November 17, 2025 • 29 mins
Richard Diamond, Private Detective was an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953. Dick Powell starred as Richard Diamond in the radio series as a wisecracking former police officer turned private detective. Episodes often had Diamond taking on a case at the behest of his friend and former partner, Lt. Walter Levinson. The plot remained relatively unchanged throughout the series, with the hard-boiled Diamond enduring physical confrontations while tackling a challenging murder investigation, aided by the police department. Notably, despite the numerous gun battles, Diamond was never injured by gunfire. Most episodes end with Diamond at the piano, singing a popular song to his girlfriend, Helen Asher. This radio program was later adapted successfully to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
The makers of Camel cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard
Diamond Private Detective. Steady Pack after pack smoking is the
(00:42):
only sensible way to tell how a cigarette will get
along with your throat. In a test from coast to coast,
hundreds of people smoked only camels for thirty days. Noted
throat specialists made weekly examinations and reported.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking camels.
Make your own camel thirty day test. Smoke only camels
for thirty days. See how well camels agree with your throat.
Pack after pack, Week after week.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You are transcribed as Richard Diamond Private Detective, starring Dick.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Powell Diamond Detective Agency.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Help, Rick, what's the matter?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Just that? Hell, I'm there, Help, I haven't had a
client in three weeks.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Ah, well, I'll take you to dinner tonight and fatten
you up.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
No, I'm not hungry. You couldn't just send the money,
could you?
Speaker 7 (01:48):
No?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Go ahead and starve? Berdie Parker asked me to dinner anyway.
You remember Ferdy?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Oh sure, your old boyfriend, the very old one.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Rick Ferdy is really a very nice boy, plays so
to horses. Oh do I go out.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
With foody hella and lose the chance of watching me
stuff myself. Now you tell Ferdy you've got to do
some research on a tapeworm.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I'll see you in ten minutes.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
Bye, good bye, Dyland.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
That's right, but I'm leaving. Now come back tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (02:29):
This won't wait, Lamar. My name's Duke Crandle.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
How do you do pretty well in the dark?
Speaker 10 (02:50):
I mean, Rick there.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
I know it's a nasty habit, but I get so
annoyed when people keep me waiting over an hour.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Oh hello, hello, Now I took a nap.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
That's nice.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Bye, honey, Honey, Now wait a minute. Thirteen guys just
beating me up.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
What did he look like?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Well? He he was very big and it was dark
and I couldn't see him.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Maybe it was Freddy Parker. He's really a brood at heart.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
No, this guy was breathing.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Rick, Did someone really hit you?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Honey? I may be kidding, but this bump on my
head isn't why the.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Man didn't just walk in?
Speaker 11 (03:23):
Did you?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
For no reason at all?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Did he? No, it's a hobby, Rick, Helen Ellen. If
you don't believe me, just sit tight.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
I'm going down to the fifth Precinct to see Walt Levinson.
I'll drop around to show you my bruises.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Hello, Rick, how's it? Well? What happened to you? I
got engaged. She was lovely used gunpowder. Better get a
beefsteak for that eye.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
My eye is not hungry. What I want now is
the hind a guy. Walt said, his name is Duke Crandell.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Well, we've been.
Speaker 12 (04:05):
Looking for the Duke ever since he jumped bail in
a blackmail charge.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Oh no, where he is now? If we did, he'd
be in jail.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
How did you get mixed up with him?
Speaker 8 (04:14):
I wish I knew he just came into the office
and saw only a fist full of dreams.
Speaker 12 (04:18):
You were sure it was the Duke, but he looked
like or couldn't see him too well in the dark.
He was a big guy or a flashy plaid overcoad. Yeah, yeah,
the old coat fits. Duke's natty dresser. You can look
over his record for yourself, Rick, You were so you're
looking for this guy, Yeah, somewhere in the city.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
It's anybody's guests.
Speaker 12 (04:41):
Where What about this blackmail charge? He was bleeding a
city official. Duke used to work for Benny Rathven the gambler.
Some think Benny was behind it, but Duke's the only
one we could grab off.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Who put up his bail? Yeah yeah, wow.
Speaker 12 (05:00):
We thought maybe Benny had killed Duke aff prey bailed
him out so he couldn't pin the job on him.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Hey, here's a package. I'm not to worry. He's still alive.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
I got the Bruges to prove it. What about this
Benny Rathman. You think he'd know where Duke is?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Hard to say he did. I think he'd try and
get rid of him.
Speaker 12 (05:22):
See, the DA has been trying to pin something on
Ben for a long time, and if we find Duke
and Benny is implicated in the blackmail, it'll.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Be the DA's meet. Oh I catch, I catch.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
So if Duke's smart, he he let Benny bail him
out and then goes in hiding before Benny can get
to him.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
That'll make him twice as hard to find. You're really
going looking for me? Yeah might as well.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
I don't mind getting slugged, but i'd like to know
the reason why. Thanks Wald, I left the Fifth Precinct
and hailed cab. The fresh air made my head feel better,
but my pride hurt all away to the blue Chip Club,
owned and operated by Benny Rethman. As we pulled up,
I lit a camel, came to a little and when
(06:08):
I walked inside the club, I found a dissipated pianist
playing warn out love songs on a worn out piano.
Speaker 12 (06:21):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Hi, I like my playing, not particularly me. Needa your
boss around.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Maybe back room?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Maybe alone again?
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Maybe thanks for the brilliant conversation. Maybe I enjoyed it.
Speaker 13 (06:57):
Hey, hello, Benny Diamond, don't you ever knock only a generman.
We'll grab a chair. Not every day we get a
visit from THEE. Richard Diamond.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Roll down your sleeves. Your goosebumps are showing.
Speaker 10 (07:12):
I'm allergic to stupid remarks.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Benny, Duke Crandell used to be on your payroll. Where
is he now?
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Looking for the Duke In? Now that's a coincidence, so
am I.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And you just don't happen to know where he is.
