Trade Winds

From Hollywood, the NBC Theater presents... Action, trade wins, director, Tae Garnett, star, Frederick March. The Hollywood Screen Directors present a merry mixture of murder and romance, trade wins, starring Frederick March, and introducing the director of the film, Tae Garnett.

The first motion picture job taken by tonight's guest screen director literally put him head and shoulders above everyone else. In fact, he was several thousand feet above them, creating thrills as a stunt pilot. And when he came back to Earth, he went right on creating thrilling entertainment as a writer and director.

His expert direction or immense such stand-out films as Mrs. Parkington, Valley of Decision, the postman always rings twice, and tonight's story, Trade Winds. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Tae Garnett. Thank you. Before we made trade wins, I had an idea for filming some unusual motion-picture backgrounds.

The plan called for someone to take a small boat and cruise the world with a camera, sailing the South Seas, the tropics, the Orient. But how could I ask a man to tear himself away from Hollywood and do a thing like that?

I just couldn't. So I did it myself. It was quite a sacrifice. We came back with much of the background for Trade Winds and with the story itself. Now here it is, Trade Winds, starring Frederick March as Sam Y, the role he created, with Lorraine Tuttle as Kay Carrigan.

Many of you will remember the Kay Carrigan case in San Francisco last year. How can you forget it? I was on it. Kay Carrigan, a very palatable dish, visited the apartment of Tommy Broome II, the notorious playboy.

The following morning, Tommy Broome II was discovered to be a cadaver with a neat bullet hole in the base of his brain. Kay Carrigan disappeared. He disappeared so thoroughly that the police commissioner finally decided to send for me bloodhound that I am.