Love these old radio shows! Must agree with other comment: better than TV! (Most of the time). You can actually have your kids around too - nothing for anyone to be embarrassed about- language and such. Thanks for providing this.
Gotta love OTR. I'm now in a process of collecting Old Time Radio shows on reel-to-reel tapes and on cassettes. I started listening to OTR when I was 11 years old that I was obsessed with cassette tapes. I recorded every show like "Jack Benny", "Lone Ranger", "The Shadow" and this one. This is far better than reality TV garbage. I don't watched newer shows on TV these days, I go back and relived OTR the way that I've missed back when I young. This show was originally on CBS Radio, but it was sent to AFRS for their troops overseas.
I would bleach out my brain before I watched the garbage reality shows. Reality shows are cheap to produce using the lowest form of losers. The hip-hop and prison reality shows are particularity brainless and mind numbing. These reality shows are indicative of the low level of American society that sucks them up like hungry cockroaches.
Great fun! Howard Duff had a super set of Baritone Hormones 65 years before Garrison Keillor identified them. I will always love radio -- as it was -- better than television. Those really were the days.
This is one episode I have never heard. It's a gem! Love both Howard Duff and Lurene Tuttle, both of them being the best portrayers of these characters. Thanks!
Although Sam Spade is perhaps the most famous of all hard-boiled detectives, creator Dashiell Hammett only featured the character in a single novel, The Maltese Falcon, and three short stories. Hammett wrote from experience, having served eight years as a detective with the Pinkerton Agency. His cases had included investigations of Fanny Brice's gangster husband Nicky Arnstein and the infamous Fatty Arbuckle scandal. Hammett based many of his stories on actual people and cases, but insisted that Sam Spade had no real-life counterpart, and was instead an "idealized" version of "what most of the private detectives I've worked with would like to have been."
This is one of the shows that was preserved by AFRS; the original CBS network version apparently doesn't exist, with Dick Joy's Wildroot opening/closing and commercials....
"....with 'THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE'! Presented by the makers of Wildroot Cream Oil". {first commercial, into harp glissando} "And now, with Howard Duff as Spade, Wildroot brings to the air the greatest private detective of them all....in 'THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE'!"
The coda is also missing- you wanna bet Effie stays with Sam? "'THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE' are produced and directed by William Spier. Sam Spade is played by Howard Duff; Lurene Tuttle is Effie..."
It’s just the dangerous thug for this episode, the typical hunted target/bad guy of the week, so to speak. These episodes were usually aired in parts, with a “tune in tomorrow for the next segment” tactic, and this is just the last of it, the first parts are missing, so that’s why it’s so confusing. I checked, seems like no one has the first bit of it as far as I can tell. .
"'THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE, DETECTIVE'! Brought to you by Wildroot Cream Oil hair tonic- the non-alcohol hair tonic that contains Lanolin! Wildroot Cream Oil- again and again, the choice of men who put good grooming first!" [opening scene with Sam and Effie, with the title of the "Caper"] "Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade, the hard-boiled private eye- and William Spier, radio's outstanding producer of crime and mystery dramas, join their talents to make your hair stand on end..."
Love Sam Spade. Effie Perrine's voicing really doesn't match her character. She's supposed to be a strong woman.... Better portrayed in the film, The Maltese Falcon.
