August 15, 2025 • 23 mins
Rocky Fortune was created in 1953 by writer George Lefferts and starring Frank Sinatra in the lead. Rocky Fortune followed the exploits of a marginally employed jack-of-all-trades Rocky Fortune. Though considered a second-rate show even during the 26 weeks it aired, it's a nice boon for Frank Sinatra fans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's Frank Sinatra transcribed as Rocky Fortune. Frank Sinatra starring
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as that footloose and fancy free young gentleman, Rocky Fortune, with.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The tabloids whispering about unemployment and twenty four point headlines.
A guy out of work gets the feeling he should grab.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Anything that comes along.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So when the kind lady and Uncle's employment service hands
me a pink slip for an interview, I say yes before.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I read it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
After I read it, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Adventurous young man with no family connections, desirous of serving mankind,
exceptional opportunity, usual pay, Zenith Foundation, forty five Mugment Street,
experimental work, highly dangerous. I locate forty five Mugment Street,
which is a shabby little building in a shabby product town,
and I haul myself up five rickety flights to an
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office with a glass door.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Is this the Zenith Foundation? It could be. I got
a slip, Let's.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Have it, fortune, Eh, Rocky Fortune, no family, not.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
To speak of?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
What for?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Because I say so anything? You say, they got your
wallet and toss it here?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh is that kind of dodge? Eh? There's only three
bucks in a kid easy. I have to check it. Okay,
you're holding the artillery. I'd have a look. No pictures.
Home address fifty five Bleakman Street. What kind of place? Romanhouse?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And I move discharge from the army. Sweet citations where
anzio health good?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Terrible, but I ignore it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Raverag's license, chauffeur's license, hack steam fits Union Maritime card truckers.
You drift to you, Huh, I've been around a lot. I come,
I get restless. I was born that way.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You go away for a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Ever, yeah, three four months, so nobody ad missed you, particularly,
not particularly.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You're clean? You mean jail? I mean everything? Please record prints, booked? Clean?
All right, turn around as you want it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
One two three bucks? Yeah, it's all there. Okay, fortune,
you can meet the boss.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'm not so sure I want to. Is this thing legit?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It is not only legitimate as top secret. Let's go
where Utah? How's that that sweat? The job is a
ranch in the Utah desert.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'll pack my stuff and notify the landlord.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You won't need this stuff. We supply the uniforms and equipment.
You can write your landlady. It's better that way. And
what'll I tell her, Tell her you're going away. You're
gonna go long ways, be gone for a long time.
Tell her, tell you may never come back.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Two hours later, Milton that's the bump's name, and me
are on a plane headed for Utah. I still don't
know where or why I'm going, or what I do
when I get there, but I figure any kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
A job is better than starvation. Besides, I can always quit.
I keep telling myself, Okay, just.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
To set it down.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Is that it? That's it? Hey, that's pretty deserted.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I'll come.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
They got such a big house in the middle of
the desert. A house blunts the bus. This is where
we get out. Let's go. We head for a big house.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It looks like somebody moved an old castle over from Scotland,
piece by piece. Out behind the castle is the biggest
barn you ever saw. Only something tells me Coryles can't
live on sand, so I must have something else inside.
What really gets me, though, is the bob wire all
over the joint.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
We head for the main entrance.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Huh, it's okay, Hobby, Oh it's you, mister Milton.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
The bus inside. Yeah, he's in there with a professor
and his secretary. Let me just go right in. What
a layout this way?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I mean, well, Milton, see you found a mand Iraqi Fortune.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
This is Colonel Sam Jones, the Sam Jones, the man
owns half the.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Oil wells, all the oil worlds.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Boy, all of them. I'm glad to know you.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
This is Professor von Gluck pleas, I'm sure, and Colonel Jones,
Secretary Helen crandall my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You're from New York, aren't you. I isn't it a small.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I think before we continue our discussion, we should inform
mister Fortune of why he was selected for petrol.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
By all means misfortune. As you know, I'm a wealthy man.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Somebody broke it tells me.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
About a year ago I became interested in science fiction,
you know, reading the magazines about rocket ships and men from.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Mar Dimension X. The only thing is misfortune.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Those magazines are not as far fetched as you might think.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm still with you.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Much of them is devoted to genuine scientific study.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I think you're losing me now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well to put the whole thing into a cowdies here.
