 mystery romance starring together in the sultry setting of tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean once again the magic names of Humphrey Bulgart and Lauren Bacall bring you bold venture and a tale of mystery and intrigue you busy slate I'm all finished there look come on in look who came calling wow kip Royce how's it going kip I don't know all right I guess close the door have a seat I'll just rearranging my office furniture this happens every other day kip all Slate's got in this office is a desk in a chair so he shifts drawers and slate that's a very clever place to put an inkwell on the floor what are you going to do use a pen with a long quill let's leave it on the desk huh so I forgot it why don't you keep out of this sailor last time you were in my office you use my desk for an ironing board now look at my desk blotter it's dented with shoulder straps well what can we do for you kip I brought you a painting I did frame because I'm afraid we can't use it no place for it why don't you just look at it look you know what you want to do instead of hanging around a banner and painting things that no one understands why don't you do something important with your art paint calendars do comic strips slate the man asked you to look at his painting maybe you like it's slate here fantastic you like it huh it's a masterpiece spend a good deal of time on it you should be proud I've never seen it hey hey this boat is a bold venture isn't it and that's me at the wheel it ain't Admiral Dewey on his favorite poop deck hey what do you want for it kip nothing I want you to have it because you've been well the van isn't the best place in the world to be hungry I'll forget it I'll hang your painting here right in my office and whatever happens don't let it get away from you let it get away something as great as this you are your mind you can get into your other things now Barbara the light's gone no more painting today may I look at it sure it makes me cry you you made me beautiful if I hack a paintbrush two bucks worth of canvas and you would oppose what else can he do when you're rich it won't matter what you think of yourself or your painting whether you admire or hate it it won't matter I told you Barbara we don't talk about it anymore we drop it you hear drop it in the nearest gutter it's not the thing to do with fifty thousand dollars kip that much money makes you and me a gentleman and a lady try to understand me lady I stole the Da Vinci off a museum wall because what's between me and Da Vinci belongs to me an affinity they call it private personal that's why you slept a painting of Shannon and his boat all over it it's that personal between you and an old old Da Vinci as long as it hangs in Shannon's office I live the good shoddy crummy life of a crummy artist and the citizens forget they're lost I take the Da Vinci off Shannon's wall and then blow my brains out because I can't paint like that oh you're a fool kip that art dealer that Gordon McLean said he'd give you fifty thousand for it he's that hungry for it we could haggle for more if that's what you're trying to say what's he paid you to convince me Barbara I made him give me ten thousand deposit I said put your money where your mouth is McLean that's what I said take it back I've got no use for it oh kid it does something to me to call you an idiot I sell that picture the citizen will up whore me hut me down lock me behind stone tell the dealer no deal Barbara because you love me have faith in me because you made me so beautiful in my portrait because you are an idiot it might be a little too high it's too low slate we don't hang pictures at the level of the waist we hang off it is this I want to be able to look at that painting when I'm sitting in my desk I don't want to have to stand on a chair when there was no one out of the front desk so I saw the office sign and I came right in you want me to register this gentleman Mr. Slate sure go ahead say that's a fine painting you have hanging there mighty fine you sound like you know yes yes I do my business is knowing I'm an art dealer names McLean kid named Kip Ross painted that he's got a lot of paintings I'll give you his address maybe you can do each other some good such a feeling this one has of the sea and sky and vastness vastness huh I told you he made you look too fat Slate what would you take for this painting sorry it's not for sale there's an offer of a thousand dollars make it for sale sure it does what are you looking me like that for Slate give the money to keep and get him to paint you another told me to hang on to this painting remember but for a thousand dollars if someone offered me a million I still thousand sold to the man who just came through the door no sale you're being very stupid take yourself a powder buster beat it stupid it's a very poor painting and I'm offering you out come on friend you don't know what you are doing you want me to take his bag Mr. Slate I'll handle him out your turn to close your mouth sailor but he said two thousand dollars and he also said it was a bad painting and you know something he's right too grand for a lousy canvas let's see if we can get a better offer happy now knucklehead you happy that every art dealer in Havana finger the carnation in his lapel and scream that kip Ross paintings were a drug on the market and those experts aren't just beating their nose gaze but you turned down two thousand dollars from a sweet nice eccentric philanthropist like McLean two thousand for a painting that hasn't even got a dish a dead fruit in it you know that's real eccentric maybe McLean saw you once on our boat once the memory never to slate look at those little turtles in the pet shop window with scenes of colorful Havana painted on their backs buy me a boy and girl turtle slate those turtles leech out of house and home they're slow but they're sure but where else can I get pictures of Havana that walked by you on four legs now that's what I call art coming in with me slate I'll wait for you out here there's lots of two-legged art on this promenade okay pet shop cowboy my Shannon what a windy corner you picked I heard you speak your name it stopped me sent a current through me