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Dangerous Assignment: Italian Actress (Nice)

Dangerous Assignment · December 3, 1952 · 24 min · 4,213 words

The transcript of “Italian Actress (Nice)”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast December 3, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gumshoe plays Dangerous Assignment free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Dangerous assignment. Transcribe starring Rant-Don LaViere, Steve Mitchell. Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce.

They all spell the same thing, though, trouble. But when I walk into the commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to prove that you can sometimes hang a cure sky high with a little piece of string.

Morning, Commissioner. You sent for me, Steve. You ever hear of the Italian movie actress named Yolanda? Sure. She's made so many rice-filled pictures. I understand she's got waterlogged kneecaps. Kneecaps. How'd you like to meet her? Oh, just hand me a pair of boots them on the way.

You'll find her on the French Riviera. Her yacht is anchored at Nice, where particularly interested in the guests she has aboard. How's so Commissioner? Steve, one of the most vicious pre-war rackets, is in operation again. A racket that cost American citizens thousands and thousands of dollars in payoff money for the protection of relatives living in Eastern

Germany, Hungary, and Romania. Yeah, I built up quite a fun trade-off thrice to power, didn't it? This time we're certain it's being run as a private enterprise. It started up some six months ago under the direction of the same man who handled it for the Nazi.

That would be Herzog, Colonel of Gestapo. Right, only some of those seems to have taken over the racket and the Colonel's little black book. Herzog died suddenly in Lisbon two months ago. So how does all this tie in with the Italian movie queen?

An American named Ernest Hall, vacationing in Nice, had the bite put on him for $25,000 last week. Depayer? Yes, he was afraid harm would come to some of his family still living in Eastern Germany.

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