1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Suspense. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:37,000 For Suspense, tonight we present Menace in Wax by John Dixon Carr. 3 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:56,000 During the French Revolution of 1793, a Swiss girl copied in one of the most famous books 4 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:03,000 of the French Revolution of 1793, a Swiss girl copied in wax the severed heads of those 5 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 who had just been guillotined. 6 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:13,000 She married a Frenchman named Toussaint and came to London and she founded Madame Toussaint's 7 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,000 wax works. 8 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,000 There it is, still in Marleybone Road near Baker Street Station. 9 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Not the original building, that was destroyed by fire, but it remained untouched when a 10 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,000 darker shadow than revolution came to England. 11 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,000 They plastered high explosives all along that road and hit the cinema next door. 12 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 We are going to London under the bomber's moon. 13 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Late one night in March of 1941, a young man hurried up to the great glass doors of Madame 14 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Toussaint's. 15 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Hey, open up there. 16 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Isn't there a night watchman around this place? 17 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 There he is, Governor, and I'm in. 18 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Now what do you want at this hour of the night? 19 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,000 My name is Roger. 20 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 I'm from the Daily Record. 21 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 If you let me get inside, I'll show you my press card. 22 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Didn't you get any orders about me? 23 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Well, maybe I have at that. 24 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Oh, you're the bloke who wants to see the Chimbaravaras. 25 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 That's right. 26 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 All right, you may as well come in. 27 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 My paper got a tip there's something funny going on around here. 28 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Something funny going on here? 29 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,000 That's a good one. 30 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 The rain's not very heavy tonight, is it? 31 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 No, they're going over. 32 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 You ain't heard where, Governor? 33 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 We got a teletype flash. 34 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 There was a Midlands. 35 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Lord Lummi and I've got a sister in Bromingham. 36 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Oh, why can't she come and stop in a nice safe place like London? 37 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 There's the Regent Park guns opening up again. 38 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 My teeth rattle and shakes the hats off the dummy's heads. 39 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,000 You know, this Chimbaravaras is getting to be popular tonight. 40 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 You mean there's been somebody here before me? 41 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Yes. 42 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,000 A woman? 43 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 That's right, Governor. 44 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 About five feet two inches tall, very pretty. 45 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 If you like them brunette and big-eyed and their phony French accent. 46 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 No, Governor, no. 47 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 This was only an old lady that lost her handbag. 48 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Oh, thank the Lord for that anyway. 49 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Now then, what is going on around here? 50 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Well, I don't know, Governor. 51 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 You'll have to ask Pearson about that. 52 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Who's Pearson? 53 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Oh, he's the bloke that's the watchman down there. 54 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 He's old and he imagines things. 55 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 He phoned your piper. 56 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Have you got an electric torch? 57 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Yes. 58 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Then go straight on through the marble hall and down the stairs on your left. 59 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 And don't speak to the policeman because he's wax. 60 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Yes, that's the way, Governor. 61 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,000 That's the way to the Chimbaravaras. 62 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Thank you. 63 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Pearson. 64 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Hello, Pearson. 65 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Pearson. 66 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Yes, sir. 67 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 You're looking for me? 68 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Oh, I didn't see you there. 69 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 I must have thought you were one of these wax dummies. 70 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Ugly dim light, isn't it? 71 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Yes. 72 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Rogers is my name. I'm from the Daily Record. 73 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Oh, yes. 74 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 I'm glad you came over. 75 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 I phoned your piper myself. 76 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Maybe I'm just imagining things, but... 77 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 I don't blame you. 78 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 This place would make anybody nervous, especially during an air raid. 79 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Well, sir, it's all right as long as you don't get to imagine they're watching you. 80 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Oh, and do you? 81 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Oh, yes. Sometimes. 82 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 That's the gambling group in the center there. 83 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Uh-huh. 84 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 What's that thing over there? 85 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 That's the famous guillotine. 86 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Oh, wait a minute, old boy. 87 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 You're not trying to tell me that's the original guillotine. 88 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,000 No, that was burnt in the fire. 89 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Madame Toussaint bought it from Sanson, the executioner. 90 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Let me tell you something, Mr. Rogers. 91 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 What? 92 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Years ago, if this is straight, 93 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,000 a young French woman came in here. 94 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,000 There was nobody else in the place. 95 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:23,000 She thought it would be great fun to say she'd put her neck in the same guillotine as Brie Antoinette. 96 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 So she climbed up on that platform. 