WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.800 The 24 저는 00:09.180 --> 00:11.200 months 00:19.300 --> 00:19.480 An 00:18.680 --> 00:21.100 hour 00:21.100 --> 00:37.940 This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 00:37.940 --> 00:42.860 Our leading lady tonight is Miss Nancy Coleman, one of Hollywood's most powerful and resourceful 00:42.860 --> 00:48.300 young stars, whose performances you may have admired in King's Row, the current Warner 00:48.300 --> 00:52.860 Brothers picture, Edge of Darkness, and other noted films. 00:52.860 --> 01:00.860 The story called, Fear Paints a Picture, is tonight's tale of Suspense. 01:00.860 --> 01:04.980 If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded 01:04.980 --> 01:09.860 of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 01:09.860 --> 01:15.540 In this series, our tales are calculated to intrigue you, stir your nerves, to offer you 01:15.540 --> 01:24.140 a precarious situation, and then withhold a solution until the last possible moment. 01:24.140 --> 01:29.380 And so it is with Fear Paints a Picture and Miss Nancy Coleman's performance, we again 01:29.380 --> 01:32.380 hope to keep you in... 01:32.380 --> 01:42.500 Suspense. 01:42.500 --> 01:45.500 There is a picture hanging on a wall. 01:45.500 --> 01:49.740 You look at it casually, an extraordinary picture you will say, skillfully done. 01:49.740 --> 01:53.700 Look at those fine brush strokes, those superb colors. 01:53.700 --> 01:58.420 But isn't the subject matter a little bizarre? 01:58.420 --> 02:02.220 It is something more than just bizarre. 02:02.220 --> 02:07.420 But let us begin from the beginning with the death of Benjamin Powell, a rich and strange 02:07.420 --> 02:08.420 man. 02:08.420 --> 02:11.820 There were dark rumors about the Powells. 02:11.820 --> 02:14.860 His wife had died many years ago. 02:14.860 --> 02:16.220 No one knows how. 02:16.220 --> 02:21.700 But Benjamin Powell had a daughter, Julia, a high strung and neurotic girl. 02:21.700 --> 02:25.380 And many of us wondered about her, too. 02:25.380 --> 02:30.420 Benjamin Powell died, and in his last will and testament, he made Julia heir to all his 02:30.420 --> 02:33.900 considerable fortune, except that... 02:33.900 --> 02:37.740 But let me read you the will. 02:37.740 --> 02:45.340 I, Benjamin Powell, being of sound mind and in full possession of all my faculties, hereby 02:45.340 --> 02:53.860 request that after my death, my daughter Julia live with Mr. Harvey Lyons, my lifelong friend, 02:53.860 --> 03:01.300 until her twenty-third birthday, at which date all my worldly belongings will come into 03:01.300 --> 03:08.620 her possession, provided that nothing untoward happens to her by that time. 03:08.620 --> 03:13.340 But in the event that she is incapable of taking over my estate upon her twenty-third 03:13.340 --> 03:20.660 birthday, I hereby appoint Harvey and Laura Lyons as my final heirs, there being no other 03:20.660 --> 03:25.700 living blood relatives, and trust to their judgment that they will take care of Julia 03:25.700 --> 03:28.140 adequately and with kindness. 03:28.140 --> 03:30.860 Signed, Benjamin Powell. 03:30.860 --> 03:39.620 Three months later, seated around the huge ornate fireplace of the Dark Wainscoted living 03:39.620 --> 03:43.500 room, are three silent people. 03:43.500 --> 03:48.900 The heavy drapes that run from the high ceiling to the floor move softly in a gust of wind. 03:48.900 --> 03:52.540 At the past quarter hour, no one has spoken. 03:52.540 --> 03:57.580 Harvey reads his newspaper, Laura knits with nimble fingers, and Julia... 03:57.580 --> 04:01.300 Julia stares with unseeing eyes at an open book. 04:01.300 --> 04:03.980 You're not reading, Julia. 04:03.980 --> 04:05.820 I'm not concentrating. 04:05.820 --> 04:07.660 Are you feeling all right? 04:07.660 --> 04:08.660 I'm all right. 04:08.660 --> 04:11.020 You do look a little tired, Julia. 04:11.020 --> 04:12.580 Perhaps you'd better get some rest. 04:12.580 --> 04:14.900 I'm not tired, Harvey. 