radio adaptations: Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Anya Seton’s novel from 1946, starring Vincent Price and Gene Tierney. The Screen Guild Theater adaptation from 1947 starring Vincent Price and Theresa Wright. (Also included on the Indicator release)
My Cousin Rachel - My Cousin Rachel Vintage Radio Show.
The Snake Pit - Two "The Snake Pit" Vintage Radio Shows.

ClassicFlix

Africa Screams - Abbott and Costello radio show with Bela Lugosi (the complete recording session as transcribed on February 23, 1948 and the final broadcast master of May 5, 1948).

Indicator/Powerhouse Films

Dragonwyck - Two radio adaptations: Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Anya Seton’s novel from 1946, starring Vincent Price and Gene Tierney. The Screen Guild Theater adaptation from 1947 starring Vincent Price and Theresa Wright. (Also included on the Twilight Time release)
Night of the Demon - Escape: "Casting the Runes" Radio adaptation from 1947.

Lionsgate

Apocalypse, Now - Mercury Theater Production of 'Heart of Darkness' from 1938 featuring Orson Welles.

Sony

It Happened One Night (Germany, Region Free) - 1939 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.

Kaleidoscope Entertainment

Pontypool (UK, Region Free)- "Pontypool - the Radio Play" - a Blu-ray exclusive of the play that inspired the film.

Eureka (Region B)

A Foreign Affair- Two Screen Directors Playhouse radio adaptations from 1949 and 1951, featuring Billy Wilder, Marlene Dietrich, Rosalind Russell, John Lund, and Lucille Ball.
A Letter to Three Wives - Two Radio adaptations: Screen Guild Theater from 1949, and Lux Radio Theatre from 1950.
The African Queen - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1952 starring Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson.
Cloak and Dagger - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1946 starring Lilli Palmer and Ronald Reagan.
Criss Cross - Screen Director's Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949, featuring Burt Lancaster.
Double Indemnity - 1945 Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray.
Five Graves to Cairo - Lux Radio Theatre adaptation from 1943 starring Anne Baxter, Francho Tone, Otto Preminger, and host Cecile B. DeMille.
Laura - Four radio adaptations: Two Lux Radio Theater broadcasts - one from 1945 starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney and Vincent Price, and one from 1954 starring Gene Tierney and Victor Mature. The Screen Guild Theater adaptation from 1945 starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Ford Theater broadcast – an adaptation from 1948, starring Virginia Gilmore and John Larkin.
The Lost Weekend - 1946 Screen Guild Theater radio adaptation starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, and Frankie Faylen.
Ruggles of Red Gap - Three radio adaptations featuring Charles Laughton and Charlie Ruggles: Lux Radio Theatre from 1939, Screen Guild Theater from 1945, and Academy Award Theater from 1946.
Shane - Complete Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Shane.
This Gun for Hire - Two radio adaptations: Lux Radio Theatre from 1943 featuring Alan Ladd and Joan Blondell. Screen Guild Theater episode from 1945 featuring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.
Three Edgar Allan Poe Adaptations Starring Bela Lugosi - Two radio adaptations: "The Black Cat" episode of radio series Mystery In The Air, starring Peter Lorre, and "The Tell-Tale Heart" episode of radio series Inner Sanctum Mysteries, starring Boris Karloff.

Television

The Twilight Zone: Season 1 - 18 Episodes of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas
The Twilight Zone: Season 2 - 15 Episodes of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas
The Twilight Zone: Season 3 - 19 Episodes of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas
The Twilight Zone: Season 4 - 7 Episodes of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas
The Twilight Zone: Season 5 - 22 Episodes of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas

[Michael24]

Casablanca has a 1943 adaptation from "The Screen Guild Theater" featuring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid.

[Dailyan]

Twilight Time:
Dragonwyck
My Cousin Rachel
The Snake Pit

[nymets24]

The Major And The Minor has an adaptation from 1943 with Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland. It's Arrow Academy.

[canem]

Added, thank you!

