WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.140 Now listen to me, and never forget it. 00:06.140 --> 00:10.680 Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel it wind up in the gutter of the prison of 00:10.680 --> 00:11.680 the grave. 00:11.680 --> 00:15.440 There's no other end, but they never learn. 00:15.440 --> 00:19.080 It was ugly from the start this time. 00:19.080 --> 00:23.040 Vicious blackmail that mushroomed in a murder and all because a wild artist on a hilltop, 00:23.040 --> 00:27.720 a man in a wheelchair and a red-haired manicurist were held too tight together by one small 00:27.720 --> 00:30.560 ebony link. 00:30.560 --> 00:34.820 From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of mystery, comes his most famous character 00:34.820 --> 00:49.800 and crime's most deadly enemy as we present the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. 00:49.800 --> 00:55.360 Now with Gerald Moore, starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you tonight's exciting story, the 00:55.360 --> 01:07.200 ebony link. 01:07.200 --> 01:09.800 I'd spent a dismal day tracking down another wise guy. 01:09.800 --> 01:15.200 He thought he could see fast money over the sights of a 45, but it winded up like they 01:15.200 --> 01:16.200 all do. 01:16.200 --> 01:20.280 It was flat on his face in an alley, his life dripping into a sewer. 01:20.280 --> 01:25.480 It was what he deserved and the only feeling I got from it was that I wanted a bath bad. 01:25.480 --> 01:29.680 So I went home, but when I stepped out of the elevator and started down the hall, I 01:29.680 --> 01:34.560 knew I'd have to postpone it because leaning on my doorbell was a redhead who looked very 01:34.560 --> 01:40.360 good from a distance, but she lost ground with every step I took because the closer I 01:40.360 --> 01:45.960 got, the more I saw of a mouth shaped by indecision, of eyes that were nothing but masquerade caginess 01:45.960 --> 01:50.800 and shallow green, flashy clothes that carried the kind of bargain basement label you can't 01:50.800 --> 01:51.800 tear off. 01:51.800 --> 01:52.800 Good evening. 01:52.800 --> 01:53.800 Looking for me? 01:53.800 --> 01:55.840 Yes, your private detective named Marlowe. 01:55.840 --> 01:56.840 I am? 01:56.840 --> 01:57.840 Come on in. 01:57.840 --> 01:58.840 Have a chair, Miss. 01:58.840 --> 01:59.840 Johnson, thanks. 01:59.840 --> 02:00.840 What's your difficulty, Miss Johnson? 02:00.840 --> 02:01.840 Oh, it's not me. 02:01.840 --> 02:02.840 It's my sister up in Santa Barbara. 02:02.840 --> 02:09.520 Can you go there right away, 812 Seaview Road? 02:09.520 --> 02:11.600 Maybe you should tell me what it's all about, huh? 02:11.600 --> 02:14.560 Well, she loaned a gentleman friend of hers some money. 02:14.560 --> 02:16.920 Okay, okay, that's enough of the sister act, baby. 02:16.920 --> 02:17.920 What's the gag? 02:17.920 --> 02:18.920 Gag? 02:18.920 --> 02:19.920 I don't think I understand. 02:19.920 --> 02:21.840 Number one, there's no 812 on Seaview Road. 02:21.840 --> 02:23.640 It runs into the ocean at the 600 block. 02:23.640 --> 02:24.640 I know. 02:24.640 --> 02:25.640 I used to live there. 02:25.640 --> 02:30.120 Number two, when picking a phony name, Johnson is the second most popular in the book. 02:30.120 --> 02:34.680 And number three, baby, me hiring out as a patsy of any kind is lousy for my business. 02:34.680 --> 02:35.680 So you better... 02:35.680 --> 02:36.680 Stick him up. 02:36.680 --> 02:37.680 Oh, no. 02:37.680 --> 02:38.680 I mean it. 02:38.680 --> 02:39.680 Then I'll shoot if you follow me. 02:39.680 --> 02:40.680 Okay, kid. 02:40.680 --> 02:41.680 Just don't slam the door on your way out. 02:41.680 --> 02:48.840 She backed out fast, pulling the door closed as she went. 02:48.840 --> 02:52.560 I gave her five seconds head start and then looked in time to see the top of her hat disappearing 02:52.560 --> 02:53.560 down the stairs. 02:53.560 --> 02:57.840 But before I could follow her, the elevator gate slid open and a dapper man with a square 02:57.840 --> 02:59.880 face I'd seen somewhere before hailed me. 02:59.880 --> 03:01.840 Certainly glad I found you, sir. 03:01.840 --> 03:02.840 Remember me? 03:02.840 --> 03:04.160 Ramsey, Mr. Ivan Pack's chauffeur. 03:04.160 --> 03:05.160 Oh, yeah. 03:05.160 --> 03:06.160 He wants to see you, sir. 03:06.160 --> 03:07.160 Says it's very urgent. 03:07.160 --> 03:08.160 Yeah, but I... 03:08.160 --> 03:09.160 Well, no K, Ramsey. 03:09.160 --> 03:10.680 Where's Mr. Pack now? 03:10.680 --> 03:12.640 He's waiting downstairs in the car, sir. 03:12.640 --> 03:13.800 I'll show you. 03:13.800 --> 03:15.560 We tried your office first, but it was locked. 03:15.560 --> 03:17.440 We were afraid you might have gone out of town. 03:17.440 --> 03:18.800 You aren't going, I hope. 03:18.800 --> 03:21.320 No, no, but it was close. 03:21.320 --> 03:23.040 By the way, how is Mr. Pack these days? 03:23.040 --> 03:24.320 Still confined to his wheelchair? 03:24.320 --> 03:25.320 Yes, sir. 03:25.320 --> 03:29.840 But he gets around fairly well with me to help him, of course. 03:29.840 --> 03:31.160 What's the matter, Mr. Marlow? 03:31.160 --> 03:32.160 Looking for someone? 03:32.160 --> 03:33.160 Not exactly, Ramsey. 03:33.160 --> 03:35.760 Chances are she ducked out the back way and still running. 03:35.760 --> 03:38.400 Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. 03:38.400 --> 03:39.400 This way, Mr. Marlow. 03:39.400 --> 03:40.400 Here we are. 03:40.400 --> 03:41.400 Hello, Ivan. 03:41.400 --> 03:42.400 Get in, Marlow. 03:42.400 --> 03:44.040 Thank goodness we found you. 03:44.040 --> 03:46.360 Oh, just drive around the block, Ramsey. 03:46.360 --> 03:47.360 Yes, sir. 03:47.360 --> 03:48.360 He said it was urgent. 