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Old Time Radio Sam Spade — Sam Spade - The One Hour Caper. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
I'm free. I'm both young and I'm both young. I'm off to the Benny's and the long eye. And have I, the both of them. Oh, I get so angry sometimes. You go dancing on a field like a cold boy on the side of the provocation and one hour later, you just want to know you're going to go to a broken head and you'll ask I am quote, part of the story. I'm going to go to the museum. Go to the museum. Go to the museum. How is it? Is he guys? What did you say? I said, I'd expect you to take care of a boy with a mouse full of guns. I want anybody to have music. Oh, shut up. I just met up your own good. I got your touch, Wendy. Oh, not the same. I'm sorry. Stay in my house. This is the trauma of an allegation. FX, planting, third pre-sync station. Stand up to plant.
That's right. A nice absolutely send it. Welcome down, I see. I can't wait to bring this hand you want to come. Down, Wendy. From Samuel's fate, lines with number one, three, seven, five, nine, six subject to one hour, keepers, tear, planting. See? She came to you were aware of it. And I think you were at last. But that's another thing. She came back to me and said, I'm going to go to the museum. I'm going to go to the museum. I'm going to go to the museum. I'm going to go to the museum. I'm going to go to the museum. Yeah. I'm going to say, this is a fake page. The page is predatory across the street. We put it in cards where you remember. Oh, yes, I was about to call you. My secretary is just making us a check. I get that little semi-searcher help. I'll drop it in tomorrow. I'll be glad to talk to you.
So I'll make it too late. I'd rather not be seen coming to your office. I'll be up to the little downstairs in your building. Say, five minutes. What's the report, you guys? Well, I don't know. I got something here. I want you to look at it. If it's why I think it is, it's important. I'm going to go to the museum. I'm going to go to the museum. What's the report, you guys? Well, I don't know. I got something here. I want you to look at it. If it's why I think it is, it's important. I'm going to hang up now. See you in five minutes. Hello! This is a bigotion. What do you think you're going in that? They won't have everything with the metal. You've not returned your hats, sir. Well, I'll take you to the next room. I'm trying to assert my eyes, ma'am. Take a zoom. Oh. Oh, okay. We got to... well, uh... we got to win the Reffi Hall. Put it on. And the phone call. Maybe it's a traffic. Got to meet a man. Then you can go on a job now. Why not? Why do you think I got your suit set? The man's coming to take your picture. What man? I'm battling to test his magazines. Oh. Well, I'll try and make it for you.
Sam, I'm tired of making excuses for people. I set up his apartment for five cents, and I want you back in plenty of time. But which wouldn't go? Well, I'll ride you along. But if you aren't back in this office by five o'clock, that's... that's Sam's. You can... you can find someone else to make your excuse. Oh, okay, Julie. Can I drive your rocket? I just get the elevator and walk downstairs to save time. For 11 minutes after four, last year at the time, when I reached the end of the half hour oyster in February last year. Hey, Sam. I started looking for up the street. I ain't paid for suspecting our security. It was Jay walking, but that doesn't explain what happened. It was funny, it's time. It jumped back out of the way. It saw him suit the wheels cut sharply. So I'm in the front bumper column to fuck with me. All right, all right. Keep moving, man. Keep moving.
Come on. Come on. Back on this sidewalk. Come on. Now we'll take care of him. Come on. Sam, John. Sam, I'm going to get it. Come on, get these people back. Just man, first man. Get them some man. But I'm not trying to talk now. Come on, Sam. Sam. That's here. This is it. Check your ass, Jay. Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. What was that? Watch what, Clancy? He gave you something there. Go and figure out, Kate. I've seen him. Oh, he must figure out what's taking him, Clancy. Hey, can you talk anymore? I'm figure out. Sam, go. Find out. I've got a friend. My life. Yeah, what about your wife? I have. I can't. I can't. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. What do you have? What do you have? What do you have? Take it. Take it. What are you got here? I have a hidden rod. What kind of rod? Right. I think I've said what you have.
