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Lux Radio Theatre: Murder My Sweet (EP1241) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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dollar Air dot com. Well, today we will actually give you a sneak
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peek of what's to come in two weeks as we present a lux radio theater
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adaptation of the Philip Marlow movie Murder My Suite. Murder My Suite was actually
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based on Farewell, My Lovely, the second Philip marlow book. The first
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for Philip marlow book, The Big Sleep, would later be adapted by Humphrey
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Bogart, and this was actually the second film adaptation of the plot of Farewell,
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My Lovely. The first was in The Falcon takes Over, starring George
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Sanders, famous for his role as the Saint. As well. Another Philip
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Marlowe's story was adapted into a Michael Shane film. This is the first movie
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to actually feature Philip Marlowe as the main character. Marlow first appeared in nineteen
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thirty nine and Sandler, who had for the past six years been writing pulp
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stories for Black Mask. Marlowe's adventures were often cannibalized from these previous stories featuring
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other characters, and three separate stories were the basis for Farewell, My Lovely,
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Try The Girl, Mandarin's Jade, and The Man who Liked Dogs.
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Marlow was in many ways the prototypical, hard boiled private eye. That night
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in Tarnished Armor, we had a very fixterior, but live by a code
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and navigated through an often grimy world. Barlow in the film and in this
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radio adaptation, was played by Dick Powell Poward really made his career as a
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bit of a song and dance and a great singer and crooner. But at
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forty he was ready to take on some serious dramatic roles to expand his repote
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or risk a pretty serious decline in his career. The film version of Murder
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My Suite set him on a path of some great dramatic roles in movies such
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as Cornered and Johnny o'clock, and over radio he was able to be one
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of the first, actually the first radio hard boiled eye in Rogues Gallery,
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a series we parlayed previously. And of course he would go on to play
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Richard Diamond, but it all really started here with Murder My Swite. Well,
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we'll talk more, and so in about an hour we'll be back.
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But let's go ahead and take a listen to the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of
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Murder My Suite from June eleventh of nineteen forty five. Let's present Hollywood a
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Lux radio open that it brings you Dick Powell, Claire, Trevor, June
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Duprey, and Mike Mazurki in Murder My Suite. Ladies and gentlemen, your
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guest producer mister Irving Pittell. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. In answer
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to the proverb that a leopard cannot change its spots, we bring you tonight,
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a gentleman who turns his back on many years of light and frothy rules
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by which he climbs to stardom and takes the part of a ruthless, hard
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as nails detective in a drama as relentless as the crimes that it unfolds.
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Is Dick Pawell. Hails so enthusiastically as Philip Marlowe in R. Chao's sensational
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success Murder. My Sweep co starred with him in her screen role as a
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fatal and mysterious Helen is Claire Trevor, also June Duprey, whose natural loveliness
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would lead us to expect a touch of romance in our play. And towering
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above our microphones is Mike Mazurki as a quietly alarming Moose Malloy. Four characters
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of widely different natures and conflicting motives involved in one of the streams most saffling
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and complex mysteries, a story that in its published form was one of the
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best selling thrillers of our time. Most of the action of Murder My Sweet
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takes place right here in Hollywood, not too far from our stage. If
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you saw the pictures, you've seen many Waywood sights, from Malibu Beach to
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sunset towers, from the skyline of Los Angeles to the canyons of our hills,
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landmarks as native to Hollywood as the radio and motion picture studios which these
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dramas come. In fact, the name Lux on the outside of our theater
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is, I venture to say, as familiar a landmark in this capital of
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entertainment, as Lux Soap itself is familiar in the dressing rooms of screen star
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stars, a standard of complexion care from coast to coast. Lux toilet soap
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is a friendly link between your home and Hollywood. And now we take you
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to the downtown section of our city. On the first act of Murder My
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Sweet, starring Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe, Claire Trevor as Helen, June
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Duprey as Anne, and Mike Mazurki as Moose MALOI, when you got something
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to say, start at the beginning. Okay, it's seven o'clock at night
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and I'm in a two by four cup. I call my office. I
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sat at my desk and look at the sign on the door. Hellup Marlowe,
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it says, hell up Marlowe, Private investigator. That's a nice title
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for somebody to go to see you when you don't want to see the law.
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I was tired out. I'd been not peaking under all Sunday sections for
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a barber named Dominic whose wife wanted him back. I forget why, anyway,
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I didn't find him. And the only reason I took the job is
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because my bank account was trying to call under a duck. I just found
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out all over again how big Los Angeles is. My brain felt like a
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plumber bankerchief. I took out my little black book and decided to go grass
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hunting. Nothing like soft shoulders to improve my morale. I'm dialing a number
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when the door opens and he walks in the mountain that walks like a man,
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the biggest mud I ever saw it on the side. You Marlowe.
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Eh, I've seen your name downstairs. They had the names that in the
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building. You're a private eye. Huh, that's right. I like you
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to look for somebody. I'm closed up how I looked for her where she
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worked. But I've been out of touch. I'm around the marrow. We'll
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talk about it. I think maybe we should do it now. That'd go
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on me a big eight. I don't mean to do nothing here. I
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give you some dough. You'll come with me, Okay, okay, I
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comment you. It ain't far. But the fay o c the l avenue.
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The place was called Florian's. It looked like trouble, but that didn't
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bother me. The two twenties, the big lug had dropped felt nice and
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snug against my appendix. I tried to figure out who he was looking for.
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I tried to picture him in love with somebody. It changed his place
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a lot. They used to be staged in some boots. Let us work
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in pink flowers. She was cute like a bug's eer, a redhead.
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Eight years since I've seen her, six years. She didn't write, but
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you have a reason, Yeah, yeah, she'd have a reason. What'd
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you do here, singer? Yeah, let's you and me nibble a couple.
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Hey, jack whiskey, Hey what hair again? He said, you're
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here again? Yeah? I come in before I try to find her.
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I love big coat. You want them? Sorry about your girl, but
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she ain't here. Her name is Delma. You never heard of Belma,
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mister plian. She used to work here. You better drink up you that
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lady up in the bar. Maybe she knows. I have to request you
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don't bother the customers. See, lady, you remember a girl used to
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work here. Her name was Belma. You know name? I said,
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leave the customers alone. So far you're ready? Reply it? Huh?
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I don't bother you none sorrow your trinket, Get out of here, Get
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on my way, Come on pole eight years. There is a lot of
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jin I don't know anything about Velma here. Some guys has the wrong idea.
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One of the things. The boss was no lightweight, but Mouse picked
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him up like a rag doll and drop him in the corner. Pocket Mouse
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seemed the little daze as he walked out, and I tagged asked him down
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the street. That guy in there, he should have talked to me like
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that? Or door Pale, what's the next shot? Who asked you to
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stick your face in? Remember me, I'm the detective. You're hired,
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Chunky. Your name is Moose cut on a milarge. Moose mulloy. That's
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place same like it used to be. Who used to be the thieves and
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some boots? You said that Maybe I told you too much? Maybe I
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leg go my arm. Huh? Who was to be married? Me and
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Delma? We figure I've been there eight years. I said about catching butterflies
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and quit not ben. Look you find doubble for me? Huh? She
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got her last name, Delma Valento. Now you beat it? Sure?
