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  Speaker 1: A new class of American intelligence agents is being prepared
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  Speaker 1: for work behind enemy lines when headquarters reports that a
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: German operative has infiltrated the group. On October 20th, 1947,
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  Speaker 1: CBS brought that World War II espionage story to Lux
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  Speaker 1: Radio Theater in 13 Rue Madeleine, broadcast number 586. Robert
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery plays instructor Bob Sharkey, with Lloyd Nolan as his superior,
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  Speaker 1: Charles Gibson. Their training assignment becomes a counterintelligence test, then
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  Speaker 1: carries the agents from Britain toward an urgent Allied mission
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  Speaker 1: in German-occupied France, with false information and divided loyalties close
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  Speaker 1: at hand. The program adapts the 1947 20th Century Fox film,
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  Speaker 1: directed for radio by Fred McKay and produced by William Keeley.
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  Speaker 1: And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: On to our play, Act I of 13 Lou Madeleine,
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  Speaker 2: starring Robert Montgomery as Bob Sharkey, Lloyd Nolan as Gibson,
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  Speaker 2: Richard Conte as Bill O'Connell, and Vanessa Brown as Suzanne.
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  Speaker 2: Not until Pearl Harbor did the United States fully realize
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  Speaker 2: how frighteningly effective had been the espionage machines of Japan
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  Speaker 2: and Germany. Shortly after this disaster, we established a secret
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  Speaker 2: espionage service, the first in our history.
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  Speaker 3: As the man most.
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  Speaker 2: Capable of organizing the United States Intelligence Corps, an attorney
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  Speaker 2: from St. Louis was selected, Charles S.
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  Speaker 4: Gibson.
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  Speaker 5: I accepted the appointment largely because of the men who
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  Speaker 5: would be working with me. Men like Robert Emmett Sharkey
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  Speaker 5: of St. Paul, Minnesota. Master of five languages, Robert Sharkey
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  Speaker 5: was twice captured by the Germans in World War I...
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  Speaker 5: escaping each time with a brilliant record of achievement behind
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  Speaker 5: enemy lines. Starting in 1942, with Sharkey's help, we trained
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  Speaker 5: and sent overseas 76 groups of agents. Then came Group 77,
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  Speaker 5: each a member, a volunteer for hazardous duties behind enemy lines.
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  Speaker 5: In the group were men like Pappy Simpson.
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  Speaker 3: George T. Simpson, age 47, British Intelligence.
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  Speaker 6: Office, World War I.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve years, professor of English literature at Dartford College.
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  Speaker 4: The majority were much younger. Take Jeff Lasseter, for instance.
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  Speaker 4: Born in Bern, Switzerland, 1920. Son of United States Council.
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  Speaker 4: Educated at Geneva and Oxford. Recruited from officer's training school.
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  Speaker 4: Can speak French fluently.
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  Speaker 5: There were three women in Group 77. One was Suzanne
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  Speaker 5: de Beaumont. I am a citizen of France.
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  Speaker 3: I found myself stranded in the United States.
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  Speaker 5: When my country came under the Nazi.
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  Speaker 3: Domination in 1940.
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  Speaker 7: My husband is a captain of the artillery in the
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  Speaker 7: French army.
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  Speaker 3: I have had no word of him in over four years.
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  Speaker 5: There was Bill O'Connell, graduate Rutgers University.
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  Speaker 6: Eight years in the foreign department in Washington, National Bank.
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  Speaker 3: Was in Europe two years prior to Hitler's march into Poland.
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  Speaker 5: Returned to New York in 1939. 22 of them, all told,
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  Speaker 5: and their training commenced in one of those secluded country
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  Speaker 5: estates not far from Washington. The day they arrived, I
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  Speaker 5: got together with Robert Sharkey.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they looked all right to me, Gib. How much
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  Speaker 4: time will I have with them?
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  Speaker 5: Three months' indoctrination. Two weeks' practical exercises. I wish I
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  Speaker 5: could make it longer, but I can't.
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  Speaker 4: They'll be ready. Oh, uh, one of your.
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  Speaker 5: Pupils speaks German.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 5: He can speak German because he's a German agent.
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  Speaker 4: A German agent.
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  Speaker 7: Here?
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  Speaker 4: You're sure? Yes. Man or woman?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I want you to find that out for yourself.
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  Speaker 5: Let me know when you think you've spotted him.
