The Smile of Deceit
Description
A woman finds herself living with a strange tribe after marrying a rich and eccentric college professor. She is forced to participate in a bizarre ritual to appease the natives when she is accused of an extra-marital indiscretion.
After wedding a wealthy and odd university teacher, a woman ends up staying with an unusual group of people. When they blame her for cheating on her husband, she must take part in a weird ceremony to make the locals happy.
Velma Straight shocks her Aunt Rose by announcing her engagement to Robert Hastings, three times her age, and admits she expects to be a young wealthy widow soon. Their anthropology work takes them to a South American jungle to observe a tribe whose members must drink from the Spring of Bitter Waters if accused of evil. When Velma is accused of adultery, she must take the test.
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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