 bold venture venture intrigue mystery romance starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall together in the sultry setting of tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean once again the magic names of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall adventure and a tale of mystery and intrigue this is a city of grace with pretty women all wrapped in black lace you come to Havana for ecstasy sit in the sun caress a memory and close to the harbour stands a small hotel 350 a day includes no wishing well sandals for the feet mosquito netting for face oh come all ye tourists to Shannon's place Magnifico king real great now I know what I've been missing that's right polo last time you're in the hotel you didn't get to hear King Moses sing he was sitting on your chest and he broke his guitar over my silly head only to impress upon you young polo that the life of crime leads only to a big hollow tone ringing and an empty noggin what time do you conduct services king we'll all want to put on our Sunday clothes oh I only meant mr. Slade to I know king you meant we're all real happy young polo is doing so well we really are kid it's good to see you like this you do not hold anger against me that I once tried to dance a caper in your place to rob it of house and home forget it polo how's the job if the job you convinced the pop of the jeweler to bestow on me oh she's fine it is a knockout I'm a bonded jewel messenger policeman meet me on the street and shake my hand your mother must be very proud polo you know we ought to get down to the barrier to see a slate we haven't even I'm in trouble senior slate big trouble it makes a hurt in my head and in my heart I do not understand what is here what's wrong kid what I slaves remember me Kirk the punk you can't stand we remember you slate threw you out of the place once before you come back for a farewell performance I come back for you to meet a Kirk that you'll adore all plushy with dough and dough insurance investigator for Ronaldo insurance incorporated and share me with your friend slain who's the kid adios senior slate adios hey polo come back here what got into the kid he ran out of here like like a scared rat they're all alike slate these Havana gutter rats isn't that the one who tried to rob you once and you've been holding hands with him how do we say goodbye Kirk feet first or just my hungry fist in your teeth oh not good bye slate just all of war because you've got a lot I want to forgive you for he's a good place to consider it senior Kirk consider now this wide-curve of beach you're trying to say what oh yeah me amigo listen to me on a page a philosopher once wrote down a thing he wrote this it's eating you huh you're getting chicken about what's gonna happen for you and me I may go he wrote that eternity was the length of time a bird would take to lift one grain of sand and fly away with it and return in a million years for another great when all the beaches in the world were bearer of sand this is eternity the kid was a thinker I'm not an agree what's with you subpoena the philosophy concerns how to steal your own jewelry and collect insurance as well that through look how beautiful your jewelry shop your jewels Paulo steals jewels polo dies you get jewelry insurance money you like it is firmamento have you don't know how right you are we've even got an angel named Shannon angel stupid type now watch it so far for the tights coming and you'll get your feet wet a lot of chair slate and fan me into it I can't move my jeans another inch sure there's the chair work it out for yourself oh slate slate the life you lead a girl an innocent girl with only two pair of nylons to her name I keep telling you to wear sweatshots early you could start a fair jeans over sweatshots you could begin a new life yourself Rover boy stop sticking your nose down alleys up crannies kids that he was in trouble didn't he he runs out before he can tell us what trouble so we go looking for him because it itches me a kid we like should be in trouble in the slums and the barrio on the beaches and the pool halls when you fly a mission you really fly don't you kid no polo where is he sailor what's he running from what do any of us run from maybe he got tired like I get tired maybe he found a downy cushion someplace he's sitting on it all alone away from the keep talking sailor maybe you can gather a crowd play chanon speaking you are occupied senior unoccupied yourself come to so pop of the jeweler immediately it is an order I already got a watchband kid besides your salesmanship smells I wouldn't for the boy polo you would you wouldn't I would get your other pair of nylons how do you hope just sailor we're going walking again I asked senior Kirk to be with us here in my office that's in your Shannon seniorita because his interests lie in the same direction as ours slate either ask him what his direction is or tell him to stop staring at me leave him alone the guys got shifty eyes let him shift what's this all about the popo senior Kirk explain so popo here did a dumb thing Shannon thought you would want to weep about it it's sailor's feeding time gentlemen let's get on with it huh that's a popo had a kid named polo because you asked him to dumb him Aaron the boy who tried to knock over your place Aaron a kid like that is a jewel messenger he's very dumb me senior Sean and my apologies but I hate you for making me listen to you you don't want to come right up and say polo absconded with a whole consignment of jewelry I don't believe it neither do I believe or not to believe that is not the question polo failed to deliver a consignment of jewels he failed to let me know the reason why he has been gone since this morning disappeared polo likes you slate which already makes him a kid with a warped sense of values maybe you worked out a little deal I'm just asking because as any fool can plainly see I've got an evil mind Kirk a deal goes like this and this idea occurs