# Philip Marlowe: The Red Wind (EP1253)

An episode of [Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696519927), 27 May 2026, 38 min.

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Release Date: May 07, 2014 Philip Marlowe witnesses a murder in a bar and becomes involved in the sad case of a married young woman. Original Air Date: June 17, 1947 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net

## Transcript

[0:28] Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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[0:57] support the show at support dot com, Rightdetectives dot net. Well, we're
[1:02] going to begin our first presentation of the Adventures of Philip Marlow. And this
[1:07] isn't the one most likely that you've heard most often. If you've heard the
[1:12] series, that's the CBS series starring Gerald Moore. This series was an NBC
[1:19] summer series and it starred Van Hefflin. So we're going to talk about the
[1:23] star and we'll talk a little bit about the series and its concept. The
[1:27] star was Van Heflin, who took home a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in nineteen
[1:38] forty three for his role in Johnny Eager, and he was recognized with stars
[1:48] on the Walks of Fame. His career was not as prestigious as some others.
[1:53] Outside of those Oscar Wins, he really did get into that whole character
[2:00] actor Grove, and perhaps not as many credits as some others, but still
[2:06] a decent and respectable actor who, perhaps just because of looks and superficialness,
[2:12] never quite hit that same level as many other stars. While the later Philip
[2:17] marlow series was essentially original stories, this series sought to adapt Raymond Chandler's stories
[2:28] to the air in the summer of nineteen forty seven. It's probably worth noting
[2:34] that while these were Raymond Chandler stories, they weren't original Philip Marlowe stories.
[2:39] The only original Philip Marlowe short story was released in nineteen fifty nine, at
[2:46] least by Chandler anyway. Today's story, Red Wind, was originally published in
[2:52] magazine form about a detective named John Dalmas, would later officially become a fully
[3:00] revised Philip Marlowe story in the short story collection The Simple Art of Murder,
[3:07] published in nineteen fifty. As Chandler had sensed to see that people wouldn't be
[3:13] concerned about his other detectives, but Philip marlow it would be pretty easy just
[3:20] to tweak a few details and you could have a fully revitalized Philip Marlowe's story.
[3:28] Indeed, after the success of The Big Slate, several of Chandler's novels
[3:34] borrowed from his pulp fiction stories. We do have the audition from this series.
[3:38] It's the same story as the first episode, and since that's also repeated
[3:45] the first episode of the CBS series, we'll just go ahead and start off
[3:50] with Red Wind original air date June seventeenth of nineteen forty seven, or The
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[6:24] a rough desert wind blowing into Los Angeles that evening. It was one of
[6:28] those hot, dry santanas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your
[6:32] hair, make your nerves jump in your skin. Itch. On nights like
[6:38] that, every booze party ends up in a fight, and meek little housewives
[6:43] feel the edge of a carving knife and study their husband's necks. Anything can
[6:47] happen when the Santanna blows in from the desert. I closed up my office
[6:58] early. I got tired of reading Philip Marlow, Private Investigator backwards on the
[7:01] ground glass at my office door. So I opened the door and closed it
[7:06] from the outside and locked it and went out to get a beer before I
[7:10] went up to my apartment. Filler up again, mister Marlon Marlow. Marlow
[7:19] Marlin is a fash. Yeah, I know. Hey, Hey, your
[7:24] watch right? Drunk again? What do you expect in this business? Autograph
[7:30] hands? Be right with your sport. I gotta draw this man a beer.
[7:33] I'm not allowed. These stumble bumps have come in here. You got
[7:36] another customer back is Hey, but you've seen a lady in here lately.
[7:44] A lady tall, good looking, brown hair, a print poalo jacket and
[7:48] a blue silk dress. No, sir, nobody like that's binner. I
[7:55] straight Scotch fast left my engine running out there. Yes, sir, Yes,
[7:59] sir. A slick looking, sarcastic guy stepped up to the bar and
[8:05] drank his scotch hole and he stopped. The drunk was grinning at him,
[8:11] and then, without changing his grin, the drunk swept a gun from somewhere
[8:15] so fast it was just a blur coming out. Made a couple of hard
[8:18] snaps and a little smoke curl very little. All right, show other guys
[8:26] don't move so long. Wall all right, Tom of you too, Oh,
[8:37] but I made his nose bleed. Song boys, drink up, all
[8:45] right, Get on that phone, kid, I'll get his license number.
