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So remember when making your travel plans, 10 00:01:15,079 --> 00:01:19,480 check Johnny Dollar Air dot com first. Well, now it is time for 11 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:25,640 the conclusion of this week's Yours truly Johnny Dollar Cereal the original air at AGS 12 00:01:25,719 --> 00:01:30,079 June thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth, nineteen fifty six. It's The Laughing 13 00:01:30,159 --> 00:01:38,680 Matter, Episodes three, four and five. From Hollywood. It's time now 14 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:49,159 for Johnny Dollar copy Dan davidro Police. Oh hi, Paran, I tried 15 00:01:49,159 --> 00:01:51,239 to call you a few minutes ago. We've had a shooting out here at 16 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,719 the hotel and somebody no, no, nobody's dead. The bullet missed. 17 00:01:55,719 --> 00:01:57,560 Somebody fired a shot from the terrace in one of the rooms. I am 18 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,000 flush with the red lights. I make this siren. I'm gone like the 19 00:02:01,079 --> 00:02:04,560 wik god. But would you do me one thing before you blow up a 20 00:02:04,599 --> 00:02:07,159 storm. There's a man missing from his room. Here, a friend of 21 00:02:07,199 --> 00:02:10,439 the man who was shot at. He must be around town somewhere. He's 22 00:02:10,439 --> 00:02:15,599 an Americano. About forty five names. Frank Maltz, Frank mars Buena. 23 00:02:15,759 --> 00:02:22,520 We're finding. I'm going to make one APC d B. I mean ap 24 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,280 B see APB like on radio and los of stalars. All right, have 25 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:39,039 to it, parrel senor what it is? This APB toodnight and every weekday 26 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:44,319 night Bob Bailey In the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact Expencer 27 00:02:44,400 --> 00:03:04,000 count America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator US Truley Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny 28 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,199 Dollar, location, Incinnata, Mexico to the home office, Union States Casually 29 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:15,840 Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the Laughing Matter expense account continued. Item 30 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:20,919 six one dollars A pot of coffee from the hotel kitchen special. It was 31 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,639 one am. I've been half asleep when the shot was fired, and I 32 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,599 hope the coffee would help get me at least half awake. I hadn't expected 33 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,400 it to happen that way, and neither had Good Old Lovable Charlie Burton, 34 00:03:30,439 --> 00:03:36,560 America's favorite TV comic. According to his press agents, Charlie had called it 35 00:03:36,599 --> 00:03:40,280 a joke, but he wasn't laughing now, and neither was I. Charlie's 36 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:46,479 life was in short for a half million bucks payable to his sponsor. Where 37 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,599 he senor These man who was get shot, He didn't get shot, Parral, 38 00:03:51,639 --> 00:03:53,759 he got shot at We see. It's what I wished to say. 39 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:58,319 But the tongue is not make English do good. You're doing fine. The 40 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,080 manager gave Britain another room side away from the terrace. Here, he's probably 41 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,000 got the door locked and the furniture piled in front of it. Monday. 42 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:10,479 I mean he's scared, very scared. Come Brindley. Oh see see yeah, 43 00:04:10,479 --> 00:04:14,240 I guess so now. According to his story, he was asleep here 44 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:17,040 on this side of the bed. Someone fired the shot from outside on the 45 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:21,680 terrace. It broke the window there and the bullet lodged here in the bed 46 00:04:21,759 --> 00:04:25,720 about six inches above Burton's head where he was lying on the pillow. And 47 00:04:25,879 --> 00:04:30,160 see and then he is wake up quick, he is. He is no, 48 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,360 see nobody, senior, He's no, here's nobody. No, he 49 00:04:33,439 --> 00:04:36,079 was too scared to know. He jumped out of bed, ran down the 50 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:41,040 inside corridor and banged on my door. I searched the terrace right away and 51 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,879 didn't find a thing. And these other people, which I worked for him 52 00:04:44,879 --> 00:04:47,959 to make the television, they are also having room which are close to these 53 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,519 parral. Your tongue may not make the English too good, but there's nothing 54 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,000 wrong with your head. Monday's Day. I mean you're okay. He you're 55 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,560 a good cop. Grassies. Yeah, yes, yes, any one of 56 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,519 them could have fired that shot. And they're big. Which ones these people? 57 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:09,279 Well, there's Frank Maltz. He's the producer of the Charlie Burton show. 58 00:05:09,319 --> 00:05:11,399 He's the one who was missing from his room, the one I asked 59 00:05:11,439 --> 00:05:15,439 you to look see, you say. Then there's Gloria Dale, she's the 60 00:05:15,439 --> 00:05:18,079 feminine star of the show. She's in the third room down. She is 61 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,160 in the room of her when the shoot was fired. Yeah, yeah, 62 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:25,120 she'd gone to bed. I had to beat on the door the waker. 63 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:30,519 She hadn't even heard the shot. She'd been pretty upset. She well, 64 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,480 she'd been drinking earlier. See it's always this and this American as ladies which 65 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:39,639 have contents are not always there drink too much. You may be right anyway. 66 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:42,319 The third member of the group is al Schreiber, second room down. 67 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,639 He's an actor too, and where he is when these things happen? In 68 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,560 bed? So he says, the shot woke him up and he came out 69 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,439 into the corridor while Britain was banging on my door. And these are all 70 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:57,279 Senor. Yeah, that's the bunch. Which one you think is not like 71 00:05:57,399 --> 00:06:03,120 this Charlie? Every single one of them hates him. Then there's another possibility 72 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,759 to that girl I asked you to check on earlier, the maid who works 73 00:06:06,759 --> 00:06:11,800 here at the hotel you see Lasgura Morales. Boys, we're looking, but 74 00:06:11,959 --> 00:06:16,480 we are not find her yet. Hey, I know it's then she are 75 00:06:16,639 --> 00:06:25,000 not at her house, sen you see Neil Marita Toco is also the how 76 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:30,720 you say her husband is gone your you're still looking for her, aren't you? 77 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,839 Boys? You are no thing that It's no big town and Sara, 78 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:38,639 we are find her too soon now I think. As for me, your 79 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:45,920 creo, I'm tell the manager I was here, La see Capitan Vid Parral, 80 00:06:46,959 --> 00:06:59,600 don't they wellbeing yeah? This manures have disappeared, and Frank Moss now 81 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:03,319 be found. Where is he is some cantina. A nightclub is called the 82 00:07:03,399 --> 00:07:08,160 Eventono to you know? Where is it in town? Somewhere? You see? 83 00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:13,279 It is the how you say, Senora, it's one big hot spot. 84 00:07:17,279 --> 00:07:20,680 It am seven to one dollar taxi into town. Parral stayed at the 85 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,839 hotel to talk to Charlie Burton and the others. I thought I might do 86 00:07:24,879 --> 00:07:29,560 some good, at least by keeping them off balance. Regardless of his knowledge 87 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,720 of English, Parral was a smart lad and his eyes never missed a thing. 