September 27, 2025 • 38 mins
Original Release Date: July 24, 2023
Today's Mystery:A foreign correspondent, whom Sam was hired to bodyguard, is murdered while giving a lecture.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 12, 1951
Originated from HollywoodStarred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher, William Conrad
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Today's Mystery:A foreign correspondent, whom Sam was hired to bodyguard, is murdered while giving a lecture.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 12, 1951
Originated from HollywoodStarred Steven Dunne as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie, Wally Maher, William Conrad
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month. Well, now it's timefor this week's episode of the Adventures of
Sam Spade. The original airdate Januarytwelfth, nineteen fifty one, and the
title is The Red star Keeper.The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of
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Sam Spade Detective Say detect Agency SWAT. Most of the day is done and
you haven't even come into the awfulI slept in than did you have a
given line? Rather, didn't youread the papers today? What? Oh?
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I've given up reading the papers.It's a full of bad news.
Lateney ell are especially full of badnews today. What happened you did your
bowling team? Fear? Thank younot to mention my bowling team in public.
It's just a matter of getting alittle exercise, and it didn't lose
at one even without me. Itonly seems to win when you got planning,
Iffy, don't forget your position anyway. How do we get on this
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bowling kick? We're supposed to betalking about something else. I thought like,
why, oh, yes, well, well this one has more than
local complications in free gap, foreigncorrespondence, dirty work on a grand scale.
It's international in scope. You'll chillwith me, You'll thrill with me.
Half rogue and half renegade. It'sSam Spade in The Red Star Caper
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for NBC. William Spear, Radio'soutstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama
brings you the greatest private detective ofthem all in the Adventures of Sam Spade.
Effie, I'm here at that time. Well, I'm here, it's
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at that time, Effie. Yousound more like a shrew every day.
Thank you, fan. I'm justbeing practical. You know, how can
we make money if you don't shutup? I had to turn away three
clients today. I'm thinking of quittingprivate detecting anyway. Really, what would
you do? Well? Well,I know reporters job that's open. Now,
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how would that sound, Scoop Spade? My beat is the universe?
That sounds terrible. Sam, you'dmake a silly report. You can't even
tie sometimes, Effie, you hitthe nail right on the points where it
hurts. Let's get down the business. Well. Watch us date January twelfth,
nineteen fifty one to Lieutenant I seeKelsey homicide detail, San Francisco Police
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from Samuel Spade, license number onethree seven, five nine six, subject
the Red Star Caper. You're Kelsey. It had been some time since I
had attended a lecture. In fact, the last one I can remember is
when Margaret Sanger passed through town.But last night, at eight o'clock I
filed into the Central Municipal Auditorium alongwith several hundred other people, including college
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students, newspapermen, professors of politicalscience, the usual curious compliment, and
a goodly sprinkling of snuffling indigence whowelcomed any easy means of escaping the cold
wind that booted through the mission districtat this time of the year, any
gable the pleasure sies no. Manypolitically minded phases gathered in his auditorium tonight.
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So let the world know that somany of us as trying to keep
a crest of the fast moving andsometimes confusing events of our coupled days.
Serves as a graphic example to thosewho would try to take our liberties away
from us that we are ever alertedand that we will continue to defend those
liberties only by taking every opportunity todisplay our willingness to understand and act on
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the problems that face us, andwe serve notice to the world that we
are ever ready to pick up thegauntlet of international challenge, whenever or wherever
it may be thrown down. Thesubject for tonight is are we helping our
enemies? And our speaker scarcely needsintroduction, But just in case there are
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a few hermits in our audience whohave never owned a radio assessness in a
newspaper in the past ten years.Well, just in case there are,
let me introduce a man who reallyneeds no introduction, the most distinguished foreign
correspondent, Cyrus Manning. I'm aGerman I'm believing it is a gentlemen.
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Are we happy your enemies? Thatis the question. My answer, in
a word, is yes. Andthat answer is not his charo advice.
I have just returned from the thoroughcoverage of the audience. I have business
of the tragic blood, so batterhere's a career. I've talked with the
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military leaders of the Armed Capital Promoter. I've taught them nervous defense the side
of the Philippines and Japan. AndI had even made two secret pips in
Goodni though, right into the lastionof the communist stronghold on the Chinaman.
And this is not a part thispetulary from this visity. Hippens are being
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made regularly to Rich China. Iwas sitting halfway up the hole when the
lights went out. I cut fora side aisle and raced for the stage.
Someone was running for my back exit, and I followed him. I
was too late. The hard rodeout of the back alley and was gone.
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On the stage, someone had rundown the curtain. Cyrus Manning was
on the floor and the chairman wasbending over him. He's dead. They
almost shot me too. Let mesee now you're right there's nothing anybody can
do for him right now. Thelights went out and then the shot.
Well, this is the most terriblething that ever happened to me. So
you shall I ask him to getup and call the police, or do
you think that, with one lastdying effort, you might do call him.
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I'll call him. I guess hedid get the worst of it.
I guess he did. And that'show the news reached you, Kelsey.
I suppose you want to know howI happened to be at a lecture where
the lecturer happened to be shot.Well, I'll tell you, and don't
think it makes me happy. Yousee, I was supposed to be his
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body guy. Now let's start atthe beginning SHOWE. It's early afternoon.
I stupid hero is sitting around tryingto break the code on a scratch sheet.
I'll only the clients. Who isit? The tribute only probably has
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me confused with mister X, butI'll take it anymore. Yeah, Jack,
you have a hero of Sarah's manningSam a foreign correspondent. Yeah,
that's the one. He's in town. He got here yesterday. Well,
what is it a benefits? Youwant me to do? Client tricks.
He's a bodyguard. I don't knowanybody else would be crazy enough to take
the job, so I called you. Oh gee, thanks. Read the
letters to the editor call Um tomorrowfor my reply. I didn't know whether
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you take the job, but Isent him over to see you anyway.
What does he want to be bodyguarded against? Well, I'll let him
tell you about it, Sam,but I'll give you a clue. Their
home base runs west from the centerof Berlin, east slightly below the thirty
eighth parallel Rose. People. Theyare only two or three hundred million of
them. I shouldn't have any trouble, and you'll take the job, Samp.
Who's playing? We are fifty aday? Sixty? Haven't you heard
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of the cost of living index?All right, it's a deal. That's
one thing. Sam. If youhave a good picture of yourself taken recently,
kid, we'd appreciate a copy.Why probably that is possible? Obituary
Davis, what are you saying?If I don't see you again, Sam,
good luck? I quit. Iwill take the job, Davis.
