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last year we brought you an episode of Casey Crime
Photographer that said it Thanksgiving and was actually on the
next series of the show. We were playing sustaining episodes
and this episode was from the Anchor Hawking run. Well,
this week we're going to bring you another episode from
the next run of the show. This one's not part
of Anchor Hawking. That's part of the Tony Home Permanent run,
which would take over in March of nineteen forty eight.
So let's go ahead and take a listen to today's episode.
The original aired eight November twenty fifth, nineteen forty eight,
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Our adventure for tonight Holidays Thanksgiving Day, early afternoon. Among
the crowd that stroll tightly by the Blue Note cafe,
is a quite worried looking man who, onelike the other strollers,
doesn't appear to be in a holiday mood fIF fIF
Connor's he remember me, fella, Casey morning Express for sure,
may Hey, it couldn't be betterf I haven't seen you
since Cash. You must be three years close to I
guess it is, Miss Williams.
Speaker 3: I'm me introduce mister Connors.
Speaker 5: Hello, mister conn Miss Williams.
Speaker 4: Here's some nice things about you, Biff. They tell me
you're married, now, raising a family, got your own business.
Still you find Yeah, well, I gotta be running along
and I'm saying Casey introduced to you, Miss Way and
so on. So I'm beff. That was short and sweet.
Speaker 5: Your friend could hardly contain his joy of meeting you. Yeah,
he looks worried, Kasey. I don't think his mind is
really on you. Who is he?
Speaker 4: Well, he used to be one of the cleverest safe
crackers in the country.
Speaker 5: Safe crackers.
Speaker 4: He knew more about safe than the people that make him.
I think keep him out of jail. Aw he served
three stretches.
Speaker 5: You don't usually introduce needy or criminal association.
Speaker 4: This wasn't the usual kind of criminal Annie since his
last term in the big house. He's going absolutely straight too.
I know that. I hope that is going wrong with
the guy.
Speaker 5: Probably not. Huh, here's a blue note.
Speaker 4: Meat, push open the door for you.
Speaker 6: Well look who's here?
Speaker 7: My power afternoon Ethelbert, every Thanksgiving the both of you,
and to you.
Speaker 4: You big red letters, had.
Speaker 6: Your turkey and trimmin's.
Speaker 5: Yet No, are we planning to go to a movie
and then have dinner about seven o'clock?
Speaker 4: You have not here Thanksgiving dinner in this joint a
whole not a chance.
Speaker 6: What's the matter with this joint?
Speaker 7: The chef's putting out a dollar seventy five cents special today.
Speaker 5: They be taking me to the Ritz for dinner and
then we're going.
Speaker 7: To a play yep, movies in the afternoon, the Rich
for dinner, and then an evening show.
Speaker 6: Huh, you are having a holiday.
Speaker 4: Mm hm. We're not gonna waste any of it hanging
around here, as much as we love you a verse.
Speaker 7: Oh casey, it just came to my mind as of November.
Speaker 6: First, you owe us on your October bill.
Speaker 4: Oh well, that's all right, I'll just carry it over
to December. I'm gonna need all the dough I've got on.
Speaker 7: Me today and you'll need all you got on your
in December. I don't like the donner pal Casey, but I'm.
Speaker 4: Know you be miss Economy for button in like Christmas Williams.
Speaker 6: But Casey, after I left your.
Speaker 4: Side, I got to think we're glad to see you again. Fellow,
I'm not.
Speaker 8: Having no no, no thanks. I hope you'll excuse me,
Miss Williams. Casey, you frank too much work. Step outside
with me while, Okay.
Speaker 9: I can talk to you along.
Speaker 4: Why I'd appreciate it, Casey a lot.
Speaker 5: Sure, go ahead, Casey, I'll wait for you here.
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Speaker 10: Oh and I, Tony, turn.
Speaker 4: Into the side street, Kase you ain't too crowded. We
can talk, okay, but I gouldn't wish this on you.
Speaker 8: Casey, you ain't a guy who owes me anything. After
I run into you by accident a while ago, I
got to think and it maybe it was one of
them them signs you see, I've been praying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it was always.
Speaker 8: The regular in my book, and I got to think
that maybe you was the one guy in the world
I could time to for help.
Speaker 4: Well kind of help you need. I'm not so heavy
with doll I had plans for the day. But if
you've got the hen, I don't want any money. Oh well,
you got out in trouble man. Any minute, you're wrong
with the cops again. Not yet, not yet, Casey.
