Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, I'm
going to bring you our four thousand, six hundredth episodes special.
But before we get started, I do want to encourage you,
if you enjoy the podcast, to follow us using your
favorite podcast software. Last month, when we played Martin Kin,
it called to my mind that we were long overdue
to play a special featuring Mark Stevens, and one of
those specials was the Lux Radio Theater version of Street
with No Name. And anytime I thought about playing that
particular special in the past, I decide not to because
it was linked to the House on ninety Second Street,
as both featured the character of FBI Inspector George Briggs,
and so I wanted to play something related to House
on ninety second Street first this time when I thought
about it, we of course did play an adaptation of
House on ninety second Street back in October of twenty
twenty three. That version featured Humphrey Bogart as George Briggs.
This version features Lloyd Nolan, who played the part on screen.
With all that said here from January thirty, first nineteen
forty nine is the Lux Radio Theater presentation of Street
with No Name.
Speaker 2: Look, then, Polly will God the makers of Luck Flake
bring you the Luck Radio Theater worrying Mark Stephens, Richard Woodmark,
and Lloyd Nolan. In this No Name, Ladies and gentlemen,
your producer mister William Teeley.
Speaker 3: Reading from Hollywood, Ladies and gentlemen, There's an invisible battle
raging constantly throughout this land. Tonight's play is the story
of one incident in this battle between a ruthless underworld
and the relentless courage of the men of the FBI.
Speaker 4: The play is The Street with No.
Speaker 3: Names, And while directing the picture for twentieth Century Fox,
I had the privilege of working closely with the director
of the FBI, mister j. Edhoover, and seeing firsthand the
machine like precision of the bureau. Tonight we have the
same three stars who were in the picture, Mark Stephens,
Richard Widmark and Lloyd Nolan, three accomplished players who bring
the ring of cold truth to this fight between the
champions of the law and the forces of evils. Of course,
the housewives in our audience are waging a daily battle
of their own these days, and many of them have
chosen lux Flakes as an ally. Their fight is to
make nice things stay new looking longer, a perfect assignment
for lux Flake, and our stars have their assignments. So
the curtain rises on the street with no names, starring
Mark Stephens as Jean Gordell, Richard Widmark as Alex Styles,
and Lloyd Nolan as Inspector Breaks. Some months ago, late
at night, a group of men entered the Meadowbrook Clubs,
a typical roadhouse on the outskirts of Center City.
Speaker 4: They drew guns and their leader this.
Speaker 5: Is a stick up, hands to the table at gold
move Come on, come on, slip it up all right,
get up against the wall.
Speaker 3: Methodically, the men proceeded to line the guests up against
the wall. Unfortunately, a woman became hysterical. She screamed victim
Helen Jannings, housewives, survivors.
Speaker 4: Husband and two children.
Speaker 3: The bullet that killed missus Jannings was sent by the
Center City Police to FBI headquarters in Washington, examined and
carefully cataloged. Five days later, also in Center City, a
guard was murdered while trying to prevent the hold up
of a bank two murders within five days in the
same city. This bank robbery, a violation of a federal statue,
gave the FBI jurisdiction to come in actively on the case.
It was a sign to Inspector George A. Brace Braig
went at once to set a city. He was met
by Richard Atkins, special Agent in charge of the FBI
Field Officers.
Speaker 4: While your hunch was right, Atkins, the bullet that killed
the bank god came from the same gun that killed
the Jannings woman. Lugar automatics. Tell me you're getting any
help from the police?
Speaker 5: Full cooperation Hamit seized the chief and Lieutenant Stoller, the
homicide squad.
Speaker 4: Yes you you mentioned a man named Emery Oh.
Speaker 5: Yes, a member of the city council, a chairman of
the police's advisory board. There's an election coming up.
Speaker 4: Oh funny how certain politicians discovered as a police department
just before an election. If it was all right with you, Inspector,
suppose we go straight to police It.
Speaker 5: The chief Harmit, a Lieutenant Staller, and the councilman. Memory
Inspector break.
Speaker 4: As a councilman, I'm certainly glad to see you inspect them.
We can use a little help right now.
Speaker 6: I guess that can have told you where we stand.
I told him he can expect full cooperation.
Speaker 4: Chief. Of course, there's no point trying to kid you inspect.
The things here are in a pretty bad way, as
crime has really moved into this town or not. Don't
misunderstand the Chief. Nobody's blaming you. You need more help
than we've given you. Mayor and the Council recognize that.
But neither recriminations nor promises will give us results. And
that's what we've got to get. So I don't mind
saying I feel a lot better with Chief Briggs here. Well,
as far as the police department's concerned, we're excuse me, yes, good,
that's more like it. Bring him in, Well, maybe we've
got our first break. And what does that mean?
Speaker 6: A couple of boys just picked up a sus looks good.
Speaker 4: They're bringing him in now? Oh? Yes, the suspect looked
very good. Robert Danker aged twenty four, tough guy, police record,
but Danker refused to confess. Are you better stop this
double talk, Banker and start getting some facts? What time
did you leave the meadowbrook? Then? Of the holder, I
told you I was never in that clip joint. You're
certain of that? Sure, I'm certain. Well, then what about
this This driver's license stay to California, made out to
Robert Danker. Is it yours? Yeah? Yeah's mine. This license
was found on the floor of the Meadowbrook right after
Helen Jennings was murdered. And you tell it you weren't there.
That's the guy who swiped the How I got there?
The frame? Who's framing? I'll take care of myself. If
you're being framed, we want to help you use your head, Danker.
Your best chance to clean yourself is to prove you
were framed. I'll prove it my own way when I
get out of here. It may not be so easy, Okay,
I'll tell my chances. You claim that you were in
Chicago the night of the whold of Yeah, I was. Well,
have you got any proof of that? Who saw you?
Look at the city? Nobody sees you in the city. Well,
what about a room, clerk la, I didn't have no
real We'll just sleep that night under a new building
going up near the freight yard. A Danker, this jacket
you're wearing, what's this spot? This red spot here near
the shoulder.
Speaker 3: It's paint, red paint to come off a girder in
the cellars the building where I hold up.
Speaker 4: All right, Danker, take it off paint. I tell you,
what are you booking me on for the time being?
