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second Oss movie adaptation, we're not actually playing Luxure Radio Theater.
There is a lux Radio theater version out there, but
it's not a complete recording and the sound quality is
not great, and to be honest, none of them have
of like, super amazing sound quality. But I decided we'd
go ahead and do the screen guilt theater version of
this story. This one originally aired November twenty fifth, nineteen
forty eight, and the title is thirteen Rue Madeline.
Speaker 2: From Hollywood from Grey Bogart, William Lundigan, Leonnames, and John
bue In the thrilling and sensational war story thirteen Rue
Medal as Yes from Hollywood.
Speaker 3: The Screen Guild Players brought you each Thursday Night by Tamil.
Speaker 4: Cigarette Thursday Night Screen Guild Night when Camel Cigarettes bring
you your favorite stars in their greatest Montion Pickure roles.
The night is one of the most dramatic stories that
came out of the war. From the secret files of
the OSS. Twentieth century Fox Studio is exciting human documents.
Speaker 5: The Screen Guild Players prevents.
Speaker 2: Thirteen Roue Medaline starring Humphrey Bodart, John Viale, William Lundign
and Leonaims with Francis Robinson.
Speaker 5: This is a page out of history in our time.
Speaker 6: This is a record of valorous men who served without
uniforms or medals or acclaim.
Speaker 5: This is a story of the OSS.
Speaker 3: The Second World War was already six months old when
a presidential directive careerated the Office of Predesious Services, the.
Speaker 6: Famous OSS, a super secret intelligence service, the first espionage
system in the history of our nation. By the early
part of nineteen forty four, it had already trained sixty
sevent teams.
Speaker 3: Boss agents, now a new class group sixty eight.
Speaker 6: After careful and exhausted screening is taken under tight security
to a beautiful country club near Washington.
Speaker 5: Threw up. That group are Jeff Lassiter and Bill O'Connell. Hey,
this is quite a place. Huh you luckie or your man?
Speaker 3: Luxurious?
Speaker 5: They said, we got to fund tune to the room.
Say you picked the roommate yet? No? Oh no that yeah, okay,
you got one. Name is Jeff Lassida Bill O'Connell.
Speaker 4: Shake, all right, he's introduction party, then I am.
Speaker 5: Isn't it a beauty for small all in a lot
of duty? They said, for personal assessment and further training. Rugged,
I should say so. The lounds like this k Leavit
Care Books magazine. We even got a backgammon set. That's right,
you play? Yeah? You want to take me on for
double games?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 5: I'm nice. I was vouched. I've always wanted to them
that game. Hey, look lad today, what do you say
we make it interesting? I just played for fun. O'conon, Well,
let's tell you what bound in the game. No, let's
make it up mediate all right, I'm gonna get it final? Sure,
what about it? I think that's crazy. As they play,
two other men are sitting in an office upstairs, Charles Gibson,
right hand man of the OSS Chief, and Bob Shunky,
former All American in charge of training. Get him started tomorrow, Bob,
in three months. They've got to be in shape to go.
They'll be in shape. That's my assignment. That's one of them.
What do you mean twenty two potential OSS agents.
Speaker 7: All of them speak trains, one of them can speak German. Well,
you're good to find out who it is. Yeah, not
as easy as to sound fine, because one of your
students is a gemin agent.
Speaker 8: All right, now, all right, I've got a couple of
things to say before you begin your active training from here.
In this work, pressure is on that right now. And
the use of the cover story a lot to lie
about who you are and what you're doing. This is
your most important defensive weapon. The enemy cracks your story
when you're in the.
Speaker 5: Field, you'll be tortured. If you get a break, you'll
be shot. The average American is a good sport. He
plays for the rules. Well, no secret agent is a
good sport. That is no living agent.
Speaker 8: He's going to be tough to kill, cheap, to rob,
to lie, and everything you learn is told.
Speaker 5: One of death is just one, that's all. That's the
depth of your mission. Their praise, doubts, years of decency
you get all.
Speaker 8: About him, are turning your suit because the enemy can
forget and has.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's get the work. Got a lot to do
in the next three.
Speaker 9: Months, long too, and I can hardly believe my own years.
Speaker 5: You weren't the only one. Surprise Getty's for the.
Speaker 8: Way they've been paying on twelve fourteen hours a day, hiking, swimming, lenning, how.
