From Hollywood. It's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dollar. This is
popcase Dollar Petemont Mutual. I've got to see it right away. What's the
right The girl was pulled out of the East River. It turned out to
be a policy holder. O, my private eye. Why don't you go
to the police to find your killers? Oh, we know the killer.
He's being executed right after midnight. What do we want to know about as
a victim? Edmund O'Brien and another transcribed adventure of the Man with the action
packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yes truly, Johnny Dollar.
Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dolla to home office Piedmont Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Hotsford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditure during my
search for the beneficiary of policy hold of Pearl Caress. Expense account item won
four point fifty mileage Hartford to sing Sing Prison, last place of residence of
the girl's convicted murderer, Marty Pruitt. He was hitting in his cell playing
solitaire. Okay, what time is it about eleven? Marty an hour more?
How much do you say the policy was for five thousand dollars? Five
thousand, that's funny, just what I got paid for the job. Whould
she leave it to the old lady? Yeah? I knew she would.
You know where I can find the beneficiary? Beneficiary? He is not a
beneficiary. Did you never had the pleasure? If you'd known her, you
wouldn't be looking for her. Missus Carras's virtues are out of my business,
Marty. The company is five thousand dollars and I've got to help them get
rid of it. What good are you doing yourself by not telling me where
she is? If you know what time is it now? A little after
eleven? Boy? Did that money look good? You know all the things
you can do at five thousand dollars. This girl back home, I was
gonna get married. Ah Nah, I wasn't gonna get married. I'd have
put it in rulet like all them other times. You never did say who
hired you? Nah, that's right, I never did, Marty. I
know you've been through this before, but you gotta admit it's a good point.
You're going to die and the real murder is getting off free. Does
that make sense to you? What's your business, mister insurance? Stick to
it? I think I will. You know what I'd do if I was
you, I'd take that five thousand dollars and put it in flowers. Thanks
anyway, Hey, Dolla, let me give you some last minute advice.
Leave it alone. It's the most unnatural mess you ever got yourself into,
and all your life expensing cow had him too. Three fifty six mile A
Jason in New York the police Headquarters, New York City. By the next
morning, Lieutenant Bernard Goldberg offered me photographs of the dead girl, a cigar,
and what little information he had a body. We got the name off
the wallet in her hip pocket. What slacks oh patrom had done at the
ducks picked up Mardy Proud ran at the scene and try was cutting dry.
And it's funny about these guys. Yeah, he's crazy loyally to somebody who
maybe wouldn't think twice about slipping his own. Yeah. I remit, uh,
Donna, two whims and remit no, No, that's what Donna.
You don't have any idea where I can start looking for the mother. The
most I can do for you is to give you the girls last known address.
But We've been over the ground a hundred times. It's a Roman house.
Nice but stupid old couple that don't know nothing. The Seattle address on
the Fala's nineteen forty one men san Diego bent to Cairo, maybe Hookano,
but we're still working on it. Audius felt parasitical and Dylan parasitical. Tell
him to look it up, look it upside And what am I a Webster
expense account idam three one dollar and fifty cents cap head or a stack of
dirty bricks in the Lower east Side. Well, you have done just being
up here in the first place, and especially with your husband, that conditions
looking for somebody. Mister, yeah, the manager and third dog. You're
right. Thanks, Now, don't tell me it's none of my business.
Not when I bring soup down there every single day. Why I never heard
the like of you. Haul You have come in, that's so hard,
pushed it down. Thanks, you're the manager. I'm the manager. Now,
it's an manager. Well, my name is Johnny Dolla. I'm with
he, all right. We don't ask for references, do we, Howard,
except in the special circumstances. I'm afraid you will misunderstand. I'm not
looking for an apartment. I'm an investigator with an insurance company, and I'd
like to ask you a few questions. We never had a fire in this
building that was next door. They keep rubbish in the basement for companies.
Warn them time and time never does any good. I'd like some information about
a girl who I understand was a tenant here and missus Pearl Caress. The
police were already here, mister Dollin four times, Petendor Goldberg, Thank this
for our corporation. She was such a nice girl home line general. Oh
yes, terribly. How long was she with him? How long wasn't Howard?
