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Philip Marlowe: The Man on the Roof (EP1655) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. The original air date April
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  Speaker 1: fourth of nineteen fifty. The Toddle the Man on the.
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  Speaker 2: Roof Get This and Get It Straight crime is a
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  Speaker 2: Sucker's road knows who travel and wind up in the
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  Speaker 2: gun at the prison of the Grave, this time an
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  Speaker 2: old Spanish woman who cared a redhead and mink who
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  Speaker 2: didn't in the green swayed button beside a cops all
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  Speaker 2: led me to a wounded man with a gun in
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  Speaker 2: his hand, count it on a ware house roof. It
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  Speaker 2: happened like this From the pan of.
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  Speaker 3: Raymond Trandler, outstanding author of crime fiction, comes his most
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  Speaker 3: famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now with
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  Speaker 3: Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's
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  Speaker 3: transcribe story. The man on the roof.
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  Speaker 2: Here he again to your right. Look you're cleaning your
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  Speaker 2: gun in the last time. Yeah. Here he goes morning
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  Speaker 2: up there the iron line leading the rope. When I
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  Speaker 2: see him.
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  Speaker 1: Ride a little.
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  Speaker 4: Tunny shine the roof, so they put the fire escape
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  Speaker 4: after them.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's kind of gun money and he's hit one
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  Speaker 2: in the cough of dear gas launches. When isn't from
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  Speaker 2: the roof across the street. I'm thinking a half how
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  Speaker 2: he isn't going any place? Go ahead, money, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Little talent.
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  Speaker 2: Where he comes Marrow about time on to talk to him,
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  Speaker 2: Honey on the roof. He's ok.
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  Speaker 4: He is there, fire money, Matthews, hold it, money, don't
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  Speaker 4: shoot it when you're talking about mollow he's a killeries
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  Speaker 4: Hamdon Dane dress and told me, what do you want
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  Speaker 4: us to do?
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  Speaker 2: So told him and send him without to supp up.
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  Speaker 2: That's hue. I'm going up after him. No, you're not
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  Speaker 2: follow Come on, let's tell me that nobody goes up there.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna cast him out. Go on morning call for lunchers.
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  Speaker 2: That huge. Please listen to me. Wait no, why not
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  Speaker 2: tell me the whole story. We got nothing but time
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  Speaker 2: until I get here.
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  Speaker 5: With those launches.
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  Speaker 2: Please, matt he was a quick kid. No, buddy, it's
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  Speaker 2: a kidding Mano. That boy up there is I can
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  Speaker 2: I keep watching that rope becker to make it curious? Well, Mallo,
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  Speaker 2: this story you got a goout ten minutes ago the beginning, Mollo,
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  Speaker 2: go on, Phil, I'm trying to start at the front.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a suck up for the pad, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have Abby pull and cheer. I guess right, okay, Matthew,
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  Speaker 2: So I'll start at the front and skip nothing. Right,
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  Speaker 2: I'll stop where it started four hours ago. At five
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  Speaker 2: o'clock this evening, I'm fifteen miles from here, on the
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  Speaker 2: outskirts of a little town of San Fernando. A telephone
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  Speaker 2: called from a woman whose voice and said that she
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  Speaker 2: was old and Spanish and very worried. It brought me
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  Speaker 2: out of the place, a woman named Senor Andrade, who
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  Speaker 2: told me that her only boy was heading for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of trouble and that I had to stop him.
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  Speaker 2: Andrade home stood out like a thoroughbred alongside the old
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  Speaker 2: man's horse in comparison to the other houses squatting on
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  Speaker 2: the Sunbay soil. And the Senora herself, at maybe sixty
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  Speaker 2: and in a cheap black cotton dress, lay shawl on
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  Speaker 2: homemade slippers, as the tidiest person I ever seen. But
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  Speaker 2: she bowed from the waist and graceful greeting. I saw.
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  Speaker 2: A single small ivory comb was the only thing holding
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  Speaker 2: a massive long gray hair and one neat bundle.
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  Speaker 6: You well excuse me if I do not extend you
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  Speaker 6: the hospitality of my house.
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  Speaker 7: But Pedro he likes to be in, and it's already gone.
