 The adventures of Sam Spade detective brought to you by Wildroot cream oil hair tonic the non-alcoholic hair tonic that contains lanolin Wildroot cream oil again and again the choice of men who put good grooming first It's me sweetheart back from resisting arrest. Oh Sam Oh Sam you better not talk the homicide people may be tapping our wire. Let them tap Effie I can take my medicine perhaps. It's better this way. I'm strangely content I'll walk down that last mile with dignity and a plum a plum You'll even be eating while you're going to your life. Why not Evie? Why not if this capable was to be my last and so be it? It brought me everything a woman's passionate love the smell of salt air clean and my nostrils That was the best part an officer of San Francisco's police people. It was glorious glorious Calm yourself Evie take a fortitude pill pull down the shade speak to no one I shall scope down alleys and secret byways as I come to you to dictate my report on the stellar starcaper Dashel Hammett America's leading detective fiction writer and creator of Sam Spade the hard-boiled private eye and William Spear radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama Join their talents to make your hair stand on end with the adventures of Sam Spade Presented by the makers of wild root cream oil for the hair Mom don't look now, but school days are just around the corner So I'd like to suggest that every day before the children leave for school You remind them to get that neat well-groomed look with wild root cream oil hair tonic Wild root cream oil not only grooms the hair neatly and naturally it also relieves dryness and removes loose dandruff So for the children for dad and for yourself mom get wild root cream oil hair tonic now in a new 25 cent get acquainted size Wild root cream oil hair tonic a friend of the family and now with Howard Duff starring a spade Wildroot brings to the air the greatest private detective of them all in the adventures of Sam Spade Date September 5 1948 To Mrs. Stella star aboard the Stella star marina yacht basin San Francisco from Samuel Spade license number one two seven five nine six subject the Stella star murders What Sam if she's dead Sprung at the seams and pumping water epi, but still afloat Sam what kind of talk is that? salty talk Shall we continue on a course on a course? I mean of course dear Stella? If Anybody had told me that the man who walked into my office had a wife like you I would have believed it Because he was obviously a very wealthy man He was wearing a very expensive skiffers uniform a thousand bucks worth of Leica camera five hundred bucks worth of binoculars a Platinum boson's whistle with a star ruby monitor and the goatee have a very wealthy man Mr. Spade I do not say that in boasting but as a point of information thanks I like to get as many facts as I can for my clients your name star J. Wellington star master the schooner Stella star Name for my dear little wife, sir picture Yes, indeed. I call her my little mermaid. What does she call you twinkie? But to the point Sam it is not my dear little wife that is lost It's my webby vickers revolver a pistol blowback semi-auto point 455 caliber Anything special on it and not particularly Oh, there's one thing the grip is fashioned from the skull bone of a pig me Which my dear little wife shot by accident while elephant hunting pig me elephant No human and quite fond of the pistol both because it's it's a good gun And as a reminder of happy days in the African bush Here's a picture of my dear little wife and their hunting tags Well, that's the pig me standing next to her. Yes before the accident Poor little chap was quite melancholy all the morning Well, sir, when you found my webby bring it around to the yacht We're more than their marina basin. Have you reported this to the police? Oh good heavens. No, why not? It would mean no end of bother might even hold up my port clearance I'm doubly merely a matter of a crewman needing money Fills it for my quarters and took her to a money lender. Don't you imagine? Well, I'll I'll give it a buzz my fee is $25 a day the gun worth that I'm a very wealthy man's Well, then make it 50 We settled for 35 and he left After a leisurely lunch at the blue bottle bar and grill I asked myself if I were a seamen who wanted to unload a hot gun. Where would I take it? Well, that narrowed the field to about a half a dozen friendly waterfront pawn shops It took me about an hour and a half to check friendly Sam friendly Rufus friendly Tom Dick and Harry and Joe friendlies place if your husband's story was true I was sure I'd find the missing gun in one of these places, but I did Get a webby pistol in here lately foreign gun bone grip I got all kinds guns far and domestic Japanese all types handles bone either a plastic Take your pictures of what you like it. Let me see that one now that I