Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Radio

Johnny Dollar - Rebel Wildcatters Inc

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Duration:: 31m
Broadcast on:: 15 Jul 2024
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See website for details. Johnny Dalla. Bob Douglas, who is the Mike Johnny. How soon can you leave California? Right away, my right big toe meets the frosting. What's the matter? The policy holder, young fellow named Jefferson, went west and an oil. The only disappeared. It might be murder. Well, I guess I'd better pack two shirts. Looking for one man in a big state like California, it can be murder. Edmund O'Brien in the transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly Johnny Dalla. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dalla to Great Corinthian Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of my expenditures during process of search for your missing policy holder, youthful millionaire Alec Jefferson, or how they were drilling for oil or what they struck was me. Expense account item one, $186.13. Airfare, Hartford, to Los Angeles. Item two, $15. Higher car, airport to office of Rebel Wildcatters, incorporated on potential oil land in the Newhall Sawdust District. I arrived at 9.30 a.m. A handful of dirt dentists were hard at it drilling at a rig, not 30 feet from the shack type office. Better stand by, driver. My man may not be here. Morning. Can you tell me we're all fine with the flarity? You're talking to him. I'm Ma's clarity. What can I do for you? My name is Johnny Dalla, Mr. Flaherty. I've been sent out here by the Corinthian Life Insurance Company to see if I can get a track on your partner, Alec Jefferson. I see. Well, if they are money you're spending dollars, so I don't care much if you're wasted. But if you don't mind my saying so, I do think you're going to be wasting your time. Well, I get paid by today. Then I guess you don't mind wasting time. I'll look you. Don't get the idea. I'm just naturally pessimistic. I'm not. It's just that I've already done a lot of looking for young Jefferson. And when that bird flew to Coop, he didn't leave a feather you could trace him by. Well, do you have any objection to giving me a few details? No, no, no. Sit down. Not at all. Thank you. To save time, maybe I'd better tell you what I already know. Well, it can't be much. It isn't. I suppose you realize Corinthian Life is the administrator of Jefferson's father's estate. Yeah, yeah. I know that. Well, having charge of the money, they naturally know that young Jefferson financed this operation. That's right. His money, my experience. The only thing we needed was a little more luck. Well, there you have it. That's all I've got. What can you tell me? That whatever young Alexander God he was asking for, for a guy built like a... a cream puff, he got money strong around here, around an oil field that isn't healthy even for a big guy. And I mean, he got strong. Too much money, too much opinion. That mixed up with too many other men's women can mean trouble for anybody. Any particular women? Too many. By telling me who they are. Oh, matter of fact, I got a list right here. Yeah, you can have it. I already tried it. Just one more thing. How and when did he drop out of sight? A week ago last night. He left here at five o'clock for his department on the sunset strip in Hollywood. He never got there. I checked that too. Yeah. Give me that paper, babe. I'll write down the address. Thanks. Well, I'll be around. Oh, by the way, the first thing we try to figure out in my racket is who would benefit most? How would you like to have him found? Dead or alive? Either way, darling. I can take it. I've lost partners before. I spent the next 20 minutes on a long shot, thinking I could pick up some information from the drillers. But it was a long shot that missed. Those guys wouldn't have told me it was a nice day. The outdoor life having got me nowhere, I decided to give the indoor type a try. First up, Jefferson's apartment on the sunset strip. The lock was foolproof, but I wasn't fooling. The joint was decorated in a lovely shade of hangover green. A series of alcohol rings from the bottoms of glasses, carrying out the motif on all flat surfaces. In the living room, I found several pieces of loosely strewn feminine attire. In the bedroom, I found one piece of loosely strewn female. Hey, who are you? What do you want? Oh, sorry. I understood this was Alec Jefferson's apartment. It is? Oh. You can drop your eyebrows, Mr. On his wife. I beg your pardon? You heard me. I'm Mrs. Alec Jefferson. Does he not