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  Speaker 4: Is that all?
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  Speaker 5: That's all.
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  Speaker 3: For now. Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll get to work.
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  Speaker 3: May I have your attention, ladies and gentlemen?
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  Speaker 4: You all know why you're here. First, I must remind
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  Speaker 4: you that everything.
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  Speaker 3: You learn, everything you do, is secret. Not even your
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  Speaker 3: closest relative can know you're an agent of Group 77.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe no one will ever know. That's not important.
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  Speaker 3: But keeping your mouth shut is important.
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  Speaker 4: You'll have a lot to remember and a couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Things to forget. Forget the rules. Forget sportsmanship. No secret
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  Speaker 3: agent is a hero or a good sport.
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  Speaker 4: That is, no living agent.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to be taught to kill, to cheat, to lie,
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  Speaker 3: and everything you learn is directed toward one objective.
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  Speaker 4: Just one. The success of your mission. Fair play is out.
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  Speaker 4: Years of decency and honest living.
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  Speaker 3: Forget all that or get out now because the enemy
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  Speaker 3: can forget and has forgotten.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be with you every inch of the way. All
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  Speaker 4: the way. Good luck to you. All right, Sergeant, show
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  Speaker 4: them to their quarters. This was a superior group.
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  Speaker 5: But only superiority could absorb the intense schedule.
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  Speaker 4: Sharky put them through.
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  Speaker 5: Communications, photography, the use of knives, guns, poisons, map mates, cryptography, judo, sketching, meteorology.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to hear some sound effects. Identify the sound
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  Speaker 3: and write it down.
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  Speaker 4: All right, proceed.
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  Speaker 5: What was it?
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  Speaker 3: A freight train or a 155-millimeter shell passing overhead.
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  Speaker 4: All right, next, next.
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  Speaker 3: Write your answer. A door latch or the cocking of a.
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  Speaker 3: 45 caliber pistol.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, next, next. What was it? A jungle bird
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  Speaker 4: or a falling bomb?
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  Speaker 3: Part of your training during the past few weeks has
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  Speaker 3: been in pairs. It's important to learn which of you
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  Speaker 3: can work together best. You're to be sent out now
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  Speaker 3: in pairs for practical tests and espionage. The following teams
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  Speaker 3: will report to my office in 20 minutes. J.L. Sheffield
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  Speaker 3: and Suzanne de Beaumont. Albert Fremont and Harry Gluck. William
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  Speaker 3: O'Connell and Jeff Lasseter.
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Lasseter and O'Connell are here, sir, for instructions.
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  Speaker 4: Send them in. O'Connell and Lasseter. You two have lived together.
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  Speaker 4: You ought to be able to work together. I think so, sir.
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  Speaker 4: O'Connell here is the best.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, Jeff.
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  Speaker 4: That goes for me, too.
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  Speaker 3: Well, as long as you're so happy about each other,
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  Speaker 3: suppose you tell me what this is.
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  Speaker 4: This apparatus on the table. A torpedo detonator?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Here's your assignment. Go to a plant that makes this detonator.
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  Speaker 3: Get jobs there. Find out what its specific advantages are
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  Speaker 3: over the old type.
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  Speaker 4: Get all secret data possible. That means blueprints, drawings, or photographs.
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  Speaker 4: Any questions? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Are we to go to the submarine base at Portsmouth
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  Speaker 6: or the one in New London?
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  Speaker 4: Take your choice, O'Connell.
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  Speaker 3: They're both very well guarded, but that shouldn't pose any
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  Speaker 3: great difficulty for a couple of bright boys like you. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: how much time will we have, sir? Wire me when
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  Speaker 3: you've gotten jobs. After that, you'll have 72 hours. 72 hours?
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  Speaker 4: You heard me. Get going.
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Sharkey to see you, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Gibson.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, send him in.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I'd let you know that 77's back from
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  Speaker 3: their field work.
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  Speaker 4: They do. Okay. I had to tear a couple of
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  Speaker 4: them out of the arms of the FBI. But the
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  Speaker 4: average is good. Well, who gets the gold star? Lassiter
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  Speaker 4: and O'Connell.
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  Speaker 3: Five beautiful pictures of the torpedo detonator in New London.
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  Speaker 4: Here.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, that's excellent work, Bob.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Too good. Too good. The man who helped get these
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  Speaker 3: pictures is the German agent.