Speaker 10 (07:22):
Huh, that's right. I put a bail for Duke In
and he skipped. I don't like that.
Speaker 13 (07:26):
Go on, it's all do cost me a lot of money. Yeah,
I'd sure like to have a little chat with him.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
I bet Duke would wind up speechless. You know, if
he's caught, you will be in hot water.
Speaker 13 (07:38):
Benny, sure, I've been in hot water before, not recently.
Are be keep it up? I may grow to hate you.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I work on it.
Speaker 13 (07:46):
Look Diamond, That blackmail wraps all Dukes. I'm an honest businessman.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
That line you should be a comedian, Benny. Did Duke
ever mention my name around here?
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Maybe he used to swear a lot?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Ah, very funny.
Speaker 10 (08:01):
Why all less interest in Duke?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Snooper? I him something? That's all. I'd like to pay
my debts.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
Oh gee, I'm sure. Sorry, I can't help you.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Save the tears. Will I leave? Benny?
Speaker 10 (08:11):
Wait a minute here?
Speaker 13 (08:15):
What's this The address of Duke's old girlfriend names Patty Carroll.
She won't talk to me, but maybe she'll help you.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
It's worth a try.
Speaker 13 (08:22):
And if you should locate the Duke, let me know him.
I'd still like to have that little talk with him.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Maybe I will if he's in any condition to talk.
I left the blue chair and went across town to
the flat of one Patty Carroll. Benny described her as
a one time girlfriend of Duke's and when she opened
the door.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I had respect for Duke's taste. She had the kind
of figure that drives.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Architects mad, and any other type of man too.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
For that matter.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
Hi, you're the television man.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Uh do I look like a television man?
Speaker 14 (09:01):
How should I know?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
You're cute? Well? Thanks so you.
Speaker 14 (09:06):
I guess they could have cute television men.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I don't see why not, but I'm not one of them.
Speaker 14 (09:12):
Oh shoot, three days I've been waiting for that set.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Heartbreaking, ain't it?
Speaker 11 (09:17):
Though?
Speaker 14 (09:17):
My brother says, Patty, that's my name, Patty. He says,
you got to get a television set. See a lot
of educational programs and such. He says, it makes you
appreciate the finer things in life. You're ready, So I
get me a television set. But the guy ain't shown
up yet. What do you want?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Well, I'm glad you got around to that, Honey.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
I'm out a little information.
Speaker 14 (09:39):
I'm no library, I.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Have no bookworm.
Speaker 14 (09:42):
If I come in, all depends you a gentleman.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
All depends I eat with a fork. Hmm.
Speaker 14 (09:50):
You sure look all right? Only I wish you were
the television.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Man Patty at times. So do I.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Now?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
What's on your mo Duke crendalls.
Speaker 14 (10:02):
Oh you must be a cop, then, Hey, I like cops.
I used to think it was fun to date hoods.
But my brother says, Patty, that's what he calls me, Patty.
He says, you gotta quit running around with the hoods.
So now I like cops.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Hmmm, very commendable change.
Speaker 14 (10:17):
Yeah, Hooduo was getting sent to prison. And who did
you say you were looking for?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Duke Creandall? Oh?
Speaker 14 (10:24):
Yeah, I used to date Duke till my brother.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Said, uh, where's Duke now? Patty, I don't know.
Speaker 14 (10:30):
We broke up Duke and me. He was always slapping
me and ruining my makeup.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Look, honey, think hard. Will you do you know any
of Duke's friends who might know where he is?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Now?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Let me see.
Speaker 14 (10:42):
Yeah, I know one guy, Joey Thompson. Him and Duke
used to play cards every Friday.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Where does Thompson live?
Speaker 14 (10:48):
How should I know?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I just wish for thinking mind?
Speaker 14 (10:51):
If I use your phone, I guess not. Only don't
be long, the television man might be trying to cod me.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
This will only take a minute. Homicide. Well, I got
a problem. You know a guy named Joey Thompson. Thompson
I know, Charlie.
Speaker 12 (11:16):
Oh yeah, joe Thompson, I know it used to be
a small time pickpocket.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Where can I get in touch with him? Last?
Speaker 12 (11:21):
I already had a legit job runs a watch repair
shop on Fountain Street.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
You can get the address in the phone book. Thanks, well,
call your letter if anything develops, and thank you. Patty.
Speaker 14 (11:33):
You're leaving. Don't you want to stay and watch television when.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
He gets here?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Oh no, thanks, no, no, no. All that violence makes
me nervous.
Speaker 14 (11:41):
Well drop in again anytime.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Hoppy goes on at eight, doesn't he?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Patty had few brains and many curves and was the
type you hated to leave. But Joey Thompson might lead
me to do crandall and curves can be dangerous if
you don't watch your speed.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Always say the hall outside Patty's rock.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
And as I walked down it, I had the strangest
feeling that someone was behind me. Two seconds later, the
strange feeling became one I was thoroughly familiar with.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Oh oh. The walls spun around and I spun with him.
Speaker 11 (12:18):
But on the way down I caught sight of what
had hit me, an ugly blackjack held by an ugly
hand sticking out of the prettiest plaid overcoach you ever saw.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Before we continue with Richard Diamond, here is an important question.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Will one puff or one sniff tell you how mild
a cigarette is? No, but steady smoking. Will try Camels
for thirty days. As your steady smoke enjoy Camel's rich,
full flavor. Let your throat tell you how mild Camels are.
Pack after pack, week after week.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Hundreds of men and women from coast to coast made
the Camel thirty day test under the supervision of leading
throat specialists who examined their throats every week.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Those throat specialists reported not one single case of throat
irritation due to smoking Camels.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Start your own Camel thirty day test to night. You'll
get day in, day out proof of Camel's mildness and flavor.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And you'll know why. After all the mildness testing of
recent years, Camel leads all other brands in popularity by
billions a.