03:48.360 --> 03:49.360 Is it really that bad? 03:49.360 --> 03:50.360 Yes, it is. 03:50.360 --> 03:51.800 Roll up the glass there, Marlow. 03:51.800 --> 03:54.240 It's best if even Ramsey doesn't hear this. 03:54.240 --> 03:55.240 Okay. 03:55.240 --> 03:56.240 That's it. 03:56.240 --> 03:58.880 Now, Marlow, I'm being blackmailed again. 03:58.880 --> 03:59.880 Huh? 03:59.880 --> 04:00.880 It happened six months ago for 10,000. 04:00.880 --> 04:01.880 This time it's 50,000. 04:01.880 --> 04:02.880 Brother, what have they got on you, Ivan? 04:02.880 --> 04:03.880 What's the lever? 04:03.880 --> 04:10.280 The lever is that I happen to love my wife, Leona, but I happen to feel as my duty as 04:10.280 --> 04:13.320 a husband to protect her reputation and shield her from heartbreak. 04:13.320 --> 04:14.320 I still don't get it. 04:14.320 --> 04:17.360 Marlow, I tell you this because you're the only person I can trust. 04:17.360 --> 04:21.560 Leona spent a year in prison back east when she was a kid, but that's nothing to be ashamed 04:21.560 --> 04:22.560 of all your life. 04:22.560 --> 04:23.560 I know, I know. 04:23.560 --> 04:24.560 Take it easy. 04:24.560 --> 04:25.560 I'm sorry. 04:25.560 --> 04:28.640 Plently, I can't afford to throw that much money away. 04:28.640 --> 04:33.200 On the other hand, if I don't pay, they threaten to expose Leona as a jailbird. 04:33.200 --> 04:34.720 She couldn't stand that, Marlow. 04:34.720 --> 04:35.880 I know. 04:35.880 --> 04:37.680 She ran away the first time this happened. 04:37.680 --> 04:40.480 She said she wouldn't be that kind of burden to me. 04:40.480 --> 04:44.440 If she finds out about this new demand, she may do something even more desperate. 04:44.440 --> 04:45.720 Blackmail's always tough. 04:45.720 --> 04:46.720 Who's doing it? 04:46.720 --> 04:47.720 I don't know. 04:47.720 --> 04:51.120 More, all we have to go on is this letter. 04:51.120 --> 04:52.120 Let's see it. 04:52.120 --> 04:53.120 Here. 04:53.120 --> 04:54.120 It's got an L.A. postmark. 04:54.120 --> 04:57.320 The stationery is a high grade that doesn't match that cheap envelope. 04:57.320 --> 04:59.960 The top of the page has been cut off, see? 04:59.960 --> 05:00.960 Yeah. 05:00.960 --> 05:02.760 Strange backhand too, huh? 05:02.760 --> 05:05.960 Hey, this demand's a payoff by 12.30 tonight. 05:05.960 --> 05:06.960 Why didn't you give me more time? 05:06.960 --> 05:08.560 I just got the letter this afternoon. 05:08.560 --> 05:09.560 Yeah. 05:09.560 --> 05:11.560 Look, Marlow, I realize what you're up against. 05:11.560 --> 05:13.560 Try, try, will you? 05:13.560 --> 05:14.560 Find out who wrote that letter. 05:14.560 --> 05:15.560 I have two alternatives. 05:15.560 --> 05:16.560 Pay him, kill him. 05:16.560 --> 05:17.560 Well, I'm no killer. 05:17.560 --> 05:18.560 I'll pay if I have to. 05:18.560 --> 05:25.440 But maybe with luck and your help, we can find a soft spot in his armor. 05:25.440 --> 05:26.440 What do you say? 05:26.440 --> 05:28.400 Well, I'll try. 05:28.400 --> 05:36.560 Don't take any bets, Ivan. 05:36.560 --> 05:39.640 Ivan said he'd be in his office all night, then dropped me off at home where I got in 05:39.640 --> 05:43.440 my own car, pulled around a big gray sedan in the driveway and hauled a small sample 05:43.440 --> 05:45.560 of the blackmail stationery into the police lab. 05:45.560 --> 05:48.080 There I got a break. 05:48.080 --> 05:51.280 Boys had it classified in 30 minutes, and after another 30, he handed me the names of 05:51.280 --> 05:54.600 two business houses and 12 hotels in the city that used it. 05:54.600 --> 06:00.120 Too many to check in the time allowed, so I called Ivan Pack and started down the list. 06:00.120 --> 06:02.960 He stopped me at the fourth hotel, which was the Beverly Crest, with the word that his 06:02.960 --> 06:07.720 wife, Leona, had spent a lot of time and money shopping in the hotel's exclusive arcade. 06:07.720 --> 06:12.400 So I drove out to the Beverly Crest, watching a big gray sedan in my rearview mirror most 06:12.400 --> 06:13.400 of the way. 06:13.400 --> 06:17.280 But in the hotel, I killed another hour drawing blanks, even at the writing room blotters, 06:17.280 --> 06:20.800 until on the way out, I got another break. 06:20.800 --> 06:25.080 The beauty shop was closing for the night, and inside, slipping a coat over her manicurist 06:25.080 --> 06:29.760 uniform was a redhead, the same redhead who had tried to sacked-track me to Santa Barbara. 06:29.760 --> 06:34.040 I followed her out of the hotel, and once she got around to the back, I stopped her. 06:34.040 --> 06:35.480 What do you want? 06:35.480 --> 06:37.520 I got curious about your sister, sister. 06:37.520 --> 06:38.520 I don't know what you're talking about. 06:38.520 --> 06:40.760 I don't have a sister, and I never saw you before in my life. 06:40.760 --> 06:41.760 That's wishful thinking, baby. 06:41.760 --> 06:44.760 You can talk here or over a desk at police headquarters, but you're going to talk. 06:44.760 --> 06:45.760 Now, which is it? 06:45.760 --> 06:46.760 Wait a minute, no coffee. 06:46.760 --> 06:47.760 All right. 06:47.760 --> 06:48.760 Okay, Marlo, sure. 06:48.760 --> 06:49.760 I'll talk. 06:49.760 --> 06:52.760 I got a sister in Santa Barbara, all right. 06:52.760 --> 06:53.760 She's a mermaid. 06:53.760 --> 06:57.520 She comes up once a year to fish for seagulls, and she wanted you to bait the hook. 06:57.520 --> 06:58.520 Come on, come on. 06:58.520 --> 06:59.520 I'm not going to straighten it out. 06:59.520 --> 07:01.560 You're smacking the middle of a lot of trouble, and it's getting deeper fast. 07:01.560 --> 07:02.560 Believe me. 07:02.560 --> 07:03.560 No, I'm not, wise guy. 07:03.560 --> 07:04.560 You're in the middle. 