 The adventures of Sam Spade detective brought to you by Wild Root cream oil hair tonic the non-alcoholic hair tonic that contains Lanolin Wild Root cream oil again and again the choice of men who put good grooming first Hey, it's me. Hey, Sammy the Spade Sam. Sam. It's not true. Is it every word of it? What that you've been Consorting with unsavory characters. Well, she was a savory enough girl at the although a crook well according to the paper She's practically a murderous not to mention that she's dancing the rumor with you That's a lie. There's a picture of you, Virginia Vail Gangland glamour girl caught at the club I barrier in barefoot Roomba with private eye It was not a Roomba. It was a bambuco Not with a phone I'll be right down to dictate my report on the lawless caper 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 Say have you gotten acquainted with Wild Root cream oil yet? Tell you what mister if you haven't even if you don't use any hair tonic at all Why not ask at your drug or toilet goods counter tonight or tomorrow for the brand new? 25 cent get acquainted bottle of Wild Root cream oil You like the way Wild Root cream oil grooms your hair neatly and naturally Relieves dryness and removes loose dandruff. You never dreamed one hair tonic could do so much So give it a try get the generous new 25 cent bottle of Wild Root cream oil Again and again the choice of men who put good grooming first And now with Howard Dove starring a spade Wild Root brings to the air the greatest private detective of them all in the adventures of Sam Spade I Think I'm getting in Lost your shoes ready sweetheart. Yes, no questions. No That picture in the paper doesn't mean a thing happy. There was nothing between Virginia and me just wasn't room Well, uh, that bamboo go, you know, that's the way we dance it authentic Sam I trouble to call my girlfriend Edna may Schwartz who is an instructor at Arthur Murray I quote the partners exchange graceful nods in the center of the dance floor and then separate well As a senior Rita Provocatively leads a pursuing Caballero through a series of gay worlds turns and figures there. Yes, they provocative But he never catches her Sam. Well, I have my shoes off that gave me the advantage You know best well that clears that up Date August 29th, I will give the date fill it in That still doesn't explain you're operating on the wrong side of the law down if he this goes to John M. Lawless No gangster. What else from Samuel Spade license number 137 596 Boom. Thank you. I think subject Joe Morales Dear Johnny You hired me yesterday morning, but the real start of it was back in 45 Flashback San Francisco was just recovering from VJ day and crime was practically the standstill Because your number one competitor in the West Coast mobs had just been rubbed out and you were on trial for saying Nothing about the trial made any sense The tea time chatter in the better pool rooms was that you were taking the rap for your worst enemy Joe Morales What made even less sense the lawyer defending you was Joe's brother So I wasn't a bit surprised to receive your check for 25 dollars together with an invitation to be in the third row of the courtroom when the jury returned the verdict I was Dependent will please rise Step forward, please Have you anything to say why judgment of this court should not be passed upon you. Yeah, it's a bad beat The judgment of this court is that you John Lawless for the crime of manslaughter Having feloniously run down run over and killed with a certain automobile the deceased person named in the indictment and having Subsequently departed the scene in violation of the hit-and-run statute are hereby sentenced to a term of three to ten years in the state prison of the state of California You didn't even look at the judge while he was dishing it out Your eyes were on the man sitting directly in front of me the man You were supposed to be taking the rap for the man. You were deliberately planted me behind Joe Morales. I Wounded with that man when the judge brought down his gavel I found out You came up the aisle with a deputy on one arm and your lawyer on the other he seemed upset about something I'm sorry, Johnny. I did the best I could. They give me the judge. I asked you past on that jury a cheap shister Okay, just wait you get my bill shut up. I wait a minute. Sheriff. I want to spit to a friend Hey, Johnny, hurry up. We've got a train to catch. Hey you Joe. Yeah, Johnny I got just this to say to you I'm going up, but I'm not staying see if I'm not paroled out in three. I'll break out either way I'll get you even if it means a murderer and I'll listen Johnny. You had me spade. Yeah, Johnny. I wish I hadn't what Johnny We've got