1 00:00:05,919 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: Hello, this is your host, Adam Graham. The Great Adventurers 2 00:00:10,199 --> 00:00:14,080 of Old Time Radio is taking a break from posting 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:18,519 in new episodes, but we are sharing some adventure themed 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,359 episodes of other podcasts I've done over the years until 5 00:00:23,399 --> 00:00:28,879 we return on January eleventh for the premiere of Tarzan. 6 00:00:29,519 --> 00:00:34,399 In the meantime, please enjoy this episode, which was originally 7 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:38,679 released as part of the Amazing World of Radio. If 8 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:41,479 you'd like to listen to more episodes of that series, 9 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,679 please check it out and Amazing Great Detectives dot net. 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:52,759 But now on with today's show. Welcome to the Amazing 11 00:00:52,799 --> 00:00:56,320 World of Radio from Boysey, Idaho. This is your host, 12 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,960 Adam Graham. This episode is also being shared on the 13 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,759 Great Detectives of Old Time Radios feed, and this is 14 00:01:03,799 --> 00:01:06,319 something I'm going to do as a go forward. I'll 15 00:01:06,359 --> 00:01:11,120 share one episode of any ongoing series we're doing on 16 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:15,760 the Amazing World of Radio, including our summer series. So 17 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,519 listeners who are interested ken choose to go over to 18 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,920 Amazing Great Detectives dot net to subscribe. We are doing 19 00:01:23,079 --> 00:01:30,280 a series, the Jackweb Centennial series. Currently. This is the 20 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:35,599 third episode. The first two episodes covered Webb's career in 21 00:01:35,719 --> 00:01:41,400 San Francisco on radio station KGO with the jackweb Show 22 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,640 for comedy and the news and commentary series one out 23 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,599 of seven. In the later portion of nineteen forty six, 24 00:01:49,959 --> 00:01:56,239 Webb's radio efforts in San Francisco had some success as 25 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:00,680 he starred in Pat Novak for Hire. Written by Reared Breen. 26 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,439 The series originated in San Francisco and was broadcast over 27 00:02:05,519 --> 00:02:10,120 ABC West Coast affiliates. Buoyed by the success, Webb headed 28 00:02:10,159 --> 00:02:14,800 to Hollywood, as did Breen in early nineteen forty seven. 29 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:20,439 Two and a half years later, Webwood began Dragnet. But 30 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:25,159 in those intervening years, Webb had to make it as 31 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:30,439 an actor in Hollywood. He only had a few movie roles, 32 00:02:30,479 --> 00:02:33,520 though some of them were quite important, such as he 33 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:38,120 Walks By Nine, where a conversation with the police advisor 34 00:02:38,159 --> 00:02:44,080 to the program set the stage for Dragnet down the Road. Still, 35 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,199 during these years, Webb's work ultimately was down to radio. 36 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,599 He starred in three separate detective programs. 37 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 2: That were on the air for a. 38 00:02:55,039 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: Total of about fifteen months. In addition to that, Webb's 39 00:02:59,599 --> 00:03:04,599 Hardweil performances had given him an in with William Russo, 40 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,840 who gave Web regular work as the police foil to 41 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,159 Michael Shane on the New Adventures of Michael Shane and 42 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,439 also for a time on Murder and Mister Malone. Yet, 43 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,000 the key to being able to make a living in 44 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:24,680 radio during the Golden Age of radio was to do 45 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:28,159 radio work, and a lot of it, even if you 46 00:03:28,319 --> 00:03:32,560 had your own series that didn't write your ticket. Jack 47 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:38,400 Webb's key to financial stability in this period was making 48 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,879 a lot of radio appearances, and the vast majority of 49 00:03:42,919 --> 00:03:48,680 his radio appearances was as various tough guys. He'd play 50 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,280 cops and he'd play thugs. If you listen to Webb's 51 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:57,319 radiography and the list of programs, you know you'll find 52 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,039 several episodes of suspense. And on most of those episodes 53 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:06,240 he's playing either policeman or thug, and he's not even 54 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:11,599 playing a prominent role. I've gone through all these jackweb 55 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,199 programs and you listen to episodes of suspense and you're 56 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,079 kind of like, I think that was Jack Web there. 57 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,639 He just had one or two lines. Of course, suspense 58 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,759 was a tricky proposition. In the mid nineteen forties, it 59 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:32,439 was one of radio's best programs, and nearly every week 60 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:37,839 you had a major star as the lead character, and 61 00:04:38,199 --> 00:04:43,120 you didn't really have up and coming actors in lead 62 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:47,600 roles in radio's best anthology series. However, there was so 63 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:52,759 much demand for a series like Suspense that CBS did 64 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:58,360 another series called Escape. Much like Suspense, Escape was an 65 00:04:58,399 --> 00:05:05,920 exciting anthologyies, and the two often did the same stories. 66 00:05:05,959 --> 00:05:10,560 An episode of Escape would be done in later Suspense 67 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:15,079 would pick up the same script, particularly as the Golden 68 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,279 Age of radio went on and the need to economize 69 00:05:19,319 --> 00:05:23,439 became a big deal. In its early days, Escape gave 70 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,319 bigger roles to lesser known actors and really to me. 71 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:33,560 In Escape, jackweb got probably some of the best material 72 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,040 in his acting career, certainly in his radio acting career. 73 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:42,319 So this is all a long winded introduction to the 74 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,040 next three episodes of the Amazing World of Radio, where 75 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:50,279 we will be bringing you episodes of Escape starring Jack Webb. 76 00:05:50,759 --> 00:05:53,600 The original air edate on this one is July the 77 00:05:53,680 --> 00:06:09,800 fourteenth of nineteen forty seven, and the title is Operation Florida. 78 00:06:07,399 --> 00:06:07,879 Speaker 2: Escape. 79 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 3: Escape Tonight to Occupied France and the Underground. 80 00:06:19,439 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 4: A Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents Escape, 81 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,160 a new series of programs of which this The second 82 00:06:27,399 --> 00:06:31,519 is Operation Florida Lys, written and directed by William N. 83 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:40,839 Robeson today, the fourteenth of July, the people of a 84 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,120 free France celebrate the anniversary of their escape from the 85 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,000 tyranny of the Kings of Versailles. One hundred and fifty 86 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,519 eight years ago. Today the people of Paris stormed the 87 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,600 Bastille and left loose the French Revolution. The torch of 88 00:06:54,639 --> 00:06:57,600 liberty set a fire that day never burned more fiercely 89 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,680 than during the years when France was occupied by Bazi. 90 00:07:01,439 --> 00:07:04,959 We escaped tonight, too, occupied France from which three years 91 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:10,199 ago there was no escape. 