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dot net. Well, this is our last Monday with Sam Spade, and
we're bringing you one final Maltese Falcon adaptation. This is from a somewhat obscure
post war series called Academy Award, or as it's become known in the Old
time radio world, Academy Award Theater. The series was sponsored by Er Squib
and Company, who I really know best for their sublime wartime music programs.
It was conceived with the goal of featuring one hundred of the most important films
from Hollywood's Golden Age. The show's budget was five thousand, six hundred dollars
per program, which was very high for a half hour show, although it's
only ninety four thousand dollars per show in today's money. However, sixteen hundred
dollars of each show's budget was taken up by licensing rights and waivers from the
Motion Picture Academy and er Squibbing Company decided they couldn't continue the series, at
least not on their own. CBS considered taking the series on as a sustaining
effort, but ultimately declined, and so the project came to an end after
thirty nine weeks. They only did one detective movie during that run, but
what a movie. They did, an adaptation of The Maltese Falcon that brought
back not only Humphrey Bogart but also mari Asta and Sydney Green Street. The
program originally aired on July the third, nineteen forty six, and here now
is the Academy Award adaptation of The Maltese Falcon. The House of squib presents
Academy Award Every week. Squib brings you Hollywood's Fist. The Great Picture plays,
the great actors and actresses techniques and skills chosen from the honor roll of
those who have won are been nominated for the famous Golden Oscar of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And now E. R. Squibb and
Sons and your actor in Chemist of the Medical Profession since eighteen fifty eight,
bring you the distinguished star mister Humphrey Bogart, who, as Best Actor of
the Year, was nominated for the nineteen forty three Academy Award. You will
also hear Miss Merry Astor, who won the nineteen forty one Academy Award as
Best Supporting Actress of the Year, and Sidney green Street, who was nominated
for the nineteen forty one Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor. Tonight, mister
Bogart, Misaster and mister green Street will play the famous roles they created for
the screen in the Maltese Falcon, The Thrilling Mystery, which was nominated as
Best Production of the Year for the nineteen forty one Academy Award. My Name
is Spade, Sam Spade lcensed number three five seven eight ninety six, issued
for the Police Department of Sin San Francisco. Occupation Private detective sometimes known as
private eye. My fair files in the case of the Maltese Falcan are closed,
but I've got the mall Tese Falkin. I got it and some dough.
My partner got murdered, and the very slick chick went up for life.
I'll tell you about it. The slick dame comes to see me one
day, gives me a song and dance about her sister and a guy called
Floyd Thursby. So she wants to get her sister back before her mother and
father get in from Hawaii. I put my partner, Miles Archer, on
the case. At night, he gets murdered, and so does this guy
Thursby. I go around to the apartment where the dame is living, the
one called bridget O'Shaughnessy. He had something I seem to go for. Oh,
mister Spade, come in. I have come in. Oh yes,
so you have, mister Spade. Tell me am I to blamed for lost.
You warned us if Thursby was dangerous. Of course you lied to us
about your sister and all that, But that doesn't count. We didn't believe
you. Oh help me, mister Spade. I need help so badly.
I've no right to ask you, but I do ask you. Help me.
You won't need much of anybody's help. You're good, You're awful good,
if chiefly your eyes. I think in that throb you get into your
voice when you say things like help me, mister Spade, I deserve that.
But oh, the lie was in the way I said it, not
at all in what I said. If I'm going to help you, I've
got to have some sort of a line on your Floyd Thursby. I met
him in the Orient. We came here from Hong Kong last week. He
Gilacha, Yes, certain thick, the Knight's sort of playmate. Only that
sort could have helped me if he had been loyal. How bad a hole
are you actually in? As bad as could be physical danger. I'm not
heroic. I don't think there's anything worse than death, and it's that.
It's that as surely as we're sitting here. Unless you help me. Who
killed Thursby? Your enemies are his? I don't know. I suppose I'm
afraid I don't know who are these enemies. Well there's a small dark man
with white teeth and a smooth, dangerous fat man. Oh this is hopeless.
How much money have you got? I have about five hundred dollars left.