07:04.560 --> 07:05.560 In fact, you got trouble right behind you. 07:05.560 --> 07:06.560 Stop. 07:06.560 --> 07:16.920 By the time I had untangled from the ashcans, all I could see was the back of a big gray 07:16.920 --> 07:22.240 sedan taking a corner so fast, I only caught the last three numbers of his tag, 440. 07:22.240 --> 07:29.040 But as I stood up and dusted myself off, I saw something black and shiny. 07:29.040 --> 07:31.800 It was a five-sided ebony cuff link. 07:31.800 --> 07:35.120 I dropped it in my pocket as I went inside the hotel again. 07:35.120 --> 07:39.240 A fiver to a bellhop got me the manicurist's real name, Rhea Fleming. 07:39.240 --> 07:43.560 But even a ten-spot failed to raise her address, so I called my client again, tried Rhea's 07:43.560 --> 07:44.560 name on him. 07:44.560 --> 07:48.280 When that missed, I asked permission to go and see Leona about it. 07:48.280 --> 07:52.480 That got me 60 seconds of argument, 10 of dead silence, and finally a very reluctant 07:52.480 --> 07:53.480 okay from Ivan. 07:53.480 --> 07:58.600 20 minutes later, I pulled up at 94 Camden Drive in front of a house sprawling in Spanish 07:58.600 --> 08:00.600 that was home to Ivan and Leona Pack. 08:00.600 --> 08:06.080 And the delicate dark girl with the shy gray eyes who answered the door was Leona herself. 08:06.080 --> 08:07.080 Yes? 08:07.080 --> 08:12.680 I'm Philip Marlow, Miss Aquia Credit Adjusters, Mrs. Pack, and told you patronize a manicurist, 08:12.680 --> 08:15.160 Miss Rhea Fleming at the Beverly Crest Hotel? 08:15.160 --> 08:17.160 Why, yes, occasionally. 08:17.160 --> 08:18.760 Is anything wrong? 08:18.760 --> 08:21.600 Oh, no, no, nothing serious at all. 08:21.600 --> 08:22.600 May I come in? 08:22.600 --> 08:23.600 Oh, of course. 08:23.600 --> 08:25.200 I'd like to ask you a few questions about Miss Fleming. 08:25.200 --> 08:28.240 Well, I really don't know her very well. 08:28.240 --> 08:29.920 Oh, I understand that. 08:29.920 --> 08:31.400 But you might know where she lives, for instance, huh? 08:31.400 --> 08:37.080 Well, I did happen to drop her off one evening at the corner of Sunset and Mariposa, I think. 08:37.080 --> 08:38.080 Won't you sit down, Mr. Marlow? 08:38.080 --> 08:39.080 Oh, thanks. 08:39.080 --> 08:41.720 Where did she live before she came to Los Angeles? 08:41.720 --> 08:43.320 I have no idea. 08:43.320 --> 08:44.320 You don't? 08:44.320 --> 08:47.480 Do you happen to know if she writes in a heavy angular backhand? 08:47.480 --> 08:48.480 A heavy... 08:48.480 --> 08:53.240 Mr. Marlow, may I see your credentials? 08:53.240 --> 08:55.240 Why, of course, if you wish. 08:55.240 --> 08:57.240 No, don't bother. 08:57.240 --> 09:00.040 It happened again, hasn't it? 09:00.040 --> 09:02.040 Ivan's received another letter and I'm... 09:02.040 --> 09:04.360 Who are you, really? 09:04.360 --> 09:06.360 Private detective working for Ivan? 09:06.360 --> 09:09.600 Oh, that's a cheap trick, I admit it. 09:09.600 --> 09:11.600 But we wanted to keep this from you, Leona. 09:11.600 --> 09:12.600 I won't let it happen to her. 09:12.600 --> 09:15.040 Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, listen to me. 09:15.040 --> 09:16.760 Ivan's doing everything possible to stop this business. 09:16.760 --> 09:18.560 Now, give us a chance. 09:18.560 --> 09:19.560 You're running away now. 09:19.560 --> 09:21.000 It would be the worst thing you could do to it. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.040 That's so terribly unfair, Marlow. 09:23.040 --> 09:26.000 We're on your side, don't you understand that? 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 And you're in a position to help us, if you will. 09:28.000 --> 09:31.000 Marlow, is it... is it Rhea Fleming? 09:31.000 --> 09:33.200 Well, she's in on it, but not alone. 09:33.200 --> 09:34.680 She doesn't have the brains. 09:34.680 --> 09:37.880 But whoever is behind it belongs to this ebony cuff link. 09:37.880 --> 09:40.240 Ever see it before, Leona? 09:40.240 --> 09:41.240 Think hard. 09:41.240 --> 09:42.240 No. 09:42.240 --> 09:43.240 No, I haven't. 09:43.240 --> 09:44.240 Oh, it's too bad. 09:44.240 --> 09:48.640 Well, do you happen to know anybody who drives a big gray sedan? 09:48.640 --> 09:50.840 The license number ends in 440. 09:50.840 --> 09:51.840 There might be Bruce Moracek. 09:51.840 --> 09:52.840 Moracek, who's he? 09:52.840 --> 09:55.880 An artist, Ivan hired to do a portrait of me. 09:55.880 --> 09:57.480 Pictures and finished yet may never be. 09:57.480 --> 10:00.320 Bruce is too temperamental and exacting. 10:00.320 --> 10:01.760 Why did you ask about him, Marlow? 10:01.760 --> 10:04.800 Well, because I've been tailed by a gray sedan since I first started in this mess. 10:04.800 --> 10:05.800 Oh, it couldn't be Bruce. 10:05.800 --> 10:06.800 I'm sure of that. 10:06.800 --> 10:07.800 Well, we'll see. 10:07.800 --> 10:12.040 And Leona, until you hear from me again, promise you won't do anything rash, huh? 10:12.040 --> 10:13.040 Where are you going now, Marlow? 10:13.040 --> 10:14.680 Put some pressure on Rhea Fleming. 10:14.680 --> 10:18.520 Her character has all the sterling qualities of mud pie, and I think she'll crack just 10:18.520 --> 10:19.520 as easily. 10:19.520 --> 10:20.520 So long, Leona. 10:20.520 --> 10:21.520 I'll call you. 10:21.520 --> 10:26.880 In spite of what Leona had said, I still thought there might be more to Bruce Moracek than ever 10:26.880 --> 10:27.880 got on canvas. 10:27.880 --> 10:32.400 When I was out of the house and halfway to my car, I knew I'd have a chance to find out 10:32.400 --> 10:35.880 because across the street, a door flew open on a big gray sedan. 