[8:48] Holy smoke, Holy smoke. Not too late the way, have this dead
[8:56] guy's car? Maybe he ain't dead, he's dead, all right, where's
[9:01] your phone? This is for the police. The Proud car boys were there
[9:11] in about five minutes. Walder was out of business, all right, and
[9:16] nothing in his pockets told who he was. But he had about seven hundred
[9:20] dollars on him. I told the cops what I knew, including about Waldo's
[9:24] tall, brown haired pretty girl in the blaro jacket. It's about nine o'clock
[9:30] when I stepped out of the elevator in my apartment house and almost walked right
[9:33] into a tall, brown haired, pretty girl in a blaro jacket waiting for
[9:37] the elevator on my floor. Oh, excuse me just a minute, lady,
[9:43] I said, excuse me, I'm gonna hurry if you can not go
[9:46] outside in those clothes. Just what do you mean by telling me this isn't
[9:50] gonna make you're in trouble? Trouble? Yeah, the cops are looking for
[9:54] you in those clothes. But I haven't done anything that. I'm in room
[9:58] forty one across the well. Now, I never collected matching in my life.
[10:01] All right, I'll go with you. I'll go. I got to
[10:09] my room and rustled up some scotch and sodaen broth girl or glass. She
[10:15] had a small automatic in her hand. It jumped up at me and her
[10:18] eyes were full of panic, and I put down both glasses on the table
[10:24] slowly so that I wouldn't be misunderstood. Look, sister, maybe this wind
[10:31] has got you crazy too, Cale, don't move. A man just got
[10:35] shot in a bar down the street. Before he got it, he'd been
[10:37] asking about a tall, pretty girl with a blarrow jacket like yours. What
[10:43] do he look like this man, tall five eleven, slim, dark dark
[10:46] brown eyes with a lot of glitter, dark suit, white handkerchief from the
[10:50] breast pocket. And he must have seen you earlier to night to know how
[10:54] you addressed? Am I getting anywhere? Used to be my chauffeur? He
[11:00] had an appointment with him, didn't you, Lessen? He asked for you,
[11:03] didn't he? Yes? I had an appointment with him. He'd stolen
[11:05] something from me when he left three days ago. I was going to buy
[11:09] it back from him? Why didn't you tell the police? Couldn't tell him
[11:11] it was valuable? Wasn't it valuable enough for Walder to steel? Ten thousand
[11:15] dollars? That's peanuts? But it wasn't the value. It meant something to
[11:18] me. The man I love gave it to me, and now he's dead.
[11:24] He was a flyer shut down over Germany. I'll go back and tell
[11:28] my husband that he probably hired you. He did. How much is he
[11:33] paying me? And where is this husband of yours? Is that a meeting
[11:37] this late at night? He's a very important man. He's a hydro electric
[11:39] engineer. I'll have you know that my husband is one to get it.
[11:43] I'll take him out to lunch sometime and have him tell me himself and about
[11:46] Waldo. Whatever he had on you is dead stock now like Waldo himself.
[11:52] He's dead. Was dead, yes, sister, he's dead, dead dead
[11:58] dead, lady, he is dead. I was scream and I'll give you
[12:01] two black eyes. I couldn't scream. How would that be? There was
[12:07] addressing room behind that door there now, don't argue with me doing all right?
[12:24] And I went to the door, making a loud and yawnings on the
[12:28] backs of my hands were wet. I opened the door without a gun.
[12:33] That was a mistake. I certainly knew the gun. I was looking into
[12:37] a twenty two target automatic that had already killed one man that night. And
[12:41] I knew the ball head and the flat, shiny eyes and the face like
[12:45] a poisonous lizard. Baldi put the muzzle of his gun lightly against my throat.
[12:50] I backed into the room, and Baldy kicked the door, shutting you
[12:56] alone, look for yourself. I'm asking, not looking. I'm alone wing
[13:03] that dumb buttender, So may dust off wall What did Wallow do to you?
