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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe - "The Lonesome Reunion" (1949) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A black satchel and papers tied to the proceeds of
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  Speaker 1: an earlier bank robbery. Bring Philip Marlowe to Lonesome, a
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  Speaker 1: small Arizona desert town. On February twelfth, nineteen forty nine,
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  Speaker 1: CBS aired episode twenty of the Adventures of Philip Marlowe,
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  Speaker 1: The Lonesome Reunion, with Gerald Moore as Raymond Chandler's private detective.
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  Speaker 1: Following the money, Marlowe finds armed men, deception, and rival
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  Speaker 1: claims to the missing loot in a case far from
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  Speaker 1: his usual city beat. Jeane Levitt and Robert Mitchell wrote
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  Speaker 1: the script. Norman MacDonnell directed and produced Ladies and Gentlemen
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  Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: A copse that wouldn't state diad epistol with a silence
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  Speaker 2: surround ada fortune in a black satchel spell death for
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  Speaker 2: the big city boys when they finally got together in
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  Speaker 2: Lonesome Arizona population eight oh two.
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  Speaker 3: On the pan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of prime fiction,
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  Speaker 3: comes his most famous character as CBS present The Adventures
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  Speaker 3: of Philip Marlowe and Now, with Gerald Moore starred as
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  Speaker 3: Philip Marlowe, we bring you Tonight's exciting, Sorry the lonesome reunion.
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  Speaker 2: Eight thousand feet on a clear afternoon, you can see
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  Speaker 2: enough Arizona real estate to become an authority on the subject.
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  Speaker 2: And as I huddled around a circle of window aboard
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  Speaker 2: an American Airlines flagship and gaped like a two weeks
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  Speaker 2: with pay vacationer at the carpet of sand stone and cactus,
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  Speaker 2: unrolling a slow inch at a time below, I was impressed. Also,
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking about a job which was providing both
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  Speaker 2: the switch and scenery and two crisp one dollar bills
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  Speaker 2: that's the cost of a round trip ticket from LA
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  Speaker 2: to the capital city of Phoenix. But then at the
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  Speaker 2: thought of money, I stopped sightseeing and started to think
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  Speaker 2: about the work I had and how easy it had
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  Speaker 2: sounded that morning in my office when Kay Gordon was
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  Speaker 2: something pretty and blonde but slightly tonished for twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: it hired me all in one bread Marlow, my.
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  Speaker 4: Brother Joe Gordon, is in a room at the Granada
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  Speaker 4: Court Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona.
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  Speaker 5: In one hand, he no doubt has his usual smelly cigar.
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  Speaker 4: In the other, a small suitcase filled with a mess
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  Speaker 4: of papers, all legal, all proper, you fly there, pick
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  Speaker 4: up the suitcase, fly back for that two hundred dollars cash.
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  Speaker 2: Yes or no, Yes on one condition of papers? Do
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  Speaker 2: I get to see them? If I look, I go
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  Speaker 2: all right, you look good, I go goodbye. That was
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  Speaker 2: the way it started. An hour after breakfast lunch was
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  Speaker 2: alone in the airport. Then it would wait until I'd
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  Speaker 2: seen mister Joe Gordon, a man who was willing to
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  Speaker 2: pay a lot for a little. My plane dropped out
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  Speaker 2: of the sky over Phoenix gently at three. At three
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  Speaker 2: point fifteen, I was in Room one eleven at the
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  Speaker 2: Granada Hotel and only thirty six smelly inches away from
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  Speaker 2: the usual cigar. The man behind it was heavy, pale
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  Speaker 2: and maybe forty, and like his sister, Joe Gordon, was
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  Speaker 2: overbearing in a hurry. This, Smarlow, is the bag they use.