I got to reading about the research the Army is
doing on space travel.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You mean space travel exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
For example, did you know that the Army now has
a whole department of space medicine. Did you know, sir,
that rockets are being devised which have already gotten past
the pull of the Earth's gravity. I seem to remember
a picture some mice and a rocket. They were kind
of floating upside down.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Or something exactly. Who else?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I began corresponding with the magazine, telling them my interest.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Then one day I saw.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
An article by a Professor van pluck Here announcing the
new type rocket ship he'd invented.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Congratulations, thank you, Go on, colonel, we'll put the.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Whole thing in a cowldies here. I decided to devote
the remainder of my life to help them develop in
the planetary travel.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You just lost me.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I established, with a professor's help, the Zenith American Foundation
for the Promotion of vent A Planetary Travel, commonly known
as Zephyrne.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
That's clever. Where do I fit in all this thing?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well, I'm coming to that, son, welst. It wasn't six
months before we got the professor's rocket off the drawn
board and into the pilot model stage. And that's what
we're working on now.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
I should explain that the final rocket will be some
twenty stories high and will carry a crew of two
hundred and twelve. The pilot model is only three stories
high and carries a crew up one.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
That's you, no misfortune, that's you. Yeah, well it's been nice.
I enjoyed the plane. So if you've got a nice
little shock here and I'll see you around just a minute. Jack,
you won't leave until the colonel is finished. Now, luck, pal,
Now you look, and I'm looking, and I'm staying. Just
cheer me out, son, I got no choice. Continue, Well,
the professor here.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
As shows me this model is absolutely fool proof. All
you gotta do is let her shoot her up to
the homosphere and fall back to fall. She's equipped with
shoots that open when she strikes the Earth's atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Colonel, And in recognition.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Of your service, I.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Ain't gonna do it. We will pay you. I don't
care how much on thousand dollars you pay me?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Iron care here?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
When do I leave?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
You will do it?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Did you say ten grand? Okay, I'll do it, Colonel.
A weigh me and money have been separated lately. For
ten grand, I'd fly to the moon on a Roman
candle good.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Boy, professor, You've got your man.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
They give me a room with a view of Salt
Lake Desert and all the room service I can tolerate.
I kind of feel a little tired, so I sketch
out for a snooze.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But I'm no longer alone. Who's that? It's me? What's
the sh about? I don't want them to hear me.
Who's them? A professor in Milton.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, that case, maybe you ought to shut the door. Okay,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I came to warn you. Okay, warn me. Get away
from here. I like it here. I'll kill you. I'm
gonna die one way or another anyway, please, I'm not joking. Bok,
miss Crandell, maybe you better get to the point the
rocket ship. Somebody's coming. Yeah, let's make like one neckon.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well, well, doesn't anybody ever bother the knocking this joint.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I see you and miss crandall are getting acquainted. I
was just showing her a few holes. I used to
be a wrestler. Flyway. I don't waste much time. I
don't have much time paling. May be on my way
to Mars in a couple of days. A professor wants
to show you the ship. Fine, where to sat back
in the barn.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We go out into the barn, which is a three
story concrete building with what looks like a silo at
one end. We go through five sets of electric doors
and I find out it ain't a wheat silo at all.
It's a rocket ship, the same kind you see in
the comic books, all shiny and streamlined. So we walk
over to the colonel and the Professor's standing in the platform.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Ah, she is my boy.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The colonel's lady named myself.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It's very nice. Only one thing does it fly? Love
this for sunk.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
This ship has inside of the greatest development and engines
in s Einstein opened the atom shield.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Fly from here to eternity.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
If we wanted to, how about a look inside?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, now, absolutely, fat boat. I will not risk having
any foreign agents teel my design busted. Do you remember me?
I'm supposed to fly this hard poem.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
When the time comes, all you will have to do
is step inside.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
All controls are presex just the same. I'd like to
look around.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Absolutely verb boat and use that that before, okay, but
just remember I might decide to quit, mister fortune once
I have introduced you to my secret designs for space equipment.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It will be too late to quit. You understand what.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The Professor means, boy is once you're in on the secrets, we.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Can't permit you to leave. So it's up to you,
mister Fortune. Okay, fellas I'm in. I got back to
my room to think things over, and it occurs to
me that maybe i'd better get a gander with the
inside of that chromium mightmare.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Out in the bond before I really commit myself on
this job.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
So I wait for dark and then sneak out back.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
There's a god standing out outside the hanger, and I
start up a conversation with him.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Oh hi, Emil, Oh at you, mister Fortune.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, I left my cigarette case inside. Can I get it?
I guess it's all right. The Professor's inside working on
the ship.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Thanks pal het me open the doors and I go inside.
Professormon Milton are inside a little glass.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Office over a drawing board. I can hear him talking
as I sneak past. What do you think and you
know a hundred thousands will do it? Do you think
you'll go for it? Of course you'll go for it.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I'll make out the bills of laden. What should I
make it? That Tenneman platinum for the preheating poison.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You better spell it. I hide it for you.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Remember, we should lay off nonsense. I suppose you're right
a fuel suppleasure already I put them in a thanks
this morning. Cook. We have to be careful. What was that? Nice? Probably,
but sound like somebody in a hangar. Well, you better
check the contact attends at this point.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Okay, anybody out here, anybody here, if you're on here,
you better come out now you'll be dead. A mice
they heard was me, my big feet stumbling up the
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ladder to the inside of the ship. So I make
the rest of the trip with my shoes off. But
it's touch and go all the way when Milton starts
to climb the ladder behind me. Now there's nothing to
do with slipping into the cabin of the ship, which
is as black as the inside of a ballpoint pen.
