1 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:35,079 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:35,359 --> 00:00:39,920 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:46,439 to me Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net. Follow us on Twitter at Radio 4 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:52,399 Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash 5 00:00:52,439 --> 00:00:57,280 Great Detectives. Today's program is brought to you in part by the financial support 6 00:00:57,439 --> 00:01:00,520 of our listeners. You can support the show on a one time basis at 7 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:07,120 support dot Great Detectives dot net, or become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters 8 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,840 for as little ass two dollars per month by going to Patreon dot Great Detectives 9 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:17,799 dot net. Well, this is our last Monday with Sam Spade, and 10 00:01:17,879 --> 00:01:25,200 we're bringing you one final Maltese Falcon adaptation. This is from a somewhat obscure 11 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,760 post war series called Academy Award, or as it's become known in the Old 12 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:37,519 time radio world, Academy Award Theater. The series was sponsored by Er Squib 13 00:01:37,599 --> 00:01:42,480 and Company, who I really know best for their sublime wartime music programs. 14 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:48,319 It was conceived with the goal of featuring one hundred of the most important films 15 00:01:48,359 --> 00:01:53,680 from Hollywood's Golden Age. The show's budget was five thousand, six hundred dollars 16 00:01:53,719 --> 00:01:59,719 per program, which was very high for a half hour show, although it's 17 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:06,640 only ninety four thousand dollars per show in today's money. However, sixteen hundred 18 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:13,879 dollars of each show's budget was taken up by licensing rights and waivers from the 19 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:20,879 Motion Picture Academy and er Squibbing Company decided they couldn't continue the series, at 20 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:28,280 least not on their own. CBS considered taking the series on as a sustaining 21 00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:32,520 effort, but ultimately declined, and so the project came to an end after 22 00:02:32,599 --> 00:02:38,680 thirty nine weeks. They only did one detective movie during that run, but 23 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:44,560 what a movie. They did, an adaptation of The Maltese Falcon that brought 24 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:50,000 back not only Humphrey Bogart but also mari Asta and Sydney Green Street. The 25 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,280 program originally aired on July the third, nineteen forty six, and here now 26 00:02:54,479 --> 00:03:13,080 is the Academy Award adaptation of The Maltese Falcon. The House of squib presents 27 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:30,400 Academy Award Every week. Squib brings you Hollywood's Fist. The Great Picture plays, 28 00:03:30,479 --> 00:03:35,599 the great actors and actresses techniques and skills chosen from the honor roll of 29 00:03:35,599 --> 00:03:39,199 those who have won are been nominated for the famous Golden Oscar of the Academy 30 00:03:39,199 --> 00:03:58,919 of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And now E. R. Squibb and 31 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,879 Sons and your actor in Chemist of the Medical Profession since eighteen fifty eight, 32 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,039 bring you the distinguished star mister Humphrey Bogart, who, as Best Actor of 33 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:11,680 the Year, was nominated for the nineteen forty three Academy Award. You will 34 00:04:11,719 --> 00:04:15,639 also hear Miss Merry Astor, who won the nineteen forty one Academy Award as 35 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,120 Best Supporting Actress of the Year, and Sidney green Street, who was nominated 36 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:24,879 for the nineteen forty one Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor. Tonight, mister 37 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:28,920 Bogart, Misaster and mister green Street will play the famous roles they created for 38 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,319 the screen in the Maltese Falcon, The Thrilling Mystery, which was nominated as 39 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:53,319 Best Production of the Year for the nineteen forty one Academy Award. My Name 40 00:04:53,399 --> 00:04:58,759 is Spade, Sam Spade lcensed number three five seven eight ninety six, issued 41 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:03,519 for the Police Department of Sin San Francisco. Occupation Private detective sometimes known as 42 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:09,360 private eye. My fair files in the case of the Maltese Falcan are closed, 43 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,399 but I've got the mall Tese Falkin. I got it and some dough. 44 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,000 My partner got murdered, and the very slick chick went up for life. 45 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:26,600 I'll tell you about it. The slick dame comes to see me one 46 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,560 day, gives me a song and dance about her sister and a guy called 47 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,279 Floyd Thursby. So she wants to get her sister back before her mother and 48 00:05:32,319 --> 00:05:36,000 father get in from Hawaii. I put my partner, Miles Archer, on 49 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:41,360 the case. At night, he gets murdered, and so does this guy 50 00:05:41,519 --> 00:05:44,959 Thursby. I go around to the apartment where the dame is living, the 51 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:50,879 one called bridget O'Shaughnessy. He had something I seem to go for. Oh, 52 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:57,000 mister Spade, come in. I have come in. Oh yes, 53 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,800 so you have, mister Spade. Tell me am I to blamed for lost. 54 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,639 You warned us if Thursby was dangerous. Of course you lied to us 55 00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:06,439 about your sister and all that, But that doesn't count. We didn't believe 56 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:11,199 you. Oh help me, mister Spade. I need help so badly. 