1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Suspense. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Suspense is compounded of mystery and intrigue in dangerous adventure. 3 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Stories calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves. 4 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Tonight, for instance, as we begin, you may want to ask yourself, 5 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:51,000 how could a young lady, a bride, walk out on a balcony alone and vanish? 6 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Completely vanish. 7 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 We trust that while you are wondering how and why it was this, 8 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 we shall keep you in... 9 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Suspense. 10 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:31,000 For Suspense, tonight CBS presents The Bride Vanishes by John Dickson Carr. 11 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Italy in springtime. 12 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Italy as we used to know it before the jackal struck. 13 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:42,000 And the island of Capri, twenty miles out across the bay of Naples. 14 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:48,000 Blue water a dazzle under the sun, behind through the bone white beaches, 15 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 and Vesuvius dull purple in a heat haze. 16 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Ahead, as the little steamer from Naples chugs out across the bay, rises Capri. 17 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Olive trees and white roads and vineyards above the cliffs. 18 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Could young Americans find a better place to spend their honeymoon? 19 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:14,000 While the guitars sing and the warm winds blow and the little steamer carries them. 20 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Well, Mrs. Courtney? 21 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Well, Mr. Courtney. 22 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000 I can't keep it up, Lucy. 23 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 I'm going to break down and ask if you're happy. 24 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Oh, I'll break down too. 25 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 I want to walk up to everybody I meet and say, wee, just like that. 26 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 What I want to do is turn somersaults myself all along this deck here. 27 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,000 I want to say, I've been married to Tom Courtney for practically two weeks. 28 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,000 And now we're going to have a villa at Capri for a month. 29 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Oh, Tom, I ought to be the happiest woman in the world. 30 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Only... 31 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 You're shivered. What's wrong? 32 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Well, ever since we got aboard this ship, people have been staring at me. 33 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 I can't blame you for that, dear. 34 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 No, no, I mean in a funny way. 35 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,000 And muttering. Even your American friend. What's his name? 36 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Granger? 37 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Mr. Granger. When you introduced him to me at Naples, I thought his eyes were going to pop out. 38 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Be careful. He's standing over by the rail now. 39 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,000 He lives at Capri. 40 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000 I like to see him wearing that white ten-gallon hat in Italy. 41 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Before Granger made money in oil wells, he was a real old-fashioned cow puncher. 42 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 And he's proud of it. Good fellow, too. 43 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:34,000 He's too polite to say anything, but he keeps looking around at me, just the same as the rest of them do. 44 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Well? 45 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Well, Tom, they look scared. 46 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,000 You know, Lucy, this isn't the time to start imagining things. 47 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,000 I know. Maybe I'm just so happy I'm afraid it can't last. 48 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Oh, don't say that. 49 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:52,000 But wouldn't it be pretty awful if something did happen and we weren't together any longer? 50 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Wait a minute. Hasn't this ship stopped? 51 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Yes. Well, it is Capri ahead of us, isn't it? 52 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 It can't be anything else. Well, it seems a funny place to stop. 53 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 No sign of a harbor. Only rocks and little gray cliffs. 54 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Oh, Mr. Granger. Mr. Granger. 55 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Yes, young fellow? 56 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 You happen to know why we're stopping here? 57 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Oh, yes. That's an easy one, son. We're stopping so that you and your good lady 58 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:22,000 and anybody else who's curious can get a look at the Blue Grotto. 59 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 The Blue Grotto, of course. 60 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Now just shave your eyes with your hand, then. 61 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 You see that tiny little arch under the cliff? 62 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Yes. 63 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 And all the little white rowboats are coming out towards us? 64 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Yes. 65 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Now when the first boat comes alongside, you climb down that iron ladder and get in. 66 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,000 The boatman will row you out and through the arch into the Grotto. 67 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 It's a great big dark cavern. 68 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 The water in there looks as though it's lit up underneath with blue fire. 69 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Would you like to go out and see it, Lizzie? 70 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Oh, I'd love to. 71 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 But let me give you a little tip, though. 72 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,000 The current's pretty fast out there. You'll go shooting under that arch like 60. 73 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Are we likely to upset? 