04:14.900 --> 04:16.020 I've been wanting to ask you. 04:16.020 --> 04:18.540 In a week, Julia will be twenty-three. 04:18.540 --> 04:20.540 Isn't that wonderful, Harvey? 04:20.540 --> 04:21.540 Next Tuesday's her birthday. 04:21.540 --> 04:22.540 We'll have a party. 04:22.540 --> 04:25.860 I'll get Old Tom and his fiddle, and we'll have a real old-fashioned party. 04:25.860 --> 04:28.500 Harvey, what did Father mean by the will? 04:28.500 --> 04:29.500 The will? 04:29.500 --> 04:31.540 Julia, perhaps you'd better go to bed. 04:31.540 --> 04:32.540 You look a little pale. 04:32.540 --> 04:36.620 The will said I might not be able to take over the estate by my twenty-third birthday. 04:36.620 --> 04:37.620 What does it mean? 04:37.620 --> 04:39.260 I don't remember that. 04:39.260 --> 04:41.380 I didn't read the will very carefully. 04:41.380 --> 04:42.800 Yes, you did, Harvey. 04:42.800 --> 04:44.220 You know what I'm talking about. 04:44.220 --> 04:46.340 Perhaps we'd better discuss it in the morning. 04:46.340 --> 04:47.340 You're tired, Julia. 04:47.340 --> 04:48.340 I'm not tired, Laura. 04:48.340 --> 04:49.340 Please, Julia. 04:49.340 --> 04:52.460 I'd rather you wouldn't ask me. 04:52.460 --> 04:54.740 That's a delicate handkerchief, Julia. 04:54.740 --> 04:56.860 Twisting it will only tear the lace. 04:56.860 --> 04:57.860 I'm sorry. 04:57.860 --> 04:58.860 I didn't realize it. 04:58.860 --> 05:00.540 It's one of your best handkerchiefs. 05:00.540 --> 05:01.540 It's no use, Laura. 05:01.540 --> 05:02.540 I've got to know. 05:02.540 --> 05:04.540 You're a very high-strung girl, Julia. 05:04.540 --> 05:07.820 I'd rather not upset you before bedtime. 05:07.820 --> 05:08.820 Upset me? 05:08.820 --> 05:12.340 You sort of get moody very often, Julia. 05:12.340 --> 05:13.340 Harvey. 05:13.340 --> 05:17.100 Laura, I'm not going to bed until I find out what all this means. 05:17.100 --> 05:18.780 I've got to find out. 05:18.780 --> 05:21.580 You don't like your room, do you? 05:21.580 --> 05:22.580 No, I don't. 05:22.580 --> 05:24.540 It's too big. 05:24.540 --> 05:26.140 The wallpaper. 05:26.140 --> 05:28.020 I don't like the pictures on the wall. 05:28.020 --> 05:30.060 There's nothing wrong with a big room. 05:30.060 --> 05:32.180 Everyone prefers a large room. 05:32.180 --> 05:33.580 Everyone likes pictures on the wall. 05:33.580 --> 05:35.620 Well, maybe it's the kind of pictures. 05:35.620 --> 05:37.300 Yes, it's the pictures. 05:37.300 --> 05:39.300 They rub me the wrong way. 05:39.300 --> 05:42.860 You see, your feelings about things are different. 05:42.860 --> 05:44.780 Different from the feelings of normal people. 05:44.780 --> 05:45.780 Normal people? 05:45.780 --> 05:46.780 Oh, I'm sorry. 05:46.780 --> 05:47.780 I shouldn't have... 05:47.780 --> 05:50.660 I can't stand this torturous way of telling her. 05:50.660 --> 05:52.740 I'll tell you, Julia. 05:52.740 --> 05:55.100 Your mother died in an asylum. 05:55.100 --> 05:57.340 She went mad after her 23rd year. 05:57.340 --> 06:00.380 It's been in the family for generations. 06:00.380 --> 06:01.380 I never saw my mother. 06:01.380 --> 06:02.380 I thought... 06:02.380 --> 06:03.980 We didn't want to tell you this. 06:03.980 --> 06:06.580 I wish we hadn't, but you forced us. 06:06.580 --> 06:10.060 You mean I'm liable to become insane? 06:10.060 --> 06:14.340 Well, you see, any one of us can become insane. 06:14.340 --> 06:16.940 There's nothing wrong with me. 06:16.940 --> 06:18.420 I'm perfectly all right. 06:18.420 --> 06:20.900 I'm as sane as anyone. 06:20.900 --> 06:23.500 Being high-strung doesn't make me mad. 06:23.500 --> 06:24.500 I don't like it here. 06:24.500 --> 06:25.500 I don't like this house. 06:25.500 --> 06:26.500 I'm sane. 06:26.500 --> 06:27.500 I'm sane. 06:27.500 --> 06:28.500 Of course you are, Julia. 06:28.500 --> 06:31.500 There's nothing the matter with you. 06:31.500 --> 06:33.340 You'll be all right. 