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Effie, I'm leaving time for afew days after look, throw some things
in my suitcase in the clocket.I don't suppose his name is Cyrus Manning.
Would you ever get Oh it waseasy, easy, I just thought
of a name of a man Iwould least like to see. Send him
in. And sometimes I just can'tunderstand you. I have the same trouble.
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I'll send him in. I forgotabout the suitcase. I am not
going to succumb to his stilia.Are you sure you're all right? Of
course I am. On these troubledtimes, we must keep our heads cool
and our powder drive. I'll sendthem in. Thank you, thank you,
hell, how do you do?Spade? Sit down? Sit down?
Oh thank you? Oh man youwere Could you lift up your hat
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brim so I could see your faceand maybe even tank on through a trench
heir? I never take them off, Spade. They're the mock of my
profession. The life of a phonecorrespondent isn't his own. You know.
I might be whisk off to Berlinor Siberian a matter of minutes. Sometimes
even Stephenie goes, well, nobest, I wore this trench coat when
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I interviewed Hitler, when I stoodknee deep in water on the shores of
the Philippines next to Dara. Whythe commandant of the prison camp didn't dare
to take it off of me whenI was captured by the Chinese rillas.
And when mister care for a drink? Yeah yeah, thank you, sir,
I see you a poem DP.Well here's the crime. No est
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a minute. I never drink withoutfirst offering special toast. Offer me the
great white wings of the thunderbird.Much like over your grade A literal translation
of an old Tibeccan tools a swell. So well, boys, it probably
loses something in the translation. It'sgood to get back to the States where
they have real liquor. I'm gettingtired of saki and Korean moonshine. I
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didn't know they had time to makeit right. Let's get down to business,
Spade. This is my problem.I have been no respective of censorship
or official red take. That's whyI've scored some of my biggest newsbeaks.
I'll take it your working on onenow, the biggest. You know that
material really been shipped out of SanFrancis foot of the Chinese Communist forces,
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stuff that they are even now usingagainst us on the battlefield. No,
I didn't, but I could believeit well for weeks now, I have
been tracking down the truth, documentingthe facts, perreting out the cover ups,
the lies, the falsehood. Goodview that to night. But I'm
giving a lecture at the Central MunicipalAuditorium. Press representatives from every newspaper and
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sendicate will be there, of course. I well, I'll give the general
outline of my revelations and it'll hitevery newspaper in the country. Then,
when the public's appetite is wedded,I'll publish the specific details in the Tribute
in the following day and we'll scorea clean scoop. I see, and
you feel somebody's gunning for you.I know they are. Anybody's specific I'm
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I'm not at liberty. It's namenames just now. But after I give
my first lecture tonight, it mightbe diffy for me. Well, the
Tribune's hard man. I'll do myI've been in tight spots before, spaide,
but my duty is clear before me, and I'll not trip. I
won't need you before the lecture,but immediately after your services will be official.
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Or why don't I is stick withthe starting right now. The lecture
will be similar, you know best. I think I'm afraid to talk,
but I guess I'm going to givethem a survivor, one that they can
read in their morning newspapers. Thatspade, Yeah, yeah, well he
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was half ride. Kelsey. Mightnot have been a surprise that they were
able to read it in the morningpaper, but at least Man I got
a laugh out of it, whichis more than I did. You arrived
at the murdercy in three minutes afteryou were called he was shot, Sam,
I would say, so Kelsey,I would say, so, Ellen,
it's easy. We'll church everybody inthe audience before we let him go.
Kelsey I was in the audience.Matting was shot from backstage and orb
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did it ran out the back door. Oh that's right, Sam, you
already told me that. That makesit a little harder. I look,
Kelsey, the doorman is sitting rightover there. See the killer knocked him
down coming into the stage, andI, why don't you question him?
You're not kidding me, Sam,Kelsey so helped me. It's straight,
all right, let's question an.Eh, you're the doorman. Yeah,
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yeah, he hit me running atdraw just like that. Yet a police
officer, have you a rif fieryofficer? I'm terribly sorry with an accident.
I was just showing you how hehit me. Oh oh, all
right, but when you come tothe shooting park, you'll be careful.
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Well. The door open and abig man bought ruci. Before I crow
up my mouth, he hit meand I felt flat on my back.
If you got a good look athim, no, all I saw was
a tattoo on the back of hishand. It was a red star.
You mean he stood there and shotManning and you didn't see him. As
soon as he knocked me down,he put out the lights and then he
ran out. I started get up. The sort of car pull away?
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What kind of a car? Itwas? Life flu convertible. Do you
remember anything else? Absolutely nothing else? Are you sure? Absolutely sure?
Oh? I don't suppose it's worthmuch, but that the license number was
four and seven to five three twothree, No, I don't say.
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Oh yeah. After you recovered fromyour appleplexa Kelsey and checked the life number,
we were more confused than ever.Along to Cyrus Manning himself. While
you were calling headquarters, I searchedManning him. My notes from which he
was speaking were gone. I reasonedthat he might have had a carbon coffee
or a handwritten notes in his hotelroom or wherever he lived. The Tribune
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s a right as a best acongress on Fillmore above Bannett's room six one
two. Coming out of the elevator, I bumped into a tall, handsome
brunette, worrying in huge new Itwas my fault. If you'll go to
the ride, I'll go to theland. All ready shift going down,
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hurry. She was nice, butI had other things to worry about.
No one answered Manning's door when I'mnot just to see what might happen,
So I let myself in. BeforeI even had time to look for any
notes. I knew it wasn't anyuse, because lying on the floor with
his skull fractured, was Dick Davis, late of the Tribune. You are
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listening to the weekly adventure of radio'smost famous detective, Sam Spade. Ninety
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This Sunday's Big Show features such brightstars as Jack Carter, Jimmy Durranty,
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these NBC stations also means a onehour adaptation of a famous play or story
by theater Guild on the air.This Sunday's Theater Guild production is Pilby,
starring Rex Harrison and Teresa Wright.And now back to the Red Star Caper.
Tonight said venture with Sam's bade Fyrs. Manning's room had been worked over
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thoroughly. There were no notes lyingaround which described the activities of anyone sending
war material to the Chinese communists.The only pretinant piece of evidence was the
corpse of Dick Davis. I didn'tcall your office right away, Kelsey,
because I wanted to get out ofthere and began asking some questions before The
trail was cold, strangely enough fora man's hotel room. There were many
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items that belonged to a woman,clothes, makeup and so on. Never
called hi, mind the girl Ibumped into getting out of the elevator,
and this recalled to me the elevatoroperating. I've seen her coming up and
down a few times. I don'tknow who she is. You know Manning
when you saw him? Yeah,oh I knew him A celebrities, But
I can't remember like everybody was thegirl ever with him? That you remember?