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  Speaker 4: William O'Connell... What makes you so sure?
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  Speaker 7: Am I right?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you're right. How'd you figure it? Well, he stood
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  Speaker 4: at the head of his class all the way. That
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  Speaker 4: was the lead.
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  Speaker 3: It's simply a case of doing everything perfectly too many times.
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  Speaker 3: He's too quick for a beginner. Yesterday at the submarine base,
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  Speaker 3: Lassiter went into a torpedo shed between shifts and got
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  Speaker 3: these pictures. O'Connell stood watch outside, but there was a
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  Speaker 3: guard in the shed and Lassiter got caught.
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  Speaker 4: O'Connell saw what had happened and came in.
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  Speaker 3: Now an American would have slugged.
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  Speaker 4: The guard, not O'Connell.
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  Speaker 3: Instead, he posed as a security agent and slugged Lassiter.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulated the guard and went off with his prisoner. Ten
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  Speaker 3: minutes later, they were on a train.
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  Speaker 4: It's all there in the report.
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  Speaker 5: O'Connell's real name is Kunzel.
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  Speaker 7: Kunzel?
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  Speaker 4: Well, when are you going to pick him up?
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  Speaker 5: We're not going to pick him up. You must never
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  Speaker 5: know he's suspected. He's after something big, Bob, or it
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't be Kunzel.
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  Speaker 4: Information on our organization? It's bigger than that. The, uh,
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  Speaker 4: second front?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's my guess. Where and when. Oh, how they'd love
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  Speaker 4: to know that.
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  Speaker 5: Now, our job's arranging for Kunzel to get information.
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  Speaker 4: The wrong information.
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  Speaker 5: And our plan must also provide a logical way for
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  Speaker 5: him to escape. We're dealing with a very smart operator.
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  Speaker 4: And when do we start? Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: You and I and Group 77 are.
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  Speaker 4: Leaving for London tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: War-wracked and battle-weary, London was still the hub of all
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  Speaker 5: Allied intelligence operations. But top-secret groups like 77 were billeted
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  Speaker 5: in the remote countryside and held in complete isolation while awaiting...
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  Speaker 5: specific assignments across the channel. Assignments like the one that
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  Speaker 5: Robert Sharkey laid in the lap of his star pupil,
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  Speaker 5: William O'Connell.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's no doubt about it, Bill. You see, I've
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  Speaker 3: checked up on what you've told me. Yes, you know Holland,
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I lived in Holland long enough.
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  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, Holland's become a pretty hot spot
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  Speaker 3: on our maps.
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  Speaker 4: Second front? I'm sorry. I have no right to ask questions.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes, I think it may be Holland, except what
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  Speaker 3: I think doesn't count.
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  Speaker 4: We just obey orders. I need help. You want a job?
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  Speaker 6: I didn't go through all that training to become an
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  Speaker 6: English country gentleman.
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  Speaker 4: Pack your gear. You're going back to London.
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  Speaker 3: You're to live and work.
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  Speaker 4: There in tight security. That security begins now.
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  Speaker 2: Clear? Clear.
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  Speaker 4: No goodbyes, nothing. And not a word to anyone about
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  Speaker 4: what I've mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: I understand.
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  Speaker 4: I think you'll like it. Anyway, we pull out of
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  Speaker 4: here the first thing in the morning. Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 5: So did William O'Connell suddenly drop from sight as far
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  Speaker 5: as his fellow members of Group 77 were concerned. From
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  Speaker 5: the head of the Dutch intelligence, O'Connell learned every phase
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  Speaker 5: of a proposed Allied invasion through Holland. Meanwhile, in another
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  Speaker 5: section of London, Robert Sharkey has called in two other agents,
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  Speaker 5: Jeff Lasseter and Suzanne de Beaumont.
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  Speaker 4: You're late, Suzanne.
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  Speaker 3: When I say 0600, I mean 0600. I stopped by
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  Speaker 3: the communication section.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 3: They've been trying to help.
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  Speaker 6: Me locate my husband.
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  Speaker 3: Your husband's whereabouts are not the slightest concern of Group 77.
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  Speaker 4: Do you understand that?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. I understand.
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  Speaker 4: You know the rules. All right, now.
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  Speaker 3: Assignments have come.
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  Speaker 4: Through for the two of you.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 4: Take a look at these photographs.
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  Speaker 3: Hitler's secret weapon, except it's no longer a secret. New
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  Speaker 3: kind of bomb.