06:33.340 --> 06:35.540 Your father wasn't sure, that's all. 06:35.540 --> 06:37.860 You're as sane as any of us. 06:37.860 --> 06:39.940 Come along, I'll take you to your room. 06:39.940 --> 06:49.380 We'll have a cup of tea together. 06:49.380 --> 06:51.140 How is she, Laura? 06:51.140 --> 06:52.140 She's calmed down. 06:52.140 --> 06:53.140 Is she asleep? 06:53.140 --> 06:54.140 No, Harvey, she's reading. 06:54.140 --> 06:55.140 That must be Dr. Barrows. 06:55.140 --> 06:56.140 I'll open the door. 06:56.140 --> 06:57.140 Hello, Dr. Barrow. 06:57.140 --> 06:58.140 How do you do, Mr. Lyon? 06:58.140 --> 06:59.140 Come in, come in. 06:59.140 --> 07:00.140 Thank you. 07:00.140 --> 07:01.140 This is my wife, Laura. 07:01.140 --> 07:02.140 How do you do? 07:02.140 --> 07:03.140 I'm glad to meet you, Doctor. 07:03.140 --> 07:04.140 Let me take your things. 07:04.140 --> 07:05.140 The maid will have your room ready in a few minutes. 07:05.140 --> 07:06.140 That's very good of you. 07:06.140 --> 07:07.140 Here, sit down and make yourself comfortable. 07:07.140 --> 07:08.140 Thank you. 07:08.140 --> 07:09.140 I'll be right back. 07:09.140 --> 07:10.140 I'll be right back. 07:10.140 --> 07:11.140 I'll be right back. 07:11.140 --> 07:12.140 I'll be right back. 07:12.140 --> 07:13.140 I'll be right back. 07:13.140 --> 07:14.140 I'll be right back. 07:14.140 --> 07:15.140 I'll be right back. 07:15.140 --> 07:20.260 I'll be right back. 07:20.260 --> 07:25.340 I'll be right back. 07:25.340 --> 07:31.700 I'll be right back. 07:31.700 --> 07:46.060 I'll be right back. 07:46.060 --> 08:02.980 I'll be right back. 08:02.980 --> 08:11.220 I'll be right back. 08:11.220 --> 08:12.720 Oh, you knew Mr. Powell, did you? 08:12.720 --> 08:14.720 Oh, yes, for quite a number of years. 08:14.720 --> 08:16.220 I treated his wife. 08:16.220 --> 08:17.720 Poor Mrs. Powell. 08:17.720 --> 08:18.720 She went mad. 08:18.720 --> 08:20.720 Started somewhat the same way as Julia. 08:20.720 --> 08:22.720 Oh, I wouldn't make that comparison. 08:22.720 --> 08:25.720 So far, there's no basis for any such theory. 08:25.720 --> 08:28.720 Well, then, let's say that Julia has strong dislikes. 08:28.720 --> 08:31.720 Took a hate to the pictures in her room. 08:31.720 --> 08:33.720 Pictures, eh? 08:33.720 --> 08:38.720 Um, I'd like to go up and see her, if she's not asleep. 08:38.720 --> 08:39.720 Well, I guess it's all right. 08:39.720 --> 08:41.220 She's not asleep yet. 08:41.220 --> 08:42.720 Her room's the second from the right, 08:42.720 --> 08:44.720 as you reach the top of the stairs. 08:44.720 --> 08:45.720 Thank you. 08:45.720 --> 08:47.720 I'll just stop in for a few minutes. 08:53.720 --> 08:56.720 Come in. 08:57.720 --> 08:59.720 Hello, Julia. 08:59.720 --> 09:01.720 You remember me, don't you? 09:01.720 --> 09:02.720 No, not exactly. 09:02.720 --> 09:05.720 I'm Dr. Barrow, a friend of your father. 09:05.720 --> 09:06.720 I treated your mother. 09:06.720 --> 09:07.720 My mother? 09:07.720 --> 09:09.720 No, no, don't be alarmed. 09:09.720 --> 09:12.720 I'm staying with your guardians for a few weeks. 09:12.720 --> 09:15.720 Do you mind if I come in for a few minutes? 09:15.720 --> 09:17.720 No. 09:18.720 --> 09:20.720 Well, this is a fine room, Julia. 09:20.720 --> 09:22.720 A very comfortable one. 09:22.720 --> 09:23.720 I don't like it. 09:23.720 --> 09:25.720 It's too big, makes me uncomfortable. 09:25.720 --> 09:28.720 Nonsense. You're just imaginative. 09:28.720 --> 09:31.720 You think someone might be hiding in here while you're asleep. 09:31.720 --> 09:32.720 Is that it? 09:32.720 --> 09:34.720 It isn't that. 09:34.720 --> 09:37.720 Don't you like that picture, Julia? 09:37.720 --> 09:38.720 What picture? 09:38.720 --> 09:39.720 The one you're staring at. 09:39.720 --> 09:41.720 I wasn't staring at it. I just... 09:41.720 --> 09:43.720 Just looking at it, eh? 09:43.720 --> 09:45.720 Looks like a fine painting. 09:45.720 --> 09:46.720 I don't like it. 09:46.720 --> 09:48.720 I'm going to have it removed. 09:48.720 --> 09:51.720 You can if you like, Julia, but I don't think you should. 