September 30, 2025 • 29 mins
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio series featuring Raymond Chandler as Philip Marlowe. He was a gritty, no nonsense American, hard-boiled detective; however, he was more complex than other hard-boiled detectives of the era. "Hard-boiled" refers to a gritter urban element to the detective genre. Marlowe could handle a gun and take a beating, but he was also college educated. He played chess and appreciated classical music. He had standards too, and he turned down jobs that didn't measure up to those standards.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Those who travel it wind up in the gut of
the prison of the grave. Happened in a place called
Bay City, whereas unwelcome to a fat fry cook with
a secret and a depth of gambler. But to the
long arm of the law, I was poisoned. It happened
like this.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
From the pan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding AfOR of crime fiction,
comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring
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you tonight's exciting story, The Long Arm.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I got my Sunday best time going strutting with It's
Laura be l oh fine, every time I take a shower,
I notice in it all right, Okay, Hello, this is
Phillip Mallow p Yeah speaking.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
One moment plea, sir, Bay City is calling, Gaze, I
have your party. Say go ahead say hey, oh that's
you Morllow. Yeah, this is Ernie Parch phil at Bay City.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Parch.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah you remember me, don't you?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, I can't see Oh yeah, yeah, Ernie Pott. You're
the guy who saved my life when the Bay City
law left me beat up and bleeding all over the
city dump right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, that's it. Oh yeah, Mallow, please listen what
I'm in an awful jam, like what I just got
out of jail yesterday, like you were in a day jail, Ernie, Yes, yeah,
a very neat frame, Philbert. Oh, not half as meat
as the one that's trying to hang on me. Now,
this one's worse. You remember my wife, don't you, Grace
Paul Blood?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, what about her?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
She's dead, Marvel, Oh no, she was murdered. I'm gonna
try to pin it on me. You'll come right away here.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh look, Ernie, I I'm poisoned in Bay City. You
know that police Rake Sermot would give a year's page
just to watch me break an on five if I drown?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
What Marlo, you don't know which Sermono had you messed
up for sticking your nose in the Bay City politics?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
No, no, but I can sure second guess it. It was
tough cop tactics all the way.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And you mean you won't help me?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, well, Ernie, really, I'm sorry, kid, but you better
get yourself an honest lawyer in the.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Bay City, you know. And Matt Phil, who'd have the
guts to knock heads with a police in this town,
especially when they got a custom tailored pigeon like me
standing by with one wing already clipped, Phil, Like it
looks like I'm murdered.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Grace.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, now, look, kid, I saved your life.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
One.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, what's your address, Ernie?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
It's thirty eight four Lando Drive.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
A City was a snug seacoast town some twenty miles
southwest of la and about twice that distance from being
on the up and up. Its string of gambling houses
were politely winked at by some elements of the law
and its gamblers, and turned politely winked back while the
folding money passed from suck at a slick at a
crooked cop. But Bay City also was home to a
lot of honest fishermen, retired real estate brokers, and another
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element of the law, good cops, which side Detective Lieutenant
Rake Sterman was on. I'd never been able to figure.
He only added one way, all cops morning, noon and night.
That kind of made any private detective feel a little
less welcome than a leopard ell. An hour after Doc
I pulled up and parked well away from thirty eight
Orlando Street. Five minutes later, I was watching a nervous
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Ernie Parch wear out the cop in his Chebby living room.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It was it was at Artminelli's place, Phill about a
year ago, the little casino. It's out north on the
edge of town. I've had a few drinks with some
of the guys who worked my gas station. One thing
led to another, and so finally we were out there
trying to pyramid fifty bucks into fifty thousand.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That's when the cops came in.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Huh yeah, yeah, you know, one of those pre election
raids that looked good in the papers. You want to drink, No,
no thanks, but.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Look that raid couldn't have gotten you a year and
a day, Ernie.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh no, but the gun they found in my top
coat pocket could have.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And did.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, thirty eight I'd never seen before in my life.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Plant.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Huh yeah, plant that. I could only figure two ways, Phil.
Either someone at art Manelli's place just happened to choose
my pocket to drop his gun intour, or someone just
happened to drop it in on purpose, someone who was
sweet on grace and wanted me out of the way.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh look, you're sure you know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Ernie Positive, three hundred and sixty six days in prison
with only one miserable letter from her, convinced me that
in the word, I got a Gumbos place like this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Gumbo's Place.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, yeah, Gumbos Shabbier, the chickens joint run by a fat,
fright cook named Luke Mm. Grace worked there.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I stopped and just before I ran into Lieutenant rake'stermot.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Wait a minute, wait a minute, what do you mean
ran into Stermine? What happened?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, Phil, I I was on the street getting into
miicy DWN you see. Yeah, I picked it up from
a guy who was using it weather that was away.
When Strman pulled up alongside of me in a squad colony.
He started to tell me how much he likes seeing
ex cons back in Bay City.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
What interrupted him?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh, call on a police radio. But before he left,
he promised to drop around here sometime the night and
chat awhile.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And before that, at Gumbo's place, I found Grace. I'll
wait a minute, wait a minute, I've had enough for
any o. You found Grace and what we.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Had a fight, she admitted, running around said, I wasn't
worth waiting for, but she wouldn't say who was. I
slapped it hard.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Alright, take it easy, Grace is dead now murdered, remember.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, Yeah, she's dead. He and they're gonna tag me
for it.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Maybe. Now tell me what happened after you left gumbos h.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I ran into Sterman, like I said, yeah, And I
drove around for a couple hours to cool off. When
I got hold of myself, I I came back here
and I found her strangled at that.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
In that chair.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Phil, it was horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
What'd you do about it?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Erning, I? I, I'm not sure exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I yeah, I changed my mind, thanks Philip.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
No I I decided to get her out of here.
It was just getting dark, so I I waited a
little and and I carried her down the river stairs
and I put her in my car in the back seat.
I'd put a blanket over it. She still there, Phil,
I was gonna drive the car away. But well, I
I I I guess I I lost my nerve. Well
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I gotta do Phil, Sterman might be here any minute.