57 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,240 I've no right to ask you, but I do ask you. Help me. 58 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:20,319 You won't need much of anybody's help. You're good, You're awful good, 59 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:24,800 if chiefly your eyes. I think in that throb you get into your 60 00:06:24,879 --> 00:06:29,480 voice when you say things like help me, mister Spade, I deserve that. 61 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:32,279 But oh, the lie was in the way I said it, not 62 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,319 at all in what I said. If I'm going to help you, I've 63 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,319 got to have some sort of a line on your Floyd Thursby. I met 64 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,720 him in the Orient. We came here from Hong Kong last week. He 65 00:06:41,879 --> 00:06:46,079 Gilacha, Yes, certain thick, the Knight's sort of playmate. Only that 66 00:06:46,199 --> 00:06:49,240 sort could have helped me if he had been loyal. How bad a hole 67 00:06:49,319 --> 00:06:54,800 are you actually in? As bad as could be physical danger. I'm not 68 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,120 heroic. I don't think there's anything worse than death, and it's that. 69 00:06:58,879 --> 00:07:02,040 It's that as surely as we're sitting here. Unless you help me. Who 70 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:10,800 killed Thursby? Your enemies are his? I don't know. I suppose I'm 71 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:15,000 afraid I don't know who are these enemies. Well there's a small dark man 72 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:20,240 with white teeth and a smooth, dangerous fat man. Oh this is hopeless. 73 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,759 How much money have you got? I have about five hundred dollars left. 74 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:33,399 Give it me. There's only four hundred here. I had to keep 75 00:07:33,439 --> 00:07:36,639 some to live on. Okay, I'll be back as soon as I can. 76 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:43,279 You needn't come to the door with me. I can let myself out. 77 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,639 I went by the office then and found a dark little guy with very 78 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:51,480 white teeth waiting for me. His name was Joel Cairo. He was a 79 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:58,759 Greek, mister Spade. I am trying to recover an ornament that has been 80 00:07:59,319 --> 00:08:03,480 shall we say, mislaid? I thought and hoped you could assist me. 81 00:08:03,839 --> 00:08:07,199 Uh huh. The ornament is a statuette, the black figure of a bird. 82 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:11,600 I am prepared to pay the sum of five thousand dollars for its recovery, 83 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,439 and no questions. As five thousands a lot of money. It's very 84 00:08:16,439 --> 00:08:18,279 interesting figure. You will put your hands together the back of your neck, 85 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,439 mister Spade. Huh oh, sure, I shall shoot you if you try 86 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,959 to stop me. Mister Spade, but I must search your office. You 87 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,360 won't find anything but a pair of worn out rubbers, a half pint of 88 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:35,080 rum in the packagewing gum. We shall see. Please stand up, so 89 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:43,159 sure this way, no, the other way. Sure, I'll take the 90 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,000 gun with Carol and I'll get up. I am very slow in things like 91 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:52,159 that, unfortunately. Yeah, I'm still prepared to pay five thousand dollars for 92 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,000 the return of the figure. Do you have it, mister Spade? No? 93 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:00,679 If it is not here, why did you just risk serious injury to 94 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,679 prevent my searching for him? I should sit around and let people come in 95 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,279 and stick me up. You wish some assurance of my sincerity? A retainer, 96 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,960 I might say one hundred dollars, You better make a two hundred. 97 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,440 Thanks. The first guest was that I had the bird? What's your second 98 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,519 guess? That you know where it is or where you can get it? 99 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,360 Are you not hiring me to murder or do burglary, but to get back 100 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,559 the figure in some lawful way, say from a dame with red hair or 101 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,559 a smooth, dangerous fat man. Oh so you know you must be aware 102 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,120 of them. They would stop at nothing. May may I have my pistol? 103 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,600 Now? Oh? Yeah, yeah, sure, i'd forgotten it. 104 00:09:41,879 --> 00:09:45,440 Thank you. Now, missus Spade, you will kindly clasped your hands behind 105 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,840 your neck. What don't move, missus spade this time I might shoot. 