92 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 5: You can call me Duke, but don't use my right name. 93 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:18,439 Speaker 6: I might want to go back to France someday, and 94 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:19,839 there are a lot of people in the world that 95 00:07:19,839 --> 00:07:21,920 wouldn't understand that what I did. 96 00:07:21,839 --> 00:07:22,959 Speaker 5: Was justified in the war. 97 00:07:24,079 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 6: No, I don't have any regrets, moral ones. That is, 98 00:07:27,639 --> 00:07:29,519 it isn't what I did to Renee that keeps me 99 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,240 awake at nights. It's just the memory of her. There 100 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,399 isn't much a body in my official report on Operation 101 00:07:35,519 --> 00:07:38,759 flirti Ly, but then it isn't customary to include descriptions 102 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,240 of slim sunburned legs and wide, deep brown eyes and 103 00:07:42,279 --> 00:07:45,399 a military document. And anyway, she was only an incident 104 00:07:45,439 --> 00:07:48,879 in the operation, even if she became somewhat more important 105 00:07:48,879 --> 00:07:53,839 to me. Operation Florida Lee began like all the others, 106 00:07:53,879 --> 00:07:56,680 in the grubby, undistinguished house in London, which was the 107 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:01,240 headquarters of the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, otherwise 108 00:08:01,319 --> 00:08:04,839 known in various parts of the world as screwballs, cutthroats, spies, 109 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,839 cloak and dagger boys and American underground agents gentlemen. 110 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 2: Operation flur de Les has planned to assist the advance 111 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:14,040 of our forces once they've secured a beach at Normandy. 112 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:15,879 Is that where we're going in major That is one 113 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,040 of the possibilities, Lieutenant, Yes, sir, you will jump over 114 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,319 Grandma in northern France. Here on the map, you are 115 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:26,040 to set up roadblocks on these three state highways, here, here, 116 00:08:26,399 --> 00:08:29,480 and here there is an underground contact near Grandma's. Yes, 117 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:31,839 Al Sine Dutton, he's leader of the local My quis 118 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,960 expecting it. In addition, you are to block these railroad 119 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,840 lines entering and leaving Grammont. These operations are to coincide 120 00:08:38,879 --> 00:08:40,080 with the advance of our ground. 121 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 5: Forces if they land in Normandy. 122 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 2: If they land in normally, you will then plain tonight 123 00:08:43,879 --> 00:08:46,080 at twenty one hundred hours and will drop over your 124 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,440 objective at I should think approximately twenty two hundred and thirty. 125 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,440 Any questions, No, I don't think so, sir. Well, yes, sir, 126 00:08:53,519 --> 00:08:55,639 I have a question, Yes, lieutenant, how. 127 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:56,919 Speaker 5: Many of us are going on this mission? 128 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:57,879 Speaker 2: Just the two of you? 129 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 6: Just the two of us, And all we had to 130 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,240 do was organize an underground army, disrupt the supply lines 131 00:09:06,279 --> 00:09:08,679 of a half a dozen Nazi divisions, and give support 132 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:10,080 to the entire light invasion. 133 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:12,039 Speaker 5: Just the two of us. 134 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 6: But that's the way the USS worked. But nobody ordered 135 00:09:15,279 --> 00:09:18,519 Hill and me into it. We'd volunteered. I don't know why. 136 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,720 Maybe for moments like this one, when you get a 137 00:09:21,799 --> 00:09:24,240 BE twenty four assigned to you as a personal taxi 138 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,480 and there's lots of room to sprawl around after the bombay. 139 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 7: How do you feel fine? Scared? 140 00:09:32,279 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 5: Of course I'm scared, aren't you me? 141 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 2: Nah, there's a walk. 142 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,919 Speaker 3: You forget how tough it was when we were at 143 00:09:38,919 --> 00:09:40,320 paratroops school at BENNI. 144 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,159 Speaker 7: Yeah, I was real rugged. 145 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 3: If the wind wasn't right, you might land in the 146 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,600 Chattahoochie and get all wet, and. 147 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,519 Speaker 6: It was always the chance that you'd sprain your ankle 148 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:49,440 coming down too. 149 00:09:49,279 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 3: Hot, and the sun was so bright on some of 150 00:09:51,759 --> 00:09:53,320 those daylight jumps. 151 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 6: Whereas we got none of those things to worry about. Here, 152 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,639 a nice pitch black night over France, no sun to blindness, 153 00:09:58,679 --> 00:09:59,960 no Chadahoochie. 154 00:09:59,440 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 7: River to fall in. 155 00:10:00,279 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 6: Hey, Lieutenant, Yes, Sergeant Skipper wants to talk to you 156 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:03,360 on the intercom. 157 00:10:03,399 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 7: Thanks, here, use my cans hike him. Do here, lieutenant, 158 00:10:06,759 --> 00:10:07,840 and we're we're objective. 159 00:10:08,039 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 5: Any signal from the ground, Yes, the. 160 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:13,279 Speaker 7: One arranged or dots two dashes green? Very well, you're 161 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,440 Lieutenant Hill. Move into the bomb bay cut wood open 162 00:10:16,519 --> 00:10:19,080 bombay doors in thirty seconds, Roger, good luck. 163 00:10:19,279 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 6: Thanks, Sergeant stand by to demp those supplies as soon 164 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,759 as we're clear. Yes, sir, come on it, this says 165 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:26,080 someone has said, is it? 166 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 8: So? 167 00:10:26,279 --> 00:10:29,399 Speaker 2: Assume just as I was settling down a good book. 168 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:30,919 Speaker 7: Bombay dodgs are opening, sir. 169 00:10:31,039 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 5: Okay, Sergeant, all right ed, let's check your heartness. 170 00:10:33,279 --> 00:10:35,039 Speaker 2: It's a frightful mess. I just can't seem to do 171 00:10:35,039 --> 00:10:35,679 a thing with it. 172 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 6: I know, but this is the last party you'll have 173 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:37,960 to wear it on. 174 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 2: Okay, am I well, don't look now, but your shoot showing. 175 00:10:41,919 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 4: Tack it in. 176 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 5: Let's get out on that catwalk, Oh, Percy, breeze all. 177 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,759 Speaker 2: Up France on our feet. You see the signal. 