Suspicion of robbery. Danker's jacket was sent immediately to the
FBI laboratories for microscopic examinations and chemical analysis. They teletype
their findings to our office and Center City. Lieutenant Staller
was with the chief when I arrived at the police headquarters. Oh,
of course, Becker, well, Stella. The red paint was paint.
The red spot was paint. Danker is innocent, innocent, that's right, cheek.
That girder was painted at five point thirty on the
afternoon of the murder. Was quick drying paint, six to
eight hours. The paint penetrated Danker's jacket just enough to
show that it was almost dry at the time that
Danker rubbed against it, and the kid was right. No,
the drivers. Now, if we can get him to open
up about that license when he lost it, or if
he lent it to somebody, Oh, let's go talk to him.
Speaker 6: No, I've got to run along. Let me know how
you make out Staller.
Speaker 4: So we went to the jail, Lieutenant Stoller and I.
Only Danker wasn't there. Early that morning he'd been released
on bail, bail furnished by the Personal Bonding Company. Their
office is right across the street.
Speaker 7: That's right, gentlemen, five thousand dollars bare for one Robert Danker.
Speaker 4: You mind telling us who put up the money? No, all,
it's right here on the card. John Smith, you know this.
Mister Smith never.
Speaker 7: Met him before in all my life, would know him
if I saw him again and he had this. Yes,
but I think you'll find it. Justice Forney is the name.
They all do it here Hotel Conan. Alright, let's go
stealin glad to.
Speaker 4: Help you boys anytime at all. That night, at twenty
minutes past eleven, a buddy with numerous knife wounds was
found on the main highway leading from Center City. It
was identified as Robert Danker. I spent the next day
with Atkins our Field agents, getting together certain essential information
about Center City. I then returned to Washington. This case
wasn't for me, and it wasn't for Atkins. Would have
to be handled by someone who had never been seen
in Center City before, by someone uniquely qualified for a
very tough assignment. Ten days later, I had picked him out.
His name Jean Cordell. I was going over the case
with Cordell when cy Gordon came into my office. Tell me,
you got a job for me? Pull up a chairs. I. Oh,
I don't suppose you know, Jeene Cordell.
Speaker 6: Doesn't tell me? Huh who brought me into the bureau
kepby from being a wealthy lawyer?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, sad to see again, Gene. Oh I. I
was just telling Jean about this Center City affair. Now
it's pretty obvious that the same gang that pulled a
bank robbery also pulled a Meadowbrook job and framed Robert Danker. Jean,
take a look at these maps. Now we know that
Danker's hangout was right here in this section skid Row. Huh,
that's right, skid Row. Here's Doc Street. Here's where Danker
had a room Royal Hotel. These are the various school
rooms and dives he was known to hang out in.
And here's the Dock Street gym. Jim, that's right up
one floor from the street. For prize fighters. It's a
place to train a few sparring rings. It's also a
hangout for hoodlums and gamblers. Since the war, at least
half a dozen gangs have sprung up in this one
area alone, and I'm convinced that one of them is
responsible for the murders of the Jannings girls, the bank guard,
and now a danker. Now, Jean, you're going to follow
in dankas footsteps drift into Center City sometime next week,
get a room at the Royal Hotel and start trying
to work yourself in. Si. Here's going with you. I
couldn't ask for anyone better. This is a one man job, Jean.
SI will only be your contact. He'll get a room
across the street from the Royal Hotel and put in
a radio, and as soon as you learn anything, pass
it on to him. Now, this danker was a tough
kid who knew was ray around. You ought to be
his carbon copy. Now I'll tell you exactly what I've
got in. Well, that's how Gene Cordell went to Center
City with Cy Gordon as his lias on. You're going
to hear now what happened to him there and I
get the best way to reconstruct it is to give
you the facts, just as they occurred. For two weeks,
Geene Cordell, now using the name of George Manley, bummed
around skid row, poor room, beer, Paul's, any place where
he could be seen and accepted as a mug who
knew his way around, smart, talking, tough. And then Jean
started showing up in the dock Street gym. What he
was boring? I'm begging the dean. I'm going down all one,
did you Jean Cordell knew a little something about boxing himself.
He started a needle one of the fighters.
Speaker 6: Hey, Jirino, step in with that left jab.
Speaker 5: What's the matter with you? Keep it up high?
Speaker 6: Okay, now shoot the right. Should it get some brains?
You're telegraphing it?
Speaker 4: Hey, no, dry up?
Speaker 2: Well your counterpunts the CounterPunch.
Speaker 6: He get right up to Reno. Fuck when he hooks fop.
Now luck, but take off he was trying to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm his trainer, What about it?
Speaker 6: What are you training for a quick dive? Come on,
keep your left.
Speaker 4: Up, sucker and say you is a all right wife?
Speaker 6: Guy trying to help you. Boy could use them shoppening.
Speaker 4: Open your teeth once more to help me off of you.
Speaker 5: He bought a ticket to come in and watch.
Speaker 7: Didn't her layoffs?
Speaker 5: Maybe you could show the kid a couple of things
could be. I'll give you five bucks if you can
go one.
Speaker 4: Round, make it tense. You got a deal.
Speaker 5: Hey, Maddy, get the champ some gears.
Speaker 4: He's going in there with a kid. Jean went three rounds.
He took something of a shellacking, but I guess he
figured it was worth it. A few minutes later in
the dressing not sad, not sad?
Speaker 6: Hey, Yoemi, thirty bucks, Yeah, take it, suck it okay? Thanks?
Hey Alex Styles.
Speaker 5: Huh yeah, I'm Alex Styles.
Speaker 6: Some of the boys they they point me out here
on this place.
Speaker 5: Huh Do you ever think of getting your teeth knocked
in for more than just last?
Speaker 4: Not anymore? I don't. He's your ways. Meant to pick
up a quick buck?
Speaker 5: Yeah? For instance.
Speaker 6: Maybe I'll let you know when I've run through your
thirty Around.
Speaker 4: The corner from the Dock Street Gym as a penny arcade,
Cordell and Gordon had picked it as one of their
meeting places. Cordell was playing a pinball machine when Gordon
wandered in and started playing the one next to him.
Speaker 5: I think I can leave it.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, dark Street gym.
Speaker 6: Somebody went through my wallet, lifted my social Security card.
