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 Under Lourdes sailor we see Morro Castle, the famous fort guarding the entrance to Havana harbor it was constructed in 1589, contains many interesting and exciting relics of the past Oh shut up What's the matter with you? I take you for a moonlight ride aboard the BOLD VENTURE point out the places of scenic interest, give you choice bits of information, develops the mind Where else could you get all this gratis? All this gratis I could get by curling up in my downy bed with a circular All right sailor, what do you expect from a man who takes you for a boat ride around the harbor? Like them to anchor and... Hey, hey look at that maniac He's trying to run us down It's not a he or she, just standing at the wheel headed for us That crazy fool doesn't she know that... She slammed her boat into the sea wall, let's go Folding it up like an accordion, that girl must be... I'm going in after her You got a slate? Yeah I'll hand her up to you, just hold her arms till I get aboard Right Okay, here, I'll take her Such a beautiful girl Don't stand there admiring her, she's nearly drowned Worse than that Drowned? Look, this mark on the front of her head, probably from the crash, my guess is that's what did it She is beautiful, to have died like this To kill herself like that, for what reason sailor? Here, take my hand athlete Don't need it Gail I've been climbing aboard rafts in the moonlight ever since I can remember Hand me a towel punk, the water was cold Here They smiled on you tonight Richard, your stars smiled on you People were there to watch how your girl died I'm just lucky punk, always have been, who watched? I saw it through the night glasses, a couple aboard a boat called the bold venture I think they tried to help her Goodie Tell me how it was Richard, tell me how you killed your beloved, my sister She thought I was going to kiss her She closed her eyes and then all of a sudden she opened them and saw the gun against her And she passed out Then what? I propped her against the wheel, headed her boat for the sea wall, opened the throttle and dove overboard But why do I tell you that part, you saw it, you watched me swimming in the moonlight Oh you fool, you've ruined it, it had to look like murder, it had to, we planned it that way She's dead punkin' Why should I have stretched a muscle I can use another time? Don't you see you fool, they'll call it suicide They'll find out how she tried to kill herself before They won't call it an accident, they'll call it suicide The insurance boys won't pay off on suicide Yeah I never thought of that Easy, easy punkin' Young Richard will think of a way Good morning sir, welcome to Shannon's Place, the hotel Nifty, rooms 350 Are you alone? I don't want a room, I want to find out about a guest Just a minute Front boy Good morning sir, welcome to Shannon's Place, the hotel Nifty, rooms 350 In advance, say, the guy's got no baggage The guy wants information about a guest, don't you guy? Yes, yes I do, my name's Richard Marlin, I'm trying to find out about a Phyllis Calvert Phyllis Calvert huh? Yeah About her, I'll give you all the information I've got Richard, I never heard of her Now look, whatever your name is, I've been making the rounds of the Havana hotels All the information I've gotten about Phyllis Calvert is that she's not registered What makes her so important to find? My fiance Well they'll do it to you every time kid Cut it out Slate, just because you never had a fiance Who needs one? I should never have let her come here alone, mixed up girl like Phyllis If anything's happened, look, do me a favor will you? Sure, I'd be glad to help Here, here's a picture, if she comes in here, well, I'll leave you my address And if she comes in here, then you can... Hey, look at this, Saylor You tell him Slate We've seen this girl It's not a very good picture Slate, Richard we're not really sure What's the matter? Why are you looking like that? Like Saylor said, we're really not sure, but we can find out Well then let's do it, where? I'm sorry Richard, I really am We'll have to go to the morgue Make a note Slate Why, you forget something? Just make a note reminding us never to go crawling in this place again Hell, I can't tell you how grateful I am you two came with me If it's Phyllis that's dead, I want someone with me when it hits With others I have seen, it has been that they wish to be with their dead in loneliness But it is not always as we You are prepared Saylor Marlin? Yeah, show her to me Inspector I promise I won't scream and wake her, wake any of them Saylor Marlin? It's Phyllis Cover up her face again, it's not this way I remember We'll play like I never saw her this way We're sorry Mr. Marlin Why, what makes you sorry? Was it you that killed her, is that how killers feel about a girl they let die? No one killed her Saylor Marlin It is our opinion, it was suicide You're crazy, you've seen so many dead you want to make it easy on yourself Suicide, from what you have already told us of the Senorita That she tried to die twice before Our technical experts think so, I think so She was murdered, I told you she was Your grief has made you hysterical Saylor I respect it, I leave you alone with it When you are more calm, come to me and I will share it You saw her Shannon, you saw that bruise on her head, someone killed her Could have been from the crash, maybe she lost control Phyllis, lose control of a boat, she's been handling boats since she was a baby Then what LaSalle said has to be true Richard, she wanted... She was murdered Look, all I ask of you is that you prove it How can she rest if they think she took her own life, how? And me, how do