The Rhubarb Jungle - Episode 155

Night in the naked city. An ex-con plans the biggest heist ever seen during the county fair. Will he persuade the rich lawyer to fund the job? Will one of the molls or gunsels queer the deal with a double-cross? Listen to find out!

The Rhubarb Jungle, episode 155 of This Gun in My Hand, was relished and fruitfully fenced 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. How do I secure financing for my operation? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes: 1. Why, yes, I did watch The Asphalt Jungle (1950) recently. How did you know? 2. Why, yes, the local county fair is in full swing as I write this episode. How did you know? 3. I could have sworn I had heard “rhubarb” as slang for money, but the internet says it can mean nonsense or an argument. So “that’s a lot of rhubarb” might have meant “that’s nonsense.” Oh well. Dok can be excused since English seems to be his second language.

Credits: Music in this episode came from these public domain films: The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), Too Late for Tears (1949, aka Killer Bait) and The Big Combo (1955). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot) by Carmelomike License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/

Sound Effect Title: Traffic mel 1.wav by malupeeters  License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 https://freesound.org/people/malupeeters/sounds/191350/

Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a  License: Public Domain https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#

Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door  License: Public Domain https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#

The image accompanying this episode is a collage of a photo titled “Rabarber stelen” by nl:Gebruiker:Rasbak, with part of a panel from Crime Detective Comics, Volume 3, Number 8 (May-June 1953, public domain), artist unknown.

License for the image is Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. License for the audio of this episode is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International.

Image Alt text: Photo of a stand of red-tinged rhubarb stalks with massive green leaves. A small comic book drawing of a gunman in a trench coat stands in the lower right, facing the stalks as if they were trees towering over him.