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 BOLD VENTURE I offer information to all who heed If a recuperation is your very first need Invest several dollars for peace and rest Come to Shannon's Place and be our guest We've a reasonable hotel right on the bay Feature seafood, marinated and filet If keeping stomach happy you should chance to tire Just step to the beach with a boat for hire That's a neat pitch for a hotel if I ever heard one, Shannon Where'd you find King Moses? In a gin rommie game in Port-au-Prince, I knocked with three This is a new version of it, Joe The last time Slate told it he was sitting on the beach and a bottle washed up on the shore He pulled out the cork and there was King Moses You were a lot smaller then, weren't you, King? Oh yes, Miss Taylor, I've grown Who put you in the bottle in the first place? The wind, I was sitting there playing my guitar and a hurricane came up There just happened to be a bottle lying around Well, the way it really happened, Joe, was that... I'll settle for the last one, Shannon Now, what about it? Well, I don't know I admit it appeals to me but diving for sunken treasure isn't exactly the way I want to make my way in life Well, he's not asking you to dive for anything, Slate He just wants to use your boat, isn't that right, Joe? Sure, I'll do the diving, your boat, your equipment We'll split whatever we find down the middle Equipment? I haven't had a diving suit since I lived in Hawaii That was the time when all the beach boys who dived for quarters almost starved Slate stood on the bottom of the ocean in his diving suit and a large tin cup That's where I met Mr. Slate That's right, King Moses was making change May I say something? Oh, please do I know where the Bark Hespides is An old slaving ship returning from the Carolinas with gold It sank, I know where it sank Where? I've listened a lot and I've got me a lot of old charts I can draw an X and a map of the Caribbean and that's where the Hespides is The lady asked you where Look, off here, the smallest island on Portuguese Key This reef we use as a mooring Get a bowhoser on the reef point Shall I go on? Yeah, I like it Back off 300 feet, drop a stern anchor and we're secure Then climb into a suit and jump down Just 20 fathoms down and gold Seeing you this way, Donnie, talking to the sea gulls, feeding them One could think you were a man of kindness Yeah, wouldn't one, though? You bring the stale off of bread like I told you? See, here Break it up in little pieces for me, Filippo So it would be tempting to their digestive juices? Just chock full of cute sayings, aren't you? Give it to me Here, pretties, feed your ugly faces That's it, fight for it, you petty beastie, fight for it Look at them, Filippo, cute, aren't they? Because they are hungry? Happens to all of us Soon maybe you have flaky pastries to feed your birds They might kill each other for them You'll like that, huh, Donnie? Yeah, I'll like How are we doing with that part of it? I follow this Joe Cohen like a stray dog into alleys and to gutters Had fun, huh? He talks much of the sunken ship Hesperdes Of the gold that lies in a rotting hulk for fishes to nibble on But when I stroke his ear and whisper where, he'd kick me and laugh Because you're a stray dog, Filippo I once was of dignity, I too Yeah, yeah, I know, you were a big man in the deep sea diving set But you got the bends, your lungs got tired You're a cripple, Filippo, a cripple with an itching palm And you are a prize to be dishonorably discharged from the Navy To gloat over hungry birds That's why all that gold cries out to us Because we're cripples, you and me We're not doing so good, huh, Filippo? We're doing excellent Only in the last hour, Cohen went into the hotel of Shannon I think to hire Shannon's boat I think to hire Shannon Because he needs such things To gorge himself on what is in the Hesperdes Well, what do you know about that? Eh, now maybe we can stroke Shannon's ear a little Hand me some more of that bread, Filippo I feel kindly toward things Eh, ciao time, footies And now, Mr. Shannon, for buying all this equipment from me May I congratulate you? Go right ahead I congratulate you I think he's got something else on his mind today Si, now what can it be? Is it possible? No, it is, senor, a feeling that you have forgotten something I don't see what I've got the compressor, the lines, the diving suit, everything Si, which means that now I have no compressor, no lines, no diving suit Is that fair, I ask myself? Something's awry, huh, Chico? Si, now it comes, a la gazam! You have not paid me We've done business