74 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Oh, no. No, but the arch isn't as high as your head. 75 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 When you see it come and lie back flat in the boat, 76 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 that is unless you want your block now, sure. 77 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Thanks, Mr. Granger. We'll remember. Come along, Lucy. 78 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Easy on the ladder, Lucy. Don't look frowned yet. 79 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Oh, I'm all right, darling. And just as good a swimmer as you are. 80 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 I'm in the boat now. Take one more step. Steady. 81 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Now turn around facing the boatman and sit down here beside him. 82 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 What's the matter with the boatman? 83 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Easy, man. Do you want to upset us? Sit down. 84 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 You'll come back, will you? 85 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Come back? I've never been here before in my life. 86 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Push off, man. Start rowing. The other boats are piling up behind you. 87 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 You'll come back. 88 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Start rowing, can't you? And Ali Subitov, faster. 89 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Tom, he can't take his eyes off us. 90 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 I wish he'd watch out where he's rowing. 91 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 You'll come to live at the Villabour Castle, yes? 92 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Tom, how did he know that? 93 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,000 He's the lady. She is not dead. 94 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Dead? Of course she's not dead. What are you talking about? 95 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 She never come to Capri before? 96 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Never. 97 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Then I tell you, she will disappear just like the other one. 98 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Disappear? 99 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 I'll rest my auras and I tell you. 100 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Tom, aren't we moving rather fast? 101 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Yes, that's the entrance to the grotto ahead. 102 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,000 I tell you, there was a lady so much like you on a carpeting back. 103 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 It scared me. 104 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Look, old man, I don't want to teach you your business, 105 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 but you've got your back to that grotto. 106 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Take this lady back where she come from. 107 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Do not take her to the Villabour Castle. 108 00:06:46,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Down, see, flat on your back, down. 109 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Signore, signore, I am sorry. I almost make you get hurt. 110 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,000 You know you nearly got your own head knocked off. 111 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Excuse me, nor, I am used to it. 112 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Now I will roll you round the blue grotto. 113 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:22,000 I don't think I like it much, Tom. 114 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Neither do I. 115 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Dark, except for that blue light under the water. 116 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Oh, transparent. You can see the fishes swimming. 117 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Gentlemen of Boatman, this lady who disappeared from the Villabour Gaze. 118 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Two, three years ago she disappeared. 119 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 You say she looked exactly like my wife? 120 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,000 You see, signore, she was going to be married. 121 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,000 She was trying on a, what do you call, her wedding dress. 122 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Her mother and sisters, they were in the room with her. 123 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 She walked out on a balcony over the sea. 124 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 You know what I mean, on a balcony over the sea? 125 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 And nobody ever hear of her again. 126 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 You mean she jumped over into the sea? 127 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Or a young girl going to be married. 128 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Kill herself, no, no, no, no. 129 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 And what did happen? 130 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I don't know. 131 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,000 But sometimes they say you can meet her ghost in the here. 132 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:23,000 She float just under the water where you can see her. 133 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 And turn over and over. 134 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,000 And the wedding veil is still round her face. 135 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Tom, let's get out of here. 136 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 You want to go, yes? 137 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Lucy, if this fellow's stringing us along. 138 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,000 He's not stringing us along. 139 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Then somebody ought to know what this means. 140 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 If we've inherited a haunted balcony where people disappear like soap bubbles. 141 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 I say it's too much. 142 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Let's get back to our ship and talk to Granger. 143 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Yes, Boatman, take us back. 144 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Mr. Granger, Mr. Granger. 145 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I'm a poor man. 146 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 You too, young woman. 147 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 She's been starked with haphazard care. 148 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Give me a hand, Lucy. 149 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Thank you, dear. 150 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Oh, didn't anybody else go to the Blue Grotto? 151 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Well, ma'am, no. 152 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Not after they saw you go. 153 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,000 It's all right. 154 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 We've just heard the story, Mr. Granger. 155 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Oh, I ought to have told you about it myself. 