Speaker 4: Good fine, not what you better do? Is it? Take
it easy, cops.
Speaker 5: It's a minute to bummy.
Speaker 6: What's the matter.
Speaker 4: What's your name?
Speaker 6: What's the two of you?
Speaker 7: Come on, let's have it. Manley George Maley. Yeah, you're
under arrest. I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 4: What for next time you break into a jewelry store?
Speaker 8: I'll leave you a social security guard. Let's go, man.
Speaker 4: This is Gordon calling WSBI. Gordon calling WSBI. Come in, Gordon,
get this to Briggs. Washington. Cordell arrested early tonight suspicion
of robbery. Tell Briggs Danker's shoes fit Cordell perfectly, that's all.
Two days later, a routine request, one of approximately twenty
six thousand received daily by the FBI in Washington, came
into the Identification Division from the Police Department of Center City.
It asked for the complete file of a suspect under
arrest for robbery, name George Manley, to prevent exposing George
Manley's real identity. We sent a fake criminal record back
to the Center City Police and the following day by teletype.
Speaker 5: Riggs from Atkins, Center City. George Manley released today on bail.
Bail posted by John Smith.
Speaker 4: Bail posted by John Smith. Yes, what had happened to
Robert Danker was happening to agent Gene Cordell step by
step Cy Gordon was right, shoes fits perfectly?
Speaker 5: How long it's broken?
Speaker 4: Now? Hello? Georgie?
Speaker 5: Well, I haven't seen you around lately?
Speaker 6: Do you know my name?
Speaker 5: I know lots of things, Georgie in a way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, wekend the country's courtesy of the city. Yeah, something
like that.
Speaker 5: Hey wait a minute, what's.
Speaker 4: Your hurry, Georgie? What goes style? Nothing? Nothing at all.
Speaker 5: I was just thinking that maybe we ought to get
to know each other. That you're busy tonight, not jaid I.
Then you're invited where you'll find out? Lady friend of
mine will pick you up around nine o'clock the Royal,
isn't it trummy?
Speaker 4: See you? George?
Speaker 6: You want to drink hoting?
Speaker 4: Great?
Speaker 5: How be your mind? You're breathing down my next.
Speaker 4: My affectionate husband. What am I supposed to do around here?
Speaker 9: You playing the piano and all your high class friends
playing poker, and.
Speaker 4: Answer it, well, what did you think I was gonna do? Hi, Hivy,
come on in, Oh a stranger?
Speaker 5: Hello, Georgie?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: Anything else?
Speaker 4: Boss?
Speaker 5: No, get yourself a hand in the poker game.
Speaker 4: Okay? Hey?
Speaker 6: Yeah, your friend there don't talk much?
Speaker 4: Does he shitty? No?
Speaker 5: No, George, none of my friends talk very much. Well,
I want to see you alone.
Speaker 4: Sit down.
Speaker 6: What's your racket?
Speaker 4: What's yours? Sweet job? You pulled in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 5: Smile?
Speaker 4: No conviction Pittsburgh. I ain't never been to Pittsburg. No.
Speaker 5: How about Sandy Diego April forty seven, suspicion of armed robbery,
no conviction.
Speaker 6: You're coming cross?
Speaker 5: How about Philly last December? Grand lost me? No conviction, Miami, Richmond, Trenton,
no conviction.
Speaker 6: Look what do you sell him?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Take a look at this report, a report direct from
the FBI, or should I say indirect through my pipeline
here in Center City in the police department, told you,
and I'll get it what goes. I'm sorry about that
weekend I gave you, But you see, I'm building an
organization along scientific line. I need men who know their
way around, who can get by. That's why I screened
you screen shore.
Speaker 4: Just like in the army. I spot a guy who
looks good. So what do I do?
Speaker 5: I get him framed. The cops check his record through
the FBI. The report comes through. I get the report
own idea takes connections.
Speaker 6: But I've got that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just reported me. He ought to be back in
the police file, Georgie. It'll get back. I'm bad coming in, George.
If that's an offer, I'm sure grabbing it. It's an office. Yeah,
but wait a minute, what about my hearing. I'm short
in court Friday.
Speaker 4: That'll be fixed. Forget it.
Speaker 5: Oh, there's just one little thing you'd better get straight.
I do the thinking, I give the audience. That's okay
by me. Boss, huhm.
Speaker 4: You know I want to like you, Georgie.
Speaker 6: You catch up fat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, buy yourself a closet full of clothes. I like
my voice to look sharp.
Speaker 6: Nobody who have b I Colin Gordon?
Speaker 4: Somebody who have b I Colin Gordon? Come in w
B I inspector breaks just derived from Washington. Good. Put
him on hello side. Nothing new from gene Can. Inspector
is going to be a lot harder to contact from now.
All these are the Styles Gang. Now most of the
time I want to see him as soon as possible.
Have you any idea? How well? Today Thursday? The usual
meeting place for Thursdays is at night the lunch wagon
near the Bay five leaves at ten thirty before you're
on that ferry, inspector. If I hadn't join, you's good,
I'll be on the ferry. Incidentally, I'm getting awful tired
looking like a bum, living like a bumb, acting like
a bum. You keep your shirt on and arrange that
meeting for me.
Speaker 6: How about days out of downuts? Okay, give me some
pie out of pie. You won't get a nugging out
of me, honey, isn't topping?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Amberg with everything? Okay, I'm when'sday? The next ferry
every hour and.
Speaker 10: A half hour, and I gad the white one.
Speaker 5: Out of his house.
Speaker 4: He never mind that to lady.
Speaker 6: I just remember.
Speaker 4: What's the matter with him?
Speaker 5: Oh the house, daddy?
Speaker 4: We lost one. By the time the ferry returned to
Center City that night, Jean had convinced me that Styles
Gang was the one we were after. The important thing
now was to secure concrete evidence and ferret out who
in the police department was making our records available to
Alex Styles. I saw Jean leave the ferry and disappear
up the streets, heading in the direction of the Royal Hotels.
Speaker 8: Kind of late ancient Manley Hibby. Yeah, what's the idea, Well,
you've been Georgie.
Speaker 6: Take a ferry across the river?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was killing him most of the night. What's
take a ferry for? Alec gets kind of curious about
a new boy likes to know what they do with
their spare time.
