 The adventures of Sam spade Certainly took you long enough. Oh, thank you, Sam. Well, do you like them girls? I Guess so it's your own hair. I trust. Oh, yes, I'm gonna brush out. You'll never know anything happens whenever you're ready Curly you like it that well Yeah, very cute To business To detective lieutenant Dundee homicide detail San Francisco police from Samuel spade license number one three seven five nine six Subject the bouncing Betty caper dead Dundee. It all began on a Wednesday my Secretary miss F. Eppie Perrine tiptoed into my office and laid an engraved calling card in the desk in front of me The name on it was Randall Carothers She said he looked like money. So I said show her in for him and she did Good morning, sir. Do you wish the morning paper? Thanks? I've read it What's the matter this ash tray, sir? Have you a silent butler? I don't even have a noisy one In all my years of service I it's been my constant endeavor to keep things neat and tidy down to the smallest detail I see well if it bothers you just dump those butts into the wastebasket If you will pardon the presumption, sir, you could use a well-trained servant in this establishment Waste paper baskets clean and empty at all times never allow refuse to accumulate. That's not refuse. That's this month's bills If so, I notice I also notice that you have not opened them from this I conclude that your services are immediately available Yeah, and I conclude that in spite of your glad rags and fancy handle you or somebody's butler. Oh, that is correct Sir, I am first butler in the household of dr. Mark McGraw first Bleak cliff is the name of the estate is near the village of Squid Beach some 50 miles in a southerly direction on the Pacific Coast You know, I think I'm gonna like you as a client, mr. Carothers I mean, it's refreshing to get a few accurate facts without shall we say priming the pun Oh, thank you, sir. You're welcome to continue not counting the staff there resided bleak cliff three persons Dr. McGraw master of the house since the death of his wife his steps on mr. Anthony McGraw of whom more later and Mr. Anthony's sister miss Kathy it is on her behalf that I've come to you sir. Yeah, what is her problem, mr. Carothers The correct form of addresses Carothers are not mr. Carothers check Now as to miss Kathy's problem, sir Someone is attempting to murder her Specifically she has upon several occasions been shot at from ambush Twice she has awakened in the night to feel the hands of an assailant closing about her throat And only yesterday she narrowly escaped death when her motor car went out of control owing to some blackout tampering with the steering Mechanism and upon numerous other occasion that's enough. You have convinced me that she indeed has a problem What are the local police think no one has been to the police? Why not? It's a delicate situation, sir miss Kathy's brother mr. Tony is undergoing treatment for Nervous disorders The family did not wish to place him in an institution and since dr. McGraw his stepfather is a psychiatrist He is allowed to remain at home. I see he's flipped. Where do I fit in Carothers? Well, sir if reputable gentlemen such as yourself were to come to bleak cliff and Witness these persistent attempts upon that girl's life Perhaps they could be forced to put the boy away where he belonged. It's possible. I'm willing to try for money Blended I took the liberty of drawing in your favor and draft upon the First National Bank of Squid Bay One week's remuneration in advance of your services to the bleak cliff estate in the capacity of chauffeur Nice chauffeur. Yes, sir. I thought that might be a capital disguise Have you a better suggestion? Well, uh No, no, that's okay Let's check. Yes, 200 bucks. It's a pretty big weekly salary for a chauffeur isn't it? Well, you will be allowed to shop for the vegetable, sir Your cut has been added in. I Told him I didn't know one vegetable from another but I was a lousy driver and in more time than it takes to tell I was installed at bleak cliff in a room above the garage and told a wait there until summon I put on my pearl gray uniform with the brass buttons and leather putties looked in the mirror and decided I had missed my calling But not by much nothing happened for nearly an hour and then I got my first buzz Yeah, I mean a garage Okay, okay. Yes, miss Darn it miss. Where's the spark on? Well, it's it's a flood of the housing, you know I saw him coming at miss McGraw with that meat cleaver up to the shore road. Well if I can check I just turned that little key. Look ma. I'm driving less of the rear view A mile from the house She ordered me to stop moved up to the front seat with me and asked me to drive on By the time we got to the shore road. She was driving and I was resting my head on her shoulder Where are we going? I've got a little hideaway down the coast right on the beach the foot of a tall cliff Fireplace little bar the record got some pop the wonderful there with the surf pounding outside Hidden away from the world Feel so safe. Mm-hmm. Don't stop. You like it there You feel as if there's no one else on earth Time standing still I could just be sure that mother wouldn't worry about me. Okay, Cathy. I'll be serious. Yeah What's with that brother of yours, Tony? I Rather not talk about that if you don't mind Maybe I can talk about your stepfather. I really should know what kind of a man my boss is I go for these drives to forget all that. Please don't spoil it for me. Okay, Cathy The sharp turn into this driveway Now we get out here. Yes, ma'am Yeah, you just pushed me off of one. Oh Sam. Don't be like that. You're pounding like a little boy Come on. I want to show you my little house. What's so special about your little house. Oh, Sam You only knew what my life is like. You only know what mine is like I need someone so much to talk to as long as you can stare the conversation you mean Come on, Sam. I'll show you the house. The path led to a flight of wooden steps that plunge to the face of a sheer cliff There was something like the stairs you find yourself