And I'm praying that Milton will get tired of climbing.
But I hear his feet on the iron steps.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Do you see anything? Yuh? Well, check me inside of
the ship. Okay, turn on the lights.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
The lights go on, and I dive into a locker
mark fuel tank don't open. I get the lid on
just as Milton sticks the muzzle of his forty five
into the cabin.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Anybody in the air see anything? It's empty? All right,
come on down. I'll switch off the lights.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
When I hear Milton get down the steps, I strike
a mask to see where I'm located. I put it
out in the biggest hara since poor Revere's ride. The
fuel tank is loaded to the giblets with sticks of
ordinary blasting dynamite. So I climb out and decide maybe
I better have a look around, which I do. What
I find is so interesting I don't even notice it
when the door of the cabin slides open again.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Okay, Fortune, get him up, hie.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I thought you left, I did, but the God mentioned
that you were inside.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
He came up quiet as a mouse. Or should I say?
All right?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
What you say?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It don't matter much because you won't be able to
talk at all pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Ah. I see, mister Futun has been snooping around.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That's right, pal, And I've seen some pretty fascinating.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Things too, relieve. Uh huh, this is a real crazy
rocket ship you got here, man?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
In what way you, mister fult Well. For instance, you
take them bulkheads. They're the first genuine twelve ounce canvas
duck bulkheads painted to look like metal I ever seen.
Also they marked property room Magna Picture Studios Incorporated. And
you take them two foot walls over there solid tin
or that phony console room with a store five rocket tubes.
This thing is built like a cardboard display model.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Mister Fortune is very observing, made a very unfortunate habitat,
very unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Very unfortunate for your characters.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
When the colonel finds out your milk them for five
million bucks to build a ship out of all beer cans.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
It would be if he found out, But he won't soon,
or lady, you'll poke around, no, mister Fortune.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You see tomorrow morning we make our test flight.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Pl you couldn't get this erector set off the ground
with a derek.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
We aren't interested in getting it off the ground. You
may have noticed the rather unusual fuel we carry, try
nitro talloween known as TNT hmm.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I begin to see it.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yes, when the initial rockets go there will be a
case of a cute engine failure. The ship will go
up in a cloud of dust. And Milton and I
will retire to a small island with three and a
half million dollars to try to figure out.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
What to went row. Oh brother, what a swenle this is.
It is a masterpiece, isn't it? And I was slated
to go up and the smoke along with the ship.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Unfortunately they had to hire someone to make it convincing rocket.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
To the moon.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
They say, you're called a rocket.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
To the morgue for you, mister Fortune, it will be
exactly that you see.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
You are going to make the journey as planned.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Milton jabs is persuader and my spine and marches me
back to the house. I spent a quiet night staring
down the muzzle of a forty five, and the first
thing in the morning, Professor NX and the doll lug
in what looks like fifty pounds of all inner tubes. Meldron,
Is everything ready?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I informed the Curnel. We're testing the ship at eight o'clock. Here, Fortune,
climb into this What is this?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
A spacesuit complete with two way radio communication and oxygen.
If you press this button you will be able to
communicate with whom ever has the earphones for the receiving set.
That's me like a walkie talking a here's a receiver, Milton.
All right, mister Fortune into the suit. I wait a minute,
is this thing guaranteed to work? A guy can suffocate
him inside a sack like that, It.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Would work as long as you will need it, mister Fortune.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
About one hour, I've sardi one of the buck Rogers outfit,
and Milton screws the aluminum helmet on my head.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
By the time he gets finished stapping on the.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Lead boots and the oxygen tanks, I look like Martian
Sam the minstrel man.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Milton turns on.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
The oxygen and we go outside where the colonel and
Helen Crannel are waiting for us alongside a jeep.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Everything ready for the big moment.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Everything is in order. We've just tested mister Fortune's spacesuit.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Woo.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He seems agitated. What's he saying? Turn on a two
way receiver and listen on the airphones. What is it, Misterfortune?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Get me out of this thing. I can't breathe, which
he says. He's impatient to start the experiment. That isn't
what I said, Colonel, it's a fraud. They're gonna blow
this whole thing up. What's he saying?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He says he feels confident he'll make it all the
way to the moon.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Wor wait for him?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Are you dirty?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Rotting? No point in wasting the battery the ship, hourdy gentlemen,
sall we go?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Well now before we get into the jeep.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I think we should drink a toast. I have a
small flask here. It's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
They are to the success of our noble expellent to
that heroic.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Gentleman who's going to make this historic flight, mister Rocky Fortune.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Fortune watching drive him all?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Come back here, codrac How on you? He's going right
to the Bob Flyers? How long Milton get the car
after him? Say, I'm myers pal, I got the cheeks
to the Bob. Why make it with a few punches?