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Oh? Not that I remember.You recall a short, dark,
thin man coming up men A Davis. They don't pay me to remember the
people. I just get paid totake him up and down. Not very
much either. No this help youremember anything? What ten bucks will do
for your memory? A thin darkman went up about eight thirty. Didn't
see him come down though he wasalone, but memory did anyone else in
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the elevator? Then I slipped inyour mind. The only guy I can
remember is one who didn't look likehe belonged here. Big had a pockmarked
facing one on the back of onehand. He had a red star tattooed.
Manning was going to reveal something aboutmaterial being shipped to China, shipped
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the word I'd overlooked, and someonetamptooed who looked as if he didn't belong
in a good hotel and had thesmell of a waterfront on him. So
I slashed myself with cologne and wentlooking for the man who knows most about
the strange smells of a waterfront.In fact, he's one of them.
He's an indescribably low man, afungus on the prefront of honesty, a
spider and the lunch pail of lawfulness. Porky Grouse, a stool pigeon solo.
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He has to climb down a ladderto tire shoelaces. I found him
at the Blue Lantern bar. Tooka capsule to settle my stomach, ordered
a bottle and two glasses, andsomehow forced myself the way. If the
old buddy Murder drinking powder, goodtime, Charlie's Chad, buddy, you're
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poor. And Sam, Porky Portythe other side of the table, please,
I might need room in case offire. I can underside Sam.
I can keep my eye on thewindow, all right, Alm, Old
Sam, Sam, you're too firethere. I can hand you see your
park clouds. I will tell mesomething, Porky, you don't know anybody
who's shipping stuff that china from here, or someone with a red star tattooed
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on his hands. Honey, don'tsearch a high I don't think I could
squeeze a word out of it allright here. You a you're a prince?
Sing still kind of dry? Sam, there's nord better Like you said,
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you're beautiful? Hello? Where itwas? Where was I stood?
Usually me? But if you can'tthink of anything else, try to remember
where these rings came from and talkaccordingly. I don't want to talk about
Sam. You better get me quickbefore my throat choice. Have you ever
heard of anyone shipping war goods toChina? Fourthy or a man with a
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red star in his hands? Sammight rather than how to answer that,
Let's see if this changes your ethicsagain. Oh you're a prince, Sam.
Let me see I heard about somebodyshipping goods to the heathen Chinese Sham.
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I gotta keep going, Rob,come back. I'm sorry, Sam,
I just remembered I left something homeone you don't have a home.
I turned around or watch him scuttleout the door, and I saw for
the first time what must have causedhis haste. A face as evil as
any I've seen these days outside ofyours, Kelse. He was staring through
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the dirty window. The face movedfor the door and entered burched upon a
big body under a sea cat.His arms were shoved into a pea jacket,
and his legs hit the floor likeslow jackhammers as he walked toward me.
You're trying to pump information out ofgruff. Why else would anyone in
his right mind give party ground freedrinks or staying that close to him?
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Who are you? What are youtrying to find out? Frankly, it's
none of your business. Look,Pal, I grew up on the water
front the hardware. I have notedguys like you all over every port in
the world. Now, don't makeme man, Why don't you make it
easy and tell me who you areand what you want. I never runswer
questions. I just do. Theyask them, Are you gonna tell me
something? Or am I gonna beatit out of here? I guess it's
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gonna have to be the hardware.Okay, Pal, I just remember this
after I get through with you.I don't want never to see you downe
around here again because you bother me. Now we come to the embarrassing part
of my report. Don't say Idid everything I usually do, but this
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time it didn't work. And nowI know all those other copies I betted
around for the past few years afield, but all was not lost.
It was a crushing right hand comingin from the side that did the damage.
And it hit me right under mygood eye and on the back of
that hand was tattooed a big redstar. When I got up from the
floor, he was gone, sowas everyone else in the place, but
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the bartendered. Oh you feel betternow, mister. I told you not
to have that last drink? Whatdrink? Who was the guy who did
it? Did one knock me down? What do you think, Oh brother,
you really got one on. Ididn't see anybody knock you down.
You didn't see a big red headedguy and a pete jacket like a swing
at me. Look, I havea drink on the house. Maybe you'll
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feel better. I don't give methat last week in routine. Who wasn't
me? I don't know what you'retalking about. What happened to all those
other people who were drinking here?I look, mister, you can believe
it or not. The only twopeople I've served in here tonight have been
you and Porky Grouse. And asfor a guy knocking you down, or
you must have hallucinations, breat's money. Nothing works, and I knew nothing
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worth either, because the sign isn'tput on me, So before anything more
serious happened, I got out ofthere. By there, I mean both
the bar and the neighborhood. Itwas not that I was scared, but
I long ago learned the value ofan orderly retreat, or, as they
used to say in my neighborhood whenI was a kid, he who hits
and runs away lives. They hitAnother day. I decided to go at
things from another angle, like whoare the woman's things that I saw in
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Firous Manning's room? They blow throughmiss to Manning's wife, grek, Are
you sure Manning had a wife?Well? They registered as man and wife,
missus Stap. What did she looklike? Tall, good looking brunette.
You know now that we're talking abouther. There was something strange in
their relationship. What she never stayedhere at night? She only came in
in the morning and left in theafternoon. Do you know her first name
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or anything else of her own?No, Missus Spade, not another thing
wherever it was to start. Atleast, she was obviously the girl I'd
met on the elevator. I lookedup a number of Manning's friends, but
the first three or four couldn't helpme. But the fifth said that Manning
had married about six months ago,and he had never seen the wife.
Her name, as he remembered,was spake Kearney, and her father was
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the ship's chaptain. I ran downthe name Kurney over at the maritime office
and discovered that he owned three ships, two of which were in port.
On the first ship, the downWind, they told me Curney lived.
On the other one, there wasa Western sun Appier ninety two. I
went up the gang plank of thefull housing where the captain's seven normally was
located. Yes, Ronny, yes, who are you remember making a congress
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hotel elevating six four? I'm notsure, or perhaps I should have told
you, missus Cyrus Manning. Whydidn't you come in, Sam Spade?
I was hired as a body guardsyour husband, and I got there two
legs. Yes, everybody did,mostly me. Oh please don't cry that
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yet. Why do you say mostlyme? I might have done something about
it. Why were you running outof the hotel? I found, mister
David Are you running? Idea?Who did it? Yeah? Cool?