falling down and nightmares They dropped maybe 200 feet to a crescent of white sand Yeah You have to make your dream house this hard to get to because of Tony he had vertigo what When we were kids he used to chase me and I'd run down here and he was scared to follow me fate of heights He still is Our Sam the woods there in the box. I'll go make us a drink Fire who needs a fire. I'm hot Oh, I was a private eye for a while Now that's a sour racket. Let's talk about you. Thanks Well, what do you want to know about me? Come here the sense she was wearing was 20 karat the story of her life was heavy melodrama It seemed to dr. McGraw a handsome fortune hunter was a folly of her mother's middle years But she had come to her senses shortly before she died and cut him out of her will But that was not the end of it when caddy's brother had been faced with the alternative of entering an institution or remaining at home under Stepfather's care She had begged the doctor to remain in spite of his warnings that her brother might take a notion to kill it But get this Dundee. It's real deep in spite of visible evidence to the contrary She was convinced that her brother was not out to kill her, but that the doctor was I Couldn't sell myself on that part of the year But she looked so awfully pretty while she was telling And suddenly she didn't look so pretty an expression of terror was on her Oh Missing the fireplace I could still see the gleam of the gun barrel shoved in through the broken window I hope he's already half way at the face of the cliff and those rickety wooden stairs at the top He turned and looked back Doctor you know better than that. It was Tony. I thought you told me he was afraid of heights couldn't come down those stairs Never did before don't you believe it? Yeah? Yeah, Kathy. I may wind up believing the rest of your story I took Kathy back to bleak cliff and stashed her in my quarters over the garage Then I went into the main house via the back stairs found her room and shook it down In a cabinet a bunch of war souvenirs German helmets grenades rifles and other lethal gadgets The desk drawer I found a letter headed US Army office of the surgeon general It's certified that one Anthony McGraw was unfit for military service vertigo origin childhood injury to Middle-Ear Downstairs in the library. I found a shelf of medical books vertigo Vertigo was almost incurable and there was certainly no quick cure But some patients had lost their symptoms temporarily under hypnotism then it said see narcosynthesis. I did Speed uh a big partner mr. Speed Whatever you're doing in the butler's pantry, sir looking for a butler namely you carothers May I serve you sir? Yeah, how do I get an interview with dr. McGraw? Well, sir Oh Strange after all my years of service. I I still started the master's summer You did it again. Yeah, well, I'm sorry, sir I'd better see what dr. McGraw wants forget it. I'm answering this one You're not going to drop your disguise, sir. Why not? Who am I kidding anyway? Frank dr. McGraw I didn't ring for you I rang for carothers I ordered him to tidy up my office while I was at dinner and look at it looks needless append to me dr Oh, yes, you're new here chauffeur, and I'm only wearing his uniform. Here's my card Oh That's right doctor, and this one's just about ready to wrap up. Well, you interest me here go on. I will I think you've been trying to use that boy as a murder weapon against his sister And you call yourself a detective if you can call yourself a doctor. I guess I can You've been treating him with narcosynthesis, haven't you? Yes, that's right hypnotic drug Well, he's under it you brief him on his activities for the day and he follows through including assaults with deadly weapons That would be possible with certain very suggestible patients But I'm afraid impossible to prove I think I can prove it doctor You shouldn't leave your textbooks lying around loose I found out the only way tony could have walked on that stairway to catty's beach house without falling would be Temporary relief of his symptoms through the hypnotic suggestion unquote I see What do you intend to do about this theory of yours? What do you suggest? You see this row of buzzers here on my desk Oh, this one is for my secretary This is to summon carothers and when I press this buzzer To the most hideous plug ugliest you've ever seen will rush into this office beat you to a pulp and dump you outside the front gate That's what I think of your theory buzz away doctor. I think I like them better than I do you As you wish from where I was on the other side of the room I didn't know what had happened at first all I saw was a lot of paper gushing out of the wastebasket The doctor sure was dead This midsection was perforated like a shower drain And then the walls fanning out around the end of the room about a yard up from the base floor. There was a straight line of holes I dug into one But I took out wasn't the bullet it was a perfectly round steel ball Then I remembered the wastebasket the paper flying out of it just before the explosion In the bottom of it. I found the answer the base of a steel mechanism with german lettering on it It was a wartime anti-prisonel mine that the gi's called the bouncing fatty United states armed forces radio service is presenting the weekly adventure of dashel hammits famous private detective sam spade I didn't wait for the squid beats law to arrive who could I went straight back to san francisco You lieutenant dandy. We're waiting at my office. Good morning sam. Hello dandy Uh About that mcgrawl killing sam the chief down at skid beach is asked to cooperate with the department down there at skid beach Squid beach dandy. That's right They say you caught a bus at skid beach That's right The quarter of two in the company of a young woman answering the description of the mcgrawl girl They say that do they and they say they got a statement from that butler They're uh, or others. Well, it's open and shut anyway The butler hired you the girl is wanted and you're hiding her out Why why not? Well, it's established