Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from
Voice the Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In
a moment, we're going to bring you our five thousandth
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is a bit of a challenge, particularly with those that
we played in the past, but I hope today's episode
rises to that standard. We're going to the Lox Radio
Theater original air night, February fourteenth, nineteen forty four, and
the tittle is the Fallen Sparrow.
Speaker 2: Look Present Hollywood.
Speaker 3: The Lux Radio Theater brings to Robert Young, Marin O'Hara,
and Walter slaveback in the Fallen Sparrow, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your producer, mister Cecil B.
Speaker 2: Demill, greeting some.
Speaker 4: Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. Deep in the heart of most
of us, there must be a suppressed longing to emulate
Sherlock Holmes and the other masters of his profession. How
else can you explain the appeal of the mystery story
to farmer and financier haberdasher and housewife, chorus girl or clergyman.
A shiver running down the spine. There is no respector
of persons, and I, for one look forward with Gusto
to these man hunting excursions. Tonight we have one of
the best our Ko's object lessons in suspense, Fallen Sparrow,
and our guides on this trail of intrigue, romance and murder,
Robert Young, Marin O'Hara, and Walter Slazac. Bob Young has
just returned to Hollywood after a tour of army hospitals.
Our Kao provided Marin O'Hara and Walter Slazac, both of
whom starred in the film production of The Fallen Sparrow.
It takes all kinds of people to make a world,
of all kinds of plays.
Speaker 3: To make a theater.
Speaker 4: But I think this play will please young and old alike,
those who've just tried luck Flakes and those who've been
using it for years. We had a letter last week
from a woman who, at sixty two, is doing her
bit in a war plant in Chicago. She says she
first started buying lux in a little textile town in Lancashire, England,
about nineteen hundred and one. Since then, she's used our
product in Switzerland and Canada, and for the last twenty
five years in the United States. She wonders if anyone
else beats her record of forty.
Speaker 2: Three years in four countries.
Speaker 4: I can't answer for that, but she might must be
mighty sure about flux flakes by this time. And this
time is curtain time for Dorothy hughes mystery triller The
Fallen Sparrow, starring Robert Young as Kit, Marin O'Hara as
Elma Done and Walter Slazak as Doctor Scoars.
Speaker 2: In a world at.
Speaker 4: War, many sparrows must fall. Ninety long after the passage.
In nineteen forty, long after the fastest victory which ended
the war in Spain, an American volunteer returned to New York.
His name is John McKittrick. He had fought him the
Loyalist army, and after its defeat, spent two years in
the horrors of a Spanish prisoner. Then he escaped, Broken
in body and spirit. John McKittrick goes to Arizona, and
there on a ranch slowly is forgetting the nightmare of
the war and his imprisonment. One day, he runs across
an old newspaper and what he reads in that paper
sends him rushing back to New York to police headquarters
and the office of Inspector Tobin.
Speaker 5: Inspector Tobin, head of homicide. That's right. Why did you
give out that Lieutenant Lepatino was accidentally killed? Because his
death was accidental? Who my name?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 5: John McKittrick, Oh old Chris's boy. Yeah, he used to
work with your father in the Old East Side. He
came into a lot of money after Chris died. My
mother married again. The man she married happened to be
pretty wealthy after she died. It came to me any objections,
you don't misunderstand this, all right? I came here to
find out about Louis, friend of yours since we were kids.
Loui has been dead for weeks. Aren't you a little late? Well,
I've been on a ranch in Arizona taking a rest.
You were in Spain, weren't you? Had you enlisted in
a loyalist army or something. I didn't know about Louie
until I read about it in the month old newspaper.
I caught the first train east. You know that Louie
didn't kill himself. I didn't say that, said it was
an accident. Louis was a policeman, a detective lieutenant, one
of the toughest cops on your force, and he falls
out of a window. I knew Louie, and maybe you
know more than the whole homicide squad. I listen, you
can play cowboy in Arizona as long as you want her,
but you're not going to play detective around here, even
if your name is McKittrick. Go run along and forget it.
Louis was murdered. I'm going to find out who did
it and why you're covering up. Run along side by
the way. When I was getting off the train, a
girl bumped into me. He apologize, went away. That was nicely. Yeah.
Riding here in the cab, I found this in my pocket.
The girl had planted it down me. What is it
Louis le Patino's wallet. There were two things in it,
louis badge and a letter I'd send him from Spain
handed over. I think maybe Loui's mother might like to
have the badge. Going over to see her now, I'll
see that she gets it. Where's the letter? I tore
it out.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, inspector, good bye.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: One thing more.
Speaker 5: I saw Louis when I got back from Spain. He
got me a permit to carry this a gun. M
It's good for a year. And don't you want to
carry a gun to shoot people with? Sweetheart? We knew
you would have come of it. We've been waiting before.
Speaker 6: When I Louis was a boy, when he was in trouble,
you would come.
Speaker 7: No, no, we won't ever see him again Louis.
Speaker 5: Ma, please you, Mama, you turned out, not yet, but
I will find out. I know it was not an accident. No,
no accident. You got any ideas, Papa. No, we don't
see Louis very much for a long time. He's a
going around with these people. For people there, he swells
the people. I heard him talk about Parker and the
girl called Darby tabathaon. Oh sure that Parker is one
of my best friends, the lawyer Barbie Tabthan's or girl
I used to go with. I introduced Louis to them
long ago.
Speaker 6: Kids, we cannot bring Louis back.
Speaker 5: Maybe it is better if you do nothing, Mamma. When
I was in prison, I managed to write Louis a letter.
They'd been torturing me, beating me. I thought I was
going crazy, tortured.
Speaker 2: Why are they doing that?
Speaker 5: Because I have something that Nazis want. I beg Louis
to let me escape, help me escape. How he could
help me, I didn't know, but he did. Louis got
me out of that prison. Now he's dead. No, I
can't just let it go at that. I'm going to
find out.
Speaker 2: Mama.
Speaker 5: You remember when I was in Spain, I sent Louis souvenirs,
some seashells. Ye sea shells, so prity you still have them? Sure,
Louis says you could put the seashells away and keep
it the good.
Speaker 2: I may want to look at.
Speaker 5: Them soon, kid, you stay an have supper? Well, thanks,
but I can. I told that Parker, I drop in.
I'll see you in a couple of days. Hurry a
duchy the dirt chy kids. Mister mckidrick. How good to
see you again, Robert chit is that you? I am gee?
Speaker 2: This is really great.
Speaker 5: Well, I figured I had enough of Arizona. Have you
mind if I bunk with you a couple of days?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: I didn't have the whole place to yourself I'm going
to wash Itton latenight.
