 Get this and get it straight crime is a suckers road Those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. There's no other end, but they never learn From the pen of Raymond transfer outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in the adventures of Phillip Marlowe Now with Gerald Moore starred as Phillip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story the dark tunnel After being hitched one month model 30 days. Where am I? I don't know where I am out in the cold and with enough unpaid bills Elephant fur coat hat shoes dresses the works furthermore. She tells me it's only the beginning sweetie pie Yeah, well, that's tough Louie. Yeah, I'll see you One for the road on me Unless of course I'm bending your ear too much bill. Oh, how could you say a thing like that? Look, Louie, I've had a long day. I want to go home fair enough. I'm glad I bumped into you No, it'll be a pleasure First it's her mother moving in on us then it's both of them drinking my special stuff like it was water Then these clothes I already mentioned so I asked myself what would be next Louie? What do I get for an answer? All right Louie. What do you get the force my only out and you get my point? Oh, Malo. Yeah, I get you my cars around here in the alley Louie check Well now divorce is something a guy wants to think about thinking guy that is That's a cute little exhibition Scrap nothing a few inches short of murder and closing fast Hey, hey heavy yeah kind of a hot night for this isn't it what do you want sunny? I'd like to hold your coat seems to be cramping your style. He's in one piece. Why you lousy long-nosed Oh, how do we go on muscles? All right, mr. Right now. He's all yours if you can bring him to So long here. Oh This kid's pleaded. All right. Yeah, come on. Give me a handle. We will get him out of here. No, okay, Phillip Come on up we go up on your feet Thanks, mr. All right, you live near here a couple of blocks away The DeWitt arms hotel on Western your sunset. Oh, take it easy. Take it easy put your arm over my shoulder We'll get you there. Thanks. Come on Louie over to my car. Yeah, sure Maybe I better skip the lift. I mean my problem that the discussion we were having we better postpone it for a while, huh? I know what you mean Louie. Yeah, it'll keep all right kid. Come on. Let's go Oh The DeWitt arms on Western was one of those cheap stucco and neon sign little hotels where the lobby floor is threadbare carpet and cigarette butts The furniture is chained in place. There are always the usual number of John Smith's on the register By the time we were there and in the dingy cramped room number 111 Was no bigger than a cell. I knew that the boy with the swollen face will lean heavy on my shoulder was 25 Answered to wire a closet and he knew that I was a private detective without a job on my hands And I began to learn a little more that slick guy in the alley. Mr. Malo his name is link Austin link He runs the new blossom dance land on North Hoover. Well, what does he to do with his Julia Thayer? I'm not sure it was the last place she worked just before she dropped out of sight a month ago. I Don't think I'll need this towel anymore. I feel pretty good. Take it easy. Take it. You better stay on your back kid Yeah Any honest Amalia I went to the new blossom dance land tonight See if I could pick up any kind of a lead on Julia where she went to why anything at all and you found out what? In Austin Link's office in a desk drawer this newspaper clipping. It's a month old like Julia's disappearance Otherwise doesn't make any sense to me It was stable to this picture of Julia Here guess it was used in an ad for the dance hall or something. Hey, she's a pretty girl, isn't she? That clipping what's it all about? Well, I'll read it to you You mind closing the window first, mr. Malo. I think I'd rather have it hot in here. Yeah, I know I would every jerk thinks he's valley All right, go ahead kid the headline is Faye Patilio killed in car wreck and then mystery surrounds death of famed gangland woman Faye Patilio Hollywood's glamorous first lady of crime in the records. Yeah Says she was killed late last night when her car plunged from lookout mountain road at a hairpin turn However, the police are puzzled by the fact that although the 40-year-old redhead was in her own car She was not found at the wheel But in the back seat where according to the condition of the wreck she could not have been thrown Further or no sign of any driver dead injured or otherwise was a has been found. I know all about that one now Look, is that all you have to go on not quite mr. Malo has one thing more Why just before link caught me in his office and I ran and hid as far as the alley where you found Yeah, I overheard him talking to someone on the phone about Julia. I Have no idea who it was but link was very respectful and he was given a private telephone number a number He was to remember not write down. You know what it was. Yeah, Washington 701 seven 701 seven. That's it Mr. Malo, it's