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 Ah, rock me gently sailor, easy, easy, ah, you're getting a knack kid What is it about you Slate? You can get girls to push your hammock I got rosy cheeks, what do you soar about? We flipped for it didn't we? I won, you lost, that's life in Havana, keep pushing I had to have a bright idea, why don't we put up a hammock on the patio I said, that way the hotel guests can enjoy their siestas in comfort I said I keep talking to myself like that and what do I get, 175 pounds of- Please, Mr. Shannon That's him, one on his back You won't remember me Mr. Shannon, I wouldn't expect you to, it's been many years, I- Sure, sure I remember, Brewer, John Brewer isn't it? Hiya Mr. Brewer Thank you, you're remembering me so quickly that will make it easier, so much easier Here's the chart of my boat for fishing trips, we had good days together, I don't forget days like we had, I remember once we- Is it okay if I stop rocking you baby boy while you reminisce over fish? Yeah, yeah you can stop sailor, I've had it, ah you want a chart of my boat again Mr. Brewer Yes but not for that, I haven't the money for that anymore, things are different What's on your mind? My son, he'll be at the Puente docks tonight, about one I think they, they said about one, I want you to pick him up, bring him to me Sure, we can do that can't we sailor? Perhaps you won't be so eager when you know my son has escaped from prison, from Guantanamo prison, my son was in prison for murdering a man you know Oh, well I'll be frank with you Mr. Brewer, the boat's not for hire to escape murderers, it's a quirk I have He'll kill, Paul will kill again, that's why he's escaped, to kill the man who double crossed him, all I ask is you bring him to me first so I can prevent him not killing So I can turn him into the police, the barrio where I live now, the streets, the alleys, the whispers scream how Paul has escaped, how he's coming to Look Mr. Shannon, I beg of you Don't let him do that slave Alright Mr. Brewer, for the good days we had together, would you give them back to the police, ah? I swear it, I swear it, thank you, thank you Say, get them off me Millie, Millie, come on will you open up Go away Now can't you, ah, ah, this is the first time you've come around to see me in the middle of the afternoon, come on in Why didn't you just say it was Bart instead of Beaton on the door What's the matter honey He'll kill me Sit down Bart, now right here Better? Talk now or talk later I said he'd kill me What are you trying to say honey? Oh look at you Paul Brewer's out Why? Paul Brewer broke jail No use running honey, Paul'll get you Hey look, I got an item Millie I figured you would You don't have the nerve to walk after Paul with a gun, do you? Just an idea, huh? I only ask because look what's happening to your last idea Bart So Paul gets blamed for the murder I did, got the gun, did for it Maybe you'd have waltzed down to Courtroom Island and said, wait a minute judge, you're doing wrong Maybe you'd have done that, huh? Not me, not Bart Rainer Not Millie either What are you gonna do? Alright, listen, Paul's old man went to see Slade Shannon today, I got the word Well, a guy like Shannon, you know what's gonna happen, you figure it You think Shannon will get to Paul? Oh sure he will, look baby, I got an idea, you get Shannon to bring Paul to me Over Shannon anything If I knew someone was gonna bring him to me Well, I'd be ready for him After which you'd give it to Paul in the back, huh? And give dead Paul to the cops You know why I love you Bart? Because you got character You gonna help me? Relax honey, just relax There's a saying Slade, goes like this, mother used to tell it to me Honey mother said, stick your neck out and you'll get a fat rope around it honey She always called me honey You wanna give it up sailor, wanna go back home? What's home? Moonlit patio, you whispering things in my ear Me ironing you a clean shirt for tomorrow Why do dull things like that one for the same price we can get killed? What's with us getting killed? All we have to do is pick up our boat, collect an escaped murderer, leave him on his daddy's doorstep Shannon, over here, come to me Shannon Huh? I hear a call sailor, you run on along to the boat Uh uh, I got a feeling you'll need a bodyguard Come on Shannon boy Anything you say You're calling for help, that's why you want me isn't it lady? You want help? Talk to Shannon the girl told me You mean all the other girls in the shop, huh honey? But I got there first As you see it's me that bakes his apple pies now You're lucky You're lucky you got someone to do things for girly Me, Millie? Well I got his word my man broke out tonight And I haven't done nothing for him in five years I could break a girl in two That'll be Paul Brewer, huh? Now you can tell me Millie Paul, my Paul The word among friends is that you're bringing my Paul home to his papa To him, not to me You tell him I'm waiting, against a fire He'll drag you to me Honest he will After that he can go do what he has to do You'll wait here, huh? Just so long Then I take the cops on you Shannon The girls tell me it's 20 years for aiding and abetting an escaped convict You sure know a lot of smart girls Millie You just stand here waiting just the way you are Against the piling That's it Ain't it a picture to break your heart, sailor? I wipe a tear All the knees Or you build roads for the county You reached us Millie We'll mention the name to Paul and don't you leave this place, you hear? Let's go sailor Fire up sailor Right If you'll skip my honey, what do we do now? We wait What do you feel like doing? Well, pretty big moon tonight You