88 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,839 Leventa may have been a hot spot earlier, but at this time of 89 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:41,720 night it was almost deserted. There were a few weary be girls drowsing at 90 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:46,920 the bar, a scant handful of lancetch patrons, and Frank Maltz alone at 91 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:51,839 the table, glowing with mellow geniality and bottled health. Well now another night 92 00:07:51,879 --> 00:07:56,839 oil and some that tastes for dives. Pull up a chair, John, 93 00:07:57,079 --> 00:08:03,560 Thanks been here long forever, at least for years and years. I am 94 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,560 part of the place, my boy, These worm eating rafters, the crumbling 95 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:13,480 walls, this musty aroma of ancient tequila that was spilt on these tiles long 96 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,720 before you were even born. I see, you see. The place was 97 00:08:16,759 --> 00:08:20,600 built by the conquistadores. And I dropped in the very next day. I've 98 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,839 been here ever since, Martz. Look, Sean now speaks softly, softly, 99 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:30,199 friend, This is hallowed ground. This is the meeting place. This 100 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:35,399 is the crossroads you see for two separate worlds. The tourists I'm trapsing down 101 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:39,320 from Beach Boulevard up there, they call it slumming. And the townsfolk come 102 00:08:39,399 --> 00:08:43,200 up from Gastellum and Balbo, and they all meet here and they drink tequila 103 00:08:43,279 --> 00:08:48,639 and they dance the fandango. Hey, Migo about playing a fandango. M 104 00:08:52,039 --> 00:08:56,080 No, he can't hear, you know, because he is dead. We 105 00:08:56,159 --> 00:09:01,360 are all dead here, Johnny. You know something, Martz. You're not 106 00:09:01,519 --> 00:09:07,679 nearly as plastic as you're pretending to be. I know that journey. Have 107 00:09:07,759 --> 00:09:11,279 you been here all evening here in the vendor? You know? Now? 108 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:15,080 Do you like that name or it means it's twenty one. Yeah, I 109 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:16,240 know, I know. Have you been here in the twenty one all evening? 110 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,080 Oh? No, I've been in all of them. I just ended 111 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:24,080 up here. Never see a better place to end up. Johnny, Where 112 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,519 were you around twelve forty tonight? What are you driving at? Somebody took 113 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,279 a shot at Charlie Burton tonight. Woak up My fingers crossed it. No, 114 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:37,639 No they didn't. Well, maybe they'll have another check not if I 115 00:09:37,639 --> 00:09:41,320 can prevent it now, that's why you were checking times on me. Huh. 116 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,200 You think I maybe made a clay pigeon out of that rat, did 117 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,600 you? Johnny? I left the hotel at ten o'clock. I have been 118 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:52,120 a lot of places since, but not back there. I don't know where 119 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:58,200 I was at twelve forty Maybe some bartender around Tonnell, though I have seen 120 00:09:58,279 --> 00:10:01,720 them all tonight one time or another. This lush stuff seems to be a 121 00:10:01,759 --> 00:10:05,519 habit with all of you, including Glory. We'll stick around Burton a month, 122 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:09,320 you'll know why. So why do you stick around him? Me? 123 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:15,000 Personally? There's a couple of reasons. I guess I'm trying to help somebody 124 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,440 else. For one, well, myself at the same time, of course, 125 00:10:18,519 --> 00:10:22,480 meaning Al Schreiber. The kid is great, Johnny, he really is, 126 00:10:22,639 --> 00:10:26,399 and it'll be his show next year if we can hang on and for 127 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,000 the same sponsor, with you, producer. That's right. They're fed up 128 00:10:30,039 --> 00:10:33,960 with Charlie Burton, and they've got reason to be. He's a phony named 129 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:35,360 Johnny, nothing else. It's a fake, it's a build up. They've 130 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,799 got to spend more on press relations now than it costs to produce the show. 131 00:10:39,919 --> 00:10:41,600 And with Charlie out of it, you and l would be in. 132 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:48,879 Is that the way it sticks him? That's right. You said you had 133 00:10:48,879 --> 00:10:50,600 a couple of reasons for staying on. I'll forget it. The second one 134 00:10:50,639 --> 00:10:56,639 is not important. It's it's a sob story. It won't be the first 135 00:10:56,639 --> 00:11:01,120 one I've heard tonight. I'm married, you see, Johnny, twenty three 136 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:07,600 years now, and for the last day my wife has been completely paralyzed, 137 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:13,679 utterly helpless. She's in a sanitarium upstate. She has to have special care, 138 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,399 special treatments, and it costs three hundred and fifty dollars a week, 139 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,639 fifty two weeks a year. So I stay on with Burton, and I 140 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:26,600 go on hating him. And whenever the hate gets too bad, I go 141 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:30,200 up and see her. Or she doesn't know me, she doesn't know anyone. 142 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:35,360 She just lies there and breathes. But I look at her and I 143 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:41,080 remember how she was and how I loved her. I still love her, 144 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:48,279 Johnny. So that's the way it is. I left him there in the 145 00:11:48,279 --> 00:11:52,200 canteena with his love and his hate, and walked out into the street, 146 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:56,399 empty and silent under the waning stars. In the soft dark night, A 147 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,799 long dog sidled past, gray and gaunt, intent on some mission of his 148 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:03,399 own, and faded into the shadows. And the town slept its own loves 149 00:12:03,399 --> 00:12:11,879 and hates put aside until morning. Quiet town. Then the emptiness was filled 150 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:15,799 with sound, and a flashing red light slashed the darkness. Parral of the 151 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:20,120 Ensinnata Police. He said, the maid from the hotel Velena Morales had come 152 00:12:20,159 --> 00:12:31,440 home. One of his sergeants was waiting there with her. The tiny room 153 00:12:31,519 --> 00:12:35,759 was lit by a flickering oil lamp and a candle burned beneath the crucifix on 154 00:12:35,799 --> 00:12:39,159 the wall above the bed. Cement floor and adobe walls bear and clean, 155 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:46,919 like the cell of a nun and a convent. She was young, pretty 156 00:12:46,480 --> 00:13:01,159 at the moment, very frightened hotel balbo k. This is consignor an Americano 157 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:11,600 and Senor Carlos Burton should talk, you know, crying Charlie Burton, Lovable 158 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:16,080 Charlie had been bothering her, annoying her at the hotel. She tried to 159 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,200 avoid him, but it made the mistake of telling her husband. He'd been 160 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,519 furious and had come to the hotel earlier in the evening. That's when I'd 161 00:13:22,519 --> 00:13:24,480 see the two of them arguing on the terrace. She hadn't seen him since. 