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Lux Radio Theatre - "Murder My Sweet" (Old Time Radio, 1945) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Dick Powell returns as private detective Philip Marlowe, joined by
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  Speaker 1: Claire Trevor and Mike Mazurky in this Lux Radio Theater adaptation.
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  Speaker 1: First broadcast on CBS with Irving Pitchell as guest producer
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  Speaker 1: and host on June 11, 1945, it is episode 487, Murder,
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  Speaker 1: My Sweet. Marlowe is hired by Moose Malloy, newly out
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  Speaker 1: of prison, to find the singer Velma Valento, Before long,
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  Speaker 1: that search intersects with another assignment involving stolen jewels, carrying
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  Speaker 1: him through Los Angeles in a case of blackmail and homicide.
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  Speaker 1: The story comes from the 1944 RKO film based on
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  Speaker 1: Raymond Chandler's farewell, My Lovely. We now take you back
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood. Deluxe Radio Theater brings you Dick Powell,
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  Speaker 2: Claire Trevor, June Dupre, and Mike Mazurky in Murder, My Sweet.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Irving Pitchell.
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  Speaker 3: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. In answer to the
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  Speaker 3: proverb that a leopard cannot change its spots, We bring
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  Speaker 3: you tonight a gentleman who turns his back on many
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  Speaker 3: years of light and frothy roles by which he climbed
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  Speaker 3: to stardom and takes the part of a ruthless, hard-as-nails
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  Speaker 3: detective in a drama as relentless as the crimes.
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  Speaker 4: That it unfolds.
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  Speaker 3: He's Dick Powell, hailed so enthusiastically as Philip Marlowe in
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  Speaker 3: RKO's sensational success Murder, My Sweet. Co-starred with him in
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  Speaker 3: her screen role as the fatal and mysterious Helen is
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  Speaker 3: Claire Trevor, also June Dupre, whose natural loveliness would lead
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  Speaker 3: us to expect a touch of romance in our play.
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  Speaker 3: And towering above our microphones is Mike Mazurky, as the
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  Speaker 3: quietly alarming Moose Malloy. Four characters of widely different natures
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  Speaker 3: and conflicting motives, involved in one of the screen's most
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  Speaker 3: baffling and complex mysteries, a story that in its published
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  Speaker 3: form was one of the best-selling thrillers of our time.
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  Speaker 3: Most of the action of Murder, My Sweet takes place
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  Speaker 3: right here in Hollywood, not too far from our stage.
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  Speaker 3: If you saw the picture, you've seen many Hollywood sites
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  Speaker 3: from Malibu Beach to Sunset Towers, from the skyline of
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles to the canyons of our hills. Landmarks as
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  Speaker 3: native to Hollywood as the radio and motion picture studios
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  Speaker 3: from which these dramas come. In fact, the name Lux
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  Speaker 3: on the outside of our theater is, I venture to say,
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  Speaker 3: as familiar a landmark in this capital of entertainment as
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  Speaker 3: Lux soap itself is familiar in the dressing rooms of
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  Speaker 3: screen star stars.
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  Speaker 4: A standard of.
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  Speaker 3: Complexion care from coast to coast, Lux Toilet Soap is
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  Speaker 3: a friendly link between your home and Hollywood. And now,
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  Speaker 3: we take you to the downtown section of our city
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  Speaker 3: on the first act of Murder, My Sweet, starring Dick
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  Speaker 3: Powell as Philip Marlowe, Claire Trevor as Helen, June Dupre
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  Speaker 3: as Anne, and Mike Mazurky as Moose Malloy.
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  Speaker 4: When you got something to say, start at the beginning. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: It's seven o'clock at night and I'm in a two-by-four coupe.
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  Speaker 4: I call my office. I sit at my desk and
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  Speaker 4: look at the sign on the door. Philip Marlowe, it says.
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  Speaker 4: Philip Marlowe, private investigator. That's a nice title for somebody
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  Speaker 4: you go to see when you don't want to see
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  Speaker 4: the law. I was tired out. I'd been out peeking
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  Speaker 4: under old Sunday sections for a barber named Dominic whose
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  Speaker 4: wife wanted him back. I forget why. Anyway, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: find him, and the only reason I took the job
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  Speaker 4: was because my bank account was trying to crawl under
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  Speaker 4: a duck. I just found out all over again how
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  Speaker 4: big Los Angeles is. My brain felt like a plumber's handkerchief.
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  Speaker 4: I took out my little black book and decided to
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  Speaker 4: go grass hunting. Nothing like soft shoulders to improve my morale.
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  Speaker 4: I'm dialing a number when the door opens and he
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  Speaker 4: walks in. The mountain that walks like a man. The
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  Speaker 4: biggest mug I ever saw outside of a side show.
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  Speaker 5: You Marlowe?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I've seen your name downstairs. They have the names of
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  Speaker 5: those in the building. You're a private eye, huh?
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like you to look for somebody.
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  Speaker 4: I'm closed up, pal.
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  Speaker 5: I looked for her where she worked, but I've been
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  Speaker 5: out of touch.
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  Speaker 4: Come around tomorrow. We'll talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: I think maybe we should do it now.
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  Speaker 4: Let go of me, you big ape.
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  Speaker 5: I don't mean to do nothing. Here, I'll give you
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  Speaker 5: some dough. You come with me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Okay, I come with you.
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  Speaker 5: It ain't far. A cafe on Central Avenue. We can
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  Speaker 5: pick up a cab.
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  Speaker 4: The place was called Florian's. It looked like trouble, but
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  Speaker 4: that didn't bother me. The 220s, the big lug had dropped,
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  Speaker 4: felt nice and snug against my appendix. I tried to
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  Speaker 4: figure out who he was looking for. I tried to
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  Speaker 4: picture him in love with somebody, but it didn't work.
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  Speaker 5: It changed this place a lot. There used to be
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  Speaker 5: a stage and some booths. Lattice work and pink flowers.
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  Speaker 5: She was cute like a bug's ear.
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  Speaker 4: A redhead.
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  Speaker 5: Eight years since I've seen her. Six years she didn't write.
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  Speaker 5: But she'll have a reason.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, she'll have a reason. What did you do here?
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  Speaker 5: Singer?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Let's you and me nibble a couple.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Jack.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Whiskey.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, boss. He's here again.
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  Speaker 4: He said you're here again.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I come in before. I try to find her.
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  Speaker 6: Now, look, big boy. I told you once I'm sorry
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  Speaker 6: about your girl, but she ain't here.
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  Speaker 5: Her name is Velma. You never heard of Velma, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Florian?
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  Speaker 5: She used to work here.
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  Speaker 6: You better drink up, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: That lady at the end of the bar. Maybe she knows.
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  Speaker 6: I have to request you don't bother the customers, see?
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  Speaker 5: Lady, you remember a girl who used to work here?
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  Speaker 5: Her name was Velma.
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  Speaker 9: You talking to me?
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  Speaker 6: I said leave the customers alone.
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  Speaker 5: So far you rate me polite, huh? I don't bother
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  Speaker 5: you none.
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  Speaker 6: Swallow your drink and get out of here.
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  Speaker 5: Get out of my way.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, pal. Eight years is a lot of gin.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know anything about Velma here.
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  Speaker 5: Some guys have the wrong idea.
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  Speaker 4: The boss was no lightweight, but Moose picked him up
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  Speaker 4: like a rag doll and dropped him in the corner pocket.
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  Speaker 4: Moose seemed a little dazed as he walked out, and
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  Speaker 4: I tagged after him down the street.
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  Speaker 5: That guy in there, he shouldn't have talked to me
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  Speaker 5: like that.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, sure, pal. What's the next stop?
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  Speaker 5: Who asked you to stick your face in?
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  Speaker 4: Remember me? I'm the detective you hired, Chunky.
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  Speaker 5: The name is Moose. Cut him on large. Moose Malloy.
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  Speaker 5: That place ain't like it used to be. There used
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  Speaker 5: to be a stage and some boots.
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  Speaker 4: You said that.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I told you too much. Maybe I.
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  Speaker 4: Let go of my arms. Huh?
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  Speaker 5: We was to be married, me and Velma. Well, you
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  Speaker 5: figure I've been them eight years I said about.
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  Speaker 4: Catching butterflies.
