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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Amy Bradshaw Matter, Part Five and Nightmare for Knight (EP0961) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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support not Great Detectives dot net. Well I mentioned earlier in the week.
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In two weeks we're going to go ahead and switch to Johnny Dowler first,
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but we'll finish off Nightmare for Night first. So now it's time for Nightmare
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for Night Part three. Carthor Brown Mister Adventures in Excitement and Suspense, based
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on the bestselling novels by the slick storytelling sensation Cartha Brown. I was walking
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into it with my eyes open, me nicky knight, the smart private eye
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call me Sir Lancelot, all set to storm the wicked Prince's castle and rescue
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the beautiful captive maiden. Only instead of riding my brave steed with my trusty
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sword, I wrote a buy special beside a two time fraud Lewis de Spray
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alias Lewie Cats. But this was the only way I could see of finding
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out what the catch was. We parked a car off the road about a
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quarter of a mile from the house and cat footed it up to the wall
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at the back of the building. You think this is the best place night,
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Yeah, the way I figure it doesn't even chance that block. The
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god on the gate sleeps in the little gatehouse. Yes, it is.
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So if we get over the wall here, we got a chance of getting
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away with it. I'll go first. You give me a push up and
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then I'll give you a paul. Are you ready ready? Yes? Okay,
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gip go upset, you jump and I'll grab your Yeah, I can
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grab my arm. That's it could work, my friend. Now down to
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the garden there, yeah, let's go. Now, quiet, quiet,
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Where are we going there? Back door? What if it is locked?
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I got a little gadget with me. It's pretty useful for the sort of
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emergency. You you have your gun, lady, of course, why that
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has hand flecks a knife about it. I'm not taking risks? Are you
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too? Hold here? Uh? Huh? You will and picked the lock?
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Now, no, lesson one in the private eye manual. Always test
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the door before trying to pick it. You never know it might be open.
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Well, how do you know it tears? It's not black? I
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wonder this is the kitchen door opens on the hall. Come on, it's
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a light. It is a light under the door head? Yeah, who
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lives in the way home? Perhaps he has returned? You just go and
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see. Don't be crazy. It's a girl we're after. But I am
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also utter degrade Louis who tears? Who are you? You are? Execution
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it so much for his highness as the man? Why don't you do that?
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For it's just frement. Now we go upstairs to find Michael. Correction,
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please not beleeve me. Ye, I prefer to go the rest of
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the way alone. Pal, He would just lie there and rest. I
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went up the stairs two at a time, dodging from side to side as
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I came to make a difficult target. Then a large curved sword appeared on
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the landing. Behind it was Abdul, Hello, Abdul, goodbye. As
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he came toppling down the stairs. I pressed back against the wall and then
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ran for the door to the harem. I dragged it open and found myself
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face to face with a dark eyed beauty with small curls and sweet curves.
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What do you want you, Marie to spray? Yes, I come to
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take it home. Take me what kind of a coaches? No trick.
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The prince's dead. Abdul is dead, and if we don't get out of
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here fast, we'll qualify for the quartet. Not come on? How do
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you feel now? I do not know. I'm still dizzy from the haste.
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I'm sorry about that, Marie, about the rough treatment getting over the
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wall. But a skin knee is better than a punctured high. Oh,
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I do not mind. I am more than grateful. I kept waiting for
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Hassan to come yelling afterss. You know that's a funny thing. There was
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no sign of her Sam, He's the toughest of the lot. Where was
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he and where was her room? If the prince was back, he should
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have been too, surely NIKKII the one thing that matters is that we've got
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away. That's true enough. Woys can't help wondering, where are you taking
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me to my apartment? First Texas there x Oh, that's wonderful. I
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would like to see her again. She was kind After that. I'm not
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sure. The police probably you were kidnapped. Weren't you ride a last summer
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I met Prince Alzama there I stuck. He was horrible from the first.
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I had to move on it afterwards. Have you got a brother named Louie?