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  Speaker 2: The papers, stocks, bonds and mortgages in themselves worthless to
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  Speaker 2: anyone else. There no negotiable, but as information to my competitors,
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  Speaker 2: they're priceless, satisfying more or less meaning what exactly what
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  Speaker 2: is your line, mister Gordon? Oh, I'm a broker, one
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  Speaker 2: who bets on long shots when they come in. I
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  Speaker 2: don't like to split with the boys who sit in
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  Speaker 2: their hands. Anything else. Yeah, Yeah, I've got some time
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  Speaker 2: to kill before I fly back, So I take the
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  Speaker 2: bag now or later. You take the bag now, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and don't let go of it until you're with my
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  Speaker 2: sister in La. I'm paying you money to stay away
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  Speaker 2: from my enemies, not to shop for trinkets. Oh and incidentally,
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  Speaker 2: my enemies also play rough, so wash your step and
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  Speaker 2: act smart, real smart. I still had two hours to
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  Speaker 2: kill when Gordon the bag and handed it to me
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  Speaker 2: after dropping the key in his pocket, so I decided
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  Speaker 2: to take a room there at the Granada Hotel shave
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  Speaker 2: shower and stretch the sleepy clerk in the lobby. It
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  Speaker 2: was not in a hurry, nor did he hear anything
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  Speaker 2: I said the first time. So when I finally got
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  Speaker 2: to my suite on the second floor, which had as
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  Speaker 2: much elbow room as the inside of a life saver,
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  Speaker 2: thirty of the idle minutes were already gone. I locked
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  Speaker 2: and bolted the door, checked all the windows carefully, and
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  Speaker 2: then peeled off my shirt, broke out my shave master
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  Speaker 2: and reached for the knob on the bathroom door. But
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  Speaker 2: I never made it because as the door swung open.
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  Speaker 2: I caught a glimpse of a fist the size of
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  Speaker 2: a candalope standing for my jaw. I stay right there, busted.
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  Speaker 6: The first time I swing, the second time I shoot,
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  Speaker 6: and I do both good equal nice.
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  Speaker 2: Everything all figured out ahead of time, Yeah, but it
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  Speaker 2: lay very.
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  Speaker 6: Hard, especially when the guy you wrapped it shouts it
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  Speaker 6: all to a desk clerk, my era, which leaves just
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  Speaker 6: the three of us real cozy list three you, me
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  Speaker 6: and one hundred and twenty grand here in this bag, way.
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  Speaker 2: Off, brother. This bay's got papers in it, nothing more.
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  Speaker 2: They belong to a businessman. I said something. Yes, you're
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  Speaker 2: very funny.
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  Speaker 6: Look, Buster, Joe Gordon is no more a businessman and
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  Speaker 6: his real name is Joe Gordon. So after I leave,
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  Speaker 6: you go back to Sam Dietrich in Room one eleven
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  Speaker 6: and tell him that Marty stopped. He says, thanks for
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  Speaker 6: what for the one hundred and twenty thousand dollars I've
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  Speaker 6: been waiting two.
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  Speaker 2: Long years for?
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  Speaker 6: And also tell him and Gigi Gant, who might still
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  Speaker 6: be around, that Stoppka had it all figured, like you say,
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  Speaker 6: malow ahead of time. I don't follow you, Bud, You're
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  Speaker 6: not supposed to just turn around, face the wall and
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  Speaker 6: listen carefully. You tell Sam Dietrich that I know he'd
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  Speaker 6: pull something like this just as soon as he got
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  Speaker 6: back into circulation.
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  Speaker 2: You got that, Yeah, yeah, word for word, Stop going yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All you have to do is remember, Marty Stopper said, remember,
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  Speaker 2: And he put that cattle over with fingers in the
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  Speaker 2: small of my back and shoved hard. By the time
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  Speaker 2: I got my again, both he and the black bag
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  Speaker 2: were gone. I'd made Joe Gordon or Sam Dietrick my
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  Speaker 2: best bet. So I took the stairs at the ground
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  Speaker 2: floor fast and raced for the end of the carter.
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  Speaker 2: In Room one eleven. When I threw the unlocked door open,
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  Speaker 2: I found something I hadn't counted on. A curtain flapping
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  Speaker 2: in the breeze of an open window, and nothing more.
