Song · Life of Riley · 1941 · 29 min · 3,793 words
The transcript of “Haunted House”, an episode of Life of Riley from 1941. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Night Shift plays Life of Riley free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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On two is its post, Pop Wilkins. The movie Wake Island, he was the Brooklyn Marine. In the broad with two yanks, he's bit the private.
But tonight he's just an overgrown kid anxiously waiting for Halloween. I'll never forget. When I was just a boy, every Halloween my father used to stick me in the front window. We were too full to buy a pumpkin.
The American Meetings that he presents, William Bandic in the life of Riley. The Meet People of America, providing a great food for a great nation. If you put all of America's meat retailers together in one city, it would make another city as big as Indianapolis.
There are more than 400,000 meat retailers in this country. Another important link in the chain that gives you good fresh meat every day, America. And now on behalf of all those engaged in supplying meat to the nation, the American Meat Institute presents The Life of Riley with William Bendix as Riley.
By day, Riley is engaged in the serious business of war production as a riveter in a California aircraft plant. But tonight we see his less serious side. It's two nights before Halloween, and Riley is full of the spirit of the thing.
It's quite dark out, and Riley's son, Jr., is just returning from a meeting of the young wild cats, his club, in a very thoughtful mood. Is that you, Posh? Yeah, Jr. What are you doing hiding on the back porch?
Listen, peeking to catch your window and see what your mother's doing. She's washing the suppert dishes. Say, Posh, what are you doing with that false face on? You're Mickey Mouse, huh? No, I'm not Mickey Mouse. I'm the rat man of blood bucket castle.
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