[13:07] I was asking, just making conversation. He stood on me on a
[13:11] bank job. We did together got me four years in Michigan. Pin,
[13:18] how is he dead? I'm still good, drunk or sober? Tell me
[13:26] why I came here? Pal, You heard the barkeeper and me talking,
[13:31] and I told him my name, where I lived. That's how Pale,
[13:35] I said, why I skip at the hangman? Would ask you to guess
[13:37] why he's there. You're pretty tough at that answer. But you're slamming off
[13:43] Pal. All right, but you could get that gun out of my neck
[13:48] and try somewhere else. Yeah, sure that's better. That's such a just
[13:52] so it is my neck save when Pal chure party. I leaned against the
[13:58] gun. The door of the dressing room showed a crack of darkness. The
[14:03] crack widened. I began to shake a little. The girl came quietly into
[14:07] the room, but there was white all around her. Iris. She was
[14:09] scared. She had her gun in her hand, but I was sorry for
[14:15] dead. Sorry. She'd tried to make the door scream. Either way,
[14:18] it'd be curtains for both of us. Scared, mister, you're worried about
[14:22] any little thing. I couldn't talk. The girl floated in the air,
[14:26] somewhere behind Baldy, and her horrified face was drifting toward us. My mouth
[14:33] was as cold and dry as yesterday's toast, wild ken as it feel.
[14:41] You're ready yet, go on say the word? Well, don't take all
[14:45] night about it. If you're if you're going to do something about it,
[14:48] why not pall? I like this? I suppose I yell, go ahead,
[14:52] yeah, go ahead, way, Look, thanks sister. Thanks that
[15:01] that buys me. Everything I have is yours now and forever. You flattered
[15:09] me. No end, lady, I only punched him. Why not get
[15:11] out here while I call the cops down on this killer? Yes? Good
[15:16] night? Hey? Wait wait, leave that blurred jacket here, It marks
[15:18] you for the cops. Yes here, okay, see you again? Why
[15:26] oh I don't know now, I guess not. After all, who am
[15:30] I to be the rival of a dead flyer? I'll see that the police
[15:33] get Jesse James here. Good night, lady, Yeah, me and me?
[15:56] Yes? Please? Oh you again? Huh? Get in? I
[16:03] must talk to you. Want to know what happened at headquarters? Huh?
[16:08] Yes. I went down there with the law and gave him the story.
[16:11] I left you out of him. Oh, thank you. You saved my
[16:15] life. So no one knows a thing about you. Well, incidentally,
[16:18] neither do I. Oh, my name is missus Frank Vasiley two twelve Fremont
[16:22] Places, Olympia two four five nine six. Is that what you want?
[16:27] I guess so, well, there it is? And why did you really
[16:32] come back? I wanted my pearls. Pearls, yes, pearls too.
[16:38] All right, tell me about the pearls. Bet a murder and a beautiful
[16:42] mystery woman and a sadistic killer and the heroic rescue. Now we will have
[16:48] pearls. I was to buy them back from the man called Waldo. Well,
[16:52] I saw everything that came out of his pockets, and there weren't any
[16:53] pearls. Could they be hidden in his apartment? It's possible Waldo lived on
[16:59] the same floor you do in this apartment house. And why didn't I know
[17:02] him? At least by sight? He moved in last week he managed to
[17:04] get a sublb great a sort of an amateur magician on the side. Huh,
[17:10] it's getting rather late. Yeah, what about your husband? This hot,
[17:12] mysterious night, still it is meeting. You could have brought him along.
[17:17] You could have sat in the backseat working out a problem in hydro electrics.
[17:19] Walk. Wow, what well? I didn't have any answers. They
[17:26] wouldn't sound cheap or just ridiculous, or from the sophomore class and rape Heartee
[17:33] had none. Let cigarette in my hand, I threw it out of the
[17:34] window. I took a hold of her and kissed her. She said very
[17:41] still. I was shaking when I let go over her. Her voice trembled
[17:48] a little when she spoke. I man sure to do that. I wasn't
[17:53] always that way, only since Johnny Dalmas was killed in the war. He
[18:00] gave me those pearls, forty one of them, perfectly matched with a diamond
[18:03] for colored class. I'd have loved them if they'd been wooden beads, because
[18:08] he gave them to me. I loved Johnny. Were you loved just one
[18:15] time? You understand that? Hmm? What's your name? Lola? Lola?
[18:26] How did you explain a fifteen thousand dollar pearl necklace to your husband?
[18:30] I told him they were imitation than I bought for myself. How did Waldo
[18:33] lat John Tillmore what they stood for? Well, my husband was in Argentina,
[18:37] Walden. I'd go for long drives. I was restless and wretched because
[18:41] of Johnny. Sometimes Waldor and I had a little drink together. But that's
[18:45] all that you can fight in Walder about this pearl How was a fool when
[18:49] your husband came back? Waller stole the pearls and offered to sell them back
[18:52] to your hotel Papa house. Fool? And now you think the pearls are
[18:56] upstairs and Waller's apartment. It's a lot to ask, No, sweetheart,
[19:03] I've been paid. I'll go look wait here, has that gon long lolo?