Speaker 5: To kill and rob and steel out of send a
wireless message cold, how to make a Paris you jump,
And I'm getting your cover story down, patt. If I'm
not sure my name is last Year anymore, It's sure
it is again. I guess this means a lot to you. Man.
Getting back to France last I will find out them.
I've waited so long selling Coca mun gi U will
never give up. Yeah there, we've got an hour dinner.
How about the game? Sure? How much do you now?
Fifteen millions when I'm chopping at dog fifteen. I'll dig
you on this. The government will take most of the time.
Go ahead, Yeah You've got sorry man, that'll laugh away. Shucky,
what's up?
Speaker 8: An hour early tonight start the field problem first stay
in the morning.
Speaker 7: Do you think you found the master Bob, Yes, I'm
sure I have all right, who's the germination Mello O'Connell.
Speaker 8: How does he know number one man in the class?
That was the tip off last night. I had him
trying to pump the bushot, trying to find out.
Speaker 5: If she expected to go back to friends.
Speaker 8: Then the field problem clinched it rather report. Yeah, that
tests design for them to make mistakes. They learned more
that way, but O'Connell didn't make any mistakes. Done through
it all before.
Speaker 5: Name is cunsul. I'd bet five one of the best.
Speaker 8: When you want to pick him up, I don't what,
and you mustn't know he's even suspected.
Speaker 7: We had him paid for a long time. He got
the sentence book. What wouldn't be kinsled information? The second print?
Speaker 5: We think, so where and when? Yes, they like to know.
That's a big shot. The German high commander is counting
on information. So we've got to arrange points of at
it the wrong information, and we've got to let him
take it back to them.
Speaker 7: I see the plan will include a logical way for
him to make his to stay. It must be cleverly staved.
Remember we're dealing with a very smart man.
Speaker 5: When do we start? When we get to England. I'll
leave tomorrow. You can follow with the group within a
few days.
Speaker 8: Group sixty eight is gone to England and quarried in
the country house not far from London.
Speaker 10: They are held there under tight security, leaving their assignments
and the plan of proceeds.
Speaker 5: Okay, how old do you know Alan, I lived there
for two years. I know it very well. I thought so.
Oh currently, pictures change change. How do you mean you
read the papers there? Want to talk about a second front?
Everyone knows there's going to be one. You think of
contem but I think that can't come. That's somebody else's job.
We get to Bay Orders. Oh yes, for sure. I
haven't given a job. I need help.
Speaker 8: Someone with a proper background, someone who's pools. He can
come through in a pinch.
Speaker 5: You want to go to work. I didn't go through
all their training to be in English country gentlemen.
Speaker 8: Okay, pack your dear. We're going up to London now
in ten minutes. No goodbye, is nothing, no word to
anyone about what I've said. Under tight security starting right now.
Speaker 5: That clear, Yes, it's clear. Who do you think, Bob,
would you take the boot? I think so Gibson. I
put him in with undival. I'm intelligence, opened up everything to.
Speaker 8: The maps, plans of forts, all our agents, and I
put six plans at his disposal.
Speaker 5: He makes a break break and one of them. We're
okay this. He makes a break. Who's the pick for
the ruler job? Last day? The girl. They're on their
way down here. Now you're booking yourself good the afternoon last.
This is it.
Speaker 8: This is the payoff already, I think so good. You're
going to France, you too, be dou The shod as
lack of it is communicated. I'll make it as brief
as I can. The Nancy's in a terrific new rocket
bomber carry the warhead with two tons of explosives.
Speaker 5: For the last six months they've been.
Speaker 8: Building up a huge stop, saving all our resources for
just one thing, the invasion version.
Speaker 5: The bomb depot is somewhere between Cain and Lahart. That's
all we know. Even if Ich Underground hasn't been able
to spoduct for us, that's our job to find the
bomb people. Now that's a part of it.
Speaker 8: To destroy it, we must know every detail of its construction.
One man can help us without her, Monsieur du bois.
This is his picture, then that name and picture on
your mind.
Speaker 5: The success of your mission, possibly of the entire invasion,
is lint to that man. What's his collection of the
bomb people design and built? We want to talk to him.
Speaker 8: Hey, hey, you well, I didn't know you were down
here in London where you walked off in the middle
of the life.