Speaker 8: I've been one hundred percent straight since I came out
of store last time.
Speaker 4: I asked you to believe that. I believe you, But
I the wife and I filled up a nice little business.
We got.
Speaker 8: We got a store uptown with the back of candy
toy stationary.
Speaker 4: Things were going along just swell until two weeks ago.
What happened?
Speaker 8: Then a couple of guys come into my store with
a proposition. They wanted me to crack a safe. Yeah,
they offered me five thousand bucks to do this job.
Speaker 4: Nice money. I told them where to go with it.
Speaker 8: A couple of days later they come back, they raised,
they were offered a ten grand.
Speaker 4: They threw them out of the place. Gone. I didn't
give me nothing. He told me I'd play along with
him or routes.
Speaker 8: And then this morning I found a loaded forty five
caliber automatic under my candy Conic gun. Yeah, I'm an
ex con Casey, a three time loser.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean for me? If the cops
kind of got in my possession, you'd get the book.
Speaker 8: Sure, I'd be put away from the keats. The gun
was planted under that kind of casey. Sometime during the
night I wrapped it up. I made an excuse to
the wife, so I had to come downtown and I
went to the North Bridge and I dropped it in
the river.
Speaker 4: This gun was left where you'd be sure to find it. Yeah,
it wasn't met as a frame, just a there's a
hint of what will happen if I don't play ball?
Or the two guys been around to follow up their hint.
I don't know.
Speaker 8: I ain't been back to the store. Oh and so
I left the bridge. I'd just been walking around and
trying to think. My wife don't know anything about them
guys in the proposition, I ain't told it. I can't
tell her.
Speaker 4: You know, it's all about my record. You can figure
how sketch you'd be, and you haven't told the cops.
The guy like me ever runded the cop, Well, it'd
be smart if you ran to this.
Speaker 8: Why not in the first place, they wouldn't believe me.
The next con, I figure I's trying to put something over.
Speaker 4: I can't blame him. Casey, Well, I can tell them.
Speaker 8: You've got to promise me you wont listen. Suppose they
did believe me. What happens They set a trap for
the guys who proposition me. Them guys got friends will
note at the squall that the cops acted on how
to come from me.
Speaker 4: My life wouldn't be worth a. Knickel. Yeah, you got something.
Promise me you won't say nothing but the cops. Case
you got it? What do you want me to do?
But I don't know.
Speaker 8: I just had to talk to somebody had so well
guy I knew was right, and I ain't got such
a good head. Casey got figured maybe maybe you.
Speaker 4: Could figure my way out. Thanks for the compliment. A
lot of guys that came to you with propers, I
don't know. They didn't tell me the name. I get
around a little. What do they look like? One was
tall and skinny, hit a long face and big yellow teeth.
He kind of looks like a horse.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: The god is a little dark, heavy set. Wait a minute,
the one you say it looks like a horses. He
got a long scar on his neck. Yeah, like somebody
done a shift job burn. It can't be two months.
Who answer to that description scar neck, horse face must
be Jake Bannison heads strong arm going for Nick Reynolds.
Nick Reynolds, you must know who he is. The name's
familiar brain. You are out of touch with the rackets kid.
Nick Reynolds is the mister big behind some of the
dirtiest crooked work that goes on in this town. But
he posses as a solid, respectable business guy, and the
cups have never been able to name him. Oh wait
a minute, tell me more about the little heavy set
mugg or.
Speaker 6: He looks he's.
Speaker 4: Got a cauliflower ear like a pug, and he stinks
of perfume. Tony chef, he's another rentals guys. This is
beginning to sound like hot stuff. I don't suppose they
told you who's safe. They won't open no, didn't take
anything about it. Only there was a small house safe,
a real tough one. That's why he needed an old
hotshot like me. And they offered your dough to crack
at ten grand. They didn't say anything about giving you
a share of what's in it. That's right.
Speaker 8: I got a notion there isn't any do in a box.
The sharecase he just up and that somebody wants and
he's willing to pay high for.
Speaker 4: I think you can find out for those guys where
the box is, the location of the house, and who
lives there. But they won't tell me. Let's they say,
I'll play ball with him. Oh that's right to do.
