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Today we're going to take a look down a road
that Jack Webb's career could have gone down as we
bring you an unaired pilot for a series called three
four Adventure. This was recorded sometime in nineteen forty nine
and the title of this episode is the story of Roundhouse,
Rosie and the Samis Cants.
Speaker 3: That cattle cars open. Let's go, that's Mcanough Jonathan Cornell. One,
give me a hand, Mac, Let's do Callida two?
Speaker 4: Where promis time? I'm coming.
Speaker 3: That's Jack's Wake. Three oh Adventure.
Speaker 5: Rocking and a Rambling and a rolling Loping through the
night on a cattle car on a fast break, bucking
and bumping in a box door. And it's darkened here,
and it's hotting here in our own care, crying and flying.
Speaker 4: I wish I wasn't all the time homesick.
Speaker 6: Texas hot dog oil fields and cotton fields.
Speaker 5: And northerns and cyclone prairie dogs, and with keep bushes,
cattle and cows and copper heads. Beautiful women, blue bonnets
and making birds and suns, and beautiful women and blues guys.
Speaker 3: Why don't you shut up? They are beautiful women in
New Orleans Jackson?
Speaker 5: Of course, I figured the feller from Texas is lonesome
enough for you. Ought to do right good with them
New Orleans tomatoes. How would get working up?
Speaker 3: Do it? Jack's? You kill me?
Speaker 7: Always carrying books home from school for some bait with
high heel shoes and a.
Speaker 3: Low cut frock.
Speaker 5: Looky looks to me though the folks lives in glass houses.
Speaker 4: Ought to go around throwing rocks.
Speaker 3: Get you? You're a sweet and subtle Texas man, ain't you? Jackson? Now?
What do you mean by ride boys?
Speaker 8: All?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 9: Oh I got some rest you may need it. Mac, Yeah,
not that I mind.
Speaker 7: You understand, with all my life, I've been riding trains
in the dark.
Speaker 3: Subways, box cars, always in the dark. Why don't we
take a pullman, We got the dough because I want
us to get into New Orleans without anyone knowing we're there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mack, why don't you brief us?
Speaker 5: Son? We don't do nothing after This is the wrong
time of the year to go looking for a mighty grasp?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what are we after this time? At Opal? Black opal,
heart shape, framed in rubies worth about forty thousand dollars stolen. Yeah,
pigeon carrier pigeon took it away.
Speaker 4: Carry Hey, man, you feel good?
Speaker 3: They kind of feel bline.
Speaker 4: Well, how we're gonna catch a pigeon? That's done?
Speaker 3: Let some work. That's a problem, isn't it. This black Opal,
once belonged to a Mayan princess, was a gift of
the Republic of Honduras. The Nero of India. The supposedly
secret Messenger, stopped off in New Orleans on his way
to New Delhi. There he was threatened with death unless
he followed instructions. A carrier pigeon and was delivered to
him by express he was told to put the opal
in a little harness to pigeon war, then to turn
the bird loose.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll be durned. What did he do it?
Speaker 3: He's too frightened not to just tossed the little pigeon
into the air and watched it fly away with his opal. Huh,
that's right too. That was a week ago. I just
didn't want any publicity, so the legation wired me to
see what they remembered the job we did before them. There,
So here we are.
Speaker 5: Black Opal and black eyed women hot Dog Fly Frame Fly.
Speaker 3: Jax, Wake up, we're here.
Speaker 5: I was just dreaming about a black eyed gale named open.
Speaker 3: Slid the door open deal. I don't want to take
any chances. Let's get off all the train still moving.
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, come on jumping in the sleep sleep.
Speaker 3: Nobody saw us. Let's cut right through here. Right.
Speaker 5: Oh, I have a firtish leg mac us coming into
town on freight train.
Speaker 4: Ain't nobody gonna nowhere here?
Speaker 3: Come on, let's move Jacks, you idiot, never mind your gun?
Come on follow me.
Speaker 4: Well they're shooting at the same thing.
Speaker 3: Come on your head, step on it. Right. Three for
Adventure starring Elliott Lewis as Mac barking Yarborough as Jacks
and Jack Webb. Let's do the Night's Adventure, the story
of Roundhouse, Rosie and the Siamese Cats. Right there, Duck
behind that tool set? Come on, yeah, all right? Not
still from him? No, it's okay, nobody's coming.
