Johnny Dolla, Bob Douglin, Mike Johnny, How who can you leave in California right away?

My right big toe meets the frosting.

What's the matter?

A policy holder, young fellow named Jefferson went west and an oil.

They only disappeared.

It might be murdered.

Well, I guess I'd better pack two shirts looking for one man in a big state like California can be.

Murdered Edmund O'Brien in the transcribed Adventure of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly Johnny dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dolla to Great Corinthian Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut.

The following is an accounting of my expenditures during process of search for your missing policy holder, youthful millionaire Alex Jefferson, or how they were drilling for oil or what they struck?

Was me expense account item on a hundred and eighty six dollars and thirteen cents airfare Holford to Los Angeles, it him two fifteen dollars higher car airport to office of Rebel Wildcatters incorporated on potential oil land and the new hall saw this district.

I arrived at nine thirty am.

A handful of dirt dentists were hard at it, drilling at a rig not thirty feet from the shack type office.

Better stand by, driver, My man may not be here.

Good morning.

Can you tell me you were our final to Flarity?

You're talking to him.

I'm Mars Clarity.

What can I do for you?

My name is Johnny Dallar, mister Flarity.

I've been sent out here by the Corinthian Life Insurance Company to see if I can get a track in your partner, Alec Jefferson.

I see hell as there money.

You're spending dollars, so I don't care much if you're wasted.

But if you don't mind my saying so, I do think you're gonna be wasting your time.

Well, I get paid by the day, then I guess you don't mind wasting time.

Oh look, don't get the idea I'm just naturally pessimistic.

I'm not.

It's just that I've already done a lot of looking for young Jefferson.

And when that.

Bird flewed to coop, he didn't leave a feather.

You could trace him.

By, barely have any objection they giving me a few details.

Oh no, no, sit down, not at all, thank you.

To save time.

Maybe i'd better tell you what I already know.

Well, it can't be much, it isn't I suppose you realize Corinthian Life is the administrator of Jefferson's father's estate.

Yeah, yeah, I know that.

Well.

Having charge of the money, they naturally know that young Jefferson financed this operation.

That's right, his money, my experience.

The only thing we needed was it's a little more luck.

Well they had it.

That's all I've got.

What can you tell me that.

Whatever young Alexander got he was asking for sure.

For a guy built like a cream pup, he got money strong around here Rondon Oisville.

That isn't healthy, even for a.

Big guy, you know what I mean?

He got strong, too much money, too much opinion that mixed up with too many other men's women can mean trouble for.

Anybody, any particular women.

Too many mind telling me who they are.

Oh, matter of fact, I got a list right here.

Yeah, you know you can have it.

I already tried it.

Just one more thing, Yeah, how and when did he drop out of sight?

A week ago.

Last night, he left here at five o'clock for a department on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood.

He never got there.

I checked that too.

Yeah, yeah, I'll give me that paper back on me.

I'll write down the address.

Thanks, well, I'll be around.

Oh by the way.

The the first thing we try to figure out in my racket is who would benefit most.

How would you like to have him found dead or alive?

Either way, darling, I can take it.

I've lost partners before.

I spent the next twenty minutes on a long shot, thinking I could pick up some information from the drillers.

But it was a long shot that missed.

Those guys wouldn't have told me it was a nice day the outdoor life.

Having got me nowhere, I decided to give the indoor a type of try.

First up Jefferson's apartment on the Sunset Strip.

The lock was fool proof, but I wasn't fooling.

The joint was decorated in a lovely shade of hangover green, a series of alcohol rings from the bottoms of glasses carrying out the motif on all flat surfaces.

In the living room, I found several pieces of loosely strewn feminine attire.

In the bedroom, I found one piece of loosely strewn female Hey, hey, who are you?

What do you want?

Oh?

Sorry, I understood this was Alec Jefferson's apartment.

It is.

Oh, you can drop your eyebrows, mister and his wife.

I beg your pardon.

You heard me, I missus Alec Jefferson.