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How do I get in touch with you? I get in touch with you
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tomorrow maybe. So tomorrow comes and I'm thinking about Moose Molloy and that bucket,
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a mud look on the face of the Boston Florian's. When I hear
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footsteps coming my way down the hall, Moose was coming back. Except it
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wasn't Moose. It was another new customer, good looking guy, well dressed
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like a movie star. Tomorrow, my name is Marion. Come in,
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Come in. Who put in the pitch for me? Mister Marion? And
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no one, no one. I saw your name in the classified section of
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the probe bo. I'm going to clutch at the moment, mister Marion.
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No what I'm busy. I couldn't take on anything big. Have you got
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mine? I'd like your services tonight, if for just a few hours,
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I'm meeting some men I am paying them some money. How much money and
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what for? I can't go into that. I simply agree to service the
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bearer of the money. Oh, just want me to go along and hold
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your hand. I'm afraid I don't like your manager. I've had complaints before,
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but it keeps getting worse. How much you offering me for doing nothing?
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I haven't got around to thinking about it, And of course you could
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get around and thinking about it now. How would you like a swift punch
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on the nose? Oh, dear, I tremble at the thought of such
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violence. I'll give you one hundred dollars. If that isn't enough, fit
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enough. This is all I can tell you. Some jewels were taken from
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the print of mine in a hold up. I'm buying them back tonight.
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Where and to drive my car to a rather secuted canyon near Malibu? Uh
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huh. We'd drive out there to buy back some jewelry for a lady friend.
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I didn't say the pants are that. These men, whoever they are,
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don't tend roughing you up if you play ball, But they wouldn't like
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being twinned. One of us might get hurt. No, mister Marriott,
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I'm fraid I can't do anything for you, I see, but I'll take
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you a hundred bucks and tag along for the ride. One more thing.
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Yes, I carry the shopping money and I do the driving very well.
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We drove down that night. Somehow I knew we were being watched. I
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didn't see anything. The fog was a nice dish of pure Saint Germain.
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I felt it coming. I was a toad on a wet rock, and
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a snake was looking down my neck. So down, we're getting near the
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spot. Quiet. There should be some white posts along aboat, pull in
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your head back to the white post. As a pop, the path goes
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down into a hollow. That's where weird to wait. Hey, hey,
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look, white coat. All right, stop the car now, you said,
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Titan, I'll go down to have a look. See. Have you
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got a flashlight? There could be more than a couple of minutes. Nobody
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here, Marriott. This whole setup looks like a tryout seeing if you obey
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ordered, let's put around the corner. And I caught the black jack right
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behind my ear, and a black pool opened up at my feet. I
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dived in. It had no bottom, felt pretty good, just like an
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amputated leg. I don't know how much time went by off I got to
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look at my watch, but as I came to I started to call from
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Marion Marriot, Mariot. I was what happened? Who? Who are you?
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Oh? Hey, come back here, come back here? Hello Hello,
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Let me talk to Randall, Inspector Randall. Randall is Marlow. Wow.
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Oh yeah, yeah. Look I'm at a gas station down there in
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Malibu, the foot of Woodbridge. You better get on here. A guy
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named Marriott has just been knocked off beating the death with a black jack.
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Randall. I told you a dozen times what happened. I'd like you to
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tell me again here in my big comfortable laws. Who killed Marriott? An
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amateur killed him? Or somebody who wanted it to look like an amateur.
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Nobody else would hit a man that many times with a Saturday oftening. You
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go over it to till the earth sound. I'd soon a t eight shows
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out of a garbage can of information? How to go? Oh, I
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get it. You don't like me, okay, I'll go home right after
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you start talking sense? For instance, For instance, you don't know anything
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about Marriott. You don't know how much money you were carrying. You don't
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know what it was supposed to buy back trusting, So it was now,
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where's the dough where? Well, right after I beat out Marriott's brains,
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and just before I hit myself on the top of the head, I hid
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the money under a bush, and that day me a crameer saw that.
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You must have thought I was somebody else. You took one look and got
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out fast. Suppose a duel outfit got the bright idea of using a private
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dick for contact and payoff. Oh great, great, Now I'm a finger
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for a heist mob. Look, I'm trying to be helpful. I get
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up off the nice cold ground. I don't use the car because Marriot's still
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in it. I want five miles just so you can be the first to
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hear the news. I wait for you at the beach and lead just straight
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to the body, so you won't have to wait till next Christmas to find
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it. I'll tell you all. I know. It sounds gray, it
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is scray, but it's all I know. Now I'm part of your bum
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guesses. Either book me and let me go home. Well, you split
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your own throat for six bits plus pedro tax. Now, look grandall,
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go on home and keep your big yap shot. One pony move and you'll
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be locked up as a material witness. Whoever killing Mariott, I'll get him.
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Yeah, you'll get him about the time you get your third set at
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ten. And to stay away from Marriott's pals. I've been after those boys
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for a long time and I'm getting clothed. So watch your stiffer. I
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may have to pick you up in the same basket with Jud's antar. Yeah,
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Vampa are mixed up in this Oh so you know, Amsar. I
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know lots of people in this town, but I never heard a few of
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answer that. Yes, inspective. Good night, Randle, and keep away
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from the newspapers. I'll do the talking well. I went back to my
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office the next day. I didn't want to be there because my head felt
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like a mestera ribbits. One of my clients was dead, but the other
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one was still alive, moved from Alois. I figured he might be looking
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for me. Early in the afternoon, this kid walks in and this is
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getting better better. My name is Dan Alison's Tomorrow. I'm a reporter from
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the person, Oh, I have a seat thousand. This hadn't been very
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helpful on the Marriott murder. I was wondering. There's a question I always
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asked, how did you know about me? Oh friends city Hall? Tell
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me? Did Mary tell you who're on the jad? He find there?
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No? No, he didn't, hedging on him wrong, married a couple
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of weeks by Well. I just wanted if you had any theories about what
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happened or what was supposed to happen, or got a couple. This is
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a nice looking curse. Just what you mean by opinion? I like to
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prove another theory that you're not a reporter. Why did dames carry so much
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stuff in a pocket book? Give it to me. I was looking for
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a driver's license with your bank book, will do? And the name on
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this bank book isn't Allison at all. It's Grail and Grail. Oh,
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you're a hot rock baby. I could talk to you to the cop last
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night. All I could tell him was that Marriott was buying back some jewelry.
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Who could knock their hats off of that line about the jade? Tell
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me, missus Grail, if you ever known a girl in Velma volentoist finger
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I never heard of in my life. Oh, I was just shotman does
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besides another case? I just hoping, who's that jade belonged to? What's
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your interest in me? My interest? Marriott gave me a hundred bucks to
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take care of him, and I didn't. I'm just a small businessman in
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a very messy business, but I like to follow through on a sale.
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The j belonged to my father, oh, I gather it from Marriott.
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If the jade belonged to a lady my father happened to be married. Oh
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oh, your mother was wearing it the night of the whole up. It
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is not my mother, my mother's jerry. I taw them married again.