Break move killed? Sigh? Howwas that me? I suppose? Yeah,
I'm really responsible. I can't thing. She poured her misery out over
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my shoulder, and then she toldme the whole story. She had met
and married Cyrus Manning secretly against herfather's will. When he found out,
he took her aboard one of hisships and kept her prisoner. While she
was aboard the ship, she foundout what her father was doing carrying a
central war material the communist China.So somehow nuggled the information the Manning.
She did, and the arrangement wasthat they were going to trade the information
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for her father's blessing on their marriage. Once Manning got the information, he
wanted a stoop more than he didhis wife. That's when the trouble started.
He comes, he comes, Youget out of the way from the
back room. What are you doing? Just seem to pay your vision.
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You should have learned your lesson thefirst time. It's time is for chief
staying. That's the way I feel. It doesn't not feel again. I
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just could period end the report.Die was a matter of second fIF All
that poor girl oneed was love Andlook what happened to me. Yeah,
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you were the only witness sing.Do you think do you think you might
gotta kiss the evidence that the same. I'm tempted, Effie. I don't
say that much. Now you'll takethat up three times Mean good Times on
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NBC. There's music and fun tomorrowon NBC to help your Saturday evening along.
Your Hit Parade brings you the toptunes in the land with Raymond Scott,
Snookie Lanson, and Eileen Wilson.The Dnnis Day Show sparkles with songs
and mad calf adventures starring charming,boyish Dnnis Day and grand Olafrey presents Red
Foley and his Friends in thirty minutesof music and laughter Western style. Believe
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me, I didn't enjoy piping itat all. I didn't expect that you
would have. As a matter offact, it surprised me that you enjoy
any of them. Oh, Inever like to killing pop Sam. Sometimes
you have the funniest people for clowns. When I write down the things they
say, I can help part off. It makes you happy. I don't
trying to get more comedians, butclients. In the meantime, you'll have
to suffer along on whatever dregs ofhumanity's The winds of space blow into my
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office. It was absolutely paradeous wind. Oh, oh, it's nothing.
Nothing. I expect to appear inthe next edition of Bubblets from any quotations.
Now, would you like to hearone of my longer attempts the poetics?
I'd love to hear it. Good. This is called cigar. A
cigar isn't far from a large cigarettein the raw material it employs. But
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the smoke is no joke if youhaven't learned yet, for it weeds out
the men from the board that youwant to be able to sell it to
someone. Their PI can't even sellme. Give me another one, all
right. There was a young girlwith a heart as big as the wheels
on a car. At the endof the day, she always would say
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no, no, good night,sweetheart. Sam Spade are produced, edited
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and directed by William Spear. Sams Fade was played by Stephen Dunn,
Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Script forTonight's adventure by John Michael Hayes, musical
scarring by lud Gluskin, conducted byRobert armbrist Join us again next week,
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same time for another adventure with SamFade. Enjoy the Magnificent Montague then at
Duffy Tavern, on NBC Welcome Back. There were a couple of things that
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I had issues with on this episode. First of all, they tinkered with
how Sam told the story to Effieby having it taken out of chronological order.
And I will admit that there arecases where that can be a really
good storytelling method. I don't thinkit works particularly well here because the scene
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where Sam is meeting with the reporterand the reporter is hiring him or a
bit humorous, and I think that'skind of undermined by the fact that we
just found out that the reporter getshorribly murdered. But I think it would
have been more enjoyable if they justgone with standard chronology, because they didn't
really add anything by doing it thatway other than they kind of undercut the
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humor in the hiring scene, andthen they also slowed us down on getting
into instigating the murder. The secondthing is the villain having a red star
tattoo while working as an agent ofthe Chinese government. I mean, that's
just silly. I mean, didhe get hired by the Chinese because they
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agreed to help him cover up hisswastika tattoo from when he was working for
the Germans, but to be fair, sometimes drama isn't exactly subtle. During
this era, I will say therewere also some fun lines. I did
like them getting in a man calledX reference and some good interplay between Sam
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and Affy and I'd actually don't haveany doubt that the daughter would not be
prosecuted for killing her father given thecircumstances and what he was about to do.
Now we turned to listener comments andfeedback, and we start with Greg
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comment from painting coach Jack who writes, great broadcast, it was funny and
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us back here tomorrow as we getunderway with a new Johnny Dollar Cereal.
Where I'd like to see missus Hawkinsplease, I'm miss Hawkins. Well,
I'm an insurance investigator. My nameis Johnny Dollar Insurance. Yes, why
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do you want to talk to me? Well, I'll be frank with you,
miss Hawkins. I came to Clintonto talk to Julian Osborne. Oh
you heard he died in the fire. Yes, I heard. Tragic.
I'm so thankful school wasn't in sessiontoday. Oh, come in. Thank
you. I know this has beena pretty grueling day for you, for
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everyone in this town, Miss Hawkins, losing his school and all. I
wouldn't call on you except I feelit's important. Excuse me, please?
Sure hello? Who? Yes?Sure, yes, he is right now.
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Yes. Nice. There's just acouple of questions I'd like you to
answer about Julian Osbond, so Ican. I can't help you with anything,
mister Dollar. You will have togo now. Oh look, now,
wait a minute. If if youdon't, I don't want to be
impolite, but I'm tired, verytired. Yeah, sure that phone call?
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Were you up? Please? Allright, all right, I'll go,
Miss Hawkins. But I think youshould know why I came here.
I can assure you, mister Dollar, whatever the reason, I'm simply not
interested. I was sent here becauseJulian Osborn advised the insurance company that he
suspected certain building I regularities had goneinto the new school, Miss Hawkins.
Did mister Osborn ever mentioned anything likethis to you? No. I hope
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month. Well, now it's timefor this week's episode of the Adventures of
Sam Spade. The original airdate Januarytwelfth, nineteen fifty one, and the
title is The Red star Keeper.The National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of
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Sam Spade Detective Say detect Agency SWAT. Most of the day is done and
you haven't even come into the awfulI slept in than did you have a
given line? Rather, didn't youread the papers today? What? Oh?
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I've given up reading the papers.It's a full of bad news.
Lateney ell are especially full of badnews today. What happened you did your
bowling team? Fear? Thank younot to mention my bowling team in public.