Then you gotta help me.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Must have don't do it. I'm sorry it alright, kidd
are the keys in the car. No, no, no, I
I got him. Hi.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I don't know, but you get out of here? Do something?
But what anything? Go to a movie. Act as relaxed
as you can't do anything except come back here for
the at least two hours.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Now, go on, alright, alright, Phil, whatever you say, uh uh,
go to a movie?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, right now, right away?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Thanks Phil, I know you'll get me.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Holidays.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Ernie Partcher's vote of confidence made comfortable listening for both
of us. When he was gone and I was down
the rear stairs and out to his car and the
alley keys in hand, I realized that it stopped right
there in the back seat. Then, in the light that
spilled from a nearby unshaded window, I saw I was
gonna have company, sharp pointed, elevated shoes, careful blue flannel,
and patting with their hair over a pasty base, all
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of it no more than five and a half feet
and held together by a hand painted tie that sported
a dap or knot the size of a cantalope.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Do you mean?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I wonder if you could help me. I'm looking for
any part uh thirty six Orlando Drive. I couldn't find
any number on this house? Is this it? Yeah? But
part isn't an he just left? Oh you know where
he went? No, No, it's alright, Carcious. I only want
to talk to him. My name is out In Mannella,
the friend of his. Uh and the Quintins you the same. Yeah,
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he went to a movie, mister Mannella. Yeah, I saw
the picture. So I'm going home, back to San Diego.
I lived there. Oh good, San Diego means yous one
oh one to the south and right past my next stop.
I came in a cab. Or don't those keys in
your hand there? Said that you're leaving?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I mean I don't wanna work presumptious or wait for
a taxi or wait for a tex mm tall I
get in? Or do you wanna slide over to the
driver's seat from here? I wanna slide now, if that's
alright with you?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Hm, perfectly tell me mister uh cru shutter c Yeah
he won Benes. But any personal business you, mister Manelli. Yes,
I wanted to see only about a good location. I
haven't mind for a new gas station. You know about
such things?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
No, no, and I don't think you do either, Menelly, unless,
of course, the pumps can be converted into roulette wheels.
Oh you know who I am? Man? Yeah, I also
know it's a little strange for you to show up
at Ernie's place the day after he gets out of
the state pen for a frame that took place at
you're a little casino.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
What are you getting at, mister Kusha?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
An outside chance that you yourself were responsible for that
frame that you're anxious to see, what, if anything Ernie
intends to do about it? Light's red, cus shutter, No fooler,
I'll tell me. Uh why would I want to frame
Ernie Park? I don't know. Could be Minelli that you
did it accidentally, you know, a little gun hidden in
a big hurry, or it could be had a tile
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reason huh like what like Grace Pratt? Very pretty girl?
You're out of your mind? Yeah, yeah, sure, I am
Minelly just plain nuts. So why don't you get out here?
It's up a nice saying taxi cab. It'll be safer, alright.
The goose he was tell me on the highway, shurey
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is a well go on what we ride and bike?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
See?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
No, I got stuff in that close that door and
beat him? Oh oh kay, happy fit for What stop
the cruise hupper? What kind do stop? Rumbanelle and my
bootlighter never got the word to believe me, Oh, but
I do the light green is the cruise huper? Soll uh.
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I went three short blocks. Then I got out of
the traffic and drove as far back toward Toronto Street
as a vacant lock. It was only a block away
for money. But after I wiped the wheel, the gear shift,
everything else, i'd touch the cream the prince, I left
us sit down as he is and walk back to
where it originally parked my own car behind the wheel
of my coop. I spent the next twenty minutes finding
gumbo shanty where grew the spot wouldn't baddy long leg
standing knee deep in the Pacific Ocean and circle at
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the waist by an imitation ship's deck for summer time
outdoor reading a gang plank let up from the street level,
And when I'd gone about half the length of it,
I saw something at the door I had shaped like
a bowling pin topped by a chef's hat, encompassed by
a yard and a half a hiccoch belt, and said
this had to be fat fry cook Blue Gumborski, returning
the reversibal sign from open the clothes.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Shy mister, I'm closing early tonight. Food's all gone alright,
How about a drink? I only want a quick shot gumbo, gumbo.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
You're a stranger here.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Now you know the name? Ah, it's written off ahead
and four foot letters. I keep my eyes open. Okay,
who on here?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Make it fast and I wanna hit the egg.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Uh you live here?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Way or scott Any didn't worry little information? Oh about
what girl who works for you? Grace parts. I don't
know anything about it? Mm, not even for five gumbo?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Make it a ten?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Okay ten? And the drink's on the house. Huh yeah, okay, mister.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Raise Potch's five foot two? Wives or Blue. Also, she
could work at six tonight like she does every night period.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Uh huh. Here's good yet. I tell me Wes she
been going where I learned he's been in stir well
another ten? Yeah for another ten on one condition, No
more lousy poems, gumbo, just few straight facts? Huh sure, sure,
another drink? I don't know facts?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
First, well, she been hanging around little Casino at Manelli's joint.
Huh yeah, Moneli's place. Well, a lot of people hang around.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
What are you standing at Gumbo window?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
He thought? I saw someone out there and a dick looking.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
In probably see girls. Forget it now look at.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Locking up to Uh sure it is someone get away
in the car?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Uh? Any idea who it was?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I said, any, I heard you.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Now go get out of here.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I think it easy, big guy. You got twenty buck
of it.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Yeah, there's your lovesy, twenty books and the drinks on
the house and good night.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
After one question, the guy in that car that just
took off was at Maneli.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
And I'll repeat myself, good night, mister.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, let it go at good night Gambo. But just
for now, I wasn't going to get any more out
of Gumbo, so I went back to my car, pointed
at north, toward the edge of town in the little
casino where I figured I might get lean. I men,
now he's whereabouts. Thirty minutes later, when I was there,
out of my car and standing in front of it,
looked like an oversized concrete blockhouse Salona and a parking
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lot the sides of the Colosseum. I figured different a
huge sign out front, red clothes for aderations where reopened soon,
bigger and better than ever. Gambling in Bay City was
obviously on the QT like an artillery barrage. At the
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time I got back to thirty eight around US nearly
three hours have gone by since I'd last seen on it.