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Who sent you here to feel me out? My undy s your name in
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the newspaper before I talked to Inspector Randall. I think I'll have a talk
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with your father and your father's wife, except that I'm expecting to hear from
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somebody. Well that's casing. In that case, I'll go away just the
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same. You're really a lot cuter than moves mylan someone as well. Before
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the Towel and the co stars returned with the second act of murder, my
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sweet we take you to where there's a local war bond rally going on,
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and this is white. It is curious about one of her fellow workers,
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Jeanie. Stop here a minute. Will you tell me who's got a chalky
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woman in charge of the next book? Oh? That missus. Jenny's lovely
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looking a daughter is a class made of my college. Oh god, gee,
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don't tell me she's old enough to have a twenty year old daughter.
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Force. It looks like a girl herself. It has skin. I think
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I've never seen her when a complexion didn't look like that, so saw and
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really stress. Well, that's what a lovely lux complexion does for a woman,
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makes her look radiant of feeling. It's what you notice first about her
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appearance, that smooth, soft lux complexion. Screen stars know how very important
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it is to have the charm of exquisite skin. That's why they're so careful
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never to take chances with complex and guty. Here's what a famous star I
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called that. Colbert says, I never neglect my daily active ladder facials with
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Luck soap. They're so easy and they work. Here's what I do.
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I cover my face generously with the creamy ladders, work it in the pyramids.
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I rinse with warm water, then cold, and pat my face dry
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with a towel. Now my skin feels smooth, softest. And it is
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these facials the screen stars depend on really do make skin lovelier. Tests showed
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actually three out of four complexions improved in a short time with daily luck toilet
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soap care. Why don't you try? You'll enjoy the extra creamy ladder,
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the gentle caressing way it touches your skin. Nine out of ten famous screen
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stars use fine white luck toilet soap. Why don't you begin your daily facials
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with Hollywood Beauty soap Tomorrow? Herving Pittel brings our stars back for the second
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act with Dick Parlot, Claire Trevor as Helen, jun du Pray as Ann
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and Mike Mazurki as Moose Malloy. We raised the curtain on act two of
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Murder. My Sweet Philip Marlowe continues with his story this girl, this Anne
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Grail. He drove me to her father's place in Breadworth, a cozy eight
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or nine acres okay for the average family. Only you need accomplice to go
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to the mailbox house. Was all right? Too, but it was as
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big as Buckingham Palace. I waited while she saw me to the old folk,
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it was like waiting to buy a crypt in a mascoleum. And then
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she called me in. Old man Grail looked like a college professor. And
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the old lady what an old lady? Blonde, gorgeous, and I guess
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about thirty, with a face and the shape that had make most pin up
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girls look like gravel gerty. She had dimples on her knees, and I
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was admiring them when the old man started to talk. Do you know anything
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about jade, Miss Tomorrow? It's uh green, isn't it? The jade
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stolen from my wife was in next to sixty beds of about six terres each,
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and very valuable, Miss Snarlo. And there, why don't you sit
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down? Oh how valuable? Somewhat larger Necklustreetion told brow for one hundred and
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twenty five thousand dollars I never should have worn as it was stupid inexcusable.
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Where was the stick up? If you'd excuse me, I'm going to lie
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down, missus. Gray will talk to you, and most anxious to locate
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my jade, Miss Tomorrow, I can only hope it can be managed without
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any publicity. Wait a minute, I'll go with you. May I make
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you a drink? Mister Marlow? Thanks? I hadn't thought there were enough
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murders these days to make detecting very attractive to young men. And I stir
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up trouble on the side. Tell me how much of your money was in
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Marriot's envelope? Eight thousand dollars? We assume they never guess it will value.
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Who knew you were going to wear the nexus that night? My maid?
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Perhaps? Would I trust her implicitly? Why? Because I trust some
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people? I trust you? Did you trust Tom Marriot in something you're not
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drinking? Mister Marlow? I thought the testings were heavy drinker and some detectives
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does encourage other people to think? Shall I tell you about the whole that
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it might help? Well? I've been out dancing and Tom was bringing me
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home. Where do you stopped on near here? Does it matter a lot?
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Oh? Not too much at the moment, knowne how many other guys
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take you out dancing? I'm very fond of my husband, only his two
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steps getting a little stiff as grail, you know, Jules Anther. I've
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heard Tom speak of him. Why No, I don't know. The cops
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told me to leave Amthor alone. Is he a bad boy? A lot
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of Tom's friends are. I'm afraid Tom was rather a heel himself, but
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a nice heel. You don't know how horrible I feel. Why? Why?
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Because I'm responsible? I asked Tom to try to buy the necklace back.
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Oh, I just can't understand the whole business. All they took is
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a necklace. I was wearing a ring too, but they didn't want to
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ring about Jules Anther. What's his racket? No, he's sort of a
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psychic consultant. I think he's a quack. Tom went to him because he
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was all mixed up. He couldn't get started for fear of failure. I
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wonder if he'd take my case. That sounded like the dog clothing it was
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AND's been standing there. Oh, strange child. Mister Marlow, you will
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help me, won't you? Why? Because you like me? Are you
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paying me something in money? Well, I've never hired a detective before,
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all of the rates as much as a traffical bear. How do I find
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ample? Well, he's really quite inaccessible. Yes, Well show him in
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well don't look so smug. He really is inaccessible. I didn't have the
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faintest idea becoming mister Morrow. How do you spend your evenings? I'm in
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the phone book. Oh, come in, mister Ample. Mister Marlow is
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a private detective who was with Tom when when it happened. Oh, I
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was hired as a bodyguard and bungled the job. Now it's myself. I'm
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investigating. None of these things are so difficult to believe. What could have
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happened? I've got a couple of notions. Would you like to help me
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work? I'm on. Oh, I'm afraid I wouldn't make a good detective,
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mister mollow and I'm yeah, I know, I know you're inaccessible.
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The police told me to keep away from you. You look harmless to me.
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I'll be very glad to arrange an interview. Just leave your number with
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the it's great. Don't go to any special trouble. I'll bring my own
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crystal ball. Hey, how do you get out of the fun? I
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was home that night trying to add things up. Moose the law, marry
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it, tell them the beautiful blonde and Jules Ampar. I put it all
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together and just thumbed its nose at me. I decided to go down to
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Floyen's Cafe and split an infinitive when the boss when the buzzer changed my plans.
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I had a visitor. I just stopped in because I thought you'd be
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interested in what Amthor had to say. Oh, and here, shall we
25:37
call this a retainer? Yeah, let's call it a retainer, mister Marlowe.
25:42
Does the police know about me? Will I value? Well? My
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husband has a morbid fear of publicity, and it is not at all well.
25:48
I'll manage it now about Anthon, please, I don't like being rushed.
25:55
I was hoping we could go out somewhere. You like the Coconut Beach
25:57
Club. I've never been there. The type the lights there are very flattering.
26:06
They'd even mellow you a little, I think. But it's the sort
26:08
of a place where you're expected to wear shoes and it's hot. I'll be
26:12
right with it. We went to the Coconut Beast Club. We had a
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table in the corner. She gave me that dreamish smile and started out,
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you know, you've got a nice build for a private detective. Oh it
26:29
gets me, ron part does one get to be a private detective. You
26:33
don't mind my sizing you up a little? For most of us, the
26:36
rex cops I worked for the district attorney got canned, surely, not for
26:38
inconfidence, for talking back. I had an interesting childhood too, But you
26:45
didn't drop in on me to get a biography. You'd rather I talked about
26:48
Anthor. That's right, A good guest. Well, then stay right here.