Speaker 2: Well, HOWI anyway? Fine?
Speaker 5: Scars all healed, eat well, sleep well and studies a rock.
No more hearing thing? No, say you're going out? Yeah?
The Bobby Taverton, she's giving a dinner for some refugees.
That's her latest craze. We're all meeting at her place
and then going to dinner. Come along, sure?
Speaker 2: Why not? A kit Bob is the.
Speaker 5: Real reason why I came rushing back to New York,
didn't she? No?
Speaker 2: Not exact thing?
Speaker 5: Was it because of Louis le Patina? What do you
know about it? Abb Nothing much. Bobby has a party
and Louis falls from the top of a window. That's
the way they tell me who you'll meet most of
them tonight. Kit Louis got you out of Spain. How
did you know that? We're just kids? Can you talk
about it? Yeah? I can talk now, pretty tough. Ann
First you don't think you can take it, and then
you do. It's like somebody shoved in a bottle and
dammed in the court. Get to know everything but the sounds.
They may sometimes screams. Some of the other prisoners key
turning in the lock, squeaky hings water dripping in the hall.
That's bad business because we don't get much to drink.
It's good to know what the sounds mean, except when
you know it's too long between times, and you just
wait for the drag of that sport man who limps.
When you hear that, you know they're ready to beat
you again and do their their little tricks if you
tell them it's too soon. One more beating and you'll die,
and they don't want you to die. I couldn't take anymore.
They couldn't let me die. I couldn't take anymore. I
had to tell, but I didn't. I didn't kid take it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well how am I doing?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry I shouldn't have asked. I tell you I've
licked it. And Louis was the one that got you on. Yeah,
Louis le Patino. Is that my room? Yes, I'll tell
Robert to bring in the bag. I'd better clean up.
Speaker 2: Now for the Senate.
Speaker 6: Yellow and a thank you, darling, Darling, you look wonderful.
Speaker 5: Thanks you too, by all the results. Too many people,
I'll see you later, remember me.
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 2: Ed?
Speaker 9: Now come on you too.
Speaker 6: There are some people I want you to meet who
are just talking about you. Some really wonderful people. Oh
in here, well, here they are doctor, doctor Scott. They
present John McKittrick and Ab Parker.
Speaker 5: How do you do what you do?
Speaker 10: This is the doctor's nephew, Otto Scott, gentlemen, you will
excuse me for not rising.
Speaker 11: I have been confined to this wheelchair for years. Mister McKittrick.
Miss Teverton was telling me you fought in Spain.
Speaker 2: I was there for a while.
Speaker 12: I'm very interested, you.
Speaker 11: See, I'm engaged in the work having to do with
the cruelties of men towards other.
Speaker 5: Men, a large subject, Doctor h and your.
Speaker 11: Observations would be invaluable. Could an old invalid impose on
you to visit him someday if.
Speaker 5: You think I could be of any use?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 11: Before you came in, I was frightening, Miss tavertan a
otto comparing modern scientific torture with the methods.
Speaker 2: Of the ancients.
Speaker 11: Among the ancients, only the Asiatic displayed any real cunning.
Speaker 12: They combined mental.
Speaker 11: Agony with the purely physical and give us the principle
of all modern tortures. The victim is saved at the
broad borderline of insanity. Then ah then comes an interval
in which he tortures himself. He waits, knowing the physical
torture will be repeated, and it is repeated most assuredly,
with perhaps a few new variations.
Speaker 6: You see the point ghastly.
Speaker 11: Oh, I could tell you many more equally ingenious tithniti.
Speaker 6: So it is, well, I suppose we really should be
on our way.
Speaker 3: Doctor, Uh, just where are we going to the refugee dinner?
Speaker 13: Of course I can tell you all about it on
the way over.
Speaker 2: They have Just who are the well?
Speaker 5: The doctor is the famous Norwegian historian he got out
just before the Nazis moved in, and the blonde wolf.
Speaker 2: With him Otto.
Speaker 5: His particular interest is Bobby. All I know is he
and the doctor are both friends of the Prince, friend Swabby.
The more the prince, Yeah, they live with him. The
Prince's great stuff for the refugees. Don't worry about old Scots.
He's been pretty fairly checked. And the nephew, well, Otto's
accepted on his uncle's word.
Speaker 2: Do you believe all this? Do you mind? If I don't?
Speaker 5: I see? Have we the Scots at the party when
Louis had his accident? Yeah, I look, kit If you
want to know about the Scots.
Speaker 2: Talk to Whitney.
Speaker 5: Whitney, surely you remember my cousin. Oh yeah, sure, won't
you'll be that night? She sings.
Speaker 2: Oh, quite a girl, Whitney, Quite a girl.
Speaker 5: So many new faces, Bobby, tell me the girl was
saying a minute ago.
Speaker 2: Is that really Whitney.
Speaker 6: Cose he's a big girl string professionally at the club
fifty club fifty huh?
Speaker 5: And uh? Who's that girl? And one talking to Otto
over there?
Speaker 6: That's the Princess Grandall, Elma.
Speaker 5: Dog, Prince France, wat and Almura.
Speaker 6: How did you know?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: I get around fast.
Speaker 6: You have a roving eye. Kids, kid, what's the matter?
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 6: You seem so indifferent to me. I just can't make
you out.
Speaker 5: You're spoiled, Bobby and me. Well, when I came back
from Spain and you saw me in the hospital, I
figured I got the brush off.
Speaker 6: You look so awful. Kids. I know, kids, I don't.
Speaker 9: I and some others are going up to Franconia.
Speaker 6: Lodge for some schemes. Please come along, No thanks, oh kid, please.
Speaker 5: I can't. Bobby, I'd like to say hello to Whitney.
Be a good girl, and don't be sore.
Speaker 14: Go ahead, hope you have a miserable time, kid, if
you insist.
Speaker 6: It is a little more private here on the terrace.
Speaker 5: But not enough. What would happen if we leave here?
Let's go and find out where I'm a stranger in town?
Speaker 6: Well, I have to be at the club by midnight.
Speaker 5: Let's go there as well. I suppose Abba join us.
Speaker 6: AB's a working man. He's going to Washington tonight.
Speaker 5: Oh that's right, I forgot. Well let's get going. Uh
so this is where you work? Like it I always did?
Speaker 3: Oh you know the place?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: Your boss is the brother of a friend of mine,
Jake le Patino. Mm hmm, waiter, sir Whitney, nothing, thanks,
she'll have anohing.