97 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:33,000 She snapped the little wooden collar down round her neck, shutting herself in. 98 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:40,000 All of a sudden, she realized she didn't know which spring controlled the collar 99 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 and which spring controlled the knife. 100 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Oh, good Lord, she didn't know. 101 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 But they say she went crazy. 102 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 They say she screamed and screamed. 103 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 What's that? 104 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:01,000 I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you, but sweet mama, I'm so scared of myself I cannot help it. 105 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Susie. 106 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Oh, no, no, no, no, not Susie. 107 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Susie, you make it so it rhymes with floozy. That is not nice. 108 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Why, you little devil, I ought to turn you across my knee. 109 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000 What are you doing here? And will you forget that French accent? You're driving me crazy. 110 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000 You know this young lady, sir. 111 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Do I? She works for my paper. She's haunting me. 112 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Bert, that's not nice. I like the way I talk. 113 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 I only try to give you ideas. 114 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 That's just what I mean. Now, take your arms from around my neck. 115 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 She's French. 116 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Her mother came from New York like I did. 117 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,000 She's got some funny ideas, accents, and disguises. 118 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,000 So I dress up as an old lady and I come along too. That is clever, no? 119 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Definitely no. 120 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:46,000 But I go into what I think is the lady's room and there is Jack the Ripper. I'm so scared I almost kick the ghost. 121 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Whatever else you do miss, for the love of heaven, put out that cigarette. 122 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 It is not permitted? 123 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,000 It is what they are most afraid of in this place. Fire! 124 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 If you vouch for this young lady, Mr. Rogers... 125 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,000 I don't vouch for anybody. But go on now. What's all the mystery here at Madame Tussauds? 126 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,000 You see the group over there? It's called the Gamblers. 127 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,000 That three men and a woman in 18th century costumes sitting around a table playing cards? 128 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Yes. And about once a week, when the lights are out... 129 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Yes? 130 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Those dummies do play cards. 131 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Is this a publicity trick of some kind? 132 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Oh no sir. 133 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Then what's the game? 134 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 I'm not crazy. I know they don't actually do it sir. 135 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:39,000 What I want to know is who changes the cards round in their hands? And why? 136 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Could anybody? Anybody from the outside I mean, get in to change the cards? 137 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Oh yes. There's a back door. 138 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 But why would anyone want to break in here just to change those cards around? 139 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Monsieur Berthes, listen. I have made a discovery. 140 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Listen, if you're going to talk, speak English. Or better yet, just keep still. 141 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,000 But I have made a discovery. This card game. 142 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 What about it? 143 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,000 It is crooked. Here is a man which has two deuces of hearts in the same hand. 144 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Listen Susie, I don't give a... Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let's have a look at those cards. 145 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I give you ideas, yes? 146 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Susie, for once you're right. And look here. Two of these players have all the clubs and hearts. 147 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,000 The other two have all the diamonds and spades. 148 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Susie, how many letters in the alphabet? 149 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Twenty-six, no? 150 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,000 And twice twenty-six is... 151 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Twenty-two. 152 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:43,000 The number of cards in a pack. Give me a pencil Susie, quick. 153 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:49,000 The War Office, Whitehall. MI5, headquarters of military intelligence. 154 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:55,000 There next morning in the map room used as an office by Colonel Warrender. 155 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Mr. Rogers, I am a busy man. 156 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,000 I appreciate that Colonel Warrender. 157 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Anyhow, sit down. 158 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Thank you sir. 159 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Now what's all this? These cards you claim form a code, is that it? 160 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Yes sir. Now look sir. Let each letter of the alphabet represent a card in clubs and hearts. 161 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,000 That's twenty-six. 162 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 And then? 163 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 And then when you get to the middle of the message, switch the alphabet over to diamonds and spades. 164 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Then you won't keep on repeating. 165 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Now will you read what I've got written on this piece of paper? 166 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Jack of diamonds, Q, three of clubs, F. That doesn't seem to mean much. 167 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Never mind the cards Colonel, just read the letters. 168 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Q, F, A, C, T, O, R, Y. 169 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Yes sir, Q factory. Go on. 170 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Oh just a moment. What is that infernal noise? Johnson Burrows! 171 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Don't bother with that sir, just read the message please. 172 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Q factory, ten p.m., fifteenth. 173 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Today's the fifteenth of March Colonel. 174 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:58,000 All preparations made. Use dive-bobbers. 175 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,000 I see. This message was left openly. 176 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 So openly that nobody ever noticed it. 177 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Yes, the trick's been tried before. 178 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 No contacts, no gatherings, no letters that might be intercepted. 179 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,000 The whole spy ring could walk through that wax museum and read the message without being seen. 180 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,000 You newspaper men trying to teach me my job? 181 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Oh I'm sorry sir, I only... 182 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,000 No, no, go on. 183 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Well don't you see, three or four little boats with portable wireless sets go down the Thames estuary. 