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 feels good huh sailor? the morning sun in your face, the Caribbean wind in your hair how else would it feel? that's what I said good how does it look on me? let me consider it you with the wheel of our boat, the sun on your lips, square patch on your dungarees we finished this fishing trip sailor, you go buy a midi blouse with an extra pair of pants gee willock is daddy, you make me feel like a girl who was born with a silver ladle in her mouth come closer kid and I'll lipstick a thank you on your brow you want to show gratitude go after and thank Mr. Jeffery he's paying for the trip I tried, I went after gentle and furry as a kitten I said thank you for hiring us Mr. Jeffery thank you for the payment we will receive when we set you ashore with your load of fish thank you I said and what did he say? he grunted so I flounced off so I left him to his rod and reel. well so long as he pays us you won't let a grunt stand between him and you huh sailor? Jeffery came to me, hired the boat for a fishing trip with him and a friend but the friend never showed up that cuts our profits in half so he'll buy only one pair of pants let me finish huh so he hires our boat, if he wants to sit there and fish in lonesome splendor, not talk to anyone, grunt that's his right that's hey he's got a strike, listen to that line sing hey Jeffery you got a big one, a beauty, look at that sport go now let him run a little more now, now reel in reel in what's the matter kid, don't freeze up now, I said reel in ah you lost him you had a picture fish and you lost him hey Jeffery what's the matter with you what I heard the line snap slate, what's with this Jeffery, an amateur? how does he let a beauty like that get away from him I'll tell you how sailor he died, he's dead that's how I wish you'd say something Rico Pensive, in thoughts I am thinking about stop here for a minute, of course, of course as you wish it Amy that diamond's winking at me the blue one it's about three carats I'll want that one Rico in my wedding ring from you to me because I love you and you can afford it you could buy me a sack full out of the small change you care about Amy, you are sure about your Jeffery I mean the senior from Iowa it is no longer between you and senior Jeffery what it used to be that's what's bothering you huh Rico listen to me Matt Jeffery showed up in the van a couple of days ago oh I'll admit it there was a flutter when he called I met him this morning for breakfast and to go fishing when I saw him I laughed at myself because I was happy because I knew he didn't mean anything to me just you Rico that's why I left Matt Jeffery before we went to the restaurant and that's why I came running to you without even changing buy me a wedding ring Rico congratulate me senor Shannon senorita duval you did something LaSalle a beautiful thing a clever thing I have apprehended the murderers of Matt Jeffery he was murdered the man died quietly on our boat there was no one around only you ain't senor Shannon and inside the dead man he knocked poison to have killed him three times over Matt Jeffery was murdered if you say so and you've got his murderers I'm glad for you and for Jeffery who are they you and you please sign your confessions we will shake hands and we will still be friends here sign all written out for us huh LaSalle read me the small print where it says why we killed him I left his faces blank for you to fill in because I also could not puzzle why you want dead a man who is so poor he must live in Havana in a mouse hole like the last floor is hotel a man who digs into his savings to hire your boat for fish a man who how much dough you got on you sailor three bucks on a dime why well let's see I've got uh yeah not forty two dollars that makes forty five and a dime for a candy bar enough for bail to sell for forty five pesos you expect that I here's another buck I was holding it out for cab fare come on sailor let's go fill in the blank spaces on why we killed a man here's twenty centavos back senor take a streetcar a streetcar named we desire you to come back to the pokey come back or we bring you back on a comic gun rickshaw I want to pay attention to it he's over there in the middle of the man brings his blushing bride to the hotel for a honeymoon that and beside myself with friends in the right and now I can do for you when you have a guest here named matt jeffrey this deskbell would just about fit in the middle