rub with you? Gotta make coffee? Yeah, why? Well, how about making me some while I go put on a face? I guess so. You probably have to wash the percolator. To me, the best grounds for divorce would be coffee grounds and an unwashed percolator, though I washed it. I also made the coffee wondering the while how she had made the matrimonial grade. Right then and there, I'd have given her the bad housekeeping award. She looked like the kind of a girl who could get into a beauty contest, but like she'd never win it. Anyway, you looked at her. She was a new complication. Your coffee's ready. Yeah, fine. Good. Got any clean cups? No, but I washed too. Yeah. Thanks. Now, would you mind telling me who you are? I have an insurance investigator, I'm looking for your husband. Well, we should find him, I could use some money. How long have you two been married? Do you wait? Why? Routine question. Tell me, when was the last time you saw him? I was waiting here for him, the night he disappeared. Any witnesses? If I need him. Okay. Tell me this, do you have any idea why he disappeared or where he is? At the slightest. Do you know a man named Mars Flatty? Yeah. Yeah, I sure do. How well? I was his girl. So, by the way, have the police come to you yet? No, I went to them. You see, I'm the one who reported Alec missing. You know whether they've come up with anything? Nothing much. Up until now, he's just a missing person. They put Alec's picture on a television every night. I don't know that they're doing much else. They keep calling him a Caucasian. Look, look, please don't get so hysterical about this. It makes you so hard to question. Huh? Oh, nothing. Oh, oh, I guess. Excuse me if I seem dense this morning. Morning. Morning. It's 3 in the PM. All right, so everything about me's wrong. That's right. Look, you can think that I married him for his money if you want to. Of course, you're used to suspecting everybody of everything. But have you heard? They're two sides to every marriage. Do I look strong enough to have carried him to the order? I never weighed him. But answer me this, if he swept you off your feet, why did he pull a fade out in the middle of the honeymoon? What should I know? Maybe he'd never seen a day without makeup on before and had to go someplace to thank you up. I wonder if there's anything to eat. I'm hungry. Look, I think I'd better be going. I'm not much of a cook. When you're working on a case, your nerve ends are easily disturbed. So when I left the house, we saw a hard-topped blue Plymouth Park opposite the apartment, mine climbed an alarm. In the cause had an equally hard-topped man reading holes in a newspaper. I gave him a slow walk away and quick-turned treatment, and I caught him with his newspaper down. Then I had to go into my act. My George, you old son of a gun. Huh? Oh my gosh, it's good to see you. What are you talking about? My name is George. What? What? Well, I'll be. What do you know, as I came out of the house, I got half a look at you. And as I started a walk away, the face registered. Wait, Mr. You're a dead-ringer for an old-school power line, George Pfeiffer. How do you like that? But come here, let me take a closer look. Come here. Ah, look at her. Sleep tight. Okay, sleeping beauty. Over you go. Isle drive. I turned the car up into the Hollywood Hills, found an empty house with a piscail sign up front, and a garage out back and rolled in. His wallet was bulging with everything but money and information. An ID card gave his name as Philip Wilkins, his occupation as private detective. The next pact I came up with was that Mr. Wilkins was a light sweeper. He came too to find me still fishing through his wallet. Hey, give me that. Okay, hold it, Mr. Take it easy. Here, you can have your wallet back. Now keep calm and everything's going to be all right. If you don't, I'll have to give you whiskers another dusting. Oh, look, what's a big idea? Well, just slug me. You know why, Mr. Wilkins, because you had a plant on me, and I figured if you were that curious about me, I wanted to know more about you. No nuts, I wasn't watching you. Just watching that house you come out of. There's a thing in there that I'm getting paid to tell. I can't afford to be convinced of that. Who hired you? I'm not telling. You or anybody else, Mr. Dollar. Oh, word travels fast. First you tell me you're not watching me, then you also tell me you know who I am. So what? Is that illegal? You want to see the thing that I'm watching? I was told you'd probably be around. And you was? You'll be in my report. If you're healthy enough to make it. What were you really