10:35.880 --> 10:40.520 Better than six feet of swarthy, but a handsome man clambered out and rushed toward me. 10:40.520 --> 10:44.680 It wasn't the lock of black wavy hair that dangled dashingly over one eye, but the fact 10:44.680 --> 10:47.040 that his hands were curled into very large fists. 10:47.040 --> 10:51.120 It gave me a definite demoross feeling about him, and the closer he got, the more certain 10:51.120 --> 10:53.160 I was that I'd have to let him have it first. 10:53.160 --> 10:55.760 And when he got within reach, I did just that. 10:55.760 --> 10:58.800 And while you're thinking that one over, chum, try this. 10:58.800 --> 11:00.600 How long have you had on that polo shirt? 11:00.600 --> 11:01.600 Speak up. 11:01.600 --> 11:02.600 All day. 11:02.600 --> 11:03.600 Confound you. 11:03.600 --> 11:06.680 But you don't have to knock me down to find that out, you idiot. 11:06.680 --> 11:08.760 No, it was faster that way, and I'm not through yet. 11:08.760 --> 11:10.360 You've been tagging me all night, and I don't like it. 11:10.360 --> 11:11.360 Now come. 11:11.360 --> 11:12.360 You wouldn't understand. 11:12.360 --> 11:13.360 Try me. 11:13.360 --> 11:14.360 Come on. 11:14.360 --> 11:15.360 I haven't got much time. 11:15.360 --> 11:16.360 All right, all right. 11:16.360 --> 11:17.360 Until yesterday, I was working on a portrait of Mrs. Pack. 11:17.360 --> 11:18.360 Yeah? 11:18.360 --> 11:22.080 She's an exquisite subject, but I quit because it became impossible. 11:22.080 --> 11:26.000 She's being so upset by something or someone, she doesn't even look like the same person 11:26.000 --> 11:27.120 from one day to the next. 11:27.120 --> 11:29.520 And that's supposed to explain why you've been tailing me all over town? 11:29.520 --> 11:32.400 I told you, you wouldn't understand. 11:32.400 --> 11:34.360 A portrait artist is not only a painter. 11:34.360 --> 11:35.360 He isn't, huh? 11:35.360 --> 11:39.880 He must be a psychologist, a doctor, even a detective, if necessary, when his subject's 11:39.880 --> 11:42.240 beauty is being destroyed before his eyes. 11:42.240 --> 11:43.240 Oh, come on. 11:43.240 --> 11:44.240 It's true. 11:44.240 --> 11:49.560 So I followed Mr. Pack to you and you to the Beverly Crest Hotel because you are up to something. 11:49.560 --> 11:50.560 I want to know about it. 11:50.560 --> 11:54.200 Naturally, it wasn't you who put the slug on me at the hotel, huh? 11:54.200 --> 11:55.200 The what? 11:55.200 --> 11:56.200 The slug. 11:56.200 --> 11:57.200 Slug. 11:57.200 --> 11:58.200 No, no, no. 11:58.200 --> 12:01.240 I saw you walk around to the back, but the time I got there, a car was driving off. 12:01.240 --> 12:03.800 I thought you were in it, so I tried to follow, but I lost it. 12:03.800 --> 12:04.800 And then I came up here. 12:04.800 --> 12:08.520 Well, let me tell you something, Morochec, for your own good and your subjects. 12:08.520 --> 12:10.960 If you're on the level, go home, and if you're not on the level, brother, you better get 12:10.960 --> 12:12.440 out of town while you still can. 12:12.440 --> 12:13.440 Good night. 12:13.440 --> 12:20.120 I looked back just before I turned the corner and Morochec was still standing where I'd left 12:20.120 --> 12:21.120 him. 12:21.120 --> 12:24.280 So I drove out to Sunset and down to Mariposa where I parked and started walking. 12:24.280 --> 12:28.440 And while I was more than an hour ringing doorbells, interviewing kids, husbands, and 12:28.440 --> 12:32.280 homemakers, and running down false leads before I finally found the mailbox labeled, 12:32.280 --> 12:36.680 Rhea Fleming, Rhea, and a brown stucco two blocks out. 12:36.680 --> 12:40.920 I hacked my way through the underbrush hugging the front house to a converted guest car 12:40.920 --> 12:41.920 in the back, number 8811. 12:41.920 --> 12:42.920 I didn't bother to knock. 12:42.920 --> 12:43.920 I just walked in. 12:43.920 --> 12:46.920 Hey, darling, I was beginning to think you'd never get... 12:46.920 --> 12:47.920 Milo, get out. 12:47.920 --> 12:52.520 Get out of here or I'll scream. 12:52.520 --> 12:53.520 I scream louder. 12:53.520 --> 12:55.120 Who's the boyfriend you're expecting, Rhea? 12:55.120 --> 12:56.120 I don't have a boyfriend. 12:56.120 --> 12:59.160 It wasn't your grandfather that piled me up at the hotel tonight, baby. 12:59.160 --> 13:00.160 It's your last chance. 13:00.160 --> 13:01.160 Who was it? 13:01.160 --> 13:03.280 I don't seem to recall the incident you refer to, Moro. 13:03.280 --> 13:06.120 Now listen, jerk, you're in a rotten blackmailing game right up your earrings. 13:06.120 --> 13:07.840 And what's more, your extortion letter went through the mail. 13:07.840 --> 13:08.840 Did you get that? 13:08.840 --> 13:09.840 That's a federal rap. 13:09.840 --> 13:10.840 You can't beat it. 13:10.840 --> 13:13.880 I'm going to see that you don't because I'm sick and tired of fooling with you. 13:13.880 --> 13:16.160 You're too stupid to realize when you're licked. 13:16.160 --> 13:17.840 I didn't know that, Marlo. 13:17.840 --> 13:18.840 Who are you calling? 13:18.840 --> 13:19.840 Cops, of course. 13:19.840 --> 13:20.840 I'm through. 13:20.840 --> 13:21.840 I'm putting you out of circulation right now. 13:21.840 --> 13:22.840 No, wait. 13:22.840 --> 13:23.840 Don't do that. 13:23.840 --> 13:24.840 I'll tell you who's with me. 13:24.840 --> 13:25.840 Okay. 13:25.840 --> 13:26.840 No, I can't. 13:26.840 --> 13:27.840 Rhea, come back here, you fool. 13:27.840 --> 13:28.840 No, no, no, no, no. 13:28.840 --> 13:29.840 Rhea. 13:29.840 --> 13:30.840 Holy smoke. 13:30.840 --> 13:31.840 I'm sorry. 13:31.840 --> 13:32.840 I'm sorry. 13:32.840 --> 13:33.840 I'm sorry. 13:33.840 --> 13:34.840 I'm sorry. 13:34.840 --> 13:35.840 I'm sorry. 13:35.840 --> 13:36.840 I'm sorry. 13:36.840 --> 13:37.840 Smoke. 