October 13, 2025 • 19 mins
In this 15-minute mystery from The Unexpected, Lyle Talbot stars as deep-sea diver Tom Stevenson, a man drawn into a web of deception and greed when a mysterious widow offers him a fortune to recover lost treasure from a sunken ship off the coast of Hawaii. But as the dive grows darker and the truth rises to the surface, Stevenson learns that fate—and fortune—can turn in the most unexpected ways.
Produced in Hollywood and syndicated across the country, The Unexpected ran during 1947–1948, offering compact dramas with twist endings reminiscent of Suspense and The Whistler. Cargo Unknown is a sharp example of the series’ flair for irony and moral surprise, delivered with brisk pacing and atmospheric sound design.
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Produced in Hollywood and syndicated across the country, The Unexpected ran during 1947–1948, offering compact dramas with twist endings reminiscent of Suspense and The Whistler. Cargo Unknown is a sharp example of the series’ flair for irony and moral surprise, delivered with brisk pacing and atmospheric sound design.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey are you Adam Graham?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The very same and this is my old time radio
snack wagon.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon, where we
serve up a bite sized portion of old time radio.
And now here's your snack wagon, host Adam Graham.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Two of the most popular old time radio series are
the anthologies The Suspense and The Whistler. Both nearly always
had a big twist ending at the end, but they
were far from the only anthologies like this. Today's series
(00:47):
is much in the same Vein, however, was a quarter
hour program. The series is called The Unexpected, and it
was syndicated in nineteen forty seven and nineteen forty eight.
There is very little documentation on the series. We can
state that it originated from Hollywood and it was syndicated
(01:12):
throughout the country. One thing I found while researching it
was an ad for the program by a sponsor in Nashville, Tennessee,
in this case an insurance company who wanted to remind
people that it isn't an accident if it isn't unexpected,
(01:33):
and to state that their insurance company protects you against
the unexpected. Knowing how the series was presented throughout the country,
we can go ahead and take a listen to the episodes.
So here from August eighth, nineteen forty seven is Cargo.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Unknown from Hollywood Lyle Talbot.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
In the Unexpected, the unexpected, the unexpected.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Life is filled with the unexpected, romantic, tragic, and mysterious
endings to our most ordinary actions. Dreams come true, or
dreams are shattered by sudden twists of fate.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
In the Unexpected.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
But first, a word from your announcer and now Lyle Talbot,
(03:36):
famous motion picture and stage star in Cargo Unknown, a
drama of the unexpected.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
My dear Lorna, No, dear missus Andrews. Yeah, that's better, Comma,
you'll no doubt remember me you should. I am the long, lean,
wide eyed lad you approached. I think that's the word approach.
That sticky afternoon in the bar at Gingers, you were
looking your best black hair on white shoulders and not
(04:11):
too much of a salmon pink dress. So I turned
around and stared. After all, deep sea diving is a
lonely business.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Do you buy me a drink or do I buy
you one?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
That depends on whether I'm a gentleman or not?
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Well are you?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That depends on.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
You, Mike, give us a couple of the same.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Okay, coming up. Now do we use names.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
It's simpler. I'm Lorna Andrews.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Here's to you, Lorna. Here's to you.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Tom Oh, yes, I know your name.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
I've been following you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That was necessary.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I want to talk to you about business before pleasure.
I hear you're the guy I've been looking for.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Offhand, i'd say you were right.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
I hope so, Tommy, because there's a lot of money
waiting for us, for you and me, an awful lot.
How much enough in round figures? Over two million?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I like round figures.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
When do we go after it?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That depends on where it is?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
About one hundred and seventy five feet down.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That's pretty deep.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Oh, you look like a big, strong boy to you
can get it.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
One hundred and seventy five feet is a lot of water,
especially when you're under it.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
I wouldn't know, but they tell me you're the only
diver in Honolulu who could make it better.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Give me the whole picture, Lada.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
All right, you fit up a boat, we take a
little sail, and then you go swimming where I'll let
you know when we get there.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Not all then uh uh, sorry, Lorna, what's the matter?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I don't buy it and not a very legitimate guy,
but I like to do legitimate business.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Makes for a nice contrast.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
What's wrong with this set up?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Plenty?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
If there was that much money lying around, somebody else
would be after it, probably in insurance for shipping companies.