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No, I'm an only child. Does the name Louie Kats mean anything
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to you? What you? Only Louis? I even knew was Louie Melbat
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The act would tricked me to that I was kidnapped. Is he tall,
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dark gray eyes and slightly crooked mouth. But yes, yes, that's y.
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We're talking about the same Louis. I don't understand. Well, it's
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a long story, honey, and this is no time to tell it stops.
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Yeah, for one very good reason. Not a gas you know.
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That's strange. This is Louie's car and there's not enough gas for a two
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wait trip? What will you do now? We'll leave you here and go
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look for a phone. I'll call texted you bring my car out here and
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pick us up. She will leave me. You leave me. You can
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have my gun for commay. I won't be long o, Please don't be
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there's no need. You Just sit tight. I'll be back as fast as
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I can. I tried just long up the road for half a mile before
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I found a house and an irate farmer in a night chaired whose bad temper
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disappeared when I waved a couple of five spots under his nose. He eventually
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led me to the phone and I dialed my apartment. Hello, thanks Nik,
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relaxed, honey, everything's okay. Oh, thank heaven. I've been
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sitting here going quietly crazy. Now, got Marie with me, but we
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run out of gas. When you bring the car out and pick us up
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for sure directions? Thanks? What's the matter? Somebody come in and have
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your pardon? Thanks? Are you all right? No? Thanks? He
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oh? Hello, Hello, mister Knight. Who's that? This is Haroun.
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We have your American girl. She is quite safe at the moment.
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She may have a headache when she wakes up, but it will pass if
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you hurt her. Knight, No one will be hurt so long as you
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are as sensible. What do you mean by that? It is quite simple.
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You have a girl, We have a girl. You want the one
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we have, We want the one you have. I don't get it.
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I think you do. We want Marie to spray back. If you want
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to see your friend texts alive, we will return to us the French girl.
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If not, her son is very anxious to practice some of his peculiar
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talents. Hello, mister Knight, are you're still there? Yeah, I'm
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still here. The exchange will be made at nine to night. My word
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that the American girl will not be harmed in any way before then. We
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will meet you at the crossroads on the main highway, ten miles north of
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the house. Is that clear? It's clear till nine then, mister Knight.
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I put the receiver down and just staid looking at it. I felt
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as though I'd been kicked in the stomach by a specially vicious mule. The
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thought of texts on that dagger happy hassan was the stuff that nightmares were made
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off. Then I went back to the old farmer and found he had some
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spare petrol, bought it from him and half an hour later, the car
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was ready to move again. Then I told Marie what had happened. She
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sat staring ahead of her for a few minutes and turned to me. Of
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course, Niki, you must take me back. No, there must be
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another way, but they are very sorry. There would be nois a week,
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I tell it, there must be. We We can't just have you
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gone mad? Oh no, I just had an idea. Where do you
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think they'll take text back to the house? I suppose if you were run,
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where would be the last place you'd expect to find us? You and
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me? Why? I mean go back to the house. No, why
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not? There's only Louie and Blant, the guy from the gate. I
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think I can take care of them. Then we sit tight and wait for
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Harun and Hassan to bring texts along. They won't suspect a thing. They'll
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walk through the doors straight into my gun. Very Oddcious, that's the way
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it was a one baby, Very well. It is a better way than
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to surrender timeley. Oh, that's my girl. Hold on her, yashmack.
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Here we go, all right, Keep beside me, Marie. I
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am kind, I'm anet o that ye sure? I have to have to
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get into this place again. I'm not going over that wall. I think
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a couple of sticks of dynam I can blow it down. It's very quiet.
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There's a start from the house. Careful now, but almost at the
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door. It's still open. Is that not strange? Yeah, come on,
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glad as you can. We'll come back. Mister Night, don't move
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night. The girl gets a bullet which the light on bloc. Wow,
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looks like we got a reception committee. Exactly, mister Knight. The rob
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your gun blizze. Thank god. We counted on your being a clever man,
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mister Knight. If you had not been, we might have been in
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trouble. But we had to have a clever man, one would react the
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right way. Then we got you react the right way. So howing was
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a plant? Huh? Yes, mister Knight, the whole thing a perfectly
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planned trap. A chess came in excelsis with you as the poet. What's
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the next move? The next move is to wait, mister Knight, for
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the Prince to prince. But of course her run is the prince now and
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he will hand you over to the police for the murder of his brother.