13:37.840 --> 13:38.840 Rhea. 13:38.840 --> 13:39.840 Rhea, who was it? 13:39.840 --> 13:40.840 Who did this? 13:40.840 --> 13:43.560 I didn't think it would go this far. 13:43.560 --> 13:48.920 I just didn't realize. 13:48.920 --> 13:51.060 I... 13:51.060 --> 13:58.420 No, I guess you didn't, baby. 13:58.420 --> 14:12.500 In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe. 14:12.500 --> 14:17.340 But first, if you like the weather here, cloudy with threats, torrid with action, showers 14:17.340 --> 14:22.000 of trouble later tonight and tomorrow, you'll find more of the same on Sundays when Danny 14:22.000 --> 14:25.340 Clover and Sam Spade go into action. 14:25.340 --> 14:30.340 Danny Clover is the thoroughly human fast-thinking detective of Broadway is My Beat and Sam 14:30.340 --> 14:36.820 Spade is the, well, who else but the Sam Spade of Dashiell Hammett's fertile, ingenious brain. 14:36.820 --> 14:41.220 On most of these same CBS stations tomorrow, you'll find Danny Clover prowling the Great 14:41.220 --> 14:46.940 White Way late in the afternoon and Sam Spade on the hunt in the evening. 14:46.940 --> 14:50.980 Now with our star, Gerald Moore, we return to the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's 14:50.980 --> 14:56.780 story, The Ebony Link. 14:56.780 --> 15:08.220 As Rhea Fleming's face relaxed in death, the gaping frightened people who make up every 15:08.220 --> 15:10.260 street scene began to gather. 15:10.260 --> 15:13.940 As each newcomer timidly edged forward and then caught his breath at the sight of the 15:13.940 --> 15:19.540 dead girl and in a small, tight voice asked whoever was standing next to him what had 15:19.540 --> 15:23.060 happened, only one thought kept running through my mind. 15:23.060 --> 15:27.380 The owner's blackmailer and the murderer of Rhea were one and the same. 15:27.380 --> 15:30.700 So leaving my car with an old, toothless biddy who demanded to know why I was running away 15:30.700 --> 15:35.180 before the police arrived, I piled into my car and headed for Ivan Paak's office on La 15:35.180 --> 15:36.180 Brea. 15:36.180 --> 15:39.380 I pulled to a stop just to the chauffeur named Ramsey, darted out of the building and into 15:39.380 --> 15:42.260 the family limousine, parked at the curb and pulled away fast. 15:42.260 --> 15:46.020 But since Paak was the man I wanted to see, I dismissed the thought of a not so merry 15:46.020 --> 15:49.380 chase, went to the door and knocked. 15:49.380 --> 15:52.780 Five minutes went by before my client wheeled himself out of an inner cubby hole and opened 15:52.780 --> 15:53.780 up. 15:53.780 --> 15:57.540 And another five while I brought him up to date, blow by blow, the redhead's violent 15:57.540 --> 15:58.540 death included. 15:58.540 --> 15:59.540 Murdered Marlow? 15:59.540 --> 16:00.540 Yeah. 16:00.540 --> 16:04.460 And for my money, the noose fits whoever she's working for, who is also the party that dropped 16:04.460 --> 16:08.900 me in the alley behind the Beverly Crest Hotel and this ebony cufflink and doing it. 16:08.900 --> 16:09.900 Ever see it before? 16:09.900 --> 16:11.900 Why no, no I haven't. 16:11.900 --> 16:13.940 You sure, Ivan? 16:13.940 --> 16:17.380 Sure it wasn't once holding a lot of fancy shirt together for one Mr. Morocheck maybe? 16:17.380 --> 16:18.380 Bruce? 16:18.380 --> 16:19.380 Why him Marlow? 16:19.380 --> 16:21.380 Cause he's been tagging me all night. 16:21.380 --> 16:23.980 Say tell me Ivan, how well do you know him? 16:23.980 --> 16:26.380 I met him about six or seven months ago at my club. 16:26.380 --> 16:28.500 I don't remember who introduced us. 16:28.500 --> 16:29.660 Yeah well that fits. 16:29.660 --> 16:32.260 A blackmail started just about that time. 16:32.260 --> 16:36.580 Now look, just to make it a little tighter all the way around, you can't recall who recommended 16:36.580 --> 16:39.580 him to you as just the right man to paint Lee on his picture can you? 16:39.580 --> 16:40.580 No I can't. 16:40.580 --> 16:41.580 Uh huh. 16:41.580 --> 16:44.660 But on the other hand Marlow, neither can I recall having heard anything bad about him. 16:44.660 --> 16:45.660 No. 16:45.660 --> 16:47.140 Now look, you say he's been following you all night. 16:47.140 --> 16:48.420 Just enough to do a time step. 16:48.420 --> 16:49.420 What are you getting at? 16:49.420 --> 16:50.420 Just this. 16:50.420 --> 16:52.940 Was he around the place where the girl was killed? 16:52.940 --> 16:55.940 Well, to my knowledge no. 16:55.940 --> 16:59.860 But that shouldn't mean too much because the murder happened after we had our little run-in. 16:59.860 --> 17:01.980 So he'd naturally be careful about my seeing him. 17:01.980 --> 17:02.980 Well. 17:02.980 --> 17:05.900 Besides Ivan he was going to commit murder so it's as since you'd arrive and depart from 17:05.900 --> 17:08.540 8811 Mariposa without fanfare and I... 17:08.540 --> 17:09.540 Mariposa? 17:09.540 --> 17:10.540 8811 Mariposa Marlow? 17:10.540 --> 17:11.540 Yeah. 17:11.540 --> 17:13.980 But that's the address I just saw on a slip of paper in Ramsey's desk. 17:13.980 --> 17:15.380 There was a phone number too. 17:15.380 --> 17:17.820 Wait a minute, your chauffeur's Rhea Fleming's address? 17:17.820 --> 17:18.820 Yes. 17:18.820 --> 17:19.820 Here get hold of my wheelchair. 17:19.820 --> 17:20.820 Sure. 17:20.820 --> 17:23.740 It's that far desk there just inside that partition. 17:23.740 --> 17:26.300 You know Ivan when I pulled up outside here I saw Ramsey leave. 17:26.300 --> 17:27.300 You know where he was going? 17:27.300 --> 17:28.300 Yes he was going to dinner. 17:28.300 --> 17:29.300 Hmm. 17:29.300 --> 17:31.900 Unless he hadn't eaten in five years I don't think that's where he was going. 