not quite. I read it's only half of it. What do you mean you and Julia? Why you want to find out what she means to you why you haven't gone to the police? well I'd rather not say mr. Malo If you don't mind, okay, suit yourself Well, good luck kid when you're on your feet again played a little neater, huh? You'll stay on your feet a lot longer that way. Mr. Malo wait. Hmm, please I Yeah, I want you to work for me. I'll tell you everything. That's better May help kid anyway can't hurt now Not any more than it has already Began back home mr. Malo a couple of years the story I recloss and told me I'd heard before So at anybody who spent more than a weekend in Hollywood only the names were different Julia Thayer had loved I or I or loved Julia all this in Cedarville, Oregon then the snapper Someone says Julia is not only beautiful, but has talent. She's wasting her time in Cedarville Julia believes this packs a bag scrambles for movie land where she falls flat on her face Which isn't quite as gorgeous in Hollywood as it was in Cedarville And it's no dough lots of pride. You got to eat to live so you get a job That was where the new blossom dance land came in And when the letters quit coming on the home front Iris started to worry He knew that Julia needed help Followed one lead after another Got as far as the alley where I collected you okay kid. I think I've heard enough then you'll help me Yeah, yeah, I'll try Call you later So your problem is a phone number. Oh, Marlowe Washington. What was it a 701 seven a Callahan? That's a handy book newspapers need handy books Marlowe people clam up too much these days. I blame the movies myself Hey, no search animal. It could be a new number. I didn't I mention that you didn't all right We'll try the supplements and get one from the phone company every month like a bill see Wallace Washington five thousand six seven seven thousand. Yep. Here it is 701 seven address one six two two Ramona Boulevard, which would be East LA and industrial listing southern cities where Warehouse ring a bell a cannon Southern cities warehouse is just one of the interest of LA's answer to whatever became of the big bootleggers I mean Joe staff a very smooth very nasty man Yeah, this I've heard now tell me Callahan does he also have known the new blossom dance land over on North Hoover? He does. Are you tell me Phil? There's a story I could use here. Oh, no, no story You know Marlowe. It's just like I said people climb up Yes, all right good night Callahan If the good gray reporter hadn't mentioned staff's prohibition background I would have chalked the warehouse off as the kind of nine to five place that couldn't possibly help But on the hunch that staff might live in a lush penthouse atop a stockpile. I lost Chicago 1929 style I pointed my car for East LA and the southern cities warehouse 20 minutes later when I was there and saw a step down Hudson outside and soft light oozing over the edges of the roof I didn't regret my move not at least until I found a flat metal door and pushed the button attached there, too Then I began to wonder because Aladdin himself couldn't have gotten a quicker response Nor could his genie have been any more of a mountain than the item I drew out of a nearby shadow not the door Okay, Charlie lay it out nice and neat who are you and what do you want Joe step names Marlowe occupation private detective now you Handles pork I work for staff. Hey now wait a minute. What's it to you who I am? Chalmers is close enough to cop the stink now beat it before I start thumping on your boy Wanda and turn you into something Vest pocket size daddy pork Seems to be the trouble who you mr. His name's Marlowe mr. Stappy's a private answer for himself for go ahead Marlowe What do you want with me? What's it about? Hey Patelio? Hey, but shut up pork They Patelio is dead Marlowe. So is conversation about her anything else. Yeah, something else Girl who used to work over at the new blossom dance land Julia Thayer Now where she is why she disappeared no and I don't care. Why should I cuz you used to go places with it I've gone with a hundred girls Marlowe Julia was no different except for one thing. She gave me the brush Well, good night Marlowe. Sorry. I couldn't have been more help. I won't be long one more thing Joe You mind telling me who Julia dropped you for not at all a pretty boy Dean Cody Julia thought he was better looking than a mink coat. Now where can I find him? Can you throw that in surely? Forest Grove Cemetery Marlowe. Oh, he was burned to death in an accident at some cottage poor boy Well, good night. Marlowe pork here will walk with you as far as your car. That's real friendly Let's go Charlie and no funny business. Oh, I wouldn't think of it pork You got a height weight reach and Artillery on me. Yeah, and I'll gladly use them all that you're buggy there. Yeah, that's it Well, it's been a nice stroll porky Charmin just so it stays that way Charlie. Remember to keep away from here here the dance land in the Silver Lake spot Silver