The Coffin with the Golden Nails
Description
A deposed South American dictator arranges an identity swap with an insurance company, assuming a new persona as an American zoology professor. He encounters a woman harboring her own vendetta against him who plots to expose his cover.
Determined to start anew, the secret police chief of a Third World country undergoes cosmetic surgery to alter his visage. When he unwittingly falls for a woman he previously tortured, the peaceful life he built for himself is threatened.
A former secret police chief from a poor country gets plastic surgery to change his face and start over. He accidentally falls in love with a woman he once tortured, putting his new quiet life in danger.
With his country in revolt, Zorilla, a deposed South American dictator, makes a deal with Metamorphosis, an international insurance firm, to sell his identity and gain, through a perfect disguise, what he thinks will be the life-long protection from his angry former subjects. Transformed into a placid American zoology professor, he meets and falls in love with a woman who has her own professional revenge for Zorilla and who secretly makes plans to blow his presumably flawless cover.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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