before, put it on the cuff But senor, I cannot open the cash register It is so stuffed with cuffs, white cuffs, pink cuffs I'll tell you what, I listen If I make any money out of this trip, I'll give you 10% This is a modern way of payment? Only squares use money Think of what you can do with 10% I need some caulking compound, amigo Si, your caulk is my command It is in the back room, I will fetch it My, what a lot of equipment you've got, Misty Going diving? Uh-huh Diving for what? Boiled shrimp With hot sauce Just asking My, my, look at that Real honest to Betsy deep sea stuff What are you looking for, mate gold? Slate, he's pinching the diving suit Mother told me there'd be men like that You got a yen for diving, Gearbuster? For gold, huh? Lucky people, need a hand? Uh-uh For sunken gold I'm nosy, curious, a dreamer Tell me where so I can dream about it Tell me Back up, friend Just whisper it, come on Come on, tell me or I'll Dream about it, Buster Is that gentleman lying there What we call a gentleman with gold fever slate? Señor, señor, here's the compound for coquille What you do lying on the floor? He's got a split seam, Chico, caulk him Let's go, sailor What's the etiquette, sailor? How long does one wait for a tardy deep sea diver? How should I know? I've never been stood up by a man who wears a bubble on his head Now you have, how does it feel? I feel like a girl with an empty deep sea diving suit And nobody to shove into it, that's all You and me, we're wall flowers, sailor We've been invited to a dance and nobody wants to waltz with us You show, Slate If I know anything about men who get their kicks out of pacing the ocean floor looking for gold You know, when I was a kid I used to tickle my feet with dreams like this Gold in a sunken ship at the bottom of the Caribbean Let's go home, Slate I'm tired, the bold venture's tired, it's all tired, all of it Maybe something happened to Joe Maybe somebody got to him like the guy who tried to get to me Yeah, maybe, that's why I want to go home Come on, Slate, I'll buy you some gold-covered chocolates Well, maybe he's celebrating Joe's a guy who likes to celebrate for any excuse at all You're going to look for him, huh, Slate? Yeah, how'd you guess? I peeked through the hole in your head and saw the gold already folded in Hurry back, Slate Your loss, Senor? We have many things in this place to make a man find himself Joe Cowan, is he here? I have just made a pleasurable tour of inspection Joe Cowan wasn't anywhere in it, too bad for Joe Look, I'm asking in a polite way, Pedro, has Joe Cowan been here? Si, si, many choruses ago It was on this one he left us Did he tell you where he was going? Si, to the bottom of the ocean sea Did he tell you anything else? Only that he would come back for the girl who is dancing there Oh, look at her, Senor, and wherever you go, Joe will come back, too Yeah, I'm might at that Ask for Joe at Papa Gomez Papa knows all the children of the barrio Yeah, I'll put in a good word for you, Pedro And for her, too, she needs it You are Slate Shannon Your name is whispered in the barrio often By Joe Cowan? By him also Then maybe he told you why he hasn't met me like he was supposed to Why you not go ask him yourself in the place where he sleeps? That's what I've been yearning to do For four hours now I've been yearning like that Where does a man like Joe sleep? The latest pillow is in a yellow house on Bolivar Street, number 8 This thing of you and Joe, my blessings, child Thanks, Papa, I may be able to use them Joe, Joe, it's me Slate Shannon, open up Enter Slate Shannon Who are you? Don't as he says, Shannon, I got something that'll knock your eye out, this gun Well, it's the curious buster with the diving bud I wasn't being unconscious, did you dream? Inside I must say it, Shannon, your banging made almost enough noise to awaken the dead, but not quite What are you talking about? Observe, please, the dirty couch Then observe slightly on top of it He is definitely dead, Shannon Yeah, mostly he doesn't breathe You jealous, Shannon? Why'd you kill him? Once he was useful, thus he lived long enough to tell us the position of the Hespedes Under duress, I assure you And thus his usefulness expired, and thus he died Meaning we're going diving, Shannon Him, me, you, that dame, your equipment, your boat Diving, splashing, I tell you we'll have fun What do you think of it, Shannon? Splashing too, huh? The man's already said it, we'll have fun Now back to Bold Venture Our stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren McCall And the second act of our story Feels good to have an old sea hand at