of that you know alright you asked for a bell down she'd go she'd go look at you know something she'd go you're the cutest little old she'd go out observed seniorita when I go on gold teeth flash twenty three gold teeth in my mouth I have a friend who has twenty five gold teeth they are expensive how much ten pesos current fee for the bicuspid of gold you'll get it what about matt jeffrey this morning he walked out into the avana daylight before he left for the daylight he made two calls through the telephone in his room through the switchboard at my left out into the world of hustle and bustle ten pesos senior for the numbers he called so that I may eat with gold yeah here here for you and he was there is to make a silly is that pay phone on the wall call these numbers it not in fact not not speaking who not rain not i'm sorry i got the wrong number first one was not not shop late by the other one okay hello hello this is married a sunshine girl your phone number has been selected to receive a spiffy prize of one year's free service may i have your name and address please any web one two one two with a right up they said that the watch got him slated let's go i'm flake shannon this is a little bell and command a matt jeffrey on a fishing trip this morning died poison this is a cozy look what does coffee table set you back honey don't i know you maybe i don't remember what do you two characters want not just recall your couple of hours before he died if it's with you inside you can call me too what about my jeffrey was a nice fellow and show that went to the top on you got showed us to i think that really the bad girl the fighting my left i'm being very not i'm very now the police are in on that andy maybe we can save you some grief i'll go along with that that was a boy from iowa engaged in one we've got cheap college dances he showed up in a matter how many couple of nights ago i thought it was daughter this morning to make final arrangements for the day breakfast and a fishing trip down that you have breakfast with them we were crossing an alley a cat ran by and rubbed itself against his trousers not the cat in the face you think i want to spend a day with the area or white people who you are people i don't have them they're leaving who you are going to be production i am rico sebastian it up at by her and so uh... you're lucky man you are not going to see any the two weeks you will be to me no more flying airplane trips so i would you see your mother no more meeting up fellow you'll like my jeffrey she's dying here and they're acting the sunshine girl did i need to get out wouldn't have it any other way come on there what now let's try another wrong number but try not dot shop and you've come all the way down to this look a little bit of just because a man named that jeffrey called me this morning yet another reason to if he died on our boat this morning of murder they say mister not why we go around about a lot of looks and cranny you never know what you'll come up with and you came up with me one of the artists boat i want to tell you about me i found my soul in a banner why you'd be surprised the people that bring their photographs to me to paint a life-like portrait from what would jeffrey wanted picture painted from a snapshot not of him of his pussy cat that man's crazy about that he brought me a photograph of can be i had a copy made a paint from mailed it back to the region crazy about cats are we had different slight we had he was a cat kicker we must have heard wrong that mister not yet that jeffrey was mad for cats mister not wouldn't lie would mister not indeed i wouldn't i'll just prove it to you i'll go in the back room and bring out the portrait i did it had the mister jeffrey's cat you just wait here i'd like to know i don't i just can't wait to hear more about your soul in the pussy cat only be a minute but what happened slay maybe we can get help maybe for me not for naught he can't wait that long just been shot to death b now back to boan general our stars ft loan boong Cast his bait and what do you know? When a fish nibbled and yanked on line, Man took a deep breath for very last time. This seems to be the custom of the day, And I will explain exactly what I say. Another fellow who was clever with paint Met a pistol bullet and now he ain't. And I'm just living for the second that LaSalle finds out we were the last ones to have talked to him. And LaSalle will find out, Miss Seelo. You want Slate to hear