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  Speaker 7: There is no wasting time, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, pitch your son, Senora Hu.
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  Speaker 6: And the good boy, Senor Marlow. Here here is a
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  Speaker 6: photograph of him. It has taken only a week ago,
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  Speaker 6: and it's twenty fifth first. Really, he was so proud
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  Speaker 6: of that green jacket I made for him. It was
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  Speaker 6: swayed and flashing, his head flashing like something that rich
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  Speaker 6: mister Alex Brucher would wear. He has it on every
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  Speaker 6: day since then, even today.
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  Speaker 2: Alex Bruchier, who's that? Missus? And rave Senor on.
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  Speaker 6: The warehouse for first in Los Angeles, number twelve Commercial Stream.
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  Speaker 6: It's where my people worked until two days ago when.
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  Speaker 2: The trouble started. What happened, Senora?
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  Speaker 6: It was during his lunchtime. He was eating from a
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  Speaker 6: meal I made for him, like he always does, and
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  Speaker 6: talking to a stranger some now you say, Senor, man
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  Speaker 6: with no.
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  Speaker 2: Jubble the time made from hobo loafer loafer.
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  Speaker 6: See, he was just telling me how how he was
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  Speaker 6: telling him to find the railroad guards. That, Senor, is
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  Speaker 6: where the trouble began. Oh please, Senor Marlow, you will
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  Speaker 6: have a jair there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, thanks. Now tell me, Senora, there's trouble. Surely
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  Speaker 2: giving instructions to a loafer, as you said, didn't start.
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  Speaker 2: Oh but it did.
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  Speaker 6: After the launch out the foreman ade Senor Corner questioned
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  Speaker 6: Perro about this loafer, and when my boy said that
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  Speaker 6: the man was only asking for the railroad judge, this
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  Speaker 6: senior corner said he was a liar, that Pedro was
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  Speaker 6: giving our information about the shipments.
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  Speaker 7: Are first that he was fired this.
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  Speaker 6: Charge just like that, Senor, after two years of good
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  Speaker 6: hard work. You see, Senor Marlow, Pedro tells me that
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  Speaker 6: when you're Alex Breucher has been having his shipments are
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  Speaker 6: first tolen on the road, hijack, hijack, and it is
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  Speaker 6: this reason why Pedro is fired.
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  Speaker 2: You you want me to prove that, mister Alex Broucher,
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  Speaker 2: that Pe did not even to do with his hijacking.
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  Speaker 2: Huh get his job back? Said no, no, no, no, Singer,
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  Speaker 2: it is too late, too late.
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  Speaker 6: Pedro already went down to this morning to do that.
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  Speaker 6: He went and told Senor kind of deformed, that he
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  Speaker 6: had nothing to do with the hijacked. And more, he
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  Speaker 6: told him, Senor Marlow, that he was fired because of
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  Speaker 6: Helen Castile, the pretty girl who for a short time
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  Speaker 6: now works in saying you Breucher's office.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then I don't understand Senor.
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  Speaker 6: This Helen Castile and my boy are falling in love.
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  Speaker 6: But sen your Broocher also likes this girl.
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  Speaker 2: What happened when Peter told us, mister Broocher, he never.
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  Speaker 6: Did before he even got to speak to Senior Broocher,
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  Speaker 6: that devilment's in your counner and some other men beat him,
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  Speaker 6: got his face, blood on his arms, his clothing torn.
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  Speaker 7: He came home just before I called to you, almost dancing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry. Well how about now?
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  Speaker 7: No, Pedro has gone back revenge in his heart.
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  Speaker 6: That is why you must stop him, Senor, Senor, you
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  Speaker 6: must bring him home before he kills before.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry. I'm sure I can bring him back positive.
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  Speaker 7: Can I kept money? Nineteen? Maybe more dollars here you.
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  Speaker 2: Take no, no, not yet, missus, and I have. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it will cost that much. Will see goodbye, singer.
