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Speaker 2: But now it's.
Speaker 1: Time for today's episode of the Adventures of Philip Marlow.
Speaker 1: The original air date May thirtieth of nineteen fifty and
Speaker 1: the title is The Bedside.
Speaker 3: Manners, Get This and Get It Straight. Crime is a
Speaker 3: sucker's road, and those who travel and wind up in
Speaker 3: the gut of the prison of the grave there's no
Speaker 3: other end. But they never learn.
Speaker 4: From the pen of Raimond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
Speaker 4: comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip
Speaker 4: marlow Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we
Speaker 4: bring you tonight's exciting story the bedside manners.
Speaker 3: In your head and hit the streets. I had Tommy, okay, kid,
Speaker 3: he thanks, have it easy now, sure.
Speaker 5: Can't go.
Speaker 6: Somebody give it a be Okay, just take it easy.
Speaker 3: Now. That's the way it happened two weeks ago, and
Speaker 3: they scraped me up off the pavement. I felt like
Speaker 3: everything must have been broken. God. Finally the doctor boiled
Speaker 3: it all down or A fractured tibia and the sordid
Speaker 3: bruises leaded me ten days in the hospital, tangled up
Speaker 3: with enough pulleys, weights and trapeze bars to rig a
Speaker 3: circus tent, after which I managed to get sprung with
Speaker 3: the peace and quiet of my own apartment. There on
Speaker 3: a special bed in my living room, I spent four
Speaker 3: days scratching my broken leg through an inch of plastic
Speaker 3: cast while I worried about the business I was missing,
Speaker 3: until finally Ordine Patterson, a girl with a multimillion dollar
Speaker 3: estate i'd worked for once, insisted on seeing me immediately
Speaker 3: about a job. Once she was sure I could handle
Speaker 3: even flat on my back.
Speaker 7: Phil, it's about my brother.
Speaker 3: Another jam huh, yes, Wait a minute, I gotta get comforted.
Speaker 3: I guess your father knew his son pretty well when
Speaker 3: he left. He left all that dough and your hands
Speaker 3: are being.
Speaker 8: Yes, only this time, I sincerely believe Mayna has learned
Speaker 8: this lesson.
Speaker 9: Phil.
Speaker 8: He's worried, sick and frankly, so am I?
Speaker 3: So am I if I can straighten this leg out? Well,
Speaker 3: if you think I can help in this condition, it
Speaker 3: can't be too serious. Hey, before you sit down and
Speaker 3: reach me cigarette, will you?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Sure, sure, Phil? Here it is thanks Phil.
Speaker 8: Last Saturday night, Maynard went out on a binge. He
Speaker 8: got home at four o'clock in the morning, awfully intoxicated.
Speaker 3: No, it's not unusual for Mayna, is it. No?
Speaker 8: Except this time he was frightened, Phil, scared stiff. Well,
Speaker 8: that's just the point. We don't know. He was so
Speaker 8: drunky he couldn't remember anything, didn't know where he'd been.
Speaker 3: Or with whom Phil.
Speaker 10: It was.
Speaker 3: It was terrible. This was last Saturday. Why you're so worried?
Speaker 3: And it happened surely by now you'd have heard.
Speaker 8: But something did happen, Phil. This morning I got a
Speaker 8: phone call from a man who meant business.
Speaker 5: Believe me.
Speaker 8: I made notes on a memo pad while he took
Speaker 8: so I wouldn't forget any of it. Here, Dad, here,
Speaker 8: here read it.
Speaker 3: No, this is fish Fish, Yes, tell maned fifty gees
Speaker 3: important money by tomorrow or trouble.
Speaker 8: Then he hung up on me, Phil.
Speaker 3: Fish did you have Mane ever hear him before?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 8: I certainly didn't. And when I asked Maynard he didn't
Speaker 8: know him either. He had a oh a cold, heavy
Speaker 8: voice and spoke with a thick list.
Speaker 3: You want me to pick this fish for him?
Speaker 7: Yes, so I'll know why Maynard? Oh was that much money?
Speaker 3: And now, look, baby, I'm bed ridden. I'm stuck. I
Speaker 3: can't even move that.
Speaker 7: I know that, Peel.
Speaker 8: But you have the phone here, a lot of contacts
Speaker 8: and plenty of diplomacy. If this is something I can
Speaker 8: get made it out of by paying that money, then
Speaker 8: I'll pay.
Speaker 3: Okay, baby, I'll try. But look, if it's outside the law, turn.
Speaker 7: May it in. Yes, yes, I'm aware of that.
Speaker 3: All right? Where do I start? Where did he start? Saturday?
Speaker 8: At the Colony Club with a female named Feofman. Well,
Speaker 8: whatever happened must have been done there. That's why I
Speaker 8: thought of you feel. You know the Colony Club, Well, I.