you. I heard him, Seelo. LaSalle won't play with us this time. This time we're in it good. If I can understand one thing, I wouldn't feel so bad about... Pardon, Signor Shannon. Well, hello, Rico. Glad you're here. Sit down. On matters of urgency, I do not sit. My fiancée, the Signorita Amy Webb, is in difficulty. Her name comes first to the lips of those in Havana who wish to skirt the police, those who have difficulty and cannot discuss it to authorities come to Signor Shannon. This I have heard, and I am willing to pay for the privilege. Now, let's skip the pay, Rico. For now. When Amy came back from a vacation to visit her mother in the estado de unidos in your estado of Iowa, she commenced to be blackmailed. Now, that would fit. I don't know how exactly, but it would fit. And so, a phone call to her. Pay me $20,000 for some information, the man said, about one hour ago. He says to meet him with Mommy at the Arribadero Docks near the Port Agent's Shack at 11. Listen to me, Rico. Tell her to do it. I'll be there. I'll be in the doorway of that Port Agent's Shack. Tell Amy to walk past me. Keep walking back and forth past me. So if anyone approaches her, I'll know it. Yes, yes. And tell her not to talk to me. Above all, she's not to talk to me. No one must know I'm there. Got that? Si, Signor. I'll be there in a minute. I'll be there in a minute. Exactly. You, Rico? See me, oh, my beloved. Here, come in. So formal, Rico, the gentle tap, the polite request. We're going to be married when you're two months old. You're going to be married when I'm two months old. I'm going to be married when you're two months old. We're going to be married, remember? Come in, Si. I've been to Shannon. He has agreed to help you, to give you protection. For money? What does it matter? What matters is that he will hold you from harm. So I'm to go ahead and rub noses with the blackmailer in the dark, huh? You are not to speak to him. You are to make no outcry. You are only to walk. So Shannon will know you are there. He'll know, Si. Slay don't know I'm there. That's all. You didn't buy me anything, a little present, a little hoppy happy? I did not think, Amy. I only... How greedy I am, Si. You gave me, Shannon. What more could I want? Clayton. Clayton, you're there, aren't you? Keep walking, you fool. Don't talk to me. But I'm pregnant. A hundred percent pregnant, Slay. If he sees you talking to me, he'll kill. He's already killed twice. He's got the habit. Walk away. I'm pregnant. No hysterics, kid. It's not the time. Beat it, Amy. Walk. Okay. Here goes a pretty girl. It's him, Clay. It's him. Get him. Get him. You're the guy I want to talk to, buster. I'm coming after you, buster. Slay. Is this lady all right? Yeah. Yeah, I'm all right. Surprised, I guess. Oh, there's blood in your cheek. Bullets do that to my cheek, Amy, when they graze it. Why did you cry out? I told you not to. I'm a girl. Situations like this upset me. Yeah. He got away. You're blackmailed as a buddy of mine, Amy. He's got teeth that shine in the dark. You didn't get Amy's blackmailer. That's why we're going back to that man in the fleabag, huh? Your vision of penance for a deed not done. The guy out of your honor enchanted me. Do you mind? Long ago, Slate, I learned not to mind. Believe me, you. After me, Siver. Hi, Chico. Guess who? Please, underlay, go away. Do not stand and gloat on me. Slate's eager to see you yawn again, Chico. Yawn for the man. Yeah, do that, Chico. Flash the gold. Ten paces if you open your mouth wide. You tarnished my gold by cuspid with my blood, senor. You left a double empty space in the chopper. What more do you want? I got two of your teeth, huh, Chico? Meet a blackmailer, sailor. I spoil it. I mess it. I louse it. Amateurs should not play this game that is murder on teeth. So you fouled up on the blackmail, but you got to kill two men. Matt Jeffrey by poison, Ray Norton by bullet. You've had a busy day, little old Chico. You are both very slap-happy people, no? Sure we are, Chico. I'm gonna slap you right down to police headquarters. That way I'll beat a couple of murders off my shoulders. On your feet, golden boy. Take your hand for my tear-stained jacket and I will explain. Yeah, do that, Chico. Put my hand on this stain here. A letter came from my once-room guest, Matt Jeffrey. After he is deceased, I open it. Picture in it. Blackmailer picture to a man with brains. More brains than to me. So you called Amy Webb. Who else to call? She has had