106 00:09:50,080 --> 00:10:01,200 I insist on searching your office at your go ahead. Yeah. I finally 107 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,440 got rid of the Greek and started back for Bridget de Shaughnessy's apartment. A 108 00:10:05,519 --> 00:10:07,399 matter of fact, I had a hunch that the Greek was going there himself 109 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,639 and started a tail his cab when a sad faced guy poked something into my 110 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:26,759 back and said, come on, that man wants to see here. He 111 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,120 is, mister Gutman, the guy who was talking of the dame in the 112 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:35,320 Greek. Ah, mister Speedman, we begin wills. It is stressed the 113 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,480 man who talks too much. I like to talk, of course, talking 114 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:43,080 something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice. Yeah, now, 115 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,600 sir, we'll talk if you like. And I'll tell you right now that 116 00:10:45,639 --> 00:10:48,440 I'm a man likes talking to a man who likes to talk. Will we 117 00:10:48,639 --> 00:10:52,279 talk about the blackbird? You're the man for me, sir. No beating 118 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,240 about the bush. Right to the point. Let us talk about the blackbird 119 00:10:56,279 --> 00:11:00,120 by all means, mister speed have you any conception of how much money you 120 00:11:00,159 --> 00:11:03,960 can be up for that blackbird? No, where's the if I told you? 121 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,440 If I told you half you'd call me a liar. No, no, 122 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:09,080 not even if I thought so. But you just tell me what it 123 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,519 is and I'll figure out the profits. You mean you don't know what that 124 00:11:11,519 --> 00:11:15,039 bird is? Well, I know what it's supposed to look like. I 125 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,559 know the value in human life you people put on it. So Shaughnessy didn't 126 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,559 tell you what it is? Ricarro didn't I have it? He offered me 127 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:30,879 ten thousand for it till thou and dollars mean you're not even pounds. They 128 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,919 must know what it is? Do they? What is your imprision? I 129 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:41,240 can't tell. They're both lying if they don't know. I'm the only one 130 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:46,480 in the whole way. Sweet aswell, you've told me that'll make two of 131 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:50,159 us mathematically correct, Sir. They don't know the saying that I'm going to 132 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,200 you. I don't be foolish. You know what it is. I know 133 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:54,440 where it is. That's why I'm here. Where is it? Where is 134 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,720 it? Don't be silly? You see I must say what I know, 135 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,840 but you will not tell me what you know. It is hardly equitable, 136 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:03,440 sir. No, No, I do think we can do business along those 137 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,720 lights. I will think. I'll think again and think fast. I can 138 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,960 get along without you, and keep that gun sho gunsel away from me. 139 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,519 While you're making up your mind, I'll kill him, we'd say, I 140 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:13,840 must see you the most violent. Well, what are you wasting time for? 141 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:24,480 We've got five thirty? Then you're either in or out for keeps three 142 00:12:24,639 --> 00:12:28,720 characters and the black bird. All I knew was my partner was dead, 143 00:12:28,759 --> 00:12:33,480 and the cops were getting very uncooperative about the whole thing, including who killed 144 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:37,000 Floyd Thursby. I thought i'd better get back to see that a Shaughnessy dame 145 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:41,480 before it was too late. Sure enough, it almost was. They came 146 00:12:41,519 --> 00:12:45,240 here and took him away, took him away. Who the police? They 147 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:46,600 wanted to talk to you too. They took mister Carol with him. What 148 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,360 was he doing here? He came to talk about the bird? What is 149 00:12:50,399 --> 00:12:56,320 this bird? This falcon that everybody's all steamed up about. I wouldn't tell 150 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,840 you anything at all about it? What would you do? And wild and 151 00:13:01,039 --> 00:13:05,879 unpredictable? Maybe, Well, it's a black figure, as you know, 152 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:11,120 smooth and shiny of a bird of hawk or falcon, about twelve inches high. 153 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,879 Oh, what makes you so important? I don't know? He wouldn't 154 00:13:13,919 --> 00:13:18,600 tell me, but they promised me five hundred pounds if I helped them get 155 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,480 it from the man who had it go ahead. They promised me five hundred 156 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,600 pounds to help them, and I did. Then we found that Joel Cairo 157 00:13:24,759 --> 00:13:28,440 was going to take the falcon and desert Floyd and me, so we did 158 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:35,200 that to Joel. First. You are a liar. I am a liar. 159 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:39,240 I've always been a liar. Uncle. They don't brag about it. 160 00:13:39,159 --> 00:13:43,519 Is there any truth at all? Not? Yan? Some? Not very 161 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,399 much. Well, we've got plenty of time. I'll put some coffee on 162 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:52,639 and we'll try again. Oh, I'm so tired, so tired of lying 163 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,600 and thinking up lies and not knowing what He is a lion? What is 164 00:13:56,639 --> 00:14:05,519 the truth? And don't stare at me like that? It is something to 165 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:13,120 do while waiting? Why not kiss me, Sam Spade? Kiss me? 166 00:14:13,799 --> 00:14:18,360 Why not? That happens every time. I'll get it. Be careful, 167 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,679 okay, am on you. He wants to see you. Well, if 168 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,480 it isn't a fat man's killer. Hello, pale face, how many do 169 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:33,000 you bump off today? Shut up waiting for you? Kidding? What capture? 