Just walk through a track. You be away. OK, bye. Take him away. Now come on. Everybody stand back. Any of your people are down fire at the land. Yeah, I know. Look, look, look. Is that a color long? Yes. Is that a color long? Yes. Oh, man. Oh, hello, Sam. Hello, Marky. I trade. Oh, yeah, just kidding. Super. Hi, Pete. Yes. No, no. She better not look at him now. There's no condition. Oh, sure. Sure, you can give her money if any effect. Yeah. Well, hey, it's Mrs. Page. She didn't lose any time. It's like the meter, then. Yeah, Marky, I won't. Then I'll, uh, nobody says she's going to look nice and nice. That's true. Thanks, Page. Cool? I knew your husband's flight,
my name is Sam Page. Oh, who here? Yeah. Your son's texted me. So he was going to say it. Did he? Not quite. You have no idea what he wanted to say me about? So he, he found something. It's a good case. He's taken some of what it meant. It's been very worried about it. He told me that if anything happened to him, I could claim his belongings right away. See, there they are. There's watches, swallows, elk's pills, goal in, cigar cutter. You know what's the good thing? Oh, now, I'm pleased with the face. I've got the cigarette case here. You've got it. Sorry, Gamer, for me to just, uh, just after the accident, I expected you to sign this. I'm going to give it to you. Here you take it. Oh, no, no. I miss myself. From, from home and gave it to him. I don't want, I don't want to just put it away out of my sight, out of my sight, for every... Okay, okay. You know, your eyes are on the back of my pocket. Thank you. Now, uh, let's talk with the face.
What was that he has with mine? Well, I don't know. He wasn't very well. I just don't know if he can have me serious, but he can be so seldom. He has to stay on the move. And I'm the week of 10 days. Look, look, it's too late. They've fallen and had the cringes have a little gas. You know what? I, I didn't thought he was getting better. He has to have me fight lately. No, I know. He wouldn't care what he holds. He had a black eye. No. Oh, that hasn't been home. He's gone home. Yeah. Well, I'll be in touch with you. Yeah. Outside, the fog was rolling in. I stopped under a street light and spent an estimated 45 seconds trying to figure out what it was for the calendar watch my secretary gave me a Christmas. The brown under was falling at the temperature. The temperature was 63, and I was facing northwest. I looked at a jewelry store to find out it was 4.23. My hour was nearly half gone and the only proof I had were a cigarette case and a black
eye. I took the case out of my pocket and opened it. It was cigarettes and I took one out and let it. It was nasty. I saw something creamed behind the cigarette. It looked better. It looked like money. When I examined it more closely, I wasn't sure the putting out was such and the amount was one under sparring. The banks were closed, but it only cost me two nickels in a safe telephone to find out where to take it. It was a small but solid looking establishment on Mount Gummord. The gold blottering on the plate glass windows shut fans held in my eyes. Commercial agents answered the new York, San Francisco, Maconter and Colour South. Come in here. I want to see what's amazing. There is something to my eyes and there's only one cell and I'm Henry's one cell. I'm so sorry. I don't feel like that. Baby, you can help me. What can I do with you? Well, I thought he'd save me off for a job and that's money. I want to know how much it's worth.
Oh, and these bastards and my eyes and I know the value of money. Show me please. Maybe I'll get sugar out through and scratch. See? My brand to monitor a creamed fountain. Oh, good. If I go, show me what's right here. No, the money. One hundred flour. I am the light look. Here's a zero number. Here's L, four draped clear. See all sorts of calories. Paper, paper excelences. Give me 15k. What's the word? Lies. Lies. Plotations. Flores in the game. Because all are 50, $33. 34 cents. That's what it's getting. We take out. And you like $10 or not? I love them. I mean, I'd like to see your money. Who knows that the derisional, yeah.
My brother was engraved to the royal doctor's treasury. I'm not shouting the man the doctor, he was until the occupation coming was. Oh, partly. You might have sang that again, but. In the manufacture from all kinds of money, including all the revy currencies from the Indy, East and West, Yava, Tel Avis, Borneo, and Homeland Netherlands. Also, six months in Bully Long, Bali where I'm English learning. Oh, you learned English several. Four in language. Well, I'll say it in ten. Yes, yes, yes. Ten. Twenty, thirty, forty, sixty, one, two, three, four, five, six, nine cents and twenty cents and the right cents. Oh, yes. Eventually, you have lived in San Francisco for a while. Oh, that's actually quite some time.
I'm handling frontels over you in the middle. I love this on the cigarette case. You have the same in it all. A. P. Who you name this, please? Paul House, Herman Paul House. Paul House, you know, I like that cigarette case. With the coincidence, you tell me a Dutch money. Maybe also tell me the cigarette case is a Dutch cigarette. You like that cigarette? Oh, I love that tomato queen. I have that for nothing. No, no. So I kept busy to remove them from the beautiful case. They go together. They get a cigarette and they say, oh, how much? I always just try it for. Well, that's good gold. Five hundred dollars? What do you say? Nothing. I take it out of bedbottom. Good. Good. Good. Good. Now, the grave, Howard. Howard, please stop. Okay. Okay, Mr. Garethala, go on. Oh, please. Howard, please stop.
