October 31, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal
Oil Program, The Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Uh Finity.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Name Signal, the famous Go Father Gasoline.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange story.
You can't trust a stranger.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
As you walk down the crowded corridor from the District
Attorney's office, you can feel the stairs and hear the whispers.
There's Frank Malloy. He's getting out, but not for long.
It's costing you ten thousand dollars to walk out that
front door. But it's worth it, isn't it, Frank, Because
you have a plan, at least part of one. Yes,
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you'll reach the front entrance, push open the heavy door,
and go out into the street.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
There at the curb.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You recognize the long yellow convertible and the attractive blonde
sitting inside. She slides over as you slip in behind
the wheel.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
In again, out again. Yeah, I was jail this time.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Play off of when I read in the papers They're
gonna put you away for a long, long time after
the small formality.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Of a trial.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I don't believe everything you read.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
I'm not going on trial you want, no, I'm gonna
be around long enough to get my chance.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
You're gonna jump in.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
You lose your ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Bond, doesn't matter. I've got plenty, and it's put away
where I can get at it in a hurry.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Where will you go?
Speaker 7 (02:55):
We we're going together, baby.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I'm ready, Frank.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
How where we're going, but we're getting out of the States.
We can bid it to Avanna and then maybe South America.
I'll get a divorce and we're all set. We've got
enough money to last us the rest of our lives.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
This sounds wonderful, but how do you expect to get away?
The moment they miss you, They'll be watching for you everywhere.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
I know THEE wants to see me in a couple
of days. So whatever we're gonna do, we're gonna have
to move fast.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
We can't just.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Take a plane or a train before we start running. Frankly,
we have to think of something, some kind of plan. Yeah,
I know, what about a private plane and pilot. Let's
find out about it right away.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
No, something else, I've got to find out first. What
do you mean going out to the ranch. I'm gonna
see my wife.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
You're going out to see Martha.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
That's right, Why, Vivian, didn't you ever wonder how the
district attorney got hold of all my records and books
that I get. You think I sent them to 'em?
Do you think I wanted the smoothest gambling syndicate in
the state to come crashing down around my neck?
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:00):
But somebody else did. It had to be somebody I trusted,
somebody close to me. I want to be sure it
wasn't Martha Da And they have enough on me to
put me away for twenty years. I want to know
where they got it.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
OK, what difference does it make now? All that matters
now is getting away.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
We'll get away, baby, don't worry. But first I want
to see Martha. I just want to know.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
As you drive through the city and across the Bay Bridge,
your thoughts dwell upon your wife, Martha, don't they. Frank
you begin to think back, wondering just how much Martha
knew about you and your organization, Wondering if she knew
about Vivian or any of the others. Wondering if it
could have been Martha who brought everything crashing down, sending
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you to jail. And there are other things to be
thought of. How will you manage to get out of
the country before the district attorney knows you're gone? Hearted
plane and a private pilot mic board, And you do
have friends in Florida who would help you and Vivian
get out of the country. After an hour of driving
and thinking, you're suddenly startled as Vivian pulls violently at
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your arm.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Did I hit him?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
He's lying by the side of the highway.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Did the same time? What was he doing out the
middle of the highway?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Look, he's getting up.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Come on, we better have a look at him.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Come on, he's getting up.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Doesn't look like he's hurt too badly. Hey, Hey, you
all right?
Speaker 9 (05:35):
I don't know, she thinks, So, what were you doing
out the middle of the highway.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
I was trying to catch a ride.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
What does anything feel broken?