170 00:14:33,399 --> 00:14:46,120 He wants me? The fat man's been thinking things over. Well, 171 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,960 mister speed, I must apologize for sending for you in this fashion. And 172 00:14:50,039 --> 00:14:52,440 never mind, let's talk about the bird, all right. Let's what do 173 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,080 you think of the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, Crusaders 174 00:14:56,159 --> 00:15:01,200 or something? Weren't they very good? Teen thirty nine these crusading knights persuaded 175 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:05,679 Emperor Charles the fifth to give them the island of Mortar. He made but 176 00:15:05,799 --> 00:15:09,080 one condition. They were to pay him each year for the tribute of a 177 00:15:09,159 --> 00:15:13,440 falcon, in acknowledgment that the mortar was still under Spain. You follow me, 178 00:15:13,679 --> 00:15:16,519 a ah. Have you any conception of the extreme immeasurable wealth of the 179 00:15:16,639 --> 00:15:20,320 order of that time? I imagine they were pretty well fixed. They were 180 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,279 rolling in wealth, sir. They hit upon the happy thought of sending the 181 00:15:22,279 --> 00:15:26,919 Emperor for the first year's tribute, not an insignificant knave, but the glorious 182 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:33,279 golden falcon, encrusted from head to foot with the finest jewels in their coffers. 183 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:39,320 Allow me to replenish your drinks, sir, Well, what do you 184 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,039 think of these knights? I don't know, well, sir, the glorious 185 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:48,200 falcon never eat Spain. Balcaneas raided the galleon in seventeen thirteen. The bird 186 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:52,120 showed up in Sicily in eighteen forty in Paris, and it had by that 187 00:15:52,159 --> 00:15:56,320 time acquired a coat of black enamel, looking like nothing but a fairly interesting 188 00:15:56,399 --> 00:16:00,039 black statue. In nineteen twenty three, a Greek dealer found it in an 189 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,159 obscure parish shop. He knew what it was. I heard about it in 190 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:08,039 London and rushed over to buy it. The Greek was murdered, and the 191 00:16:08,039 --> 00:16:14,480 falcon god It was twenty three years ago. But twenty three years I've searched 192 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:18,080 for the bird. I traced it to the home of a Russian general Camidad, 193 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:22,759 but he wouldn't sell, even though he knew nothing of its value. 194 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:27,240 I was forced to send my agents after they got it, sir, that 195 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:33,480 I haven't got it, but Dave going to get it, sir? And 196 00:16:33,519 --> 00:16:37,519 how soon can you? How soon are you're willing to produce the falcon? 197 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:42,240 A couple of days? That is satisfactory? Well, so here's a fair 198 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:47,080 bargain in profits large enough for both of us. What's your idea of a 199 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:52,320 fair bargain? Shall I say one hundred thousand? Why not? What did 200 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,320 you say to a quarter of a million? Oh, do you think the 201 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:59,879 dangis is worth a million? Huh? Why not? Yeah? Why not? 202 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:06,680 Hey, I I feel kind of funny. Gutman. That drink, 203 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:17,920 My dear man, How could you suggest anything so crucis I h m hmmm. 204 00:17:18,039 --> 00:17:23,519 Wilma, Wilma, Yeah, the drink got him. Huh. But 205 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:27,319 your guns away, Wilma. You must learn to be settling these things like 206 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:32,599 me of like a light huh. I owe him something the loss. He 207 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:40,079 thinks he's tough. I see if you can take this. That's enough, 208 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,680 Wilma. You kicked him enough. Never do to kill him here. Besides, 209 00:17:44,720 --> 00:18:00,799 Wilma, you know how I hate the sight of blood. 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Yes, it has been that long since 225 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,680 the silent shadows of the screen found a voice. We congratulate Warner Brothers on 226 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:41,920 this historic anniversary. And now the House of Squire presents Part two of Academy 227 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:59,960 Awards starring Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon with Mari Aster and Sydney green Street. 228 00:20:03,319 --> 00:20:06,200 I guess the name of sam Spade was a cent for the back page 229 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,400 habitues. But I came out of it somehow and managed to get up and 230 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,640 stagger out of that apartment. I went around to the hotel where Joel Cairo 231 00:20:12,759 --> 00:20:15,240 had a room and made a deal with a house stick to let me search 232 00:20:15,279 --> 00:20:19,119 it well I could find with the newspaper in the wastebasket folded back to the 233 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:23,079 steamship news. It was a list of arrivals and one was marked. It 234 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:29,000 said eight seven a m. The La Poloma from Hong Kong. That was 235 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,119 good enough for me. I got a cab rode down to the docks. 