Lux Radio Theatre - Moontide

Summary

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Harold’s Old Time Radio

Podcast Summary: Lux Radio Theatre – "Moontide" (Aired July 6, 2026)

Overview

This episode of Harold’s Old Time Radio brings listeners back to the Golden Age of Radio with a dramatic adaptation of the film "Moontide" by the Lux Radio Theatre. Hosted by Mark Hellinger, the production features stars Humphrey Bogart as Bobo and Virginia Bruce as Anna. The story delves into the gritty, bleak world of West Coast dock workers, centering on themes of redemption, love, suspicion, and friendship, all swirled in fog and undercurrents of violence. For classic radio enthusiasts and newcomers alike, this episode captures the lingering uncertainty and unexpected tenderness of the pre-war noir genre.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Breakdown

1. Introduction & Setting the Stage

(00:30–03:45)

• Host Mark Hellinger introduces Humphrey Bogart and Virginia Bruce, discussing the challenges of adapting a film to radio:

  “Techniques differ. Changing sight to sound presents new, unexpected problems.” (01:06)

• Sets the scene at the “dreary” fishing village of San Felipe, California:

  “Even the charitable light of early evening can’t disguise the ugly cannery near the wharves...” (01:30)

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2. The Arrival and Unfolding Mystery

(03:45–06:51)

• Bobo (Bogart) awakens, groggy, on a bait barge after a blackout, unsure how he arrived.
• Henry (the Chinese owner) offers Bobo a day job in exchange for money and rice wine.
• Police investigation looms: local man Pop Kelly has been murdered — choked to death.
• Bobo, with a spotty memory from drinking, wonders if he was involved:

  “If I was feeling better, I might like to know how I got here. But I’m not feeling better.” (04:33)

• Dialogue sets up Bobo’s uncertainty and the audience’s suspense surrounding the murder.

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3. Dockside Friendships and Tensions

(06:53–09:19)

• Bobo’s companion, Tiny, pressures him to leave town, highlighting an unhealthy dependency:

  “It’s me, your pal Tiny, that always gets you out of trouble. Every time.” (08:23)

• Introduction of the philosophical night watchman, Nutsy:

  “When people do a good thing, maybe it’d be better if they took a bow for it. Every time.” (08:56)

• Bobo displays both care and guardedness toward those around him.

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4. Saving Anna and the Start of a Relationship

(09:20–15:07)

• Bobo intervenes in Anna’s (Virginia Bruce) suicide attempt, rescuing her from the bay.
• Law and morality clash as police want to arrest Anna for attempted suicide, but Bobo claims she was merely wading too far:

  “What kind of a screwy law do you call that? … She was wading and she just waded out too far.” (11:13)

• Sparks fly between Bobo and Anna, marked by Anna’s defensiveness and Bobo’s brusque compassion:

  Anna: “I don’t owe you anything, see? And I don’t want anything. Not from you or from anyone else in the world.” (14:22)

• Ends with Bobo’s tough love, but clear, nonjudgmental care for Anna.

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5. Building a Home, Searching for Meaning

(18:30–23:45)

• Anna wakes, cleans up the barge, and begins to cook and take care of things, showing signs of hope and wanting a new start.
• A gentle, evolving chemistry as Bobo and Anna discuss what makes a place a “home.”
• Bobo’s awkward affection emerges:

  “You cooked breakfast. And if you smile once in a while, you wouldn’t be a bad looking tomato.” (21:57)

• Tiny’s return reignites discontent, hinting at mutual dependency and jealousy.

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6. A New Start, and Shadows from the Past

(28:06–35:07)

• Anna and Bobo shop for curtains and paint to brighten up the barge, symbolizing their tentative claim on a future.
• They discuss marriage:

  Bobo: “This time it’s going to be different. This time I’m getting married.” (30:37)

• Tiny, feeling left out and bitter, pressures Anna to leave Bobo, threatening him with knowledge about the murder.
• Bobo finally opens up about his troubled past and Tiny’s hold over him:

  “When I get a few drinks inside of me, I can’t remember what I do…” (35:07)

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7. Wedding and the Climactic Reckoning

(39:14–44:45)

• The wedding scene: Bobo and Anna are married aboard the revitalized barge, surrounded by their community and new friends.
• Tiny circles the celebrations, darkly hinting he could still sabotage Bobo’s chance at peace.
• Ceremony brings a brief sense of tranquility:

  Nutsy: “That’s what you mean to that girl, Bobo…peace.” (42:11)

• Afterwards, Bobo agrees to help a friend with an engine, leaving Anna alone.

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8. Violence and Truth

(45:05–52:07)

• Tiny confronts Anna alone, trying to intimidate and manipulate her.
• Anna reasons that Bobo couldn’t be the killer, noting the dog’s absence at the time of the murder—a pivotal logic twist:

  “That dog never leaves him. … Why didn’t the paper say he had dog bites on him? … Because Bobo didn’t kill him.” (47:39)

• Tiny, enraged and cornered, tries to silence Anna.
• Bobo finds Anna injured; frantic, he rushes her to the hospital.

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9. Redemption and Resolution

(52:07–54:45)

• Anna survives her injuries, and Bobo is told she will recover.
• Nutsy muses on Bobo’s transformation and capacity for love:

  “You don’t need words to pray, Bobo. Only a heart. I think you’ve got that.” (53:11)

• Homecoming: Anna returns to the newly painted, flower-filled barge. Friends have helped rebuild it, symbolizing renewal.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Mark Hellinger on Adaptation:

  “Changing sight to sound presents new, unexpected problems.” (01:06)

• Bobo’s sardonic humor:

  “If I was feeling better, I might like to know how I got here.” (04:33)

• Night Watchman Nutsy’s wisdom:

  “When people do a good thing, maybe it’d be better if they took a bow for it. Every time.” (08:56) “That’s what you mean to that girl, Bobo…peace.” (42:11)

• Bobo’s declaration of hope:

  “This time it’s going to be different. This time I’m getting married.” (30:37)

• Anna’s defense of Bobo’s innocence:

  “That dog never leaves him...Why didn’t the paper say he had dog bites on him?…Because Bobo didn’t kill him.” (47:39)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:30 – Introduction by Mark Hellinger
• 03:45 – Bobo awakes on the barge; murder revealed
• 09:20 – Bobo rescues Anna
• 14:00 – Bobo and Anna’s tense first conversation
• 21:00 – Anna cleans and brings new life to the barge
• 30:26 – Bobo proposes to Anna
• 39:14 – Wedding day and celebratory mood
• 47:39 – Anna reasons out Bobo’s innocence in Pop Kelly’s murder
• 52:07 – Bobo brings injured Anna to the hospital
• 54:04 – Anna returns home; domestic happiness restored

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Closing & Curtain Call

(56:39–end)

• The stars emerge for their curtain call, reflecting on performances, careers, and future projects in a lighthearted, casual banter.
• Mark Hellinger thanks the cast and previews the next Lux Radio Theatre episode.
• Final comfort: Bobo and Anna have weathered suspicion, violence, and sorrow, finding solace and new beginnings together on their blue-and-white barge.

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For First-Time Listeners

This episode distills what radio drama did best: create entire worlds through dialogue, music, and sound effects, telling a mature, atmospheric tale about flawed people trying to make something better out of hard circumstances. Bogart and Bruce are as engaging here as on the silver screen, and the broadcast’s blend of suspense, dark humor, and emergent hope makes "Moontide" a memorable experience from radio’s golden age.

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Transcript

[Announcer]

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[Mark Hellinger]

Refreshers contain caffeine.

[Narrator]

Lux presents Hollywood. Deluxe Radio Theater brings you Humphrey Bogart and Virginia Bruce in Moontide. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Mark Hellinger.

