Dangerous Assignment: Get Gouda Before the Gun Runners (Bombay) 08/23/1950
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
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6 chapters
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What is the premise of the Dangerous Assignment episode?
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It's National Wheaties Week!
Yes, it's National Wheaties Week, and Wheaties presents Dangerous Assignment. On stage tonight, transcribed from Hollywood, Dangerous Assignment, another in the Wheaties' big parade of exciting half-hour presentations. Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell.
Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce, but they all spell the same thing. Trouble. Morning, Commissioner. Steve, ever done any snake charming? Well, I tried my hand at charming, but I think they'd resent being called snakes.
Why? You're leaving for Bombay, India on the next plane.
To study snake charming?
There's a snake somewhere in this deal. How you get him out of his basket is up to you. What's the deal? An American named Carter went to the Indian province of Kualani to sell farm machinery. But when the Maharaja's inspector staged a surprise inspection of some of the crates... He found guns and ammunition there instead. Gun running. What some guys will do for a buck. The case against Carter was based on the testimony of a man named S. Gouda. He testified he'd seen Carter dealing with a native agitator, that Carter had opened a crate of guns in his presence and had been paid for them.
Pretty convincing testimony.
Yes, but right after the trial, this Gouda disappeared. Yesterday, he got word to us that he was hiding down in Bombay. He wants to talk to one of our agents secretly. You're the one he's going to talk to.
I see. You got his address?
Here it is. Steve, for obvious reasons, this has to be done undercover. You can't reveal your identity. And you've got to get Gouda before the outfit he lied for does. Well, that's it. You've got your assignment. Good luck.
Dangerous Assignment will continue in just a moment. Now, here is the Wheaties man, Frank Martin. Here are the simple rules for a happy National Wheaties Week at your house.
Go to your grocer, buy some Wheaties, and start your breakfast with them every morning. See if you don't honest and truly feel a difference. See if the vitamins and minerals whole wheat has to offer don't add up to energy the Wheaties way. There's a whole kernel of wheat in every Wheaties flake, you know. A whole kernel. So, won't you join us? Get Wheaties, the whole wheat flakes with the naturally sweet whole wheat flavor. Wheaties. Try them at least once during National Wheaties Week. Yeah, I've got my assignment. Gonna be a friendly little race. Whoever gets to go to first wins. Oh, it's Friday night when I get to Bombay. I register under a phony name at a hotel near Gouda's rooming house, and then I go over.
Down the street, there's a small building on fire, but nobody seems to be paying much attention to it. Inside the rooming house, a bored-looking clerk is lazily sketching on a piece of paper. Oh, good evening, sir. Hi. May I help you? No, thanks. I know the room I'm looking for. Say, you people take your fires pretty calmly around here, don't you? I beg pardon, sir? That building on fire down the street. Back home, there'd be a crowd a block thick around it. Oh, that. A man died of the bubonic plague there. That's why they're burning the building. Plague? No wonder there's no crowd around. Oh, such things are not unusual here, sir. Pleasant thought.
But you have given me an idea. The burning building might be a good thing to sketch.
Room seven, yeah.
Who's there?
The guy you wanted to see. How can I be sure? Well, you might try opening the door.
Are you alone?
Yeah. Come on, open up, Gouda. You must not mention my name. Come in, quickly. Now, your credentials, please. Here they are. So, did anyone follow you here? Not that I know of. Why? I had to go out for a while this evening. I believe someone was following me, but I managed to give them the slip. Look, what is this that you want to tell me? I was paid to give false testimony against the American, Carter.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the premise of the Dangerous Assignment episode?
0:00–5:48
2
Why is Steve Mitchell sent to Bombay?
5:48–6:54
3
What evidence links Carter to the gun running case?
6:54–7:38
4
Who is S. Gouda and what role does he play?
7:38–13:49
5
What happens during the secret meeting with Gouda?
13:49–18:27
6
How does Steve Mitchell escape from the police?
18:27–29:31
Speakers
10 identifiedMore from Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
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