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  Speaker 4: And what a bomb. It's called a V-2.
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  Speaker 3: A self-propelled pilotless bomb with a warhead said to contain
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  Speaker 3: a ton of explosives. Now look at these pictures. These
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  Speaker 3: are launching platforms for the V-2. For months, they've been
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  Speaker 3: springing up along the French coast, faster than our planes
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  Speaker 3: can knock them out. Why haven't the Germans used them yet?
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  Speaker 4: We think we know why.
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  Speaker 3: The enemy knows there's going to be a second front.
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  Speaker 3: They don't know where or when, but they do know
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  Speaker 3: the invasion base is in the Southampton area. When they
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  Speaker 3: launch B-2, it's going to be a sustained barrage smothering Southampton.
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  Speaker 8: When do you think they will start?
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  Speaker 3: As soon as General Eisenhower makes his move. The Nazis
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  Speaker 3: know they can't win the war. They're just hoping for
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  Speaker 3: a stalemate. And to achieve a stalemate, they've got to
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  Speaker 3: prevent an invasion.
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  Speaker 4: Well, our job is to try and help the Allied.
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  Speaker 3: High command gain the preciously needed time.
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  Speaker 4: to complete the invasion build-up. Lassiter, you're going to France.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: You're going with him, Suzanne. You'll be his radio communicator.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Now, let's get back to this map.
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  Speaker 3: The most closely guarded area in all.
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  Speaker 4: France is right here.
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  Speaker 3: This is the main assembly area of V2. But to
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  Speaker 3: destroy this target, we have to know every detail of
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  Speaker 3: its construction. Even the French underground has not been able
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  Speaker 3: to get.
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  Speaker 4: This for us, so we're stymied. Thoroughly stymied.
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  Speaker 3: Except for one vitally important fleet.
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  Speaker 4: Now forget the map and look at this photograph. This face.
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  Speaker 4: This name. Marcel Ducroix. A very important man to the Germans.
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  Speaker 3: Burn that face into your memory because the destruction of
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  Speaker 3: the target is linked to that one man.
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  Speaker 4: Marcel Ducroix.
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  Speaker 3: And what's Ducroix's connection with V2? He, a Frenchman, designed
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  Speaker 3: and built the bomb depot. We must take Luc Ducroix
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  Speaker 3: and take him alive.
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  Speaker 4: How about some coffee, Suzanne?
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  Speaker 3: No, thank you, Jeff. If I am to be your communicator,
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  Speaker 3: I'd better spend some time with the receiving office. It
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  Speaker 3: will help them become familiar with my touch.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess you're right.
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  Speaker 3: Someday, maybe we will have time for coffee. Excuse me, please. Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Simpson!
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Madame de Beaumont. I.
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  Speaker 3: I hate to keep troubling you, but.
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  Speaker 4: All right, no trouble. But still no word of your husband.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: However, we've contacted an agent in the Harbour area.
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  Speaker 5: You'll be informed as soon as we hear.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Sharkey's order.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Sharkey? Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, Jeff. Oh, uh, close the door, will you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. I understand you met your friend Bill O'Connell
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  Speaker 3: this afternoon at the canteen.
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  Speaker 4: Was I glad to see him.
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  Speaker 1: The way he dropped out of sight, I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what had happened to him.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you talk about, Jeff? Oh, backgammon, mostly.
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  Speaker 8: Backgammon?
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: We used to play all the time back in Washington.
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  Speaker 3: I owe him $ 12 million.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, did he mention what he's been working on?
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  Speaker 4: No, sir, he didn't.
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  Speaker 5: He did say he wished I'd be going with him.
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel about that? Well, I wish I were, too.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned your assignment to him?
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  Speaker 5: No, sir, of course not.
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  Speaker 3: Now, take it easy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not accusing you.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff, your friend O'Connell is an agent of the German government.
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  Speaker 4: He is?
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  Speaker 3: His real name is Kunzel. He's a clever, thoroughly trained
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  Speaker 3: German secret agent.
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  Speaker 4: But you're kidding. No, I'm not kidding. I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, O'Connell has been assigned to Holland. That's the clincher
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  Speaker 3: to all the phony information we have purposely allowed him
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  Speaker 3: to obtain.
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  Speaker 8: Holland?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the invasion of Holland. That's the lie we're trying
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  Speaker 3: to sell to the German high command.