Give it me. There's only four hundred here. I had to keep
some to live on. Okay, I'll be back as soon as I can.
You needn't come to the door with me. I can let myself out.
I went by the office then and found a dark little guy with very
white teeth waiting for me. His name was Joel Cairo. He was a
Greek, mister Spade. I am trying to recover an ornament that has been
shall we say, mislaid? I thought and hoped you could assist me.
Uh huh. The ornament is a statuette, the black figure of a bird.
I am prepared to pay the sum of five thousand dollars for its recovery,
and no questions. As five thousands a lot of money. It's very
interesting figure. You will put your hands together the back of your neck,
mister Spade. Huh oh, sure, I shall shoot you if you try
to stop me. Mister Spade, but I must search your office. You
won't find anything but a pair of worn out rubbers, a half pint of
rum in the packagewing gum. We shall see. Please stand up, so
sure this way, no, the other way. Sure, I'll take the
gun with Carol and I'll get up. I am very slow in things like
that, unfortunately. Yeah, I'm still prepared to pay five thousand dollars for
the return of the figure. Do you have it, mister Spade? No?
If it is not here, why did you just risk serious injury to
prevent my searching for him? I should sit around and let people come in
and stick me up. You wish some assurance of my sincerity? A retainer,
I might say one hundred dollars, You better make a two hundred.
Thanks. The first guest was that I had the bird? What's your second
guess? That you know where it is or where you can get it?
Are you not hiring me to murder or do burglary, but to get back
the figure in some lawful way, say from a dame with red hair or
a smooth, dangerous fat man. Oh so you know you must be aware
of them. They would stop at nothing. May may I have my pistol?
Now? Oh? Yeah, yeah, sure, i'd forgotten it.
Thank you. Now, missus Spade, you will kindly clasped your hands behind
your neck. What don't move, missus spade this time I might shoot.
I insist on searching your office at your go ahead. Yeah. I finally
got rid of the Greek and started back for Bridget de Shaughnessy's apartment. A
matter of fact, I had a hunch that the Greek was going there himself
and started a tail his cab when a sad faced guy poked something into my
back and said, come on, that man wants to see here. He
is, mister Gutman, the guy who was talking of the dame in the
Greek. Ah, mister Speedman, we begin wills. It is stressed the
man who talks too much. I like to talk, of course, talking
something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice. Yeah, now,
sir, we'll talk if you like. And I'll tell you right now that
I'm a man likes talking to a man who likes to talk. Will we
talk about the blackbird? You're the man for me, sir. No beating
about the bush. Right to the point. Let us talk about the blackbird
by all means, mister speed have you any conception of how much money you
can be up for that blackbird? No, where's the if I told you?
If I told you half you'd call me a liar. No, no,
not even if I thought so. But you just tell me what it
is and I'll figure out the profits. You mean you don't know what that
bird is? Well, I know what it's supposed to look like. I
know the value in human life you people put on it. So Shaughnessy didn't
tell you what it is? Ricarro didn't I have it? He offered me
ten thousand for it till thou and dollars mean you're not even pounds. They
must know what it is? Do they? What is your imprision? I
can't tell. They're both lying if they don't know. I'm the only one
in the whole way. Sweet aswell, you've told me that'll make two of
us mathematically correct, Sir. They don't know the saying that I'm going to
you. I don't be foolish. You know what it is. I know
where it is. That's why I'm here. Where is it? Where is
it? Don't be silly? You see I must say what I know,
but you will not tell me what you know. It is hardly equitable,
sir. No, No, I do think we can do business along those
lights. I will think. I'll think again and think fast. I can
get along without you, and keep that gun sho gunsel away from me.
While you're making up your mind, I'll kill him, we'd say, I
must see you the most violent. Well, what are you wasting time for?