I sleep? Alright kid, we'll try How much? A thousand? Two? For nothing Richard, isn't that how it should be? So you can sleep, let's go Saylor You heard me Mr. Calvert, C-A-L-V-E-R-T, Phyllis Calvert I don't know whether I'm at liberty to give out the information We here at the Caribbean Cruise Line pride ourselves on the discretion with which we treat our passenger lists Open that book and look it up, everything you can tell me about it Open the book What else? Phyllis Calvert, Calvert, Cal... Yes, yes, here we are Phyllis Calvert disembarked a week ago today And what? And from the stewards notation we learned that her baggage was sent to the Hotel Mozambique Is that what you wanted to know? I don't know what you're talking about Senor To my knowledge no man was in here asking about Phyllis Calvert Well maybe you weren't here at the desk then As possible, Phyllis Calvert, ay mucho muchacha She's dead I grieve, permit me Did you see her go out with anyone? Do you know anything about her? Last night she called the desk from her room, please do reserve her a boat I took care of this reserving myself Where'd she hire the boat? From Segura, that little dock near La Fuerza You say dead Senor? Ay que triste, es muy triste No Senor, Segura is not here, Segura put unhappy clothes with shoes Where'd he go? To Caillajota, to Fiesta Street dance? Si, a Caillajota, to dance, to sing, to have fun, to love, to get beat overhead by jealous boyfriend Tonight Segura will leave There he is, say look who asked him for a dance How do you know it's Segura? I asked the girls to point him out to me, they hid their giggles behind a fish he'd given each of them That's how I know, go on you get a samba and a free fish besides Why don't you go dance with him yourself? It's a question, I'm not dressed for it Well keep your mouth open kid, I may toss you a herring Hi Segura, care to cut a cobblestone with a girl? You must understand Senorita, I am all on the move Who needs it on a night like this? You want to dance with me for myself alone? You are brave I've been dreaming about it, you're a flash for the girls huh Segura? They call me Elsefifty Is that what Phyllis Calvert called you? Phyllis? Oh Phyllis, the one with open toes in her shoes One of your admirers huh? No, no I only noticed the open toes when she come to rent boat from me And many in my profession see such things, they were painted the toes And they twinkled in the moonlight on the boat ride Like that, I wish I could have been there for the twinkle Oh she went out on the boat alone huh? You didn't go with her? Who cares, while we danced they had turning anti-lanterns The music changes to tango, the street is dark and in old Havana There is only me for you Hey, you're a regular Valentina It has been mentioned, better try another line on me senorita That one is tired Try this one, who was Phyllis with on the boat? Again Phyllis, again it, in my back the pain Slate, Slate come here What's wrong sailor, what's the matter? Hey, what's this a new kind of dance? Your partner lies on the floor and you Because he's dead Slate, because a knife in his back made him that way Now back to Bold Venture, our stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall And the second act of our story A lovely girl she crashed into old sea wall Now lie with the dead in a cold cold hall Police he says she's suicide but her lover This notion cannot abide To help the lover, lady sailor she dance In street with a man, a very warm glance He hold her close and round her spin When death tapped his shoulder on dance cut in Don't remind me of it King, if I hadn't danced with him it wouldn't have happened But you gave him a memory to take with him lady sailor, your face There are harder ways for a man to die sailor I could envy Segura for that What are you doing to me Slate? Want me to cry all over again? Give it up Slate, let the man find his own reasons why his girl died Don't you see sailor, that fisherman's being killed like that proves the girl was murdered Killer didn't want him to tell you anything so he stuck a knife in him LaSalle says it had nothing to do with her dying This was once a girl bought for himself because he was so popular with other men's girls What does LaSalle know? The difference between suicide and murder, he gets paid for a quirk like that That makes me a sucker, huh? You named it Look sailor, a girl dies, I lift her body out of the sea with my own hands I can still feel it That gives me whatever rights I want to take to myself, it makes it Answer the phone Yeah Slate Shannon Oh, oh yeah Richard, sure I can Be there right away Let's see, you were saying if I want to find out Don't bother to kill me sailor, Richard found the murderer Sucker, huh? I don't get it Eileen, why tell Shannon I've got something I haven't got But you will have, and soon Rest your muscles Dicky boy Ha ha ha, oh the life I've lived Phyllis, Sigoura, Shannon's girl You deprive me of that one If she ever comes that close again I'll give her to you To kill, Shannon too if you want him Come in A pretty day to you senora, I have brought the club sandwich you honored us with your order Put it over there Pepe You see Now sit down Oh it's quite alright, Mr. Marlin here will protect you If I were not so modest myself senora I could wish the mister were not here See, I sit Whatever the senora wishes You're quite a lad with the girls aren't you Pepe I am only a beginner But so proficient I hear Oh I've heard lots about you From the elevator girls, the waitresses From my sister Your sister senora Phyllis Calvert She had the same room in the same hotel Surely you remember She remembered you I am grateful that such a girl remembered me You