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Welcome back. I'm always a little reminded of the Battle of wits seen from
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Princess Bride. Whenever you see a situation like that with two people trying to
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help think each other, though I sensed it was common. While now at
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least most everything is pretty clear, the question will be how all our hard
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boiled hero get out of this mess. You'll have to join us back here
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next week for the finale of Nightmare for Night. Now, speaking of finales,
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it's time for the Amy Bradshaw Matter, Part five from Hollywood. It's
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time now for Johnny, Johnny, Amy, it's one. I am anything
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the matter? Yes? Can you come over right away? Sure? Your
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apartment? No, I'm in my dressing room with the Criterion Theater at one
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o'clock. Amy. This a policeman assigned to you. Is he with you?
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No? What? I went out the back way. I came over
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here alone. Why he's supposed to be protecting you? Johnny. I can't
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explain, no, but I think I finally know who's been trying to kill
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me. I want to talk to you right away over here. Hurry,
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please, hurry tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures
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of the Man with the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator as
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Turley Johnny Doller, New York City Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Doller
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to the home office Northwestern Indemnity Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is
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an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Amy Bradshaw matter. Expensive count
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at him twelve five dollars taxi from my hotel to the Criterion Theater on West
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forty four. Two bucks for the fair, three bucks for getting me there
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in five minutes. Amy had sounded plenty scared over the phone. The cab
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skidded to a stop in front. I caught a glimpse of somebody at the
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other corner of the theater. It looked like Porter Kane. I couldn't be
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sure, and I didn't have time to find out right now. Backstage,
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it was quite dark and I had to feel my way through. The shot
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came from the direction of Amy's dressing room. Mike Pomeroy, the agent was
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lying on the floor dead. There was a gun on the floor too,
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just inside the door. What happened to Amy? Amy? Stop it tell
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me what happened? The shot came from the door, ran outside the dressing
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room, across the stage into the alley, and went in sight back inside,
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I found a light switch. So I phoned Elson tell at police headquarters,
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told him what had happened. Amy was quiet. Now, Amy,
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Look, look, I know it's tough for you to talk right now,
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but you've got to try and tell me. I know. I left in
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midnight. Mike called me at my apartment. He said he wanted to talk
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to me about something important. His office is nearby, and he asked me
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to beat him here in my dressing room. So I came over right away.
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Go on, Mike and I started talking. Suddenly I saw the door
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opening, a crack, A hand with a gun. Mike, Mike,
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easy, easy, Mike, So dude. He doved between me and the
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door and collected the slug. He fell against the door and it slammed on
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The hand gun dropped and the next thing I remember, you were in the
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You didn't see who was holding the gun, No, just the hand.
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Amy. There was something on one of the fingers that I recognized, a
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large signet ring. Yes, sir, yeah, it belonged to the guy
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out on the sidewalk. Porter cane. We will continue with the Bradshaw matter
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Grand Central Station, New York City. Lieutenant sent Ella arrived at Amy's
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dressing room and Amy repeated a story to him. He sent a couple of
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his boys out to pick up port A Cane. Alan, Amy and I
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went down to headquarters. We left her in one room while we went into
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another to question Cane, who had been picked up at his apartment. See
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here, Lieutenant, I don't know what this is all about, but I
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certainly object to being routed out hole it. Kane, you know why you're
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down here? I certainly do not. You don't know that Mike Pomeroy's dead
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and Amy's agent? Really? Really, I never did like that. Chap
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quite an insensitive person, while he's real insensitive. Now Kane, he's dead.
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How did it happen? Mike was shot by mistake, The real target
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was Amy good heavens? No, when's the last time you saw Amy?