26:52
I've got a powder my nose and I'll tell you more. We'll just
26:55
be back before I get stuck with a check Molla. I'd like to talk
27:03
to you. Well, hello, missus Gail, I'd like to talk to
27:07
you too, but not now. Do the Grails always hold their family reunions?
27:11
Here? One take long that I have to say. Look, honey,
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I've already got a date. She'd be right back, and I don't
27:17
want you to slugging it out in public. There's no dangerous that she went,
27:19
do you know? Never mind, what did Helen ask you to do?
27:23
She wanted me to kiss her and find her jade necklace. I may
27:27
have the order wrong, but that's the general idea. Well, whatever she
27:32
was willing to pay you, i'll pay you more. Just stay away from
27:34
her. Why do you look at me like that? I don't know.
27:41
I seem to remember you from one of my better dreams. You know if
27:45
I no, what are you looking at? I'll be right back. Hello,
27:55
mister malloy. Do you like this place better than Florence? That's the
27:59
baby? Got something for you to do? Look, look, I'm a
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big boy now. Don't you want me to have any fun at all?
28:03
I want you should meet a guy? Well, you left gory another ten
28:07
seconds and gang Green was set in these fingers. Thanks, okay, I'll
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ditch the baby. I couldn't ditch the babe. The babe at ditched me
28:25
first. Helen that disappeared no inn and had left the card on the table
28:29
if you'd written on it, I'll keep the offer open. I don't live
28:33
in Brentwood. My address is nine to six y two North Hoover Street.
28:36
Bo saw me put the card in my pocket. He came over and hustled
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me out to the curb. There was a car waiting, also a guy
28:42
to drive the car. He took us to a very ritchy appacment house,
28:45
showed us up to the ten house, and then did something that made me
28:51
You carry a gun tally. Oh, I'm so used to packing when I
28:53
hardly notices on me, I think maybe I better hold it. Stop the
28:56
stalling, Let's get inside. He was there, right, miss Ant Me
29:03
and Moose got him. Thank you, Michael, mister amptor, I like
29:07
to you have to ask him about Delma help the impatient. You and Michael
29:10
wait in the other room, but you ask him quick. I want to
29:14
know now, well, now where did you pick up Moose mulloy. We
29:18
he met it, Missus Grayles, you said you wanted an interview. H
29:22
I must insist upon some sort of logical progression. We'll come to Moose Malloy
29:26
later. As for my profession, my patients forgotten me highly as a psychic
29:30
consultant Tomorlow years ahead of my time, which might be one way of saying
29:36
that some folks have made some complaints to the cops. It might be do
29:40
you have another theory about me? Yeah? Yeah, I do, And
29:41
it goes like this, Now, you had blackmail rich women, but somebody
29:45
else found a woman for him. Well, if you're right, I would
29:49
be that somebody and I would have Missus Grail Jncklace, wouldn't I unless something
29:53
went wrong like Marriott losing his nerve and ringing in a private dick. A
29:57
socker would risk his neck for a sea note. But who might figure a
30:00
jade New Chris would be a nice thing to have in his bank? And
30:03
would this hypothetical detective be willing to part with it? Or a consideration could
30:07
be if he had it? How much of a consideration, Well, it's
30:11
difficult to say until he produces the jade. He might be bluffing trying to
30:15
gain information, in which case a great psychic of years ahead of his time
30:22
might try to beat the truth out of him. You wouldn't suggest it only
30:25
if you wanted to wear your face backward for a while. No, no,
30:29
there's no need for us to beat each other's throats, mister Tomorrow,
30:32
and there's really no need for substitute. Putting it on the simplest and friendliest
30:36
terms, I want that jade. I suppose I don't have it. I
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suppose I don't want to settle. Got him to tell you yet, No,
30:44
molloy, I asked him where Velma is. He refuses to tell me.
30:48
Now, wait a minute, I don't like you start telling me where
30:51
you got Dama. Well, if AM thought told you I don't want Valma
30:52
Volanas. He's nuts. He just picked you up to do his dirty work.
30:56
I gave you some total finer or keep your shirt on the stopde me
31:00
around, lying malloy, he knows where you got her. I haven't got
31:03
a you damn with. You shouldn't have done that. You shouldn't have hit
31:08
me. All right now, the two of you stay just where you are.
31:11
What do you got to pull a gun for? Where's that necklace?
31:14
Marlow? You can tell me. I can stop Moose. I don't know
31:18
very well Moose. He's yours. Make him talk, So Moose went to
31:22
work. Those fingers went around my throat tighter and tighter. That black pool
31:27
opened up at my feet again, and I dived in the rest of it
31:30
was a crazy, cold cut dream. I was going somewhere I've never been
31:36
there before. I was drug somebody had told me. I was laying to
31:41
Poppy. Somebody any hell small, small rooms or small I don't think you
32:10
want to blow it away and you have to buy at a small I don't
32:21
see I think the guys you think your Oh. Then I knew I couldn't
32:35
go to sleep, not if I wanted to stay alive. I could still
32:38
see those fingers on my throat. I even saw them. There's a bunch
32:42
of bananas that look like figures. I wonder why I was full of something
32:45
to keep me quieter with that dope to might me talk maybe both Okay,
32:52
Malo, I said to myself, you're a tough guy. You've been sapped,
32:54
choked and shot me on, so you're crazy a couple of walls and
32:58
nice, but you got to get up and start moving. Let's see you
33:00
do something really tough, like putting on your pants. Well I made it,
33:09
okay you pooh pooh, your pants are on a walk that's tall,
33:14
anything, everything just tall. Keep walking you getting out of here? Whah.
33:22
I walked. I don't know how long. That kind of time.
33:24
They don't make a watch. And then the smoke went away. The room
33:29
turned into a room, and I knew I was ready to talk to somebody.
33:31
I poured the bed of parts and got a hunk of bedspring, and
33:35
then I started a shot again. Help help Mike walked in again, and
33:43
I let him have it. Oh that was a nice feeling. I crept
33:46
down the stairs. There was a man in an office, a doctor's office.
33:51
It looked like I was in front of him before he saw me,
33:52
but his hand went for the buzzer right away. That buzzer won't buy anything
33:58
tonight, Doc, I just gave Nursey a sleeping tablet. But three days
34:01
so you have been a very sick man. Three days. You're swaying right
34:06
now, don't you realize that? I'm all sure, Doc, Now,
34:10
what were you saying or remark? I thought I heard you saying that you
34:14
had a gun on that death. If you were very careful, you could
34:16
sneak it off. I'm very stupid thing to do, mister Morrow. The
34:22
gun better nah, talk to more. You've been suffering from narcotic poising on
34:27
account you pop me full of its pick up doctor Jack. I'm in a
34:30
while more tonight. I haven't shot a man in a week. You have
34:32
very nearly died. I had to give you Disney talents. Also a little
34:36
something to make me talk. What was I supposed to talk about? Maybe
34:39
a jade necklace I haven't got, mister am I'll be disappointed to you again.