Speaker 8 (05:44):
No, I don't think so. I saw you coming right
at me, and I dove for the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You didn't hit me.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Oh, it's a relief.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Looks like my trousers are finished.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
You're sure you're all right?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Yeah, yeah, forget it. It's my own fault for standing
in the middle of the I would what's your name?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
My name, yeah, Chuck? Why well, Chuck. I feel kind
of bad about this. I think the least I can
do is offer you a ride and do something about
those trousers too.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Forget it, forget it. It's my fault.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well, we can't leave you standing here. We're going another
ten miles.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Okay, let me get my hat out of the ditch.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Frank, do you have to give him a lift?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
He admits it was his fault. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
I to notice something, Vivian, something real interesting about that fellow.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Look, he's just turned around. Look at him. Now, look
at me.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Notice anything, Rank say, it looks not like me? Huh yeah,
same size build even his features. Yeah, if I worked
it out right, I could get away.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
With it, get away with Just think, Vivian, how.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Much easier it would be for us to get away
if everybody thought that I was dead.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
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Speaker 9 (07:29):
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Speaker 1 (07:30):
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So if you're still using lazy, old fashioned oil that
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Change to new, harder working, signaled Premium motor oil that
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Speaker 10 (08:18):
Gasoline your car the gold cover the casoline.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Almost every piece of the plan seems to fit together,
doesn't it. Frank. If the police thought you were dead,
you and Vivian could take your time about getting out
of the country. You could go knowing they weren't watching
for you. You study the man whom you almost hit
on the highway, and already you're planning the last few
hours of his life.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
I'd be real nice to him, Vivian and get him
to talk about We have to find out as much
about him as we can.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You just leave it to me, Frank, Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I'll set check.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Yeah, let's go then huh some buggy? Yeah.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
I always promised myself, but have one of these someday.
Look at me, I don't even have bus fare. My
clothes are dirty and wrinkled, and I need a shave.
I look like a tramp. I don't blame people for
passing me by. Where were you headed, Jack, Los Angeles?
I guess they tell me the Knights are bombing down there.
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It makes a difference when you sleep in parked cars.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
But don't you have any friends in Los Angeles?
Speaker 7 (09:46):
I don't have any friends anywhere. That's a pretty broad statement.
Check must have friends somewhere, maybe, uh, back home.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Huh, I wouldn't know. I haven't been home in a
long time. Been everywhere else, Australia, Africa, Brazil, been working
on freighters. Just got back to the States last week,
just last week. Euh right, been gone nearly five years.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Oh, where is your home?
Speaker 8 (10:13):
I come from a place called Hyannis. Have you hear it?
It's in Massachusetts, Cape cud No, I never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's a fishing village.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Still, it doesn't seem possible that a man doesn't have
any friends.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Oh, you must have a girlfriend.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Mm had a girl once in Hyanna's The name was.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Maimi Maymie m It's a.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Long time ago, when I was young and foolish.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Whatever happened to maybe.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
I wouldn't know. I wrote it for a while, but
when I didn't get any answer to my letters, I
just forgot about mayme.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Say, Chuck, tell me what kind of work do you do?
Speaker 8 (10:50):
I'm one of those guys who can do anything until
you pin me down, and then it turns out I
can't do much of anything.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Well, I'm sure you'll fit in somewhere someday. Just have
it run into it yet. Maybe in the meantime, I
like drifting around the world. I don't talk it too much.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
I don't get the chance to talk to people very often,
especially about myself. Everybody likes to talk about themselves.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
What are you gonna do when you get back to
La look for work?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
I guess I'm broke.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Well, if you really want a job, shuck, maybe I
can do something for you.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
What what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, do you have a ten bar?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
No?
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Lie on a string of bars throughout the valley. If
you're willing to learn, maybe I can put you to
work as a bartender. Me a bartender, A guy's on
his feet a lot. In that kind of work, you
can make good money. Yeah, yeah, I can believe that.
But tell me something, why all the interests in me?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
But we might have run over you, maybe killed you.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I think the least Frank can do is try and
help you out a little.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Do you do you think I could learn to tend bar?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I'm sure you could, Jock.
Speaker 9 (12:10):
It's an interesting proposition, mister malloy.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Just call me Frank.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I'm Vivian Jack.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
How do you like that?
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Yesterday I was bumming around. Today I'm going to be
a bartender. Who knows what will happen tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
You know, don't you, Frank, You know exactly what's in
store for Chuck tomorrow. As a matter of fact, you
wonder if you'll even be alive tomorrow, because now you're
certain that he will do.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Fine as a part of your plan.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
No one knows about him, No one even knows where
he is.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
No one would miss him if he disappeared. He assured
you of that. As you turn off the main highway
towards your small you already have the first stages of
the plan ready. You stop the car at the gate.
I have to take care of some business here.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Check. You go with Vivian. She'll put you up for
the afternoon. Wherever you say, Boss, take you to my apartment. Huh,
here's this key.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
I'll call you when so as that made the arrangements
we were talking about.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Will they take long?
