Episode 441 – No One Else Could Love You Mohr (Philip Marlowe & The Whistler)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Gerald Mohr's voice blasted like a .45 automatic when he starred as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe in one of radio's best hard-boiled detective dramas. But the actor could also be heard as the glib gumshoe Archie Goodwin and an amorous French teacher on Our Miss Brooks. We'll hear Mohr in a pair of Marlowe mysteries: "The Heart of Gold" (originally aired on CBS on October 24, 1948) and "The White Carnation" (originally aired on CBS on September 22, 1950). Plus, he's a murderer hiding out in his hometown in "Warm Reception" from The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on November 19, 1950).
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.0 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:22.0 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize |
| 0:25.4 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account |
| 0:30.6 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:33.0 | Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets with more old time radio crimes and |
| 1:02.0 | crime fighters. This week we're saluting another radio |
| 1:06.9 | legend, an actor hailed by no less than Raymond Chandler as possessing a voice that was absolutely tops. |
| 1:17.0 | He's Gerald Moore, born June 11, 1914, and perhaps best known to old-time radio fans as Philip Marlow, Chandler's iconic |
| 1:27.8 | Los Angeles-based gumshoe. |
| 1:31.2 | His portrayal as the detective earned rave reviews from Marlow's creator. |
| 1:37.2 | And while it's his best known radio role, the versatile more was also heard as Archie |
| 1:42.3 | Goodwin opposite Sydney Green Street's |
| 1:44.8 | Nura Wolf. On the comedy side of the street he was heard as an amorous |
| 1:49.8 | French teacher with eyes for Eve Arden on Our Miss Brooks. |
| 1:55.0 | On screen, he recurred as Doc Holiday on Maverick. |
| 1:59.0 | He played a villain on the man from Uncle, |
| 2:02.0 | and he made several visits to Perry Mason. |
| 2:05.0 | And long before Ryan Reynolds donned a CGI suit, |
| 2:10.0 | Gerald Moore made for a pretty good green lantern in a 1960s cartoon. |
| 2:16.0 | Let those who worship people's might. |
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