That's me that rode with you got.

To make coffee?

Yeah?

Why?

Well?

How are that making me somewhe like goput on a face?

I guess so, you'll probably have to wash the percolator.

To me, the best grounds but divorce would be coffee grounds and an unwashed percolator.

Oh, I washed it.

I al so made the coffee, wondering the while how she had made the matrimonial grade right then and there, I'd have given her the bad housekeeping Award.

She looked like the kind of a girl who could get into a beauty contest, but hm like she'd never win it.

Anyway you looked at her, she was a new complication.

The coffee's ready, Yeah, hi, good, do you find any clean cups?

No?

But I washed too?

Yeah?

Thanks, Well would you mind telling me who you are?

I'm an insurance investigator.

I'm looking for your husband.

Well, we sh you'd find him.

I could use some money.

How long have you two been married?

Do you we wait?

Why?

Routine question?

Tell me what was the last time you saw it?

I was waiting here for and the night he disappeared?

Any witnesses if I need her?

Okay, tell me this.

Do you have any idea why he disappeared or where he is?

Not the slightest.

Do you know a man named Mars Flatty?

Yeah?

Yeah, I sure do.

Oh well I was his girl.

So, by the way, have the police come to you yet?

No?

I went to them.

You see, I'm the one who reported Alec missing.

Do you know whether they've come up with anything?

Nothing?

Much up until now.

He's just a missing person.

They put Alec's picture on a television every night.

I don't know that they're doing much else.

They keep calling him a a occasion.

Look, look, please, don't get so hysterical about this.

It makes you so hard to question.

Huh oh nothing, Oh oh, I get it.

Excuse me if I seem dentse this morning, morning morning.

It's three in the PM.

Alright, so everything about me's wrong, that's right.

Look, you can I think that I married him for his money.

If you want to suppose you're used to suspecting everybody of everything.

But have you heard there are two sides to every marriage.

Do I look strong enough to have carried him to the order?

I never wait him?

But answer me this.

If he swept you off your feet, why did he pull a fade out in the middle of the honeymoon?

What should I know?

Maybe he'd never seen a day.

Without makeup on before and had to go someplace to think it out.

Who were there?

This?

Anything to eat?

Whom hungry?

Look?

I I think I'd better be going.

I'm not much of a cook.

When you're working on a case, your nerve ends are easily disturbed.

So when I left the house and saw a hard top blue plymouth park opposite this the apartment, mine climbed an alarm in the cause I had an equally hard topped man reading holes in a newspaper.

I gave him a slow walk away and quick turn treat him, and I caught him with his newspaper down, and I had to go into my act.

Why George, you old son of a gun.

Oh my gosh, it's good to see you.

Hey, talking about my name ain George?

What what?

Well?

I'll be What do you know?

As I came out of the house, I got half a look at you, and as I started to walk away, the face registered why mister, you're a dead ringer for an old school pal of line, George Pfiffer.

How do you like that?

But come here, let me take a closer look.

Come here, look at sleep title.

Okay, sleeping beauty over your go, I'll drive.

I turned the car up into the Hollywood Hills, found an empty house with a pe sale sign out front and a garage out back, and drove in.

His wallet was bulging with everything but money and information.

An ID card gave his name as Philip Wilkins, his occupation as private detective.

The next fact I came up with was that mister Wilkins was a light sleeper.

He came to to find me still fishing through his wallet.

Give me enough, Okay, hold it, mister, take it easy.

Yeah, you can have your wallet bag now.

I keep coming and everything's gonna be all right.

If you don't, I'll have to give your whiskers another dusting.

Oh look, what's a big idea?

Or just slug me?

You know why?

Mister Wilkins, because you had a plant on me, and I figured if you were that curious about me, I wanted to know more about you, your nuts.

I wasn't watching you, just watching that house you come out of.

Is it Dame and Ed?

And I'm getting paid to tail.

I can't afford to be convinced to that who hired you?