[Mark Hellinger]

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. It is no rare thing in the history of entertainment for an author to adapt his story to the stage. Or a playwright to accommodate his drama to the screen. But rare or not, it is certainly a privilege for a Hollywood producer to present his motion picture on the air. Techniques differ. Changing sight to sound presents new, unexpected problems. And when I was making Moontide at the studios of 20th Century Fox, I hardly expected I'd be personally presenting Moontide at this theater. But that's the way the breaks fall. Never quite as you'd expect. I remember some years ago meeting a youthful actor who had just started his career as a tousel haired and laughing eyed comedian on Broadway. His one ambition was to become the funniest man in America. Years later he scored his most significant success as the tight lipped gangster in the Broadway hit the Petrified Forest. Yes, that tousle haired and laughing eyed comedian was Humphrey Bogart. He appears in our play tonight as Bobo, the impetuous wanderer of the west coast waterfront. Co starred with Humphrey Bogart is the blonde and beautiful Virginia Bruce as the young girl whom he meets so strangely at the brink of death. Their story is one of love in the shadow of an eerie danger of suspense and violence in an atmosphere of lonely tides and haunting fog. To bring Humphrey Bogart to our stage tonight and to rehearsals, I had to coax him from his sloop down in Balboa. And the sailor's life that he's so fond of when not actually in production. You'll find Humphrey any day around the harbor in a yachting cap and dungarees, cluttering around the boat, drying sails or scrubbing decks, doing his own cooking and washing. And speaking of washing. Yes, you've guessed it. In the galley is that familiar package of luxe plate. After all, the tradition of seafarers is that everything aboard be stick and stand. And sailors as well as housewives seem to feel that calls for lux flakes. Time now for our curtain and the first act. Of tonight's play, Moontide, starring Humphrey Bogart as Bobo and Virginia Bruce as Anna. The home port of a hundred fishing boats at sail Pacific waters is the little town of San Felipe, California. It's a dreary place. Even the charitable light of early evening can't disguise the ugly cannery near the wharves, the collection of ramshackle stores and the oversupply of cheap saloons along the beach. Squatting in the bay between the breakwater and the shore are half a dozen bait barges. A motorboat has just tied up to one of them. Out of it step two Chinese. A father and his son.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You see, Alfred, Man's still here.

[Narrator]

Yeah, sound asleep.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey, who's dog?

[Mark Hellinger]

Man's dog.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Follow him every place last night.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Big dog.

[Narrator]

Mean looking.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

It's okay, Doc. Tied up good.

[Narrator]

Better wake him up.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

I wake him.

[Narrator]

Why should he want to sleep on deck? What's wrong with inside Last night?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

He don't care where he sleeps. Valley the Lankman.

[Mark Hellinger]

Mister.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Mister, wake up.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Shake him, Pop.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

I shake.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Mister, wake up.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Hello.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Oh, hello.

[Narrator]

Hey, don't roll over.

[Tiny]

You'll fall in the water.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Water.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I see what you mean.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

How you feel, Mr.

[Tiny]

Fat?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I felt better.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

You big Zelinka. Yes.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah. It's your barge. My barge?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

You like it?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

It stinks.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Two, three days here. Just like a bladder of fresh air.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Except I'm not staying two, three days. If I was feeling better, I might like to know how I got here. But I'm not feeling better.

[Tiny]

No.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Lucky job.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What job?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Nora? Remember last night, my name Henry. Oh, this my boy Albert. Last night I met you Chapstory House with Link. Whole bottles. I find. You say you worked for me, remember?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey, dad, look.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Oh, yes. Police.

[Tiny]

Hey, any news yet? Not yet, but still looking.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Police boat.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Very good policeman. They catch him ready.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Catch who?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

You know. Pop Kelly. Somebody kill him last night? Murder? Yes.

[Narrator]

Whoever did it didn't do much. Pop was an awful grouch. In a lot of trouble when he started drinking. Still, to choke an old man like that, pretty dirty business.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

He was. He was choked to death.

[Tiny]

Yeah.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

You work for me, mister. $50 day bottle of ice wine.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

And they don't know who did it?

[Tiny]

No.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Who'd want to kill a man by choking him to death?

[Narrator]

Pop Kelly might know, but I don't.

[Tiny]

You.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You, Henry. You said you brought me here. You were with me all the time.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Sometimes when you get here, you just go to sleep. You take jobs? $2 every day. Bottles I find.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Could you let me have a couple of Bucks in advance.

[Tiny]

Sure.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Okay. You good man. Nice job.

[Tiny]

See?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Just sell bait. Bait in tank there. Small bucket, $1, big bucket, $2. Understand?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I get it.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

I go out in boat every night, catch bait. Blink here. Come on, dad.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

We got three more barges to check

[Henry (Chinese character)]

I for five tomorrow. Good business. Everything okay?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah, sure. Everything's okay. Hey, you, Gus. It's too bad you can't talk.

[Mark Hellinger]

You.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You were with me last night. The old man was choked.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

No.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Now maybe it's good you can't talk. Come on, Gus. You and me's gonna find Tiny. Hey, how about some service? Yeah, my friend ate in his room. You know where he went? How would I know? This is a rooming house, not an information. You see him go out? Maybe he's taking a shower. Where's the shower room? Down the basement. And I'm fit. Sure, pal, sure.

[Mark Hellinger]

Cut it out, will you, Tiny?

[Tiny]

Take the towel.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I said you could take it. Take the towel. I said you could take it.

[Narrator]

You got no right to hit me.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I'm not a young man. I can't defend myself.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hello, Tiny.

[Tiny]

Hiya, Bobo. Just giving my friend here a little rub down.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Lay off. I said lay off him.

[Tiny]

Okay, okay. Hey, my friend here didn't want to let me alone. Even borrow his towel. That's no way to act, is it, Bobo?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Tiny, did you. Did you leave me?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Leave you?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah.

[Tiny]

What do you mean?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I mean last night I kind of hung one on, huh?

[Tiny]

Yeah.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I liked everybody, Tiny. Everybody was good friends.

[Tiny]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Now listen, Bobo.

[Tiny]

Let's blow out of this town. A week here is plenty. I met a fellow with a truck and he's going to Frisco tonight.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

And that chop suey joint. Everybody had a good time together.

[Tiny]

Sure, I guess so. Don't you remember anything?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I don't remember anything.

[Tiny]

Listen, you big lugger. We grabbing that truck or not?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Sure, why not?

[Tiny]

Up north you'll get a good job, Bobo. Frisco, Portland.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You'll get a good dock job. It's always good for you when I. When I get a good job, huh, Tiny?

[Tiny]

I don't know what you mean.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Ain't that right, mister?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.

[Tiny]

What are you talking to him for?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I guess sometimes I get tired of talking to you.

[Tiny]

That crack you made. Don't I work?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Sure you work, Tiny. You stand in line for hours. For hours, mister. But the job he stands in line for, it ain't for him. Job's always for me, huh, Tiny?

[Tiny]

That Truck leaves at 10 tonight, Bobo. From right in Front of here.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I'll be here.

[Tiny]

I don't know whether you're kidding me or not, Bobo. You're the craziest guy I ever met. But don't you forget this. It's me, your pal Tiny, that always gets you out of trouble. Every time.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Every time. I couldn't make a move without my pal Tiny.

[Tiny]

I'm going to my room. So, Bobo, you see a newspaper today? No.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Why?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Oh, nothing.