to go. Okay. Okay. Don't forget what I said Joe. So long Sam Good luck Johnny. Hey Sally. Yeah, Joe. You hear what he said? I know he's gonna knock me This guy's a witness named a spade spade my brother Sally Salvador Morellis you may have heard of me. Yeah, if I'm ever up in a hit-and-run remind me not to hire you How long spade where we can talk quietly just over here my conference room. Look, we got nothing to talk about. Oh, yes, we have Watch it. I just got this soup press. Yeah, right in here Sally is it all over? How'd I come out? Where were you in here? I couldn't force myself to stay out there What did he get three to ten three to ten is that I mean how terrible I'll tell you best I could do This is Sam spade my dear this virginia veil Johnny Lawless's fiance the same quiet and little Well, how's tricks Virginia? Why do they bring you here? Maybe they know he's a witness witness to a threat Johnny made against my brother's life My own client What's funny? Ask your brother that threat would even get you rid against them to keep the peace. What do you mean, Sam? Uh sweetheart threats don't mean anything in law unless they're backed up by some action Even if he told you the when the where and the how it wouldn't be worth anything until you're dead But it would be worth something then Sure shows premeditation and if he knew he was overheard and you'd be forced to testify if anything happened to joe Hey, beautiful. What are you trying to do to me? Oh, I mean he'd think twice before he tried anything. You'd be safe joe. Well, honey. I am I didn't know you'd care About you. I don't I just wouldn't want johnny to do anything foolish And the flashback that was uh three years ago A lot of big news is broken since then but the only items that interested you and sand quintal Were printed on the inside pages of the local press item Virginia fair your fiance got herself engaged to joe morellis your worst enemy and item Salvador sally morellis your mouthpiece had taken over your mob Which brings us up to yesterday morning Yeah, that's you sam Who's this johnny lollis remember me? No, I was hoping you'd say that look sam. I got a job for you All people bring he may need it bad enough. I've got no contacts in the mobs anymore. This is clean How clean a chance to save an innocent man from the gas chamber while there's a grand in it for you Well, I got a pencil Now, uh, what was the address the alma arms on pine street near jones must meet three times One long too short and make sure there's no one on your tail. You got it I was not failed I find your name on the bell panel buzzed one long and too short and the automatic lock clicked me in You were waiting one flight up in the open door of your apartment You didn't say anything just made sure it was me motion me inside locked the door and led me back to a bedroom There it is sam Joe morellis Dead about three hours, I'd say four slugs chest shoulder and head Looks like amateur work at professional aims of the belly or did you mean it to look like an amateur john? Would I be sappin up to drop him in my own apartment? Besides, he's my lawyer's brother and I might need sally again. Why did you call me? Well, you heard what I said to joe after the trial who told you that virginia. Yeah, but she didn't have to Didn't I ask you to sit there? Oh, that's one thing that worries me. Look, uh, let's go in the other room I feel like a drink Well, here's my pitch sam I checked out of sand quitting yesterday morning. I didn't have a mark against me The warden himself put my case before the parole board. He called me the ideal prisoner. Shall we dance? Okay, sam. Okay, but a man can change a lot in three years So can a woman Virginia met me at the gate and we drove into the city We didn't have a thing to say to each other The way I felt by the time the ride was over joe could have her and welcome I had other plans Such as well the parole board was getting me a job with a mining firm a surveyor I took a course up at quinton. You seriously expect me to swallow this line of guff? Listen, you don't get fat making a living on the mace Take half of these guys you're here telling the world what wonders they are at puffing boxes knocking over joints and the rest of the Lays Yeah Not half of them make three meals a day at it Then what chances a guy without a regular racket and brother, that's me I'll buy that for now. Let's uh talk about that dead body. All right Well, I uh I called joe on the phone this morning See and I told him to meet me here at three this afternoon I wanted to tell him forget about what I said about how I was going to get him Not that I wanted to write off that rap I took for him But if he was scared he might come gunning for