Speaker 1: Old Venture, adventure, intrigue, mystery romance starring Humphrey Boguards and
Speaker 1: Lauren bacall together in the sultry setting of tropical Avanna
Speaker 1: and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean. Old Venture. Once again,
Speaker 1: the magic names of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall bring
Speaker 1: you bold venture and the Tale of miss and in three.
Speaker 2: Missus Moore, you're just a whiz bang, that's all. That's
Speaker 2: just what you are.
Speaker 3: We'll imagine that pottery vendor in Jamaica trying to pass
Speaker 3: off that jug on.
Speaker 4: Me is genuine native merchandise. Mister Haven wanted me to
Speaker 4: be careful, didn't you tell me?
Speaker 1: Sure? I did. I've been to the Caribbees before. I
Speaker 1: know how these natives work. Wow, I'm glad you two
Speaker 1: waited that he came to a Vana before you purchased
Speaker 1: any pottery. I've got a little item here you might
Speaker 1: be interested in.
Speaker 2: Plate these people want to go to their rooms. It's
Speaker 2: pretty late.
Speaker 1: I only show it to you because your guests at
Speaker 1: the hotel got it right here under the desk. How
Speaker 1: do you like it?
Speaker 4: Oh, it's very pretty.
Speaker 1: It's got a real interesting design on it all right?
Speaker 1: Uh huh shape for the flying fingers of the Crawlings. Crawlings,
Speaker 1: a little known tribe of artisans, direct descendence of Lafitte,
Speaker 1: the pirate maroon done a small atole some sixty leagues
Speaker 1: from here. Instead of dying, they made pots. See damp
Speaker 1: right here, crawling crawling's uh with a pocket mirror in
Speaker 1: front of it. It would come out in Newark, wouldn't it. Uh? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it would well if you like it that way.
Speaker 1: We also have here a little me meado of your visitor,
Speaker 1: a leather back pocket mirror with a scene of colorful
Speaker 1: old Havanah.
Speaker 2: Tooled into mister Haven, missus Moore. Wouldn't you like to
Speaker 2: see your rooms now? They right across the hall from
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to make a phone call first, if
Speaker 1: you don't mind, Uh, you'll be all right plenty, Oh.
Speaker 4: Of course I will.
Speaker 3: I wanna tell you again how kind you've been meeting
Speaker 3: me on the boat and taking me under your wing
Speaker 3: on this cruise, or you've been.
Speaker 1: Don't mention it, my love, I am my love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're mmm, both of us, No, not as far as enough.
Speaker 1: I think we lost them in Jamaica. Sure, I know
Speaker 1: you'll find this, So I thought of something. Why run anymore? Well,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be up to you, Milo, kill him. Didn't
Speaker 1: you hear what I said? That's up to you.
Speaker 5: Come in.
Speaker 4: You've kept me waiting, Tommy, more and more. You keep
Speaker 4: me waiting.
Speaker 2: You're getting that tired.
Speaker 4: Of feeling Tommy because of me?
Speaker 1: How does a man get tired of a girl like you, Claudia?
Speaker 1: The things you do for a man? Steal your husband, blind,
Speaker 1: run barefoot across Somenny shores with your true love, just
Speaker 1: so as you can settle down on a fine covered
Speaker 1: island off the coast of Venezuela, You and your true
Speaker 1: love me.
Speaker 4: It's all you want, isn't it?
Speaker 3: That island a clod of coral and the Caribbean. So
Speaker 3: you can wear a sarrang and a tin crown that
Speaker 3: says king, A ten ten crown.
Speaker 1: That's it, Angel, that's just at the island, the crown
Speaker 1: and you for a princess.
Speaker 4: I supposed Jane finds us, Tommy. Suppose before we make
Speaker 4: Paradise he finds us.
Speaker 1: Jane the husband fella. The boys chased us a long
Speaker 1: way to find his grave. I'll tell you what we'll
Speaker 1: give him one. Mister Shennon. Hey, mister Shennon, I intruding,
Speaker 1: mister Shennon, including anna one, poor in your thoughts, the
Speaker 1: way you're standing here on the beach, drinking in the
Speaker 1: new morning sunshine, wondering what's out there, m out there
Speaker 1: in the ocean. I know what's out in the ocean. Fish.