your right hand, huh, Captain Shannon? Couldn't live without it Hold the thought, kid, how you couldn't live without it How you doing with the charts, Mr. Vowell? I tried to eat them like you told me, Slate, but I don't know I've lost my taste for old parchment I'm just jaded, I guess Sailor Duval of the able body The gun I hold on you don't make good sauce, does it, Candymouth? Try me without it A promise I make to myself Hey, Filippo, you've been gazing into the sea spaces long enough Come up with something Wait, wait! Portuguese kill your port bow! Steady as you goes! You made it, Captain Now find the teeniest island and I'll bet I'll find you a reef to mow my dreams to Just like Dead Joey said Feel in your pockets, Danny Boy, because you forgot something Uh-uh, I got you, I got the charts, I got everything Everything but a diver You broke Joe Cowan in two, remember? That makes this a Twilight cruise It's been fun, Danny Boy, just like you said I remembered, Captain I brought a diver Filippo, you won't send him down He'd die before he found the gold Oh, Filippo found time to cry on your shoulder about his lungs, huh? Yeah, anyone else, it would have broken my heart I'll give you someone else, Shannon, and Shannon dives You're crazy All I ever dove for was abalone off Santa Monica And two-bit pieces off the shores of Manicura That's why I got Filippo to give you hints Go hit the sack, Captain Come daybreak, you'll need all your strength Say, I've been watching you Mind if I watch from up close? Don't make me talk, sailor I want to save up on my breath You could do that better if you slept So they tell me You'll die, slate They'll use you to bring up the gold And they'll let you die The thought has occurred to me Where are the playmates? They're asleep Don't you believe it, baby? Nobody sleeps on a night like this Not you, not me, not them, nobody They must be away, they must be I've been looking for it in the water, sailor In the bright lights on the backs of the phosphorescent fish So far they haven't spelled out a word Try me, slate There's a word on my lips Read it Yeah Just the word I was looking for A very romantic picture you two make in the tropic moonlight What'd I tell you, sailor? Nobody sleeps You're wrong, Shannon Why'd you do that? He wasn't even... Because I owed him one Because he needs his sleep, candy mouth Like I told him I didn't think he'd need a gun butt to sing him a lullaby I'll kill you I get enjoy it from you Now, just throw a blanket over him I want him all tingly and refreshed in the morning Flake the air hose so it won't keep Danny It's flaked You check the air pump, the compressor? Ten times, I counted on my fingers The lifting gear secure? It's holding on for dear life How about me, Danny boy? Want to check me? Filippo tells me you'll need a lifeline I give it to you because Filippo tells me I'll never forget you for little things like this, Filippo The helmet and me are ready Wait, come back to me, slate Are you crazy? Where else have I got to come back to? Come on, Shannon Stuff your head into the steel balloon Anything for you, Danny boy Let's check the intercom, shall we? Just for kicks Hello? One, two, three, four Hello, Shannon Intercom, okay You are going over the side now Okay, Danny Shannon? Yeah, Filippo, who'd you expect? I give you your dip I'll give you your dip Here comes 12 fathoms, now Thanks a lot, can't we go any faster? As long as I'm doing this, I'd like to have a little thrill Don't beg for it, it will come You are safe at this speed, but no faster What's my depth now? Here comes 14 fathoms, now How is it? Never had it better Lots of light, very blue How's your air? Lovely, how's yours? The ship, do you sign it? Yes Nothing, all I see is what's in front of my faceplate I'm going round and round, real slow The blue light, pretty tropical plants It's a world apart, Filippo, you don't know what you're missing Hey, hey, hold me up, quick, hold me up Trouble? Big trouble, a manta ray, a killer, it's coming for me Hold me up, up Shannon, if he's seen you, it's too late Up, up You have a knife, Shannon, use it, use it She will make, killer Okay, Shannon, let's see how good you are against a manta ray There he is, Filippo, give me a hand with him Be gentle with him Be gentle with him, can't you? It is touching, Mr. Valle, your concern for perhaps a dead man But you are in the way Let's get with that helmet Let me help As you wish it Breathing, Slate, Slate, speak to me, are you all right? How'd you get inside this manta ray, sailor? So that blood that came to the top was the rays I'm happy for you, Shannon Take a small rest, then