Speaker 11 (13:40):
Mile mile to mile cancer the red be more camelsancy.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And now back to Richard Diamond. Private Detectives starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
At approximately five PM, I had been worked over by
a man named Duke Crandall wearing a plaid overcoat. One
hour later, I received the second installment, again by the
man in the plaid overcoat.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Monotonous. You know it?
Speaker 14 (14:18):
Hey, Hey, wake up?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Oh come on, NAT's boy.
Speaker 14 (14:23):
You're right?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Oh yeah, well, my head feels like a mashed potato.
Speaker 14 (14:28):
I heard the noise outside. You shouldn't lie around on
the floor, so I dried you in here.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Oh, thank you, Thank you, Patty.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
I'll remember you in my will, which may be an
effect before long.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
Who sludge you?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Your old boyfriend, Duke.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Crandell, that bully?
Speaker 14 (14:42):
What you got against you?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
That's what I want to find out here?
Speaker 14 (14:46):
Let me fix that ice pack? No, thanks, Hey, you
shouldn't get up.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Now, I know I'd like to show off. Where's your phone.
Speaker 14 (14:54):
Book over there?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Thanks? Let's see pat A. What does tea come after?
Speaker 14 (15:02):
I should know.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Thompson Thompson.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Oh here it is Thompson Watch Repair, nineteen Fountain Street.
Speaker 14 (15:12):
You're going to see Joey.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
That's the general idea.
Speaker 14 (15:14):
That he won't talk to you. He can smell a
coup a mile away.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
They can't shoot me for trying. On the second thought,
maybe they can.
Speaker 14 (15:21):
Besides, maybe Duke ain't even in town. Maybe he's gone
back to Arkansas.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
No, he's still around.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
What did you say?
Speaker 14 (15:29):
I said, Maybe Duke's gone back to Arkansas. That's where
he came from.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Does Joey Thompson know that?
Speaker 14 (15:34):
I guess. So Duke's always blowing about it.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Thanks again, Patty.
Speaker 14 (15:39):
Okay, So you ain't going to drive in that condition,
are you?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Of course, I'm too dizzy to walk. I stepped out
into the hall. This time. I look carefully around to
make sure no plaid overcoats were following me. The hall was.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Empty, and immediately my head felt better. Ten minutes later
I arrived at Joey's watch repair shop on Fountain Street.
I stopped outside, pulled my pants up too high, turned
my hat rim back, and then went in.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Yeah, what can I do for you? My name's Harold
apple Knocker from Big Lake, Arkansas. How are you, mister applesucker?
Apple Knocker? Harold? Oh, well, you gotta watch once? Nope, nope,
never use them. Down home, we go with the sun
and the hogs.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
When the sun straight up it's noon, and when the
hogs hollereds dinner time.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Look pale. We don't repair hogs, now what do you want.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Well, sir, I'm I'm looking for a fellow named Crandaller. Oh,
Now I'm sure. What's that fella's first name? My prans
are King Erber. I don't know it's it's one of
the royalty fellas.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Duke. Maybe that's it, Duke, that's the fellow. Look at
the wrong place.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I beat it.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Oh, I've gone, And that's what everybody tells me. Sure
wish I could find that fella, give him his money
and go back home. The city lib is killing me.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Did you say money? Yeah, that's what I said.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Money players could be You see, my cousin Josh is
learning lawyer fellas, and this duke fella's uncle died and
left him some money. Uncle Josh sent me up here
to find him, and I'm gone. I sure wish I
could not much money? Friend, I don't really know, but
Uncle Josh says it's enough to buy a poker, pigs,
two or three farms.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
That'd be a lot. Huh, Sure would be, Fred, Sure
would be. Nuke could use him though, Yeah, sure you're
on the level. Well, I think so. I had to
come up a hill to get here, but I do name.
I never mind you got the money for Duke. Nope,
but I got this year's paper.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
I'm supposed to watch him sign and then Uncle Josh,
you'll send him the money.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Well wait a minute, you stay right there.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
So far, so good. Joey went into the back room
and I heard him dial. I couldn't hear the conversation,
but I knew he was talking to Duke. Two minutes
later he came back out.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Okay, pal, I'll take it a Duke.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Why now, that'd be right neighborly. Only I don't want
to take you away from your work, and just tell
me where I can find.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
M Duke says, to bring you the shop. Will keep
not move.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Joey locked the door, and then we went to his
car and drove to the warehouse section. He pulled up
in front of a deserted warehouse, stopped and blew his
horn twice.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Pretty soon, a big man wearing.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Striped trousers and a loud check sport code came out
of the warehouse and over to the car.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
This had to be Duke crandall, this is.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
A guy, Joey, Yeah, okay, Hicks, start talking. Er apple Knocker,
Harold apple Knocker. Locked that business? You told Joey, my
uncle left me some dough. Oh you ain't got an uncle, friend.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I was afraid of that.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, what's your name?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
How about a Swedish dialect? Got any uncles in Sweeden?
You see, Duke I told you over the phone he
was a fake.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Get out, Bud. I want to know where you were
looking for me.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I didn't know where you were. Get out, he said, all.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Right, maybe somebody followed this, Bud Joy. Drive back up
the alley and keep a look out. I'll take care
of him right in the ware house Western. That's good.
(19:45):
You better tell me what you wrangle.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I suppose you tell me first.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I don't get you.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Turn out a light.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
My name's Diamond, remember the guy you nominated for a
punching bag.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
You don't make sense what I don't know anyone named Diamond.
There are your lights. I still don't know you.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
You stand there and tell me you've never seen me before.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yeah, that's right. I suppose you do some talking.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Well, all I know is that a guy in a
plaid overcoat came into my office and said he was
Duke Crandall.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Then he sat me.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
An hour later, the same guy in the same overcoat
repeated the process.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
So you came looking for me, that's it. That's too bad.
I'm gonna have to take care of you, Diamond. You
might just mention where I'm hiding.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Ah, then Benny Rathman's really after you. Huh.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeah, it's too bad that you had to stumble into this.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
And I guess it just ain't my day.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
This is a lonely place. Let's get it over. Wait
a minute, must be Joey, Hey, Joey, Joey.