Speaker 3: Know the Scotch's Johnny Walker and sid Ray Feels the
Speaker 3: owner of that song.
Speaker 7: That may be enough. Will you want to talk to.
Speaker 3: Me in it? Yeah? Yeah, send him over in about now.
Speaker 8: Yes, he'll be here. And that alphin girl's number is
Speaker 8: Sunset oh one four four.
Speaker 3: O one four four okay, Ordeine, I'll get him at
Speaker 3: least my dial finger isn't Hello, what fish?
Speaker 11: I know my pigeons with you now?
Speaker 2: I followed her.
Speaker 11: Don't clip her wings? Well back out now where you
Speaker 11: still can't.
Speaker 2: I'm wanting you.
Speaker 7: Still? Who who was that you? You look upset?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well my uh my horse just ran fourth. Look
Speaker 3: you better run along now or dean okay, and stay
Speaker 3: out of the dark corners, huh. In spite of my
Speaker 3: sitting duck position, and I told myself that a private
Speaker 3: detective who listens to warnings today is out of business tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So I put in a call for sid Rayhaield at
Speaker 3: the Colony Club. Sid was out, so I left a
Speaker 3: message for him to get in touch with me. Next,
Speaker 3: I tried fay Altman, but the Sunset number went unanswered.
Speaker 3: After that, I started checking for the next best thing
Speaker 3: to legs. I could think of a guy named Hunger
Speaker 3: Molloy by profession, or robing bookie by appearance of slouch
Speaker 3: and threadbare hounds tooth propped against any convenient lamp post. Hunger,
Speaker 3: by some peculiar instinct, either knew I could find out
Speaker 3: about anything, especially slightly illegal, and because I'd once brought
Speaker 3: him out of a tight spot, he loved me like
Speaker 3: a brother. I finally located him in a pool hall
Speaker 3: on Melrose and told him what I needed to know.
Speaker 3: He promised it was as good as done and was
Speaker 3: off to the canning club and I would hear from him. Well.
Speaker 3: That left me with nothing to do but scratch my
Speaker 3: cast again, worry about my gun being in the desk
Speaker 3: drawer and my office, think about fish and wait. Things
Speaker 3: went like that for forty five five minutes, and then
Speaker 3: come in. Who is it? Who's there?
Speaker 5: Why it's me Hunger.
Speaker 7: Oh, what's the matter, Philip, you're jumping?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm real glad to see you, fella.
Speaker 9: Likewise, I have fear under the weather has it.
Speaker 3: No, it's bothering me a little. Look I brang you
Speaker 3: some flowers. Oh, hunger, you shouldn't be I know.
Speaker 10: I tried to get long stems, but then plants in
Speaker 10: the parking dunes the good this year? Hey, listen, are
Speaker 10: you sure you gave me the right dope on the phone, Philip?
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, I'm sure. Why what'd you find out?
Speaker 9: That's just it?
Speaker 3: Nothing.
Speaker 10: I went to the Colney Club and got talking around,
Speaker 10: but not one thing worth medicine went on there Saturday night.
Speaker 3: Well maybe it started there and moved out, huh.
Speaker 9: I tried that.
Speaker 10: Some of the customers went out to the valley after
Speaker 10: the shoot, little dice. Now the bunch moved on to
Speaker 10: that big John on Adams with some poker.
Speaker 3: That's all gambling could be a gambling set up. Were
Speaker 3: they big games?
Speaker 10: No, just the usual, nothing extra at all, And especially
Speaker 10: I couldn't been down a thing on any fifty.
Speaker 3: J's changing hands are a positive? Hunger.
Speaker 10: Well, you don't ask too many questions in that league, Philip,
Speaker 10: But I'm pretty sure nobody got rich, right I heard
Speaker 10: you know?
Speaker 9: I got a hint at least.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, look what about this guy named Fish? Blank.
Speaker 10: Some new faces in town, but no high rollers. Answering
Speaker 10: to fish in the background. Yeah, some pick and shovel
Speaker 10: clean in a nice way. Been digging nuggets here in
Speaker 10: there for a year or so. The latest is the
Speaker 10: gill Edge punk. You want to know about Maynard Patterson?
Speaker 10: Can I have one of these?
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, feed your face.
Speaker 10: Incidentally, they was among those president of the county Saturday nine
Speaker 10: if that means something to you.
Speaker 3: And that's about it, Philip, Okay, Hunger, thanks amitting.
Speaker 10: Sorry I couldn't be more help, but I think you're
Speaker 10: getting a bump pitch Well, visitors, how you I got
Speaker 10: a back way out of here, It won't.