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  Speaker 5: San Quentin I've been. Look, you find Velva for me, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Has she got a last name?
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  Speaker 5: Velma Valento. Now you beat it.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, sure. How do I get in touch with you?
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  Speaker 4: I get in touch with you. Tomorrow, maybe. So tomorrow
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  Speaker 4: comes and I'm thinking about Moose Malloy and that bucket
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  Speaker 4: of mud look on the face of the Boston Florians
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  Speaker 4: when I hear footsteps coming my way down the hall.
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  Speaker 4: Moose was coming back. Except it wasn't Moose. It was
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  Speaker 4: another new customer. Good-looking guy, well-dressed, like a movie star.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Marlowe, my name is Marion.
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  Speaker 4: Come in, come in. Who put in the pitch for me, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Marion?
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  Speaker 4: Pitch?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, no one, no one. I saw your name in
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  Speaker 11: the classified section of the phone book. I'm in a
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  Speaker 11: clutch at the moment, Mr.
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  Speaker 12: Marion.
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  Speaker 4: You're what? I'm busy. I couldn't take on anything big.
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  Speaker 4: What have you got in mind?
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  Speaker 11: I'd like your services tonight for just a few hours.
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  Speaker 11: I'm meeting some men. I'm paying them some money.
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  Speaker 4: How much money and what for?
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  Speaker 11: I can't go into that. I've simply agreed to serve
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  Speaker 11: as the bearer of the money. Oh, you just want
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  Speaker 11: me to go along and hold your hand.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I don't like your manner. I've had complaints before,
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  Speaker 4: but it keeps getting worse. How much are you offering
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  Speaker 4: me for doing nothing? I hadn't got around to thinking
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  Speaker 4: about it. You suppose you could get around to thinking
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  Speaker 4: about it now? How would you like a swift punch
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  Speaker 4: on the nose? Oh, dear. I tremble at the thought
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  Speaker 4: of such violence. I, uh... I'll give you a hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: If that isn't enough, say so.
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  Speaker 4: It's enough. It's enough.
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  Speaker 11: This is all I can tell you. Some jewels were
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  Speaker 11: taken from a friend of mine in a hold-up. I'm
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  Speaker 11: buying them back tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 11: I'm to drive my car to a rather secluded canyon
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  Speaker 11: near Malibu.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. We drive out there to buy back some jewelry
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  Speaker 4: for a lady friend. I didn't say that. Chances are
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  Speaker 4: that these men, whoever they are, don't intend roughing you
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  Speaker 4: up if you play ball. But they wouldn't like you
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  Speaker 4: being twins. Now, one of us might get hurt. No, Mr. Marion,
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I can't do anything for you. I see.
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  Speaker 4: But I'll take your hundred bucks and tag along for
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  Speaker 4: the ride. One more thing. Yes? I carry the shopping
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  Speaker 4: money and I do the driving. Very well. We drove
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  Speaker 4: down that night. Somehow I knew we were being watched.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't see anything. The fog was a nice dish
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  Speaker 4: of puree St.
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  Speaker 13: Germain.
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  Speaker 4: I felt it coming. I was a toad on a
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  Speaker 4: wet rock and a snake was looking down my neck.
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  Speaker 2: Slow down.
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  Speaker 4: We're getting near the spot. Shh, quiet. There should be
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  Speaker 4: some white posts along the road. Pull in your head.
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  Speaker 4: In back of the white post, there's the path. The
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  Speaker 4: path goes down into a hollow. That's where we're to wait. Hey, hey, look. Huh?
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  Speaker 4: White post. All right, stop the car. Now you sit tight,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll go down and have a look-see.
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  Speaker 5: Have you got a flashlight?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Don't be more than a couple of minutes. There's
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  Speaker 4: nobody here, Marriott. This whole setup looks like a tryout,
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  Speaker 4: seeing if you obey orders. Let's pull around the corner and...
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  Speaker 4: I caught the blackjack right behind my ear and a
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  Speaker 4: black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in.
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  Speaker 4: It had no bottom. I felt pretty good, just like
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  Speaker 4: an amputated leg. I don't know how much time went by.
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  Speaker 4: I forgot to look at my watch. But as I
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  Speaker 4: came to, I started to call for Marriott.
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  Speaker 14: Marriott!
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  Speaker 6: Marriott!
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  Speaker 9: Are you all right?
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  Speaker 4: What happened? Who are you? Oh. Hey, come back here.
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  Speaker 4: Come back here! Hello? Hello?
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  Speaker 8: Police headquarters.
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  Speaker 4: Let me talk to Randall, Inspector Randall.
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  Speaker 5: One moment, please.
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  Speaker 4: Inspector Randall? Randall, this is Marlowe. Marlowe? Oh, yeah? Yeah, look,
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  Speaker 4: I'm at a gas station down near Malibu, the foot
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  Speaker 4: of Woodbridge.
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  Speaker 15: So?
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  Speaker 4: You better get on here. A guy named Marriott's just
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  Speaker 4: been knocked off, beaten to death with a blackjack. Look, Randall,
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  Speaker 4: I told you a dozen times what happened.
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  Speaker 15: I'd like you to tell me again, here in my
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  Speaker 15: big comfortable office.
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  Speaker 4: Who killed Marriott? An amateur killed him. Or somebody who
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  Speaker 4: wanted it to look like an amateur. Nobody else would
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  Speaker 4: hit a man that many times with a saddle. Ah,
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  Speaker 4: the oftener you go over it, the sillier it sounds.
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  Speaker 15: I'd sooner dig eggshells out of a garbage can than
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  Speaker 15: information out of you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I get it. You don't like me.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I'll go home.
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  Speaker 4: Right after you start talking sense. For instance?
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  Speaker 15: For instance, you don't know anything about Marriott. You don't
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  Speaker 15: know how much money you were carrying. You don't know
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  Speaker 15: what it was supposed to buy back. Trusting soul, wasn't he?
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  Speaker 4: Now, where's the dough?
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  Speaker 5: Where?
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  Speaker 4: Well, right after I beat out Marriott's brains and just
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  Speaker 4: before I hit myself on the top of the head,
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  Speaker 4: I hid the money under a bush. Ah. And that
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  Speaker 4: dame you claim you saw? She must have thought I
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  Speaker 4: was somebody else. She took one look and got out fast.
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  Speaker 15: Suppose a jewel outfit got the bright idea of using
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  Speaker 15: a private dick for.
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  Speaker 4: Contacts and pay off. Oh, great. Great. Now I'm a
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  Speaker 4: finger for a heist mob. Look, I'm trying to be helpful.
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  Speaker 4: I get up off the nice cold ground. I don't
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  Speaker 4: use the car because Marriott's still in it. I walk
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  Speaker 4: five miles just so you can be the first to
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  Speaker 4: hear the news. I wait for you at the beach
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  Speaker 4: and lead you straight to the body so you won't
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  Speaker 4: have to wait till next Christmas to find it. I
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  Speaker 4: tell you all I know, it sounds screwy. It is screwy,
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  Speaker 4: but it's all I know. Sure. Now, I'm tired of
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  Speaker 4: your bum guesses. Either book me or let me go home.
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  Speaker 15: Milo, you'd slit your own throat for six bits. Plus
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  Speaker 15: federal tax.
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  Speaker 4: Now, look, Randall.
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  Speaker 15: Go on home and keep your big yap shut. One
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  Speaker 15: phony move and you'll be locked up as a material witness.
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  Speaker 15: Whoever killed Marriott, I'll get him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you'll get him. About the time you get your
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  Speaker 4: third set of teeth. And stay away from Marriott's pals.
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  Speaker 4: I've been after those boys for a long time, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm getting close. So watch your step, or I may
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  Speaker 4: have to pick you up in the same basket with
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: Jules Amthor. Yeah? Hey, is Jules Amthor mixed up in this? Oh,
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  Speaker 4: so you know Amthor. I know lots of people in
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  Speaker 4: this town, but I never heard of Jules Amthor. Bad guess, Inspector.
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  Speaker 4: Good night, Randall. And keep away from the newspapers. I'll
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  Speaker 4: do the talking. Well, I went back to my office
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  Speaker 4: the next day. I didn't want to be there because
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  Speaker 4: my head felt like a nest of rivets. One of
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  Speaker 4: my clients was dead, but the other one was still alive,
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  Speaker 4: Moosh Malloy. And I figured he might be looking for me.