me. I might have to break parole to defend myself About virginia like I told you we got nothing to talk about. Yeah. Yeah, it was beautiful while it lasted So he was due here at three, huh? Uh, yeah. Yeah, I was held up as a matter of fact. I was with my lawyer at the time Sally Yeah, I uh, I phoned the building and uh told the superintendent to let him let joe in and then I got here about a quarter past four But I didn't find them till just before six when I called you sam. I'll come Well, I I just didn't look in the bedroom. I figured he got tired waiting and left, you know Well, look johnny assuming your story is true and if it doesn't you ought to be ashamed of yourself Who do you think did it? Well, that depends on why if it was somebody gunning for him It would depend on what's going in the mob since I've been in crimson You know more about that than I do If it was somebody trying to frame me. What do you mean trying? Hey, wait a minute. I got a phone homicide. You must have known that when you called me. Yeah That's why I ripped the wires out That's cute. That's very cute. Oh, that makes you look real good. Look look sam look I'm not asking you to do anything extra curricular. Sure you have to yell cop But you'll do it over a pay station downstairs and by the time anybody can get back up here that stiff will be out It will. Well, how's that gonna be done? I uh, I got a friend in the undertaking business met him up at quintin He just installed a new crematorium. You should have called him first I did but I can call him off. Yes, sir. Happy look sam. Look how about it, huh? So the cops come in tonight tomorrow. Who cares not joe the weather he'll keep What do you say sam? What do you say? I say you're probably bluffing that you got No way of getting rid of the stiff but on the outside chance that you might not be bluffing I'll swing along with you for a couple of hours. If I don't turn up anything by then the deal is off Okay, that's fair enough. Yeah, but this isn't Hey, sorry I hated it though, Johnny you were out of condition and you weren't expecting it Well, I wanted you to look like a hospital case After you went down and out I transferred my fee from your wall of the mine Exams your wounds and decided you were good for two hours at st. Agnes hospital where I know the head nurse Uh, it's a totally that reminder. Uh, uh, so without further delay I tottered you downstairs threw you into a taxi and delivered you to the ambulance entrance That's when I remember that I had forgotten one thing I hadn't given you a chance to call off your alleged undertaker friend I was sure that that part of your story was bluffed But just to make sure I rushed back to your apartment and less time than it takes the average undertaker to back His hearse out of the garage I thought And I got there. I wasn't so sure The apartment had been tidied up ashtrays empty glasses put away that even vacuumed the rug The bloodstained bedspread had been removed and with it the corpus delecti I found myself humming an old tune. I ain't got no body The makers of wild root cream oil are presenting the weekly sunday adventure of dashel Hammett's famous private detective sam spade Here's important news on good grooming if you want the well groomed look that helps you get ahead socially and 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 better than four out of five who replied said they preferred wild root cream oil Remember non-alcoholic wild root cream oil contains lanolin It grooms the hair naturally relieves dryness and removes loose ugly dandruff So if you want your hair to be more attractive than ever before get the generous new 25 cent size of wild root cream oil America's leading hair tonic on sale at all drug and toilet goods counters It's also available in larger economy bottles and the handy new tube Get wild root cream oil again and again the choice of men who put good grooming first By the way smart girls use wild root cream oil too and mothers say it's grand for training children's hair Now back to the lawless caper tonight's adventure with sam spade In most murder cases there are too many suspects too many motives and too many clues from the very beginning I'd been on this one three hours and I succeeded in turning up no suspects no clues And the most shameful thing of all I had lost the body of the victim I consoled myself with the thought that he was in no condition to tell me anything anyway But then neither were you johnny you'd uh checked out of the hospital no forwarding address But in a gin mill down on the mission, I found a character with the unlikely name of porky grout Uh porky is theoretically alive and will tell all he knows about anybody which is plenty But two