BOLD VENTURE Adventure, intrigue, mystery, romance starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Together in the sultry setting of tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean, BOLD VENTURE Once again the magic names of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall bring you BOLD VENTURE and a tale of mystery and intrigue Slate, I just had a thought Well let you and me keep it to yourself, huh? Until I finish totaling up the hotel expenses for the day Sure, how can a man think about two things at once when he's pitting his brain against an adding machine? Well this one's shifty, I've got to watch it You and your army surplus bargain, what's it doing to you this time? Look at that, look at that total, $49,685 for a day's expenses? That's what I always say about you Slate, you've sure got a head on your shoulders Well that was just a trial run, I'm going to have at it once more What did you pay for the cake you bought for that dinner party? I told you, ten pesos You could have got it for six, the Signora Sanchez is delicatessen The last time I was there, Signora Sanchez made me help her fold strudel Now look sailor, one of the reasons I went into the hotel business was so that at the end of a day's work I could cuddle up with a clear buck To save four pesos you could have folded a strudel or two Mr. Slate, there are too many arrows Don't bother to tell him boy, we're working out together, him and me and Rhino here Yeah together and the lady too, alright then it'll be a party All we need is one more guest, Matt Wallace, invite him Slate, it won't be fun without him Matt Wallace? I haven't seen Matt in, oh let's see it must be ten, twelve years in Dallas We'll work in the oil fields together, dream we'd strike it one day You're telling me Matt's here in Havana? I'd like to see him You will Slate, honest you will, Rhino and me's got a feeling he's going to come here and throw his arms around his old buddy We want to be here to watch Yeah we got a feeling we want to watch We'll let you know when Matt comes, if he comes Goodbye boys, sorry to break up the party He should say goodbye, the lady's saying goodbye King Yes Mr. Slate, I escort them out for you, come on you two Rhino, the boy wants to play, play with him Rhino I like you Ray, you're good for me, let's play boys You did the wrong thing Mr. Allen This is a nice party, games and everything Slate get him off, hang your tail Slate, I don't mind playing with you, let the boys have their fun till Matt comes I hope he doesn't come for a long time Ray Ray, Ray is that you? I'm in the kitchen Well how did... Oh, Matt, he came back I won't ask you anything about Ray What do you want? You're my wife, I want you to listen to me About what? Let's give Shannon all of it Vi Oh you're crazy Listen Vi, we don't need a deed deal or I'll strike a shot and get out of here, go someplace There's a million places Vi, I'll show them all to you We haven't given ourselves a chance you see Just tell me a thing will you? What Slate, Shannon got to do with you? Twelve years ago we gave each other a promise You're crazy Matt, you really are The man I took for a husband is out of his mind You don't know Shannon, he'd have done the same for me He'd strike oil and give you half for a twelve year old promise Shannon would Oh if you'd only tell me where Matt, just tell me where you made the strike so I'll know In case something... In case anything happens to me, forget it I try to all the time, I can't sleep worrying about something might happen to you Vi, listen to me, just listen You'd better get out of here husband Alright, to Shannon, like I said I would I hope you make it husband I told you once Rhino, don't make me tell you again Leave the boys guitar alone Alright, I gotta keep doing something with my hands, you know that Just waiting around makes me edgy Don't pout Rhino, maybe you'll find you someone else to beat up I'll fill in the gap till Matt Wallace gets here You'd do that for your boy, wouldn't you Ray? Toss him a bone like that? Anytime he cries for it, you'll remember How can he forget? You always referee Rhino's matches with a gun Ray In some crazy places that could be called no contest My boy's fast but sometimes he's outweighed, the gun evens it up I have to take care of my boy King to take him in a round, couldn't you King? He's strong Mr. Slit, it might take longer than that You're a smart boy, Rhino cut you to pieces, people Rhino is smart enough that way Still I'd like to match you two for real sometimes But some other time Well, look who's here Hello Matt, you kept us waiting Slit, it's been 12 years, I counted him Me too Matt Meet