Speaker 3: Look such a sure, sure bedroom, Hunky, you can go
Speaker 3: out the window and down the fire escape. Wait a minute,
Speaker 3: is that new shirt? No?
Speaker 10: I come into a bit of clink, so I had
Speaker 10: it washed.
Speaker 9: I hope you feel a better, Philippo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks, Come in, Ordine, you wanted to see me.
Speaker 9: Mister mollow, sorry about your leg.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry about it. Tool, I can't get comfortable. Heyy
Speaker 3: I hear you really tied one on the other night.
Speaker 9: I kid you have it, but I'm through mister motow.
Speaker 3: I swear yeah, sure, so thanks. What about the gambling
Speaker 3: loves your head over that too?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I guess I do, far as my allowance goes.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Now, allow Look, I want you to tell me
Speaker 3: or you remember about Saturday night.
Speaker 9: Well, I I went to the Colony Club with Faye.
Speaker 9: That's my girl.
Speaker 3: By the way, how do you write stuff like Fay
Speaker 3: on your allowance? Just to get then that skipper skipp
Speaker 3: it go ahead?
Speaker 9: While I was drinking quite a bit. By one o'clock,
Speaker 9: I guess I was pretty fuzzy. I lost face someplace.
Speaker 9: Then I went outside for some air, and from there
Speaker 9: on it's just a blank.
Speaker 3: Well. Now, look, if you didn't pass out cold, you're
Speaker 3: bound to have some flashes you can remember. I want
Speaker 3: it all.
Speaker 9: Well, I do remember a couple of things, mister Montague.
Speaker 9: The more like a dream than anything else. I seem
Speaker 9: to remember a big, old fashioned house. It was dark
Speaker 9: and gloomy, with high ceilings and old ornate brass chandeliers.
Speaker 9: I don't know how I got there or what I
Speaker 9: was doing.
Speaker 3: Were you alone?
Speaker 9: Well, I don't think so. I've got a man's face
Speaker 9: in my mind, a flabby guy in a silk shirt.
Speaker 9: He had big hands, freckled on the backs of him,
Speaker 9: who was kind of a reddish hair on him. I
Speaker 9: remember him against something green?
Speaker 3: Did he lisp?
Speaker 9: I can't even remember, and just thinking about him gives
Speaker 9: me the willies. But I don't know why. I can't
Speaker 9: figure out why. I talked to face. She waited for
Speaker 9: me until the colony closed, and then she went home.
Speaker 9: She was pretty mad about it.
Speaker 3: Are you sure that's all you can remember? Yep?
Speaker 9: That's everything. How does it make any sense at all?
Speaker 3: Not much? Sounds like you could have been mixed up
Speaker 3: a poker game at a green top table and an
Speaker 3: old dump on Adam has lost your shirt to a
Speaker 3: fat guy named Fish.
Speaker 9: You think that's all there is doing her?
Speaker 3: Well, not quite all. There's the little matter of fifty
Speaker 3: thousand bucks you ow.
Speaker 9: Him fifty thousand. Look, mister Mollowey, if you and Ordine
Speaker 9: get me out of this mess, I swear I'll straighten up.
Speaker 9: I'll never get into trouble again.
Speaker 3: Honest, sonny boy. What you do later is your sister's headaches. Strictly.
Speaker 3: I got trouble enough lining things up, so you can
Speaker 3: get off the hook. I go on home and stay
Speaker 3: there like collya.
Speaker 9: Okay, Okay, mister Molowike, I know you don't like me,
Speaker 9: but well thanks.
Speaker 3: Anyhow, fifty thousand bucks. Oh yeah, sun said old one.
Speaker 3: Or for I have to put cast on so tight. Hello, Fay,
Speaker 3: my name is Phil Mallow. I've been trying to reach
Speaker 3: you for two hours.
Speaker 7: Maybe you need longer arms.
Speaker 3: Mister mom, just some conversation about Manard Pattison. I'm in
Speaker 3: my apartment number two, ten Granad Arms on Franklin. Can
Speaker 3: you come over?
Speaker 12: Why would I want to talk about Maynard to you
Speaker 12: in the first place, and why don't you come over
Speaker 12: here in the second?
Speaker 3: In the first place, I'm a private detective. In the
Speaker 3: second I got a busted leg. How about it? It's important.
Speaker 7: Well, I've never dated a private detective with a broken leg.
Speaker 7: Before it sounds dressing. I'm around the corner on Bronson.
Speaker 7: I'll be right there.
Speaker 3: Good out, goodbye, Faye, come on in well, sid Rayphiel
Speaker 3: in person yet.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the boys at the club told me about your
Speaker 13: urgent call peepers, so I came right out.