As I standed up the step start the light in
his living room. What I wasn't happy over the like
of information I had for him. But when I opened
the door and saw it was waiting for me, and
it didn't many and won a huge beefy freckled hand.
There was the usual Police Department thirty eight revolvement. Hello kid.
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The ice cold gray eyes, a thick broken nose, a
nasty curl of the lips all belong to Bay City's
toughest homicide detective, Lieutenant Rake Stunner. Hello Marlow, I've been
waiting for you too long, kid? Why I would have
baked a little cake if I knew I was gonna
have this much time?
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Well's any parts coming? He's under arrest, kid, We found
his wife's body. He's under arrest for murder.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You know what else? Kid? Now? What else? Kid? So
are you.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
In just a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe.
But first, Fred Allen's crack that it's no wonder comedians
can't find work when singers go comical has had a
fast reply from Bing Crosby. Bing has invited Fred to
be his guest on his CBS show this Wednesday Night,
and you can get right into the very middle of
the argument on most of these same CBS stations where
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Bing Crosby show is see Wednesday Night. Be sure to
hear Fred Allen's visit to Bing show this Wednesday. Following
Groucho Marx and You Bet Your Life Now with our
star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of
Philip Marlowe and tonight's story The long Arms.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Lieutenant's terman moved toward me, curled the thick fingers of
his left handed to a fist myself with a blow
never can Instead, he shoved his face up close to mine,
and his mouth twisted into a one sided grin that
was as full of fun as a set of thumb screws.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
As you finally came through from me, didn't you, kid?
I don't know what you're talking about. I've been waiting
a long, long time for you to put something in
my town, Marlow where you can't run back across the
line and hide behind.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
The skirtch your cup friends over in La having yourself
a pipe dreams termin Jennet's German and don't forget it
real sorry, Oh sir, how don't mind explaining what this
is all about? That's one of my rights as a citizen,
you know, even in Bay City.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Whose I'm concerned killers ain't got me right.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I'll tell you you had nothing to do with Grace
Potcher's murders, so I can tell you why you're a
stinking liar private detective.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I suppose private detectives have no rights either, huh none.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
We found the girl's body in a car parked at
a vacant lot, and somebody overlooked a couple of fingerprints,
which I'm gonna match up with yoursmorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I'll come here.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
So sure, because we pulled Ernie Potch out of the
movies five minutes after we found White and Jailford's singing
bass city model, we don't hears her around with him,
demowits go Wait a minute, boy, you pushed too far
on the wrong track.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
There's an angle here. You want to know about it.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
It is always an angle with you, ain't there, right, boy?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, but you're gonna like this one first. In that
car you're so proud of. You're gonna find Prince from one,
not Manelli, gambler. That's right. One of those days in
operation when everybody else in Bay City is closed up,
they a better find out whose toes you just stepping
on down the city hall before you start out.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
We got problems in our tom people, but that's not
one of them. If you've got something intelligent, office phill
it without wise cracks.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
All right. I think Patch was framed a year ago
in Minnelli's joint. No done on Mannelly's orders. Why because
Grace Potch was a pretty girl with the inn for gamblers.
That's why all the time Ernie was in the cooler,
she was running down to Minelly's place. And I got
a witness to prove it. It also makes it the
kind of little cheat tramp that gets out of hand.
Go on, Nolly showed up here to night with no
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satisfactory reason for it. What's more, you warned or any
parts just this afternoon that you were keeping an eye
on him, even if he wanted to kill his wife.
He's not stupid. It will enough to have done it tonight.
From an LA standpoint, it was a perfect time, you see,
because you guys would go.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
For it just exactly as you have, so you push
stupid I did.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Look, I I know you got no use for me, star,
I'm sure a cop. After all, as long as somebody's
gotta take a rapid might as well be the right guy.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
You know what, sweetheart, what your fairy story makes savage listening,
just savage, not the mass.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Now get doing.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Too tired to take what I know he'd be given
him once for extern and got me inside the Bay
City headquarters. I made my decision fast. There were three
steps in the front porch of the wall, and he
was right behind me. I took the first two, then
turn and grab. He sailed over my shoulder and I
heard him lay flying on his back on the sidewalk.
As I rounded the corner of the house, I crossed
the backyard, bolted the fence, and put a hundred yards
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the valley between us before I even stopped to think,
and I went back to my car, drove down to
the water again. In Gumboski's Chicken Chanty, The place was
dark and locked up tight. I went around to the
back was living quarters were, and listened. Crocodile slithering over
the floor inside would have made the same sound. I
pushed the door open and went in. Was Gombowski all right?
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But you couldn't tell it from his face that had
been worked over long and hard by an expert. Oh
he didn't know I was there until I touched him.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Oh, good away, Oh girl, here, I'll gave you the
beating gumbo.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
O way off? How I took him up already?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
All right? Can I get up out? That's it? I
love gumbo. He told me one thing about adt Manelli.
The grace parts went was joined a lot and you
spotted somebody outside the window, and you clambed up. I
come back now, and I find you like this, isn't it?
Obviously you're wasting your time trying to protect them.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Shut off, shut off and get out.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Listen to me, your poor sap. I can't just see.
You're gotta be living with this from now on. Every
time he gets the is will get you another going
over to match this one. But he really gets jumpy
buster and then they'll do worse than that.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Don't you get it, guess him, and I know what'll
happen if I open my up again.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I'm just not gonna take that chance.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Don't you realize we'll never lick Manelly if we don't fight.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Leave me, Leave me alone. I'm not saying nothing. You
understand nothing, nothing one word I get out.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Come on, all right, you'm miserable. Second through talking.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
To you, don't take the other guy gave you a
LFE massage.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
By the time I'm through with you.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Here they put I'll stay where you are. I don't
want to kid you, mister, but I will unless you
beat it. I'd rather face that.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Than talk getting into deep. Aren't your gumbo? There's nothing
else I can do. Doing nothing to me, I know
which side my bridge buttered on.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, but she made one big mistake already. But what
do you mean you left yourself wide open for this coffee?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't that much time dropping the gun. Come on rubbing,
that's better. I'd just tell me one thing and I'll
leave you alone. All I wanna know is where I
can locate out in Nelly right now?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
He said this club, But they're a little casino.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
You're lying. I was down there. Its closed, it's being remodled.