Speaker 1: You are going where, mister Haven, I wanna talk to you.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, it's about me. Oh well, mister have and
Speaker 1: I I think you're a very fine fellow, loyal, kind,
Speaker 1: brave one. I think he'll go far. Is that what
Speaker 1: you wanted me to tell you? Take get easy? Will
Speaker 1: you just listen for a minute. Yeah, all my life
Speaker 1: I've wanted something. I want a place to go or
Speaker 1: just don't laugh at me. That's all An island, a
Speaker 1: place to live in without rush without I've got one
Speaker 1: all picked out, mister Shannon, an island off Venezuela. I've
Speaker 1: done a lot of research on it. You can buy
Speaker 1: these hunks of land for a song from the venzuel
Speaker 1: And govern wants me to sing for you. Now you've
Speaker 1: got a boat, I want you to take me. When
Speaker 1: I've got some things to take care of first. I'll
Speaker 1: let you know, but it'll be soon. It's a dream
Speaker 1: I've always had, mister Shannon, I need little time to
Speaker 1: put the Bowl Venture in shape. Well, uh, three hundred
Speaker 1: bucks for the trip Haven per person. I'm going alone.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I'll just let me know. You bought yourself
Speaker 1: a boat ride.
Speaker 3: Oh tell me, mister Ball, what does a bachelor girl
Speaker 3: do for thrills in Havannah?
Speaker 4: But tell me just between us.
Speaker 2: Well, they're the Peachey museums for culture, that is, because
Speaker 2: we bachelor girls are nowhere without culture. And there's the
Speaker 2: ice cream your bikes from the vendor's on the Plato,
Speaker 2: that tooty fruity melts in your mouth.
Speaker 4: And then thenn't get the message, Dear, I meant Slate Shannon.
Speaker 2: Him that no good shill for crawling pots. Shannon the
Speaker 2: pot tycoon him.
Speaker 3: The best part of the day's gone, and Shannon's not
Speaker 3: at your side.
Speaker 4: You happy in your work, bachelor girl?
Speaker 1: What's with you? Married?
Speaker 2: Lady Slate's down at the docks getting the Bold Venture
Speaker 2: ready for mister Haven's trip to Venezuela. Slate and I
Speaker 2: are going with him.
Speaker 4: You you were going with him and.
Speaker 2: Not me, among other things. Girly, I have slate's ear
Speaker 2: a poor a word in for you if you uh
Speaker 2: oh uh, pardon me, missus moore this gentleman here, a room,
Speaker 2: gentleman with bath, without bath, Sonny shady state your case.
Speaker 1: Anything you got, miss so long as it's got four walls.
Speaker 2: Well, it just so happens. We've got one where we
Speaker 2: just added a wall. R.
Speaker 1: It's a little higher on that one. I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Bright ice room.
Speaker 2: Three A down that hall sign here?
Speaker 1: So you got a man registered here name of Haven,
Speaker 1: Tommy Haven here im.
Speaker 2: No went out a little while ago.
Speaker 1: You want him, I want him know where he is?
Speaker 1: Bright eyes ply.
Speaker 2: The docks, gentlemen, Mister Haven's probably running his fingers over
Speaker 2: our boat. The bold venture testing her for the trip
Speaker 2: to Venezuela.
Speaker 1: You bright lip, Darhli. I'm gonna go to my room,
Speaker 1: get my baggage in there. Maybe I wanna change into
Speaker 1: something cool for a walk later on.
Speaker 4: Jean, Jean, aren't you even gonna speak to me?
Speaker 2: Slap me?
Speaker 6: Even?
Speaker 4: How long can you look right through me? Pretend you
Speaker 4: don't you know?
Speaker 1: If this stuff comes with a hotel? Bright eyes spread
Speaker 1: the word. I'm not in the market.
Speaker 2: You stand there and take that. Missus Moore, what all
Speaker 2: you asked for was a slap, have had all of
Speaker 2: it before.
Speaker 4: That was my husband.
Speaker 2: Stunning relationship you two have.
Speaker 4: But not so long, mister ball. I've got this feeling
Speaker 4: not long at all.
Speaker 1: Uh per kitten? Yeah, hew you on a boat. He
Speaker 1: ain't talking to me, that's right. Matter if I come
Speaker 1: a boy I don't know. You know a man named Haven?
Speaker 1: Oh yo? Haven's not around, is he? Maybe I'll just
Speaker 1: look around out of that cabin by stay in fact,
Speaker 1: toss the post. Where is it? Where's heaven? Just because
Speaker 1: it's a fine sunny afternoon and I don't wanna louse
Speaker 1: it up. I'm gonna tell you a thing I saw
Speaker 1: having about six hours ago up the beach. That way
Speaker 1: up the beach, I saw him there. I talked to
Speaker 1: him for a little while and I left him. Now
Speaker 1: you can take off. Your name is Shannon, so yeah,
Speaker 1: so seeing you on your back, I suddenly feel real
Speaker 1: good bye Shannon. Hey ay you Yeah, I'm wait. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry I didn't give it the information you asked me
Speaker 1: for as soon as you ask me, and what well,
Speaker 1: I I hope you don't find my asking you, sir?