It's just a matter of getting alittle exercise, and it didn't lose
at one even without me. Itonly seems to win when you got planning,
Iffy, don't forget your position anyway. How do we get on this
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bowling kick? We're supposed to betalking about something else. I thought like,
why, oh, yes, well, well this one has more than
local complications in free gap, foreigncorrespondence, dirty work on a grand scale.
It's international in scope. You'll chillwith me, You'll thrill with me.
Half rogue and half renegade. It'sSam Spade in The Red Star Caper
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for NBC. William Spear, Radio'soutstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama
brings you the greatest private detective ofthem all in the Adventures of Sam Spade.
Effie, I'm here at that time. Well, I'm here, it's
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at that time, Effie. Yousound more like a shrew every day.
Thank you, fan. I'm justbeing practical. You know, how can
we make money if you don't shutup? I had to turn away three
clients today. I'm thinking of quittingprivate detecting anyway. Really, what would
you do? Well? Well,I know reporters job that's open. Now,
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how would that sound, Scoop Spade? My beat is the universe?
That sounds terrible. Sam, you'dmake a silly report. You can't even
tie sometimes, Effie, you hitthe nail right on the points where it
hurts. Let's get down the business. Well. Watch us date January twelfth,
nineteen fifty one to Lieutenant I seeKelsey homicide detail, San Francisco Police
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from Samuel Spade, license number onethree seven, five nine six, subject
the Red Star Caper. You're Kelsey. It had been some time since I
had attended a lecture. In fact, the last one I can remember is
when Margaret Sanger passed through town.But last night, at eight o'clock I
filed into the Central Municipal Auditorium alongwith several hundred other people, including college
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students, newspapermen, professors of politicalscience, the usual curious compliment, and
a goodly sprinkling of snuffling indigence whowelcomed any easy means of escaping the cold
wind that booted through the mission districtat this time of the year, any
gable the pleasure sies no. Manypolitically minded phases gathered in his auditorium tonight.
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So let the world know that somany of us as trying to keep
a crest of the fast moving andsometimes confusing events of our coupled days.
Serves as a graphic example to thosewho would try to take our liberties away
from us that we are ever alertedand that we will continue to defend those
liberties only by taking every opportunity todisplay our willingness to understand and act on
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the problems that face us, andwe serve notice to the world that we
are ever ready to pick up thegauntlet of international challenge, whenever or wherever
it may be thrown down. Thesubject for tonight is are we helping our
enemies? And our speaker scarcely needsintroduction, But just in case there are
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a few hermits in our audience whohave never owned a radio assessness in a
newspaper in the past ten years.Well, just in case there are,
let me introduce a man who reallyneeds no introduction, the most distinguished foreign
correspondent, Cyrus Manning. I'm aGerman I'm believing it is a gentlemen.
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Are we happy your enemies? Thatis the question. My answer, in
a word, is yes. Andthat answer is not his charo advice.
I have just returned from the thoroughcoverage of the audience. I have business
of the tragic blood, so batterhere's a career. I've talked with the
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military leaders of the Armed Capital Promoter. I've taught them nervous defense the side
of the Philippines and Japan. AndI had even made two secret pips in
Goodni though, right into the lastionof the communist stronghold on the Chinaman.
And this is not a part thispetulary from this visity. Hippens are being
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made regularly to Rich China. Iwas sitting halfway up the hole when the
lights went out. I cut fora side aisle and raced for the stage.
Someone was running for my back exit, and I followed him. I
was too late. The hard rodeout of the back alley and was gone.
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On the stage, someone had rundown the curtain. Cyrus Manning was
on the floor and the chairman wasbending over him. He's dead. They
almost shot me too. Let mesee now you're right there's nothing anybody can
do for him right now. Thelights went out and then the shot.
Well, this is the most terriblething that ever happened to me. So
you shall I ask him to getup and call the police, or do
you think that, with one lastdying effort, you might do call him.
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I'll call him. I guess hedid get the worst of it.
I guess he did. And that'show the news reached you, Kelsey.
I suppose you want to know howI happened to be at a lecture where
the lecturer happened to be shot.Well, I'll tell you, and don't
think it makes me happy. Yousee, I was supposed to be his
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body guy. Now let's start atthe beginning SHOWE. It's early afternoon.
I stupid hero is sitting around tryingto break the code on a scratch sheet.
I'll only the clients. Who isit? The tribute only probably has
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me confused with mister X, butI'll take it anymore. Yeah, Jack,
you have a hero of Sarah's manningSam a foreign correspondent. Yeah,
that's the one. He's in town. He got here yesterday. Well,
what is it a benefits? Youwant me to do? Client tricks.
He's a bodyguard. I don't knowanybody else would be crazy enough to take
the job, so I called you. Oh gee, thanks. Read the
letters to the editor call Um tomorrowfor my reply. I didn't know whether
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you take the job, but Isent him over to see you anyway.
What does he want to be bodyguarded against? Well, I'll let him
tell you about it, Sam,but I'll give you a clue. Their
home base runs west from the centerof Berlin, east slightly below the thirty
eighth parallel Rose. People. Theyare only two or three hundred million of
them. I shouldn't have any trouble, and you'll take the job, Samp.
Who's playing? We are fifty aday? Sixty? Haven't you heard
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of the cost of living index?All right, it's a deal. That's
one thing. Sam. If youhave a good picture of yourself taken recently,
kid, we'd appreciate a copy.Why probably that is possible? Obituary
Davis, what are you saying?If I don't see you again, Sam,
good luck? I quit. Iwill take the job, Davis.
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Effie, I'm leaving time for afew days after look, throw some things
in my suitcase in the clocket.I don't suppose his name is Cyrus Manning.
Would you ever get Oh it waseasy, easy, I just thought
of a name of a man Iwould least like to see. Send him
in. And sometimes I just can'tunderstand you. I have the same trouble.
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I'll send him in. I forgotabout the suitcase. I am not
going to succumb to his stilia.Are you sure you're all right? Of
course I am. On these troubledtimes, we must keep our heads cool
and our powder drive. I'll sendthem in. Thank you, thank you,
hell, how do you do?Spade? Sit down? Sit down?
Oh thank you? Oh man youwere Could you lift up your hat
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brim so I could see your faceand maybe even tank on through a trench
heir? I never take them off, Spade. They're the mock of my
profession. The life of a phonecorrespondent isn't his own. You know.
I might be whisk off to Berlinor Siberian a matter of minutes. Sometimes
even Stephenie goes, well, nobest, I wore this trench coat when
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I interviewed Hitler, when I stoodknee deep in water on the shores of
the Philippines next to Dara. Whythe commandant of the prison camp didn't dare
to take it off of me whenI was captured by the Chinese rillas.