We've got five thirty? Then you're either in or out for keeps three
characters and the black bird. All I knew was my partner was dead,
and the cops were getting very uncooperative about the whole thing, including who killed
Floyd Thursby. I thought i'd better get back to see that a Shaughnessy dame
before it was too late. Sure enough, it almost was. They came
here and took him away, took him away. Who the police? They
wanted to talk to you too. They took mister Carol with him. What
was he doing here? He came to talk about the bird? What is
this bird? This falcon that everybody's all steamed up about. I wouldn't tell
you anything at all about it? What would you do? And wild and
unpredictable? Maybe, Well, it's a black figure, as you know,
smooth and shiny of a bird of hawk or falcon, about twelve inches high.
Oh, what makes you so important? I don't know? He wouldn't
tell me, but they promised me five hundred pounds if I helped them get
it from the man who had it go ahead. They promised me five hundred
pounds to help them, and I did. Then we found that Joel Cairo
was going to take the falcon and desert Floyd and me, so we did
that to Joel. First. You are a liar. I am a liar.
I've always been a liar. Uncle. They don't brag about it.
Is there any truth at all? Not? Yan? Some? Not very
much. Well, we've got plenty of time. I'll put some coffee on
and we'll try again. Oh, I'm so tired, so tired of lying
and thinking up lies and not knowing what He is a lion? What is
the truth? And don't stare at me like that? It is something to
do while waiting? Why not kiss me, Sam Spade? Kiss me?
Why not? That happens every time. I'll get it. Be careful,
okay, am on you. He wants to see you. Well, if
it isn't a fat man's killer. Hello, pale face, how many do
you bump off today? Shut up waiting for you? Kidding? What capture?
He wants me? The fat man's been thinking things over. Well,
mister speed, I must apologize for sending for you in this fashion. And
never mind, let's talk about the bird, all right. Let's what do
you think of the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, Crusaders
or something? Weren't they very good? Teen thirty nine these crusading knights persuaded
Emperor Charles the fifth to give them the island of Mortar. He made but
one condition. They were to pay him each year for the tribute of a
falcon, in acknowledgment that the mortar was still under Spain. You follow me,
a ah. Have you any conception of the extreme immeasurable wealth of the
order of that time? I imagine they were pretty well fixed. They were
rolling in wealth, sir. They hit upon the happy thought of sending the
Emperor for the first year's tribute, not an insignificant knave, but the glorious
golden falcon, encrusted from head to foot with the finest jewels in their coffers.
Allow me to replenish your drinks, sir, Well, what do you
think of these knights? I don't know, well, sir, the glorious
falcon never eat Spain. Balcaneas raided the galleon in seventeen thirteen. The bird
showed up in Sicily in eighteen forty in Paris, and it had by that
time acquired a coat of black enamel, looking like nothing but a fairly interesting
black statue. In nineteen twenty three, a Greek dealer found it in an
obscure parish shop. He knew what it was. I heard about it in
London and rushed over to buy it. The Greek was murdered, and the
falcon god It was twenty three years ago. But twenty three years I've searched
for the bird. I traced it to the home of a Russian general Camidad,
but he wouldn't sell, even though he knew nothing of its value.
I was forced to send my agents after they got it, sir, that
I haven't got it, but Dave going to get it, sir? And
how soon can you? How soon are you're willing to produce the falcon?
A couple of days? That is satisfactory? Well, so here's a fair
bargain in profits large enough for both of us. What's your idea of a
fair bargain? Shall I say one hundred thousand? Why not? What did
you say to a quarter of a million? Oh, do you think the
dangis is worth a million? Huh? Why not? Yeah? Why not?
Hey, I I feel kind of funny. Gutman. That drink,
My dear man, How could you suggest anything so crucis I h m hmmm.
Wilma, Wilma, Yeah, the drink got him. Huh. But
your guns away, Wilma. You must learn to be settling these things like
me of like a light huh. I owe him something the loss. He
thinks he's tough. I see if you can take this. That's enough,
Wilma. You kicked him enough. Never do to kill him here. Besides,
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You script at grade. In a moment, you will hear Part two of
The Maltese Falcon. But first we want to thank Warner Brothers for making the
story available and one thing more. On August sixth, Warner Brothers will celebrate
the twentieth anniversary of Sound Pictures. Yes, it has been that long since
the silent shadows of the screen found a voice. We congratulate Warner Brothers on
this historic anniversary. And now the House of Squire presents Part two of Academy
Awards starring Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon with Mari Aster and Sydney green Street.