Speaker 7 (13:21):
No, everything, I'll be taken care of by theay night tonight. Yeah,
and take good care of check.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Huh. Make him feel at home.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Now, but we'll be at your place.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
You call me, I'll call you. I'll I'll see you
late at night. Check sure thing, mister molloy, Bye baby bye.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
You watch them disappear down the road, Frank, and then
you turn toward the house. Everything seems peaceful and undisturbed,
and you realize how long it has been since you've
come out to the ranch. As you reach the steps
and put your hand to the door, you wonder if
Martha will be surprised to see you.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Hello, Frank, Hello Martha, I have come to see you.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You don't seem surprised to see me.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You were expecting me. Yes, then you knew I was
out of jail.
Speaker 11 (14:26):
Sit down, Frank, Would you like a cup of coffee?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
No, nothing except Martha, I think you know turned me
into the district attorney.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Who was it?
Speaker 11 (14:36):
Why I did? I did what I thought was right.
You must have known, Frank.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I always trusted you. You're the one person I thought
I didn't have to worry about that.
Speaker 12 (14:47):
That's it, exactly, Frank. You never worried about me. I
don't think you even thought about me. There was a
time when I was the most important thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I affected the send me to prison.
Speaker 12 (14:57):
You belong in prison. You become nothing more than a gangster,
a hoodlum. You're not the man I married fifteen years ago.
Little by little, I watched you change. You began to
make money, lots of money, and along with your money,
you gained power. The more you got, the more you wanted,
and anything you couldn't have you destroyed. What did you
expect to do?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Own everything and everyone?
Speaker 12 (15:18):
Someday I had to stop you for your own sake.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
And I did it the only way I knew how.
Speaker 12 (15:24):
I cried for months because I knew the only way
to stop you was to was to call the district attorney.
I did what I thought was right.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
No, you know, Frank, you know who betrayed you and
why it was done. You begin to pace around the room,
walking faster and faster, bumping into things and knocking them over.
And suddenly you stop in front of the man. You
see the clock, and the feeling of rage subside. You
realize that by nine o'clock tonight will be all right.
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And Martha coun't she? And just Martha will have a
strange punishment, won't she, Frank, She'll always believe she sends
you to your death. After a long silence, Martha throws
a shawl over her shoulders and walks outside.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Hello, Frank, Vivian, Everything all right, ayes, I've been listening
to the story of Chuck's life.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
James's girlfriend Mamie.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Was quite a girl.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Now I boughtenders in the other room.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
But now listen to thee and get one of my
suits out of the closet and give it to check.
Have them shower and shave and put the suit on.
We're going to a party. Tell them you're meeting me
at one of my places up at the lake. Leave
my apartment by eight thirty and drive up on skyline.
Drive to Mountain View Club. Now, don't stop anywhere. When
you get there, wait in the parking lot and back
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be there by nine o'clock.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Clear, clear and simple. What exactly are you planning?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Like I said, a party? Good, make sure you've got
it all.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
We'll see you at the party at nine.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
At nine? What are you doing out here, Martha?
Speaker 11 (17:51):
Listening to the cricket the nice night?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah? Who used to go riding on nights like this?
Speaker 11 (18:00):
You remember that? Of course, I'm surprised, Frank, are you.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Well, here's another surprise for you, Martha. I'm not going
to do anything about the fact that you've turned against me. Oh,
matter of fact, when I leave here, I'm going for
a little ride. One we often used to take together
along Skyline Drive.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
Frank, what have you got on your mind?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Just you, Martha. I'll be thinking of you.
Speaker 11 (18:33):
I'll get my coat.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Oh no, no, Martha, wouldn't be right for you to
go anywhere with a with a hoodlum, a criminal.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Goodbye, Martha.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Remember, I'll be thinking of you.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
The expression on her face, in her eyes, the light
you isn't it, Frank, Martha is still in love with
you after all this time. And later, when your plan
goes through, she'll have something to think about, won't she
Something that will be her punishment. Yes, Martha, conscientious as
she is, will feel deeply when Chuck's body is finally
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found in your car wearing your clothes at the bottom
of the lake. Martha will always believe you killed yourself
because she turned you into the district attorney. And above all,
she'll testify that you were heading for the Skyline Drive.
That part will help eliminate the identification problem. High up
on Skyline Drive, you pull into the parking lot of
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the Darkened club where you agreed to meet Vivian. A
few minutes later, the headlights of her car come into view.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Ant time.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Oh oh, hi, mister Malay didn't know you were here yet.
Say thanks for the suit. How do I look just fine?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Are we on time for the party?
Speaker 10 (20:01):
Rank?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Right on time?
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (20:03):
Say, Chuck, would you give me a hand with some
stuff in my car?
Speaker 8 (20:05):
It's right over here, Vivian said, we were going to
a party? Is it in that place up there?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
No? Not there. I didn't think so.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Giant looks closed down. Sure, dark, Doug here, What are
we going to check this?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah? But he's almost over for you, Chuck.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I hit him?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
It'll be easy to handle this way. We'll let door
open so I can put him.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
In the car.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
What are we going to do? Now?
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Stay here about five minutes and then drive up the
highway about one mile. The road makes that shop bend
around the lake. Yeah, I'll be waiting. I'll be waiting
there off the highway. Link your lights as you're approach,
and I'll come out and wave it.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
I thought you were going to bring Martha with you.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
No, I've taken care of Matha. Another way.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
You drive out of the.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Parking lot and in a few minutes you reach the
sharp curve in the highway, pull over and stop where
the edge drops off into the deep end of the lake,
and it only takes seconds to drag Chuck's body to
the front seat behind the wheel. Carefully, you go through
his pockets and remove everything, then plant your belongings in
his pockets. You put your ring and watch on him,
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and everything is ready. Push the clutch in, put the
car and gear. As you jump back away from the car,
it jerks forward and over the ledge to disappear in
the deep black water of the lake.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Is it all over.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Save for yourself?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
By the time they pull the car to the water
to look like Frank Molloy was drawned when his car
skidded off the road.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And crashed into the lake.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Let's hope.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
So a few weeks before they find the body, and
the water will make positive identification pretty difficult, but they'll
find it out there to think it's me.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And Martha will help too.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Yeah, all we have to do is hide out until
he's found. We'll be free, viv Where do we go now, Well,
first we have to stop at a couple of places
down the valley and pick up the money I put away.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
That's a must.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
We'll drive on to Los Angeles where we can hide out.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Then we'll see whatever you say, Frank, Now.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Let's get out of here.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
You know, it's funny your mother tried to send me
to jail when she recognizes my clothes. Her story more
than anything, will help the set me free.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
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Speaker 5 (24:30):
Your car will go.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
One morning two months later, you open your eyes in
a hotel just outside the city of Los Angeles, don't you, Frank. Yes,
you've been here two months waiting for someone to find
the body of Chuck and identify him as you, the
missing Frank Malloy, And last night's paper carried the story
you've been waiting for, the story of your death. Now
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it'll be safe to change your name and leave the
country with vivian Everything has gone perfectly, hasn't it, Frank.
You stretch out on the bed and your hand drops
down to touch the small handbag you've kept beside you,
the bag containing over one hundred thousand dollars. Suddenly you
sit up, realizing the bag is gone. You get up
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and search the room frantically, but the money isn't there.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Operator operator, Oh, yes, sir, would you connect me with
room three h three Miss vivian Ne Smith and hurry?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Hey, yes, I'm sorry, sir, but Miss Smith checked out
at the hotel about an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
What did she leave a message? Nothing, sir, else, No,
nothing was there Vivian, Vivian, the bag with the that's
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what you're looking for.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
He's from the police department, do the police. Yes. He
picked me up at the airport. After reading the story
in the paper last night. I thought it was safe
enough now to leave. Only it wasn't.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
She was taking your money and running out on you, Malloya.
And why not.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
It would only be a matter of time before I
meant no more to him than mars.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Doesn't matter now, Frank, sure doesn't You see?
Speaker 8 (26:40):
The newspaper story was just to get you out in
the open. Some fishermen did find a body in the lake,
but after all this time, it was a little hard
to identify. He was wearing your clothes, Malloy, and was
in your car. Your wife thought it was you, and
I don't see how that coutet you something. Though at
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the morgue we found out different you seem, Alloy. It
wasn't hard to figure out what you'd done when we
found a tattoo on the drown man's chest, eh tattoo
of a heart with the words chuck and Mamie.
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As you walk down the crowded corridor from the District
Attorney's office, you can feel the stairs and hear the whispers.
There's Frank Malloy. He's getting out, but not for long.
It's costing you ten thousand dollars to walk out that
front door. But it's worth it, isn't it, Frank, Because
you have a plan, at least part of one. Yes,
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you'll reach the front entrance, push open the heavy door,
and go out into the street.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
There at the curb.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You recognize the long yellow convertible and the attractive blonde
sitting inside. She slides over as you slip in behind
the wheel.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
In again, out again. Yeah, I was jail this time.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Play off of when I read in the papers They're
gonna put you away for a long, long time after
the small formality.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Of a trial.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I don't believe everything you read.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
I'm not going on trial you want, no, I'm gonna
be around long enough to get my chance.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
You're gonna jump in.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
That's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
You lose your ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Bond, doesn't matter. I've got plenty, and it's put away
where I can get at it in a hurry.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Where will you go?
Speaker 7 (02:55):
We we're going together, baby.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I'm ready, Frank.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
How where we're going, but we're getting out of the States.
We can bid it to Avanna and then maybe South America.
I'll get a divorce and we're all set. We've got
enough money to last us the rest of our lives.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
This sounds wonderful, but how do you expect to get away?
The moment they miss you, They'll be watching for you everywhere.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
I know THEE wants to see me in a couple
of days. So whatever we're gonna do, we're gonna have
to move fast.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
We can't just.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Take a plane or a train before we start running. Frankly,
we have to think of something, some kind of plan. Yeah,
I know, what about a private plane and pilot. Let's
find out about it right away.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
No, something else, I've got to find out first. What
do you mean going out to the ranch. I'm gonna
see my wife.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
You're going out to see Martha.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
That's right, Why, Vivian, didn't you ever wonder how the
district attorney got hold of all my records and books
that I get. You think I sent them to 'em?
Do you think I wanted the smoothest gambling syndicate in
the state to come crashing down around my neck?
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:00):
But somebody else did. It had to be somebody I trusted,
somebody close to me. I want to be sure it
wasn't Martha Da And they have enough on me to
put me away for twenty years. I want to know
where they got it.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
OK, what difference does it make now? All that matters
now is getting away.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
We'll get away, baby, don't worry. But first I want
to see Martha. I just want to know.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
As you drive through the city and across the Bay Bridge,
your thoughts dwell upon your wife, Martha, don't they. Frank
you begin to think back, wondering just how much Martha
knew about you and your organization, Wondering if she knew
about Vivian or any of the others. Wondering if it
could have been Martha who brought everything crashing down, sending
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you to jail. And there are other things to be
thought of. How will you manage to get out of
the country before the district attorney knows you're gone? Hearted
plane and a private pilot mic board, And you do
have friends in Florida who would help you and Vivian
get out of the country. After an hour of driving
and thinking, you're suddenly startled as Vivian pulls violently at
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your arm.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Did I hit him?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
He's lying by the side of the highway.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Did the same time? What was he doing out the
middle of the highway?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Look, he's getting up.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Come on, we better have a look at him.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Come on, he's getting up.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Doesn't look like he's hurt too badly. Hey, Hey, you
all right?
Speaker 9 (05:35):
I don't know, she thinks, So, what were you doing
out the middle of the highway.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
I was trying to catch a ride.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
What does anything feel broken?
Speaker 8 (05:44):
No, I don't think so. I saw you coming right
at me, and I dove for the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You didn't hit me.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Oh, it's a relief.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Looks like my trousers are finished.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
You're sure you're all right?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Yeah, yeah, forget it. It's my own fault for standing
in the middle of the I would what's your name?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
My name, yeah, Chuck? Why well, Chuck. I feel kind
of bad about this. I think the least I can
do is offer you a ride and do something about
those trousers too.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Forget it, forget it. It's my fault.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Well, we can't leave you standing here. We're going another
ten miles.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Okay, let me get my hat out of the ditch.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Frank, do you have to give him a lift?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
He admits it was his fault. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
I to notice something, Vivian, something real interesting about that fellow.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Look, he's just turned around. Look at him. Now, look
at me.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Notice anything, Rank say, it looks not like me? Huh yeah,
same size build even his features. Yeah, if I worked
it out right, I could get away.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
With it, get away with Just think, Vivian, how.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Much easier it would be for us to get away
if everybody thought that I was dead.
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Speaker 4 (08:40):
Almost every piece of the plan seems to fit together,
doesn't it. Frank. If the police thought you were dead,
you and Vivian could take your time about getting out
of the country. You could go knowing they weren't watching
for you. You study the man whom you almost hit
on the highway, and already you're planning the last few
hours of his life.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
I'd be real nice to him, Vivian and get him
to talk about We have to find out as much
about him as we can.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
You just leave it to me, Frank, Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I'll set check.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Yeah, let's go then huh some buggy? Yeah.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
I always promised myself, but have one of these someday.