[Mark Hellinger]

Just wondered.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I want to thank you for making him stop before.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Now forget it.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I can't forget a good turn.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Now what do you want me to do? Take a bow?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Sorry. I've seen a lot of this world and the people in it. And it's my opinion that when people do a good thing, maybe it'd be better if they took a bow for it. Every time.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What's your name around here?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

They call me Nutsy. I'm a night watchman.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Nutsy, huh? Where you going?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

To work.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I start my rounds down at the beach. I like to look at the water.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Me too. I'll go with you.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I'd be much obliged for your company.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Okay, let's go. Oh, wait. I. I got to get my dog first. He's tied up.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Oh, call it whatever you want. Man or nature or the Almighty. But it's here and it can't be denied.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

And you figured that out for yourself, Nutsy?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

No. A man named Plato figured that out.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Oh, well, keep talking. I don't understand it, but I like

[Tiny]

to hear you talk.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You got ideas.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I could talk all night, Bobo. But don't you have a rendezvous with tiny at 10 o'? Clock?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Ah, there's plenty of time. What do you say we have a beer?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

That's an excellent thought, but I had better.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Nutsy, come here quick.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

What's the matter?

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Quick. Down there by the breakwater.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Well, what's at the breakwater?

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Some day, Nutsy, I seen her going into the water. She just walked right into the water.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Drowning yourself? Is that what you wanted?

[Mark Hellinger]

Trying to save?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I don't know, Nutsy.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

I yelled to her, but she just kept walking in right over her head.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You better run for it, Bobo. Now, why would a damn pull a stunt like that?

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Should I get the cops, Nutsy?

[Mark Hellinger]

No, it's first where she went in. Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I hope you can swim.

[Mark Hellinger]

I can't.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You mean I'm supposed. All right. Step on a kid. I got a truck to catch at 10 o'.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Clock.

[Listener/Testimonial Speaker]

Look, she opened her eyes.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

She's coming, too. Will she be all right, Officer? Will she?

[Tiny]

I told You a dozen times.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Get back. How's she doing, huh?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Oh.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You okay? If I can get her to hold on to a little of this brandy here. Give me the bottle. Okay, sister. Come on. Take it. Take it.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Who.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Who said so?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey, listen, you. You caused enough trouble for one night. Come on, kid.

[Tiny]

Leave me alone, will you Take it?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I said no. A slug, all you can stand. Okay, You. What's your name?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Anna.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What's your last name? All right, don't talk. Maybe you'll feel more like talking at the station house. Are you taking her in?

[Tiny]

Certainly.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What for? What for? For attempted suicide. In California, that's against the law. What kind of a screwy law do you call that? So it's screwy, but it's. How about it, lady? Make it the car? Suppose I tell you she don't have to make it? No. What do you bet she wasn't trying to commit suicide? How do you know so much about it? Because I was in the water. Where were you? You ain't asking the questions, buddy. I am. So what were you doing out in the water? Wading, she was. Me and Nutsie here was having a drink. She was wading and she just waded out too far. Asked that boy there. That right, kid?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Why, of course that's right.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Is your name kid?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I. I guess that's what happened, all right.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Who are you? What do you do?

[Tiny]

Who, me?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah, you see that bait barge down the beach? I run it for that Chinese guy. Henry. What makes you think you know so much about this thing? Why shouldn't I? She's my girl. All right, Annie, you're okay.

[Tiny]

See?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

And now I'm beginning to get sore. Yeah, good and sore. You just had to go wading. You had to go wading. Well, you see what you done, don't you? Just got the cops down here in half the town, that's all. Such a smart dame.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Why?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Ought to beat your ears off. You just wait till I get you home. Get the Damon.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Come on.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Come on where?

[Tiny]

To the car.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I'll run you on home, huh?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

The bait barge is closer, Bobo.

[Tiny]

Oh.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Oh, yeah, yeah, the bait barge. Maybe she better rest there for a while. Well, I ain't got all night.

[Tiny]

Come on.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Oh, you still here, Nutsy?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

How's the patient?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Not very grateful.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

You'd be surprised, Bobo, how often most men say that about most women. In fact, almost as often as most women say it about most men.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What a place to bring a dame a bait barge. Maybe the station house would have been better.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

It's not so Bad, Bobo. At least not out here. It's like your own front porch here. A nice little deck, a view of

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

the ocean and a whiff of the cannery. That room in there is still worse.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

There's a place to sleep and a stove to cook on. Holden, what do you want?

[Mark Hellinger]

Me?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I don't want a thing. I'm leaving at 10:00 o' clock for Frisco.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Five minutes after 10. Now, Bobo. Oh, what about your friend?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Ah, Tiny's a big boy now. He can take care of himself.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I'll drop by in the morning. I gotta try some doors.

[Tiny]

Doors?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I'm a night watchman, remember?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Oh, I know. Work all night and sleep all day, huh?

[Tiny]

Sleep?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I never sleep, Bobo. I haven't been asleep since 1936. Or was it 1937?

[Tiny]

Good night, Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah. Now sit down, Gus. Sit down and sell some bait. Hey, you.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

What do you want?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I still say a drink of this rice wine would do you good. You need your strength.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Why couldn't you mind your own business?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Oh, do you feel like talking? My own business, huh? I thought I was helping you out.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Leave me alone.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Now, listen, sister, I've known all kinds of women all over the world. But you're brand new. And I don't mean that for a compliment. I didn't expect you to say thank you. But a guy can expect a dame to feel thank you.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I don't owe you anything, see? And I don't want anything. Not from you or from anyone else in the world.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

So that's how you feel?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

That's just how I feel.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Okay, then, sister. I won't bother you. I'm gonna sleep out there on the deck, see? Whenever you feel like drowning yourself, there's the whole Pacific Ocean. All I ask is one thing. Go nice and quiet, huh? I'm an awful light sleeper and I

[Tiny]

hate to be waked up.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Good night.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Good.

[Narrator]

In just a moment, we'll be back with the second act of Moon Tide, starring Humphrey Bogart and Virginia Bruce.

[Announcer]

All new drinks are now at McDonald's with refreshers like the Strawberry Watermelon Refresher and the Mango Pineapple Refresher with Popping Boba. To crafted sodas like the Sprite Berry Blast with berry flavors and cold foam. Who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire six. All new drinks are here now at McDonald's.

[Mark Hellinger]

Refreshers contain caffeine.

[Narrator]

Did you ever have somebody tell you something and think, oh, that's just what she says? Well, one of our listeners had this experience.

[Listener/Testimonial Speaker]

I've often heard you tell how using luck flakes for dishes gets rid of dishpan redness. But I thought who just changing to luxe couldn't make my hands look better? Then one day my friend Mildred brought over her sewing. I was complaining how my rough hands caught on the satin I was hemming. And she said mine used to do that too. Until I found out it was the

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

strong soap I'd been using for dishes

[Listener/Testimonial Speaker]

that made my hands so rough.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

But a while ago I changed to Luxe flakes. And my hands are ever so much

[Listener/Testimonial Speaker]

smoother now and not a bit red anymore either. But honestly, I was so dumb I didn't even take that hint. I just thought, oh well, it may work for her, but I have to watch the pennies. So my hands kept getting redder and rougher. Then one night I was helping clean up after a supper at the church. One of the ladies said she'd rather dry than wash the dishes because they

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

didn't have any luck.

[Listener/Testimonial Speaker]

She didn't want to get her hands all rough and red. Of course we teased her, but she did have the nicest hands there yet. I know she has to counter pennies

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

closer than I do.

[Listener/Testimonial Speaker]

So that set me thinking. If she can manage it on her budget, I guess I can too. So I got a box of luck and was amazed how much further it went in my regular dishwashing soap. And best of all, my hands have lost all that redness and roughness.

[Narrator]

Yes, changing from strong soaps to Lux does make hands soft and smooth again. Lux is so mild and gentle, your hands begin to look lovelier in as little as two to seven days. And just see how little Lux it takes to make a dish pan full of rich, fast working suds.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Tests show Lux actually does up to

[Narrator]

twice as many dishes ounce for ounce as any of ten other leading soaps. For lovelier hands, use Lux for your dishes.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

It's thrifty.