I guess the name of sam Spade was a cent for the back page
habitues. But I came out of it somehow and managed to get up and
stagger out of that apartment. I went around to the hotel where Joel Cairo
had a room and made a deal with a house stick to let me search
it well I could find with the newspaper in the wastebasket folded back to the
steamship news. It was a list of arrivals and one was marked. It
said eight seven a m. The La Poloma from Hong Kong. That was
good enough for me. I got a cab rode down to the docks.
The La Paloma was on fire and burning beautifully. I went back to my
office to hold my aching head and think things over. When the door opened,
the tall guy in the long black overcoat stood there with a package in
his hands, making gurgling noises before he fell like a tree. He should
have he was dead. I took a good look at him. He was
a mate off the La Poloma. I unwrapped his package and there it was
black Bird, mall tease Falcon. I grabbed the phone and listened. It
was brittig is Brigide, dishonesty and she said she was in trouble. I
found her shivering in the dark corner of an office building. I took her
and the falcon home to my apartment. I put her on the couch.
I put the falcon in the ice box, where no one would think to
look for anything, including ice. I came back in and switched on the
lights and found a surprise party waiting to greet me. Well, sir,
we're all here. Now. Let's sit down and be comfortable and talk.
Sure, get away from me, gunchully. You're not gonna frisk me.
Stands too, shut up, put your poor on me, and I'm gonna
make you use that gun. Ask if Boss if he wants me shut up
before we talk. Never mind rumor certainly whose head strung individual, mister speed
will let's be seated, you too, Cairo put down your gun too,
of course, mister Spade, I was only using caution as it were.
You ready, Gudman, Are you ready to make the first payment and take
the falcon off my hands? Where's sir? As to that he had?
Are ten thousand dollars? Oh we were talking about more money than this,
Yes, so we were. But this is genuine coin of the realm,
sir, with a dollar of this, you can pay ten dollars of talk.
Besides the more of us to be taken care of. Now that may
be, but I've got the falcon. I should not think it would be
necessary to remind you, mister Spade, though you may have the falcon yet
we certainly have you, yes, sir, trying not to let that worry
me. We've come to the money later. There's another thing to be taken
care of. First, we've got to have a fall guy. The police
have to have a victim, somebody that can stick for those three murders.
Two only two murders, mister Spade, first be undoubtedly killed your partner,
all right too, What difference does it make? The point is we've got
to give the police. Come, mister Spade. You can't expect us to
believe in this league beat you are the least the police, or that you're
not able to ham up to my neck gutman. I've got to come through
with somebody a victim when the time comes. If I don't, I'll be
it. Let's give him the gun till he actually did shoot Thursday and the
other one didn't. He anyways, made the order of the part. Let's
turn him over to the cop. Shut up on your feet, taken all
the writing from you, I'm going to take get up, shout it out
now. Well, I don't shoot go, so that'll take care of you.
Put him on the sofa. Sorry, Bridget, but you seem to
have recovered a right good Well, gentlemen, there's our fall guy. Now,
gentlemen, you agree or I'll turn the falcon and a whole out of
you. Win, mister Spade, I don't like this. What if we
took matters into our own hands and you'll never find the falcon? True?
But there are other ways. We couldn't make you talk. No, I'd
take it and make you kill me, and then you'd end up the same
way. No, I believe you would too. Well, I've always felt
toward Wilma like a father. But you can have him. Well, let's
get the details fixed. Why did he shoot Thursby? Thursday was miss O'shanness's
ally. We thought in disposing of him, we would teach miss O'Shaughnessy to
patch up her differences with us regarding the fault and the mate from the La
Poloma. That was miss O'shanness's fault. Cardo got in touch with me when
he saw the notice of the ship's arrival. You remember that the Meet and
miss O'Shaughnessy had been friendly in Hong Kong. He called on this man,
but he with miss O'Shaughnessy and the bird slipped through our fingers. We followed
them to her apartment and Wilma shot the Meet as he was coming down the
fire escape. He shot him many times, but the man was tough and
he did not drop the falcon. We persuited Miss Shaughnessy to call your office,
but unfortunately she did not call in time to prevent you from meeting the
Meet and getting the fulton. I see, and now, sir, would
it be some we asked to see the falcon? Okay in my icebox,
icebox, I see you are the characters. It's very very clever of you.