Speaker 4: What do you take a ferry for? You're trying to
scare me with that knight for the way, I said,
what do you take a ferry for? What to what
you're trying to pull?
Speaker 6: Look, you've got a long nose, Shibby. Why don't you
keep to yourself?
Speaker 5: Look wise guy? From now on, you've got no business.
Ain't Alex business?
Speaker 6: I mean, I have to share my special puone numbers
with you guys.
Speaker 4: The dame.
Speaker 5: So that was it, you know, I kind of figured that, Well,
the boss just wanted to play at safe. What's the
matter with the dames this side of the river.
Speaker 6: Well, for one thing, too much competition be an Alex.
Speaker 5: Apartment tomorrow afternoon or two o'clock. I think maybe something's up.
Speaker 4: That's all. George Gordon calling WSBI. Gordon calling WSBI. Come in, God,
get this to inspect your briggs right away. The Styles
gang is planning a hold up the nights breaks where
when there's no further information. Cordell unable to make usual
contact this afternoon. I passed him on the street. If
he couldn't stop, he had time to tell me that
much and no more. Is he contacting you again? If
he can. I'm watching his room now across the street.
He give him there he comes back to for tonight.
I may be able to give you something, Okay, said thanks.
We'll be waiting Atkins. Better alert all the men we
may be needing them tonight.
Speaker 3: And now here's our Hollywood reporter, Libby Couch. May I say, Libby,
how charming you looked at the premiere of Command Decisions.
Speaker 11: Bye, thank you, miss Keeley. But the men at the spotlight,
you know, I think that's one of the most moving
stories to come out of World War Two.
Speaker 3: Having been in the Air Force myself, I found it
especially interesting. Metro Golden Mayor has done a masterlin job
of adapting it from the New York stage hits. I'm
delighted they released it in time to qualify for the
nineteen forty eight Academy Awards.
Speaker 11: Isn't Clark Gable magnificent as the forceful General Dennis The
role is made to order for him a.
Speaker 3: Brilliant job of casting all round. Water Pigeon is tremendously
effective as another Air Force general since Van Johnson provides
the picture with its lighter moments with his portrayal of
the amiably disillusioned sergeant, and Brian don Levy is perfect
as General Cliff Garnett.
Speaker 11: With such a terrific all male cast. I didn't even
miss the girls, but I wish I had been on
the set of command decision to pick up a few souvenirs.
Speaker 2: Like the fire's nylon scarves.
Speaker 11: Oh, I can see, John, You remember how the girls
love to get them? During the war they made wonderful
bosses and.
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They're so fast they burst into sudden the instant water
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Speaker 11: Another nice thing about nylon blouses and sweaters.
Speaker 4: They don't need ironing.
Speaker 2: It's easy to keep all nice washables lovely longer with
the new tiny diamonds of Luck.
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as long with lux Flake's care.
Speaker 11: That's why it's foolish to risk fading or damage from
wrong washing methods. Do you know makers of nice washables
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Speaker 2: Now, our producer William Keeley act two of the Street
with No Names, starring Mark Stephens as Jean, Gordell, Richard
Widmark as Alex Styles and Lloyd Nolan as Inspector breaks.
Speaker 4: Yes, Jean had succeed, didn't getting word to us that
the Alex Styles gang was preparing to pull another job?
But what job? We had to have the details. All
afternoon side Gordon, from his room across the street, kept
his eyes glued on Jean's window, but the shade remained up,
which meant Jean was out. He was with the Styles
gang and Alex Styles apart. All right, all right, that's
how we're gonna pull this job.
Speaker 5: And just to make sure you guys are as smart as.
Speaker 4: You think yeah, I play it back for me.
Speaker 12: Okay, twenty five after ten, I drive up with you
to the gate of the Willow's mansion.
Speaker 4: You're in the back seat, all dressed up in a
monkey suit. Get on with it, Maddie elec.
Speaker 12: Guy at the gate takes us for one of the
invited characters, so he lets us through, and once through
the gate, I get out of the car and point
rocking to sleep.
Speaker 5: Okay, come on, come on.
Speaker 7: I pull him a turn number two and keep them
motor run the same here in the third just the
third car pulls in them cutting the wires the switchbox.
Speaker 4: Then I start whistling.
Speaker 6: He whistles me and must get out of the can
go in the back door of the kitchen.
Speaker 4: I stand by and keep the motor runner.
Speaker 5: At ten thirty five minutes later month georging me, and
you were going in through the front.
Speaker 4: All right, what's the nice? Oh me? I cover them block.
Speaker 5: Look are you with us or some dame?
Speaker 4: Shut up? I'm like with you.
Speaker 5: You keep that head of yours where it belongs to
some copper. Blow it off, pretty boy.
Speaker 4: Yeah you ain't kid, Nobody asked you.
Speaker 5: All right, We head for the banquet room.
Speaker 4: I line them up face the right and left walls.
I keep them covering.
Speaker 5: I take him on the left wall, work them over
for whatever they got.
Speaker 4: I do the same thing on the right wall.
Speaker 5: Okay, now for the getaway, ex give me me.
Speaker 6: We kind of junk.
Speaker 4: I cover you right, I head off Highway seven. We
meet back here.
Speaker 5: Any questions? Okay, Whitey, Nick Mutch, wipe three cars. Bring
him around back of the gym. Now everybody blows. Go on,
get something to eat. We take off at ten o'clock.
Speaker 4: Shot.
Speaker 6: Nice going, general, Well.
Speaker 5: What's the use of having award Georgie? You don't learn
from it?
Speaker 6: Hey, I need a gun.
Speaker 5: You'll get a gun Georgie later.
Speaker 6: Okay, see a fella already.
Speaker 4: Yes, they're leaving already.
Speaker 5: Go on, boys, shove off.
Speaker 11: Let him stick around here and clean up.
Speaker 5: This man bear a bottle cigarette.
Speaker 4: But that's like they've been raising a top. You don't
like it, Well, if the maid was here, she'd really
blow a top.
Speaker 6: Let me busy or I yeah for a while.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 11: I read whether they got gold sauces and every bathroom.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I must be free with money.
Speaker 4: I heard missus Willard has a couple.
Speaker 5: Where did you hear that name who said anything about Willard?