178 00:10:50,879 --> 00:10:51,759 Speaker 5: That's what I'm looking for. 179 00:10:52,279 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 7: There it is over to the left. 180 00:10:53,519 --> 00:10:54,879 Speaker 2: You got it, got it. 181 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,759 Speaker 7: Let's go, your. 182 00:10:57,679 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 5: Kid, Sure, your kid. 183 00:10:58,799 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 6: It helps of those ten seconds while you fall free. 184 00:11:01,799 --> 00:11:04,360 Nothing helps you hang onto the rip court. You count 185 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,240 off the seconds, so you're trying not to count too fast. 186 00:11:06,759 --> 00:11:08,600 Your hand on that rip cord is the only certain 187 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,440 thing in the world is your tumbled hit over teacups 188 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,759 with a wind tearing sound from your ears. And there's 189 00:11:12,759 --> 00:11:15,200 only one thought, always the same thought, whether it's your 190 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:16,399 first or your fiftieth jump. 191 00:11:16,879 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 5: We'll the shoot open. 192 00:11:19,039 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 6: It does yanking at your armpits, knocking the breath out 193 00:11:21,759 --> 00:11:23,480 of you, slowing you down, and you swing there like 194 00:11:23,519 --> 00:11:24,639 a rag doll, trying. 195 00:11:24,399 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 5: To get your bearings. First, you make out the horizon, and. 196 00:11:27,519 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 6: That's where the black becomes darker black, where the stars stop, 197 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:32,840 and you wonder about it, ed, but you can't risk 198 00:11:32,879 --> 00:11:33,320 calling out. 199 00:11:33,919 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 5: And now that you're located where the stars are right, 200 00:11:35,759 --> 00:11:36,320 you look for the. 201 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 6: Signal light and there it is slightly to the left, 202 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,519 so you tug at your shroud lines, spelling a little 203 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:42,879 air to guide you toward it, and it's coming towards 204 00:11:42,879 --> 00:11:45,600 you awfully fast, and you hope this particular French patriot 205 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,120 has picked out a field free of trees and church steepers. 206 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 5: And then you try to remember all the. 207 00:11:49,919 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 6: Things they taught you about hitting the ground and rolling 208 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,559 with the wind and collapsing your shoot, because it's always 209 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:54,799 like this. 210 00:11:55,039 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 5: You always feel like you've never hit the silk before. 211 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,519 Speaker 6: And then you're down just right, and we collapse your 212 00:12:01,519 --> 00:12:04,399 shoot and it's second nature to you after all. And 213 00:12:04,399 --> 00:12:07,000 then you hear footsteps running towards you, and you remember 214 00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:09,320 another important instructing your WHIPI you're automatic, and you hope 215 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:10,440 your friend's is good enough to get. 216 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,279 Speaker 5: You buy hivah, who is it? 217 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 8: El? Scene? 218 00:12:12,879 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 2: Here? 219 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 5: Where? Okay, el scene? 220 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:17,879 Speaker 2: Come on lest you have arrived, lieutenant. So it seems 221 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,200 you have no idea how long we've wisher for this molden. 222 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 5: That's my partner. Come on, heyea ed all the hair, duke, okay. 223 00:12:27,519 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 2: My hump and it's just slightly damage otherwise Okay. 224 00:12:30,399 --> 00:12:32,879 Speaker 5: This is al scene our content hel scee, Lieutenant Hill 225 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:33,480 or el scene. 226 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:36,159 Speaker 2: Lieutenant. It is a great pleasure to make your acquaintance 227 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:37,679 and on behalf of my country. 228 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:39,799 Speaker 6: Now one, let's get these shoots buried and blow this place. 229 00:12:39,919 --> 00:12:40,879 Where's your transportation? 230 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 5: Al scene? 231 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,159 Speaker 2: We haven't any what where's this safe house? You might 232 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,000 be able to stay at my hands. I don't think 233 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,600 she'd talk. I don't think. Aren't you sure? Oh yes, 234 00:12:49,639 --> 00:12:50,840 I'm supremely confident. 235 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:51,879 Speaker 5: There are the Germans. 236 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 2: They're everywhere, and that is why I'm so glad you're here. 237 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,279 Now we can fight again. With your help, we will 238 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:58,440 kill many bush. 239 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 5: Wait a minute, how many are other than you're a 240 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:02,320 mokey myself. 241 00:13:01,919 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 2: And two others? 242 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:03,919 Speaker 5: Just three of you? 243 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 2: Oh my aching bag. But now that the Americans are here, 244 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:07,799 we can do anything. 245 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:10,039 Speaker 6: Oh why don't they get these things straight in London? 246 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,399 How can we block roads with a three man my key? 247 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,879 Speaker 2: Three men in an ant who perhaps will not talk. 248 00:13:15,519 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 5: Well, let's get cracking, duke. 249 00:13:17,039 --> 00:13:19,039 Speaker 2: You're not going through with this mad adventure, are you? 250 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 5: What would you suggest? 251 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:20,879 Speaker 6: Well? 252 00:13:20,919 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 3: As for me, I'm all for taking the next plane 253 00:13:22,759 --> 00:13:23,480 back to London. 254 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,159 Speaker 2: Another lieutenant, no, thank you, ma'am. 255 00:13:33,399 --> 00:13:35,159 Speaker 8: This bone chicken is delicious. 256 00:13:35,519 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 2: How do you call it? 257 00:13:37,159 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 5: Ky raction supreme? 258 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,679 Speaker 2: We've had nothing like it since the bosh came. Yeah, 259 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,000 well you get used to it. And cigarettes, Tom Mally 260 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:49,039 cigarettes made a real tobacco. Ah, you Americans have everything. 261 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:53,559 Speaker 6: Madam, I'll sing, you're kind, you're hospitable. But the comforts 262 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,279 of k raction will not block roads. 263 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 5: We need men. We must form a my key. 264 00:13:57,799 --> 00:14:00,399 Speaker 3: But we have a makeys my alsee. And there are 265 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:02,279 three of you and two of us. Sure, we've got guns, 266 00:14:02,279 --> 00:14:04,600 and we've got ammunition and supply shoots somewhere out in 267 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,159 that field where we landed. We've got arms for fifty men. 268 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:09,360 But if we had those men, we still couldn't go 269 00:14:09,399 --> 00:14:10,679 to war against the German division. 270 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 5: And you said to yourself, is at least a division garrison? 