But like to your store, they got to be paying
you a visit there today after planning that gun try
to learn all you can and then well and made
other plans for this afternoon. But I'll stick around a
blue note. I'll write down the number of a phone
booth there so we can talk in private when you
call here. It is thanks, Casey. I've got a dinner
date for round seven that I can't break, fellow, and
then I'll tie it up for the rest of the evening.
So if your guys don't show by seven, things are
going to have to just ride a while. I guess.
In the meantime, I'll be running down a little tip
I got on Nick Reynolds. Yeah, it's just a piece
of gossip. I didn't think much of until I heard
your story. Now it may mean something. Well, song, but
take it easy now, I'm trying not to worry.
Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 4: I'll try. But remember you promised me, Casey, you will
tell the cop. Yeah, yeah, and that's right. I won't
tell the cops.
Speaker 5: And because you're at this con, big friend is so worried.
Speaker 6: Case you need me sitting.
Speaker 5: Here in a blue note for most of the afternoon.
Speaker 4: I phoned you.
Speaker 5: I be a little delayed, little delayed, look at the time.
Speaker 6: It's nearly five o'clock.
Speaker 5: You were taking me to the movies this afternoon, Remember.
Speaker 4: Please, kid, what's a movie when a guy's in a jam?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: You know, poor fellow is in a bed spot.
Speaker 7: He's in a terrible spot from what case he's told us,
Miss Williams. And I don't see what can be done
about it without help from the cops.
Speaker 4: And if they're brought into the picture, Ethelbert, theif would
be killed for squealing. Nick Reynolds is behying this thing,
and he plays rough casey.
Speaker 5: You said you've been following up a tip on Reynolds.
Speaker 4: Why you know Monday's Summer's Annie the Summers Detective Agency.
Speaker 5: Summer's Blackmail Bureau would be a better name for his
out there.
Speaker 4: That's right, Well, Summers is a shakedown artist of the
dirtiest kind. He's done a lot of work for Nick Reynolds,
but he doesn't work for him anymore. There's been a bust.
Speaker 6: I heard that.
Speaker 4: My tip was that Summers pulled the old double cross
and collected evidence against his boss Reynolds, enough to send
him away for life. Now, Reynolds is supposed to be
paying him plenty to keep that evidence under his hat.
Speaker 5: That tip sounds like a phony. Reynolds wouldn't pay a
black mallory have him bumped off.
Speaker 4: Well, sure, like you just said, Casey, nick Reynolds plays rough. Yeah,
but he's too smart to play rough when he stands
to lose by it. Though, if Summers has the goods
on Reynolds, it's in documentary form, it won't be destroyed
by his death, since that Somemers has convinced his old
boss that the stuff will be made public he's killed
or if he disappears.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's so for Casey. What's it got to do
with your friend fifth Connor?
Speaker 4: Therefore, for him, two of Nick reynolds trusted hoods offer
fifth of plat sum, not a share to open a
house safe? You mean, well, it could be Monty Summer's
documentary evidence that Reynolds wants.
Speaker 5: If it is, and we could get it, Casey.
Speaker 4: What a story, ring, What a story? But exclusive pictures.
It'd be worth missing an afternoon movie for, wouldn't it, kid.
Speaker 5: I'll say?
Speaker 7: And if the evidence got Nick Reynolds sent to jail,
this town would be a much better place.
Speaker 4: To live in.
Speaker 6: But how thissteria yours gonna help this Connor's.
Speaker 4: Casey m a dozen that's a complication. Well, since Fifth
hasn't phoned, I guess Renol's Muggs didn't show up at
this place. He's probably taking a holiday off.
Speaker 5: No, I'm like a little holiday myself and away from
this place. I'm hot, green, Casey, let's start for the Red.
Speaker 4: Well, it's nearly seven o'clock yet, any I told her
these phones out telling me you've gone to the Red
case he ended up call.
Speaker 5: Oh no, ethel, but I'm not gonna have my Thanksgiving
Ginnis boiled by phone calls for Casey.
Speaker 7: You're so anxious to get out of the good old
blue note, Miss Williams Night thought.
Speaker 5: Well you think again. After we leave here, you tell
nobody where to reach us. We're going to have the
rest of this day to watch Soul.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'll you'll do it, Miss william says, power. Really
nothing I can do for Fifth tonight. And he's going
to stall those guys anyway, will you say, Casey? Yeah,
Well come on Annie.