[Narrator]

Here's Mark Hellinger and our stars.

[Mark Hellinger]

The curtain rises on a two of Moonside, starring Humphrey Bogart as Bobo and Virginia Bruce as Anna. It's six o' clock the following morning in the fishing town of San Felipe. In his shack near the beach, Nutsy the night watchman contemplates his morning coffee at the police station. A tired sergeant tells the county newspaper there's nothing new on the murder of old Pop Kelly. And out on the streets in a sort of semi panic, Tiny vainly searches for his friend Bobo. But Bobo is still sleeping on the deck of the little bait barge. While in the cabin, Anna stares at the ocean Through a grimy window pane. Suddenly, she hears Bobo's dog growling. A small yacht is pulling up to the barge.

[Tiny]

Good morning.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Morning.

[Tiny]

Having a little engine trouble?

[Narrator]

Is there someone here who could look it over?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

He.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

He's asleep.

[Tiny]

I'll pay him, all right.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Look, I don't even know if he knows anything about engines.

[Tiny]

Huh?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Hey.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey, what's the matter?

[Narrator]

What goes the man's boat, huh?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

It's the engine.

[Tiny]

Runs a few minutes and then conks out.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Now, take it easy, Gus.

[Tiny]

Know anything about marine engines?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

A little.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Take a look.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Well, thanks a lot.

[Mark Hellinger]

Over this way.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey, this is a good engine, mister. It's a honey.

[Tiny]

It was until this morning.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Speed it up a little.

[Tiny]

Okay.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah. I think the fuel line's blocked.

[Mark Hellinger]

Can you fix it?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Maybe.

[Tiny]

I'll be glad to pay you.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You show me the tools. And you better relax. It might take me a little.

[Tiny]

Hey, sounds swell.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Now, you still need a new fuel line. You better stay inside the harbor to get one.

[Tiny]

There goes my fishing for today.

[Mark Hellinger]

Oh, why do I owe you?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I'll take a buck.

[Tiny]

Here's five.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Okay. I can use it.

[Tiny]

By the way, My name's Brothers. Dr. Brothers.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Much obliged, Doc.

[Tiny]

Thanks again.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

So long.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Anna.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I'm in here.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

How do you feel? How do you feel?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I'm all right.

[Tiny]

Hey.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey, what happened? This room. It's all cleaned up. Oh, yeah, and it's my duffel bag. How'd it get here during the night?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

You were asleep. He brought it. Nutsy want some breakfast?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Why not? Nutsy bring you these eggs too?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I traded for the eggs. Somebody wanted bait and traded them. Is that all right?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Well, I'd sooner eat eggs for breakfast than bait.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I found the coffee on the shelf. It's ready to go.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Put it on the stove and stop shaking. You give me the jitters.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I. I sold $6 worth of bait.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Maybe Henry will can me and let

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

you take over your eggs sunny side up.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Okay. Sunny side up. Hey, where'd you get the pans?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

They were here. My desk is no good anymore.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You look funny.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yeah, I know it.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Call me when you're ready.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

You want some more coffee? Ah, look, it's none of my business, but I never saw a dump look more like a dump than this barge.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Me neither.

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

As long as you live here, you

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

think you'd fix it up and clean it so it looks decent, like. Like that barge there at the point?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah, that one. Looks kind of nice, huh?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Curtains and paint. Looks good. Like a. Like a home.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You feel better today, don't you? Good Sleep and full of breakfast. Everything looks different. That's the way it happens.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

You know all about it, I guess.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I know about bad breaks. They pile up. Then all of a sudden you get full of coffee and eggs and it's all different.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

That's enough for coffee and eggs.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Sometimes I. I have to have a hunk of ham on the side.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Very funny.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Ah, you take it too serious, sister. Believe me.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yeah? Yeah. Well, I'm gonna tell you a few things. Then maybe you can understand what I did last night. I feel like I do.

[Tiny]

Yeah.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I don't want to know anything about you. I don't care.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Okay.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I brought you here. You cooked breakfast. And if you smile once in a while, you wouldn't be a bad looking tomato.

[Tiny]

That's all.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

That's not all. There's a lot more.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You don't have to sell me. I'm on your side.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

What does that mean?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

It means the next time you feel like drowning, I won't try to be a boy scout.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Thanks.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

If I see you doing it, I'll just squirt a hose on you. Is that what you want? Wipe down, Gus. Oh, we got company.

[Tiny]

I can't go low.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

That's my pal. That's Tiny.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I'll go inside and do the dishes.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I'm down here, sweetheart. Come on aboard.

[Tiny]

Set that dog up.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I don't think Gus likes you, Tommy. Dog like that ought to be poison next to you. He's my best friend.

[Tiny]

Big hero last night, weren't you? Sure. One night you get blind plastered and the next night you got to show off with a no good dame out

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

of the water every time. Every dame. I see she's no good to you. That's a funny thing, Tiny.

[Tiny]

Listen, are we blowing out of here or not?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah, well, I haven't made up my mind.

[Tiny]

Oh, yeah? So you got yourself a girl, huh? Well, I found out all about her. She used to work in a hash house.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I wasn't thinking about the dame.

[Tiny]

Are you kidding?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Why should I kid you? I got a great job here. Two bucks a day and a bottle of rice wine.

[Tiny]

We could have been in Frisco by now. Good dough. We could even. Well, what do you want?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I just wanted to tell him I'm leaving now.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Okay.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

And I'm. Well, I'm obliged for everything.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What are you gonna do?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Oh, find a job somewhere.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Okay. Good luck, Sunnyside.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Thanks.

[Tiny]

Hey.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey. Did you wash the dishes?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yeah, everything's fixed.

[Tiny]

Okay. This has got nothing to do with it, huh?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

So long, Tiny.

[Tiny]

Hey, what are you trying to tell me that you're. You're going to hang around here hooked by that hash rancher?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I said so long, Hunt Tiny.

[Tiny]

Hey, now, wait a minute, Bobo. You just let your mind go back to a few things. Maybe you won't be so quick to brush me off.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Say that again, Tiny.

[Tiny]

I'll say this much. I'm tired of being the one to take the order, see? One word from me to the cops, and you'll never say that word.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I said you'll never say that word.

[Tiny]

Bobo, your hands.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Nobody tells me what to do. Nobody.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Bobo, please.

[Mark Hellinger]

Now,

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

maybe you know what I mean.

[Tiny]

You keep using your temper like that. You keep losing your temper like that, and someday you'll.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Get out of here, Tiny.

[Mark Hellinger]

Get out and stay out.

[Tiny]

Are you home, Bobo?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

That's. You, Nazi. That's okay, Gus.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Fine night, Bobo. Come.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Five minutes later and you'd have missed me.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

You're going away?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah. Gus here don't care for the bait barge.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

All right.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

But if you want the truth, I think maybe Gus and I both could get used to it. And I don't think I like that.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

The answer may be that you've finally found a home.

[Mark Hellinger]

What?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

That's right.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Let's see, pal. You're smart. You know a lot of things. But when you speak about a home to me, you don't know me. All of my life, everybody hangs on to me, see? Like Tiny, like the dog here. But I don't hang on to anybody or any place. I come and I go, and I like it that way.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I'm only pointing out why I think you really hate to leave here.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Okay. Why?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Well, anything might have done it. A word remembered from a dream. Or the sight of some washing hanging on the line of a dirty bait barge. Or most likely something you saw in this pathetic child.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What pathetic child? And, of course, haven't you said this pathetic child?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I know I did. She's here.

[Tiny]

Bobo, look.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Hello.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hello.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Is it. Is it all right?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Sure, it's all right.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

It's nice to see you again, Anna.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Thanks.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey, you want a chair? I'll.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

I'll.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I'll get you a chair.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

You change the whole atmosphere of this place, Anna.