Speaker 2: Thanks, I'll have a brandy?
Speaker 5: Yes? What they have doing in Washington? Whitney?
Speaker 6: Didn't he tell you? He's working for the government decoding.
But as far as the Scotches are concerned, he's strictly
on his own.
Speaker 5: I think who's out of Scotts?
Speaker 6: Could be a spot from.
Speaker 5: Doctor Scots, could be another makes you think?
Speaker 6: So, oh, I'm smart, I can smell phone.
Speaker 5: What do you know about Louis le Patino?
Speaker 10: I don't know what happened.
Speaker 6: Only one person saw him.
Speaker 5: For Elma Don, I seem to be full of questions.
Who is Elma Don.
Speaker 6: That girl you would staring at when she was talking
to Otto? I saw you. She's the granddaughter of the
Prince to Namur. She's the manager of a hat shop.
Speaker 5: Very frank, I will now go ahead and put it
all together for me.
Speaker 6: But it was one of Bobbie's big party. Never even
was in the play room upstairs. Anton and I were
doing a number another new name Anton, Who is my
company song tonight?
Speaker 5: When I sang, oh, yeah, a good looking guy.
Speaker 6: Quite well?
Speaker 2: Go on?
Speaker 5: Who else was in the playroom?
Speaker 2: You well?
Speaker 6: Bobby of course, and the doctor and Otto, Scotts and
el Madn I just finished a song when Alma said
she felt thank she went to the library just in
time to see Louis fall or jump from the window.
Speaker 5: Where were the Scotses at that moment?
Speaker 6: Well, Doctor Scots was in his wheelchair right next to me.
Otto had gone to his room. Someone had spilt some
wine on his shirt and he's gone to.
Speaker 5: Change perfect alibi. What about the Prince, Oh, he wasn't there.
Speaker 6: He's quite old and not too well.
Speaker 5: He never goes out, Whitney, How do you know so
much about these people from Anton? Where does he fit in?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 6: He doesn't. He's just a good musician who happens to
know the Prince and el madn Let him alone?
Speaker 5: Kid?
Speaker 6: Why stick to Elma Don? Well, I've got to change now.
Will I see you after the show, but I'll call you.
Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, good night? You know where? Yes, sir?
Tell Jake Lepatino like to see him? Yes, sir, Hello,
make Kiddrick, Hello, Jake. I didn't hear about Louis for
a month. I was over to see your folks this afternoon.
Speaker 2: You your health is regained?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Who got Louis? I don't know, kid, but there was.
Speaker 2: No grudge, There was no bum that much.
Speaker 5: I find out A brother like women, Jake, beautiful women.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true.
Speaker 5: He wouldn't jump out of a window. Somebody pushed Louis
out and had to be a dame. Yeah. How did
Louis get mixed up in society?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Does h Elma Don come around here? But I know
so few by name? Bobby tavern In comes Jay. That
makes two beautiful dames, Elma Don and Barbie. Where'd Pienis Company.
Anton Whitney brought him in. Whitney. Maybe there are three dames, Jake,
Miss McKittrick. You're going to see this thing through, Yeah, Jake,
I'm going to see it through.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 5: Well, I've seen the day or two, Jake. If there's
anything you need anything, I don't thank along along McKittrick, Danny. Yeah,
that guy just going out, he's John McKittrick. Oh, don't
let him get out of your sight, understand.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, Jake. Sure.
Speaker 3: After a brief admission, mister Demill present Robert Young, Marin O'Hara,
and Walter slaves Ac in Act two of The Fallens. PA,
now here's a friend of ours. What's that box under
your arm? Maybe that's my question box.
Speaker 15: I've been eavesdropping in department stores to find out what
women want to know about stockings. I was surprised how
often the same questions were asked. Just pick one out
and I'll answer it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: How long will rayon stockings last?
Speaker 15: How long is a piece of strings? Seriously, that depends
on the where they get and the care they get.
They'll probably last as long as silk. As you treat
them properly, you can cut down runs double stocking wear
with luck.
Speaker 3: How often should stockings be washed?
Speaker 15: There's only one answer to that, After every single wearing
might be lucky and removes perspiration that injures fibers. Helps
Rayon's fit better too.
Speaker 3: Is Rayon ready to wear when it feels dry.
Speaker 15: Not necessarily go buy the cloth not fulfilled. Always allow
twenty four to forty eight hours the maximum time and
damp for humid weather. Ray On drives from the outside end,
so it may the steel dry, but if the inner
chorus still dants, the threads may give way under strain.
Speaker 6: Pop a run.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid that's all we'll have time for tonight, Libby.
But the answers to most stocking problems add up to this.
You can double aware with nightly luxing. Actual strain tests
proved it. Stockings washed with lux flakes didn't go into
runs nearly so quickly as those rubbed with cake soap
or washed with a strong soap. So save your precious
stockings with lux flakes. When you whisk up lux SuDS,
use all you need for a rich ladder, but don't
pour out more than you need. Soap contains vital war materials.
Don't waste it, please now, our producer mister de mill.
Speaker 4: Act two of The Fallen Sparrow, starring Robert Young as Kit,
Marin O'Hara asked Elma, and Walter Slayzak as Doctor Scarce.
Speaker 2: It's nearly an hour later.
Speaker 4: Kit has walked from the club fifty have Parker's apartment,
a hundred wild thoughts racing through his mind. The wounds
on his body are mended, but the wounds on his
mind are slow to heal. As he reaches the door
for two years of torture in prison start closing.
Speaker 12: In on him like a huge black title.
Speaker 5: Robert, Robert, Robert, Good evening, Sir, Robert, didn't you here?
Who are you?
Speaker 16: I'm a woman, sir, I'm substituting for Robertsir. Mister Parker
said he could have a few days off. I thought
he told you, sir.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I didn't.
Speaker 16: Excuse me, sir. Are you feeling ill? Your peace? It, sir,
it's wet.
Speaker 2: No, it's been running. It helps me sweep by. I've
unpacked one bag for you, sir. I could knock in
the other. It was locked.
Speaker 5: Well, thanks, good night, good night, sir. Sure it was locked,
but that didn't stop and did it? The lining's cut
in the razor blade and then glued back. The glue
is still wet, and they think I am a fool.
They think I'm trick. Oh godda't let it happen, please please,
I'm well. I'm away from there. They can't do anything.
They can't.
Speaker 2: H h what's that? Who is it? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Dream? Yeah, it's the dream ruman. Where are you? I
thought I heard someone. There's nothing wrong with me, but
someone else.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you.