Speaker 5: At last, we're going places.
Speaker 4: Right along Applebird.
Speaker 3: Yes, Waller phone call for you and the boot mister Connor.
Speaker 6: No, no excuse me.
Speaker 5: I might have known Afflsbert, I might have known.
Speaker 4: Hello, Casey speaking, this is best Connors. Anything happened.
Speaker 9: It's funny. The guys were here and I couldn't stroll
them like you told me.
Speaker 4: Casey couldn't.
Speaker 9: No, they said that get my wife and kid if
I didn't fall in line. They weren't nothing. I gotta
do that job tonight at twelve.
Speaker 4: Are roundswell tonight?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I promised him. I will, and I have to.
There's no way you or anybody else can help me out.
Speaker 4: Pal.
Speaker 9: I just fall because I said I wouldn't. You wouldn't
have kept hanging around till seven o'clock.
Speaker 4: All wit a minute, don't hang out fifty fifth After
you promise those guys that you do their job, they
tell you where it's gonna be.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know what you promised me, case No cop.
Speaker 4: You've got to trust me, So I'll give me that address,
will you.
Speaker 9: Okay? It's on righter wrap No. Number three nine.
Speaker 4: Oh three nine all like that's right. Those two guys
will go there with you at twelve tonight.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I'll be watching me every minute. Casey would
go to them.
Speaker 4: Well, listen, stay in your store. I'll get in touch
with it there by ten thirty. There's a swell chance.
But if there's every chance, now, stop worrying, kid, you'll
hear from me in a couple of hours. Hold on,
I got faith, so on faith and a liar. I
can't figure any chance.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: Don't tell me we're not heading for the risks and
Turkey dinner.
Speaker 4: No, they're gonna have to look over money Summer's house
right now.
Speaker 5: I mean Money Summers a black.
Speaker 4: I looked up his address this afternoon, just in case.
Speaker 3: He lives at three.
Speaker 4: Nine O Riker Avenue. Come on, Annie, let's go. Yeah
my song after s.
Speaker 6: No Thanksgiving dinner for you to overs through the hose. WeGo.
The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through
the southing.
Speaker 4: The hi Yeah, the bird say it wasn't that the
Casey and Miss Williams just leaving Blue Nose.
Speaker 6: Oh, mister Cullen, Yeah that was them.
Speaker 3: Well I didn't speak to me.
Speaker 6: Well, they was going so fast they must not have seen.
Speaker 3: Your Yeah, why to speed?
Speaker 7: Well, they're trying to stop a safe cracker from cracking
a shape he don't.
Speaker 6: Want to crack.
Speaker 4: I don't quite follow you Ethelbert but I gather that
crime does not take a holiday.
Speaker 7: No, and in case he figured it would, he'd promise
miss Williams Turkey and Trimin's is the rich. That's where
he made his mistake.
Speaker 3: Mistake.
Speaker 4: Well, I'd call that a pretty sound idea for Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 7: Making a promise to a woman, Mister Cullen, that's always
a mistake.
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and it's been a great thing for everybody.
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give themselves satisfactory permanence right at home. But Tony developed
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a promise and backed it up with a guarantee. They said,
Tony will give you a permanent that lasts just as
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women were interested. They tried Tony and the promise came true.
They found they can give themselves waves and curls with
Tony that are so soft and shiny they look like
naturally curly hair, so they told their friends.
Speaker 3: And what's happened?
Speaker 6: You're asking me?
Speaker 4: Or is that a reader oracle?
Speaker 3: I guess everybody knows the answer, Ethelbert.
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That's the whale of a big house, and all these
summers live as well. Well.
Speaker 5: Now that we're looking at it, Kasey, what are you
going to do?
Speaker 4: And we've got to think as though we planned to
crack a safe here to ourselves.
Speaker 5: The easiest to go in and out from the front.
Speaker 4: Seeah, I think I'd come here in a car and
parking under one of these threes, not directly in front
of the house, of course, but close enough for a
quick getaway.
Speaker 5: Can't even look out in it?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I wouldn't do that. A guy sitting
in a park car, I'd have tracked attention. If I
don't want, i'd post to lookout, but he won't be
in the car even near it most of the time.
Speaker 5: Well, now that that's decided, what do we do?
