WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.000 Suspense. 00:30.000 --> 00:35.000 Suspense is compounded of mystery and intrigue in dangerous adventure. 00:36.000 --> 00:40.000 Stories calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves. 00:41.000 --> 00:45.000 Tonight, for instance, as we begin, you may want to ask yourself, 00:45.000 --> 00:51.000 how could a young lady, a bride, walk out on a balcony alone and vanish? 00:51.000 --> 00:54.000 Completely vanish. 00:54.000 --> 00:58.000 We trust that while you are wondering how and why it was this, 00:58.000 --> 01:00.000 we shall keep you in... 01:01.000 --> 01:03.000 Suspense. 01:03.000 --> 01:31.000 For Suspense, tonight CBS presents The Bride Vanishes by John Dickson Carr. 01:31.000 --> 01:33.000 Italy in springtime. 01:33.000 --> 01:37.000 Italy as we used to know it before the jackal struck. 01:37.000 --> 01:42.000 And the island of Capri, twenty miles out across the bay of Naples. 01:43.000 --> 01:48.000 Blue water a dazzle under the sun, behind through the bone white beaches, 01:48.000 --> 01:51.000 and Vesuvius dull purple in a heat haze. 01:51.000 --> 01:59.000 Ahead, as the little steamer from Naples chugs out across the bay, rises Capri. 01:59.000 --> 02:03.000 Olive trees and white roads and vineyards above the cliffs. 02:03.000 --> 02:07.000 Could young Americans find a better place to spend their honeymoon? 02:07.000 --> 02:14.000 While the guitars sing and the warm winds blow and the little steamer carries them. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 Well, Mrs. Courtney? 02:19.000 --> 02:21.000 Well, Mr. Courtney. 02:22.000 --> 02:25.000 I can't keep it up, Lucy. 02:25.000 --> 02:28.000 I'm going to break down and ask if you're happy. 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 Oh, I'll break down too. 02:30.000 --> 02:34.000 I want to walk up to everybody I meet and say, wee, just like that. 02:34.000 --> 02:38.000 What I want to do is turn somersaults myself all along this deck here. 02:38.000 --> 02:43.000 I want to say, I've been married to Tom Courtney for practically two weeks. 02:43.000 --> 02:47.000 And now we're going to have a villa at Capri for a month. 02:47.000 --> 02:51.000 Oh, Tom, I ought to be the happiest woman in the world. 02:51.000 --> 02:52.000 Only... 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 You're shivered. What's wrong? 02:54.000 --> 02:58.000 Well, ever since we got aboard this ship, people have been staring at me. 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 I can't blame you for that, dear. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 No, no, I mean in a funny way. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.000 And muttering. Even your American friend. What's his name? 03:06.000 --> 03:07.000 Granger? 03:07.000 --> 03:11.000 Mr. Granger. When you introduced him to me at Naples, I thought his eyes were going to pop out. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 Be careful. He's standing over by the rail now. 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 He lives at Capri. 03:16.000 --> 03:20.000 I like to see him wearing that white ten-gallon hat in Italy. 03:20.000 --> 03:25.000 Before Granger made money in oil wells, he was a real old-fashioned cow puncher. 03:25.000 --> 03:28.000 And he's proud of it. Good fellow, too. 03:28.000 --> 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. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 Well? 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 Well, Tom, they look scared. 03:38.000 --> 03:42.000 You know, Lucy, this isn't the time to start imagining things. 03:42.000 --> 03:46.000 I know. Maybe I'm just so happy I'm afraid it can't last. 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 Oh, don't say that. 03:47.000 --> 03:52.000 But wouldn't it be pretty awful if something did happen and we weren't together any longer? 03:52.000 --> 03:56.000 Wait a minute. Hasn't this ship stopped? 03:56.000 --> 03:59.000 Yes. Well, it is Capri ahead of us, isn't it? 03:59.000 --> 04:03.000 It can't be anything else. Well, it seems a funny place to stop. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 No sign of a harbor. Only rocks and little gray cliffs. 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 Oh, Mr. Granger. Mr. Granger. 04:09.000 --> 04:10.000 Yes, young fellow? 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 You happen to know why we're stopping here? 04:12.000 --> 04:17.000 Oh, yes. That's an easy one, son. We're stopping so that you and your good lady 04:17.000 --> 04:22.000 and anybody else who's curious can get a look at the Blue Grotto. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 The Blue Grotto, of course. 04:24.000 --> 04:28.000 Now just shave your eyes with your hand, then. 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 You see that tiny little arch under the cliff? 04:31.000 --> 04:32.000 Yes. 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 And all the little white rowboats are coming out towards us? 04:35.000 --> 04:36.000 Yes. 04:36.000 --> 04:41.000 Now when the first boat comes alongside, you climb down that iron ladder and get in. 04:41.000 --> 04:45.000 The boatman will row you out and through the arch into the Grotto. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 It's a great big dark cavern. 04:47.000 --> 04:51.000 The water in there looks as though it's lit up underneath with blue fire. 04:51.000 --> 04:52.000 Would you like to go out and see it, Lizzie? 04:52.000 --> 04:53.000 Oh, I'd love to. 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 But let me give you a little tip, though. 04:55.000 --> 04:59.000 The current's pretty fast out there. You'll go shooting under that arch like 60. 04:59.000 --> 05:00.000 Are we likely to upset? 05:00.000 --> 05:03.000 Oh, no. No, but the arch isn't as high as your head. 05:03.000 --> 05:06.000 When you see it come and lie back flat in the boat, 05:06.000 --> 05:09.000 that is unless you want your block now, sure. 05:09.000 --> 05:13.000 Thanks, Mr. Granger. We'll remember. Come along, Lucy. 05:21.000 --> 05:24.000 Easy on the ladder, Lucy. Don't look frowned yet. 05:24.000 --> 05:28.000 Oh, I'm all right, darling. And just as good a swimmer as you are. 05:28.000 --> 05:31.000 I'm in the boat now. Take one more step. Steady. 05:31.000 --> 05:36.000 Now turn around facing the boatman and sit down here beside him. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 What's the matter with the boatman? 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 Easy, man. Do you want to upset us? Sit down. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 You'll come back, will you? 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 Come back? I've never been here before in my life. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 Push off, man. Start rowing. The other boats are piling up behind you. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 You'll come back. 05:50.000 --> 05:54.000 Start rowing, can't you? And Ali Subitov, faster. 05:55.000 --> 05:58.000 Tom, he can't take his eyes off us. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 I wish he'd watch out where he's rowing. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 You'll come to live at the Villabour Castle, yes? 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 Tom, how did he know that? 06:05.000 --> 06:08.000 He's the lady. She is not dead. 06:08.000 --> 06:11.000 Dead? Of course she's not dead. What are you talking about? 06:11.000 --> 06:14.000 She never come to Capri before? 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 Never. 06:16.000 --> 06:22.000 Then I tell you, she will disappear just like the other one. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 Disappear? 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 I'll rest my auras and I tell you. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 Tom, aren't we moving rather fast? 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Yes, that's the entrance to the grotto ahead. 06:30.000 --> 06:35.000 I tell you, there was a lady so much like you on a carpeting back. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 It scared me. 06:37.000 --> 06:39.000 Look, old man, I don't want to teach you your business, 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 but you've got your back to that grotto. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 Take this lady back where she come from. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Do not take her to the Villabour Castle. 06:46.000 --> 07:00.000 Down, see, flat on your back, down. 07:00.000 --> 07:04.000 Signore, signore, I am sorry. I almost make you get hurt. 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 You know you nearly got your own head knocked off. 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 Excuse me, nor, I am used to it. 07:09.000 --> 07:15.000 Now I will roll you round the blue grotto. 07:15.000 --> 07:22.000 I don't think I like it much, Tom. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 Neither do I. 07:24.000 --> 07:28.000 Dark, except for that blue light under the water. 07:28.000 --> 07:32.000 Oh, transparent. You can see the fishes swimming. 07:32.000 --> 07:36.000 Gentlemen of Boatman, this lady who disappeared from the Villabour Gaze. 07:36.000 --> 07:40.000 Two, three years ago she disappeared. 07:40.000 --> 07:43.000 You say she looked exactly like my wife? 07:43.000 --> 07:47.000 You see, signore, she was going to be married. 07:47.000 --> 07:50.000 She was trying on a, what do you call, her wedding dress. 07:50.000 --> 07:53.000 Her mother and sisters, they were in the room with her. 07:53.000 --> 07:56.000 She walked out on a balcony over the sea. 07:56.000 --> 07:59.000 You know what I mean, on a balcony over the sea? 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 And nobody ever hear of her again. 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 You mean she jumped over into the sea? 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 Or a young girl going to be married. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 Kill herself, no, no, no, no. 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 And what did happen? 