So you're either looking for something you shouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Or just lie. I'd like it better if you will lie.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
It's the truth.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Tom Okay, have it your way, but a woman like
you ought to have more important things to lie about
than money. So long, Lorna, and thanks for the drink.
So I walked out on you, Missus Andrews, and right
into the grinning face of our mutual friend, mister Komar.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Missus Andros is an interesting woman, isn't she, mister Stephenson.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Does she interests you? No?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Not exactly, But I too, am concerned with the matter
of the Mary Arnold, who oh as us Your women
are so secretive and it is so unnecessary. Mary Arnold,
there is a ship now lying off Monacayrie. Everyone knows
she is there.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Then what's the secret? Har cargo?
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Mister Stephenson, har carago?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now you begin to interest me, mister.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Ohm, but I Callma and let me tell you everything.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, start weaving, I got broad shoulders.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Ah, but you must take this seriously, mister Stevenson. It
is a very serious matter.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You see, the late.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Mister Andrews, law Ona's husband, was a passenger about the
Mary Arnold, and in behold he placed a valuable cargo.
Valuable in the summer of two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
What kind of cargo?
Speaker 8 (07:25):
No one knows for sure. Until I arrived last week,
no one knew of the existence of this cargo, not
even the bereaved widow, missus Andrews.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Why did Andrews confide in you? Oh he didn't.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
The Mary Arnold was one of the last ships to
escape Shanghai before the arrival of Japanese. When she sank,
everyone thought that her cargo was worthless, and since mister
Andrews perish with the ship, there was no one to
correct this erroneous impression. But I have evidence to the contrary.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I like to see evidence, mister comar. It always satisfies
my curiosity.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Ah.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Yes, But of course here beers of leading official and certified.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Howard Andrews Shanghai to Honolula via the ss Mary Arnold
seal containers estimated value two million dollars American signed arm
Workerman's Son, Shanghai.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Where'd you get this?
Speaker 8 (08:23):
I found it? Yeah, yes, mister Stephenson last month going
through some old records in the shipping office. It was
sheer luck, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Why don't you take this to Missus Andrews?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Unfortunately I did, but she seems to feel that the
percentage I require is more than she wishes to pay.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So so that's where I come in, of course.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
And I assure you that working with me can be
most profitable, while on the other hand, cooperating with Missus
Andrews could prove disastrous, even fatal, if you follow my meaning.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm ware ahead of you, Komar.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Good, but just one thing, Yeah, don't ever get too
far ahead.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
I made a tentative appointment with mister Komar, went back
into the bar and did some tall thinking over a
tall rank, and I looked up your address in the
phone book and went out to your simple little five
hundred dollars a month apartment near Diamond Head.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Hello, Tom, I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well I'm here.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
You were all rouged, powdered and neglige ade and looking
very fetching.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
Indeed, can I get you a drink?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I think we better talk business first before pleasure. Yeah.
I saw mister Komar this afternoon. He offered me a deal.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Are his facts straight? Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You didn't know about this cargo before?
Speaker 7 (09:54):
No, there were a lot of things my husband didn't
tell me.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
He was a bad boy something. Suppose I take the
job for you. Fine, My price is expenses and ten
percent of whatever we find.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Komar offered you more than that.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Didn't he Well, maybe I think the stuff belongs to you.
Or maybe I just like working with you better than
with Komar.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Maybe when do we start?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
As soon as I get a boat fitted up.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
It's a deal, Tommy, and you don't worry about your percentage.