162 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,960 So send you a dollar. What is it you think? I think 163 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:52,399 you better find her husband and find him quick, Johnny Dollarlie Burton speaking, 164 00:13:52,519 --> 00:13:56,399 Oh morning Burton, So you're still alive? Huh? That was an adeptive 165 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:00,799 humor. It was entirely out of place. Well let's here yet. I'm 166 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,519 the comedian and I'm the jokes. Your job is to protect my life. 167 00:14:03,639 --> 00:14:07,240 Don't tell me you've been shot at again this time of morning. Boy, 168 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,480 whoever it is, really must hate you, Briton. Help me, so 169 00:14:11,639 --> 00:14:15,279 help you nothing. You may be good old lovable Charlie the forty million television 170 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:16,360 viewers, but to me, you're just a pain in the neck. I 171 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:20,360 my clients are worth a half million bucks because he was fool enough to write 172 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,720 an insurance policy on your life, but not to me. My priss on 173 00:14:24,759 --> 00:14:26,720 you is a fast three cents give it to take a couple. My life 174 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:31,000 has been threatened, sure, and that's why I'm here. But yesterday, 175 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,799 when I tried to get you to cooperate, you called it a practical joke. 176 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,440 I'm that now. No, because somebody tossed a bullet at you last 177 00:14:37,519 --> 00:14:41,120 night and scared the living pants off of you. Well call Captain Parola, 178 00:14:41,159 --> 00:14:45,000 the Insinata Police. Mister, look, I need another hour's sleep, so 179 00:14:45,080 --> 00:15:03,720 don't phone my room again before nine o'clock. Goodbye from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar 180 00:15:03,799 --> 00:15:09,480 location at Sonata, Mexico to the home office Union State's Casualty Company, Hartford, 181 00:15:09,519 --> 00:15:18,039 Connecticut. Assignment. The laughing matter expense account continued it do Hm ten 182 00:15:18,159 --> 00:15:22,519 fifty cents room service on a glass of orange juice. Another hour's sleep was 183 00:15:22,519 --> 00:15:26,240 out of the question. Just hearing his voice on the phone left me too 184 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,759 mad to relax. One of America's most popular comedians, a living legend, 185 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,519 and yet his whole cast the people down here with him on location, hated 186 00:15:33,559 --> 00:15:37,360 the ground he walked on. Personally, I was on their side, But 187 00:15:37,679 --> 00:15:41,960 my job was to protect his life from some unknown enemy who'd sent him a 188 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,840 threatening note, and last night the threat had become action in the form of 189 00:15:45,879 --> 00:15:48,360 a shot fired from the darkness. It was my job to see that the 190 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,879 killer didn't get a second chance. And that's what I was being paid for. 191 00:15:52,159 --> 00:15:56,279 And the fact that Charlie Burton was a class A stinker was irrelevant. 192 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:00,200 Frank Moltz, executive producer of the Charlie Burton sh oh and practically the only 193 00:16:00,399 --> 00:16:04,480 early patron of the hotel breakfast room, was sitting at a table alone morning 194 00:16:04,559 --> 00:16:07,720 Johnny. I left him sitting at almost the same position at two o'clock in 195 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:11,759 the morning, only the table then was in a back street canteen, and 196 00:16:11,799 --> 00:16:15,159 Tom he was apparently remembering it, and he avoided my eyes until the waiter 197 00:16:15,159 --> 00:16:19,759 had brought my coffee and gone away. I guess I made quite a fool 198 00:16:19,759 --> 00:16:25,279 of myself last night. Oh I was that nice of your gyes, Johnny? 199 00:16:26,159 --> 00:16:30,639 Hmm, this is good coffee. Oh you'd been making the rounds last 200 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:36,919 night for whatever reasons, and you felt like talking. But I wouldn't call 201 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,039 that making a fool of yousef all right? Thanks, you were sober enough 202 00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:44,399 when I left you. Oh sure, you just sat there and let me 203 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,000 talk it out. Where'd you go? Anyway? I came out of the 204 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,679 canteen A few minutes later, you disappeared. Captain Perral and Sinata police picked 205 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,840 me up in a prowl car. He'd located that maid from the hotel here. 206 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,840 We went to her home and talked to her. So well for the 207 00:16:56,879 --> 00:17:00,960 moment at leash, you and al and Gloria Dale are apparently off the hook. 208 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,720 Oh, the maid says Burton was always annoying her whenever she was on 209 00:17:03,799 --> 00:17:07,799 duty here he was, I told him to lay Oh well. Her husband 210 00:17:07,799 --> 00:17:11,160 found out and came out here to the hotel yesterday evening. I saw him 211 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,519 and his wife arguing out there on the terrace just after dusk, but I 212 00:17:14,559 --> 00:17:18,240 didn't know what it was all about at that time. Anyway, That's the 213 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,480 last she saw. He didn't come home last night, and he's still missing. 214 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:23,519 I just talked to her out on the phone. They've got half the 215 00:17:23,519 --> 00:17:26,000 police force looking for him, and you figure he's the one who took a 216 00:17:26,039 --> 00:17:30,240 shot at Charlie last night kind of adds up, doesn't he? Well, 217 00:17:30,319 --> 00:17:33,799 I guess so. I hope they find him Johnny, before he finds Charlie 218 00:17:33,839 --> 00:17:36,400 again. I'd hate to see a poor devil take a rap for killing a 219 00:17:36,519 --> 00:17:38,559 Laus who isn't worth it. Yeah, I know what you mean. Well, 220 00:17:38,559 --> 00:17:41,960 the chances are they were. Didn't neither one of you fellas ever get 221 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:45,559 the bed last night? Not for long morning, I'll Oh my goodness, 222 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,519 Frank, you look awful man. You must have slept on your face. 223 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,519 I look the same as I look every morning. I want some breakfast down. 224 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:53,960 No thanks, I'm skipping it. I'm going to try to get in 225 00:17:55,039 --> 00:17:56,960 a dip in that pool before old Blubber tell me whoses out of his feather 226 00:17:57,039 --> 00:18:00,759 bed. Oh. I don't think he'll be using the pool as more now 227 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:03,200 if he remembers what we're shooting today, it said castaway sequence, isn't it. 228 00:18:03,279 --> 00:18:06,720 Yeah, we'll get that first, but later this afternoon, if the 229 00:18:06,799 --> 00:18:08,200 light on the water is okay, I want to get those shots of him 230 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,240 swimming ashore. Good. Keep him on retakes till he gets water lives. 