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  Speaker 2: It was an hour's drive to the Broocher fu Company
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  Speaker 2: warehouse on Commercial Street in downtown La. I started up
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  Speaker 2: along cementa ramp that led to a glass cage in
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  Speaker 2: a far corner of the warehouse, marked office. It was
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  Speaker 2: just about the end of a working day, and when
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  Speaker 2: I was next to the door, let it enter. A
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  Speaker 2: bell someplace said at the end of the arrived you
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  Speaker 2: could tell the way everyone's spirits went up, everyone except
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  Speaker 2: the girl inside, half leaning out of file cabinet. I
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  Speaker 2: figured she was helen casteve until I got closer. The
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  Speaker 2: on fire red hair and green eyes with hat and
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  Speaker 2: shoes to match could have gotten by, but the kachi
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  Speaker 2: wall was mink. So was the attitude that would never
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  Speaker 2: take shorthand for forty bucks a week. Things just couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get that up.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, you look like you love something.
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  Speaker 2: Oh is Helen still here? Helen Castile?
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  Speaker 4: Her nose?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe back before you leave for the day. May not?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know you're a friend of her.
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  Speaker 2: No, Peter and never heard of him?
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  Speaker 5: Goodlye sure.
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  Speaker 2: Now tell me missus Haynes, Corey Haynes. You Marlow, Philip Marlow.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Haynes is Alex Brucier around home?
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  Speaker 7: Packing is going out of town? It does every other week,
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  Speaker 7: important business.
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  Speaker 2: No, I just wanted to chat with him a while.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Connor is Alison's car gast and ready for me?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's ready, It's ready, Miss Haynes.
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  Speaker 8: Here is the key. Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: And Connor?
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  Speaker 7: Please stop wishing I would dead?
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  Speaker 5: Will you?
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  Speaker 7: I can feel it and it gives me the creeps.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry, Miss Haynes, but well maybe we won't
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  Speaker 4: be seeing so much. You want another so soon?
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  Speaker 7: If you mean Helen Castile Connor, She's a great secretary period.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah sure, now you mister mister Marlow.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a friend of Peter Androvis. I want to said
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  Speaker 2: enough mister, almost too much. Wait a minute, Connor for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of hot air.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, Malo. We've been running all kinds of trouble around here,
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  Speaker 4: hijacking short shipments, misdirected cargoes of works. So so it
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  Speaker 4: all airs up to somebody on the inside helping somebody
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  Speaker 4: on the.
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  Speaker 2: Outside, and that ain't good. I take my advice, brother.
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  Speaker 4: Get your long nose out of this place and keep
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  Speaker 4: it out if you don't want advent.
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  Speaker 6: It's the phone, Connor, if you lift it up, it'll
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  Speaker 6: stop that noise.
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  Speaker 2: Very reef punn.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, oh hello, mister Butcher.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, I got a charming fella, isn't he
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  Speaker 2: You be down here in a couple of hours and
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  Speaker 2: I'm theer.
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  Speaker 4: Wait check.
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  Speaker 2: Jack, mister Butcher.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye, his master's voice.
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  Speaker 4: Very funny again. You'd better let me have the keys back,
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  Speaker 4: miss Hayes. The boss isn't going out of town after all.
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  Speaker 4: They'll probably want.
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  Speaker 2: His car, and I'll probably give it to him myself
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  Speaker 2: after I've run a few errands I have in mind.
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye, mister Morlow.
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  Speaker 2: I hope we meet again.
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  Speaker 5: In more tests surround me.
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  Speaker 2: You too good to rival schools. Connor, get out of here.
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  Speaker 4: Marlow, get up before you get the same trip. And
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  Speaker 4: your friend Pete and Radig got.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, You've got to be kidding. You wouldn't do that
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  Speaker 2: to me. Conna, I'm not in love with Helen Casteele.
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  Speaker 2: That goes for you too, in spades.
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  Speaker 7: Heys over here behind the crates. I don't want Connor
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  Speaker 7: to see us. I'm Helen Castille.
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  Speaker 2: You know who I am.
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  Speaker 7: There's an intercompound in the office you just left.
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  Speaker 2: I see what you mean.
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  Speaker 7: I knew pet was in some trouble. I hadn't heard
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  Speaker 7: from him in two days. Mister Marlo. What I've done
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  Speaker 7: to him is terrible. How do you know about it?