08:10.000 --> 08:13.000 I don't know. 08:13.000 --> 08:18.000 But sometimes they say you can meet her ghost in the here. 08:18.000 --> 08:23.000 She float just under the water where you can see her. 08:23.000 --> 08:26.000 And turn over and over. 08:26.000 --> 08:29.000 And the wedding veil is still round her face. 08:29.000 --> 08:31.000 Tom, let's get out of here. 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 You want to go, yes? 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 Lucy, if this fellow's stringing us along. 08:35.000 --> 08:36.000 He's not stringing us along. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 Then somebody ought to know what this means. 08:38.000 --> 08:42.000 If we've inherited a haunted balcony where people disappear like soap bubbles. 08:42.000 --> 08:43.000 I say it's too much. 08:43.000 --> 08:46.000 Let's get back to our ship and talk to Granger. 08:46.000 --> 08:49.000 Yes, Boatman, take us back. 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 Mr. Granger, Mr. Granger. 08:55.000 --> 08:56.000 I'm a poor man. 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 You too, young woman. 08:58.000 --> 08:59.000 She's been starked with haphazard care. 08:59.000 --> 09:01.000 Give me a hand, Lucy. 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 Thank you, dear. 09:03.000 --> 09:06.000 Oh, didn't anybody else go to the Blue Grotto? 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 Well, ma'am, no. 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 Not after they saw you go. 09:10.000 --> 09:11.000 It's all right. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 We've just heard the story, Mr. Granger. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 Oh, I ought to have told you about it myself. 09:16.000 --> 09:20.000 All the way out here, I've been cursing myself and thinking what a gnarly old badger I am. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 For not telling you when I first met you, Naples. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 The girl did vanish, then. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 By a first-rate miracle, yes. 09:26.000 --> 09:30.000 In broad daylight and within 20 feet of her mother and sisters. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 You don't look like a man who'd believe in miracles, Mr. Granger. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 Oh, I'm not, son. 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 I'm just telling you what happened. 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 But why is everybody so excited? 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 Somebody must have thrown her off the balcony. 09:38.000 --> 09:43.000 Josephine Adams was all alone on a balcony 40 feet up a cliff, smooth as glass. 09:43.000 --> 09:44.000 She didn't fall. 09:44.000 --> 09:47.000 She wasn't thrown because there was no sound of a splash. 09:47.000 --> 09:52.000 And she didn't come back from the balcony because her mother and sisters were in front of the only door. 09:52.000 --> 09:58.000 Yet, within 15 seconds, 15 seconds, mind you, she just vanished. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 You believe that? 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 Sure, I believe it, son. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 Well, it's a fact. 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 Did you know the girl's family? 10:04.000 --> 10:05.000 Oh, very well. 10:05.000 --> 10:08.000 We've got a real English-speaking colony here. 10:08.000 --> 10:11.000 Oh, by the way, in about half a minute now, I'm going to show you your new home. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 Oh, can we see it here on the ship? 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 Oh, sure you can, ma'am. 10:15.000 --> 10:17.000 It's on the edge of the cliff. 10:17.000 --> 10:21.000 Dr. Davis's house is on one side of it, and my shack's on the other. 10:21.000 --> 10:25.000 Uh, that's why I want to ask you a question. 10:25.000 --> 10:26.000 Of course. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 Ask anything you like. 10:27.000 --> 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... 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 do you trust me? 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 Yes, I think so. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 Well, then promise me something. 10:39.000 --> 10:44.000 Unless you're with somebody you do trust, keep away from that balcony. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 Do you honestly think there's danger or... 10:46.000 --> 10:50.000 I don't know, son. If I did, I wouldn't have to talk this way. 10:50.000 --> 10:53.000 Sounds like a dog barking. I thought I heard it before. 10:53.000 --> 10:59.000 What is, a big police dog, and led by a very handsome woman, if you ask me. 10:59.000 --> 11:03.000 Oh, Lord, here she is again. Oh, the Countess. She lives in our colony. 11:03.000 --> 11:07.000 She looks like an American. You take your eyes off her, Tom Courtney. 11:07.000 --> 11:11.000 She isn't American. Married a Count Parchisi or something like that. 11:11.000 --> 11:13.000 Just call her Nellie. 11:13.000 --> 11:15.000 My dear Mr. Granger. 11:15.000 --> 11:16.000 Hello, Nellie. 