271 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 2: And grandma, what must we do? 272 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 5: First? We must organize a my key. We need men. 273 00:14:17,879 --> 00:14:18,600 Can you get them? 274 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:20,799 Speaker 2: I can go into the village and talk to my friends. 275 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,080 You've done that a long time ago. 276 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:22,679 Speaker 5: Four scene. 277 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 9: That would be most unwise. Why didn't you know Alcine 278 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,679 is a patriot. He's a deserter from the VIC army, 279 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:29,919 so he's wanted by the Gestapo. 280 00:14:30,039 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 3: Oh great, and there's a Gestapo headquarters and grandmar. 281 00:14:32,799 --> 00:14:35,399 Speaker 2: Of course, of course, Arsene is not run to run 282 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,240 from danger, quite the countrary. I can get Renee to help. 283 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 5: Who's Renee? 284 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 9: I've seen Sweetheart, a lovely girl from Paris, for I 285 00:14:42,639 --> 00:14:44,399 think she had to come down to the country because 286 00:14:44,399 --> 00:14:45,240 her house was bummed down. 287 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 2: Leave her out of this, but Lieutenant, she would be 288 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:48,080 most happy to help. 289 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 6: Al Sine, you've got a lot to learn about guerrilla warfare. 290 00:14:51,039 --> 00:14:52,799 You might as well study your first lesson right now. 291 00:14:53,200 --> 00:15:04,799 It's shortened to the point, no, dames. Well, well, the 292 00:15:04,799 --> 00:15:07,679 next day we collected the supplies which had been dropped 293 00:15:07,679 --> 00:15:10,039 with us, and we set up a camp deep in 294 00:15:10,039 --> 00:15:13,039 the woods. Hill and I were loaded with French money, 295 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,480 so we were able to buy food from the friendly farmers. 296 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,399 Maybe it was the food as much as patriots, and 297 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,440 that brought us recruits. Anyway, after a week we had 298 00:15:23,519 --> 00:15:26,320 nearly thirty men. Our marquis wasn't big enough for the 299 00:15:26,399 --> 00:15:28,600 job we had to do, but it was growing in 300 00:15:28,639 --> 00:15:30,919 the right direction. And then one night, as I was 301 00:15:30,919 --> 00:15:36,320 winding up a report to London, well, what do they say? 302 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,759 Speaker 5: What do they ever say, message acknowledged? Carry on? 303 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,399 Speaker 3: What about new batteries for the radio? What about extra 304 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:45,639 ammunition for the buck Rogers guns? What are they going 305 00:15:45,679 --> 00:15:46,759 to get another drop to us? 306 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 5: Why don't you ask him? 307 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 2: Yeah? 308 00:15:50,559 --> 00:15:51,559 Speaker 5: They do the best they can. 309 00:15:51,639 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 6: I guess, after all, we're not the only boy scouts 310 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:55,080 in this chambourine. 311 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 2: Hey you do? 312 00:15:57,799 --> 00:15:58,039 Speaker 5: Yeah? 313 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:00,879 Speaker 2: There goes out scene again. I'm off toward the road. 314 00:16:01,519 --> 00:16:02,639 Speaker 5: Hey, I'll see. 315 00:16:02,559 --> 00:16:06,039 Speaker 2: Yes, hew me on a minute, Yes, Lieutenant, where are 316 00:16:06,039 --> 00:16:09,080 you going? I was just taking a stroll. You're on 317 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,519 night guard, not tonight. 318 00:16:11,159 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 5: You weren't on night guard last night? 319 00:16:12,519 --> 00:16:15,519 Speaker 6: Where no, lieutenant? By the night before, no, sir. But 320 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,519 you weren't in camp all night, were you? 321 00:16:17,519 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 2: No, sir? 322 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 6: What's the matter? Don't you like the camp rather sleep 323 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,200 at your ants? It's a two rugged out here for you, No, sir. 324 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,879 Then where were you in the village? You know the orders? 325 00:16:25,879 --> 00:16:27,240 No one is to go into the village. 326 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 2: Yes, lieutenant, but I only go in at night. 327 00:16:29,159 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 5: It makes no difference, but it does. 328 00:16:31,679 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 2: You see, Lieutenant. 329 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,279 Speaker 5: I'm so in love, oh ray, the girl from Paris. 330 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 2: Yes, you should see her, Lieutenant. She's the most beautiful, 331 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,039 the most charming, the most. 332 00:16:42,879 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 5: You know you're endangering the whole my key by disobeying 333 00:16:45,159 --> 00:16:45,639 my orders. 334 00:16:45,759 --> 00:16:49,159 Speaker 2: Oh no, sir, there's no danger with rightne. Hey, she 335 00:16:49,279 --> 00:16:51,440 hates the bush. Why she wants to join us? 336 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 5: You told her about us? 337 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:53,679 Speaker 2: Oh yes, sir? 338 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 5: Are you out of your mind? How do you know? 339 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:56,919 She's all right? 340 00:16:57,279 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 2: I just know, that's all. She's the most one of 341 00:17:00,159 --> 00:17:02,440 a person in the world. She's a real patriot. 342 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,599 Speaker 5: I told you. Rule number one is no dames. 343 00:17:04,799 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 2: Yes, but Rene is different. Yeah, well you better marry 344 00:17:07,759 --> 00:17:09,519 her before you bring around here. You'll have to share 345 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,160 it with the rest of these wolves. Lieutenant, Do I 346 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13,599 understand you get an el se? 347 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 5: It's just an American figure speech. 348 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:17,880 Speaker 2: May I tell Rene she can join us? 349 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,039 Speaker 5: Well, not quite yet, later maybe. 350 00:17:20,799 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 2: Yes, Lieutenant? Is that all? Yeah? 351 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:23,880 Speaker 5: That's all? 352 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 2: If you got to take it out scene, take it easy. 353 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:28,240 I do not understand. 354 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 5: Just another American idiom el scene. 355 00:17:30,319 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 2: Good night, good night? Hey duke, you're gonna let them 356 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:35,400 get away with that? 357 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 5: What are we going to do? 358 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,039 Speaker 6: Slap them into the garden house for thirty days only. 359 00:17:39,079 --> 00:17:41,680 This isn't the American Army. We haven't any guardhouse. 360 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 2: Yeah. 361 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,839 Speaker 3: Stinks from a security standpoint, I know we try to 362 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:46,799 keep these boys. 363 00:17:46,559 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 5: From sneaking off home every now and then. We're not 364 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:49,039 going to have any monkey. 365 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,759 Speaker 2: Ah, he's French, an immoral race. 366 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 5: I don't know about that. Remember Phoenix City, Alabama? 