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 Mr. Slate, I have... What's wrong, King? You came back empty handed But with my dignity bruised in two places Where, King? Show us Here and here Never lead with your dignity, King, unless you can make the wait What's the matter? Couldn't you handle him? I think the seafaring man in room six has run amok, Mr. Slate Beating on the doors of our hotel and screaming, I am alive, I am alive In Haiti we have an old saying for such I'm sure you have All right, King, what's the old saying? Saying goes so, seafaring man who run amok in hotel, beating on doors, screaming, I am alive, I am alive Don't mess with him Well, that leaves it up to the management You go throw him out, Sally The seafaring man? Sure I'll give him the old one and the two Hasn't failed me yet You're too eager, Buster, I better come along He's also very clever at throwing things Remember to duck to the left, he... Don't forget, Slate, to the left Jolly type, huh? Yeah, let's join the fun Okay, mate, your happy time's up Jolly day, you sure duck pictures good, Slate You're a whiz ding, you'd clean up at a carnival I asked you once, real polite, mate, now Why you... Put down that lamp, I said put it down Ah, you did that keen, mate Now, tell me what you're celebrating You want to share it, huh? Well, don't get tough, just come on in And join me in a loud laugh First we have to know the joke, mate Then, if the wind's right, we laugh Well, it's all here in this paper Go ahead, read it for yourself Senor Little Abner, I chuckled over this two days ago Well, it ain't half so funny as the obituary where I'm pointing Go ahead, read it Joe Norman Seaman, victim of a hit-and-run accident Was buried today at sea in accordance with his lifelong wish As a voyager of the oceans He is survived by his wife, Ethel Norman of Ivacoa, Cuba Funny, huh? I'm Norman I'm Joe Norman And Ethel's my loving wife I'm the man in the obituary Then why aren't you buried? It's a puzzle, huh, mate? Well, look, I'll tell you about it We're lucky, tell us Well, four nights ago Yeah, four nights Whenever whoever was supposed to be me was hit and run I was in Banyo's Turkish bath So you had a bath, so? So they stole my pea jacket and my wallet It was rolled But I was too smart for them A sailor in Havana with no money No pea jacket and tingling all over from a bath Takes brains Pretty brainy, huh, Slate? Brainy enough to take your hotel for a room, huh, mate? Yeah, we're sure impressed Think a clever fellow like you could find his way home? Sure, but what's there for a man? Ten acres of avocado trees and a wife who's bubbly with joy that I'm dead I like it here, mate I like it just just the way it is He said hibakawa sailor Let's go see if a wife's got a lamp in her window for laughing joe here You like riding with me, Gil? Anything you do, Ethel Anything you want If it includes me, I like it Ah, the sweet words roll off your tongue Much practice, huh, Gil? I've had my share, you know that Look, honey doll, we're having a nice time counting your avocado trees Don't whisper anything to spoil it, huh? Well, a woman wants to be sure She gives you a husband to kill she doesn't want If you she's made a mistake in judgment No mistake, honey doll I'll make you the richest grower in Hibakawa I got a way with avocados Hmm, maybe I want more than that Maybe I... Tell me again what you want, Ethel I'll do my best My motto Aim to please a woman like you Just don't get tired of me, Gil You'll have to please me for the rest of your life Oh, it's no chore, honey doll Oh, the shade Soft wind off the coast It's a good place to tell me again that everything's all right Hello? Is there something I can do for you? Oh, would you mind if... Oh, please, please come in, you two The sun hurts my eyes Thanks Well, this is quite a tidy place you have here All this from avocados? Just thanks, Slate Next time you pinch an avocado at the fruit market You might be pinching one of Mrs. Norman's Don't mind her, Mrs. Norman When Zela comes in out of the sun It takes her a while to get accustomed Well, you're certainly welcome here, both of you But who are you? I run a hotel in Havana, Slate Shannon She... her... Zela DeVal How do you do, Mr. DeVal, Mr. Shannon? How do you do? Mrs. Norman, when did you see your husband last? Oh, you've come to talk to me about Joe? About Joe He's playing hob with Slate's hotel Or is it Havoc, Slate? Havoc Havoc Is he? Gil? Gil, come in here a minute This is Gil Lardner He owns the