11:16.000 --> 11:20.000 It's true. Everybody told me so, but I couldn't believe it until I saw her. 11:20.000 --> 11:24.000 She does look exactly like poor Josephine Edmonds. 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 Just as small, just as dainty. 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 Please, is everybody trying to give me the jitters? 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 Nellie, I want you to meet some friends of mine. 11:32.000 --> 11:35.000 Oh, you don't need to introduce me. I know who they are. 11:35.000 --> 11:37.000 You're the nice young couple who've taken that villa. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 I'm Nellie LeCasey. 11:39.000 --> 11:44.000 Oh, yes. This is my dog Tiberius, named after the wicked Roman emperor. 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 You know who used to live at Capri? 11:46.000 --> 11:52.000 I must confess I'm terribly fascinated by wicked things. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 Aren't you, Mr. Courtney? 11:54.000 --> 11:57.000 Lucy, stop digging me in the ribs. I haven't done anything. 11:57.000 --> 11:58.000 No, and you're not going to. 11:58.000 --> 12:01.000 Tiberius seems to have taken quite a fancy to you, Mrs. Courtney. 12:01.000 --> 12:04.000 I've never known him to go to a stranger before. 12:04.000 --> 12:08.000 I only wish I could borrow him. He might be a charm against... 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 Oh, I don't know. We'll be at the harbor in a few minutes. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.000 Then you must let me drive you up to the villa. 12:13.000 --> 12:17.000 You won't be able to get any servants, I'm afraid, because they won't stay there. 12:17.000 --> 12:20.000 But you can camp out. 12:20.000 --> 12:25.000 Look. There's the villa. We're passing it now. 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 Where? 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 On the cliff where I'm pointing. 12:28.000 --> 12:32.000 Wait a minute. There must be some mistake. 12:32.000 --> 12:34.000 That's not the Villa Bougayse. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 It sure is, son. 12:35.000 --> 12:39.000 That's a palace like all the other houses there. 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 And I rented it furnished for about $25 a month. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 Can't you guess why you got it so cheap, son? 12:46.000 --> 12:50.000 If you take my advice, you'll turn around and go back to Naples by the next steamer. 12:50.000 --> 12:54.000 Harry Granger, don't be an idiot. Let's have some excitement. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 Let's have some excitement. 12:56.000 --> 12:59.000 Tom is beautiful. 12:59.000 --> 13:02.000 Too infinitely beautiful, if you ask me. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 There's the balcony. 13:04.000 --> 13:09.000 It's all right by daylight, son. Marble and tapestries and whatnot. 13:09.000 --> 13:16.000 But at night, when you've got to put out the lights, you start thinking what happened there. 13:16.000 --> 13:21.000 The moon over Capri makes a deathly daylight. 13:21.000 --> 13:26.000 You could see to read on that balcony if anyone went out there. 13:26.000 --> 13:31.000 Frosted glass doors open out on it from a big room on the ground floor. 13:31.000 --> 13:34.000 The moon is so beautiful. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 It's like a dream. 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 It's like a dream. 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 It's like a dream. 13:40.000 --> 13:42.000 It's like a dream. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.000 Frosted glass doors open out on it from a big room on the ground floor. 13:47.000 --> 13:54.000 Two determinedly calm persons and a dog sit looking at each other. 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 Lucy, stop it. 13:57.000 --> 13:58.000 Stop what? 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 Stop looking over at that balcony. 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 I'm sorry, darling. 14:02.000 --> 14:06.000 Why are we sitting here anyway? There's an outer room that's much more comfortable. 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 It's like having a toothache. A very little toothache. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 I may be dense, Angel, but I don't follow you. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 You put your tongue against the tooth to see if it'll hurt. 14:14.000 --> 14:17.000 You know it will hurt, but you go on doing it just the same. 14:17.000 --> 14:18.000 That's us. 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 Maybe you're right. 14:20.000 --> 14:24.000 Oh, Tom, did you ever think we'd have a lovely house like this? 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 The house is all right, yes. 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 Then they have to go and spoil everything. 14:28.000 --> 14:31.000 Our honeymoon with this blasted Tommy Rod about. 14:31.000 --> 14:34.000 Hey, Tom, you're as jittery now as I was this afternoon. 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 Oh, even Tiberius is jittery. 