367 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, I see what you mean. 368 00:18:10,559 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 6: There wasn't anything we could do if we'd ordered out 369 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:14,160 scene to stay in camp. 370 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:15,319 Speaker 5: He had just sneaked off anyway. 371 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 6: He had that dreamy, far away look that's baffled parents, teachers, 372 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:20,559 and first. 373 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:21,799 Speaker 5: Lieutenants since the beginning of time. 374 00:18:23,319 --> 00:18:25,039 Speaker 6: I didn't worry too much about it because our my 375 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,680 quy was growing and d Hill and I were breaking 376 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,279 our backs pushing those French kids through an airsot's basic 377 00:18:30,319 --> 00:18:33,759 in three weeks. Headquarters in London didn't tell us much, 378 00:18:33,799 --> 00:18:36,200 but we did know from the BBC that the boys 379 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,319 had landed at Omaha Beach and it wouldn't be long 380 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,799 before they'd be needing our roadblocks. And then one morning, 381 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,680 about d plus four, I think it was, I was 382 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,240 out in the woods running a squad through concealment brill. 383 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 3: Oh no, no, hit the dirt. 384 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,079 Speaker 6: Don't wait on your tad when you see the single. 385 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 5: Hit the dirt right now. 386 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,039 Speaker 6: Uh oh, I'll see have you been all that as 387 00:18:56,079 --> 00:18:58,799 though I didn't know, Lieutenant, I've got to talk to you. 388 00:18:59,039 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 5: Okay, I'll be true here and a half hours so, and. 389 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 2: I've got to talk to you now, all right. 390 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:09,279 Speaker 6: Elsing, Okay, boys, take five, come along Elsin. 391 00:19:12,279 --> 00:19:13,279 Speaker 5: What's on your mind? 392 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:20,799 Speaker 2: Lieutenant? My family's been killed? Oh no, yes, by the Gestapo. 393 00:19:22,279 --> 00:19:24,880 He set fire to the house my mother and my 394 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:28,440 father and my two sisters. It ran out, the Gestapo 395 00:19:28,559 --> 00:19:29,599 shot them. 396 00:19:30,079 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 5: You was sure this? 397 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 7: Yes? 398 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:33,839 Speaker 2: I heard it this morning from a neighbor who saw 399 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:39,400 it happen. Poor kid. When can we attack, lieutenant? When 400 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,960 can we stop this endless training and fight the Bush? 401 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:42,559 Speaker 8: No? 402 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,519 Speaker 2: I want only to kill and killed and killed until 403 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:48,759 I paid them back for my father, my mother, my 404 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:49,559 two sisters. 405 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:51,759 Speaker 5: Yeah. I know you'll get your chance at Elsing, but 406 00:19:51,799 --> 00:19:54,599 not yet. We gotta wait. We're not ready yet. 407 00:19:54,759 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 2: I'm ready before. I wanted to fight the Bush for 408 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,240 my country. Now I want to kill him with again 409 00:20:00,319 --> 00:20:01,880 and again for them. 410 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,599 Speaker 5: I know, but you gotta be patient. 411 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 2: Should happened to me now? Only last night Renne said 412 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,400 she'd marry me, come to live here with me in 413 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,400 the camp. I was so happy, And this morning I 414 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:15,240 learned this news. 415 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 5: Why did you hear from your mother last? 416 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:18,599 Speaker 2: Not for a month since we began to work, But 417 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:19,920 I've written her every week. 418 00:20:20,079 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 5: Yeah. Who mailed the letters? 419 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 2: And they mailed them for me. She's so kind and thoughtful. 420 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,920 She offered the mail letters home for the other boys too. 421 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 5: That was nice of it. Did they take advantage of 422 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:29,519 her offer? 423 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,519 Speaker 2: A couple of them who Paul and Sean. I told 424 00:20:32,559 --> 00:20:34,400 them about and they wrote their families. 425 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 5: And Renee mailed the letters. 426 00:20:36,039 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 2: She's a wonderful person, Lieutenant. You're going to love her. 427 00:20:39,519 --> 00:20:40,519 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I am. 428 00:20:40,799 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 2: She's all I've gotten the world now. 429 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 6: Two and two make four and occupied France just the 430 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,839 same as anywhere else, and sometimes it's just as hard 431 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:54,240 to prove. 432 00:20:54,759 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 5: But one thing was sure now. 433 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,559 Speaker 6: I wanted to meet Renee in the worst way, but 434 00:20:58,599 --> 00:21:01,160 I had to postpone the pleasure because early that afternoon, 435 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,160 one of the outposts broke into camp on bread. 436 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,759 Speaker 10: Yes, Paul, they're coming down the road through the forest. 437 00:21:06,799 --> 00:21:09,079 How many I did not stop to count them? Several 438 00:21:09,079 --> 00:21:10,200 truck clothes to be sure. 439 00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:10,599 Speaker 5: Pass the words. 440 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 6: Lieutenant Hill ask him to bring his detail in the 441 00:21:12,519 --> 00:21:15,559 camp on the double. Yes, Lieutenant als, Yes, take two 442 00:21:15,559 --> 00:21:17,039 men and go down to the road and see what 443 00:21:17,079 --> 00:21:19,359 the ruck to. Yes, sir, just reconnoiter. Don't fire at. 444 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 2: Them, but this is my chance for event. Listen to me. 445 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 6: Don't fire at them, that's a command. Yes, they may 446 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:25,799 not be after us at all. I get coin. 447 00:21:25,759 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 2: Immediately, Lieutenant. What's the order of the day, Duke plan Scraham. 448 00:21:29,279 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 5: It looks like all your men here, President of the 449 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:31,880 counter for all. 450 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 6: Right, boys, now gather around. We didn't get this as 451 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,720 a convoy of Germans coming down the forest road. I'll 452 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,960 wait a minute. We're not going to fight him. You 453 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,039 know what our job is roadblocks. We got tanks, artillery 454 00:21:44,039 --> 00:21:45,720 and airplanes. It will be along soon to do the killing. 