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  Speaker 7: The Pete company?
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  Speaker 2: No, his mother hired me. I'm a private detective, which
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  Speaker 2: Helen brings up a sharp point. Are you sure you're
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  Speaker 2: not playing both sides? Baby? You save it? That's all
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  Speaker 2: I want to know.
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  Speaker 7: What do you want?
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  Speaker 2: You mean?
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  Speaker 7: You just said that to see how it act well.
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  Speaker 2: I had to be sure, after all, you're still working
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  Speaker 2: for Alex Broocher.
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  Speaker 7: Not anymore. I only stayed down before this because I
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  Speaker 7: didn't want Pete to be fired.
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  Speaker 2: Hold it and they was a good company.
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  Speaker 7: It could be rated.
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  Speaker 2: There's somewhere wrong yeah with him without brass knocks. Now listen, honey,
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  Speaker 2: for everybody's good. I don't want Pete mixing with Alex Broocher.
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  Speaker 2: Before you get out of here, tell me fast. Where
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  Speaker 2: does the boss lives? Forty one West? Okay? Now go,
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  Speaker 2: I'll cover you into your clear of the place going.
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  Speaker 7: My car's across the street. If you need any help later,
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  Speaker 7: mis get going.
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  Speaker 2: That rat may have friends, okay, by mister Morlon. Ellen
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  Speaker 2: got to the front gate, out, into a car, and
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  Speaker 2: away without anybody bothering him, and a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 2: later I covered the same smooth costs, and I was
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  Speaker 2: beginning to believe that the rats were just that, except
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  Speaker 2: that when I was in behind the wheel of my
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  Speaker 2: coop and heading for Adam's Boulevard, I picked up a
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  Speaker 2: pair of headlights in my rear view mirror, which for
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  Speaker 2: the next forty minutes off zig zag stuck like they
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  Speaker 2: were painted there. But finally a traffic jam gave me
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  Speaker 2: all the break I needed, and a sharp right turn
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  Speaker 2: followed by a lot of speed left me free and
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  Speaker 2: once again on my way to West Adams Boulevard. The
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  Speaker 2: place was turned of the century stone block mansion, but
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the neighborhood had gone slumming a long
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  Speaker 2: time ago. I was about to try the knock out
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  Speaker 2: when I noticed a thin slice of pail like said,
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  Speaker 2: the front door wasn't closed all the way. I started
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  Speaker 2: in and and she told the sick light that came
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  Speaker 2: from a single lamp in what used to be called
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  Speaker 2: the library. And then suddenly I saw him, a man
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  Speaker 2: in a smoking jacket, lavishly monogrammed a b his face
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  Speaker 2: beaten raw, his clothing almost shredded, blood clotted thick on
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  Speaker 2: the back of his head. He was dead. In the
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  Speaker 2: corner of the room. Next to the body was a
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  Speaker 2: heavy marble lamp based also bloody. Inches from that, I
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  Speaker 2: found something that might as well have been Pete Andrave's
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  Speaker 2: calling card, the button made of green Swede I had
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  Speaker 2: in my pocket just before the company spoke up.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go for your gun, mollow, that'll leave us.
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  Speaker 2: Even so, the kid finally made it. Maybe maybe I
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  Speaker 2: did it. Kind of nuts. You just came in.
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  Speaker 4: I no, I was waiting outside, jerk.
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  Speaker 2: I had on your trailer lusty figured.
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  Speaker 4: I'd better leave the office, but quick, I figured right,
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  Speaker 4: tell me Marlo, just so I score one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: Once your wrangled and drave kid's mother, a private detective,
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  Speaker 2: was working for us. She was afraid of this. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: stop the sentiment's killing. I wish something would let's call
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  Speaker 2: the police.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean, I've already got the rest of
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  Speaker 4: my figuring dot But now the kids should beat his
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  Speaker 4: girlfriend Helen's flat. I know where it is, and that's
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  Speaker 4: where I'm going, You see, marlow I want to be
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  Speaker 4: a hero. I want to bring the kid in understand.