Speaker 13 (20:52):
Joey's taking a little nap. Dude, you don't turn this
away with that, gunny, you'll be a dead man.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
The man with a threat.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
Benny Rathman standing in the doorway with a forty five
in his hand, and what interested me was his wearing apparel,
a flashy plaid overcoat.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Well doo, you picked a nice hurt away and thanks.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Diamon whatever you mean. You're not welcome for.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Finding Duke smart boy.
Speaker 13 (21:18):
You see, I knew you'd never take my money if
I try to hire you to find him, so I
posed as him in this overcoat. I know you get
mad enough and look for him on your own.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Well, aren't you cute?
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Thanks? It was easy tailed you and you brought me
right here here.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Look, Benny, let's talk all this overy. I wasn't gonna
rat on you. Hey, look, I'll even take the rap
on that blackmail's joy.
Speaker 13 (21:38):
I like you, but business is business. Oh no, but
STOOKI now you, Diamon.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I was afraid you'd get around to that, But then
I'm not really worried.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
You're not a very good shot, even at close range.
You didn't even kill Duke.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Get him, Duke. The roofs worked, and Benny turned around quickly.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
He was too far away from me to lunchad him,
so I grabbed the next best thing.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
The light switch.
Speaker 13 (22:11):
All right, Diamond, I should have expected some trick from you,
but I've got lots of time.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
You got no gun. Let's play cat and mouse.
Speaker 13 (22:20):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I crouched behind some crates as Benny came closer. He
was right about the gun. I felt as helpless as
a rabbit in the traffic jam. And then I noticed
there were three crates piled on top of the one
I was behind. It was a long chance, but better
than none at all. Then he got closer, and I awaited.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
It'll be soon, Diamond.
Speaker 13 (22:52):
I'm getting accustomed to the dark now, I'll find a
light switch soon and I'll get you.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
The crate, said Betty, and knocked him off balance.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
I raced out and lunged in the general vicinity of
a plaid overcoat. My left hand caught a flabby stomach
and the gun went clattering to the floor. Then my
free right hand went hunting for a bobbing head.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
It found it, all right, all right, Betty? Get up.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Oh, I beg your pardon and I'll quote you on that.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
On the upsy easy.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
A boy, My head hurts, doesn't it. But you know, Benny,
you hit me twice today and I've only hit you once.
Now that's hardly fair.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Is it. How's your eye?
Speaker 14 (24:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Still at half mass?
Speaker 6 (24:15):
You put this steak on it?
Speaker 8 (24:16):
That that's a whole cow. You can feed a family
with that thing.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
Now stop clowning and put it on your eye.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Oh all right?
Speaker 14 (24:27):
Notice anything different?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Yeah? It covers my whole face.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
No, I mean about me.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
No new dress, new hairdoo, while you're too young for
new teeth, I give.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Up new perfume.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Smell nice? Yeah, what's the occasion?
Speaker 14 (24:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
After you broke the dinner date?
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Freddy Park had dropped in for.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
A little while Oh good for Freddy. Did you make
it undis? Rick, aren't you even a little bit jealous?
Of course not, honey, I'm broad minded.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
You mean fixed gold, Helen.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
There, I was only kidding. I noticed something different as
soon as I came here. Oh yeah, I finally got
your piano tone.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Rick.
Speaker 15 (25:18):
When we are dancing and you're dangerously near me, I
get ideas.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I get ideas.
Speaker 15 (25:29):
I want to hold you so much closer than I
dare too. I want to scold you because I care
more than I care to.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
And when you touch me in thus fire and everything.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Get ideas. Oh, I get ideas.
Speaker 15 (25:48):
And after we have kissed good night, and still you linger.
I kind of think you get ideas too. Your eyes
are always saying things you're never saying. I only hope
they're saying that you could love me too, for that's
the whole idea. It's true, that lovely idea that I
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fall in love with you.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Mm hmm, I am.
Speaker 14 (26:24):
I'm also wearing a new lipstick.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Why, Helen, aren't we full of surprises? Tonightme here.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
And people feel sorry for me when I get beat up.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
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Speaker 5 (26:55):
And here's the reason.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Millions of Americans have discovered Camel's rich, delightful flavor, a
flavor no other cigarette has. They found out how mild
camels are, How well camels agree with their throats.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Start enjoying the cigarette that's enjoyed most in America. Start
enjoying mild flavorful camels tonight.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
How mild mile mile mile?
Speaker 10 (27:20):
How mild can a cigarette be?
Speaker 14 (27:23):
Make the Camel thirty day test, and you.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
See small camels and sea.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message, thank you, ladies
and gentlemen. In nineteen fifty two, as in the past,
the makers of Camels will continue to send thousands of
packs of Camels to hospitalized men and women of the
Armed forces every week.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
This week, the.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Gift camels go to veterans hospitals Wichita, Kansas and Montgomery, Alabama.
US Army Station Hospital, Fort Custer, Michigan, US Naval Hospital Pensacola, Florida,
and to the Military Air Transport Service, which evacuates virtually
all over sees wounded personnel. Now until next week, enjoy camels,
(28:05):
I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Dick Powell can now be seen starring in the Universal
International film You Never Can Tell. Tonight's transcribed adventure of
Richard Diamond was written by Dick Carr with music by
Frank Worth. Our director was Nat Wolff. Virginia Gregg played
the part of Helen Asher. Alan Reid was Lieutenant Levinson.
Others in the cast were Herb Butterfield, Sidney Miller, Sandra Gould,
and Sheldon Leonard.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
There's more genuine pipe smoking pleasure in Prince Albert.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Let the singers tell you why.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
The bite is out and the pleasures in.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
When you small Prince Albert.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
It's specially treated not to bite your tongue.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
The bite is out and the pleasures.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
In pipe with Prince Albert the national joy smoke, the
bites out and.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
The pleasures in. And now there's more tobacco in every ten.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
This is your FBI.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
The official broadcast from the files of the FBI follows immediately.