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  Speaker 4: And Kunzel, alias O'Connell, is the salesman.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 4: What do I command? Kunzel has asked for you.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to send you with him. But what about Ducroix?
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  Speaker 4: That's still your mission.
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  Speaker 3: Only you'll go to France by way of Holland.
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  Speaker 4: How?
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  Speaker 3: You'll be parachuted into Rotterdam along with O'Connell... You'll contact
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  Speaker 3: a man there named Wolfert Bachmann in the Department of
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  Speaker 3: Public Works. Bachmann will see that you and Suzanne get
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  Speaker 3: through safely to France.
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  Speaker 4: Suzanne?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. He'll be on your way within 48 hours.
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  Speaker 4: Now comes the rugged part. Yes, sir? We think O'Connell
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  Speaker 4: is sold.
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  Speaker 3: If we're right, he'll disappear as soon as you're in
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  Speaker 3: Rotterdam and you'll never see him again.
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  Speaker 4: Could he know anything about Duclos?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, what our real job is?
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  Speaker 3: Not unless he gets it from you and Suzanne.
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  Speaker 4: He won't.
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  Speaker 3: Never, never forget that you're dealing with an.
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  Speaker 4: Extremely clever man.
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  Speaker 3: Drop your guard for one minute and we'll have failed
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  Speaker 3: and you may be dead. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: He thinks fast, Jeff. He's ruthless. That's why we're going
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  Speaker 4: to do this his way. His way?
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: What's that? If O'Connell is not so, if he should
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: in any way suspect that you're on a double mission,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: he won't disappear.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Instead, he'll try to follow you. And you will shoot him.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: Shoot him?
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Make sure it's for keeps. That's, uh.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: That's rough. That's war, and that's your mission. O'Connell could
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: do it. Can you? Yeah. I... I can do it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Jeff.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: That's all for now. Better check your parachute, Suzanne.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: You too, Jeff.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: The pilot says we'll be over Rotterdam in ten minutes. Okay.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Suzanne, I want to tell you how sorry I am
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: about your husband.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: What a rotten break, getting that news about him just
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: before we took off.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: If it had to come, I'm glad it came then.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: There will not be time to cry.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: About it now.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: Maybe it's just as well you're not going back to France.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Philip, you do not mind.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Approaching the target.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: You've got about three minutes. Thanks. Well, Jeff, this is
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: what we used to talk about back in Washington.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: Our first jump into enemy territory.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Be like you thought you would? Yeah.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: You know something?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: What?
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I don't believe you. What's the matter with you? Nothing.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Sure there is. You've been looking at me.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Like I was in a test tube. Sorry, I guess
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: I'm just a little nervous.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: I'm nervous, too. He's an agent of the German government.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: One of their very best. Drop your guard for one
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: minute and you may be dead. Drop your guard and
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: you may be dead.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: You're over the target.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Action station. You may be dead.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Jeff, what's the matter? Oh, nothing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: You know that 12 million bucks you owe me, Jeff?
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: I'm wiping it off the books.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what 12 million anyway?
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: I'd never have time to spend it. We're even, Jeff.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: We'll start from scratch.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: We're running in.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Now clear the jump hole.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: You're first, miss.
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: Yes, I'm first.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Last of the next and I'm last.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: All ready, miss. Good luck.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Thank you. See you below. Jump.
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: What's it for.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: You, Mr.
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: Sharkey?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Well, who promised? The Rotterdam plane. Go ahead. To Beaumont
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: and O'Connell dropped over target. Lassiter's parachute failed to open.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Static cord deliberately cut.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Believe O'Connell responsible.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Static cord deliberately cut.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Get me Mr.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Gibson on the phone immediately.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: Our stars will return in act two.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Of 13 Rue Madeleine in a moment. Here's Mr. Keeley
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: at the microphone.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Act Three of Thirteen Rheumatolines, starring Robert Montgomery as Bob Sharkey,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Lloyd Nolan as Gibson, Richard Conte as Colonel Quinsel, and
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Vanessa Brown as Suzanne.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: In the seaport city of La Havre... The Gestapo headquarters
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: for the heavily fortified coastal area was located at 13
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Rue Madeleine. That evening, shortly before 7 o'clock, a staff
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: car and a truckload of soldiers roared out of 13
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Rue Madeleine and headed down the road for Pont-le-Vec. In
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: the staff car, as we subsequently learned, was Colonel Kunzel. Meanwhile,
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: in Pont-le-Vec... Look at them, Captain Freitag.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: That mob out there, they'll kill me.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Those fools.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Don't they know what this means?