Speaker 6: What I heard?
Speaker 4: Mary? He said the Willard man.
Speaker 5: I told you never to poke your nose into my
cut it out.
Speaker 7: Who do you think you're shoving around?
Speaker 4: I don't take it.
Speaker 9: I will you ever touched me again?
Speaker 4: I swear I let.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope they.
Speaker 4: Do for me. Well, hotel, some job? Well, why don't
you move out it this bag? George?
Speaker 6: Well maybe tonight I will afford something better. You got time?
Speaker 4: Many? Ten minutes of ten? What do you want to
go to your room for? Here?
Speaker 6: What Alex did?
Speaker 4: Better?
Speaker 6: If we break it up and show up behind the
gym one by one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, drop me off out the block? Money, Okay, see
you in ten minutes, georgy okay. Gordon calling WSBI. Gordon
calling WSBI. Come in, Gordon, let's bring jeans in his room, inspector.
He just signaled me to follow it. Follow a little rookie,
isn't that? Can you stay there? You here for me?
I think I'd better staying here. I'll get back to you.
Gordon radioed back. A few minutes later. He had followed
Jean down Dark Street. At the corner, Jean stopped to
light a cigarette. He threw the book of matches into
the gutter and disappeared around the corner. On the matchbook
was a message styles gang hitting willard mansion about ten
thirty tonight. A few minutes later, I was at the
Center City Police head for Well, my men are on
their way there. Inspector Willard mentioned, how'd you get this tip?
Speaker 6: I'll tell you all about it later, sheef, we've drowned
the house away any luck, we'll get every last one
of them. Well, if we're all set, let's get out
of here and got away as soon as I could.
Speaker 4: Chief. I appreciate you letting me in on this good
evening set. You wanted me to keep your posting to memory. Well,
we're ready to leave. I've got my own cars, but
all right, if Lieutenant Scoller comes with me, by.
Speaker 6: All means take the bridgroom staller.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, we'll go away a bagness Avenue, Memory. Oh
in your car, let's conspicuous. Better leave now, Inspector we'll
follow in a minute. Now you see why we met
at the gym? I Georgie, how do you like this money?
Regulars night? Yeah?
Speaker 12: The boss got everything here from tas and machine guns,
all nice and handy in the basement, out of the gym.
Speaker 1: Come on, you guys, get what you needing.
Speaker 4: Clear out. Yeah yeah, in the kind of risky money.
Speaker 6: All these guns so.
Speaker 12: Close to home, risky, good thing to look down here,
Go on, Georgie, you pick us up a boom boom,
I'm taking this one.
Speaker 6: What is honeybe Luga, lay off, Georgie.
Speaker 4: That's the boss's gun. Yeah, you like Lucas, take this one.
Speaker 5: Okay, Twell, answer.
Speaker 4: The phone, will you? Yeah?
Speaker 10: Yeah, sure, Boss, Yeah, he's busy. Okay, hang on your
boss because it's important.
Speaker 5: Okay, get those guys out of that room like a.
Speaker 4: Hello. What yeah, okay, guess we're about set. You want
to check over anything? It's off?
Speaker 5: The jobs off?
Speaker 4: What do you mean it's off?
Speaker 5: Chevy, tell the boy to dump those cars. They grab,
turning their guns and feed it.
Speaker 4: Go on, pet It, Hey, what happened? What do you mean? Peter?
What's up? Chivvy?
Speaker 6: Trouble?
Speaker 4: Don't ask questions, go on, stop spreading.
Speaker 5: Got the entire state surrounded, Inspector, Guess all we can
do now is sit in the car and wait.
Speaker 4: Chief Normans get here, Lieutenant yeah, and mister Demry behind
those trees near the servants quarters.
Speaker 5: Inspector breaks her, inspector.
Speaker 4: Breaks its headquarters. This is Briggs, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Spector breaks calling you off.
Speaker 4: Ten fifteen.
Speaker 8: Over.
Speaker 4: This is Briggs calling WFB I. Come in, WFB I.
This is w FBI. Expect the break. Stand by for
direct message from Gordon. Go ahead. This is Gordon. Received
urgent message from Gene. Family will not appear. Plans canceled.
Family warned you were waiting for him over thanks stand by, Well, Stoller,
I'm not going to show Come on, let's break the
bad news to the chief sure of Thiss inspector. But
what do you suppose happened? Styles just decided not to
show up. Well, it's not ten thirty yet. Suppose we
wait a while, just in Katy, I waste the time,
mister Demery, they won't be here. I'd still like to
know why. I wish I knew.
Speaker 3: Alex matters.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of early, aren't you?
Speaker 9: What happened?
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what happened.
Speaker 4: Chip. The cops didn't No, No, I didn't, honest, I
didn't you hope they get me?
Speaker 5: Didn't you?
Speaker 4: So you tipped top.
Speaker 12: Alix?
Speaker 4: No? I s where sy sy? I open up. Open up,
Jean Gee, what you're doing here? It's okay.
Speaker 6: After the hold up held through, Styles told us to
disappear and meeting some of them later on the nightclub.
Speaker 4: What did you come here for?
Speaker 6: Look, there's a storeroom in the basement of the dark
Street gym. Styles hart snow. I spotted his gun there
early tonight, a luger. When the job washed out, Styles
put his gun back. That's where I've just been. I
broke in the room. You've got his gun, but I
gotta say sample from it. I brought along a luger
ammunition clip, roaded Styles gun and fired a shot into
a bail of newspapers. Now here's the slug. Get it
to inspect to Briggs. The slug can tell us if
it was Styles down that killed the Jannings woman and
the bank guard.
Speaker 4: Jeeve, that's fine, that's great that you know are set up.
What if somebody saw you come here?
Speaker 6: I had to take a chance anyway, I think I've
already been spotted you what just after I fired the shot,
somebody can in the basement was doc. I got away,
but he may have seen me. Now you know, I
had to come here, get out of town. I'll tell Briggs. Look,
if I disappear, they'll know it was me. Now, I'll
have to take my chances.
Speaker 4: I figured the pretty good.
Speaker 6: Don't worry about me, Just get this slug inspected business in.