156 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,000 All the way out here, I've been cursing myself and thinking what a gnarly old badger I am. 157 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 For not telling you when I first met you, Naples. 158 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 The girl did vanish, then. 159 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 By a first-rate miracle, yes. 160 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 In broad daylight and within 20 feet of her mother and sisters. 161 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 You don't look like a man who'd believe in miracles, Mr. Granger. 162 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Oh, I'm not, son. 163 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 I'm just telling you what happened. 164 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 But why is everybody so excited? 165 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Somebody must have thrown her off the balcony. 166 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Josephine Adams was all alone on a balcony 40 feet up a cliff, smooth as glass. 167 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,000 She didn't fall. 168 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 She wasn't thrown because there was no sound of a splash. 169 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:52,000 And she didn't come back from the balcony because her mother and sisters were in front of the only door. 170 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Yet, within 15 seconds, 15 seconds, mind you, she just vanished. 171 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 You believe that? 172 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Sure, I believe it, son. 173 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Well, it's a fact. 174 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Did you know the girl's family? 175 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Oh, very well. 176 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000 We've got a real English-speaking colony here. 177 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Oh, by the way, in about half a minute now, I'm going to show you your new home. 178 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Oh, can we see it here on the ship? 179 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Oh, sure you can, ma'am. 180 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 It's on the edge of the cliff. 181 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Dr. Davis's house is on one side of it, and my shack's on the other. 182 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Uh, that's why I want to ask you a question. 183 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Of course. 184 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Ask anything you like. 185 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Well, I'm an old stager, ma'am, and not exactly up to the high-tone society around here, but do you... 186 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 do you trust me? 187 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Yes, I think so. 188 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Well, then promise me something. 189 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Unless you're with somebody you do trust, keep away from that balcony. 190 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Do you honestly think there's danger or... 191 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,000 I don't know, son. If I did, I wouldn't have to talk this way. 192 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Sounds like a dog barking. I thought I heard it before. 193 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:59,000 What is, a big police dog, and led by a very handsome woman, if you ask me. 194 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Oh, Lord, here she is again. Oh, the Countess. She lives in our colony. 195 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,000 She looks like an American. You take your eyes off her, Tom Courtney. 196 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:11,000 She isn't American. Married a Count Parchisi or something like that. 197 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Just call her Nellie. 198 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 My dear Mr. Granger. 199 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Hello, Nellie. 200 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,000 It's true. Everybody told me so, but I couldn't believe it until I saw her. 201 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,000 She does look exactly like poor Josephine Edmonds. 202 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Just as small, just as dainty. 203 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Please, is everybody trying to give me the jitters? 204 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Nellie, I want you to meet some friends of mine. 205 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Oh, you don't need to introduce me. I know who they are. 206 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,000 You're the nice young couple who've taken that villa. 207 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000 I'm Nellie LeCasey. 208 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Oh, yes. This is my dog Tiberius, named after the wicked Roman emperor. 209 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 You know who used to live at Capri? 210 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:52,000 I must confess I'm terribly fascinated by wicked things. 211 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Aren't you, Mr. Courtney? 212 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Lucy, stop digging me in the ribs. I haven't done anything. 213 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 No, and you're not going to. 214 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Tiberius seems to have taken quite a fancy to you, Mrs. Courtney. 215 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 I've never known him to go to a stranger before. 216 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,000 I only wish I could borrow him. He might be a charm against... 217 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Oh, I don't know. We'll be at the harbor in a few minutes. 218 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Then you must let me drive you up to the villa. 219 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:17,000 You won't be able to get any servants, I'm afraid, because they won't stay there. 220 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,000 But you can camp out. 221 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Look. There's the villa. We're passing it now. 222 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Where? 223 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 On the cliff where I'm pointing. 224 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Wait a minute. There must be some mistake. 225 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 That's not the Villa Bougayse. 226 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 It sure is, son. 227 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,000 That's a palace like all the other houses there. 228 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,000 And I rented it furnished for about $25 a month. 229 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Can't you guess why you got it so cheap, son? 230 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,000 If you take my advice, you'll turn around and go back to Naples by the next steamer. 231 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Harry Granger, don't be an idiot. Let's have some excitement. 