Very I've got it. I've got it. Bring it in here at
once? Here after twenty three years? Is it? We make sure?
And mere nicer? Here? I feel of some of this disfiguring enamel fake?
All right, I shanna say you've had your little joke. Now tell
us about no Sam No, that's the one I got from the Russian.
I swear you bungled it, you and your stupid attempt to buy it.
The Russian caught on how valuable it was, and I wonder we had so
little trouble stealing it, You embercle, you blood an idiot. Yes,
this is the Russians hand doubt of it. Well, see what do you
say? Shall we stand here and shed tears and call each other names?
Or shall we go to Istanbul and to interview our Russian friend? Go to
Istambul twenty three years I have wanted that delightemen have been trying to get it.
I must spend another year on the quest. Well, that will be
an added expendituren time, only I go with you. Wilmas gone, we
must gone, so he has. That makes it impetitive that we go to
Oh by the way, sir, I'll travel you from my envelope containing the
ten thousand dollars. I kept my end of the bargain, but I'll settle
for a thousand for expenses. Thank you. I'll allow you the thousand.
That'll take care of my time. Now, so we'll say goodbye to you.
Unless you care to undertake the Istanbul expedition with us, Go it's too
bad. Well, sir, the shortest farewell is our best adieu and humus
O'Shaughnessy. I leave the rearer Abbs there on the table as a little momento
the Marty's Falken. No, you came to me and asked me to have
Thursday followed. I put my partner outed. He followed Thursday he was killed.
You must have told thy he was being followed. I told him yes.
But please believe me, Sam, I wouldn't have told him if I
thought Floyd would kill your partner. Myles had many brains, but he had
too many years experience as a detective to be caught like that by a man
he was shadowing up a blind ally with his gun tucked away and his hip
and his overcoat buttoned. Would have gone up there with you, Angel.
He was just dumb enough for that, and then you could have stood as
close to him in the dark as you liked and put a bullet through him.
Don't don't talk like that to me, Sam. You know I didn't
know why did you shoot him? I didn't mean to at first. I
can't look at you and tell you this. Not Thursy would tackle him if
he got Thursday, then you were rid of him. If Thursday one you
had something on him enough to be rid of him for good, wasn't that
it? Something like that? Back down, you took the gun and did
the job yourself. Oh, Sam, sweetheart, from the very first instance
I saw you on New You Angel. Well, if you get a good
break, you'll be out of San Quentin in twenty years and you can come
back to me. Then. I hope they don't hang you, precious for
that sweet neck. You know deep down your heart that in spite of anything
I've done, I love you. I don't care who loves who. I'm
not going to play the sap for you. I won't walk in thursdays and
I don't know how many others footsteps. You killed my partner and you're going
over for it. I must to do this to me, Sam, Surely
your partner wasn't as much to you. Listen to me. This won't do
any good, never understand me, But I'll try once and then give it
up. Listen, when a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do
something about it, and it happens. We're in the detective business. Well,
when one of your organization gets killed. It's bad business to let the
killer get away with a bed all around, bad for every detective everywhere.
You can't send me to the damn you can't. You love me, You
love me. Maybe I do what of it the next month? I won't.
I've been through it before. I'll have some rotten nights after I've sent
you over, but that'll pass. I want you, sure, but I
won't take you with the price, because of all, because all of me
wants to, regardless of consequences. Because you counted on that with me,
the same as you counted on that with all the others. Darling, kiss
me, kiss me sure, sure, Baby? What are you doing?
Who are you calling the cops? Baby, the cops to come and take
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will present Academy Awards, starring Henry Vonda in Young Mister Lincoln. Today's
performance of the Maltese Falcon was written for radio by Frank Wilson, with an
original musical score composed and conducted by Leete Stevens. Our producer director is di
Angelback. Humphrey Boguard is soon to be seen in Warner Brothers Big Sleep.
