Bold Venture
| Catalogue Number | 837 |
|---|---|
| Program Number | 1 |
| Date | March 26, 1951 |
| Title | "Deadly Merchandise" |
| Description | 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 Bogart 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. Therefore no particular dates are assigned after program #1. |
| Artists | David Rose (composer, conductor), Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Henry Hayward (director), Jay Novello (doubles), Tony Barrett, Eve McVeagh, Betty Lou Gerson, Peter Leeds, Jester Hairston |
| Source | ZIV Syndication |
| Sponsor | Commercials added locally |
| Quality | Excellent |
| Complete | Otherwise complete |
| Duration | 25:40 |