I take off across a desert until a buggy won't.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Go anymore, and I head for the rocks on foot,
which ain't easy when you want to let boots.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
The trouble with these space suits is that you can't
get out him without three mechanics and a blow tords.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Anyway, after about twenty minutes of dragging myself along I'm
surprised to contact what looks like a human being, but
I can't be sure.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Easy there, Minnie, Easy girl, let's just settle down here
and cook up some grubs. Sure gets loansome prospecting out
on these rocks. Huh girl, yes, sir, three months on
this desert. The man's libil to start seeing things?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
What's that? Holy smoke? Some Martians the land and take
to the hills.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Oh, pop, get the order the suit.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
We gotta keep calm, minnie. Maybe it's a friendly Martian.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Of course, I fellow, give me order the soup. Sure
does talk funny?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
The earth man.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Friend, you've got that the earth.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
He's frightened to my knife, Minie, What do you suppose
he wants?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Cut me? Order the soup before I suffocate? The oxygen
rolling all.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I can't understand your lingo, mister Martians.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I'm suffocating.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Oh, why he's fended, Minnie, What do you suppose.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Is the matter with him?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Maybe we better get him out of that there crazy suit.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
The oxygen gives.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Out, and all of a sudden, the world does a
quick blackout. When the lights go on inside my brain,
I'm flat.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
On my back and very familiar surroundings.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Looking down on my baby blues is the ugly face
of my good friend Milton.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh what happened? Take get easy? Bell coming out of it,
prav that's fine. Oh are you? Where am I now?
In the rocket ship? Pell the old the prospect of
the desert?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
The old prospector took you out of that spacesuit just
in time.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
How did I get here? He saw you were just
a man.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
He tied you there was mule and brought you right
to the house convenient swell, So the professor me took
you back into the ship to get you ready for
the trip.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Hey, you Scott, make sure he's tied up. Milton.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
I'll go down and keep the curtain cooled off, all right,
And as soon as you get clear of the launching
platform center the shout, I.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Hope you don't make it your punk, Thank you? Let
mister fortune bone lawyer there, I am right back in
the soup.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
The Professor goes down the iron ladder and Milton bends
over to time me up. I don't have enough strength
left to liquor poster's stamp, but I figure is now I'll.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Never so I make the supreme effort. Oh stand tickles.
You won't be for long. Listen before you tie me up.
One favor. Huh, go on, I'll bend over. I'm two week.
I'm two weeks to shout. What's on your mind? This
oxygen tank is on my mind? About it? I'd like
to put it on your mind.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Don't ask me how I did it, but somehow I
managed to tip over one of those iron tanks over
in the Milton's head.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
He goes out like a sick firefly. I know I'll
never leave the hangar alive.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
The professor can help it, so I decide to change
clothes with my muscular friend. Milton takes a couple of seconds,
and I pull down the hat, take his gun, and
pown down the ladder. Two seconds later, I'm out of
the barn and head for the concrete shelter, where a
professor and the colonel are gonna watch.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
There comes Milton. You'll give him time to get clear.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I can't understand what made that boy chicking out at
the last minute.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Who he managed to convince him to go through with it?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Colonel doh, do it, nonsense.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Girl, this is a historic moment.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Ready nothing waving his hat, let her go, Professor.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Right, everybody, all right, I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
The fuel things must have exploded a rocky Yeah, it's
too bad.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, I ain't it a shame of what? I'll more
of herman, or I'll blast your scorch the meaning of
this fortune? Why aren't you on your way tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I found out if for igt to buy around trip ticket, Colonel,
so I demand just go over and take a look
at that load of junk that this swindler just blow
up inside your bond junks.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
These characters swindl you out of five million bucks, Colonel.
That rocket ship is nothing but paper machee, museless.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
He's insane, am I? Here?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Here's a piece of metal that blew out of the
barn just a minute ago. That does look like a
part of the tail fin.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
On one side it looks for real, all shiny silver paint.
But if you turn it over, it's the first tail
fin you ever saw, that says Rappaport selected sardines.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Let's go, professor for why. The boy's absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I tried to tend you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You swin and cold, David, Colonel, save it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
The government's got a place for this character, and I
didn't build out old beer cans either. NBC has presented
Frank Sinatra as that footloose and fancy free young gentleman
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Rocky Fortune. Others in tonight's cast include Howard Culbert, Don Diamond,
Dan Riss, Edith Terry, and Williamiler. Tonight's script was written
by George Lefpards and Rucy Love directed.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Now I'll tell you about next week's adventure. Here's Frank
Sinatra as rock and Fortune.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Did I ever tell you about the time I decided
to find a new room because I found out they
were using my old mail box as a numbers draft.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Sure, I found a room.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
All right, but I almost had to give up my lease.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
On life, along with the first month's rent, which was
payable in blood.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Tell you about it next week, see you rent Thursday.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Here the Academy Awards presentation on the NBC Radio Network
Here's Frank Sinatra transcribed as Rocky Fortune. Frank Sinatra starring
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as that footloose and fancy free young gentleman, Rocky Fortune, with.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The tabloids whispering about unemployment and twenty four point headlines.