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: I told them time and again they must never assemble.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: But why haven't your soldiers come? You called them ten
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: minutes ago.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: That phone call I made, that was not to the hotel.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Not to the hotel.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: I called to ask.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Colonel Quintel is on his way here.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: He's greatly interested in your town, Mayor Gallimard. Listen to them.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: They blame me because I have tried to help you
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: bring some order to this town.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: I must be protected.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: The troops are not to leave the hotel except in
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: extreme emergency.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: What do you think this is? The people know why
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: that man came here from Vichy, that Mr.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Chavard.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: I have already blamed this.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Town for workmen. You know I have.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Where is he now? Chavard? He has disappeared.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: They killed him.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Just as they killed me.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Here you see.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: They're throwing rocks at him. Guns. They've got guns! Now
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: will you do something, sir?
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: This is Captain Freitas. Get me the Hotel Modell.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: I will talk to the people. You think I'm a coward,
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: but I know my duty.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Go back to your houses.
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: You are plaguing me long. There will only be trouble.
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: You must go back to your houses. Return to your homes.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: Return to your homes. Death clerk.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Death clerk.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: That's easier.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Where's he gone? I do not know, Captain Freitag. I
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: thought you were the city hall, Captain. Who are you?
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Me, Captain?
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm the night porter.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Where's the desk clerk?
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Where's the elevator operator?
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: What are you doing in the elevator? The soldier who
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: was shot a little while ago, he gives me a
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: chance to clean the elevator. Get out of there. But
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: if the clerk is gone, who is going to pay
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: me my wages? I don't know. Come back later.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: I need my wages.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: I'm a poor man.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I'm there to get out of the elevator.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: No.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: I will not leave until you give me my wages.
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: Get out before I.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Monsieur.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: All clear.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Monsieur.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Pick up your knife. You may need it again. Yes, monsieur.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: The desk clerk and sergeant.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I've taken care of them. Who else might be here?
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: The night detail.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: There are skimped on the third floor.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Perhaps eight of them.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Duclos?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I found him, monsieur.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Second floor, room 210.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Marcel Ducroix?
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: Huh?
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: What is it? Who are you?
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Come with me.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: No. No! Who are you? Why do you put a
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: gun at me?
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: The resistance has taken over the town. You'll be better
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: off with me.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: But the guards!
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: The guards!
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: The soldiers have gone to the city hall. There's a riot.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Come on, Ducroix.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: This is all farming country, Colonel Consul.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Very pleasant in the moonlight.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll arrive and put the wake in ten minutes.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Whatever's going on in that town, Major, is more than
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: a mere outbreak of the French resistance.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: Somehow it's all tied in with.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Stop the car.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Colonel Consul.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Turn out your headlights.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: Signal that truck to stop.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, Herr Colonel.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Major, don't you hear anything?
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: A plane.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a plane.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: You have it?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: By one plane, no, I don't think so.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: Look, it's a flashlight.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Now look below.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: There in that valley. Uh-huh, landing lights. They're signaling to
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: that plane.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: That's an 077 landing operation, Major. The plane is either
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: landing someone, which I doubt exceedingly, or picking someone up.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Get back in the car and rush for that seal.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: We're coming in, 077.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: We're coming in. How is it down there?
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Wind, 90 degrees.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Velocity, 2-0. Wind, 90 degrees. Is our pickup all ready?
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Everything is ready.
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: Hurry, please.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Get on the field.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: On the field. There may be trouble.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: We just spotted two cars on the road in back
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: of us.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: One may be a troop truck.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: They extinguished their lights. All right. Here we come. Emile,
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: take Ducroix. Get him out on that field.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Shove him in that plane the second it lands.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Then go for cover. The automobile.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Look. A Nazi-style car.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Hurry.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Get him out there. The plane's landing.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Where are you going?
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: I'm taking Emile's car.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I can block the road.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: For a little while, anyway. Blow up your radio, Suzanne,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: and then get out of here.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: The plane's landing, Herr Colonel. Cut across the field.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Impossible, Herr Colonel.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: There's an irrigation ditch.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: Well, then go faster.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Turn on your lights.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter now.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: 300 yards.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: We'll make it all right. What a find this may
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: turn out to be.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: A reunion, perhaps, with an old friend.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: A handful have been there on the field.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: Five or six only.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: I want them all, you understand? Preferably alive.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Herr Colonel, a car is coming.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Don't slow down.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: Keep on for over.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: He'll pull over.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Keep going.