you are Slate Shannon just me mentioning my name did all that to you right here to me to Barbara Hill right here I wonder if you could direct me to 23 Avenida Batista just like that I feel quite lost you haven't been in Havana long miss Hill lived here all my life mr. Shannon lost huh what impression would you get of Havana if one of its boys didn't help a girl was lost in our big frightening city you call a can I'll pay the fare now that's a square deal of ever I heard one one minute on hey sailor catch bus fare you'll need it to get home did you enjoy the grand tour of my apartment ball sleigh sure your collection of paintings is very interesting is that why you brought me here adult education is a fine thing sleigh what's the matter don't you like all nuts about it especially stuff like this paintings etchings sketches all of them about to see excited what is it with you Barbara what have you got on your mind you you see I have good taste in all things haven't I sure how did you know who I was on the street don't ask questions late never ask questions late let me close my eyes again look sis I I don't know what you're trying to build I've got a big fat painting of my own I can look at and while I'm looking I can put my feet up on the desk I want to see well my feet tell me a little something about your childhood Barbara the painting just a picture of a boat you've got a lot of them here better I want to see it all right you want to be down it what's nothing come on Barbara now I'll broaden your mind you're McClain you've broken your arm that's why you didn't knock on the office door you're alone mr. Val me and 29 guests if I scream 17 will come running 17 that's our boy population you register and it'll make 18 would Shannon come running I doubt it he got blown away and a breezy corner good you were quite amenable the last time we met mr. Val what is your mood now without Shannon to distract you without Shannon the price of the painting goes up to three grand a girl's got to look out for her commission three thousand in small bills look who calls who were meanable make it for grand you've been joshing galley you know a Josh when you meet one don't you kid yeah I was joshing I just wanted to see how high you'd go for slate and crude oil now you know now you know how I get it for nothing scream mr. Val and when your boy guests come running they'll find your lovely corpse you know if you didn't wear a gun in your hand you wouldn't be half so attractive mr. McLean it does suit me doesn't it the picture mr. Val it's hanging on the wall go hang alongside of it I want to watch you get it for me and then carry it through Havana streets I'm a lazy man mr. Val just enough energy to pin a bullet right through your back and you know I do it too our stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and the second act of our story off is she hang a picture of a boat mr. Slate on her deck in a p-jacket coat with a captain blood look and a wheel in he hand oh father or mother is more than man can stand but mr. Slate he have light breeze in he head with two thousand dollars can get out of red but he will not part with the oil painting instead the asylum can explain such a thing aren't you gonna applaud Barbara that's King's latest effort it might sell half a copy I don't coordinate well I can't applaud with my mouth open sure you can you see how simple it is go on try it you were offered two thousand dollars for a painting and you turned it down this is a picture I must see are you promised Slate first I wanted you to know all about me meet my hotel meet King here as I have heard it said likewise I'm sure miss you how can you judge a painting of a man if you don't know what a man's like deep down inside as I remember the picture mr. Slate the artist's intention was the illumination of the tragic struggle between the sea and the craft of frailty you are but there is a somber blob to give it dynamic symmetry you are quite blobby in it what's the matter King you jealous he didn't paint your portrait come on Barbara how do you discuss art with an ignorant amaz it's in my office who offered you all that money say guy named McClain Gordon McClain now I'm kind of punchy with hey hey it's gone the picture's gone hang my paintings gone who took it where did sailor go to sell it I do not know mr. Slate she went away with you she did not come back with you you came back with and no miss sailor now the fellow stands on windy corners I sure lose a lot of things don't I King inside mr. Val good sit down if you want stand on your head if you want just don't try to get out of this apartment you know mother started to tell me about men like you mr. McClain but in the middle of it you got a phone call from Art Ilka so she went to the movies with Art Ilka and I never got to hear the rest of it I hope she enjoyed the film now just be quiet for a moment I want to look at this picture tell me something mr. McClain save it oh it's you Kip come on in you know her what are you doing here mr. Val I got heisted me and your painting what what are you talking about what do you want Kip came here to tell you no deal go home forget it see if I'm translating well today you don't want mr. McClain to have your painting do you well he's got it Kip there it is on the table face down I advise you not to touch that painting Kip it's mine I want to don't think unkindly of me mr. Val I told him don't touch how do I get it through that official skull of yours Lissal for a painting that's worth two grand to a punchy dealer you could get up off your fat wicker you did not have it ensured go make her the shoulders damp with your tears Shannon I have damp tears of my own where I'm in good health I weep because from the National Museum of Classic Art has been stolen a Da Vinci of such exquisite artistry of such delicious value that the art lovers of Havana are yapping at my weaker chair Da Vinci huh I bother you with a lousy little seascape more than bothers in your you dull me with it there's one more work about I want to report missing Lissal a calendar a pin up you could call her that sailor huh she's lost trade is stolen for five hours now permit me a word of philosophy senior Shannon you