184 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,000 When they're beyond pursuit they send that message by radio. 185 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Somebody listens. 186 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,000 And it's no secret in Fleet Street sir that Q factory is out in the wilds of Gleibeshire. 187 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,000 There's no secret anywhere. 188 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,000 And that we're making the Shaftesbury bomber out there. 189 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,000 So tonight, unless we do something about it, they're coming over and bomb Q factory to blazes. 190 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Oh that's impossible. 191 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Why? Or can't you tell me? 192 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,000 I can tell you this much. 193 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Yes sir? 194 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Q factory is so well hidden that even our own pilots can't fight it from the air. 195 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 That's one objection to this message. 196 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Any other objection? 197 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Yes, this talk about dive bombers. 198 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Dive bombers in a night attack. 199 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,000 What's the good of a dive bomber if he can't see his objective? 200 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Well suppose somebody showed a light. 201 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 He'd be shot dead as soon as he showed it. 202 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Every inch of country for a quarter of a mile around the factory, 203 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 a quarter of a mile Mr Rogers is patrolled day and night. 204 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Well, just the same, they're going to have a try at it sir. 205 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 How? 206 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,000 I don't know how. 207 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Then if you'll excuse me Mr Rogers. 208 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Listen Colonel Winder, will you give me a pass to go down there to the factory? 209 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Certainly not. No one's permitted to go there except the workers. 210 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 How is the place defended? 211 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:32,000 There's a night fighter station nearby and several batches of four 3.7 guns. 212 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Then give me a pass to the fighter station or to the gun post. 213 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,000 That's a legitimate newspaper request. 214 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Well I might manage a pass to one of the gun posts. 215 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Then you'll do it. 216 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Well what on earth is that infernal row? 217 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Sounds like somebody locked up in a coat cupboard. 218 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Yes, as a matter of fact Colonel, it is somebody locked up in a coat cupboard. 219 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 A young lady so called. 220 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 A young lady? Who locked her up? 221 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 I did. 222 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 And just what the devil do you mean sir? 223 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Locking up people in coat cupboards in the war office? 224 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Well she's a bit excitable Colonel. I thought that she'd better not see you. 225 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Thanks for the consideration. 226 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,000 There's just one other favor I'd like to ask. 227 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 As well? 228 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 If she asks you for a pass, don't give it to her. 229 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Don't give it to her under any circumstances. 230 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,000 What's her name? 231 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Susie Dubois. 232 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 You're rather too late for that young man. 233 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 The public relations office granted her a pass two hours ago. 234 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 What? Oh. 235 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 A woman to an anti-aircraft battery? 236 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 This is what we call a mixed battery. 237 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Women on the guns as well as men. 238 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000 She said it would make a good human interest story for the press. 239 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 I must say I agree with her. 240 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 One moment Mr. Rogers before you go. 241 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Yes sir. 242 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 That gun post is fully two miles from the factory. 243 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:47,000 You can go there, but if you take one step further you'll be shot on sight by our guards. 244 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,000 I warn you. 245 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,000 I'll be careful Colonel. I'll be careful. 246 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Somewhere in the West Country, a yellow moon shines over bare trees. 247 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,000 A white mist moving clings to the ground. 248 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Susie are you sure we're on the right road? 249 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Oh, mon cher. They have taken away all the signposts in case there is an invasion. 250 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000 I know that. 251 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 But I follow the map. The map cannot be wrong. 252 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 We've been driving for hours. It must be... 253 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Yes it is, nearly half past nine. 254 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Half an hour to go. Trees, trees and still more trees. 255 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Look, there's a break and the trees ahead. 256 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 It will be open country in a minute. 257 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Yeah, that's funny. Look how deep the leaves are here on the road. 258 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:51,000 But one thing I tell you, just between you and me and the bedpost... 259 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Gatepost Susie, the term is between you and me and the gatepost. And speak English. 260 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 I am speaking English very well thank you. 261 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 I do not need your help to be here. 262 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,000 No, I do not need your help to be pure. 263 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000 All right, all right. 264 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Now this map. 265 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Well, what about it? 266 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,000 It say we should go through a lot of villages. 267 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 Mitford, Archedeen and Sephora Weville. 268 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 I have not seen any villages. 269 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Did you say Mitford? 