236 00:20:32,559 --> 00:20:34,599 The La Paloma was on fire and burning beautifully. I went back to my 237 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,839 office to hold my aching head and think things over. When the door opened, 238 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,200 the tall guy in the long black overcoat stood there with a package in 239 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:48,759 his hands, making gurgling noises before he fell like a tree. He should 240 00:20:48,799 --> 00:20:57,359 have he was dead. I took a good look at him. He was 241 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:02,200 a mate off the La Poloma. I unwrapped his package and there it was 242 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:12,920 black Bird, mall tease Falcon. I grabbed the phone and listened. It 243 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,559 was brittig is Brigide, dishonesty and she said she was in trouble. I 244 00:21:15,599 --> 00:21:19,119 found her shivering in the dark corner of an office building. I took her 245 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:25,319 and the falcon home to my apartment. I put her on the couch. 246 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:27,440 I put the falcon in the ice box, where no one would think to 247 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:32,400 look for anything, including ice. I came back in and switched on the 248 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,160 lights and found a surprise party waiting to greet me. Well, sir, 249 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,880 we're all here. Now. Let's sit down and be comfortable and talk. 250 00:21:40,279 --> 00:21:42,559 Sure, get away from me, gunchully. You're not gonna frisk me. 251 00:21:42,839 --> 00:21:45,440 Stands too, shut up, put your poor on me, and I'm gonna 252 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,599 make you use that gun. Ask if Boss if he wants me shut up 253 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,720 before we talk. Never mind rumor certainly whose head strung individual, mister speed 254 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:59,680 will let's be seated, you too, Cairo put down your gun too, 255 00:22:00,039 --> 00:22:03,759 of course, mister Spade, I was only using caution as it were. 256 00:22:03,519 --> 00:22:07,640 You ready, Gudman, Are you ready to make the first payment and take 257 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,559 the falcon off my hands? Where's sir? As to that he had? 258 00:22:10,599 --> 00:22:14,279 Are ten thousand dollars? Oh we were talking about more money than this, 259 00:22:14,559 --> 00:22:18,079 Yes, so we were. But this is genuine coin of the realm, 260 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:19,960 sir, with a dollar of this, you can pay ten dollars of talk. 261 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,279 Besides the more of us to be taken care of. Now that may 262 00:22:23,279 --> 00:22:26,640 be, but I've got the falcon. I should not think it would be 263 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:32,640 necessary to remind you, mister Spade, though you may have the falcon yet 264 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,240 we certainly have you, yes, sir, trying not to let that worry 265 00:22:36,319 --> 00:22:38,160 me. We've come to the money later. There's another thing to be taken 266 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,400 care of. First, we've got to have a fall guy. The police 267 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,759 have to have a victim, somebody that can stick for those three murders. 268 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,920 Two only two murders, mister Spade, first be undoubtedly killed your partner, 269 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,440 all right too, What difference does it make? The point is we've got 270 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,400 to give the police. Come, mister Spade. You can't expect us to 271 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,880 believe in this league beat you are the least the police, or that you're 272 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,759 not able to ham up to my neck gutman. I've got to come through 273 00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:07,680 with somebody a victim when the time comes. If I don't, I'll be 274 00:23:07,799 --> 00:23:11,480 it. Let's give him the gun till he actually did shoot Thursday and the 275 00:23:11,519 --> 00:23:15,359 other one didn't. He anyways, made the order of the part. Let's 276 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,640 turn him over to the cop. Shut up on your feet, taken all 277 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,279 the writing from you, I'm going to take get up, shout it out 278 00:23:21,319 --> 00:23:26,359 now. Well, I don't shoot go, so that'll take care of you. 279 00:23:26,279 --> 00:23:30,559 Put him on the sofa. Sorry, Bridget, but you seem to 280 00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:37,440 have recovered a right good Well, gentlemen, there's our fall guy. Now, 281 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,119 gentlemen, you agree or I'll turn the falcon and a whole out of 282 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,960 you. Win, mister Spade, I don't like this. What if we 283 00:23:44,319 --> 00:23:48,920 took matters into our own hands and you'll never find the falcon? True? 284 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,960 But there are other ways. We couldn't make you talk. No, I'd 285 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,519 take it and make you kill me, and then you'd end up the same 286 00:23:53,559 --> 00:24:00,839 way. No, I believe you would too. Well, I've always felt 287 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:07,039 toward Wilma like a father. But you can have him. Well, let's 288 00:24:07,039 --> 00:24:11,920 get the details fixed. Why did he shoot Thursby? Thursday was miss O'shanness's 289 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,640 ally. We thought in disposing of him, we would teach miss O'Shaughnessy to 290 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,960 patch up her differences with us regarding the fault and the mate from the La 291 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:25,440 Poloma. That was miss O'shanness's fault. Cardo got in touch with me when 292 