Woo hoo! After looking for a good while, I found both the DVD and the Lux Radio Theatre version of the Mountie film MRS. MIKE, and BOTH starring the amazing tough guy crooner Dick Powell! I really love the Lux Radio broadcasts; they capture nuances of the story that are different from the films, and added with the studio audience reactions, I feel like my film experience has been embellished. the actors tend to have a bit more fun with the lines when on a studio stage, and I always get caught up in the live vibe. So cool.
When I wrote elsewhere about my search for the film, I wrote this little descriptive blurb; here I plagarise myself for the sake of info:
Based on the novel Mrs. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan, written by Benedict and Nancy Freedman, it details the (supposed) actual events in the life of a woman married to a Canadian Mountie in the earliest bit of the 20th century. It's a tale of love and hardship in all of it's incarnations, though many of the details have been changed for dramatic effect. When asked about the novel, the Mounties involved in the "real life" story proclaimed it to be quite fictional.
You can download this GREAT Mountie drama HERE
When I wrote elsewhere about my search for the film, I wrote this little descriptive blurb; here I plagarise myself for the sake of info:
Based on the novel Mrs. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan, written by Benedict and Nancy Freedman, it details the (supposed) actual events in the life of a woman married to a Canadian Mountie in the earliest bit of the 20th century. It's a tale of love and hardship in all of it's incarnations, though many of the details have been changed for dramatic effect. When asked about the novel, the Mounties involved in the "real life" story proclaimed it to be quite fictional.
You can download this GREAT Mountie drama HERE
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