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  Speaker 2: Oh shure shu, real easy. You want to bring him
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  Speaker 2: in dead? That way, Nobody even mentions the beating you
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  Speaker 2: gave him on Bruch's orders because he wouldn't stay away
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  Speaker 2: from Helen. That way, you're clean, exactly clean as a whistle,
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  Speaker 2: except for you in your big mouth stands till people.
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  Speaker 2: I want to whisper something your ear.
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  Speaker 3: In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe.
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  Speaker 3: But first, you're going to think the laughter of April
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  Speaker 3: Fool's Day came late when you listened to CBS this
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday night, or it's going to be one of the craziest, merriest,
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  Speaker 3: maddest Knights of entertainment you've ever heard. Bing Crosby will
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  Speaker 3: be playing host to Arthur Godfrey and Perry Como, and
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: even though lots of singing his promised from all three,
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  Speaker 3: who knows what's going to happen when the gags start flying.
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  Speaker 3: Groucho Marx and Burns and Allen will also be on
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  Speaker 3: hand with their famous fun shows this Wednesday. These great
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  Speaker 3: stars will be here on most of these same CBS stations.
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  Speaker 3: Burns and Ellen, Groucho Marx and Arthur Godfrey, and Perry
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  Speaker 3: Como as Bing Crosby's guests. Now with our star Gerald Moore,
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  Speaker 3: we returned to the second act of Philip Marlowe and
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  Speaker 3: Tonight Story. The man on the roof.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of started, told me with a thirty eight
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  Speaker 2: wrapped in his stick fist. I figured I better do
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  Speaker 2: something about him, Gonna do it fast. I waited until
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  Speaker 2: he walked around Bruce's body on the floor and it
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  Speaker 2: was out of his line of vision. Then I pointed
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  Speaker 2: at it. How of look, look he's moving a second.
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  Speaker 2: Let's throw your gun out of the conversation. Let's not
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  Speaker 2: Oh but come on, get up my hands. Don't get
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  Speaker 2: him off your crumm look heavy. I'm gonna get nance
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  Speaker 2: rightdy you one way or another. Make it easy on yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Now get up, I said, get.
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  Speaker 4: Up, all right?
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  Speaker 2: What you wear? The shot? That's better? Where do you
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  Speaker 2: want to know Elen Casteele's address? She's got a room
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  Speaker 2: before shot so long muscles. I knew there wasn't much
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  Speaker 2: more I could do for a desperate hot head named
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  Speaker 2: Pete Andrade. They'd already done too much for himself in
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  Speaker 2: the wrong direction. I drove down at him until I
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  Speaker 2: cool off and have to call the police. And I
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  Speaker 2: stopped at a phone booth and gave homicide a fast
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  Speaker 2: rundown on Alex Brooch's murder. But I hung up before
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  Speaker 2: they could ask me Senora Androde's address in San Fernando
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  Speaker 2: or Helen Castile's place on Crenshaw, because there were two
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: women I wanted to talk to alone before the police
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: moved in. After that, I drove out to Crunchshaw and
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: found the number thirty two hundred room falls at the
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: far end of a half lit hall, and there were
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: voices inside. One was Helen's, the other was Pete ANDRADI
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I reached for my gun I went out.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: Of my head.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Helen. I must have hit him Nan or penton hard.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: I've got a think.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: It's a little late for thinking. Pete. Who are you.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I'm working for your mother. I was until I left
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Bruch's place. He's dead, Pete, Pete, No, I didn't mean
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: to kill him, but I'm not sorry. I want you
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: to come along with me. Pete. Quietly turn yourself in. No,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: get away from me. Stop it a little. He's gone.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Don't don't I'll shoot You're crazy fools.
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: You wouldn't shoot me, Mala.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Next time you'll be surprised.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: It won't be a next time. We're gonna get away.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: He's only chance now, and we've got a chance to
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: be a run be dogged every minute of your short lives.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: You'll wind up full of bullets in the dock. You'll
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: be running down a blind alley and it starts right
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: there with that door. The obay sucks up.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: We're going to try it, Mala, and we'll make it.
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: You've got to have money, Pete, Yeah.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: And I don't know where to get it to. Roucher
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: always kept plenty of petty cash in the office of
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: the warehouse I'll take that.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: What about the watchman, Pete, you're gonna keep on killing?
