Can Falk crack the murder case or will he need help from Inspector Tropesmith, Speed Detective, Emerald Ash Borer or The Ad Hawk? You want a fast resolution or a satisfying one? Listen to find out!
Has This Gun in My Hand Ever Happened To You?, episode 152 of This Gun in My Hand, was stunned, hawked, sped up and salvaged by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out, available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. Why have I gathered you all here today? This Gun in My Hand!
Show Notes:
1. Charters and Caldicott were two minor characters in Hitchcock’s 1938 film The Lady Vanishes. Played by the actors Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, the pair were popular enough to get three films of their own, though not with Hitchcock. After creative differences with the film studio in 1946, the actors appeared as similar characters with different names in seven other films and five BBC radio productions. A 1985 BBC television series rebooted Charters and Caldicott with new actors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charters_and_Caldicott
2. “Sir, a woman has been murdered in your house, therefore it follows there must be a murderer.” That line is from a teaser for an actual British police procedural show. They use it in a promo on almost every dvd for Acorn TV and the dullness of it kills me every time.
Credits:
Music in this episode came from these public domain films:
The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and Too Late for Tears (1949, aka Killer Bait). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.
Music Title: Flight of the Carpenter Bee
By Steve Arntson
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://archive.org/details/Bildungsroman-7512
Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus by RTB45
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/
Insect chorus recorded one summer evening, Mount Moganshan, Zhejiang Provence, People's Republic of China
Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#
Sound Effect Title: Beep_Sequence_10.wav by AlienXXX
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/s/267561/
Music Title: Spaceship Engine - noise + heavy beep by Knoplund
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Knoplund/sounds/371283/
Music Title: Paix
Composed and Performed by Alpha Hydrae
License: Public Domain
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alpha_Hydrae/Peace_Love_Respect_Overdrive/Alpha_Hydrae_-_Alpha_Hydrae_-_Peace_Love_Respect_Overdrive_-_03_Paix/
Music Title: Hurhis
Composed and Performed by Yellow Omm
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/yellow-omm/single/hurhis/
Sound Effect Title: Electric zap.wav by michael_grinnell
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/s/512471/
Sound Effect Title: ELECTRIC_ZAP_001.wav by JoelAudio
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/s/136542/
Sound Effect Title: Milagra.mp3 by foosiemac
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/s/76797/
Sound Effect Title: R30-34-Red Tailed Hawk.wav by craigsmith
License: Public domain
https://freesound.org/s/479610/
Song Title: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629
Composed by Henry Purcell, 1692.
Performed by Carl Pini, John Tunnell, Anthony Pini and Harold Lester.
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/11140-the-fairy-queen-z629/
Music Title: Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, Op. 46 - I. Morning Mood
Composed by Edvard Grieg
Performed by Czech National Symphony Orchestra
License: Public Domain
https://musopen.org/music/777-peer-gynt-suite-no-1-op-46/
Sound Effect Title: S10-19 Falling wooden beam; big interior crash; house collapses; long.wav by craigsmith
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/s/675967/
The image accompanying this episode is from Popular Detective Magazine, Volume 15, Number 3 (October 1938). Public domain, artist unknown.
Image Alt text: Black and white drawing of a hand firing a revolver. Lines and smoke show the gun is discharging. Behind the gun is the shadow of the apparent shooting victim with both hands up and possibly wearing a policeman’s hat. Above this drawing are the words HAS THIS GUN IN MY HAND EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?