I'll make it with you.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
While I didn't keep my appointment with mister Komar, we
were too busy. Two weeks later we had the salvage
ship fitted out and anchored just off Molokai Reef. We
checked the equipment, We tested the pumps, looked over the airline,
and checked my suit. Then I slipped into my thirty
(10:45):
two pound boots and was ready for the helmet when
you came up and got your lips in the way.
This is just fluck, Tommy. Thanks you helped me put
on my helmet, and I climbed over the side and
into the glistening green water. Down I went, feeling very
(11:09):
much like an elephant with two trunks, into the quiet
of a notion with a bottom one hundred and seventy
five treacherous feet below me. The ghostly undersea light faded
as I dropped, and I was all alone in a
black world, black as death. Ten minutes later, I hit
bottom and switched on my searchlight, and there she was
(11:32):
right in front of me, a gaping hole in her side,
and still painted on her stern the words Ss.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Mary Arnold, Honolulu.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
I reached out with one of my hooks and pounded
on the hull. The sound disturbed the giant squid, and
he swam out past me. I stepped in beside him
and walked forward. The pile of seal aluminum containers was
sitting in the hole, waiting for me like I pride.
(12:03):
One of the moments, and there it was that neat
little packages of currency and large denominations currency, millions and
millions of dollars.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
You think the story is over, don't you good? Wait,
fate takes a hand. Wait for the unexpected.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
M h.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
And now for the surprising conclusion of Cargo Unknown, Hamilton
Whitney production starring Lyle Talbot, written by Robert Libbert and
Frank Burt, and directed by Frank K. Danzig.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I surfaced slowly, my arms loaded with the stuff. When
I got to the day, you were waiting for me,
Missus Andrews, but you weren't alone.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
I'll take that money, mister Stevenson.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
How'd you get here? Komar a speedboat?
Speaker 8 (14:08):
I decided to let you do the work and to
content myself with the profits. Now I'll take that money.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Okay, stop waving your little pistol here. You're welcome to it.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
You can't and you would go down for the rest.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
If you really want it.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
John?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
There are millions of dollars that belongs to me, do
us You can't just give it away?
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Please don't.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Please make it easy, Lorna, and you too, Komar. Sure,
there's millions of dollars, probably eight a nine million. The
Bill of Waiting said it was worth two million American
that is correct, and it was ten years ago. What
do you mean these are Chinese dollars, friends, they've gone
down a little in value.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I remember right at the last rate of exchange, the
whole business is worth about five hundred bucks.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
And so, my dear missus Andrews, I'm enclosing my bill
for six thousand dollars expenses. You can forget about my percentage.
I don't expect that you'll pay this bill, but I
believe in trying yours truly. Thomas J.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Stevenson, Cargo Unknown starred Lyle Talbot. Listen again soon for
another of your favorite motion picture stars in a drama
(15:41):
of the unexpected. This program was transcribed in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Welcome Back. Actually a pretty effective little mystery with a nice,
if not entirely original twist. You'll often find many productions,
say of the nineteen thirties and maybe even later, telling
stories where the big treasure, what we might call the mcguffin,
(16:54):
is discovered to be Confederate money utterly worthless, but you
can make it a little more relevant in the wake
of World War Two, where the end result of the
war left a lot of currency either worthless or severely devalued,
as was the case here. They managed to capture the
(17:18):
really good core of a story in fifteen minutes with
two manipulative people trying to play our hero for a
full although only one ends up paying the bill. Lyle
Talbot is an interesting choice for this radio play as
he didn't do a lot of radio. He did a
(17:39):
massive amount of film and television starting the nineteen thirties
and continuing until the nineteen eighties. Outside of that, he
did a few episodes of this series. He did a
couple episodes of the American leagus and history series Inheritance,
and then in the nineteen sixties did a few episodes
(18:03):
of the Episcopal church radio series The Search. But it
wasn't because he couldn't do radio. He did a good
job playing this sort of morally gray protagonist who still
manages to get the upper hand at the end. This
is definitely a series I'd like to revisit again, and
(18:24):
if we find another good one, it won't be at
all unexpected. It's time for me to close up the
old snackwagon, but don't worry, we'll be back with another
serving of old time radio goodness. Before you know it.