killed her didn't you Pepe Please senora You just said something crazy did you not hear it You killed her Phyllis made dates with you, a handsome boy like you and for that you killed her You are crazy They fill this hotel with crazy people, you're crazy Here's his address, sticky boy When Shannon knocks on your door be nice Give him a murderer Mr. Shannon, Mr. Vahl I don't know how to thank you Take it easy kid Please, please come in And now it's all over You've got to understand about a man like me Someone I love, murdered An eye for an eye, you'll see, you'll know Someone did to you what's happened to me We're not going to be able to help you unless we know what you're talking about We came here because you said you knew who murdered her He hit her and he propped her against the wheel, headed her boat against the sea wall Alright I'll buy all that Now who did it A bellhop, his name is Pepe If Phyllis was going to marry our friend here What was she doing in a boat with a bellhop named Pepe That's a good womanly question, answer it Richard Well Phyllis was Well people smiled at her, she liked people Men She was fond of people, she didn't know what she was doing She needed me near her You didn't know Phyllis Okay kid, let's go down and interview a killer Happy little fish, on the end of my line you wiggle a lot, you see Your name Pepe I did not see you approach senior Is your name Pepe Yes I am Pepe They told me at your rooming house you were down here on the beach You come here often You went upset I am Okay Richard come here What is it you want senior, why do you call You'll see Is this the one Richard That's him You will not Don't try to run Pepe This woman, this Phyllis, a bad thing You were with her on a boat, take your hands away from me Pepe does not permit You see what Pepe does not permit For a downy cheek lad Pepe you sure flash a big knife She would bring things to me and meet me See I was with her and why not if Pepe Stare Mr. Shannon because I killed a man Because I avenged a death And you'll never know what a pleasure it was And that's the way it was inspector Pepe pulled a knife that's why we came here to tell you about it I don't care what you do with me I want you to know that Phyllis is dead now Nobody is going to do anything to you It was self defense There will be an inquiry But with Mr. Shannon to give you a vouch you will get off You can go then inspector See if you will Yeah I'll give him a vouch Let's get out of here kid come on sailor Feeling pretty rocky Richard I want to tell both of you something I offered you some money earlier A thousand dollars to help me Two thousand dollars Slade what's the matter with you Since when does anybody have to pay for your help He said two thousand dollars didn't he I did in a few hours Mr. Shannon my rooms I like a boy who pays his way Richard we'll be there Hi Richard Hiya Shannon come for your dough It's inside come get it Thanks I want you to meet somebody Shannon What do you think I've been staring at People This is Eileen Calvert sister of Phyllis Slate Shannon How do you do How do you do People youhoo Oh sailor this is what's your name again lady Eileen Likewise I'm sure Where's the money Two thousand wasn't it No I changed my mind better make it five Slate's always doing that Eileen You say two he raises you to five Now come Shannon first it was for nothing Then for two G's now it's five All that money makes blind spots I can forget how three people died You're trying to say something Mr. Shannon How much insurance money did your sister leave you Eileen You're not going to tell me Must have been a nifty bundle Nifty is not quite the word Try gorgeous All right I'll try it Gorgeous that still smells Trying for ten Shannon Slate's trying to tell you that he thinks No help from the audience sailor You killed Phyllis for her insurance money It was supposed to look like an accident a murder But you loused it up and the cops called it suicide Yes that's right With my sister's background it looked just like suicide The insurance people wouldn't pay off on that You just made yourself ten grand Shannon Fifteen You're going good kid don't stop now With fifteen thousand It's worth it Give it to him Richard Where is it? Top desk drawer Did you find it? I found it All right Shannon this gun says we bargain Don't try anything I said don't try Slate don't be a fool You shot her You shot sailor Don't you get by it You didn't make it did you kid Let go of that gun I said Drop it No I'll take it Sailor What? Does it hurt? What took you so long getting here? I see That doesn't look too bad You'll be all right I tried to help Now don't talk just don't talk It'll be all right I'll take you home The construction of the Cabana fortress is commenced in 1763 and finished in 1774 at a cost of fourteen million dollars Although considered impregnable at that time at present it is only of historic value Isn't that interesting and educational sailor? Look Slate I'm sitting here on a deck chair on our boat My arms in a sling I'm defenseless and you give me history It's a tonic sailor takes your mind off your troubles You want to take me off my mind? I got a better way The doctor said I should keep you calm That quack Come here Slate That's what I mean That was restful Restful? Yeah The construction of the Cabana fortress was commenced in 1763 and finished in 1774 See how easy it is to educate me? It's so helpless Isn't it wonderful? Just watch the sling Slate And so our two stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall have brought to a close our latest bold adventure story Special music was composed and conducted by David Rose 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