doing with that stakeout? Were you watching the apartment waiting for somebody to show up? Do you really have a tail on Mrs. Jefferson? Or did you follow me in from the oil fields? Why should I follow you? Maybe you and I got the same approach to this case. You found him yet? No, but it's still early. Who else is interested in finding Jefferson? I hear he's quite a playboy. Maybe one of his playmates wants him served with breach of promise papers. Oh, come on, Donald, let's face it. I can't tell you who I'm working for. You know that it ain't ethical. It's not ethical to let yourself get picked up as easily as I picked you up either. But let it go. I don't suppose by any chance you know a man named Mars Flabby. No. I'd like to see one of his derricks fall on him. Why so? What did he do to you? A couple of days ago, I went out there to try and sell him some information. He had three of his men beating me up and throwing me off the oil field. Yeah? What's with that look? Would you believe me? Who knows? You might be telling me you hate Mars Flabby to keep me from thinking you're working for him. I think you better get out of this. Come on, let me drive away, dollar. There's a lot of trouble. I don't think so. Oh, you don't think so. I can have you pull in the kidney. If that's what you have in mind, then first you'd better get a few witnesses for yourself. Now, come on, suppose you're calmed down for a minute. If you really hate that guy, well, maybe we can make a deal. It's against him, I'll deal with you. How much do you know about Flabby? My bookies, Michael, I'll ask you to wait back. It's promoted about 50 worlds and none of them ever happen. While they hit oil. I guess that he's got to hunt you. This is the big one. That's why I think his partner disappeared. You know, what difference would that make? Even if his partner turned up dead, Flaherty would still have to split any profits with young Jefferson's estate. Every night. I know they had a queer deal. Well, who'd know about that deal besides Flaherty and Jefferson? I don't know. But I do know one way of finding out what it is. How's that? Flaherty keeps all his papers in the safe in his office. I didn't even get the combination. We'll give it here. You keep it. Wilkins, I still don't know who you're trying to get even with. Flaherty and me. So what I'm going to do is give you half a break. Then I'll only be taking half a chance. Yeah, now why don't you want the combination to the safe? I don't need it. You're going to open that safe. Because you're going out there with me. Tonight. [Music] Here, this window. Okay, I hear you handle a glass cutter. Right. I look, here's what we do. I wet this suction cup, get a grip on the glassy. Nah, you cut around the outside edge and I lift the paint out in one piece. That's the number one straight from the bird's handbook. [Music] All that needs is a little tap with the knuckle. That's it. All right, here we go. You first. Okay. That a safe is over here. Get your fingers over that flashlight. For all I know you might still turn out to be the local pore of the year. Yeah, that's right. That might. Yeah, in whole life. Thanks, I will. Go on, get the work. All right, all right, I'm as anxious to get this over with this reward. Give me a little more light. Okay. There you are. All right, go to it. You go to it, you reach in. And if your hand comes up with anything heavy, then papers are creamiest. Go ahead, stop your worrying. Here. Nothing here. Nothing here. All right, you got him, that's all. Stay down there. I don't want to walk over to anybody's government funds. Here, I got all I want. You put these back. All right. Now, close it up. All right, now, come on, let's get out of here. Just a minute, Wilkins. I'm gonna have a good look at these papers. You can look at them later, come on, let's go. Look, this I'll give you for free. It's the difference between being a $4 a day private detective and a $10 one. What you've got printed in your memory, nobody can take away from you. So hold your horses while I take a look at this partnership agreement. All right, all right, but hurry up, will you? Got a couple of watchmen around here. Yeah, here it is. Okay, let's go, you first. Okay, back to the car, make it fast and easy. Get in, over here, you'll drive. You know, Wilkins had a clammy feeling for a while back there that we weren't going to make it. Don't go start in any celebrations. You didn't make it. In just a moment, we will return to the second act of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. But first and yummy Johnny down to Big Bang, Gary