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  Speaker 2: The desk draws, the closet, the bureau empty, and on
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  Speaker 2: an end table next to the telephone a bus schedule unmarked.
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  Speaker 2: At that I was beginning to get very mad at
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  Speaker 2: a private detective with Public Patsy named Philip Marlow. Then
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  Speaker 2: the telephone rang, and when I answered it, the operator
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  Speaker 2: said that she had a long distance call for Joe Gordon.
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  Speaker 2: I said thanks, i'd taken Hello, Sam, this is Kay.
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  Speaker 5: Marlow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, honey, Joe Marlow is in brother Gordon. Remember.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I can explain all that Marlow.
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  Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure, baby, but not now. Later, later, after
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  Speaker 2: you've had a chance to think up a few more lines.
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  Speaker 6: All right, all right, So.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't tell you the whole story. What's the difference?
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  Speaker 5: Did you get the bag?
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  Speaker 2: I did, but I didn't get to keep it very long.
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  Speaker 2: Something ugly name Stopga wanted either rid or my life.
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  Speaker 2: So I made a quick decision.
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  Speaker 5: Stopka has the bag. Oh that's great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Though?
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  Speaker 2: One thing, baby, I'm the decoy with suitcase for some
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  Speaker 2: kind of Shenanigan that's wrapped around one hundred and twenty grand,
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  Speaker 2: which you and Sam Dietrich have. And there's a trio
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  Speaker 2: in the act namely Sam Dietrick, Marty Stop Gunning, one gg.
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  Speaker 5: Ganta, Gigi Morlow. Have you seen Gigi? Have you Marlow?
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  Speaker 7: Maybe?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe no? Why don't you come clean? Admit you're happy
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  Speaker 2: that stop you got the suitcase from me while Sam
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  Speaker 2: beat it out of an open window. That my part
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  Speaker 2: of the job is over with.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, baby, talk all right, I'll make it shorten
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  Speaker 4: to the point you got two hundred dollars for doing nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Out of that, sixty yard went for an airplane ticket.
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  Speaker 4: The rest is yours, right, go on, there's no need
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  Speaker 4: to mallow. I'm finish and so are you, so why
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  Speaker 4: don't you just be a good fellow and keep the change?
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  Speaker 5: So long?
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  Speaker 2: Sucker and kay good and hung up. I slammed the
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  Speaker 2: phone down cot at ten twice and went back to
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  Speaker 2: the unhappy business of getting mad at Marlow. But again
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  Speaker 2: I was interrupted. This time it was a newspaper, the
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  Speaker 2: Phoenix Herald, staking fine off out of the wastebasket under
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  Speaker 2: the telephone to expose the dateline, which made it exactly
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  Speaker 2: a week old. I picked it up and saw the
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  Speaker 2: two inches of story circled in pencil and slugged five
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  Speaker 2: released from state penitentiary. Sam Dietrich, forty one of Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 2: who was arrested in Lone of Arizona for the armed
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  Speaker 2: robbery of a general store in February nineteen forty seven,
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  Speaker 2: also was released today. Now everything was beginning to add
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  Speaker 2: with one high priced exception. Very few general stores in
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  Speaker 2: towns called lonesome keep one hundred and twenty thousand bucks
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  Speaker 2: in the till, even on a busy day. So I
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  Speaker 2: headed for the office of the Phoenix Herald and the
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  Speaker 2: chance that I could learn something about the cash involved
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  Speaker 2: from newspapers that were two years better than one week old.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty minutes later, I was in the back shop of
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  Speaker 2: a herald receiving facts willingly supplied by a sandy head
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  Speaker 2: line of time type operator with a sad face who
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  Speaker 2: had never heard the word forgets that shipe mister.
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  Speaker 7: It was the second National Bank of Land company here
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  Speaker 7: in town. He held up at one ten pm February seven,
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  Speaker 7: nineteen forty seven, but three men who took one hundred
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  Speaker 7: and twenty thousand dollars, none marked cans, twenties and fifties.