Not I'm not lying, alright, you need some more rubbing.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Okay, okay. He's got a sweeter room downstairs under the club.
They're not being done over. That's where he lives. He
ought to be there now.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
But you gotta protect me. He's stomming the minenonia. He'll
kill me. He'll kill me.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
That's all I wanna know. It's all on gumbo. At
the first phone booth I came to, I stopped, looked
up a base city number, and made a call, which
took five minutes, and I went on to the little casino.
I parked on a side straight, then went down the
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ramp to the underground garage. In the rear, there was
a door between two or eight bronze urns Ali Baba size,
and I started tauding on a hunch. I stopped and
studied the decoration on one of the urns. I finally
found it a small hole in the side. I took
my handkerchief out and stepped in into the hole. From
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somewhere inside the apartment, I heard a chime ring. I
got my gun out and tried the door, and it opened.
It into a long lush hall, where he straight at
the far end with a heavy gold curtain. I waded
through a green carpet deep enough to mole up to
the curtain and pulled it aside. Minnelli sat at a wide,
glossy desk, methodically filing his nails, his eyes staring straight
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at me. You got this far? Come on in, I'll
tell me you're all alone here? Menelly, No, I.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Got five hundred dancing girl, smart guy?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
What's on your mind? You act like you were expecting me.
I knew somebody was coming. There was an electric eye
and those brass jugs out of the door. Anybody passes it,
rings that chime there, satisfied? I watch with a gun,
put it away in a minute. Maybe Saint Lieutenant's terman tonight?
Why should I? He had been rubbing elbows with homicide.
I didn't kill anybody, No, I guess you didn't. I've
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got a good idea. Who didn't earn it? Part? Of course?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Not?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Uh no, no chance. It was your business partner, Lieutenant
Rake's termined himself and five will get your tennis. Got
big news for you. Yeah, hey, right, steady, Marlow, don't
move well? Look what crawled out of the woodwork. I'll
got his gun raight, said Minnelli.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I'll take it myself.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I don't but you don't want.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
To Wait a minute, what is shut up? You said
you kill Rake's partch but you were in love with her.
But you used to meet her right here in this room. Yeah,
that was before she found out a couple of things
and began to put the pressure on me. We got
in a brief did then I lost my head and
I shut up.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, Marlow, let's have it. How'd you dope it? Oh?
And boys Ki took a beating the night just because
he mentioned Manelli here with a little more pressure mentioned
someone else, you sterman, And why would you shut Gumboiski
up about Manelli unless you and Manelli were connected? That
connection was all I needed right on the button, sweetheart,
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for all the good it'll do. Yes, And I don't
get this.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I don't understand after anymore, You're through.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
He was hanging ray.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
You know too much about me, Manelli?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You know it all.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Wait, you can't do this, Yes, I can.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
In fact, Marlow, he gave me the idea, even worked
out all the motives, so it's easy. I came here
to arrest you for Grace Portcher's murder. You resisted and
I had to shoot you.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Not a shame.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
But about this turning part, I intended to hang it
on him, Manelli. But he's nothing to me. I don't
care if he lives or dies.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
But you, you're you're getting too big for your breeches anyway,
So this is better, and I get three birds with
one stone.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Grace Manelli, you wallow.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Before you start pulling the triggers termin you, But ask
your boy a couple of my waiting for you behind
that gold curtain there.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
You're a liar mallow like the guy would have tipped
us off if anybody else came in.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I blinded that I with my handkerchief on my way in.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Right, Dorney, how long you been there?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Quite long enough? Better drop it, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
I don't take of it from You's sargeant, you.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Do tonight, Chief himself sent us out.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah. I took the liberty of going over your head, Lieutenant,
just before I came in. Under the circumstances, you'll understand
why you better.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Drop it, lieutenant. Okay, Now come on, you two guys too,
Come along.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Quietly, sure, sure, always glad to ride with old Rake's
termin anytime at all, just as long as there's a
couple of policemen in the same car. Before it was
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all over in the Bay City Police headquarters, everybody from
the mayor the dog catcher put his two cents in,
and I'd given the same answers to the same questions
at least fifty times, all about crooked cops and Rake
Stermoin in particular. But finally, hours later I was wait
to go home, and as I drove through the quiet streets,
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I was still thinking about cops, this time the other kind,
the underpaid, over work cops had pound the city sidewalks
day and night. You know, the guys who do everything
from telling kids the way to the grocery store to
untangl him a rush hour traffic. Yeah, and I thought
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about each one of the cops who someday chases a
hopped up gunman down a blind alley and doesn't get
home that night or any night ever again. And then
I forgot all about Rake Stermint, cause after all, he
was just one bad one in a multitude of good ones,
an insignificant sore on the long arm.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe bringing you Raymond Chandler's most
famous character, Star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
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Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Barney Phillips,
Ted Osborne, Sidney Miller, Tom Tully and Britt Holland. The
special music is composed and conducted by Richard Urunt.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
He shurned be with us.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Again next week when Philip Marlowe says.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It could have been perfect snowbound in a mountain lodge
with a girl was falling in love. But also present
were a widow sick with rage, a bitter old woman,
a jealous man, all with reason. They hate me more
than anyone else in the world.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Two all star bouts are promised on CBS this Wednesday night,
Bing Crosby faces Fred Allen across the CBS mike to
battle it out on who's funnier singers or comedians, and
in the second attraction, Gracy Allen and a smashed Fender
team up against not so gorgeous George Burns and a
guilty Conscience. This Wednesday also brings you Groucho Marx, his
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ad libs and his teams of opposites on You Bet
Your Life and Doctor Christian, story about two redheads in love,
fun action variety. They're All Yours with Doctor Christian, Groucho Marx,
Bing Crosby and Fred Allen and George and Gracie On
most of these same CBS stations This Wednesday Night, this
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is Roy Rowan speaking. Now, stay tuned for pursuit, which
follows immediately. On most of these same CBS stations, this
is CBS where Wednesday Night is Bing Crosby Night. The
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Columbia Broadcasting System
Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Those who travel it wind up in the gut of