can't sell the shipping sales. Yeah I got news for you Joe This one's hot a living newspaper. How do you think I keep this place so warm with the fogs rolling and all the time Who pledged it? Nah Funny thing. I forgot to write it down. What's your interest? What's your name? Spain? Sam spade Private eye detective the very same Take it and I'm not to be in cooperation with you. You'll sign my guest book. My pleasure Thank you, Joe Good night It was dark and the fog was rolling in by the time I got to the marina yacht basin The schooner stellar star was pretty too as she rocked gently in her birth on the channel side of the jetty. I Did a take after I let myself down a border a stern I could have sworn that it was none other than Lieutenant Dundee of homicide standing on the forward deck, but it was I Took the webby pistol out of my overcoat pocket and sniffed the barrel The unmistakable order of freshly detonated cord I'd assailed my nostrils had been fired at least once since you knocked off that picnic I peaked into the deckhouse Husband's yacht was brightly lighted and it was through a porthole that I first saw you I didn't have a bit of trouble identifying you You were the only blonde there wearing lipstick and an off-the-shoulder gown which was beautiful what I could see of it Which was the off part about then was when I was collared by who later turned out to be Mike McGinnis Chief mate of the stellar star All right, turn around Lieutenant. Look, I'm not a yeah. Yeah. Hey, what's this? Lieutenant all right. Come on you Mike McGinnis lieutenant found this guy hiding on that cruiser to a star. Good work. We're gonna have a gun on him Yeah, a webby vicar. Let's see Well, what's your name you huh? Yeah, Dundee. It's me Mm-hmm Who you working for Sam? Well, you know, I can't tell you that Dundee, but I'll give you a hint The name he gave me was Jay Wellington star. Mm-hmm. Why'd you get this gun star hired me to recover? It was stolen from I found it in a hot shop. That's all I know Is he dead? That's right. We're stiffs in the cabin. Come on Good evening all Please now now Mrs. Star. We mustn't be hysterical. Do you identify this man? That's him the face the poor hole. He was wearing a grey hat. I remember now. That's a very serious statement Are you absolutely sure of your identification? Lieutenant that's the man who shot my husband. I never forget a thing. Oh, now please Mrs. Star Mrs. Star? Why why this perfidious formality suddenly? Look Dundee, you don't seriously... Sam, I don't know what to think. That is true No, no, no ballistics. Tell me the slug in the body didn't come from this gun. Oh, well, it did Dundee Oh, you see he admits it. Is that what you're doing Sam? I don't make any statement about my lawyer, but this gun smells like cordite and this dame here smells like frame. I What's she got against you? I don't know. I never saw her before in my entire V. Oh Sam how can you say that after all we've been to each other the promises you made We're in this together darling. You shot him. All right, all right, but because because I inflamed your passions But I'll stand by you. That's the only decent thing. You're a fine brave little woman Now this is sorry. I'd like you to make that statement again this time. We'll write it down. Must I with poor twinkies body lying there? Sergeant pull up get this stick get take it away Now Mrs. Star you say you went ashore early this afternoon. Yes, Lieutenant. I wanted to see Sam I wanted to talk to him I wanted to tell him that it was all madness and could never be but I disagree we've met at a little restaurant off The beaten track where we all didn't meet well what the restaurant was that was just little Italian place near his apartment He just says pizza and they draw the curtains across the booth iron curtain Dandy And I always arrived in the skies wearing an iron mask Continue continue when you when you left the boat you took something with yes the gun that gun Twinkie was so upset over Sam that is he had threatened self destruction I was afraid to leave him alone with this gun and I don't stop. This is exciting Darling you tell the rest of it. We may as well face it out. The truth is our only hope. Well, okay Here's the rest of her story Dundee. No, no, no, I can't let oh She told me it was all over between the sea the twinkie had threatened to blow his brains out Then she showed me the gun see I grabbed it away from her there was a struggle and she pleaded with me I told her if I couldn't have her no other man would she jumped on her broom and came down here to warn him And that's when I put on my gray hat cocked my pistol and made a widow out of it You got all that Dundee. Oh wait a minute. You you endorse this statement, Mrs. Star. Well, no. Yes, okay Dundee Okay, you got all the dope now take me down and booked me. I'll let me go home. Well, Sam I'm afraid I'm