270 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Oui mon cher. 271 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Susie, let me have a look at that map. Come on, come on, hand it over. 272 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,000 But what is wrong? It is a perfectly good map. 273 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Yes, Susie, it is a fine map. It is an excellent map. 274 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Only it is a map of the wrong county. 275 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 I have made a mistake. No? 276 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,000 I do not even believe you can read. This is a map of Barsichur. 277 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 We should be somewhere in Glebesher. 278 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Now where in the devil are we? 279 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,000 With the entrance to some kind of clearing with leaves on it. 280 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Oh. 281 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Hello there. 282 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,000 What was that? 283 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Hello there. 284 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Somebody calling us. If we are in forbidden area. 285 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 I see him now. 286 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Where? 287 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Behind us. He came out of a white cottage back there. 288 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,000 He is a big heavy man. With a moustache. 289 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Never mind the moustache. He is wearing some kind of a uniform and he has got a rifle. 290 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 You think he plugged us? No? 291 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 I think it is not unlikely. 292 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Get out those war office passes of ours. 293 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Quick. 294 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Good evening my friends. 295 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Good evening. 296 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Can you tell me? 297 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 We do not mean any harm. 298 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Can you tell me what time it is? 299 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Oh. What time it is? 300 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Yes. 301 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Oh. It is 28 and a half minutes past nine. 302 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Thank you. 303 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,000 I will keep you covered while I set my watch. 304 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Yeah. 305 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 My next question is. 306 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Would you like me to shoot you both? 307 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000 No. 308 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Listen Mr. Mr. 309 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,000 McCallister. 310 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Captain. Captain McCallister. 311 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 That is right. 312 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Captain. This girl. She has been reading the wrong map. 313 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 You see we do not even know where we are. 314 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 You are in Hollywood forest my friend. 315 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Hollywood forest. 316 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Is that good or bad? 317 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,000 And you do not know what is just beyond the edge of this clearing? 318 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,000 No. 319 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 There is a big open space of a quarter of a mile. 320 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 In the middle of that open space. 321 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Q Factory. We are right on top of it. 322 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Then you have heard of Q Factory my friend. 323 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Captain McCallister. We are from the war office and we have got passes to prove it. 324 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Let's see the passes. 325 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 We were trying to find gunsight number. 326 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 I have forgotten the number. 327 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 But it is here on that card. 328 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 You have passed the gunsight. 329 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Two miles back up the road. 330 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,000 All right. Here are your passes. 331 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 What are you going to do to us? 332 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,000 I am not in the regular army. 333 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,000 You can thank your stars I am not. 334 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 I am forestry preservation. 335 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,000 You are not going to chuck us in the cooler even? 336 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,000 No. 337 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Turn that car around and get back along this road as fast as you can. 338 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 If they fire at you as they probably will. 339 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 Oh I wish I am home. 340 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 I pray no more. I wish I am home. 341 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Well they will hope for the best. 342 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 My watch had stopped and you did me a good turn. 343 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Well hurry along. Hurry. 344 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Gun sight of heavy attack battery. 345 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Four three point seven guns against a moon growing clear white. 346 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 White as the concrete emplacements. 347 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Sealed against light where the crews men and women sitting waiting. 348 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Waiting. 349 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Waiting. 350 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Well sir. 351 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 I am glad to have you both here. 352 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:54,000 This idea of yours about dive bombers attacking a blacked out factory in the middle of a forest is rather fantastic don't you think? 353 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 I admit it doesn't make much sense Captain Bronson. 354 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 But I have a hunch that I am right. 355 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,000 You and Miss Susie drove out don't see many strangers. 356 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Frightly boring. Nice country of course. 357 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Good air and everything but dull. 358 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Dull as ditch water. 359 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 What's that? 360 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Only some of the lads and lasses inside. 361 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Like to walk along the emplacement here. 362 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Oh is that allowed? 363 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Oh certainly old boy why not. 364 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Bright moon tonight isn't it? 365 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Yes bombers moon. 366 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,000 We nearly get shot on our way here. 367 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Quiet Susie. We are not supposed to have been there. 368 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000 If I nearly get shot I am going to say I nearly get shot. 369 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,000 It was a man which is called Mick Callister. 370 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Oh old Mack. Very decent sort Mack. He's a tree doctor. 