next plantation down What have they won, Ethel? It's about Joe Joe is dead, everybody knows that Joe doesn't He's a man I'd like to know Who are you talking about? We buried him two days ago I'm sorry, Mrs. Norman But how sure are you it was your husband who died? What? Oh You mean because he was so badly smashed up in the accident? I knew him because it was his wallet they found on him Joe's... Joe's pea jacket It could have been someone else It wasn't As soon as Joe would hit port, he'd head for the banyo baths Turkish baths And a receipt from the baths was found in his pocket Joe's dead I saw him lying there, he was smashed and... Dead Gil, wait please, please, Gil You heard her Get fun out of teasing a widow? Get out of here, leave her alone Daniel Buono Hey Hey, is that you? Brush the steam away from your face, senor, whoever you are It is I Welcome to the hot baths of Senor Banyo Rub yourself a hot rock and sit upon it, but gingerly Tell me something, Buono Do you know a man named Joe Norman? It is chilly in here A little more cold water on the hot rocks Hi Is it not pleasant? Hey, look, Chico, I got a girl outside in the waiting room She gets panicky when I take too much steam So talk to me about Joe Norman Every time Senor Norman comes to port He seeks my steam for his pours Let me make a suggestion to you, Chico Did you roll Joe Norman, steal his pea jacket? Senor Did you? Would this senor mind moving his arm again like he just did? Thank you That is a large arm muscle this senor has From beating people over the head with hot rocks You have guessed it, senor Waldo rolled Senor Norman Waldo in person While Senor Norman was in this very room Hi, Waldo Who's Waldo? My partner Only he has now since disappeared I got news for you Waldo's just liable to be dead What are you saying? That Waldo put on the pea jacket, tucked Norman's wallet in his pocket And went out and got himself killed in a hit-and-run accident Buried under the name of Joe Norman More water on the rocks, senor I am suddenly freezing to death So you come to the police with this fantasy You do this to want the cockles and bulls of my heart, senor Shannon? I do this, LaSalle, because there's something That isn't cricket going on among the avocado trees in Hibikoa It also warns the things you mention, I'm happy about the whole thing Tell them about the Turkish bath slate Which reminds me, I've often wondered what goes on in the men's dorms in a Turkish bath You sit on hot rocks, then what happens? Glad you put the question, sailor Then what happens is a man named Joe Norman gets rolled up his pea jacket and wallet By a poor steamer named Waldo who evaporates in the thin Havana air Please, I have told you The man, Joe Norman, is dead Correction, he's laughing his head off in my hotel The man is dead He was buried at sea Correction, he's not dead, he threw a pitcher at me Maybe it's Waldo, the poor steamer who's dead, maybe it's Waldo Not Waldo, Joe Norman was buried at sea His wife asked for permission to do so, we gave it She identified the body to our satisfaction You will go away now and stop tickling me with childish fairy tales Correction, we go away now but we bring you back, Joe Norman Come on, sailor Coming Bye, LaSalle Stay open for another tickle Come on, sailor Well, I don't know if I should I just don't know, Slate What are you talking about? The places I've been today An avocado farm, a Turkish bath, police headquarters Is there a girl in all Havana who can say the same, sailor? Golly, I'm lucky Golly Before we throw that guy in room six out into the street, how about telling me a thing? Certainly Slate Shannon, I think you are kind, loyal, trustworthy, obedient I'll cut it out, will you? Just tell me who registered him You or King Moses? Me Get the register, let's see how he signed his name He signed it Admiral Perry What? Only he didn't sign it, I did He was laughing and happy and had his arms loaded with... Come on Admiral Perry The one at Lake Champlain, not the one who reached the North Pole Aren't you going to knock? Hey look, Buster Hey, wake up You're getting out of... Sailor Sailor, look I don't want to Knife in his back Dead Eh You got a bright remark for the occasion, don't you? Bright remark for the occasion, sailor? Now back to Bold Venture Our stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall And the second act of our story To Shannon's place Come a seafaring man Funny kind of face Done in weather-beaten tan Kept on laughing cause he wasn't dead Till knife