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Philip Marlowe - Red Wind

Heard
1947–1948
Episodes
2

"Ill blows the wind that profits nobody" Adventures Of Philip Marlowe - Red Wind September 26, 1948 There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. So opens the story Red Wind by Raymond Chandler. Unfortunately, Marlowe is only part-way through his glass of beer when it's interrupted by murder. It may be random, or it may have been a set-up, but any murder comes with a handful of loose ends, and they soon begin to stack up at Marlowe's door. First it's a beautiful woman in a bolero jacket and a blue silk dress, then it's a sadistic killer who's a pip with a .22 target pistol. Soon the web expands to include blackmail, a philandering husband, a police lieutenant named Ybarra, five hundred dollars in twenties, and a string of forty-one pearls with a diamond propeller clasp. This was the premiere episode of the Gerald Mohr CBS series, airing September 26, 1948. The script for this episode is almost an exact duplicate of the one used for the first episode of Van Heflin's Philip Marlowe series a year earlier, and credit must be given to Milton Geiger, the writer on that 1947 series. Listening to this episode, you will…

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Red Wind (June 17, 1947 - Van Heflin)

    · 31 min

  2. Red Wind (September 26, 1948 - Gerald Mohr)

    · 30 min

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