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: Listen, you can get in quietly with Roucher's keys, Corey
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: Haynes hans them. The office keys are in the same
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: ring as the car keys. She always borrows them when
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: she uses his car, and she's got it tonight.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I'll get them. Where does she live?
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: An Orange drive?
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Ten? I think you listen to me a minute. You're
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: heading for the original data end, both of you. Why
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: don't you give yourselves a break?
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: What do you call it?
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: Break?
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: Marlow? Pete running in some prison? You will both too
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: old to care. I'd rather have a bullet.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Let's get him out of here that post, du go
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: on my low inside move sure?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Sure, what are you waiting for?
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Go on?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Close it.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: I know what you tried to do for my mother,
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Marlow and for Helen and me. I'm sorry it couldn't
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: work out.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Thanks anyway, Nuts, I'm believe in Kelen.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: I'm ready.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: You're not coming. You're staying here.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Marlow was right.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: This is a blind delly at bad ends, and I
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: won't take you in.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: No, Pete, I'm going with you.
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: Stay back, I mean, please, Ellen, Helen unlocked this door
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: till maybe you're gonna stop him.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: I'm playing it my way now, Marlow, you can stay
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: where you are.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Helen, don't understand him on your side.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: I'm going with him, whether he wants me or not.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: No long, Marlow, Happy Landings Baby. The lock on the
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: closet door gave up before I did, but only because
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: it was holder by several years. I got out of
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the house and kept ahead of the speed limit all
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the way to Orang's drive and figured for what it
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: was worth it I cut Pete's lead down. It was scant.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Ten minutes. I popped in front of a spot nut
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: coffee shop on a corner and walked down to two ten.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: By the time I got within knocking distance of Corey
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Haynes's front door, I could see that the only light
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: in the place was spilling out of the sunken double
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: garage that housed a new gray Nash. But when I
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: moved closer, and I knew that ten minutes was all
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: that Pete and Arlia needed. Corey was sprawled out on
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: the grease spaid concrete floor and very steel, very still,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: and standing limply against the wall was Helen Castile, staring
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: down at the red head with a pair of hopeless
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: eyes that seemed already half dead. So I walked down
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the ram. She heard me and looked up.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: I knew you to get here.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I don't care now, both ladies.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and didn't seeing he was already gone when I
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: got here on her like that.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: He must have gotten the keys, yes, from her purse
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: over there? Why didn't you follow him? You knew where
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: he was heading, couldn't when I saw her?
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: That couldn't.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I think she's dead too, No, No, she isn't dead.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: She's just out, yeah, a long way out, but not dead.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: The looks of things, she must have put up quite
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: a scrap. Maybe she wait a minute, there's something screwelly here.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: It's Corey.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: O you Cory's made?
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: What's happened to her?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: She's unconscious? This is terrible.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: She knew there was going to be trouble. I supear
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: she didn't miss Corey.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Honestly, how do you know that? Because she was working.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: She told me four or five times she was going
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: to stay in all evening, like she was expecting somebody.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Ore sure things all the way. Look look here, are
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: you sure this is her purse?
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: Certainly?
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Was she wrong, not exactly, but oh yeah, yeah, this
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: clinches it. I look, call an ambulance right away, get
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Corey into a hospital and hurry. Helen, you stay here
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: with her. I don't leave, understand. I'll see you. And
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: that's it, Matthews. That's why I broke a few speed
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: laws getting from Corey's garage down here to the warehouse,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: because I had to find Pete and tell him before
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: it was too late. I'm still not sure you made
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: it my long book. Look this was dropping near Brooch's body.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I just saw them made to it in Cory Hayes's garage.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Look that's not conclusive, no, but these are the papers
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I pulled out of a purse. Take a look at him.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, one glance will tell you where they came
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: from and why. You get it, don't you, Lieutenants? Yeah,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I get it, certainly, I get it. What a rotten
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: set up. You gotta let me go up that prior
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: escape and talk to him. He'll listen to me, Matthews, I.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Know he will.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I told you once before. Philly's been hit and he's
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: corner up there.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: It's driven him. Hey, wire'll probably bow the top of
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: your head off, but go ahead, gone up and try it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I'll pass the word. He's well across the street and
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: started up the fire escape. I knew Pete Andrade from
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: someplace in the shadows on the roof was watching me,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: heavy against the way, but I climbed up to the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: fourth floor before I spotted him his head and stopped
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: over the ledge, my own thirty eight in his hand.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I went on to the fifth floor. It started up
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: the ladder to the roof when it came stop there
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: enough smallow, Pete. I know that's the only reason you've
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: got this far. You've got lots of nerve Mather, Pete.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I didn't bring a gun because I just came to
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: ask you a question, nothing else. Question, Yeah, a big one.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Did you use anything on Broucher except your fist? Pete?