you will try the ocean again How is it down there, Shannon? Good footing Give me more line, I want plenty of slack in both my lines You heard him, give him line Mr. Valle What do you want? Shut up There's something ahead Wait What is it, Shannon? Shannon, what do you see? Can you hear me? Give me that phone Slate, Slate, what's the matter? Hi, sailor, I found me a boat I will take it The phone, Mr. Valle It's the Asphides, all right, there's the name Very good, Shannon, can you get on deck? Sure, she's lying on her side Looks like the boat's flipped in the middle, amigo, half of it's gone The gold was in the cabin, what of the gold? Well, now take it easy, will you? Shannon, the gold! Shannon! You want gold, Filippo? I've got it Put it on the platform, friend of mine, and send it up to me Uh-uh Do not be a fool, I can cut your airline One ingot at a time, Filippo, so I'll know I'll be alive for the next one Shannon, I will cut the... Oh, you won't Then you wouldn't know where your next ingot is coming from All up the platform, amigo It didn't do so good, did it, Filippo? Six lousy lumps of gold You should have your lumps like that every day Now, if I am correct, Shannon, you say we must return to Havana for more equipment That's right So you two fellows drop us off at Havana, hire yourselves another boat, and go golding all by yourselves Yet her, comedian Go wash your face, comedian, it's dirty Come up forward, Shannon, I want to talk to you Things, what we shall need to salvage the rest of that gold Take the wheel, Danny Right First of all, we're going to need an awful lot of dynamite Hi, Danny Want to wash my face for me? Would you hold still? If you were gentle, are you gentle, Danny? Want to try? Think of what the rest of our passengers would say Yeah, they'd talk If they could, they would You kill me That's not the idea I'm talking about Shannon Uh-huh Shannon will relieve Filippo at the wheel at four bells this morning I'll wake Shannon, stand at the wheel with him, put my arms around him Say something nice to him that'll make him warm A knife in his back could put an end to it all Maybe you can do the same to Filippo later If you're anxious for me, Candymouth, why don't I do it while he's asleep? Take the chance if you want Maybe Shannon won't sleep You're in education, baby Something a man needs to get ahead Beautiful night, isn't it, Filippo? Mr. Hval, what are you doing here? Right now, admiring the way you handle the wheel Get below Wake Mr. Shannon, it is his turn at the wheel After all I've done for you, look what I brought you What? Me and Slate's pea jacket to keep you warm Put on the jacket Go ahead, put it on Very well Your sudden concern amazes me And my arm around your shoulder, what's your reaction to that? Amazement Filippo Yes? Hold me My dear Hold me Hold me Ah! You set him up pretty, Candymouth Hey, Candymouth, come back here Okay, okay, I'll throw him in the ocean myself Slate, are you up? What's the matter? Don't talk, just listen to me Danny just stabbed Filippo, he thought it was you Let's get out of here, get back on deck Hey, this is fully for your trickery There he is by the wheel Listen to me, sailor I'll get you both of you Crawl forward along this tarbed side, circle around and grab the wheel But he's standing there, Slate I'll go on away from the wheel, when I yell, grab that wheel and spin it hard and open up the throttle Aye, aye, Skipper You looking for me, Danny? Yeah, I am Come and get me That's what I'm doing You're shocked, Bay Shannon Prove it to me Yeah, I will I work good with a knife, you'll see Show me, sailor Where's your balance, kid? Shannon So, you got no foundation Sailor You're my boy I'll take the wheel now Let's pull up to the curb for a minute Later, sailor, when we get home Slate Yeah? What are you looking like that for? I'm trying to figure you, sailor I'm trying to figure why you ran to the Cuban officials and told them where the Hespedes was located And why did you give them those six gold ingots? Five gold ingots Oh, you held one back Show it to me Uh-uh, I put it in my hope chest What else you got in your hope chest? One doily What kind of a hope chest is that, one doily and one gold ingot? It'll build Come here, sailor I did that even though you stole I forgive you for it Come here, Slate I forgive you, too For what? I looked in my hope chest a few minutes ago All I've got is one doily And so our two stars, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Vacall, have brought to a close our latest bold adventure 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 Vacall together in Bold Adventure
