Radio was full of hardboiled private eye and adventurer
shows. The most famous and arguably the best is The
Adventures of Sam Spade, with Howard Duff, many of which are
available. Well-written, funny, hardboiled. Whenever a case
ended badly -- with a nice guy or woman found guilty, Spade
would toss off the words, "Tough racket." Adventures of
Philip Marlowe, starring Van Heflin for the first few and
Gerald Mohr for most of the rest, featured a Marlowe too
intense and serious to crack wise. Some of the shows are
pretentious, most have egregious examples of product
placement. "I turned left off Sunset by the Texaco station
..." Dick Powell played two tough private eyes -- Richard
Rogue in Rogue's Gallery and Richard Diamond in the series by
the same name. In the latter he usually sang a song, but even
with that and the incessant wisecracks (many shows written by
series creator Blake Edwards) Diamond was pretty hardboiled.
The Lives of Harry Lime, with Orson Welles in adventures that
took place before the character was bumped off by his pal, is
arguably hardboiled. As are shows with Alan Ladd (Box 13),
Bogart and Bacall (Bold Venture), Edward G. Robinson (Big
Town), Jeff Chandler (Michael Shayne).
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