in back pinned him to his bed In Havana these cause quite a sensation Question who is killer by a vocation And while Mr. Slade he in such a big gither Lady sailor as usual her face say come hither Yeah, why don't you, Slade? Why don't I what? Come hither Ah She said he wasn't her husband What's he talking about, Lady sailor? Who knows He constructs his paragraphs very badly, King Don't you understand what I'm saying? She said he wasn't her husband Mrs. Norman did? That's right I was at the morgue when LaSalle brought her in She looked at the sailor who was stabbed in room six All she did was shake her head no That's what I would do if a man weren't my husband Me too And why not? The boy who owns the Turkish bath says he wasn't sure Whether the man was Joe Norman or not How can that be possible? Many things are possible, Mr. Slade Or impossible according to which team you're on According to how you are feeling at the moment When a situation arises Which could be possible or impossible according to You tell him, big boy You didn't let me finish You're finished, King You too, sailor You want to get out of here, both of you You're going to do it again, Slade? You're going to try to figure this out In your mind You heard what I said Out Oh, stop it, Gil I annoy you, don't I, Ethel? All right All right Don't you enjoy me like this, honey? Sitting on your veranda Rocking in your husband's rocker Sipping in the moonlight You enjoy me, don't you? Oh, shut up Gil, you killed two men That makes me twice as devilish, doesn't it? Rest a little nobody named Waldo Darling Honey, I thought he was Joe He was wearing Joe's pijack And dressed like Joe Came out of banyos And when I saw Joe this afternoon Stabbed and stretched out in that morgue I hate avocados, don't you, Ethel? Lousy fruit Don't you think an avocado is a lousy fruit, Ethel? What do you want, Gil? Let's sell out You and me You collect on Joe's insurance And we'll get out of here What do you say, honey? I like that, Gil Ethel What? You want me to sit beside you, baby doll? I wish you would, Gil, please Please sit beside me Gil, I love you Because I killed your husband? Sure That's why, isn't it? You figured it And you're going to let the cops handle it And you're comfortable, aren't you, Slate? That was a nifty idea you had, sailor Bringing the ironing board out to the patio So you can press my shirt in comfort So I look dapper when I go calling on Mrs. Norman You get one avocado stain on it So help me and I'll make salad out of you I'll... Hey, watch the shirt front, sailor You're burning it Sink midriff, it's the latest thing You'll be the doll of the... Senor Slate Shannon Hand me that shirt, sailor Come off it, Slate The lady's seen gentlemen in strapless T-shirts before, haven't you, lady? You see, but never a gentleman with such skin you love to touch shoulders I have her to business, my card I've had the sun in my eyes You read it to me, lady It says Lolita Nueva, insurance investigator Available at all hours Hmm, says all that, huh? I don't carry much insurance, Lolita But I bet I could dig up some for you to investigate Hey, sailor, you're burning that collar Ha ha ha ha Your laundry, she's loco, no? She's crazy, no? Yeah, I get my work done cheaper that way Let's go somewhere and investigate, hmm, Lolita? Ah, you will investigate, Senor Shannon, alone Let us say for 2% of $100,000 Now, look, honey, you go over there and stand next to the crazy laundress, huh? 2% of 100 grand? That's $2,000, Slate Why, that's more... That's the fee my company would pay for a discreet investigation of Ethel Norman because of the $100,000 in insurance we paid her on her husband's day You accept big shoulders? Hand me the burned rags, sailor, for 2 grand I'd investigate Congress with my slip showing Oh, it's you again, Shannon Looking for a buy-in avocado? I want to talk to Mrs. Norman, I... What about? You can tell me, I run things for a wash your sleeves That's a nice arrangement I like it, she likes it All the time husband Joe was at sea sending in the paychecks to buy the seeds for more avocado trees to retire on All that time I brought the sunshine into Ethel's life Now you know Joe know about all this? Ethel and me? Well, we didn't want to worry him with it while he toiled I was going to tell him though when he got back Poor guy, run over, kill All before I could get to him with the story of his life It's time for me to go away Ethel, you won't mind, huh? I'll wait for her No you won't, long nose The gun pointing at