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 the 350th episode of Down These Mean Streets.

Today to celebrate I've got one of my favorite actors playing one of my

favorite detectives with Gerald Moore as Philip Marlow in four old-time

radio mysteries.

Of course, many actors have played Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles Gumshoo,

including Van Heflin on radio, Powers Booth, and Danny Glover on television, and Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart,

Robert Mitcham, Elliot Gould, and James Garner on the big screen.

But when I read Chandler, the voice I hear in my head belongs to Gerald Moore, who

starred as the Private Eye from 1948 until 1950, and then in a brief summer series in 1951. This was a perfect

union of voice and character with more effortlessly capturing Marlow's charm, his wit,

and his two-fisted intensity

all within the same 30 minutes.

So let's jump right in and kick off

this Mega Marlow episode with Gerald Moore's very first performance

in the role, an adaptation of Chandler's short story, Red Wind.

This originally aired on CBS on September 26th, 1948, and it's the same script that was used a year earlier when Van Heflin played Marlow.

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