Speaker 4: But who are you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You wanna know? My name's Moore, Jean Moore. We
Speaker 1: got a wife staying at your hotel. Her name is
Speaker 1: Claudia Moore. Yes, sir, my wife whose name is cl
Speaker 1: oh you are more cashed in everything I owned and
Speaker 1: ran away with a man named Haven. They were going
Speaker 1: looking for an island with my dough, and you were
Speaker 1: helping them. So you slugged me, isn't that right, sir?
Speaker 1: That's right, Shannon? I see Oh, now we can be
Speaker 1: friends more. I'll wait'll we wake up, then we can
Speaker 1: be happy about it. Times running thin, shennon night all
Speaker 1: around us, and you still haven't come up with Tommy Heaven.
Speaker 1: I look, buster, I'm as anxious to find him as
Speaker 1: you are. Nothing I enjoy more than playing audience to
Speaker 1: a show between a husband and a cat that ran
Speaker 1: out of a man's dough and his wife. I promise you,
Speaker 1: I'll hitch. We're even up on bruises, Shannon. I slug you,
Speaker 1: You slug me, sport him, but you're still on me Haven.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, so we'll ask around some more. Hey, sir,
Speaker 1: why you calling I? And I'm coming to you. You
Speaker 1: s ain't han around. I got a husband here who's
Speaker 1: hungry for the man.
Speaker 2: I haven't had a haven around here for hours. Maybe
Speaker 2: I can come up with someone else.
Speaker 1: For you, mister Moore, What are you talking about about?
Speaker 2: Twenty minutes ago, a charming little fellow with gleamy teeth
Speaker 2: came up to me and asked for you. I set
Speaker 2: him to your room. He gleamed so nice.
Speaker 1: That's what you did, eh? Come on, Shennon till I
Speaker 1: find a haven. I don't ever want you to let
Speaker 1: go of my hand. I told you I'm a sucker
Speaker 1: for a domestic phrase after you, husband, you know where
Speaker 1: the light switches are, Shennon, come up with one, yes, sir, yes,
Speaker 1: indeed say light and and something else? Had Hey Cladia, Claire, hm,
Speaker 1: yess you's been stamped for help help her. I wish
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I really wish I couldn't. Your wife's dead,
Speaker 1: mister Moore? Yeah? Or does it surprise you, Shannon? Does
Speaker 1: it really surprise you? I'll back to Bold Venture our
Speaker 1: stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren McCall and the second act
Speaker 1: of our story.
Speaker 5: In Shannon's place on Havana shore, his trial and tribulation
Speaker 5: in Quantityga lord a husband be read Dan policeman.
Speaker 1: With book to scribble.
Speaker 5: Note on lady.
Speaker 1: Whom life forsook.
Speaker 5: The lady was a tribal lord. The lady was a
Speaker 5: wife who only Caribbean in search of new life with
Speaker 5: a man not hers, with a man not here to
Speaker 5: die by your knife busily right, So dear.
Speaker 2: A fortunate man, Inspector Lassalle, you get background music with
Speaker 2: your murders for this, my.
Speaker 6: Gratitude, Snurita, and you, Shannon, it's the talk of havana.
Speaker 6: What makes you all fell so attractive to murrors?
Speaker 1: All right? Just put up a new neon sign. My
Speaker 1: point a finger at Mailasa. When you've got the lady's
Speaker 1: husband right here with things to reveal about his wife,
Speaker 1: I write, mister Moore, Claudia's dead. That's all the revelation
Speaker 1: that'll ever come to you. Shannon. You heard the song
Speaker 1: the boys sang. Claudia wanted a new life. She didn't
Speaker 1: make it. If I could or we I want only
Speaker 1: missus Morris murderer. I give him to you.
Speaker 2: A little man was more than his quota's teeth, black hair,
Speaker 2: brown eyes. He came here and asked for mister Moore.
Speaker 2: I sent him to mister Moore's room.
Speaker 1: But sell us trying to tell you the shallow as
Speaker 1: the little man with a knife and the teeth wanted
Speaker 1: mister Moore here dead in the dark, he got mixed up.
Speaker 6: Mm get I see a start doing my shovel work.
Speaker 1: Perhaps now you will hone me with the murderer's name.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Grady a shallow, you can have that part
Speaker 1: because we don't know.
Speaker 6: Then I am no longer wanted here, and I am
Speaker 6: sensitive to such things. Nothing else, none cooperatives.