that the girl hated the deceased and bickered with him constantly the doctor and the boy were pal That girl's guilty as you've been able to place her in the murder room. Well, no, but here's an item She worked with an army ordinance during the war in research subject I mean to note of that Enemy landmines anti personnel One of the reports she helped put out was on the bouncing fatty Yeah, definitely Hey, why are you going Sam? Johnson cooped up here all day. Why didn't you tell me you were with army ordinance during the war? I don't know. I suppose I thought it was unfeminine or something try again All right, I'll tell you the truth I had a copy of that report with instructions for the operation of the bouncing fatty in the desk in my room What the devil you're doing with a thing like that. Oh, no, I was proud of it It was the only report I worked on with the general should have got rid of it I did I burned it in the fireplace as soon as I learned what it killed it. You didn't burn it good enough Sam, they found it. Yeah, have they arrested Tony? Not yet, but he's definitely sane. He'll have to take the rap for anything he's done I see Well I guess there's no other way Tony didn't do it sam. I did I want to make a confession not to me, please After what happens out at the beach when I knew I was no longer safe anywhere I realized I had to do but Tony's sake as well as mine When we arrived back at the house I looked into the dining room and I saw dr. McGraw eating dinner. I knew it was my chance to get into his office Yeah, then what? Well, the bouncing Betty was in my room There was some wire in the tool chest and I knew that caravans always went tight to tidy up while the doctor was at dinner So I waited until I saw him come out and then I Went in And I looked around for a place to plant it out of sight Then I saw the wastebasket full of paper Was the perfect hiding place The only thing didn't take more than five minutes say something. Say you hate me says Don't wish I did I'm sorry, baby. I am sorry I don't know how long we sat there. I held her in my arms until she'd cried herself out then we just looked at each other And if I put it off another minute, I wouldn't call you at all dandy So with my arms still around her I reached for the phone Lieutenant dandy. This is sam spade. Give me that Lieutenant, this is captain mcgraw I wish to make a full concession from the murder of my I walked out while she was still talking to you dandy. I knew she'd wait for you and I didn't want to be there when you took her away As I walked over to my office everything she'd said kept coming back to me I could see her sneaking into her brother's room and getting her contraption out of the cabinet I could see her hiding behind the door until carothers came out after tidying up mcgraw's office dumping ash sprays emptying waste baskets And that's as far as I got I went back to my office to wait And sure enough 20 minutes after the papers hit the streets with kathy's confession the door opened and he came in Well, sir, I believe it's turning a bit raw out of doors Garden was saying only this morning that we should order out some shrouds for the sepiglothus You know after she Am I discommoding you sir? No carothers. I've been waiting for you With your permission sir the ash tray. Just dump it in the wastebasket I am gratified to note that your secretary is be looking after things and has emptied your waste paper basket This is right and proper quite fine. Yes, sir and Speaking of waste paper allow me carothers You have come to apprise me of your plot and the death of the late dr. McGraw. Am I an error? You've already divine my purpose, sir Yes, it was I who placed that infernal machine in the wastebasket carothers. Yes, I know It struck me as a bit of poetic justice that the buzzer which that dreadful man used as a symbol of his despotism Should be the instrument of his own destruction I'm sorry carothers. I'll do all I can. No need, sir. No need I'm aware that there is no final justification for taking the law into one's own hand Every man is entitled to trial by jury of his peers But where mr. Spade where could be found 12 good men and true Who would allow themselves to be called the peer of that monster dr. McGraw? Here down to report must be some mistake mistake. I think mistake. Well, the butler can't be guilty. That's That's old-fashioned. It was an old-fashioned butler sweetheart. Where did they can you get help like that? Somebody who empties the ash trays? Keeps the waste paper baskets clean tidies up around the point. Well, I'd be only too happy to do the same for you, Sam I know you're with us considering what happened to mr. Carothers employer. F.B. You mustn't allow your mind to dwell on such matters. It's wicked Who emptied an ash tray in that wastebasket that I just finished cleaning out? Pay it. No heat sweetheart. I'll buy you a silent butler. I'll go type that up Sorry, whatever it is you do to your hair. Well, I brushed it out Sam. What happened to the pin curls? I told you Sam when it was brushed out. It wouldn't be noticeable hours of torture sitting under a hot dry air for something nobody'll notice It put bounce in your whole makeup. I get it the bouncing effie caper Eyes shadow new shade of lipstick You look real gone. Oh, no Whom is it tonight? Well, it's his friend a mod Sam Of course, she's not really serious about him. So it's all right. You're conscious about me. Oh, no, Sam. No And he's um, he's definitely not serious about her I mean the well, uh have fun sweetheart. Well mod burn. Oh, well, she she she won't I suppose you'll be seeing that girl that uh With a name. Oh, yes, Kathy. Well, at least if I'm not playing in someone else's garden. I'll have fun. Anyway Good night, Sam. Good night, sweetheart The adventures of sam spade dashel hammits famous private detective are produced and directed by william spear Sam spade is played by howard dub lorraine tuttle is effie The adventures of sam spade private detective is a presentation of the united states armed forces radio service The voice of information and education