Rocky Fortune: Murder Among the Statues 12/01/1953

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Now, Frank Sinatra transcribed as Rocky Fortune. [jazzy music] NBC presents Frank Sinatra starring as that footloose and fancy-free young gentleman, Rocky Fortune.

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[jazzy music] I guess I've had some strange jobs in my time. Once I was a shill for a guess-your-weight guy in a carnival. I'd come up there looking like a rube, and he'd guess my weight at 200 even. Everybody in the crowd gives him the old ha-ha. However, they don't know I got the lead in my pants, about 50 pounds in my two hip pockets. You never really know when you start in just how a job's gonna turn out. Sometimes the ones that look like the tamest turn out to be the loaded, like the time I'm sent by the agency to play parlor maid to a gang of plaster Paris statues. The sign on the front of the window said Oliver Bates, objet d'art.