# Philip Marlowe - Red Wind

Heard 1947–1948. 2 episodes.

"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…

## Sets

- Philip Marlowe - Red Wind (Old Time Radio): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/itotr-philipmarlowe-redwind

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [Red Wind (June 17, 1947 - Van Heflin)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/philip-marlowe-red-wind/8d7863c75cf8), aired 17 June 1947 (31 min): https://archive.org/download/itotr-philipmarlowe-redwind/PhilipMarlowe-VanHeflin-1947-06-17-RedWind.mp3
1. [Red Wind (September 26, 1948 - Gerald Mohr)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/philip-marlowe-red-wind/27c643c80dc6), aired 26 September 1948 (30 min): https://archive.org/download/itotr-philipmarlowe-redwind/PhilipMarlowe-1948-09-26-RedWind.mp3

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

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