231 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:17,839 It's kind of a slapstick desert island thing. Johnny oh yeah, yeah. 232 00:18:17,839 --> 00:18:19,039 You see, Charlie and I are supposed to have been on this yacht and 233 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,119 it sank and I just disappear. But to some stock shots at Charlie swimming 234 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,799 like crazy in a stock shot of a deserted south Sea island, and finally 235 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,960 Charlie comes crawling up under the beach. That's the sequence we're going to shoot 236 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,160 this morning. I see he's pooped, he's dying, you know. Then 237 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:37,319 I step out from behind a bush and I'm wearing a full dress suit, 238 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,000 white tie and tails. He thinks he's crazy or something. It starts building 239 00:18:41,039 --> 00:18:42,079 from there then, Johnny, Hey, yeah, I get the end. 240 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,759 He's thirsty, see, So I reach under my coat and bring out a 241 00:18:45,759 --> 00:18:48,799 soft drink, an ice cold bottle, and I open it and give it 242 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:52,960 to him. It says caught quality beverages on the bottle. Cott. Yeah. 243 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,680 Yeah. So Charlie asks is it any good? And I say it's 244 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:57,640 cot Man, and he says so what, And I say, so it's 245 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:02,799 caught to be good. You see, Johnny. It's out and out slapstick, 246 00:19:02,839 --> 00:19:04,559 but it works pretty well on camera. Yeah. It keeps building, 247 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:07,880 you see. I keep producing things out of the bushes a table and chair, 248 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,599 tablecloth, dishes and silver caveat, bottle of wine, roast turkey, 249 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:17,759 then a string quartet, and finally a line of dancing girls and the payoffs 250 00:19:17,799 --> 00:19:21,599 a shaggy dog. He says, look, we were shipwrecked together. How 251 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:23,960 you doing all of this? And I say it's easy. I got a 252 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,960 cousin in Congress. It's a lot better on film, Johnny, a lot 253 00:19:29,039 --> 00:19:32,559 better than it sounds, you know, stripped down this way. Yeah, 254 00:19:32,599 --> 00:19:34,519 well, I'm not exactly a fan of Burtons. Oh he's got some good 255 00:19:34,519 --> 00:19:37,319 stuff and this one, mister Dollar. In fact, he's got all the 256 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:41,680 good stuff. Only thing I'm in there for is to feed him the lines 257 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,200 as usual. Of course, if I ever get a decent roll in his 258 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:49,880 show, I'll drop dead. Oh really, Potension, that's not funny, 259 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,400 Addies, I said it's not funny. You thought it was when you did 260 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,799 it on the show last month. May I remind you that your service is 261 00:19:57,799 --> 00:20:03,039 going to be easily to good fire me. Oh, I could get out 262 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:07,440 of this lousy contract with you. I could start on the PCT tomorrow and 263 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:11,400 at five times what you're painting. Oh, by all means, they'll set 264 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,200 me up in my own show, and they'll put it in a time slot 265 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,519 right opposite yours in three months. Charlie, I could bump you clear off 266 00:20:17,559 --> 00:20:22,000 the screen. You don't say I'll beat it, will you? Okay? 267 00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:26,319 Frank, Sorry you had to get caught in the crossfire. Mister Dollar, 268 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:30,440 I think personal forget it. See you later, gentlemen, you'll be on 269 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,440 that set in the half hour, not a minute later. Yes, sir, 270 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:38,640 you certainly are one big happy family, aren't you. Dollar. That 271 00:20:38,759 --> 00:20:41,880 kid was a nobody when I picked them up. You're wrong, Charlie. 272 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,559 That kid is a real talent and you know it. You see, you 273 00:20:45,599 --> 00:20:47,640 see what I have to deal with. He's not as much for this show 274 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:48,960 in the past year as you have. You see, Dollar, I'm forced 275 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,839 to live in the very presence of my enemy. Who made them your enemies, 276 00:20:52,839 --> 00:20:56,680 Burton. Look, my only concern has always been the welfare of those 277 00:20:56,799 --> 00:21:02,519 less fortunate than myself, those who depict me for their professional careers, and 278 00:21:02,519 --> 00:21:04,759 they're lively. I understand there's some difference of opinion about that, but it's 279 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,440 envy, nothing but envy. Would you like some more coffee, Johnny, 280 00:21:07,519 --> 00:21:10,920 No, thanks, I've had about all I can stand. Yeah, so 281 00:21:11,039 --> 00:21:15,680 have I may I ask what you're doing to protect my life, mister Dollar, 282 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,480 if anything at all. Oh, I've taken the usual routine precautions. 283 00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:22,240 Routine. I demand more than routine. Not for me, you don't demand 284 00:21:22,279 --> 00:21:25,920 anything. I'm working for the insurance company, and I'll complain to that. 285 00:21:26,079 --> 00:21:27,839 God, God, why don't you cancel your policy at the same time? 286 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,599 Then I can get off this assignment. Couldn't cancel it if I wanted to. 287 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,279 My sponsors wouldn't allow it. It's for their protection, not mine. 288 00:21:34,319 --> 00:21:38,880 I know that. I think you'd like to see me murdered. Oh no, 289 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,839 no, you're wrong there. That would mean i'd loust up an assignment, 290 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,559 and I take pride in my work, but you wouldn't care personally. 291 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,000 No comments. I'll demand protection from the local police. You've already got it. 292 00:21:52,279 --> 00:21:55,519 Captain Barrall had two men on duty there last night after that shot was 293 00:21:55,559 --> 00:21:57,480 fired, watching your room. I didn't see them. They didn't intend for 294 00:21:57,559 --> 00:22:03,839 you to see them. If the worst does happen, ballistics can probably identify 295 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,359 the killer after we get the slug out of your body. Alr, this 296 00:22:07,559 --> 00:22:10,480 is no laughing matter. Then why did you treat it like one? Why 297 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,160 did you tear up that threatening letter? Why didn't you call the police in 298 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,920 right then? Why didn't you cooperate with me yesterday when I got here? 299 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,640 And why the devil did you make a pass at an eighteen year old girl 300 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,160 in the first place and get her husband out gunning for you? You mean 301 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,680 you know who's trying to kill me if it's any satisfaction to your burton, 302 00:22:26,839 --> 00:22:30,960 just in case he gets past us, you probably have been killed by a 303 00:22:32,079 --> 00:22:36,319 man named Natcho Morales. His wife is a maid here at the hotel, 304 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:41,599 as you, no doubt? No? Uh? That little native girl? 305 00:22:41,759 --> 00:22:48,160 Yeah, that little Native girl, both of you. I was wrong, 306 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,160 I admit it. I just just lost my head. I guess when a 307 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,559 man's under pressure all this time as I am, he doesn't always think straight. 