09:51.720 --> 09:54.720 It's an unpleasant picture. It gives me nightmares. 09:54.720 --> 09:55.720 Look at it. 09:55.720 --> 09:58.720 That frightful-looking man about to come through the doorway 09:58.720 --> 10:02.720 and the unsuspecting girl sitting in a chair with her back towards him. 10:02.720 --> 10:05.720 He's not frightful-looking at all. 10:05.720 --> 10:07.720 It's just the black scarf around his neck. 10:07.720 --> 10:09.720 He's about to kill her. 10:09.720 --> 10:11.720 You certainly have a vivid imagination. 10:11.720 --> 10:13.720 I'm sure the artist had no such idea in mind. 10:13.720 --> 10:15.720 I hate the picture. 10:15.720 --> 10:17.720 I'm going to ask Harvey to take it out of here. 10:17.720 --> 10:19.720 No, Julia, you mustn't be afraid of it. 10:19.720 --> 10:22.720 The longer you keep looking at it, the less afraid of it you'll be. 10:22.720 --> 10:25.720 You've got to conquer your fears or... 10:25.720 --> 10:27.720 Or they'll conquer you. 10:27.720 --> 10:30.720 That picture has a horrible fascination for me. 10:30.720 --> 10:32.720 I can't take my eyes from it. 10:32.720 --> 10:35.720 Last night, I dreamed that the man in the picture 10:35.720 --> 10:39.720 came through the door with a knife in his hand and killed a girl. 10:39.720 --> 10:41.720 It was an awful dream. 10:41.720 --> 10:43.720 But that was only a dream. 10:43.720 --> 10:46.720 If I take that painting off the wall, you'll find other things to be afraid of. 10:46.720 --> 10:49.720 Now, you do as I say. Forget about that picture. 10:49.720 --> 10:50.720 Get a good night's sleep. 10:50.720 --> 10:53.720 Nothing like a good night's sleep to lift your spirits. 10:53.720 --> 10:55.720 If that picture fascinates you, keep looking at it. 10:55.720 --> 10:57.720 Don't be afraid of it. 10:57.720 --> 10:59.720 Will you do that? 10:59.720 --> 11:01.720 Yes, Dr. Barrow, if you say so. 11:01.720 --> 11:04.720 That's fine. I'll see you in the morning. 11:04.720 --> 11:05.720 Good night, Julia. 11:05.720 --> 11:07.720 Good night. 11:15.720 --> 11:19.720 In this big rambling house of Harvey Lyons, midnight came and went. 11:19.720 --> 11:21.720 One by one, the lights went out. 11:21.720 --> 11:24.720 And soon the whole house was blackened by the cover of night. 11:24.720 --> 11:27.720 Not a single light gleamed from any window. 11:27.720 --> 11:30.720 The ominous rumble of an approaching thunderstorm. 11:31.720 --> 11:34.720 Julia's room, the large room with its many pictures. 11:34.720 --> 11:36.720 She was dreaming. 11:36.720 --> 11:39.720 Dreaming again of the man in the picture. 11:39.720 --> 11:42.720 The figure with the flowing black scarf is alive. 11:42.720 --> 11:44.720 And his hands grow longer and longer. 11:44.720 --> 11:47.720 Julia tosses in her sleep, as if trying to avoid him. 11:47.720 --> 11:49.720 Trying not to look at him. 11:49.720 --> 11:52.720 Oh, oh. 11:54.720 --> 11:56.720 Who's there? 11:57.720 --> 11:59.720 Oh. 11:59.720 --> 12:01.720 It was only thunder. 12:01.720 --> 12:04.720 What a terrible dream. 12:04.720 --> 12:06.720 That awful picture. 12:08.720 --> 12:10.720 What was that? 12:10.720 --> 12:12.720 There's someone in this room. 12:12.720 --> 12:14.720 Someone's hiding in this room. 12:14.720 --> 12:17.720 The light. Where's the switch? Where is it? 12:17.720 --> 12:19.720 Oh, here. 12:22.720 --> 12:24.720 There's no one here. 12:27.720 --> 12:29.720 It's coming from the ceiling. 12:29.720 --> 12:31.720 From up above me. 12:31.720 --> 12:33.720 It's my imagination. 12:33.720 --> 12:36.720 There's nobody there at this hour. Nobody. 12:37.720 --> 12:39.720 I've got to go back to sleep. 12:39.720 --> 12:41.720 Dr. Burrow said I need sleep. 12:41.720 --> 12:47.720 I... 12:49.720 --> 12:51.720 Julia, Julia, what happened? 12:51.720 --> 12:53.720 What are you doing out here in the hallway? 12:53.720 --> 12:55.720 Pull yourself together, Julia. 12:55.720 --> 12:57.720 That man. That man. 12:57.720 --> 12:58.720 What man? 12:58.720 --> 13:00.720 The man in the picture. He's moved. 