Escape - "17 Leiningen Vs the Ants" (Old Time Radio)

Podcast: Escape | Old Time Radio · Old Time Retro Radio

Opublikowano: 2026-09-27

Escape presents “17 Leiningen Vs the Ants,” episode 4801, originally broadcast January 17, 1948. This CBS drama is the West Coast performance of Robert Ryf’s adaptation of Carl Stephenson’s “Leiningen Versus the Ants,” produced and directed by William N. Robson. On an isolated Amazon plantation, Leiningen refuses to abandon his estate and its people when a district commissioner warns that an immense, deadly army of ants is approaching. William Conrad stars as Leiningen, with Lou Merrill as the commissioner, in a tense adventure of preparation, resolve, and man against nature. Escape presents the original broadcast with a newly produced con...