your reception committee Matt, Ray and Rhino, funny sounds witty sayings Ray, I've heard that name A little while ago my wife called me Ray A woman gets confused sometimes, Ray, Matt, close enough This won't take long Matt, what have we been waiting for? Just tell me where you made the oil strike and we can part friends You made a strike Matt, you come to tell me that? Yeah kid, all those years I finally made it But it's just for you and me, no one else Hear that Rhino, he's gone to his head, the man's oil happy Yeah to his head, oil happy I'll hit him Matt, I'll stick Rhino on you Cost me too much, cost me too many years, you left the Rhino Yeah, yeah Oil, sweet slaps You fool Rhino, you crazy stupid fool, I'd like to shoot him You told me, you said Get out of here quick King help me with him He's alive Lady Selah, we get him to doctor Take care of him I'm going after him Wait, wait There's a piece of paper in my pocket The Slate's have It belongs to it Tell him I get the doctor Get a police doctor King, it's more in his line You've been gone for a long time Slate, what happened? I lost him, how's Matt? They took him away on a stretcher, the doctor doesn't know whether he'll live or die He'll live, all they have to do is give him a piece of adhesive tape and point in the direction of home The police were here too, wrote in little black books, asked questions, wanted to know where you were What did you tell them? I raised an eyebrow and smiled archly, the police giggled and nudged each other They don't know I was here when this shooting happened huh? No, they kept hitting each other with their elbows, I had to remind them what they came for Uh huh Who's Matt Wallace Slate? Guy, I used to know him He gave me something for you, here, this 16 Avanada Charles of Anticuba I Matt Wallace do hereby deed to Slate Shannon He's giving you 50% of an oil field, I read it What are you looking out of the window for Slate? Slate, I'm talking to you You say something? Who's Matt Wallace? Why did he? 50%, what do you know? What's the matter with you? Who's Matt Wallace? What's all this about? Okay, okay, you imagine a guy like that, sailor? Like what? 12 years ago, Matt and I worked the oil fields together 12 years ago, we gave up, Matt and I We shook hands, we told each other if we ever hit, half of it would belong to the other Then we walked away What do you know, Matt remembered, an oil strike Hey, where are you going? What do you want? I'm a friend of Matt Wallace's, I thought How'd you find me? This address was scribbled on a piece of paper Matt gave me I didn't know you came with it If I'd known, I'd have got here sooner That'd make you Slate Shannon Come on in You can close your eyes to how the place looks, I've been tearing it apart The cheap way they make things nowadays is easy to tear apart That's how you feel about Matt, you rip open his upholstery? I'm his wife, he hides things from me Like where he made his oil strike? You see right through a girl, don't you Slate? The things she wants, the people she wants to divvy him with Now you take me, I'm not like that at all Matt says I get half, it's a pact we made, I'm selfish I don't want to share it with anybody Oh, but you will with me, for a reason I've got Hmm, that's a good reason, now try me with another one You're a lot like Matt, he'd have to be bled for your secrets Ray Glad you joined us Ray, I've been looking for you Want me to do something for you, Vi? The man's got a tight mouth, take him someplace and it'll loosen it for him Anything for you sugar, it'll be easy Slate I'll take you to Rhino, you can ride along on this gun Sorry Vi, the man's got me over a barrel, bye sugar Okay Shannon, out of the car You don't budge, how friendly the man says The odd nights you can do with a little help, he learns easy Ray On your feet Shannon, you're going to say for a while let's make that striker We're going to leave you here on the beach for the gulls The gulls will get you if you don't watch out Funny, ain't it funny Shannon? Laugh, I said laugh You don't know what you're doing, where's the strike? I don't know, I keep telling you Rhino, you remember Kansas City? When I had the main goal, sure sure I remember Tell Shannon, tell him Listen good Shannon, I threw two rights, like this Then the big one Did you see, did you see Ray? Just like in Kansas City Yeah, I'll say a word or two and I'll throw some sand in his face Now back to Bold Venture Our stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren McCall And the second act of our story Miss Saylor, she got a big suspicion Say to King Moses, go on a mission Find Slate Shannon wherever he be In Barrio on Beach, bring