13:00.720 --> 13:02.720 What do you mean? 13:02.720 --> 13:05.720 The man at the door. He's not at the door. He's inside the room. 13:05.720 --> 13:06.720 You must have been dreaming. 13:06.720 --> 13:08.720 Of course, dear. It was only a dream. 13:08.720 --> 13:09.720 I heard a scream and I... 13:09.720 --> 13:11.720 Julia, what's happened to you? 13:11.720 --> 13:13.720 She says she saw a man in one of the paintings move. 13:13.720 --> 13:14.720 Oh, I see. 13:14.720 --> 13:17.720 He did move. I saw it. He's not outside the door anymore. He's inside. 13:17.720 --> 13:19.720 You dreamed that, Julia? 13:19.720 --> 13:20.720 That's what I said. 13:20.720 --> 13:22.720 It wasn't a dream. 13:22.720 --> 13:25.720 A thunder wakened me. I woke up and heard footsteps coming from the ceiling. 13:25.720 --> 13:29.720 I thought it was my imagination and then I looked at the picture. 13:29.720 --> 13:32.720 The picture I told you I didn't like, Doctor. 13:32.720 --> 13:34.720 The man was inside the room. 13:34.720 --> 13:35.720 That's hardly possible, Julia. 13:35.720 --> 13:37.720 Figures and pictures can't move. 13:37.720 --> 13:39.720 Of course not. It was just a bad dream. 13:39.720 --> 13:40.720 No, it's true. I saw it. 13:40.720 --> 13:42.720 Come along, Julia. We'll all take a look at the picture. 13:42.720 --> 13:44.720 No, I don't want to go back into the room. 13:44.720 --> 13:46.720 Now, now, now. There's nothing to be afraid of. 13:46.720 --> 13:48.720 Come on, Julia. Don't be frightened. 13:48.720 --> 13:50.720 You've got to fight off these delusions. 13:50.720 --> 13:52.720 Here, give me your hand. Come along. 13:59.720 --> 14:01.720 Well, now, what picture was it? 14:01.720 --> 14:02.720 The one near the bed. 14:02.720 --> 14:04.720 Oh, yes. The picture by Gregory. 14:04.720 --> 14:06.720 It's one of our oldest paintings. 14:06.720 --> 14:08.720 It's the same as I saw it a few hours ago. 14:09.720 --> 14:10.720 Look at it, Julia. 14:10.720 --> 14:12.720 I... I can't believe it. 14:12.720 --> 14:15.720 The man with the black scarf is still outside the door. 14:15.720 --> 14:19.720 And he'll stay there until that picture crumbles to dust. 14:19.720 --> 14:22.720 I could have sworn I saw him inside the room approaching the girl. 14:22.720 --> 14:24.720 Dreams can be very vivid. 14:24.720 --> 14:27.720 And there are no footsteps coming from the storeroom. 14:27.720 --> 14:30.720 I must be out of my mind. I could have sworn... 14:30.720 --> 14:32.720 It's nothing at all, Julia. 14:32.720 --> 14:36.720 All of us occasionally have vivid, realistic dreams. 14:36.720 --> 14:40.720 Once I dreamed I was being chased by a herd of elephants. 14:40.720 --> 14:45.720 It was so real, I heard the thundering footsteps even after I woke up. 14:45.720 --> 14:46.720 It was so real... 14:46.720 --> 14:49.720 Delusions can be very real and horrifying. 14:49.720 --> 14:53.720 You do believe, don't you, Julia, that it was only a nightmare? 14:53.720 --> 14:55.720 Yes, I... I think so. 14:55.720 --> 14:59.720 If Julia wants to, I'll take the picture out of her room. 14:59.720 --> 15:00.720 I don't think it's wise. 15:00.720 --> 15:02.720 You have to fight these unreasonable fears. 15:02.720 --> 15:04.720 That's true, Julia. Never give in to them. 15:04.720 --> 15:07.720 Well, I don't crave I keep looking at that picture. 15:07.720 --> 15:09.720 It might be the other way around, Julia. 15:09.720 --> 15:14.720 If you run away from it, the mental disease prevalent in your family will take firm hold in you. 15:14.720 --> 15:19.720 You will get worse and worse, as Dr. Barrow says, until you be afraid of your own shadow. 15:19.720 --> 15:22.720 You'll be afraid of everything, of everyone you meet. 15:22.720 --> 15:27.720 Afraid to be alone, afraid to be with people, afraid of yourself, afraid of your own clutching finger. 15:27.720 --> 15:28.720 No, no, don't tell me anymore. 15:28.720 --> 15:32.720 Please, Mr. Lyons, there's no need for this kind of talk. 15:32.720 --> 15:34.720 Julia, look at the picture. 