17:31.900 --> 17:33.700 He lurched from the curb like it was on fire. 17:33.700 --> 17:36.140 Here you are Marlow, the top drawer on the right. 17:36.140 --> 17:37.140 Forward the bank. 17:37.140 --> 17:38.140 I see it. 17:38.140 --> 17:39.140 Yeah. 17:39.140 --> 17:41.420 8811 Mariposa, all right. 17:41.420 --> 17:46.140 Phone number and nothing else except...except this. 17:46.140 --> 17:47.140 What did you find Marlow? 17:47.140 --> 17:50.780 A cuff link Ivan, twin to the one in my pocket. 17:50.780 --> 17:52.900 And maybe a murderer who isn't named Marochech. 17:52.900 --> 17:53.900 You mean Ramsey? 17:53.900 --> 17:54.900 Yeah. 17:54.900 --> 17:55.900 Oh no, no that couldn't be. 17:55.900 --> 17:56.900 Why not? 17:56.900 --> 17:59.340 Ramsey's been here with me for the past two hours. 17:59.340 --> 18:03.260 So you mustn't discount Marochech or anyone else just because of this cuff link in the 18:03.260 --> 18:04.260 address. 18:04.260 --> 18:05.260 Well in that case no. 18:05.260 --> 18:09.260 But I can't include Ramsey along with the late Miss Fleming as at least one accomplice 18:09.260 --> 18:11.660 on what's fast getting to be a very elaborate setup. 18:11.660 --> 18:13.660 Ivan, do you know where Marochech lives? 18:13.660 --> 18:14.900 Yes, at his studio. 18:14.900 --> 18:17.140 Look out Mountain Road just off Laurel Canyon Boulevard. 18:17.140 --> 18:18.140 Laurel Canyon. 18:18.140 --> 18:21.220 I don't know the exact address but you ought to be able to get that from Leona. 18:21.220 --> 18:22.220 Yeah. 18:22.220 --> 18:26.220 Well I'll get in touch with you later Ivan. 18:26.220 --> 18:29.220 Hello? 18:29.220 --> 18:34.620 Marlow, Leona. 18:34.620 --> 18:41.180 Now listen hard, did Bruce Marochech come up to see you after I left? 18:41.180 --> 18:42.180 Yes he did. 18:42.180 --> 18:43.180 What did he say? 18:43.180 --> 18:46.420 Well only that he'd collided with you on the stairs and that he wanted to know who you were, 18:46.420 --> 18:47.700 what business you had with me. 18:47.700 --> 18:48.700 Just tell him? 18:48.700 --> 18:49.700 Of course not. 18:49.700 --> 18:50.700 I wouldn't tell anybody anything about this. 18:50.700 --> 18:51.700 He didn't like that, huh? 18:51.700 --> 18:54.140 No, as a matter of fact that's the reason he went home. 18:54.140 --> 18:55.140 Right away? 18:55.140 --> 18:56.140 Within five minutes. 18:56.140 --> 19:00.140 He said he was going back to his studio and he'd be there all night if I needed any protection. 19:00.140 --> 19:01.140 But why? 19:01.140 --> 19:03.420 Is it because of something you found out at Ria's place? 19:03.420 --> 19:05.580 No it runs the other way, it's what I didn't find out. 19:05.580 --> 19:06.580 She was murdered Leona. 19:06.580 --> 19:07.580 She was... 19:07.580 --> 19:08.580 Ria? 19:08.580 --> 19:11.100 Who could have done it Phil? 19:11.100 --> 19:12.780 Whoever's blackmailing you I'm positive. 19:12.780 --> 19:14.820 But whether or not that's Marochech I don't know yet. 19:14.820 --> 19:17.700 Now look, what's the number of his place on Lookout Mountain Road Leona? 19:17.700 --> 19:18.700 Come on fast. 19:18.700 --> 19:19.700 173. 19:19.700 --> 19:20.700 173. 19:20.700 --> 19:27.700 Thank you and goodbye. 19:27.700 --> 19:30.780 I was twenty minutes wriggling through the thick Hollywood traffic to Laurel Canyon then 19:30.780 --> 19:34.380 another ten climbing Lookout Mountain Road which was an abrupt spiral of macadam that 19:34.380 --> 19:35.380 belonged in the Alps. 19:35.380 --> 19:40.300 So when I parked away from the bay window with Ruth that was numbered 173 and started 19:40.300 --> 19:43.940 up through the junior jungle that led to the front door it was exactly ten o'clock. 19:43.940 --> 19:48.020 And considering the zest of my last meeting with the artist a good time for me to be careful. 19:48.020 --> 19:52.500 So when I knocked on the heavy oak that showed splashes of yellow at the threshold I did 19:52.500 --> 19:54.180 it with a barrel of my 38. 19:54.180 --> 19:57.100 When I got no answer I tried again, louder. 19:57.100 --> 20:02.340 It was then that Marochech replied but not as I had expected because he was behind me 20:02.340 --> 20:05.340 and his greeting was a fist the size of a cannonball coming at the side of my head 20:05.340 --> 20:06.340 fast. 20:06.340 --> 20:13.340 And now Maro I'll take your gun here and if I have to use it I will. 20:13.340 --> 20:15.100 No doubt it worked before. 20:15.100 --> 20:16.960 What are you talking about? 20:16.960 --> 20:17.960 Come on Buster get off it. 20:17.960 --> 20:18.960 You act like a paint. 20:18.960 --> 20:19.960 Let's not waste each other's time. 20:19.960 --> 20:24.620 All right then inside Maro where we can get to the point fast and in privacy. 20:24.620 --> 20:25.620 Go on. 20:25.620 --> 20:26.620 All right. 20:26.620 --> 20:32.860 Detective I don't know what you want here but I'm going to find out believe me. 20:32.860 --> 20:36.180 You can skip the thumb screws Rembrandt I'll make it very plain for you. 20:36.180 --> 20:39.380 I want to know why you think you can get away with a doubleheader like blackmailing Leona 20:39.380 --> 20:41.140 and murdering your own accomplice. 20:41.140 --> 20:42.140 Any comment? 20:42.140 --> 20:44.220 Yes you're either stupid or a raving maniac. 20:44.220 --> 20:45.220 Now listen Marochech. 20:45.220 --> 20:46.220 No no you listen to me. 20:46.220 --> 20:49.980 Leona Peck is a good friend of mine Maro I'm very fond of her I'm not going to stand here 20:49.980 --> 20:51.740 and be accused of blackmailing her. 20:51.740 --> 20:55.300 And I suppose that talk of murder at 8811 Mariposa also offends her. 20:55.300 --> 20:56.300 It does. 20:56.300 --> 21:00.420 And until you mention it Maro I didn't even know Leona's trouble was blackmail. 