232 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Let's have some excitement. 233 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Tom is beautiful. 234 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Too infinitely beautiful, if you ask me. 235 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 There's the balcony. 236 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:09,000 It's all right by daylight, son. Marble and tapestries and whatnot. 237 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:16,000 But at night, when you've got to put out the lights, you start thinking what happened there. 238 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,000 The moon over Capri makes a deathly daylight. 239 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:26,000 You could see to read on that balcony if anyone went out there. 240 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Frosted glass doors open out on it from a big room on the ground floor. 241 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,000 The moon is so beautiful. 242 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 It's like a dream. 243 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000 It's like a dream. 244 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 It's like a dream. 245 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 It's like a dream. 246 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Frosted glass doors open out on it from a big room on the ground floor. 247 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Two determinedly calm persons and a dog sit looking at each other. 248 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Lucy, stop it. 249 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Stop what? 250 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Stop looking over at that balcony. 251 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 I'm sorry, darling. 252 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Why are we sitting here anyway? There's an outer room that's much more comfortable. 253 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,000 It's like having a toothache. A very little toothache. 254 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 I may be dense, Angel, but I don't follow you. 255 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 You put your tongue against the tooth to see if it'll hurt. 256 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 You know it will hurt, but you go on doing it just the same. 257 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,000 That's us. 258 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Maybe you're right. 259 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:24,000 Oh, Tom, did you ever think we'd have a lovely house like this? 260 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 The house is all right, yes. 261 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Then they have to go and spoil everything. 262 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Our honeymoon with this blasted Tommy Rod about. 263 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Hey, Tom, you're as jittery now as I was this afternoon. 264 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Oh, even Tiberius is jittery. 265 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Yes, I guess I am. Easy, boy. Easy, easy. 266 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Well, there's whiskey on the table. 267 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,000 They call it beaky here. 268 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Make yourself a drink. 269 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,000 In a minute. Not just now. 270 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Lucy, there's nothing wrong with that balcony. 271 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Suppose you walked out there this minute. 272 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 I've had a horrible longing to try it. 273 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Just because I know I shouldn't. 274 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Well, nothing could attack you. 275 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,000 All you'd have to do would be to yell. 276 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,000 That'd bring Mr. Granger out on his balcony like a shot. 277 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,000 And the neighbor on the other side of us would... 278 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Who is on the other side, by the way? 279 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 A loony doctor. 280 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,000 A what? 281 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 A specialist in brain diseases. 282 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Dr. Davis. He's English. 283 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Listen. 284 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 It's somebody in the other room. 285 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Easy, Tiberius. Easy. 286 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Tom, I'm afraid. 287 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 It's all right, darling. 288 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,000 You hold Tiberius' collar while I open the door. 289 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,000 We don't want him to fly at anybody. 290 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 We're going into the other room and stay there. 291 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Ready? 292 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Yes. 293 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Good evening, Mr. Courtney. 294 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Good evening, Mrs. Courtney. 295 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:53,000 I'm no ghost, though you appear to regard me as one. 296 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 I'm merely your neighbor, Dr. Rutherford Davis. 297 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Oh. Yes, of course. 298 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Mr. Granger mentioned you. 299 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,000 I trust you will pardon this intrusion. 300 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 No one answered my knock, so I ventured to come in. 301 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 It's no intrusion, Dr. Davis. 302 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,000 We're a little disorganized here, that's all. 303 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Naturally. 304 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Mr. Courtney, I wish I could say welcome to Capri, 305 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,000 but I have a very different message. 306 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Well? 307 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 If you value Mrs. Courtney's life, 308 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,000 you'll go back to Naples immediately, sir. 309 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Not you, too. 310 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 I do not say that as a ghost hunter, sir. 311 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 I say it as a medical man. 312 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 May I sit down? 313 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Oh, of course. Please do. 314 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Thank you. 315 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 We seem to be forgetting our manners. 316 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Dr. Davis, will you have a drink? 