15:34.720 --> 15:38.720 It's nothing but some paint on a canvas with a frame around it. 15:38.720 --> 15:40.720 There's nothing about it that can harm you. 15:40.720 --> 15:42.720 And the danger lies in yourself. 15:42.720 --> 15:48.720 You've got to keep staring at it as often as you can by candlelight or in the dark. 15:48.720 --> 15:51.720 Until you've learned to laugh at it, it won't be easy. 15:51.720 --> 15:53.720 I'll try. 15:53.720 --> 15:56.720 That's fine. I knew you had courage. 15:56.720 --> 15:59.720 I'll get you a sedative so that you'll be able to sleep. 15:59.720 --> 16:01.720 I'll be all right in the morning. 16:01.720 --> 16:03.720 I'm sorry I became hysterical. 16:03.720 --> 16:06.720 And I'm sure you won't let yourself go anymore. 16:06.720 --> 16:07.720 I promise. 16:07.720 --> 16:09.720 You're sure you're not afraid, no? 16:09.720 --> 16:12.720 No, I'll be all right. 16:12.720 --> 16:34.720 I'm sure I'll be all right. 16:34.720 --> 16:36.720 Well, Julia, it's eleven o'clock. 16:36.720 --> 16:37.720 You know what Dr. Barrow says. 16:37.720 --> 16:39.720 I'm not at all sleepy, Laura. 16:39.720 --> 16:40.720 I'd rather stay up for a while. 16:40.720 --> 16:42.720 I'm in the middle of a fascinating story. 16:42.720 --> 16:44.720 You run along. I'll go to bed presently. 16:44.720 --> 16:46.720 Is anything wrong, Julia? 16:46.720 --> 16:49.720 No, of course not. Everything's fine, Laura. 16:49.720 --> 16:51.720 You're afraid to go to sleep, aren't you, Julia? 16:51.720 --> 16:53.720 No, no, it isn't that. 16:53.720 --> 16:55.720 Is that picture bothering you again? 16:55.720 --> 16:57.720 Yes. 16:57.720 --> 16:59.720 Last night I heard footsteps again. 16:59.720 --> 17:04.720 Sound woke me and the figure in the picture, it moved. 17:04.720 --> 17:06.720 It moved closer to the girl. 17:06.720 --> 17:08.720 How terrible. 17:08.720 --> 17:10.720 Why didn't you call me? 17:10.720 --> 17:11.720 We thought you were over it. 17:11.720 --> 17:13.720 It hasn't bothered you these past three nights. 17:13.720 --> 17:15.720 Well, I didn't want anyone to know. 17:15.720 --> 17:18.720 I took some sleeping tablets and I fell asleep again. 17:18.720 --> 17:21.720 In the morning, the picture was the same as ever. 17:21.720 --> 17:24.720 That's a brave girl. 17:24.720 --> 17:26.720 Laura. 17:26.720 --> 17:28.720 Laura, do you think I'm crazy? 17:28.720 --> 17:29.720 Of course not. 17:29.720 --> 17:32.720 You're as sane as...as sane as I am. 17:32.720 --> 17:34.720 Tell me the truth. I must know. 17:34.720 --> 17:36.720 You're just nervous and high strung 17:36.720 --> 17:38.720 and you have a vivid imagination, that's all. 17:38.720 --> 17:40.720 You're trying to soothe me. 17:40.720 --> 17:44.720 Why didn't you tell the doctor that you thought the picture moved? 17:44.720 --> 17:46.720 I was ashamed. 17:46.720 --> 17:49.720 You shouldn't be ashamed. Dr. Barrow is here to help you get well. 17:49.720 --> 17:51.720 I don't think you're... 17:51.720 --> 17:53.720 Oh, that must be Harvey and Dr. Barrow now. 17:53.720 --> 17:55.720 Hello, Laura. 17:55.720 --> 17:57.720 I've arranged to have Old Tom and his fiddle here tomorrow night 17:57.720 --> 18:00.720 for Julia's birthday and I've invited the Grovers. 18:00.720 --> 18:01.720 They'll be delighted to come. 18:01.720 --> 18:03.720 That is if Julia's feeling well. 18:03.720 --> 18:05.720 Julia, you should be in bed. It's after 11. 18:05.720 --> 18:06.720 She's afraid to go to sleep. 18:06.720 --> 18:07.720 Please, Laura. 18:07.720 --> 18:09.720 It's the footsteps in the picture again, isn't it? 18:09.720 --> 18:11.720 Yes, doctor, it moved again. 18:11.720 --> 18:15.720 At least I thought it moved, but I...I went back to sleep. 18:15.720 --> 18:16.720 Well, that's an improvement. 18:16.720 --> 18:18.720 At least you didn't get hysterical 18:18.720 --> 18:20.720 and try to run away like the last time. 18:20.720 --> 18:22.720 You were all right for a few nights. 18:22.720 --> 18:23.720 It's come back. 18:23.720 --> 18:24.720 There isn't much I can do for you, Julia, 18:24.720 --> 18:26.720 except to tell you to go to sleep. 