I'm not telling you or anybody else, mister dollar.

Ooh, word travels fast.

First you tell me you're not watching me, then you also tell me you know who I am?

So what is that illegal?

Want to see the thing that I'm watch I was told you'd probably be around, and you was.

You'll be in my report if you're healthy enough to make it.

What were you're really doing with that state?

Well, you're watching the apartment, waiting for somebody to show up.

Do you really have a tail on missus Jefferson?

Or did you follow me in from the oil fields?

Why should I follow you?

Maybe you and I got the same uh approach to this case?

You found him yet?

No, but it's still earlier.

Who else is interested in finding Jefferson?

Uh?

Here, he's quite a playboy.

Maybe one of his playmates wants him serve with breach of promise.

Papers h Come on, Donald, let's face it.

I can't tell you who I'm working for.

You know that it ain't ethical.

It's not ethical to let yourself get picked up as easily as I picked you up.

Either, let it go.

I don't suppose, by any chance, you know a man named Marius Flannery.

No 'em, I'd like to see one of his dereks fall on him.

Why so, what did he do to you?

A couple of days ago I went out there to try and sell him some information.

He had three of his men beat me up and throw me off the oil fleet.

Yeah that's what that look.

Would you believe me?

Who knows?

You might be telling me you hate man's clarity to keep me from thinking you're working for him.

I think you better get out of this time.

Let me drive away.

Dollah.

You a lot of trouble.

I don't think so.

Oh you don't think so.

I can have you pulled in the kidnaps.

If that's what you have in mind, then first you'd better get a few witnesses for your health.

Come on, so those your calm down for a minute.

If you really hate that guy, well maybe we can.

Make a deal.

It's against him out deal with you?

How much did all about Flarity?

My bookie's Mark Lawsy way back, He's promoted about fifty wells and none have never happened wildly hit or I guess that he's gotta haunt at This is the big one.

That's why I think his partner disappeared.

You know what difference would that make?

Even if his partner turned up dead, Flarity would still have to spend any profits with young Jefferson's estate.

Maybe not.

I didn't know they had a queer deal.

Who'd know about that deal besides Flarerdy and Jefferson?

And then, uh, but I do know one way of finding out what it is.

How's that Flarerdy keeps all his papers safe in his office.

I've even got the combination.

We'll give it he you keep it.

Wilkins Ice still don't know who you're trying to get even with Flarerity and me.

So what I'm gonna do is give you half a break, and I'll only be taking half a chance.

You haven't one.

Don't you want the combination to the safe?

I don't need it.

You're gonna open that safe because you're going out there with me tonight.

Here this window, okay, I hear you will handle a glass cut out right?

I look, here's what we do.

Now, what this suction cup?

Get a cripp on the well?

I see.

Nah, you cut around the outside edge and I'll lift the paint out in one place.

That's the number one straight from the very best handbook.

Yeah, that's got it.

All it needs is a little tap with a knuckle.

That's it, kay, I am my god.

You first, okay, and the safe as over here.

Get your fingers over that flashlight.

For all I know, you might still turn out to be the local poorer.

Of the here.

Yeah, that's right, it might.

Yeah, you whole of life.

I ain't say.

Well, go on and get to.

Work, alright, alright, I'm as anxious to get this over with this you are give me a little more lightly, okay, Hey, I alright, go to it.

Uh uh, you go to it.

You reach in and if your hand comes up with anything heavy than papers are cream your skull, Well you'll stop your warring.

Yeah nothing here, nothing there eat sh no, alright, you got 'em.

That's all.

Stay down there.

I don't wanna walk off with anybody's government bunds.

Yeah, I got all I want.

Put these back, alright, I'll close it up.

Alright, Let come on, let's get out of here just a minute, Wilkins.

They're gonna have a good look at these papers.

You can look at 'em later.

Come on, let's go look this.

I'll give you for free.

And it's the difference between being a four dollars a day private detective and a ten dollar one.

But you've got printed in your memory nobody can take away from you.