A guy out of work gets the feeling he should grab.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Anything that comes along.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So when the kind lady and Uncle's employment service hands
me a pink slip for an interview, I say yes before.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I read it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
After I read it, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Adventurous young man with no family connections, desirous of serving mankind,
exceptional opportunity, usual pay, Zenith Foundation, forty five Mugment Street,
experimental work, highly dangerous. I locate forty five Mugment Street,
which is a shabby little building in a shabby product town,
and I haul myself up five rickety flights to an
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office with a glass door.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Is this the Zenith Foundation? It could be. I got
a slip, Let's.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Have it, fortune, Eh, Rocky Fortune, no family, not.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
To speak of?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
What for?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Because I say so anything? You say, they got your
wallet and toss it here?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh is that kind of dodge? Eh? There's only three
bucks in a kid easy. I have to check it. Okay,
you're holding the artillery. I'd have a look. No pictures.
Home address fifty five Bleakman Street. What kind of place? Romanhouse?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And I move discharge from the army. Sweet citations where
anzio health good?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Terrible, but I ignore it.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Raverag's license, chauffeur's license, hack steam fits Union Maritime card truckers.
You drift to you, Huh, I've been around a lot. I come,
I get restless. I was born that way.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
You go away for a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Ever, yeah, three four months, so nobody ad missed you, particularly,
not particularly.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You're clean? You mean jail? I mean everything? Please record prints, booked? Clean?
All right, turn around as you want it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
One two three bucks? Yeah, it's all there. Okay, fortune,
you can meet the boss.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'm not so sure I want to. Is this thing legit?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It is not only legitimate as top secret. Let's go
where Utah? How's that that sweat? The job is a
ranch in the Utah desert.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'll pack my stuff and notify the landlord.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You won't need this stuff. We supply the uniforms and equipment.
You can write your landlady. It's better that way. And
what'll I tell her, Tell her you're going away. You're
gonna go long ways, be gone for a long time.
Tell her, tell you may never come back.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Two hours later, Milton that's the bump's name, and me
are on a plane headed for Utah. I still don't
know where or why I'm going, or what I do
when I get there, but I figure any kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
A job is better than starvation. Besides, I can always quit.
I keep telling myself, Okay, just.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
To set it down.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Is that it? That's it? Hey, that's pretty deserted.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I'll come.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
They got such a big house in the middle of
the desert. A house blunts the bus. This is where
we get out. Let's go. We head for a big house.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It looks like somebody moved an old castle over from Scotland,
piece by piece. Out behind the castle is the biggest
barn you ever saw. Only something tells me Coryles can't
live on sand, so I must have something else inside.
What really gets me, though, is the bob wire all
over the joint.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
We head for the main entrance.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Huh, it's okay, Hobby, Oh it's you, mister Milton.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
The bus inside. Yeah, he's in there with a professor
and his secretary. Let me just go right in. What
a layout this way?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I mean, well, Milton, see you found a mand Iraqi Fortune.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
This is Colonel Sam Jones, the Sam Jones, the man
owns half the.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Oil wells, all the oil worlds.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Boy, all of them. I'm glad to know you.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
This is Professor von Gluck pleas, I'm sure, and Colonel Jones,
Secretary Helen crandall my pleasure.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You're from New York, aren't you. I isn't it a small.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
I think before we continue our discussion, we should inform
mister Fortune of why he was selected for petrol.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
By all means misfortune. As you know, I'm a wealthy man.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Somebody broke it tells me.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
About a year ago I became interested in science fiction,
you know, reading the magazines about rocket ships and men from.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Mar Dimension X. The only thing is misfortune.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Those magazines are not as far fetched as you might think.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm still with you.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Much of them is devoted to genuine scientific study.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I think you're losing me now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well to put the whole thing into a cowdies here.
I got to reading about the research the Army is
doing on space travel.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You mean space travel exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
For example, did you know that the Army now has
a whole department of space medicine. Did you know, sir,
that rockets are being devised which have already gotten past
the pull of the Earth's gravity. I seem to remember
a picture some mice and a rocket. They were kind
of floating upside down.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Or something exactly. Who else?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I began corresponding with the magazine, telling them my interest.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Then one day I saw.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
An article by a Professor van pluck Here announcing the
new type rocket ship he'd invented.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Congratulations, thank you, Go on, colonel, we'll put the.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Whole thing in a cowldies here. I decided to devote
the remainder of my life to help them develop in
the planetary travel.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You just lost me.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I established, with a professor's help, the Zenith American Foundation
for the Promotion of vent A Planetary Travel, commonly known
as Zephyrne.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
That's clever. Where do I fit in all this thing?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well, I'm coming to that, son, welst. It wasn't six
months before we got the professor's rocket off the drawn
board and into the pilot model stage. And that's what
we're working on now.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
I should explain that the final rocket will be some
twenty stories high and will carry a crew of two
hundred and twelve. The pilot model is only three stories
high and carries a crew up one.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
That's you, no misfortune, that's you. Yeah, well it's been nice.