34:45
Never disappoint mister ampl Doc the depressed. I'm warning you mist tomorrow.
34:51
At any moment, you're to last. I must think, kid, and
34:54
you're going back to faith. Get away from me. That guy, please,
34:59
he that gun. You're going to faint mid Comado. Maybe you're right,
35:05
Maybe you're right, but not on this carpet. I'll do my polley
35:07
on a nice heart. You never eat little bit before I try, I'm
35:09
gonna rip something off. No, not your head, just a telephone.
35:17
Hold on God, I'll look you up and I get in tom here.
35:24
I staggered out of the street and down to the corner. Then I thought
35:28
I was seeing things again. Yeah, there he was mouth bloy. I
35:32
couldn't have knocked the ashes off a cigarette. But I tried to swing on
35:35
him. He just held me up and started back. You should not to
35:38
fight with me. You ain't such good shape. I'll murder you. I
35:44
don't like to fight with nobody. I want for you to keep looking for
35:46
Zoma. Who planted you here? Ampor Amtor tells me about you. But
35:52
he was kidding all the time. He was kidding the pants off your buster.
35:54
He doesn't want you to find your girl. Nobody's supposed to find a
35:58
Velma. He's got other plans. You ain't. That's good. See,
36:01
I better help you then get me a cab, your dopey gorilla. Where
36:05
you want to go? What's that card you got? It says nine to
36:08
six two North Hoover Street on the card. You saw me pick up this
36:12
card in the Coconut Beast Club. That's where the babe live. Huh yeah,
36:15
I think I'll find out why she's living alone, and then she really
36:17
likes it. Now get me a cab. You're doing here? What do
36:31
you want? Black coffee? Israel, eggs, the Scotch and soda.
36:36
You're drunk. You better get out before Hey, this is a nice place.
36:40
Here is the room for you in the Brentwood Polace or don't you like
36:44
it out there? Why don't you come here because the cops may be looking
36:46
for me and I'm not ready to talk. You're not drunk. Why do
36:50
you look the way you do? Yeah, asked the second missus Rael.
36:52
He picks up a blind date for me with Jules Lampthor and a cup of
36:55
his slipping boy. What happened? Are you all right? I don't think
37:00
I'm supposed to be alive and say that again? They won again? The
37:05
last thing he said, I said, what happened? Now you all right?
37:08
Miss grayl What were you doing out there in the canyon the night Marriott
37:13
was killed. I was lying on my face when somebody threw a flashlight and
37:15
asked me if I was all right, And then she said, what happened?
37:19
Yeah, a girl with red hair and a crooked nose and a nice
37:22
figure. Yes, a girl named Anne Gray. I didn't kill Marius.
37:27
You were out there just taking a hike. I didn't kill him. I'd
37:29
say you overheard Marriott, your stepmother, make it some sort of arrangements about
37:31
the jade. If you knew Marriott had been holding hands with and you didn't
37:35
like that. I hate her, and you hated him too. You hated
37:37
anybody that had anything to do with Helen, so you bumped him off.
37:40
You killed Tom Marriott. I didn't. I didn't do it. I didn't.
37:55
We paused now for station identification. This is CBS, they call him.
38:00
We are Broadcasting System. A brief intermission before our star has returned on
38:22
the third act of Murder My Sweet Meanwhile, it's two forty five of a
38:28
bright afternoon just today for Mary to be hard at work in her Victory garden.
38:31
Yeah, that'll hold those techy as for a while Hello, Johnny,
38:36
telegram for me. What the world's forty eight hours past? Arriving five fifteen?
38:43
See you soon, darling size Jim. Oh, heavens to Betty,
38:46
she'll be here in a few hours. I die if he saw me like
38:50
this. The house has got to be slipped up too, and I've just
38:52
got to fix something special to dinner. Wow, you're goss got to work
38:57
that. No, it's three forty five. Mary is as wonders is giving
39:00
the furniture one last polish that looks something like it. And now oppress my
39:05
dress, the blue and green fin Jim lovest. Now it's four forty five,
39:08
The dress is ready, the dinner started, and there's still a half
39:12
an hour to go. Oh goodness, I feel all in grab this time
39:15
for my luck soap beauty bath that'll do the trick. That is wonderful,
39:22
so rich and creamy. I feel like a different person already, and I
39:25
love this nice person you luck soap. Please on my skin, make me
39:30
forget all the work I've done and feel like Jim's girl again. And no,
39:32
it's five point thirty and Jim is here. Gosh, you're lovely,
39:36
Mary, What makes you so sweet? So many clever girls depend on their
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Lux toilet soap beauty bath for a quick, refreshing beauty pickup. But most
39:45
important of all, they know this secret. When I step for my Luck
39:47
dope bath, I know my skin is fresh and really sweet. Please start
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say, A daily Luck soap bath makes you sure of daintiness. And I
39:55
found their right. Screen stars, lovely women everywhere discovered long ago. They're
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40:05
The extra creamy lather, rich and abundant even in hard water, leaves skin
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flour fresh. And screen stars tell you they love Luck toilet soaps delicate clinging
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perfume too. Why not get some of Hollywood's fragrant Lux toilet soap for your
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beauty bath tomorrow. It's strictly to you. You will find each satin smooth
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cake lasts and last. Back now to Irving Pitchel and our stars. The
40:30
curtain rises on Act three of Murder My Sweet, starring Dick Powerless, Philip
40:34
Morrow, Claire Trevor as Helen, June To Pray as Anne, and Mike
40:37
Mazurki as Moose Malloy. Philip Morrow is in the apartment of Andreil, whom
40:42
he has just accused of murder. I stood there in Andrea's apartment and the
40:53
accused are of killing Marriott. I was sure she hadn't done it, but
40:57
I had to find out one. I look just what you're thinking. If
41:01
I didn't kill him, my father did, and if you did, you'd
41:05
do anything to protect you. No. No, he couldn't do such a
41:07
thing. I don't buy it either yet. I I was just trying it
41:10
off your size. Won't you please go home? I'm it's taking a day.
41:15
I can't go home. It's a very stubborn character named Inspector Randall.
41:20
And if he has done my doorstep right and now waiting to pick me up,
41:22
then two of its stooge desire don't relax it Hey, good day?
41:27
Probably wait telling you decided that all quite at supper with me? Yeah,
41:32
my name is Randall. I'd like to work with your boyfriend. Oh.
41:36
I was just talking about you, and I've been looking for you for three
41:38
days. Pull up a chair, Miss grayl was about to fix some soft
41:42
boiled eggs and Scott she wouldn't join us. The last time I saw you,
41:45
I gave you some good advice. I guess it didn't take her.
41:47
I didn't bother Ramptor. I was going to, but he didn't get around
41:50
to it. He got to me and given me quite a party. How
41:53
did it go? Wanted to buy me? This is straight randall. You'd
41:58
like to get Amthor, and I'd like to help you. He annoyed me
42:00
a little. I'm listening. Well, Amthor is a tough turkey. Work's
42:04
some kind of blackmail routine on dames who come to him with problems. I
42:07
think Marriott was his contact man. Let's get to the new part. Huh.