Speaker 4: Who you reckon?
Speaker 9: Done that?
Speaker 4: Shoot? And how did they know we is here?
Speaker 3: The slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes?
Speaker 4: Ling him? Was bullet Son?
Speaker 3: I never mind, Jackson, gentlemen, welcome to New Orleans. Juke.
Who'd want this black opal so much he'd commit murder
for it? Any ideas? Yeah? Who's hobby? His pigeons?
Speaker 7: And whose professionist jewel robbery? I learned the answer to
that one in night school.
Speaker 3: That's right, the gypsy. He's here, That's why we're here,
all right, Duke? You know anyone I know a Dan?
Speaker 4: You're the knowing this man?
Speaker 7: And I know he's a Chinese Spanish bay with headquarters
in a waterfront hotel near the street war Well, she
used to be there.
Speaker 5: Well, let's go part Chinese and part Spanish. Loadus blossoms
and Chillick and carny. Well, what are we waiting for Jackson.
Speaker 3: I think she might know anything we could use, duke.
If she does, will she talk, she'll talk.
Speaker 4: I keep on saying let's go, So let's go.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the coast is clear. All right, come on, we'll
lucky you.
Speaker 4: They load the coffee right off, but train onto a big.
Speaker 3: Old boat up these stairs. All right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we just dick right close to me now, Son,
I'll take.
Speaker 3: Care of everything. Where are you going?
Speaker 4: What didn't the man say up the stairs?
Speaker 3: Oh? Checks, come off it? Will you?
Speaker 7: Do you think his baby faced sheet ching lofez is
going to talk to a convention.
Speaker 3: Both of you are staying right here outside?
Speaker 5: Well, all right, but can't you say it nice?
Speaker 3: Ging or sheep for you? All right? I look bonehead.
If we don't go up there and break it up
right well, I'm getting in my hair. Go ahead you okay.
If I'm not down in half an hour, you might
look in on room two fourteen.
Speaker 5: If I have to come get you, I'm on. Bust
your breches with a board.
Speaker 4: I'm hungry. Man, h.
Speaker 3: Still dark, same old place here we are. Come on,
come on, come on, what do you want? Open up?
You do?
Speaker 11: Colira eatings? I's a very.
Speaker 7: Happy, very real pretty that way you talk, we'll keep
them happy.
Speaker 11: Huh, very pleasant? Will you come see me? A duke
has a mission that he is in his into sitting.
Speaker 7: Still wearing the little bells, aren't you? What do you
know about carrier pigeons?
Speaker 11: Clever?
Speaker 3: Was it not?
Speaker 11: He makes eating a shame?
Speaker 3: Made you ashamed? Why?
Speaker 11: Because I don't think of it? The black opal would
be like dark fire and fitting throat? Do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think. Look, baby, I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 11: We want that rock, so maybe put another girl's throat.
Speaker 3: You want to stall? You think that's smart?
Speaker 11: No, I don't know what to stall for the last time?
Fitting see you? You run away? Dude? You know what
means my name pating? It means a book of polity.
Do you not want to read poem?
Speaker 3: I read a poem once. I just start talking anytime now. Look,
if I got to remind you that business you got
mixed up in with Rosie? Do I have to tell
you what I can do to you?
Speaker 11: You would not want to, would you?
Speaker 3: Where's the gypsy?
Speaker 11: You ask? Much? From sitting gypsy young? His man wishes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what he is? Why protect him?
Speaker 11: Where is he sitting like you too, Oh yeah, like
you too much sittings. Can not speak one little word?
Are you understand?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 11: No, one little word? Yeah? Thanks? Subject?
Speaker 3: Now all right, what do we talk about?
Speaker 11: If any singular you you mentioned Rosie?
Speaker 3: M h, I get it. You're nice, you, sir?
Speaker 11: Then I this time? You know right away you come
back to seating.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but don't wait up. Well, let's it.
Speaker 11: Uh, that's I still remember one called finder finder lucas.
