Design for Danger
Box 13 · 1948 · 26 min · 4,522 words
The transcript of “Design for Danger”, an episode of Box 13 from 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Box 13 plays Box 13 free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Box 13 with the style of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. Box 13, care of star times. I need your help desperately. Johnny Tied was released from the State Penitentiary this morning with murder in his heart.
I don't know any of the details, but I'm sure that he'll be back here in Watertown by nightfall at the latest. If you mean what you say in your ad in the star times, be it the Waterfront Tonight.
Star times be at the waterfront tonight and stop him. Remember if you fail, Johnny Todd will kill or be killed by morning. And that would be wrong because there's lots of good in him. I know. I love him.
Janice Reed. Yeah, that's the way it started. Just a girl worrying about a boy. But before it was all over, a lot of people were worrying about that boy. They had to, if they wanted to live.
And now, back to Box 13, and Dan Holiday's newest adventure, Design for Danger. He was Mr. Holiday, an ex-convict on the prowl, in the tough reception of the city. Uh-huh.
That part of the city doesn't get the carriage trade, as the expression goes. Well, do we accept the challenge, Suzy? We! Oh, hey, I'm only your Secretary, Mr. Holiday, and I... I was using the editorial way, Suzy.
Oh. Well, in that case, Mr. Holiday, I don't know what to say. Frankly, I'm Trump. Susie, the word is stumped. The word is stumped. Maybe you've got something. What? I don't know. I'll tell you what, suppose I get on a water town and it was a round of a...
Why? Oh, I don't know. Maybe to see what's doing. It was called Watertown, not because it was a separate city, but because it was a separate and different order from the rest of the town.
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