Radioland Murders

A blend of screwball farce and whodunit murder mystery, this madcap period piece was the brainchild of executive producer George Lucas. In 1939, Penny Henderson (Mary Stuart Masterson) is the harried general secretary and de facto manager of a new fourth radio network, WBN. On the night that the ...more

A little-known entry in the catalog of producer George Lucas, Radioland Murders is one part murder mystery, one part screwball comedy, and one part tribute to the "golden age" of radio. Lucas' foray outside the fantasy-science fiction genre is an admirable attempt that proves difficult. Mary Stuart Masterson and Brian Benben head a large cast as a bickering married couple employed at Chicago radio station WBN, she as a secretary and he as a writer, who are separating right before the station's ...more