42:10
The jewelry Marriott was after was a jade neckriss that belonged to one of
42:14
Amthwarp's patients. Well, Marriott pumbled the ball. Yeah, so Amthorp figured
42:19
I had it. He sent me to a little rest home where the teacher
42:22
talked. There's a guy there who's a whiz with a hypo. The address
42:25
is twenty third Disconso okay, okay, who owns a jade? I told
42:30
you one of Amphlar's patients by the name of h I don't know. Well,
42:36
miss Braile, Yes, when were you last your father's praise in Brentwood
42:39
not for several days. Is something wrong? It gip it? Well,
42:45
I figure what you told me is on the level. But don't make a
42:46
habit of trying to help me. I might get grateful and lock you up.
42:51
Eh, give me a call them all. How could he know about
42:54
me? I know that's what happens when you let a cop go to school.
42:58
He gets smart. Now picks up your face. We got to get
43:02
out of the marble quirk where brent Wood. Oh, what's the matter?
43:07
Oh, it's a funny thing about every third day I get hungry. I
43:10
can take thag some coffee if you want to. Wait, No, you're
43:15
crazy. Everybody takes a poke at you. I will feeling full of drugs,
43:21
which you bounce right back and up between tackle and then all over again.
43:23
And I don't think you even know which team you're on. I don't
43:27
know which team anybody's on. I don't even know who's playing today. At
43:35
brent Wood, we saw mister grayle and I've seen healthier looking Jens in the
43:38
County Morgue. His face was gray with worry. Something was eating him more
43:44
important than a missing jade necklace, a missing a wife. Yesterday, I
43:49
haven't heard from his teas and have you seen her? Have you no,
43:52
David? Maybe maybe she went to the beach house. Beach house. It
43:55
had been rented too many. It seemed to lead through the bank. I
43:58
think I'd better have a look at it. This whole thing has gone too
44:00
far. Oh or maybe it's coming too close to home. Mister Greyle.
44:05
I don't say you killed Mary, but you could have for a good old
44:07
fashioned motive. I did not kill him, mister Morrow, but I say
44:12
it is better that he is dead. I'm not concerned if the police is
44:15
pick me. I'm concerned about my wife. I'm losing her, and that
44:20
is why I say all this has got to stop. You'll drop the case,
44:24
mister Morrow. I'll say you will. Oh fine. I get dragged
44:28
in, get money shoved at me, I get pushed out, get money
44:30
shoved at me. Everybody pushes me, and everybody pushes me up. Nobody
44:32
wants me to do anything. Okay, skip it. I'll put a check
44:37
in the well. I cost a lot to do nothing. I get restless,
44:40
throw on a trip to Mexico. Father will stay here. Why because
44:46
I want to keep it a beach house. You just told him I can't
44:50
stop now. But the cops stopped as Helen stopped. You stop? What
44:52
do you mean does Helen stop? Oh? I don't know. If I
44:55
always do what I meant to be a genius your dish, you get some
45:00
horrible satisfaction seeing people torn apast you're hanging on her. Something's going to smack
45:06
you hard. If I stick, it smacks you sooner, sooner, cleaner.
45:09
Maybe that's why I'm sticking. But I'd stick anyway because a guy who
45:14
hired me got killed. I'll get you to see. We went to the
45:22
beach house. Things happen there, some of them. I can explain one
45:25
thing I can't. After we took a look around, and and I were
45:30
standing there in the dark, looking out that big front winder toward the ocean,
45:34
and before I knew it, we ran a clench. It's nice to
45:38
kiss a girl like Arael. I told her she had a cute little face,
45:43
even if her nose was yes, perfectly, there's a bump on it
45:47
right, I head with the basebool is to pay a short time. Yeah,
45:53
what about my father? If we don't find I'm going to make you
45:57
mad now, baby, But here goes your father? Really loves Helen.
46:01
When I came along, you were afraid you might turn me into another marriage,
46:06
so you tried to buy me off. That didn't work, and I
46:07
began to suspect your father, a real tough guesser, might say that.
46:12
When he couldn't buy me off either, you decided to be nice to me,
46:15
Like just now. There's nothing decent about you? Is there? Nothing
46:21
at all? I don't always guess right. I may be wrong. I
46:24
think I am wrong. Sometimes I hate all men, young men, handsome
46:30
men who don't work for a living, and almost keels who are private detectives.
46:35
Helen. Oh, I'm ted, darling. But you should know by
46:39
now that men play roughs. They thought, and you were up, and
46:43
then they felt to one. Hello, mister Marlow. Hi, I didn't
46:49
finish, Helen. I hate a lot of women, too, especially beautiful
46:52
extensive clode all bubble bas and moonlight and inside cold and hard I brew steel.
47:00
Probably not that clean. Your slip is showing, Darling. I'm leaving.
47:06
I'll tell father you're here. Oh how long have you been here?
47:09
Missus Grail? Yesterday you just happened to leave the Brentwood place before the cops
47:15
dropped on and your husband. Oh please, look, you hired me to
47:16
get your necklace. So you stand me up at a corner. You rum
47:19
joint to tell Anthor I'm sorry. I thought you might have had the jade.
47:23
Please please don't blame me. You could have had it. What Ansel
47:29
did it almost made me mad. Now just what goes between you too?
47:37
Well, he's breathnailing me that much. Even I can figure out my husband
47:40
is in love with me. I'm I'm fond of and I'm grateful, but
47:45
I find other men very attressive. I imagine they meet you halfway. I
47:51
met Ansell through Tom Marriott. He's smart, he does know psychology. You
47:55
got me talking, and of course I talked too much. He uncovered something
47:59
in the black kneeling started. I think if my husband had found out,
48:02
it would have killed him. So you agreed to give Antli the necross,
48:06
but before I could it was stolen by Maria. Answer probably came to the
48:10
same conclusion. He decided to kill him, and that's why Marriot wanted you
48:14
for protection. All right, I'll buy it up to there. What happened
48:19
now? I want you to help me kill Jule's answer, don't just see
48:24
You're the only one I can turn to. It's the only way I'll ever
48:28
have peace. He'll never be satisfied even if he does get the jade.
48:31
Why me because I have a gun? It just because I wear a pant?
48:35
Help? But please you, I need help and peace. Despitely,
48:44
I need you. I haven't got anything worked out. Yes, Ansel has
48:50
disappeared. Maybe I can find him well and tell him you've got the jade
48:53
you're ready to sell? Then? What that's my thought? All right,
48:58
I'll think it might. How are your yo wonderful? How would you like
49:04
not having a living? Wouldn't bother me a bit? When will you be
49:09
back? I may have a time finding him. Maybe not to tomorrow night.
