August Lion, The
Broadcast: 6th August 1949
Added: Jul 16 2005
“Get this and get it straight, crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave. It started with death on my doorstep and got worse when I lied to a sympathetic bull, was pistol whipped by a gorilla with dimples and fought with a kitten on the quays. And it might have gone on that way all night if I hadn’t been helped by the king of the beasts…”