[Starchild]

Classic Flix Africa Screams has 2 copies of radio shows with Bella Lugosi. One unedited and one radio edit. Though not a radio adaptation so not sure if it fits your criteria.

[jmilo61]

The UK Pontypool release has one.

[canem]

Originally Posted by Starchild

Classic Flix Africa Screams has 2 copies of radio shows with Bella Lugosi. One unedited and one radio edit. Though not a radio adaptation so not sure if it fits your criteria.

Added! As long as it's an actual radio show and not just interviews or advertisements it's good enough for me, doesn't have to be an adaption of the movie it's included with

[ElRobHubbard]

Arrow Academy's release of Phantom Lady has an hour long 1944 dramatization by Lux Radio Theatre, with Alan Curtis and Ella Raines.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Phant...227171/#Review

and Criterion's release of Show Boat has two radio adaptations by The Campbell Playhouse and The Radio Hall of Fame.

Campbell Playhouse - produced and narrated by Orson Welles, aired on The Campbell Playhouse on March 31,1939. It stars the original stage and 1936 film performer Helen Morgan as Julie, and Show Boat author Edna Ferber in the role of Parthenia Hawks.

Radio Hall of Fame - aired on December 31,1944 and features the 1936 film performer Allan Jones as Gaylord Ravenal and original stage and '36 film performer Charles Winninger as Cap'n Andy Hawks and narrator.

[whiteberry]

1. It Happened One Night
   The Sony blu-rays of It Happened One Night have the 1939 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. They also have the other extras from the Sony DVD that are missing from the Criterion blu-ray including the audio commentary track.
   https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/It-Ha...lu-ray/137824/
   https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/It-Ha...lu-ray/266490/
   
   
2. A Christmas Story
   I don't know if you want to include this on your list but the SteelBook version of A Christmas Story has two recordings of Jean Shepherd's radio show. He reads two of the stories that were incorporated into the A Christmas Story script: "Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid" [38:05] and "Flick's Tongue" [30:50]. Jean Shepherd was the narrator (and one of the screenwriters) of the movie.
   https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/A-Chr...Blu-ray/57333/

[canem]

Added!

[ravenus]

Eureka release of Ruggles of Red Gap has 3 radio adaptations:
-- The Lux Radio Theater, July 10, 1939. (58 min).
-- The Screen Guild Theater, December 17, 1945. (30 min).
-- Academy Award Theater, June 8, 1946. (32 min).

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by canem

Added!

For A Christmas Story, I would add something like "SteelBook version only" because the original blu-ray doesn't have the two Jean Shepherd radio recordings.

[vondrake]

WB - The Petrified Forest 1940 Gulf Screen Radio Broadcast with Bogart

and To Have and Have Not

[TheChangingMan]

The "Apocalypse Now" 40th anniversary set has an Orson Welles adaptation of "Heart of Darkness" on one of the discs.

[canem]

Added, thank you!

[koberulz]

[Professor Echo]

Fantastic idea for a thread! Old time radio shows are one of my favorite extras.

I'm not sure it fits your criteria, but I suppose you could mention that the Eureka Blu of CLOAK AND DAGGER also contains the full run of 22 episodes for the 1950 radio series entitled CLOAK AND DAGGER.

And the upcoming Eureka release of the Universal film series INNER SANCTUM will include several episodes of the original INNER SANCTUM radio show. The Mill Creek release of the SANCTUM movies will also have a few of the radio shows, but they will be digital only.

[schwaarz]

The Lionsgate/Studio Canal and OOP Criterion releases of THE THIRD MAN contain episodes of The Lives of Harry Lime and Lux Radio Theatre shows.

[Areyakiddin]

Not sure if this thread is being updated, but there are quite a few more that have come out since 2020 that can be added:



I'm sure there's plenty I missed.

EDIT: Also missed this one in the OP.

Doesn't contain an adaptation of the movie, but the radio play is based on the same story that the movie (very loosely) adapts: