August 28, 2025 • 29 mins
Richard Diamond, Private Detective was an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953. Dick Powell starred as Richard Diamond in the radio series as a wisecracking former police officer turned private detective. Episodes often had Diamond taking on a case at the behest of his friend and former partner, Lt. Walter Levinson. The plot remained relatively unchanged throughout the series, with the hard-boiled Diamond enduring physical confrontations while tackling a challenging murder investigation, aided by the police department. Notably, despite the numerous gun battles, Diamond was never injured by gunfire. Most episodes end with Diamond at the piano, singing a popular song to his girlfriend, Helen Asher. This radio program was later adapted successfully to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The makers of Camels Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard
Diamond Private Detective. Not one single case of throat irritation
(00:41):
due to smoking camels.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That was the report of leading throat specialists in a
coast to coast test of hundreds of people people with
normal throats who smoked only camels for thirty days. Start
your own thirty day camel test tonight. Smoke only camels.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
For thirty days.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You'll discover how rich and flavorful camels are, and you'll
learn how well camels will agree.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
With your throat. Pack after pack, week after week.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Diamond Detective Agency. Your crime is My crime?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
No Hi ho, Helen oh Wick. Honestly the slogans are
bad enough, but must just set them the music now.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Dear, dear, this is the age of the singing commercial.
Keep with the times, kid, I'm.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
The girl who could have married a Yale man. And
what do I pick a singing detective?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Well, you just appreciate the finer things of life, Helen,
hang up and call me back. What just thought of
a new slogan?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Oh Wick? You can preview your new slogan tonight. We
are coming over tonight, aren't you. I are so agreeable.
This can only mean one thing. You haven't got a client, Ah.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Helen, you're so fiendily clever.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Seriously, Rick, I'll be expecting you at seven and just
once try to be on time.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Now that is a challenge, but I, oh, well, bless
my little square head.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
I might have known it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Client even more surprising, Rick, I'm no mood for jokes.
It's Lieutenant Walter Levinson there, and he's no mood for jokes.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Old grouch. What's doing there?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I'll ask him? What are you doing here? Walt? Rick?
Speaker 6 (02:34):
This is serious business. Finish a conversation and we'll talk.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Oh what did he say?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Honey, I'd better hang up for once. Walt isn't kidding
see at seven? Bye bye, Thanks Rick, Which is all
about fatty. I haven't seen you look like this for
a long time.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I was in the neighborhood. I thought i'd stop by
and tell you the news. Myself, punk named Smiley Brill
shot one of our cops.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Rick, Oh smile. The nopunk like Smiley had the nerve
to pull a trigger.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Cop caught him breaking into a pawn shop, Smiley got
scared and fired.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Wild.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I'm sorry to hear this, but I don't get it.
Why I act like a lost soul. Lots of cops
get shot up, they take that chance, and they put
on a badge.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I know that, Rick, This cop was Ben Johnson.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
What come again, Walter Johnson? Rick?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Ben Johnson?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
There are times when words can't describe the feeling. This
was one of those times. Years ago, when I was
a green rookie cop, I made lots of mistakes, got discouraged,
but old Ben Johnson always took me under his wing
and helped me over the rough spots. Ben helped a
lot of rookies like me, and everyone knew it and
loved him for it.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now I knew why Walt's expression looked like the world
it ended, and I wasn't glad I.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Knew happened early this morning, Rick, Where's Ben now? General Hospital?
ZAC gives him a fifty to fifty chance?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
What about Smiley?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Broll?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You got him?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
No? I set up a dragnet, but he's slimy, might
slip through.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Rick.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I was hoping maybe you'd like to help us get him.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, you know, I will, Walt, only if I find him,
I won't guarantee you'll get him in one piece.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I cut it out, Rick, you know how I feel.
I'd like to break Smiley with my bare hands only.
I'm a cup so were you even without the old bed.
I'll skip the speeches. Where might start. Smiley hangs around
the Bowery quite a bit. Chances are he's hiding down there.
The Bowery boys don't talk Munch the police, but they
might to you.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Now I have some friends down there. I might get
a lead.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Keep in touch with my office, and remember, Rick, I
want Smiley alive, if possible, Sure, Walt.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
If possible. My car and drove toward the bower.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I kept seeing two faces in front of me, one
white haired policeman ready for retirement, lying in a hospital
fighting for his life, and the other, a weasel face
punk with a slimy smile. You don't often get mad
in my business. It doesn't pay off, but there are
times when it can't be helped. In the Bower I
(05:28):
began looking for Leo Watts, a little panhandler with a
big heart. I'd done Leo a favor a few months back,
and I knew I could count on him to return it.
I finally located him in a mission working over a
bowl of hot soup. Well, holy O, huh who well,
Richard Diamond, what brings.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
You down here? You broke?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, not quite, Leo.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Sit down, have some soup, it's free. Well I'd rather
have some help, Leo.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Oh sure, Rick, anything I can do? You know that?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Tell me you know a guy named Smiley Brill.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Smiley Brill, Yeah, I seen him around. I don't know
him so well, though.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
What about his friends, Leo? Know anyone he might go
to if he was in trouble?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
He was straight, not ric I can ask around though,
some of the boys might know.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Would you do that, Leo? I'd appreciate him.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Sure you sit tight, Ricky and finish my soup.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Leo disappeared and I waited in the mission. A little
old lady brought me a fresh bowl of soup, gave
me a lecture, and left with a rewarded attitude after
I promised to give up Muscatel. Finally, about twenty minutes later,
Leo returned.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
In that much Rick, but something to start on. Smiley
had a girl, and he used to say a lot
last year. Whether he's still sing or.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I don't know what's her name.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Jewel Sank dances at the Heady down the street.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Oh thanks, Leo. I'll have a talk with her if.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
She can help.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
You meet me back here in a few hours. Maybe
I can dig up some more Smiley's pass.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Good, go ahead, and I suppose I meet you out
front and steadily. Oh, I just can't take another bowl
of soup. At the Geary Theater, I found a stage
door man with a case of bad eyesight. Five dollars
made it even worse, and I got buy him without
as much as I Hey you, Joel Sank.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It was on stage and I waited in the wings.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
The boys wanted more, but George really mchas has skipped
off the stage right into the arms.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Of yours truly.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Right as you watch what You're sad you. I'm sorry here,
but I've given up Muscatel. I have to have some bics. Oh, Joel,
I'd like to talk to.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
You, so whatever, you guy not, I want to talk there.
Of course, you don't look like most of the guys
close a quest.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Carry your handkerchief too.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I'm a real dude.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Oh yeah, cute, Oh yeah, I've got no time to talk.
I've got a change for my next number.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Mind if I walk along to your dressing room, jays.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Joe Aliyah, I'm looking for an old friend of yours.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I got a lot of old fens.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
This one's name is Smiley Brill Kim A real nothing.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
What do you want with that?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Stupid a little talk?
Speaker 10 (08:22):
You a great one for having talks with people.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I was a lonely child.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It's where I change.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Do you want to come in?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Silly questions?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Well, stop dreaming.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I forgot his screaming here. That should bring my blood
pressure back down the normal.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Wait do you see my next costumes made out of carnations?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh? I bet you smell divine?
Speaker 9 (08:40):
Yeah, sit down, I'll be right out.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
What did you say you wanted.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
To see Smiley Briill?
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Yeah, him and me broke up.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Why did you see him last about a week ago?
Speaker 9 (08:51):
I haven't seen him for about three months and then
he shows up he wants me to go out with
him again.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Did you know he's a bump and.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Always used to fight about him not working when we
went out. I always had to pay the check there.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
How do you like the costume? Well, well I can
see why I didn't take you long to get in
it only aren't you're afraid those flowers might will? Yeah,
that's the idea.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I say, getting back to smiling.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Oh, forget him, he's a deadbeat. Besides, I got to
get back on stage.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Oh, just one more question. When you saw Smiley last week,
did he say where he was living?
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Or you know anywhere he might be?
Speaker 11 (09:31):
No?
Speaker 9 (09:32):
Wait a minute. He tried to give me some line
about working. I said something about the Merry Go Round.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Merry Go Round?
Speaker 9 (09:40):
Yes, said he had a part time job now and
oh I don't remember. Oh, he said, Look, I've got
to go time for my number. Gop run again sometime.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Huh, glad you got here earlier. Rinck, how'd you make.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Out with Jewel?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
She doesn't know where Smiley is, Leo, but uh, tell me,
is there any place.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Around here called the Merry Go Round? A bar? Maybe?
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Mud? No, not around here?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Why never mind? How did you do well?
Speaker 7 (10:18):
I asked around? Smiley ain't been around the street much
these days, but I did find out where Bertie Morgan lives.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
A couple of years back.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Bertie and Smiley serve time to get it. Guys get
you pretty close when they're in.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Stir Yeah, maybe Bertie knows where Smiley will hide. Worth
a chance, anim Leoh.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Here's Berdie's address in this paper. I hope you can
make it out. Oh Bertie, it's a real night.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
He keeps none but berts in his room.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
The place looks like a pet shop.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Thanks Leo, see you later.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I started up the street toward the address Leo had
given me finding Smiley.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Brill was developing into a slow sert.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
All I could do is keep questioning people who might
know smiley whereabouts and hope for a break. I located
Bernie Morgan's rooming house, but I didn't go right in. Instead,
I went into a drug store on the corner and
put in a call to Walt Levinson.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Homo side Levinson, rick.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Wald, your men turn up anything on.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Brill Yet not a thing?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
How about you? That's so fine. Nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I'm following up another lead, though. Now if it doesn't
take me anywhere, I'm fraid I'll be stuck.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Don't quit now, Rick, I just hurt from the hospital.
Ben Johnson didn't make it. Oh, no, hollow that lead, Rick,
get Smiley.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, Wal, I'll get him if I have to stay
on his trail till doomsday. I'll get him.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Before we continue with Richard, here are a few words
about smoking enjoyment.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
After all of various tests for cigarette mildness, camels lead
all other cigarettes in popularity by billions of cigarettes a year.
One important reason is camel's flavor, flavor that gives you
rich cigarette enjoyment, pack after pack, week after week. Another
big reason for camel's overwhelming popularity lead is camel's mildness.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Mildness proved this way.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
In a coast to coast test, hundreds of men and
women people with normal throats smoked only camels for thirty days.
During that time, noted throat specialists made careful weekly examinations
of the throats of those smokers, and.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
The throat specialists reported not one single case of throat
irritation due to smoking camels. Why wait any longer to
start your own thirty day camel test. Smoke camels for
thirty days. See for yourself how flavorful camels are.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Prove to yourself how well camels agree with with your throat,
pack after pack, week after week.
Speaker 12 (13:03):
Oh mile a mile a mile canniy be make the
camele thirty day testy man, You see.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
Small Cane.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
And now back to Richard Time and Private Detective starring
Dick Powell.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
So Ben Johnson hadn't made it. Now I was looking
for a killer, a killer named Smiley Brill. I crossed
the street, went into the rooming house. Bertie Morgan had
been in prison with smiling and Bertie lived in room
number twelve.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I went there.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Bertie Morgan was a little man with a nose that
resembled a parrot's beak. He had beady, birdlike eyes that
stared straight at you. You never seemed to blink Behind him,
I could see that his room was filled with caged birds,
all chirping. Birdie Morgan was well named.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Eh, what you weren't, bud Well?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I'm I'm selling a new brand of bird seed. I
thought you just might be in the market bird seed.
Speaker 10 (14:17):
That's right, I got plenty of bird seed.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Oh but none like this.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Gets your food out of the door.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
No, Bertie, think of your can eat it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I'll move aside, Bertie, I'm coming in here. Oh no,
that's better.
Speaker 10 (14:29):
And what's the big idea of forcing your way in here?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Bertie, but I'm tired of being polite.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
You've got no right here. Look, you're skinning my birds.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They'll get over it.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You tell me what about Smiley? Braille me worried about him?
He's a friend of yours.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Yeah, I got no friends, and just stay here in
tending my birds. Birds are like people.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I don't you've seen Braill since your prison days together?
Speaker 10 (14:52):
Sure, but that don't make us bosom pals. See who
are you?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
How long ago since you've seen him?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Maybe?
Speaker 11 (14:59):
True?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Be sure, I'm a long way in prison.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
I don't have to answer your question.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You want to broken nose, Well, I'm not kidding, Pala.
I want answers. How long did you share a self Smiley?
Speaker 11 (15:14):
Two years?
Speaker 10 (15:15):
By that don't meaning when you get out you get
a power around to get it.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
No, but it does mean you might know where Smiley
is now in two years, you must have told you
a lot about the people he knew where he hung around. Well, sure, yeah,
but don Bertie said, don now tell me everything you
remember Smiley talking about in jail. Oh, look that was
a long time ago, and refresh your memory. Who did
he say his friends were fake?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Back?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Bertie, then start talking. I was being hired on Bertie,
but it was my last chance. He began talking about
everything he could remember that he and Smiley had talked
about girls, sports, anything. Finally, after about ten minutes, Bertie
was getting tired and he still hadn't said anything that
might give me a lead. Give me a.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Break here, listen to my birds. They're hungry. I gotta
feed him.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I thin can wait.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You still haven't said anything important, Bertie?
Speaker 10 (16:07):
Yes, how should I know what you think's important? I
told you what I remember him saying that.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
So what did Smiley plan on doing when he got
out of jail?
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Having a good time? It's all he wanted.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Did he talk about work? What kind of a job
is he going to look for?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Job?
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Smiley hood, don't make me laugh. He didn't want to
go to work. His uncle even wrote and offered him
a job. But this guy's strictly a bum.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Or what about his uncle?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
You didn't mention him before.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
I didn't think of him before.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You're thinking of him now?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Tell me about him.
Speaker 13 (16:33):
He's a old geezy Joe Burrow raised, smiling after his
mom part kicked out.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You say he offered Smiley a job?
Speaker 14 (16:40):
But kind of a job, Oh, handy man, I guess
the old boy runs a business over in thirty fourth
Street a kid place.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
What, oh, you know one of him toy land spots.
He's got a corner lot there with some rides on him,
electric swings and that sort of thing. I went past
it once.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It's a nice place, rides for kids. Huh, marry go
on this place. It has a merry go.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Round, Yeah, a big one.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
Hey, why don't you go rid it and leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Maybe I will Bertie.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Let me addressed the place, and you can go feed
your birds.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It was the first break I'd had.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Smiley's girlfriend had told me that he was working in
a Merry Go round.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Now I knew where it was.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It was getting dark as I turned up thirty fourth Street,
but I spotted the lights of the toy land pot
went toward the Merry Go Round in the center of
the lot. It was the only ride still operating, and
there were two or three children riding the wooden animals
around around. In the center of the carousel, I spotted
an old man standing beside a big lever. As I approached,
(17:48):
the man pulled the lever toward him, and the carousel
slowly stopped moving around.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
Okay, kids are off, come on, now, get off there.
City run round home now, mister Brell, that's right. Only
I'm closing up now.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Well, I don't want to ride. I just want to
ask you some questions. What about about your nephew. Yes,
I'm looking for Smiley. He was working here a week ago.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Well, yeah, he was being here.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Now where is he?
Speaker 11 (18:16):
You know, has been around for a few days. Who
are you and who are you looking for? Smiley?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I'm a private detective, mister Brell. Smile is in trouble,
real trouble.
Speaker 11 (18:27):
Oh we'll see.
Speaker 14 (18:30):
I gotta go back to the shackle over there, turn
out the lights, city raises Caine if I stay open
after six.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Walk with you.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You know you don't seem surprised that your nephew is
in trouble.
Speaker 14 (18:42):
Brell surprised, Amrich to Anything that boy does is no
surprise to me. Tried to raise him right, but he
run wild. Figured if I give him a job here
he might settle down. I was wrong, I guess.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Have you heard from him since this morning?
Speaker 11 (18:57):
Nope? Oh this is it.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Mister.
Speaker 11 (19:01):
Would you mind reaching up there and pull that light switch?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Is too high for me?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh sure, sir, ere Now how about you?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Oh when I pulled that switch to turn the lights out.
Brill decided to put my lights out too. You must
have hit me with an old piece of pipe, But
whatever it was, it caused the blood to rush past
my eyes and a million rockets to go off in
my head. I don't know how long I was out,
(19:31):
but when I came to, I was inside the shack,
and I wasn't alone. In the corner stood the old man.
But standing over me was the man I'd spent all
day to fine.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Smiley, Brill.
Speaker 13 (19:45):
Come on, Diamond, come on, you ain't dead yet.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Ohow, smiley, brill. Brave men with a gun.
Speaker 13 (19:50):
Brave enough to take care of you.
Speaker 14 (19:51):
Shamas, Smiley, crouch you yeppen and get out of here
where you catch shut up.
Speaker 13 (19:54):
They got to drag that out for me. I might
be picked up alone, but Diamond here gets along real
swell with the bulls. He's gonna help me get through.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Oh you're crazy, smiling, You'll never get through. I may
get along with the police, but so did Ben Johnson.
You try and make a break in, the first cop
will shoot you on site. You're a dead man.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Smile.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
All that smart talk coming from a guy on the
wrong side of this gun now get up on your feet.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Where's your curse?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Smiley hot and back?
Speaker 13 (20:18):
You still got Diamond's gun?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah, I'll keep it on him.
Speaker 13 (20:21):
I'll check around outside to make sure it's all clear,
and don't.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Take any chances.
Speaker 13 (20:26):
If Diamond so much as blinks an eyelash, pull the trigger.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Oh, mister Brill, you must feel pretty proud of your nephew.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
You smiling's a good boy.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Just a little while, that's no sure?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Sure, tell me, Brill, what's gonna happen to you? Smiley
makes a break for it leaves you behind, and for
helping him escape, you'll be hauled in as an accessory
of murder.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Murder?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Now?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Why do you think your nephew's running?
Speaker 11 (20:52):
Smiley got too much to drink. He stole occurs.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
So that's the line he gave you, Eh, sure, I.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
Look, mister, I'm the only family smile. Sley's god.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
When his par died, I promised Luke Afroim. Now he's
in trouble. I gotta help him get away.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
So you just stare right there, and.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
That's trouble he's in. You think it's car stealing, Well,
it's murder, Brill Smiley killed the cop.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
If you'll lie, Smiley's wild.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
But he wouldn't do that, wouldn't he. Why did the
police have a dragon that out to get a car?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Thief?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Oh? No, murder, Brill, You think it's your duty to
protect him.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
I wouldn't protect the killer. But Smiley's no killer. Now
you're telling lies.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
That's all. Tell you'll be coming back soon. You'll help
him get away. You'll help a killer get away.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
I'll ask him if you're telling the truth. Well Wadley
gets back, I still think you lie.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'm not lying, brill, and we're not waiting till Smiley
comes back.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
They bye.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh why Smiley didn't tell you he killed the cop?
That was because he knew you wouldn't help a killer.
And if you wouldn't help a killer, you would highly
turn killer yourself. No you won't me, mister Braille. Now
I'll take my gun.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
No, no, give it to me.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
There.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
Okay, mister okay, maybe I couldn't kidd it. But Smiley's
no killer.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Reese, you lied about that murdyer.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
You're after him for stealing the car, and he's gonna
have a chance.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
He's just a wild boy.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Come back here.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
He Smiley look out.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
He got a car. I shoved the old man away
and stepped outside. Smiley had been coming back across the grounds,
and the old man's warning made him stop. Then he
saw me. It was Doc, and we both missed. Then
Smiley dove for cover and began firing again. I crouched
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behind the motor box of the electric swinging Smiley saw you, Smiley,
come on out, come.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
And get me, Samus. I can see as well in
the dark as you can.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Smiley was in a good spot and he knew it
it was Doc, but he was familiar with the grounds.
He could edge from one to another. There were no
more shots for a while. I knew he'd changed positions,
but I'd have a hard time finding him in the dark.
And then I remembered the light.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Switch beside the shack. I edged toward it.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I reached the shack and stood up. I pointed my
gun out towards the lot and sent my left hand
up to the switch. Then I pushed. The lights went on,
and I spotted Smiley standing in the center of the
Merry go round. He looked stunned at the foot of
light drop.
Speaker 10 (23:29):
It funny, why are you?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I got him.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
He staggered, then fell against the big control lever in
the center.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Of the machine.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
The machine started going around, and the pated animals moved
up and down as they circled Smiley still body. I
stood there and watched funny, but I didn't even feel
sorry for smiling. After all, how many cop killers have
the music at their funerals? Rick, Yes, Helen, dear, I
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forgive you for being late.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, now that makes my little heart go pit a
petter all over the place.
Speaker 15 (24:21):
Only there's something I want to ask you. That dancer
you say, Juel, Was she pretty?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I suppose you could say she was, especially in that
costume made out of kinnations.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
I hope you are on your good behavior.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Well, I didn't pick any flowers, if that's what you mean.
Speaker 10 (24:45):
Rick.
Speaker 15 (24:45):
I hate to sound nagging, but well I worry about you.
In every case you seem to run into a blonde
or a redhead or a.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Brunette, and they all seem to be pretty.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Isn't that just like a woman Here, I get slugged
on the head shot at and meet a girl.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
All you worry about is the girl you, poor dear?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Does your head feel better? Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
And keep rubbing it. I might even feel well enough
to sing a song. I knew this conversation. We'd get
around to that sooner or later.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Helen, you are so suspicious and so right.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I get a warm feeling.
Speaker 16 (25:27):
When you're by my side, the kind of warm feeling.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
That my case can't hide.
Speaker 17 (25:40):
O me time and.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Me strong.
Speaker 17 (25:49):
It's all right, It just can't be wrong. Just as
longng as you would be, I'll always find my way.
Speaker 16 (26:04):
Your love is like a candle that turns the night. Today,
my heart is yours, and come had made.
Speaker 14 (26:22):
That wor.
Speaker 16 (26:25):
Feeling is here.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
To stop.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That's nice, Thank you, dear Rick M.
Speaker 15 (26:42):
Would I look nice in the costume made out of carnations?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Oh honey, honey, honey, you look wonderful? And the costume
made out of poison? Ivy M came here now?
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Rick, Rick stop Ray stop, Rick you stopped?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Might we full of surprises tonight?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
What cigarette do you smoke? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
That question was asked of doctors from coast to coast
in every branch of medicine.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
The brand named most was camel.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Why don't you smoke camels too? You'll enjoy rich full
flavor and true cigarette mildness, the kind of mildness that
lets you really enjoy Camels. Pack after pack, Carton after Carton,
Make your next pack Camels.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Oh mil.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
Palm can a cigarette, the small camels.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
See.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. The makers of Camels have
now sent more than one hundred and ninety eight million
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This week's packs of gift can go to veterans Hospitals Brooklyn,
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Speaker 3 (28:15):
I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The Night's transcribed adventure Richard Diamond was written and directed
by Dick Carr, with music by Frank Worth. Virginia Gregg
played the part of Helen Asher and Alan Reid was
Lieutenant Levinson. Others in the cast were Howard mcneer, Herb Butterfield,
and Paul Richards. Be sure to listen to another Great
Camel Show. Von Monroe and the Camel caravan every Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Then when you smoke a pipe, it's for pleasure, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Then use the tobacco that leaves the pleasure in and
the bite out.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I'm talking about Prince Albert, the National Joy Smoke. Listen,
the bike is out and the pleasures in.
Speaker 11 (29:06):
When you smoke, Prince Alber especially.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
Treated out to bite your tongue.
Speaker 12 (29:12):
The bike is out and the pleasures in.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond,
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
This is your FBI.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
The official broadcast from the files of the FBI follows
immediately Stay tuned. This program came to you from Hollywood, America.
Is sold on the American Broadcasting Company
The makers of Camels Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard
Diamond Private Detective. Not one single case of throat irritation
(00:41):
due to smoking camels.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
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coast to coast test of hundreds of people people with
normal throats who smoked only camels for thirty days. Start
your own thirty day camel test tonight. Smoke only camels.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
For thirty days.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You'll discover how rich and flavorful camels are, and you'll
learn how well camels will agree.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
With your throat. Pack after pack, week after week.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Diamond Detective Agency. Your crime is My crime?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
No Hi ho, Helen oh Wick. Honestly the slogans are
bad enough, but must just set them the music now.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Dear, dear, this is the age of the singing commercial.
Keep with the times, kid, I'm.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
The girl who could have married a Yale man. And
what do I pick a singing detective?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Well, you just appreciate the finer things of life, Helen,
hang up and call me back. What just thought of
a new slogan?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Oh Wick? You can preview your new slogan tonight. We
are coming over tonight, aren't you. I are so agreeable.
This can only mean one thing. You haven't got a client, Ah.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Helen, you're so fiendily clever.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Seriously, Rick, I'll be expecting you at seven and just
once try to be on time.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Now that is a challenge, but I, oh, well, bless
my little square head.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
I might have known it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Client even more surprising, Rick, I'm no mood for jokes.
It's Lieutenant Walter Levinson there, and he's no mood for jokes.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Old grouch. What's doing there?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I'll ask him? What are you doing here? Walt? Rick?
Speaker 6 (02:34):
This is serious business. Finish a conversation and we'll talk.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Oh what did he say?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Honey, I'd better hang up for once. Walt isn't kidding
see at seven? Bye bye, Thanks Rick, Which is all
about fatty. I haven't seen you look like this for
a long time.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I was in the neighborhood. I thought i'd stop by
and tell you the news. Myself, punk named Smiley Brill
shot one of our cops.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Rick, Oh smile. The nopunk like Smiley had the nerve
to pull a trigger.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Cop caught him breaking into a pawn shop, Smiley got
scared and fired.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Wild.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I'm sorry to hear this, but I don't get it.
Why I act like a lost soul. Lots of cops
get shot up, they take that chance, and they put
on a badge.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I know that, Rick, This cop was Ben Johnson.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
What come again, Walter Johnson? Rick?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Ben Johnson?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
There are times when words can't describe the feeling. This
was one of those times. Years ago, when I was
a green rookie cop, I made lots of mistakes, got discouraged,
but old Ben Johnson always took me under his wing
and helped me over the rough spots. Ben helped a
lot of rookies like me, and everyone knew it and
loved him for it.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Now I knew why Walt's expression looked like the world
it ended, and I wasn't glad I.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Knew happened early this morning, Rick, Where's Ben now? General Hospital?
ZAC gives him a fifty to fifty chance?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
What about Smiley?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Broll?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You got him?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
No? I set up a dragnet, but he's slimy, might
slip through.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Rick.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I was hoping maybe you'd like to help us get him.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, you know, I will, Walt, only if I find him,
I won't guarantee you'll get him in one piece.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I cut it out, Rick, you know how I feel.
I'd like to break Smiley with my bare hands only.
I'm a cup so were you even without the old bed.
I'll skip the speeches. Where might start. Smiley hangs around
the Bowery quite a bit. Chances are he's hiding down there.
The Bowery boys don't talk Munch the police, but they
might to you.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Now I have some friends down there. I might get
a lead.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Keep in touch with my office, and remember, Rick, I
want Smiley alive, if possible, Sure, Walt.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
If possible. My car and drove toward the bower.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I kept seeing two faces in front of me, one
white haired policeman ready for retirement, lying in a hospital
fighting for his life, and the other, a weasel face
punk with a slimy smile. You don't often get mad
in my business. It doesn't pay off, but there are
times when it can't be helped. In the Bower I
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began looking for Leo Watts, a little panhandler with a
big heart. I'd done Leo a favor a few months back,
and I knew I could count on him to return it.
I finally located him in a mission working over a
bowl of hot soup. Well, holy O, huh who well,
Richard Diamond, what brings.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
You down here? You broke?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Well, not quite, Leo.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Sit down, have some soup, it's free. Well I'd rather
have some help, Leo.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Oh sure, Rick, anything I can do? You know that?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Tell me you know a guy named Smiley Brill.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Smiley Brill, Yeah, I seen him around. I don't know
him so well, though.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
What about his friends, Leo? Know anyone he might go
to if he was in trouble?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
He was straight, not ric I can ask around though,
some of the boys might know.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Would you do that, Leo? I'd appreciate him.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Sure you sit tight, Ricky and finish my soup.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Leo disappeared and I waited in the mission. A little
old lady brought me a fresh bowl of soup, gave
me a lecture, and left with a rewarded attitude after
I promised to give up Muscatel. Finally, about twenty minutes later,
Leo returned.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
In that much Rick, but something to start on. Smiley
had a girl, and he used to say a lot
last year. Whether he's still sing or.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I don't know what's her name.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Jewel Sank dances at the Heady down the street.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Oh thanks, Leo. I'll have a talk with her if.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
She can help.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
You meet me back here in a few hours. Maybe
I can dig up some more Smiley's pass.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Good, go ahead, and I suppose I meet you out
front and steadily. Oh, I just can't take another bowl
of soup. At the Geary Theater, I found a stage
door man with a case of bad eyesight. Five dollars
made it even worse, and I got buy him without
as much as I Hey you, Joel Sank.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
It was on stage and I waited in the wings.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
The boys wanted more, but George really mchas has skipped
off the stage right into the arms.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Of yours truly.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Right as you watch what You're sad you. I'm sorry here,
but I've given up Muscatel. I have to have some bics. Oh, Joel,
I'd like to talk to.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
You, so whatever, you guy not, I want to talk there.
Of course, you don't look like most of the guys
close a quest.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Carry your handkerchief too.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I'm a real dude.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Oh yeah, cute, Oh yeah, I've got no time to talk.
I've got a change for my next number.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Mind if I walk along to your dressing room, jays.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Joe Aliyah, I'm looking for an old friend of yours.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I got a lot of old fens.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
This one's name is Smiley Brill Kim A real nothing.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
What do you want with that?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Stupid a little talk?
Speaker 10 (08:22):
You a great one for having talks with people.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I was a lonely child.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It's where I change.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Do you want to come in?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Silly questions?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Well, stop dreaming.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I forgot his screaming here. That should bring my blood
pressure back down the normal.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Wait do you see my next costumes made out of carnations?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh? I bet you smell divine?
Speaker 9 (08:40):
Yeah, sit down, I'll be right out.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
What did you say you wanted.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
To see Smiley Briill?
Speaker 8 (08:46):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Yeah, him and me broke up.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Why did you see him last about a week ago?
Speaker 9 (08:51):
I haven't seen him for about three months and then
he shows up he wants me to go out with
him again.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Did you know he's a bump and.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
Always used to fight about him not working when we
went out. I always had to pay the check there.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
How do you like the costume? Well, well I can
see why I didn't take you long to get in
it only aren't you're afraid those flowers might will? Yeah,
that's the idea.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I say, getting back to smiling.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Oh, forget him, he's a deadbeat. Besides, I got to
get back on stage.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Oh, just one more question. When you saw Smiley last week,
did he say where he was living?
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Or you know anywhere he might be?
Speaker 11 (09:31):
No?
Speaker 9 (09:32):
Wait a minute. He tried to give me some line
about working. I said something about the Merry Go Round.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Merry Go Round?
Speaker 9 (09:40):
Yes, said he had a part time job now and
oh I don't remember. Oh, he said, Look, I've got
to go time for my number. Gop run again sometime.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Huh, glad you got here earlier. Rinck, how'd you make.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Out with Jewel?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
She doesn't know where Smiley is, Leo, but uh, tell me,
is there any place.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Around here called the Merry Go Round? A bar? Maybe?
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Mud? No, not around here?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Why never mind? How did you do well?
Speaker 7 (10:18):
I asked around? Smiley ain't been around the street much
these days, but I did find out where Bertie Morgan lives.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
A couple of years back.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Bertie and Smiley serve time to get it. Guys get
you pretty close when they're in.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Stir Yeah, maybe Bertie knows where Smiley will hide. Worth
a chance, anim Leoh.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Here's Berdie's address in this paper. I hope you can
make it out. Oh Bertie, it's a real night.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
He keeps none but berts in his room.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
The place looks like a pet shop.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Thanks Leo, see you later.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I started up the street toward the address Leo had
given me finding Smiley.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Brill was developing into a slow sert.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
All I could do is keep questioning people who might
know smiley whereabouts and hope for a break. I located
Bernie Morgan's rooming house, but I didn't go right in. Instead,
I went into a drug store on the corner and
put in a call to Walt Levinson.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Homo side Levinson, rick.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Wald, your men turn up anything on.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Brill Yet not a thing?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
How about you? That's so fine. Nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I'm following up another lead, though. Now if it doesn't
take me anywhere, I'm fraid I'll be stuck.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Don't quit now, Rick, I just hurt from the hospital.
Ben Johnson didn't make it. Oh, no, hollow that lead, Rick,
get Smiley.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, Wal, I'll get him if I have to stay
on his trail till doomsday. I'll get him.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Before we continue with Richard, here are a few words
about smoking enjoyment.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
After all of various tests for cigarette mildness, camels lead
all other cigarettes in popularity by billions of cigarettes a year.
One important reason is camel's flavor, flavor that gives you
rich cigarette enjoyment, pack after pack, week after week. Another
big reason for camel's overwhelming popularity lead is camel's mildness.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Mildness proved this way.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
In a coast to coast test, hundreds of men and
women people with normal throats smoked only camels for thirty days.
During that time, noted throat specialists made careful weekly examinations
of the throats of those smokers, and.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
The throat specialists reported not one single case of throat
irritation due to smoking camels. Why wait any longer to
start your own thirty day camel test. Smoke camels for
thirty days. See for yourself how flavorful camels are.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Prove to yourself how well camels agree with with your throat,
pack after pack, week after week.
Speaker 12 (13:03):
Oh mile a mile a mile canniy be make the
camele thirty day testy man, You see.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
Small Cane.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
And now back to Richard Time and Private Detective starring
Dick Powell.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
So Ben Johnson hadn't made it. Now I was looking
for a killer, a killer named Smiley Brill. I crossed
the street, went into the rooming house. Bertie Morgan had
been in prison with smiling and Bertie lived in room
number twelve.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I went there.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Bertie Morgan was a little man with a nose that
resembled a parrot's beak. He had beady, birdlike eyes that
stared straight at you. You never seemed to blink Behind him,
I could see that his room was filled with caged birds,
all chirping. Birdie Morgan was well named.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Eh, what you weren't, bud Well?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I'm I'm selling a new brand of bird seed. I
thought you just might be in the market bird seed.
Speaker 10 (14:17):
That's right, I got plenty of bird seed.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Oh but none like this.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
Gets your food out of the door.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
No, Bertie, think of your can eat it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I'll move aside, Bertie, I'm coming in here. Oh no,
that's better.
Speaker 10 (14:29):
And what's the big idea of forcing your way in here?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Bertie, but I'm tired of being polite.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
You've got no right here. Look, you're skinning my birds.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They'll get over it.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You tell me what about Smiley? Braille me worried about him?
He's a friend of yours.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Yeah, I got no friends, and just stay here in
tending my birds. Birds are like people.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I don't you've seen Braill since your prison days together?
Speaker 10 (14:52):
Sure, but that don't make us bosom pals. See who
are you?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
How long ago since you've seen him?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Maybe?
Speaker 11 (14:59):
True?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Be sure, I'm a long way in prison.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
I don't have to answer your question.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You want to broken nose, Well, I'm not kidding, Pala.
I want answers. How long did you share a self Smiley?
Speaker 11 (15:14):
Two years?
Speaker 10 (15:15):
By that don't meaning when you get out you get
a power around to get it.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
No, but it does mean you might know where Smiley
is now in two years, you must have told you
a lot about the people he knew where he hung around. Well, sure, yeah,
but don Bertie said, don now tell me everything you
remember Smiley talking about in jail. Oh, look that was
a long time ago, and refresh your memory. Who did
he say his friends were fake?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Back?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Bertie, then start talking. I was being hired on Bertie,
but it was my last chance. He began talking about
everything he could remember that he and Smiley had talked
about girls, sports, anything. Finally, after about ten minutes, Bertie
was getting tired and he still hadn't said anything that
might give me a lead. Give me a.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Break here, listen to my birds. They're hungry. I gotta
feed him.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I thin can wait.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You still haven't said anything important, Bertie?
Speaker 10 (16:07):
Yes, how should I know what you think's important? I
told you what I remember him saying that.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
So what did Smiley plan on doing when he got
out of jail?
Speaker 10 (16:15):
Having a good time? It's all he wanted.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Did he talk about work? What kind of a job
is he going to look for?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Job?
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Smiley hood, don't make me laugh. He didn't want to
go to work. His uncle even wrote and offered him
a job. But this guy's strictly a bum.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Or what about his uncle?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
You didn't mention him before.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
I didn't think of him before.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You're thinking of him now?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Tell me about him.
Speaker 13 (16:33):
He's a old geezy Joe Burrow raised, smiling after his
mom part kicked out.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You say he offered Smiley a job?
Speaker 14 (16:40):
But kind of a job, Oh, handy man, I guess
the old boy runs a business over in thirty fourth
Street a kid place.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
What, oh, you know one of him toy land spots.
He's got a corner lot there with some rides on him,
electric swings and that sort of thing. I went past
it once.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It's a nice place, rides for kids. Huh, marry go
on this place. It has a merry go.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Round, Yeah, a big one.
Speaker 10 (17:04):
Hey, why don't you go rid it and leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Maybe I will Bertie.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Let me addressed the place, and you can go feed
your birds.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
It was the first break I'd had.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Smiley's girlfriend had told me that he was working in
a Merry Go round.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Now I knew where it was.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It was getting dark as I turned up thirty fourth Street,
but I spotted the lights of the toy land pot
went toward the Merry Go Round in the center of
the lot. It was the only ride still operating, and
there were two or three children riding the wooden animals
around around. In the center of the carousel, I spotted
an old man standing beside a big lever. As I approached,
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the man pulled the lever toward him, and the carousel
slowly stopped moving around.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
Okay, kids are off, come on, now, get off there.
City run round home now, mister Brell, that's right. Only
I'm closing up now.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Well, I don't want to ride. I just want to
ask you some questions. What about about your nephew. Yes,
I'm looking for Smiley. He was working here a week ago.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Well, yeah, he was being here.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Now where is he?
Speaker 11 (18:16):
You know, has been around for a few days. Who
are you and who are you looking for? Smiley?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I'm a private detective, mister Brell. Smile is in trouble,
real trouble.
Speaker 11 (18:27):
Oh we'll see.
Speaker 14 (18:30):
I gotta go back to the shackle over there, turn
out the lights, city raises Caine if I stay open
after six.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Walk with you.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You know you don't seem surprised that your nephew is
in trouble.
Speaker 14 (18:42):
Brell surprised, Amrich to Anything that boy does is no
surprise to me. Tried to raise him right, but he
run wild. Figured if I give him a job here
he might settle down. I was wrong, I guess.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Have you heard from him since this morning?
Speaker 11 (18:57):
Nope? Oh this is it.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Mister.
Speaker 11 (19:01):
Would you mind reaching up there and pull that light switch?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Is too high for me?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh sure, sir, ere Now how about you?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Oh when I pulled that switch to turn the lights out.
Brill decided to put my lights out too. You must
have hit me with an old piece of pipe, But
whatever it was, it caused the blood to rush past
my eyes and a million rockets to go off in
my head. I don't know how long I was out,
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but when I came to, I was inside the shack,
and I wasn't alone. In the corner stood the old man.
But standing over me was the man I'd spent all
day to fine.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Smiley, Brill.
Speaker 13 (19:45):
Come on, Diamond, come on, you ain't dead yet.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Ohow, smiley, brill. Brave men with a gun.
Speaker 13 (19:50):
Brave enough to take care of you.
Speaker 14 (19:51):
Shamas, Smiley, crouch you yeppen and get out of here
where you catch shut up.
Speaker 13 (19:54):
They got to drag that out for me. I might
be picked up alone, but Diamond here gets along real
swell with the bulls. He's gonna help me get through.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Oh you're crazy, smiling, You'll never get through. I may
get along with the police, but so did Ben Johnson.
You try and make a break in, the first cop
will shoot you on site. You're a dead man.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Smile.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
All that smart talk coming from a guy on the
wrong side of this gun now get up on your feet.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Where's your curse?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Smiley hot and back?
Speaker 13 (20:18):
You still got Diamond's gun?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah, I'll keep it on him.
Speaker 13 (20:21):
I'll check around outside to make sure it's all clear,
and don't.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Take any chances.
Speaker 13 (20:26):
If Diamond so much as blinks an eyelash, pull the trigger.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Oh, mister Brill, you must feel pretty proud of your nephew.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
You smiling's a good boy.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Just a little while, that's no sure?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Sure, tell me, Brill, what's gonna happen to you? Smiley
makes a break for it leaves you behind, and for
helping him escape, you'll be hauled in as an accessory
of murder.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
Murder?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Now?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Why do you think your nephew's running?
Speaker 11 (20:52):
Smiley got too much to drink. He stole occurs.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
So that's the line he gave you, Eh, sure, I.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
Look, mister, I'm the only family smile. Sley's god.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
When his par died, I promised Luke Afroim. Now he's
in trouble. I gotta help him get away.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
So you just stare right there, and.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
That's trouble he's in. You think it's car stealing, Well,
it's murder, Brill Smiley killed the cop.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
If you'll lie, Smiley's wild.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
But he wouldn't do that, wouldn't he. Why did the
police have a dragon that out to get a car?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Thief?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Oh? No, murder, Brill, You think it's your duty to
protect him.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
I wouldn't protect the killer. But Smiley's no killer. Now
you're telling lies.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
That's all. Tell you'll be coming back soon. You'll help
him get away. You'll help a killer get away.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
I'll ask him if you're telling the truth. Well Wadley
gets back, I still think you lie.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I'm not lying, brill, and we're not waiting till Smiley
comes back.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
They bye.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh why Smiley didn't tell you he killed the cop?
That was because he knew you wouldn't help a killer.
And if you wouldn't help a killer, you would highly
turn killer yourself. No you won't me, mister Braille. Now
I'll take my gun.
Speaker 10 (22:03):
No, no, give it to me.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
There.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
Okay, mister okay, maybe I couldn't kidd it. But Smiley's
no killer.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Reese, you lied about that murdyer.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
You're after him for stealing the car, and he's gonna
have a chance.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
He's just a wild boy.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Come back here.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
He Smiley look out.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
He got a car. I shoved the old man away
and stepped outside. Smiley had been coming back across the grounds,
and the old man's warning made him stop. Then he
saw me. It was Doc, and we both missed. Then
Smiley dove for cover and began firing again. I crouched
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behind the motor box of the electric swinging Smiley saw you, Smiley,
come on out, come.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
And get me, Samus. I can see as well in
the dark as you can.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Smiley was in a good spot and he knew it
it was Doc, but he was familiar with the grounds.
He could edge from one to another. There were no
more shots for a while. I knew he'd changed positions,
but I'd have a hard time finding him in the dark.
And then I remembered the light.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Switch beside the shack. I edged toward it.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I reached the shack and stood up. I pointed my
gun out towards the lot and sent my left hand
up to the switch. Then I pushed. The lights went on,
and I spotted Smiley standing in the center of the
Merry go round. He looked stunned at the foot of
light drop.
Speaker 10 (23:29):
It funny, why are you?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I got him.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
He staggered, then fell against the big control lever in
the center.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Of the machine.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
The machine started going around, and the pated animals moved
up and down as they circled Smiley still body. I
stood there and watched funny, but I didn't even feel
sorry for smiling. After all, how many cop killers have
the music at their funerals? Rick, Yes, Helen, dear, I
(24:16):
forgive you for being late.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, now that makes my little heart go pit a
petter all over the place.
Speaker 15 (24:21):
Only there's something I want to ask you. That dancer
you say, Juel, Was she pretty?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I suppose you could say she was, especially in that
costume made out of kinnations.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
I hope you are on your good behavior.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Well, I didn't pick any flowers, if that's what you mean.
Speaker 10 (24:45):
Rick.
Speaker 15 (24:45):
I hate to sound nagging, but well I worry about you.
In every case you seem to run into a blonde
or a redhead or a.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Brunette, and they all seem to be pretty.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Isn't that just like a woman Here, I get slugged
on the head shot at and meet a girl.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
All you worry about is the girl you, poor dear?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Does your head feel better? Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
And keep rubbing it. I might even feel well enough
to sing a song. I knew this conversation. We'd get
around to that sooner or later.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Helen, you are so suspicious and so right.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I get a warm feeling.
Speaker 16 (25:27):
When you're by my side, the kind of warm feeling.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
That my case can't hide.
Speaker 17 (25:40):
O me time and.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Me strong.
Speaker 17 (25:49):
It's all right, It just can't be wrong. Just as
longng as you would be, I'll always find my way.
Speaker 16 (26:04):
Your love is like a candle that turns the night. Today,
my heart is yours, and come had made.
Speaker 14 (26:22):
That wor.
Speaker 16 (26:25):
Feeling is here.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
To stop.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
That's nice, Thank you, dear Rick M.
Speaker 15 (26:42):
Would I look nice in the costume made out of carnations?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Oh honey, honey, honey, you look wonderful? And the costume
made out of poison? Ivy M came here now?
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Rick, Rick stop Ray stop, Rick you stopped?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Might we full of surprises tonight?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
What cigarette do you smoke? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
That question was asked of doctors from coast to coast
in every branch of medicine.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
The brand named most was camel.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Why don't you smoke camels too? You'll enjoy rich full
flavor and true cigarette mildness, the kind of mildness that
lets you really enjoy Camels. Pack after pack, Carton after Carton,
Make your next pack Camels.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Oh mil.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
Palm can a cigarette, the small camels.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
See.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. The makers of Camels have
now sent more than one hundred and ninety eight million
gift cigarettes to hospitalize veterans and members of our armed forces.
This week's packs of gift can go to veterans Hospitals Brooklyn,
New York, and Biloxi, Mississippi, Hamilton Air Force Hospital, sanra Felle, California,
to all hospitals operated by the Caribbean Command of the
(28:11):
US Army. Now until next week, enjoy Camels.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
The Night's transcribed adventure Richard Diamond was written and directed
by Dick Carr, with music by Frank Worth. Virginia Gregg
played the part of Helen Asher and Alan Reid was
Lieutenant Levinson. Others in the cast were Howard mcneer, Herb Butterfield,
and Paul Richards. Be sure to listen to another Great
Camel Show. Von Monroe and the Camel caravan every Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Then when you smoke a pipe, it's for pleasure, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Then use the tobacco that leaves the pleasure in and
the bite out.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I'm talking about Prince Albert, the National Joy Smoke. Listen,
the bike is out and the pleasures in.
Speaker 11 (29:06):
When you smoke, Prince Alber especially.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
Treated out to bite your tongue.
Speaker 12 (29:12):
The bike is out and the pleasures in.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond,
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
This is your FBI.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
The official broadcast from the files of the FBI follows
immediately Stay tuned. This program came to you from Hollywood, America.
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