Speaker 2: Why didn't you tell him Slate, Why didn't you tell
Speaker 2: him about missus Moore and Tommy Haven from.
Speaker 1: The island, because that belongs to mister Moore, right, mister Moore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and thanks for letting me keep it the no dull,
Speaker 1: the no wife, courtesy of you, Shannon Well four, May
Speaker 1: I sit down see your haven? Sure? What do you
Speaker 1: think I'm waiting for? Say you did what you were
Speaker 1: supposed to my loan?
Speaker 7: I did, Senor. I went to the Shannon's place. I
Speaker 7: asked for Signor Moore's room. I was directed to it.
Speaker 7: I went to your room.
Speaker 1: I opened the door.
Speaker 7: There in the corner of the dark room. I saw
Speaker 7: a cigarette claw. I threw the knife here, this knife.
Speaker 1: Fool, put it away here, Let me have it. You
Speaker 1: won't have Hannah know what? Give it to me. See
Speaker 1: the knife I threw it, Senor.
Speaker 7: It was a woman I killed, I said, Senor, it.
Speaker 1: Was I heard you, mylone. You said it was a woman.
Speaker 1: It wasn't Jane Moore. It was Claudia. She must have
Speaker 1: been waiting for him in his room. Milo se Senor,
Speaker 1: a little walk Milo. We've got a straighten this out,
Speaker 1: don't we, Milo, Senor? Then let's do it. I want
Speaker 1: you to make a call for me, anything, Senor. Good
Speaker 1: in here, Milo, this phone booth, here's a nickel, Milo,
Speaker 1: call a number, she, Senor, is what number? Any number? Milo,
Speaker 1: the one you'll find on the end of your knife.
Speaker 1: Buy Milo, what's would lassu?
Speaker 2: Slate? Boy's got a murder on his hands. He calls
Speaker 2: us up and invites us to a joint in the barrio.
Speaker 2: This is a very quirky policeman.
Speaker 1: I just had a flat. Why don't we walk right
Speaker 1: in here and ask the fella.
Speaker 2: Tremp felts must be out again, daddy, cause there's no
Speaker 2: dancers here just start leftover guitar player on the brands
Speaker 2: stand otherwise.
Speaker 6: Empty empty except for him the guitarist, for me, the
Speaker 6: overworked offsue, and for you the owners of murder hotels.
Speaker 6: And you are not going to interrupt.
Speaker 1: Me, interrupt you crazy. We've been living for this moment.
Speaker 6: And I will do my utmost to make it thrilling
Speaker 6: for you both. A double file behind me, please to
Speaker 6: the third phone booth from the left. This little man
Speaker 6: folded inside with the knife in his back, A little
Speaker 6: deadman familiar to you, Senorita Dubara.
Speaker 1: That's him. That's the man who came hot Man Fellah, the.
Speaker 2: One who came to Shannon's place asking for mister.
Speaker 1: Moore, the one with a gleamy teeth.
Speaker 6: He is a barrio by the name of Milo. You
Speaker 6: call him the murderer, Senorita Doballe.
Speaker 1: Yes she did, but now we'll never know. We'll wait
Speaker 1: unless you.
Speaker 6: In the Senorita, and send your motor wish to co operate.
Speaker 1: Unless you cease to withhold from the evidence, You'll have
Speaker 1: us up to your party, huh for years and years
Speaker 1: maybe more for being with tight mouths concerning the murder
Speaker 1: of a woman concerning the murder of this man Milo
Speaker 1: concerning you're a real convincer. Us all, let's go find more.
Speaker 1: I can't stand it. One policeman call me tight mouth,
Speaker 1: and that's the way it is. More, you got a
Speaker 1: little trap from the police hanging over us. I've got
Speaker 1: to tell you because maybe you ought to give this up.
Speaker 1: Let lesw take care of it. A good suggestion is
Speaker 1: worth a good answer, that's the more. What about it?
Speaker 1: You want to comment? Make it up for me? Start
Speaker 1: with this. I had a wife once named Claudia. I
Speaker 1: have a lot of door ones too, and now there's
Speaker 1: not much of anything at all. I wish there was
Speaker 1: something we could say something. Okay, Shannon, okay, what we've
Speaker 1: been playing long enough? What's your partner? You kidding? You think?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 1: I asked the question your pardon it kid? What's Haven
Speaker 1: paying you? How much of my money did he brush
Speaker 1: against you? For me? For the lives? You really aren't kidding,
Speaker 1: I am. We had each other off balance once, Shannon,
Speaker 1: and I'll hear you and me even up want it
Speaker 1: that way? Huh? Just like that? Take a walk, say
Speaker 1: the both.