Speaker 5: Must be mistaken, sir.
Speaker 2: Perhaps you were.
Speaker 5: Dreaming, yeah, dream, Wait a minute, water, there's water dripping.
Speaker 2: I can still hear it. I can hear it.
Speaker 16: Why, yes, sir, it's the buzzard in the kitchen. I
must have neglected to turn it completely up. I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 5: Go to bed, I'll think sorry I woke you. Good night, sir,
good night, Oh, good morning, good morning?
Speaker 2: Mister. Don't I want to see some.
Speaker 6: Hats, ladies' hats?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 5: It's the hat shop, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Oh? Yes, of course I.
Speaker 5: Like to look at ladies' hats. Well, where are they?
Or did they come out on the hour like a
cuckoo clock?
Speaker 6: Our trade is mostly customs.
Speaker 5: Sir, Oh, my name is mcittrick, John mcittrey. I saw
you last night at the refugee Affair, Miss Gone. I
thought you were the most beautiful woman in the room.
Speaker 6: Oh what type of hat are you interested in?
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter what time do you go to lunch.
Speaker 6: I don't go to lunch.
Speaker 5: I saw you another place yesterday.
Speaker 6: You did.
Speaker 5: Yes, on the train you bumped into me. I figured
if we keep running into each other like this and
they as well know each other?
Speaker 2: Now about lunch?
Speaker 6: I do not go out to lunch. Good morning.
Speaker 5: But if you don't, how can I get to know you?
You and Prince friends bark.
Speaker 6: You can read about the Prince in any public library,
but I.
Speaker 5: Can't about you. Is he really your grandfather? Of course
I got it. What about lunch?
Speaker 6: I told you?
Speaker 5: Then, what about hats? Come on, show me a hat?
Not bad, not bad at all. You better show me
something else.
Speaker 6: You've been here over an hour, mister McKittrick. I've shown
you fourteen hats.
Speaker 5: Well, that's naturally a very patient guy. Take your time,
try out a few more.
Speaker 6: You don't really want to see hat?
Speaker 5: I really want to go to lunch.
Speaker 6: I won't go with you.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's see some more skimmers, babe.
Speaker 6: And don't dare call me babe.
Speaker 5: Look, if you don't eat lunch, you'll need a big dinner.
You can't starve.
Speaker 6: I intend to eat dinner with me. If I say yes,
will you go?
Speaker 5: It's a deal?
Speaker 6: All right? Call me here later today. We'll arrange things there. Kid,
come in.
Speaker 5: I had to push your teeth right down your throat
even as a kid.
Speaker 2: You were a liar with me.
Speaker 6: What are you talking about in there?
Speaker 5: Giving me that stuff about Alma don I just came
from her shop. How could she heave a guy like
Louis out of a window?
Speaker 6: I didn't say she could or did?
Speaker 5: What is it you're trying to get her in trouble?
Is she giving you competition with Anton?
Speaker 6: Get out of here?
Speaker 5: Oh so, Anton, is something more to you than just
in the company.
Speaker 6: What's the matter with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It had to be a dean, but not Elma.
Speaker 6: Oh, for heaven's sakes, now it's you. You're look into
a pair of baby eyes and stop drooling.
Speaker 5: Anton goes for too, Huh.
Speaker 6: I told you you can get out of here if
you're going to talk that way.
Speaker 5: What did you meet Anton?
Speaker 6: Where does anyone meet anyone? I'm a singer, he's a musician.
Speaker 2: How does he happen to know? This?
Speaker 5: Says in Europe.
Speaker 6: I suppose I don't know everything. There are a few
things you have to find out yourself.
Speaker 5: Long distance. This is Plaza three two oh ninety nine.
I'd like to speak to mister ab Parker in Washington,
d C. Jefferson Park Hotel. Yeah, that's right. Thanks, mind
if I use your phone withney, help yourself.
Speaker 6: Look, I have to go to a rehearsal. Here's the key.
When you're through here, drop it in the mailbox.
Speaker 5: Hello. Oh well no, never mind, cancel a call.
Speaker 2: No, no, maybe it's in hall.
Speaker 5: Take another drink. Something's got to work, Which is the answer?
Speaker 2: Toldal? Have your hands for studies of rock? Come on?
Fuck up?
Speaker 5: What are you afraid of?
Speaker 2: You've got a gun. You're in New York, millions of
people around here. You've got to find out who kill
the week. That's what you're here.
Speaker 10: For, isn't it?
Speaker 2: So stop shaking because you hear a salam that isn't there?
Stop it? Stop it? Yeah that's better much.
Speaker 9: What are you me?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Just a minute.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Whitney. I guess I fell asleep, couldn't sleep
last night.
Speaker 7: I oh, good bye, Whitney. I did not know you
had company. I'll see you at the club.
Speaker 5: Bye.
Speaker 6: Anton. Well that's just lovely. Anton must have a beautiful
picture of me.
Speaker 5: I said, I was sorry.
Speaker 6: Would you care to leave now?
Speaker 5: Pretty soon? Anton lives here too long?
Speaker 6: This is an apartment house. He lives downstairs.
Speaker 5: Why didn't you tell me that before me? Sorry, but
I've got to know these things. When did you arrive
in this country?
Speaker 2: Anton?
Speaker 6: About a year ago?
Speaker 5: Thirty nine? Yes, Whitney, you happen to know a man
who limps drags one foot when he walks. I thought
I heard him last night. I thought I heard him
today here I'm looking for him. Do you know anyone
liked that?
Speaker 2: Whitney?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 6: Are you sure you heard him?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Did you ever guess why I was held a prisoner
in Spain for more than two years after the war
was over? Did you ever wondered why I was so important?
Speaker 2: Ab?
Speaker 11: Did?
Speaker 6: We all tried to guess, but.
Speaker 17: No one knew.
Speaker 2: Louis le Patino knew.
Speaker 5: He helped me escape through some old country relatives he had.
That's why I was killed. The greatest guy I ever knew.
You understand that they want something I've got. That's why
with the man with the bad foot is here because
I'm here.
Speaker 6: Who is he?
Speaker 5: I don't know, Whitney. He used to fly in from Berlin.
I'd hear him in the corridor, and after every visit
they'd go to work on me all over again. What
do you hear it? Do you hear anything?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: Nothing, the drag, the drag of afoot.
Speaker 18: Listen to me, kid.
Speaker 6: If you don't stop hearing things, you look hadn't you
better see your doctor?
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 2: He said I needed rest and freedom from Hag's eyes.
You've been pretty patient, Whitney. Well, I've got a date.