Speaker 4: Gen The bullet fired from styles gun was on its
way to Washington on the midnight plane. At two am,
I heard again from sy Gordon. The light was on
in Jean's room at the Hotel Royal. Whoever had seen
him in the basement of the dock Street Gym undoubtedly
had failed to recognize him. But that wasn't all that
happened that night. In a fashionable section of Center City,
mister Demery had a late visitor. All right, what's so
important that I couldn't wait till morning? And coming into
my home?
Speaker 5: The tip off, mister Demery, the tip off of the
cops about the Willard Mansion job. Where'd it come from?
Speaker 4: The FBI?
Speaker 5: Lucky for you, I was around. Take my advice, Styles
and lay off for a while. They've got nothing on me,
but maybe I've got something on them. What do you
mean this gun here? Somebody just busted into my arsenal
shot it off tonight?
Speaker 4: Why what more do you say?
Speaker 5: Bright boys trying to match the bullet with a couple
of souvenirs I left behind in the meadow brook and
that bank bright boys thinking only they can play it
being cops. Okay, okay, you're taking this gun, Demmery, and
you're getting the fingerprints off.
Speaker 4: It the way.
Speaker 5: I figured maybe the same rat who tipped them to
night shot it off and got any idea. Yeah, I
got eight ideas. It's got to be some bloody and
my outfit. So I'm running out of the basement. Nobody
else knew where that arsenal was hidden here.
Speaker 4: You better get it out of their past.
Speaker 5: I'm way ahead of you, mister Dennery. When do I
get the dope on whose prints around this luge?
Speaker 4: Tomorrow? Maybe I i'ccurt it.
Speaker 5: Okay, and don't let that gun out of your sight.
Speaker 4: I've got Jordan on the radio, Inspector. Oh, thanks, Britty,
go ahead. What's the latest on Jeans? I?
Speaker 5: Oh, everything's quiet.
Speaker 4: I stood behind him in the line of the cafeteria
for breakfast. At ten o'clock. He went to the usual place,
Doc Street, jail and I are still there. I've got
some news for you. Yeah. Dick Atkins followed Alex Styles
car late last night, Styles drove to a house on
Oak Street. We just checked it. The house is the
residence of city councilmen Demory. Oh, he smoke. There's nothing
we can do yet, not till we hear from Washington
about that bullet. But past the news on the gene.
When he gets back. I'd really like to know what's
going on in that doctor. What are you going to do?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Hello, boss? You want should clear out of your office? Boss,
just killing time. I like a little poker games.
Speaker 5: They were anybody for my Okay?
Speaker 4: Too bad about last night, Alec.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Georgie, too bad?
Speaker 6: My first job at the outfit?
Speaker 5: You uh?
Speaker 4: You want to tell us what happened?
Speaker 5: Just a little change of plans.
Speaker 4: I sure could have used that basket and let us
blonde of mine.
Speaker 5: I'm sick of you and your dames.
Speaker 4: For you, boss, telephone?
Speaker 6: Okay, Alex show bunny what's he's always done in Georgie's job?
Speaker 4: Come on, let's get back to the game. Yeah this
is Style. You know someone by the George Manley.
Speaker 5: Yeah you shouldn't. I'll see that he gets your message.
What about the package?
Speaker 4: I can get it back here this afternoon.
Speaker 5: Okay, meet me at four unusual place. Yeah, here's five
hundred bucks. Go over to the apartment.
Speaker 4: Give it to my wife. Yeah, what is it her? Bay?
Speaker 5: Just tell her I'm sorry for last night. I made
a mistake, okay, and.
Speaker 4: Then come back.
Speaker 5: I found out what went wrong with a woman job.
Speaker 4: Georgie, Georgie man, take it easy. He's look him this way.
Keep you my tab.
Speaker 5: We'll take care of Georgie. Tonight.
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Speaker 3: The curtain rises on the third act of the Street
with no Name, starring Mark Stevens as Jean Cordell, Richard
Widmark as Alex Style, and Lloyd Nolan as Inspector Break.
Speaker 4: Here's where we stood the day after the hold up
of the Willet Mansion had failed to materialize. Jean Cordell,
by winning a daring gamble, had secured a bullet fired
from Alex Style's gun, which, when we got our report,
might send Styles to the electric chair. We had also
succeeded in establishing an association between Styles and Councilman Emery.
Toward the middle of the afternoon, I got a phone
call from our local agent.
Speaker 6: I've been tailing Demory all the Inspector and Salem half
an hour ago registered in a hotel, and just now
awick Styles.
Speaker 1: Went up to his room.
Speaker 4: I keep watching him. There's nothing new here, but with
Emery out of the way for a while, I'll go
and see Chief Harmit okay, I'll yes. By now we
knew considerable But what we did not know was that
Alex Styles in that hotel room was already planning his
fourth murder.
Speaker 5: The Finger Prince and my gun belonged to Georgia.
Speaker 4: Mister de Ks right here, here's your gun. Back.
Speaker 5: Well, you know you're going to get a bonus for this,
mister Demery. Yes, sir, I'm going to vote you a
great big bonus.
Speaker 4: Where's it coming from? The stewardie in your outfit. They've
got your stuffed cold. All we've got to do is
chop the studies.
Speaker 5: We're in business again.
Speaker 4: You don't know when to quit? Do your styles? Well,
go ahead, kill manly. You have the FBI and engraved
invitation to put you in the chair. Who said I
was gonna kill on?
Speaker 5: Now that's where you come in, mister Demery.
Speaker 4: You're out of your mind.
Speaker 5: You're going to be a great big hero tomorrow. Yes, sir,
your name will be all over the front pages. Demery
gets armed, Robert Mayor's little man wins big police medal.
If you think you can mix your laughing like the
cops will do the killing.
Speaker 4: Now, listen you listen.
Speaker 5: I kicked in plenty when I didn't need you always
around for the payoff, weren't you. Well you're sticking around
for this payoff too, So sit down, go on, sit out.
You've got a job to do tonight. Here's where you
come in, about three miles out of Center City, as
a factory, the Anderson Manufacturing Company. I've had a case
for weeks, and tonight Georgie's going to be on hand
when a couple of us open.
Speaker 8: Up this set.
Speaker 4: I want to drop over and have a little talk
with you. Chief. Tell me where did mister Demery go
after we left the Willing place last night? I don't know.