455 00:21:47,279 --> 00:21:49,759 Our security has been pretty good, and those crowds may 456 00:21:49,759 --> 00:21:51,720 be on a routine patrol. The chances are they don't 457 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:57,039 even know we're here. They do now listen, Yeah, well 458 00:21:57,079 --> 00:22:00,720 that doesn't all right? Your men got your weapons good, 459 00:22:01,039 --> 00:22:03,440 but you know the procedure, get lost before you leave 460 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,039 the forest, bury your weapons, ammunition and equipment. Rendezvous at 461 00:22:07,039 --> 00:22:09,400 the home of Alcene's at at twenty two hundred dollars tonight, 462 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,359 good luck, Come on, Ed, let's stram it. 463 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,799 Speaker 3: Well, he who doesn't fight and runs away, lives to 464 00:22:15,839 --> 00:22:16,519 fight another day. 465 00:22:16,519 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 5: There's something like that. 466 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:18,559 Speaker 2: Who tipped them off? 467 00:22:18,599 --> 00:22:20,039 Speaker 6: I'm not sure, but I got a pretty good idea. 468 00:22:20,559 --> 00:22:22,920 Who's down there at the road, Alcene. He's fighting a 469 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:36,720 private war, the poor jerk. The basic rule of three 470 00:22:36,799 --> 00:22:41,559 in guerrilla warfare is surprise, kill vanish. However, one year surprised, 471 00:22:41,599 --> 00:22:42,720 the only rule is vanished. 472 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 5: Than we did. 473 00:22:44,279 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 6: There were about fifty Germans and a half a dozen 474 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,839 dogs to track our scent. They spent the day thrashing 475 00:22:48,839 --> 00:22:51,200 through the woods, firing into the underbrush and finding nothing. 476 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,359 It was a classic withdrawal and Hell and I were 477 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,960 proud of our little army, with the exception of al Scene, 478 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,920 It's self appointed hero. When we arrived at his aunt 479 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,000 house that night for the rendezvous, half a dozen of 480 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:02,960 the boys were already there. 481 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 9: Who is it, Julie, our lieutenant. 482 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 5: Come in, good evening, Madam. 483 00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:15,039 Speaker 9: I've seen he's already here. I'm so proud of him. 484 00:23:14,839 --> 00:23:17,079 Speaker 2: Oh, Lieutenant, I was just telling tom Elly and the boys. 485 00:23:17,079 --> 00:23:19,480 It was magnificent. I got two of them. I killed two. 486 00:23:19,319 --> 00:23:21,279 Speaker 5: Bush Your orders were not to shoot. 487 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:22,559 Speaker 2: Good lieutenant, What would. 488 00:23:22,279 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 5: You What happened to the other boys that were with you. 489 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 2: Jean was wounded and captured. Antoine became frightened and ran away. 490 00:23:27,279 --> 00:23:29,680 That blows the Marquis. They'll get the full particular from Jehan. 491 00:23:29,799 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 5: They haven't got him already. 492 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Lieutenant, but quiet answer. 493 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:34,279 Speaker 5: It, madame? 494 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:40,799 Speaker 2: Who is it? Julie opening, good evening, madame? Come in, 495 00:23:40,839 --> 00:23:42,119 boys running any trouble boys? 496 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:43,319 Speaker 5: As you see, we are here. 497 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 10: Yeah, not for long, lieutenant, Yes, Paul and I wish 498 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:51,000 to withdraw in the Marquis quit Why the risk is 499 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:51,440 too great? 500 00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:55,799 Speaker 2: You're afraid for myself? No, but after what happened to John, he. 501 00:23:55,799 --> 00:23:57,599 Speaker 5: Was wounded and captured, Well we all take that risk. 502 00:23:57,759 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 10: Yes, But last night the Gestapo got Jean's family like 503 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,880 they did all scenes. I stood them up in front 504 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:03,880 of their house and shot them. 505 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 2: Who knows will be next? My mother, Raul's sister al 506 00:24:08,279 --> 00:24:11,759 scenes Ant. I wish to withdraw, right. 507 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 5: I'll wait a minute. 508 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,039 Speaker 6: I don't blame you for being worried about your families, 509 00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:17,759 But whose families do you think? The British and American 510 00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:19,279 armies up in Normandy are fighting to. 511 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 5: Liberate their own? No yours? 512 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 6: Now, this thing isn't as bad as it looks there's 513 00:24:23,519 --> 00:24:25,359 been a leak in our security. Somebody's been putting a 514 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,440 finger on us, so we lay low until the leak's plot. 515 00:24:27,519 --> 00:24:30,319 Speaker 2: But the Germans are everywhere, Spies, perhaps two, are everywhere. 516 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,279 Speaker 6: I think I know who's responsible for these murders. I'll 517 00:24:33,279 --> 00:24:35,240 make a deal with you. Give me a couple of 518 00:24:35,279 --> 00:24:37,680 days to work it on. We'll issue you boys some money, 519 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,359 and all you've got to do is to get lost 520 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,759 until Saturday night and then meet me back here. 521 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 5: If I haven't. 522 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 6: Patched up our security by then, you can all quit 523 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,319 the marquis and become collaborator. 524 00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 2: No one wishes to collaborate, but one must think of 525 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:49,920 one's family. 526 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 6: Okay, Dad, Yeah, dude, give the boys a thousand francs apiece. Right, come, 527 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:58,799 I get a boy a scene, Lieutenant, I'm gonna have 528 00:24:58,839 --> 00:25:01,000 a little time on my hands the next couple of days. 529 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:02,599 Do you think you could arrange to introduce me to 530 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,160 your girlfriend? Oh but of course, Lieutenant, maybe she's okay, 531 00:25:06,279 --> 00:25:08,000 like you say, we can let her sign up. 532 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 2: I am desolated with happiness, Lieutenant. 533 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 6: One thing, none of that lieutenant business around her until 534 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,359 I make sure she's all right. Very well, you think 535 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,240 my friends. She's good enough to pass as a native, 536 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,720 but of course, Lieutenant all right, then pass me off 537 00:25:19,759 --> 00:25:22,359 as a friend of yours. Let's see, I need a name. 538 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,680 Let's call me Jacques deu Fran, Jacques du Frane. 539 00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:27,279 Speaker 2: Good. I will make the arrangements immediately. 540 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 6: I thought you'd like an excuse to get into town 541 00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:40,720 Tony the next afternoon, i'll see. Brought the girl out 542 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,160 to the woods near his aunt's house. I stood behind 543 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,400 a tree to watch and make sure they weren't being followed. 544 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,440 She was all right, tall, long, sunburned legs, her hair 545 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,119 caught in a blue ribbon like a little girl's. 546 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 5: I let them walk by, and then I stepped from 547 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:55,799 behind my tree. 548 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,279 Speaker 2: Oh hey, you guys, Shah, Hello, elsie Renne. This is 549 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:03,359 my good friend, Jacque de frand he's from Paris too. Jack. 550 00:26:03,839 --> 00:26:05,200 This is an adency boy. 551 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,039 Speaker 5: Glad to meet you, ma'amselle. 