And when mister care for a drink? Yeah yeah, thank you, sir,
I see you a poem DP.Well here's the crime. No est
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a minute. I never drink withoutfirst offering special toast. Offer me the
great white wings of the thunderbird.Much like over your grade A literal translation
of an old Tibeccan tools a swell. So well, boys, it probably
loses something in the translation. It'sgood to get back to the States where
they have real liquor. I'm gettingtired of saki and Korean moonshine. I
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didn't know they had time to makeit right. Let's get down to business,
Spade. This is my problem.I have been no respective of censorship
or official red take. That's whyI've scored some of my biggest newsbeaks.
I'll take it your working on onenow, the biggest. You know that
material really been shipped out of SanFrancis foot of the Chinese Communist forces,
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stuff that they are even now usingagainst us on the battlefield. No,
I didn't, but I could believeit well for weeks now, I have
been tracking down the truth, documentingthe facts, perreting out the cover ups,
the lies, the falsehood. Goodview that to night. But I'm
giving a lecture at the Central MunicipalAuditorium. Press representatives from every newspaper and
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sendicate will be there, of course. I well, I'll give the general
outline of my revelations and it'll hitevery newspaper in the country. Then,
when the public's appetite is wedded,I'll publish the specific details in the Tribute
in the following day and we'll scorea clean scoop. I see, and
you feel somebody's gunning for you.I know they are. Anybody's specific I'm
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I'm not at liberty. It's namenames just now. But after I give
my first lecture tonight, it mightbe diffy for me. Well, the
Tribune's hard man. I'll do myI've been in tight spots before, spaide,
but my duty is clear before me, and I'll not trip. I
won't need you before the lecture,but immediately after your services will be official.
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Or why don't I is stick withthe starting right now. The lecture
will be similar, you know best. I think I'm afraid to talk,
but I guess I'm going to givethem a survivor, one that they can
read in their morning newspapers. Thatspade, Yeah, yeah, well he
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was half ride. Kelsey. Mightnot have been a surprise that they were
able to read it in the morningpaper, but at least Man I got
a laugh out of it, whichis more than I did. You arrived
at the murdercy in three minutes afteryou were called he was shot, Sam,
I would say, so Kelsey,I would say, so, Ellen,
it's easy. We'll church everybody inthe audience before we let him go.
Kelsey I was in the audience.Matting was shot from backstage and orb
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did it ran out the back door. Oh that's right, Sam, you
already told me that. That makesit a little harder. I look,
Kelsey, the doorman is sitting rightover there. See the killer knocked him
down coming into the stage, andI, why don't you question him?
You're not kidding me, Sam,Kelsey so helped me. It's straight,
all right, let's question an.Eh, you're the doorman. Yeah,
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yeah, he hit me running atdraw just like that. Yet a police
officer, have you a rif fieryofficer? I'm terribly sorry with an accident.
I was just showing you how hehit me. Oh oh, all
right, but when you come tothe shooting park, you'll be careful.
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Well. The door open and abig man bought ruci. Before I crow
up my mouth, he hit meand I felt flat on my back.
If you got a good look athim, no, all I saw was
a tattoo on the back of hishand. It was a red star.
You mean he stood there and shotManning and you didn't see him. As
soon as he knocked me down,he put out the lights and then he
ran out. I started get up. The sort of car pull away?
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What kind of a car? Itwas? Life flu convertible. Do you
remember anything else? Absolutely nothing else? Are you sure? Absolutely sure?
Oh? I don't suppose it's worthmuch, but that the license number was
four and seven to five three twothree, No, I don't say.
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Oh yeah. After you recovered fromyour appleplexa Kelsey and checked the life number,
we were more confused than ever.Along to Cyrus Manning himself. While
you were calling headquarters, I searchedManning him. My notes from which he
was speaking were gone. I reasonedthat he might have had a carbon coffee
or a handwritten notes in his hotelroom or wherever he lived. The Tribune
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s a right as a best acongress on Fillmore above Bannett's room six one
two. Coming out of the elevator, I bumped into a tall, handsome
brunette, worrying in huge new Itwas my fault. If you'll go to
the ride, I'll go to theland. All ready shift going down,
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hurry. She was nice, butI had other things to worry about.
No one answered Manning's door when I'mnot just to see what might happen,
So I let myself in. BeforeI even had time to look for any
notes. I knew it wasn't anyuse, because lying on the floor with
his skull fractured, was Dick Davis, late of the Tribune. You are
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listening to the weekly adventure of radio'smost famous detective, Sam Spade. Ninety
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starring Rex Harrison and Teresa Wright.And now back to the Red Star Caper.
Tonight said venture with Sam's bade Fyrs. Manning's room had been worked over
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thoroughly. There were no notes lyingaround which described the activities of anyone sending
war material to the Chinese communists.The only pretinant piece of evidence was the
corpse of Dick Davis. I didn'tcall your office right away, Kelsey,
because I wanted to get out ofthere and began asking some questions before The
trail was cold, strangely enough fora man's hotel room. There were many
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items that belonged to a woman,clothes, makeup and so on. Never
called hi, mind the girl Ibumped into getting out of the elevator,
and this recalled to me the elevatoroperating. I've seen her coming up and
down a few times. I don'tknow who she is. You know Manning
when you saw him? Yeah,oh I knew him A celebrities, But
I can't remember like everybody was thegirl ever with him? That you remember?
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Oh? Not that I remember.You recall a short, dark,
thin man coming up men A Davis. They don't pay me to remember the
people. I just get paid totake him up and down. Not very
much either. No this help youremember anything? What ten bucks will do
for your memory? A thin darkman went up about eight thirty. Didn't
see him come down though he wasalone, but memory did anyone else in
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the elevator? Then I slipped inyour mind. The only guy I can
remember is one who didn't look likehe belonged here. Big had a pockmarked
facing one on the back of onehand. He had a red star tattooed.
Manning was going to reveal something aboutmaterial being shipped to China, shipped
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the word I'd overlooked, and someonetamptooed who looked as if he didn't belong
in a good hotel and had thesmell of a waterfront on him. So
I slashed myself with cologne and wentlooking for the man who knows most about
the strange smells of a waterfront.In fact, he's one of them.
He's an indescribably low man, afungus on the prefront of honesty, a
spider and the lunch pail of lawfulness. Porky Grouse, a stool pigeon solo.
