The Virginian, Mr Punch
The Virginian, Mr Punch
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The Virginian
Adapted from the screenplay & performed for radio by the original film stars

Author: Mr Punch

Narrator: Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford

Unabridged: 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2022


Synopsis

Mr Punch Presents: THE VIRGINIAN, who falls in love with Molly the local schoolmarm, in this classic western starring Gary Cooper. He has to vie for her attention with his best friend Steve, who soon becomes involved with a band of outlaws led by the villainous Trampas. Captured for cattle rustling, the film climaxes with a showdown between Trampas and the Virginian in a classic shoot-out on a dusty western street. 
This high-quality audiobook has been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast. Also available as part of the Hollywood Playhouse BOX SET, a collection of 14 Oscar winning ear-movies, adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. These radio dramas were….to become as popular as the movies themselves. Hollywood Movie Memories This is an excellent audio product that will appeal to the majority of audiobook listeners. Talking Business A lovely series to add to any film, audio or crime lovers’ collection. Audio World

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry on December 15, 2024

This novel The Virginian, the first real western book published in 1902, began the genre as a popular art form in America the wild cowboy and the schoolmarm, cattle rustling the lynchings, Indian attacks an explosive card game the deadly shoot out between the good guy and the villain in the streets......more

Goodreads review by J.G. Keely on October 12, 2007

I cannot believe that I sat in American Lit reading Hawthorne when I could have been reading this. If you have never heard of this book, then I am not sure why; just as I am not sure why I had never heard of it. It is surely Romantic, and sometimes Heroic, but there is a depth of emotion, wit, and t......more

Goodreads review by Charles on October 27, 2019

Review of free Kindle edition A Public Domain Book Publication date: May 12, 2012 Language: English ASIN: B0082RIL04 250 pages Considered to be the first real American western, The Virginian began an entire new genre of literature. A genre whose authors and readers are not limited to America. A fine novel......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on August 23, 2015

I have been meaning to get to this book for years, literally. It's one of the novels I'm sure my dad read and he wasn't really a reader, at least not when I knew him. I'm sure that some of you will like this book far better than I do. I think that it's an exceptionally well written novel. The prose i......more