I'll be seeing you.
Speaker 6: Good evening. Mister McKittrick, come in.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it. What keeping your words?
Speaker 6: I can't resist Roses. You sent three dozens.
Speaker 5: That's a piece off thing. Never they're just a starter.
We'll have dinners, you show go dancing the work you ready?
Speaker 6: Yes? Oh, but when you phoned you said you'd like
to meet Prince Francois.
Speaker 2: It still goes may I for a moment, I'm.
Speaker 6: Afraid it's in rather a bad mood. He's quite old.
Please be careful not to anger him.
Speaker 19: Find me grabbers, tradesmen. Just consider the state.
Speaker 6: Of the world, Your highness, May I present mister McKittrick,
and you already know doctor Scott.
Speaker 2: Yes, good evening, sir. Just who are you, young men?
Speaker 5: No one in particular, sir, A man of exceptional marriage,
I should say, A fighting man, your highness.
Speaker 19: I think men they look look at that world back there, mister.
Speaker 5: Kit what do you see? I see flags, sir.
Speaker 19: They are the standards of the House of Saint Louis,
my housemans sur something you cannot buy or steel.
Speaker 5: Something to fight for.
Speaker 19: They represent the glory of one hundred generations in ninety
two rules.
Speaker 6: Em we have the wine, it's ready, Grandfather Anton has
it inside.
Speaker 11: Come then, Elma, if you please my dearther's cursed wheelchair.
Speaker 18: Of course, are you saying he's a mutation? I think
you're sawing at the dinner I see to see him everywhere.
Speaker 11: This talk of flags and standards may be difficult for
an American to understand, mister mckiffick.
Speaker 2: Not for me, doctor.
Speaker 11: You see, your highness, as I said, a man of
exceptional merriage.
Speaker 5: We are ready, Anton. I hope you will find the
wine at the right temperature.
Speaker 6: Your Highness Anton, you know mister McKittrick.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, we have met.
Speaker 11: Look at the tracer. Observe the goblets? Are they not beautiful?
Notice they are frescoat with a small gold medallion.
Speaker 2: Yes, the Lion of San Raphael.
Speaker 5: Isn't it?
Speaker 2: Elma?
Speaker 11: Perhaps you will tell your guests something of these goblets.
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 6: They they originated in Spain, mister McKittrick. They later came
to Italy and into the possession of our house.
Speaker 11: Yes, in his highness veins flows the same blood as
the Borgies.
Speaker 5: Welliness goblet may have held poison in its time.
Speaker 19: Undoubtedly we will drink, mister McKittrick.
Speaker 12: Why do you switch classes?
Speaker 5: Uh, it's an old Borgia custom, doctor, to be sure.
Speaker 3: Now, may I suggest we drink two America?
Speaker 2: Doctor?
Speaker 12: Yes, to America.
Speaker 6: And so I work at the hatshop and make my
home there with my grandfather. What do you think of him?
Speaker 5: Interesting? Not nearly as interesting as you Dan?
Speaker 6: Later, Kit, what is it you really wanted me? At
the refugee dinner? You stared at me and it wasn't
the way a man stares at a woman. You went
out of your way to find out who I am
and where I work. You didn't invite me out tonight
because you had nothing else to do.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 5: Yes? I invited you? Ah and did you accept because
you wanted to? Because you were told to come? Told
to Yeah? What kind of a girl are you?
Speaker 2: Was Louis Epatino in love with you?
Speaker 6: I knew him only for a short while.
Speaker 5: That means nothing. Louis always fell in love easily.
Speaker 6: He was kind to me.
Speaker 5: So you pushed him out of a window.
Speaker 6: No, no, that's not true. I think you'd better take
me home.
Speaker 5: It's too early. No, please, you can't make a scene here.
Think of the Prince, Think of those hundred generate.
Speaker 6: I simply don't understand you. At times you seem to
be a gentleman, and at other times you're a mug.
Speaker 5: I was raised that way. I was a mug until
I was fourteen, and they made me a gentleman. Then
some of the boys made me a mug again.
Speaker 6: Why are you doing this to make Kit?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yes, it would be so easy to fall in love
with you, Kit.
Speaker 6: I'm with you tonight. Because I want to be because
in the shop, even through your insolence, I fail. I
know you didn't let me finish.
Speaker 5: You don't have to. Where did you get Louis wallet?
Speaker 6: He gave it to me. No, not that night. He
had shown me a picture of the two of you.
He forgot it when he left.
Speaker 5: Lady, that's h honey.
Speaker 6: You don't have to believe it.
Speaker 5: He dropped in my pocket on the train, didn't you?
Speaker 6: Yes, Why to warn you? I liked you because of
what Louis had told me.
Speaker 5: How did you know I'd be on that train?
Speaker 6: Don't you know that you've been watched ever since you
said foot in New York. I have access to information
that told what train you'd be on. For telling you
all this, I could be killed. I only asked that
you believe me.
Speaker 2: I'd like to kid. We're not good for each other,
aren't we?
Speaker 6: No, for many reasons, but we may be able to
help each other.
Speaker 5: Well, let's drop, let's have some fun. I could use
a big slice of it. What about that dance you
mentioned before?
Speaker 6: Wonderful?
Speaker 5: And then we'll really see the town. It's all right, Roman,
It's all right, Anton, I come on, talk, I said, talk,
where's Roman?
Speaker 3: He isn't here.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry who surprised me? I surprise you as well
if I was searching your pop. Don't give me that.
I want the truth. It's no good you're hitting me.
Tell only what I please. Come on, let's have it through.
Are the one who should know that a man cannot
be made to talk. You know that, no matter what happened,
if you talk to you would be killed?
Speaker 2: Is it not so that?
Speaker 7: It's why they allowed you to escape?
Speaker 5: Allowed me to of course, so they let me escape.
I should have thought of that. They couldn't beat it
out of me, and they couldn't kill me, so they'd wait.
Is that it all right? But they haven't got the standard.
I've got it and I'm gonna keep it. You can
tell them that they watched maybe, but they slipped up
because they didn't see where I hit it. Then it
isn't it never was. Now get out and tell room
and wherever he is, he'd better stay away from here.
I may lose my temper, and I've been taught a
lot of mean tricks.
Speaker 17: Get out you here, Get out God that way drinking helby.
Speaker 2: I've got to find it out myself.
Speaker 5: I've got to find a man and kill him. I've
got to do it quickly.
Speaker 2: Who pause now for station? I gotification.
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Speaker 5: I've got to find a man and killing, and I've
got to do it quickly.