308 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,000 Now, I didn't mean any harm toward her. Maybe you'll be able 309 00:22:57,039 --> 00:23:00,720 to convince not you of that if he waits long enough to listen. No, 310 00:23:00,799 --> 00:23:03,799 don't don't please. I know you hate me, all of you do. 311 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,119 But I'm not as bad as you think. You just don't know the 312 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,000 load of star has to carry. Now, why don't you tell us about 313 00:23:11,039 --> 00:23:14,720 it? You frank, you don't think I'm being fair with Al. You 314 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,519 think I'm holding him back, not giving him a chance. Well you're wrong. 315 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,720 I'm actually carrying him, teaching him things I've learned over the years. 316 00:23:22,759 --> 00:23:26,000 Oh he knows quite a bit now, Charlie. So you don't believe me. 317 00:23:26,559 --> 00:23:30,920 You don't think I know what I'm talking about? All right, all 318 00:23:30,039 --> 00:23:34,200 right, I'll show you. Al said he was written down in today's sequence. 319 00:23:34,319 --> 00:23:37,200 He said that I had the great role. You heard him say it. 320 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,240 Oh, yes, then let him have it. I'll trade with him. 321 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,279 You mean that, Yes, I mean it. Let him change any 322 00:23:45,279 --> 00:23:48,079 line he wants. If it is style, you can play it anyway he 323 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,920 likes. I'll take that role. He says, it's so bad, and 324 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,359 I will still come out to star. All right, all right, all 325 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,440 right, Charlie, will have a go at it. Fine, I'll see 326 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,920 you on the set unless somebody manages to kill me. First morning, gentlemen, 327 00:24:03,039 --> 00:24:06,720 Oh, I never thought i'd live to see the day. Yeah, 328 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,839 that shot last night must have really shaken him up. Oh, that kid 329 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,039 will make him look sick, Johnny. He doesn't know what he's in for. 330 00:24:12,519 --> 00:24:15,000 Well there's one way to find out. Wait a bitte, Johnny, 331 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:19,119 I've been thinking about something you said, Oh that made Morales's wife. Does 332 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,400 she speak English? Nope, just Spanish. But what about her husband, 333 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,400 same deal, only Spanish. Well, but the note Johnny, the murder 334 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:33,880 thread Charlie got that was written in English. Yeah, I know. The 335 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,480 south Sea Island set was built on the beach at the far end of the 336 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,279 bay. The technicians and the rest of the cast were already there when Maltz 337 00:24:40,319 --> 00:24:44,480 and I arrived, and they started shooting fifteen minutes later. Florian Dale wasn't 338 00:24:44,519 --> 00:24:47,960 in the sequence, so she slept in at the hotel. Some of Captain 339 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,039 Parral's men were on hand on the lookout for Nacho Morales, but he didn't 340 00:24:51,079 --> 00:24:53,759 show. By three in the afternoon, they were nearly finished. They'd shot 341 00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:59,440 the last scene once, but Maltz decided on a retakee so Hal sat down 342 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,119 again the fully laid table on the beach and they started to roll. He 343 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,720 poured himself another glass of colored water from the prop wine bottle and began to 344 00:25:06,759 --> 00:25:11,200 carve the roast turkey while he exchanged lines with Burton. Then suddenly Al missed 345 00:25:11,279 --> 00:25:15,759 Q faulted on a line and Maltz cut the cameras. Al pushed back from 346 00:25:15,759 --> 00:25:19,240 the table, stood up slowly, then staggered and fell. I rushed toward 347 00:25:19,319 --> 00:25:22,039 him, pushed through the crowd that was gathering, and kneel down beside him. 348 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:45,640 But he was already dead. Johnny Dollar, would you ask John oh 349 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,359 it is you? Was there some doubt about it? No? But I 350 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,000 was phoning Captain Brow. He's out of his office at the moment. What's 351 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 the matter of Burton? Somebody's shooting at you again? That's not funny, 352 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,720 mister Dollar, who was laughing? The man's been murdered. You know, 353 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,920 I don't think that's anything but a laughing matter. I said, who's laughing? 354 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,559 And except for the whims of fate, it might well be me lying 355 00:26:02,559 --> 00:26:04,319 dead at this moment. And that's really why you're upset, isn't it, 356 00:26:04,319 --> 00:26:07,799 Burton, Because it might have been you. You're not really concerned about Al's 357 00:26:07,839 --> 00:26:11,519 death. I was extremely fond of the boy. You were no fonder of 358 00:26:11,599 --> 00:26:15,000 him than he was of you. So save that good old lovable Charlie business 359 00:26:15,039 --> 00:26:17,880 for your television audience. I never did buy it myself. Dollar. May 360 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,160 I remind you that your position, I know my position in it. I'm 361 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,559 an incinata to protect your life because some company was crazy enough to write a 362 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:27,319 half million dollar policy on you. All right, You're still alive, aren't 363 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:45,240 you? Goodbye Burton from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location in Sonata, Mexico, 364 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,960 to the home office, Union States Casualty Company, Hartford, Connecticut. 365 00:26:48,279 --> 00:26:55,480 Assignment the Laughing Matter expense account, final page item twelve fifty cents. Two 366 00:26:55,519 --> 00:26:59,720 bottles of beer, one for myself and one for Capitan Parral. We sent 367 00:26:59,759 --> 00:27:03,519 an office and the Commandant Sea day Police and drank them slowly, and watched 368 00:27:03,519 --> 00:27:07,920 the sun sink behind the headlands across the bay, and we waited. The 369 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,400 daytime heat reluctantly loosened its grip, and the town, pushing off the lethargy 370 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,279 of afternoon, stirred to the quickened pace of evening. A sprinkling truck passed 371 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:19,759 slowly sweeping the dusty, rutted street with a spreading broom of water. Gleeful 372 00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:25,559 kids ran out behind it and splashed in the puddle, squealing happily Spanish squeals. 373 00:27:25,559 --> 00:27:30,680 They were the Commandant seas off, the tourists beat and all the while, 374 00:27:30,759 --> 00:27:33,359 somewhere back inside the building, an autopsy surgeon worked on a corpse. 