Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
going to bring you the first of three adaptations of
films about the OSS. But first, I do want to
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I had plans to do some anthology programs after Cloak
and Dagger for a couple of weeks before we transitioned
into a continuing series, but the amount of interest and
enjoyment that people had with the OSS made me think
it'd be a good idea to do some specials that
focused on the OSS. There were actually a few films
that were made based on the OSS. Now, they're not
all in the way that Kloakendagger was taken directly from
real life incidents, though certainly the training and the top
submissions that the OSS got involved in were covered. And initially,
and you may have heard me say on some podcasts,
we're going to do two weeks. I found out that
there were three different major films that were made and
were later adapted to radio. So we're going to do
three weeks of these films and hear how they adapt
to radio. And here the way that the OSS is portrayed. Now,
two of these I did do is part of our
World War two series the War, but at least one
of them was in really rough shape, and we do
have some upgraded copies and so, and particularly it would
be a good idea to do it again now that
we've just listened to the entire run of Cloak and Dagger. Now,
the first of these three films was OSS. Now, this
came to theaters on May twenty eighth, nineteen forty six,
and the Lux Radio Theater version was released on November eighteenth,
nineteen forty six, and it stars a familiar figure to
those who listen to the Great Detectives for a very
long time, in Alan Ladd of Box thirteen. But now
we go to the Lux Radio Theater for Oss.
Speaker 2: Loos Presidents.
Speaker 3: Hollywood, Leaver Brothers Company brings you the Lux Radio Theater
starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in OSS. Ladies and gentlemen,
your producer, mister William.
Speaker 4: Keiley, Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to
the Lux Radio Theaters presentation of Paramount's Gripping screenplay OSS,
starring Alan Ladd in his original role, co starred with
a talented and lovely Veronica Lake. In introducing the night's play,
I'd like to quote from Major General William J. Donovan,
who during the war directed the Office of Strategic Services.
He says, while the characters in this motion picture are fictitious,
the story is based on a composite of actual incidents
in the diversified activities of the Office of Strategic Services,
which conducted intelligence special operations, and on orthodox methods of
warfare in support of Allied military operations. It is a
tribute to the brave, resourceful men and women, living and dead,
who volunteered for these dangerous assignments. In other words, Tonight's
play is more than thrilling entertainment.
Speaker 5: It is a glimpse into.
Speaker 4: The hazardous, behind the lines activities of those loyal Americans.
Speaker 5: Who pave the way for victory, whose.
Speaker 4: Lives depended hour by hour on meticulous attention to the
smallest detail. An agent of the OSS could not afford
to look well fed in a country living on starvation diets,
well dressed among ill clad people, or well groomed in
a land where soap was non existent. Behind the lines,
I am sure a lux complexion would have been a
certain giveaway among women of the OSS, just as it's
a a hallmark of good grooming among women in civilian life.
In fact, I can think of no better countersign or
password for admission to the League of Lovely Women than
lux toilet soap from LTS. We take you now to OSS,
starring Alan Ladd as Martin and Veronica Lake as Ellen.
Here's the curtain for Act one. It's nineteen forty three
in a colonial mansion set in a peaceful Virginia countryside.
Speaker 2: A group of.
Speaker 4: Men, some young, some middle aged, are gathered for a meeting.
From their looks, it could be a salesman's convention. Closer
still a get together of college alumni. But the lesson
these men are learning was never taught in any college.
Speaker 6: There's nothing superhuman about being a good intelligence agent. Yes,
it takes guts, brains and patience, but this is a
new game to us. You trainees are average Americans, and
the average Americans are not brought up to fight the
way the animey fights. But we can learn to become
agents and sabat us if we have to. One of
these days, you'll be working in access territory. You'll be
on the spot every minute of the day or night.
Your only chance, your only chance, will be to beat
the enemy to the punch. Forget everything you've ever been
told about fair play and sportsmanship. Forget everything except that
your country is fighting for its life.
Speaker 2: That's all for now. Radio Laboratory at ten o'clock, Camera
rom at noon dismissed. Come in, Commander Brady.
Speaker 6: Sorry to drag you out this time of night, but
I've just had a visitor, General Donovan. Well, your orders
have come through operations in France. Colonel right, Well, when
do we starts now? The job won't be finished until
our troops cross the Rhine. You've got two things to do. First,
get information. Second, work with a French on the ground,
and sabotage key enemy installations.
Speaker 2: And look at this map.
Speaker 6: These railway lines that feed this area here around the
city of Oleon.
Speaker 2: Right here is one of our priority targets. Recognize it, yes, sir,
the Kobe Malon Tunnel.
Speaker 6: If we can knock that tunnel out, we'll paralyze the
most important traffic line into Normandy. We've assigned the tunnel
to Team Applejack. What's its personnel? Commander Team Applejack Leader
Rodney Gates, Army officer, World War One Savilian Occupation railroad
supply salesman in France. Good man, mature, judgment, stability and balance. Next,
John Martin, Lieutenant junior grade, US Navy Civilian occupation publicity
man knows France a little on the khaki side, but
he'll do after he's been.
Speaker 2: Knocked around a bit. Well, there's balance and brains. We
need a little braun.
Speaker 6: Bert Parker, Chief Petty Officer, Savinian Occupation sportsman motor boat RACEARI.
Speaker 2: But park has been assigned of Germany. He's lived there.
Speaker 6: If he gets through, he used to lay low as
a Ryan barge worker until needed. Oh, we've got another
muscle man named Bouchet. Used to be a hockey player,
and that should do it. Balance, brains and Braun. The
ideals set up, except we'll need one more, someone who
knows district, someone to contact the French underground. There, what
about a woman? They can often get through where a
man can. Personnel in London could recruit. I'd rather see
if we can find one here first. Well, see that
gates Martin Bouchet's day put Oh were you too, Commander,
I'll be needing your help and finding that girl.
Speaker 2: So this is where you live, miss Rogers.
Speaker 7: This is it, mister Brady alone? Oh no, with Jean
Jacques my cat. Well, it's been very nice meeting you.
Thanks for a lovely evening.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 7: I'm really very glad. Uncle Arthur asked you to call me.
Well good night.
Speaker 2: You're not going to ask me in.
Speaker 7: It's rather late.
Speaker 6: Oh now, wait a minute. This is my first trip
to San Francisco. My plane doesn't leave until three am.
You wouldn't turn me loose in a strange town at
this hour. Besides, Uncle Arthur wouldn't approve of that.
Speaker 7: Well, all right, come on in, thanks.
Speaker 2: Miss Rogers. I knew you wouldn't let me down.
Speaker 7: I count afford a studio and an apartment, so this
does for both. Like some coffee later.
Speaker 2: Maybe, So you're a sculptress.
Speaker 7: Huh seems to me I told you all about that
at dinner. Trying to make conversation, mister Brady.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to find out how good a business it
is sculpting financially.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's a bust and no puns intended.
Speaker 6: You've got quite a collection here, you do all these yes, recently.
Speaker 7: You're full of questions. No, not recently, most of them
in France. I studied at Fontainbleau.
Speaker 2: Oh when was that?
Speaker 7: Two years before the occupation?
Speaker 2: Too bad about the French?