Speaker 2: Of you lost your nibs. What kind of a way
Speaker 2: is this, I said.
Speaker 1: Take a walk, talk to me. That's why kill each other. Fellows. Hey,
Speaker 1: there's your boy more, there's Haven. Wait your turn, Tony. Wait.
Speaker 1: This is what I've been trying to get done all day, people,
Speaker 1: and now it's done. Wish me well because Gene Moore
Speaker 1: is dead. Lab this Haven? Yeah, try that again, Shannon,
Speaker 1: you'll lie down gently beside Jean. Let's get moving, folks.
Speaker 1: We've got sailing to do. Oh you look, Maddie and
Speaker 1: Selty up there at the wheels, Jenning just like a
Speaker 1: dream in the moonlight. Oh your brains out with that gun, Haven,
Speaker 1: It'll freeze the moment in your memory.
Speaker 2: I'll cry for you, Haven. I'll give you a nice,
Speaker 2: big fat round tier.
Speaker 1: You miss me? Handhal ask me again? You miss me?
Speaker 2: Huh, you're coaxing Haven. I kind of like it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's really a shame. What is where I'm going?
Speaker 1: The island, the place neither of you will quite get to.
Speaker 2: It'll be lonely for you.
Speaker 1: You pitching something? You know? You better watch your Haven.
Speaker 1: He's been known to sell people out. Is it happening
Speaker 1: to you, Shannon? I hear the girl out? Shall we
Speaker 1: sell on your minds? They lea.
Speaker 2: Nobody's selling you out, Haven. You take me to an island.
Speaker 2: How am I going to cross you?
Speaker 1: True? True out there? I didn't want you Haven, Thanks, Shannon,
Speaker 1: only shut up. We've got a nice conversation going, sailor
Speaker 1: and knee, Hi, Haven, I mean it took the face
Speaker 1: a little to the moonlight. I I wanna look again.
Speaker 2: Like this on your feet, sailer, I'm still tasting. You'd
Speaker 2: better help me.
Speaker 1: Sure, take my hand, baby, and mind the other one
Speaker 1: still got a gun in it.
Speaker 2: Thanks?
Speaker 1: Now, what my good idea? Take the wheel away from Shennon?
Speaker 1: Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Man says I should take the wheel.
Speaker 1: Sligh, I heard him take it. Live it up. Come here, Shennon,
Speaker 1: you take orders good. Jump off the boat, Shannon, try that?
Speaker 1: Are you cut crazy? Thirty miles to went? He plays,
Speaker 1: I don't know where that is, even if I could
Speaker 1: swim thirty miles right off the side, shut him? Jump
Speaker 1: or better yet, stand where yarrow? Push off? Thanks, it's
Speaker 1: the wheel, sailor.
Speaker 8: Let me go, Let me go, let's buff go?
Speaker 1: Is that you slow? U? Nice going, sailor? So all right,
Speaker 1: I'll get better. Now give me a hand, Cogan, I've
Speaker 1: got a hand full of hair. I think he's attached
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, yeah he is. Well, let's go back
Speaker 1: to Havana. Sailor. Our stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren McAll
Speaker 1: will return in just a moment.
Speaker 2: That you say sharp huh whiffy, that's a beach outfit,
Speaker 2: bathing trunks, a straw hat and a blazer.
Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, I bought a ukulele, Sailor. The instruction sheet
Speaker 1: said Vestris also obtained while wedding a collegiate outfit a ukulele.
Speaker 1: Just when do you play a ukulele? I was taught.
Speaker 1: I was taught by whom by Myrtle w she who
Speaker 1: walked by waky ky shores.
Speaker 2: No, you know, so play something already.
Speaker 1: Why what do you know? Go hey, Sailor, Sailor. I
Speaker 1: didn't know you could.
Speaker 2: For sure, I can know what these hand movements means
Speaker 2: on the sea.
Speaker 1: Pink on the show. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: wait it say pink.
Speaker 2: This, this says pink.
Speaker 1: You know what this? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I know?
Speaker 1: Is that what it said? Did it? Sailor?
Speaker 2: You read me like a book likey island.
Speaker 1: Field and so. Our two stars Humphrey boll Guard and
Speaker 1: Lauren Bacall have brought to a close our latest old
Speaker 1: venture story. Special music was composed and conducted by David Rhose.
Speaker 1: May we invite you to listen again next week at
Speaker 1: this time or another exciting adventure starring Humphrey Boguard and
Speaker 1: Lauren Bacall together in Oh Bet You