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He has to climb down a ladderto tire shoelaces. I found him
at the Blue Lantern bar. Tooka capsule to settle my stomach, ordered
a bottle and two glasses, andsomehow forced myself the way. If the
old buddy Murder drinking powder, goodtime, Charlie's Chad, buddy, you're
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poor. And Sam, Porky Portythe other side of the table, please,
I might need room in case offire. I can underside Sam.
I can keep my eye on thewindow, all right, Alm, Old
Sam, Sam, you're too firethere. I can hand you see your
park clouds. I will tell mesomething, Porky, you don't know anybody
who's shipping stuff that china from here, or someone with a red star tattooed
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on his hands. Honey, don'tsearch a high I don't think I could
squeeze a word out of it allright here. You a you're a prince?
Sing still kind of dry? Sam, there's nord better Like you said,
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you're beautiful? Hello? Where itwas? Where was I stood?
Usually me? But if you can'tthink of anything else, try to remember
where these rings came from and talkaccordingly. I don't want to talk about
Sam. You better get me quickbefore my throat choice. Have you ever
heard of anyone shipping war goods toChina? Fourthy or a man with a
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red star in his hands? Sammight rather than how to answer that,
Let's see if this changes your ethicsagain. Oh you're a prince, Sam.
Let me see I heard about somebodyshipping goods to the heathen Chinese Sham.
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I gotta keep going, Rob,come back. I'm sorry, Sam,
I just remembered I left something homeone you don't have a home.
I turned around or watch him scuttleout the door, and I saw for
the first time what must have causedhis haste. A face as evil as
any I've seen these days outside ofyours, Kelse. He was staring through
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the dirty window. The face movedfor the door and entered burched upon a
big body under a sea cat.His arms were shoved into a pea jacket,
and his legs hit the floor likeslow jackhammers as he walked toward me.
You're trying to pump information out ofgruff. Why else would anyone in
his right mind give party ground freedrinks or staying that close to him?
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Who are you? What are youtrying to find out? Frankly, it's
none of your business. Look,Pal, I grew up on the water
front the hardware. I have notedguys like you all over every port in
the world. Now, don't makeme man, Why don't you make it
easy and tell me who you areand what you want. I never runswer
questions. I just do. Theyask them, Are you gonna tell me
something? Or am I gonna beatit out of here? I guess it's
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gonna have to be the hardware.Okay, Pal, I just remember this
after I get through with you.I don't want never to see you downe
around here again because you bother me. Now we come to the embarrassing part
of my report. Don't say Idid everything I usually do, but this
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time it didn't work. And nowI know all those other copies I betted
around for the past few years afield, but all was not lost.
It was a crushing right hand comingin from the side that did the damage.
And it hit me right under mygood eye and on the back of
that hand was tattooed a big redstar. When I got up from the
floor, he was gone, sowas everyone else in the place, but
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the bartendered. Oh you feel betternow, mister. I told you not
to have that last drink? Whatdrink? Who was the guy who did
it? Did one knock me down? What do you think, Oh brother,
you really got one on. Ididn't see anybody knock you down.
You didn't see a big red headedguy and a pete jacket like a swing
at me. Look, I havea drink on the house. Maybe you'll
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feel better. I don't give methat last week in routine. Who wasn't
me? I don't know what you'retalking about. What happened to all those
other people who were drinking here?I look, mister, you can believe
it or not. The only twopeople I've served in here tonight have been
you and Porky Grouse. And asfor a guy knocking you down, or
you must have hallucinations, breat's money. Nothing works, and I knew nothing
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worth either, because the sign isn'tput on me, So before anything more
serious happened, I got out ofthere. By there, I mean both
the bar and the neighborhood. Itwas not that I was scared, but
I long ago learned the value ofan orderly retreat, or, as they
used to say in my neighborhood whenI was a kid, he who hits
and runs away lives. They hitAnother day. I decided to go at
things from another angle, like whoare the woman's things that I saw in
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Firous Manning's room? They blow throughmiss to Manning's wife, grek, Are
you sure Manning had a wife?Well? They registered as man and wife,
missus Stap. What did she looklike? Tall, good looking brunette.
You know now that we're talking abouther. There was something strange in
their relationship. What she never stayedhere at night? She only came in
in the morning and left in theafternoon. Do you know her first name
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or anything else of her own?No, Missus Spade, not another thing
wherever it was to start. Atleast, she was obviously the girl I'd
met on the elevator. I lookedup a number of Manning's friends, but
the first three or four couldn't helpme. But the fifth said that Manning
had married about six months ago,and he had never seen the wife.
Her name, as he remembered,was spake Kearney, and her father was
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the ship's chaptain. I ran downthe name Kurney over at the maritime office
and discovered that he owned three ships, two of which were in port.
On the first ship, the downWind, they told me Curney lived.
On the other one, there wasa Western sun Appier ninety two. I
went up the gang plank of thefull housing where the captain's seven normally was
located. Yes, Ronny, yes, who are you remember making a congress
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hotel elevating six four? I'm notsure, or perhaps I should have told
you, missus Cyrus Manning. Whydidn't you come in, Sam Spade?
I was hired as a body guardsyour husband, and I got there two
legs. Yes, everybody did,mostly me. Oh please don't cry that
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yet. Why do you say mostlyme? I might have done something about
it. Why were you running outof the hotel? I found, mister
David Are you running? Idea?Who did it? Yeah? Cool?
Break move killed? Sigh? Howwas that me? I suppose? Yeah,
I'm really responsible. I can't thing. She poured her misery out over
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my shoulder, and then she toldme the whole story. She had met
and married Cyrus Manning secretly against herfather's will. When he found out,
he took her aboard one of hisships and kept her prisoner. While she
was aboard the ship, she foundout what her father was doing carrying a
central war material the communist China.So somehow nuggled the information the Manning.
She did, and the arrangement wasthat they were going to trade the information
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for her father's blessing on their marriage. Once Manning got the information, he
wanted a stoop more than he didhis wife. That's when the trouble started.
He comes, he comes, Youget out of the way from the
back room. What are you doing? Just seem to pay your vision.
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You should have learned your lesson thefirst time. It's time is for chief
staying. That's the way I feel. It doesn't not feel again. I
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just could period end the report.Die was a matter of second fIF All
that poor girl oneed was love Andlook what happened to me. Yeah,
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you were the only witness sing.Do you think do you think you might
gotta kiss the evidence that the same. I'm tempted, Effie. I don't
say that much. Now you'll takethat up three times Mean good Times on
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NBC. There's music and fun tomorrowon NBC to help your Saturday evening along.