Mary Astor appeared through the courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayor, producers of the Technicolor
musical Easy to Win. Sydney Green Street is soon to be seen in Warner
Brothers. The verdict, This is hubrenby bidding you good night until next Wednesday.
At the same time when you're invited to listen again to Academy a lawn
presented by the House and Squid unnamed you can trust this is CBS the WELOI
of outcasting Welcome Back. It can be a mistake to assume if you've heard
one half hour adaptation of a movie with the same actor, you've heard them
all. Obviously, the film was the starting point for both this adaptation as
well as the screen gild theaters, but there was some very different choices made.
It seems like there was a big focus in writing this on keeping the
cast eyes down. Telling the Maltese Falkin with only five speaking roles is an
achievement, even if it involves Sam inventing the rule that villains never look in
the icebock. This one did have a really good focus on the relationship between
Sam and Bridget and really made those scenes pay off and feel impactful. I
think that this may have been the strongest adaptation in that regard. Gerald Moore
might seem an odd choice for Wilmer, but while Moore could be a leading
man He did a lot of character roles, so it's very hard to argue
that he was ever miscast in anything, as he always tended to rise to
the occasion. If there was one Casper Gutman line I missed, it was
after he had decided to let Spade have Wilmer. Well, if you lose
a sign, it's possible to get an eye. There's only one Maltese falcon.
I also didn't recognize the actor who played Cairo, but I like that
he didn't try to do a Peter Laurie impersonation. It's better to play Joel
Cairo than to try to play Peter Laurie playing Joel Cairo. Even without Laurie,
I think this may have been a better adaptation than the Screen Guild Theater
one we played at the beginning of our look at Sam Spade. I think
we've had a very interesting year and a half, and at last we've reached
the end of our journey through all the Sam Spade material, all the Stephen
Dunn episodes, all the Howard Duff episodes, including the episode of Suspense,
the Mysterious First Nighter spoof, the home recording, the regular episodes, and
the comedy show appearances. Plus we got to hear Sarah's Private Caper and how
Sam Spade kind of served as a jumping on point for that series. And
of course we've gone through to all three of the old time radio adaptations of
the Maltese Falcon movie. We've heard some great actors, some great stories,
and then we've had a lot of fun. Of course, there's still one
missing Steven Dunn episode and more than one hundred and fifty missing episodes from Howard
Duff's Run a Spade. I'll keep my ear to the ground and if any
of those come into circulation, will definitely revisit this series. Well, now
we turn to listener comments and feedback and we start over on Twitter or acts
or whatever, where Tina writes regarding the Hail and Farewell caper, very good
episode. Over on Spotify, Frank writs, well done, good acting,
and then regarding the Rowdy Dowser caper, Barbara says, I absolutely love the
Rowdy Dowser episode brought sunshine into the darkness. I really enjoyed the silliness.
Well, thank you so much, Barbara, And an important reminder that silliness
definitely does have its place. Well now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter
of the day and thank you to Charlie, Patreon supporter since October of twenty
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into the radio series The Adventures of the Falcon. But join us back here
tomorrow for the start of this week's Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Cereal. Where
all right? Hellen Dates was a fine woman and a high life. She
was married, no children, She was alive. Now she's dead because of
death, a bullet and the heart. Them's all facts, mister Dollart.
How did it happen? I don't rightly know, want no witnesses. Could
have been an accident, even what do you mean an accident? Were one
of them hunters from the city them through here, regular confounded idiots shoot at
anything that moves, well, surely not a human being sitting in her own
living room. They might have. Never can tell crazy as they are shot
a gold belonged to Het Wilmer last fall, caught him with it tied on
their bumper. Said it was a mountain sheet. Yes. Yes, might
have done it unintentional, then got scared and run out. Yes, possibly,
except for one of those facts, which fact this bullet Hunters from the
city don't use old fashioned squirrel rifles. Mister bramler I said, it could
have been an accident. I hope you'll be with us then. In the
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