371 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,000 A what? 372 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Tree doctor. Got to have wood you know. 373 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 But trees start to die. 374 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Mack goes round the edge of the clearing and smears him with stuff to keep him well. 375 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 How did you come to meet him? 376 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Well the fact is we nearly got as far as the factory tonight. 377 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Oh then you were lucky to get back alive. 378 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,000 There weren't any barrage balloons over the factory I noticed. 379 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Hardly old boy. They wouldn't advertise would they? With balloons in open country. 380 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 And if the Germans did use dive bombers? 381 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Oh they're not coming old boy. Just make up your mind to that. 382 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 I wonder if you'll say so at ten o'clock. 383 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 But it is ten o'clock. It's just ten now. 384 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,000 It can't be. We drove here like blazes. It was only half past nine then. 385 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Then your watch must be very slow old boy. 386 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,000 No I'm afraid you're wrong. I've never seen it quieter. 387 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Cold tonight. Very dry for March. 388 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Look all around you. Moonlight. Open country. Not a sign of life in it. 389 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Quiet. Peaceful. And silent as the... 390 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,000 What was that? 391 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Why George I think we've got some visitors. I think we're going to see some fun. 392 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Enemy planes approaching south southwest. Action stations. 393 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Enemy planes approaching south southwest. 394 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Now do you believe me? 395 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Stand back old boy. Operation crew's coming on. 396 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,000 I said now do you believe me? 397 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:03,000 I want you to watch these girls work. They do everything you know except actually fire the guns. 398 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 Now now now keep your hair on old boy. 399 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Susie he still can't see it. 400 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,000 Oh they'll only be going over. 401 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 You think so? 402 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Oh yes. We sometimes get a crack at them when they're making for Bristol. 403 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Enemy fire for action. 404 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Enemy fire. 405 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Listen. 406 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000 I have heard that noise a thousand times. 407 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,000 But every time I hear it I get sick. 408 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 They're flying ruddy low you know. 409 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Just what I was thinking. 410 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Spotter. Spotter. Any identification? 411 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Junkers. 88. 412 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 Dive bombers. 413 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,000 Point. 5200. 414 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Look here you two newspaper people. 415 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Yes sir. 416 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,000 There might be things popping you know. Can't tell. 417 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 I'd like to get below. 418 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Oh no thanks. 419 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000 I don't like this Bert but I'll stay too. 420 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Range finder. 421 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Range finder. On target. 422 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Look here you two. Those war office passes you gave me. 423 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:15,000 I'm not supposed to keep them. I'd better give them back just in case. 424 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Predictor. Predictor. On target. 425 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Here we go ladies and gents. 426 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Fire. 427 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Stand by. 428 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Predictor on target. 429 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Fire. 430 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Stand by. 431 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Predictor on target. 432 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Headquarters message sir. 433 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Yes corporal. 434 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 No more fire. Night fighters taking off. 435 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 Full fire. Night fighters taking off. 436 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Full fire. 437 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Message understood. 438 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 What is the matter with them? 439 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 With who? 440 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Those harsh planes. They're still a good way off but they don't come any closer. 441 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Must be going over after all. 442 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,000 They're circling. I think they're waiting for a signal. 443 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Anyhow here are your war office passes. You seem to have got them all smeared with oil. 444 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Oil? 445 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:14,000 That is all right, Monsher. When we get them back from Captain McAllister, they have oil on them. 446 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,000 I think maybe drop them on the leaves because there's oil on the tires of the car too. 447 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Then I think how always in this we meet things at birth. 448 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,000 At Madame Tussauds last night, they would not let me smoke a cigarette in case of fire. 449 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Fire. That said fire. 450 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 What's the matter with you old boy? 451 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Why did that fella way out at the end of nowhere want to know what time it was? 452 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Are you scatter? 453 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:42,000 McAllister, you told me so yourself. He goes around the edges of the clearing and smears the trees with stuff to keep them well. 454 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,000 What about it? 455 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Suppose it was crude oil. Suppose between each tree he laid an invisible fuse of dead leaves soaked in oil. 456 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 I don't understand. 457 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,000 In 30 seconds a complete square of fire runs around the limits of the factory grounds. 458 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:00,000 That draws the bombers in. Then as the flames blaze higher, they've got enough light to dive on their target. 459 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000 There. Our night fighters are letting loose. 460 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Bronson, I see it all now. Come on. We've got to get to that tree, Dr. McAllister. It's a matter of minutes. 