375 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:45,799 Jens yestalisto the medical he is all finished. Now, well what's the verdy 376 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:51,240 pro? Is what we are thinking? Elsematopo Verneno. He was how you 377 00:27:51,279 --> 00:27:56,680 say poison? What kind of poison? Ciura? How you call it cyanide? 378 00:27:56,519 --> 00:28:02,119 Senor cyanide? And here also you are very much signed in this bottle? 379 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:03,880 What you has give to me? Yeah, yeah, I thought it'd 380 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,240 smell like it. He'll drank a glass and a half out of it and 381 00:28:07,279 --> 00:28:11,640 then dropped dead right in front of the camera. And you are said, 382 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,000 the wrong man has drink it. The wrong one is get killed. That's 383 00:28:15,079 --> 00:28:18,400 right. Charlie Burton was supposed to play that role himself, but this morning 384 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,279 at breakfast he agreed to let l have the part. I was there, 385 00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:26,000 I heard it. So if he was not do that, he is one 386 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,359 who will be dead now sure, Charlie Burton himself. And it figures Parol. 387 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,920 He's been the target all along, that threatening note that was slipped under 388 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,000 his door, somebody firing a shot at him last night, see said Guru. 389 00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:40,160 Then when they finally got their punch in they tagged the wrong guy. 390 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,160 I have no understand what has happened to this, Natcho Morales hmm Verlena's husband 391 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,720 they made at the hotel that Charlie kept annoying, and he said, no, 392 00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:49,759 no, it's one big place. He's very small. This is down 393 00:28:51,359 --> 00:28:53,079 and we all look every place any are, but we are now find the 394 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,680 man. I don't know Parol, and yet I got a hunch he's the 395 00:28:56,799 --> 00:29:00,039 key to this whole thing. We find him. Say he's no way for 396 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,000 us, gave these down. We find him pronto. Now you bet your 397 00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:11,319 life it am thirteen a dollar forty taxi back to the hotel. Lights were 398 00:29:11,319 --> 00:29:14,119 coming on, a cool breeze was starting to blow in off the Pacific, 399 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,319 and the whole town was brightening up to the challenge of the Knights. But 400 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,920 not me. Technically, of course, the job I'd been sent here to 401 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,920 do was still under control. Big time comedian Charlie Burton, a great, 402 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,759 big, lovable scream to his public, had been insured by his television sponsor 403 00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:33,400 for a half million bucks. Then Burton had received the anonymous note threatening his 404 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,720 life. So I was here to protect the insurance company's investments. I didn't 405 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,640 care personally what happened to Burton. It was just a job. But I 406 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:47,920 did care about how Johnny Oh Hello, Gloria. What is it? Johnny? 407 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,279 What happened? No one seems to know anything definite about it. Al 408 00:29:51,319 --> 00:29:56,160 Shreiver's dead poisoned. That's all I know about it. Come on in the 409 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,359 lounge. I'll buy you a drink, all right? Johnny found that man 410 00:30:00,359 --> 00:30:03,279 who is missing what's his name? Not your Morales? No, he's still 411 00:30:03,319 --> 00:30:08,880 missing this table, all right? Sure anywhere? Waiting to Margherita's please. 412 00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:15,039 Frank mast said something about Charlie and Al changing parts. Yeah, Maltz got 413 00:30:15,119 --> 00:30:18,319 Charlie mad and he made the switch to prove a point. What point? 414 00:30:18,799 --> 00:30:22,519 That Al wasn't ready for a starring role. Oh that's right. You didn't 415 00:30:22,519 --> 00:30:26,319 come down for breakfast this morning. No, I wasn't in today's scenes, 416 00:30:26,359 --> 00:30:29,000 so I just leapt in. It's just as well. It wasn't a very 417 00:30:29,039 --> 00:30:33,359 pretty sight. It's a rotten shame. Al was a real swell guy. 418 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:41,000 Here are boy the irony in this world? Johnny? What do you mean? 419 00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:44,279 Charlie Britton, who's been a rat all his life, makes his usual 420 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,119 crude play for the maid here in the hotel, and what happens? Her 421 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,519 husband hits back at the wrong man. Al gets killed a kid who'd never 422 00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:55,559 harm anybody in his life. And Charlie gets off scott free. I was 423 00:30:55,599 --> 00:30:57,839 with Captain Perral last night when he talked to the Morales girl, not his 424 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:03,119 wife. She doesn't speak any English, Gloria, and she says her husband 425 00:31:03,119 --> 00:31:04,880 doesn't either. Really wouldn't need to? Would he to pull a trigger or 426 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,440 poison bottle? May we not? But he would in order to write a 427 00:31:08,519 --> 00:31:12,359 threatening note in English? Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. If 428 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,559 Nacho's in it, he's not in it alone, and I've got our hunt. 429 00:31:15,599 --> 00:31:23,200 She's oh, thanks, Johnny Dollar, this is a cap what is 430 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,119 it problem? We have just found the good. I'll be right down. 431 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:32,960 But Johnny, do you think Frank Malls might not if he was after Charlie 432 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,720 Burton? He knew that now, not Burton was going to drink out of 433 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:40,079 that bottle. But didn't everybody know that? No, not everybody, Gloria. 434 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:48,160 You didn't. Nacho Morales was sitting alone in the starkly burned detention room 435 00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:52,039 of the Commandantcia. He was a small man, maybe a few years older 436 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:56,640 than his wife, a field worker with narled hands and a bent back. 437 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,240 He was waiting patiently, quietly gripping the brim of his sombrero in his hands, 438 00:32:00,279 --> 00:32:04,039 trying to hide the fear, the terror that lay just behind his eyes. 439 00:32:05,079 --> 00:32:07,599 His eyes flickered slightly as Parral and I opened the steel grilled door. 440 00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:19,039 And then he waited, when as the ombre, when as the capitan to 441 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:24,079 are is not Morales, is good lad, senor as supposed Morales, senor 442 00:32:25,279 --> 00:32:31,680 copaslac andmbre was locked off by the barrier of language. I watched while Parral 443 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:37,880 stopping now and then to translate. And then Parol asked the question that started 444 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:45,880 the avalanche, a corsa porco, Senor, why did you try to kill 445 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:54,359 that man last night? And answer to Parral's accusation, not your story poured 446 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,599 out in a flood of Spanish, and as I stood there listening to a 447 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:04,000 translated I began to feel side I'd been blind. All the facts were there, 448 00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:07,119 all the evidence, and I'd still failed to spot the play. Not 449 00:33:07,279 --> 00:33:10,519 your story was the key. It fit, and I knew he was telling 450 00:33:10,519 --> 00:33:15,319 the truth. He'd been hiding out on a friend's fishing boat since the night 451 00:33:15,359 --> 00:33:19,599 before. He knew he'd be accused because he had been at the hotel when 452 00:33:19,599 --> 00:33:22,759 the shot was fired through Burton's window. He was hiding in the shrubbery by 453 00:33:22,759 --> 00:33:25,759 the terrace, and he'd seen the whole thing. The shot had been fired 454 00:33:25,759 --> 00:33:36,920 by Charlie Burton himself. Who is it, Johnny Dollar? I want to 455 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:45,440 talk to you, Burton? All right, just a minute? What is 456 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:50,000 it? Dollar? Have they caught that killer yet? Not your morales? 