[Mark Hellinger]

You cheer it up.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yeah, I'll bet.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I mean it. Here.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Gee.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Service, huh?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Well, I got some doors to try. Good night.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Good night.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

So long, Nutsie.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

That's your bag, huh?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Where's the music coming from?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

The radio. That barge down there sounds nice, don't it? Why'd you come back here?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Because. Why did you look at me? The way you did when I left this morning.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

How did I look at you, sister?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I don't know. I wanted you to tell me. You want me to go?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I'm the one that's all.

[Announcer]

New drinks are now at McDonald's with refreshers like the Strawberry Watermelon Refresher and the Mango Pineapple Refresher with popping boba. To crafted sodas like the Sprite Berry Blast with berry flavors and cold foam. Who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire six? All new drinks are here now at McDonald's.

[Mark Hellinger]

Refreshers contain caffeine.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Going.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Bobo?

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

What is it?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Did I do something wrong?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You didn't do anything. I like you a lot. Maybe you're crazy, but so am I. And it's time for me to go, that's all.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Why?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Because staying in one place don't agree with me.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Can I ask where you're going?

[Tiny]

Sure.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

To the first saloon I can find. Come on, Gus.

[Tiny]

We're moving.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

So long, Anna.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

So, gee, I thought you left town or something. Bobo, where you been?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Nowhere. Drink up, baby.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

I sure missed you, Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah, I bet you cried your eyes out.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

But I did. I've been thinking about your lots of time.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What happened to the boyfriend?

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Went out with a boat yesterday. And if I never see him again, that'll be soon enough.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Ah, that's what I like about a dame. Loyalty, huh? Skip it.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

I should have given him the brush long ago. With a fellow like you, it's different.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

That's what I always tell him.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

A girl wouldn't have any trouble really falling for a guy like you. Did you hear what I said, Bobo?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

No.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Well, what I said was a joke. Say, what's the matter with you?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Get out of my way. I'm getting out of here.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

What's the matter?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I just thought of something.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

You can't ditch me like this.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I just remembered I got a job, honey. Two bucks a day and a bottle of Chinese Moon. And I gotta get to.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

This is the store, Bubble. This is the one.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Go ahead, look around.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I did before. I know just what I'd like.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Well, the guy's waiting on somebody else.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Bubble.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

When did you come back to the barge?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

About midnight, I guess.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

You slept out on the deck again?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah, I slept good.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Why did you come back all the time?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Questions. I came back. Now you got me in a store buying curtains.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Certain, sir.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

This way, please.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Oh, we just want material.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

We like this material here.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

How much you got there? Oh, 26 yards. Wrap it up.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Oh, but 15 yards would be plenty.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Paint you got any paint? What color, sir? Blue and white, maybe.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

That'd go fine.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Blue and white.

[Narrator]

Blue paint and white paint.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

No, blue and white. One paint, one color.

[Narrator]

I. I don't understand that.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

That was a joke, Anna. It's over his head.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yeah, his and mine, too.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

That's okay. I feel good.

[Narrator]

The paint's down this aisle, sir.

[Tiny]

For a boat or a home, huh?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Oh, for both, I guess. They look swell.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Then I get them hemmed and put the trim on you.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I feel like I never felt before in my life. And I. I can't understand it.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

You mean it's like you said to the man in the skull? You mean. This is home, Bobo?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I guess you know, huh?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Know what?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You and me, we'll get married.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

You want to. I mean, honestly, don't you? You gotta know this, Bobo. You don't have to. I wouldn't hold you up or anything like that.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Don't say that. Don't you ever say that. I didn't mean anything, okay? You know what I got in mind is a license and a minister. I've known lots of girls, Anna. This time it's going to be different. This time I'm getting married.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I don't know if I'm going to laugh or if I'm going to cry.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Cry?

[Tiny]

What for?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Cuz for once in my life, I want everything right.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Oh, you're crazy, Bobo. You're plain crazy.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Can I kiss you? Is that against the ruler?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Kissing's okay.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

You finished now?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Good knock? Yeah. Very sorry. Here. $4, two bottle rice points. All right?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah, but I. I got a partner now. Anna, this is Henry.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Hello, lady.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Listen, Henry, from now on, instead of a bottle every day, how about another $3 a day?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Okay, I fill up the tax. Now you do good business.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Here's your money, Henry.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Thank you, lady.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Goodbye.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey, where you going?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Catch Mobaid.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You need any help?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Always me.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I'll go with you. Okay, Anna.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Is that what you want?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Can I. Can I kiss you again? Sure. We'll do all right, Anna.

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

Sure.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Bo.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Bo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Bride and groom.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Bride and groom.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Alba, hurry up.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I love you, Bobo.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

I really love you. How about fair when you make up your mind?

[Tiny]

Okay. Okay. Okay. And I'm supposed to believe that Bobo's out fishing for bait, huh?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I don't care what you believe.

[Tiny]

How about running that dog out of here?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

You run him. You know Gus better than I do. And I guess he knows you, too.

[Tiny]

Look, why don't you blow? Why don't you leave town?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Sure.

[Tiny]

Sure you will.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Business?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Anything you Say, Tawny, anytime a guy comes along, I don't know him from Adam, but anything he says, I do it.

[Tiny]

Of course. Oh, well, they're smart dames, huh?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

What's the matter, Tiny? Am I in your way?

[Tiny]

Yes, you're in my way. And in Bobo's way.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Oh.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Oh.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

A big O. A capital O.

[Tiny]

Like a rope around Bobo's neck. Did you ever hear of a guy named Pop Kelly?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Kelly?

[Mark Hellinger]

Yeah.

[Tiny]

He was murdered the other night.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Choked to death.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yeah, I remember. But what are you gonna tell me, Bobo did it?

[Tiny]

I didn't say that. But I know a guy who could have done it. For a long time, this guy and me were buddies.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You a very expert dock worker.

[Tiny]

Enough north in Frisco or Portland, he

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

could make a lot of dough.

[Tiny]

You listening?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I'm listening.

[Tiny]

Well, it wouldn't be so good if someone picked this guy up for murder, would it?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

If you're trying to scare me, maybe

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

he did it and maybe he didn't.

[Tiny]

Who knows?

[Mark Hellinger]

Outside of me?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

He knows.

[Tiny]

Oh, no, no. Just me.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

That's the way he drinks.

[Tiny]

He don't remember a thing. And that's why I say you're the one to beat it. And leave my buddy and my put out of here.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yeah. Yeah, I'll tell him.

[Tiny]

Yeah, maybe you'll have to, because maybe he don't know about it yet himself. Go ahead, tell him.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Very good worker, Bobo. Thank you.

[Tiny]

Yeah, we'll do it again.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Good night.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What do we do? Wake up.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I was just sitting here thinking.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

All right.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Just wasn't sleepy, that's all.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Thinking about a wedding?

[Listener/Testimonial Speaker]

Yeah.

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

Yeah, that did.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I'll get the license in the morning. Say, we got anything to eat?

[Announcer]

Eggs?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Well, if I can keep awake that long.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Who's Tiny?

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

What?

[Mark Hellinger]

Tea.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Do you.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Has Tiny been here? Has he?