Speaker 4: But John McKittrick was not quick enough. Early the next morning,
he hears a shot in the next room. Half a
sleepy stumbled out into the hall and into the body
of his friend AB Parker. It's an hour later now
Inspector Tobin has arrived and is winding up what looks
to him like just another very simple case.
Speaker 5: I understand Parker had been in Washington. When did he
get back?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It must have been some time after
I fell asleep.
Speaker 5: You got any ideas? Sure? Anton must have come back
after a three months and we checked John Anton right away.
He didn't come back. Called a Parker's cousin, Whitney met
her in child, drank coffee. What do they talk about music?
I've got something that somebody wants, Tobin. They've sent a
guy after me. All I know about him is that
he limps. I'd got to do with Parker's suicide. Suicide
certainly gone was next to his body? Who found it?
Speaker 2: I have never committed suicide.
Speaker 5: Funny uresaying that might put your own pants right on
the hot seat.
Speaker 2: Everything suicide to you? Tobin? First, louis now Ab?
Speaker 5: You figure this is tied up with Lepatino. Of course
it is. AB must have been doing some investigating this
lame guy. Why is he after you? After something? I
have a battle standard. What a pennant? A flag? It
belonged to my brigade in Spain. You expect me to
believe you let a guy gun for you, let your
friend be bumped off for some dopey pennant.
Speaker 2: Sure it's a dopey pennant. You could buy one like
it for five bucks.
Speaker 5: Parker was killed because he knew about it.
Speaker 2: And Parker never even heard of it.
Speaker 5: And why was he killed? I told you because he
was after out of skats.
Speaker 2: Louis was after him too.
Speaker 5: They both got bumped on. Nobody bumped off LOI don't
you think the department takes care of its own?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 5: Not too well? You gonna hold me, Tobyn, No, you
go around, Yellen. Parker was murdered, though, and you'll like
me wind up on the chair, remember that, Thanks, I will.
Speaker 2: Where's Whitney Parker?
Speaker 5: Now back home? I guess why I like it? A
round up all those nice people we've been talking about.
I want to throw a party for them tonight at
the Club fifty. Oh well, come along if you like. Look, son,
Louis told me you were in pretty bad shape when
you came back from Spain. Maybe you're not yourself yet.
Forget about flags and people who aren't there and people
getting murdered. Who are you covering?
Speaker 2: Tolbyn? Hello, Bobby, Sorry I'm late.
Speaker 5: Oh you're not the only one. Doctor Scotson Elma haven't
shown up either.
Speaker 6: Where are the others?
Speaker 5: Whitney, Antononado in Jake's office? Come on, let's go in.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
Speaker 6: This is ghastly about Ab. It couldn't have happened. Shit,
I have to tell you.
Speaker 14: Ab and I were engaged, wonderful when you came back.
Speaker 6: He didn't want to hold me to it, but I
had to pretend that couldn't hurt him.
Speaker 5: So he leaves down and you and Otto go skiing.
You should have been in Spain, sweet high? Why anything
for a thrill?
Speaker 9: Is that why you went?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 5: Sort of alike? Except I don't think I'm quite the
hypocrite you are.
Speaker 2: Just what do you mean by that?
Speaker 5: As skip it here comes, it's done, come on, let's
go win. Well, there's no point talking anymore or things.
I've made a fool of myself. I had a hunch
I thought I might be able to tell you something.
The hunch didn't pan out. Sorry, I'm glad that doctor
Scots couldn't come. Would have been a pity to have
dragged him down here for nothing.
Speaker 2: Why couldn't become Elmo?
Speaker 9: The doctor and I.
Speaker 6: Were both at the hospital. He wanted to stay with
my grandfather. Well, we know one thing anyway, Regardless of
what the police say, we're all certain Abb didn't shoot himself.
Speaker 2: That's right, Whitney cad.
Speaker 6: We find out what Ab was working on if we
were to go through his papers.
Speaker 5: I had some understanding up codes to mister McKittrick.
Speaker 7: If there should be any among mister Parker's effects, perhaps
I could be at some service.
Speaker 5: I'd be very grateful for the chance to help. Thank you,
ile great many Norwegians have found opportunities to help. I
know what you're hitting.
Speaker 2: I should be in uniform, but I cannot leave my
uncle he as a helpless cripper.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Anton, How about you any ideas? I'm afraid
this is all far beyond me. Well, and I guess
that's that. Shall we go to the bar Ah? But
first I have a present for Elma, like you all
to see it. It's a medallion, the Lion of San Raphael,
the most beautiful thing I own for the most beautiful girl.
I know, where did you get that I picked it
up in Spain. You brought it back with you. I
sent it back, smuggle it in in a seashell.
Speaker 6: What kind of a joke is that?
Speaker 5: No joke, the truth? Will you wear it for me, Elma?
Speaker 18: I'm sorry but I can't.
Speaker 5: Why not?
Speaker 14: Lovely?
Speaker 3: Well, then you brought me kid or you must not
refuse it, Tilma, the Prince would not object to your
accepting it.
Speaker 6: I'm sure very well. Thank you, Kit.
Speaker 5: You'll wear it?
Speaker 6: Yes, I wear it, Kit? Would you mind taking me home?
You can drop the act now, Kit?
Speaker 2: Why did you give me this so everybody see it?
Speaker 6: Do you want to be killed?
Speaker 2: Not especially I intend to find a man who lived.
Speaker 6: Please take it back.
Speaker 5: I want you to wear it. When I said you're
the most beautiful girl, I know I meant it. I
could have said more, Alma, I wanted to see I've
meant everything I've said to you.
Speaker 18: Thank you so have I Please take me home.
Speaker 5: I asked you to come to the headquarters mckindry because I
wanted to tell you that Lloyd Lepatino didn't fall from
a window in the tablet and library. You mean that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why didn't you say so before?
Speaker 5: Because I knew what you went through in Spain, but
I didn't know how well you were snapping out of it.
I couldn't take a chance on your breaking. Tell me
about Louis and his real job was for the government.
He was after an espionage ring. He was pushed from
a window. Yes, but first he'd been shots. The rule
we don't do an autopsy after that sort of fall.
This time we did. We found the bullet. What about
ab Parker, He was working on the same thing. You
were right, of course he was murdered. Hey, not that
flag of yours. You talked to the federals about it. No,
it's a personal matter between me and a little man
in Berlin. The brigade I was with picked off one
of his favorite generals and old pal from the beer
hall days. He swore to have every last man in
our outfit and our flag to hang in Burtis Garden.