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: Why what's the difference?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I don't think you killed Brocher? What No, no, Pete,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: no trick. Look at this. I found this green swede
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: button there Broocher's body. I thought it came from your jacket,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: but it didn't. It was torn from a pair of
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: green suede shoes that Corey Haynes had on tonight. It
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: means first she's a liar, that she saw broocher tonight.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: It means she got there after you did it, probably
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: found him unconscious where you had left him, and finished
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the job with a heavy marble lamp base. Why would
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: she kill him? They were going together, they had been
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: until Brocher got interested in Helen. Yeah. After that, Corey
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: was on the way out and she knew it. She
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: decided to get all she could out of him while
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: she had the chance. Every time she borrowed his car,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: she used the keys to get into the office, steal
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: information out of the files, and sell it. She was
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the informer. I'm coming up, Pete. I found some papers
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: to prove it. Enough purse. She was in a tough
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: spot when Brucher changed his mind about leaving town tonight.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: She had to get the papers back in the files
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: or Brucher would discover they were missing. But Conna stay
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: in the office prepended it, so she was trapped when
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: she saw a chance to kill Brooch and have you
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: blamed for she grabbed at it? How you convinced kid?
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: I must shock you, mom? Why did it take such
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: a risk and climb up here?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Because your mother has some ideas that I wouldn't like
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: to see her lose piece. What's so I wanted my
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: gun back? Well do I get it? Yeah, you'll bet here,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: And thanks, marm.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I feels so good now.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: I guess than you can.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: And I just how you feel, kid, And don't climb
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: fire escapes like this every night, Believe me. It was
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: a long long time before all the scattered reports were in.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: While the doctor in the prison ward it said that
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Pete would be okay, and poor Cory Haynes had put
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: a wobbly signature to a full confession of murder. And
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: still another hour went by as I drove out across
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: the wide flat valley to San Fernando, where the profile
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: of the hills knees had already begun to show against
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: the gray dawn and rising behind them. When I stopped
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: in front of the little house and went up to
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: the door, Senor Andrere was there on the porch. She
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: waited all night. Her expression didn't change when I told
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: her all that had happened, didn't change actually until I
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: was finally ready to leave it. Then she put out
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: her hand and took my arm. The lines of worry
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: and her face softened.
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: Marlo, last night I had but one son. Now this
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: morning I have too in my heart to all always
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: heavy home.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I am grateful she was most welcome.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe bringing Raymond Chandler's most famous
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: character star Gerald Moore, are produced, directed, and transcribed by
• 27:43
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• 27:46
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• 27:50
  Speaker 3: in Republics The Blonde Bandit. Featured in our cast tonight
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: were Virginia Gregg, Jack Edwards, Lillian Biath, Doris Singleton, and
• 27:59
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• 28:04
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• 28:12
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• 28:29
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, well on, absolutely outstanding opening, showing some great creativity.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know genre where you know the beginning to
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  Speaker 1: the show. You know, you can have a tendency just
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  Speaker 1: to be kind of same old, same old. This one
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  Speaker 1: just absolutely grabs your attention. What's the man on the
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  Speaker 1: why is the man on the roof? What's this all about?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And I love the opening, uh you know, great description,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: superb narration from Gerald Moore Is Marlow. Just love the
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: way he gave the mother so much life in the description.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: And other than that, a very exciting and moving episode.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: And with that we turn to some listener comments and feedback.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Brian says, I now listen to Philip Marlow in my
• 32:15
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• 32:20
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• 32:23
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• 32:39
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