The Lost Sam Spade Scripts

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Twenty Years of Thrills and Chills. After reading all plus radio scripts, I can state that the early years were the best.


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Odd note courtesy of hind-sight: I mean, look at it this way. Spade hitched rides on the back of trolley cars. He slept with married women.

GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES

No one else did that on radio. But when Tallman and Doud left the series after the first three years, the script writers who replaced them were already established with scripting other detective programs. The Sam Spade program ultimately became an imitation of the shows that were trying to imitate Sam Spade.

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The series ultimately declined because it was becoming an imitation of itself. Dundy arrives and Sam explains how Dolph didn't jump out the window -- evidence suggests he was pushed out by Miriam when Sam was momentarily out of the room. She planned the death of her father-in-law so she could collect an early inheritance. She attempted to cover her tracks with a second muder. Sam romantically kisses Miriam, a married woman. This would not be the first time he did that on the radio program, and in a later episode actually sleeps with a married woman! This script would later be dramatized again on the series on November 10, Sally Hart arrives in Spade's office in hopes of hiring him to exchange envelopes with an acquaintance known as Sandy Fiske.

Sam takes the job but when he arrives at the hotel, he finds Fiske lying on the floor The room is locked from the inside and Sam figures that the killer never had time to leave the room. He later meets Major Wales, a midget, who tells Sam that Sandy is his wife. From Della, Sam discovers the envelope contained a news clipping about a girl, murdered in a locked room, and a telegram dated a few days before the clipping.

The real Sally Hart was the murdered girl. The cover-up involved the ownership of the traveling side show carnival. The true killer reveals his hand when he is foole dby the fake wire and Della, using the jealous husband as the unwitting weapon of choice, planned to murder his first wife. Miss Lavinia Mink of Turk Street hires Sam to find Lucy Mink, who disappeared and has apparently vanished -- leaving no trace of her whereabouts. As Sam investigates each member of the family, he soon realizes that everyone in the house is dysfunctional.

Shortly after Sam's arrival, Luther, the manservant, is found murdered. The private eye eventually solves the mystery when he learns that the pet parrot in the family talks too much.


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When Luther learned the truth from the bird, the quack, Dr. Linklater, killed him before Luther could give the parrot to Sam as proof. The guilty party was, obviously, the doctor who was poisoning the two daughters to cover up a fifty-year-old family secret. In the original story, each character was constantly using some other character to neutralize or destroy someone else. Each character had a different personality and thus provided the motif for this radio version. Florence Pearl wants Sam Spade to break up the association between her daughter, Rose, and a young man named Joseph Naples.

Naples is a shady character who hangs out where Rose works, the Barbary Burlesque, along with English Eddie, an international jewel thief. Sam meets Naples, who attempts to pay the detective off to avoid Pearl's request. Sam rejects the offer and visits Rose in her dressing room to heear her side of the story.

Only Rose is found dead shortly after their conversation. Checking the champagne bottle in the ice bucket, Sam discovers that the container was filled with dry ice.

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In the over-heated, badly-ventilated dressing room, the ice melted Rose died painlessly from asphyxia. The motive for the murder? Rose's costume contained three million dollars of jewels sewn on it. Spade tricks Eddie, the mastermind behind the caper, into confessing. Ricardo, the only man Rose treated like a decent person, takes the law into his own hands by shooting Eddie dead.

Spade allows Ricardo to return to his rooming house for the night and await the police who will arive soon In Spade's report to Mrs. Pearl, he tells her to turn over the costume to the police since there may be a reward on some of the pearls. Sam is hired by Emil Tauchnitz of the Tauchnitz Galleries, to find the artist of a popular painting on exhibit titled, "Yule Log.

Sam locates Mervyn Trelease, the artist, only to find the man dead in his apartment kind of getting a bit monotonous, isn't it? A piece of polished driftwood, simialr to that depicting the painting, was jabbed into Mervyn's chest. Sam learns that the artist was hinting at the ownership of a ship's log belonging to the S. Yule, which sank on July 13, , the same date depicted on the painting. The ship had a million dollar cargo of chemicals and if the log were to be recovered, the insurance money would not be claimed.

Thus the motive for a number of murders and the purpose of the painting hanging in the museum.

Archived Entry

That is the proper script title. The word "The" was not on the script title or the caper as Sam dictated it to Effie. Marsha Hopkins is worried about her sister, Constance Pendleton, who has become involved with a ne'er do well, a Bulgarian named Major Andreyev Vrodnik, whom she believes is interested in her sister's money and is capable of murdering her shortly after the wedding.

This modern-day bluebeard has a track record for killing his other wives across Europe, but police were stuck ruling them "accidents. Sam investigates by calling on the Bulgarian consulate, finds himself on the S. Lurene bound for Calcutta, goes through an ordeal with the Captain and his crew, and solves the mystery involving Norman Gorman, a professional hotel thief, and his client, Marsha, stuffed inside a trunk. Sam helps the authorities take the Major into custody and says goodbye to the temping and aluring Marsha before he gets too foolish and wakes up in a trunk himself.

The name of the ship, S. Lurene, was a tip-of-the-hat to Lurene Tuttle, who played the role fo Effie in the radio series. Sam takes the train to Personville, where a recent gold rush has caused the dusty ghost town to become an active boom town. Elihu Person hires Sam to keep an eye on shipments of gold bars.