552 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,319 Speaker 8: And I'm honored to meet you, monsieur. Where do you live? 553 00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:10,839 In Paris? 554 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,839 Speaker 5: Near the Porto deu la La. But my home is 555 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:14,319 no longer there. It was bombed. 556 00:26:14,039 --> 00:26:16,079 Speaker 8: Out alas so is smile. 557 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,039 Speaker 6: My family remain with friends, but I've come out into 558 00:26:19,039 --> 00:26:20,359 the country to fight with the resistance. 559 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,599 Speaker 2: Jacques has much influence with the commander of our marquis. 560 00:26:23,759 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 8: I hope you will be able to persuade him to 561 00:26:25,519 --> 00:26:26,599 let me join you. Monsieur. 562 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 5: I shall do what I can. 563 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,640 Speaker 8: It would be a privilege and an honor to work 564 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:32,839 with a patriot like you. 565 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 2: See, Jacques, I told you Rene was all right. 566 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:36,319 Speaker 5: He didn't tell me the half of it. 567 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 6: Mademoiselle, you understand that we must be cautious. There are 568 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,160 questions I must ask of a confidential nature. 569 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 8: Why don't we meet again alone? 570 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,839 Speaker 2: Why not stay tonight. 571 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 8: I have a little car. We might take a drive. 572 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 2: Fine, But Rene, you promised me. 573 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 8: That see you some other time. I share. Remember Franz 574 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:01,119 comes first. 575 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:12,319 Speaker 5: We just drove that night. 576 00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:14,799 Speaker 6: She was wearing a white ribbon in her hair and 577 00:27:14,839 --> 00:27:17,960 a loose white dress and no stockings. We just drove 578 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,960 around in her little citr Iron with the top down 579 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,440 and a wind blowing her hair like a girl in 580 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,799 a magazine. And then we came back about midnight and. 581 00:27:24,799 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 5: Parked with a bridge. I felt like I was back 582 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,039 in high school in Illinois. 583 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 8: Look at those stars, shack, yeah, so many of them, 584 00:27:38,039 --> 00:27:44,519 so close you can almost reach out and touch them. Yeah, 585 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,400 I had them all once, Shack. I reached out and 586 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:54,960 gathered them all in my armswamps. Yeah, I want you 587 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:00,680 to know all about me, Shack, I want to. Don't 588 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,960 think it's wrong of me, but I've been in love. 589 00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:07,279 Speaker 5: There's nothing wrong in being in love. 590 00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 8: He was a soldier. 591 00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:13,759 Speaker 2: Most everybody is these days, a German soldier. 592 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 8: Oh don't you think that love is bigger than war or. 593 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:18,799 Speaker 2: Hate or anything? 594 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 5: Yeah? I guess. 595 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 8: So he's dead. 596 00:28:22,839 --> 00:28:28,519 Speaker 6: Now that's good. I'm sorry. I mean, I didn't mean 597 00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:30,119 to hurt you. I'm not sorry. 598 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,680 Speaker 5: He's dead, Shack. 599 00:28:32,799 --> 00:28:40,519 Speaker 8: I'm so confused. I want to understand things. I want 600 00:28:40,519 --> 00:28:45,960 to be intelligent about things, and everything gets so mixed 601 00:28:46,079 --> 00:28:55,319 up like now, like now, Yes, Shack, I've never been 602 00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:58,599 so happy as I am tonight, not even with a German, 603 00:29:00,599 --> 00:29:05,119 not even with him. Why does it have to end? 604 00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:09,759 Why do those blessed stars have to go out one 605 00:29:09,799 --> 00:29:13,720 by one to make way for another day of war? 606 00:29:15,759 --> 00:29:21,359 Why can't we stop time? You and I gather all 607 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:22,880 the stars together. 608 00:29:23,799 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 5: Just for us. 609 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,359 Speaker 11: I don't know, baby, it's never been done before. We 610 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:47,440 can try. 611 00:29:53,799 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 2: Shut my shell shell shut? 612 00:29:57,119 --> 00:29:57,519 Speaker 5: Yeah. 613 00:29:57,599 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 6: Yeah, tomorrow night, same time, same place forever if you 614 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,160 say the word sure, why not? Who knows how long 615 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,559 forever is in this crazy world? Why not have it together? 616 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:11,240 Why not get married? 617 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:11,799 Speaker 8: Why not? 618 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:12,519 Speaker 2: My most. 619 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 5: See you tomorrow night. 620 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 8: I'll only be half alive until then, Sherry. If you 621 00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:26,440 want to write your family in Paris, give me the 622 00:30:26,519 --> 00:30:37,440 letter tomorrow night and I'll mail it for you. 623 00:30:38,079 --> 00:30:41,759 Speaker 3: I drop that rock and grab a sock, rise and 624 00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:42,720 shine a love a boy. 625 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,119 Speaker 2: I brought your cup of chocolate. Figured you want breakfast 626 00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:48,400 in bed this morning? How'd you make out last night? Okay, details, 627 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:49,279 let's have the detail. 628 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,519 Speaker 6: I think much to report. We drove and then we 629 00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:52,519 parked for a while and talk. 630 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 2: Did you give anything away? 631 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,119 Speaker 5: No information? She's a funny kid. 632 00:30:56,519 --> 00:30:58,599 Speaker 6: Her dialogue is as corny as a Bobby socks. She 633 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,799 knows she's pretty, so she wants to be atmired. 634 00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 5: For her mind. But I'm sure she's armana hai. I'll come. 635 00:31:03,839 --> 00:31:05,400 She offered a meil a letter to my family. 636 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,759 Speaker 6: M It's consistent. I asked her to marry me what 637 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,279 she didn't believe me, but she pretended like she did. 638 00:31:12,799 --> 00:31:14,359 I don't know why she's doing what she's doing. 639 00:31:14,759 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 5: Thrills. 