Sleeping Dogs

CBS Radio Mystery Theater "Sleeping Dogs" is a Mystery from Friday, October 9, 1981.

The conscripts Martinet assembles are a motley lot, and Louis XVI scoffs at his general’s promise to turn 600 peasants into better soldiers, and, later, the king’s own guards. Drills, swift punishment and more drills whip the new recruits into a crackerjack unit. The only thing Martinet doesn’t count on is the possible effect of replacing the soldiers’ minds with his will. General Jean Martinet commands with such harsh discipline that his name becomes part of the language.