Cooper, and young Gary this Wednesday. Now we return to yours truly, Johnny Dollar, starring Edmund O'Brien. There I was wearing a gun muzzle for a back collar button. My left leg picked up the nervous vibrations of my front seatmate Philip Wilkins. My flattery in the back seat was so close I could almost identify the brand of the bourbon he'd been drinking. I exposed your gun what you went into the office after. I not only got it, I memorized it and it makes you look bad. Yeah, then I don't have to explain to you why I don't want you two guys or the paper running around town on the loose. Well, it's a corporate paper, that means it's on file somewhere. So what difference does it make? Start the car. Well, we go on. My house, go ahead, get going. Okay, Wilkins, you better roll. What's at your house? The reason that paper makes a difference, right? The guy who came here looking poor showed up. Alec Jefferson, where is he? He's where we're going, my place. Well, and I guess maybe my employers have got nothing to worry about. Nothing but paying off on his life insurance. Alec Jefferson's dead. Hey, hey, dollar, here's the key. To open the door, stand next to him, Wilkins, close. And the light switch is on your right. Here's your boy, dollar. Died young, didn't he? The thing is, it looks like he died in my house. Now, what do I do now? If you're putting on an innocent act, you're doing pretty good, clarity. How's the rest of it go? I've been around killings before, so I know how the rest of it goes. The cops take one look at this, they grab me. Before that happens, I got some work to do. So have I been around killings before, and I know how the rest of your story goes. You came into your house and you found him. Somebody hit Jefferson over the head with that piece of firewood to get rid of him and make you look guilty, you're being framed. The next chapter, each, you've got eight witnesses to prove you were at a church social at the probable time of death. That's the way I wish I'd read, but I haven't got any witnesses. I've been on the loose out in the hills ever since I saw you this morning. Oh, yeah, what are you, an H-11? An oil man. My racket, you never stop sniffing. And I came back and found him here. I headed it for the office site. I wanted that paper you got out of the way for the time being. Well, that gun of yours object, if I looked the body over, help yourself. Thank you. And any idea how long he's been dead, darling? I had to tell. Feels like quite a while. Could have happened before I met you. What do you mean by that? Nothing. Hey, uh, flirty. You ever see this before? Or what is it? Any ring? No, let me see that. Yeah, hands off, don't touch it. That's another $4 detective move. You don't touch evidence. You draw a mental picture of it. What are you trying to do? Involve yourself or uninvolve a client? How about it, clarity? Do you have any idea who that earring belongs to? Maybe one of the Danes on that list you gave me, eh? I wish I could get away with the lion to you, darling, but I don't think I'm in a position to try. It belongs to Ada. Oh, Jefferson's white. Not legally. What do you mean? I married her in Mexico in '45. She must have liked the scenery. She took Jefferson down there and went through a ceremony with him two weeks ago. Without divorcing you? That's right. You guys really turned out to be partners. How about that earring? How do you know it belongs to Ada? Well, it's one of us that I bought for about six months ago. I might as well tell you they'd find out anyway. Well, I don't suppose you're in the mood to let me do what I want to do. What's that? Call the police. No, no, not yet. Well, I'll tell you one thing. With this piece of evidence that just turned up your wasting your time holding on to us, what you should be doing is getting to Ada before she flies the coop. That would really fix you up. Yeah, sure would. I don't want to see her get loose any more than you do. Then I guess we better go pay Ada a visit. (Music) The tree if you get out. All you've got is one lousy earring. And if you think I'm going to stand here and listen to you try to pin a murder on me, you're nuts. Mars never bought me anything. He never gave me any earrings. How about it, clarity? Too bad, Ada. If I thought there was a chance to help you, I would. But you're earring was laying right there on the floor next to his body. Why, you wily monster you. What are you trying to do to me? Why, if anybody had reason to kill Alec, you did your miserable thing. No, no, wait a minute, Ada. Don't make yourself look worse by throwing a lot of accusations around. I