photographs in Havana papers because she will marry a Havana millionaire. Who else to call? Where's the picture? In my beach shack on Red Darrow Beach. The dirtiest one. The painted red and blue. The one in the shakiest stilts under a loose board in the floor. We check you with the police, Chico. Then we check a loose board. Coming, golden boy? He said under a loose board. It would have been easier if he'd said under a tight board. What isn't loose in here? Lift them up, sailor, one by one, till we find the treasure. We're having fun, huh? Hmm, well, what did you say? Oh, I said it's a moonlight night and the sea is bright and I was jolly as can be. What do you think I said? That sounded more like... Hey, I think I... Yeah, I found them, sailor. Blackmail stuff, huh? Let me peek. Huh, Amy in a junior swimsuit, Matt Jeffrey in pin-up shorts, and both leaning against a brand new car. That's all? Take another look. Where are they? Hmm, to me it looks like Miami. I've been to Miami and to me it looks like Miami. Kill me, it is Miami. Yeah, cozy piece of blackmail. That's blackmail to be in my... Slate, quit snapping your gun. That's a rifle, sailor. Someone's trying to kill us. Come on. They're through here, sailor. This back door. Dive into the water. Last one in is a dead duck. See you, Shannon. See you later, Duval. Please come in. Amy told me what happened to your cheeks, sir. I will pay for the scarages. We charge by the footage. Where's Amy? I will get her. Amy? Amy, darling, we have visitors. See you, Shannon. See you later, Duval. I heard Rico say he'd pay you for your scar, Slate. I want to contribute, too. You've touched one inch of that scar, Sis. You'll have a few of your own. I just want to let you two know that I've got this thing wrapped up now. Take a look at this wet picture, Rico. Wet, because when we get a picture like this, we like to swim around with it. Especially when there's someone urging us onward with a rifle. Go on, take a look at it, Rico. Tweaking, isn't it, Rico? Look at it, Amy. I thought you were in Iowa three weeks ago. I told you I was. That means I was. But this picture... It was taken seven years ago in Miami. Matt and I were on the debating society for our college. We went to Miami to debate. Who won, he says. Yeah, tell us about it. You are lying, Amy. This picture was taken recently here. See, in the background. This year's model car. This could not be taken seven years ago. Recently, when you said you were with your mother, you were with Matt Jeffrey. So I went to Miami. So what if I did? So you killed Matt Jeffrey, poisoned him. That's so what if you did. I asked you to throw them out, Rico. Amy, poison them at breakfast. He died on our boat. Matt Jeffrey, blackmailer number one. Murdered man number one. Did Amy kill someone else? All of you, crazy. That little artist, Ray Norton, the man who got hold of one of these pictures. Blackmailer number two. Murdered man number two. Poor Amy. Poor, poor Amy. Because you wanted my wealth. You could have told me, Amy. Crazy. And the blackmail goes on. A hotel clerk who opened Matt's mail. He dreamed up a story, Amy. A good one. Told it to Rico. A story that made it look like the clerk murdered the other two. The guy we're supposed to capture on the waterfront. May be killed. Truly, I am sorry, Amy. Amy, put down that gun. Get out of my way. I'll kill him. Amy, do not. Hey, Amy. Rico. Rico, I didn't mean... It wasn't for you. I wanted... He got in the way, Rico. Rico, you can't die. You can't. It's a gun, Amy. Murdered man number three. I was wrong. I didn't think she'd cry. Yeah, you were wrong. Now go home, sailor. I'll take it from here. Isn't this wonderful, Slate? Sailing along, calm sea, beautiful day. You better head back to Havana. It's gonna rain. You're crazy. We've got a cloud in the sky. It's going to rain. Head back. What makes you think it's going to rain? My new scar, this one on my cheek, it twitches. When this scar acts up, it's gonna rain. How can you tell that? You haven't had that scar long enough. Look, sailor, I got scars all over. One for snow, one for hail, one for hurricane, one for tornado, and one for cloudy. This new one's for rain. It twitches, huh? Yeah. What does this do to it? Keep on doing that, sailor. I'm getting a message. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Snow, rain, hail. Sailor, the bottom's gonna drop out of the barometer tonight. 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. Thank you.