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(18:44):
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Speaker 3 (18:51):
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(19:16):
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Speaker 2 (19:29):
Until next time. Goodbye,
Hey are you Adam Graham?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The very same and this is my old time radio
snack wagon.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon, where we
serve up a bite sized portion of old time radio.
And now here's your snack wagon, host Adam Graham.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Two of the most popular old time radio series are
the anthologies The Suspense and The Whistler. Both nearly always
had a big twist ending at the end, but they
were far from the only anthologies like this. Today's series
(00:47):
is much in the same Vein, however, was a quarter
hour program. The series is called The Unexpected, and it
was syndicated in nineteen forty seven and nineteen forty eight.
There is very little documentation on the series. We can
state that it originated from Hollywood and it was syndicated
(01:12):
throughout the country. One thing I found while researching it
was an ad for the program by a sponsor in Nashville, Tennessee,
in this case an insurance company who wanted to remind
people that it isn't an accident if it isn't unexpected,
(01:33):
and to state that their insurance company protects you against
the unexpected. Knowing how the series was presented throughout the country,
we can go ahead and take a listen to the episodes.
So here from August eighth, nineteen forty seven is Cargo.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Unknown from Hollywood Lyle Talbot.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
In the Unexpected, the unexpected, the unexpected.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Life is filled with the unexpected, romantic, tragic, and mysterious
endings to our most ordinary actions. Dreams come true, or
dreams are shattered by sudden twists of fate.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
In the Unexpected.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
But first, a word from your announcer and now Lyle Talbot,
(03:36):
famous motion picture and stage star in Cargo Unknown, a
drama of the unexpected.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
My dear Lorna, No, dear missus Andrews. Yeah, that's better, Comma,
you'll no doubt remember me you should. I am the long, lean,
wide eyed lad you approached. I think that's the word approach.
That sticky afternoon in the bar at Gingers, you were
looking your best black hair on white shoulders and not
(04:11):
too much of a salmon pink dress. So I turned
around and stared. After all, deep sea diving is a
lonely business.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Do you buy me a drink or do I buy
you one?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
That depends on whether I'm a gentleman or not?
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Well are you?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
That depends on.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
You, Mike, give us a couple of the same.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Okay, coming up. Now do we use names.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
It's simpler. I'm Lorna Andrews.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Here's to you, Lorna. Here's to you.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Tom Oh, yes, I know your name.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
I've been following you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That was necessary.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
I want to talk to you about business before pleasure.
I hear you're the guy I've been looking for.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Offhand, i'd say you were right.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
I hope so, Tommy, because there's a lot of money
waiting for us, for you and me, an awful lot.
How much enough in round figures? Over two million?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I like round figures.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
When do we go after it?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That depends on where it is?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
About one hundred and seventy five feet down.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That's pretty deep.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Oh, you look like a big, strong boy to you
can get it.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
One hundred and seventy five feet is a lot of water,
especially when you're under it.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
I wouldn't know, but they tell me you're the only
diver in Honolulu who could make it better.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Give me the whole picture, Lada.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
All right, you fit up a boat, we take a
little sail, and then you go swimming where I'll let
you know when we get there.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Not all then uh uh, sorry, Lorna, what's the matter?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I don't buy it and not a very legitimate guy,
but I like to do legitimate business.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Makes for a nice contrast.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
What's wrong with this set up?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Plenty?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
If there was that much money lying around, somebody else
would be after it, probably in insurance for shipping companies.
So you're either looking for something you shouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Or just lie. I'd like it better if you will lie.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
It's the truth.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Tom Okay, have it your way, but a woman like
you ought to have more important things to lie about
than money. So long, Lorna, and thanks for the drink.