to me only this is a better one you like the deal Kirk all that exercise makes me hungry slate and me too come on sailor let's go scare up a tortilla they scare me read me the recipe again watch with you a simple dish like tortillas with beans you scream out the window with the neighbors how do you make a tortilla you stop the postman ask him how his wife makes them you make me buy a shelf of cookbooks the whole town's talking about a lousy cook just tell me how you want it spread over the face would be nice you want it like that I'll give it up sailor you won't cut out for it peel me a banana read me the recipe not good with bananas either huh give it to me polo's in real trouble this time isn't this late I still don't believe it maybe the kid was knocked off maybe not knocked off I just heard from it he sounded real alive made sounds and everything the creep really creeps around doesn't he slay he hadn't opened his mouth the girl would know someone was peeping at her tortillas I just couldn't bring myself to louse up such a dripping domestic scene you come to apologize for the beating I gave you Kirk that too polo whispered through a phone to meet him in a tenement in the barrio in three hours you can't have joined the party Shannon couldn't live without it how are you with tortillas Kirk and me the frying pan honey I'll cook your thing you'll never forget hey Shannon over here where's polo in that tenement house do you get information like this Kirk I'll be sensible Shannon a kid steals a hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry it's hot he can't get rid of it so he makes a deal with me on account of I represent the insurance company deal 15 grand that's why he got in touch with you and not with me that's why huh sure said he'd meet me here but I wanted you to see for yourself what the kid was so I'm bringing you along to watch how a thief works with an insurance operator you wouldn't want it in the other way that's going to tenement they put that gun back in your pocket Kirk or you'll break my arm that's right whatever you say Shannon come on dark lucky I brought a flash follow let me handle it follow follow it's late Shannon maybe he's not here he's here that son came from the basement hey somebody shooting at somebody down there and somebody's taking a part of let's get him here take it my gun maybe if I used it it'll upset you go on take it yeah good need using hey shine your light over there where back of the staircase oh yeah yeah take a look Shannon follow shot he's dead Shannon your boy is dead but I don't understand it why what happened he was doing okay just this morning he told me let me tell you follow was a bad boy a bad boy in bad company and the company just took apart it how do you like follow now Shannon our stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren McCall and the second act of our story don't get sentimental about it inspector I heard once a kid knocked off his dear old dad for the price of a ticket to a burlesque show now the kids nowadays and what do you think Shannon well it looks like what Kirk says follow stole the stuff had a partner they met here before Kirk and I got here argued partner shot follow that's what I said Lissal only I never got to the good part for such tidbits I hang out my tongue good part I'll come Shannon here planted the kid and support was establishment why I suppose I'll answer them Lissal okay Kirk ask that again sure how come you planted follow and get the answer Kirk no huh gee I I guess I lost my head Lissal you have committed something here I will think what the while I am thinking you are becoming a fugitive from justice by the second in that case I'd better just run away to keep it legal so I can be a fugitive books late I browsed through it read the last chapter of telephone numbers knew the whole plot and tore it up sailor that took me years of self sacrifice burning the midnight oil here are the pieces on the lonely nights you can amuse yourself by trying to put them all together again you know like a jigsaw puzzle it's the latest thing for tired bachelors I hear no worry I'll put them back together again if it takes years and years follow was just murdered in the barrio tenement that John Dom's think I had a finger in it what makes them think a thing like that you've got a publicity agent slave yeah the creep name of Kirk you coming sailor I'll need your help maybe enough of it to keep me alive one more flight sailor a short one I've seen tenements before slight but this one yeah down the hall see I send your Shannon senorita dual por favor come in you will forgive the appearance of my nothing to forgive senora who has came to tell you well it's about you tell her sailor senora is about polo of my son of his dying of this I already know and the tears of me are for my solitude it's difficult to weep when others watch even such others as you we want you to know as sorry anything we can do there is only weeping to be done slide yeah yeah I see it too senora who has the last time I was here you weren't wearing that ring this morning in the mail came just like that and more senior a little after the mail a man came a man called Manuel he of the pond store saying he heard of my good hope you're gonna talk to me Manuel senior I do not talk how did you know senora who has got that ring let me hit him a few times I keep out of this what about it Manuel why should a lousy fence like you suddenly know all about senora who has you see see I will tell you it is of a robbery it is whispered about here in the barrio that some of the jewelry befell the senora because her son polo had to do with the robbery also there there is what this a ring the beloved of polo a girl Rita who lives nearby she came into my place and sold me a ring where would she get such a ring if not from polo polo is a thief but I do good sailor I believe the word is Magnifico that's it you did Magnifico what do you want of me you have a wrong place mind if we come in what