your collar button says you won't Yeah, mm-hmm, yeah, it sure says that all right Bye pal, nice avocados you raise here Sailor, Sailor, where are you? In your office, slave Close the door, there's a draft How did you make out at the avocado plantation? Put your shoes on, Sailor, we're going talking to LaSalle Then we're going to the insurance company and collect $2,000 Oh, for that I'll wear my high buttons Go away, go away, whoever you are Well, come on in Mrs. Norman You can take a walk with us, we were just going to see the police Gil told me he wouldn't let you see me, Mr. Shannon, I came here to tell you why I think she wants to tell us she killed her husband, slave That's cruel, the whole thing is cruel That's a good word, that's the user for the death of Waldo Who? You know who, a petty thief who helped run a Turkish bath Goes like this, Mrs. Norman, Waldo stole your husband's coat and wallet In the dark he was killed by a hit and run driver by someone who wanted your husband dead By you, for his insurance Oh no, it wasn't like that, that's why I'm here, I'm frightened That was your husband who was stabbed, wasn't it? Yes, yes, Gil killed him after he found out he'd made a mistake After he found out he'd killed Waldo instead Listen to me, will you, I'm frightened I don't blame you, the police Oh, not of them, not of them, don't you understand? If I were you I'd be scared of the police That's Gil, he's a killer, he enjoys killing, he enjoys it And sometimes he looks at me and he... I need your help the way he looks at me Let's go ask him what he sees Is that you, Ethel? Gil If you look up from that paper, Gil, you'll notice company Oh, you too Don't bite your lip, Gil, you're dreaming the whole thing What's this all about, Ethel? Come on, honey, what are you trying to say? She's making an honest effort to say you're a killer Oh, that's what, huh? That's right, you killed Waldo, mistake Then you stabbed Joe Norman and my hotel, no mistake, reason? A widow with avocados and a hundred grand She tell you I didn't mind doing it either? Something like that That's why I can't get dreamy about pointing this gun at you You really don't have to do that, the slate's not finished Brush me, Shannon, that way you can die in action Yeah, yeah, exactly that Ethel, Ethel, crazy woman, crazy, you... That's good, Gil's dead, it's good, he needed to be dead Sure, sure, give me your gun, Mrs. Norman Take it, he was going to kill you, you know that, don't you? That's your version, I've got another one Shouldn't we call the police and report this? Gil's dead, you know You stay that way, let's just talk about him for a while About the promises you must have made him for killing your husband Gil's share of your husband's plantation, your husband's insurance money Things like that You're crazy, I just saved your life, what are you talking about? Gil told me he never saw your husband He didn't, he never did Of course he didn't, so you had to tell him how your husband dressed Where he would go so he could find him and kill him Slade, watch her Get away from that window Oh, you don't Did you think I was going to jump? Did you think that? Now let's go, Mrs. Norman Now wait, and look at it At what? Dawn, isn't it beautiful? It's the beginning of a new day, it's time for wishing good things Want to know my wish? Won't come true if you tell us I know, won't anyway But it's this I wish there was some way, some way it would make my new day a happy one If there was some way I could kill you, both of you Come on, Mrs. Norman, let's go Here we go Two thousand dollars, sailor, look at it We going to run barefoot through it, Slade? Uh-uh, we're just going to count it and count it and count it That's why you made the insurance company pay off one dollar bills, huh? Well, you better let me have a bucketful of it Take a handful, sailor What do you need a bucketful for? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker I got the list right here Let's see One thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars How many candlesticks did you buy? What are you screaming about? You've got four dollars you've never had before Go ahead, take the four bucks, too I'm happier when I'm broke, carefree, happy, devil may care Vagrant is the trade win Come here, vagrant Did you like that? Spiffy and smooth And how was that one, vagrant? Vagrant, huh? Come here Oh, I just found a home 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 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 you
