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Philip Marlowe: The Red Wind (EP1253) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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support the show at support dot com, Rightdetectives dot net. Well, we're
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going to begin our first presentation of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. And this
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isn't the one most likely that you've heard most often. If you've heard the
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series, that's the CBS series starring Gerald Moore. This series was an NBC
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summer series and it starred Van Hefflin. So we're going to talk about the
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star and we'll talk a little bit about the series and its concept. The
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star was Van Heflin, who took home a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in nineteen
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forty three for his role in Johnny Eager, and he was recognized with stars
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on the Walks of Fame. His career was not as prestigious as some others.
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Outside of those Oscar Wins, he really did get into that whole character
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actor Grove, and perhaps not as many credits as some others, but still
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a decent and respectable actor who, perhaps just because of looks and superficialness,
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never quite hit that same level as many other stars. While the later Philip
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marlow series was essentially original stories, this series sought to adapt Raymond Chandler's stories
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to the air in the summer of nineteen forty seven. It's probably worth noting
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that while these were Raymond Chandler stories, they weren't original Philip Marlowe stories.
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The only original Philip Marlowe short story was released in nineteen fifty nine, at
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least by Chandler anyway. Today's story, Red Wind, was originally published in
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magazine form about a detective named John Dalmas, would later officially become a fully
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revised Philip Marlowe story in the short story collection The Simple Art of Murder,
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published in nineteen fifty. As Chandler had sensed to see that people wouldn't be
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concerned about his other detectives, but Philip marlow it would be pretty easy just
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to tweak a few details and you could have a fully revitalized Philip Marlowe's story.
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Indeed, after the success of The Big Slate, several of Chandler's novels
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borrowed from his pulp fiction stories. We do have the audition from this series.
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It's the same story as the first episode, and since that's also repeated
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the first episode of the CBS series, we'll just go ahead and start off
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with Red Wind original air date June seventeenth of nineteen forty seven, or The
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a rough desert wind blowing into Los Angeles that evening. It was one of
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those hot, dry santanas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your
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hair, make your nerves jump in your skin. Itch. On nights like
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that, every booze party ends up in a fight, and meek little housewives
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feel the edge of a carving knife and study their husband's necks. Anything can
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happen when the Santanna blows in from the desert. I closed up my office
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early. I got tired of reading Philip Marlow, Private Investigator backwards on the
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ground glass at my office door. So I opened the door and closed it
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from the outside and locked it and went out to get a beer before I
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went up to my apartment. Filler up again, mister Marlon Marlow. Marlow
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Marlin is a fash. Yeah, I know. Hey, Hey, your
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watch right? Drunk again? What do you expect in this business? Autograph
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hands? Be right with your sport. I gotta draw this man a beer.
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I'm not allowed. These stumble bumps have come in here. You got
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another customer back is Hey, but you've seen a lady in here lately.
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A lady tall, good looking, brown hair, a print poalo jacket and
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a blue silk dress. No, sir, nobody like that's binner. I
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straight Scotch fast left my engine running out there. Yes, sir, Yes,
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sir. A slick looking, sarcastic guy stepped up to the bar and
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drank his scotch hole and he stopped. The drunk was grinning at him,
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and then, without changing his grin, the drunk swept a gun from somewhere
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so fast it was just a blur coming out. Made a couple of hard
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snaps and a little smoke curl very little. All right, show other guys
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don't move so long. Wall all right, Tom of you too, Oh,
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but I made his nose bleed. Song boys, drink up, all
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right, Get on that phone, kid, I'll get his license number.
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Holy smoke, Holy smoke. Not too late the way, have this dead
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guy's car? Maybe he ain't dead, he's dead, all right, where's
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your phone? This is for the police. The Proud car boys were there
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in about five minutes. Walder was out of business, all right, and
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nothing in his pockets told who he was. But he had about seven hundred
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dollars on him. I told the cops what I knew, including about Waldo's
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tall, brown haired pretty girl in the blaro jacket. It's about nine o'clock
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when I stepped out of the elevator in my apartment house and almost walked right
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into a tall, brown haired, pretty girl in a blaro jacket waiting for
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the elevator on my floor. Oh, excuse me just a minute, lady,
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I said, excuse me, I'm gonna hurry if you can not go
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outside in those clothes. Just what do you mean by telling me this isn't
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gonna make you're in trouble? Trouble? Yeah, the cops are looking for
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you in those clothes. But I haven't done anything that. I'm in room
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forty one across the well. Now, I never collected matching in my life.