You worked with Rosie that time. Also, yeah, and I
remember you have a dragon nightspot therefore night do you know?
Speaker 3: M hm, you're okay?
Speaker 11: I might be you have not said one would I don't.
Speaker 3: Even know your name. I don't even believe it exists you,
But don't get dusty on a shelf.
Speaker 7: Night she chain, book of poetry? Yeh, dope over here, pencil?
Speaker 4: Hey here you are?
Speaker 3: All right? Big broken down prime house? About that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, about eleven oh five, Felicity. I'll meet me there
in half an hour. Bring the bell three times, Ask
for Rosie Rosie. Yeah, roundhouse, Rosie. I'll beat it.
Speaker 3: Driver. I'm not sure the exact address. Just let us
off when you get to the eleven hundred block On
Felicity Road.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, sure, say you're m color Jonathan Cornell, aren't you? Yes, yes,
that's never forget a face had the elect wants out
at the university. Very fun, grass of a subject, very fine, fat.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I got a college type wife. She all the time
wants to go to a picture show me. I like
lectures to an escape from on reality, like chasing a
black Opal chickaret.
Speaker 5: Right like mm hmm, right, you've got yourself from my
nosy taxicab in Qusport.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know that black opals weren't about forty grand.
Your cut will be about three percent. That's twelve hundred
dollars forty percent. Offer inflation brings it down about seven
hundred and twenty bucks.
Speaker 4: Could be waste.
Speaker 8: You shall buy a junck of Jallames the way go
he who use me?
Speaker 3: Well, you're a very well informed man, mister James James.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: But there don't let a worry in, mister Cornell. I'm
merely an observer of the passing show. I indulge in
other people's business in a purely objective, scientific manner.
Speaker 4: Here we are.
Speaker 3: How much we are you?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, it's on a hospital.
Speaker 8: Cornell I heard you lecture on a pass or call
it even h watch out for Rosie. They haven't read
about you and beings so long?
Speaker 3: Good luck.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm a suck ignan. Does everybody in New Orleans
know what we after? How you the figure fell like that?
Speaker 4: Is you on a level?
Speaker 3: Man? I don't know. I think maybe it People like
that make me realize I wasn't wrong to stop living
under the lion.
Speaker 7: Of course, Uh, nothing ever might anywhere.
Speaker 3: We'll have to think our chances.
Speaker 4: I just hope you right, That's all I hope knows it.
Speaker 5: Wasn't That must be the house right in front of
busted down, dark old neighborhood, busted down frame.
Speaker 3: Building, elicit c road. Here we go.
Speaker 5: I'm kind of hungry, you're old, we are, well where's oh?
Speaker 3: Here's the bell? Three times? Yeah? I got it. M
fine place to live and uh warm it.
Speaker 5: For boating on them and enough light around here to
light up a full grow glitter, but.
Speaker 6: And no lights on inside of none we can see
it's too quiet.
Speaker 3: I don't like it, you know. I expect the answers doorbell,
mm hmm.
Speaker 5: I expect to see a blood colored ghost yankees door open.
Speaker 6: Many minutes.
Speaker 3: Why blood colored?
Speaker 6: I don't know. It just seems like a blood colored
ghost at open my door?
Speaker 3: Blood colored?
Speaker 6: Got your gune? I forgot again? You don't care?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 6: Should I ought to mash on the doorbells more?
Speaker 3: No, it's way, it's late. Maybe waute and here comes one?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 4: What you want?
Speaker 3: Are you? Miss Rosie? Miss Rosie?
Speaker 4: Who you looking for?
Speaker 3: I believe we would ask for a brown half Rosie?
Speaker 4: At you? Ain't it could be? Could be? Is you
look like?
Speaker 3: Do Colliders said he'd meet us here?
Speaker 11: Do Collider? Why he put inside it?
Speaker 4: You stay inside quite a lot, don't you?
Speaker 3: Roses? Right? Boy?
Speaker 11: Smart?
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 12: Smart?
Speaker 3: Boy? I'm a color? Jonathan Cornell? This is Ja's wakem
Waco You kidding whole well?
Speaker 4: It didn't nobody baptize you round half? Did they?
Speaker 12: I wonder how you look with your tongue split?
