Bold Venture - Deadly Merchandise

 Bogart plays Slate Shannon who owns a hotel in Havana and
gets involved in intrigue with his beautiful sidekick "Sailor."
Shannon and Sailor get involved with a shipment of arms for a
planned revolution. But Shannon never picked up the "merchandise"
in Key West, and two murders follow because he doesn't have the
guns. The characters in this series are based on those in, "To
Have and Have Not," which featured both Boagrt and Bacall. The
plot of this episode is based on the story of the film. The date
above is noted as the first known broadcast of the first episode,
but that is subject to correction. The title of the story is also
subject to correction. These programs were heard on over 500
stations and were broadcast is no particular sequence at no
particular time. + A guy name Scarn sent a wire requesting the
Bold Venture meet him in Key West as he wanted them to ship his
cargo but when they arrived he wasn’t there to Slate’s annoyance.
So they were even more surprised when they arrived back in Havana
empty-handed to be met by a guy named Mario who demanded to
remove the cargo stating that it was a matter of life or death…


Duration: 25:49 


Starring: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart


Broadcast Airdate: March 26, 1951