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  Speaker 4: Early in the afternoon, this kid walks in. Yeah, business
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  Speaker 4: is getting better and better.
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  Speaker 9: My name is Ann Ellison, Mr. Marlowe. I'm a reporter
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  Speaker 9: from the Post.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, have a seat, Miss Ellison.
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  Speaker 9: Please haven't been very helpful on the Marriott murder. I
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  Speaker 9: was wondering.
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  Speaker 4: There's a question I always ask. How did you know
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  Speaker 4: about me?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, friends at City Hall. Tell me, did Marriott tell
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  Speaker 9: you who owned the jade he was buying back?
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  Speaker 4: No. No, he didn't.
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  Speaker 9: Had you known him long?
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  Speaker 4: Marriott? A couple of weeks. Why?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I just wondered if you had any theories about
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  Speaker 9: what happened or what was supposed to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I've got a couple. Say, this is a nice-looking purse.
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  Speaker 8: Just what do you mean by opening it?
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to prove another theory, that you're not a reporter.
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  Speaker 4: Why do dames carry so much stuff in a pocketbook?
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  Speaker 8: Give it to me.
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  Speaker 4: I was looking for a driver's license, but your bank
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: book will do. And the name on this bank book
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  Speaker 4: isn't Allison at all. It's Grail. Ann Grail.
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  Speaker 8: Please.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you're a hot rock, baby. I could toss you
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  Speaker 4: to the cops. Last night, all I could tell them
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  Speaker 4: was that Marriott was buying back some jewelry. You could
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  Speaker 4: knock their hats off for that line about the jade.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me, Miss Grail, have you ever known a girl
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  Speaker 4: named Velma Valento, a singer?
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  Speaker 9: I never heard of her in my life.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I was just shot in the dark. Besides, it's
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  Speaker 4: another case. I was just hoping. Who does that jade
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  Speaker 4: belong to?
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  Speaker 9: What's your interest in it?
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  Speaker 4: My interest? Marriott gave me a hundred bucks to take
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  Speaker 4: care of him, and I didn't. I'm just a small
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  Speaker 4: businessman in a very messy business, but I like to
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  Speaker 4: follow through on a sale.
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  Speaker 9: The jade belongs to my father.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I gathered from Marriott that the jade belonged to
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  Speaker 4: a lady.
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  Speaker 9: My father happens to be married.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, oh.
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  Speaker 4: Well, your mother was wearing it the night of the holdup.
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  Speaker 9: She's not my mother. My mother's dead. My father married again.
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  Speaker 4: Who sent you here to feel me out?
• 15:16
  Speaker 9: It was my own brilliant idea. I saw your name
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  Speaker 9: in the newspaper.
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  Speaker 4: Before I talk to Inspector Randall, I think I'll have
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: a talk with your father and your father's wife.
• 15:25
  Speaker 9: My car's downstairs.
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  Speaker 4: Except that I'm expecting to hear from somebody.
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: Well, in that case, Mr.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: Marlowe... In that case, I'll go with you just the same.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: You're really a lot cuter than Moose Malloy. Come on,
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: let's go.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: Before Dick Powell and his co-stars return with the second
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: act of Murder, My Sweet, we take you to where
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: there's a local war bond rally going on.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: And Mrs.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: White is curious about one of her fellow workers.
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: Uh, Jean, stop here a minute, will you? Tell me,
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: who is that attractive woman in charge of the next booth?
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: Oh, that's Mrs.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: Jennings.
• 16:04
  Speaker 14: Lovely looking, isn't she? Her daughter's a classmate of my
• 16:07
  Speaker 14: Susie at college.
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: Oh, now, Jean, don't tell me she's old enough to
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: have a 20-year-old daughter. Well, she looks like a girl herself.
• 16:14
  Speaker 14: It's her skin, I think. I've never seen her when
• 16:17
  Speaker 14: a complexion didn't look like that. So soft and really fresh.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Well, that's what a lovely luxe complexion does for a woman.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Makes her look radiant, appealing. It's what you notice first
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: about her appearance, that smooth, soft, luxe complexion. Screen stars
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: know how very important it is to have the charm
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: of exquisite skin. That's why they're so careful never to
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: take chances with complexion beauty. Here's what a famous star,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Claudette Colbert, says.
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: I never neglect my daily active lather facials with luxe soap.
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: They're so easy, and they work.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: Here's what I do. I cover my face generously with
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: a creamy lather, work it in thoroughly. I rinse with
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: warm water, then cold, and pat my face dry with
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: a towel. Now my skin feels smoother, softer, and it is.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: These facials the screen stars depend on really do make
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: skin lovelier. Recent tests showed actually three out of four
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: complexions improved in a short time with daily Luxe Toilet
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Soap care. Why don't you try it? You'll enjoy the
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: extra creamy lather, the gentle caressing way it touches your skin.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Nine out of ten famous screen stars use fine white
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Luxe Toilet Soap. Why don't you begin your daily facials
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: with Hollywood beauty soap tomorrow? Irving Pitchell brings our stars
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: back for the second act.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: With Dick Powell as Philip, Claire Trevor as Helen, June
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Dupre as Anne, and Mike Mazurky as Moose Malloy, we
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: raise the curtain on act two of Murder, My Sweet.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Philip Marlowe continues with his story.
• 17:46
  Speaker 12: Murder, My Sweet.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: This girl, this Anne Grail, she drove me to her
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: father's place in Brentwood, a cozy eight or nine acres.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Okay for the average family, only you'd need a compass
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: to go to the mailbox. House was all right, too,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: but it wasn't as big as Buckingham Palace.
• 18:09
  Speaker 16: I waited while she sold me to the old folks.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: It was like waiting to buy a crypt in a mausoleum.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: And then she called me in. Old man Grail looked
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: like a college professor, and the old lady... Hmm, what
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: an old lady.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Blonde, gorgeous, and I guess about 30, with a face
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: and a shape that would make most pent-up girls look
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: like Gravel Gertie. She had dimples on her knees, and
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: I was admiring them when.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: The old man started to talk.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Do you know anything about jade, Mr. Marlowe? It's, uh, green,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: isn't it?
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: The jade stolen from my wife was a necklace, 60
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: beads of about six carats each.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: And very valuable, Mr.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Marlowe.
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: And there, why don't you sit down?
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: What?
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Now, how valuable?
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: A somewhat larger necklace recently brought $ 125, 000.
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: Yes, I never should have worn it. It was stupid. Inexcusable.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Where was the stick-up?
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: If you'll excuse me, I'm going to lie down.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Mrs.
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: Gray will talk to you. I'm most anxious to locate
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: my Jade, Mr.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Marlowe.
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: I can only hope it can be managed without any publicity.
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: Wait a minute, Father. I'll go with you.
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: May I mix you a drink, Mr.
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: Marlowe?
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Oh, thanks.
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: I hadn't thought there were enough murders these days to
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: make detecting very attractive to a young man.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Well, I stir up trouble on the side. Tell me,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: how much of your money was in Marriott's envelope?
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: Eight thousand dollars.
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: Water or soda?
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Scotch.
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: We assumed they'd never get its real value.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Who knew you were going to wear the necklace that night?
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: My maid, perhaps. But I trust her implicitly.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: Because I trust some people. I trust you.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Did you trust Tom Marriott?
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: In some things, you're not drinking, Mr.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Marlowe.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: I thought detectives were heavy drinkers.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Some detectives just encourage other people to drink.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: Shall I tell you about the holdup?
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: It might help.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: Well, I'd been out dancing and Tom was bringing me home.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Where have you stopped? Oh, near here.
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: Does it matter a lot?
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, not too much at the moment, no. How many
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: other guys take you out dancing?
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: I'm very fond of my husband.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Only his two-step's getting a little stiff. Miss Grail, do
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: you know Jules Amthor?
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: I've heard Tom speak of him.
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. The cops told me to leave
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Amthor alone. Is he a bad boy?
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: A lot of Tom's friends are, I'm afraid. Tom was
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: rather a heel himself, but a nice heel. You don't
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: know how horrible I feel.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: Why? Because I'm responsible. I asked Tom to try to
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: buy the necklace back. Oh, I just can't understand the
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: whole business. All they took was the necklace. I was
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: wearing a ring, too, but they didn't want the ring.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Uh, about Jules Amthor, what's his racket?