21:00.420 --> 21:04.380 And as for a murder I think that's something of a Mariposa I have been here painting since 21:04.380 --> 21:05.540 I last saw you. 21:05.540 --> 21:07.020 Which who will swear to? 21:07.020 --> 21:08.020 Nobody. 21:08.020 --> 21:09.020 Ah. 21:09.020 --> 21:13.260 But if you will step over here you can see that this canvas is fresh. 21:13.260 --> 21:14.260 It was my chance. 21:14.260 --> 21:18.300 The second he got in front of his canvas he forgot he was holding my 38 in his hand. 21:18.300 --> 21:21.740 And as he talked he pointed with the barrel like it was a paintbrush. 21:21.740 --> 21:24.820 When I was close to him and my right foot was against one leg of the easel the time 21:24.820 --> 21:25.820 was ripe. 21:25.820 --> 21:26.820 Satisfied? 21:26.820 --> 21:27.820 Not quite. 21:27.820 --> 21:32.140 Mr. Marochech now since I'll also use this gun if I have to get up. 21:32.140 --> 21:34.300 Stand over there against that wall. 21:34.300 --> 21:35.300 Come on. 21:35.300 --> 21:37.780 You're going to get a chance to tell that story again Bruce Boy but this time to the 21:37.780 --> 21:38.780 police and I. 21:38.780 --> 21:39.780 Hey hey Marochech. 21:39.780 --> 21:40.780 What? 21:40.780 --> 21:41.780 That painting there. 21:41.780 --> 21:42.780 That's Leona right? 21:42.780 --> 21:48.860 Of course that's Leona does it look like a battleship? 21:48.860 --> 21:49.860 No comment. 21:49.860 --> 21:54.540 But also Marochech it looks like a lot more and by that I mean the answer to who's both 21:54.540 --> 21:57.660 the blackmailer of Leona and Rhea Fleming's killer. 21:57.660 --> 21:59.620 Now I think I know. 21:59.620 --> 22:01.540 Apologies and farewell buster. 22:01.540 --> 22:02.540 You're nothing worse than a sucker. 22:02.540 --> 22:04.940 But Marlo I don't understand where are you going? 22:04.940 --> 22:05.940 To Leona's place. 22:05.940 --> 22:09.140 Friend Ramsey is due there at the moment and that may mean murder again. 22:09.140 --> 22:16.700 So long Rembrandt. 22:16.700 --> 22:19.980 Once I was off the mountain back on the Laurel Canyon then over the sunset and pointed toward 22:19.980 --> 22:22.460 Beverly Hills and Leona's house on Camden Drive. 22:22.460 --> 22:27.180 I kept my right foot heavy on the accelerator and my mind working just as fast because no 22:27.180 --> 22:31.740 matter which way I added things I was still basing a lot on a little and a few important 22:31.740 --> 22:34.620 points shy of figuring the whole deal. 22:34.620 --> 22:38.820 Five minutes later when I was parked and walking toward the door of number 94 nothing was any 22:38.820 --> 22:39.820 clearer. 22:39.820 --> 22:44.260 But then it didn't seem to matter because I glanced in a side window as I reached for 22:44.260 --> 22:45.260 the doorbell. 22:45.260 --> 22:49.300 I saw Leona sitting alone on the edge of the couch like it was going to blow up any minute. 22:49.300 --> 22:53.060 A face which was frozen in the half crazed expression of the condemned man watching his 22:53.060 --> 22:58.420 executioner sharpen an axe told me that brother Ramsey was already present and probably out 22:58.420 --> 23:01.140 of my view with at least a gun in his hand. 23:01.140 --> 23:05.660 But since I'd gone this far and what I knew to be a very sorry case I decided to play 23:05.660 --> 23:08.540 a chin out and hand tight over 38 in pocket. 23:08.540 --> 23:11.060 Who is it? 23:11.060 --> 23:12.060 It's me Leona Marlo. 23:12.060 --> 23:16.060 Oh one minute Marlo I look aside. 23:16.060 --> 23:18.060 Not a bad one though. 23:18.060 --> 23:19.060 Alone? 23:19.060 --> 23:20.060 Yes. 23:20.060 --> 23:22.260 Yes come in won't you I've been expecting you. 23:22.260 --> 23:23.260 Oh. 23:23.260 --> 23:25.740 Well I just left more a check Leona. 23:25.740 --> 23:28.180 I was wrong about him being your blackmailer I mean. 23:28.180 --> 23:31.900 Of course you were that's what I tried to tell you on the phone Phil. 23:31.900 --> 23:32.900 What finally convinced you? 23:32.900 --> 23:33.900 A picture. 23:33.900 --> 23:37.420 You mind if I sit down I've been doing a lot of running around tonight. 23:37.420 --> 23:38.420 Of course. 23:38.420 --> 23:41.420 What picture Phil? 23:41.420 --> 23:44.100 Oh the one he did of you. 23:44.100 --> 23:45.540 I can't say much for it though. 23:45.540 --> 23:48.700 No it isn't too good is it? 23:48.700 --> 23:51.620 How'd it tell me the boy genius wasn't it? 23:51.620 --> 23:53.500 Yes I'm interested. 23:53.500 --> 23:55.820 Oh you should be Leona. 23:55.820 --> 23:58.060 It was a blouse you had on remember? 23:58.060 --> 24:00.300 A white one with cufflinks. 24:00.300 --> 24:01.300 Cufflinks? 24:01.300 --> 24:04.280 Mm hmm ebony ones like this. 24:04.280 --> 24:06.660 When I showed you when I was here earlier. 24:06.660 --> 24:08.580 One you said you didn't recognize. 24:08.580 --> 24:11.940 The one out of this set you must have given Ramsey as a present after Bruce Morocheck 24:11.940 --> 24:13.780 was through painting your picture. 24:13.780 --> 24:17.500 The one that says the blackmailer of Mr. Ivan Pak is you Mrs. Ivan Pak. 24:17.500 --> 24:18.500 No. 24:18.500 --> 24:19.500 You're not Rhea Fleming too. 24:19.500 --> 24:20.500 No no you're wrong Marlow. 24:20.500 --> 24:21.500 Why would I kill Rhea? 24:21.500 --> 24:24.820 For the same reason you denied recognizing the cufflink you didn't want me to get to 24:24.820 --> 24:28.100 Ramsey so you killed Rhea before she could name him when I was at the cottage. 24:28.100 --> 24:30.780 And then you still couldn't get me to Ramsey because if I pressured him enough I'd have 24:30.780 --> 24:32.980 to find out his game was cutting in on you. 24:32.980 --> 24:34.460 Because he knew you were blackmailing yourself. 24:34.460 --> 24:35.460 I heard enough. 