fingers of rye I gave him a handful Ah He's easy Yeah, hey joe morales smile. Yeah, yeah Well, they dusted this down they moved to las vegas five six months ago How come uh, joe stayed in san francisco? Oh him and his brother had a beef with each other. That's uh sally morales the lawyer. Yeah, the mouth fish Not not too close Yeah, what was it all about all that dame virginia veil Yeah, after she and joe framed johnny rallis on that hit-and-run job Well, they disagreed on methods of administration Not so close So she and sally team up and sally uses his business connections to pull off this big combine Yeah, I heard of it las vegas. How do I get to sally? All right, my throat's dry. I can't hardly talk. Hey, uh, riley put out the bottle and bring an air wick Sloppy I'll help you Great sir. I'm too close Now, uh, when do you want to get to him tonight? Uh, right now Let me say The dame don't dance to nothing but rumba music and she don't drink nothing but imported french champagne Yeah, yeah Furthermore, she don't go nowhere where she don't get a picture taken And he don't dare take a drink in a place that pays him protection Well, this being after hours there's only approximately one place they could be at that's the iberia out on vanness Yeah, thank you and good night porky grout if your friends won't tell you I will Please don't bother to answer I didn't have any trouble picking out their table Virginia spotted me at about the same time grabbed up her first Muddered an excuse to her escort and edged around the dance floor She caught me in the middle of a bambuco a combination of a rumba, a samba and And whirled me lightly out onto the floor. I followed as best I could Listen, you shouldn't have come here. How did I know her first dance would be at bambuco? Are you dancing divinely? But you must leave it once Sally is insanely jealous and he's in a specially bad mood tonight. Yeah, so am I. I know why you can't You wanna find me? Johnny Lawless has been in touch with you hasn't he? You talked to him since yesterday morning? No He was bound to get in touch with you. Yeah I know what story he's told you but don't believe a word of it The only one who wants to get you out of the way so he can get back at joe Still thinks joe framed him into san quentin. You could stop worrying about joe Sam, what are you? No, he's dead if that smooths to you I think you'd better talk to sally after all come on. Well, just getting the hang of it So you've met another old friend. Hello sally. Hello sit down spade. Nice Sally, uh, sam says joe is dead joe Murdered. Yeah Well, it was bound to happen I want him to get out of town before johnny lawless came back Johnny says he was with you when it happened Jury's don't go for alibi spade Best defense I could give him would be that I defend him despite the fact he's accused of killing my own brother But look here As his attorney, I have the right to know what he retained you for to find out who did kill joe That's what he said. Have you found out not yet any leads not many What's the difficulty the corpse somebody swiped it you can't mean that I can and I do well that doesn't make sense Unless johnny arranged it himself But he couldn't have no contacts Of course, he might have disposed of it without help. It's been done. You know not tonight. I'm his alibi there I don't believe it. You're just telling that story to see how we'll react. That's why I'm telling it But it's not a story. It's the mccoy Sorry, what can it mean if johnny didn't do it then somebody must have done it to frame him If they did that they wouldn't turn around and get rid of the evidence would they The whole thing is wild wild You know, uh, there might have been two people who thought they were a team But one of them was really working against the other and for johnny. Well, that's absurd. Isn't it sally? Is it my dear? He's trying to play us off against each other. Don't fall for it sally I had nothing to do with any of it. You've got to believe that yes I was sure of you when johnny was out of the way. You wanted him out of the way you admit it You're still in love with him, aren't you? Aren't you? Are you still hurting me? Hurley, I'll help the da write his brief. You'll go to the hatchip before body snatching Go ahead. I can't wait to get on the stand. The things I'll tell about you How you let johnny go up on that hit and run when you knew it was my idea and I was in the car with joe Oh, you will Not a jury in the country would blame me for protecting my own brother protecting him. You were framing it even then So you can't have me for yourself. Oh, I'll have you in the gas chamber if you keep insisting Her own brother squeeze out of that one if you can I can Love