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,039 he saw the notice of the ship's arrival. You remember that the Meet and 293 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,279 miss O'Shaughnessy had been friendly in Hong Kong. He called on this man, 294 00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:37,039 but he with miss O'Shaughnessy and the bird slipped through our fingers. We followed 295 00:24:37,079 --> 00:24:41,039 them to her apartment and Wilma shot the Meet as he was coming down the 296 00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:42,880 fire escape. He shot him many times, but the man was tough and 297 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:49,039 he did not drop the falcon. We persuited Miss Shaughnessy to call your office, 298 00:24:49,519 --> 00:24:53,400 but unfortunately she did not call in time to prevent you from meeting the 299 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,759 Meet and getting the fulton. I see, and now, sir, would 300 00:24:57,759 --> 00:25:04,079 it be some we asked to see the falcon? Okay in my icebox, 301 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:10,480 icebox, I see you are the characters. It's very very clever of you. 302 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,920 Very I've got it. I've got it. Bring it in here at 303 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:22,880 once? Here after twenty three years? Is it? We make sure? 304 00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:32,839 And mere nicer? Here? I feel of some of this disfiguring enamel fake? 305 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,200 All right, I shanna say you've had your little joke. Now tell 306 00:25:36,279 --> 00:25:37,599 us about no Sam No, that's the one I got from the Russian. 307 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:42,279 I swear you bungled it, you and your stupid attempt to buy it. 308 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,400 The Russian caught on how valuable it was, and I wonder we had so 309 00:25:47,519 --> 00:25:52,759 little trouble stealing it, You embercle, you blood an idiot. Yes, 310 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:59,799 this is the Russians hand doubt of it. Well, see what do you 311 00:25:59,799 --> 00:26:03,160 say? Shall we stand here and shed tears and call each other names? 312 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,839 Or shall we go to Istanbul and to interview our Russian friend? Go to 313 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,880 Istambul twenty three years I have wanted that delightemen have been trying to get it. 314 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:17,480 I must spend another year on the quest. Well, that will be 315 00:26:17,559 --> 00:26:22,960 an added expendituren time, only I go with you. Wilmas gone, we 316 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:27,200 must gone, so he has. That makes it impetitive that we go to 317 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,759 Oh by the way, sir, I'll travel you from my envelope containing the 318 00:26:32,839 --> 00:26:36,680 ten thousand dollars. I kept my end of the bargain, but I'll settle 319 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,160 for a thousand for expenses. Thank you. I'll allow you the thousand. 320 00:26:40,279 --> 00:26:42,200 That'll take care of my time. Now, so we'll say goodbye to you. 321 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:47,960 Unless you care to undertake the Istanbul expedition with us, Go it's too 322 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:52,519 bad. Well, sir, the shortest farewell is our best adieu and humus 323 00:26:52,519 --> 00:26:55,920 O'Shaughnessy. I leave the rearer Abbs there on the table as a little momento 324 00:26:56,759 --> 00:27:11,200 the Marty's Falken. No, you came to me and asked me to have 325 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,799 Thursday followed. I put my partner outed. He followed Thursday he was killed. 326 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,240 You must have told thy he was being followed. I told him yes. 327 00:27:18,319 --> 00:27:21,079 But please believe me, Sam, I wouldn't have told him if I 328 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,400 thought Floyd would kill your partner. Myles had many brains, but he had 329 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,480 too many years experience as a detective to be caught like that by a man 330 00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:30,200 he was shadowing up a blind ally with his gun tucked away and his hip 331 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,359 and his overcoat buttoned. Would have gone up there with you, Angel. 332 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,880 He was just dumb enough for that, and then you could have stood as 333 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,799 close to him in the dark as you liked and put a bullet through him. 334 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:45,000 Don't don't talk like that to me, Sam. You know I didn't 335 00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:48,839 know why did you shoot him? I didn't mean to at first. I 336 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,720 can't look at you and tell you this. Not Thursy would tackle him if 337 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:53,799 he got Thursday, then you were rid of him. If Thursday one you 338 00:27:53,799 --> 00:27:56,880 had something on him enough to be rid of him for good, wasn't that 339 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,680 it? Something like that? Back down, you took the gun and did 340 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,880 the job yourself. Oh, Sam, sweetheart, from the very first instance 341 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:08,920 I saw you on New You Angel. Well, if you get a good 342 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,680 break, you'll be out of San Quentin in twenty years and you can come 343 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:17,079 back to me. Then. I hope they don't hang you, precious for 344 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,359 that sweet neck. You know deep down your heart that in spite of anything 345 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:22,839 I've done, I love you. I don't care who loves who. I'm 346 00:28:22,839 --> 00:28:26,319 not going to play the sap for you. I won't walk in thursdays and 347 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:30,000 I don't know how many others footsteps. You killed my partner and you're going 348 00:28:30,039 --> 00:28:33,799 over for it. I must to do this to me, Sam, Surely 349 00:28:33,839 --> 00:28:37,920 your partner wasn't as much to you. Listen to me. This won't do 350 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,240 any good, never understand me, But I'll try once and then give it 351 00:28:41,319 --> 00:28:44,799 up. Listen, when a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do 352 00:28:44,839 --> 00:28:48,039 something about it, and it happens. We're in the detective business. Well, 353 00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:52,559 when one of your organization gets killed. It's bad business to let the 354 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,920 killer get away with a bed all around, bad for every detective everywhere. 