Speaker 7: July sixteenth, fourteen twenty nine.
Speaker 2: I never was much good at dates.
Speaker 7: That's the day Joan of Arc liberated France after one
hundred years of occupation.
Speaker 6: Joan of Arc never ran into a Panza division. No,
this time the French are finished.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, but you don't know the French people as
I do. The Plain people. They're good, common sense, they're stubborn, pride,
their faith, their deep faith.
Speaker 2: That's a very pretty sh speech.
Speaker 6: You're pretty well in France the evening. We're not in France.
We're in San Francisco. And I didn't come up to
talk politics.
Speaker 7: I'm not talking politics. I'm talking about the indestructible.
Speaker 6: Your kisses would be pretty too, Miss Rogers, if you'd
cooperate a little.
Speaker 7: There's the door, mister Brady.
Speaker 2: Ah, not yet.
Speaker 7: You're getting out of here right now.
Speaker 2: I'd rather stay.
Speaker 7: I'd hate to have to fracture your skull, and I'd
hate even more to smash this figurine.
Speaker 2: But if you door, Arthur is going to be very
disappointed in you.
Speaker 7: Stop that idiotic Uncle Arthur routine. I haven't spoken to
that stingio goat in ten years. He'd no more have
given you my address than turn up at a board of
directors meeting without his clothes. Now, just who are you,
mister Brady, and what do you want?
Speaker 2: You're a bright girl. You're right.
Speaker 6: Uncle Arthur definitely did not ask me to look you up.
You see, it's not mister Brady, it's Commander Brady, Office
of Strategic Services.
Speaker 2: Have you hear of us?
Speaker 6: No, then put down that figurine and relax. You and
I are going to do some serious talking. Oh that
kiss just a sort of test, Miss Rogers.
Speaker 7: Message for your Colonel Field, San Francisco says, Yes, it's
signed Brady.
Speaker 6: Good all the laboratory, tell them radially, and we're a
wull report on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Yes, Commander, it's already here. Take a look. That's the
kind of clay a sculptor would use, is it? It's
what you ordered.
Speaker 8: Plastic explosive that looks, feels and tastes like modeling clay.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful going into the art business. Not a bad eye.
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, why couldn't we develop a whole line
of outstore merchandise, more plastic explosive to put up in
tubes like tubes of paint time, pencils as crayons, reels
of fuse picture wire.
Speaker 2: It could be done. Now you're sure of this stuff.
You can actually model with this explosive. Definite.
Speaker 6: Let me use your phone. Oh this is Commander Brady.
Get my Colonel Field, please and look. Start turning out
that clay. We'll need a lot of it. Pack it well,
it'll have a long way to go. Tubes the picture
wire that too, right away, high priority, you can, Colonel Field. Ready,
apple Jack can go to London tomorrow. The girl, I'll
wire her now everything's said. She can join us later
over there. Oh and from now on we're referring to
mss Rogers as Helene Duprey. Well, gentlemen, now that Helene
de Prey is here, where us team Applejack is complete.
As soon as your clothing and documents are in order,
you'll be leaving this hotel.
Speaker 2: You'll be leaving London, You'll be leaving England.
Speaker 7: I don't mind saying I'm scared to death.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. We all are. Were you meant any questions?
The young lady Commander, she's going with it. Yes, why
we'll come to that later, Martin, what's on your mind? Well?
All right, how do we fit it?
Speaker 7: Because I'm a woman, that's right, forget it.
Speaker 2: Look at ma get pleay, rugged the other side of
the channel, tough to buy a cup of coffee, and
tough to find a place to sleep.
Speaker 7: Let's clear that up right now, mister Martin. I'll buy
my own coffee and find my own bed.
Speaker 2: Get picked in.
Speaker 6: Some of the most successful agents in history were women. Yeah,
I know, women like mart Harry.
Speaker 7: How do you know what kind of woman I am?
Speaker 2: I think it's the kind that ought to be Raising
a couple of kids in the Cleveland Heights has going
to be a lot of excitement where we're going, and
I want to be sure everybody's going to keep calm.
Speaker 6: Now, wait a minute, Martin, Helene wouldn't be here in
London unless we thought she qualified nothing personal, sir.
Speaker 2: I'm only concerned about operating successfully.
Speaker 7: I think we will if mister Martin stops worrying about
my sex. Treat me like any other member of the team.
Speaker 6: Right now, you all know where you're going, you know
your objectives. The Corbey Melon Tunnel is the jackpot. The
first thing to do after landing is to contact f
FI headquarters at an inn call Le Chevelenoire. When you've
got something to tell us, use your radio. Now, let's
go over your cover up stories, Gates.
Speaker 9: My name is Raoul Jesse, a Parisian. I used to
be an automobile salesman. When the war came, the office
was closed. I've been unemployed most of the time since
my health is bad lung trouble. I could the state
a farm near the city. Bad lungs, you said, I
have X rays to prove it here, let me see,
certainly bad all right? But whose lungs are they mine?
If I were the Gestapo, what have you shot? These
are American made X rays. French X ray plates are different.
Have French ones made Bouchet. My name is Albert Benardi.
I'm an ice skating instructor.
Speaker 10: I worked winter resorts all over Saranac Lake, Sun Valley,
San Maritz. I'm looking for a man I heard was
going to open a skating rink and Auleia. I can't
find them, and I'm sure of funds. I'll take any
kind of work I can find. You're a pretty husky
young fellow. Why aren't you a prisoner of war or
in a labor battalion. That's right, I forgot to tell you.
Here are my papers. I'm not French, I'm Swiss. The
war caught me in France and I haven't been able
to get back.
Speaker 2: That's better. Martin. My name is Felipe Martine. I lost
my mother when I was eight, went to live with
my aunt the United States. Came back from military service
in nineteen thirty five, trained eighteen months, then got a
job as correspondent for American newspaper Call Back Up. In
thirty nine, Fortsa Dan was captured with my division, later
released by the Germans to work for them. That they
are Nault factory and the factor was bombed out. I
was sent to Olimp to work in the railroad. Yeah,
to live Martyn. Otherwise, okay, Helene.
Speaker 7: My name is Elaine du Pray. My home is Naulia,
where my family has lived for generations on the Lutier.
I'm a sculpturess. Graduated Fantainbleau. Every year my husband and
I used to spend our vacations near there. He was
a writer. His name was Jean. This year I've come alone.
Jean was killed.
Speaker 6: Neoda all Wright it I said, I was a corresponding
My articles would have appeared in the United States.
Speaker 7: You can find Jean de Priest's work in the back
issues of many French magazines.
Speaker 2: Oh. Then, Helen de Prix is real.
Speaker 7: She was my roommate at Fontainbleau. We were inseparable. People
used to call us the sisters.
Speaker 2: Oh what happens if you're on indo her?
Speaker 7: I won't she's missing. This is her last letter, She says, goodbye,
my sister. It will be evening soon, and I shall
walk down to the beach and out onto the serf,
thinking of you, thinking of Jean. Shall I go on?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: I I'm sorry, Well, I suggest you all go to
your rooms now and get some sleep. Chances are you
leave tomorrow night you will be dropped, of course, by parachute.