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  Speaker 7: One was badly wounded and run and gunfight, but they
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  Speaker 7: all got.
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  Speaker 2: Away clean als, no suspects, rather than the usual rigamarola
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  Speaker 2: trying to pin the job and every two bitch stick
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  Speaker 2: up man hauled in the next six months, no anything
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  Speaker 2: as no thanks, I don't think, say wait a minute
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  Speaker 2: longsome Arizona that unmarked bus schedule? Tell me do you
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  Speaker 2: happen to know where something called lonesome is? And if so,
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  Speaker 2: how a guy could get there if he doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: a car.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, Katie, seven miles west you here and the bus
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  Speaker 7: will do the trick, but not anymore today. The only
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  Speaker 7: bus left an hour ago. And now, young fellow, you
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  Speaker 7: tell me something whatt and Sam here is lonesome in
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  Speaker 7: the bus departure.
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  Speaker 2: You got to do where the bank robbery was pulled
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  Speaker 2: two years ago? Where I stand right now, Dad, I
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  Speaker 2: can't say when I get the lonesome. Ask me again
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  Speaker 2: and I may have the answer for you. I was
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  Speaker 2: thirty minutes running a car and and now in thirty
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  Speaker 2: minutes getting to a lonesome population eight o two. I
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  Speaker 2: drove without seeing and it didn't cold possibly be mistaken
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  Speaker 2: for Sam Dietrick. And I was about to turn back
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  Speaker 2: when I saw something that brought my right foot down
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  Speaker 2: hard on the break. It was a brand new green
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  Speaker 2: mash standing outside a motel California license plate. Get out
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  Speaker 2: of my car and got a look at a registration
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  Speaker 2: card wrapped around the steering wheel. It said Katherine E. Gordon.
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  Speaker 2: A motel only had three cables to show any light.
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  Speaker 2: The first belong to the manager. In the second decay
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  Speaker 2: close to an open window, I saw the man k
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  Speaker 2: was talking to. He was an next convict and part
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  Speaker 2: time broke and named Sam Dietrick All Light, all Light,
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  Speaker 2: so model knows he was set up form adio Staffka,
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  Speaker 2: who cares? We're hearing so far? Stopped using and Devin.
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  Speaker 2: Whennie the show, we'll be gone with the real black
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  Speaker 2: belt safe on our hands.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but what about Gigi? Sam? I told you Marlow
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  Speaker 5: mentioned his name and I.
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  Speaker 2: Told you to forget it. Marla must have been swinging
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  Speaker 2: in the dark. GG can't be alive. K. He was
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  Speaker 2: badly hurt when the stop and I got clear of
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  Speaker 2: the bank.
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  Speaker 5: But why wasn't his body found?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, K. I pulled it out a thousand times. No, no, look, honey,
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  Speaker 2: why don't you just relax and think of us a
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  Speaker 2: little Gigi's dead baby. It's only you and me, Sam.
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  Speaker 4: You know how I feel about that. I love Gg.
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  Speaker 4: The only reason I'm helping you. I don't want anything
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  Speaker 4: to do with this money. I only want to know
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  Speaker 4: for sure about GG.
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  Speaker 2: K Okay, Hey, did you get a line and Leland
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  Speaker 2: Mills the name that was on that mailbox two years ago?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, he owns the place and lives there alone.
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  Speaker 4: Once upon a time, small ranch on the last block
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  Speaker 4: in town. Coming apart of the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: What about Mills himself.
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  Speaker 4: He's an older fer maybe fifty, lives close to the
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  Speaker 4: fireside day in and day out.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 2: That means I can handle him that in trouble. And now, look, baby,
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  Speaker 2: it's seven now at nine this time will be fast asleep,
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  Speaker 2: and at ten I'll take care of everything. So why
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  Speaker 2: don't you just curl up there on the couch.
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  Speaker 5: And think about nice things, Nice things like what we like.