355 00:28:57,079 --> 00:29:02,039 You can't send me to the damn you can't. You love me, You 356 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:07,920 love me. Maybe I do what of it the next month? I won't. 357 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,720 I've been through it before. I'll have some rotten nights after I've sent 358 00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:14,759 you over, but that'll pass. I want you, sure, but I 359 00:29:14,759 --> 00:29:17,200 won't take you with the price, because of all, because all of me 360 00:29:17,279 --> 00:29:21,640 wants to, regardless of consequences. Because you counted on that with me, 361 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:26,599 the same as you counted on that with all the others. Darling, kiss 362 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:40,559 me, kiss me sure, sure, Baby? What are you doing? 363 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:48,319 Who are you calling the cops? Baby, the cops to come and take 364 00:29:48,359 --> 00:30:17,319 you away. Just as thrilling as tracking down some fabulous treasure is the search 365 00:30:17,359 --> 00:30:22,279 for the unknown, which goes on unceasingly in the Squib research laboratories. For 366 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,079 that is the search that leads to the discovery of new life saving drugs and 367 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,640 new life saving uses for existing drugs. Structum Micin is one of the newest 368 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:36,400 products of this searching in the new field of medicine opened up by penicillin. 369 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:41,960 Structum Micin still in the testing stages shows great promise against additional enemies of mankind. 370 00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:47,920 That is why Squib scientists are working night and day to unlock the secrets 371 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:52,799 of streptomycin, to improve the strain, to find and test all the ways 372 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,880 in which it may be used in the conquest of disease. It is this 373 00:30:56,039 --> 00:31:02,319 same questing spirit, as refusal to stop anywhere short of perfection, that inspires 374 00:31:02,359 --> 00:31:07,200 all endeavors of the House of Squib. It is one reason why, wherever 375 00:31:07,279 --> 00:31:11,599 you come across it in the service of human health, Squib is a named 376 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:25,559 you can trust. Next Wednesday, another great picture, The House of Squib, 377 00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:41,839 will present Academy Awards, starring Henry Vonda in Young Mister Lincoln. Today's 378 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:47,079 performance of the Maltese Falcon was written for radio by Frank Wilson, with an 379 00:31:47,119 --> 00:31:52,240 original musical score composed and conducted by Leete Stevens. Our producer director is di 380 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:56,559 Angelback. Humphrey Boguard is soon to be seen in Warner Brothers Big Sleep. 381 00:31:56,119 --> 00:32:00,319 Mary Astor appeared through the courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayor, producers of the Technicolor 382 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,119 musical Easy to Win. Sydney Green Street is soon to be seen in Warner 383 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,519 Brothers. The verdict, This is hubrenby bidding you good night until next Wednesday. 384 00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:13,480 At the same time when you're invited to listen again to Academy a lawn 385 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,680 presented by the House and Squid unnamed you can trust this is CBS the WELOI 386 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:37,880 of outcasting Welcome Back. It can be a mistake to assume if you've heard 387 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:44,880 one half hour adaptation of a movie with the same actor, you've heard them 388 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:52,200 all. Obviously, the film was the starting point for both this adaptation as 389 00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:58,240 well as the screen gild theaters, but there was some very different choices made. 390 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,240 It seems like there was a big focus in writing this on keeping the 391 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:07,759 cast eyes down. Telling the Maltese Falkin with only five speaking roles is an 392 00:33:07,759 --> 00:33:14,480 achievement, even if it involves Sam inventing the rule that villains never look in 393 00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:20,839 the icebock. This one did have a really good focus on the relationship between 394 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,720 Sam and Bridget and really made those scenes pay off and feel impactful. I 395 00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:32,079 think that this may have been the strongest adaptation in that regard. Gerald Moore 396 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:37,519 might seem an odd choice for Wilmer, but while Moore could be a leading 397 00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:42,000 man He did a lot of character roles, so it's very hard to argue 398 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,559 that he was ever miscast in anything, as he always tended to rise to 399 00:33:45,599 --> 00:33:51,519 the occasion. If there was one Casper Gutman line I missed, it was 400 00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:57,680 after he had decided to let Spade have Wilmer. Well, if you lose 401 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,599 a sign, it's possible to get an eye. There's only one Maltese falcon. 