going to have to take why you You stellar was still wearing a puzzled expression under your tear stain makeup when I embraced you and turned quickly away And said the lieutenant Dundee I am ready you called after me But I didn't look back my face was in the mobile mask is with slows steady inexorable steps I walked out into the fog Lieutenant Dundee cliched along the side And another thing Dundee. I'll nail you for false arrest He's ever stopped to think how long you've been a lieutenant of detectives What does Mrs. Dundee say when you come home day after day without a promotion? Pretty story for the papers to gullible dick and meshed in yarn of seagoing glamour girl You'll be back pounding a beat All your stupid little son explain that to his classmates at St. Agatha's Well speak up here. You can't got your tongue. I can tell how Go and Look Sam, I know that game is lying, but why did you have to play along with you leave me with Yeah, that's one of you Dundee that's true But look at it this way give her enough rope and she'll dig her own grave There are more ways of skinning a cat than swinging it by its tail follow me Combined operations Dundee. I'll go on the lambs. See I'll give her a pitch something like this. I told that story to save your neck I say why she has because it's a beautiful neck. I say that's the part where I kiss it all the way down to the Should I say yeah, well Sam it won't wash look perfectly clean to me now be serious Sam I can't do it. You shot off your mouth. Now you have to pay the piper now Dundee All I have to do is demand a paraffin test I haven't fired a gun since that day you scored 48 out of a possible hundred on the police range And I'll publish that score too. I had a cold you Sam are you leveling I am you'll be an object of ridicule a butt of all abuse target for the night. Okay, Sam Hit me Do I have to I can't look like I'll let you go without a fight. Okay, Dundee, but I'd I'd like you to know This is gonna hurt you worse than it does me. Thanks. Now take No The makers of wild root cream oil are presenting the weekly Sunday adventure of Dashiell Hammett's famous private detective Sam spade Now here's important news on good grooming if you want the well-groomed look that helps you get ahead Social ain't on the job. Listen Recently thousands of people from coast to coast who bought wild root cream oil for the first time were asked How does wild root cream oil compare with the hair tonic you previously used the results were amazing? I've better than four out of five better than Confession to a murder if you got one handy whoo that pig Wellington a star Could be an honor which I don't deserve. Yeah, well, you may get it anyway Who knows could be you had motive more than you needed You're in love with his wife which adds up to a crime of passion and he dumped you off in the middle of nowhere Which could add up to a murder for vengeance But I was not there you were I didn't have the pistols you did the widow did not accuse me She had choose you as she's changed the story. She's accusing you now. That's a lie. She don't go into choose me She loves me sure sure she loves me too. She loves that chief mate. She loves anybody She can pin that murder on she loves anybody that can help her make it stick and the one that's left over gets The jungle treatment. I don't listen to no more bad talk about the stela. I think you say too much already I think I'm gonna kill you with this watch it. I did you manners when you think of a lady I caught you I caught you a little piece of the ship Rudy Come on come on get on your feet get up No, I've got enough. I Tell you they kill me anyway when they find out what I done with that cargo, then you did carry something sure They had this load ready to go the regular pilot got malaria. It was a way out I want to find her again and pay off that pig. So I don't stop in Mexico Ali. I keep on flying I got a plan with $200,000 of narcotics. I'm gonna send that pig a star into prison So he don't put his dirty hands on her no more. You mean you planted some narcotics on the stela star Sure, how did you get that stuff on board without anybody knowing? My stela this girl is crazy for me get some clothes on you turning me in what charge For now smuggling narcotics and stealing this plane the murders something else again I got to clear myself and if I can't find the guilty party. I just soon hang that on you, too. I Hope the guilty party wasn't you stela dear Because if it was your latin torch bearer was not the man to help me put the torch to you It was 3 30 in the a.m. And we arrived aboard the stela star I had brought along with me for the occasion none other than lieutenant Dundee who accepted the adhesive tape over his inscrutable chin Was wearing dark glasses I could have sworn I saw your lovely puss framed in the cabin portal as we made our way up the jetty But when