Stay tuned. This program came to you from Hollywood. This
is the American Broadcasting Company
The makers of Camel cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard
Diamond Private Detective. Steady Pack after pack smoking is the
(00:42):
only sensible way to tell how a cigarette will get
along with your throat. In a test from coast to coast,
hundreds of people smoked only camels for thirty days. Noted
throat specialists made weekly examinations and reported.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking camels.
Make your own camel thirty day test. Smoke only camels
for thirty days. See how well camels agree with your throat.
Pack after pack, Week after week.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
You are transcribed as Richard Diamond Private Detective, starring Dick.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Powell Diamond Detective Agency.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Help, Rick, what's the matter?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Just that? Hell, I'm there, Help, I haven't had a
client in three weeks.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Ah, well, I'll take you to dinner tonight and fatten
you up.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
No, I'm not hungry. You couldn't just send the money,
could you?
Speaker 7 (01:48):
No?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Go ahead and starve? Berdie Parker asked me to dinner anyway.
You remember Ferdy?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Oh sure, your old boyfriend, the very old one.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Rick Ferdy is really a very nice boy, plays so
to horses. Oh do I go out.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
With foody hella and lose the chance of watching me
stuff myself. Now you tell Ferdy you've got to do
some research on a tapeworm.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I'll see you in ten minutes.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
Bye, good bye, Dyland.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
That's right, but I'm leaving. Now come back tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (02:29):
This won't wait, Lamar. My name's Duke Crandle.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
How do you do pretty well in the dark?
Speaker 10 (02:50):
I mean, Rick there.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
I know it's a nasty habit, but I get so
annoyed when people keep me waiting over an hour.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Oh hello, hello, Now I took a nap.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
That's nice.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Bye, honey, Honey, Now wait a minute. Thirteen guys just
beating me up.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
What did he look like?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Well? He he was very big and it was dark
and I couldn't see him.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Maybe it was Freddy Parker. He's really a brood at heart.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
No, this guy was breathing.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Rick, Did someone really hit you?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Honey? I may be kidding, but this bump on my
head isn't why the.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Man didn't just walk in?
Speaker 11 (03:23):
Did you?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
For no reason at all?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Did he? No, it's a hobby, Rick, Helen Ellen. If
you don't believe me, just sit tight.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
I'm going down to the fifth Precinct to see Walt Levinson.
I'll drop around to show you my bruises.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Hello, Rick, how's it? Well? What happened to you? I
got engaged. She was lovely used gunpowder. Better get a
beefsteak for that eye.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
My eye is not hungry. What I want now is
the hind a guy. Walt said, his name is Duke Crandell.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Well, we've been.
Speaker 12 (04:05):
Looking for the Duke ever since he jumped bail in
a blackmail charge.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Oh no, where he is now? If we did, he'd
be in jail.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
How did you get mixed up with him?
Speaker 8 (04:14):
I wish I knew he just came into the office
and saw only a fist full of dreams.
Speaker 12 (04:18):
You were sure it was the Duke, but he looked
like or couldn't see him too well in the dark.
He was a big guy or a flashy plaid overcoad. Yeah, yeah,
the old coat fits. Duke's natty dresser. You can look
over his record for yourself, Rick, You were so you're
looking for this guy, Yeah, somewhere in the city.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
It's anybody's guests.
Speaker 12 (04:41):
Where What about this blackmail charge? He was bleeding a
city official. Duke used to work for Benny Rathven the gambler.
Some think Benny was behind it, but Duke's the only
one we could grab off.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Who put up his bail? Yeah yeah, wow.
Speaker 12 (05:00):
We thought maybe Benny had killed Duke aff prey bailed
him out so he couldn't pin the job on him.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Hey, here's a package. I'm not to worry. He's still alive.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
I got the Bruges to prove it. What about this
Benny Rathman. You think he'd know where Duke is?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Hard to say he did. I think he'd try and
get rid of him.
Speaker 12 (05:22):
See, the DA has been trying to pin something on
Ben for a long time, and if we find Duke
and Benny is implicated in the blackmail, it'll.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Be the DA's meet. Oh I catch, I catch.
Speaker 8 (05:34):
So if Duke's smart, he he let Benny bail him
out and then goes in hiding before Benny can get
to him.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
That'll make him twice as hard to find. You're really
going looking for me? Yeah might as well.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
I don't mind getting slugged, but i'd like to know
the reason why. Thanks Wald, I left the Fifth Precinct
and hailed cab. The fresh air made my head feel better,
but my pride hurt all away to the blue Chip Club,
owned and operated by Benny Rethman. As we pulled up,
I lit a camel, came to a little and when
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I walked inside the club, I found a dissipated pianist
playing warn out love songs on a worn out piano.
Speaker 12 (06:21):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Hi, I like my playing, not particularly me. Needa your
boss around.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Maybe back room?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Maybe alone again?
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Maybe thanks for the brilliant conversation. Maybe I enjoyed it.
Speaker 13 (06:57):
Hey, hello, Benny Diamond, don't you ever knock only a generman.
We'll grab a chair. Not every day we get a
visit from THEE. Richard Diamond.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Roll down your sleeves. Your goosebumps are showing.
Speaker 10 (07:12):
I'm allergic to stupid remarks.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Benny, Duke Crandell used to be on your payroll. Where
is he now?
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Looking for the Duke In? Now that's a coincidence, so
am I.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And you just don't happen to know where he is.
Speaker 10 (07:22):
Huh, that's right. I put a bail for Duke In
and he skipped. I don't like that.
Speaker 13 (07:26):
Go on, it's all do cost me a lot of money. Yeah,
I'd sure like to have a little chat with him.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
I bet Duke would wind up speechless. You know, if
he's caught, you will be in hot water.