Your Hit Parade brings you the toptunes in the land with Raymond Scott,
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me, I didn't enjoy piping itat all. I didn't expect that you
would have. As a matter offact, it surprised me that you enjoy
any of them. Oh, Inever like to killing pop Sam. Sometimes
you have the funniest people for clowns. When I write down the things they
say, I can help part off. It makes you happy. I don't
trying to get more comedians, butclients. In the meantime, you'll have
to suffer along on whatever dregs ofhumanity's The winds of space blow into my
(28:55):
office. It was absolutely paradeous wind. Oh, oh, it's nothing.
Nothing. I expect to appear inthe next edition of Bubblets from any quotations.
Now, would you like to hearone of my longer attempts the poetics?
I'd love to hear it. Good. This is called cigar. A
cigar isn't far from a large cigarettein the raw material it employs. But
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the smoke is no joke if youhaven't learned yet, for it weeds out
the men from the board that youwant to be able to sell it to
someone. Their PI can't even sellme. Give me another one, all
right. There was a young girlwith a heart as big as the wheels
on a car. At the endof the day, she always would say
(29:41):
no, no, good night,sweetheart. Sam Spade are produced, edited
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and directed by William Spear. Sams Fade was played by Stephen Dunn,
Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Script forTonight's adventure by John Michael Hayes, musical
scarring by lud Gluskin, conducted byRobert armbrist Join us again next week,
(30:41):
same time for another adventure with SamFade. Enjoy the Magnificent Montague then at
Duffy Tavern, on NBC Welcome Back. There were a couple of things that
(31:02):
I had issues with on this episode. First of all, they tinkered with
how Sam told the story to Effieby having it taken out of chronological order.
And I will admit that there arecases where that can be a really
good storytelling method. I don't thinkit works particularly well here because the scene
(31:26):
where Sam is meeting with the reporterand the reporter is hiring him or a
bit humorous, and I think that'skind of undermined by the fact that we
just found out that the reporter getshorribly murdered. But I think it would
have been more enjoyable if they justgone with standard chronology, because they didn't
really add anything by doing it thatway other than they kind of undercut the
(31:52):
humor in the hiring scene, andthen they also slowed us down on getting
into instigating the murder. The secondthing is the villain having a red star
tattoo while working as an agent ofthe Chinese government. I mean, that's
just silly. I mean, didhe get hired by the Chinese because they
(32:15):
agreed to help him cover up hisswastika tattoo from when he was working for
the Germans, but to be fair, sometimes drama isn't exactly subtle. During
this era, I will say therewere also some fun lines. I did
like them getting in a man calledX reference and some good interplay between Sam
(32:38):
and Affy and I'd actually don't haveany doubt that the daughter would not be
prosecuted for killing her father given thecircumstances and what he was about to do.
Now we turned to listener comments andfeedback, and we start with Greg
who rits regarding the Prodigal pandit keepergreat show. Sam being paid in jelly
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beans is a great twist. Thanksso much, Greg, and then we
go over to YouTube. Richard writesregarding the dry golts Keeper, Thanks for
the upload, greatly enjoyed listening toit. And then we also have a
comment from painting coach Jack who writes, great broadcast, it was funny and
(33:28):
very entertaining. Also, congratulations onreaching nine thousand subscribers, and of course
that is over on YouTube. Well, thank you so much. Appreciate the
comment, Jack, and I'm reallyhoping we can get to ten thousand subscribers
over there on YouTube before the endof the year. We've had some pretty
(33:49):
good growth over there in recent months. And one thing that I was kind
of surprised when I looked at theweekly report from YouTube is that it highlighted
that around fifteen percent of the viewsare from televisions, smart televisions where people
(34:09):
have YouTube been sold and are ableto watch YouTube and they can enjoy our
episodes. Now except for public domainvideo theater, it's just you know,
still photographs of our cover art,but a lot of folks accessing the program
through smart televisions. I'm kind oflooking at ways to make it easier for
(34:32):
people to get to us, likeon their Roku or Amazon TVs. So
hopefully we'll see more growth in theYouTube channel and maybe more folks who are
listening to the podcast proper through theirdevice. Thank you once again, Jack.
And then we turn to our listenerssurvey at survey dot great Detectives dot
(34:54):
net, where we can get valuableinformation on who's listening, So I appreciate
every on filling that out. Andthen there are optional comments you can leave,
and Sue leaves the comment loves SamSpade and Johnny Doller, well and
Sue is riding from Australia. Well, thanks so much, Sue. And
now it's time to thank our Patreonsupporter of the day. Thank you to
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Steve, Patreon supporter since June oftwenty fifteen, currently supporting the program at
the Shamus level of four dollars ormore per month. Thanks so much for
your support, Steve, and thatwill do it for today. If you
are enjoying this podcast, please followus using your favorite podcast software. If
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you are enjoying this podcast on YouTube, be sure to lock the video,
subscribe to the channel, and markthe notification bell. We'll be back next
Monday with another episode of Sam Spade, and next Saturday, join us as
we will be presenting crime Fighters.That's a week from Saturday. But join
(35:59):
us back here tomorrow as we getunderway with a new Johnny Dollar Cereal.
Where I'd like to see missus Hawkinsplease, I'm miss Hawkins. Well,
I'm an insurance investigator. My nameis Johnny Dollar Insurance. Yes, why
(36:19):
do you want to talk to me? Well, I'll be frank with you,
miss Hawkins. I came to Clintonto talk to Julian Osborne. Oh
you heard he died in the fire. Yes, I heard. Tragic.
I'm so thankful school wasn't in sessiontoday. Oh, come in. Thank
you. I know this has beena pretty grueling day for you, for
(36:40):
everyone in this town, Miss Hawkins, losing his school and all. I
wouldn't call on you except I feelit's important. Excuse me, please?
Sure hello? Who? Yes?Sure, yes, he is right now.
(37:01):
Yes. Nice. There's just acouple of questions I'd like you to
answer about Julian Osbond, so Ican. I can't help you with anything,
mister Dollar. You will have togo now. Oh look, now,
wait a minute. If if youdon't, I don't want to be
impolite, but I'm tired, verytired. Yeah, sure that phone call?
(37:28):
Were you up? Please? Allright, all right, I'll go,
Miss Hawkins. But I think youshould know why I came here.
I can assure you, mister Dollar, whatever the reason, I'm simply not
interested. I was sent here becauseJulian Osborn advised the insurance company that he
suspected certain building I regularities had goneinto the new school, Miss Hawkins.
Did mister Osborn ever mentioned anything likethis to you? No. I hope
(37:52):
you'll be with us then. Inthe meantime, do send your comments to
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