But just two weeks? Just two weeks. But we got to know
her so well. She was such a lonely girl. She used to come
down after dinner sometimes and talk about music and all the places she'd been.
Well, where'd she come from? Originally she never said, but she'd been
everywhere in Florida, everywhere. Does she have any visitors? Oh no.
The first thing she told us was no visitors. Anybody asked for her.
She wasn't home. Such a lonely girl, so pretty too. You think
she'd have boyfriend, No, mister down, No visitors did she act as
if she were frightened of something. That's just what the police asked us,
and we told them before, and we told him at the trial that we
thought she was frightened. We heard the luggers here for a while, but
the police took it. I haven't throw it. Thanks. Did you notice
all the labels from all over everywhere? Wonder what they're going to do with
all those lovely dresses and shoes. Look, I know the police asked all
these questions, but did you happen to notice if she got an e mail?
Yes, we did. She didn't, not a single litter. She
spent much time away from her apartment, very little, oh little, twice
a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. But she
always came back with him an how, I don't suppose you have any idea
where you win. That's right, we don't. What'd you say you were
again? Insurance investigation? Thanks for your time, expenser count it him four
fifty dollars in cab fairs. Took me the rest of that day and half
of the next visiting neighborhood postal substations. It looked like a beautiful way to
waste time that I was betting on the impossibility that her daily excursions had been
familed. This kind of foot padding taught me very little, other than the
fact that there are a good number of substations in any given half hour area.
The second afternoon, I dragged into a fruit store which advertised postal station
three two fours, along with a special on honeydew melon. I walked up
to the little cage. Anything for Carasser today? Who Carasser? General delivery
in just a minute, Grand Carasser, crrassa Carass. Yeah, here we
are postage you do Las Vegas, Nevada. I looked at the envelope pearl
Carasso order who had been forwarded from Las Vegas three days before. I said
something to myself about hard work, patience, and fool's luck, then headed
through. Hello his dollar Bob on the carascap thing. I'm still cold on
the beneficiary, but we've got the girl traced as far as Las Vegas.
It's a long haul for a five thousand dollar policy. Do you have a
final address on her? There? A letter was parted at the general delivery
here in New York that was originally addressed to the Rambo Club. I got
a permit and had it open. It's nothing but a dressmaker's bill. I
guess the Las Vegas postal authorities sent it on. It's all I got.
Do you want me to follow it up? Nothing else we can do.
You hereby have authorization Get gone expense account Item six, two hundred dollars air
traveling expenses to Las Vegas, Nevada, specifically the Rambo Club. It's always
the same. When I hit Las Vegas, I expect to find tuxedos and
evening gowns playing the games, but I never do. A boot plaque comes
in off the street with the last quarter he made and punks it down on
twenty one, A grandmother with a California pension, A redheaded kid with Oscar's
super Service tattooed on his overalls. I always ask myself, where's all the
big money? The answer is they're getting rid of it in the back rooms.
Jack Pod on the Nechrong boy, I told him I really I had
to get part of my note. What I really wanted was a drink fly
real fly? Is this taken? No sit down? Won you have Miston
a good bourbon soda? Thanks for your competence in me. I'm big yup,
he worked here. Long? Have I you like Nevada? Bunch?
Your hometown? US Vegas? Here I having this summer? I guess uh
as you know a lot of people here by sight, mostly very few by
name. Everybody's this stranger, say, maybe an old friend of mine.
I went to school with her. What's her name again? Oh? Yeah,
carasser Pearl Carrassa. Gave me my drink, Addy, I gotta get
back to work. Best bourbon in the house. Thanks, And that's a
buck and a half. This is a real clip joint. Yeah, I
can see. Yeah, thanks. Say wait a second, you know where
I can find missus Henrietta Carassa. She's the mother of a girl that used
to hang around here. Pearl. Well, yeah, I think I can
help you. All right, take over. Here's your bucking and a half.
Come on, sixty dollars by grace, Grace? Will you quick?