49:14
Oh would you mind kissing me goodbye? No? I wouldn't mind at
49:19
all. I went straight to Amthori's a pipelind. I had a couple of
49:28
keys, and one of them fitted the back door. I wanted to surprise
49:30
Amthorp. I thought he would give him a bang. I thought he would
49:34
kill him. Am Thora was on the living room floor. He wasn't must
49:38
just snapped the way a pretty girl would snap a stock of salary. Only
49:42
for this job, you'd have to be a big man with a big pair
49:45
of hands. I hustled downtown, bought a late edition. I wanted to
49:47
see how the police were doing on the Marriott murder. And while I was
49:52
looking at the paper, somebody was looking at me. I've been trying to
49:54
find you all over. I got to go away. Yeah, yeah,
49:59
Amthor's I know you didn't mean to kill him. You just shook him too
50:01
hard because you wouldn't tell you Where about me? Is you find her?
50:06
Yeah? Moose, I find it? Where is she said? The John
50:09
go off on her? I wouldn't want a little dumbo to do no stretch
50:13
me, lose timey loose and stop watching me around. If the John's got
50:15
dumba, Oh body's got her, she's got herself. You can see her
50:20
tomorrow. Okay, I'll go hide yourself and be a tomorrow night. Moose
50:30
showed up tonight like I told him. I saw him on waiting outside the
50:32
beach house until I called him. That was like lighting a stick of dynamite
50:37
and telling him not to go off. But I had a plan. Tell
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him he was waiting, Philip, did you find them? Did you find
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them? You'll be here around twelve. Would you like to look at this?
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This is it, Philip, the necklace? Where'd you get it?
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I went to Brentwood today, got it out of my dressing table, Dora,
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surprise you, No, Fobery guess did so? It was never stolen.
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You fake the whole thing. I simply wasn't going to let Ampor get
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it. When he comes, he can take a look at it. He
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may have a gun. You'll never get that far. So you went to
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Brentwood. Then where's Ann and your father? I can't say it were out?
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And now I'm going to be very grateful. Here the necklace, it's
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yours. You are much too nice to be a grubby detective all your life.
51:27
You told Marriott this thing had been stolen. Why? Oh he was
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close to Anthor. They both had to think it was stolen. Marriott felt
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of that, of course. And you still think Amplor killed him? Who
51:37
else you? Oh? No, no, you can't mean yes. I
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think Marriott was scared because he'd agreed to help you kill and knows the detective,
51:47
the same detective Moose took to Florian the joint, the one Floryan told
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Marriott about. Marriott had to help you protect his interest you knew that you're
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a living to him at the Anthor, and in his modest way to Florian,
51:59
he supported him. They knew you wouldn't be worth blackmailing if I found
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who for Moose molloy. Oh no, no, I was snifty thinking darling
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at the canyon, one of us had get out of the car. It
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didn't matter who either way. You hadn't married and me separated, and you
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would tag us one at a time and get your eight thousand bucks and knock
52:14
off Amthor later. Yeah, it might work too, if it hadn't been
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for a hand chasing down there after you. Of course, my head's pretty
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hard. It's true, it's all true. Everybody was closing in on me.
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I didn't know which way to turn. And it almost works, sister,
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I was almost as dead as Marriot. But killing a man with a
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black jack, oh that's no work for a lady. After it happened,
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I didn't know what you would do. No, I'm so close to peace,
52:44
so close, just just a hampor. I can't taste it alone.
52:49
Don't desert me now. Sure Amthor blackmailed you. He's got something on you,
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Only it isn't what you told me it isn't just men. Your husband
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could understand the men. Yeah, it's the clink looming up, and it's
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no good understanding the clink. Moose is looking for your follow Where is he?
53:06
Where is Moose waiting for me to call him? In eight years ago
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when you were his girl? What did you talk Mose in the doing?
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Given the jail for you? Was it murder or something serious? Where are
53:15
you going to tell him that his redhead had turned blonde? Come back?
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Huh? Oh oh gun? Oh, well, that's that's your personality,
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better than a black jack. And the pearl handle goes swell with your fingernail.
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Polyg. You know it's too bad. It has to be like this
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some moose, who is it? Well, well, come in, come
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in, darling that gun? What are you close that door? End?
53:46
You're timing? Dear? I get worse and worse. We've been listening.
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Why didn't you tell me you were in such trouble? I wanted to stay.
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I might have been able to prevent told this now, of course it's
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too late, mister Morlow. I see your point. Can If mister m
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For is coming, I think perhaps you'd better do it quickly. Father,
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get inside the hit your hands up, mister marlow I'll have to take your
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gun. I'll be with then, helen all of ourselves again. Yes,
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you know this will be the first time I ever killed anyone. I'm so
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little about and I like so much. You and I just a couple of
54:22
MUDs. We could have gone along. What's stopping is now I can handle
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Moose. He broke Anathor's neck yesterday. What did you something I shouldn't have
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and is dead? Yeah, and that leaves only you. I'm sorry,
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but you know too too, too much. I have to do it,
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mister molow. I had to kill her. Hello, Hello, Let's have
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the police give me that phone? Give it to me. Don't you realize
54:54
you saved your life? Why is to suffer for that? The cops always
54:58
like to solve murders down the my gun. She dead is not enough.
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She was evil, all evil. I think I hear a shock, mister
55:06
Marlowe. I think I better commit Moose. Moose. It didn't work out
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the way I planned. Never mind, I could talk to thema now i'd
55:15
Moose. Don't touch her. She hardly changed, just like always shoot as
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a buzz ear. I wasn't going to bother her. None she done all?
55:27
Right? Who done this? I did? You should have killed her?
55:30
Moose, You should have killed moose. Get out of my way.
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Come to me closer, bees, Moose, will you listen to me?
55:36
Moose? That all black pet opened up again, right on schedule, blacker
55:49
than the others and deeper. Well, that's the works. That's all I
55:52
know. On account I didn't see so well with my eyeballs. Scort.
55:55
They didn't keep me long at the hospital two hours ago around okay, picked
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me up and everything I've been telling you, I've been telling him. He's
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sitting right in front of me now. I wish I could see Randall,
56:06
which the bandage wasn't on my face. I want to look at his ugly
56:09
kisser and figure what he's thinking. Well, eh, there's a piece of
56:14
paper here on my desk, a warrant for your arrest. I'm tearing it
56:19
up. Oh thanks. Tonight. When it happened, I heard the shots.
56:25
I still don't know who got hit. It wasn't a kid, wasn't
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rand No. No, you can get out of here now if you want
56:31
to. You mean, I'm sprung? Who backed me up? Who got
56:36
shot? I heard three moose malloy dead yes, and Grail well, we
56:40
were fighting for the gun AND's okay. Then she thought it over while I
56:45
was in the hospital and came around back me up right, I didn't say
56:49
McNelly. See if he gets home. Yeah, I'll buy riding the camp.
56:52
Model, Hey, what do you put them in my pocket? The
56:55
necklace? She gave it to you, didn't she tried it on. It's
56:59
wrong for my then give it to your girlfriend, stranger yourself with it.
57:02
No, just go on beat it. Let's go model, so you can
57:09
come in now missus Grail, Why why did you have to keep him getting
57:15
about your backing him up? Why don't you tell him you can catch him
57:20
outside? Just give noted the eyes hide? Oh, thank you, thank
57:23
you? Hey nothing? Yeah, what do you know about the redhead pitching
57:31
for me? Yeah? Hey? Oh we are alone? Am I hearing
57:36
things? Like someone else is walking with us? The street? Lots of
57:40
people walk on the street. Oh, she had a cute figure. I
57:46
didn't notice. It must be low on vitamins. She had more than a
57:53
figure too, not a beautiful face, but a good face. I didn't
57:58
notice. Face like a Sunday school picnical there's a caf down the fly.