24:35.460 --> 24:39.580 You're smart Marlow very smart but how do you think you're going to prove all this? 24:39.580 --> 24:40.580 Oh answer me. 24:40.580 --> 24:44.100 Alright Ramsey figured you killed his girlfriend Rhea we sent him flying up here from Ivan's 24:44.100 --> 24:46.860 office to demand a bigger cut or maybe all of the fifty grand. 24:46.860 --> 24:48.740 I don't know anything about it. 24:48.740 --> 24:50.100 Now that you've graduated from blackmailer murder I've been waiting and watching to 24:50.100 --> 24:51.100 him to make a move. 24:51.100 --> 24:52.100 You're wrong Marlow you're wrong. 24:52.100 --> 24:55.660 But if he hasn't Leona he must be dead here in this house probably in this room. 24:55.660 --> 24:57.780 And that Mrs. Pak you won't be able to explain away. 24:57.780 --> 24:58.780 Now where is he? 24:58.780 --> 24:59.780 Where is Leona? 24:59.780 --> 25:00.780 He's there Marlow. 25:00.780 --> 25:01.780 Behind the couch. 25:01.780 --> 25:24.340 I called Ivan Pak and told him he wouldn't have to pay the blackmail money and why. 25:24.340 --> 25:28.460 It was a long silence before he said goodbye and I went to police headquarters where an 25:28.460 --> 25:33.100 uncomfortable hour and a half went by before homicide was satisfied and Leona had signed 25:33.100 --> 25:34.100 a complete confession. 25:34.100 --> 25:38.380 So by the time I got over to my client's office on La Brea where I knew I had to go it was 25:38.380 --> 25:39.740 almost twelve thirty. 25:39.740 --> 25:42.300 The hour originally set for pay off. 25:42.300 --> 25:46.140 When I was inside and sitting next to the man in the wheelchair whose watered eyes never 25:46.140 --> 25:50.020 left my face it was exactly that straight up and down. 25:50.020 --> 25:53.900 A little clock in the corner of the room said so. 25:53.900 --> 25:59.020 General Marlow I just saved fifty thousand dollars didn't I? 25:59.020 --> 26:00.780 Maybe a little more than that Ivan. 26:00.780 --> 26:02.780 Maybe on happiness for years to come huh? 26:02.780 --> 26:04.780 Yes yes I suppose so. 26:04.780 --> 26:06.900 Leona wanted two things Ivan. 26:06.900 --> 26:09.060 Your dough and Bruce Morocheck. 26:09.060 --> 26:10.060 She didn't get either one. 26:10.060 --> 26:13.180 The ten grand you paid the first time and the money she was going to get tonight would 26:13.180 --> 26:16.180 have been a bait to catch a starving artist. 26:16.180 --> 26:19.500 I was wrong about him he wasn't interested except as an artist. 26:19.500 --> 26:22.980 Had you a chauffeur and your wife's manicurist knew enough between them to try to get a piece 26:22.980 --> 26:24.420 of that dough for themselves. 26:24.420 --> 26:26.460 Yes I owe you a lot Marlow. 26:26.460 --> 26:31.860 After all I just said I saved fifty thousand dollars didn't I? 26:31.860 --> 26:35.300 Even though I lost a wife. 26:35.300 --> 26:36.300 Good night Marlow. 26:36.300 --> 26:39.300 I'll talk to you tomorrow. 26:39.300 --> 26:40.300 Sure. 26:40.300 --> 26:48.580 Good night Ivan. 26:48.580 --> 26:52.060 Outside the night air was clear. 26:52.060 --> 26:53.060 It was cold. 26:53.060 --> 26:58.380 It felt good against my face so when I got to where my car was parked I didn't get in 26:58.380 --> 27:00.300 right away but stood next to it. 27:00.300 --> 27:02.460 What about Ivan Pack? 27:02.460 --> 27:04.660 Two people he trusted most. 27:04.660 --> 27:07.020 His wife and his chauffeur. 27:07.020 --> 27:11.340 One already dead and the other soon would be. 27:11.340 --> 27:16.820 I reached into my pocket for a cigarette and came out and stayed with a cuff link. 27:16.820 --> 27:18.820 The Ebony cuff link. 27:18.820 --> 27:19.820 Jet black. 27:19.820 --> 27:20.820 Clear through. 27:20.820 --> 27:24.980 I dropped it into the gutter where it belongs. 27:24.980 --> 27:45.180 Then got into my car and went home. 27:45.180 --> 27:50.260 The Adventures of Philip Marlow created by Raymond Chandler star Gerald Moore and are 27:50.260 --> 27:53.460 produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. 27:53.460 --> 27:56.660 Script is by Mel Dinelli, Robert Mitchell and Gene Levitt. 27:56.660 --> 28:00.940 Featured in the cast were Edgar Barrier, Gene Bates, Larry Dobkin, Georgia Ellis and Ron 28:00.940 --> 28:01.940 Brogan. 28:01.940 --> 28:07.740 The special music is by Richard O'Runt. 28:07.740 --> 28:12.260 Be sure and be with us again next week when Philip Marlow says. 28:12.260 --> 28:15.300 I was hired to find a thief and I did. 28:15.300 --> 28:17.500 A thousand miles from home. 28:17.500 --> 28:23.580 At first I found a hammy Othello, a lush with a Luger and a fresh corpse in the closet. 28:23.580 --> 28:37.860 All because the only woman in sight wouldn't play fair. 28:37.860 --> 28:42.900 There's gold in them trills when just a little bit later tonight Sing It Again comes along 28:42.900 --> 28:48.020 offering a grand prize of fifty two thousand dollars to some lucky CBS listener. 28:48.020 --> 28:51.820 Phone calls will be going out to listeners from coast to coast asking for answers to 28:51.820 --> 28:56.540 the merry tuneful riddle songs which if you solve one correctly it gives you a chance 28:56.540 --> 28:59.300 at the fabulous Phantom Voice Award. 28:59.300 --> 29:04.500 Tonight it's twenty seven thousand in wonderful prizes if you can tell who the Phantom is 29:04.500 --> 29:10.340 plus twenty five thousand in cash if you can answer one more question about him. 29:10.340 --> 29:16.420 So stay tuned to CBS for Sing It Again which comes along later tonight and for Gangbusters 29:16.420 --> 29:21.140 which follows immediately over most of the same CBS network stations. 29:21.140 --> 29:28.060 This is Roy Rowan speaking. 29:28.060 --> 29:44.900 This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system.