had a jackknife, we could play mumbly peg by moonlight That's something to do Matter of fact we could Paul Wait here sailor Paul, Paul Brewer Hey, wait a minute, get away from here What it's got to be, it's got to be Cut it out Don't be a bird brain Paul You don't know what you're doing You Paul Brewer Cut it out Are you Paul Brewer? Who told you to look for him? His father Are you Paul? He shouldn't have told you to come here I asked you a question kid Yes, yes I'm Paul Brewer Come on Where? Your father He wants to talk to you, come on All right Why'd you break out kid? Cops probably got orders to shoot on sight All right, let him Little boy, huh? Hey sailor Is that him? Yeah Take the bold venture back I'm taking a wandering boy home Senorita Duval Please to lift your frame from the hammock senorita What's the matter officer, was I going too fast? Difty senorita, in the name of the law Oh fine I finally get Slate out of it, now you want it What is it with you men LaSalle? You got dark spots about girls and hammocks? Personally and with me it is a sight I would miss my bus for However, I only wish you to tell me where is Slate Shannon So I can embrace his wrist with handcuffs Oh must be a lot of fellas you can do that to LaSallezy Why elect Slate? Besides, he's not very attractive with handcuffs Towards his conversation We of the police would find him very attractive so You will tell him that senorita When he comes back to you for a hideout Why would he do that? Slate's been a good boy Hasn't tripped an old lady in days But he has aided a notorious criminal to escape Paul Brewer Of this a stool pigeon flapped her wings on the phone Bring him to me senorita Or perhaps we bring him to you So you can buy for him a funeral costage Like that huh? Just so senorita Tell him Tell him he is wanted by the police Badly Adios Still the same crummy place I spent a young life time promising myself to get my father out of four flights up in a barrio I got a philosophy that goes with that Stay out of jail It's easier to make money that way That way you don't have to live forever in a slum Oh good old you You ever been in jail? You ever known a drifter who wasn't? Hello Mr Brewer Here's the boy What? Hey what is this? What? Aren't you Paul? I said a fib Mr Shannon I'm sorry I really am Now look Look Mr Brewer you'd better get inside Something's happened here I want to find out what Go ahead I'll talk to you later What about it Buster? Me? You Paul broke jail today My friend Paul did that I was supposed to pick him up and you came instead I don't know who you are mister I thought you were a cop but now I know you're on the level when you brought me here Where's Paul? Well he won't find me waiting for him So he probably went to a place What place? Look I can't monkey with you no more out of the way You're a real brave kid Yeah that's me That's really me How about that guy thinking I was Paul? Paul Huh? Your name must be Paul Don't move I've got a gun pointed at you Oh hey now wait a minute You're tired of Shannon's company Paul? That's why you pushed him down the stairs? Well look here now I blew him a kiss when I passed him but he didn't pay any attention Now you're crazy So I just passed him and went along with my business Goodbye Paul Take a look To Bold Venture our stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and the second act of our story Oh Havana's a place of possibilities They give you the city don't bother with the keys Go ask any native they'll recommend Shannon's place your dollar's friend The current chatter in Shannon's lobby Where the guests all gather to make hobnobby Concerns a boy who fled from jail But who can blame him he had no bail I blame him King Paul Brewer killed a man It says Lady Saylor What are you talking about? It says Paul Brewer killed a man Well didn't he? It says Come off it King What are you trying to tell me about Paul Brewer? That it is whispered in the barrio that he did not kill the man for who he went to prison And what? And nothing Miss Saylor except that if this is true whatever is happening to Mr. Slade right now Who said anything was happening to him? Why are you looking at your watch every minute on the minute? In case the main spring falls out I want to know when it happens I've got a years guarantee on this watch and the year's almost up You worried about Mr. Slade? Play your guitar King Music Hey, hey you what hit you? Come on get up I've been trying to do just that Dravener Okay Thanks You were lying there for what reason mister? You're betting you'll get an answer because you're holding a gun? Bingo Well I got heaved down those steps You're Paul Brewer aren't you? I've been looking for you A cop? Say your last one cop or you're going out Save the corner of the mouth talk for when you meet a real cop Me it don't impress Alright no cop then who are you? Slade Shannon Guy your father hired to meet you at Wendy Docks Guy who was supposed to bring you to your father That could be too let's find out huh? Upstairs Somebody else was there I thought he was you your father said he wasn't which delighted this somebody he heaved down Yeah yeah come on move This is your good day for finding people on stairways Paul Turn him over Go ahead Well you know him? Yeah You? I just told you about him You didn't shoot him huh? I met him at Wendy Docks I told you I brought him here because Yeah you said that take off Shannon get out of here Sure the cops are going to find you Paul After a while they will after a while I want them to Things have got to be done first Killing? I said get out Shannon I don't want to start with you You're no good to me Milly I'll tell you why you're no good to me You killed the