[19:26] No? Well, no, no pearls, no pearls. Oh,
[19:34] there was a man in Warlow's room, a man who you know? A
[19:38] man named Leon Barlsanos. Not by name, I don't know, Mexican,
[19:42] South America, about forty five, small, iron, gray hair, very
[19:47] neat, fawn colored suit, wine colored tie. No, I don't think
[19:51] I know such a man. Is he the one in Waldo's room? Yeah?
[19:55] What do you have to say? Very little, in fact nothing.
[20:00] He's dead. You are listening to the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, starring Van
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[21:42] and starring Van Heflin, who appears by arrangement with Metro Golden Mayre, producers
[21:48] of the technicol Or musical Fiesta starring Esther Williams, I said, with all
[21:59] of us in her car, listening to that jittery, infuriating desert wind gallop
[22:03] around in the midnight streets, I just told her about the Latin looking man
[22:08] I'd found in Waldour's room in a very dead condition. I held her hands
[22:14] until they stopped trembling. Then I gave her the few remaining details. He
[22:21] had a gun and a shoulder hoster, but someone had strangled him before he
[22:25] could use it. Someone Waldo. Maybe you see that convertible coop two cars
[22:30] ahead of us. It's been there for hours, was there before I parked
[22:33] here to wait for you, Leon. The man in Waldo's room came in
[22:37] that car, But according to the key containers he carried, that isn't his
[22:41] car. Whose car is it? Does it matter? Well, it belongs
[22:44] to a lady, according to the tag on the keys, A lady.
[22:48] Well, anyway, a woman if you're gonna split hairs. Eugenie Kochenko in
[22:53] West Los Angeles, All right, well you go home. Now, what
[23:00] are you going to do? Drive that Flossi convertible around wave with my friends.
[23:03] Impressed people. You run along now you have got another date? Yes,
[23:23] what does it? Please? Miss Eugenie Colchenko? Yes? What is
[23:27] it? Did you lose or misplace a pigeon gray convertible coup? What are
[23:33] you saying? Don't be alarmed? I found it and I brought it home
[23:36] to you. Come in please, it is a reward you wish, shall
[23:42] we say? Snap out of a dragon? Lady? Who was he?
[23:45] Who was the little guy leon? You loaned your card? Who he's dead?
[23:48] Who was he? Oh? No? No, oh yes, yes,
[23:55] darling, darling, come here please? Who is this man? I
[24:00] came about Miss Kochenko's car? What about her car? A gentleman who borrowed
[24:06] it couldn't return it on account of he isn't alive. He's dead, darling.
[24:10] He's dead. That's putting it more bluntly, of course, dead completely.
[24:15] Who are you Philip Marlowe? Prive investigating my card? M h,
[24:23] it's all the police shad never do at once? What can be deferred pending
[24:29] negotiations? He's I might negotiate, Oh, PITCHI what do you know?
[24:34] Malo? A man named Waldo was shot in a bar tonight. I happened
[24:38] to have the inside as to who he was. And when I visited his
[24:42] apartment tonight, I found this Leeo Barsanos dead. He wouldn't have had five
[24:48] hundred dollars in twenties on him, no, but this Waldo had over seven
[24:52] hundred dollars on him when he was killed at that cocktail bar, mostly in
[24:56] twenties. Is there a basis there for a Nego siations yet? Very well,
[25:02] mellow, I'm a married man. Were certain unpaid bills for some stuff
[25:07] it's called tchenko here had charged to my account, But you told me I
[25:11] might charge to your account, all right, So I wasn't very bright.
[25:14] That might be the understatement of the decade that go on. I had the
[25:18] unpaid bills safely in my briefcase. Somehow this Waldo had a chance to steal
[25:22] the briefcase. I hired Leon and gave him five hundred dollars to buy back
[25:26] those bills from Waldo. Instead, Waldo took Leon's dough and was forced to
[25:32] kill Leon in the process. And then he went out to keep another date
[25:34] and accidentally walked into an old pal hostile enough to blow him down. And
[25:40] someone still has those bills. I'm in for a divorce suit. The man
[25:45] who shot Waldow got away in Waldo's car with your briefcase in it. Yeah,
[25:49] it could be the cops caught him. Oh, and the police have
[25:55] the briefcase. Maybe, but the police are interested in solving crime, not
[26:00] in tossing mud for the benefit of sensation eaters. Look, I've got a
[26:03] friend or two at headquarters. Let me see what I can do. It's
[26:06] worth five hundred dollars to me. Well, then that's fun. It'll cost
[26:08] you well, good luck and thank you, mister Marlow, Philip Marlow.