the prison of the grave. Happened in a place called
Bay City, whereas unwelcome to a fat fry cook with
a secret and a depth of gambler. But to the
long arm of the law, I was poisoned. It happened
like this.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
From the pan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding AfOR of crime fiction,
comes his most famous character in the Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring
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you tonight's exciting story, The Long Arm.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I got my Sunday best time going strutting with It's
Laura be l oh fine, every time I take a shower,
I notice in it all right, Okay, Hello, this is
Phillip Mallow p Yeah speaking.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
One moment plea, sir, Bay City is calling, Gaze, I
have your party. Say go ahead say hey, oh that's
you Morllow. Yeah, this is Ernie Parch phil at Bay City.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Parch.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah you remember me, don't you?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, I can't see Oh yeah, yeah, Ernie Pott. You're
the guy who saved my life when the Bay City
law left me beat up and bleeding all over the
city dump right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, that's it. Oh yeah, Mallow, please listen what
I'm in an awful jam, like what I just got
out of jail yesterday, like you were in a day jail, Ernie, Yes, yeah,
a very neat frame, Philbert. Oh, not half as meat
as the one that's trying to hang on me. Now,
this one's worse. You remember my wife, don't you, Grace
Paul Blood?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, what about her?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
She's dead, Marvel, Oh no, she was murdered. I'm gonna
try to pin it on me. You'll come right away here.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh look, Ernie, I I'm poisoned in Bay City. You
know that police Rake Sermot would give a year's page
just to watch me break an on five if I drown?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
What Marlo, you don't know which Sermono had you messed
up for sticking your nose in the Bay City politics?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
No, no, but I can sure second guess it. It was
tough cop tactics all the way.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And you mean you won't help me?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, well, Ernie, really, I'm sorry, kid, but you better
get yourself an honest lawyer in the.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Bay City, you know. And Matt Phil, who'd have the
guts to knock heads with a police in this town,
especially when they got a custom tailored pigeon like me
standing by with one wing already clipped, Phil, Like it
looks like I'm murdered.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Grace.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, now, look, kid, I saved your life.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
One.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay, what's your address, Ernie?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
It's thirty eight four Lando Drive.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
A City was a snug seacoast town some twenty miles
southwest of la and about twice that distance from being
on the up and up. Its string of gambling houses
were politely winked at by some elements of the law
and its gamblers, and turned politely winked back while the
folding money passed from suck at a slick at a
crooked cop. But Bay City also was home to a
lot of honest fishermen, retired real estate brokers, and another
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element of the law, good cops, which side Detective Lieutenant
Rake Sterman was on. I'd never been able to figure.
He only added one way, all cops morning, noon and night.
That kind of made any private detective feel a little
less welcome than a leopard ell. An hour after Doc
I pulled up and parked well away from thirty eight
Orlando Street. Five minutes later, I was watching a nervous
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Ernie Parch wear out the cop in his Chebby living room.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
It was it was at Artminelli's place, Phill about a
year ago, the little casino. It's out north on the
edge of town. I've had a few drinks with some
of the guys who worked my gas station. One thing
led to another, and so finally we were out there
trying to pyramid fifty bucks into fifty thousand.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
That's when the cops came in.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Huh yeah, yeah, you know, one of those pre election
raids that looked good in the papers. You want to drink, No,
no thanks, but.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Look that raid couldn't have gotten you a year and
a day, Ernie.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh no, but the gun they found in my top
coat pocket could have.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
And did.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, thirty eight I'd never seen before in my life.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Plant.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Huh yeah, plant that. I could only figure two ways, Phil.
Either someone at art Manelli's place just happened to choose
my pocket to drop his gun intour, or someone just
happened to drop it in on purpose, someone who was
sweet on grace and wanted me out of the way.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh look, you're sure you know what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Ernie Positive, three hundred and sixty six days in prison
with only one miserable letter from her, convinced me that
in the word, I got a Gumbos place like this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Gumbo's Place.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, yeah, Gumbos Shabbier, the chickens joint run by a fat,
fright cook named Luke Mm. Grace worked there.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I stopped and just before I ran into Lieutenant rake'stermot.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Wait a minute, wait a minute, what do you mean
ran into Stermine? What happened?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, Phil, I I was on the street getting into
miicy DWN you see. Yeah, I picked it up from
a guy who was using it weather that was away.
When Strman pulled up alongside of me in a squad colony.
He started to tell me how much he likes seeing
ex cons back in Bay City.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
What interrupted him?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh, call on a police radio. But before he left,
he promised to drop around here sometime the night and
chat awhile.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And before that, at Gumbo's place, I found Grace. I'll
wait a minute, wait a minute, I've had enough for
any o. You found Grace and what we.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Had a fight, she admitted, running around said, I wasn't
worth waiting for, but she wouldn't say who was. I
slapped it hard.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Alright, take it easy, Grace is dead now murdered, remember.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, Yeah, she's dead. He and they're gonna tag me
for it.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Maybe. Now tell me what happened after you left gumbos h.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I ran into Sterman, like I said, yeah, And I
drove around for a couple hours to cool off. When
I got hold of myself, I I came back here
and I found her strangled at that.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
In that chair.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Phil, it was horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
What'd you do about it?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Erning, I? I, I'm not sure exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I yeah, I changed my mind, thanks Philip.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
No I I decided to get her out of here.
It was just getting dark, so I I waited a
little and and I carried her down the river stairs
and I put her in my car in the back seat.
I'd put a blanket over it. She still there, Phil,
I was gonna drive the car away. But well, I
I I I guess I I lost my nerve. Well
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I gotta do Phil, Sterman might be here any minute.
Then you gotta help me.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Must have don't do it. I'm sorry it alright, kidd
are the keys in the car. No, no, no, I
I got him. Hi.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I don't know, but you get out of here? Do something?