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: Well, he's sort of a psychic consultant. I think he's
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: a quack. Tom went to him because he was all
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: mixed up.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: He.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: he couldn't get started for fear of failure.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I wonder if he'd take my case.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: That sounded like the door closing.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: It was. Ann's been standing there.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: Oh, strange child.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: Marlowe, you will help me, won't you?
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Because you like me or are you paying me something
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: in money?
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: Well, I've never hired a detective before. What are the rates?
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: As much as a traffic will bear. How do I
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: find Amthor?
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: Well, he's really quite inaccessible.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: Amthor is here, Mrs.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Gray.
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: Well, show him in. Well, don't look so smug. He
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: really is inaccessible. I didn't have the faintest idea he'd
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: be coming.
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: Marlowe, how do you spend your evenings?
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I'm in the phone book.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: This is great.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: Oh, come in, Mr.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Amthor.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: This is Mr.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: Marlowe.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: How do you do?
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Mr. Marlowe is a private detective. He was with Tom when...
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: when it happened.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Oh? I was hired as a bodyguard and bungled a job.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Now it's myself I'm investigating. These things are so difficult
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: to believe. What could have happened? I've got a couple
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: of notions. Would you like to help me work him out?
• 22:03
  Speaker 13: Oh, I'm afraid I wouldn't make a good detective, Mr.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Marlowe, and I'm... Yeah, I know, I know. You're inaccessible.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: The police told me to keep away from you. You
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: look harmless to me. I'll be very glad to arrange
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: an interview. Just leave your number with Mrs. Gray. Don't
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: go to any special trouble. I'll bring my own crystal ball.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Hey, how do you get out of this funhouse?
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: I was home that night trying to add things up.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Moose Malloy, Marriott, Helen the Beautiful Blonde and Jules Amthor.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: I put it all together and it just thumbed its
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: nose at me. I decided to go down to Florian's
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Cafe and split an infinitive with the boss when the
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: buzzer changed my plans. I had a visitor, Helen Grail.
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: I just dropped in because I thought you'd be interested
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: in what Amthor had to say. Oh, and here. Shall
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: we call this a retainer?
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's call it a retainer. Mr.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: Marlowe, do the police know about me?
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Would that bother you?
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: Well, my husband has a morbid fear of publicity, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: he's not at all well.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'll manage it. Now, about Amthor.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, please. I don't like being rushed. I was hoping
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: we could go out somewhere. Do you like the Coconut
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: Beach Club?
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I've never been there. I'm the drive-in type.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: The lights there are very flattering. They'd even mellow you
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: a little, I think. But it's the sort of a
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: place where you're expected to wear shoes and a tie.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: I'll be right with you. We went to the Coconut
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Beach Club. We had a table in the corner. She
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: gave me that dreamy smile and started asking questions.
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: You know, you've got a nice build for a private detective.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, it gets me around.
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: How does one get to be a private detective? You
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: don't mind my sizing you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Up a little? Most of us are ex-cops. I work
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: for the district attorney. Got canned.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Surely not for incompetence.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: For talking back. I had an interesting childhood, too, but
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: you didn't drop in on me to get a biography.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: You'd rather I talked about Amthor.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: That's right, a good guess.
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: Well, then, stay right here. I've got to powder my nose,
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: and then I'll tell you all about it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Well, just be back before I get stuck with the check.
• 24:15
  Speaker 12: Mr.
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: Marlowe, I'd like to talk with you.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Well, hello, Miss Gale. I'd like to talk to you, too,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: but not now. Do the Gales always hold their family
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: reunions here?
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: It won't take long, but I have to say.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Look, honey, I've already got a date. She'll be right back,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: and I don't want you two slugging it out in public.
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: There's no danger of that. She won't be back.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: How do you know?
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: Never mind.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: What did Helen ask you to do?
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: She wanted me to kiss her and find her jade necklace.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I may have the order wrong, but that's the general idea.
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: Well, whatever she was willing to pay you, I'll pay
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: you more. Just stay away from her. Why do you
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: look at me like that?
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I seem to remember you from one
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: of my better dreams. You know if I.
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: Now what are you looking at?
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I'll be right back. Hello, Mr. Malloy. Do you like
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: this place better than Florian's?
• 25:18
  Speaker 16: This the babe. I got something for you to do. Look, look,
• 25:22
  Speaker 16: I'm a big boy now. Don't you want me to
• 25:23
  Speaker 16: have any fun at all? I want you should meet
• 25:25
  Speaker 16: a guy. Will you let go of me? Another ten
• 25:28
  Speaker 16: seconds and gangrene will set in these fingers.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Thanks. Okay, I'll ditch the babe. I couldn't ditch the babe.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: The babe had ditched me. First Helen had disappeared, now Ann.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Ann had left a card on the table. She'd written
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: on it, I'll keep the offer open. I don't live
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: in Brentwood. My address is 962 North Hoover Street. Moose
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: saw me put the card in my pocket. He came
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: over and hustled me out to the curb. There was
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: a car waiting, also a guy to drive the car.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: He took us to a very ritzy apartment house, showed
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: us up to the penthouse, and then did something that
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: made me rather unhappy. You, uh, you carry a gun, Pally? Oh,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: I'm so used to packing one that hardly notices on me.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I think maybe I better hold it, eh?
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Stop the stalling. Let's get inside.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: He was there all right, Mr. Hampton. Me and Moose
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: got him. Thank you, Michael. Mr.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Hampton... I'd like to ask him about Velma.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Don't be impatient. You and Michael wait in the other room.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: Come on, big boy.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: But you ask him quick. I want to know now.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Well, where did you pick up Moose Malloy? I met
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: at Mrs. Grail's. You said you wanted an interview. Huh?
• 26:45
  Speaker 13: I must insist upon some sort of logical progression. We'll
• 26:47
  Speaker 13: come to Moose Malloy later. As for my profession, my
• 26:51
  Speaker 13: patients regard me highly as a psychic consultant, Mr.
• 26:54
  Speaker 15: Marlowe.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Years ahead of my time. Which might be one way
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: of saying that some folks have made some complaints to
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: the cops. It might be. Do you have another theory
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: about me? Yeah, yeah, I do, and it goes like this.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Marriott blackmailed rich women, but somebody else found the women
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: for him.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Well, if you're right, I would be that somebody, and
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: I would have Mrs. Grail's jade necklace, wouldn't I? Unless
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: something went wrong, like Marriott losing his nerve and ringing
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: in a private dick, a sucker who'd risk his neck
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: for a C-note.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: But.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: who might figure a jade necklace would be a nice
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: thing to have in his bank. And would this.
• 27:27
  Speaker 13: Hypothetical detective be willing to part with it for a consideration?
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Could be, if he had it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: How much of a consideration? Well, it's difficult to say
• 27:36
  Speaker 13: until he produces the jade. He might be bluffing, trying
• 27:39
  Speaker 13: to gain information. In which case, a great.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Psychic, years ahead of his time, might try to beat
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: the truth out of him. You wouldn't suggest that? Only
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: if you wanted to wear your face backwards for a while. No, no.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: There's no need for us to be at each other's throats, Mr. Marlowe.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: And there's really no need for subterfuge. Putting it on
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: the simplest and friendliest terms. I want that jade. I
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: suppose I don't have it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 10: I suppose I don't want to sell.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: You got him to tell you yet?
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: No, Malloy. I asked him where Velma is. He refuses
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: to tell me. Now, wait a minute.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: I don't like you start telling me where you got Velma.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Well, if Amthor told you I know where Velma Valenta is,
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: he's nuts. He just picked you up to do his
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: dirty work.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: I gave you some dough to find her.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: Well, keep your shirt on and stop dancing me around.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: He's lying, Malloy.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: He knows.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Where you got her?
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: I haven't got her, you damn wit.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: You shouldn't have done that. You shouldn't have hit me.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: All right, now, the two of you, stay just where
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: you are.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: What do you got to pull a gun for?
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: Where's that necklace, Marlowe? If you tell me, I can
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: stop Moose. I don't know. Very well, Moose. He's yours.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Make him talk. So Moose went to work. Those fingers
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: went around my throat tighter and tighter. That black pool
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: opened up at my feet again and I dived in.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: The rest of it was a crazy cold-cut dream. I
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: was going somewhere I'd never been there before.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: I was drugged.
