I crudeli was made back-to-back, in Spain and Italy, with The Tramplers, with Joseph Cotten in a similar role.
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The program showcased the talents of actors and actresses such as Joseph Cotten, Michael Landon, Johnny Crawford, Katherine Warren, Lon Chaney Jr., Pamela Baird, Claudette Colbert, Wright King, Strother Martin, Judy Morris, Ahna Capri, John Carradine, Helen Wallace, and Michael Winkelman.
Assisting the pair is the mysterious Third Man, a reference to the classic suspense film starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, to which Vogel frequently alludes in detail.
The Mercury Wonder Show was a 1943 magic-and-variety stage show by the Mercury Theatre, produced by Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten, directed by Welles, and starring Welles, Cotten, Agnes Moorehead and Rita Hayworth (with Hayworth's part later filled in by Marlene Dietrich).