But what anything? Go to a movie. Act as relaxed
as you can't do anything except come back here for
the at least two hours.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Now, go on, alright, alright, Phil, whatever you say, uh uh,
go to a movie?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, right now, right away?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Thanks Phil, I know you'll get me.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Holidays.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Ernie Partcher's vote of confidence made comfortable listening for both
of us. When he was gone and I was down
the rear stairs and out to his car and the
alley keys in hand, I realized that it stopped right
there in the back seat. Then, in the light that
spilled from a nearby unshaded window, I saw I was
gonna have company, sharp pointed, elevated shoes, careful blue flannel,
and patting with their hair over a pasty base, all
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of it no more than five and a half feet
and held together by a hand painted tie that sported
a dap or knot the size of a cantalope.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Do you mean?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I wonder if you could help me. I'm looking for
any part uh thirty six Orlando Drive. I couldn't find
any number on this house? Is this it? Yeah? But
part isn't an he just left? Oh you know where
he went? No, No, it's alright, Carcious. I only want
to talk to him. My name is out In Mannella,
the friend of his. Uh and the Quintins you the same. Yeah,
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he went to a movie, mister Mannella. Yeah, I saw
the picture. So I'm going home, back to San Diego.
I lived there. Oh good, San Diego means yous one
oh one to the south and right past my next stop.
I came in a cab. Or don't those keys in
your hand there? Said that you're leaving?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I mean I don't wanna work presumptious or wait for
a taxi or wait for a tex mm tall I
get in? Or do you wanna slide over to the
driver's seat from here? I wanna slide now, if that's
alright with you?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Hm, perfectly tell me mister uh cru shutter c Yeah
he won Benes. But any personal business you, mister Manelli. Yes,
I wanted to see only about a good location. I
haven't mind for a new gas station. You know about
such things?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
No, no, and I don't think you do either, Menelly, unless,
of course, the pumps can be converted into roulette wheels.
Oh you know who I am? Man? Yeah, I also
know it's a little strange for you to show up
at Ernie's place the day after he gets out of
the state pen for a frame that took place at
you're a little casino.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
What are you getting at, mister Kusha?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
An outside chance that you yourself were responsible for that
frame that you're anxious to see, what, if anything Ernie
intends to do about it? Light's red, cus shutter, No fooler,
I'll tell me. Uh why would I want to frame
Ernie Park? I don't know. Could be Minelli that you
did it accidentally, you know, a little gun hidden in
a big hurry, or it could be had a tile
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reason huh like what like Grace Pratt? Very pretty girl?
You're out of your mind? Yeah, yeah, sure, I am
Minelly just plain nuts. So why don't you get out here?
It's up a nice saying taxi cab. It'll be safer, alright.
The goose he was tell me on the highway, shurey
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is a well go on what we ride and bike?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
See?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
No, I got stuff in that close that door and
beat him? Oh oh kay, happy fit for What stop
the cruise hupper? What kind do stop? Rumbanelle and my
bootlighter never got the word to believe me, Oh, but
I do the light green is the cruise huper? Soll uh.
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I went three short blocks. Then I got out of
the traffic and drove as far back toward Toronto Street
as a vacant lock. It was only a block away
for money. But after I wiped the wheel, the gear shift,
everything else, i'd touch the cream the prince, I left
us sit down as he is and walk back to
where it originally parked my own car behind the wheel
of my coop. I spent the next twenty minutes finding
gumbo shanty where grew the spot wouldn't baddy long leg
standing knee deep in the Pacific Ocean and circle at
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the waist by an imitation ship's deck for summer time
outdoor reading a gang plank let up from the street level,
And when I'd gone about half the length of it,
I saw something at the door I had shaped like
a bowling pin topped by a chef's hat, encompassed by
a yard and a half a hiccoch belt, and said
this had to be fat fry cook Blue Gumborski, returning
the reversibal sign from open the clothes.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Shy mister, I'm closing early tonight. Food's all gone alright,
How about a drink? I only want a quick shot gumbo, gumbo.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
You're a stranger here.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Now you know the name? Ah, it's written off ahead
and four foot letters. I keep my eyes open. Okay,
who on here?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Make it fast and I wanna hit the egg.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Uh you live here?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Way or scott Any didn't worry little information? Oh about
what girl who works for you? Grace parts. I don't
know anything about it? Mm, not even for five gumbo?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Make it a ten?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Okay ten? And the drink's on the house. Huh yeah, okay, mister.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Raise Potch's five foot two? Wives or Blue. Also, she
could work at six tonight like she does every night period.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Uh huh. Here's good yet. I tell me Wes she
been going where I learned he's been in stir well
another ten? Yeah for another ten on one condition, No
more lousy poems, gumbo, just few straight facts? Huh sure, sure,
another drink? I don't know facts?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
First, well, she been hanging around little Casino at Manelli's joint.
Huh yeah, Moneli's place. Well, a lot of people hang around.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
What are you standing at Gumbo window?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
He thought? I saw someone out there and a dick looking.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
In probably see girls. Forget it now look at.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Locking up to Uh sure it is someone get away
in the car?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Uh? Any idea who it was?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I said, any, I heard you.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Now go get out of here.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I think it easy, big guy. You got twenty buck
of it.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Yeah, there's your lovesy, twenty books and the drinks on
the house and good night.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
After one question, the guy in that car that just
took off was at Maneli.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
And I'll repeat myself, good night, mister.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, let it go at good night Gambo. But just
for now, I wasn't going to get any more out
of Gumbo, so I went back to my car, pointed
at north, toward the edge of town in the little
casino where I figured I might get lean. I men,
now he's whereabouts. Thirty minutes later, when I was there,
out of my car and standing in front of it,
looked like an oversized concrete blockhouse Salona and a parking
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lot the sides of the Colosseum. I figured different a
huge sign out front, red clothes for aderations where reopened soon,
bigger and better than ever. Gambling in Bay City was
obviously on the QT like an artillery barrage. At the
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time I got back to thirty eight around US nearly
three hours have gone by since I'd last seen on it.
As I standed up the step start the light in
his living room. What I wasn't happy over the like
of information I had for him. But when I opened
the door and saw it was waiting for me, and
it didn't many and won a huge beefy freckled hand.
There was the usual Police Department thirty eight revolvement. Hello kid.