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  Speaker 2: The money I hit at Leland mills place five hours
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  Speaker 2: after the boys, and I took that bank, the one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty thousand dollars that's soon going to be
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  Speaker 2: back here with me. It belongs, And I took my
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  Speaker 2: queue and left because one Leland Mills was a man
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  Speaker 2: to be four one. While ten o'clock was still three
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  Speaker 2: hours away, I was ten minutes finding his place, which
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  Speaker 2: is on the edge of town, and another two locating
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  Speaker 2: the doorbell, which was the kind of pulled and start
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of jingling inside. It was three pools later
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  Speaker 2: before the door creaked slowly opened and what had to
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  Speaker 2: be Leland Mills stood in front of me. It was
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  Speaker 2: shaggy gray hair curling on the side of his neck,
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  Speaker 2: the face with a thousand crisscross wrinkles, and dirty old clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Everything I had expected, with one exception, gripped firmly in
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  Speaker 2: both hands and pointed directly if my head was a long,
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  Speaker 2: long rifle. Who are you, mister Mills. Maybe well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a private detective named Philip Marlow. Also someone who knows
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  Speaker 2: that there's one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in cash
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  Speaker 2: shitting here on your grounds. One hundred and twenty thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars to the penny. Yes, two years ago, mister Mills
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  Speaker 2: of Phoenix Bank was rubbed by three toughs named Dietrich,
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  Speaker 2: stopgun Ggi, Ganther, Gig. That's a queer name. That's not important,
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  Speaker 2: old man. But this is now, somehow or other, that
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  Speaker 2: stolen money was hidden here in or around your place,
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  Speaker 2: and tonight one of those men is you back to collect? That,
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  Speaker 2: of course means trouble for you. You think we should
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  Speaker 2: call the law. No, no, not yet. If we play
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  Speaker 2: it smart, we can get the door spotted first and
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  Speaker 2: at least one of the three.
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  Speaker 8: All right, mister Marlow, if you're sure of what you're saying,
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  Speaker 8: I only hope you are sorry about this gun here.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like poachers on my land. Yeah, we all
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  Speaker 2: have our pet peeves. Now, mister Mills, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to sit tight till I get back, and no matter
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  Speaker 2: what happens, don't open that door for anyone. If you
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  Speaker 2: got that h yep, where are you going to checking?
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  Speaker 2: The only two things that can possibly give us any
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  Speaker 2: unexpected trouble on a nasty man named Muddy Stuck and
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  Speaker 2: the other guy I've never even seen, elusive mister g
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  Speaker 2: G Ganther.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: In just a moment, we will return to the second
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: act of the adventures of Philip Marlowe. But first, that
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: elusive phantom voice will be back on CBS's great show
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  Speaker 3: sing It Again tonight, and the prize for identifying him
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  Speaker 3: is now climbed to a value of twenty four five
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  Speaker 3: hundred dollars. Yes for music, suspense and sensational prizes. Don't
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  Speaker 3: miss the Singing Again Show tonight over most of these
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  Speaker 3: same CBS stations, and now with Gerald Moore Starrd, we
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  Speaker 3: returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's
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  Speaker 3: story The Lonesome Reunion.
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  Speaker 2: I left Leland Mills standing in the doorway and worried
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  Speaker 2: my way back to town. If Stopga and Gigi Ganfa
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  Speaker 2: had no more trouble getting lonesome than I did. A
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  Speaker 2: reunion about as quiet as a truckload of hot dynamite
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  Speaker 2: was due to take place any minute. I passed the
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  Speaker 2: motel where k and Dietrich could hold up and saw
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  Speaker 2: that her car had been moved into the stall between
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  Speaker 2: cabins and draped with a blanket to hide its California place.
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  Speaker 2: So they were thinking along the same line that I was.