we got there the cabin was bare I get almost to believe just story about the secret panel But it was true after all I pulled down on the light fixture over the map There was not only a secret panel, but a secret passageway a narrow flight of steps Ladder to you led into a compartment that looked like part of the forward hold You and jungle love number two the Irish philosopher Mike McGinnis were bending over a pile of rode your own type tobacco sex Skipper been caught with it. I'd have gone up with him My husband didn't even know that stuff had been brought aboard. Oh, what are you handing me brought it and I helped him Or area thought I did send Wellington up and clear the deck for him. Oh, so that's what you had in mind Of course not I did it for you. I'm gonna make the page easy. Donnie. We want to hear this. Oh, yeah I'll believe it when you turn them in for the murder But darling, I already told Sam that Rudy did it did he of course All right, then that's one more reason for keeping quiet about this stuff Sounds crazy going all that trouble of frame a man and then knock him off Not the better story without it Not yet Mike, can you talk? Oh, you just scorched him. That's all. No, no, no, it's pretty bad Mike Whatever you got to say you better talk fast It's bad. What's the difference? Who killed the skipper? Me It was drunk. Yeah threatening to kill himself. She got the gun away from him gave it a me to hold on to I was gonna hide it down here. Uh-huh. So I have to find this cache of dope Affigades enemy half of the risk and none of the profit figure He's a natural for a suicide verdict anyway So all you need is the right moment when nobody's around to have it happen But in the meantime he came to me about the missing gun which gave you the bright idea You plug them and then hawk the gun so I could find it easy and arrive with a murder weapon on me Well, you got it Dundee, yeah Lieutenant Dundee explained the cave it to me as we sat over a lukewarm cup of chicory and his hideous apartment And once again was I struck with the well-nigh indescribable thought processes of this otherwise Simple man, and it suddenly struck me that Dundee spelled backwards is eed mad Thank you Stella for your generous offer of marriage, but it just wasn't meant to be Period end of romance. Will that be all Sam? Yeah, what do you think about it? Of what Sam? Well my big adventure must have been awfully dull for you Sam Why do you say that that girl You must have gotten on your nerves terribly well having to make love to her in line of duty Practically the male not a hurry. I know wait a minute. I think you owe me an explanation. Oh really? I thought it was self-explanatory. Excuse me, Sam. I really must Not a hurry yet If you're a particular about your appearance then be particular about your hair tonic always insist on wild root cream Oil the famous non-alcoholic hair tonic with lanolin that grooms your hair neatly and naturally Relieves annoying dryness and removes loose ugly dandruff Now get wild root cream oil at your drug or toilet goods counter in the new 25 cent get acquainted size bottle Also, ask your barber for a professional application of wild root cream oil hair tonic again and again The choice of men who put good grooming first Copy is ready, Sam. Will you please indicate your corrections on the margin in number four pencil Please your smears what gives really Sam with the amount of money expended on offer supplies in the agency I cannot be continually wearing odd races Of course, you have the right to use any pencil you wish Fact, it's quite obvious that you'll go your own way anyhow. Even if your life is in danger Making friends with all sorts of riffraff that should be in straight jackets Not my place to criticize that after all the choice of your friends is your choice But any girl who would shoot down a pig me and cold blood would stop at nothing F And it's nearly as I can make up She didn't F don't You know what always happens. I know what I can't stop. I just get all wound up Sam Come here. No, don't touch me. I'm not after that awful I'll never go where flamingos fly will I I got news for you get your hat and coat purse gloves and face on Did you notice? Oh, I thought you were gaining weight. Where are we going where flamingos fly on the jukebox and all around the Walls called the flamingo barn grill. Oh Sam, and do they have exotic drinks and everything sure and free oyster crackers Come on get a move on the blue plate special goes off at 945 and it's cream tuna on rice tonight. How nice. Good night, Sam Hey wait for me. I had cream tuna for lunch Hard to get a well too can play at that game. Good night, sweetheart The adventures of Sam spade dashel Hammett's famous private detective are produced and directed by William Spear Sam spade is played by Howard Duff. 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