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The night before last, I spoke to her briefly after the show. I
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haven't talked her on the telephone. No, you're lying her apartment about eleven
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PM. I was there, all right. I did telephone her. I
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suggested she meet me somewhere. I told her I'd wait for her outside her
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apart go on. I saw her come out later by the alley, so
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I followed her to the theater, thinking she meant for us to talk there,
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But then I heard a shot. So you admit being in the vicinity.
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Oh, yes, But I definitely did not go into the theater,
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didn't she Kane? Amy got a look at the hand holding the gun.
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There was a ring on one of the fingers. Ring. You're a ring.
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She's completely mistaken. It's a very distinctive ring. It's not one that
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anybody'd be mistaken about. See here, Lieutenant. All of this wild supposition
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is based on the assumption that I had a motive for wanting to kill Amy.
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You told me what your motive was when I talked to you last evening
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in your apartment. What do you mean? I asked you, what you
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do if you wanted something for your collection and couldn't get it. You told
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me a story about what happened when you were just a kid, nine years
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old. But I say, the kid had a lollipop you wanted. He
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wouldn't give it to you, so you smashed it. And that's what you
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were trying to do tonight in Amy's dressing room. You couldn't have her,
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so you tried to smash her. There wasn't much point in my hanging around,
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so I got else and tell us permission to take Amy back to her
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apartment. We could wait there for any new developments. Amy didn't say a
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word all the way. When we got there. She sat in a chair
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staring at the wall. When she finally spoke, it was more like she
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was talking to herself. He's dead, Amy, he's dead because of me.
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Stop talking that way. Mike Pomeroy jumped in the way of a bullet.
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If he hadn't, you'd be dead. Stop it, Amy, Johnny,
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Yeah, I think you think. What? Oh, just a minute,
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I'll get it. It was Alison Teller down a police headquarters. When
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he finished talking, I didn't say anything. There wasn't anything to say.
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After I hung up. I stood there a moment, staring out the window,
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and it started to rain. I felt old and tired and empty and
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sick. I went back into the other room again. Amy was sitting there
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looking at me. Johnny, Amy, is that car for me? No?
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Who was it? The tenant, sin teller? Oh? The gun
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that killed Mike Pomeroy, There were no fingerprints on it. You said you
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saw a bare hand with a ring on it holding the gun. A bare
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hand would have left fingerprints. You killed him, didn't you. Yes,
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Johnny, the attempts on your life, you faked them, didn't you,
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to convince people you were in danger so you could kill Pomeroy? And we
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think the shot was intended for you. Why? Amy, You know why?
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Yeah? I guess you loved Mike. You knew he was growing away
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from you so fast, so very fast. You saw him get interested in
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a younger actress. You knew she was taking your place with him. Mike,
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I was dead. I couldn't stand that. I really couldn't. So
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I started making it look like I was in danger. It wasn't very hard,
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Johnny. I'm a good actress. Yeah. After a while, I
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almost began to believe I was in danger. Something was after me, was
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hunting me. It finally caught up with me, and I did what I
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did. What jobs is the hunted Johnny? And which is the hunted?
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Amy? Yes? I think one of lieutenants in Teller's Men is waiting for
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you out in the hall. All right, just one thing, Johnny,
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What is it? I'll need something now, something. Don't forget me,
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Johnny, give me that that you can count on. Amy. She walked
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out of the room and she didn't look back. I'm glad she didn't.
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Expense account Item thirteen, sixteen dollars and fifty cents transportation and incidentals from New
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York back to Hartford. Expense account total one hundred eighty five dollars and twenty
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cents. End of account, end of report remarks. Amy repeated her confession
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to Lieutenant Sintella. Her trials coming up soon, sweet case. Well,
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tomorrow is another day, so they tell me yours, Julie, Johnny Dollar.