18:26.720 --> 18:29.720 Fight off these delusions. You've got to do that. 18:29.720 --> 18:31.720 Come, Julia, I'll go with you to your room. 18:31.720 --> 18:34.720 Well, perhaps you can sleep in my room tonight, Laura. 18:34.720 --> 18:36.720 Just tonight. 18:36.720 --> 18:38.720 I feel a lot more comfortable tomorrow night. 18:38.720 --> 18:40.720 I'll be able to face it alone much better. 18:40.720 --> 18:43.720 No, Julia, that would be an admission of defeat. 18:43.720 --> 18:46.720 All right, if you think it's best. 18:46.720 --> 18:47.720 Good night. 18:47.720 --> 18:48.720 Good night, Julia. 18:48.720 --> 18:52.720 Well, keep up your courage. 18:52.720 --> 18:54.720 It doesn't look so good, does it, doctor? 18:54.720 --> 18:56.720 Well, not too good, but it's not hopeless. 18:56.720 --> 18:59.720 She has an unstable mind subject to delusions, 18:59.720 --> 19:01.720 which become very real to her. 19:01.720 --> 19:03.720 Her obsession about the picture is not so bad. 19:03.720 --> 19:06.720 We all suffer occasionally from optical illusions, 19:06.720 --> 19:09.720 but hearing footsteps coming from the storeroom above her... 19:09.720 --> 19:12.720 The storeroom? How did you know there's a storeroom above her? 19:12.720 --> 19:14.720 Your wife told me. 19:14.720 --> 19:17.720 Oh, of course. Well, that storeroom hasn't been opened in years. 19:17.720 --> 19:20.720 I guess there's no point in investigating it, is there? 19:20.720 --> 19:21.720 I don't think so. 19:21.720 --> 19:23.720 Those footsteps, like the moving figure in the painting, 19:23.720 --> 19:25.720 are all in her mind. 19:25.720 --> 19:28.720 Her mother behaved just like that before she went mad, didn't she? 19:28.720 --> 19:31.720 Well, there's some similarity. 19:31.720 --> 19:34.720 You haven't been to the storeroom recently, have you? 19:34.720 --> 19:37.720 No, I just mentioned to you that it hasn't been opened in years. 19:37.720 --> 19:38.720 Oh, yes, so you did. 19:38.720 --> 19:40.720 Forgive me for not listening more closely. 19:40.720 --> 19:43.720 That's perfectly all right, doctor. 19:43.720 --> 19:47.720 Well, I just hope that Julia will be well for her birthday party tomorrow. 19:47.720 --> 19:49.720 Oh, I had no idea she was having a birthday. 19:49.720 --> 19:51.720 How old will Julia be? 19:51.720 --> 19:53.720 She'll be 23. 19:53.720 --> 19:55.720 Well, I must remember to get her a gift. 19:57.720 --> 19:59.720 Well, I guess I'll go to bed. 19:59.720 --> 20:02.720 So will I. I'll see you in the morning. 20:08.720 --> 20:11.720 But Julia wasn't thinking about her birthday. 20:11.720 --> 20:14.720 During the 10 or 15 minutes she spent in Laura's room, 20:14.720 --> 20:16.720 fear fluttered in her heart. 20:16.720 --> 20:19.720 When she finally stood alone inside her own room, 20:19.720 --> 20:23.720 panic, black, unreasoning panic began to take hold of her. 20:23.720 --> 20:27.720 In wild haste, she began to undress, never looking at the picture. 20:27.720 --> 20:30.720 I won't look at it. I won't. 20:30.720 --> 20:34.720 I'll go right to sleep. I'll take some pills and fall asleep. 20:36.720 --> 20:38.720 What was that? 20:38.720 --> 20:40.720 Oh. 20:40.720 --> 20:42.720 It was nothing. 20:42.720 --> 20:44.720 Nothing at all. 20:44.720 --> 20:47.720 All I have to do is keep from looking at the picture. 20:47.720 --> 20:49.720 I won't look at it. 20:49.720 --> 20:52.720 It can't do me any harm if I don't see it. 20:52.720 --> 20:55.720 I mustn't even think of it. 20:55.720 --> 20:59.720 I'll think about the trip I made to South America. 20:59.720 --> 21:01.720 It was a wonderful trip. 21:01.720 --> 21:03.720 The sunset. 21:03.720 --> 21:05.720 I was there. 21:08.720 --> 21:10.720 Footsteps. 21:10.720 --> 21:12.720 Those footsteps again. I mustn't hear it. 21:12.720 --> 21:14.720 I mustn't hear it. 21:15.720 --> 21:17.720 It was a wonderful trip. 21:17.720 --> 21:19.720 The blue Caribbean. 