So hold your horses while I take a look at this partnership agreement.

Alright, alright, but hurry up with you.

You got a couple of watchmen around here.

Yeah, here it is.

Okay, let's go you first.

Okay, back to the car.

Make it fast and.

Easy, get in over here.

You'll drive.

Yeah.

Yeah, you know, Wilkins had a clammy feeling for a while back there that we weren't going to make it.

I don't go start in any celebrations.

You didn't make it.

In just a moment, we will return to the second act of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, but first and yperly, Johnny dottn too, bang, Gary Cooper and young Gary this Wednesday.

Now we returned to yours truly Johnny Dollar starring Edmund O'Brien.

There I was wearing a gun muzzle for a back collar button.

My left leg picked up the nervous vibrations of my front seat mate, Philip Wilkins Maris Flaherty, and the back seat was so close I could almost identify the brand of the bourbon he'd been drinking.

I suppose you got what you want into the office after and I only got it, I memorized it, and it makes you look bad, then I don't have to explain to you why I don't want you to guys.

Or the paper running around town on the loose, Well.

It's a corporate paper.

That means it's on file somewhere.

So what difference does it make.

Let's start the car.

We are we going my house?

Go ahead, get going?

Okay, welcomes you better roll what's at your house?

The reason that paper makes a difference?

Right now, the guy who came here looking for showed up Alec Jefferson.

Where is he is?

Where we're gone?

My place?

Well?

And I guess maybe my employers have got nothing to worry about, nothing but paying off on his life insurance Alec.

Jefferson's dead.

Here here, dolla, here's the key to open the door, stand next to him.

Wilkins close and uh uh the light switch is on your right.

There's your boy.

Dollar died young, didn't he?

Uh?

The thing is, it looks like he died in my house.

Now what do I do?

Now?

If you're putting on an innocent act, you're doing pretty good, Fladay.

How's the rest of it going?

I've been around killings before, so I know how the rest of it goes.

The cops take one look at this.

They grabbed me before that happens.

I got some work to do.

So have I been around killings before, and I know how the rest of your story goes.

You came into your house and you found him.

Somebody hit Jefferson over the head with that piece of fire where to get rid of him and make you look you're being framed?

The next chapterage, you've got eight witnesses to prove you were at a church social at the probable time of debt.

That's the way I wish you'd read.

But I haven't got any witnesses.

I've been on the loose out in the hills ever since I saw you this morning?

Oh yeah, what are you a nature lover?

An oil man?

Yeah, my racket?

You never stop sniffing.

I can came back and found them here.

I headed it for the office.

I wanted that paper.

You got out of the way for the time being.

With that gun of yours objective, I looked the body over.

Help you so thank you?

Any idea?

Howlong, he's been dead done it?

Oh?

I had to tell feels like quite a while could have happened before I met you.

What do you mean by that?

I think, hey, uh, lady, huh, ever seen this before?

Or what is an earring?

Her?

Hands off?

Don't touch it?

That's another four dollar detective.

You don't touch evidence, you draw a mental picture of it.

What are you trying to do?

Involve yourself or uninvolved a client?

How about it?

Clardy?

Do you have any idea who that earring belongs to?

Maybe one of the Danes on that list you gave me.

I wish I could get away with the lion to you dollar, but I don't think I'm in a position to try.

It belongs to aid it.

Oh, Jefferson's white, not legally, I mean.

I married her in Mexico and forty five.

Sure she must have liked the scenery.

She took Jefferson down there and went through her ceremony with him.

Two weeks ago without divorcing you.

That's right, you guys really turned out to be partners.

How about that earring?

How do you know it belongs to aid it?

Well, it's one of us, said I bought for her about six months ago.

Wow, I might as wild Tasi.

They'd find out anyway.

Well, I don't suppose you're in the mood to let me do what I want to do.

Wants you to call the police.

No, no, not yet.

Well, I'll tell you one thing.

With this piece of evidence that just turned up, you're wasting your time holding on us.