Gray? Will you where you quick? Grace? Grace? I'm telling me
you quick. Listen to me, Grace, will you quick? Great?
Quick? I shut up. The stairway led to the mezzanine. I followed
the bartender along the thickly carpeted hall to a door labeled Peter Barron, my
benefactor knocked the shadow loomed on the frosted glass, and just like that,
there he was. A long red gash of a scar ran across the left
side of his face, twisting it into a humorous smile. The bar keepers
dismissed with a nod. We sat down, So thanks, No, what
can I do for you? I'm looking for a missus Henrietta Carass. Why
I got business with her? What kind of business assurance? You don't need
no insurance? Where can I find it? She don't need no insurance?
Well? Thanks? Anyhow, sat down? What for you see this mark
across my face? You know how I got this, asking foolish questions and
not giving the right answers. Suppose you tell me what you want with missus
Henrietta Carassi. I'll tell missus garrass that you were interested. Oh luck,
luck, This is no way to talk to mean. I got a lot
of respect for your business ethics and all that, but you know how it
is sometimes. Now, come on, mister insurance, what do you want
with missus Carassi? Were you a pretty good chat with that thing? Thirty?
Ate? Some my specialty? In that case, I've got a check.
What kind of a check, A five thousand dollar kind of a check
from home, A daughter pearl pearl. She left them out a five thousand
dollars at your trace pearl to Las Vegas. And never mind, you know
what you look like to me? You look like a city official. It's
the pinstripe. Now, how do I find Missus Garasson? It's very simple,
Mike, Mike, this is mister but your name insurance dollar, Johnny.
Take mister dollar to see missus Henrietta caressive, treat him gentle. He's
got some money for her. The place looked and sounded the same on the
way out, but something was different. Maybe it was the four or six
foot is standing at the door. As they fell in behind me, I
thought maybe I'd asked one question too many at the alley, I had found
out how right I was who he was A tough one. Would have been
easier just slipping my mickey in just a moment, we will return to the
second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dellar. But first you hear them
all on CBS, and some of the funniest parts of that all comes from
the bird brain of a woman, Miss Gracy Allen of Burns Allen, top
troopers on the American stage for years, top radio stars after that. George
and Graci are now playing a big part in CBS's great Wednesday Night lineup bing
Crosby, Groucho Marx, George and Gracie and Doctor Christian join George Burns and
Gracy Allen this Wednesday Night on most of the same CBS station, and now
with our star Edmund O'Brien, we returned to the second act of yours,
truly, Johnny Dellar, there was a lot more to this case than five
thousand dollars insurance payoff. I'd cents that from the beginning, a hired killer
with a still unknown employer, that searched out the girl in a New York
hide away and done a thorough, if not profitable job. His warnings,
which a man of my profession is bound to ignore her was beginning to materialize.
As I woke up, I could hear voices were must be get have
brought another wal up with him enough at the hotel. I'm in the alley
and a minute, I think he's waking up, puld his head. Okay,
you ought to get a doctor for him. Maybe the doctor he looks
terrible dollar dolla? Can he hear me? Dollar? Hm? Well you
know, and what's this insurance stuff? Or you're really working for? Is
at the New York Police Department? What did you get these cards? He
walla? Come on, dollar, answer me dollar, m give me some
water, get him some water and get the water I set up. Come
on, come on, set up it. I'll help you. Yeah.
Ah, alright, now that's the idea. That's what we'd like to know.
What do you know, Pearl caressa from ooh that name. Come on,
I'm looking for her mother. What do you want with her mother?
H if you let an insurance policy girl five thousand dollars? He hates the
water? Thanks a whore you Pete Barron? Oh yeah, yeah, the
face is for me. It mustn't be bitter though it Why why questions?