Speaker 4: Oh wait, we got us a holt.
Speaker 12: Go int the parlor.
Speaker 3: You're coming with fea.
Speaker 11: In a minute on that.
Speaker 3: Wonder what that means?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Probably just little female deep theil like tucking her pet
copper heads to sleep.
Speaker 4: Man, ain't she a care?
Speaker 3: That's so loud?
Speaker 5: Four hundred pounds of blubber and large, all dressed up.
My mother hovered with butterflies on it.
Speaker 4: And did you get that jewelry?
Speaker 5: She was wearing a necklace, ear rings and brushlet's all
made out of shit?
Speaker 3: O luck Jacks, you keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 3: That woman's dangerous. Can't you see that? Maybe so?
Speaker 4: Huh? And little pig guys, what's so? Watch Mac? What're
you getting there?
Speaker 3: You're keeping needling her? She hates you already. I'll cut
it out.
Speaker 4: Oh I would just hoo wrong.
Speaker 3: She won't take it, and I remember that, so I
must go in the parlor. It must be through those kurkles.
Speaker 5: No, got my foot and my big mouth already by hey.
Speaker 3: Wow, homes this for a studying bad taste?
Speaker 4: Oh we silver and gold paint all over it? A
f h looking on it. That dive vana that the Devin.
Speaker 3: Porter there especially made for Rosie.
Speaker 4: Durned thing is five foot of crawl? Man, what a
fat be?
Speaker 3: Wiat wanted they hear you? Oh?
Speaker 5: Man, hey, let me in pictures on the wall. Who
wouldn't they turn your grandma's damp for down?
Speaker 3: Not my grandma?
Speaker 4: Oh I know this?
Speaker 5: And she used to dance in a funhouse on a
barbary coal. Yeah, her name was well, holy cow, what
was that?
Speaker 9: It's a cat?
Speaker 6: A cat?
Speaker 3: That streak of gray was a cat that's bigger than
I pass, a big Siamese cat. They can be trained
to attack people.
Speaker 4: You just miss me?
Speaker 13: Didn't he a nice sight step? It's gone now it's
the biggest durned thing. Hey man, love what there hair
in the window?
Speaker 3: Look at that? Fine mm Rosie must go in for
big Simonse cats.
Speaker 4: Mac look at its eyes?
Speaker 5: Whereas I was, yeah, oh, I don't like ads staring
at us with one vacant eye, bowl legged, ugly old
rat cram.
Speaker 3: And he's a big fellow too. Here kitty, kitty, kitty Mac,
I would here, kitty, what's it doing? Cat? Oh? Rosie? Nothing?
I was just being friendly.
Speaker 12: Well, don't egg friendly with nobody but me. Shy cops,
shy cops?
Speaker 3: Come here?
Speaker 9: He wait?
Speaker 3: Wait, well I should go.
Speaker 12: Now up there, honey, Now where's the other one?
Speaker 3: Buy him up?
Speaker 11: Come here?
Speaker 3: Amazing they come to you when your whistle? What up?
I'll go.
Speaker 12: There now, show down, honey. Well you three of a
kind for a wit, he's saying, ain't you Texas man?
If folks coming Ryan here, coming in here and stopping
a girl in her own house.
Speaker 4: The girl there, you go there?
Speaker 3: To me, he doesn't mean anything. He's just stupid sometimes
just don't pay any attention to him.
Speaker 12: Well, that's more like it.
Speaker 3: He just doesn't understand that you're sensitive.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 12: I am a sensitive girl.
Speaker 3: Of course you are.
Speaker 9: Mac.
Speaker 12: You're a nice boy. You're an awful nice boy.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, miss Rosie. You're all right?
Speaker 12: Uh, I could kind of go for you.
Speaker 11: He's laughing, he's laughing at me.
Speaker 12: Duke, my mama, Now all right, I.
Speaker 4: Didn't know you was here here? Where did you come from? Son?
Speaker 3: I was a couple of gorillas, probably out front of
him in the back way.
Speaker 5: But the backways locked locks don't mean nothing to Duke.
Speaker 3: He was probably out front, Duke, I don't know, but
I didn't like it.
Speaker 7: Sat down, Rosie, let's talk a long heart to heart talk.