457 00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:54,079 I mean yeah, Burrell picked him up about an hour ago. I just 458 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:58,759 came from there. Has he confessed, No, he hasn't. They ought 459 00:33:58,759 --> 00:34:00,319 to beat it out of him. It's the only way to make that kind 460 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,920 talk. It is Sit down, Burton, I think you'd do for a 461 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,440 shock? What are you talking about? Not sure didn't try to kill you? 462 00:34:09,039 --> 00:34:14,360 Then? Who did? Nobody? Crazy? What about al Shreiver? 463 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:15,960 I suppose he's not even dead? Oh he's dead? All right? You 464 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,920 want to know you killed him? That was your whole plan, wasn't it, 465 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,000 Burton? To kill Al Shrever and get away with it. Everything else 466 00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:28,519 was a preliminary build up. That's very funny. You want to be on 467 00:34:28,559 --> 00:34:30,760 television. Well, there's going to be an opening soon. You wrote that 468 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,559 threatening letter yourself, what and then tore it up after Maltz had seen it. 469 00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:37,280 So it couldn't be traced back to you. You get better all the 470 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,960 time you fired that shot through your window from the terrace, There more build 471 00:34:42,039 --> 00:34:45,280 up. Then you made your play that phony argument this morning, switching parts 472 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,719 with Al, putting him on the spot, making it look as though somebody 473 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:52,000 had tried to poison you and missed. It was fairly clever, Burton, 474 00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:54,760 but you're still going to be tagged for it was parrall all this. Why 475 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,360 don't you ask him? I'll be glad to step all right, Dollar, 476 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,760 don't move, get your hands up now, real slow. Is that the 477 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,239 same gun you used last night? You're wrong, you know I'm not going 478 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,519 to be tired, relaxpert, and there's no capital punishment in Mexico. You 479 00:35:10,519 --> 00:35:15,440 can star in all the prison shows. You're too smart, Dollar, You're 480 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,480 like Al, and you know what happened when he got too smart? You 481 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:22,039 would drop these guns. I started to tell you I'd be glad to call 482 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:23,320 him that he was listening out there on the terrace. He's gone, you 483 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:38,599 drop quick. No, hmm, Mira, Senor, I am not shoot 484 00:35:38,639 --> 00:35:43,679 too bad? I think, No, No, not bad at all. 485 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,920 Bar well, yes for it. I am see he is going to pull 486 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:52,840 this trigger, so I ared to shoot much fast, bum bum bum, 487 00:35:52,119 --> 00:35:58,679 and tell you he's look very surprised. Senor. Yeah, it's too bad. 488 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,280 He couldn't have seen the look on his face. A comedian would have 489 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:15,639 really appreciated it. Why he'd have died laughing it AM fourteen four hundred and 490 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:19,519 sixty two dollars and thirty cents. Hotel and miscellaneous and Ensnada and transportation back 491 00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:23,079 to Hartford expense account total seven hundred and ninety one dollars and fifty five cents. 492 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:29,079 End of account and of report remarks Ray policy on the life of Charles 493 00:36:29,119 --> 00:36:36,039 Z. Burton deceased Refer Clause thirty four sub paragraphs ce quote. If the 494 00:36:36,119 --> 00:36:42,480 insured dies while committing a felony, this policy is null and void unquote. 495 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,679 The Superior Court of Baja California rules that Burton was shot while resisting arrest and 496 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:51,599 committing an assault with a deadly weapon. So you can keep you a half 497 00:36:51,599 --> 00:37:08,760 million bucks. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here's our star to tell 498 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:14,559 you about next week's intriguing story. Next week, a frantic chase across the 499 00:37:14,599 --> 00:37:21,519 country after a girl who couldn't possibly exist then suddenly turned up join us, 500 00:37:21,559 --> 00:37:45,159 won't you Yours Truly Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, 501 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:50,960 is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by Les Crutchfield, It is produced and 502 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:57,119 directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast were Virginia Gregg, John 503 00:37:57,199 --> 00:38:02,559 Dayner, Lucille Meredith, Lawrence, gil Stratton, Harry Bartel, and Don 504 00:38:02,639 --> 00:38:10,079 Diamond. Musical supervision by Amrigo Marino and Carl Fortina. Be sure to join 505 00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:15,599 us on Monday night, same time and station for another exciting story of Yours 506 00:38:15,639 --> 00:39:55,280 Truly Johnny Dollar. This is Roy Rowan speaking Welcome Back. The Laughing Matter 507 00:39:55,519 --> 00:40:01,960 is a decent Johnny Dollar story with some really solid performances. Larry Dopkin in 508 00:40:02,159 --> 00:40:08,760 episode three, as the producer, did a solid, very well balanced performance 509 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:15,280 that was really emotional, and I think that the plotline is also pretty good. 510 00:40:15,639 --> 00:40:22,000 Although I think that Gloria essentially seemed to fade out of the suspect list 511 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:31,199 after episode two. The big problem is that John Daner makes more incredibly unbelievable 512 00:40:31,199 --> 00:40:37,639 comedian. Of course, comedians can be nasty and bullis, and there have 513 00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:43,519 been some fascinating portrayals of twisted comedians. In media, but if you want 514 00:40:43,559 --> 00:40:46,599 to make that work, a guy should at least have some level of mirth, 515 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:52,639 but with malevolence behind it. I could see Daner as like some sort 516 00:40:52,639 --> 00:40:58,599 of dramatic ham gone