402 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,640 I also didn't recognize the actor who played Cairo, but I like that 403 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:12,760 he didn't try to do a Peter Laurie impersonation. It's better to play Joel 404 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:19,719 Cairo than to try to play Peter Laurie playing Joel Cairo. Even without Laurie, 405 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,079 I think this may have been a better adaptation than the Screen Guild Theater 406 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:27,000 one we played at the beginning of our look at Sam Spade. I think 407 00:34:27,039 --> 00:34:30,440 we've had a very interesting year and a half, and at last we've reached 408 00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:36,559 the end of our journey through all the Sam Spade material, all the Stephen 409 00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:40,679 Dunn episodes, all the Howard Duff episodes, including the episode of Suspense, 410 00:34:42,039 --> 00:34:47,519 the Mysterious First Nighter spoof, the home recording, the regular episodes, and 411 00:34:47,599 --> 00:34:52,920 the comedy show appearances. Plus we got to hear Sarah's Private Caper and how 412 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:58,880 Sam Spade kind of served as a jumping on point for that series. And 413 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,480 of course we've gone through to all three of the old time radio adaptations of 414 00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:07,280 the Maltese Falcon movie. We've heard some great actors, some great stories, 415 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:12,599 and then we've had a lot of fun. Of course, there's still one 416 00:35:12,639 --> 00:35:20,440 missing Steven Dunn episode and more than one hundred and fifty missing episodes from Howard 417 00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:23,920 Duff's Run a Spade. I'll keep my ear to the ground and if any 418 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:29,920 of those come into circulation, will definitely revisit this series. Well, now 419 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:35,440 we turn to listener comments and feedback and we start over on Twitter or acts 420 00:35:35,519 --> 00:35:42,599 or whatever, where Tina writes regarding the Hail and Farewell caper, very good 421 00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:47,639 episode. Over on Spotify, Frank writs, well done, good acting, 422 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:55,960 and then regarding the Rowdy Dowser caper, Barbara says, I absolutely love the 423 00:35:57,079 --> 00:36:01,760 Rowdy Dowser episode brought sunshine into the darkness. I really enjoyed the silliness. 424 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:07,039 Well, thank you so much, Barbara, And an important reminder that silliness 425 00:36:07,079 --> 00:36:12,480 definitely does have its place. Well now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter 426 00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:19,039 of the day and thank you to Charlie, Patreon supporter since October of twenty 427 00:36:19,159 --> 00:36:23,679 nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at the shamous level of four dollars or more 428 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:28,800 per month. Thank you so much for your support, Charlie, and that 429 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,599 will do it for today. If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow 430 00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:38,199 us using your favorite podcast software and be sure to rate and review the podcast 431 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:44,159 wherever you download us from. We will be back next Monday as we get 432 00:36:44,159 --> 00:36:50,119 into the radio series The Adventures of the Falcon. But join us back here 433 00:36:50,519 --> 00:36:55,159 tomorrow for the start of this week's Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Cereal. Where 434 00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:00,880 all right? Hellen Dates was a fine woman and a high life. She 435 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:05,320 was married, no children, She was alive. Now she's dead because of 436 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,320 death, a bullet and the heart. Them's all facts, mister Dollart. 437 00:37:08,079 --> 00:37:12,760 How did it happen? I don't rightly know, want no witnesses. Could 438 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,199 have been an accident, even what do you mean an accident? Were one 439 00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:21,119 of them hunters from the city them through here, regular confounded idiots shoot at 440 00:37:21,119 --> 00:37:24,119 anything that moves, well, surely not a human being sitting in her own 441 00:37:24,159 --> 00:37:29,119 living room. They might have. Never can tell crazy as they are shot 442 00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:31,559 a gold belonged to Het Wilmer last fall, caught him with it tied on 443 00:37:31,639 --> 00:37:36,239 their bumper. Said it was a mountain sheet. Yes. Yes, might 444 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,960 have done it unintentional, then got scared and run out. Yes, possibly, 445 00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:45,480 except for one of those facts, which fact this bullet Hunters from the 446 00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:51,320 city don't use old fashioned squirrel rifles. Mister bramler I said, it could 447 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,679 have been an accident. I hope you'll be with us then. In the 448 00:37:53,760 --> 00:38:00,000 meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen a Great Detectives dart. Follow 449 00:38:00,119 --> 00:38:06,280 us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, 450 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,639 dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, 451 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,440 Adam Graham signing off.