Look at me, I don't even have bus fare. My
clothes are dirty and wrinkled, and I need a shave.
I look like a tramp. I don't blame people for
passing me by. Where were you headed, Jack, Los Angeles?
I guess they tell me the Knights are bombing down there.
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It makes a difference when you sleep in parked cars.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
But don't you have any friends in Los Angeles?
Speaker 7 (09:46):
I don't have any friends anywhere. That's a pretty broad statement.
Check must have friends somewhere, maybe, uh, back home.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Huh, I wouldn't know. I haven't been home in a
long time. Been everywhere else, Australia, Africa, Brazil, been working
on freighters. Just got back to the States last week,
just last week. Euh right, been gone nearly five years.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Oh, where is your home?
Speaker 8 (10:13):
I come from a place called Hyannis. Have you hear it?
It's in Massachusetts, Cape cud No, I never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's a fishing village.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Still, it doesn't seem possible that a man doesn't have
any friends.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Oh, you must have a girlfriend.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Mm had a girl once in Hyanna's The name was.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Maimi Maymie m It's a.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Long time ago, when I was young and foolish.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Whatever happened to maybe.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
I wouldn't know. I wrote it for a while, but
when I didn't get any answer to my letters, I
just forgot about mayme.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Say, Chuck, tell me what kind of work do you do?
Speaker 8 (10:50):
I'm one of those guys who can do anything until
you pin me down, and then it turns out I
can't do much of anything.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Well, I'm sure you'll fit in somewhere someday. Just have
it run into it yet. Maybe in the meantime, I
like drifting around the world. I don't talk it too much.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
I don't get the chance to talk to people very often,
especially about myself. Everybody likes to talk about themselves.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
What are you gonna do when you get back to
La look for work?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
I guess I'm broke.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Well, if you really want a job, shuck, maybe I
can do something for you.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
What what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, do you have a ten bar?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
No?
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Lie on a string of bars throughout the valley. If
you're willing to learn, maybe I can put you to
work as a bartender. Me a bartender, A guy's on
his feet a lot. In that kind of work, you
can make good money. Yeah, yeah, I can believe that.
But tell me something, why all the interests in me?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
But we might have run over you, maybe killed you.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I think the least Frank can do is try and
help you out a little.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Do you do you think I could learn to tend bar?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I'm sure you could, Jock.
Speaker 9 (12:10):
It's an interesting proposition, mister malloy.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Just call me Frank.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I'm Vivian Jack.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
How do you like that?
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Yesterday I was bumming around. Today I'm going to be
a bartender. Who knows what will happen tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
You know, don't you, Frank, You know exactly what's in
store for Chuck tomorrow. As a matter of fact, you
wonder if you'll even be alive tomorrow, because now you're
certain that he will do.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Fine as a part of your plan.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
No one knows about him, No one even knows where
he is.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
No one would miss him if he disappeared. He assured
you of that. As you turn off the main highway
towards your small you already have the first stages of
the plan ready. You stop the car at the gate.
I have to take care of some business here.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Check. You go with Vivian. She'll put you up for
the afternoon. Wherever you say, Boss, take you to my apartment. Huh,
here's this key.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
I'll call you when so as that made the arrangements
we were talking about.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Will they take long?
Speaker 7 (13:21):
No, everything, I'll be taken care of by theay night tonight. Yeah,
and take good care of check.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Huh. Make him feel at home.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Now, but we'll be at your place.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
You call me, I'll call you. I'll I'll see you
late at night. Check sure thing, mister molloy, Bye baby bye.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
You watch them disappear down the road, Frank, and then
you turn toward the house. Everything seems peaceful and undisturbed,
and you realize how long it has been since you've
come out to the ranch. As you reach the steps
and put your hand to the door, you wonder if
Martha will be surprised to see you.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Hello, Frank, Hello Martha, I have come to see you.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You don't seem surprised to see me.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You were expecting me. Yes, then you knew I was
out of jail.
Speaker 11 (14:26):
Sit down, Frank, Would you like a cup of coffee?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
No, nothing except Martha, I think you know turned me
into the district attorney.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Who was it?