• 29:02
  Speaker 12: Somebody had filled me full of juice. I was in
• 29:05
  Speaker 12: the land of poppies and I met a lot of
• 29:07
  Speaker 12: interesting people.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: Mexico.
• 29:10
  Speaker 12: I'm all right.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: What happened? I'm all right.
• 29:14
  Speaker 12: You shouldn't have hit me like that.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: You shouldn't have hit me.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: Because I trust some people. I trust you.
• 29:24
  Speaker 12: Because I trust some people.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Help.
• 29:27
  Speaker 12: Somebody, please help. Hey, what's eating us now?
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: Smoke.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Smoke.
• 29:32
  Speaker 12: Rooms full of smoke. I don't see no smoke. If
• 29:35
  Speaker 12: you want, I should blow it away. Where am I?
• 29:39
  Speaker 12: Anything else you'd like to know?
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:42
  Speaker 12: The doors are too small. Stairs made of dough. I
• 29:45
  Speaker 12: don't see no stairs. I think the guy is nuts.
• 29:49
  Speaker 12: Do you think he's nuts?
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, skip it. Get out.
• 29:51
  Speaker 12: I want to go to sleep.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: I want to sleep again.
• 29:55
  Speaker 12: Better make it just that, Patrick.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Then I knew I couldn't go to sleep. Not if
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: I wanted to stay alive. I could still feel those
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: fingers on my throat. I even saw them. Just a
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: bunch of bananas that looked like fingers. I wondered what
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: I was full of. Something to keep me quiet, or
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: was I dope to make me talk? Maybe both. Okay, Marlow,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: I said to myself, you're a tough guy. You've been sapped, choked,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: and shot in the arm until you're crazy as a
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: couple of waltzing mice. But you've got to get up
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: and start moving. Let's see you do something really tough.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Like putting on your pants. Well, I made it.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, you cuckoo.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Your pants are on.
• 30:38
  Speaker 16: Now walk.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: And talk.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: What about?
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Anything. Everything. Just talk and keep walking. You're getting out
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: of here.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: Walk!
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: I walked. I don't know how long. That kind of
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: time they don't make in a watch. And then the
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: smoke went away. The room turned into a room and
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: I knew I was ready to talk to somebody. I
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: tore the bed apart and got a hunk of bed spring,
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: and then I started to shout again.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: Help! Help!
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: Mike walked in again, and I let him have it. Oh,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: that was a nice feeling. I crept down the stairs.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: There was a man in an office, a doctor's office,
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: it looked like. I was in front of him before
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: he saw me, but his hand went for the buzzer
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: right away. That buzzer won't buy anything tonight, Doc. I
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: just gave Nurse a sleeping tablet. For three days, sir,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: you have been a very sick man. Three days? You're
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: swaying right now. Don't you realize that? I'm all cured, Doc. Now,
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: what were you saying?
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: I made no remark.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: I thought I heard you saying that you had a
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: gun in that desk. And that if you were very careful,
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: you could sneak it out.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: A very stupid thing to do, Mr. Marlowe.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: The gun. It's better. Now, talk some more.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: You've been suffering from narcotic poisoning.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: On account of you pumped me full of it. Speak up, Dr. Jekyll.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: I'm in a wild mood tonight. I haven't shot a
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: man in a week. You very nearly died, sir. I
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: had to give you digitalis. Also a little something to
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: make me talk. What was I supposed to talk about?
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Maybe a jade necklace I haven't got? Mr. Amthor will
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: be disappointed in you again. Never disappoint Mr. Amthor, Doc.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: It depresses him. I'm warning you, Mr. Marlowe. At any
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: moment you'll collapse. I must insist on your going back
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: to bed. Get away from me. The gun, please. I
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: want that gun. You're going to faint, Mr.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Marlowe.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Maybe you're right. Maybe you're right, but not on this carpet.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: I'll do my folding on a nice hard slate.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: You'll never reach that door.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Well, before I try, I'm going to rip something off. No,
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: not your head. Just a telephone. So long, Doc. I'll
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: look you up when I get insomnia again. I staggered
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: out to the street and down to the corner. Then
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I thought I was seeing things again. Yep, there he was,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Moose Malloy. I couldn't have knocked the ashes off a cigarette,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: but I tried to swing on him. He just held
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: me up and started talking.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: You shouldn't have fought with me. You ain't in such
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: good shape.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: I'll murder you.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: I don't like to fight with nobody. I want for
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: you to keep looking for Velma.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Who planted you here? Amthor?
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Amthor tells me about you. But he was kidding all
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: the time.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: He was kidding the pants off you, Buster. He doesn't
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: want you to find your girl. Nobody's supposed to find Velma.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: He's got other plans.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: You ain't in such good shape. I'd better help you.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Then get me a cab, you dopey gorilla.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Where do you want to go? What's that card you got?
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: It says 962 North Hoover Street on the card. You
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: saw me pick up this card in the Coconut Beach Club.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: That's where the babe lives, huh?
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I think I'll find out why she's living alone
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: and if she really likes it. Now get me a cab.
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: What are you doing here?
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: What do you want?
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Black coffee, Miss Grail. Eggs and a scotch and soda.
• 34:04
  Speaker 9: You're drunk.
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: You better get out before.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Hey, this is a nice place here. Is there room
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: for you in the Brentwood Palace or don't you like
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: it out there?
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: Why did you come here?
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Because the cops may be looking for me and I'm
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: not ready to talk.
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: You're not drunk. Why do you look the way you do?
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, ask the second Mrs. Grail. She fixed up a
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: blind date for me with Jules Amthor and a couple
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: of his whipping boys.
• 34:26
  Speaker 9: What happened? Are you all right?
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I don't think I'm supposed to be alive. Say that again.
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: Say what again?
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: The last thing you said.
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: I said, what happened? Are you all right?
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Miss Grail, what were you doing out there in the
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: canyon the night Marriott was killed? I was lying on
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: my face when somebody threw a flashlight and asked me
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: if I was all right, and then she said, what happened? Yeah,
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: a girl with red hair and a crooked nose and
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: a nice figure. Yes, a girl named Ann Grail.
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: I didn't kill Marriott.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: You weren't out there just taking a hike.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: I didn't kill him.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: I'd say you overheard Marriott and your stepmother making some
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: sort of arrangements about the jade.
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: What if I did?
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: You knew Marriott had been holding hands with her, and
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: you didn't like that.
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: I hate her.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: And you hated him, too. You hated anybody that had
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: anything to do with Helen, so you bumped him off.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: You killed Tom Marriott.
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: I didn't.
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: I didn't do it. I didn't.
• 35:13
  Speaker 11: I didn't.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Columbia Broadcasting System. A brief intermission before our stars return
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: in the third act of Murder, My Sweet. Meanwhile, it's 2.45
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: of a bright afternoon. Just the day for Mary to
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: be hard at work in her victory garden.
• 36:02
  Speaker 17: There, that'll hold those pesky weeds for a while.
• 36:05
  Speaker 8: Hello, Johnny.
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: Telegram for me?
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: What in the world?
• 36:10
  Speaker 17: At 48-hour pass, arriving 5.15.
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: See you soon, darling.
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: Signed, Jim.
• 36:16
  Speaker 17: Oh, heavens to Betsy.
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: He'll be here in a few hours.
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: I'd die if he saw me like this.
• 36:20
  Speaker 17: The house has got to be slicked up, too, and
• 36:22
  Speaker 17: I've just got to fix something special for dinner.
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: Well.
• 36:25
  Speaker 9: Here goes. Got to work fast.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Now it's 3.45. Mary has accomplished wonders. Is giving the
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: furniture one last polish.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: There.
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: That looks something like it. And now to press my dress.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: The blue and green print. Jim loves so.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: Now it's 4.45. The dress is ready.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: The dinner started. And there's still a half an hour
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: to go.
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: Oh, goodness. I feel all in.
• 36:44
  Speaker 17: Glad there's time for my Luxo beauty bath.