Lake Yeah, porky, I'll remember every word of it I'll hand go ahead Marlowe again Callahan now listen on Joe staff. There's a Silver Lake spot mean anything to you It does yeah, it's on the north end of Silver Lake Road Marlowe overlooks the reservoir Stop built it as a nightclub mountain lard style about oh 10 years ago When it didn't go we converted it into a private home Or I should say a cozy place to take the cuties for that one drink. I know what you mean. Good night Callahan The Silver Lake reservoir was only a mile off lower Sunset Boulevard But the setting could have been a street in Switzerland a large Callahan told me about stood out among the neat little Chalets that skirted the water's edge like a Sherman tank in Toyland Also, it was showing light from a screened-in porch So when I was out of my car across a shaky rustic bridge that spanned the promise of a creek moving up close I didn't have any trouble spotting the girl I saw inside talking earnestly into a telephone Julia Thayer By build size and color of hair But the face I couldn't say it wore a hat that sported enough there the mosquito-proof twin beds Hello junior For you, what do you want quite a bit, honey? But for a starter, let's say that I'm a private detective named Marlowe working for a guy who's worried sick about you Ira Clausen Who's that? Yeah, well, I'm not sure but maybe he's the world's greatest sucker Unless level baby. It's getting late for guessing games, huh? I'll say it is. Oh What's the use? What do you want to know, Mr. Marlowe? Too much to chat about here. The owner is no friend of mine. Come on We'll take my car. All right I'm tired of running Let's go Will you take my arm, please? This downbridge scares me silly. Oh shoot. Just watch your heels on those loose planks, huh? Okay, I think I'm gonna be just fine Was all the leads she needed because by the time I crawled out of the inch deep inch wide river and was back up on the road Julia Thayer was in a car away fast as far as Sunset Boulevard I went to the phone back on the large and got through to my client at the wid arms hotel and brought him up To date in a hurry including the latest question mark the tunnel. Well, of course. I've heard of it, Mr. Marlowe matter of fact, I've been there why well, it's where Julia's heading right now Now what's the location of it? I ran Ira? I'm still here, Mr. Marlowe. Yeah You sound real different. I don't get it. What's up very personal business. Mr. Marlowe. You see I'm Ira Coatee not Clawson Dean Coatee's brother, Mr. Marlowe brother who's out to get the girl responsible for his burning to death Julia Thayer the cheap scum so Marlowe played patsy I'll look on the boy girl pitch you made it all up every bit of it. Mr. Marlowe before I needed your help now I don't anymore get lost In just a moment we will return to the second act of Philip Marlowe, but first There will be four more amateur songwriters on hand and one of them will sell his songs for nationwide plugging and Distribution when songs for sale comes along tonight on most of the same CBS stations Songs for sale gives these new songwriters a great chance their songs are judged by a panel of experts Their music is sung by Rosemary Clooney and Richard Hayes They're made to feel at home under the guidance of the experienced showman Jan Murray For an hour of fascinating fun behind the scenes of Tin Pan Alley Here's songs for sale tonight and every Friday on CBS Now with our star Gerald Moore the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's story the dark Tunnel I Stood there for a minute after Ira Cody hung up and tried to figure my next move While the phone in my hand quietly buzzed sucker A pair of haywire lives was scheduled for a smash-up and I let myself get mixed up right in the middle Now my only chance to do something about it was to find out fast what was meant by the tunnel I started out of the place, but only got as far as the front door You're going somewhere's cutie That rod makes you six feet taller doesn't it porky. I don't like you Charlie You played a dirty trick on trick. What are you talking about when I slipped and mentioned Silver Lake? It made mr. Staff mad at me. I don't want mr. Staff mad at me that I can understand now Look, you feel like talking this out. No, oh Listen, you dumb apes for your own good Nothing's gonna happen tonight. It'll make your boss a lot madder than he is now I'm the only one who is trying to trick me again, but it won't work not this time First we lift your gun Now get going Take your car walkie you're gonna hate yourself for this in the morning when step finds out I doubt it you see Charlie It's his idea now get going Over there Marla the big door and I don't suppose step would bother to tell you why I wanted to see me What do you parkie huh? No, that's none of my business yet. What do you mean by yet? Oh, he might want you to tell him something you might not want to then it's my business Go on go on open it up That's enough inside Real genuine warehouse huh chains tackle