Speaker 13 (07:38):
Benny, sure, I've been in hot water before, not recently.
Are be keep it up? I may grow to hate you.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I work on it.
Speaker 13 (07:46):
Look Diamond, That blackmail wraps all Dukes. I'm an honest businessman.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
That line you should be a comedian, Benny. Did Duke
ever mention my name around here?
Speaker 10 (07:55):
Maybe he used to swear a lot?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Ah, very funny.
Speaker 10 (08:01):
Why all less interest in Duke?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Snooper? I him something? That's all. I'd like to pay
my debts.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
Oh gee, I'm sure. Sorry, I can't help you.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Save the tears. Will I leave? Benny?
Speaker 10 (08:11):
Wait a minute here?
Speaker 13 (08:15):
What's this The address of Duke's old girlfriend names Patty Carroll.
She won't talk to me, but maybe she'll help you.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
It's worth a try.
Speaker 13 (08:22):
And if you should locate the Duke, let me know him.
I'd still like to have that little talk with him.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Maybe I will if he's in any condition to talk.
I left the blue chair and went across town to
the flat of one Patty Carroll. Benny described her as
a one time girlfriend of Duke's and when she opened
the door.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I had respect for Duke's taste. She had the kind
of figure that drives.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Architects mad, and any other type of man too.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
For that matter.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
Hi, you're the television man.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Uh do I look like a television man?
Speaker 14 (09:01):
How should I know?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
You're cute? Well? Thanks so you.
Speaker 14 (09:06):
I guess they could have cute television men.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I don't see why not, but I'm not one of them.
Speaker 14 (09:12):
Oh shoot, three days I've been waiting for that set.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Heartbreaking, ain't it?
Speaker 11 (09:17):
Though?
Speaker 14 (09:17):
My brother says, Patty, that's my name, Patty. He says,
you got to get a television set. See a lot
of educational programs and such. He says, it makes you
appreciate the finer things in life. You're ready, So I
get me a television set. But the guy ain't shown
up yet. What do you want?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Well, I'm glad you got around to that, Honey.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
I'm out a little information.
Speaker 14 (09:39):
I'm no library, I.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Have no bookworm.
Speaker 14 (09:42):
If I come in, all depends you a gentleman.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
All depends I eat with a fork. Hmm.
Speaker 14 (09:50):
You sure look all right? Only I wish you were
the television.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Man Patty at times. So do I.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Now?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
What's on your mo Duke crendalls.
Speaker 14 (10:02):
Oh you must be a cop, then, Hey, I like cops.
I used to think it was fun to date hoods.
But my brother says, Patty, that's what he calls me, Patty.
He says, you gotta quit running around with the hoods.
So now I like cops.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Hmmm, very commendable change.
Speaker 14 (10:17):
Yeah, Hooduo was getting sent to prison. And who did
you say you were looking for?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Duke Creandall? Oh?
Speaker 14 (10:24):
Yeah, I used to date Duke till my brother.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Said, uh, where's Duke now? Patty, I don't know.
Speaker 14 (10:30):
We broke up Duke and me. He was always slapping
me and ruining my makeup.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Look, honey, think hard. Will you do you know any
of Duke's friends who might know where he is?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Now?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Let me see.
Speaker 14 (10:42):
Yeah, I know one guy, Joey Thompson. Him and Duke
used to play cards every Friday.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Where does Thompson live?
Speaker 14 (10:48):
How should I know?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
I just wish for thinking mind?
Speaker 14 (10:51):
If I use your phone, I guess not. Only don't
be long, the television man might be trying to cod me.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
This will only take a minute. Homicide. Well, I got
a problem. You know a guy named Joey Thompson. Thompson
I know, Charlie.
Speaker 12 (11:16):
Oh yeah, joe Thompson, I know it used to be
a small time pickpocket.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Where can I get in touch with him? Last?
Speaker 12 (11:21):
I already had a legit job runs a watch repair
shop on Fountain Street.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
You can get the address in the phone book. Thanks, well,
call your letter if anything develops, and thank you. Patty.
Speaker 14 (11:33):
You're leaving. Don't you want to stay and watch television when.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
He gets here?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Oh no, thanks, no, no, no. All that violence makes
me nervous.
Speaker 14 (11:41):
Well drop in again anytime.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Hoppy goes on at eight, doesn't he?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Patty had few brains and many curves and was the
type you hated to leave. But Joey Thompson might lead
me to do crandall and curves can be dangerous if
you don't watch your speed.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Always say the hall outside Patty's rock.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
And as I walked down it, I had the strangest
feeling that someone was behind me. Two seconds later, the
strange feeling became one I was thoroughly familiar with.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Oh oh. The walls spun around and I spun with him.
Speaker 11 (12:18):
But on the way down I caught sight of what
had hit me, an ugly blackjack held by an ugly
hand sticking out of the prettiest plaid overcoach you ever saw.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Before we continue with Richard Diamond, here is an important question.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Will one puff or one sniff tell you how mild
a cigarette is? No, but steady smoking. Will try Camels
for thirty days. As your steady smoke enjoy Camel's rich,
full flavor. Let your throat tell you how mild Camels are.
Pack after pack, week after week.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Hundreds of men and women from coast to coast made
the Camel thirty day test under the supervision of leading
throat specialists who examined their throats every week.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Those throat specialists reported not one single case of throat
irritation due to smoking Camels.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Start your own Camel thirty day test to night. You'll
get day in, day out proof of Camel's mildness and flavor.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And you'll know why. After all the mildness testing of
recent years, Camel leads all other brands in popularity by
billions a.
Speaker 11 (13:40):
Mile mile to mile cancer the red be more camelsancy.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
And now back to Richard Diamond. Private Detectives starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
At approximately five PM, I had been worked over by
a man named Duke Crandall wearing a plaid overcoat. One
hour later, I received the second installment, again by the
man in the plaid overcoat.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Monotonous. You know it?
Speaker 14 (14:18):
Hey, Hey, wake up?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Oh come on, NAT's boy.