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

No.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

No, I was just curious, that's all.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You sure that's all? Well, Bobo, I. I said I wanted everything right between you and me, didn't I? Listen, Anna, I'm a pretty strong guy, see? Even when I was a kid, I was strong. My hands. My hands, they. They made me a lot of dough working on the docks, on boats. They made me a lot of trouble, too. Cause when I get a few drinks inside of me, I can't remember what I do.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

You mean like fighting? Getting in the way?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Now, let me finish. Two years ago, Tiny and I in Norfolk, it was. I started drinking. I got into a fight. This other guy came at me with a knife. I got my hands on him. It all mixed up in my Mind all I know, Tiny got me away. Maybe now you understand. I have to know where Tiny is all the time. Because Tiny's no good. I can't trust him, and that's all. Now he wants me to go up north. That's the way it always is. I get a job and slip him a few bucks to keep his mouth shut about that guy in Norfolk. Just enough so he don't have to work.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

And that's all, Bobo?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah, that's all. Well, I'll talk to him. I'll tell him about you and about us.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

We could still give him money. Not much, maybe.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Don't worry. I'll fix it. Tiny don't mean to be a heel.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Well, I'll go inside and fix you something to eat.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I've changed my mind. I'll see if I can find Tiny now. You'll be okay here. I'll leave Gus with you.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Sure. Everything will be all right, Bobo. We'll fix it.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

A bride and groom, huh? They'll fix everything.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I mean it, Bobo.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Sure, kid.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Good night.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Good night. Good night, darling.

[Narrator]

We pause now for station identification. This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Mark Hellinger and our stars, Humphrey Bogart and Virginia Bruce, will be back with Act 3 of Moontide in a moment. What's so interesting in that paper, Libby?

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

It says here that a large department store found it had a few silk flips over five years old. And you should have seen the rush to buy them. We women certainly are funny how this time. Well, silk is mighty nice to have, but you can get lovely rayons at half the price. And lingerie designers are doing wonderful things with rayon these days. Cutting it cleverly and adding pretty lace and delicate handwork.

[Narrator]

Is rayon easy to care for?

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

Yes, indeed. Simply treat it the way you would silk, wash it the luxe way, and you get grand results. Some women think rayon can be treated any old way. Washed in hot water with a strong soap and handled roughly. But if they just lux it the way they would silk, those very same rayons would stay color fresh and lovely three times as long.

[Narrator]

That's a pretty big promise, Libby. Maybe you'd better explain how we know luxe dundies stay lovely three times longer.

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

Well, a famous laboratory proved it. Slips and nighties that were washed the wrong way look faded and drab ever so quickly. In some cases, shoulder straps were frayed, too, and seams burst off. Yet identical slips washed the gentle, luxe way with mild luxe flakes and lukewarm water look lovely. Even after 30 washings. The colors as fresh and attractive as ever. So if you want to be thrifty and have pretty undies too, just give your rayon, safe, gentle, luxe care.

[Narrator]

We return you to Mark Hellinger.

[Mark Hellinger]

Having been longtime friends with Humphrey Bogart and Virginia Bruce, I'd like to introduce them to you as they are in real life when our curtains fall.

[Announcer]

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[Mark Hellinger]

Refreshers contain caffeine. Act three of Moontide with Bobo played by Humphrey Bogart and Anna by Virginia Bruce. It's long past midnight in the town of San Felipe. Through deserted streets, Bobo makes his way back to the date Barge. His search for tiny, unsuccessful. And curling up on the deck next to Gus. He's soon asleep. But in town, a light still burns in the Red Dot Saloon. Charlie the bartender, Henry the Chinese and Nutsy the night watchman are listening to the radio.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Bring us now to an item of local interest down San Felipe way. The murder of Pop Kelly is still unsolved. Police have a number of clues, but as yet have made no arrests. The strangler remains at large. Commercial fishermen report fair catches of barracuda with demon.

[Tiny]

Police have a number of clues.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Too bad Bobo go home.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

We have a good time if Bobo stay here.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I don't know. Don't even say hello, do you?

[Tiny]

He just comes in, looks around and goes out again.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

I think he looking for somebody. You think he's gonna leave him?

[Tiny]

Leave him?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

They're getting married tomorrow afternoon.

[Tiny]

Tomorrow is now today.

[Narrator]

Look at the clock.

[Tiny]

Oh, well, come on. The house will buy you all a beer.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Toast.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Toast, he says.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

By all means, I'm going to the wedding.

[Tiny]

Yes, he asked me too.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Myself, I'm to be best named.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

How do you like that?

[Tiny]

Best man in everything. Sorry, mister.

[Mark Hellinger]

I'm just about to close up.

[Tiny]

Well, that's okay. To their health, gentlemen.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Their health and happiness.

[Tiny]

All very good.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Well, come on, mister.

[Narrator]

What's yours?

[Tiny]

I'm gonna close. I want to think it over. You want. Hey, hey, that's right. He's a buddy of yours, ain't he? Who is?

[Narrator]

Bobo.

[Tiny]

We were just talking about Bobo.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Why, Charlie, where are the pretzels?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

You good friend of Bobo?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

You don't know why, Charlie, uh, let's listen to the radio again.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Listen.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Funny looking.

[Tiny]

Are you trying to change the subject? Me? What's this about Bobo? What's he fixing to do? He's just getting married, that's all. Married? Him and that hash hustler?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Yes, and the best of luck to them both. Sure, sure.

[Tiny]

Only Bobo ain't married yet. And he's a mighty changeable guy. Especially if a friend whispers a word or two in his ear. Yes, sir, mighty changeable guy.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Nutsy?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Why, yes.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What's the idea of staring out here? There's a party going on.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I, I, I thought I'd wait for the minister.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah, it's about time he showed up.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

How's Anna?

[Tiny]

Huh?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yes. She's kind of excited, I guess. She, she looks well.

[Tiny]

Go, Bobo.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Did you ever think about that breakwater out there in the bay?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Huh?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I was just looking at it.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

And now I know why they call you Nutsy. Look. I'm getting married.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

A marvelous piece of construction on the far side. The ocean side, the sea grumbles and roars and beats its fists against the rocks. But on this side, there's serenity and peace. And there's soft moss on the rocks. That's what you mean to that girl, Bobo.

[Tiny]

Well, all inside, huh? How'd you squeeze them all in there?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I know how those sardines feel up in that cannery.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

And how do you feel?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I don't know. Good, I guess. Why do we have to have all those people?

[Tiny]

They're your friends, Bobo.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Besides, they brought presents. And brides like presents.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey, look.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Huh?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

That's Dr. Brothers Cruiser, isn't it?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Now listen to that engine. I know what he wants, but I'm not gonna do it.

[Tiny]

Hey, I've done it again.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Fuel line?

[Tiny]

I guess so. Can I tie up here?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Sure, if you want to.

[Tiny]

You ran so well.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I got careless.

[Tiny]

I'll have to ask you to help me out again.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I'm sorry, Doc, but I'm not working today.

[Tiny]

Oh.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Party going on, eh? Kind of. I'm getting married in a few minutes.

[Narrator]

Well, congratulations. The young lady the other day.

[Tiny]

Anna.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah.

[Tiny]

Well, I hope you'll be be very happy.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Thanks, Doc.

[Narrator]

I'm really embarrassed.

[Tiny]

I'm afraid I can't very well get

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

out of here now.

[Tiny]

Do you mind an uninvited guest if I behave my.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Ah, come on in, Bobo.

[Tiny]

Here he is, the minister. He's coming down the foot bridge. We're all ready, Mr. Wilson. Quiet, everybody.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Quiet.

[Tiny]

Here comes the minister. Well, well, this is the groom.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Five more minutes and he'd have swooned

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Then I'll put him out of his misery at once. Hannah.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yes, Papa?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You ready?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I'm ready.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Well, I. I guess we can get married then.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

As much as possible. Bobo and Anna have consented together in holy wedlock. And have witnessed the same before God in this company. I pronounce that they are man and wife. May the Lord mercifully look upon you. Amen.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I love you. I'll love you as long as I live.

[Tiny]

Hey, Doc.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Doc.

[Tiny]

Wonderful party, Bobo. Wonderful.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Hey, look, I've changed my mind, Doc. I'm a married man. I can use a few bucks. We take that boat of yours out right now and fix it.