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All right, I'll go with you. I'll go. I got to
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my room and rustled up some scotch and sodaen broth girl or glass. She
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had a small automatic in her hand. It jumped up at me and her
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eyes were full of panic, and I put down both glasses on the table
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slowly so that I wouldn't be misunderstood. Look, sister, maybe this wind
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has got you crazy too, Cale, don't move. A man just got
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shot in a bar down the street. Before he got it, he'd been
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asking about a tall, pretty girl with a blarrow jacket like yours. What
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do he look like this man, tall five eleven, slim, dark dark
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brown eyes with a lot of glitter, dark suit, white handkerchief from the
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breast pocket. And he must have seen you earlier to night to know how
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you addressed? Am I getting anywhere? Used to be my chauffeur? He
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had an appointment with him, didn't you, Lessen? He asked for you,
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didn't he? Yes? I had an appointment with him. He'd stolen
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something from me when he left three days ago. I was going to buy
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it back from him? Why didn't you tell the police? Couldn't tell him
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it was valuable? Wasn't it valuable enough for Walder to steel? Ten thousand
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dollars? That's peanuts? But it wasn't the value. It meant something to
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me. The man I love gave it to me, and now he's dead.
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He was a flyer shut down over Germany. I'll go back and tell
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my husband that he probably hired you. He did. How much is he
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paying me? And where is this husband of yours? Is that a meeting
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this late at night? He's a very important man. He's a hydro electric
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engineer. I'll have you know that my husband is one to get it.
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I'll take him out to lunch sometime and have him tell me himself and about
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Waldo. Whatever he had on you is dead stock now like Waldo himself.
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He's dead. Was dead, yes, sister, he's dead, dead dead
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dead, lady, he is dead. I was scream and I'll give you
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two black eyes. I couldn't scream. How would that be? There was
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addressing room behind that door there now, don't argue with me doing all right?
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And I went to the door, making a loud and yawnings on the
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backs of my hands were wet. I opened the door without a gun.
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That was a mistake. I certainly knew the gun. I was looking into
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a twenty two target automatic that had already killed one man that night. And
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I knew the ball head and the flat, shiny eyes and the face like
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a poisonous lizard. Baldi put the muzzle of his gun lightly against my throat.
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I backed into the room, and Baldy kicked the door, shutting you
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alone, look for yourself. I'm asking, not looking. I'm alone wing
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that dumb buttender, So may dust off wall What did Wallow do to you?
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I was asking, just making conversation. He stood on me on a
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bank job. We did together got me four years in Michigan. Pin,
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how is he dead? I'm still good, drunk or sober? Tell me
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why I came here? Pal, You heard the barkeeper and me talking,
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and I told him my name, where I lived. That's how Pale,
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I said, why I skip at the hangman? Would ask you to guess
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why he's there. You're pretty tough at that answer. But you're slamming off
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Pal. All right, but you could get that gun out of my neck
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and try somewhere else. Yeah, sure that's better. That's such a just
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so it is my neck save when Pal chure party. I leaned against the
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gun. The door of the dressing room showed a crack of darkness. The
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crack widened. I began to shake a little. The girl came quietly into
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the room, but there was white all around her. Iris. She was
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scared. She had her gun in her hand, but I was sorry for
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dead. Sorry. She'd tried to make the door scream. Either way,
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it'd be curtains for both of us. Scared, mister, you're worried about
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any little thing. I couldn't talk. The girl floated in the air,
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somewhere behind Baldy, and her horrified face was drifting toward us. My mouth
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was as cold and dry as yesterday's toast, wild ken as it feel.
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You're ready yet, go on say the word? Well, don't take all
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night about it. If you're if you're going to do something about it,
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why not pall? I like this? I suppose I yell, go ahead,
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yeah, go ahead, way, Look, thanks sister. Thanks that
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that buys me. Everything I have is yours now and forever. You flattered
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me. No end, lady, I only punched him. Why not get
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out here while I call the cops down on this killer? Yes? Good
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night? Hey? Wait wait, leave that blurred jacket here, It marks
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you for the cops. Yes here, okay, see you again? Why
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oh I don't know now, I guess not. After all, who am
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I to be the rival of a dead flyer? I'll see that the police
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get Jesse James here. Good night, lady, Yeah, me and me?
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Yes? Please? Oh you again? Huh? Get in? I
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must talk to you. Want to know what happened at headquarters? Huh?
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Yes. I went down there with the law and gave him the story.