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set with your name of address to Giant Animals Box nineteen eighteen, Grand Central
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Station, New York City. Now here's our star to tell you about next
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week's exciting story. Next week a case with a great big question mark accident,
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suicide, what just plain murder? Join us? Want you Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Doller, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed
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in Hollywood, written by Robert Rife, It is produced and directed by Jack
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Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast where Virginia Gregg, Florence Walcott, Don
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Diamond, Larry Thor, Vic Perrin, and Carlton Young. Musical supervision by
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Amerigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday night, same time and
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station for another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Deller. This Roy Roland
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speaking welcome back. Part of me really wanted this to have a better outcome,
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just to make all of the Giant Animals commercials worth it. It's someone
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said that this ends up being all a set up to a really dumb murder
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plot by Amy Branshaw, because not only do you have the gun with no
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prance, you also have the issue of a powder residue, which if he
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wasn't wearing glove seed to have it, and then trajectory, and the sad
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part is we do have another week of giant stuffed animals to go through,
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so all right, well, on a four positive note, we do turn
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to listener comments and feedback, and we begin with a comment from Laurie,
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who says, I am not sure that I really love Bob Bailey's Johnny Dollar,
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but I do enjoy hearing him since Let George Do It is ended,
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I always liked his characterization, and I guess I've let that spill over into
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his Johnny Dollar. I keep expecting Brooksie to pop up, and I missed
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the music from the half hour Johnny Dollar shows. I have to say it's
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a somewhat interesting comment, and I guess kind of shows an inner an effect
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of having a program where we played First of all, we played Let George
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Do It first, so people are heard Bob Bailey in this other role,
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and we also heard one hundred and fifty plus episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Doller
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prior to Bob Bailey coming on in the role, which gives some more context.
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Laurie goes on to say, since I've caught up completely with you.
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I've been going back and listening to some of the other podcast I used to
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when there's nothing new on yours, and I find that I miss your little
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notes at the beginning and the end. I ain't find myself wondering what you
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would say about a particular episode. Thanks well, thanks so much. I
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appreciate I appreciate you listening, and glad to glad to enjoy the show.
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And then we have this comment from Bobby who says Bob Bailey was the best
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Johnny Dowler, Larry, you got a couple of differing opinions. Then Kim
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emails in a comment on the McCoy it really is a shame that the McCoy
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wasn't picked up. It could have been a real blockbuster. It is especially
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sad because its failure was at least in part by the communist witch hunt of
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the fifties catching Howard Duffinis. There, more often than not, charges made
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by McCarthy's community committee proved eventually to be untrue. The process ruined many a
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promising career in Hollywood. Well, just for our listeners, I want to
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kind of clarify a little of the history. McCarthy, whatever you want to
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say about McCarthy's committee, it didn't have anything to do with going on going
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on in Hollywood. The House on American Affairs Committee, on American Activities Committee
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had a little bit to do with it. McCarthy's committee was in the Senate
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and his efforts were much more were concerned with infiltration into communists into the federal
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government. What happened to Howard Duff was actually, at the time that there
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was this concern going on, an anti communist newspaper put out a booklet called
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Red Channels. In it, they implied, but didn't specifically, accuse several
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members of the Hollywood community of being Communists. The damage to Doff's career was
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pretty pretty short term if you look at his filmography on IMDb nineteen fifty two
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and fifty one or dry years. But after that pretty much his movie and
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television career gets back in line. And I had one listener, Joan who
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mentioned the series he started with Ida Lupimo at the end of the fifties nineteen
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fifty seven fifty eight, Mister Adams and Eve, where he played the where
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he played the lead role in a hut with a real life wife. At
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the time Lupino, so his career was not majorly damaged. It was kind
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of just this one spot at the time that he was auditioning for the McCoy.
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It was a very brief period for Diffe and he of course would go
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on to recover and would most famously star He played, of course Sam Spade,
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but he played another Sam and all the way into the nineteen sixties with
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his role on Felony Squad. So long term, this was more a blip
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on his radar screen than something that ruined his career. So all right,
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well that will actually do it for today. We will be back on Monday
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with another episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller, and then join us back here
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Friday as we wrap up Nightmare for Night and tomorrow we'll be bringing you the
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