What you should be doing is getting the Aida before she flies the coop.

That would really fix you up, Sure would.

I don't want to see her get loose any more than you do.

I guess we'd better go play you a visit.

If you get out, all you got is one lousy earring.

And if you think I'm gonna stand here and listen to you try.

To put a murder on me, your nuts.

Bars never bought me anything, He never gave me any earrings?

How about it?

Flarerny too bad?

If I thought there was a chance to help you, I would, But your ear ring was laying right there on the floor next to his body.

Why you monster, you?

What do you try to me?

Why if anybody had reason to kill Alec, you did your miserable feet.

Now wait a minute later, don't make yourself look worse by throwing a lot of accusations around.

I know about the contract between Alec and Mars in case of death to survive that gains full control of the oil field.

But a good piece of evidence will beat out a good piece of motive in any court in the country, and you've got both working against you.

Get out of here.

You don't know what you're talking about.

That I think I do, knowing about that agreement you married both these guys.

Those Mexican marriages are just just weak enough to help you beat a bigamy rap if it came to that, and just strong enough to help you collect if either of your husbands died.

Your next move would be the divorce the one that was still living and take advantage of the California community property laws.

You've got it all figured out, haven't you not?

Quite.

I haven't figured out why young Jefferson went to all the trouble of dropping out of sight and then showed up to get himself murdered.

I think I can tell you it was about time you told us something.

I was working for Alix Gibbs.

That's why I couldn't tell you tell I was getting paid to help him stay out of sight and keep my eye on these two.

A contract had him worried.

When I uncovered the big of me and told him about it, he decided to go to Flierny and try and straighten it out.

Man a man basis, you know.

That I don't know anything about anything.

That's a lie.

I was with him this morning when he called you.

I told you was going out there.

You got plenty of time to get out.

There and wait.

You can't get away with it.

You can't prove anything.

Don't get out of here before.

I got a hat that around you go.

That's better, much better now, coloring Angel across the road?

Well, flarerdy, don't you think i'd better call the police now?

I'm afraid there's nothing else to do.

Okay, then you hold on, you put your hands on you get any police operator.

My name is Dollar.

I'm calling from Apartment three C, Horizon View Apartment, Sunset Strip.

I've got a murderer here for you.

It's out in New Haul.

But that can wait.

Well, dead bodies usually do, but you never can tell about a killer.

Well that's it.

You got a good tight hole on a Flarity.

Yeah, I can handle it.

God, that handle this?

What'd you do that for?

I wanted to keep him on ice till the police get here.

Mars Flarity is our boy.

Gimme Rader.

What is it, Wilkins, Take a look at her ears?

What I don't see?

Nothing wrong with him?

Well, that's just it.

That earring we founded a body.

It was made for a pierced deer eight is, aren't She never could have worn it, marw If Flaherty had been a nice enough guide to buy jewelry for his wife when he had her, he wouldn't have bought the wrong kind of ear ring when he wanted to set her up as a patsy.

The police traced his purchase of same now or Main Street pawn shop, but what really nailed them was the biggest switch of all, since the murder weapon was a shaft of rough bark firewood.

There were no fingerprints on it, but by the same token, there were weapon prints on Flaherty's fingers, a batch of tiny splinters under the skin.

Inasmuch as my own girl furnished the practice which made me perfect on this case, I assume you will not be annoyed at my listing expense account item three sixty five dollars one pair of gold ear rings in scribebed to Olga with love.

Hired him for one hundred and eighty seven dollars and thirteen cents return transportation Los Angeles to Hartford.

Expense account total seven hundred and eleven dollars signed.

Yours uh Truly Johnny Dollar.

Yours Truly Johnny Dollars stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role and is written by Paul Dudley and Gil Dowd, with music composed and conducted by Leith Stephens.

Edmund O'Brien can currently be seen starring in the Harry M.

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Featured in our cast were Michael Ann Barrett, ed Max and Tony Barrett.

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