Suspense - Remember Me?

In "Remember Me?," Dan Duryea stars as a hoodlum, who runs into a woman that he knew in high school, while committing an armed robbery.

As the episode opens, Harry Norris enters a local grocery store and tells the owner, Mr. Liebowitz, to hand over the money in the register. The owner resists and Harry shoots. He grabs the money and prepares to leave, but before he can...a woman enters the store.

She is confused to find someone else behind the register, but Harry explains that Mr. Leibowitz had to leave. Then, the woman, Ruth Shaw, recognizes him from high school. Why, she doesn't just recognize him, she remembers everything about him!

Harry is surprised and flattered, but her reminiscing doesn't change his problem. He needs to get rid of her because she can identify him...

"Remember Me?" was written by Gus C. Bayz and produced/directed by Elliott Lewis. Dan Duryea starred. Also appearing were Charlotte Lawrence, Ruth Perrott, Lee Millar, Charles Calvert, and Joseph Kearns. This episode aired on April 7, 1952.

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Suspense presented this story a second time on May 3, 1955. Tony Barrett and Charlotte Lawrence starred.

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Suspense presented this story for the third time on August 24, 1958. Jackie Cooper starred. Also appearing were Sandra Gould and Barney Phillips.

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The Suspense television show presented this story on August 12, 1952 with Martin Brooks and Chloris Leachman in the lead roles. It is available on disc 3 of Suspense: The Lost Episodes Collection One.

Comments

[Motorcitystacy]

good story but one MAJOR flaw. According to radiogoldindex.com, Ruth says she remembers Harry from Stuyvesant High School. Stuyvesant High School was an all-boys high school until the late 60's!

[Atoz]

"I Saw a picture of her on a Secret Detective magazine. She had a gun in one hand, a bottle in the other, and some guy was choking her. She looked good. "

lol

I enjoyed the first two versions of this one, but wasn't crazy about the third one. The acting in the earlier versions was better, imo, particularly Charlotte Lawrence. I've been very impressed with her ever since I heard "I Saw Myself Running." I wish she had made more appearances.

The male leads were also good. Dan Duryea is one of my favorite character actors. Nobody could play a sniveling snowball like him! He was in a ton of classic movies and some lesser known hidden gems, too. I' never heard of Tony Barrett before but he was also very good. Two different interpretations of the same charachter, but both were effective.

I'd also like to praise the excellent use of sound in the second version of the story. The crying baby, and the kid practicing violin were a great way to illustrate how well sound penetrated the girl's tenement apartment which reinforced the idea that the bad guy had to wait for the L to pass. Just really well done.