Speaker 3: Well, if i'd known you were coming out of make
Speaker 3: the snakes, let's get the cracks. I know what you want. Well,
Speaker 3: then you're clairvoyant. Because I'm not sure myself yet. Try this.
Speaker 13: You're working for Udine Patterson like you did once before?
Speaker 13: Because the punk brother hers isn't a bad jam with
Speaker 13: one mister Fish, Well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's quite neat, quite neat. You happen to know
Speaker 3: the guy?
Speaker 13: Yeah, well I happen to know the guy. That's why
Speaker 13: I'm here to tip you, because you're a friend of
Speaker 13: mine more or less. So I say, leave it alone,
Speaker 13: my get out of it, stay out.
Speaker 3: It's none of your business. You know, you talk like
Speaker 3: a man with a personal angle. What I ort to
Speaker 3: split your lip for that? I come here to do
Speaker 3: your turn it easy. Mind your bedside man has said
Speaker 3: I'm an invalid.
Speaker 13: You'll be worse than that if you don't back out
Speaker 13: of this. I'm telling you this guy Fish is too
Speaker 13: hot to handle mylow and you better?
Speaker 3: Who's that? How should I know? For a sick room?
Speaker 3: Is joints becoming more like Hollywood and Fine by the minute?
Speaker 13: I took a long chance coming here. I got to
Speaker 13: get out without being seen.
Speaker 3: Well, try the bedroom window and fire escape. Everybody else does.
Speaker 3: Don't let them until I'm gone.
Speaker 5: You hear it ain't healthy?
Speaker 3: Said said?
Speaker 5: What is it? Sid?
Speaker 3: Oh this stinking leg it's going, mister fish, I suppose
Speaker 3: that makes me.
Speaker 5: From the restaurant.
Speaker 7: Are you all right and mellow?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, it's the I'm okay, I'm fine.
Speaker 8: Really, I thought you was talking to somebody.
Speaker 3: No, no, I was reading. I didn't hear the buzzer.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 8: Sometimes I get real carried away myself. Look, I fixed
Speaker 8: up your dinner everything, just like you're ordered here.
Speaker 3: No, missie, I don't think I'll eat right now. I
Speaker 3: just put the tray down and beat it. Huh like
Speaker 3: a good girl.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but what about the dishes?
Speaker 3: Oh get him in the morning. Will you get out
Speaker 3: of here while.
Speaker 2: You go on?
Speaker 5: Yee, we're okay, good night, mister.
Speaker 3: Okay fish, the girl's gone. Oh come on in? Did
Speaker 3: you hear me? I said, come on in. I guess
Speaker 3: I'm as ready as I'll ever be.
Speaker 4: In just a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe.
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Speaker 3: Now with our.
Speaker 4: Star Gerald Moore, the second act of Philip Marlowe, and
Speaker 4: Tonight's story The Bedside Manners.
Speaker 3: The man is never ready to die. Really, sometimes saying
Speaker 3: you helps, sometimes, like when you're flat on your back
Speaker 3: waiting for a killer with a silencer might step into
Speaker 3: view through your bedroom door. I kept on waiting for
Speaker 3: sixty seconds each as long as a fall down an
Speaker 3: empty well. Once I thought I heard the window close,
Speaker 3: at least another five minutes went by, and I actually
Speaker 3: began to believe that for some reason, Fish had gone away,
Speaker 3: and it made the scoreboard really easy to read. Sid Rayfiel,
Speaker 3: a guy who knew his way around, had been killed
Speaker 3: and I hadn't been able to do a thing about it.
Speaker 3: It was time for called a homicide. But even as
Speaker 3: I reached for the phone, it went off Hello. I said, hello,
Speaker 3: last morning, Oh you got the phone fast, But still,
Speaker 3: what's on your slippery mind? Fish, something to.
Speaker 9: Pay attention to?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 9: See, Molly, you're only still alive.
Speaker 2: Because that's convenient me.
Speaker 3: Too bad you didn't feel that way about sid rayphield
Speaker 3: Ray if you.
Speaker 5: Got what he deserved.
Speaker 2: So will you?
Speaker 9: Like I said, you're only still a life because that's
Speaker 9: convenient to me.
Speaker 11: You're happen to be working for the lady who.
Speaker 3: Holds the purse strings go on.
Speaker 11: Therefore, that's very little more, Mallow, except this Maynard Patterson's
Speaker 11: a lousy poker player. On Saturday night he dropped fifty
Speaker 11: thousand to me fifty thousand and two markets Mellow, one
Speaker 11: for two thousand and the other for forty eight. I
Speaker 11: want both paid promptly.
Speaker 3: You want a thing not quite Manad Patterson doesn't remember
Speaker 3: what happens Saturday night. Oh maybe you know all about it,
Speaker 3: and you're making this up as you go along.