Speaker 3: Huh And you'll talk, won't your doll? Baby? Sure? For Duke,
because I like you.
Speaker 11: I always liked jewels.
Speaker 3: Still carrying a torch from me?
Speaker 12: Besides, I'm getting nothing.
Speaker 3: Well, don't you see?
Speaker 4: Mac?
Speaker 7: Rosie was a bad girl once, I see, But I'm
no chattle, so she's on our side.
Speaker 3: I always been for you, duke, Remember.
Speaker 5: The time I'd rather talk about carry you pigeons, Rosie, pigeons.
Speaker 12: I don't know nothing about pigeons.
Speaker 7: Look, how do you want me to shove that one
eyed cat down?
Speaker 4: Your fat throat?
Speaker 7: Don't do nothing to my catlin, will you?
Speaker 3: I don't know nothing, not a thing.
Speaker 4: Sure enough?
Speaker 3: You know the gypsy, don't you?
Speaker 4: Gypsy?
Speaker 7: Yes, the gypsy, gyp the Dods gypsy, Hugen.
Speaker 12: Oh I know.
Speaker 7: Now, Look, fatso, I've been to Lucas. He ain't throwing
me no curves.
Speaker 3: You know that. And you know where the gypsy is
right this minute.
Speaker 4: Don't lie to me.
Speaker 7: What makes you think Lucas gets around him that frindled faith.
I never mind all that, either he talks to me
or else, same as you.
Speaker 3: Now, come on, spill it. I don't know nothing. Yeah,
you know something that seems like a real nice idea
around house? What what you're gonna do?
Speaker 4: You ain't?
Speaker 3: God? You like me to put off that cat's other ride?
Speaker 11: Oh don't know you can't do that.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, duke, back, let me alone. I just
want all that all right. Rosie tried to understand this.
You know that Opal is worth more than forty thousand dollars,
A lot more you can't count in dollars. Did you
know that whoever wears that Opal has the shadow of
death on him? History is written in blood.
Speaker 12: But the cats, it ain't their fault.
Speaker 4: They ain't done nothing.
Speaker 3: We don't want to hurt the cats or you either
look at it this way. We're going to get the
Gypsy anyway, that's certain.
Speaker 12: But you ain't got a thing on the gypsy?
Speaker 3: Mac who else?
Speaker 4: All look blubber meat? We know all right.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to tell this refugee from a side
show that we know that the Gypsy's provasion is ransom
notes and that is obvious peace.
Speaker 3: He knows all that. Well, how about it, Rosie, work
with us this one time. It'll be better for you.
Speaker 4: I don't know nothing.
Speaker 3: Maybe Juke's right. Work with us.
Speaker 7: I suppose that I'll always do the lifelin out the
window on and off twice.
Speaker 3: I like you saw, Rosie? Who is it?
Speaker 12: Yes, my night watchman, Duke? What's all just my watchman?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What do you think? Man? Imagine we can take
care of me.
Speaker 4: You want me to go get him?
Speaker 12: I call him if you want him. But you know something,
I'm gonna help you boys out.
Speaker 3: Max's right, Oh I do.
Speaker 12: I'll help you Mac, I'll help all a cat. That's
I like to do something nice for a fine man
like you.
Speaker 3: I don't like this.
Speaker 12: Oh it ain't every day I get a chance to
be a real nice, kind thought funk girl.
Speaker 3: Watch it, guys, so you know I'm changing over.
Speaker 12: I'm going to be a good sweet girl.
Speaker 3: Why waiting for now?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 3: Rosie? This?
Speaker 4: Well, we're looking on your man's got a gun on us?
Speaker 3: Where'd you come from?
Speaker 12: Where does it look like that panel of the door
for just such times as this?
Speaker 3: What were you waiting far? Waiting for them to turn
their backs? All at the same time? You know better
than put a gag like this on me.
Speaker 12: You're better to put a gag like this on me.
Where it's Hunter kiddo.
Speaker 3: Bonds kiddos in the hall and hunters, you know looking
at all? Right, Rosie, your deal? You better?
Speaker 11: It's my deal?
Speaker 4: Well it's your is funny? Ain't Jack shut up?
