Lux presents Hollywood.

The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Edward G. Robinson,

Gail Patrick, and Laird Creegar in the Maltese Falcon.

Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille.

Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.

Some people like mystery stories because of the intellectual challenge they present.

Personally, I'm seldom able to figure out who done it without skipping to the back of the book.

But give me a good detective story and like presidents, bankers, housewives, and chorus girls the country over.

I find that my own troubles fold up their tents like the Arabs and silently steal away.

Tonight, we point with pride to a triumph of the art.

The dash of Hammett Classic, the Maltese Falcon,

brought to us by three of our favorite stars, Edward G. Robinson,

Gail Patrick, and Laird Creegar.

The Warner Brothers screenplay was masterfully written and directed by John Houston,

who comes by his talent naturally because he's Walter Houston's son.

For the next hour, we will follow the eerie trail of this fabulous falcon,

which is coveted by many people, to their great deal fortune,

and to the great deal health of a few.

I think most of us have a secret desire to be detectives.

At least that seems to be very true of this audience,

because you've done some good practical detective work

by discovering dozens of different ways to use luck's plates.

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