[26:15] Remember my name is Frank Barcela barce barcely Oh what does that mean? The
[26:25] big hydro electric engineer. Yeah, how did you know? My voice is
[26:30] still me? Oh, darling? This man is monuciocely In. It's the
[26:36] heat miscal chink, It's the Santa, and it's the desert wind. May
[26:40] I use your telephone someday? I must tell you about ibera sol of the
[26:52] earth. Hebarra, Detective Lieutenant over Central Homicide. I phoned the bear from
[26:56] this called Chenko's house and told him hurr he could find a well dress cadaver
[27:00] named Leon and furnished a few small details. I gave it bare a time
[27:04] to check my tip, and then I went down to see the good lieutenant
[27:07] and told him why I've been up in Walder's room only to find leon instead
[27:11] of a certain lady's string of pearls. Pearls, Eh, well, I
[27:17] thought Waldo might have him up there. Whose pearls were they, oh,
[27:21] ladies? Or they might have been in Waldor's car that Waldor's killer drove away
[27:26] in what Yeah, they might have also a batch of unpaid bills charged to
[27:33] the account of a certain Frank Varslay. Yeah. Well, now the police
[27:38] aren't interested in domestic scandal. They want to prevent or to solve crime.
[27:44] Right, So I've got five hundred dollars for the police fund if those pearls
[27:48] and those bills are returned to their rightful owners. Kidding, No, No,
[27:52] it's it's a valuable necklace. There's your nextlace. That's it. Forty
[28:02] one pearls, perfectly matched diamond propeller class. That's it. That's the one.
[28:06] Jake it away, Morrow on the level. Just tell me straight what
[28:10] it's all about, all man? Sure? Sure? Well, this waller
[28:12] was blackmailing a wife with the pearls and her husband with the bills, got
[28:18] the name of Barsela. Well, Barsley sent Leon to get the bills from
[28:21] Waldo. Instead, Waldo kill Leon, then stepped out and happened to get
[28:26] shot by that guy at the bar. Now, if Barsily's name stays out
[28:29] of the paper, I get five hundred dollars and that goes to the police
[28:33] fund. We'll keep him out. Well, now, I'm not in this
[28:36] case for money. I just want to get back the bills and the pearls.
[28:38] As you say, Marrow, the police sound in business to sling money.
[28:41] Well, you can deliver the pearls to the lady yourself if you like.
[28:45] She lives it noon, no morrow, you better take them to her.
[28:48] You see, except for the diamond propeller, clasp on them. They're
[28:53] they're phony, phonny, but all but the class Morrow, all but the
[28:59] class. Well, I stared at me. Verah, so the flyer Johnny
[29:12] downas the Great Lover had given Lola a string of fake pearls. Well,
[29:19] I didn't know how to tell her, but I called her up and told
[29:22] her to meet me at the beach combers. That two I was and a
[29:26] slip of the bad news. Slowly I'm glad you asked me to meet you
[29:32] here. Mister Mollow. See, I had to have someone to talk to.
[29:37] Go ahead, ahead, talked. I must say it, no,
[29:40] mister Mollow, No more than ever I must. I must have those pearls.
[29:45] Why money trouble? Oh no, no, it's just that everything's gone
[29:51] wrong this morning. My husband told me where to separate. Oh I'm sorry,
[29:56] Low, But if I had Johnny's pearls, it would be a link
[29:59] with passed and was Johnny. It only meant to me. It's how a
[30:04] woman feels, mister Mollow. I wouldn't blame you for not understanding. Maybe
[30:10] I do, though, So please, mister Mollow, please you'll try to
[30:14] find my pearls. Look, even if it isn't all of them, any
[30:18] part of them, any any single, smallest one of them, it'll be
[30:23] Johnny's. Look. Will you meet me here again around four o'clock I'll be
[30:29] here, Okay, I'll see what I can do. There was only one
[30:37] earthly decent thing I could do. I took Lola's glass pearls to a jeweler
[30:42] and I had him take off the diamond clasp put it on one of those
[30:47] strings of so called simulated pearls that they sell here for three bucks tax included,
[30:52] and I went back to keep my four o'clock date with Lola at the
[30:55] beachcombers. Well, mister Morlow, anything new, Yes, the police found
[31:02] some pearls in Waldo's car. They found pearl No, no, not not
[31:07] exactly, not exactly. Oh, Waldo was getting set to jip yellow.