Look, I'm just a working man. It's it's so simple. There's a
company in Hertford, an insurance company. They sold a policy the girl aboard
is dead. Policy is for five thousand dollars. The money goes to a
mother. All I wanna know is where is mother? No, Kittener,
you're really an insurance but oh kid, well, why didn't you say so,
why didn't you come right out with it? How do you go sneaking
into the bus asking funny questions? Mister, do you know missus Henrietta Carrassa
here in Las Vegas? Here in Las Vegas. I'll tell you what I'll
do. I'll look it up for you. Thanks, now, lay me
back down again. Expense account item seven twenty dollars doctor bills. Nothing serious,
but I couldn't go out in the street looking like that. I stayed
in my hotel room for two days until the swelling went down. On the
third morning, I had a visitor. It was the girl who gave me
the brush off in Rambos Bar. She had an over night bag with her.
There was a label Bloomington, Indiana. You're in trouble. Do you
know that three days ago that information would have done me some good? I
mean real trouble. You don't think Pete Barren lets you out of there because
you believed your story, no more than you think you weren't followed here.
No, I know she never come here, but Pearl get him at each
tour. Will you tell me never to show up here again? She won't?
What do you mean she won't? She's dead? I got tour.
You know why I got to get out of here. Wait a minute,
why did Pete Baron hire a pot to kill her? I gotta get out
of here. He came up here for a purpose, but I didn't know
she was dead. You're gonna let him get away with it. It's narcotic,
be gambling taxes the front. They fled up from Mexico, not and
get out by morning. Prul found out about it, and that's why they
did it. This baron, no pearl told you all this. I don't
think so. I'm not taking any chances. I got a bus ticket.
It leaves from across the street. I only got a minute. Good blow,
honey. I went to the window and watched to leave the hotel and
across the street. A nice girl, I thought, and I wondered how
she got mixed up with Baron's crowd. The mus door opened and she put
one foot on the step. She crumpled to the sidewalk. A little of
the night bag tumbled into the gut. I got downstairs, just ahead of
the deputy sheriff. Just after the bus had left. The people were still
standing around. She was a nice kid. You knew her, not for
long. Could you see this happen? Yeah, step over here for a
second with may I have your name? Please? And she here, he's
my ID card insurance investigation. Something about her? Oh a friend of us
pulled out of the East River. Pearl Carrassa shot to death. Carassa,
Yeah you didn't know? Oh would heard? She left tom That was about
all. She got mixed up with Pete Barron and her family just saw her.
Well did you see what happened to this girl? She was just getting
on the bus. It sounded like a rifle. She was working with Pete
Barron too. Yeah, I thought I recognized her. She just come up
to see me. Had quite a story to tell. Baron's running narcotics up
from Mexico by plane. They're so, I've heard, We've had a rye
on them for months, but we aren't ready to pick them up yet.
Why don't you tell you that she had to tell somebody she had a message.
She wanted me to deliver purl And this is beginning to tie up.
But what's insurance cuts to it? Carass A? Girl left the policy five
thousand dollars to another. The conscience must have bothered. He comes from one
of the finest families in this part of the country and starts downhill with a
crowd like that her mother needs five thousand dollars, like I need two haircuts,
and mister, if I where you are to take that, check out
the carasses and catch the next plane out of town. You know something,
Sheriff, It's just what I'm going to do, and that's just what I
tried to do. Expense account item eight fifty cents. Cab fed at the
grassa estate on Juniper Drive. They should have charged the admission. There was
an ivied stone wall running over around it, and a mile drive through a
cactus rock garden to the mansion. I felt a little like a grocery boy
delivering a check for an easily five thousand dollars. I was met at the
door by a butler in a business suit and was toured around an indoor swimming
pool and potted palms to the library. Buried in a large leather chair reading
a twenty five cent version of How to Be Your Own Gardener was the man
of the house. I was introduced and left alone with him. Insurance investigation.
How long since you've heard from your daughter? Oh, such a long
time, Such a long time. Is she in more trouble? He's dead,
mister Krasher dead, Pearl Debt can't be what happened. She was killed
naturally. No, it wasn't not a natural. Someone hired a killer.
Oh it's my fault. I knew and I did nothing, Gregory. I've
been looking all over for you. Have you wanted the palms today? No,
you didn't walk the palms. Now, Gregory, the leaves will get
all yellow and fall all over the floor, and it will take sip ad
minutes to clean up the mess around the pool. And I told you specifically
that the music club had change from Wednesday to Monday, and Monday is tonight.
