{
  "title": "APAGUE LA LUZ Y ESCUCHE",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "Although the name of the series would make it seem that this is the Mexican version of Lights Out\n(the title translates, literally, as Extinguish the Lights and Listen), it would seem to be closer in\nspirit to Inner Sanctum Mysteries.\n“With this call to intima the dark, this radioteatro produced by Raul del Campo Jr. Trasmita by\nthe XEW from mid cincuentas until first sesentas. The carvernous voice of yucateco Arturo\nGarcia—re-baptized “de Cordova”—by the cinematografica industry and but elegant known as ‘the\nHorseman of Itza’—identifies to the series.”\nArturo de Cordova was already an established film star in his native country in diverse romantic\nadventures—Louella Parsons dubbed him “the Clark Gable of Mexico”—and he had also enjoyed a\nbrief Hollywood career in the mid-Forties, appearing in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Frenchman’s\nCreek, and a guest-star appearance as himself in the movie version of the radio comedy Duffy’s\nTavern. His work on Apague la luz y escuche quickly established him in the public ear as a master\nof the sinister, and in 1950 he starred in two films that were clearly influenced by the “Inner\nSanctum”  horror-noir approach of the series. (One of these films, El Hombre sin Rostro, even\npre-dates Robert Bloch’s Psycho in its depiction of the main character as a homicidal maniac who\ncommits murders while dressed as his own mother.)\nPablo O’Farril Marquez: “\"A day of many, we were making one of the chapters of Turn off the\nlight and listen starring Arturo de Cordova, a tub filled with water, and with some straws did\nbubbles constantly because the characters were in a submarine, suddenly I slipped and fell inside\nthe tub, the audience in the theater studio laughed a lot, as I left immediately and I kept doing\nbubbles as if nothing had happened.”",
  "origination": "XEW, Mexico, D.F.",
  "duration": "1949-ca. 1960s.",
  "personnel": "Raul del Campo Jr. (producer), Arturo de Cordova (host, narrator), El Cieudadano Martinez\n(scriptwriter), Pablo O’Farril Marquez (sound effects).\nCASTS: Manuel Bauche Alcalde, Pedro D’Aguillon, Antonio Gonzalez, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Carmen\nMadrigal, Omar Sanchez, et al.",
  "extant_recordings": "One on the 2-LP set.\n[OG-NOTE: This episode was included in a 2-LP set of classic Mexican horror and police shows which was released in\n1988 by the Museo Nacional de las Culturas Populares.]",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "Arturo de Cordova",
  "images": []
}