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: That'll do the trick.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 36:51
  Speaker 17: This lather's wonderful. So rich and creamy. I feel like
• 36:54
  Speaker 17: a different person already. And I love this nice perfume
• 36:58
  Speaker 17: luck so pleased on my skin. Makes me forget all
• 37:00
  Speaker 17: the work I've done and feel like Jim's girl again.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: And now it's 5.30 and Jim is here. Gosh, you're lovely, Mary.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: What makes you so sweet?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: So many clever girls depend on their Luxe Toilet Soap
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Beauty Bath for a quick, refreshing beauty pickup. But most
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: important of all, they know this secret.
• 37:17
  Speaker 17: When I step from my Luxe Soap Bath, I know
• 37:20
  Speaker 17: my skin is fresh and really sweet. Cream stars say
• 37:22
  Speaker 17: a daily Luxe Soap Bath makes you sure of daintiness,
• 37:25
  Speaker 17: and I've.
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: Found they're right.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Screen stars, lovely women everywhere, discovered long ago their fine
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: white complexion soap, Luxe Toilet Soap, makes an exquisite bath soap, too.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: The extra creamy lather, rich and abundant even in hard water,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: leaves skin flower fresh. And screen stars tell you they
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: love Luxe Toilet Soap's delicate clinging perfume, too. Why not
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: get some of Hollywood's fragrant Luxe Toilet Soap for your
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: beauty bath tomorrow? It's thrifty to use. You'll find each
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: satin smooth cake lasts and lasts. Back now to Irving
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Pitchell and our stars.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: The curtain rises on Act Three of Murder, My Sweet,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: starring Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe, Claire Trevor as Helen,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: June Dupre as Anne, and Mike Mazurky as Moose Malloy.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Philip Marlowe is in the apartment of Anne Grail, whom
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: he has just accused of murder.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: I stood there in Anne Grail's apartment and accused her
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: of killing Marriott. I was sure she hadn't done it,
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: but I had to find out what she knew.
• 38:30
  Speaker 9: I know just what you're thinking. If I didn't kill him,
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: my father did.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: And if he did, you'd do anything to protect him? No.
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: No, he couldn't do such a thing.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: I don't buy it either yet. I was just trying
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: it on for size.
• 38:42
  Speaker 9: Won't you please go home? I'm expecting a date.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: I can't go home. There's a very stubborn character named
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Inspector Randall. And if he isn't on my doorstep right
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: now waiting to pick me up, then two of his
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: stooges are. So relax.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: Hey, your date? Probably.
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: Wait here.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Tell him you've decided to have a quiet little supper
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: with me.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: My name's Randall. I'd like a word with your boyfriend. Oh,
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: I was just talking about you, Inspector. I've been looking
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: for you for three days. Pull up a chair. Mrs.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Grayle was about to fix some soft-boiled eggs and scotch.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: You wouldn't join us. Last time I saw you, I
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: gave you some good advice. I guess it didn't take, huh?
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: I didn't bother, Amthor. I was going to, but I
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: didn't get around to it. He got to me. He
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: gave me quite a party. How'd it go? What let
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: by me? This is straight, Randall. You'd like to get Amthor,
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: and I'd like to help you. He annoyed me a little.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: I'm listening. Well, Amthor's a tough turkey. Works some kind
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: of blackmail routine on dames who come to him with problems.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: I think Marriott was his contact man. Let's get to
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: the new part, huh? The jewelry Marriott was after was
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: a jade necklace. It belonged to one of Amthor's patients. Well,
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Marriott fumbled the ball. Yeah? So Amthor figured I had it.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: He sent me to a little rest home where the
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: teacher would talk. There's a guy there who's a whiz
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: with a hypo. The address is 23rd and Descanso. Okay, okay.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Who owns the jade? I told you. One of Amthor's patients.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: By the name of, uh... I don't know. Oh, Miss Grail.
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: When were you last to your father's place in Brentwood?
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: Not for several days. Is something wrong?
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Skip it, skip it.
• 40:16
  Speaker 15: Marlowe, I figure what you told me is on the level.
• 40:19
  Speaker 15: But don't make a habit of trying to help me.
• 40:20
  Speaker 15: I might get grateful and lock you up. Uh, give
• 40:24
  Speaker 15: me a call tomorrow.
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: How could he know about me?
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: I don't know. That's what happens when you let a
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: cop go to school. He gets smart. Now, fix up
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: your face. We got to get out of the marble quarry.
• 40:36
  Speaker 9: Where?
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Brentwood. Oh.
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: What's the matter?
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's a funny thing.
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: About every third day, I get hungry. I can fix
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: eggs and coffee if you want to wait. You know,
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: you're crazy. Everybody takes a poke at you. They fill
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: you full of drugs, but you bounce right back and
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: hit between tackle and land all over again. And I
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: don't think you even know which team you're on.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: I don't know which team anybody's on. I don't even
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: know who's playing today. At Brentwood, we saw Mr. Grail,
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: and I've seen healthier-looking gents in the county morgue. His
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: face was gray with worry. Something was eating him. More
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: important than a missing jade necklace. A missing wife.
• 41:20
  Speaker 10: Helen left yesterday. I haven't heard from her since. And
• 41:23
  Speaker 10: have you seen her? Have you?
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: No, dear, but maybe.
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: Maybe she went to the beach house.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Beach house?
• 41:28
  Speaker 10: It had been rented to Marriott indirectly through the bank.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: I think I'd better have a look at it.
• 41:32
  Speaker 10: This whole thing has gone too far.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Oh? Or maybe it's coming too close to home.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: Grayle, I don't say you killed Marriott, but you could have...
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: For a good old-fashioned motive. I did not kill him, Mr. Marlowe.
• 41:44
  Speaker 18: But I say it is better that he is dead.
• 41:47
  Speaker 18: I'm not concerned if the police suspect me. I'm concerned
• 41:50
  Speaker 18: about my wife. I'm losing her.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Father.
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: And that is.
• 41:53
  Speaker 18: Why I say all this has got to stop. You'll
• 41:57
  Speaker 18: drop the case, Mr.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Marlowe.
• 41:59
  Speaker 10: I'll pay you well.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, fine. I get dragged in, get money shoved at me.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: I get pushed out, get money shoved at me. Everybody
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: pushes me in, everybody pushes me out. Nobody wants me
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: to do anything. Okay, skip it.
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: I'll put a check in the mail.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I cost a lot to do nothing. I
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: get restless. Throw on a trip to Mexico.
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: Father, where are you.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Stay here. Why? Because I want a key to that
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: beach house.
• 42:22
  Speaker 9: But you just told him.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: I can't stop now. Do the cops stop? Does Helen stop?
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: Do you stop?
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: What do you mean, does Helen stop?
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. If I always knew what I meant,
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: I'd be a genius.
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: You're vicious. You get some horrible satisfaction seeing people torn apart.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: Sister, you're hanging on to something that's going to smack
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: you hard. If I stick, it smacks you sooner, sooner
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: and cleaner. Maybe that's why I'm sticking. But I'd stick anyway,
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: because a guy who hired me got killed.
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: I'll get you the key.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: We went to the beach house. Things happened there. Some
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: of them I can explain. One thing I can't. After
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: we took a look around, Ann and I were standing
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: there in the dark, looking out that big front window
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: toward the ocean, and before I knew it, we were
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: in a clinch. It's nice to kiss a girl like
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Ann Grail. I told her she had a cute little face,
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: even if her nose was slightly crooked.
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: It isn't crooked. Just has a bump on it where
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: I got hit with a baseball. Used to play shortstop.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Philip. Yeah?
• 43:28
  Speaker 9: What about my father?
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: If we don't find Helen.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: I'm going to make you mad now, baby. But here goes.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Your father really loves Helen. When I came along, you
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: were afraid she might turn me into another Marriott. So
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: you tried to buy me off. That didn't work, and
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: I began to suspect your father. A real tough guesser
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: might say that when he couldn't buy me off either,
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: you decided to be nice to me. Like just now.
• 43:52
  Speaker 9: There's nothing decent about you, is there?
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: Nothing at all. I don't always guess right. I may
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: be wrong. I think I am wrong.
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: Sometimes I hate all men. Young men, handsome men who
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: don't work for a living and almost heels who are
• 44:07
  Speaker 9: private detectives.
• 44:10
  Speaker 8: Helen! Oh, I'm sorry, darling. But you should know by
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: now that men play rough. They soften you up and
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: then they belt you once.