wrong man That leaves Paul Brewer loose to kill me Maybe that's how you wanted it huh? Maybe that's why you didn't take a good look before you got kill happy I'll explain it to you once more honey Because you got stale soda pop where blood ought to be the guy was with Shannon for me that made him Paul Because you asked me once for help when things were better between us I killed what I thought was Paul So I made a mistake Yeah Go hide under a bed honey How do I get through to you? Brewer's out to kill me Oh look Milly you got to find him kill him you can pin it on Shannon Oh come on for me Milly for the many days I've been good to you Take your hands off me scum honey take them off Milly Milly Milly you'll kill me Couldn't happen to a man with more character I'll watch the papers Bart Oh no look I'll need to know when to buy a black dress Bart Yeah Bart what do you think you're going to do honey? It won't take long Milly Not long Taylor Taylor where are you? Taylor In here Slade in your office Oh going some place? Why the hat? Tell me it's the thing you need when you're on the lam you know drafty hideouts scurrying down cold dark alleys hiding in the river while the cops search for you The ladies hat will come in handy What are you talking about? You're a fugitive ain't you gorilla? I'm your mall ain't I? Where a gorilla goes his mall goes with the etiquette What's the matter? You don't like the hat? Take it off Taylor you don't need it where we're going You've got a warm hideout huh fugitive? Yeah LaSalle's office The lumps you got went to your head didn't they kid? LaSalle wants you for accessory to an escape also the murder of a man in the barrio Well if he wants me that bad let's let him have me huh Slade you don't have to give yourself up I'll go wherever you want huh LaSalle first then we go where I want huh baby You were wise to give yourself up to me Senor Shannon You think so LaSalle? I don't think so in 20 years Slade won't think so either 20 years if he lives that long You still think I murdered that man in the barrio LaSalle? The man was dead when I found him I didn't do it Let us concede the point which leaves the matter of hating or betting the escape of Paul Brewer from Guantanamo prison For this we are very furious we are the brotherhood of the police Oh so I made a mistake Brewer's out to kill a man maybe I could stop that give Brewer back to you What would that buy me? A pat on your dimpled cheek and a turning of the back perhaps if I feel whimsical again Who does Brewer want to kill? You want to know that's your style in the brotherhood isn't it to know who wants who dead Si we amuse ourselves with it I've been studying the file on Brewer in Cote's screen that was a man bought trainer who had killed and not Brewer that it was a up frame Trainer? You got an address on him? The Las Flores apartment hotel was the last place he Now let's go sailor let's go talk to a man about an up frame What do you want? I want to come inside What do you want to do sailor? You've had me out long enough today let's go inside Then after you Hey what is this? You! Close the door sailor Thanks Slate why'd you hit the man? Yeah why'd you hit me? You were impolite to sailor what's a fist in the stomach to a bullet? I always say What do you people want? What are you talking about? A bullet in the stomach rumor has it that's what Paul Brewer is going to give you Brewer sent you huh? You Brewer's muscle? Hey where you going? Bother you Hey don't go in there Bothers you huh? I don't blame you for being bothered Bart Look she was here when I got home I don't even know who she is I found her like that I know who she is A girl named Millie she told me she wanted Paul Who'd she want him for you? That girl on the dock state Yeah dead Yeah she's dead isn't she Bart strangled Oh look why don't you forget it I can get rid of her nobody even see me Go back to Paul tell him you couldn't find me Go ahead go ahead you name it you'll see I can pay you You haven't got that kind of dough Bart Eh try me try why don't you just try you can name anything you want Mind if I come in? Come on in Paul everybody's expecting you You look good Bart haven't seen you in a long time Eh how you feeling Paul? Good good I'm glad why don't you sit down I'll get you something Uh uh Paul you gotta give yourself up to the police Don't rush me don't rush me just want to talk over old times with Bart You want to talk over old times Bart? Sure sure kid It was once a day when you killed a man Bart and I went to jail for it Let's talk about that I'll come back to the cops with me Paul you can clear yourself take Bart with us he'll help us Sure and Bart will explain about killing Millie won't you Bart? Sure sure I will Let me out of here let me go And don't tell me I didn't have to do it Shannon Guy's got to answer that question for himself only maybe he'll die for it Paul Yeah maybe I will Shannon let me have that gun You'll explain to the old man won't you? The best way I know how Here's a gun let's go to the cops huh Dave What do you want? You happy? Not happy I'm lying on the beach getting sunburned Stop leaning over me you'll make a shadow Want to go in for a dip? Dip? In the ocean? You out of your mind? Dip is for tourists Tired huh? You tired Dave? I'm talking to you You're making a shadow Okay I'm going for a walk Hey come back here What do you want? Come here Alright I'm making a shadow You like it? You won't get any sun in your face like this You don't care huh? Ouch! What's the matter? Take off your sunglasses sailor Now come here 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 Rose. 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 Venture. Music you