Speaker 2: I'll see you in the morning. I've just been talking
to the pilot. How do you feel, Helene? No?
Speaker 7: Just fine?
Speaker 2: Is that what the pilot wanted to find out? When
don't we jump?
Speaker 9: We just flew over our destination. There should have been
a signal from the ground. Well there wasn't any. Hey
that meets there'll be no f F find to meet us.
That's right, you want to turn back? I say we
should jump blind. Any objections jump good? We'll jump blind.
Then oh, a pilot assures me our plane has been.
Speaker 2: Spotted by the Nazis. We expected that, didn't we?
Speaker 9: Yes, but that may make things a little tough down below.
Since says no one to meet us, you still want
to jump, let's go. Okay, I'll tell the power to
want to.
Speaker 2: See I have condo intelligence for you on the telephone
here cod thank you, Hello master speaking.
Speaker 11: There's alone unidentified plane over your area. Strong formation of
British planes. Was we parted earlier? Is what may be
a stanglo it made parachutis? Are you suggested the area
becoming immediately.
Speaker 12: Gaisman, possibility of parachuters in this area. Watch that inn,
the chauvel wy they have been round doing there. Don't
read it, they want it.
Speaker 2: Get ready to jump? Well, lock everyone see you're there
in Lallah.
Speaker 7: I'll be there, mister Martin.
Speaker 2: All right, start jumping.
Speaker 4: In just a moment, we'll continue with the second act
of OSS, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. Meanwhile, here's
Libby Collins, our Hollywood reporter, looking mighty pleased about something too.
Speaker 13: I guess it's the movie I saw this afternoon. Mister Keeley.
You can't beat a good Western. There's such a lot
of fun.
Speaker 4: It sounds as though you saw that New Republic picture.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 13: Plainsman and the Lady, a real thriller diller starring William Elliott,
Vera Ralston, and Gail Patrick.
Speaker 4: I've seen Bill Elliott in dozens of hard riding films, Libby,
but I always thought of Vera Ralston as an ice
skating star.
Speaker 13: Oh she is and was once Olympic skating champion. But
in Plainsman and the Lady, she again proves herself a
fine dramatic actress.
Speaker 7: Vera's had quite an exciting career.
Speaker 13: You know, she escaped from her native Czechoslovakia on the
very last plane before the.
Speaker 7: Borders were closed.
Speaker 2: That was exciting, But the real thrill of.
Speaker 13: A lifetime, she says, was getting her American citizenship papers
last flag day.
Speaker 4: Well, Andrea has gained a stunning new citizen. Vera is
a real beauty.
Speaker 7: Oh she is that, mister Kelley.
Speaker 13: She's one of the most photographed girls at Republic and
the studio says she just can't take a poor picture.
Speaker 3: I don't wonder, Libby, how could anyone miss with a
complexion like Vera Ralston's.
Speaker 13: Mister Kennedy, you're certainly a man with a single track.
Speaker 3: Mine when it comes to lovely lux complexions.
Speaker 2: I admit it.
Speaker 13: Well, you're quite great about Vera Ralston's. She uses Lux
toilet soap every day. She told me active lad of
facials with Lux toilet soap are a wonderful aid to beauty.
They leave her skin feeling fresh and smooth.
Speaker 3: Lebby, won't you tell the ladies in our audience how
Vera Ralston takes her lux soap facial.
Speaker 13: Well, here's what she does, and it's very simple and
quickly done. Smooths on lots of the creamy Lux soap
ladder and works it in thoroughly. Rinces first with warm water,
fault with a splash of coal. Then she takes a
soft towel and pats her skin ever so gently to dry.
Speaker 7: And that's all there is.
Speaker 13: To a Lux Soap beauty facial, and mister Kennedy, screen
stars find it a wonderfully effective care.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, Lebby.
Speaker 3: We know from actual tests that Lux Toilet soap facials
make skin lovelier. These tests were made by skin specialists
and they showed improvement in a short time in three
out of four cases.
Speaker 13: Hollywood stars just have to have a complexion care that works, and.
Speaker 3: That's why Lux Toilet Soap is the favorite beauty soap
of nine out of ten screen stars the Loveliest women
in the World. Mister Keeley returns to the microphone.
Speaker 4: We continue with Act two of OSS, starring Alan Ladd
as Martin and Veronica Lake as Ellen. Nearly three days
have passed since Team Applejack parachuted into a patch of
woods near the French city of Orleans, now in London,
where he's been joined by Colonel Field. Commander Brady has
received his first radio message from the saboteurs.
Speaker 6: The message has just been decoded. Colonel Well, not too good.
Gates is dead. Gates and night they landed. He and
the girl went to the inn first. Something must have
gone wrong. The others found his body in the morning,
and the girl not suspected. I've ordered Martin to take
over there, preceding a schedule. Well, Martin's got a job
in the railroad yard, Buche's become a scissors grinder. He's
rented some sort of a hovel to live in. You'll
radio us from there as long as he can. Helene,
she's made contact with the underground. An old man named.
Speaker 2: Old Beer has a shop that sells our supplies. She's
found a studio close by, and things should start happening.
They will, sir, they will.
Speaker 10: Scissors shopping knives, since scissor shopping knives?
Speaker 2: Since scissors shopping?
Speaker 7: Can you shop in sculpting tools?
Speaker 2: Anything, Madam? Scissor shopping knives and scissor shopping? How much
I have not shopping chisels like these in a long time.
Speaker 7: I met Martin an hour ago.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can do them all right.
Speaker 7: Where newspaper stand near the railroad yard.
Speaker 2: Well, how much ten francs each, Madame?
Speaker 7: Ten francs twenty court train six am tomorrow. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Oh man must live But where Lama?
Speaker 7: All right here?
Speaker 2: Thank you, Madame. I will sharpen them like new.
Speaker 7: Ten frogs each, out rageous.
Speaker 2: Hello. Hello, Yes there's a Colonel Field. What time confirmed?
Speaker 12: Fine?
Speaker 6: Yes, Brady's with me now. Hope to have another job
for you very soon. That was British Air Intelligence Brady
Well Apple Jackson business. Obama's got the train at Lamon
this morning, completely destroyed any other news for Martin a little,
and then rounded up some FFI. They're all meeting tomorrow afternoon,
and obear's our shop.
Speaker 2: I'm in, Madame, monsieur.
Speaker 7: These two metal my friends, Papa, Monsieur Martin, Monsieur Bouchet.
Speaker 2: Sure the people here over they are here? How many?
Speaker 14: Renal and Madame Riot? They are in back of the shop.
Speaker 2: A military patrol source come then we'll have to have
visitors if we do. Just remember here to listen to
Madame the priest lecture on art. My friends. Now, Monsieur come,
Target's air force can't seem to get at especially the
cobe melon tunnel. What about it Renow, that's the close
military area. Every approach is got it.
Speaker 14: We tried again last week.
Speaker 2: We've got to keep trying. It's a must. What about
the bridge of Roster that's the favorite group who takes
a chamber repair shops. I will finally have explosives here
for you.
Speaker 8: I have already made yours up, monsieur real little sex
month modeling clay plastic explosives, Madame Riotte, you will get
tubes of paint. They will be ready for who's that
pat Wait a moment, I have to open the door.