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I left you out of him. Oh, thank you. You saved my
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life. So no one knows a thing about you. Well, incidentally,
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neither do I. Oh, my name is missus Frank Vasiley two twelve Fremont
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Places, Olympia two four five nine six. Is that what you want?
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I guess so, well, there it is? And why did you really
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come back? I wanted my pearls. Pearls, yes, pearls too.
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All right, tell me about the pearls. Bet a murder and a beautiful
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mystery woman and a sadistic killer and the heroic rescue. Now we will have
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pearls. I was to buy them back from the man called Waldo. Well,
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I saw everything that came out of his pockets, and there weren't any
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pearls. Could they be hidden in his apartment? It's possible Waldo lived on
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the same floor you do in this apartment house. And why didn't I know
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him? At least by sight? He moved in last week he managed to
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get a sublb great a sort of an amateur magician on the side. Huh,
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it's getting rather late. Yeah, what about your husband? This hot,
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mysterious night, still it is meeting. You could have brought him along.
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You could have sat in the backseat working out a problem in hydro electrics.
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Walk. Wow, what well? I didn't have any answers. They
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wouldn't sound cheap or just ridiculous, or from the sophomore class and rape Heartee
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had none. Let cigarette in my hand, I threw it out of the
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window. I took a hold of her and kissed her. She said very
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still. I was shaking when I let go over her. Her voice trembled
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a little when she spoke. I man sure to do that. I wasn't
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always that way, only since Johnny Dalmas was killed in the war. He
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gave me those pearls, forty one of them, perfectly matched with a diamond
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for colored class. I'd have loved them if they'd been wooden beads, because
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he gave them to me. I loved Johnny. Were you loved just one
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time? You understand that? Hmm? What's your name? Lola? Lola?
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How did you explain a fifteen thousand dollar pearl necklace to your husband?
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I told him they were imitation than I bought for myself. How did Waldo
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lat John Tillmore what they stood for? Well, my husband was in Argentina,
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Walden. I'd go for long drives. I was restless and wretched because
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of Johnny. Sometimes Waldor and I had a little drink together. But that's
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all that you can fight in Walder about this pearl How was a fool when
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your husband came back? Waller stole the pearls and offered to sell them back
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to your hotel Papa house. Fool? And now you think the pearls are
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upstairs and Waller's apartment. It's a lot to ask, No, sweetheart,
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I've been paid. I'll go look wait here, has that gon long lolo?
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No? Well, no, no pearls, no pearls. Oh,
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there was a man in Warlow's room, a man who you know? A
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man named Leon Barlsanos. Not by name, I don't know, Mexican,
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South America, about forty five, small, iron, gray hair, very
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neat, fawn colored suit, wine colored tie. No, I don't think
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I know such a man. Is he the one in Waldo's room? Yeah?
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What do you have to say? Very little, in fact nothing.
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of the technicol Or musical Fiesta starring Esther Williams, I said, with all
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of us in her car, listening to that jittery, infuriating desert wind gallop
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around in the midnight streets, I just told her about the Latin looking man
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I'd found in Waldour's room in a very dead condition. I held her hands
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until they stopped trembling. Then I gave her the few remaining details. He
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had a gun and a shoulder hoster, but someone had strangled him before he
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could use it. Someone Waldo. Maybe you see that convertible coop two cars
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ahead of us. It's been there for hours, was there before I parked
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here to wait for you, Leon. The man in Waldo's room came in
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that car, But according to the key containers he carried, that isn't his
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car. Whose car is it? Does it matter? Well, it belongs
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to a lady, according to the tag on the keys, A lady.
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Well, anyway, a woman if you're gonna split hairs. Eugenie Kochenko in
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West Los Angeles, All right, well you go home. Now, what
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are you going to do? Drive that Flossi convertible around wave with my friends.
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Impressed people. You run along now you have got another date? Yes,
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what does it? Please? Miss Eugenie Colchenko? Yes? What is
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it? Did you lose or misplace a pigeon gray convertible coup? What are
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you saying? Don't be alarmed? I found it and I brought it home
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to you. Come in please, it is a reward you wish, shall
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we say? Snap out of a dragon? Lady? Who was he?
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Who was the little guy leon? You loaned your card? Who he's dead?
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Who was he? Oh? No? No, oh yes, yes,
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darling, darling, come here please? Who is this man? I
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came about Miss Kochenko's car? What about her car? A gentleman who borrowed
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it couldn't return it on account of he isn't alive. He's dead, darling.
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He's dead. That's putting it more bluntly, of course, dead completely.