317 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Oh, thank you. Perhaps a small whiskey? 318 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 I'll get it, darling. 319 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 You sit down and talk to Dr. Davis. 320 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 You're not going back into that room alone. 321 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 I'm only going to get the drinks, Tom. 322 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 I promise to be good. 323 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Come with me. Can't you, Tiberius? 324 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Oh, I see you've borrowed Tiberius from the Countess Lucchese. 325 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Yes. She was kind enough to offer him. 326 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Excuse me, I'll be back in a minute. 327 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Come on, Tiberius. 328 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Hi. 329 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 I hope this is all right, Doctor. 330 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,000 No, sir. It is not all right. 331 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Your wife is in very great danger. 332 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 But why? 333 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Because of that balcony? 334 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,000 No, because she looks exactly like the late Josephine Adams. 335 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 I don't get it. 336 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Mr. Courtney, did you ever hear of paranoia? 337 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,000 It's some kind of mental disease, isn't it? 338 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,000 The paranoic begins by imagining that he or she 339 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 is being persecuted by someone. 340 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 First, he hears things. 341 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 A voice in his brain whispers, 342 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:57,000 You'll be killed. You'll be killed. You'll be killed. 343 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000 He hears it in the tick of a clock, in the rattle of a train, 344 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 in the footsteps on the street. 345 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,000 There are holes in the walls through which his enemy is always watching. 346 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Invisible speaking tubes bring him messages. 347 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,000 There are pains in his joints and nightmares of attempts to poison him. 348 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:18,000 His brain bursts and he kills. He kills. He kills. 349 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Boy, excuse me for speaking so strongly. 350 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 But how does this affect us? 351 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Mr. Courtney, will you examine this sheet of paper? 352 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 What is it? 353 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 A fragment of a typewritten diary. 354 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,000 I found it on the cliffs months ago. 355 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Don't ask me who wrote it. 356 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000 But I know there's a criminal lunatic on this island. 357 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,000 He imagined that poor, inoffensive Josephine Adams was his enemy. 358 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 So he killed her. 359 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,000 Killed her? How? 360 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,000 I don't know. 361 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 And what happened to the girl's body? 362 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 I'm not a detective, sir. 363 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 The body was carried out to sea, perhaps, 364 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,000 or washed along the cliffs and into the Blue Grotto to be lost. 365 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 But don't you understand the danger to your wife? 366 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,000 You're not suggesting that with somebody's cracked brain, 367 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,000 your wife is Josephine Adams, created all over again? 368 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Kill Lucy? It couldn't be done. 369 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:22,000 It was done, my friend. 370 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Listen, that sounded like a dog howling. 371 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Mrs. Courtney is rather a long time in getting that whiskey. 372 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 She wouldn't go near the balcony. 373 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 She promised not to go out on the balcony. 374 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,000 People do very perverse things, my friend, 375 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000 when they know they shouldn't. 376 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Lucy! 377 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Lucy! 378 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 That seems to be Tiberius out on the balcony. 379 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,000 I can't see anything else from here. 380 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000 She's gone. 381 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,000 She's gone. 382 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:19,000 She's gone. 383 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,000 An empty balcony, a howling dog, 384 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,000 and a sea turned clear silver under the moon. 385 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Then, after the tumult and the shouting, 386 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,000 there are other pictures. 387 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Don't you hear the noise of that motor launch 388 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,000 with a half-dimented young man at the wheel? 389 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Three other familiar figures are gathered around it. 390 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Don't you recognize the brunette prettiness of Nellie Lucasa 391 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 and the white ten-gallon hat of Harry Granger 392 00:20:53,000 --> 00:21:00,000 and the neat, pointed beard of Dr. Davis? 393 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,000 But what on earth is he going to do out here in this motorboat? 394 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 I'd like to know that myself. 395 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Listen, please, all of you. 396 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Now, take it easy, son. We're with you. 397 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000 What time is it? 398 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Time? 399 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Yes. What time is it? 400 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Half past two in the morning, going on for three. 