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: Hello mr marlow hi i didn't finish helen i hate
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: a lot of women too especially beautiful expensive blondes all
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: bubble bath and moonlight and and inside cold and hard
• 44:33
  Speaker 9: like blue steel only not that clean.
• 44:36
  Speaker 8: Your slip is showing darling i'm leaving i'll tell father you're.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: Here well how long have you been here mrs grail
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Since yesterday. You just happened to leave the Brentwood place
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: before the cops dropped on your husband?
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: Oh, please.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Look, you hired me to get your necklace, so you
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: stand me up in a corny rump joint and tell Amthor.
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry. I thought you might have had the jade. Please,
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: please don't blame me. You could have had it. What
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: Amthor did, was it bad?
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: It almost made me mad. Now, just what goes between
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: you two?
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: Well, he's blackmailing me.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, that much even I can figure out.
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: My husband is in love with me. I'm fond of him,
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: and I'm grateful, but I find other men very attractive.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: I imagine they meet you halfway.
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: I met Amthor through Tom Marriott. He's smart. He does
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: know psychology. He got me talking, and of course I
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: talk too much. He uncovered something, and the blackmailing started.
• 45:36
  Speaker 8: I think if my husband had found out, it would
• 45:39
  Speaker 8: have killed him.
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: So you agreed to give Amthor the necklace?
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: But before I could, it was stolen.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: By Marriott?
• 45:44
  Speaker 8: Must have been. Amphor probably came to the same conclusion.
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: He decided to kill him, and that's why Marriott wanted
• 45:49
  Speaker 8: you for protection.
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: All right, I'll buy it up to there. What happens now?
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: I want you to help me kill Jules Amphor. Don't
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: you see? You're the only one I can turn to.
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: He's the only way I'll ever have peace. He'll never
• 46:05
  Speaker 8: be satisfied, even if he does get the jade.
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: Why me? Because I have a gun or just because
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: I wear pants?
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: Please, please, I need you so. I need help and
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: peace desperately.
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: I need you. Have you got anything worked out?
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: Yes, but Anthor's disappeared.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Maybe I can find him.
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: Well, then tell him you've got the jade and you're
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: ready to sell.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: Then what?
• 46:32
  Speaker 9: That's my part.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: All right, I'll dig him up.
• 46:35
  Speaker 8: Oh, you're wonderful. How would you like not having to
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: earn a living?
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't bother me a bit.
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: When will you be back?
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: I may have a time finding him. Maybe not till
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: tomorrow night.
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: Oh, would you mind kissing me goodbye?
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't mind at all. I went straight to
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Amthor's apartment. I had a couple of keys and one
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: of them fitted the back door. I wanted to surprise Amthor.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: I thought it would give him a bang. I thought
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: it would kill him. Amthor was on the living room floor.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: He wasn't must, just snapped, the way a pretty girl
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: would snap a stalk of celery. Only for this job,
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: you'd have to be a big man with a big
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: pair of hands. I hustled downtown, bought a late edition.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: I wanted to see how the police were doing on
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: the Marriott murder. And while I was looking at the paper, somebody.
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: Was looking at me. I've been trying to find you
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: all over.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: I got to go away. Yeah, yeah, Amthor's dead. I
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: know you didn't mean to kill him. You just shook
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: him too hard because he wouldn't tell you where Velma is.
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: You find her?
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Here, Moose. I find her.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: Where is she? You tipped the Johns off on her.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't want little Velma to do no stretch.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: Turn me loose. Turn me loose and stop waltzing me around.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: But the Johns got Velma.
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: Nobody's got her.
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: She's got herself. You can see her tomorrow.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: Now go hide yourself and be here tomorrow night as
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: soon as it gets dark. Moose showed up tonight like
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: I told him. I sold him on waiting outside the
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: beach house until I called him. That was like lighting
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: a stick of dynamite and telling it not to go off.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: But I had a plan. Helen was waiting for me. Philip.
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: Philip, did you find him? Did you find Amthor?
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: He'll be here around twelve.
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: Twelve. Would you like to look at this?
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: Hmm?
• 48:25
  Speaker 8: This is it, Philip. The necklace.
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: Where'd you get it?
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: I went to Brentwood today. Got it out of my
• 48:31
  Speaker 8: dressing table drawer. Surprise.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: In a flabbergasted sort of way, yes.
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: It was never stolen.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: You faked the whole thing?
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: I simply wasn't going to let Amthor get it. When
• 48:42
  Speaker 8: he comes, he can take a look at it.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: He may have a gun.
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: He'll never get that far. So have I.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: You went to Brentwood. Then where's Anne and your father?
• 48:51
  Speaker 8: I can't say. They were out. And now I'm going
• 48:54
  Speaker 8: to be very grateful. Here, the necklace. It's yours. You're
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: much too nice to be a grubby detective all your life.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: You told Marriott this thing had been stolen. Why?
• 49:06
  Speaker 8: Well, he was close to Amthor. They both had to
• 49:08
  Speaker 8: think it was stolen.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: Marriott fell for that? Of course. And you still think
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Amthor killed him?
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: Who else?
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: You. Oh, no.
• 49:17
  Speaker 8: No, you can't... mean that.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, I think Marriott was scared because he'd agreed to
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: help you kill a nosy detective. The same detective Moose
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: took to Florian's joint, the one Florian told Marriott about.
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: Marriott had to help you protect his interest. You knew that.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: You were a living to him and to Amthor and
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: in his modest way to Florian. You supported them. They
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: knew you wouldn't be worth blackmailing if I found you
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: for Moose Malloy. Oh, no, no, please. I was nifty thinking, darling.
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: At the canyon, one of us would get out of
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: the car, didn't matter who. Either way, you had Marriott
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: and me separated, and you would tag us one at
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: a time and get your 8,000 bucks and knock off
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: Amthor later. Yeah, it might have worked, too, if it
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: hadn't been for Ann chasing down there after you. Of course,
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: my head's pretty hard.
• 49:59
  Speaker 8: It's true. It's all true. Everybody was closing in on me.
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: I didn't know which way to turn.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: And it almost worked, sister. I was almost as dead
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: as Marriott. But killing a man with a blackjack, oh,
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: that's no work for a lady.
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: Well, after it happened, I didn't know what you would do.
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: But now I'm so close to peace. So close. Just Amthor.
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: But I can't face it alone. Don't desert me now.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: Sure. Amthor blackmailed you. He's got something on you. Only
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: it isn't what you told me. It isn't just men.
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: Your husband could understand the men. No, it's the clink
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: looming up. And it's no good understanding the clink. Moose
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: is looking for you, Velma.
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: Where is he? Where is Moose?
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: Waiting for me to call him in. Eight years ago,
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: when you were his girl, what did you talk Moose
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: into doing? He went to jail for you. Was it
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: murder or something serious?
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: Where are you going?
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: To tell him that his redhead has turned blonde.
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: Come back.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: Huh? Oh. Oh, a gun. Well, that fits your personality
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: better than a blackjack. And the pearl handle goes swell
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: with your fingernail polish.
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: You know, it's too bad it has to be like this.
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: Don't move. Who is it?
• 51:17
  Speaker 9: Well, well, come in, come in.
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: Darling, that gun, what are you.
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: Close that door, Ann. Your timing, dear, gets worse and worse.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: We've been listening.
• 51:28
  Speaker 10: Why didn't you tell me you were in such trouble?
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: I wanted to spare you.
• 51:31
  Speaker 10: I might have been able to prevent all this. Now,
• 51:33
  Speaker 10: of course, it's too late, Mr.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Marlowe.
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: I see your point.
• 51:36
  Speaker 10: Helen, if Mr. Amthor is coming, I think perhaps you'd
• 51:39
  Speaker 10: better do it quickly.
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: Father!
• 51:40
  Speaker 10: Get inside, dear. Keep your hands up, Mr.
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: Marlowe.
• 51:43
  Speaker 10: I'll have to take your gun. I'll be with Anne, Helen.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, all by ourselves again.
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: You know, this will be the first time I ever
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: killed anyone I knew so little about and liked so much.
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: You and I. Just a couple of mugs. But we
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: could have got along.
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: What's stopping us now? I can handle Moose. He broke
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: Amthor's neck yesterday.
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: What did you say?
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: Something I shouldn't have.
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: Amthor is dead.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: Then that leaves only you. I'm sorry, but you know too.
