Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to another midweek comedy quarantine bonus episode of Down

These Mean Streets and this week since we of Down these Means Streets.

And this week, since we can't go to the movie theater,

I'm bringing the movies to us,

with a pair of classic comedy pictures recreated for radio and both with their original star, the

legendary rapid-fire comedian Bob Hope.

First up from April 3rd, 1949 on the screen director's assignment, it's the

ghost breakers. Bob Hope recreates his role of crime reporter Larry Lawrence whose latest ex-Bose has a crime boss gunning for him.

Larry decides to take a quick trip out of town.

Along the way he helps a beautiful young woman whose newly

inherited castle may be haunted. Hope's co-star on the big screen was Paulette

Goddard, but that role is played on radio by Shirley Mitchell.

An actress who may be best known to radio fans is Lila Ransom, The Southern Bell Wood

on the Air by the Great Guilter Sleeve.

Then from March 3rd 1950 Hope reunites with his co-star Jane Russell in a radio version of the comedy Western classic The Pale Face.

Russell plays Calamity Jane on a government mission to track down Renegade whites selling guns to Native American tribes.

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