Speaker 2: It's Colonel Meister. You'll continue with your art lecture.
Speaker 7: Madame dupre As. I was saying, the so called new
trend in art is actually a very old one. We
know to return to the classic form, but with a
certain utilization of Colonel meister.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon. I am fortunate to find you here and
it'll send the afternoon discussion. Colonel. If I can be
of any assistant.
Speaker 12: I'm quite sure you can help me. But first, if
you're not't mind, I would like to listen to the
young lady.
Speaker 2: We are on a colonelist for the.
Speaker 7: Decadent spiritual attitude of a man like Mark Billiani, the
degenerate impressionism.
Speaker 12: Of the of Sasa.
Speaker 7: Of course, if I may digress, the Colonel has brought.
Speaker 2: Up a most interesting close the door. O. There no
need to disturb the discussion.
Speaker 7: Readily understand the.
Speaker 12: Well there, what do I see under the counter? Youtubes
are pained, Yes, Colonel, let me see Solan, my favorite rule.
Speaker 2: What about the other color?
Speaker 12: I'm sorry, but I want but I have no time
for paintings. Sketching.
Speaker 2: It is all I can do these days. Ohbert, that
young woman in.
Speaker 14: There and unusually gifted sculptress.
Speaker 12: May I meet her?
Speaker 8: But of course, Madame Dupray, if you have.
Speaker 7: A moment, please yes, monsieur.
Speaker 12: Madame du Pray, Master Madame Paulmeister. The Colonel sketches merely impressions, Ohbert,
I need another pad.
Speaker 2: I am sure I have one somewhere. Madame must permit
me to see her work.
Speaker 7: But there's nothing of mine here, Colonel, at your studios.
Speaker 2: Then I have my car.
Speaker 7: Really, I haven't a thing. We're staying at the.
Speaker 12: Moment Madame's modestly becomes I shall make the usual allowances.
Speaker 7: Well very well then, and.
Speaker 12: I apologies to your friend's Albert, and I would pick
up my pad later. Ah, very nice you, madame, excellent light.
Your husband shares it with you.
Speaker 7: I'm a widow, Colonel, but well, I have been going
with another man.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, a Frenchman in the city here.
Speaker 7: He's away. He's an engineer.
Speaker 12: Oh, the Normandy fortifications.
Speaker 7: He never tells me, Colonel.
Speaker 12: This statue here is lovely. It's like yourself. You're very kind,
amazing technique for one so young. Your hand, Madame, remarkably
feminine for this kind of work.
Speaker 7: If the colonel would care for some teacher.
Speaker 12: Your pulse it's quite irregular. Could I be responsible for that?
Speaker 7: You're very discerning.
Speaker 12: Soul and you are an incredible woman, My dear, beauty
and talent are really combined in a single individual. I
confess I find it difficult to believe that these works
of art here are yours, or that you are what
you say you are?
Speaker 7: May I prove it?
Speaker 2: How?
Speaker 7: Sit down? I'd like you to pose for me.
Speaker 12: Oh, that may take several sittings. Several I'm delighted, Madame, delighted.
Speaker 7: Perhaps when it's finished.
Speaker 12: You'll believe me, eh, eh, Perhaps.
Speaker 7: Your head a little more to the side, please, that's it.
Speaker 2: Mis has been coming here to you studio every day
now for two weeks, and what have we got? Nothing
except the pretty fair likeness of his head.
Speaker 7: I need more time, Martin, but he's.
Speaker 2: Raising the roof. He wants a cove, a mail or
tunnel destroyed. Now, as soon as it is, we go
back to London. Believe me, I'm ready to go back.
I'm not why you have a blind alley with maister.
He hasn't told you a thing. Break it off with him.
Speaker 7: Meister's my department.
Speaker 2: Don't overestimate yourself. He's dangerous.
Speaker 7: You don't have much confidence in me, do you.
Speaker 2: I'd feel the same about any girl I was working with.
Speaker 7: I thought we'd settle that, no special consideration for anyone.
You're not a man and I'm not a woman. We're weapons.
You could stop worrying about meister. He's leaving town.
Speaker 2: Oh where's it going?
Speaker 7: I don't know when.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow afternoon it's a trip train leaving for Nominee. Tomorrow
afternoon it'll pass through the tunnel or Helene. How long
would it take you to this head? You've made exact
duplicate made out of our plastic explosive Clay tomorrow noon.
Could you get mister to to well, I mean, I'll
forget it.
Speaker 7: I could get him to take me with him on
the train.
Speaker 2: Said forget it? Hello, oh myster, just a minute let
him in. I'll wait a pitch.
Speaker 12: I had to come early. My dear staff meeting. I
should be there now.
Speaker 7: Then you won't sit for me.
Speaker 12: I came only to say goodbye? Will you miss me? Helene?
Speaker 7: Paul, take me with you. I'm afraid it's impossible, not
for an officer of your importance.
Speaker 12: I suppose it could be arranged.
Speaker 7: But please, Paul, Please.
Speaker 12: Helene, darling, you are not deceiving me. I know why
you want to come with me. I have known how
Mattel stood since the day I met you. Have you, your
engineer sure trying to get to him in Normandy. You're
too clever for me, Paul, and you are too unscrupulous
for me, Helene.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, you may.
Speaker 7: Come with me, Thank you, Paul.
Speaker 12: After all, our little masterpiece is still incomplete.
Speaker 2: Bring it with you.
Speaker 12: Pleasant journey together a weekend perhaps to finish it.
Speaker 2: And then my dear girl, go with my blessing.
Speaker 12: That's satisfactory.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, good be.
Speaker 12: Ready to leave early in the afternoon. My driver will
take you to our compartment on the train. I'll readers in.
Speaker 2: Ellen, I heard what he said. All right, get to
work on a duplicate right away.
Speaker 7: Explosive clay will require a fuse, and I don't know
how to set one.
Speaker 2: Oh, bet, will bring a fuse here, you'll say it.
How will you pack it for travel?
Speaker 7: A wooden box, I suppose.
Speaker 2: Make sure you'll be able to open it quickly. White
the fuse. When the train stops in the tunnel.
Speaker 7: Sure it will stop.
Speaker 2: I'll see that it does, and all can get me
a railroad inspectors pass. The train takes on water a
few miles east of the tunnel. I'll get on bend.
That's for getting off. Well. Both have to take our chances,
of course.
Speaker 7: Good luck Martin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks sir. Maybe i'll see the market tunnel. What
never mind, get to work. Oh you're the engineer.
Speaker 7: Yes, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2: Skin of art? It's like my team check.
Speaker 14: Right, what do you expect of this piece of gun?
Speaker 2: Never mind that you're late. You should have passed the
Caroba Mailot tunnel at three twenty six. Pass it in
five minutes. All right then, slot On, he's got the gun.
Speaker 15: Huh.
Speaker 2: Alright, said slot On. Why are you doing this?
Speaker 6: For sure?
Speaker 2: O France, I'll drop both of you.
Speaker 7: Paul, the train stop. What's the matter.
Speaker 12: Oh, it's nothing.
Speaker 7: Seems very strange. Stopping in a tunnel.
Speaker 12: Makes our journey together longer.