I enjoyed the plane. So if you've got a nice
little shock here and I'll see you around just a minute. Jack,
you won't leave until the colonel is finished. Now, luck, pal,
Now you look, and I'm looking, and I'm staying. Just
cheer me out, son, I got no choice. Continue, Well,
the professor here.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
As shows me this model is absolutely fool proof. All
you gotta do is let her shoot her up to
the homosphere and fall back to fall. She's equipped with
shoots that open when she strikes the Earth's atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Colonel, And in recognition.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Of your service, I.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Ain't gonna do it. We will pay you. I don't
care how much on thousand dollars you pay me?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Iron care here?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
When do I leave?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
You will do it?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Did you say ten grand? Okay, I'll do it, Colonel.
A weigh me and money have been separated lately. For
ten grand, I'd fly to the moon on a Roman
candle good.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Boy, professor, You've got your man.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
They give me a room with a view of Salt
Lake Desert and all the room service I can tolerate.
I kind of feel a little tired, so I sketch
out for a snooze.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
But I'm no longer alone. Who's that? It's me? What's
the sh about? I don't want them to hear me.
Who's them? A professor in Milton.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, that case, maybe you ought to shut the door. Okay,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I came to warn you. Okay, warn me. Get away
from here. I like it here. I'll kill you. I'm
gonna die one way or another anyway, please, I'm not joking. Bok,
miss Crandell, maybe you better get to the point the
rocket ship. Somebody's coming. Yeah, let's make like one neckon.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well, well, doesn't anybody ever bother the knocking this joint.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I see you and miss crandall are getting acquainted. I
was just showing her a few holes. I used to
be a wrestler. Flyway. I don't waste much time. I
don't have much time paling. May be on my way
to Mars in a couple of days. A professor wants
to show you the ship. Fine, where to sat back
in the barn.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We go out into the barn, which is a three
story concrete building with what looks like a silo at
one end. We go through five sets of electric doors
and I find out it ain't a wheat silo at all.
It's a rocket ship, the same kind you see in
the comic books, all shiny and streamlined. So we walk
over to the colonel and the Professor's standing in the platform.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Ah, she is my boy.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
The colonel's lady named myself.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It's very nice. Only one thing does it fly? Love
this for sunk.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
This ship has inside of the greatest development and engines
in s Einstein opened the atom shield.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Fly from here to eternity.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
If we wanted to, how about a look inside?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, now, absolutely, fat boat. I will not risk having
any foreign agents teel my design busted. Do you remember me?
I'm supposed to fly this hard poem.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
When the time comes, all you will have to do
is step inside.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
All controls are presex just the same. I'd like to
look around.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Absolutely verb boat and use that that before, okay, but
just remember I might decide to quit, mister fortune once
I have introduced you to my secret designs for space equipment.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
It will be too late to quit. You understand what.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The Professor means, boy is once you're in on the secrets, we.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Can't permit you to leave. So it's up to you,
mister Fortune. Okay, fellas I'm in. I got back to
my room to think things over, and it occurs to
me that maybe i'd better get a gander with the
inside of that chromium mightmare.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Out in the bond before I really commit myself on
this job.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
So I wait for dark and then sneak out back.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
There's a god standing out outside the hanger, and I
start up a conversation with him.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Oh hi, Emil, Oh at you, mister Fortune.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, I left my cigarette case inside. Can I get it?
I guess it's all right. The Professor's inside working on
the ship.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Thanks pal het me open the doors and I go inside.
Professormon Milton are inside a little glass.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Office over a drawing board. I can hear him talking
as I sneak past. What do you think and you
know a hundred thousands will do it? Do you think
you'll go for it? Of course you'll go for it.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I'll make out the bills of laden. What should I
make it? That Tenneman platinum for the preheating poison.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You better spell it. I hide it for you.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Remember, we should lay off nonsense. I suppose you're right
a fuel suppleasure already I put them in a thanks
this morning. Cook. We have to be careful. What was that? Nice? Probably,
but sound like somebody in a hangar. Well, you better
check the contact attends at this point.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Okay, anybody out here, anybody here, if you're on here,
you better come out now you'll be dead. A mice
they heard was me, my big feet stumbling up the
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ladder to the inside of the ship. So I make
the rest of the trip with my shoes off. But
it's touch and go all the way when Milton starts
to climb the ladder behind me. Now there's nothing to
do with slipping into the cabin of the ship, which
is as black as the inside of a ballpoint pen.