401 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Twelve hours. 402 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Then the tide ought to be just where it was this afternoon. 403 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000 What's the tide got to do with it? 404 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 A whole lot. 405 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Somebody set a trap and made Lucy fall off that balcony. 406 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000 I know it. 407 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Oh, that's absurd. 408 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 If Lucy's been carried out to sea, 409 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 there's nothing we can do about it. 410 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 But if she's been carried along with the current 411 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000 and into the Blue Grotto... 412 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Blue Grotto? 413 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,000 One moment, sir. 414 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 You're not proposing to run this big launch 415 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 under that arch after dark? 416 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Yes, doctor. That's just exactly it. 417 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Go on. Do it. I'll back you up. 418 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Let's have some excitement. 419 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 This'll be exciting enough, I assure you. 420 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Mr. Courtney, have you got some wild hope 421 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 of recovering your wife's body? 422 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000 I've even got a wild hope she may be alive. 423 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Lucy's a very strong swimmer. 424 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 You're acting like a nerd, son. 425 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Get set, everybody. I'm going to swing around. 426 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000 We're in the current now. 427 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Better hold tight. 428 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 I've got to duck my own head when we go through. 429 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Everybody else, squat down. 430 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 It's a nice jubil test against this. 431 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Don't you understand, Mr. Courtney? 432 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Get ready. Here we go. 433 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Why don't I just run? 434 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 There's no Blue Grotto. 435 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 It's as black as pitch. 436 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 My dear Nellie, I kept trying to tell all of you. 437 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,000 The Blue Grotto effect is caused by the sun's rays. 438 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,000 There never is one except when the sun is out. 439 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Just how does our friend propose to find anything in here? 440 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Listen. 441 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Something got pulled at the side of the boat. 442 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000 I felt it move. 443 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Not the date girl I trust. 444 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 There's a hand here. 445 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 A wet hand. 446 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Lucy! 447 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 She's not alive. 448 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Mr. Granger, help me lift her up over the side. 449 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Easy, easy now. 450 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Don't tip the boat. 451 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Lucy, Lucy, are you all right? 452 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 No, no, no. 453 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Are you all right, Lucy? Can you hear me? 454 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,000 All right. I'm just exhausted. 455 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 I got in here. 456 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Couldn't swim out against the current. 457 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Now don't try to talk. 458 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,000 I've got to talk. 459 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000 I'm going to faint. 460 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000 Tom. 461 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Who's with you? 462 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 Only our friends. 463 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Who's with you? 464 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,000 Is the murderer with you? 465 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 I was just wondering the same thing. 466 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,000 To be shut up in the dark at three o'clock in the morning 467 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 with a criminal lunatic. 468 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Who spoke, Ben? 469 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Lucy, don't hold me so tight. Let go, dear. 470 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 I'll get the boat started and have you out of here in a second. 471 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000 Who spoke, Ben? 472 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Only Dr. Davis. 473 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Tom, I've got to tell you. 474 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:16,000 I know how that girl, Josephine Adams, died. 475 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Almost killed me. 476 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,000 Is anybody here? Got some brandy or a flashlight? 477 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,000 I have a flashlight, my friend. 478 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Will you allow me as a medical man to examine Mrs. Courtney? 479 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 You'd better keep back for just a second, doctor. 480 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,000 She's a scavenger. 481 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Give me the flashlight, please. 482 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,000 I walked into the other room. 483 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Nobody with me. 484 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 All alone except Tiberius. 485 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Yes, Lucy? 486 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 Somebody called my name. 487 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 From the balcony, I thought. 488 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Very softly. 