Speaker 5: I know I had to live in a hurry. Oh
so John Peppy? Not much action though, it looks like
I'm grounded. What are you doing here? S pepping for
a mission?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sorry, I can't tell you what I always knew you
were a bad investment. Wow you now thirteen million?
Speaker 3: Fourteen?
Speaker 5: I'll whittle it down when I get back. When are
you leaving? All for sure? And I wish I were
going with the kid me too? Well, I got a
run now I'm gonna seeing you bring me back a souvenir.
We don't paying you back. What about a Connor?
Speaker 8: Do you think he's sold?
Speaker 5: Set up so well? Trying to think Holland was the
right place myself.
Speaker 8: He's playing his real stuff the quests coming from agents
and Holland before the request.
Speaker 5: The suppliers gets there. He got to believe it, but
he hasn't lived. No we gets explained, could go anytime.
How do you feels be too hot that we're watching him?
We started, we might pick him off maybe, but in
a few days it'll be too late. Who's got to
get that misinformation back? Now? Of course? Uh? Wow? Those
we wants him to make his breaking send him? Is
what his chance in a silver platter? Oh? The logical
reason to leave?
Speaker 8: Maybe maybe we even send them ourselves, send them on
a pawnee mission. We're getting information account of it. We
aren't getting enough. The Germans think we're going to France.
That's fine, but what do they expect about Holland?
Speaker 5: Not stupid? You know, we must know if that there
bearing Holland too would where We've got to send someone
over there to find out for it. Yes, good man,
that's we have some one who knows Holland as well
as you do.
Speaker 8: I know the man who me.
Speaker 5: Oh that doesn't make sense. I need to hear you talk.
Is important. It's more important to have the right man
over there. If I get it, it's impossible and I
don't know. I got to have that information. Let me go.
I'll get it for you.
Speaker 8: I could take over your work here, I guess directly
in touch with me by radio O'Connor. I think I'll
take a chance.
Speaker 5: I need some help.
Speaker 8: I need a team, another man and a communicator will
be want plaster lady wi rafida.
Speaker 5: Where do we do work together? At school? I know him?
Explain you know people? Yeah, I think he'd like to go. Yeah, yeah,
I guess he would. But mister shock, this whole thing silly.
Oh and after school, Oh, Colin, I've slept in the
same room with for months. It's crazy. I don't do
bad about it, laughing.
Speaker 8: He's smart, one of the smartest men they have A
long time O'Connor alias Kuncil fooled me too. You understand
the entire fight up, Yes, sir, okay, I'll come to
the rabbit pot like the rest is easy.
Speaker 5: We can go. Connel is sold. If we're right, we'll
make his break. We'll never see him again. But he's
not sold.
Speaker 8: We should in any ways, suspect you on a double mission.
You're going to play it his way, his way? What's
that if he doesn't make his break or if he
tries to follow you, you're going to shoot him, Shoot
him and be sure it's for Keith.
Speaker 5: Oh that's wrong, that's that's war O'Connor could do it,
can you? You know I can do it.
Speaker 2: I can do it.
Speaker 6: And so the curtain comes down on Act one now
present Act two of firsteen Room Medline, starring Humphrey Bogart,
Leon aim Don Deal and William Londigan with Francis Robinson.
Speaker 5: The plan goes forward.
Speaker 10: I've always has headquarters in London, tacky and gets in
wait tenseley for.
Speaker 5: A report, but the B twenty four speeds through.
Speaker 10: The night cord Holland inside the plane three people and
jumps you sitting quietly waiting.
Speaker 8: A woman and two men.
Speaker 5: They sit in absolute silence until finally yeah, yeah, well
you've been sitting there staring at me.
Speaker 11: That's there, I think, So there is looking at me
like I was, Okay, we're going to test you all.
I guess I'm a little nervous. Yeah, I'm a little nervous.
School we're getting closed.
Speaker 5: Check your static lines this check check bet want to
target down?
Speaker 8: Are you ready?
Speaker 5: Your guys on me?
Speaker 3: Yees?
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know that fourteen anyway, Oman, I'm winning it
off the porch and in action station. I got done
watch fourteen million mess never never had time to spend
it anyway.
Speaker 5: Number one, I'm lett a jump. We're even jet you
to get on over your dime. We'll we'll start to scratch.
Number two, go, hey, what's the matter of that static line?
They didn't say it out? You didn't.
Speaker 9: Are you there?