Speaker 2: I swore he wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Oh, but Louis inspect her what brought into the Scots's
room that night? You got the tip from your girl
friend Elmadawn. And now that you mentioned is she phoned
me a little while ago an John's giving a recital
to night at her house. I'm going You've got men
working on this, haven't you told me you call them
off for twenty four hours? I think I can wind
it up if you do. Otherwise they might be a
slipped They've got too many mice. What are you going
to do? The guy I am after is going to
open up tonight. I'm went a force him to listen
with kick. You go around plugging anyone you're going to
answer for? Is it deal?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I'm a sad, Yeah, go on and get going.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm so glad.
Speaker 9: I have so much to tell you.
Speaker 5: And did the medallion do its job?
Speaker 6: Yes? And I'm sick to death of the thought of
what might happen to you. I'm terribly afraid of your kid.
What earthly good do you think it does you to
hold out? Do you think it's heroic? Well it isn't it.
It's senseless, it's childish. Listen to me, No, you listen.
A flag, a little piece of cloth, a dirty rag
you wouldn't stop to pick up if you thought on
the street, and you're willing to.
Speaker 5: Kid, There's some things a guy just has to do.
It doesn't matter what you think about it. How afraid
you are, what else makes a man stand up against
a tank with only a rifle in his hand. Why
do they hide in the hills when their army is
gone and keep plugging away when they know their people
will be butchered in retaliation. Something they just can't help.
That flag is a symbol to me, reminding me of
three thousand men who were my friends. Three thousand guys
were shot down around me before I let that little
man put his filthy hands on it. I'll go like
Louis and ab did yees.
Speaker 6: I've loved peace and right too all my life, and
I've loved little tins. Things are important to me. The
house we had in the village, children growing up, and
now I have nothing to love except you, and that
was over before it ever began.
Speaker 2: Why do you say that because I'm helpless?
Speaker 5: You think they got you too?
Speaker 2: No, they haven't.
Speaker 6: You're coming with me, I can't.
Speaker 2: You've got to make a choice in Darling tonight.
Speaker 6: I will kim, But later on, later, will.
Speaker 5: You do something else for yes, love? While arrange to
get me up there. I want to have a look
at doctor Scott Boom.
Speaker 2: Will you do that?
Speaker 6: I'll try too bad.
Speaker 12: The Prince is not here.
Speaker 11: Mister mcsittrick when I left him at the hospital, he
said he was very flatted.
Speaker 12: You so admired his goblets. He asked that would brink
his health.
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 2: I like his whine here then to his highness?
Speaker 13: Right?
Speaker 5: Oh uh uh this way?
Speaker 12: What are you doing?
Speaker 5: Just switching the glasses?
Speaker 2: You take mine?
Speaker 5: I take your old boys.
Speaker 2: Your custom doctor. Oh yes, your joke.
Speaker 5: Drink up doctor to his highness?
Speaker 11: Ah, my favorite composition? Do you mind wheeling me inside
to the study?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 12: Good music should be listened to him?
Speaker 2: Solid you? Yes?
Speaker 5: Where did you take doctor Scott to his study?
Speaker 9: And go up those stairs the fust door to the
lift and hurry kid, please hurry.
Speaker 8: Mh you have a gun, mister Kippick, Well, why do
you not shooting doctors?
Speaker 2: Gus?
Speaker 8: I have left my wheelchair, gous. I shall walk over
to you. You shall not shoot me. Watch, mister Kippick
and listen.
Speaker 2: Put your gun away.
Speaker 5: Sure, I'm not afraid of you.
Speaker 2: Doctor. Seeing you is all I needed.
Speaker 11: Neither of us will do any killing. I cannot kill
you because you have information I must obtain. You cannot
kill me because you lack the brutality that and scolorodine scolorodine.
You drank a quantity a little while ago in your wine.
I hate to stoop to such melodrama, but it seemed
the only certain way. Of course, I assumed you would
switch the goblets again. Scolorodyne is a drug that destroys
the will. Already you're trembling. In a few minutes you
will be completely helpless.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, we shall talk. Yes, yeah, I don't kill zuie
Le Patino.
Speaker 12: Yes, Otto does pretty well what he's told doctor.
Speaker 5: Shall I tell you Danny has he?
Speaker 2: Danny?
Speaker 5: Danny works for Louis.
Speaker 12: Brother too bad the fortunes of war.
Speaker 5: But Otto didn't kill ab Parker.
Speaker 2: No, I killed him.
Speaker 11: I send him a telegram signed your name, but he
didn't come at the time we expected.
Speaker 12: So I remained hidden while you had your little engagement
with Anton. Then you went to bed, Parker came home.
I shot him, as simple as that.
Speaker 2: I went out the back way.
Speaker 12: Rouman made the arrangement, mister McKittrick. Yes, the drug will.
Speaker 11: Soon cause you to collapse, and then as consciousness returns,
you will have things to tell me. Things that I
oh so soon, mister McKittrick. It is effective, even quicker.
Speaker 2: Than a kit. I just shot down your guys.
Speaker 5: No gave me a drug. I don't know how long.
Speaker 2: It'll take quickly all I must know where does the
Prince fit in all this? Kit?
Speaker 6: You about to get out of here?
Speaker 5: No, Danny brought friend Jake's man. They're all around the house.
I told them to get anton and call the cops.
I asked you about the Prince, not your grandfather.
Speaker 2: Is he No?
Speaker 6: He thinks they're going to make him king of France.
He's dying now in the hospital.
Speaker 2: But you you I had.
Speaker 6: To do what they ordered me. I married the real
Lotto Scott. He died in a concentration camp. I have
a daughter, three years old. She's in Germany and there's
a hostage.
Speaker 2: Elma, you told me that you loved me. Did you
mean that?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: But it's no use, Kit. They'll kill my child.
Speaker 2: There are ways to get her out underground ways.
Speaker 6: No, I'm not brave, Kit. I love and for those
I love, I do what I can.
Speaker 5: You're not afraid. I'll help you.
Speaker 2: There are ways, many ways.
Speaker 5: I love you.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 6: You'll have time to forget me, Kit when I'm gone.
Speaker 2: If you'll only let me go, don't say no.
Speaker 5: We'll meet somewhere and.
Speaker 6: The police will be coming soon.
Speaker 2: Kip, will you do what I say?
Speaker 6: Yes, but the answer will always be the same.
Speaker 5: And hurry now quickly get to Chicago, change your name
and get a room in the West Side Hotel.
Speaker 2: I'll square it here and when it's safe, I'll join you.
Speaker 6: Darling.