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  Speaker 2: At the hub of town. I parked and started to
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  Speaker 2: case the lively spots on main Street, which took me
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: all of ten minutes at a slow walk, but a
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  Speaker 2: short side of the mouth conversation with a couple of
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: resident sports revealed that the local underground stemmed from the
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Red Dog Cafe, a warped wood two story wiki up
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  Speaker 2: on the one side street in town. It was operated
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  Speaker 2: by a hard bitten blonde one hundred and sixty pounds
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  Speaker 2: of western motif, complete with stetson, red flannel shirt, hiccot belt,
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  Speaker 2: blue jeans and the name Flora. She sat at a
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  Speaker 2: table at the back of the bar room, letting us
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  Speaker 2: cynical it to nobody else but my old pal stopped.
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  Speaker 2: I walked up behind him, and when he turned around,
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  Speaker 2: I hung one on him, A good one.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Flora?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing personal, Candy rock, husband and I joint.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, handsome, I mean you me?
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  Speaker 2: Why, Flora? How can you say that? I just came
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  Speaker 2: in and asked my old pal here some questions. That's all.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go, Pal, come on, set up in my chare. Okay, okay,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: let me along say Flora's the only way stop you
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: here knows how to start a conversation. Think him another beer?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: What is Olwen got spilled?
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: Sure? Right, boy? When you see that, you dude tourist
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Levia beefs outside.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Next time I look stoppa. I want to know what
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: happened two years ago in that highway out here? You
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: guys split up, didn't you? You better talk? Stop getting
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: all right? We spilled up.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: The heat was on bad and Gigi was half dead
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: already from a cops schlug in his back. They trick
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: had all the dough, right, What do you think I
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: left him and gig off outside of town. I took
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: the card, tried to shuck the cops away from him,
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: were supposed to meet later.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I just kept going to save your own high, didn't you? Certainly,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to pay you off, socker. You'll see
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: since the money was never found. Your figured Dietrich hit
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: it around here, and he's coming back to dig it up?
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Isaid it? Keep guessing, shamersh Maybe we ought to listen
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: to your jaw again.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Stop that handsomer by Sadie.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I'll plug you well, a real genuine forty four? What
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: museum just wiped that from? Flora?
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Never mind?
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Got a legal right to defend the piece in choir
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: tom I joint and after twenty two years and this dad.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: I don't know how to do it now. I ask
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: your knights once. Now I'm telling you you get out
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: that back door there.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Sure, thanks, Wait a minute, Flora, let that look get away.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Are you sit down right there and cut up to fifty?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Then you're leaving by the front quietly?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, you win one? Two, Flora count he's back. Sorry you,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: I'll leave us cannon on the back steps. How on, Flora?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I read it out of the back door and into
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: an alleyway between the shacks. He stopped her was still
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: in sight, but walking fast, and when I took after him,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: he saw me and started to run. There was a hard,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: flat sound, like someone striking wet sand with a hammer. Stopped.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Gat folded and lurched up on his toes, as if
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: he suddenly changed his mind about running the same instant
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: on a wall, even with him, I saw the shadow
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: of a man holding a pistol with a long, awkward barrel.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: The hard flat sound came again, stopped. The curled upon
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: himself and fell, and the shadow slid off the wall disappeared.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I ran for the wounded man, but by the time
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I got to him, there was no trace of the gunman.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: A roll stopped go over. He was hit hard, slipping
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: away fast. Silence g always it was the silence.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Dad.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Huh you wise guys never know when to quit, do you?
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: You're in real.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Trouble now, handsome, Hey, wait a minute, I do this come.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: I couldn't hear a shot, so silence soon.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, trademark of a guy named Gigi Gant.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: All I saw of him was a shadow on that wall.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Say what kind of law have you got in this town,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: flora Non?
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Except the highway patrol? I stop in every night.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, call him, get him over here. This guy's Mardy Stocker,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: wanted for a bank job nearly two years old.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Now kidding, who you as trainer.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I'm a private detective who's got no business here except
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I don't like to be pushed around. I listen, do
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: you know Leland Mills Place at the edge of town?