[Narrator]

Are you crazy?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I won't take me long. And she wants me to do it. Anna says it's okay.

[Tiny]

All right, then. Let's go.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

A little after eight.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Where is he?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Where's Bobo?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

The job took a little longer than he expected, that's all. He'll be along presently. You're not scared?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Of what?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

That's what I mean.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I'm perfectly safe here. Bobo's dog won't let anyone get near me.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

By the way, where is Gus?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

He's not on deck.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

No, Bobo thought he was. Might take a piece out of one of the wedding guests. He tied him up somewhere.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Still all right. Besides, Bob will be back soon, like you said.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Sure. Well, good night, Anna. I've got some doors to try. I wish you to all the happiness in the world.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Thank you, Nutsy. Thank you for everything.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

You're smiling. You're beautiful. Beautiful.

[Tiny]

Every time I come here, he's gone. Where is he? Bobo?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

What are you, drunk? What do you want, Tiny?

[Tiny]

Want? Where's Bobo's wedding, ain't it? Nobody asked me. His best friend, that's all. Well, I'm here anyway, so how about breaking out a drink?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Help yourself.

[Tiny]

Where's the dog?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Why?

[Tiny]

I said, where's the dog?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I don't know, honey. I got something I want to talk to you about. Yeah? We got married today, Bobo and me. And we want to stay here. We want to have a home, see?

[Tiny]

Who don't.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Bobo's always helped you out, hasn't he? I mean, well, money.

[Tiny]

Go on.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

So if that's what you want. It wouldn't make any difference where Bobo was just as long as you got it, would it?

[Tiny]

Say, you ain't such a bad looking number as that.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

So much a week, money. Maybe not a lot. But then you wouldn't have to stay around here, would you?

[Tiny]

You know, I ain't such a Bad guy, baby.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Why, I know you're not, Tiny. That's what Bobo said.

[Tiny]

Bobo ain't so dumb. You ain't so dumb yourself, see?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Tiny, listen to me. You've got to understand.

[Tiny]

You're gonna be smart enough.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Oh, Tiny, don't. Don't.

[Tiny]

Hard to get, huh?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Wait till Boba hears about you trying to get.

[Tiny]

And who's going to tell him?

[Mark Hellinger]

Answer me that.

[Tiny]

Who's going to tell him?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I'll tell him.

[Tiny]

Oh, did you forget already?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

We've got a secret about Bobo. A big secret.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Get out of here.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Would you want to break that secret?

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

No, no, no, please, honey. Get out.

[Tiny]

Bobo killed Pop Kelly. I know it. And now you know it, right?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I don't know.

[Tiny]

You know it, all right, because I just told you.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Wait a minute. You know so much about what Bobo did. Where was his dog?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Where was Gus?

[Tiny]

Where was his dog when.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

When Top Kelly got killed? That dog never leaves him. If Bobo fights, the dog fights.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

He told me. The dog fights for Bobo. So why wasn't he bitten?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

That old man. Why didn't the paper say he had dog bites on him? You know so much. Because Bobo didn't kill him.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Because Bobo wasn't even there.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

He wasn't there and the dog wasn't there.

[Tiny]

You're crazy. You don't know nothing about it.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Yeah, crazy to listen to you.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

You know so much.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Well, now I know why you do. Because you were the man who killed Pop Kelly. Just like he killed the man in Dogfur. Shut up. You killed him, Tiny. You killed him.

[Mark Hellinger]

All right.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

I did.

[Tiny]

And now what do you think I'm going to do?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What do you think I've got to do?

[Mark Hellinger]

Do you think I can let you

[Tiny]

tell that to the cops?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Do you? It's too bad, baby. It's just too bad.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Boo ho Bo.

[Tiny]

I'll drift into the barge.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Bobo, you can just jump on. You gotta have a drink.

[Narrator]

One drink.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

It's my wedding.

[Narrator]

All right, then.

[Tiny]

One drink. But then I go.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You bet you do. Give me the line and I'll tie her up. Why don't you leave a light on, Anna?

[Tiny]

It's kind of late, Bobo. She might have dozed off. Bobo. Here.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

And I want you to take it. It's $50. Part of it's a wedding present. Oh, no. Wait a minute. 50 bucks. Don't argue. And if you still want me to have that one drink, I. Well, I'll take it right now.

[Mark Hellinger]

Wait.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Wait a minute. Hey, what's that?

[Mark Hellinger]

What's what?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

There. Lying on the deck again.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Anna.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

It's Anna.

[Tiny]

Good Lord. Anna. Anna.

[Narrator]

Get a light.

[Mark Hellinger]

Hurry up.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I got the flashlight. I. Doc. Doc. It's blood. Get in the boat and start that engine.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Doc.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Is she dead?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

She.

[Narrator]

No, Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

But we've got to get her to

[Mark Hellinger]

a hospital right away.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Better take.

[Mark Hellinger]

Make better time by water. Santa Cruz.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I left her here. I left her here alone. Shut up and don't touch her. It's her back, Bobo. I've got to be very careful. Stop that engine.

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

Doctor Brother said you can come in now.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Thanks. Are you the nurse that.

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

I'm sorry.

[Listener/Testimonial Speaker]

I just came on duty.

[Tiny]

How?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

This door.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yes.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Come in, Bobo. Doc, she's still unconscious.

[Narrator]

She's.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Can't you tell me anything? I know nothing for certain. I. I've sent for a specialist. Thanks. Before she went under the anesthetic, she tried to say something. I couldn't quite get it. Tiny.

[Mark Hellinger]

Tiny.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Something Tiny. It sounded like that. Does Tiny mean anything to you? No.

[Tiny]

No. You're tired out, Bobo. There's a room here. You can rest.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

There's something I gotta do. It may take me a little while. I'll be back later, Bobo. I'll be back later.

[Tiny]

Hey, would you look who's here? The bridegroom. Hey, Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Tiny here. You seen Tiny?

[Tiny]

No, but I.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Hey.

[Tiny]

Hey, Bobo. Where you going? What's the matter, Bobo? Me, henry. Bobo.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Come in, bobo. Come in.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Henry, you seen tiny tonight?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

No. See, tiny? Something wrong, bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I gotta find him. I got to find him.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

There.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

A few minutes ago, Bobo. Sitting on the rocks in the breakwater. He's pretty drunk.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Thanks.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Wait a minute. Why aren't you at the bars?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I can't tell you, nephew. But you haven't seen me and you haven't seen Tiny. Understand?

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Yes, Bobo, I understand.

[Tiny]

Who?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Who?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Bobo, Come here, Tiny.

[Tiny]

Bobo.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Bobo.

[Tiny]

It was an accident, Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

She felt Tiny.

[Narrator]

I didn't do it.

[Tiny]

Won't you listen to me? Won't you believe me?

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Bobo.

[Tiny]

Coming, Tiny.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

No, Bubble.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

No.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You get nowhere running, Tiny. You've got no place to run to. There's only the rocks and the ocean.

[Announcer]

And me.

[Tiny]

I didn't do it, Bobo. I didn't do it.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

What are you running for?

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

No.

[Tiny]

No, no, no. That's as far as you can go.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Which is it, Tiny? Me of the ocean.

[Tiny]

No, Bobo. I can't swim.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You know I can't swim. Me of the ocean. Tiny.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Bubble.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

No bubble. Now.

[Tiny]

Yes.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

The sea's wild on this side, Bobo. And very deep.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Let's hope it can cleanse his soul.

[Tiny]

I've been looking all over for you, Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Where have you been? How is she? Better, I think.

[Mark Hellinger]

To a specialist.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Please.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Can I see her? Please? Go in, Bobo.

[Mark Hellinger]

Only a moment.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Anna.