Speaker 9: No, Mallow, that's.
Speaker 2: Not the case.
Speaker 11: If you drag yourself to the window sill in your bedroom,
Speaker 11: you'll find all the proof you need.
Speaker 3: What do you mean that I left.
Speaker 11: One of the markets there in a white envelope, the
Speaker 11: one for two thousand, Anna and the poor little rich
Speaker 11: boy's own handwriting. I left it there so you'd know
Speaker 11: I'm not kidnappout forty eight grand I'll be in touch.
Speaker 3: So long, mellow, lousy double crook, come in?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 7: How could a girl ever resist to welcome? In your voice?
Speaker 7: I'm Faye open, private detective.
Speaker 3: That figures what happened to you?
Speaker 7: Fall out of a transom or trip over a clue?
Speaker 3: Which neither? It was a wise crack? Honey, I leafed
Speaker 3: so hot, I fell down and broke my leg.
Speaker 7: Let's get down to business.
Speaker 3: Huh, yeah, for a stought of Faye. What's your connection
Speaker 3: with Manet Pattison? How tight is there not? Huh?
Speaker 7: What was that again?
Speaker 3: I said you and Mayne? Just how chummy are you too?
Speaker 7: I thought I heard you right? You know, Private Detective.
Speaker 7: I don't like being pushed around.
Speaker 3: Hey, there's a dead man in the bedroom.
Speaker 7: Dead man? Did you say it? Deadness?
Speaker 3: Sid Rayphael? He was murdered Faye.
Speaker 7: No, oh, not sid Gee. He was a nice guy, Marlo.
Speaker 12: Sharp but nice.
Speaker 9: Hey.
Speaker 3: I want you to go in there and look for
Speaker 3: an envelope on a window sill. No, I don't think
Speaker 3: it's important, Faye. I can't get out of this bed.
Speaker 3: I go on, it may help us tag Sid's killer.
Speaker 5: All right, I'll get it.
Speaker 3: Keep going key at the window sill, do you see it?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Here? Yeah, hey the window's broken in there.
Speaker 3: Do you know what? Yeah? Yeah, I'll faye. My question
Speaker 3: about you and Mane somehow or other it may County
Speaker 3: in love with him?
Speaker 7: No, I mean I like him all right.
Speaker 12: He's a good time, nice places, nice people, nice little presents.
Speaker 12: No yachts, No, that's right, No yachts, and I like yachts.
Speaker 12: Private Detective, they beat rowing around in MacArthur Park.
Speaker 7: I know I've tried them both.
Speaker 3: Anything else, Yeah, it turn it around. How does he
Speaker 3: feel about you?
Speaker 9: Overboard?
Speaker 7: I guess.
Speaker 12: Look, you said that this might help catch Sid's killer.
Speaker 12: I like Sid, so I'd like to see that happen.
Speaker 12: But make this question a good one, because it's your last.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, man, it loves you, You love money, man.
Speaker 3: It didn't have any Now the question, do you have
Speaker 3: any plan to change all that?
Speaker 7: Just one?
Speaker 12: He was saving up every cent he could squeeze out
Speaker 12: of that stingy sister of his for a stake in
Speaker 12: a big card game.
Speaker 7: He was going to run it into big dough and
Speaker 7: he helped, Private Detective.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you called checking other people's stories out, I help,
Speaker 3: which translates into what man it did just that? Only
Speaker 3: he lost it all Saturday night, lost his steak in
Speaker 3: fifty thousand bucks more?
Speaker 7: What he owes that much dough?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I'll tell me. Have you heard from minutes since.
Speaker 7: You had your last question, Private Detective? Remember good, I marlow.
Speaker 5: It's been a big fast place.
Speaker 3: I'll bet anyhow, fay, i'd best to the fish fish. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't get it.
Speaker 5: What fish?
Speaker 3: Never mind? Go bye, baby, and don't slam it the door.
Speaker 3: The lady was gone. It was time to call the police,
Speaker 3: but I was dying hard, and even as I dialed
Speaker 3: the number, I turned the envelope that had been left
Speaker 3: on the window, still over in one hand. The envelope
Speaker 3: was the cheap kind you find in any dimes told
Speaker 3: nothing written on it, and the note itself, which read
Speaker 3: I owe the bear of two thousand bucks payable within
Speaker 3: twenty four hours, was signed Mainard Patterson and dated Saturday.
Speaker 3: It was on a square piece of memo. Okay, for
Speaker 3: it made me think about a little light and quite
Speaker 3: a while I would been sitting last for a last
Speaker 3: seat in the back of my mind, trying real hot
Speaker 3: at this pupil. Oh, Marlow, that fishing may be great?