Speaker 7: Paul, I'm worried. Please go and ask someone. Oh no, no, later,
but I'm really frightened. Please Paul, all right, I have
to thy.
Speaker 2: Martin, don't ask questions. Send me that box, good said,
by the track. Here be right back. Climb on the window, hy,
what's another climb out to you here? You've still got
a chance. Who is that talking?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 2: Hurry, wake your sor down?
Speaker 12: She has gone the window.
Speaker 2: A man and a woman. Her colonel there the amounts
of the tunnel you got.
Speaker 16: Start those people fire, said fo there's a fuse personally
for stud them.
Speaker 6: Come in, Brady Well, reports confirmed by aerial reconnaissance.
Speaker 2: Colonel the tunnel is destroyed.
Speaker 6: That's great, yes, except there's been no words since from
Team Applejack.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 6: Get a message through to Team Sombrero. Tell them to
stand by to take over Applejack's assignments.
Speaker 2: Martin Bouchet, the girl. They're either dead Brady or captured. Helene. Helene,
this way. I should have been back long ago. Sorry,
I got losses. Pretty dark in those woods at night.
Speaker 7: It's the only reason we're alive. Light and the place tied.
Speaker 2: If I'm Bouchet, you couldn't get a car. Mace is
alive and he closed in too fast.
Speaker 7: You can't stand here.
Speaker 2: I know. I sent Bouche on a Dejon. You can
get to a radio. Your contact Breddy and have him
send a plane to pick us up. Well where I
don't know. We'll share at the park in Jon tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Oh, we get there.
Speaker 2: Highways full of refugees. We'll have to lose ourselves among them.
Speaker 7: Safer if we travel alone.
Speaker 2: No, pretty bad shape, all manage?
Speaker 7: Oh now look you look. We almost failed in the
tunnel because you came back from me. Never come back
for me again. Do you understand? Never come back?
Speaker 2: Okay? Can you find a highway? Yes, a parking djon tomorrow.
Speaker 7: It's all right. You can sit down. Hello, Hello, where's Bouchet.
Speaker 2: We've had some lucky fi getting us jobs at the airport.
Speaker 7: Did you find a radio?
Speaker 2: No, not yet. We've got to be careful. My snooz
boys will be beating down our.
Speaker 7: Next Do you have any money? I haven't eaten since Yes,
my little we'll find a restaurant. Those men don't look
two of them. They're watching us. Start smiling. That's better.
Speaker 2: I'm going to kiss you, sweetheart. It's a park bench.
That may convince them.
Speaker 7: Too bad, Martin. They're still watching.
Speaker 2: Come on, we better go. Oh some more, lock of
both near the dawn.
Speaker 14: Just get me something to company's.
Speaker 2: Coming, while those men of the park real good evening?
Speaker 14: May I join you? Thank you?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but there must be some mistake.
Speaker 14: Mistake, monsieur Martine, and madame you you're quite wrong, Monsieur,
I think not. I am a madius. Bring istapo. Oh
in case you are armed, monsieur, don't forget my colleague,
Hair Armswold here is close by. That was fine work,
that tunnel job of yours.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 14: These papers, monsieur, A full report of your activities? They
just arrived in headquarters. Would you catch or read them?
Speaker 7: This is outrageous, you and trude upon, But I would
prefer to discuss the matter at headquarters.
Speaker 2: What do you mean prefer.
Speaker 14: Fortunately I had access to these papers before any of
the others saw them.
Speaker 2: What do you want from us?
Speaker 14: But I want from you? Isn't the question what do
you want from me?
Speaker 2: No very sensible man hair bring his side is going
to lose the war, and being a practical man here
looks to the future.
Speaker 14: I could be very useful to you. I have access,
for instance, to the weekly Dijon Berlin military pouch and
the couriers my cousin.
Speaker 2: And what's your price community that.
Speaker 14: Goes without saying, a small weekly page, and fifty thousand
American dollars deposited in my account in the Bank of Switzerland.
Speaker 2: Maybe we can do business.
Speaker 14: I was so sure we could.
Speaker 2: You'll have to get us a radio.
Speaker 14: Oddly enough, I have another cousin who might be persuaded
to lend you one for twenty thousand francs.
Speaker 2: We'll be sure of funds until we contact our principles.
Speaker 14: Until then, only too, we had to accommodate you at
a fair rate of interest, of course, shall we say
fifteen percent? Well, I will leave you to think things
over till tomorrow. Then at the same time, yeah, oh,
her unsle just recival a couple of magazines each other.
Speaker 2: You believe him, there's no choice.
Speaker 7: I have to and we were going back to London.
Speaker 2: Frink is on the level. We don't dare leave. If
he isn't, we'll get what Gates got. Oh, Helene, I'm
I'm sorry for what by the way I snap at
you most of the time.
Speaker 7: The way I aren't you forgetting something?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Ryan, treat you like any other member
of the team.
Speaker 7: That's what you wanted, Yes, Martin, That's what I want someday,
maybe if we.
Speaker 2: Ever skip it. Here here's the menu. It maybe our
last meal. We pause now for station identification.
Speaker 3: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 4: In a moment, we'll bring you Act three of OSS,
starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in Hollywood. It's news
when an actress gets a studio contract without having to
take a screen test. It happened though, to our lovely
young guest of the evening, Miss Lucille Barcley. How does
it feel to be a paramount start at Lucille.
Speaker 15: I still can't believe it, mister Keeley. You see, I'd
come to Hollywood for a summer vacation. The vacation turned
into a full time job on a talent scout for
Paramount saw me and sign me up.
Speaker 5: Had you always been interested in an acting career?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 15: Yes, Back in New York State where lived, I was
a member of the Rochester Community Theater. Later I studied
dramatics in New York and.
Speaker 5: All to good purpose, it appears.
Speaker 7: Oh, I was very lucky.
Speaker 15: But for real achievement, mister Keeley, I nominate Joan Cawfield.
I visited the set when Paramount was filming their big
Technicolor production, Blue Skies, and well, I had a chance
to meet her. Just think in Blue sky she's co
starred with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.
Speaker 4: You're right, that is a success story. Joan deserves it
though she's exceptionally talented.
Speaker 15: And besides, she's about as photogenic as a girl can be.
Lovely features in a truly flawless comp.
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is a Lux girl.
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Speaker 15: And if I may say so, mister Kennedy, lots of
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Speaker 2: Here's mister Keeley at the microphone.
Speaker 4: Act three of OSAs, starring Alan Ladders Martin and Veronica
Lake as Ellen. For a month now, OSS headquarters in
London has been receiving amazing information from Team Applejack and
Allied bombers subsequently have been smashing Nazi installations with bewildering accuracy.
Back again in London, Colonel Field gets the details from
Commander Brady.
Speaker 2: It's really quite simple, Colonel.
Speaker 6: Our key man, of course is Brink, and we're sure
of Brink as long as we continue to pay off at.
Speaker 2: Getting the contents of their military.
Speaker 6: Boche has a job in the washroom at the airport.
He cleans hat shined shoes. Anyway, the courier with the
pouch visits Bouchet every time he takes the plane for Berlin.
Speaker 2: Bouschet disappears for a few minutes.