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The ice cold gray eyes, a thick broken nose, a
nasty curl of the lips all belong to Bay City's
toughest homicide detective, Lieutenant Rake Stunner. Hello Marlow, I've been
waiting for you too long, kid? Why I would have
baked a little cake if I knew I was gonna
have this much time?
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Well's any parts coming? He's under arrest, kid, We found
his wife's body. He's under arrest for murder.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You know what else? Kid? Now? What else? Kid? So
are you.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
In just a moment the second act of Philip Marlowe.
But first, Fred Allen's crack that it's no wonder comedians
can't find work when singers go comical has had a
fast reply from Bing Crosby. Bing has invited Fred to
be his guest on his CBS show this Wednesday Night,
and you can get right into the very middle of
the argument on most of these same CBS stations where
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Bing Crosby show is see Wednesday Night. Be sure to
hear Fred Allen's visit to Bing show this Wednesday. Following
Groucho Marx and You Bet Your Life Now with our
star Gerald Moore, we returned to the second act of
Philip Marlowe and tonight's story The long Arms.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Lieutenant's terman moved toward me, curled the thick fingers of
his left handed to a fist myself with a blow
never can Instead, he shoved his face up close to mine,
and his mouth twisted into a one sided grin that
was as full of fun as a set of thumb screws.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
As you finally came through from me, didn't you, kid?
I don't know what you're talking about. I've been waiting
a long, long time for you to put something in
my town, Marlow where you can't run back across the
line and hide behind.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
The skirtch your cup friends over in La having yourself
a pipe dreams termin Jennet's German and don't forget it
real sorry, Oh sir, how don't mind explaining what this
is all about? That's one of my rights as a citizen,
you know, even in Bay City.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Whose I'm concerned killers ain't got me right.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I'll tell you you had nothing to do with Grace
Potcher's murders, so I can tell you why you're a
stinking liar private detective.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I suppose private detectives have no rights either, huh none.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
We found the girl's body in a car parked at
a vacant lot, and somebody overlooked a couple of fingerprints,
which I'm gonna match up with yoursmorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I'll come here.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
So sure, because we pulled Ernie Potch out of the
movies five minutes after we found White and Jailford's singing
bass city model, we don't hears her around with him,
demowits go Wait a minute, boy, you pushed too far
on the wrong track.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
There's an angle here. You want to know about it.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
It is always an angle with you, ain't there, right, boy?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, but you're gonna like this one first. In that
car you're so proud of. You're gonna find Prince from one,
not Manelli, gambler. That's right. One of those days in
operation when everybody else in Bay City is closed up,
they a better find out whose toes you just stepping
on down the city hall before you start out.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
We got problems in our tom people, but that's not
one of them. If you've got something intelligent, office phill
it without wise cracks.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
All right. I think Patch was framed a year ago
in Minnelli's joint. No done on Mannelly's orders. Why because
Grace Potch was a pretty girl with the inn for gamblers.
That's why all the time Ernie was in the cooler,
she was running down to Minelly's place. And I got
a witness to prove it. It also makes it the
kind of little cheat tramp that gets out of hand.
Go on, Nolly showed up here to night with no
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satisfactory reason for it. What's more, you warned or any
parts just this afternoon that you were keeping an eye
on him, even if he wanted to kill his wife.
He's not stupid. It will enough to have done it tonight.
From an LA standpoint, it was a perfect time, you see,
because you guys would go.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
For it just exactly as you have, so you push
stupid I did.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Look, I I know you got no use for me, star,
I'm sure a cop. After all, as long as somebody's
gotta take a rapid might as well be the right guy.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
You know what, sweetheart, what your fairy story makes savage listening,
just savage, not the mass.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Now get doing.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Too tired to take what I know he'd be given
him once for extern and got me inside the Bay
City headquarters. I made my decision fast. There were three
steps in the front porch of the wall, and he
was right behind me. I took the first two, then
turn and grab. He sailed over my shoulder and I
heard him lay flying on his back on the sidewalk.
As I rounded the corner of the house, I crossed
the backyard, bolted the fence, and put a hundred yards
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the valley between us before I even stopped to think,
and I went back to my car, drove down to
the water again. In Gumboski's Chicken Chanty, The place was
dark and locked up tight. I went around to the
back was living quarters were, and listened. Crocodile slithering over
the floor inside would have made the same sound. I
pushed the door open and went in. Was Gombowski all right?
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But you couldn't tell it from his face that had
been worked over long and hard by an expert. Oh
he didn't know I was there until I touched him.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Oh, good away, Oh girl, here, I'll gave you the
beating gumbo.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
O way off? How I took him up already?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
All right? Can I get up out? That's it? I
love gumbo. He told me one thing about adt Manelli.
The grace parts went was joined a lot and you
spotted somebody outside the window, and you clambed up. I
come back now, and I find you like this, isn't it?
Obviously you're wasting your time trying to protect them.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Shut off, shut off and get out.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Listen to me, your poor sap. I can't just see.
You're gotta be living with this from now on. Every
time he gets the is will get you another going
over to match this one. But he really gets jumpy
buster and then they'll do worse than that.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Don't you get it, guess him, and I know what'll
happen if I open my up again.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I'm just not gonna take that chance.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Don't you realize we'll never lick Manelly if we don't fight.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Leave me, Leave me alone. I'm not saying nothing. You
understand nothing, nothing one word I get out.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Come on, all right, you'm miserable. Second through talking.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
To you, don't take the other guy gave you a
LFE massage.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
By the time I'm through with you.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Here they put I'll stay where you are. I don't
want to kid you, mister, but I will unless you
beat it. I'd rather face that.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Than talk getting into deep. Aren't your gumbo? There's nothing
else I can do. Doing nothing to me, I know
which side my bridge buttered on.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, but she made one big mistake already. But what
do you mean you left yourself wide open for this coffee?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't that much time dropping the gun. Come on rubbing,
that's better. I'd just tell me one thing and I'll
leave you alone. All I wanna know is where I
can locate out in Nelly right now?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
He said this club, But they're a little casino.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
You're lying. I was down there. Its closed, it's being remodled.