know about the contract between Alec and Mars. In case of death, the survivor gains full control of the oil field. But a good piece of evidence will beat out a good piece of motive in any court in the country. And you've got both working against you. Get out of here. You don't know what you're talking about. I think I do. Knowing about that agreement, you married both these guys. Those Mexican marriages are just, just weak enough to help you beat a bigger me rap if it came to that. And just strong enough to help you collect if either of your husbands died. Your next move would be to divorce the one that was still living and take advantage of the California community property laws. You've got it all figured out, haven't you? Not quite. I haven't figured out why young Jefferson went to all the trouble of dropping out of sight. And then showed up to get himself murdered. Think I can tell you. It was about time you told us something. I was working for Alec Jefferson. That's why I couldn't tell you, darling. I was getting paid to help him stay out of sight and keep my eye on these two. The contract had him worried. But when I uncovered the bigger me and told him about it, he decided to go to flaring and try and straighten it out man-to-man basis. You know that, Ada? No. I don't know anything about anything. That's a lie. I was with him this morning when he called you. He told you he was going out there. You've got plenty of time to get out there and wait for him. You can't get away with it. You can't prove anything. Now get out of here! Not before I'm in the gun, Faraday. I got it. No, let me go. Hey, hey, none of that. Around you go. That's better. Much better. Now, come on, Ainsville, across the road. Well, Faraday. Don't you think I'd better call the police now? I'm afraid there's nothing else to do. Okay, then you hold. You put your hands on me. You take nothing! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Give me police, operator. My name is Dalla. I'm calling from Apartment 3C, Horizon View Apartment Sunset Strip. I've got a murderer here for you. It's out in Newhall, but that can wait. Well, that body's usually due, but you never can tell about a killer. Well, that's it. You got a good tight hold on our flirty? Yeah, I can handle it. Good. That handle, this. No, you're nuts. What'd you do that for? I wanted to keep on Ainsville, at least get here. Mars, flarity is our boy. Come here, Aida. What is it? Wilkins, take a look at her ears. What? I don't see nothing wrong with him. Well, that's just it. That earring we found near the body, it was made for a pierce deer. Aida's aren't. She never could have worn it. Marl, if flarity had been a nice enough guy to buy jewelry for his wife when he had her, he wouldn't have bought the wrong kind of earring when he wanted to set her up as a patsie. The police traced his purchase of same new Amine Street pawn shop. But what really nailed him was the biggest switch of all. Since the murder weapon was a shaft of rough bark firewood, there were no fingerprints on it. But by the same token, there were weapon prints on flarity's fingers. A batch of tiny splinters under the skin. And as much as my own girl furnished the practice which made me perfect on this case, I assume you will not be annoyed at my listing expense account item three, sixty-five dollars, one pair gold earrings inscribed to Olga with love. Item four, a hundred and eighty-seven dollars and thirteen cents return transportation, Los Angeles to Hartford. Expense account total, seven hundred and eleven dollars signed yours. Truly, Johnny Dollar. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role and is written by Paul Dudley and Gill Dowd with music composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Edmund O'Brien can currently be seen starring in the Harry M. Popkin United Artist's production, D.O.A. featured in our cast were Michael Ann Barrett, Ed Max and Tony Barrett. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Jaime Delvi. Be sure to join us next Tuesday evening when Edmund O'Brien returns in another transcribed adventure of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Blizzard's in the western states, floods in Texas, hurricanes in Florida, tornadoes in Louisiana. Wherever disaster strikes, the American Red Cross stands ready to land assistance. The Red Cross helps victims not only at the terrifying moment when disaster strikes, but also in rehabilitation. This is just one of the many nationwide activities of the Red Cross, give generously to its latest drive. 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