Speaker 11 (14:36):
Why I did? I did what I thought was right.
You must have known, Frank.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I always trusted you. You're the one person I thought
I didn't have to worry about that.
Speaker 12 (14:47):
That's it, exactly, Frank. You never worried about me. I
don't think you even thought about me. There was a
time when I was the most important thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I affected the send me to prison.
Speaker 12 (14:57):
You belong in prison. You become nothing more than a gangster,
a hoodlum. You're not the man I married fifteen years ago.
Little by little, I watched you change. You began to
make money, lots of money, and along with your money,
you gained power. The more you got, the more you wanted,
and anything you couldn't have you destroyed. What did you
expect to do?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Own everything and everyone?
Speaker 12 (15:18):
Someday I had to stop you for your own sake.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
And I did it the only way I knew how.
Speaker 12 (15:24):
I cried for months because I knew the only way
to stop you was to was to call the district attorney.
I did what I thought was right.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
No, you know, Frank, you know who betrayed you and
why it was done. You begin to pace around the room,
walking faster and faster, bumping into things and knocking them over.
And suddenly you stop in front of the man. You
see the clock, and the feeling of rage subside. You
realize that by nine o'clock tonight will be all right.
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And Martha coun't she? And just Martha will have a
strange punishment, won't she, Frank, She'll always believe she sends
you to your death. After a long silence, Martha throws
a shawl over her shoulders and walks outside.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Hello, Frank, Vivian, Everything all right, ayes, I've been listening
to the story of Chuck's life.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
James's girlfriend Mamie.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Was quite a girl.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Now I boughtenders in the other room.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
But now listen to thee and get one of my
suits out of the closet and give it to check.
Have them shower and shave and put the suit on.
We're going to a party. Tell them you're meeting me
at one of my places up at the lake. Leave
my apartment by eight thirty and drive up on skyline.
Drive to Mountain View Club. Now, don't stop anywhere. When
you get there, wait in the parking lot and back
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be there by nine o'clock.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Clear, clear and simple. What exactly are you planning?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Like I said, a party? Good, make sure you've got
it all.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
We'll see you at the party at nine.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
At nine? What are you doing out here, Martha?
Speaker 11 (17:51):
Listening to the cricket the nice night?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah? Who used to go riding on nights like this?
Speaker 11 (18:00):
You remember that? Of course, I'm surprised, Frank, are you.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Well, here's another surprise for you, Martha. I'm not going
to do anything about the fact that you've turned against me. Oh,
matter of fact, when I leave here, I'm going for
a little ride. One we often used to take together
along Skyline Drive.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
Frank, what have you got on your mind?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Just you, Martha. I'll be thinking of you.
Speaker 11 (18:33):
I'll get my coat.
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Oh no, no, Martha, wouldn't be right for you to
go anywhere with a with a hoodlum, a criminal.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Goodbye, Martha.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Remember, I'll be thinking of you.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
The expression on her face, in her eyes, the light
you isn't it, Frank, Martha is still in love with
you after all this time. And later, when your plan
goes through, she'll have something to think about, won't she
Something that will be her punishment. Yes, Martha, conscientious as
she is, will feel deeply when Chuck's body is finally
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found in your car wearing your clothes at the bottom
of the lake. Martha will always believe you killed yourself
because she turned you into the district attorney. And above all,
she'll testify that you were heading for the Skyline Drive.
That part will help eliminate the identification problem. High up
on Skyline Drive, you pull into the parking lot of
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the Darkened club where you agreed to meet Vivian. A
few minutes later, the headlights of her car come into view.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Ant time.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Oh oh, hi, mister Malay didn't know you were here yet.
Say thanks for the suit. How do I look just fine?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Are we on time for the party?
Speaker 10 (20:01):
Rank?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Right on time?
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (20:03):
Say, Chuck, would you give me a hand with some
stuff in my car?
Speaker 8 (20:05):
It's right over here, Vivian said, we were going to
a party? Is it in that place up there?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
No? Not there. I didn't think so.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Giant looks closed down. Sure, dark, Doug here, What are
we going to check this?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah? But he's almost over for you, Chuck.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I hit him?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
It'll be easy to handle this way. We'll let door
open so I can put him.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
In the car.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
What are we going to do? Now?