Speaker 3: Oh this leg? Can I baby be home? Hello missus
Speaker 3: Marlow or Dean?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Still, what have you found out?
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but among other things, I may have
Speaker 3: caught a killer. Now listen, do you still have that note?
Speaker 3: You know, the one you brought over here? The memo
Speaker 3: you made have to fish? Call if you got it?
Speaker 8: Yes, it's in my handbagg.
Speaker 3: Never mind the question. Just get it, will you?
Speaker 7: Oh God, I'll only be a moment.
Speaker 3: I'll hang on.
Speaker 9: You better, just hang up.
Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting you just yet made it?
Speaker 9: Or this gun? I'm sure hang up.
Speaker 3: It'll only make a call back, you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And won't my dear sister be exasperated when she
Speaker 9: keeps getting it no matter how long she dials? Only
Speaker 9: you're busy signal?
Speaker 3: The pronunciation is signal? Mean what do I call you? Fish?
Speaker 3: And don't look so surprised your acts think babeluecat pronounce
Speaker 3: the letter rest avoid it instead of going out of
Speaker 3: their way to use it, as in Perth Dring my mistake, Molloyah.
Speaker 3: Among a lot of others. You never should have been
Speaker 3: careless about the kind of paper you wrote the iou
Speaker 3: on your sister, who you're trying to swindle, come in
Speaker 3: here earlier with the same juttings on a piece of
Speaker 3: paper that's got the same top edge irregular because no
Speaker 3: doubt no.
Speaker 9: I know because it was ripped off the same telephone pad.
Speaker 9: And I wouldn't have used that paper since iouser customarily
Speaker 9: written during her immediately after a card game, and I
Speaker 9: couldn't have been at home at the time of the game.
Speaker 9: I'd stop it, Marlow, there's no need for any more hypotheses.
Speaker 3: No, you can fill in all the blanks, can't you
Speaker 3: step by step? A rotten tailor made scheme to get
Speaker 3: your sister to save you by paying fifty thousand bucks
Speaker 3: to a gambler named Fish who doesn't exist.
Speaker 9: I should stop it.
Speaker 3: Slimy set up that began the fake one night stand
Speaker 3: of Bottle in Bond Amnesia moved on and would also
Speaker 3: fake telephone call Ordine from a heavy named Fish, a
Speaker 3: man with a lift shut up Mallow, and the payoff
Speaker 3: the confession call of me af.
Speaker 9: Yes, mister Mallow, everything you say is so, but I'm
Speaker 9: still not beaten. And I won't be. You're the only
Speaker 9: one who knows all this. And even as Fish killed
Speaker 9: sid Rafael, fish is gonna kill you, fish Mallow, not me, Fish,
Speaker 9: the ruthless gambler who never will be caught, but who
Speaker 9: my sister will pay. Nevertheless, that clear, Mellow, Not quite?
Speaker 3: Why did you kill Raphael? He had me convinced that
Speaker 3: Fish actually existed.
Speaker 9: Which is the reason he died. He was playing my Gamellow,
Speaker 9: not for me. Somehow or other he found out what
Speaker 9: I was doing, maybe because he always checked carefully when
Speaker 9: anybody got too interested in Faye Aufman, and he decided
Speaker 9: to help things along and cut himself in. You know
Speaker 9: the answer to that? Now, if you don't mind turn
Speaker 9: on the radio, Mellow.
Speaker 3: Why silence? It hasn't it on? Ye ladder?
Speaker 9: I wouldn't want anything to go wrong, now, man, I've
Speaker 9: been so lucky, lucky that I got away from my
Speaker 9: sister and was free to watch this building, it's apartment,
Speaker 9: lucky so that I could see who came and who
Speaker 9: went and act accordingly. Yeah, I've been lucky, all right,
Speaker 9: You do grant me that, don't you mind?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, you've been lucky. Yeah, you've been real Lucky
Speaker 3: Patterson up to now. But you know how it is
Speaker 3: with luck, kid, One minute you have it, the next
Speaker 3: minute it runs out. Lucky you might have I turned
Speaker 3: this off. It's putting me to sleep.
Speaker 9: You are brave, aren't you, Marlowe?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, just lucky lucky. That someone's standing behind you.
Speaker 9: Who the Mounted Police?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, just a guy, a guy named Hunger Malloy.
Speaker 3: It's a funny kind of a guy man. And he
Speaker 3: he was here early at night and he ducked out
Speaker 3: by way of the bedroom. At least I thought he'd
Speaker 3: ducked out.
Speaker 9: Quit. I don't budge an inch. I'm not going to
Speaker 9: turn around, give you the chance to go for that gun,
Speaker 9: which is probably under your pillow.
Speaker 3: But manage, you should do something. You're about to be
Speaker 3: hitting a knogin honestly, and with a vibe that's mollow.