And I'm praying that Milton will get tired of climbing.
But I hear his feet on the iron steps.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Do you see anything? Yuh? Well, check me inside of
the ship. Okay, turn on the lights.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
The lights go on, and I dive into a locker
mark fuel tank don't open. I get the lid on
just as Milton sticks the muzzle of his forty five
into the cabin.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Anybody in the air see anything? It's empty? All right,
come on down. I'll switch off the lights.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
When I hear Milton get down the steps, I strike
a mask to see where I'm located. I put it
out in the biggest hara since poor Revere's ride. The
fuel tank is loaded to the giblets with sticks of
ordinary blasting dynamite. So I climb out and decide maybe
I better have a look around, which I do. What
I find is so interesting I don't even notice it
when the door of the cabin slides open again.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Okay, Fortune, get him up, hie.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I thought you left, I did, but the God mentioned
that you were inside.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
He came up quiet as a mouse. Or should I say?
All right?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
What you say?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It don't matter much because you won't be able to
talk at all pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Ah. I see, mister Futun has been snooping around.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That's right, pal, And I've seen some pretty fascinating.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Things too, relieve. Uh huh, this is a real crazy
rocket ship you got here, man?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
In what way you, mister fult Well. For instance, you
take them bulkheads. They're the first genuine twelve ounce canvas
duck bulkheads painted to look like metal I ever seen.
Also they marked property room Magna Picture Studios Incorporated. And
you take them two foot walls over there solid tin
or that phony console room with a store five rocket tubes.
This thing is built like a cardboard display model.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Mister Fortune is very observing, made a very unfortunate habitat,
very unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Very unfortunate for your characters.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
When the colonel finds out your milk them for five
million bucks to build a ship out of all beer cans.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
It would be if he found out, But he won't soon,
or lady, you'll poke around, no, mister Fortune.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You see tomorrow morning we make our test flight.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Pl you couldn't get this erector set off the ground
with a derek.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
We aren't interested in getting it off the ground. You
may have noticed the rather unusual fuel we carry, try
nitro talloween known as TNT hmm.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I begin to see it.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yes, when the initial rockets go there will be a
case of a cute engine failure. The ship will go
up in a cloud of dust. And Milton and I
will retire to a small island with three and a
half million dollars to try to figure out.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
What to went row. Oh brother, what a swenle this is.
It is a masterpiece, isn't it? And I was slated
to go up and the smoke along with the ship.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Unfortunately they had to hire someone to make it convincing rocket.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
To the moon.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
They say, you're called a rocket.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
To the morgue for you, mister Fortune, it will be
exactly that you see.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
You are going to make the journey as planned.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Milton jabs is persuader and my spine and marches me
back to the house. I spent a quiet night staring
down the muzzle of a forty five, and the first
thing in the morning, Professor NX and the doll lug
in what looks like fifty pounds of all inner tubes. Meldron,
Is everything ready?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I informed the Curnel. We're testing the ship at eight o'clock. Here, Fortune,
climb into this What is this?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
A spacesuit complete with two way radio communication and oxygen.
If you press this button you will be able to
communicate with whom ever has the earphones for the receiving set.
That's me like a walkie talking a here's a receiver, Milton.
All right, mister Fortune into the suit. I wait a minute,
is this thing guaranteed to work? A guy can suffocate
him inside a sack like that, It.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Would work as long as you will need it, mister Fortune.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
About one hour, I've sardi one of the buck Rogers outfit,
and Milton screws the aluminum helmet on my head.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
By the time he gets finished stapping on the.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Lead boots and the oxygen tanks, I look like Martian
Sam the minstrel man.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Milton turns on.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
The oxygen and we go outside where the colonel and
Helen Crannel are waiting for us alongside a jeep.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Everything ready for the big moment.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Everything is in order. We've just tested mister Fortune's spacesuit.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Woo.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He seems agitated. What's he saying? Turn on a two
way receiver and listen on the airphones. What is it, Misterfortune?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Get me out of this thing. I can't breathe, which
he says. He's impatient to start the experiment. That isn't
what I said, Colonel, it's a fraud. They're gonna blow
this whole thing up. What's he saying?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He says he feels confident he'll make it all the
way to the moon.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Wor wait for him?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Are you dirty?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Rotting? No point in wasting the battery the ship, hourdy gentlemen,
sall we go?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Well now before we get into the jeep.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I think we should drink a toast. I have a
small flask here. It's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
They are to the success of our noble expellent to
that heroic.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Gentleman who's going to make this historic flight, mister Rocky Fortune.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Fortune watching drive him all?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Come back here, codrac How on you? He's going right
to the Bob Flyers? How long Milton get the car
after him? Say, I'm myers pal, I got the cheeks
to the Bob. Why make it with a few punches?