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Sure you get the cops out the Mills Place by
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: ten thirty. Do you understand that's where the big attraction
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: is going to be. If I can keep Gigi in
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: his silence of permitter fearing again, let me down, beautiful.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I won't let you down in some city. Boy,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: You're all right.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I stuck to a back road and drove with my
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: lights out until I was a good safe distance beyond
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Leland Mills Ranch, and I get the car a dry
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: gully and walk back. The house was dark and still.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I thought once what might have happened in the middles
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: of Gigi had gotten there ahead of me. I kept
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: in the shadows and worked my way across the yard
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: at the back door. Who's there, Palla, open up? I
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: was beginning to worry. It's pretty near ten o'clock. I know,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: I know, I've seen anybody so far. No, nope, not
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: a soul. I've been watching close too. Did you find
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: them men? That gg that stop? Gu Yeah, Stope is
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: dead and as kill as you to show up here anytime. Now.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: We're going to have our hands full. I wait a minute,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Is that a car? Sure sounds like one. Yep, there
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you can just make it out.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Turned it down by the covert and stopped.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like a man got a yeah yeah. There it
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: goes across the field there behind your shed. It's de Trich.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I'm going out in my mills. You stay here. No,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I'm going too. That That fellow's head and right for
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: my watertank. Alright, he's heading for her water tank. Don't
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: get excited, you'll tip I met I get this mills.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: You've got to stay here and watch for Gigi. He's
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: bound to show up, and when he does, you might
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: have that rifle of yours handy because he's a killer.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: Do you understand, Yep, sure, I understand. Don't worry, Marlow.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: I'll keep my eyes open. Don't you worry about a thing.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: When I eased out of the door and started across
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the yard, I knew I was getting myself out on
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: a nice long limb Leland Mills was about as reliable
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: as William Tell with a hiccups, and the apple was
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: on my head. It was too late to back up,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: so I skirted the barn and stayed below the crest
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: of a low rise. Moved toward the elevated water tank
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: until I heard a shovel budding dirt. I got a
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: comfortable grip on my gun, headed up over the rise
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: to where I could see. Yeah, it was Tetrick all right.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: It was fed over under the tank and working on
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: a hole as if his life depended on it. He
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: didn't even look up until I was almost on top
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: of him.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Who's there? Who is it?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Name mister Gordon Mallow? How did you get here? It
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: wasn't easy, Sammy boy. I had to come and apologize
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: for losing your precious bag full of waste paper. You
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: should have picked a dangerous term, the showsucker. You were
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: fired once, too bad. You can't take a hint uh huh,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: and being tagged as a Patsy's lousy. If my business, Deetrie,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you should have thought of that. So just leave your
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: hands on that shovel handle, Sam and keep on digging.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'll let you take a pick at that one
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: twenty grand before I turn you both over the place.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Go on digging, not so fast. Else, I told you
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: to stand it. Hey, that's quite a pistol. Don't move,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: you know, want of you. I'll kill you if you move,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: you mallow, drop your gun, drop it. So this is
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: where it's been a whole the time, one twenty thousand dollars.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I looked everywhere, every day for two whole years.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: But I never thought of.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Looking here under water tex When you knew where the
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: money was all the time, you'll lie, you'll lie. I'm
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: the only one that knew that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: One night, two years ago, I heard a noise in
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: my bond. It was a man groaning. I looked in
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: and I saw him. He was wounded.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: And I saw you when you come back from burying
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: the money. I overheard the whole thing. You wouldn't tell
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: him where you'd hitten it. You said you'd never tell anybody.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: But I was sure I could find it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: And I looked everywhere except yeah, mills, everywhere except here
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: under the water tank where you buried Gigi's body after
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: you killed.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: Him, and with his own gun at that Oh no,
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: I didn't kill him dietrickt I only buried him so
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: nobody would find out that him and Dietrich had stopped
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: at my place. I almost went crazy looking for that money,
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: But now I know where it is and I'm going
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: to have it.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Fool. You don't think i'd come out here with nothing
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: but a shovel, do yet? A friend of mine is
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: right behind you with a gun in the hand. To
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: come on, drop yours room, Come on, come on, drop
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: it all right?