Speaker 4: Oh kid? Trying to make us think. I'm pretty sure
that Nick Renolds will come here himself with fifth and
those rotenensnet. He trust nobody but himself to take that
evidence out of the safety wanted his own hands, take
it away and examine it.
Speaker 5: Well, if it's a chacker getting him, we've got to
get the cons in on this.
Speaker 4: They catch FIfF opening the Saints in spite of everything
that we could say in a Guy's favorite, the law
says the fourth offenders go up for life, and we've
got to catch Renolds with the goods and at the
same time he's FIfF out of it.
Speaker 5: It's a large order.
Speaker 4: It is too large kit. I can't see any way
to fill it.
Speaker 5: Casey, if you and I came back here at midnight
and hit ourselves. When Reynolds and Diffconnor and the others
come out, we can cover them with a couple of guns.
We'll capture Reynolds and his gang and the bis Connors
get away.
Speaker 4: Annie, can you really picture you and me in a
gangster movie act like that? We only get ourselves shot.
Speaker 5: I guess you're not the right type. Why aren't we
Like some of the characters we see in the movie.
They solve everything so easily by just drawing their trust
the automatic and.
Speaker 6: Going banging nags.
Speaker 5: We were what am I a woman or a mouse?
In that Weston we saw last week, gal my size
captured a dozen tough cattle rustlers by yourself.
Speaker 4: H well, our boyfriend was pretty good too.
Speaker 5: Enhance them in the fancy pants. He is certainly a
shock with a lowrys too.
Speaker 4: LA's the character who tried to steal Graham Tappy's b
friends his pino pony so hard. I kind of got
a can bones.
Speaker 5: Listen, I'm so easy in the movie. Oh well, I'm
wind of thinking, been getting us anywhere?
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, maybe it is.
Speaker 6: Lasso man Horse Casey.
Speaker 4: He got an idea and you have. Yeah, come on,
get in the car. I'll tell you about it. If
we we're on a way to borrow something that I'll need,
then I'll get to bit Connor and tell him honestly
that he has a swell chance. I really got a chance, Casey.
But you have every chat tell me no, not yet.
Do tell me about the setup for the night as
you got it from Reynolds Rodman. Want to meet him
a couple of blocks from here, see at eleven o'clock like.
Speaker 6: I told you.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 8: They'll be in a blacks todaan. They'll have the tools
they'll need for the safe. Yet, can we drive right
out to the richer revenue house? They say, the guy
who owns the joint won't be there. That's why the
jef's got to be done tonight. It's only a servant
in her house and he's been fakirs. They don't look
for any trouble then, no, they claim it'll be a said.
Speaker 4: You want to do for a surprise. You're the only
one who's not headed for trouble. Okay, see tell me
what I know. No, unless you know about this whole thing,
the better for you. But I want you to be
sure to do three things.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: First, after you open the safe, don't let any of
the guys with you destroy anything they taken out of it.
Acts scared. Insist on getting out of the house right away. Okay,
all right now. Second, when you reach the getaway car
or get into the back seat bat seat. Yeah. Third,
take a grip on the front seat and brace yourself.
Brace yourself with all the muscle that you've got.
Speaker 5: They's been in that house of one hours.
Speaker 4: This summer's safe must be really tough Reynold's hand to
get an expert like fifth this job.
Speaker 5: You're sure it was Nick Reynolds.
Speaker 4: That was a dead shot. He went in with FIfF
in more space. Reynold's presence here any means that we
gets light about his the personal interest in that safe.
That explosion from inside the house, it means Biff has
had to blow us.
Speaker 5: Then it's open down and he'll soon be coming out. Right,
you're certainty. Look out didn't see what you did a
while ago?
Speaker 4: Of course you didn't. It's the end of the block
across the street when I was working in the dark.
Speaker 5: I hope the work he did work.
Speaker 4: Trust old cowboy, casey and quiet quiet, keep back any
shadows that are coming from the house. Now and fast.
Speaker 5: Reynolds is carrying the break, see it.
Speaker 4: Look God set himself in the car. He's going to drive.
Speaker 6: He started the motor.
Speaker 4: Since the others get in, I'll help him make a
good fast get.
Speaker 5: Away if he doesn't start that car.
Speaker 4: To me, the others are in the car now.
Speaker 5: Reynold's taking the front seat beside the driver.
Speaker 4: That's perfect.
Speaker 5: Now they're all in.