I suppose you went home.
Speaker 6: You know where he lives, Oak Street. I believe I
don't know the exact number, off hands fifteen.
Speaker 4: Eighty Oak Street, where Alex Styles went calling at about
one o'clock last night. That's right, one of our agents.
So I'm walking. What before we left here last night
to make that raid, were you with Demry all the time? Why? Yes,
I'm sure I was. No. Wait, I remember now he
went down the hall for a moment the Police Advisory
Board office five minutes before ten, Styles received a phone call. Subsequently,
the Willard job was called off hem Mari, I can't
believe it. We've been checking his bank deposits roughly twenty
times in excess of his salary. And that's not all here.
Take a look at this. What is it? The report
from our Identifications division in Washington requests from your police
department for the records of these men. Every one of
them is a member of Styles gang. Now, these records
supplied by us were then male Evator was made available
to Styles. He used them up to check up on
prospective gang members. Excuse me, Yes, get hold of Sergeant Brian.
Have them come in. Yes, try and run a police
department with stuff like this going on. I wonder we
bang our heads against the stone wall every time. Oh,
come in Sam, his inspector breaks of the FBI. Sergeant Brian,
how do you do, Sergeant Sam? Take a look at
this report. Have you ever had a request from anyone
here for the records of these men?
Speaker 8: I get so many requests. Let me see. There's when
I checked this morning George Manley.
Speaker 4: This morning I lifted one of his fingerprints from a gun?
Was that gun? Aluga? Yes, sir, who asked you to
check it? Were Manley the only prince you lifted from
that gun? No?
Speaker 8: There are a couple of other fragmentary prince. I identify
them with Alex Styles.
Speaker 4: Thanks, sergeants, that's all. Yes, Yes, get me the radio room.
I'll hold on, Yes, radio room, get me w FI
right away. I'll explain this and just a minute, Chief,
r z A calling w f I.
Speaker 5: Krz A calling w FB I come in.
Speaker 4: It's just WFB I go ahead, Dan By, thanks, this
is Briggs. Get me Gordon. Yes, w f B I
calling Gordon. W f B I colling Gordon, come in.
Speaker 5: This is Gordon.
Speaker 4: Go ahead and inspect that side. Tell court Dell to
get out immediately. He's in great danger. Jean's in his
room now, but he's got a couple of visitors. I
can see him through the window. There's no rough stuff there,
just talking. You've got to get a hold of him. Side.
If he isn't alone, you'd better telephone. If you want
to know who's calling. Well, you have to talk his
way out of it. We've got to warn him. Call
the hotel, Tell the fellow at the Destiny to get
Gene on the phone. Let me know what happens. I'll
be back at the office in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Chief, but that couldn't wait. Cordell is one
of our agents. He's been doing undercover work in the
Styles gang under the name of George Manley.
Speaker 6: Certainly ties in them.
Speaker 4: Oh what can I do to help? Well, for the moment, nothing. See,
we're expecting word from Washington in any minute. They may
give us a green light to move in on the
Style gang. Why don't you come with me? I'd like to.
Speaker 8: You've just been changing your clothes, Georgie.
Speaker 4: Well you know it is BOSSA.
Speaker 6: They always likes his boys look shop. Hey, yeah, what
pitch is?
Speaker 5: Alec told me I'm Maddy to pay a little calls
just to tell you this a little job out of tonight.
Yeah the phone, Well, he says you're watered on the pole.
Speaker 6: Uh tell him I'm tied up up. Okay, Dan, you're
sure who else is know where to get me?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Now, what's the deal.
Speaker 4: The boss will tell us how we get there.
Speaker 5: We got a car downstairs, let's go, Georgie.
Speaker 4: Tax tactic, Yes, sir, FBI follow that great car quick, Yes, sir.
It's been twenty minutes since you spoke to gordonan inspector.
How long would it take them to phone? I'm not
twenty minutes, sick. That's the sink. Something's up, inspector, something
we don't know about. There's nothing to do unless we
go Washington. Let me get there. Ray test bullet from
Lugar seven point sixty five millimeters barrel marketing identical with
murder bullets removed from victims meadow Brooks and bank murders, arrests, Styles,
Gang and Emory immediately signed Huber, this is it. Get
the man ready, Hell Matt, you can take it for me. Thanks.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 4: What's that? How long ago? Okay? That's a lieutenant Staller
when he came on duty. They told him dimly left
headquarters about ten minutes ago with the nine details. Had
some hot tip about a robbery where nobody seems to
know where. Let me try you a short way right there,
that room in there, I'll call it squad time. Hello, yes, yes,
this is the FBI. Who, well, just a moment for you, inspector.
Some cab driver. Hello, yes, this is Bragg. What message
Anderson Manufacturing Company? Thank you, thank you very much. The
message from Gordon. He took a cab tail Jeane Cortel
and two of the gang to the Anderson Manufacturing Company.
They've got a plant out on a freezer room. All right,
then let's go.
Speaker 5: Right in here, Georgie the cashier's office.
Speaker 6: And there's a safe sweet job. It looks like at
let bite chink.
Speaker 5: Yeah, pulled this one right out of the air. How
you doing the safe, Maddie?
Speaker 6: You mean they went to people the combination.
Speaker 5: I told you I had connections, all kinds of connections.
Speaker 6: Where's the ship? Even?
Speaker 5: He spotted some guy following. He just ent downstairs.
Speaker 6: Take care of watchman?
Speaker 5: Yes, shitty, Okay, what it was?
Speaker 8: I don't know watchman, I guess.
Speaker 5: Don't matter now, okay, put the knife away, get over
to that window.
Speaker 4: Got the cash yet, Maddy?
Speaker 6: I think it's.
Speaker 4: Bond.
Speaker 6: Just the cash, Hey I, Georgie, it's for you, all yours.
Speaker 4: I don't get a dam it. Go ahead and take it.
Speaker 5: No cuts for anybody.
Speaker 4: All you are.
Speaker 5: And this is one job that'll never.
Speaker 6: Get tipped off.
Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
Speaker 6: You mean you haven't heard?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: Somebody did a little singing.
Speaker 4: The FBI.
Speaker 5: Told him, like where I kept my gun? Like when
we were going to pull the Willard job, Georgie, we
picked up a pigeon and he didn't coming down the road.