So I walked out on you, Missus Andrews, and right
into the grinning face of our mutual friend, mister Komar.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Missus Andros is an interesting woman, isn't she, mister Stephenson.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Does she interests you? No?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Not exactly, But I too, am concerned with the matter
of the Mary Arnold, who oh as us Your women
are so secretive and it is so unnecessary. Mary Arnold,
there is a ship now lying off Monacayrie. Everyone knows
she is there.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Then what's the secret? Har cargo?
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Mister Stephenson, har carago?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now you begin to interest me, mister.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Ohm, but I Callma and let me tell you everything.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, start weaving, I got broad shoulders.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Ah, but you must take this seriously, mister Stevenson. It
is a very serious matter.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You see, the late.
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Mister Andrews, law Ona's husband, was a passenger about the
Mary Arnold, and in behold he placed a valuable cargo.
Valuable in the summer of two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
What kind of cargo?
Speaker 8 (07:25):
No one knows for sure. Until I arrived last week,
no one knew of the existence of this cargo, not
even the bereaved widow, missus Andrews.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Why did Andrews confide in you? Oh he didn't.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
The Mary Arnold was one of the last ships to
escape Shanghai before the arrival of Japanese. When she sank,
everyone thought that her cargo was worthless, and since mister
Andrews perish with the ship, there was no one to
correct this erroneous impression. But I have evidence to the contrary.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
I like to see evidence, mister comar. It always satisfies
my curiosity.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Ah.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Yes, But of course here beers of leading official and certified.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Howard Andrews Shanghai to Honolula via the ss Mary Arnold
seal containers estimated value two million dollars American signed arm
Workerman's Son, Shanghai.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Where'd you get this?
Speaker 8 (08:23):
I found it? Yeah, yes, mister Stephenson last month going
through some old records in the shipping office. It was
sheer luck, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Why don't you take this to Missus Andrews?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Unfortunately I did, but she seems to feel that the
percentage I require is more than she wishes to pay.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So so that's where I come in, of course.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
And I assure you that working with me can be
most profitable, while on the other hand, cooperating with Missus
Andrews could prove disastrous, even fatal, if you follow my meaning.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm ware ahead of you, Komar.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Good, but just one thing, Yeah, don't ever get too
far ahead.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
I made a tentative appointment with mister Komar, went back
into the bar and did some tall thinking over a
tall rank, and I looked up your address in the
phone book and went out to your simple little five
hundred dollars a month apartment near Diamond Head.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Hello, Tom, I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well I'm here.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
You were all rouged, powdered and neglige ade and looking
very fetching.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
Indeed, can I get you a drink?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I think we better talk business first before pleasure. Yeah.
I saw mister Komar this afternoon. He offered me a deal.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Are his facts straight? Uh?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You didn't know about this cargo before?
Speaker 7 (09:54):
No, there were a lot of things my husband didn't
tell me.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
He was a bad boy something. Suppose I take the
job for you. Fine, My price is expenses and ten
percent of whatever we find.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Komar offered you more than that.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Didn't he Well, maybe I think the stuff belongs to you.
Or maybe I just like working with you better than
with Komar.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Maybe when do we start?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
As soon as I get a boat fitted up.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
It's a deal, Tommy, and you don't worry about your percentage.
I'll make it with you.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
While I didn't keep my appointment with mister Komar, we
were too busy. Two weeks later we had the salvage
ship fitted out and anchored just off Molokai Reef. We
checked the equipment, We tested the pumps, looked over the airline,
and checked my suit. Then I slipped into my thirty
(10:45):
two pound boots and was ready for the helmet when
you came up and got your lips in the way.
This is just fluck, Tommy. Thanks you helped me put
on my helmet, and I climbed over the side and
into the glistening green water. Down I went, feeling very
(11:09):
much like an elephant with two trunks, into the quiet
of a notion with a bottom one hundred and seventy
five treacherous feet below me. The ghostly undersea light faded
as I dropped, and I was all alone in a
black world, black as death. Ten minutes later, I hit
bottom and switched on my searchlight, and there she was
(11:32):
right in front of me, a gaping hole in her side,
and still painted on her stern the words Ss.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Mary Arnold, Honolulu.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
I reached out with one of my hooks and pounded
on the hull. The sound disturbed the giant squid, and
he swam out past me. I stepped in beside him
and walked forward. The pile of seal aluminum containers was
sitting in the hole, waiting for me like I pride.