This is a man from the insurance company. How do you do now,
Gregory? Please do this one thing for me. You know how much
I have to do with Henrietta. It's Pearl. I told you never to
speak that name in my presence. She's dead, dead, she was murdered
missus Kreiser in New York. I'm not sorry. Maybe I should be,
but I'm not not. In the least. She's never done anything but brings
shame to me and to her father. She brought these awful people to the
house to this house. Mind you humiliating me in front of my friends.
She even wanted to marry one of them. Henrietta, Please not now,
Henriette. I am not a depth at putting on false grief like you are,
Gregory. She was no good when you brought this man, and I
told her right there and then you're not my daughter. Go to the people
that you begin with. Well, this is the way it had to end.
I'm going upstairs. Uh, missus Krasser, Just one thing more.
If you will sign this paper, my job will be other. I have
a check for you, a check. What kind of a check she left
you? Five thousand dollars? Me? She left me five thousand dollars.
I remember the policy she took out in high school. She never canceled it,
even when you sent her away. I don't want it. I don't
want tell me. Do you know who killed my daughter? The man that
did the actual killing has already been executed in New York State. The man
who hired him. It's only a suspicion. I'd rather not say. Bear.
What about this check? I don't think she wants the money. You
can tell your company that. Look, mister Grasson, I've come a long
way. I'll leave it here. You can sign the form and mail it.
Do you mind calling me a camp spends account item nine fifty cents cab
fare. Just as we pulled out of the driveway, somebody else pulled in.
I don't know if he saw me, but I saw him. It
was Pete Barron. Are you sure, Dahna positive? Griff? I woke
up looking at that face. What would Baron be doing at Carassus place?
Could be a connection you didn't know about. Yeah, this could be the
tie up. We've been looking for somebody who supplied the bill. It's a
big operation. I'm sure Baron didn't have enough dough to start it. Well,
what are we waiting for? I wrote down with the sheriff. We
bypassed the butler by taking him into custody. We heard voices coming from the
library and stopped outside the door. Business I had to do it. Threatened
to go to the police. She may have been your daughter, but she
wasn't mouth. Why did you tell her? I didn't? She found out
she knew about us, She knew about you, she knew about everything.
She would have turned you and your wife in a long time ago. If
she hadn't been her parents, but she was willing to turn me in,
and I did what I had to. I wasn't my idea you coming into
this thing, But now that you're in it, you got to learn that
things like this happened. Yes, and things like this happened too, Robert
Caresser. And look who's here? Hello missus, Carison. Let's go Carassi.
Wait. I want you to know about this woman. I want you
to know what she is all respectability and shine, chamber music and non objective
paintings in high society. And where did the money come from, Henrietta?
From narcotics? From the same people you hated so much. Gleigly Sty had
a child business before the war, but it wasn't good enough for her.
She wanted to displace Italian marble tempestries. She met barn in back rooms and
arranged to have me buying his gambling casino. That was the first thing.
Don't you dare put the flame on me? Whod idea was to have a
narcotic fluid in? How many times did I beg you to stop? But
you never listen to me. You couldn't keep from pressing the ladies and gentlemen,
and when Pearl wanted to marry a decent young MANU insulted him right out
of this house. This is the woman who sent her daughter away because her
friends were not good enough. I don't think you need me anymore, Sheriff.
I'll just take that check go on expense account had them ten two hundred
dollars transportation back to Hartford. I don't know what you can do with the
check. If it were up to me, I'd use it to clean up
the respectable slums. But that's not my problem. His friends account totals seven
hundred and twelve dollars and fifty five cents. Yours Truly, Johnny Dova.
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role and is written by
Gil Dowd and David Ellis, with music composed and conducted by Leith Stevens.
Edmund O'Brien can currently be seen starring in the Harry M. Popkin United Artists
production. Boa Featured in our cast were High Everback, Joseph Kerns, Bill
Johnstone, Bill Conrad, Martha Wentworth, Sarah Selby, Howard McNair, and
Virginia Greg Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Hi may Delby.
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