City keep looking.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: There's only one smart way to get rid of this story, Georgie,
and that's to let the cops something.
Speaker 4: You see, Georgie.
Speaker 5: Any minute now, a squatted cops will be coming up
those stairs, and guess who they're going to find here
in the safe.
Speaker 4: And guess who they're going.
Speaker 5: To pump full of slugs thinking they're not going off
a safe, cracker turning it off a highway. And who
do you supposed is bringing the cops? Georgie, my number
one connection in the police department.
Speaker 4: We worked it out together.
Speaker 5: They come from down there.
Speaker 4: We go out the fire escape.
Speaker 5: Okay, Maddie, take care of the story.
Speaker 4: No, not the face still bucking up. They're here.
Speaker 5: Get throwing that east the fire escape. PLoP him up
to be here against the safe. That he go to
the floor again, all right, put him back the comps
get back there and put him up against that safe.
Speaker 4: FBI, what's up office in robbery? That's his office on
the second floor. Who are those men over there? Mister
Dey and some detectives. They're covering the fire escape. You'll
find the others upstairs. Let's get up there. I can.
I'm bending over in front of the space dead all right?
In with the styles. Boys call him shivvy. Was he
the only one who was in here? Sergeant? There was
someone else?
Speaker 5: I'm sure the rumors dark just a light from the
car of that the other one seemed to be on
the floor, crawled behind the desk and got a way,
probably still in the factory somewhere in here.
Speaker 4: Atkins, any sign of Jean, and he's been nice. He's
just coming to all right. You stay with him, Atkins,
get somebody to help you. I'm gonna look for Gene.
Speaker 11: There.
Speaker 3: Beg your break its way, beg your break, Jean.
Speaker 5: It Styles, he's getting away the fire.
Speaker 4: Wat yourself, man, no shots up there. Look, mister Demmy,
I still think a couple of us ought to cover
that freight entrant. They'll stay right here.
Speaker 5: The door up there of the pirates, it's opening up Styles,
that's how it Styles.
Speaker 4: Let him come down.
Speaker 6: He doesn't see this, mister Demery.
Speaker 4: We'll get him without having to fire a shot. He's
got a gun. They're playing it safe.
Speaker 6: Let him have it, I said, let.
Speaker 4: Him have it. Jane, you're right, okay, they got Styles.
Speaker 8: Well, inspect that.
Speaker 5: I didn't expect to find the FBI here. We got
a tip on the robbery. We got a tip too,
mister Demy.
Speaker 4: Oh is that so yes? From one of our agents here,
mister Demery, I'd like to have you meet George Manley.
I'm very glad to keep your hand out there. Mister Demery,
I'd like to try these on for size.
Speaker 6: Well, what do you know, they said, I just let
the inspectors sigh.
Speaker 4: He says.
Speaker 6: We're going back to Washington, both of us. Yeah, you
got them all, Chief, just radio. They picked up the
others at the gym side. You're sure you're all right?
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Fairly interesting under cover story. I really did
like the scene with Styles talking about the idea that
what's the point of having a war if you're not
going to learn from it. This suggests that military service
may have taught some criminals to be better and more
systematic in the way they approach crime, certainly in unintended
consequence of a mass draft that was required to win
that massive victory. Also, using the FBI to screen people
for your criminal organization takes nerve. If nothing else that said,
I don't think that this story was as good as
Tea Men or the film that this is kind of
a follow up or sequel to the House on ninety
Second Street. The criminals in this are other than Styles,
are much more generic than the sort of colorful and
differentiated cast of Nazi spies in the film, and that
carries over to the radio version, and the FBI procedure
was a bit more paint by numbers and basic. Now
I did watch the film, and to me, the highlight
of that film was Widmark's performance, which I think elevated
the whole piece. I don't think it's quite as strong
in the radio version. He seems a bit more subdued.
And also this was kind of a mess its peace,
But sometimes it felt like the message of the movie
had a little doo with the plot of the movie,
because the idea was to get the public concerned about
organized crime and to realize that they needed to go
ahead and be active and engaged in the fight against
organized crime. What would really help, if your point is
that citizen involvement is really important, is to tell a
story where since this an involvement actually played a role
in the solution to the crime.
Speaker 4: And I also think.
Speaker 1: It's fair to wonder to what degree Styles represents some
threat that galvanizes the public, because certainly Styles has some strength,
He's ruthless, he's vicious, he's also very clever and nervy. Yeah,
the way the story is told, he's really undone by
his own faults, namely his recklessness. He's in a situation
where he is able to keep local law enforcement in
check because of having corrupted a key individual.
Speaker 4: So what does he do.
Speaker 1: He commits a federal crime that allows the FBI to
come in and claim jurisdiction. This could also be a
case where obtaining the cooperation of the FBI, which was
a really strong marketing gimmick for the film and for
House on a ninety Second Street for that matter, may
have hindered them from telling the most entertaining story that.
Speaker 4: They could have.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was bad for what it is,
but it's just not in the top tier of these
procedural films that came out at around the same time.
While the show highlighted that William Keeley at this point,
the host of Lux Radio Theater, directed the film and
you had the three male Leeds back ed, Begley was
actually in the film in the same role as the
chief of police. And of course it's interesting that this
film features not one but two different Martin Kaine actors
in Stevens and also Lloyd Nolan. All right, well, now
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Speaker 13: That's the situations to wedding. So you see my problem? Well,
I'm afraid I don't mister Hunt, isn't it obvious? I
want you to locate this Clare Mala. You said the
police are looking for it. Unfortunately, I haven't much confidence
in them. All jals are loaded with people who thought that. Nevertheless,
I'd like to see you take the assignment.
Speaker 8: I don't like it.
Speaker 13: Why not it smeless to me of tampering with a witness.
Corporate claims as Claire Marlow can prove the au guilty
of Larry Gordon's murden. But there's another side to the coin.
If miss Milo says someone else, she can establish my innocence. Yeah,
I suppose that's true enough. What'll the police find her first?
Speaker 4: So much the better. I just want the additional insurance
in my position I needed.
Speaker 5: All Right, Hunt, I'll do what I can.
Speaker 4: That's all I ask. You do what you can and
from that point, Hunt, it's up to me.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
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