58:01
Say, are you sure we're alone? Hey? Hey calf? Oh well,
58:05
I guess you thought I like a blonde chewing on my face. I
58:07
wish I could tell her. I wish I could duck your head. Marlow.
58:10
This here's the cat too, mister eight hundred South Kingsley. Yes,
58:19
heynt yet? Hey, my god, if I didn't have these bandages over
58:25
my head, the same addressed tool lady. Uh Ny, I haven't kissed
58:31
anybody in a long time, but it'll be all right if I kissed you.
58:35
Nay, I think it's a pictures fine, I said, Are you're
58:38
going to the same Oh? Oh yeah, I guess you are. Now
58:59
that we please Dick Parle of Murder, the rest of our cast can get
59:01
back on their feet and join him at the footlights for a curtain call.
59:05
You should have been in tonight's caster. I think you used to play in
59:07
pictures. Well, thankstick, So I'm too old to go through what you
59:09
went through in tonight's play. Tell me, Claire, how does it happen
59:13
to a nice girl like you always get to play the bad girl role?
59:15
I don't know, Irving. I guess they'd gotten tight they had Dick Powell's
59:19
hype for a while. Look what he's doing now, that's right June.
59:22
Next week he starts a whole new radio series as a tough detective. You
59:25
mean I might yet get a chance to play a sweet young housewife. How
59:30
about me, mister Fitchell? Do you think I could play hands on and
59:32
gretel with Margaret O'Brien. Maybe if you took a course in compression, Mike,
59:38
you mean expression, No, I mean compression or else learning to walk
59:42
on your knees and keep your hands behind your back. Well, what do
59:45
we do with June to play? I think, well we just pat her
59:47
on both cheeks and tell her to stay as sweet as she is? Oh
59:51
no, here, you aren't falling for that lux complexion, Pitch, Why
59:53
not other men have? That's why, Irving, That's why so many of
59:55
us, you lots toilet folks, look, Pitch father, getting everybody out
1:00:00
of acting ruts. What sort of a role would you give yourself if you
1:00:04
went back to acting? Well, you were most heavy in pictures, weren't
1:00:07
you, Yes, And I rather fancy myself in a light musical comedy part.
1:00:10
You know, the kind of fit young chap who sings, smile a
1:00:15
while, the smile with yourself. Look, I think you'd better stick to
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Mecan Pictures. Incidentally, I understand from paramount if you did great things of
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the medal for Benny Well, I had a good story there to work with.
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Sick a homeboy whose rival and love is an overseas heroo and a good
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cast. I'm looking forward to it, Aye, But tell me what do
1:00:36
you have on Locks next week? Well, for next week we have an
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altogether charming story with the most delightful cast. The Counterville Ghost, starring Margaret
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O'Brien, Charles Lawson and Tom Drake take a group of high spirited American commandos,
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built them in an ancient British castle where their hostess is Lady Margaret O'Brien,
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and then haunts that castle by the most notorious ghost in England. You
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have the elements of Metro Global mayors, entertain and extraordinary commeddate. The Cannival
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Ghost can haunt my house Next Monday. Pitch good night, good night,
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Margaret O'Brien and Tom Drake in The Canterville Ghost. This is Irving Pitchell saying
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good night from Hollywood. Every day, as the war against Japan increases in
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intensity, need for waste fats and greases grows more critical. Here's one department
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meat points. Murder My Sweet was presented to the cooperation of RKO Studios,
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producers of enchanted cottage. Dick Powell appeared through the courtesy of the Fitch Bandwagon
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and will shortly be seen in the RKO Picture Corner. Claire Treffor will soon
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appear in RKO's Johnny Angel. Mike Muzurki is currently working on the RKO version
1:02:37
of Dick Tracy. Heard in tonight's cast were Sy Kendall, Gerald Moore,
1:02:40
Robert Regent, Norman Field, Eddie Marr, Doris Singleton, Charles Seal,
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ed Emerson and Leo Sharon. Our music was directed by Lois Silver. This
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Service. And this is your an answer, John M. Kennedy reminding you
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the tuning again next Monday night to hear the Canterville Go with Margaret O'Brien,
1:03:00
Charles Latton and Tom Drake. Welcome back. Well, this is definitely a
1:03:07
very good adaptation, but I hope it will inspire you to go out and
1:03:14
watch the actual movie and pick up the book. There's a lot that does
1:03:17
get lost when a story goes from a novel to an hour and a half
1:03:22
movie to about forty five minutes of radio drama. One thread that they were
1:03:28
able to cut in the radio play was Missus Florian in the movie and the
1:03:34
book, Florian was dead and Missus Florian was one of those who was participating
1:03:38
in the blackmail. And there were too many other plot points that were changed
1:03:44
for me to go to or even properly document from the book, but they
1:03:50
still ended up with a pretty strong story. One big change was the character
1:03:55
of Moose Malloy. That's a big change with the book. In the book,
1:04:00
Malloy actually commits a murder very early in the book when he kills the
1:04:06
manager of Florian's, which has actually come into being a black owned establishment in
1:04:15
the book, And so Malloy throughout was somewhat of a loose canon did not
1:04:19
actually hire Marlowe, but marlow along the way stumbled into the truth. And
1:04:27
there was also a whole police corruption angle. But I like the way that
1:04:31
the movie and the radio play portrayed Malloy as differently. He comes off as
1:04:38
kind of a tragic figure, a lovable mug guy who doesn't quite know his
1:04:45
own strength, but is pushed into doing things he wouldn't normally do. The
1:04:50
original book version of Maloy, you felt like the guy was just a typical
1:04:57
animal, But Mike Mazurkey brought a lot of humanity the role. Mazurki would
1:05:03
play a lot of tough guy characters, a lot of not so bright characters,
1:05:09
though Mazurki himself was actually from all accounts, a very intelligent person,
1:05:16
very upon events, and just a high IQ which wouldn't quite go with the
1:05:24
body type. The one other reason to see the film is just to see
1:05:30
Mazurki, particularly. He was only six' five, so perhaps by today's
1:05:35
standards, wouldn't end up so big, but he really he just had such
1:05:41
a presence compared to the actors of that day, just really seemed to almost
1:05:49
tower over so much of the rest of the cast. Just a very intimidating
1:05:55
look, and that's one thing that really makes the movie version worth seeing.
1:06:00
This version was also interesting because of who played and for and that of course
1:06:06
was Gerald Moore. And I have particularly found some humor in more saying that
1:06:14
he or am saying he wouldn't make a good detective, when the guy playing
1:06:18
at Gerald Moore would go on to actually play Philip Marlow and by many standards
1:06:29
be perhaps the greatest radio detective of the mall. All right, well,
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now on to some listener comments and feedback, and this one comes from Big
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the years. Keep up the great work. Thanks, Thank you so much.
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it and that will actually do it for today. Well next week, Johnny
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Dollar will be back on Wednesday, but in two weeks The Adventures of Philip
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