14:36.000 --> 14:40.000 Yes, I guess I am. Easy, boy. Easy, easy. 14:40.000 --> 14:42.000 Well, there's whiskey on the table. 14:42.000 --> 14:45.000 They call it beaky here. 14:45.000 --> 14:47.000 Make yourself a drink. 14:47.000 --> 14:49.000 In a minute. Not just now. 14:49.000 --> 14:53.000 Lucy, there's nothing wrong with that balcony. 14:53.000 --> 14:57.000 Suppose you walked out there this minute. 14:57.000 --> 15:00.000 I've had a horrible longing to try it. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 Just because I know I shouldn't. 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 Well, nothing could attack you. 15:04.000 --> 15:06.000 All you'd have to do would be to yell. 15:06.000 --> 15:09.000 That'd bring Mr. Granger out on his balcony like a shot. 15:09.000 --> 15:12.000 And the neighbor on the other side of us would... 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 Who is on the other side, by the way? 15:14.000 --> 15:16.000 A loony doctor. 15:16.000 --> 15:17.000 A what? 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 A specialist in brain diseases. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 Dr. Davis. He's English. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 Listen. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 It's somebody in the other room. 15:25.000 --> 15:26.000 Easy, Tiberius. Easy. 15:26.000 --> 15:27.000 Tom, I'm afraid. 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 It's all right, darling. 15:29.000 --> 15:31.000 You hold Tiberius' collar while I open the door. 15:31.000 --> 15:34.000 We don't want him to fly at anybody. 15:34.000 --> 15:36.000 We're going into the other room and stay there. 15:36.000 --> 15:37.000 Ready? 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 Yes. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 Good evening, Mr. Courtney. 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 Good evening, Mrs. Courtney. 15:48.000 --> 15:53.000 I'm no ghost, though you appear to regard me as one. 15:53.000 --> 15:56.000 I'm merely your neighbor, Dr. Rutherford Davis. 15:56.000 --> 15:59.000 Oh. Yes, of course. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 Mr. Granger mentioned you. 16:01.000 --> 16:05.000 I trust you will pardon this intrusion. 16:05.000 --> 16:09.000 No one answered my knock, so I ventured to come in. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 It's no intrusion, Dr. Davis. 16:11.000 --> 16:14.000 We're a little disorganized here, that's all. 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 Naturally. 16:16.000 --> 16:21.000 Mr. Courtney, I wish I could say welcome to Capri, 16:21.000 --> 16:24.000 but I have a very different message. 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 Well? 16:25.000 --> 16:28.000 If you value Mrs. Courtney's life, 16:28.000 --> 16:31.000 you'll go back to Naples immediately, sir. 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 Not you, too. 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 I do not say that as a ghost hunter, sir. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 I say it as a medical man. 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 May I sit down? 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 Oh, of course. Please do. 16:41.000 --> 16:43.000 Thank you. 16:43.000 --> 16:45.000 We seem to be forgetting our manners. 16:45.000 --> 16:48.000 Dr. Davis, will you have a drink? 16:48.000 --> 16:51.000 Oh, thank you. Perhaps a small whiskey? 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 I'll get it, darling. 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 You sit down and talk to Dr. Davis. 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 You're not going back into that room alone. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 I'm only going to get the drinks, Tom. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 I promise to be good. 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 Come with me. Can't you, Tiberius? 17:03.000 --> 17:06.000 Oh, I see you've borrowed Tiberius from the Countess Lucchese. 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 Yes. She was kind enough to offer him. 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 Excuse me, I'll be back in a minute. 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 Come on, Tiberius. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 Hi. 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 I hope this is all right, Doctor. 17:21.000 --> 17:24.000 No, sir. It is not all right. 17:24.000 --> 17:27.000 Your wife is in very great danger. 17:27.000 --> 17:28.000 But why? 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 Because of that balcony? 17:30.000 --> 17:34.000 No, because she looks exactly like the late Josephine Adams. 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 I don't get it. 17:36.000 --> 17:39.000 Mr. Courtney, did you ever hear of paranoia? 17:39.000 --> 17:42.000 It's some kind of mental disease, isn't it? 17:42.000 --> 17:45.000 The paranoic begins by imagining that he or she 17:45.000 --> 17:48.000 is being persecuted by someone. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 First, he hears things. 