Speaker 9: I'll believe what it happened.
Speaker 10: He just wouldn't take your word, would he, Philip. Well,
Speaker 10: that's the way it goes.
Speaker 3: I'll see you. I'll wait a minute, Hunger, come back here.
Speaker 10: I can't pal you got a corpse in there.
Speaker 2: That means cops them and need don't make.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about it. Just tell me before I bust.
Speaker 3: You started for the way window twenty minutes ago. What happened?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, Philip, what happened? Hunger?
Speaker 10: I got delayed after that stuff was popping this This
Speaker 10: louse was in there, then the corpse delect high and
Speaker 10: then the louse again at the window, leaving an envelope at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the delay, Hunger before company started coming? What
Speaker 3: was it? Well?
Speaker 7: And the truth pulp?
Speaker 3: Yeah, try it, try it may not hurt at all.
Speaker 10: Okay, they was on your dresser.
Speaker 2: The jazziest pair.
Speaker 10: Of pearl couplings, Philip, I seen since I used to
Speaker 10: deal in Vegas. I was attracted.
Speaker 3: Hunger is the last favorite of a guy. You've already
Speaker 3: done a big favor for it. Take the couplings.
Speaker 10: Go ahead, kid, all right, Philip, As long as you
Speaker 10: put it's a nice I will now, Like I was saying, wait.
Speaker 3: A minute, Hunger, the couplings. Take them with you now.
Speaker 10: Of course, that's exactly what I'm doing, Philip, see you around.
Speaker 3: Funny little guy, funny name, Hunger malloy. You know it's
Speaker 3: a strange thing, but a broken leg makes the old
Speaker 3: wheels go around. Now, that figures makes you think about breaks,
Speaker 3: and that brings me back to Hunger Maloy again. The
Speaker 3: only break he ever got was in his skull. Somebody
Speaker 3: once said, we make our own breaks. I don't know
Speaker 3: about that. I didn't break my leg, or maybe I did.
Speaker 3: Did I really look where I was going? And man
Speaker 3: had Patterson with all the breaks, he had loads of dough.
Speaker 3: Still he didn't know where he was going out of that.
Speaker 3: And sid Rayphield, I wonder if when the slug hit him,
Speaker 3: he thought, what a loves he break.
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Speaker 4: Norman MacDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Well.
Speaker 1: I love the concept of this episode, the idea of
Speaker 1: Marlowe solving a case without leaving his bed. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they quite got the story to its full potential.
Speaker 1: I mean, essentially, all the tough guys and people he
Speaker 1: normally walks about to question were very nice and can
Speaker 1: real y'all, and came to be questioned and to deliver
Speaker 1: their dialogue right it is at his bed. I mean
Speaker 1: that is service, But I think there's more you can
Speaker 1: do with the detective stuck in bed against a dangerous foe,
Speaker 1: particularly here since his rescue came from a little bit
Speaker 1: of a cheat. But still, I did enjoy the episode,
Speaker 1: and I thought the identity of the murderer was a
Speaker 1: good twist, because even if you recognize that the same
Speaker 1: actor was doing the voice of the brother and of
Speaker 1: the fish, that still wouldn't necessarily mean that they were
Speaker 1: the same people. It could just mean that they were
Speaker 1: doing doubles. But any rate, an interesting episode. And speaking
Speaker 1: of interesting, I have a postcard that came to my
Speaker 1: peel box at peel Box one five nine one three
Speaker 1: boise Onaho eight three seven one five. And I love
Speaker 1: the postcard because it is a cover of Action Comics
Speaker 1: number forty two from March nineteen forty two. It's a
Speaker 1: situation where Superman is flying upwards to save a roller
Speaker 1: coaster car where the track has split and the passengers
Speaker 1: are hurtling towards their new I've read the story in
Speaker 1: Action Comics forty two. The cover has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with it, but it's certainly a great cover anyway. Lindsey
Speaker 1: writes in Dear Mister Graham, I realized that this peel
Speaker 1: box is for donations, but I have these postcards and
Speaker 1: I wanted to send you one, and the site doesn't.
Speaker 2: Really say not to write.
Speaker 1: Well, lindsay, I'm perfectly okay with people who would rather
Speaker 1: do written a correspondent sending them to the peel box,
Speaker 1: just as long as it's legendable, which means I am
Speaker 1: not allowed to send a letter to myself at my
Speaker 1: peel box, but printed legibly, I can definitely read it.