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: Keep going.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Colonel Kunzel. Colonel Kunzel. Aren't you all right?
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I'm all right.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: What happened? When the cars crashed, you were knocked out
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: for a moment.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: The plane got away?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, but if there's some way of contacting the half,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: perhaps they could intercept the plane.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Never mind.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Where's the car that crashed into us? Back there in
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: the ditch. And the driver? He couldn't have got far.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: We're rounding them all up now.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Find him.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: Find the driver of that car. Look through every foot
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: of this.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Look out!
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Look out!
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I got him.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Over there in the brush.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: Still alive, Colonel.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Unconscious.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: He must not die.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: Corporal, go into Pont Levesque and get a doctor at once.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, Colonel. It's not a bad wound.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: He will live.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Then all our luck didn't desert us tonight. This man
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: with persuasion will tell us everything we want to know.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: This man is Robert Sharkey.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Sharkey?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Then who was in that plane? My guess would be
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Marcel Dupois.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: We'll soon know.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Colonel, in his hand. A little white capsule.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: An L-pill.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: Death in one minute.
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: Tough break, Sharkey.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Always so sure of yourself.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Marcel Ducroix was delivered to my office sometime after midnight.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: We were waiting for him. Air Corps officers and intelligence.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Once Ducroix realized he wasn't going to be tortured and killed, he.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Gave us the whole story.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Just one more question, Ducroix.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Look at the map.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: This area is a grain field. How far is it
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: exactly from the river to the depot?
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: No guess, Ducroix. If you don't know, say so. If
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know, monsieur, I am an engineer. From the
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: river to the depot, 12 kilometers, 0.27.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: That's all we need to know, Mr.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Gibson.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Take him out, Captain. French intelligence wants him upstairs.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Well, Gibson, we know now where the V2 depot is.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Every detail of its construction. You can be very proud
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: of your organization. I want to thank you for your cooperation.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Right. Now it's our job. Good night.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Good night.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: Good night, sir. I beg your pardon, Mr.
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: Gibson?
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, Simpson. Come inside, please.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: Communicators in contact with Susanna Beaumont.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: How do you do?
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: It's Suzanne, all right. Listen. Have not much time. Sharky
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: taken alive to Gestapo headquarters.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: The hog.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Sharky ordered me out.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: I could not make it. Soldiers Have surrounded farmhouse.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: And hear them closing in.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Don't worry.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: I will not be taken alive.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Please tell Gifty I.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: Just two questions, Sharky, that's all. Just two questions.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Where's the invasion coming?
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: And when?
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Consul. I don't know. I'm sorry, too.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry you make it necessary to go to these ends.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: But believe me, we've only started.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I believe you. But I can't tell you what I
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: You do know.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: We'll continue to use any means we can to make
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: you talk.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Show them what I mean, Sergeant. Don't stop, Sergeant. You see, Sharky.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: We'll make you tell. A man can take so much punishment.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Remember what you taught me?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Fair play, years of decency, that's out. You've done your job.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Now I'll do mine.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Where will the invasion take place?
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Have you got a map? Let him go, Sergeant.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: Over here, Sharky.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Where on the map?
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Where?
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Here. Strike the colonel, will you?
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Strike the colonel. Stop it.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: You want to kill him?
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: We'll try again later.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: We didn't know then what was happening to Sharky, but
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: we could imagine.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Poor Suzanne.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: She at least was dead.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: But Sharky....
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: We planned the one move.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: The one move that could help us.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: At ease, men.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: You pilots have been assembled for a most special mission.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Your target is down the wall. One city, Baha'u.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: One street in that city. One building on that street.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: 13 Rue Madeleine.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Take a good look.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: The landmarks are well-defined. The bay, surrounding hills. Take a
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: good look and remember it. This has got to be
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: a job of total destruction, not a wall left standing.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: No one must escape from that house alive.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: No one. You'll go in four squadrons.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: Two dropping high explosives, followed by two squadrons at minimum
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: intervals to smother the entire target with rockets and machine
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: gun fire. You've been given the route of approach. Time
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: over target, 0300. Bombers will go in at zero feet.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Zero feet? I know. I know, it's tough. Any questions?