Speaker 10: Shut up?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 12: You shut up? By right, kiddo? Fine, so shut him up?
Speaker 3: One agent, Rosie, You wouldn't that is bonds? We know
about him, of course, Well, of.
Speaker 4: Course we do. Law wants him bad.
Speaker 5: He kind of tortured somebody, didn't he no sense seeing
this Spellah.
Speaker 3: We'll fixed that.
Speaker 12: Got everything ready, Gyp.
Speaker 3: Everything you don't be she does.
Speaker 4: She oughtn't to admit it.
Speaker 3: He's talking, Rosie talking. We don't like that, do we, ROSI, No,
we don't.
Speaker 12: You're gonna get the no Gypsy and the cats. Real well,
Texas man.
Speaker 5: Real well, well it might be better annoying that kid
old Barnes at there.
Speaker 3: I think so, Rosie, wuld you mind dropping this captain
mouse stuff?
Speaker 12: I kind of would hips too smart for a boy
scout like you.
Speaker 5: Mac.
Speaker 12: You was shatowed from the minute they contacted you, and
a friend of Gyps was riding a box car behind you.
Speaker 3: You just see what I mean. You've completely forgotten what
Juke could have done to you, But didn't he should?
I well, if he's been right with you.
Speaker 12: I don't know why I should tell you any except
that you're such a beautiful man. This guy joke now,
he ain't said nothing that's right because he didn't know
all about it. You don't know about that dead copper,
for instance, he thought it was just running a little
m into a dry stand.
Speaker 3: Anyway, he didn't talk.
Speaker 12: I look handsome. How could I know when he might
find out the rest of it? How'd I know the
law wasn't gonna visit me any minute? How could I
tell him he's gonna change his mind anyhow? He didn't
what you think would happen if he got away from me?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 12: I just told him about the dead cop, the knife
I've been worrying three years, and the who should bust
right into my parlor to night. But the laddie with
the finger, So he ain't never gonna get away from here.
Speaker 11: Not alive.
Speaker 3: He ain't. That goes for Jason me.
Speaker 12: Also, I feel kind of bad about you.
Speaker 3: You're so putty.
Speaker 12: But him a Texas man one to hear something. Texas man,
See that one I get them clawsey, he gets thirsty.
Speaker 3: See what I mean?
Speaker 12: You're gonna be sobbing like a little tiny boy pretty quick.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 12: The kidd always happier around my basement when he's got
something to remember. He said knew about him, didn't you.
Speaker 5: Yes, we know, yep, he says he.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: The boys a kind of three of a kind.
Speaker 12: You made a crack about three of a kind, didn't you,
chext man.
Speaker 3: Why don't you, Jacks, remember that time in Shanghaik.
Speaker 14: I'm glad, I'm a word, I hear you.
Speaker 4: Just one more little detail.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to make sure about that Kiddle Barnes. Now,
I'm all right, Jacks, you are on peace.
Speaker 4: Hm as rid as on a potty morning front. Wasn't
that fun?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: And she's even uggly sleeping when she's way.
Speaker 3: What happened to her?
Speaker 4: It must have been an accident. I was aiming for
the gypsy's ear.
Speaker 3: Jack, she didn't hit a woman.
Speaker 5: Well, like I say, it was an accident, I think.
But Matt, well, what I can't figure out is how
come him cats sprung like at and give us a
chance to start the fire.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was pretty smart man. We don't remember what
Rosie said just before the cat's lunch that you when
you were laughing at her. She said, nderlay, those cats
are trained to attack, and hers were thought to spring
at that command.
Speaker 4: On the Oh, just like you say, sick them to adult.
Speaker 3: That's right. She had such a deep voice. I whispered
the command just as s Jack. Look here there it is.
The gypsy gave the open to Rosie for safe keeping.
There see the shell nicklace she was wearing.
Speaker 7: Look here each jail opens up, you see, and here
in the big one busted.
Speaker 4: It opened during the fire, the black open.
Speaker 3: Oh I found it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: Hand it over, boys.
Speaker 5: Well, if it ain't that nosey taxi cab again, I
had me a suspicion you would show up around now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, very little cultural activity in the night. So I
thought i'd drop in. Give me the black over collider.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't want to pay what little cost, or.