Speaker 5: Hey, Kittrick, Kittrick, you know right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I guess so.
Speaker 5: Well? Where am I hospital? Doc's been working on you
tell for a Mickey, huh yeah? How long have I
been n there? A couple of hours? You shot Scott? Yeah,
maybe it was self defense. Maybe what it'll be up
to the Federals. You better not talk now, Son, Wait
a minute, an John, we got him auto to good work.
And the girl she slipped away. I don't quite understand
how I'll let her go? Tell him she she helped me.
You think this will stop with the ones we've got?
What about that flag? It's hidden in Lisbon. I don't
have to stand trial and going over there, going to
give it to some boys who can use it. There'll
be brigades for me again. Maybe you sure about that girl?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but maybe we can forget it now.
So I'm go on go to sleep.
Speaker 5: Assagers will please board the plane.
Speaker 2: Departure is in ten minutes.
Speaker 5: Passengers will please forward the plane.
Speaker 2: Hello, Elma can't and.
Speaker 5: They found me not guilty. I knew they would go
to Tobin, who inspector Tobin. She also suggested that I
come down here right away instead of going to Chicago. Funny,
I should meet you on a clipper ready to take
off for Lisbon. I thought we had a date in Chicago.
Speaker 6: I had to do it this way, kid, believe me.
I have to go back and find my little girl.
Speaker 5: I wish there had been a little girl. I wish
you told me the truth. You're going back to the Nazis. Kid,
You've got to trust You've got your passport and your
permit for the clippers to the German consul.
Speaker 2: I didn't find that out.
Speaker 5: Tobin did waiting for you.
Speaker 2: Wilma, come on, No, you can't.
Speaker 5: You come on this way, miss don there's some federal
men to see you. Sorry, kid, believe me, that's all
according to how you look at it. Not a sparrow falls.
Speaker 2: Hello. Our stars will return for Trek and Carl and
gut them up. No, Sally says, there's one question.
Speaker 3: That's practically guaranteed to make a woman mad.
Speaker 13: That is, if she knows anything about housekeeping, it's this,
do you work or just keep house? If it didn't
make you so mad, you'd probably be flattered. Because if
you can run your house through the cooking and cleaning
and dishwashing without looking as though you did a lot
of honest to goodness work, you're pretty smart.
Speaker 3: I'll let you a little bit sally that smart women
like that have a few beauty secrets, like.
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Speaker 13: Most women know that with Lux flakes in the dishpan,
your hands stay as lovely and.
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here's mister de mill with our start.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Alas we're missing the asked interviews, we're also
missing the credits. According to Radio Gold Index. In addition
to the name players, this episode also featured Charles Seal,
Charlotte Treadway, Ed Emerson, George Sorell, Griff Barnett, Howard mcneer,
j Novello, John McIntyre, Norman Field, and renew A Gus sire.
Hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. This is such a great
episode as you get a story that blends this mystery
element and you do have that whole detective feature with
the sort of personal what we would now call PTSD
that Kit is going through. You're trying to unravel this
web of intrigue while also trying to hold onto your
own sanity, and of course it's also interesting for what
the object of this whole operation is. Typically in a
lot of World War two films, these stakes were big.
If it wasn't going to turn the whole outcome of
the war, it was going to be such a major factor.
You know, you have a cossublanca and the center of
that is how important it is that Victor Laslow make
it out of Casablanca for the Allies. There's really no
such stakes here. Hitler wants a war trophy and is
deploying resources in order to obtain it, and Kit is
saying no. Now, I think if you read that Kit's
line literally, you could say, well, it's about spining Hitler,
which is not necessarily you know, spot's not generally a
great reason to do things. But if it's Hitler, I
think that tends to be different. But this isn't even
so much about spote. I think if you look at
it in context, it's really about honoring the memory of
those who passed and what they were fighting for. And
while some of the motivations in the Spanish Civil War
are called during World War Two there was a focus
that everyone on the loyalist side was fighting for democracy
and out of love for it, but regardless, it couldn't
let the Nazis have the flag. And I think you
saw that theme of honoring the past with him saying
he was going to Lisbon to retrieve it and give
it to another battalion that would soon be marching. I
also have to say that I enjoyed Robert Young in
this and it's always interesting to listen to Young's pre
Father Knows Best work because I think that there are
a lot of people that the degree to which they
remember Young it's because of Father Knows Best or another
very successful TV series. He had the title role in
Marcus Welby, and both of these were very warm and
lackable characters. But Young, during the Golden Age of radio
really did a lot of work, so many different films,
so many different roles, and had real range. Now, he
did not play the lead in the original film. That
was played by John Garfield, who was much more known
as a tough guy actor, but Young could do a
little bit of that. Plus he did a great job
capturing the emotional vulnerability of his character. Now it's time
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Speaker 20: Where the kme herefore was to have you tell me
whether or not the murder my book deals with is
really a perfect crime on the man to be murdered.
In my book that is, suffers from heart disease. He's
a completely unpleasant character, a financier and a crooked one,
a man who deserves to.
Speaker 5: Die, and he suffers from heart disease.
Speaker 20: For this condition, he takes daily, at stated hours, capsules
containing medicine, capsules upon which his life depends. Now, then
the murderer in my book that is, decides to poison
the financier. But that's not creaking now, it's murder, murder.
That will be poisoning without poison.
Speaker 5: I'm waiting breathlessly for the next chapter.
Speaker 20: The murderer steals one of the capsules, pours the medicine out,
and replaces the medicine with powdered sugar. He returns the
capsule to the financier's pillbox. In due course, the financier
reaches the capsule, takes it. His weak heart, lacking the
medicine he needs, fails and there you have poisoning without poison.
Speaker 2: Very ingenious, I think.
Speaker 20: So the poisoner can't be traced to the poison he
purchased because he didn't purchase any. The murdered man is
assumed to have died a natural death, and Hot Topsy
will show no poison in his body since there wasn't any.
Speaker 5: Well, is it the perfect crime?
Speaker 2: I can't see any flaws.
Speaker 20: Any And if you can't, I don't imagine the critics.
Speaker 2: Well, don't you mean the tale?
Speaker 20: Why should the police be interested in a book?
Speaker 5: I'm ready? Why should the critics be interested in the
murder you're committing? You're not serious? You are? I?
Speaker 20: I rather think I must leave now, getting light soon? No, no,
don't move. I still have the gun pointing at you.
If I had to shoot you, it wouldn't be a
perfect crime, but you'd be dead, nonetheless, but that wouldn't
interest you, would Well, goodnight, mister templar and pleasant Grahams.
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