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: Well, Colonel, I think.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Well, I think we'd kind of like to know who's
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: in that house. Goering, maybe?
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: Or Hitler?
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Or who? I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to answer that.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Perhaps in a way I can. Gibson, I know that
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: this is a tough assignment. You'll be risking your life.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: That house is the headquarters of the German Gestapo in Lahore. Now,
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: that's an important reason for destroying it, but it's not
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: the only reason. There's an American agent in that house.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: He knows the when and where of our invasion of
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: the compound. Now, if he talks, it may cost the
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: lives of countless soldiers. Right now, he's suffering the cruelest
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: tortures the Germans can devise. But he won't talk. Not
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: as long as he can stand punishment. But no human
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: body can stand it too long. Not even this wonderful,
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: tough guy from Minnesota. So I'm... I'm asking you to
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: kill my friend as soon as you can.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: If you're ready, men, we'll synchronize our watches.
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: Are you ready to talk, Starkey?
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: Starkey, are you ready to talk?
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: No.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: No.
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: No.
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: The air raid, Colonel.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Do you think... Keep beating him.
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: Those planes won't bother us here.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: They'll be heading for the waterfront. The building's been hit, Colonel.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Good night, Tom.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Make him talk. Make him talk.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: You're too late, Consul.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: You're too late.
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: Flight Commander to Gibson.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Flight commander to Gibson.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: This is Gibson.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Go ahead. Target obliterated.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Target obliterated.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: That's all, Simpson.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Why don't you go to bed now, sir? You haven't
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: slept for hours. Yes, I think I will.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, take a message to Washington, please. No, no, you
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: don't have to write it down.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Just say, mission completed.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: The curtain falls on 13-room Madeleine, and in a moment
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: we'll call our four stars to the footlights for a
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: curtain call.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: A thrilling play.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Like 13-room Madeleine is always enhanced by brilliant acting, and
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: that's what we had tonight from Bob Montgomery, Lloyd Nolan,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Richard Conte, and Vanessa Brown, who returned to the footlights
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: for a curtain call. Bob, since you were last here,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: you've become a rare phenomenon in Hollywood.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Well, I hope you mean that better than it sounds, Bill.
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: I mean as an actor.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Who directs and stars in his own pictures.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: Well, having acted in the first film that Bob directed,
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: I can say that he's as capable behind the camera
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: as he is in front of it.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I've always wondered just how does an actor direct himself?
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Well, first of all... You do the best you can
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: in front of the camera.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: And then you step behind it and ball yourself out.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: I see you've had experience with directors, Vanessa.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: Don't you ever talk back to yourself, Bob, on the set,
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: that is?
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Well, when I'm out in front of the camera, I
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: don't dare affront the guy who was fronting for myself
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: behind the camera, but... When I moved from behind the
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: camera to the front.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, where am I?
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Sounds like you were on a merry-go-round.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Well, that's more or less so if Bob's talking about
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: his latest Universal International picture, Ride a Pink Horse, which
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: takes its title from a carousel.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Thanks for getting me out of that confusion, Bill.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I trust, Vanessa, you had no such confusing problems in
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: your current picture, Foxes of Harrow?
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, uh, what kind of foxes are.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: Those, Vanessa?
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: 20th century foxes, foxes.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Well, tally-ho.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: I'll join the hunt for the nearest theater where it's playing.
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: But tell us, Bill, what's coming up for next week?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Next Monday night, we bring our audience a fresh, unusual
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: screenplay that's achieved worldwide acclaim. Universal International's delightful drama, Stairway
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: to Heaven. And our stars are Ray Moland, Anne Blythe,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: and Nigel Bruce. Stairway to Heaven is the tender story
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: of a British pilot in love with a young American
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: girl who fights for the right to live and love
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: against the adverse powers of another world.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: That was one of the most original screenplays of the season, Bill.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Your audience is lucky. Good night, Bill.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Good night, and thanks for the visit to Room Adelaide.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Levo Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Flakes, join me
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: in inviting you to be with us again next Monday
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: evening when the Lux Radio Theater presents Ray Moland, Ann Blythe,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: and Nigel Bruce in Stairway to Heaven. This is William
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Keeley saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Our time with Lux Radio Theater's 13 Rue Madeleine has
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: come to an end. Follow Lux Radio Theater for more
• 37:10
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