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 A voice in his brain whispers, 17:52.000 --> 17:57.000 You'll be killed. You'll be killed. You'll be killed. 17:57.000 --> 18:00.000 He hears it in the tick of a clock, in the rattle of a train, 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 in the footsteps on the street. 18:02.000 --> 18:06.000 There are holes in the walls through which his enemy is always watching. 18:06.000 --> 18:09.000 Invisible speaking tubes bring him messages. 18:09.000 --> 18:13.000 There are pains in his joints and nightmares of attempts to poison him. 18:13.000 --> 18:18.000 His brain bursts and he kills. He kills. He kills. 18:20.000 --> 18:24.000 Boy, excuse me for speaking so strongly. 18:24.000 --> 18:27.000 But how does this affect us? 18:27.000 --> 18:32.000 Mr. Courtney, will you examine this sheet of paper? 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 What is it? 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 A fragment of a typewritten diary. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 I found it on the cliffs months ago. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 Don't ask me who wrote it. 18:40.000 --> 18:43.000 But I know there's a criminal lunatic on this island. 18:43.000 --> 18:48.000 He imagined that poor, inoffensive Josephine Adams was his enemy. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 So he killed her. 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 Killed her? How? 18:52.000 --> 18:55.000 I don't know. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 And what happened to the girl's body? 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 I'm not a detective, sir. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 The body was carried out to sea, perhaps, 19:01.000 --> 19:05.000 or washed along the cliffs and into the Blue Grotto to be lost. 19:05.000 --> 19:08.000 But don't you understand the danger to your wife? 19:08.000 --> 19:11.000 You're not suggesting that with somebody's cracked brain, 19:11.000 --> 19:14.000 your wife is Josephine Adams, created all over again? 19:14.000 --> 19:17.000 Kill Lucy? It couldn't be done. 19:17.000 --> 19:22.000 It was done, my friend. 19:24.000 --> 19:29.000 Listen, that sounded like a dog howling. 19:29.000 --> 19:33.000 Mrs. Courtney is rather a long time in getting that whiskey. 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 She wouldn't go near the balcony. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 She promised not to go out on the balcony. 19:37.000 --> 19:40.000 People do very perverse things, my friend, 19:40.000 --> 19:42.000 when they know they shouldn't. 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 Lucy! 19:44.000 --> 19:46.000 Lucy! 19:46.000 --> 19:49.000 That seems to be Tiberius out on the balcony. 19:49.000 --> 19:52.000 I can't see anything else from here. 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 She's gone. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 She's gone. 19:56.000 --> 20:19.000 She's gone. 20:19.000 --> 20:23.000 An empty balcony, a howling dog, 20:23.000 --> 20:27.000 and a sea turned clear silver under the moon. 20:27.000 --> 20:30.000 Then, after the tumult and the shouting, 20:30.000 --> 20:33.000 there are other pictures. 20:33.000 --> 20:36.000 Don't you hear the noise of that motor launch 20:36.000 --> 20:40.000 with a half-dimented young man at the wheel? 20:40.000 --> 20:44.000 Three other familiar figures are gathered around it. 20:44.000 --> 20:49.000 Don't you recognize the brunette prettiness of Nellie Lucasa 20:49.000 --> 20:53.000 and the white ten-gallon hat of Harry Granger 20:53.000 --> 21:00.000 and the neat, pointed beard of Dr. Davis? 21:00.000 --> 21:05.000 But what on earth is he going to do out here in this motorboat? 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 I'd like to know that myself. 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 Listen, please, all of you. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 Now, take it easy, son. We're with you. 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 What time is it? 21:12.000 --> 21:13.000 Time? 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 Yes. What time is it? 21:14.000 --> 21:17.000 Half past two in the morning, going on for three. 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 Twelve hours. 21:19.000 --> 21:22.000 Then the tide ought to be just where it was this afternoon. 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 What's the tide got to do with it? 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 A whole lot. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 Somebody set a trap and made Lucy fall off that balcony. 21:27.000 --> 21:28.000 I know it. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Oh, that's absurd. 21:30.000 --> 21:31.000 If Lucy's been carried out to sea, 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 there's nothing we can do about it. 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 But if she's been carried along with the current 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 and into the Blue Grotto... 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 Blue Grotto? 