of woman surpasses brotherly love I can see the jury now eating it up victim of a designing woman caught in the toilet Nuts nuts. I don't care whether either of you is guilty or both or neither of whatever if I get that body back tonight I'll let the cops worry about it. If I don't I'll confess to everything myself and name all three of you as accomplices All right, all right spade You say your only concern is that body right right here Here's five hundred dollars Another five hundred when you find it, huh? Is that convince you while it helps Here my diamonds. Take them all. I'll keep the diamonds virginia. If sally gets set up first You'll need them for your defense. Take it over kids. I'm calling the cops right now Uh, rye sam spade. Where's dundee? Oh, he's asleep. Sam, I've been trying to reach you. Yeah, but do you know why? Why sure about johnny lawless? Is there something we don't know sam? Well, uh, I'll come down and give you a statement. It's about joe morellis What about him? Well, he got knocked off and somebody lifted the corpse. Uh, then who did we picked it up sam? Right after you call this right after Oh, yeah, yeah, what time was that? Let's watch that sam call your backs. What's up, sally? Come out of there. Well, I wasn't planning to spend the night in a phone booth Why the heater? It's for you sam. You must be nuts pulling a gun in a crowded joint like this Let's stop looking at it Come on up upstairs. Oh looks in there Where's your girlfriend? Well, I I sent her home sam. She can't stand the sight of blood You clown You were pretty funny too when you made that phone call I didn't believe you go through with it. What makes you think i'm interested in that old rap Johnny's already done the time for it. Joe can't talk and I don't want it. I don't care what you want It's what I want. That's what counts. Does it? You wanted virginia? You got it. Oh, not the point Just doesn't sound good salvador morella sweetheart going up on a murder rapper Well, you trimmed it down a manslaughter for johnny lawless and she's enough prettier to rate in the quiddle Or are we talking about the same killing? You think virginia killed joe morellas, don't you? Why because she seems so anxious dependent on johnny lawless Well, well nothing only i've got to score this out of a johnny lawless myself You see he left me out in a limb with that body snatch if I can pin the killing on him I got a story for the cops now show how smart you are shoot me I fully intend to oh look hold it sally Oh johnny Hey, you can do it yourself johnny. I was going to do it for you, but you can do it He's trying to pin that murder on you johnny like you pin that old hit and run on me But it's not the same johnny joe's killing is worth life if you're lucky. I never had much luck Let him have it johnny. What have you got to lose? Well, you want me to no no no uh step back sally Okay He dead Yeah You planned it different didn't you johnny? Yeah, but I might as well get two for the price of one. Yeah, I planned it different But I don't seem to care anymore. Well, then you won't need that, huh? Sorry johnny By the way, I'd like to thank you for keeping me in the clear. I'll come that phone call You made the homicide using my name without that I might be going up with you How'd you figure it? Nobody would you add anything to gain by making that body seem to disappear? You knew I wouldn't check with the police till I made a try at locating it on my own You knew I'd use the disappears as a handle to shake what I cut out of sally in virginia You knew they'd suspect each other because I had you alibi'd at the time of the body snatch And that would start them screaming accusations at each other. Did they say enough to send them up? Yeah Yeah, I don't know how much will stick but enough they both admit joe did that hit and run job I was sent up for he and virginia together So she was with him Three years ago, I wouldn't have wanted to know that now it sounds good I didn't think it really sounded good to you I was sorry to hear it myself and after all I'd only danced a bamboo coat with a mouse I'm sorry things turned out the way they did and it's a little late to be making with the advice but uh Well, you know the best laid plans of mice and men gang after glade And as you say what chances the man got without a regular racket Period end of report. Well heaven's too Betsy How can you be so sympathetic with a girl who did all those terrible things? Oh, I know if I know it's a silly dance, but she looked cute while she was doing it I don't mean the dad you mean the best laid plans. What does that mean Sam that gang after glade I'll give you a hint sweetheart. 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