I take off across a desert until a buggy won't.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Go anymore, and I head for the rocks on foot,
which ain't easy when you want to let boots.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
The trouble with these space suits is that you can't
get out him without three mechanics and a blow tords.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Anyway, after about twenty minutes of dragging myself along I'm
surprised to contact what looks like a human being, but
I can't be sure.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Easy there, Minnie, Easy girl, let's just settle down here
and cook up some grubs. Sure gets loansome prospecting out
on these rocks. Huh girl, yes, sir, three months on
this desert. The man's libil to start seeing things?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
What's that? Holy smoke? Some Martians the land and take
to the hills.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Oh, pop, get the order the suit.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
We gotta keep calm, minnie. Maybe it's a friendly Martian.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Of course, I fellow, give me order the soup. Sure
does talk funny?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
The earth man.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Friend, you've got that the earth.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
He's frightened to my knife, Minie, What do you suppose
he wants?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Cut me? Order the soup before I suffocate? The oxygen
rolling all.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I can't understand your lingo, mister Martians.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I'm suffocating.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Oh, why he's fended, Minnie, What do you suppose.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Is the matter with him?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Maybe we better get him out of that there crazy suit.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
The oxygen gives.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Out, and all of a sudden, the world does a
quick blackout. When the lights go on inside my brain,
I'm flat.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
On my back and very familiar surroundings.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Looking down on my baby blues is the ugly face
of my good friend Milton.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh what happened? Take get easy? Bell coming out of it,
prav that's fine. Oh are you? Where am I now?
In the rocket ship? Pell the old the prospect of
the desert?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
The old prospector took you out of that spacesuit just
in time.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
How did I get here? He saw you were just
a man.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
He tied you there was mule and brought you right
to the house convenient swell, So the professor me took
you back into the ship to get you ready for
the trip.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Hey, you Scott, make sure he's tied up. Milton.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
I'll go down and keep the curtain cooled off, all right,
And as soon as you get clear of the launching
platform center the shout, I.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Hope you don't make it your punk, Thank you? Let
mister fortune bone lawyer there, I am right back in
the soup.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
The Professor goes down the iron ladder and Milton bends
over to time me up. I don't have enough strength
left to liquor poster's stamp, but I figure is now I'll.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Never so I make the supreme effort. Oh stand tickles.
You won't be for long. Listen before you tie me up.
One favor. Huh, go on, I'll bend over. I'm two week.
I'm two weeks to shout. What's on your mind? This
oxygen tank is on my mind? About it? I'd like
to put it on your mind.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Don't ask me how I did it, but somehow I
managed to tip over one of those iron tanks over
in the Milton's head.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
He goes out like a sick firefly. I know I'll
never leave the hangar alive.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
The professor can help it, so I decide to change
clothes with my muscular friend. Milton takes a couple of seconds,
and I pull down the hat, take his gun, and
pown down the ladder. Two seconds later, I'm out of
the barn and head for the concrete shelter, where a
professor and the colonel are gonna watch.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
There comes Milton. You'll give him time to get clear.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I can't understand what made that boy chicking out at
the last minute.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Who he managed to convince him to go through with it?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Colonel doh, do it, nonsense.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Girl, this is a historic moment.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Ready nothing waving his hat, let her go, Professor.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Right, everybody, all right, I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
What happened?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
The fuel things must have exploded a rocky Yeah, it's
too bad.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, I ain't it a shame of what? I'll more
of herman, or I'll blast your scorch the meaning of
this fortune? Why aren't you on your way tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I found out if for igt to buy around trip ticket, Colonel,
so I demand just go over and take a look
at that load of junk that this swindler just blow
up inside your bond junks.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
These characters swindl you out of five million bucks, Colonel.
That rocket ship is nothing but paper machee, museless.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
He's insane, am I? Here?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Here's a piece of metal that blew out of the
barn just a minute ago. That does look like a
part of the tail fin.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
On one side it looks for real, all shiny silver paint.
But if you turn it over, it's the first tail
fin you ever saw, that says Rappaport selected sardines.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Let's go, professor for why. The boy's absolutely right.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I tried to tend you.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You swin and cold, David, Colonel, save it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
The government's got a place for this character, and I
didn't build out old beer cans either. NBC has presented
Frank Sinatra as that footloose and fancy free young gentleman
(22:53):
Rocky Fortune. Others in tonight's cast include Howard Culbert, Don Diamond,
Dan Riss, Edith Terry, and Williamiler. Tonight's script was written
by George Lefpards and Rucy Love directed.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Now I'll tell you about next week's adventure. Here's Frank
Sinatra as rock and Fortune.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Did I ever tell you about the time I decided
to find a new room because I found out they
were using my old mail box as a numbers draft.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Sure, I found a room.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
All right, but I almost had to give up my lease.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
On life, along with the first month's rent, which was
payable in blood.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Tell you about it next week, see you rent Thursday.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Here the Academy Awards presentation on the NBC Radio Network
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