are not the last man in the world kill me but you are not perhaps your mr. Val has flew the coop yeah perhaps but don't stay awake night dreaming about it for sale someday sailor have to come home for other pair of jeans send him right up now we shall see mr. Val we're rarely going to see I'm happy for you mr. McClain what are you looking for I just want to make sure that's all that under this painting is the Da Vinci Da Vinci you know mr. Val earlier I said mr. Shannon was stupid quite a lot of it rubbed off on you so that's what's with this painting somebody took a valuable piece of art and smeared it with a can of house paint to make it look like a boat kip was such a poor painter artist leagues all over the world should applaud me for getting rid of him look at him even in death he's over playing it he come in remiss see senior the painting she's wet on the table quickly find out what's in it a senior gently first I must put the solution to the gauze the gauze to a corner of the picture and poco a poco little by little comes off the first court and underneath yeah underneath look at it like something alive fifty thousand dollars with remiss see senior you understand that you can't afford not to do what I tell you will comprehend those in your eye understand keep her here I'm going to make arrangements to leave Havana I'll see you soon remiss see seniorita you're a jerk this I have been accused to seniorita but my most important thought is that I am a forger of paintings for whom the police search the nooks and crannies of Havana who not try to give me the business with nice words and I wink that paintings of Da Vinci and it is beloved to me so you can't go to the police huh well how would you like to tear this room apart and wind up with a reward all you've got to do is see a man named Slate Shannon what did you do with that painting mr. Val I told you remiss took it you saw the way the room looked didn't you you found me tied up I battled with the man why did you fight with him because I'm a girl who knows which side her paintings are but it I like the way you operate and I like your Da Vinci you want in huh well I'll think about it baby hold up Parker for me I'll be right back to take it away from you open your eyes Slate you open them kid I'm tired sitting here in your office pretending to wonder what's become of the painting and all the time you knew don't tease me anymore Slate tell me where it is bargain for it honey I don't want tell me what you've done with it and there's no dream you've ever dreamed it won't come true some of them run into big dough how much ten thousand twenty with the Barbara for a bonus you're that much of a fan of kip's paintings that you'd pay twenty thousand and what you said not for a cheap piece of billboard art that keeps a good at but for Da Vinci anything you long for up to twenty thousand Da Vinci what Da Vinci where Da Vinci the one kip stole the one he slobbered over with a tired brush the one he gave you don't take the time to insult me for eavesdropping senior senior either he will only roll off my back like off it up you see I make criminal and used to insults but I've got the time for this kid oh you haven't seen you I consider this to be the proper moment for an artist to give you a message from the stomachs and it is to do I so much stunning all in one room a prisoner got a necklain a captive now I could forge a painting of that technical a queen where the last florist apartments apartment three teller I sent you hey my pants look good like this I in the waist lied to me Mr. Vow Remus didn't take that painting oh yes he did I'm a patient man and I've got all of three seconds patience left now where is it tell me or I say I'm a claim you two getting along well what are you doing here I need a clean shirt for tonight I came to get sailor talk to the fellow he was just going to take the starch out of me have you got that painting Shannon did Remus give it to you all he gave me was an address and he said I didn't have to knock come here Shannon I want to show you what you walked into without knocking pretty no he's not pretty easy this gun can make you twins what made it so important to kill kept you tried to deprive me of something worried girl I just took homes that it might be a da Vinci painting Shannon yeah Remus came right to you Mr. Val sent him to you Remus and Mr. Val make her tell you what happened to the painting what about it shall I what happens if I don't tell you you're going to beat me it'll keep me alive I will there you go always thinking of yourself look sailor if we had a da Vinci what would we do with it what other people do have people in to look at it throw up our hands in admiration of it dust it so we own a da Vinci I'm through playing kid is you two want to go out together I don't know Mr. McClain do me a favor what that lights in my eyes pull down the shade you know pulling this trigger is going to save you a trip to the clinic your brain will make a study for the police doctors pull down the shade and I'll tell you where the painting is all right we'll try it that way the painting my da Vinci this is yours too you want to take it away from me well you won't want it look at this point sailor it just sagged who wants to look at paunches aren't you going to tell me how clever I am pinning that da Vinci to a window shade clever people like you are lucky to stay alive but I'm alive want me to prove it I haven't got the strength to fight you off sailor wait till we get home look Slate aren't they wonderful two turtles you mean you bought them they wave their shells at me I couldn't resist hey what is it with you trying to build a menagerie seagull named Melvin now two turtles this one's named tiger and this one is El Toro the bull yeah appropriate names for turtles not quite an inch long how do you tell him apart El Toro always knocks on tiger shell and asks her to come out look at them rubbing noses I wonder how that feels close your eyes all right I like that do it again you like it huh hmm well I've been missing cool again yeah well wait like it El Toro sailor you just wore tiger out she went back into a shell 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 venture