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: Too, too much.
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: I had to do it, Mr.
• 52:24
  Speaker 8: Marlowe.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: I had to kill her. Hello, hello. Let's have the police.
• 52:30
  Speaker 9: Give me that phone.
• 52:31
  Speaker 8: Give it to me.
• 52:33
  Speaker 9: Don't you realize he saved your life? Why must you
• 52:35
  Speaker 9: suffer for that?
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: The cops always like to solve murders done with my gun.
• 52:38
  Speaker 8: She's dead. Isn't that enough? She was evil. All evil.
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: I think I hear a shot, Mr.
• 52:45
  Speaker 14: Marlowe.
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: I think I better come in.
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: Moose. Moose, it didn't work out the way I planned.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: Never mind. I'd like to talk to Velma now.
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: I'd... Moose.
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: Don't touch her. She ain't hardly changed. Just like always.
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: Cute as a bug's ear. I wasn't going to bother
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: her none. She done all right. Who done this?
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: You shouldn't have killed her.
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: Moose.
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: You shouldn't have killed Velma.
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: Moose.
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: Get out of my way. Don't come any closer, please. Moose,
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: will you listen to me?
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: Moose!
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: That old black pit opened up again right on schedule.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: Blacker than the others and deeper. Well, that's the works.
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: That's all I know on account I didn't see so
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: well with my eyeballs scorched. They didn't keep me long
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: at the hospital. Two hours ago, Randall came and picked
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: me up. And everything I've been telling you, I've been
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: telling him. He's sitting right here in front of me now.
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: I wish I could see Randall. Wish the bandage wasn't
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: on my face. I want to look at his ugly
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: kisser and figure out what he's thinking.
• 53:51
  Speaker 14: Marlowe?
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah? There's a piece of paper here on my desk,
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: a warrant for your arrest. I'm tearing it up. Oh, thanks. Tonight,
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: when it happened, I heard the shots. I still don't
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: know who got hit. It wasn't the kid, was it, Randall? No. No,
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: you can get out of here now if you want to.
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: You mean I'm sprung? Who backed me up? Who got shot?
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: I heard three. Moose Malloy. Dead? Yes, and Grail. While
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: they were fighting for the gun. Ann's okay, then. Huh.
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: She thought it over while I was in the hospital
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: and came around to back me up, right? I didn't say. McNulty,
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: see if he gets home. Yeah.
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: I'll buy you a ride in a cab, Marlowe.
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: Hey, what are you putting in my pocket? The necklace.
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: She gave it to you, didn't she? Yeah, I tried
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: it on. It's wrong for my complexion. Then give it
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: to your girlfriend. Strangle yourself with it. No, just go on,
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: beat it.
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: Let's go, Marlowe.
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: You can come in now, Miss Grail.
• 54:52
  Speaker 9: Why didn't you tell him? Why did you have to
• 54:55
  Speaker 9: keep him guessing?
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: About your backing him up? Why don't you tell him?
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: You can catch him outside. Just give Nellie the high sign.
• 55:03
  Speaker 9: Oh, thank you. Thank you.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: Hey, Nutley. Yeah? What do you know about that redhead
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: pitching for me? Yeah. Hey, are we alone or am
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: I hearing things? What things? Like someone else is walking
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: with us. Oh, you're on the street.
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: Lots of people walk on the street.
• 55:23
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: She had a cute figure, huh?
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: I didn't notice.
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: You must be low on vitamins. Oh, she had more
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: than a figure, too. Not a beautiful face, but a
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: good face.
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: I didn't notice.
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: Face like a Sunday school picnic.
• 55:41
  Speaker 6: Oh, there's the cab down the block.
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: Say, are you sure we're alone?
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: Hey, hey, cab!
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir?
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I guess she thought I liked the blonde
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: chewing on my face. I wish I could tell her.
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: I wish I could.
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: Duck your head, Marlowe. This here's the cat.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: Where to, mister? 800 South Kingsley.
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: Hey, Nelty, I... Hey, what goes? If I didn't have
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: these bandages over my eyes... You go to the same.
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: Address too, lady?
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: Uh, Nelty... I haven't kissed anybody in a long time.
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: Would it be all right if I kissed you, Nelty?
• 56:18
  Speaker 9: I think it would be just fine.
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: I said, are you going to the same.
• 56:21
  Speaker 11: Oh.
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, I guess you are.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: Now that we've cleared Dick Powell of murder, the rest
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: of our cast can get back on their feet and
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: join him at the footlights for a curtain call.
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: You should have been in tonight's cast, Irving. You used
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: to play in pictures. Well, thanks, Dick, but I'm too
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: old to go through what you went through in tonight's play.
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: Tell me, Claire, how does it happen that a nice
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: girl like you always gets to play the bad girl role?
• 56:58
  Speaker 8: I don't know, Irving.
• 56:59
  Speaker 9: I guess they've got me typed. They had Dick Powell
• 57:01
  Speaker 9: type for a while, but look what he's doing now.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: That's right, June. Next week he starts a whole new
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: radio series as a tough detective.
• 57:08
  Speaker 8: You mean I might yet get a chance to play
• 57:10
  Speaker 8: a sweet young housewife?
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: How about me, Mr. Pitchell? Do you think I could
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: play Hansel and Gretel with Margaret O'Brien?
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: Maybe if you took a course in compression, Mike.
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: You mean expression.
• 57:22
  Speaker 4: No, I mean compression. Or else learn to walk on
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: your knees and keep your hands behind your back.
• 57:28
  Speaker 8: Well, what do we do with June Dupre, Irving?
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: Well, we just pat her on both cheeks and tell
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: her to stay as sweet as she is. Oh, now, here,
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: you aren't falling for that luxe complexion, Pitch. Why not?
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: Other men have.
• 57:37
  Speaker 8: That's right, Irving. That's why so many of us use
• 57:39
  Speaker 8: luxe toilet soap.
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: Look, Pitch, while we're getting everybody out of acting ruts,
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: what sort of a role would you give yourself if
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: you went back to acting?
• 57:47
  Speaker 9: Well, you were mostly a heavy in pictures, weren't you?
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, and I rather fancy myself in a light musical
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: comedy part. You know, the kind of bright young chap
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: who sings, smile the while the smile be your style.
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: Look, Irving, I think you'd better stick to making pictures. Incidentally,
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: I understand from Paramount that you did great things with
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: the medal for Benny.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I had a good story there to work with, Dick.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: A homeboy whose rival in love is an overseas hero.
• 58:15
  Speaker 8: And a good cast.
• 58:16
  Speaker 9: I'm looking forward to it, Irving. But tell me, what
• 58:19
  Speaker 9: do you have on Lux next week?
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: Well, for next week, we have an altogether charming story
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: with a most delightful cast. The Canterville Ghost, starring Margaret O'Brien,
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: Charles Lawton, and Tom Drake. Take a group of high-spirited
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: American commandos Billet them in an ancient British castle where
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: their hostess is Lady Margaret O'Brien, and then haunt that
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: castle by the most notorious ghost in England, and you
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: have the elements of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's entertaining and extraordinary comedy.
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: The cannibal ghost can haunt my house next Monday, Pitch.
• 58:46
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• 58:47
  Speaker 9: Good night.
• 58:48
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• 58:54
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• 58:54
  Speaker 3: This week, America salutes the Army's famous Quartermaster Corps on
• 58:58
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• 59:02
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• 59:05
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• 59:08
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• 59:11
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• 59:19
  Speaker 3: Toilet Soap, join me in inviting you to be with
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: us again next Monday night when the Lux Radio Theater
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: presents Charles Lawton, Margaret O'Brien, and Tom Drake in The
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Canterville Ghosts. This is Irving Pitchell saying good night from Hollywood.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: Every day as the war against Japan increases in intensity,
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: the need for waste fats and greases grows more critical.
• 59:46
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• 59:49
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• 59:52
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• 59:57
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• 1:00:01
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• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: My Sweet was presented through the cooperation of RKO Studios,
• 1:00:08
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• 1:00:11
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• 1:00:13
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• 1:00:16
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• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: RKO version of Dick Tracy. Heard in tonight's cast were
• 1:00:23
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• 1:00:27
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• 1:00:31
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• 1:00:40
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• 1:00:42
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• 1:00:46
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• 1:00:51
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