My ran is in my watch. The only exit is quite a bank cost fund. It's passed free fall if I had a dozen cities. It's an insurance man who's consumed by himself for a little arm. Without a bank, they could throw a nobody paid me any money until I reached search street. I was just crossing when I saw the second time. It was the same time I was run down bank pay. I stranged my eyes against the headlights. I was just a man behind the wheel, but I got the lights before it happened. So that's before I heard it. It might just like a splish ant. The last thing I heard was the footsteps of a heavy man pounding toward me. A clock on the church of business of the faith was shining the half hour. And now thanks to the one hour paper. The lights that went here with Stan's face.
I found the cable with two clues. The cigarette cable, a black guy and a settlement. When I walked up in the alley, I didn't have a cigarette cable. And I had two black eyes. One of them was on me. It frames me enough hours of life. I reached inside my straightaway car and the pull it all over my heart. So it's nothing you have to prove. I wasn't going to bend that gold cigarette cable inside gold and suck cigarettes. The target come at me hot enough to knock me down and out, but the case in my inside pocket is stomped. I looked at the mirror, saw a broken phone, and saw a subtle in the private condition. The place on the Etterone 5, or register to one Hendrick van Coulpe. Oh, I'm so glad you're here. I was beginning to worry. Where's the van Coulpe? That's just one of the other reasons. Let me come back. You don't know how good I am here. Did you know he flies? He invited me to have this drink with him? I guess I go one way. Oh, thank you.
Listen, if you want to buy Hank cigarettes, please. Of course, my cigarettes are in the end of the redness of cigarettes. Well, you know, Hank doesn't leave much, you're only a little insurance. And the film shop is a partnership, you know, Hank and Mrs. Delay. Yes, the great case is after Winfall. I told him you wouldn't stand in the way of the riddles. I wouldn't say that. I knew you'd do the decent thing to stay. You know what? I'm waiting for you for the favor of my brother. Besides, I haven't got it. You haven't got it. Oh, now look, look, look, let's say. Blash. Okay, now Blash, try and find if I could ever hear you. You haven't mentioned Bantelts. No. No, they... No, they never even let me say Bantelts. They're not. Bantelts find out about the cigarettes, Hank. They said you should've told him. Well, you know, you haven't spoken Mrs. Delay. Oh, we're total strangers now. I told my husband everything. He's a bit. Uh-huh. And what have Mrs. Delay done you? Haven't mentioned anything. He's let away girl eyes, almost as soon as he got out of the redness school.
He took a photo of that. Oh, very good. And that's where he became a master's kidder. And scared. With the same... Oh, yes, they know. They don't have my child. Old contract, Blash. Old contract. I've got it outside and switched over to a factory. And I walked back to church. If I run into a corner, I can see light in the window with space and the weather. I had to go hand in hand for him. I got a quarter of five when I had a tank stage just shot. The tank, the guy was sitting in a desk and he sure played checking off figures and alleged. And as this might sound, he told me his name was Ben Delay. He sure can't run away from any of his chairs across the fence. This is awful, mate. What was one thing in another way he held over his head and worked and got to pull with these books and I don't know the thing about it. Oh, it's funny. Oh, oh, all right. Oh, I'll think of a little confused here just now. If you tell me a little more about it. Oh, yes, I understand the problem.
Well, we're handling it, but it will be very busy for a while. Now, there's definitely no point in you dropping by tonight. I guess the news of the board is that it makes some difference in those customers, but no. They take that solid of just... Yeah, I know you're very busy with the shoelaces. I don't want to take up too much of your time. What makes you think that guy deliberately ran down the floor? Did I say so? Well, you're an insurance dick, aren't you? You got to be taken. Anybody have anything against them, part, you know? No, he... he buys two printed letters, and he... Why? Well, they couldn't sell in English. You were famous for paint, the faffino? Yeah, he came in for about ten minutes and he's back under Javs in my morning. So, it's killed to that very late. How do you watch? Oh, the same as usual. You wouldn't say it's been a mistake. Oh, good lord. No, he was a sick man. He had a piece of porn on his hand when he was sick. So, I think about that. Sure, he got it here. One of our customers, many in Van Del, and he was a little bit more busy, but he wanted it for a little bit. So, he took it with him. The van fell to all of our stages, huh? Oh, that's a stupid question, man.
