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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 673 - Double Duty Detectives: Gerald Mohr (Philip Marlowe, Nero Wolfe, & Johnny Dollar)

6/21/20262 hr 19 min

We continue our look at actors who played multiple gumshoes on the air with Gerald Mohr - who, for my money, gave us the definitive portrayal of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. But Mr. Mohr wasn't only Mr. Marlowe on the air. He also put in a four-episode stint as Archie Goodwin to Sydney Greenstreet's Nero Wolfe. We'll hear Mohr as Marlowe in three radio mysteries: "The Hard Way Out" (originally aired on CBS on November 28, 1948); "The Feminine Touch" (originally aired on CBS on May 7, 1949); and "The Dark Tunnel" (originally aired on CBS on August 18, 1950). Then he's Archie Goodwin in "The Case of the Phantom Fingers" (originally aired on NBC on January 26, 1951). Finally, we'll hear his audition as "the man with the action-packed expense account" - Johnny Dollar.

Clips

Gerald Mohr’s Marlowe Mastery
Mohr’s Lost Johnny Dollar

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

    Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison or the grave.

  2. Speaker 20:06

    [dramatic music] The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

  3. Speaker 30:18

    The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.

  4. Speaker 40:21

    The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price.

  5. Speaker 50:24

    Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

  6. Speaker 60:33

    Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

  7. Speaker 7· Host0:35

    [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers. All this month, we're shining a spotlight on actors who played multiple detectives on radio, and our star this week is one of my all-time favorites, the great Gerald Mohr, who took the role of Philip Marlowe and made it his own. Now, many actors have played Raymond Chandler's private eye, from Dick Powell to Liam Neeson. But when I think of the character, he's defined by Gerald Mohr's voice

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