him to me King Moses, he look all over place Find Mr. Shannon with sand in face Bring him home to Lady Saylor Now his head need very fine tailor He's home King Moses, but his heart's not in it Something's happened to Slate Shannon He's been walking up and down on that patio for an hour now He done that before Lady Saylor He's thinking about things, remembering things Things that happened a long time ago I felt like I was watching a stranger This fever for oil King, hey King, yes Mr. Slate Hi Slate Hello, King, what'd you do with my gun? It's in the... Don't tell him Slate, why don't you talk to me? What's happened to you that you need a gun? Off the arm Saylor, come on, come on, where's the gun? You gonna tell me, King, or am I gonna have to convince you? Miss Saylor Tell him I'll get it, Mr. Slate Here, the gun Now you're on an oil strike, Slate What are you going to do? Kill people for the sheer joy of it? I don't know where the strike is, I can't claim it Why don't you ask Matt? The hospital won't let me see him He's unconscious, he'll probably die You're going to help him along with a gun? Look, Saylor, Matt liked to talk Somewhere in Havana, he must have dropped a word I'm gonna find out where See ya You were right not to call out to him, Miss Saylor He had the look of a man to whose stopping could not be done He had the look of a man who ought to be banged over the head with a blunt instrument You will wait for him? No, I'm going to share it with him Like the man said, see ya You lost it, Ray You and your ape, Rhino, lost it Be kind to us, sugar If Slate didn't spill after what Rhino did to him, they never will You should have been there to see me by, I was going good It's just that the punk washed out on me before I could That's what you did to Matt That was bright too, huh? Shutting his mouth with a bullet Here he's in the hospital, alive Rhino could pry his mouth open again He's got a gun, he's got a gun He's got a gun, he's got a gun He's got a gun, he's got a gun Alive, Rhino could pry his mouth open again He could die too, without making a sound Yeah, that's possible Maybe half a million in oil A girl could buy a moon for that and all the little moons Only she doesn't know where it is Maybe we know someone who does, sugar Who? The girl that's known as Sailor Deval She was alone with Matt when Slate ran after us after we shot her husband You think he told her? He must have thought he was dying The man tells the girl a lot of things when he's dying, especially about a long dream that came true All right, get her Talk to her See how easy it is when you're nice, sugar? Let's go, Rhino, bring your fist Gee, Senor Sean, such a man as you are described as here to eat on my blue plate What did he say? What did he talk about? Senor You don't have to get cagey with me, Pedro. What did he tell you about the oil? Aye, the oil, he should not do much in the South I'm going to have to beat it out of you, Pedro Senor, you have best with your belt on Nice going, brave man Six more inches and Pedro will top five feet What do you want, Sailor? I'm worried about you Do something clever with a handkerchief, cry in it Come on, Slate, you've been going to these places all night. What's gotten you? It's gotten me you. Stop following me, get out of here Slate, you've got to listen I don't have to listen to you, I don't have to listen to anybody Get out of here All right, Slate You're difficult to keep up with, there's a lot of people out there I'm not going to let you get away with this I'm not going to let you get away with this I'm not going to let you get away with this You're difficult to keep up with, Miss Deval Well, hooray Get away from here It's been a bad night Then let's get out of it Let's say hello to each other at my place It's not much what we ask, Miss Deval Just a few pretty words out of your pretty lips Yeah, pretty lips Why, Rhino, I didn't think you cared for things like that I thought with you it was just broken bones Anyone's, Mr. Val, even yours Isn't that so, Rhino? Stop putting words in the man's mouth Even yours, Mr. Val, just like Grey said Just tell us what Matt told you As near as I can remember, all he did was groan And after that he told you where he made his oil strike After that, all he did was groan, like this That's a good word, you pronounce it good But Rhino can teach you to do it better I'm with you, kid, sure he could But it's all Matt told me Maybe it is, maybe Slate Shannon would be a better teacher Better than Rhino, even You're going to get Slate to beat me up? Just to die for you, Mr. Val That's all we'll ask him to do Just die, right in front of you Gee, Moses is happy to see