even a hand truck Well oil to Don't tell me your boss is going legit. Never mind that junk just stand right there. It'll like it this crazy door lock Yeah, Paul try something heavier like this truck My life while you now it's your chin Good night, Charlie I Fished my own gun out of Pauke's pocket tossed his 45 off in a dark corner and rolled the Hulk himself out of sight behind a stack of crates Then I went over to an elevator in the corner On the way into the warehouse the light I'd seen earlier from the roof was still there So I decided to try the penthouse. I walk quietly down a thick carpeted hole of the only door When I knocked with a barrel of my 38. Oh, I've been waiting for you a gun. Hey, how come Oh Big wheel like Joe Stapp or to afford better help now I'm holding the gun So I'll ask the questions what and where is the tunnel a tunnel is a hole I'm usually in the ground deliver Joe. It's got a lot to do with your girlfriend Julia. Julie. Oh That's a hot one. I went to all this trouble to haul you in here for the same reason Then I'll put down the gun and let's talk it makes me nervous. I'm not interested in your nerves. I'm interested in your talk All right, you've got a long nose Marlo and poking it around you might find out enough to get real curious and call in the cops That I can't afford so I'm gonna level with you tell you what you want to know just so you'll lay off But a deal I'll let you know all right You wanted to know about Julia Yeah Nothing like Julia Thayer ever happened in my life before most beautiful thing I ever saw Sweet and soft made me ashamed of myself somehow. I don't hear violins Marlo I'd have done anything Julia asked me to And all she ever asked of me was to give her up the Dean Cody. Yeah Dean Cody Young physique that wasn't all wasteland like this Handsome face that have a boiled lobster like mine is she was crazy about him fascinated And I didn't blame her until I found out he had the morals of a rattlesnake keep talking Cody was rotten Marlo Dirty clear through cheating on Julia every time she turned around I couldn't stand it I tried to tell her I made her hate you huh look stab so far This is no better than a serial and turret romance is the point the point. I'm getting to it One night I thought I could convince her because Cody had a date with Faye Patelio I don't have to tell you she was the lowest thing in town They were going to a spot up on lookout mountain. So I told Julia she went up there and waited They showed all right both loaded She saw him take that dive off that hairpin turn when she got down to him. They were both dead Wait a minute. You told me Dean Cody was burned in the cottage. Oh, that's what I'm still telling you Julia was so far gone over that lousy pulled his body out of that wreck hauled it all the way down to that cottage at Malibu and then set fire to the Police so the world would never know he's going with a trap like Faye Patelio, huh? Yes How'd you like to have that kind of loyalty on your side? Anyway after Cody was gone Cody's young brothers in townstab he thinks Julia is responsible for Dean's death And he's gonna kill her what that schedule to meet at that tunnel. I asked you about now. Where is it? Snap I asked I heard you Tunnels an old abandoned underpass and back of the new blossom, but we're not going there Marla We're going to sit tight and let it play as is are you nuts not anymore Julia was out of her head that night something went wrong when she started that fire She got caught in it herself Marla You mean she was burned there a Face It's bad She'll never be right again no matter how much plastic surgery. Yeah, but there's no reason to let it be murdered That's a matter of definition You see Julia still in love with the memory of Dean Cody Marla, so we'll just forget it and let it play itself out We'll forget nothing. I got the gunstep, but you're gonna drop it aren't you otherwise? I'll have to drop you. Oh fine Now remember you Austin link knuckles in an alley drop it That's right nosy What's the word Joe get them out of here link get them out of my sight. I don't care where you go come on slick Let's go just sit on them for a few hours. We'll talk it over them Link was a professional He stayed exactly far enough behind me to be always out of reach but always close enough to keep me under control All the way down in the elevator I watched for a chance it never turned up and as I rounded a corner and headed for the big door again I glanced at the stack of crates Come to it was on his feet behind them a heavy steel pulley block in one hand his face a stupid mask of blind hate He slammed a block at me with everything he had And heard the thing connect behind me it caught link dead center He felt like a bag of sand before pork realized what had happened. I charged the stack of crates through my shoulder against it Made it to the door and out in one day. I car was sitting where I'd left it I heed the sigh of relief and piled in Ten minutes later, I pulled up at the new blossom dance