Ex-army pilot Monk Slavin takes a job flying cargo out of Calcutta and is drawn into a dangerous scheme. Offered ten thousand dollars to fly into China, he agrees, but his mechanic Jafar, a street performer who plays a flute, grows hostile toward him. Slavin is soon caught between his employers' plans and a menace that grows stranger each night. The episode is from the series Escape, first broadcast on June 16, 1950, and the lead actor is Charles McGraw.
The transcript of “115- Serenade for a Cobra”, an episode of Escape first broadcast June 16, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Escape plays Escape free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Tired of the everyday routine? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Wanna get away from it all? We offer you... Escape! Escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure!
Escape! Brought to you by your rich field, gasoline dealer and the rich field, oil corporation of New York. marketers of richfield gasoline's motor oils and other petroleum products look for the richfield eagle under cream and blue pumps tonight we escaped to india and the story of an ex-army pilot caught up in murderous intrigue
as jalmer cut tells it in his exciting tale serenade for cobra he's got to keep playing He's got to keep playing that music and I've got to listen. He keeps it up long enough, I'll have a chance, but if he stops, I'm going to die.
And he may stop. He may stop any minute because that's what he wants. He wants me to die. My name's Monk Slavin, I'm a flyer. I don't know what ever brought me to Calcutta, but something about the name had the smell of gold.
It sounded like the kind of place where a good pilot who didn't ask questions might make a deal. A big deal and a fast one. But nothing seemed to be drifting my way. Nothing but the intense hot wind of the monsoon and the fog from the Ganges and the sea.
Rolling over the city from all sides and strangling it. There was nothing to do but drink gin and quinine water at the airport bar and pray that you didn't get malaria. Hello, Stephen. Oh, hello, Grant. You back again.
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And finally, the Richfield dealer will safety check your car for all likely trouble spots. Richfield, all point, safety service for your car tomorrow. Stop where you see the Richfield Eagle on the cream and blue pumps.
Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robeson, and tonight has presented Serenade for a Cobra by Joel Mercott, featured in the cast where Charles McGraw is slavin', Ramsay Hill is Grant, Jane O'Vello was Jafar, also heard were Lucille Meredith, Joseph Kearns and Paul Fries, special music arranged and played by Ivan Dittmarz.
Next week, you're slowly walking down the deserted street of a small cow town. And coming toward you is one of the bloodiest gun fighters of the West who has sworn to kill you, and from whom there is no escape.
Next week at this time, the Richfield Oil Corporation of New York invites you to escape to the range country of the early West. And to the story of a boy who grew up to be a gunfighter, as Joel Mercott tells it in his exciting story, sundown goodbye then until the same time next week when once again we offer you
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