Speaker 5: Hey? Yeah, but we're sure that message shows transmission.
Speaker 8: Sure, I operate to work for them, but they positive
they know they're touched with it again. Last of they
killed and jump or kind of disappeared. Proceeding mission area
has planned banks Suzanne tough break Yeah, I mean and
from the radio operator on the plane, thanks.
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 8: Lass of the static chord was deliberately cut. His should
never opened.
Speaker 5: He was murdered. Ah, what a rocking way.
Speaker 8: The question is what did things Will know because he
had known about Lassiter's mission. No, they probably picked up
Lassiter's papers. He knows the gating fishy credentials. More than that,
he knows the Holland invasions upon me. Well, I wouldn't
have killed after day. I've done a great job, though
I stucked into the pitch and swung my brain down.
I'm conceiving the little I don't conceive anything until I
throw a pick in my face. All right, now, let's
go on from there. We've got five days to get
another man over there. Pick up one black the target.
Speaker 5: Who do you got to send? There's only one man
who me. No, we haven't got time to break another man.
We need those fire days on the other man. I'm sorry, Bob.
You know the dating place of the invade. I did no,
but I forgot. You know what it would mean if
you were captured. Once it was discovered who who were
her torture I'll have my l trappers one bike? Can
I be gone? I'll never find out anything about the invasion, Bob.
I wish I could let you go that Gibson. I
need the break. I've been working too hot. I need
the change. You won't come back. Got a worry is
this time? I'll keep my.
Speaker 8: Eyes on the picture. Within twenty four hours, Hankey is
on his way to Fland.
Speaker 5: My powers were.
Speaker 10: Lending a quick meeting with Suzanne has been advised to stand.
Speaker 5: By, and the following morning I pulled the deck.
Speaker 8: An little town about forty miles.
Speaker 3: From a heart, A plastic looking French business man is
registering at the local hotel.
Speaker 5: Bringing the pan alm. Mo wish to see long enough
to accomperence my mission, aly you two three days like
a room its chisney masure, and let's probe to see
your papers. Oh why hello, let's the spirit of regulations
where us came today from?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: Your paper police your authority? Thanks, thank you to stop it?
Speaker 13: Oh all right, but that paper is a nuisance that
holds up business here here am i gabal Savat Insurance
claims the jestice for the brand descriptions, signature.
Speaker 5: Yes, those things an order. And then if you don't
mind that seven minutes? Now, what else where was your
grandfather buried? That's one on your father's side, the family cemetery.
To run anything else? No, I hope you like your rule.
I followed it. Throw myself up conc I had headquartered
at Brulan. Check the city file. There's no shabbat buried
in the Saint Maurice cemetery. There there's times go on.
It is a small thing, but not a natural mistake
for a Frenchman. If the small ones could come, what else?
I followed him. When he left the hotel, he went
to the Mayor's office. One of my men got to
picture of him as he went up the steps.
Speaker 11: You got a picture with him. But yeah, concern. He
had no idea that it is shaky. So one deho
like Kana Big to see the mayor.
Speaker 3: Monsieur, the man was here to see you yesterday from
the pack with a compulsory day.
Speaker 5: Papers and that commission, Pady, Why more men from the
village have you give him any monsieur? My people will
no longer follow me.
Speaker 1: Look this paper, you.
Speaker 5: See what it says, Yes to the German collaborator. All
day long, I have found me in my car, in
my office, every where I got it. They do not understand.
I have only done with a purpose, right, I want
hope to avoid advertisers. Where is this man who came
to see you? Yes disappeared on the ground. You will
never be found. I do my best, and the people
do not understand. There's a company of God stationed here, yes, Sir,
at the hotel there order him up. That was part
of the plan that brought out to every last minute detail.
The moment the hotel is left without a God, A
small group of men's within quietly through the battle. They
go directly to a room, running up a floor and
then open the door. Come along the bis. You're going
to England.
Speaker 10: A plane is waiting in a secret place. Davoirs put aboard.
The plane takes off. Shocky remains behind. He had work
still to do. He doesn't know that his picture has
been given to every German agent in the coastal Sanction.
Speaker 5: And two days later, in Gibson's office in London, we
just got a transmission to the shots. They've got mister Shark.
They're taken him to a halt thirteen room, Madeline shocking.
Did he get a right? No, sir, take him a love.
Just three questions, Shocky, that's all? What was your mission?