461 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Susie, is Bronson following in the car behind us? 462 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Yes. He's following in men with rifles. 463 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 We've got to get to McAllister's cottage. 464 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000 This McAllister... 465 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 I'll bet you 10 to 1. The real McAllister is either dead or tied up in that cottage. 466 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000 The fellow we saw was an imposter. 467 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Look out, Susie. Keep your head down. 468 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Oh, those fighters. They will chew a better younger in the place. 469 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,000 They have not got the chance of a snowshoe in heaven. 470 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,000 No, Susie, not a snowshoe in heaven. You mean a... 471 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,000 I know you are English at a time like this. What I cannot understand... 472 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Look out! 473 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,000 I don't see why he hasn't set his signal off. What is delaying him? 474 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000 Why don't he strike a match when the bombers come over? 475 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Because he's a good Nazi. 476 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000 A good Nazi? 477 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,000 My watch was slow, don't you remember? I gave him the wrong time. 478 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 He had orders to strike his match at 10 o'clock. 479 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,000 He'll not do it until 10 o'clock if there are 500 planes instead of 20. 480 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Bert, I see him. 481 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Where? 482 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Far up the road. He's running. 483 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Yeah. Yeah, that's him. 484 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Think we can reach him before he gets to the clearing? 485 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Not the chance of a snowshoe in heaven. 486 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Signal brunts in the passes. A long shot with a rifle might... 487 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 Bert! Bert! One of the anchors has hit. 488 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,000 What? 489 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,000 He's right over us. 490 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 That's not all. He's unloading his bombs. 491 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 That whole stick is coming straight down in our direction. 492 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Keep your head down. 493 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,000 I want to see... 494 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Good job, baby. 495 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000 Good job, baby. 496 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,000 Are you all right? 497 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 I... I don't feel her. 498 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000 This is a dirt road. 499 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 The bomb sank too deeply before it exploded. 500 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 We didn't catch the blast. 501 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Come on, Susie. The callister was just ahead of us. 502 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Come on, let's get out. 503 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 We can't drive any further. 504 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 This road is full of bomb craters. 505 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Wait a minute, Susie. There's my callister. 506 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,000 He... he is dead. 507 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Yes, Susie. 508 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Killed by a Nazi bomb. 509 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Look, on the ground. 510 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 What are those two white cards? 511 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Oh. 512 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,000 They're all smeared with oil. 513 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,000 They must have fallen out of Macalester's pocket just before he got hit. 514 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Let's see. 515 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Huh. What do you know? 516 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,000 What are the cards for? 517 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Two tickets for Madame Tussaud's waxworks. 518 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,000 I'm afraid our friend's never going to get to use them. 519 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Not the chance of us. No shoe in heaven. 520 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:19,000 And so ends Menace in Wax. 521 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Tonight's story of suspense. 522 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:32,000 Columbia presents these stories of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure. 523 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,000 For your reading, you'll find the answers in the description. 524 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,000 These stories of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure. 525 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000 For your relaxation and enjoyment. 526 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Next Tuesday, there'll be another in this series. 527 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Same hour. 9.30 Eastern wartime. 528 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,000 William Spear, the producer. 529 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000 John Deets, the director. 530 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Bernard Herman, the composer, conductor. 531 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 John Dixon Carr, the author. 532 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:23,000 Collaborators on Suspense. 533 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Here is a message of vital importance to every person who drives an automobile in America. 534 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000 There is wide misunderstanding about gasoline and rubber, 535 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:37,000 and the government wants the following facts brought to everyone's attention. 536 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Actually, there is no scarcity of gasoline except in some parts of the East. 537 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:48,000 But nowhere in the country is there enough rubber for military and civilian use. 538 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Starting two weeks from today, December 1st, mileage rationing goes into effect. 539 00:27:53,000 --> 00:28:00,000 This means that no car owner anywhere in the United States will be able to buy gasoline without a mileage rationing book. 540 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:05,000 The purpose is to conserve the rubber we have by eliminating all unnecessary driving. 541 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:10,000 When we think of the tremendous distances our mechanized army is traveling in North Africa, 542 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:17,000 and the long road to victory that still lies ahead, this extra effort on our part is slight indeed. 543 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:22,000 Remember, everybody is going to have mileage rationing, so why not be prepared? 544 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,000 The best way each of us can save rubber is by sharing our car with others. 545 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,000 Let one car do the work for two or three. 546 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,000 So why not arrange with the neighbors tonight and start sharing the car tomorrow? 547 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,000 It's the one real important contribution that every automobile driver can make. 548 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Don't be a lone rider. Share your car and do your share for victory. 549 00:28:41,000 --> 00:29:09,000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.