[31:11] He had the diamond clasp of your necklace attached to a string of cheap imitations,
[31:17] and then you sold the real pearls. Oh oh thanks, are the
[31:21] imitations here? Yes, but it is my clasp. The clasp is real.
[31:27] Is that all right? Yes, it's a class But Johnny Donalds gave
[31:30] me, of course, of course it's all right. Thank you so much.
[31:38] Not ever SI goodbye. Yeah, I think so. You'll never get
[31:47] over Johnny damads. Well, if anybody ever bothers you again, oh well,
[31:52] let me know. Name's Philip Morlow. Mmm. I drove almost to
[32:04] Malibu, and then I parked and walked out on a rock cliff, jetting
[32:07] into the Pacific Ocean. Then I reached in my pocket and dug got the
[32:12] string of Bohemian glass pearls that lieutenanty Barro found in Walder's car, and I
[32:17] cut the knot at one end and slipped the pearls off one by one.
[32:22] One by one, I flipped them into the water. The gulls swooped down
[32:28] on them, and then flapped up again, screaming indignantly. The phony pearls
[32:32] had full. Waller went a little the barceline. But they couldn't fool a
[32:37] seagull, I said to myself, to the memory of Johnny Dalmas, just
[32:44] another for flusher. I listened to a while of the wheeling seagulls. All
[32:53] at once I realized that the wind had died, The satana had blown itself
[32:57] out. The red wind was down. It is over. You have just
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[34:04] good Night. Story on the Adventure of Philip Barlow was based on Red
[34:06] Wind, written by Raymond Chandler, creator of Philipmarlow, the screen's most famous
[34:10] Private Detective, was adapted for radio by Milton Geiger. Heard with Van Hefflin
[34:16] was Loreen Tuttle as Lola Varsay. And this is Wendell Niles inviting you to
[34:22] listen again next week at this same time to another exciting story on the Adventures
[34:28] of Philip Barlow, starring Van Heflin with a distinguished cast. This is NBC,
[34:35] the National Broadcasting Company. Welcome back. There are a few things on
[34:47] this episode. I like how they kind of rolled with the punches versus the
[34:54] expel nation versus the reality of nineteen forty and the explanation and the stories.
[35:01] The ex explanation apparently was a case of subletting for how the person got into
[35:13] Philip Marlowe's building, without Marlowe having any familiarity with him. That was a
[35:20] pretty good explanation in nineteen thirty eight. In nineteen forty seven, we are
[35:24] still in the World War two housing crisis, and that would have been a
[35:30] lot more rare, and they just kind of acknowledged it with a wink and
[35:32] continued on. The overall performance of van Heflin here wasn't necessarily bad, but
[35:40] it was kind of understanding. It almost felt like at times he was trying
[35:45] to almost manufacture the seriousness rather than just really getting into the part, if
[35:53] that makes any sense. The music wasn't as good as I think on the
[36:00] a on the CBS series, though I think they worked pretty well with the
[36:04] wind and sound effects to create that feeling of the story. So overall this
[36:10] this was a decent first episode. And one thing we should be clear on
[36:16] too, because there's the temptation and I've heard people listen and they'll be this
[36:22] assumption about reasons why a series didn't last long or wishing it would have lasted
[36:30] longer. It's helpful to remember that regardless of how Van Heflan did in his
[36:37] performance, this was always going to be just a summer series, particularly with
[36:43] the focus on adapting Raymond Chandler stories, as he didn't have a ton of
[36:49] those to do. Was written and intended for the summer, and even if
[36:52] the series had lasted the past the summer, Helflan would have likely laughed because
[36:59] he still was I'm making some good money in the movies. All right.
[37:02] Well, now we turn to some listener comments and feedback. Sheila says,
[37:07] I love the old radio, go to sleep to it each night, and
[37:14] Gaila says, I just found you in these famous detectives on iTunes. I'm
[37:17] a new fan of your side. Thanks well, Thanks so much to Gala
[37:22] and Sheila. Appreciate you listening. We will be back tomorrow with Nick Harter
[37:28] Maaster Detective, and then join us next week for another episode of Philip Marlow.
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