Not I'm not lying, alright, you need some more rubbing.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Okay, okay. He's got a sweeter room downstairs under the club.
They're not being done over. That's where he lives. He
ought to be there now.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
But you gotta protect me. He's stomming the minenonia. He'll
kill me. He'll kill me.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
That's all I wanna know. It's all on gumbo. At
the first phone booth I came to, I stopped, looked
up a base city number, and made a call, which
took five minutes, and I went on to the little casino.
I parked on a side straight, then went down the
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ramp to the underground garage. In the rear, there was
a door between two or eight bronze urns Ali Baba size,
and I started tauding on a hunch. I stopped and
studied the decoration on one of the urns. I finally
found it a small hole in the side. I took
my handkerchief out and stepped in into the hole. From
(22:17):
somewhere inside the apartment, I heard a chime ring. I
got my gun out and tried the door, and it opened.
It into a long lush hall, where he straight at
the far end with a heavy gold curtain. I waded
through a green carpet deep enough to mole up to
the curtain and pulled it aside. Minnelli sat at a wide,
glossy desk, methodically filing his nails, his eyes staring straight
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at me. You got this far? Come on in, I'll
tell me you're all alone here? Menelly, No, I.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Got five hundred dancing girl, smart guy?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
What's on your mind? You act like you were expecting me.
I knew somebody was coming. There was an electric eye
and those brass jugs out of the door. Anybody passes it,
rings that chime there, satisfied? I watch with a gun,
put it away in a minute. Maybe Saint Lieutenant's terman tonight?
Why should I? He had been rubbing elbows with homicide.
I didn't kill anybody, No, I guess you didn't. I've
(23:14):
got a good idea. Who didn't earn it? Part? Of course?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Not?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Uh no, no chance. It was your business partner, Lieutenant
Rake's termined himself and five will get your tennis. Got
big news for you. Yeah, hey, right, steady, Marlow, don't
move well? Look what crawled out of the woodwork. I'll
got his gun raight, said Minnelli.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I'll take it myself.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I don't but you don't want.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
To Wait a minute, what is shut up? You said
you kill Rake's partch but you were in love with her.
But you used to meet her right here in this room. Yeah,
that was before she found out a couple of things
and began to put the pressure on me. We got
in a brief did then I lost my head and
I shut up.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, Marlow, let's have it. How'd you dope it? Oh?
And boys Ki took a beating the night just because
he mentioned Manelli here with a little more pressure mentioned
someone else, you sterman, And why would you shut Gumboiski
up about Manelli unless you and Manelli were connected? That
connection was all I needed right on the button, sweetheart,
(24:12):
for all the good it'll do. Yes, And I don't
get this.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I don't understand after anymore, You're through.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
He was hanging ray.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
You know too much about me, Manelli?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You know it all.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Wait, you can't do this, Yes, I can.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
In fact, Marlow, he gave me the idea, even worked
out all the motives, so it's easy. I came here
to arrest you for Grace Portcher's murder. You resisted and
I had to shoot you.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Not a shame.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
But about this turning part, I intended to hang it
on him, Manelli. But he's nothing to me. I don't
care if he lives or dies.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
But you, you're you're getting too big for your breeches anyway,
So this is better, and I get three birds with
one stone.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Grace Manelli, you wallow.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Before you start pulling the triggers termin you, But ask
your boy a couple of my waiting for you behind
that gold curtain there.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
You're a liar mallow like the guy would have tipped
us off if anybody else came in.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I blinded that I with my handkerchief on my way in.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Right, Dorney, how long you been there?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Quite long enough? Better drop it, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
I don't take of it from You's sargeant, you.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Do tonight, Chief himself sent us out.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah. I took the liberty of going over your head, Lieutenant,
just before I came in. Under the circumstances, you'll understand
why you better.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Drop it, lieutenant. Okay, Now come on, you two guys too,
Come along.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Quietly, sure, sure, always glad to ride with old Rake's
termin anytime at all, just as long as there's a
couple of policemen in the same car. Before it was
(25:56):
all over in the Bay City Police headquarters, everybody from
the mayor the dog catcher put his two cents in,
and I'd given the same answers to the same questions
at least fifty times, all about crooked cops and Rake
Stermoin in particular. But finally, hours later I was wait
to go home, and as I drove through the quiet streets,
(26:21):
I was still thinking about cops, this time the other kind,
the underpaid, over work cops had pound the city sidewalks
day and night. You know, the guys who do everything
from telling kids the way to the grocery store to
untangl him a rush hour traffic. Yeah, and I thought
(26:41):
about each one of the cops who someday chases a
hopped up gunman down a blind alley and doesn't get
home that night or any night ever again. And then
I forgot all about Rake Stermint, cause after all, he
was just one bad one in a multitude of good ones,
an insignificant sore on the long arm.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe bringing you Raymond Chandler's most
famous character, Star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
(27:26):
Norman McDonald and are written for radio by Robert Mitchell
and Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Barney Phillips,
Ted Osborne, Sidney Miller, Tom Tully and Britt Holland. The
special music is composed and conducted by Richard Urunt.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
He shurned be with us.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Again next week when Philip Marlowe says.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
It could have been perfect snowbound in a mountain lodge
with a girl was falling in love. But also present
were a widow sick with rage, a bitter old woman,
a jealous man, all with reason. They hate me more
than anyone else in the world.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Two all star bouts are promised on CBS this Wednesday night,
Bing Crosby faces Fred Allen across the CBS mike to
battle it out on who's funnier singers or comedians, and
in the second attraction, Gracy Allen and a smashed Fender
team up against not so gorgeous George Burns and a
guilty Conscience. This Wednesday also brings you Groucho Marx, his
(28:42):
ad libs and his teams of opposites on You Bet
Your Life and Doctor Christian, story about two redheads in love,
fun action variety. They're All Yours with Doctor Christian, Groucho Marx,
Bing Crosby and Fred Allen and George and Gracie On
most of these same CBS stations This Wednesday Night, this
(29:03):
is Roy Rowan speaking. Now, stay tuned for pursuit, which
follows immediately. On most of these same CBS stations, this
is CBS where Wednesday Night is Bing Crosby Night. The
(29:24):
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