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Who are you Philip Marlowe? Prive investigating my card? M h,
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it's all the police shad never do at once? What can be deferred pending
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negotiations? He's I might negotiate, Oh, PITCHI what do you know?
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Malo? A man named Waldo was shot in a bar tonight. I happened
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to have the inside as to who he was. And when I visited his
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apartment tonight, I found this Leeo Barsanos dead. He wouldn't have had five
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hundred dollars in twenties on him, no, but this Waldo had over seven
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hundred dollars on him when he was killed at that cocktail bar, mostly in
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twenties. Is there a basis there for a Nego siations yet? Very well,
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mellow, I'm a married man. Were certain unpaid bills for some stuff
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it's called tchenko here had charged to my account, But you told me I
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might charge to your account, all right, So I wasn't very bright.
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That might be the understatement of the decade that go on. I had the
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unpaid bills safely in my briefcase. Somehow this Waldo had a chance to steal
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the briefcase. I hired Leon and gave him five hundred dollars to buy back
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those bills from Waldo. Instead, Waldo took Leon's dough and was forced to
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kill Leon in the process. And then he went out to keep another date
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and accidentally walked into an old pal hostile enough to blow him down. And
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someone still has those bills. I'm in for a divorce suit. The man
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who shot Waldow got away in Waldo's car with your briefcase in it. Yeah,
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it could be the cops caught him. Oh, and the police have
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the briefcase. Maybe, but the police are interested in solving crime, not
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in tossing mud for the benefit of sensation eaters. Look, I've got a
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friend or two at headquarters. Let me see what I can do. It's
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worth five hundred dollars to me. Well, then that's fun. It'll cost
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you well, good luck and thank you, mister Marlow, Philip Marlow.
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Remember my name is Frank Barcela barce barcely Oh what does that mean? The
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big hydro electric engineer. Yeah, how did you know? My voice is
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still me? Oh, darling? This man is monuciocely In. It's the
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heat miscal chink, It's the Santa, and it's the desert wind. May
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I use your telephone someday? I must tell you about ibera sol of the
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earth. Hebarra, Detective Lieutenant over Central Homicide. I phoned the bear from
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this called Chenko's house and told him hurr he could find a well dress cadaver
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named Leon and furnished a few small details. I gave it bare a time
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to check my tip, and then I went down to see the good lieutenant
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and told him why I've been up in Walder's room only to find leon instead
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of a certain lady's string of pearls. Pearls, Eh, well, I
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thought Waldo might have him up there. Whose pearls were they, oh,
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ladies? Or they might have been in Waldor's car that Waldor's killer drove away
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in what Yeah, they might have also a batch of unpaid bills charged to
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the account of a certain Frank Varslay. Yeah. Well, now the police
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aren't interested in domestic scandal. They want to prevent or to solve crime.
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Right, So I've got five hundred dollars for the police fund if those pearls
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and those bills are returned to their rightful owners. Kidding, No, No,
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it's it's a valuable necklace. There's your nextlace. That's it. Forty
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one pearls, perfectly matched diamond propeller class. That's it. That's the one.
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Jake it away, Morrow on the level. Just tell me straight what
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it's all about, all man? Sure? Sure? Well, this waller
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was blackmailing a wife with the pearls and her husband with the bills, got
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the name of Barsela. Well, Barsley sent Leon to get the bills from
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Waldo. Instead, Waldo kill Leon, then stepped out and happened to get
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shot by that guy at the bar. Now, if Barsily's name stays out
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of the paper, I get five hundred dollars and that goes to the police
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fund. We'll keep him out. Well, now, I'm not in this
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case for money. I just want to get back the bills and the pearls.
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As you say, Marrow, the police sound in business to sling money.
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Well, you can deliver the pearls to the lady yourself if you like.
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She lives it noon, no morrow, you better take them to her.
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You see, except for the diamond propeller, clasp on them. They're
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they're phony, phonny, but all but the class Morrow, all but the
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class. Well, I stared at me. Verah, so the flyer Johnny
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downas the Great Lover had given Lola a string of fake pearls. Well,
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I didn't know how to tell her, but I called her up and told
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her to meet me at the beach combers. That two I was and a
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slip of the bad news. Slowly I'm glad you asked me to meet you
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here. Mister Mollow. See, I had to have someone to talk to.
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Go ahead, ahead, talked. I must say it, no,
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mister Mollow, No more than ever I must. I must have those pearls.