land. It was just closing I ran along the side of the building to the back where a yellow light above the rear door cast an out of place halo over. Oh No This is for employees only. Yeah, well, I'm employed. Listen. Do you know where the tunnel is which I can see what you mean The tunnel the tunnel. It's an old underpass. There's an entrance to it back here someplace Sure See the light over there and that little cement house. Yeah, yeah, that's it steps lead down inside But why nobody ever uses that anymore. Well, I tell you I got a date in there with a couple of screwballs Well, you'll be right at home. Good night, dear Bakers doesn't step sled down into the thick darkness littered with newspapers weeds and wine bottles all long dead as I ease down inside. I heard voices low and tense amplified by the rolling hollow echo in the tunnel At least I made it in time When I got to the bottom I could see the two of them sluited against the dim glow at the far end I pressed my back against the wall thought about my empty shoulder holster and move toward them Didn't you you're making a mistake? No, no, no, you killed him. All right, you and that beautiful face of yours that he couldn't resist Why are you hiding it behind a veil used to be so proud of You killed Dean just the same as if you'd shot him, but you're not getting away with it Julia I'm gonna square it up for him right now Marlowe How did you find this place? I found plenty beside that Ira. Give me that gun now No, you're not gonna stop me even if you shoot. I'll kill her first. I don't have a gun Ira, but I got facts Before you shoot anybody you better listen Julia wasn't responsible for Dean's death. He was everything. She's done since then has been to protect what little good There was left of his crummy reputation. I can prove it Dean went bad. I were all bad. It was a low double-crossing cheese. You're lying. You're right. He died He was two-timing Julia But in spite of that she risked everything to move his body from a smashed up car Nobody would ever find out what really happened to him. It's too hard. Stop it Your liars both of you. I won't let you say things like that about my brother You don't care if he's dead Julia. You'll do all right You've got the kind of beauty all the men go for and you Marlowe You're crazy punk. Say back Admit you're a liar Marlowe Admit it or I'll kill you. I swear. I'll kill you along with Julia You'll be doing me a favor You haven't seen my face lately. Have you I never want to see it. I think you're better kid Got a match Marlowe sure here Look Ira You can't be Julia. I was burned Ira It happened to me when I tried to hide the kind of rotten trash that Dean had been mixed up with The only reason she did it was because she loved her maybe more than you did. Come on kid. Let's have that gun You don't want to kill anybody I don't want to kill anybody Julia. I'm sorry Let him go Julia The hard parts over now You'll be all right. I Look, you're not him after a while just to be sure But What about you? What about me? I'll be okay Marlowe After I've done some thinking This shock I Think it's what I need it. Goodbye. It's a dark tunnel honey. I think you can find your way out alone Yeah Yeah, I'll find a way out alone One of these days she was gone I went back and climbed the stairs Out of the tunnel and into the night again As I drove slowly home. I thought of Julia Alone in a dark blind tunnel with no end to it Then I thought of all the dark blind tunnels that men stumble into Tunnels of blind love and blind hate Of blind submission that lets empty suits of armor conquer cities and men's minds Tunnels of blind worry and blind greed of blind ambition of blind then I stopped because I Was getting no place except Into a blind alley the adventures of Philip Marlowe bringing you Raymond Chandler's most famous character star Gerald Moore are Produced and directed by Richard Sanville and written for radio by Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt Featured in the cast were Lorraine Tuttle, Bob Sweeney, Paul Dubov, David Ellis, Barney Phillips and Larry Dubkin The special music is composed and conducted by Richard Arant. Be sure and be with us again next week when Philip Marlowe says This time greed in a green suede dress a die-hard from Dixie and a cuckoo coin collector Added up to violent death for two and all over a half a buck in Confederate money Every Friday night CBS brings you stories taken from the files of parole boards of the 48 states With only the names changed these stories give and complete detail the events of a criminal's life up to the time He is up for parole then before you hear the board's decision You can make up your mind. Is this man ready to be set free? It's been hailed by press and public alike as an outstanding anti-crime show And you can hear it now by staying tuned because up for parole follows immediately on most of these same CBS stations Roy Rowan speaking This is CBS where you play sing it again every Saturday night the Columbia broadcasting system