Where's the invasion coming? When? We will make you tell?
You know that shocking. You know a man can take
only so much punishment. Remember you taught me fair play,
years of decency. That's out. Remember you've done you a job.
Now I'll accomplish my mission. Where is shaky? Where are
they coming in?
Speaker 8: And so I'm glad you're remembered of it, and I
touch you're a top man in a crash.
Speaker 5: But enough, Yeah, I'm all right, hand Shot, you just
made a bad escape. Take him downstairs. We'll make him talk. Gentlemen,
new pilots have been chosen for your special qualifications. You've
been asked for attempt a hazardous mission.
Speaker 8: The blast of target is zero peep. You'll be risking
their lives. You've got to write to know why they're targetive.
That their headquarters LAHA thirteen rule, Madeline.
Speaker 5: They're holding an American agent there. If the talks it
may cost too moan American lives. You won't talk, not.
Speaker 7: As long as you can stand the punishment they're giving him.
Only no human body can stand it too long.
Speaker 5: I know, Bob Shot, you would rather die than talk.
Be sure that no one in that house escapes. Uh?
Where shocky? Where?
Speaker 4: Where?
Speaker 5: H fairly shocky? Where where I am way? Where? Where
are they coming over? Where?
Speaker 9: Where?
Speaker 5: Where? I think?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 5: You're ready talking?
Speaker 8: You're ready to talk?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm ready completed. I was a humfortable gut.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, definitely a more ram story than OSS,
and then your typical episode of Cloak and Dagger, really
showing everything that could go wrong and reflecting the risk
that was taken if you chose service in the OSS,
as well as some of the tough decisions made in Wartime.
Of course, a lot of this very much condensed from
the movie, but it does remain in effective wartime tale. Now,
we do have some comments regarding our encore episodes. We
start with bullets or ballots where mechanics sixty six rits.
It should have been extremely obvious he was still a cop,
as Bogie said, all the trouble started when he joined.
Also asking to meet the guys in charge after being
in the gang a few days was a dead giveaway.
It cracks me up every time that Joe Friday does
that when he goes under cover in Joe Friday's defense,
The big difference between the dragnet stories of bullets or
ballots is usually Friday is undercover not as someone who
wants to join the gang, but particularly when interacting with
the narcotics world, he is pretending to be a drug
pusher who wants to make a big buy and therefore
wants to talk to someone higher up the food chain,
which is a bit more plausible. I think does require
more suspension of belief in bullets or ballots, given that
at Edward G. Robinson's character was known to be a
cop and you started having all these troubles with the
operation when he joined. So a little different for Sergeant Friday,
but I think a fair point. And then Brian says
never saw this movie, going to have to find it
after this. I love finding the differences between the radio
and film versions. Sometimes I'll forget all about either and
end up wondering why I know what exactly is going
to happen next. Anyway, these are lots of funds on
long road trips. Well, thanks so much, Brian, and then
Harrison comments on suspicion, I've always wanted to watch this movie,
but never got around to it. I was also expecting
it to take a dark turn at the end since
it was a Hitchcock movie, and was extra surprised by
how it turned out. It made me like the story
even more. Then we have some comments regarding Operation Flur
de Lee. Harrison writes, Wow, I didn't expect the climax
between Renee and Duke to play out the way it did.
Besides hearing one episode of Pat Novak, this is one
thing I've seen Jack webbing outside of Dragonet, if my
memory serves me right. So it was a real trait
doctor who done it. Wrote Joe Friday flirting, I suffered
second hand embarrassment. It's definitely a challenge for an actor
being associated with a role, and in this case, the
escape episode came two years before Joe Friday, but the
association is definitely there for many listeners. And then Mechanic
sixty six rites. Harry Bartel was good as the major
as a young French resistance fighter, not very convincing, good story,
and Harrison chummed in, I'm just glad we didn't get
to also hear Harry Bartell as Harry Bartell selling Petrie
whyt Well. I was never too bothered by Harry Bartel's
performance in that because the French character he was playing
was a bit naive, and even though he was very
sure of himself, he was inexperienced and didn't know what
he was doing. And so even if the accent wasn't precise,
I think Bartel got the essence of the character, and
the weakness of the accent I tended to interpret as
a somewhat boyish uncertainty. So I need to blend it
all with the character. But the dialect is definitely not
something you get away with today. All right, Well, now
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