Speaker 6: He's got a camera in the laundry closet, photographs the
documents on microfilm, returns them to the courier radios here
when he's ready for our plane to pick up the film?
And how do we get a plan to Dejon? Mister
brink again. Another of his cousins owns a farm outside
of town. Run on a plane in at night.
Speaker 2: Too good to last? Yes, sir, I've told.
Speaker 6: Apple Jack they can come back to London whenever they're ready.
We'll be contacting them shortly, Colonel. Any message, Yes, my congratulations,
also my urgent suggestion that they leave Jon.
Speaker 2: They've done their job. Shoe shine, sir, Russia hat.
Speaker 14: Sir, it's a carrier. He was here Bouchet this morning.
Speaker 2: Hairbreak.
Speaker 14: Good Tell Martin AUGUSTAPO spotters are closing in on your radio.
One more message and they'll trace it. Your wooming house.
Suspend operations until I find another place. Oh, you might
shine my shoes if you please.
Speaker 2: The film bouchere. One of the documents I photographed is
red Hot.
Speaker 14: The Crofts have busted a top American code.
Speaker 2: Martin broken soul on a film broken code. Brady's got
to know about that quick. How soon you can get
to your radio anytime now? But ready what we've got?
Tell them to get a plane in here tonight, a
big one to take us out with that film. We're through.
We've had enough the radio. If I try to use
the radio, what about it? Nothing? Where will you be?
And Helene? He didn't bring in the park. It's heyday.
After that we'll go out to the farm. Come out
as soon as you can. We'll be in London to
night tonight.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Oh you see Helene and say hello for me?
Speaker 2: Will you.
Speaker 10: Details of Nazis breaking code on film? Send plane tonight,
pick up Martine and do prey. Looks like I'll be
staying a couple of men in hallway now, someone at
skylight too. If you can contact my mother, please tell her.
Speaker 2: Right a light break? How long do you think we
can hang around the public point?
Speaker 14: It's unavoidable. Oh, good evening, madam. I have money, monsieur here,
thank you. You're on your way somewhere? Why because it
is best if you are. They picked up your radio.
He is dead. Oh I warned him dead.
Speaker 2: He didn't tell me you wanted him. Did he get
through to London?
Speaker 14: I think so. He was on the air when it happened. Oh,
we have a new chief here. He has been inquiring
about you, colonel meister meister here, Yes, definitely. It would
be necessary for me to put your record in description
back in the file. Oh, wherever it is you are going,
if you would care to rent a car?
Speaker 2: All right, where is it?
Speaker 14: Let's run across the street. Shall we say ten thousand francs.
Speaker 2: I'll give you eight.
Speaker 14: I am a reasonable man, eight thousand. Good night, good night.
Speaker 1: Bank.
Speaker 17: Oh oh, her answer is not that your car. I
just saw who was driving it, Mica. Yes, the man
and girl. They looked strangely like the couple Colonel Master
just described to me.
Speaker 14: What couple.
Speaker 17: The Colonel is very anxious to see you her bring
my trusted cully.
Speaker 14: I don't suppose we could talk in purely business terms
here answer, Shall we say one hundred thousand francs. No,
I suppose not come along. Pity. I was always such
a reasonable man.
Speaker 7: Look at I come across the field. I never thought
an aeroplane could be so beautiful.
Speaker 2: London will be there in two hours.
Speaker 7: Any Bouchet didn't die for nothing. He got the message
through the plane, wouldn't be here.
Speaker 2: The door's opening. Come on, Marten, Commander Brady, Hey, what
are you doing here? Oh?
Speaker 7: We glad to see you.
Speaker 6: I wish I was good at making congratulatoris speeches.
Speaker 2: And we'll skip it. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 7: Here's your film, great work.
Speaker 2: Where's Bouchet? We were lost when early tonight? But what happened?
Speaker 6: I'll tell you on a planet. And Martin, I'm here
because I have something to ask you. We're only have
a job ahead of the g stop, or can we
talk about it later. I'm afraid not. The Nazis select Martin.
They're falling back to the Rhine. Well that's fine, that's
fine of us. He got to do with me. I'd
like you to do one more job, another job. Some
time ago, we put a man into Germany imposing as
a barge worker on the Rhine. The sector he was
assigned who has been selected for one of our crossings.
If he's still alive, he'll have invaluable information on troop
dispositions and fortification.
Speaker 2: I don't get it. There's no way for him to
get the information to us.
Speaker 6: We need somebody to go in there and contact him
and send it out on the ground air radio.
Speaker 2: I brought one with me. How long do you think
we can live like this with our stomach turning over
every time the footfalls, our door opens. You've got plenty
of other people working for you.
Speaker 6: I'd have to pick on me because you're the only
available agent who'd recognize a man, the only agent he
would recognize.
Speaker 2: You remember pocket? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Sure, I remember poker. So what I'm no hero. I
don't want to volunteer for anything. I want my identity back.
Don't suppose Parker wants his identity back.
Speaker 2: You want me to take that as sign as you've
got to order meet to day it? Then it's an order. Okay?
What was that? I said? Elaine? Now London in two hours?
Will you be there when I get there?
Speaker 7: When we go, we go together.
Speaker 2: You're going now with a command.
Speaker 7: Now that's up to him, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Mice is catching up with us. How much long you
think our luck can hold out? Gates to say, we're next,
go on back to England. I'll handle this still alone.
Speaker 7: We've worked well together. Two agents are better than one
to double your chances.
Speaker 2: Right, Martin, As long as she's offered to stay, that's it.
Speaker 6: You better get that plane out of here. You got
to make your way to Strasbourg. Here constructions and directions,
burn them when memorized. You meet up with the Madam
pre Do. She has a place in the country and
her grandchild. You will work from there. Good luck, Helaine,
good luck, mine, good luck?
Speaker 2: What does that mean, sir? Use from Martin? Colonel Fio
there at the Predau farm. Any word about Parker?
Speaker 6: I think yet, Sir? How is Martin getting to us?
Ground air radio? We send a plane over his area.
Martin talks to the pilot if I had contact every
day now for about a week. Just don't ease up
on him. He's got to locate Parker.
Speaker 7: More bombers, Madame, but there are bombers. Don't be frightened, Gero,
have you fired Madmoiselle.
Speaker 18: In the village this morning? German sold us all over,
stealing everything.
Speaker 7: They may come here. They're retreating.
Speaker 18: They may, but these potatoes they will not find. And
we will have these potatoes planted before the spring is up.
Speaker 7: Who's the plant? Potatoes?
Speaker 2: Grandmar Our?
Speaker 18: Men will back always the men come back home.
Speaker 7: Monsieur Martinez going to the orchard again. He's told you
he made an airplane. I'd feel better if he didn't
have to go so far from the house.
Speaker 2: Maybe he can talk Wow man too.
Speaker 7: Maybe you can tell them when it's safe to come home. Listen,
there's a truck on the road.
Speaker 2: Germans.
Speaker 14: The potatoes.
Speaker 2: Hide them in the cellar.
Speaker 7: I can see them. They're turning in here. Sure, Mazine,
he will see the truck.
Speaker 18: You can trust the boy and me healing. We are
accustomed by now to be seen in the bush.