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Stay here about five minutes and then drive up the
highway about one mile. The road makes that shop bend
around the lake. Yeah, I'll be waiting. I'll be waiting
there off the highway. Link your lights as you're approach,
and I'll come out and wave it.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
I thought you were going to bring Martha with you.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
No, I've taken care of Matha. Another way.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
You drive out of the.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Parking lot and in a few minutes you reach the
sharp curve in the highway, pull over and stop where
the edge drops off into the deep end of the lake,
and it only takes seconds to drag Chuck's body to
the front seat behind the wheel. Carefully, you go through
his pockets and remove everything, then plant your belongings in
his pockets. You put your ring and watch on him,
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and everything is ready. Push the clutch in, put the
car and gear. As you jump back away from the car,
it jerks forward and over the ledge to disappear in
the deep black water of the lake.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Is it all over.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Save for yourself?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
By the time they pull the car to the water
to look like Frank Molloy was drawned when his car
skidded off the road.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
And crashed into the lake.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Let's hope.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
So a few weeks before they find the body, and
the water will make positive identification pretty difficult, but they'll
find it out there to think it's me.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And Martha will help too.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Yeah, all we have to do is hide out until
he's found. We'll be free, viv Where do we go now, Well,
first we have to stop at a couple of places
down the valley and pick up the money I put away.
Speaker 9 (22:43):
That's a must.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
We'll drive on to Los Angeles where we can hide out.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Then we'll see whatever you say, Frank, Now.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Let's get out of here.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
You know, it's funny your mother tried to send me
to jail when she recognizes my clothes. Her story more
than anything, will help the set me free.
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One morning two months later, you open your eyes in
a hotel just outside the city of Los Angeles, don't you, Frank. Yes,
you've been here two months waiting for someone to find
the body of Chuck and identify him as you, the
missing Frank Malloy, And last night's paper carried the story
you've been waiting for, the story of your death. Now
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it'll be safe to change your name and leave the
country with vivian Everything has gone perfectly, hasn't it, Frank.
You stretch out on the bed and your hand drops
down to touch the small handbag you've kept beside you,
the bag containing over one hundred thousand dollars. Suddenly you
sit up, realizing the bag is gone. You get up
(25:33):
and search the room frantically, but the money isn't there.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Operator operator, Oh, yes, sir, would you connect me with
room three h three Miss vivian Ne Smith and hurry?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Hey, yes, I'm sorry, sir, but Miss Smith checked out
at the hotel about an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
What did she leave a message? Nothing, sir, else, No,
nothing was there Vivian, Vivian, the bag with the that's
(26:17):
what you're looking for.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
He's from the police department, do the police. Yes. He
picked me up at the airport. After reading the story
in the paper last night. I thought it was safe
enough now to leave. Only it wasn't.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
She was taking your money and running out on you, Malloya.
And why not.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
It would only be a matter of time before I
meant no more to him than mars.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Doesn't matter now, Frank, sure doesn't You see?
Speaker 8 (26:40):
The newspaper story was just to get you out in
the open. Some fishermen did find a body in the lake,
but after all this time, it was a little hard
to identify. He was wearing your clothes, Malloy, and was
in your car. Your wife thought it was you, and
I don't see how that coutet you something. Though at
(27:00):
the morgue we found out different you seem, Alloy. It
wasn't hard to figure out what you'd done when we
found a tattoo on the drown man's chest, eh tattoo
of a heart with the words chuck and Mamie.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
Program the Whistler each Sunday night at the same time
meantime Signal Oil Company and the friendly independent dealers who
help you go farther with signal gasoline. Hope you'll remember
regardless of what gasoline you use, you'll enjoy more miles
of happy driving if you drive at sensible speeds, obey
(28:00):
traffic regulations, and avoid taking chances. When you take a
chance to save a moment, you take a chance on
that moment's being your last. Featured in Tonight's story where
Bill Forman is the Whistler, Gerald Moore, Betty lou Gerson,
(28:21):
Shepherd Manken, and Charlotte Lawrence. The Whistler was produced and
directed by George w Allen, with story by Gus Bays,
music by Wilbur Hedge, and was transmitted overseas by the
Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
The Whistler was.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are
also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons
living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember to tune in
at this same time next Sunday, when the Signal Oil
Company will bring you another strange story by the whistler
Marvin Miller, speaking for the Signal Oil Company.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
UH side.
Speaker 12 (29:11):
Name.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Stay tuned now for Horatio Hornblower, which follows immediately over
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