you come home, Mr. Slate I'm tired And Miss Salo, she is very tired too Salo? Did she not come home with you? No, isn't she home? Maybe she still looked for you She found me a dozen times, I finally got rid of her Rid of Lady Salo? This she will never do You send her away, she will come back If she not come back, you will go for her No thing will change this, not you No there are that makes a mind that's in you You don't know how it is Slate Shannon speaking Yeah Yeah, sure Right away I was a hospital king Lady Salo, something happened? The best thing in the world has happened, Matt Wallace just regained consciousness He wants to talk to me About the oil, Mr. Slate? Do not go to him What's the matter? Have you gone crazy too? Hi Matt Are they treating you good? Yeah, took a long time coming to see me here in the hospital They wouldn't let me in Said you were unconscious, said you were dying Where is it Matt? Where did you make the strike? What's to laugh? We wasted a sweet part of our lives Looking for oil, you found it Half of it's mine, like we agreed Like we met a Salamose I won my half Matt There isn't any oil Never was It's a game I played with myself You're lying, you don't want me in on it You're wrong, there's a hole in Brazil A deep, deep hole With a brine at the bottom, salty to the taste Take it kid It's yours, all of it What are you talking about? There's a lot for me Slate, that empty hole in the earth I told her I'd struck oil Some place in South America Kept my wife loving me I held it's promise up to her nose For that she loved me For that she tried to get me killed With her deeds she gave sailor What kind of a thing was that to do to me? I thought she'd help me Slate Help me keep up my little game So my wife would keep on loving me Not Ray Not anyone You look tired kid You better get some sleep Yeah You too Don't Don't give it up Slate I'll find it, I'll still find it, you'll see Sure you will Matt Sure you will It won't take twelve years this time Slate I got an idea, a hunch Have a nice visit Have a nice visit with the sick Mr. Sharn Oh yeah I know I sure did You should have been here I'm polite, I wait for your sign to hold You're going on another visit friendie You think so? I don't think Ray does that for me Ray you're the gun in your back with just my bare hands See the hospital sign friendie It says quiet That's how I want you to be Quiet Let's go friendie How'd you get here Taylor? When you threw me away a man came up and took my arm I'm sorry for that Slate Go shove your head in a derrick This Duval says she doesn't know where the oil is either Shannon Why bother her? I know The man gets older he learns more It works this way Shannon You tell me where the oil strike is You and the girl here join hands and skip all the way home If I don't you kill me huh? Both of you, you and the lady One at a time Rhino can do it without blood Yeah, yeah he was telling me on the way down Twenty fights, eighteen knockouts One man died Yeah one man Why'd that happen Rhino? Toledo my best fight You never got me in Toledo did they Ray? Where's the strike Shannon? I wish you could have seen the newspaper clipping They talked about it, they wrote about it Took my picture with a movie actor They call her a starlet eye with great until later Show me what happened in Toledo Huh? Come on Rhino show me a great fighter like you Show me on Ray so I can see what happened Take him Rhino, take Ray like you did with that guy in Toledo So I can see what you did Yeah, you're crazy You're a punch on crazy man You're into one toe Rhino Then downstairs In the In the house That's how I was Until later The other guy Laying on the deck But But the other guy Didn't even get to me Not like that You're such a smart man Slate You open your mouth and people drop like flies I'm not done yet There's another one, a woman Vi Wallace, what are you going to do to her? Just mention her name to the police Go on home sailor You told me that before, look what happened I told you I was sorry You can stay if you believe me I'll leave you You're sure it's all over Slate The oil, the fever for it Who needs oil? Like what? A hotel, a boat, a friend, King Moses What else? You That's my old Slate See what it gets you? Yeah, sure What did you say sailor? You've got a far away look in your eye They're wildcating oil in Brazil, I read about it You're going to Brazil? Goodbye How can I go when I've got you around my neck? No you haven't Give me your arms Now I have Better than wildcatting I don't know I never kissed a wildcat 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 Rhodes 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 Adventure
