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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star as Slate Shannon and Sailor Duval in a Caribbean adventure series centered on Shannon's Place in Havana and the charter boat Bold Venture, where smugglers, killers, revolutionaries, and desperate travelers draw them into danger.
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After a fruitless trip to Key West, Slate learns that strangers believe the Bold Venture is carrying important merchandise. A frightened woman and a poet are murdered at Shannon’s Place,…
Slate brings a young Chinese woman to Havana after Sam Chu arranges her passage, only to find Sam murdered and several people searching for a priceless Kuan Yin statue. The…
A frightened young woman and an envelope lead Slate into a case involving a valuable shipping document. After Slate is beaten and another man is shot, he and Sailor discover…
A nervous client hires Slate to take him to Key West, but he is gunned down before the trip and turns out to have been carrying nearly $50,000. Slate and…
Slate is talked into a hunt for Spanish treasure supposedly buried on Flamingo Cay. What begins as an adventure aboard the Bold Venture becomes a dangerous struggle over real gold,…
After Franny Lane, half of a comedy act, is found beaten to death, Slate learns she was married to escaped bank robber Tommy Carper. A five-year-old baggage check leads to…
Sailor is recruited by a man posing as a United States agent to help reach scientist Bob Faulkner, an old acquaintance tied to secret government work. By the time she…
A seemingly respectable couple from Muncie comes to Havana with murder and blackmail hanging over them. When Sam Meston, the man pressuring them, becomes part of a chain of violence,…
After a printer Slate knows is attacked and the violence reaches Shannon’s Place, Slate investigates the man’s shop and the work he was doing. Posing as a customer, he uncovers…
A strange chain of visitors, threats and conflicting stories pulls Sailor into a murder frame-up while Slate tries to discover who is manipulating the evidence around her. The trail runs…
A worried father hires Slate to bring his daughter Cathy home from the gambling ship Blue Moon. The ship's owner has enough leverage over Cathy to keep her aboard, and…
Old friend Joe Bishop asks Slate to hold a package, then dies before he can fully explain the danger surrounding it. The package is tied to the Tears of Siva,…
A company hires Slate to locate a missing pilot who was carrying a half-million-dollar payroll. The first wrecked plane they find is not his, and the search moves to an…
Sailor faces the threat of being forced out of Havana while Slate is drawn into a scheme involving an attractive woman, planted documents and accusations of espionage. When an envelope…
During a violent Havana storm, a frightened young woman arrives at Shannon's Place and Slate and Sailor try to keep her away from people who are after her. Their attempt…
Slate and Sailor find a drifting lifeboat containing four dead men from the Mary K, a ship believed lost long before. Their investigation leads to a clandestine operation transporting refugees…
A newlywed couple checks into Shannon's Place just as a man is found poisoned, and a private investigator connected to the case is later killed on the beach. When suspicion…
Slate’s old oil-field partner Matt Wallace returns after twelve years with news that he has finally struck oil and intends to honor their old promise to share the find. Ray,…
A charter to a remote plantation turns deadly after Mrs. Ramsey admits killing her husband and prevents Slate and Sailor from leaving. Surrounded by armed danger and local voodoo beliefs,…
Mrs. Reed asks Slate to find her missing husband, whose letters have kept arriving even though he vanished into the Caribbean. Slate discovers that the real Tommy Reed is already…
A diver recruits Slate and the Bold Venture to search a Caribbean wreck for a cargo of gold, but the expedition attracts rivals willing to kill for the location. After…
Slate and Sailor come across an apparently deserted yacht drifting in the Caribbean and bring its mystery back to Havana. When a woman connected to the vessel is murdered at…
Slate is reunited with Jenny Ward, an old flame from his wandering days, but the reunion quickly turns into a trap. Jenny publicly offers a $10,000 reward for Slate dead…
After Mickey is killed, Slate follows a terminal locker key that points to locker 68 and a hidden $100,000. The money draws in the men who murdered Mickey, and Slate…
Slate and Sailor see a boat slam into Havana’s sea wall and find Phyllis Calvert dead aboard it. When her fiancé comes looking for her, Slate refuses to accept the…
Sailor talks Slate into a formal party aboard the S.S. Huron and rents him a tuxedo for the occasion. The borrowed coat becomes dangerously valuable when criminals discover that the…
A former guest, Mr. Raimi, calls Slate to Yucatán after his wife Martha disappears. A hotel clerk denies she was ever there, but the lie sends Slate and Sailor through…
Sailor distrusts a young man named Frank Jordan even as Slate gives him the benefit of the doubt. When a dying stranger names Frank and gunmen beat Slate while taking…
A search connected to a missing man and the people around Shannon's Place ends with Slate captured by armed criminals. His captors demand money and treat the Bold Venture itself…
During carnival festivities, an artificial camellia passes through Slate's hands and suddenly attracts armed men who are far more interested in the flower than in him. A valuable stolen ruby…
Slate is paid to bring Mario Carada to Havana, only to find the young man bloodied, hunted and determined to avenge his father. The passage becomes a trap involving men…
An elderly widow who has seen Slate's photograph through the Darby and Joan lonely-hearts organization arrives at Shannon's Place determined to marry him. When the woman's case turns deadly and…
Slate and Sailor rescue two men from a small boat, only to be taken hostage when the supposed fishermen reveal themselves as mutineers from the S.S. Marino Victory. Forced toward…
A modest painting by a struggling artist suddenly attracts an art dealer willing to pay far more than it appears to be worth. Slate and Sailor discover that the picture…
Paolo, a young man Slate knows from an earlier brush with crime, is accused of a jewel robbery and then found shot. A man named Kirk uses the evidence to…
Slate agrees to deliver a boat to Batabano, but the errand turns deadly when the man waiting for it is killed by a booby-trapped door. An envelope, a stolen-silk operation…
A well-paying job to collect a passenger from the freighter S.S. Paloma becomes a trap. Slate is beaten, shanghaied and stripped of his identification, then framed as wanted man Louis…
Slate is asked to find escaped killer Paul Brewer and return him to his father before more people die. The retrieval becomes a three-sided hunt when another armed man is…
Slate and Sailor run into Carlo, an eccentric fisherman who has sold his boat and started giving his money away because he believes someone is going to kill him. Slate…
Slate goes to Trujillo to help an old friend who is only hours from execution for Rosa Kaleo’s murder. A coat and dress with matching bullet holes prove Rosa was…
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