Bold Venture - Deadly Merchandise

 Bogart plays Slate Shannon who owns a hotel in Havana and gets involved in intrigue with his beautiful sidekick "Sailor." Shannon and Sailor get involved with a shipment of arms for a planned revolution. But Shannon never picked up the "merchandise" in Key West, and two murders follow because he doesn't have the guns. The characters in this series are based on those in, "To Have and Have Not," which featured both Boagrt and Bacall. The plot of this episode is based on the story of the film. The date above is noted as the first known broadcast of the first episode, but that is subject to correction. The title of the story is also subject to correction. These programs were heard on over 500 stations and were broadcast is no particular sequence at no particular time. + A guy name Scarn sent a wire requesting the Bold Venture meet him in Key West as he wanted them to ship his cargo but when they arrived he wasn’t there to Slate’s annoyance. So they were even more surprised when they arrived back in Havana empty-handed to be met by a guy named Mario who demanded to remove the cargo stating that it was a matter of life or death… Duration: 25:49  Starring: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart Broadcast Airdate: March 26, 1951