[Narrator]

Anna.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Dog, what happened? When I don't talk. Honey, you're gonna be all right.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

I heard.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Don't leave me, Anna. Please don't leave me.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I'll never leave you. Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Anna. Bobo. She's in no condition to talk. Okay, you gotta rest now, Anna. But I'll be here. I'll be here.

[Tiny]

Nurse.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yes, Doctor.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

The specialist was here while you were gone.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

She's going to live, Doc.

[Tiny]

You understand?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

It may take weeks, months maybe, but I think she's going to be all right. Oh, she's gonna live.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

She's.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Oh, God, I. You don't need words to pray, Bobo. Only a heart. I think you've got that.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Bobo.

[Tiny]

Anna.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Welcome home.

[Narrator]

Come aboard.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Hello, Nutsy. Bobo, look.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Our barge.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

It's all different.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Sure, that blue and white paint.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Bobo, let me walk.

[Anna's friend / Nurse]

Please.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Put me down. I want to walk to it tonight.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

The doc said you got to take it easy.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

And flowers. Flowers in pots.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Oh, that's Nutsy there. I draw the line at geraniums in pots.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I kind of worked on the curtain some, too. You see, I have lots of spare time, Anna.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Bobo, if I can only look next week, he said. Maybe you could try. Next week, he said. Well, you're home, Anna.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Here, this chair. It's yours special.

[Mark Hellinger]

He got it for you all the way from Frisco.

[Tiny]

Well, well, Good by you two.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

I gotta try some doors.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Nutsy. Nutsy, it's just 10 o' clock in the morning.

[Nutsy (Night Watchman)]

Well, I gotta make sure they're all open.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

You happy, Anna?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I'm so happy I could cross.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Tomorrow. I'll show you everything. Way you sit on the deck and taking the money and way you run the whole business.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Bobo.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

In a way I'm glad I couldn't walk because you carried me over the threshold into our home.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

That's good, huh?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

That's wonderful.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Old bride and groom, that's us forever, darling. Yeah, forever.

[Narrator]

Our stars return for their curtain calls in a moment. Now, maybe I shouldn't tell you, but I know a lady who has eight pairs of nylon stockings. She comes from Memphis, Tennessee, and she

[Listener/Testimonial Speaker]

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[Narrator]

Friends who probably wish they'd lucked their nylons while they still had them. Actual strain tests prove how much longer stockings last with Lux silk, nylon, cotton and rayon stockings were subjected to rigid tests. And those tests proved that stockings washed with a strong soap or rubbed with cake soap went into runs quickly. Stockings washed with luxe flakes lasted ever so much longer. So whether you're wearing your last precious silks or nylons or today's lovely rayons or cottons, remember, you can cut down runs, get extra wear with luxe care. Our stars return for their curtain calls with Mark Hellinger.

[Mark Hellinger]

Our thanks to Humphrey Bogart and Virginia Bruce for delivering such great performances in Moontide.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Thanks, Mark. But with John o' Hara's fine screenplay, how could we lose?

[Mark Hellinger]

Well, I'm glad to hear you say that, Virginia. Shakespeare was right. The play's the thing. Don't you agree, Bogey?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Now you go argue with Shakespeare.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

By the way, Mark Picture, you're producing for Warner Brothers now with Bogey as one of your stars. That was a famous play, wasn't it?

[Mark Hellinger]

Yes, the two Mrs. Carrolls. A psychological murder story.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

How's the script?

[Mark Hellinger]

Well, it's. It's not for me to say. You read it, Bogey. What do you think?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I was scared?

[Tiny]

Saves me right for rest.

[Mark Hellinger]

You know, Bogey's pee. Virginia, I've just yanked him off his boat to go back to work. And when boss brings Bogey from boat, Bogot begins booting.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Maybe he thinks you're working too hard.

[Mark Hellinger]

Work him too hard? Why, when he leaves here tonight, he has nothing to do until 7:00 clock tomorrow morning.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Yeah, how can we kill a few hours?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Say, Bogey, what's the name of your boat?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Sluggy.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Sluggy? That doesn't seem right for a boat. Sounds more like boxing.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

So what the. Did you ever hear of boxing? The compass.

[Tiny]

Bogey boy. Bogey.

[Mark Hellinger]

Reef your sails, my boy. I'm afraid Virginia isn't very, shall we say, nautical.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Oh, I don't know. I have my moment.

[Tiny]

Oh, you have?

[Mark Hellinger]

Do you know how to tell the starboard from the port?

[Libby (Lingerie Expert)]

Sure.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Read the labels on the bottle.

[Mark Hellinger]

Virginia, I think you'd better stick to horses. I understand you have Your own riding paddock down in Santa Monica?

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Yes, I love to ride, Mark.

[Mark Hellinger]

Well, why don't you make a deal with Bogie? He'll take you sailing. You take him riding.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

No riding for me. I'll stick to my boat.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

But, Bogey, you can't get seasick on a horse.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I might get seasick on my boat, but at least the next day I can sit down.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Bogey, Mark told us before that you used to do comedy in the early days. Were you a good comedian?

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Well, that's not for me to say. You saw me, Mark. What do you think?

[Mark Hellinger]

I was scared?

[Tiny]

If you.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

If you really want to know how I was as a comedian, Virginia, I laid an egg.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Hard boiled.

[Mark Hellinger]

Hard boiled is right, Virginia. And that's the way he stayed, with no complaints from anyone. Well, I see now that our time is nearly up. And I want to tell you what we have for next week.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

Good. Let's have it.

[Mark Hellinger]

Mark, Our plane is Paramount's intriguing story, Sing, you Sinners and our stars, James Dunn, Joan Caulfield and Bing Crosby.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

I don't feel.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

I don't blame you.

[Mark Hellinger]

We all feel the same way about Bing. Sing, you Sinners is a play that Bing himself is eager to bring you. Not only because the music is his kind of music, but because the play itself is one you'll love. The story of a happy, go lucky family whose knack of getting into trouble creates plenty of laughter, excitement and suspense.

[Anna (Virginia Bruce)]

I'll take anything with Crosby in it. Mark, good night.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Good night, Mark.

[Tiny]

Good night.

[Mark Hellinger]

And thanks to both of you, Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes, join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night when the Lux Radio Theater presents Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield and James Dunn in Sing you Synonymous. This is Mark Hellinger saying good night from Hollywood.

[Narrator]

Any one vital shortage of supplies can postpone victory and cost American lives. And today there's a dangerous shortage of waste fats and greases. Save every drop that comes from your kitchen, no matter how burned or blackened. Strain them into a clean can, rush them to your butcher. He'll give you two red ration points plus four cents for each pound. Moontide, from the novel by Willard Robertson was presented through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox, producers of the 30th anniversary Technicolor picture Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe. Humphrey Bogart can currently be seen in Warner Brothers production of to have and have Not. Virginia Bruce will soon appear in the Republic Picture, Love, Honor and Goodbye. Heard in tonight's cast were Cy Kendall as tiny Norman Field as Nutsy. Our music was directed by Lewis Silvers. This program is broadcast to our fighting forces overseas through cooperation with the Armed Forces Radio Service. And this is your announcer, John M. Kennedy, reminding you to tune in again next Monday night to hear Sing, you Sinners with Bing Crosby, James Dunn and Joan Caulfield. It's strawberry time.

[Henry (Chinese character)]

Now.

[Narrator]

Treat your family to luscious strawberry chiffon pie. Tender, delicate shortcake made the spry way. Clip sugar Saving recipes from Spry's ad in leading women's magazines for May. And remember that big word for baking and frying success.

[Bobo (Humphrey Bogart)]

Spry. That's right.

[Narrator]

Pure all vegetable shortening at its creamy best. Spry. Be sure to listen in next Monday night to the Lux Radio Theater presentation of sports Sing, you Sinners with Bing Crosby, Joan Crawfield and James Dunn. This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System.