how you know my name I know nothing of you how you know so much of me don't be frightened Rita I'm sailor Duval and this is Slate Shannon we've come to Slate Shannon oh Paola has told me very simpatic of things of you many nice things please come in Rita you pawned a ring where did you get it did polo give it to you where would polo get such a precious such an expensive thing it came in the mail well maybe you should have given us the police Rita Manuel the palm broker he gave me 600 pesos for it with 600 pesos polo and me could have been might could have been man and wife Rita we love polo too we might take the money senor you keep it give it to the police to a beggar I have no use for it the money for the flowers for polo's grave I will earn if you need us for anything Rita just let's go Slate it is very interesting what you tell me senor senorita it tweaks me in a place that should be tweaked you hear that Slate I tell you this to sell as a policeman with a very zippy brain I don't say it too loud sailor the whole thing might vanish right before our eyes it is not an illusion senor this is one of my good days I zip because what you have told me could very possibly be true this of the mailing of the stolen jewels of the then you believe polo was innocent but he had nothing to do with the robbery that he was murdered in cold blood because he knew something and tried to tell me whoa back off senor Slate you are straining your leash I didn't have a hand on him perhaps you brought jump to too many conclusions in your senorita to the matters you have told me I will give a pinch of credence but the polo's innocence of this I am not quite so I am not quite are you getting unzipped again kid polo was innocent how much more do you need to get it through the ball skull please senor I want you to observe something some photographs that were taken at the scene of polo's death we don't care to look at them lasal it's not one of our fond of memories oh perhaps you will grow fond of this one look at it senor this is a police laboratory photograph of the gun that was found in the dead borrower's hand it has been sprinkled with fingerprint powder guns of curious is it not never have I seen such yeah yeah never have I either come on sailor I want to show you what makes a gun found in a boy's hand so curious the first thing I remarked to myself when he walked into my office senor senorita is why you two are not chained to the police we want to have a look at your boss a popo since I was a little girl I wanted to look into a jeweler's vault mother said wait till you get older and now I'm older do you come to buy jewelry wholesale not today right now I just want to find some stolen jewelry stolen from you let's look in the vaults you are insane not today either his time is Tuesday afternoon you want me to open it with the top of your head so popo excuse me I wish to make a phone call the phone calls come later open it for this senior this insult if this is what's needed to get it open oh Kirk Kirk the eminent insurance investigator you're a straight shooter Kirk so popo asked me to help him I did I got him out of his troubles that's help I once knew a guy who was helping he wasn't killed at all what kind of an ungrateful guy are you shanon the jeweler was going to knock you off look at him look at his hand he was getting ready to pull a luger sure he was would you knock the gun out of my hand for pick up the gun sailor muzzle first wrap a handkerchief around it this isn't a wrapping handkerchief slate this is a dropping handkerchief so today you won't drop wrap it what do you want so popo's gun for ballistics will want to check it against the slugs and paul's body I underrated you shanon you'll hate yourself in the morning I know I'm not knocking you shanon it's just that you figured a little ahead of me that's all thrill me tell me how easy so popo never parts with the jewels and report some stolen insurance money sure sure tell me Kirk how do you figure paul figures all so easy so popo kills the kid to make it look like the kid absconded you mind if I take it from there what else is there slate does this bit so well Kirk let him do it yeah thanks sailor two of the jewels showed up one to paul's mother one to his girl so popo mailed him to throw off suspicion to make it look like paul was spreading joy around and you even knew that so popo had an enemy ah but here's the twist the gun paul was holding in that barrio cellar had no fingerprints on it no prints we were stupid weren't we you know I clean forgot that dead men leave no prints which means paul was dead before I met you at that moment so popo was downstairs making all that noise and that gun's going to prove it you'll probably hang Kirk you stink shanon steak and you want sailor sailor you hit a man over the head with a gun I'm proud of you what's that word I used on you slate use it on me Magnifico kid you were sheer Magnifico say it again well don't let it go to your head come on I'll take your home well slate how did you like them you've improved kid those are pretty fair tortillas did you follow the recipe in the book I bought you sure did I mailed in the coupon in the back of it for free samples if you want more tortillas you're going to have to buy another book sailor how can a girl your age be such a bad cook oh sure honey I'm just talented you can't cook you can't shred a needle every time you press my pants the creases are on the sides what can you do sailor this see what else does a girl need to know slate I'm talking to you slate can't cook can't shred a needle creases on the side ah who needs it come here sailor and so our two stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall have brought to a close our latest bold venture story special music was composed and conducted by David Rose may we invite you to listen again next week at this time for another exciting adventure starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall together in bold venture