Speaker 4: It's time for me to impersonate a cop here goes, Hey,
you fellow's in that car?
Speaker 5: You made the driver step on the gas game.
Speaker 4: I'm hard.
Speaker 3: It won't be long now.
Speaker 5: Can't do the scheme work.
Speaker 4: Couldn't say, oh, come on, we got to get swiff
out of the pe. He braced himself to if he
didn't look a man's calling from Okay, that happened to
the car?
Speaker 6: There's nothing in front of us. There's nothing there now.
Speaker 4: Suddenly the things stopped like we had a stone wall.
I see your free playmates went half through the wind ship.
There are cool tasey whatever mind. You haven't got time
to ask any questions. Now rand at Corny you'll find
a black Ford cool here's the key. Get in, drive
home quick as you can. And if anybody ever asked
you say you've never been near Riker Avenue. Come on,
bif get going quick, get whatever you say. But you're
like to know what happened to that car. See what
the sleeping mister Reynolds has in his briefcase.
Speaker 6: I want.
Speaker 4: A lot of letters, canceled chicks, all incriminating, I imagine
now and we'll call a coup.
Speaker 5: And then casey, do you think a gown may safely
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Speaker 6: I'm terribly sorry we can't get you and Casey.
Speaker 7: Nothing better out of the kitchen than this cold turkey,
Miss Williams.
Speaker 3: But of course the cooks left hours ago.
Speaker 5: I just love cold turkey Ethelburn and at this hour
morning got so much nicer than at dinner I expected
to have the writ Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well awful. Sorry anyway, I certainly comed up your day,
didn't done? You ever know?
Speaker 5: When I'm kidding, Casey, I've had a swell day, a
real day for Thanksgiving, because we accomplished something worthwhile you're powering, Shay.
Speaker 7: You ain't call me yet how you made that car
stop like it had hit a stone wall.
Speaker 4: You've seen a lot of wild West movies Eelburn.
Speaker 5: Well, then you've seen men pulled off running horses with
the lassos.
Speaker 4: Lots of the horse always kept on running. Yeah, and
I imagine the horse was last tho, not the rider.
Speaker 5: The horse had stopped dead, and it's right it would
keep on going over its head.
Speaker 4: That's what happened to the crooks getaway car.
Speaker 6: You last showed that car case that monitor.
Speaker 5: That casey brought a very strong one hundred and fifty
foot steel cable out.
Speaker 4: There Athelbram with a hook at both ends.
Speaker 5: In the darkness, he took one end of his cable
to the axle of that car and the other end
to a big tree.
Speaker 4: I made a noise like a cop to startle a
driver into a good fast start.
Speaker 5: And when the cable paid out to it little.
Speaker 6: I get it. And the only reason fifth Connors was
not to the wind she liked the others, was because
he braced himself like it's old.
Speaker 4: That's right. Even he was a little dazed when he
climbed out though.
Speaker 5: Oh anyway, Reynolds and his mob were all washed up
thanks to the stuff in that briefcase. They can't hurt
fIF Connors or anyone else.
Speaker 6: You two had quite a holiday.
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm, no, grand one, Oh abed some more cold turkey, Casey.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I will any And it didn't cost you anything.
Speaker 7: You saved money by not going to the movies, to
the rich for dinner, and to.
Speaker 6: A play after for sure.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can't need all of dough you got on you.
It's not huh.
Speaker 7: I hate to done a friend, Casey, but there's a
little matter of that long overdue October bill and.
Speaker 5: You've got your case. I'm dead to right.
Speaker 4: Oh. If this isn't an ending for a grand here,
I've been roped in myself.
Speaker 6: Well, as my sister Edna says. Quote, if you give
a calf enough rope, he can't be led to wolf. No, No,
you can lead a camp before he crosses. I'll be
turned if I don't forget it unquote.
Speaker 4: Well, all right, after that, here's what I owe you.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving, blur, Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Speaker 3: Crime Photographer.
Speaker 4: Starring Scott Scottsworth as Casey, is directed by John Deets.