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Why money trouble? Oh no, no, it's just that everything's gone
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wrong this morning. My husband told me where to separate. Oh I'm sorry,
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Low, But if I had Johnny's pearls, it would be a link
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with passed and was Johnny. It only meant to me. It's how a
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woman feels, mister Mollow. I wouldn't blame you for not understanding. Maybe
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I do, though, So please, mister Mollow, please you'll try to
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find my pearls. Look, even if it isn't all of them, any
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part of them, any any single, smallest one of them, it'll be
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Johnny's. Look. Will you meet me here again around four o'clock I'll be
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here, Okay, I'll see what I can do. There was only one
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earthly decent thing I could do. I took Lola's glass pearls to a jeweler
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and I had him take off the diamond clasp put it on one of those
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strings of so called simulated pearls that they sell here for three bucks tax included,
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and I went back to keep my four o'clock date with Lola at the
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beachcombers. Well, mister Morlow, anything new, Yes, the police found
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some pearls in Waldo's car. They found pearl No, no, not not
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exactly, not exactly. Oh, Waldo was getting set to jip yellow.
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He had the diamond clasp of your necklace attached to a string of cheap imitations,
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and then you sold the real pearls. Oh oh thanks, are the
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imitations here? Yes, but it is my clasp. The clasp is real.
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Is that all right? Yes, it's a class But Johnny Donalds gave
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me, of course, of course it's all right. Thank you so much.
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Not ever SI goodbye. Yeah, I think so. You'll never get
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over Johnny damads. Well, if anybody ever bothers you again, oh well,
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let me know. Name's Philip Morlow. Mmm. I drove almost to
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Malibu, and then I parked and walked out on a rock cliff, jetting
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into the Pacific Ocean. Then I reached in my pocket and dug got the
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string of Bohemian glass pearls that lieutenanty Barro found in Walder's car, and I
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cut the knot at one end and slipped the pearls off one by one.
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One by one, I flipped them into the water. The gulls swooped down
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on them, and then flapped up again, screaming indignantly. The phony pearls
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had full. Waller went a little the barceline. But they couldn't fool a
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seagull, I said to myself, to the memory of Johnny Dalmas, just
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another for flusher. I listened to a while of the wheeling seagulls. All
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at once I realized that the wind had died, The satana had blown itself
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out. The red wind was down. It is over. You have just
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good Night. Story on the Adventure of Philip Barlow was based on Red
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Wind, written by Raymond Chandler, creator of Philipmarlow, the screen's most famous
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Private Detective, was adapted for radio by Milton Geiger. Heard with Van Hefflin
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was Loreen Tuttle as Lola Varsay. And this is Wendell Niles inviting you to
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listen again next week at this same time to another exciting story on the Adventures
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of Philip Barlow, starring Van Heflin with a distinguished cast. This is NBC,
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the National Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. There are a few things on
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this episode. I like how they kind of rolled with the punches versus the
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expel nation versus the reality of nineteen forty and the explanation and the stories.
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The ex explanation apparently was a case of subletting for how the person got into
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Philip Marlowe's building, without Marlowe having any familiarity with him. That was a
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pretty good explanation in nineteen thirty eight. In nineteen forty seven, we are
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still in the World War two housing crisis, and that would have been a
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lot more rare, and they just kind of acknowledged it with a wink and
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continued on. The overall performance of van Heflin here wasn't necessarily bad, but
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it was kind of understanding. It almost felt like at times he was trying
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to almost manufacture the seriousness rather than just really getting into the part, if
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that makes any sense. The music wasn't as good as I think on the
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a on the CBS series, though I think they worked pretty well with the
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wind and sound effects to create that feeling of the story. So overall this
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this was a decent first episode. And one thing we should be clear on
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too, because there's the temptation and I've heard people listen and they'll be this
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assumption about reasons why a series didn't last long or wishing it would have lasted
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longer. It's helpful to remember that regardless of how Van Heflan did in his
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performance, this was always going to be just a summer series, particularly with
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the focus on adapting Raymond Chandler stories, as he didn't have a ton of
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those to do. Was written and intended for the summer, and even if
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the series had lasted the past the summer, Helflan would have likely laughed because
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he still was I'm making some good money in the movies. All right.
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Well, now we turn to some listener comments and feedback. Sheila says,
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I love the old radio, go to sleep to it each night, and
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Gaila says, I just found you in these famous detectives on iTunes. I'm
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a new fan of your side. Thanks well, Thanks so much to Gala
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and Sheila. Appreciate you listening. We will be back tomorrow with Nick Harter
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