You didn't know that the van fell to the car. That's a long shot, sir. Thanks, there's another one. You're a lion, straight down the line. You're a wait-a-wait-a-wait-a-wait-a-wait-a-wait-a. Today, if you had to mention it, you had a blank eye. You didn't take that such money for a little bit. And here if you had to mention the cigarette case, you said it on us. What are you doing? You shutting down for the night? You don't find out. Put your hands on top of the bed. I slipped and loved one, my guy. I can only get my last three minutes fine up over the edge of the desk with them to lay to see it. He doesn't like throwing things. The best role of George directly behind him, and I knew his body would scream my guns in the tube, and anybody that might come and throw it, would respond to the signal he's got. It didn't have long to wait. Three men, black with ink, gave the door and threw it in the middle of the lawn. They're scrolling, scared with the check. What's rough, man? You got eyes in your head, huh? What's that? Stop right there! Stop right there! It's not supposed to stay all the time. I'm the same pair of legs, but I can like my position at all. If he's meant to start it, there's something I could sound just one up before the other three were on.
I'm not going to be able to do it. I'm not going to be able to do it. If the Captain hadn't got it, there would simply be a filtration fatter out of it. I could sound just one up before the other three were on. I know or the main ones. I kind of felt so fresh air in the back and I managed to Namu curly behind the street door... HeyHey! Excuse me. What are you up to? You can hold it? It makes my heart ridden. Should I hear it? Get out of here quick. Find a car and bring them back? Sure I will! You can call a name. I got him behind with flants and ladies hands. I tried to persuade him to get me full on, but I got enough of it to fold up my legs with the knees for hands and face run I had slammed into my teeth when the floor. Nothing starts right across the chest with both hands. And of course you can get my face out. Room is the way as long as the wing's got a knock. I was dimly aware that my feet were under me against some squirming thing was on my back and a hot stance object like a hand with a cross my face. I put my teeth in the roof. I put my teeth in the roof.
That's back as far as it was go. Maybe it smashed into the face with my floor I don't know. Anyways, a squirming thing was no longer on my back and suddenly I could see again I saw a crass cut the door, six inches of stone in front of my eyes. That's how I knew I was down at a floor again. I grabbed the cut the door and tugged at it. I banged it to my feet with an use of the classic queer space in front of me. I swung it high and let go. I was back on the floor again with six to 800 pounds of flesh hammering my face into the floor. If you can't throw a crass cut the door, a plate flasks when the wind or a brush I would throw out his down-down stance and just go without attracting attention. The hour of rescue was a chance. I lost the big pack late five feet. Let's go to rescue! That act flasks my face. The motion is crossed. You guessed it. It was a counter-setting cable with very easy. The return is not all in yet but I think when the fence pick up fence self
they'll find he was selling the truth. When he said he was working in a such young, looks-running office and answers and the sound of the Nazi occupation. He probably bought his boarded way out of the country with the same kind of money he and the way we're running here. The alarm's been in the original place. Being a skilled metal worker he designed a gold cigarette case in which those plates were set with unpanied accuracy. The crawling satchels the way I wish he concealed them from you. He filled the case with an odious brand of debt cigarettes which only fools or criminals could possibly smoke. It was the safest hiding place in the world. No clever one that now gets this fancy boy. The evil eye is saying say the fact that it never says the fact that the front of the face knuckles until it stops that slug van fell through it really early. Period in the report. Oh, Santa thank you went through all our justice issues from us. Yes I've been but sir, but first even more than these walls of the structure is down in my work. I didn't say that, Sam. I only ensured that you had no sense of time. Yes, well, can you change your mind about that eh? No, I'm coming.
Sam, I'm not going to stop it going working out, Sam. But it's going to be a good time to put this report on how you would stab with what I need. I know you're done. The mailman's I just handed to him on the way to the street hall. Save the staff at what else? Oh, hi, Santa. You won't be meeting me anymore, I'll not- It's done. We're 25, 30, Sam. Now go to the god of the nut to come. That's a fine thing. I've already been through. You're still saying I have no sense of time and you told the photographer not to come. Because I knew you wouldn't be back in time and if you were you looked so terrible at the picture wouldn't be any good anyway. Thanks a lot. Oh, Sam. That's why I must have been so cranky. I'm looking at a combination of things. I haven't written that a bit with me. I'm so anxious, could I? I'm so anxious, could I? I think I'm training and when I was made it's something.
Oh, calm down, I love you. Oh, by the way, honey. It reminds me to write to Faggy at Washington and I have to send you that cigarette case for a souvenir if I shake it up then fell down. That's all you know, save my life. Your life? I think I've been nagging and saying all these terrible things. Oh, Sam, I know you're bad at it. You're wrong. Oh, Sam, I know you're bad at it. You're wrong. Oh? I think I live. Good night. Good night, sweetheart. Good night, sweetheart.
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