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Storm over the Alps
The Man Called X · February 29, 1948 · 21 min · 3,541 words
The transcript of “Storm over the Alps”, an episode of The Man Called X first broadcast February 29, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Man Called X plays The Man Called X free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Your twice as sure with two great names, Frigidaire and General Motors. Frigidaire presents Herbert Marshall as the man called X. Wherever there is mystery, intrigue, romance, and all the strange and dangerous places of the world, there you will find the man called X.
More Frigidaire's serve in more American homes than any other refrigerator. And our Frigidaire presents Herbert Warshill as Ken Thurston, the man called X. Shouldering upward into the clouds, looking out over the plains of four countries of Europe, are the great tumbled ranges of the Alps.
Birthplace of the wind, a Roman poet once called them, those high mountain valleys of Switzerland. And so they are even today, birthplace of the wind. But when the man called X is concerned, they can also be the birthplace of death, Which is exactly what two men are talking about in a hotel room in Paris.
No sir, can't the whole thing's a frame up and it's too dangerous. You ought to know that. Maybe so chief. What else have we got to work on? Yeah, millions of dollars in counterfeit United States bills pouring into France and Italy and after ten days over here, we haven't been able to turn up a lead.
This may be the lead. Chief, I know of Onnostheim. I know his work. He made the plates, these bills are being printed from. There's no question about it. No question about it. That still doesn't mean you've got to accept his invitation to Switzerland and get yourself killed.
Oh, it's just that I think he's considered enough to believe he can get me up there and convince me he's ready going straight. Well, you know he might be at that. The Swiss authorities didn't find a thing when they raided him.
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