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's an old die trick.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Let him happened?
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Shoot?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Kay?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Shoot didn't work, did it?
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: They knew I'd have to kill you sometime anyway if
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: you ever came back, so.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: You hole metals. I suppose that makes me next. Yep,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: mister Marlow, I think it does.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Think again, mister Mills, who's that? Kay?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: You were there all the time, and trick wasn't. I
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: love you, kay, baby? And I'll take the gun now, Mills,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: turn take your arm. That's better. I'll look after this
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: gun until the police get here, and.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Look after this one.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: To Marlow, I haven't got the courage to use it anyway.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: I couldn't even shoot Sam Dietrick with it. He's the
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: one I wanted to use it on Why because of Yeah,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: because he killed Gigi in Live to me, I promised
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: to help dietrichon because I figured all three of them
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: would show up here, Sam, Stopka and and Gig. That
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: way I hope to find him again.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: You were right, baby, all three of them did show up.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Only this time they finished that job good. It was
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: ten thirty on the nose when we got back to
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: the house and the highway patrol had just pulled up,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: so the question and answer period started, and by the
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: time it was over all the field work finished up,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: four hours plus had gone by. It took some fast
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: conversation and a lot of promises to stay handy, but
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: finally Kay was left with me. After all, her only
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: real mistake had been falling in love with the wrong
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: kind of a guy. When the last patrol car drove away,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: the desert was suddenly very still. The stars were small
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: and sharp in the clear sky. The air was cold.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe that was why Kay god and trembled.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Man. I I'm sorry about all this. I got you
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: into it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Remember you also got me out of a k Well.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: I can forget about Gigi now that I know for
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: sure what happened, and all because of a jerk named
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Leland Mills.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Mills was a desperate guy k after the buried Gigi
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: just about when nuts, trying to find the money. When
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: he finally realized Dietrich was the only one that lead
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: him to it, he shot Stopkin would have killed anybody else,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: keeping from interfering with Dietrich until he uncovered the hiding place.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: You know, in a way, Mallow, it was a horrible
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: trick of fate. They both picked the same place to
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: bury things.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Not really, Miles and Dietrich had the same jobs to
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: do under the same conditions. Each had to bury something
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: in a hurry and in the dark, so both of
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: them picked the spot where the ground was soft and
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: one that was clearly marked at the same time under
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: the water tank. Yeah and.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Allow, I'm kind of scared. I don't like this place,
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: this spooky little town. It's the end of nowhere.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't be caught dead here myself. Let's go, baby.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I walked herto a car, started as safely on our way,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: So long, sucker. She waved once and drove down the
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: road and out of sight without looking back. Soon even
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: the sound of the motor was gone. A long night
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: and the strange reunion, and now two lonely lights were
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: the only sign of life and lonesome Arizona. I stood
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: on the empty highway for a few minutes and listened
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: to the immense quiet of the desert. And then I
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: went back to my rented car and headed for Phoenix
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: and a plane.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, created by Raymond Chandler, stars
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Gerald Moore and is produced and directed by Norman McDonald.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Script is by Meldon la Robert Mitchell and gene Leavitt.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Featured in the cast were Joan Banks, Edgar Barrier, Virginia Gregg,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Jeff Chandler, Bill Bouchet, and Jack Crushan. The special music
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: is by Richard o'uran. He sure and be with us
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: again next week. When Philip Marlowe said.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: It was a weird wrecket that mushroomed in a world
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: of gaudy canvas, and the man with purple hair, the
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: inquisitive midget, and the lady with strong hands each played
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: a part, but all that was only a side show
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: when death got into the act.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Across the nation, communities and the parents of boy Scouts
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: are observing Boy Scott Week, agreeing with the boys themselves.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: That adventure that's scouting Now. Stay tuned for Gangbusters, which
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: follows immediately over most of the same CBS network stations.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: This is Roy Rawn speaking for CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Our visit with the Adventures of Philip Marlowe closes with
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the Lonesome Reunion. Good evening, and thank you for joining us.
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