21:38.000 --> 21:39.000 One moment, sir. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 You're not proposing to run this big launch 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 under that arch after dark? 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 Yes, doctor. That's just exactly it. 21:45.000 --> 21:48.000 Go on. Do it. I'll back you up. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 Let's have some excitement. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 This'll be exciting enough, I assure you. 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 Mr. Courtney, have you got some wild hope 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 of recovering your wife's body? 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 I've even got a wild hope she may be alive. 21:59.000 --> 22:00.000 Lucy's a very strong swimmer. 22:00.000 --> 22:02.000 You're acting like a nerd, son. 22:02.000 --> 22:05.000 Get set, everybody. I'm going to swing around. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 We're in the current now. 22:11.000 --> 22:12.000 Better hold tight. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 I've got to duck my own head when we go through. 22:14.000 --> 22:16.000 Everybody else, squat down. 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 It's a nice jubil test against this. 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 Don't you understand, Mr. Courtney? 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 Get ready. Here we go. 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 Why don't I just run? 22:40.000 --> 22:42.000 There's no Blue Grotto. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 It's as black as pitch. 22:44.000 --> 22:47.000 My dear Nellie, I kept trying to tell all of you. 22:47.000 --> 22:50.000 The Blue Grotto effect is caused by the sun's rays. 22:50.000 --> 22:53.000 There never is one except when the sun is out. 22:53.000 --> 22:58.000 Just how does our friend propose to find anything in here? 22:58.000 --> 23:00.000 Listen. 23:00.000 --> 23:04.000 Something got pulled at the side of the boat. 23:04.000 --> 23:07.000 I felt it move. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 Not the date girl I trust. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 There's a hand here. 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 A wet hand. 23:13.000 --> 23:15.000 Lucy! 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 She's not alive. 23:17.000 --> 23:20.000 Mr. Granger, help me lift her up over the side. 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 Easy, easy now. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Don't tip the boat. 23:24.000 --> 23:27.000 Lucy, Lucy, are you all right? 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 No, no, no. 23:29.000 --> 23:32.000 Are you all right, Lucy? Can you hear me? 23:32.000 --> 23:36.000 All right. I'm just exhausted. 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 I got in here. 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 Couldn't swim out against the current. 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 Now don't try to talk. 23:42.000 --> 23:44.000 I've got to talk. 23:44.000 --> 23:46.000 I'm going to faint. 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 Tom. 23:48.000 --> 23:49.000 Who's with you? 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 Only our friends. 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 Who's with you? 23:53.000 --> 23:54.000 Is the murderer with you? 23:54.000 --> 23:56.000 I was just wondering the same thing. 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 To be shut up in the dark at three o'clock in the morning 23:58.000 --> 24:00.000 with a criminal lunatic. 24:00.000 --> 24:01.000 Who spoke, Ben? 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 Lucy, don't hold me so tight. Let go, dear. 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 I'll get the boat started and have you out of here in a second. 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 Who spoke, Ben? 24:07.000 --> 24:08.000 Only Dr. Davis. 24:08.000 --> 24:11.000 Tom, I've got to tell you. 24:11.000 --> 24:16.000 I know how that girl, Josephine Adams, died. 24:16.000 --> 24:18.000 Almost killed me. 24:18.000 --> 24:21.000 Is anybody here? Got some brandy or a flashlight? 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 I have a flashlight, my friend. 24:23.000 --> 24:26.000 Will you allow me as a medical man to examine Mrs. Courtney? 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 You'd better keep back for just a second, doctor. 24:28.000 --> 24:29.000 She's a scavenger. 24:29.000 --> 24:31.000 Give me the flashlight, please. 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 I walked into the other room. 24:33.000 --> 24:35.000 Nobody with me. 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 All alone except Tiberius. 24:37.000 --> 24:39.000 Yes, Lucy? 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 Somebody called my name. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 From the balcony, I thought. 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 Very softly. 24:45.000 --> 24:49.000 Mrs. Courtney said. 24:49.000 --> 24:51.000 Mrs. Courtney. 