Speaker 14 (14:23):
You're right?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Oh yeah, well, my head feels like a mashed potato.
Speaker 14 (14:28):
I heard the noise outside. You shouldn't lie around on
the floor, so I dried you in here.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Oh, thank you, Thank you, Patty.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
I'll remember you in my will, which may be an
effect before long.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
Who sludge you?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Your old boyfriend, Duke.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Crandell, that bully?
Speaker 14 (14:42):
What you got against you?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
That's what I want to find out here?
Speaker 14 (14:46):
Let me fix that ice pack? No, thanks, Hey, you
shouldn't get up.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Now, I know I'd like to show off. Where's your phone.
Speaker 14 (14:54):
Book over there?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Thanks? Let's see pat A. What does tea come after?
Speaker 14 (15:02):
I should know.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Thompson Thompson.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Oh here it is Thompson Watch Repair, nineteen Fountain Street.
Speaker 14 (15:12):
You're going to see Joey.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
That's the general idea.
Speaker 14 (15:14):
That he won't talk to you. He can smell a
coup a mile away.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
They can't shoot me for trying. On the second thought,
maybe they can.
Speaker 14 (15:21):
Besides, maybe Duke ain't even in town. Maybe he's gone
back to Arkansas.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
No, he's still around.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
What did you say?
Speaker 14 (15:29):
I said, Maybe Duke's gone back to Arkansas. That's where
he came from.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Does Joey Thompson know that?
Speaker 14 (15:34):
I guess. So Duke's always blowing about it.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Thanks again, Patty.
Speaker 14 (15:39):
Okay, So you ain't going to drive in that condition,
are you?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Of course, I'm too dizzy to walk. I stepped out
into the hall. This time. I look carefully around to
make sure no plaid overcoats were following me. The hall was.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Empty, and immediately my head felt better. Ten minutes later
I arrived at Joey's watch repair shop on Fountain Street.
I stopped outside, pulled my pants up too high, turned
my hat rim back, and then went in.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Yeah, what can I do for you? My name's Harold
apple Knocker from Big Lake, Arkansas. How are you, mister applesucker?
Apple Knocker? Harold? Oh, well, you gotta watch once? Nope, nope,
never use them. Down home, we go with the sun
and the hogs.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
When the sun straight up it's noon, and when the
hogs hollereds dinner time.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Look pale. We don't repair hogs, now what do you want.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Well, sir, I'm I'm looking for a fellow named Crandaller. Oh,
Now I'm sure. What's that fella's first name? My prans
are King Erber. I don't know it's it's one of
the royalty fellas.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Duke. Maybe that's it, Duke, that's the fellow. Look at
the wrong place.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I beat it.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Oh, I've gone, And that's what everybody tells me. Sure
wish I could find that fella, give him his money
and go back home. The city lib is killing me.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Did you say money? Yeah, that's what I said.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Money players could be You see, my cousin Josh is
learning lawyer fellas, and this duke fella's uncle died and
left him some money. Uncle Josh sent me up here
to find him, and I'm gone. I sure wish I
could not much money? Friend, I don't really know, but
Uncle Josh says it's enough to buy a poker, pigs,
two or three farms.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
That'd be a lot. Huh, Sure would be, Fred, Sure
would be. Nuke could use him though, Yeah, sure you're
on the level. Well, I think so. I had to
come up a hill to get here, but I do name.
I never mind you got the money for Duke. Nope,
but I got this year's paper.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
I'm supposed to watch him sign and then Uncle Josh,
you'll send him the money.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Well wait a minute, you stay right there.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
So far, so good. Joey went into the back room
and I heard him dial. I couldn't hear the conversation,
but I knew he was talking to Duke. Two minutes
later he came back out.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Okay, pal, I'll take it a Duke.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Why now, that'd be right neighborly. Only I don't want
to take you away from your work, and just tell
me where I can find.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
M Duke says, to bring you the shop. Will keep
not move.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Joey locked the door, and then we went to his
car and drove to the warehouse section. He pulled up
in front of a deserted warehouse, stopped and blew his
horn twice.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Pretty soon, a big man wearing.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Striped trousers and a loud check sport code came out
of the warehouse and over to the car.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
This had to be Duke crandall, this is.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
A guy, Joey, Yeah, okay, Hicks, start talking. Er apple Knocker,
Harold apple Knocker. Locked that business? You told Joey, my
uncle left me some dough. Oh you ain't got an uncle, friend.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
I was afraid of that.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, what's your name?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
How about a Swedish dialect? Got any uncles in Sweeden?
You see, Duke I told you over the phone he
was a fake.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Get out, Bud. I want to know where you were
looking for me.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I didn't know where you were. Get out, he said, all.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Right, maybe somebody followed this, Bud Joy. Drive back up
the alley and keep a look out. I'll take care
of him right in the ware house Western. That's good.
(19:45):
You better tell me what you wrangle.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I suppose you tell me first.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I don't get you.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Turn out a light.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
My name's Diamond, remember the guy you nominated for a
punching bag.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
You don't make sense what I don't know anyone named Diamond.
There are your lights. I still don't know you.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
You stand there and tell me you've never seen me before.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yeah, that's right. I suppose you do some talking.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Well, all I know is that a guy in a
plaid overcoat came into my office and said he was
Duke Crandall.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Then he sat me.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
An hour later, the same guy in the same overcoat
repeated the process.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
So you came looking for me, that's it. That's too bad.
I'm gonna have to take care of you, Diamond. You
might just mention where I'm hiding.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Ah, then Benny Rathman's really after you. Huh.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeah, it's too bad that you had to stumble into this.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
And I guess it just ain't my day.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
This is a lonely place. Let's get it over. Wait
a minute, must be Joey, Hey, Joey, Joey.