Speaker 1: Plus with a very nice card like this, I definitely
Speaker 1: appreciate that. She goes on to say, I wanted to
Speaker 1: thank you for being so active in the old time
Speaker 1: radio community. I first began listening to your Superman podcast
Speaker 1: because it was the most complete on iTunes. I later
Speaker 1: listened to some of your Great Detectives podcast, and I
Speaker 1: found your commentary far more engaging. I think most people
Speaker 1: who still listen to old time radio know your name. Well,
Speaker 1: that's nice of you to say, she said, I'd already
Speaker 1: listened to Box thirteen when I found the Great Detective
Speaker 1: so you probably mentioned the twenty ten Box thirteen comic there,
Speaker 1: but I thought i'd bring it up anyway. Speaking of comics,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of The Green Hornet and The Saint,
Speaker 1: both of which spawned comic books. I was wondering if
Speaker 1: you had any comments on them. Superman's main medium was
Speaker 1: the comic book, but the radio show influenced the comics.
Speaker 1: Did the comics of the Green Hornt Hornet or The
Speaker 1: Saint influenced the radio show? Thanks well, Lindsey. I'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and answer the question as best I can. And
Speaker 1: I should have talked more about the Saint comic book
Speaker 1: back when we were doing The Saint, so I'll do
Speaker 1: that now. On the Saint radio show, there was often
Speaker 1: reference to the Saint comic book being on sale on
Speaker 1: a newsstand. Typically, if we think of comic books, we
Speaker 1: think of these super hero comic books, and if we
Speaker 1: think further, we'll probably think of Marvel and DC. If
Speaker 1: you're really a bit more on the geeky side, you
Speaker 1: may be aware that there are other companies out there
Speaker 1: like IDW, Image, Dark Horse, and Dynamite. But pretty much
Speaker 1: we think, when it comes to history, it was Marvel
Speaker 1: and DC. Well, that really wasn't true. In the nineteen
Speaker 1: forties there was an absolute proliferation of a comic book companies,
Speaker 1: and one of these was a company called Avon, and
Speaker 1: they published the Saint comic books. Now, like a lot
Speaker 1: of comics during this period, the Saint Comic Book was
Speaker 1: published between nineteen forty seven and nineteen fifty two. It
Speaker 1: would be overly generous to say that the Saint comics
Speaker 1: were published on any sort of schedule. They had twelve
Speaker 1: issues published in those five years. All the issues of
Speaker 1: the Saint Comic Book are actually in the public domaining
Speaker 1: Nobody Review renewed the copyright on them and so you
Speaker 1: can read them at Digitalcomic Museum dot com. Essentially, it
Speaker 1: didn't change anything. The same comic books were basic and
Speaker 1: i should say, fairly well written crime and adventure comics
Speaker 1: of the era, some full book adventures running twenty some pages,
Speaker 1: and some that were, you know, fairly short of six
Speaker 1: to ten page story. But it didn't really have any
Speaker 1: influence on what went on in the book, what went
Speaker 1: on the movies. In fact, the st TV Show in
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties was one of the few that didn't
Speaker 1: actually have a comic book associated with it. The Saint
Speaker 1: also had a comic strip that ran in newspapers that
Speaker 1: both predated and outlasted the comic book. As for the
Speaker 1: Green Hornet. That character has pretty much been acquired by Dynamite,
Speaker 1: and indeed, if you're interested in the Green Hornet, pretty
Speaker 1: much the only way to read.
Speaker 2: About him is in comic books.
Speaker 1: Though there was that movie a few years back, but
Speaker 1: it didn't do particularly well. And Dynamite they actually published
Speaker 1: reprints of Golden Age Green Hornet material, and so I've
Speaker 1: read all the issues of that that were collected in
Speaker 1: their Green Hornet Golden Age Remastered hardcover book, and I
Speaker 1: can say that the Green Hornet comic didn't have any
Speaker 1: influence on the radio show. It was very much derivative
Speaker 1: of the radio show. The approach taken with the comic
Speaker 1: book was to fill this sixty four page comic with
Speaker 1: six to eight page Green Hornet stories, and they all
Speaker 1: basically followed similar Racketbuckstein stories like you here on the
Speaker 1: radio show. They just weren't as complex or as well developed.
Speaker 1: So I would say the influence of the Green Hornet
Speaker 1: comic on the radio show is pretty well nil. But
Speaker 1: at any rate, Lindsey, thanks so much for the question
Speaker 1: and for the nice cart. I really appreciate it. But
Speaker 1: that will do it for today. If you do have
Speaker 1: a comment, send it to me Box thirteen at Great
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Speaker 2: Well, that will do it for today.
Speaker 1: Join us next Wednesday for another episode of Philip Marlow,
Speaker 1: and coming next Tuesday, it's The Crime Files of Flamond
Speaker 1: as our new Tuesday show, and then join us tomorrow
Speaker 1: for Nick Carter. In the meanwhile, sendra comments to box
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