(12:03):
One of the moments, and there it was that neat
little packages of currency and large denominations currency, millions and
millions of dollars.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
You think the story is over, don't you good? Wait,
fate takes a hand. Wait for the unexpected.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
M h.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
And now for the surprising conclusion of Cargo Unknown, Hamilton
Whitney production starring Lyle Talbot, written by Robert Libbert and
Frank Burt, and directed by Frank K. Danzig.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I surfaced slowly, my arms loaded with the stuff. When
I got to the day, you were waiting for me,
Missus Andrews, but you weren't alone.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
I'll take that money, mister Stevenson.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
How'd you get here? Komar a speedboat?
Speaker 8 (14:08):
I decided to let you do the work and to
content myself with the profits. Now I'll take that money.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Okay, stop waving your little pistol here. You're welcome to it.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
You can't and you would go down for the rest.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
If you really want it.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
John?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
There are millions of dollars that belongs to me, do
us You can't just give it away?
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Please don't.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Please make it easy, Lorna, and you too, Komar. Sure,
there's millions of dollars, probably eight a nine million. The
Bill of Waiting said it was worth two million American
that is correct, and it was ten years ago. What
do you mean these are Chinese dollars, friends, they've gone
down a little in value.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I remember right at the last rate of exchange, the
whole business is worth about five hundred bucks.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
And so, my dear missus Andrews, I'm enclosing my bill
for six thousand dollars expenses. You can forget about my percentage.
I don't expect that you'll pay this bill, but I
believe in trying yours truly. Thomas J.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Stevenson, Cargo Unknown starred Lyle Talbot. Listen again soon for
another of your favorite motion picture stars in a drama
(15:41):
of the unexpected. This program was transcribed in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Welcome Back. Actually a pretty effective little mystery with a nice,
if not entirely original twist. You'll often find many productions,
say of the nineteen thirties and maybe even later, telling
stories where the big treasure, what we might call the mcguffin,
(16:54):
is discovered to be Confederate money utterly worthless, but you
can make it a little more relevant in the wake
of World War Two, where the end result of the
war left a lot of currency either worthless or severely devalued,
as was the case here. They managed to capture the
(17:18):
really good core of a story in fifteen minutes with
two manipulative people trying to play our hero for a
full although only one ends up paying the bill. Lyle
Talbot is an interesting choice for this radio play as
he didn't do a lot of radio. He did a
(17:39):
massive amount of film and television starting the nineteen thirties
and continuing until the nineteen eighties. Outside of that, he
did a few episodes of this series. He did a
couple episodes of the American leagus and history series Inheritance,
and then in the nineteen sixties did a few episodes
(18:03):
of the Episcopal church radio series The Search. But it
wasn't because he couldn't do radio. He did a good
job playing this sort of morally gray protagonist who still
manages to get the upper hand at the end. This
is definitely a series I'd like to revisit again, and
(18:24):
if we find another good one, it won't be at
all unexpected. It's time for me to close up the
old snackwagon, but don't worry, we'll be back with another
serving of old time radio goodness. Before you know it.
If you want to enjoy some of our longer form podcasts,
you can feast away at my website at Great Detectives
(18:44):
dot net. Your emails are also welcome at Adam at
snackwagon dot net.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
The Old Time Radio snack Wagon comes to you from Boise, Idaho.
Your host is Adam Graham. Sound production is by Ryan's
Media La Well. You can listen to past episodes of
the Old Time Radio Snackwagon as well as connect on
social media at our website at snackwagon dot net. Email
suggestions for episodes to Adam at snackwagon dot net. This
(19:16):
has been the Old Time Radio Snackwagon.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Until next time. Goodbye,
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