It's written by Alonzo Dean Cole, and it's based on
the fictional character of flash Gun Casey, created by George
Harmon Kosts original music by Archie Blyier, and the program
features Ms Chan Miner as Ann and John Gibson as
Ethelbert Herman Hittisen is the Bluemouth pianist. This Bill Cullen
asking you to listen again next week at the same
time to another exciting adventure of crime photographer, and also
inviting you to listen to This is Norah Drake Radio's
thrilling serial Romance, heard every Monday through Friday to thirty
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. The number one thing that stands out to
me about this episode is just the lack of actors
in it. You know, we've got our three regulars and
then we've got this safe cracker. One of the actors
doubles up to play the waiter, and as doctor Joe
Webb points out, we never hear the gangsters, and nearly
all the action occurs off screen and we're only told
about it later. Have to see how many of these
issues are persistent with the Tony's when we get to it.
I will say that even though Tony's is a permanent
their sponsorship of Casey was only temporary. So if you
get into those episodes and find them not quite to
your liking, be aware that there will be another sponsor
and more changes in the series. There's a relatively few
number of those in circulation. I do think that the
lack of actors. One potential thing that stands out to
me is that this was actually released on Thanksgiving, so
you might have had a bit of a skeleton crew
and there could be some economizing. I do like that
we did get a bit of you know, Casey's just
you know, soft guys, soft side. You know, somebody's in trouble,
they need help, and Casey, you know, will go out
of his way to help them, and I think that's true.
You know, in the Pulps as well as on the
radio program, the commercials were something that Doctor Webb had
issue with, particularly the in the middle of the episode commercials,
and I tend to agree with him. Some of those
in episode commercials. He mentioned comedy programs and some that
I can think of, or Burns and Allen, you know,
great commercials that got worked into the story. And even
if you want to look at more of a dramatic program.
With Martin Kane on television, they actually did these same
sort of embedded commercials and it worked on the Martin
Caine TV Show because you know, the Tobacconist, it was
like a regular a character and uh, you know, Martin
kin had a reason for going in there. You know,
Ethelbert doesn't really have a good reason to be discussing
Tony's home permanent, and so that uh uh that that's
a bit awkward and I don't think works as well.
There are others too that I think are you know,
if not like completely awkward. There's just kind of a
waste of time, uh Lum and Abner for General Electric,
those commercials there's no humor and uh there's just not
a whole lot of value in them. So it's a
tricky thing. I will say that I did like the
singing uh a commercial later on, I thought that one
was pretty cute. All right, Well, now it's time to
thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to
Murph MCB, Patreon supporter since February, currently supporting us at
the Shawmus level of four dollars more per month. Well
that will do it for today. If you are enjoying
this podcast, please rate and review it wherever you're downloading
of this podcast from now. I will note as we
close that it's really rare for us to have Thanksgiving
detective programs. We've had a total of four in fourteen years,
and two of them have been episodes of Casey Crime Photographer,
and I don't actually expect we'll have any additional detective
episode with a Thanksgiving theme. But if you do find
yourself hungary for more Thanksgiving full time radio goodness, then
I encourage you to take your plate and go over
to a second helping over on Amazing World of Radio
Amazing Great Detectives dot net. On Wednesday, we will have
our annual Thanksgiving special. Of course, we will be back
next Monday with another episode of Casey Crome Photographer.
Speaker 4: But coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll have an episode of Jeff Reagan.
Speaker 11: Where after Drake Mirabel's husband had bought five hundred thousand
worms twelve months ago from Myron Balaxi. The worms across
five thousand bucks. Mirabel's prize winnings converted to cash. It
started a worm farm. The algebra of the multiplication of
worms began to get out of hand the way Mirabel
told it. So I said, maybe we better get out
to her place and get the dope straight from the
worm grower's mouth.
Speaker 4: She said, okay.
Speaker 11: The Drake place was on the El Segunda flats between
La and the Ocean Rancho Gussano in the Spanish worm ranch.
That meant clapboard house, ten mailbox, jasoline cans and orange
crates lying around the yard. I thought of a beautiful
kid like Mirabel Drake living in a place like that,
and then all of a sudden I was thinking of
something else.
Speaker 4: Oh, I haven't got the shot him down.
Speaker 11: Come on, baby, those shots came from the back of
the house. I ran it around to the back of
the tumble downon house Mirabelle Drake fifteen seconds in bacony. Yeah,
but after Drake hadn't shot himself. It was a third shot.
Just as I rounded the corner of the house and
I saw a tall, gaunt guy and overalls you had
an old fashioned Springfield rifle in his hands, and when
he saw me he shouldered at me.
Speaker 6: Stop Now you sure sure?
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