24:51.000 --> 24:53.000 Did you recognize the voice? 24:53.000 --> 24:56.000 Yes. That's why I went. 24:56.000 --> 24:59.000 And you'd better start up this boat and get out of here. 24:59.000 --> 25:02.000 Don't pay any attention to them, Lucy. 25:02.000 --> 25:05.000 Nobody can hurt you now. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 I went out in the balcony. 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 The bright moonlight. 25:09.000 --> 25:11.000 Brightest day. 25:11.000 --> 25:14.000 But there was nobody there. 25:14.000 --> 25:16.000 Nobody on the balcony? 25:16.000 --> 25:19.000 No. I looked out over the sea. 25:19.000 --> 25:21.000 And then something came at me. 25:21.000 --> 25:23.000 Something flew out of the air and came at me. 25:23.000 --> 25:26.000 Just one moment before Mrs. Courtney goes on. 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 Is anybody in this boat carrying a revolver? 25:29.000 --> 25:30.000 Not that I know of. 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 Excuse my mentioning it. 25:32.000 --> 25:34.000 But I felt something. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 A title. Like a revolver. 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 A brush passed my hand. 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 It was only the flashlight. 25:40.000 --> 25:42.000 Excuse me. It was not a flashlight. 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 Mr. Courtney's got the flashlight. 25:44.000 --> 25:46.000 Would you please let Lucy go on and finish? 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 Lucy, you were on the balcony and something came at you. 25:48.000 --> 25:50.000 Yes. Like a snake. 25:50.000 --> 25:53.000 Sideways. Out of the air. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 It went over my head. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 Fastened around my neck. 25:57.000 --> 25:59.000 It was a rope. 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 With a running noose in it. 26:01.000 --> 26:02.000 A rope? 26:02.000 --> 26:05.000 It was thrown from another balcony. 26:05.000 --> 26:09.000 I'm small and light like Josephine Adams. 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 It pulled me sideways. 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 And over the rail. 26:13.000 --> 26:14.000 I fell. 26:14.000 --> 26:16.000 I think I begin to understand what... 26:16.000 --> 26:19.000 They couldn't see what happened to Josephine Adams. 26:19.000 --> 26:21.000 Frosted glass doors to the balcony. 26:21.000 --> 26:22.000 So they couldn't see. 26:22.000 --> 26:24.000 Take it easy now. You're perfectly safe. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 Is she perfectly safe? 26:26.000 --> 26:29.000 The murderer. Let her fall on the rope. 26:29.000 --> 26:31.000 But the rope was jerked tight. 26:31.000 --> 26:33.000 Long before she struck the water. 26:33.000 --> 26:35.000 That broke her neck. 26:35.000 --> 26:38.000 Then the murderer lowered her softly. 26:38.000 --> 26:40.000 So there wasn't any splash. 26:40.000 --> 26:42.000 And the current took her away, rope and all. 26:42.000 --> 26:44.000 That's it. It would have happened to me. 26:44.000 --> 26:47.000 Only the rope must have slipped through the murderer's fingers. 26:47.000 --> 26:49.000 Through whose fingers? 26:49.000 --> 26:50.000 What did I tell you? 26:50.000 --> 26:53.000 Somebody in this boat has got her involved. 26:53.000 --> 26:56.000 Who's overboard? Somebody went? 26:56.000 --> 26:57.000 Switch on that light, my friend. 26:57.000 --> 26:58.000 And shine it on the water. 26:58.000 --> 26:59.000 All right, doctor. 26:59.000 --> 27:01.000 As you like. 27:02.000 --> 27:03.000 Look at it. 27:03.000 --> 27:07.000 Turning over and over. 27:07.000 --> 27:10.000 The water in the blue grotto is red now. 27:10.000 --> 27:11.000 Tom, stay close to me. 27:11.000 --> 27:14.000 It's all right, Lucy. I swear you're safe enough now. 27:14.000 --> 27:16.000 Did he shoot himself? 27:16.000 --> 27:17.000 Yes. 27:17.000 --> 27:19.000 Did who shoot himself? 27:19.000 --> 27:22.000 Who had a balcony exactly like ours on the house next door? 27:22.000 --> 27:25.000 Who began life as a cow puncher and would have known how to use a lasso? 27:25.000 --> 27:28.000 Yes, and knew Josephine Adams well. 27:28.000 --> 27:34.000 And got it into his maniac's head that Mrs. Courtney was Josephine Adams all over again. 27:34.000 --> 27:37.000 Harry Granger. 27:37.000 --> 27:39.000 Look. 27:39.000 --> 27:59.000 There's his ten-gallon hat floating away. 27:59.000 --> 28:04.000 And so ends The Bride Vanishes, a story of mysterious doings in the Isle of Capri. 28:04.000 --> 28:14.000 And tonight's story of suspense. 28:14.000 --> 28:21.000 Columbia presents these tales of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure for your relaxation and enjoyment. 28:21.000 --> 28:24.000 Next Tuesday there'll be another in this series. 28:24.000 --> 28:31.000 Same hour, 9.30 Eastern wartime. 28:31.000 --> 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... 28:43.000 --> 28:55.000 Suspense. 28:55.000 --> 29:07.000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.