Speaker 2: We will do nothing. Can you hear me up there?
Can you hear me? Oh? Pal all distinctly? I'm recording this,
you know, I said. The Nazis are pouring across the
Rhine bridges, boats, barges, any the little float. What about Parker?
No sign of him? Get under the docks every day.
Most of the barges ran out when our planes started strafing.
Parker stayed on. We might have shot him up ourselves.
Wait a minute, you're expecting get truck. What are you
talking about? Your house truck.
Speaker 5: Just pulled out troops.
Speaker 2: You better attack Martin. You got a gun, yes, but
take care of yourself. We'll be back at one hundred.
Turn backast the wall, follow.
Speaker 7: You, Martin behind you, look as leave.
Speaker 2: Them to me.
Speaker 19: Another and another throw the shwine into the barn, so
there were no men here.
Speaker 2: Mademoiselle, you look frightened. Your soldiers frighten you?
Speaker 19: Well, then we will leave these soldiers shagl all hell
looking at Mademoiselle and I will be in the other room.
We will not wish to be disturbed. Sorry if I
give you a scare. You're helene to pray, aren't you?
How did you no time for questions? I'm Parker. Martin
recognized me. That's why I didn't shoot. I heard them,
but I had to. I've seen you bought down the docks,
but I never was able to get to you. That's
why I got this uniform. Telling all those drunks inside,
I've got to talk fast or listen carefully. The crowds
are heading for the East Bank. I have the troop
dispositions down cold. Can you get them out?
Speaker 7: Martin has an air ground radio, it keeps it buried
in the Orchanin good.
Speaker 19: I'll get rid of these troops inside, but I'll have
to go with them, so it's up to you and
Martin to get this information through.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, all right. It's about five.
Speaker 19: Miles between Fettysburg and Trouburn with nothing but a few
patrols between. That's just one of the weak spots. There's
another just north of Laces, and if our troops cross
at these spots, we'll save thousands of lives. Now repeat
after me. One hundred and forty six punce of division
in reserve, Nebraheim, one.
Speaker 7: Hundred and forty six pounds of division in reserve, Nebraheim.
Speaker 19: One hundred and twenty scond Grandadier is just west of Leinstein.
Speaker 7: The one hundred and twenty second Granadier is just west of Flinstein.
Speaker 2: The division new south.
Speaker 7: And they left about ten minutes ago. Parker had to
go with them. Martin, are you up to talking?
Speaker 2: I'm okay.
Speaker 7: What if Parker tell you, I'll write it all down
for you. If it gets through on time, thousands of
lives can be saved and our job should be over.
When will the plane be here one o'clock?
Speaker 2: What time is it now?
Speaker 7: Twelve thirty? I think you can do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, go ahead start writing, madam.
Speaker 7: Sure, get some water. I wish I could do more
for you. Your head it's still bleeding.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about me. Just just put it down a paper.
Speaker 7: This is it, Martin, everything written down.
Speaker 2: Come back. As soon as I've contacted the planes.
Speaker 7: You will be leaving us. Then, Yes, where you go,
you will be together.
Speaker 2: We'll be together. We will be together from now on.
O not bed, open up? Come there?
Speaker 7: Who can you see? Sarg In an officer I pad
in the kitchen.
Speaker 18: They make trouble, Mademoiselle says to Financia Martine.
Speaker 2: Warn him she's going to the door now orry warn
him with me.
Speaker 12: Yes, sorry to intrude at this hour, Helene. Well we
never had our little weekend, and normally did we.
Speaker 2: That's a great pity. You have nothing to say.
Speaker 12: Sure you remember me, meister, Paul, meister.
Speaker 7: I remember you very well.
Speaker 12: Alone here I am here, monsieur, I refer to Martin.
Speaker 7: Then I am quite alone.
Speaker 12: Unfortunately, we can't spend too much time finding out if
you are telling the truth.
Speaker 2: Sergeant take the old.
Speaker 12: Woman to the car, and the girl kind of wait outside.
I will deal with her and come, Helene, do pray.
I still find you a remarkably attractive woman. I can
almost forgive myself myself, not you, my dear.
Speaker 7: Then let's get this over with. All I ask is
that I be taken quickly to wear a people like
myself who.
Speaker 2: Dealt with not yet.
Speaker 12: I find this reunion curiously satisfied. At last, Taylor, at last.
Speaker 20: This is my teen here woman, they're taking them away.
I had him, he said his name was nice. Dun't
I didn't take them as your please honey to others soldiers,
but high she knows I went for you.
Speaker 2: Please come, please, a plain up there, I've got to come.
You would do it? They there, Never come back for
me again.
Speaker 7: Thousands of lives will be saved, never come back, thousands
of lives.
Speaker 2: I can't, boy, I never thought you would be afraid.
Hear this, Gerard, listen, listen? Are you down there, rapple Jack? Yeah, yeah,
I'm here. Anything wrong?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 13: Nothing?
Speaker 6: And shoot recorders on one hundred and forty six pins
of Division Reserve near Brunheimer one hundred and twenty second
Grandad here's just west of lynch Stein, lynch Stein. Hold
down the eighth and forty division south of Roadback Canal.
Speaker 2: You're losing range, Martin. That's slower row Beck Canal. Oh
oh p u RG that's better. What's your rush?
Speaker 6: Thirty first engineers at Lingra, thirty first at Lingren. The
eighteenth THAT'SS Division on horses Steinbrook.
Speaker 2: Let's have that last again. I want to clean recording.
Speaker 6: Please, I've got to get back with news like this,
So to we pal repeat the eighteenth that's ESS Division
around horses Steinbrook.
Speaker 2: The fifty second inf east of fry Holf north of
the highway. Just once more and we'll have it.
Speaker 6: Eighteenth division around Hostage Steinbrook, fifty second east of Frye
half north of the highway.
Speaker 2: That's set and Telepark is okays of a few hours ago.
It's well going, Martin.
Speaker 6: Sorry to leave here, but I gotta get this back
to Heayn.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hi, regards your Julie, god helec. Look at them, come, Martin.
Speaker 6: Trucks and jeeps, planes and tanks, soldiers, our soldiers.
Speaker 2: Martin crossing the Rhine. Yes, sir, job's almost finished. Thanks Martin,
don't thank me. Thank them, the ones who didn't live
to see this. Yates wiche Helen tell me about a
commander I I didn't even know a real name, rogers Ellen,
rogers Ellen. Where was she born? I don't recall, but
I can find out for you if you'd like. No,
it doesn't matter. It was somewhere back home, like the
Tana I came from the same time. Maybe yes, she
she might even have lived just around the corner.
Speaker 4: Well deserved applause for an exciting performance by our two stars,
Alan Ladd and Veronica Lee. And here they are back
at the footlights for the curtain call.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the real stars of tonight's play bill
was William Donovan, whom we have mentioned in your introduction.
Speaker 5: Yes, he was head of the USS in real life.
Speaker 7: Didn't you make a picture on the career of General Donovan, mister.
Speaker 4: Keeley, that's right, Veronica Fighting sixty ninth, which was course
was late in World War One and.
Speaker 2: Made a great movie.