640 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,119 Speaker 6: Maybe French juvenile de lake winter. Maybe tonight's the night, 641 00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:21,599 the night you get married, now the night we get her. 642 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,480 The boys are meeting us here at midnight. You know 643 00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:25,839 what's the plan? Well, i'll take another ride with her, 644 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,920 and about midnight we'll be back in park with the 645 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,440 bridge and you'll be there out of sight, and I'll 646 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,240 have some brandy along and i'll slug or drink with 647 00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:32,920 a capture pill. 648 00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:34,839 Speaker 5: When she's passed out, i'll give you the come on 649 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:48,119 and you join me here, Baby, have another dent. 650 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,319 Speaker 8: I shouldn't shut Brandy always makes me sleepy. 651 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 5: Well, what of it? This is a celebration of our engagement. 652 00:31:58,039 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 8: Kiss me shut? 653 00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 2: Then a cat? 654 00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:11,519 Speaker 8: Sure, shuck the stars and near nearer than they've ever been. 655 00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 5: Nearer than you think? 656 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,519 Speaker 2: Maybe I love you? 657 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:24,799 Speaker 8: Shall I do love you? Kiss me a cat? Do 658 00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:25,319 it a care? 659 00:32:27,079 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 2: A care? 660 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 5: Really? Maybe? I guess? Sleep you? Collaboration is pig? Can 661 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,680 you hear me? Okay? 662 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 6: And like a red lightning air ring, here's her person. 663 00:32:41,759 --> 00:32:43,519 I'll start through it while I do n'tangle myself. 664 00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:45,279 Speaker 2: When you I'll take a look at this. 665 00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 5: What is it? 666 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 3: I let her from good Stoppo Headquarters, confirming receipt. 667 00:32:47,839 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 2: Of three addresses. 668 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 5: Let me see that well, ill, that one's Elson's family, 669 00:32:50,759 --> 00:32:51,920 and that one's John And here's. 670 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,799 Speaker 3: A good stop identification card plasure light over there. 671 00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 5: Look at her, What a dish Look at that kisser. 672 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,039 Speaker 6: She's responsible for the death of six people whose only 673 00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:05,559 crime was being born French. She'd erecked our marquis snapp food, 674 00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:07,640 our mission and turned me over to the gestapover her 675 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,480 lipsticks still in my collar, That gorgeous hunk a double cross. 676 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 5: Now we got the proof. Let's get on with it, don'kay. 677 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000 I guess you'd rather I know. This is my job. 678 00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 2: She is, she's gorgeous. 679 00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:28,359 Speaker 6: Yeah, so long, honey, Thanks, it's so gorgeous. Now at 680 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:29,400 least that handbreak, got it? 681 00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 5: Come on, shove not yet, keep that steering real straight. 682 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,079 The river's deepest, right at the center of the bridge. 683 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,119 Speaker 2: Yeah, now high right. 684 00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:38,519 Speaker 5: On the wheel. 685 00:33:44,759 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 6: You know something, ed, I think she finally did gather 686 00:33:48,279 --> 00:34:02,359 that armful of stars. The operation was successful when the 687 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,720 time came. Our roadblocks tied up three German divisions while 688 00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:09,199 patent rolled on to the east. But I still liolated night, 689 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:14,320 thinking I should have married that dame. Yeah, the operation 690 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,639 was successful, but the patient died. 691 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,639 Speaker 4: Operation Florida Lee was written, directed, and produced by William N. Robeson, 692 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,599 with Jack Webb as Duke, Elliott Lewis as Hill, Peggy 693 00:34:36,599 --> 00:34:40,360 Webber as Renee, and Harry Bartel as al Scene. Operation 694 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,800 Flurid Lee was based on an incident from the files 695 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,760 of the OSS recorded in Sabrosa by Stuart Alsopp and 696 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,679 Thomas Brayden. The special musical score was conceived and conducted 697 00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:58,880 by Cy Feuer. Escape is presented by CBS and it's 698 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,199 affiliated stations each week at this time. Next week, we 699 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,079 invite you to escape with f Scott Fitzgerald in his 700 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,920 unforgettable story The Diamond as Big as the writs, and 701 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,840 so good night until next week, when again it will 702 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:17,400 be time to escape. 703 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:36,559 Speaker 12: Calumnia Bodcasting System Welcome back, a superb story. 704 00:35:36,679 --> 00:35:40,039 Speaker 1: I think that this was a very well adapted tale, 705 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,360 and you not only get Jack Webb in this, you 706 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:48,639 also get Elliott Lewis. Elliott Lewis was another up and 707 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,559 coming actor who on Mutual was starring in Voyage of 708 00:35:52,639 --> 00:35:57,239 the Scarlet Queen and would later go on to really 709 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,559 work behind the microphone on so many series and like 710 00:36:01,679 --> 00:36:06,039 Web that was really where his true ambitions lie. But 711 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:10,320 they really did play off each other really well. Web 712 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,639 did bring some of his hard boiled characterization to his 713 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,039 portrayal of Duke, but I think it didn't go over 714 00:36:18,079 --> 00:36:21,280 the top at all. I think it was just the 715 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,920 right tone and tempo for this character. It's a very 716 00:36:25,079 --> 00:36:29,840 realistic story and it was actually only the second broadcast 717 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,760 episode of Escape. The one thing I did question in 718 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:40,079 this was the combination of shooting and then sending the 719 00:36:40,119 --> 00:36:43,760 car over. It did seem like it'd make more sense 720 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,840 for it to be one or the other, but as 721 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,400 this was adapted from the OSS Files, it's safe to 722 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,639 assume that that's just probably how it happened in real life, 723 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,599 so it doesn't really need dramatically explained. I should know 724 00:36:57,679 --> 00:37:01,119 that I have played this episode before on the War 725 00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:05,880 about five years ago, but I think this one definitely 726 00:37:06,159 --> 00:37:10,119 is worth hearing again. So I hope you enjoyed it, 727 00:37:10,639 --> 00:37:13,480 and I hope you'll join us back here on Monday, 728 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:18,960 when we will have another Jackweb led episode of Escape. 729 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,039 In the meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen 730 00:37:23,079 --> 00:37:27,119 at Great Detectives dot net from Boise, Idaho. This is 731 00:37:27,159 --> 00:37:29,480 your host Adam graham Son and off