mad with ego, but as a comic no, Charlie 517 00:40:58,679 --> 00:41:02,559 Burton is a man without any redeeming value other than his ability to be flustered 518 00:41:02,559 --> 00:41:07,760 by Johnny, which hardly counts for much at all. I think the story's 519 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:13,840 point is that there are entertainers who are entirely different behind the public veneer, 520 00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,039 but you have to at least show the veneer they put up, and I 521 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:22,920 just couldn't buy Charlie Burton. The story does have a clever twist of Charlie 522 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:29,760 being the perpetrator rather than the target, that's undermined by him being such a 523 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:34,840 transparently awful human being. I actually think that while it was not as good 524 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:40,199 an overall story as this, the Laird Douglas Douglas of Heather Scope Matter was 525 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:45,039 more clever in that regards, because for four episodes we thought the killer was 526 00:41:45,079 --> 00:41:52,400 an eccentric old woman, and the twist that she's actually this monster is quite 527 00:41:53,320 --> 00:42:00,760 shocking. In this case, learning Charlie Burderton engineered in elaborate hoax as a 528 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,800 cover for murdering a young man with his whole life ahead of him so that 529 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:12,079 he could stay on television for an additional season. Was more like, yeah, 530 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,679 that makes sense. I can totally say that. Well, now we 531 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:23,239 turn to listener comments and feedback and Saysoff had a comment regarding Richard Krenna I 532 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:29,000 talked about a few weeks ago, and he says, Adam, here's a 533 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,880 bit of trivia about Richard Krenna which will drive you even more mad. From 534 00:42:34,039 --> 00:42:38,039 nineteen fifty to fifty five, during most of the time he was playing geeker 535 00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:43,079 Key, Walter Didton, he was a married guy. Yeah, think about 536 00:42:43,119 --> 00:42:46,440 it. Walter Dientton as a married guy. Well, thanks so much for 537 00:42:46,519 --> 00:42:52,039 the comment, saysov. It is an interesting bit of trivia. He was 538 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,840 married at the age of twenty four, which I don't think anybody would have 539 00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:00,679 thought anything about at the time, though we would consider it kind of young 540 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:07,840 today. Again, I think it's television that exposes the weirdness, because you 541 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:14,159 could do all sorts of odd things over radio and it would be absolutely fine. 542 00:43:14,639 --> 00:43:20,480 Eddie Firestone Junior on that Brewster Boy in a wide variety of other series 543 00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:29,119 played much younger characters. Ezra Stone Guarded playing Henry Aldrich when he was twenty 544 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:34,039 left the series to go off and serve in the war, and continued to 545 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:42,400 play Aldrich until he was thirty four. Because certain actors have the ability just 546 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,719 to go into that sort of younger voice and be believable about it, but 547 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:53,280 you can't do that on camera. I had a birthday recently and one of 548 00:43:53,320 --> 00:44:00,199 my presents was season one, volume one of Armis Brooks. My wife generally 549 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:05,800 doesn't watch old programs with me, but since it was my birthday, I 550 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:10,639 got her to watch the first episode of Armis Brooks on TV and she'd heard 551 00:44:10,679 --> 00:44:17,039 a couple radio programs several years back, and the moment Richard Krennick came in 552 00:44:17,119 --> 00:44:22,440 and opened his mouth and that voice came out, my wife was like, 553 00:44:22,559 --> 00:44:29,440 what is this? What is he doing? And honestly, you know, 554 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:35,159 I think there are some actors who in their mid twenties can pull off looking 555 00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:39,400 like a teenager. Just Richard Krenna wasn't one of them, particularly with the 556 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:47,079 Walter Ditton voice. I think of This was probably the second most awkward thing 557 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:54,679 transferring from radio to television The most awkward thing, of course, was Fanny 558 00:44:54,840 --> 00:45:04,079 Brice trying to play Baby Snooks in cast Fume in a television appearance when Miss 559 00:45:04,079 --> 00:45:08,239 Brice was in her late fifties, so it wasn't quite that awkward, but 560 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:15,440 Walter Dentton on television is very weird. Well, now it's time to thank 561 00:45:15,599 --> 00:45:19,480 our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and thank 562 00:45:19,639 --> 00:45:23,840 Russell. Russell has been one of our Patreon supporters since October twenty sixteen, 563 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:30,039 currently supporting the program at the Shawmas level of four dollars or more per month. 564 00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:34,639 Thank you so much for your support, Russell, and that will do 565 00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,119 it for today. If you're enjoying this podcast, please follow us using our 566 00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:44,679 favorite podcast software. Be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download 567 00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:49,800 it from. We will be back next Tuesday with another episode of Yours Truly 568 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:55,840 Johnny Dollar. But join us back here tomorrow for Dragnett where she spout the 569 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,000 guy that just came out, Yeah, I went up straight. Let's follow 570 00:45:59,039 --> 00:46:05,760 him, hustling, spot him, then straight ahead about fifteen yards he's crossing 571 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,239 the street. Yeah, let's get up a little closer. We're losing sure 572 00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,039 at the light change you. Come on, run for him. What's the 573 00:46:10,119 --> 00:46:15,920 traffic light? Yeah, that was close, and let us spot at us 574 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:21,239 is going faster. Come on, Joe run, Yeah, don't lose him. 575 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,400 Croud not help him. Hey, hey, wait a minute, I 576 00:46:23,519 --> 00:46:27,079 thought you're a cop. It takes him somebody like all my arms. They're 577 00:46:27,079 --> 00:46:30,679 like, oh, you don't have to get tough, plugy coptic leer street. 578 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,440 I'm gonna wreck the Mays off. Come on, Joey's running for it. 579 00:46:32,639 --> 00:46:36,880 Yeah, I see him. Watch the signal up ahead and hurry. 580 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:44,440 Joe almost up him into the parking lote. Hey you stop, look out 581 00:46:44,519 --> 00:46:46,480 Joe a gun. I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 582 00:46:46,599 --> 00:46:52,079 do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detactive, start nett, 583 00:46:52,559 --> 00:46:57,039 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, 584 00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:02,440 Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your 585 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,679 host, Adam Graham signing off.