Speaker 13 (20:52):
Joey's taking a little nap. Dude, you don't turn this
away with that, gunny, you'll be a dead man.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
The man with a threat.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
Benny Rathman standing in the doorway with a forty five
in his hand, and what interested me was his wearing apparel,
a flashy plaid overcoat.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Well doo, you picked a nice hurt away and thanks.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Diamon whatever you mean. You're not welcome for.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Finding Duke smart boy.
Speaker 13 (21:18):
You see, I knew you'd never take my money if
I try to hire you to find him, so I
posed as him in this overcoat. I know you get
mad enough and look for him on your own.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Well, aren't you cute?
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Thanks? It was easy tailed you and you brought me
right here here.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Look, Benny, let's talk all this overy. I wasn't gonna
rat on you. Hey, look, I'll even take the rap
on that blackmail's joy.
Speaker 13 (21:38):
I like you, but business is business. Oh no, but
STOOKI now you, Diamon.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I was afraid you'd get around to that, But then
I'm not really worried.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
You're not a very good shot, even at close range.
You didn't even kill Duke.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Get him, Duke. The roofs worked, and Benny turned around quickly.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
He was too far away from me to lunchad him,
so I grabbed the next best thing.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
The light switch.
Speaker 13 (22:11):
All right, Diamond, I should have expected some trick from you,
but I've got lots of time.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
You got no gun. Let's play cat and mouse.
Speaker 13 (22:20):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I crouched behind some crates as Benny came closer. He
was right about the gun. I felt as helpless as
a rabbit in the traffic jam. And then I noticed
there were three crates piled on top of the one
I was behind. It was a long chance, but better
than none at all. Then he got closer, and I awaited.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
It'll be soon, Diamond.
Speaker 13 (22:52):
I'm getting accustomed to the dark now, I'll find a
light switch soon and I'll get you.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
The crate, said Betty, and knocked him off balance.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
I raced out and lunged in the general vicinity of
a plaid overcoat. My left hand caught a flabby stomach
and the gun went clattering to the floor. Then my
free right hand went hunting for a bobbing head.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
It found it, all right, all right, Betty? Get up.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Oh, I beg your pardon and I'll quote you on that.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
On the upsy easy.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
A boy, My head hurts, doesn't it. But you know, Benny,
you hit me twice today and I've only hit you once.
Now that's hardly fair.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Is it. How's your eye?
Speaker 14 (24:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Still at half mass?
Speaker 6 (24:15):
You put this steak on it?
Speaker 8 (24:16):
That that's a whole cow. You can feed a family
with that thing.
Speaker 14 (24:20):
Now stop clowning and put it on your eye.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Oh all right?
Speaker 14 (24:27):
Notice anything different?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Yeah? It covers my whole face.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
No, I mean about me.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
No new dress, new hairdoo, while you're too young for
new teeth, I give.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Up new perfume.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Smell nice? Yeah, what's the occasion?
Speaker 14 (24:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
After you broke the dinner date?
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Freddy Park had dropped in for.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
A little while Oh good for Freddy. Did you make
it undis? Rick, aren't you even a little bit jealous?
Of course not, honey, I'm broad minded.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
You mean fixed gold, Helen.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
There, I was only kidding. I noticed something different as
soon as I came here. Oh yeah, I finally got
your piano tone.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Rick.
Speaker 15 (25:18):
When we are dancing and you're dangerously near me, I
get ideas.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I get ideas.
Speaker 15 (25:29):
I want to hold you so much closer than I
dare too. I want to scold you because I care
more than I care to.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
And when you touch me in thus fire and everything.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Get ideas. Oh, I get ideas.
Speaker 15 (25:48):
And after we have kissed good night, and still you linger.
I kind of think you get ideas too. Your eyes
are always saying things you're never saying. I only hope
they're saying that you could love me too, for that's
the whole idea. It's true, that lovely idea that I
(26:13):
fall in love with you.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Mm hmm, I am.
Speaker 14 (26:24):
I'm also wearing a new lipstick.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Why, Helen, aren't we full of surprises? Tonightme here.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
And people feel sorry for me when I get beat up.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Camel's lead all other brands in popularity by billions.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
And here's the reason.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Millions of Americans have discovered Camel's rich, delightful flavor, a
flavor no other cigarette has. They found out how mild
camels are, How well camels agree with their throats.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Start enjoying the cigarette that's enjoyed most in America. Start
enjoying mild flavorful camels tonight.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
How mild mile mile mile?
Speaker 10 (27:20):
How mild can a cigarette be?
Speaker 14 (27:23):
Make the Camel thirty day test, and you.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
See small camels and sea.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message, thank you, ladies
and gentlemen. In nineteen fifty two, as in the past,
the makers of Camels will continue to send thousands of
packs of Camels to hospitalized men and women of the
Armed forces every week.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
This week, the.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
Gift camels go to veterans hospitals Wichita, Kansas and Montgomery, Alabama.
US Army Station Hospital, Fort Custer, Michigan, US Naval Hospital Pensacola, Florida,
and to the Military Air Transport Service, which evacuates virtually
all over sees wounded personnel. Now until next week, enjoy camels,
(28:05):
I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Dick Powell can now be seen starring in the Universal
International film You Never Can Tell. Tonight's transcribed adventure of
Richard Diamond was written by Dick Carr with music by
Frank Worth. Our director was Nat Wolff. Virginia Gregg played
the part of Helen Asher. Alan Reid was Lieutenant Levinson.
Others in the cast were Herb Butterfield, Sidney Miller, Sandra Gould,
and Sheldon Leonard.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
There's more genuine pipe smoking pleasure in Prince Albert.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Let the singers tell you why.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
The bite is out and the pleasures in.
Speaker 10 (28:49):
When you small Prince Albert.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
It's specially treated not to bite your tongue.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
The bite is out and the pleasures.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
In pipe with Prince Albert the national joy smoke, the
bites out and.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
The pleasures in. And now there's more tobacco in every ten.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
This is your FBI.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
The official broadcast from the files of the FBI follows immediately.
Stay tuned. This program came to you from Hollywood. This
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