489 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,000 Mrs. Courtney said. 490 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Mrs. Courtney. 491 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 Did you recognize the voice? 492 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 Yes. That's why I went. 493 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000 And you'd better start up this boat and get out of here. 494 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 Don't pay any attention to them, Lucy. 495 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Nobody can hurt you now. 496 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 I went out in the balcony. 497 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,000 The bright moonlight. 498 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Brightest day. 499 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,000 But there was nobody there. 500 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 Nobody on the balcony? 501 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,000 No. I looked out over the sea. 502 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000 And then something came at me. 503 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Something flew out of the air and came at me. 504 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Just one moment before Mrs. Courtney goes on. 505 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Is anybody in this boat carrying a revolver? 506 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Not that I know of. 507 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Excuse my mentioning it. 508 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 But I felt something. 509 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 A title. Like a revolver. 510 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 A brush passed my hand. 511 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 It was only the flashlight. 512 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Excuse me. It was not a flashlight. 513 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Mr. Courtney's got the flashlight. 514 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Would you please let Lucy go on and finish? 515 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Lucy, you were on the balcony and something came at you. 516 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Yes. Like a snake. 517 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Sideways. Out of the air. 518 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 It went over my head. 519 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Fastened around my neck. 520 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 It was a rope. 521 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 With a running noose in it. 522 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,000 A rope? 523 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,000 It was thrown from another balcony. 524 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000 I'm small and light like Josephine Adams. 525 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 It pulled me sideways. 526 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 And over the rail. 527 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,000 I fell. 528 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 I think I begin to understand what... 529 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,000 They couldn't see what happened to Josephine Adams. 530 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000 Frosted glass doors to the balcony. 531 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,000 So they couldn't see. 532 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Take it easy now. You're perfectly safe. 533 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Is she perfectly safe? 534 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,000 The murderer. Let her fall on the rope. 535 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000 But the rope was jerked tight. 536 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,000 Long before she struck the water. 537 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,000 That broke her neck. 538 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Then the murderer lowered her softly. 539 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,000 So there wasn't any splash. 540 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 And the current took her away, rope and all. 541 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 That's it. It would have happened to me. 542 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,000 Only the rope must have slipped through the murderer's fingers. 543 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Through whose fingers? 544 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,000 What did I tell you? 545 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Somebody in this boat has got her involved. 546 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Who's overboard? Somebody went? 547 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,000 Switch on that light, my friend. 548 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,000 And shine it on the water. 549 00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,000 All right, doctor. 550 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000 As you like. 551 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Look at it. 552 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,000 Turning over and over. 553 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 The water in the blue grotto is red now. 554 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Tom, stay close to me. 555 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,000 It's all right, Lucy. I swear you're safe enough now. 556 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Did he shoot himself? 557 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,000 Yes. 558 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Did who shoot himself? 559 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Who had a balcony exactly like ours on the house next door? 560 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000 Who began life as a cow puncher and would have known how to use a lasso? 561 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Yes, and knew Josephine Adams well. 562 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:34,000 And got it into his maniac's head that Mrs. Courtney was Josephine Adams all over again. 563 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,000 Harry Granger. 564 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Look. 565 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:59,000 There's his ten-gallon hat floating away. 566 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:04,000 And so ends The Bride Vanishes, a story of mysterious doings in the Isle of Capri. 567 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:14,000 And tonight's story of suspense. 568 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:21,000 Columbia presents these tales of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure for your relaxation and enjoyment. 569 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Next Tuesday there'll be another in this series. 570 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Same hour, 9.30 Eastern wartime. 571 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:43,000 William Spear, the producer, John Dietz, the director, Alexander Semmler, the composer, conductor, and John Dixon Carr, the author, are collaborators on... 572 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Suspense. 573 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:07,000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.