Speaker 4: Incidentally, speaking of pictures, Alan, I understand that since yours
were released in continental Europe, you've become the number one
box office hit over there.
Speaker 7: And to think they had to wait six years before
seeing Alan on the screen.
Speaker 2: Not to mention you too, Veronica.
Speaker 5: That's right, Alan, You two have been together in so
many pictures.
Speaker 4: I sort of missed Veronica in your latest Paramount production
two years before the mass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's her too, Bill, But we're going back together again.
We start shooting Sagon out of gir Old Paramount.
Speaker 4: Well that's good news. But Ladder Lake fans. By the way, Veronica,
what happened to that famous over the eye hairdoom?
Speaker 7: Well, I thought it was about time to see how
the other half of the world lived.
Speaker 2: Mister Keeley, Say how long did you wear your hair
like that? Veronica?
Speaker 7: How long? Oh about twenty four inches?
Speaker 4: Well, confidentially, Veronica, I like your present do even better
for one very important reason.
Speaker 7: What's that, mister Keeley?
Speaker 5: It doesn't hide any of that lovely loved complexion.
Speaker 7: Well, it's certainly not hard to help keep your complexion
lovely with lux toilet soap care.
Speaker 5: I always use it, and it's plain to see that
that loyalty is well rewarded.
Speaker 2: Say what are you presenting here next Monday Night? Bill?
Speaker 4: Next week, We're proud to bring our audience for a
second time this season, two of Hollywood's top artists and
one of the most famous acting teams in motion picture history,
Greer Gosson and Walter Pigeon. They appear in their original
screen roles in Metro Golden Mayre's EPI drama Missus Parkington,
the story of a man who ruled a dynasty with
daring and ruthlessness and a woman who ruled a man
with love alone.
Speaker 2: A great cast, a great play, though congratulations and.
Speaker 4: Good night, good night, and thanks to both of you,
Leva brought us company of the makers of Luxe toilet soap,
join me in inviting you to be with us again
next Monday evening, when the lux Radio Theater presents Greer
Garson and Walter Pigeon in Missus Parkington.
Speaker 5: This is William Keeley saying good night to you from Hollywood.
Speaker 3: The main cause of the current soap shortage is the
worldwide scarcity of fats and oils. Industrial fats are needed
also in the manufacturer of many other essential household goods,
So please continue to save used kitchen fats. Your butcher
will pay you for every pound you turn in. Secretary
of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson says it is urgently important
that American women keep on saving and turning in used fats,
taking advantage of larger meat supplies to step up their
fat salvage. Heard in our cast to night were Gail
Gordon as Brady, Joseph Kerns as Meister, and Richard Benedict
as Bouchet, Charles Seal, Norman Field, j Novello, Ralph Sudan,
Noreene Gamill, Ed Emerson, George Nie Howard, Jeffrey, Henry Rowland,
George Cirell, Truda Marson, and Robert Conti.
Speaker 2: Our music was directed by Lewis Silvers.
Speaker 3: This program was broadcast to our men and women overseas
through cooperation with the Armed Forces Radio Service. And this
is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy reminding you to tune
in again next Monday night to hear Missus Parkington with
Greer Garson and Walter Pigeon.
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Speaker 2: Hear him say.
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Speaker 2: Oh you'll bacon fry. Rely on Spry.
Speaker 21: They sure to listening next Monday night to the Lux
Radio Theater presentation of Missus Parkington with Greg Guyson and
Walter Pigeon, and why not tune in a half hour
early to hear Joan Davis over most of these stations.
This is CBS to Columbia Broadcasting System, Welcome back.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 1: A solid story and there are some similarities to Cloak
and Dagger, but there's also a bit more of a
Hollywood polish on the story and the way it's told.
The radio version has a really good epic feel of
this major spied adventure. The film was written by Richard Maybond,
who wrote the screen plays for thirteen of the James
Bond films, and there can be a sense of that
sort of sense of scale and drama, but it's dialed
back obviously here because you're not telling a story about
some superhuman person. The big point at the end about
Ellen that she could have been someone who lived right
in Martin's hometown. Hotten's the great truth of how the
story of the Oss was the courage of ordinary Americans
willing to take risk. One thing I found fascinating about
the portrayal was how Headquarters realized that the whole situation
where they were set up with Brink and they were like, Okay,
this is great, but this is not going to last.
We need to get these guys out of here now.
It should be noted that while Ladd was the star
of the film, Gerald Fitzgerald, not Veronica Lake played Ellen,
but casting Lake with Ladd it was certainly a decision
that made sense for Paramount. The pairing of Alan Land
and Veronica Lake is iconic. It's one of those duos
that people remember. They actually only made four drama dramatic
films together. They also cameoed in three other films as themselves,
but they left an impression in the films they've done,
and those for This Gun for Hire, The Glass Key,
The Blue Dahlia and Sigon have got quite a few fans,
and so it made sense for Paramount with them making
Sigon to have that pairing of Laddin Lake out front.
I will admit, with Gail Gordon in his character, given
that he was operating in San Francisco, I imagine this
was the true story of what Gregory Hood was doing
during the war. For those of you who are old
time radio detectives, listeners, listener comments and feedback now and
we have a few comments regarding some of the OSS episodes.
We start over on Spotify. Regarding the episode Windfall and
Harrison Riots, if Mike hadn't given the OSS the microfilm,
would it have been a Swiss miss because the story
was set in Switzerland. In all seriousness, another solid story
I loved. I assumed he would end up giving the
OSS the film, but it was interesting to see how
far Mike would go to get what he wanted. And yeah,
I think that they He definitely made a compelling drawma
out of that. And then we had a note from
Neil who emailed in Hi Adam, I just listened to
the final episode of Cloak and Dagger. I really enjoyed
this series and we'll be sorry to see it go.
The stories were always suspenseful with some great performances. The
show also brought back a memory that I hadn't thought
about in years. When I was growing up, our family
had a neighbor who had been a career Army officer
and a real life OSS agent. He wrote a book
about one particular mission he'd been involved in, code name
Mission Marcel Proust. His mission was to parachute into the
Nazi occupied France and make contact with and organize sales
of the French resistance forces. Unfortunately I never read the book.
It's long out of print now and copies are expensive
and hard to come by. I'm sure our former neighbor
has long since passed on by now, but I wanted
to remember Colonel Waller be Wally Booth and thank him
posthumously for his service. Thank you to Adam for bringing
this great show to lot and giving fans many hours
of radio entertainment over the years. I look forward to
whatever you've got for us next. All the best and
Merry Christmas. And that's from Neil in Charlotte, North Carolina. Well,
thanks so much, and I did just a little quick
research and found that mister both didn't need pass In
nineteen eighty six, however, his grandson Jeffrey Lily posted a
story on his blog about a trip he took to
France to follow in his grandfather's footsteps and some of
the insights he learned about his life. I did go
ahead and forward that on to Neil, and I'll include
a length to mister Lily's article for those who are curious.
But thank you so much appreciate the email, Neil. Now
I want to thank our Patreon supporter of the day.
Thank you to Danny, Patreon supporter since August of twenty
twenty five, currently supporting the podcast at the secret Agent
level of four dollars or more per month. Thanks so
much for your support, Danny, and that will do it
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From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.