Speaker 8: Maybe I won't have to. I'll get it for free.
Speaker 3: Give it to him, let him come.
Speaker 7: And yet I said, give it to him Mac, he's
such a little plan.
Speaker 6: He'd be kind of like preserve.
Speaker 3: All right, boys, I want you to meet mister James,
Mister James, the US Secret Service.
Speaker 8: Ull huh, glad to meet you boys. Thanks a lot,
mister Cornell. You boys save me a lot of work.
I appreciate that. You see, we couldn't do anything ourselves.
We weren't supposed to know about it. Uh, don't worry
about your fee, that's none of our business. Gotta go,
gotta take my wife to a movie.
Speaker 5: Always movies. Well, Why, well, let's get on out of here.
So I'm hungry. You're hungry, Yeah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Get me some chop through and some chip.
Speaker 5: Hey do you Yeah, I know I'm taking a chance,
but I'll give you eight dollars for Sheet Ching's telephone.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, argue about it later, gentlemen, Let's
get some.
Speaker 7: Need well, look, I can use it.
Speaker 9: Free.
Speaker 3: For Adventure stars Jack Webb as Due, Elliott Lewis is
Mac and Barkan y Opero is Jax. Heard. Also, We're
high have her back at Gypsy Lillian Baiap of Sheet Ching,
Sidney Miller is the taxi driver Mister James, and Janette
Nolan has Roundhouse Rosie. Next week, at the same time,
we bring you the story of the Quadroon Princess and
the Egyptian Tear Base. Pree for Adventure is produced and
directed by David Friedkin. This is a command radio production.
Speaker 1: Welcome back that was not one of Jeanette Nolan's subtler performances.
And while Barton Yarborough almost always has the Texas accent,
you know, it's one of those things he was asked for.
I think this may be the most Texan character he played.
I did like that Rosie called him on the tex
Waco name, and he had a good retort, you weren't
baptized Roundhouse. Now, I guess it's a good idea to
talk about this a bit in context. In many ways,
this was an attempt to kind of do a takeoff
or a new version of I Love a Mystery. I
Love a Mystery had been a serialized detective series from
nineteen thirty nine to note for four. It was produced
by Carlton Morse, and it actually spawned three films, and
there was a fourth film that was made that only
featured one of the stars of the original series. And
so it seems that David Freakin definitely saw some potential
in creating an I Love a Mystery type series, but
making it maybe a bit more hard boiled, as you
had these three friends from different backgrounds teaming up. Yard
Borough is kind of helpful in terms of creating an
I Love a Mystery like series, as he was in
the original radio series and also in three films. Now,
I do think there are several things that this series
does right. It's got a lot of great people that
were involved in it, not only Jack Webb, but you
have Elliott Lewis and of course Freakin Yarborough Janette Nolan.
So this is a pretty solid effort and there are
some good things, you know, in terms of the characters.
At the end of this first episode, you do have
a bit of an idea about what each of these
characters is all about. The big problem is that none
of them are particularly likable. Duke may be the worst,
just because you know, he is really this thug who
is not all that reformed and is always snipping at everyone,
and text is a bit over the top in Elliott
Lewis's character is a bit distant, So you know, I
think those are some of the reasons that didn't work out.
I'm kind of glad it's here just as kind of
a one off thing, you know. It's a bit of
womp and kind of fun for just the ridiculousness of it.
I am really glad that it did not catch on,
because the talented people who made this interesting one off episode,
we're going to make some great radio in nineteen forty nine.
Of course, Webb and Yardborough they'd go on and make Dragnet.
Elliott Lewis would direct and produce Broadway as my beat
with David Freaquin as one of the writers along with
mort Fine. Had this radio series actually gotten someone to
buy it, almost certainly Jack Webb would not have had
to scramble and come up with the idea of Dragnet
as a summer replacement series on NBC, and we may
not have gotten the greatness of Broadway as my beat
and instead gotten we got like seventy eight episodes of this,
so I think definitely all turned out for the best.
All right, well, that's actually all for now. Join us
back here on Wednesday as we continue our Jackweb centennial celebration.
If you do have a comment, email it to me
Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.