21:19.720 --> 21:21.720 The reuse of beautiful city. 21:21.720 --> 21:24.720 Shukulov mountain, the music, the dancing. 21:24.720 --> 21:26.720 Those footsteps. 21:28.720 --> 21:30.720 It's not footsteps. 21:30.720 --> 21:33.720 It's just my heart beating. 21:33.720 --> 21:35.720 I'll close my eyes. 21:35.720 --> 21:38.720 I'll sleep. Sleep. 21:39.720 --> 21:41.720 Why can't I sleep? 21:42.720 --> 21:45.720 Oh, Lord, let me sleep. 21:45.720 --> 21:48.720 I don't want to look at the picture. 21:48.720 --> 21:50.720 I won't. 21:50.720 --> 21:52.720 I know what I'll see. 21:52.720 --> 21:54.720 He'll be closer to her. 21:54.720 --> 21:56.720 Maybe he'll have killed her. 21:56.720 --> 21:58.720 I mustn't open my eyes. 21:58.720 --> 22:00.720 I mustn't. I won't. I... 22:05.720 --> 22:07.720 I've got to look at it. 22:12.720 --> 22:14.720 He's moved. 22:14.720 --> 22:16.720 He's close to the girl. 22:16.720 --> 22:18.720 I'm not dreaming. It's real. 22:19.720 --> 22:20.720 The girl? 22:20.720 --> 22:22.720 It's me. 22:22.720 --> 22:24.720 That girl is me. Me. 22:24.720 --> 22:26.720 I can't stand it. I can't. I can't. 22:30.720 --> 22:32.720 Laura. Laura. 22:33.720 --> 22:36.720 Oh, Laura. Laura, let me in. Let me in. 22:36.720 --> 22:38.720 Julia. Oh, you poor girl. 22:38.720 --> 22:40.720 Here, sit down. 22:40.720 --> 22:42.720 Now, stop crying and tell me all about it. 22:42.720 --> 22:44.720 Tell me in detail. Don't be ashamed. 22:44.720 --> 22:46.720 Get it out of you. It'll do you good to talk. 22:46.720 --> 22:48.720 It's the same thing again and again. 22:48.720 --> 22:50.720 I try not to look at the picture. 22:50.720 --> 22:53.720 I tried so very hard, but it was hopeless. 22:53.720 --> 22:55.720 I had to. 22:56.720 --> 22:59.720 The figure with the black scarf was inside the room. 22:59.720 --> 23:02.720 A knife in his hand, very close to the girl. 23:02.720 --> 23:05.720 But this time the girl had turned around and it was my face. 23:05.720 --> 23:07.720 My face. 23:07.720 --> 23:09.720 Did you hear any footsteps? 23:09.720 --> 23:11.720 Yes. 23:11.720 --> 23:13.720 I heard them as soon as I got into the room. 23:13.720 --> 23:15.720 You think it's very real. 23:15.720 --> 23:17.720 Don't you, Julia? 23:17.720 --> 23:19.720 Despite the fact that everyone says it's a delusion. 23:19.720 --> 23:21.720 It's very real to me. I must be really insane. 23:21.720 --> 23:23.720 I'm going crazy. 23:23.720 --> 23:25.720 Don't say that. 23:25.720 --> 23:27.720 It's no use. I'm not getting any better. 23:27.720 --> 23:29.720 It's getting worse and worse. 23:29.720 --> 23:31.720 Don't give up. You mustn't. 23:31.720 --> 23:33.720 Come along. I'll go to your room with you. 23:33.720 --> 23:35.720 I'll stay there until you fall asleep. 23:35.720 --> 23:37.720 Unless you want to stay here. 23:37.720 --> 23:39.720 I don't know. I don't know what to do. 23:39.720 --> 23:41.720 Will you stay with me, Laura? 23:41.720 --> 23:43.720 Yes, Julia. 23:43.720 --> 23:45.720 Come, let's go back. 23:51.720 --> 23:53.720 Well, the picture doesn't seem to... 23:53.720 --> 23:55.720 What's the matter, Laura? 23:55.720 --> 23:57.720 Nothing. Nothing at all. 23:57.720 --> 23:59.720 There. 23:59.720 --> 24:01.720 Did you hear it? Footsteps? 24:01.720 --> 24:03.720 It was probably a bird creaking. 24:03.720 --> 24:05.720 Now you go to sleep. I think everything will be all right in the morning. 24:05.720 --> 24:07.720 You won't leave me? 24:07.720 --> 24:09.720 No, Julia. I'll be here. 24:09.720 --> 24:11.720 Thank you, Laura. 24:11.720 --> 24:13.720 Thank you very much. 24:19.720 --> 24:23.720 Laura stayed in Julia's room until she was sure that she was fast asleep. 24:23.720 --> 24:25.720 Then carefully she tiptoed out of the room, 24:25.720 --> 24:27.720 closing the door gently behind her. 24:27.720 --> 24:31.720 Julia slept peacefully, feeling safe and secure. 24:31.720 --> 24:33.720 Several hours passed and then... 24:33.720 --> 24:35.720 Suddenly Julia awoke. 24:35.720 --> 24:38.720 She sat bold upright and wide awake with her heart pounding away. 24:38.720 --> 24:40.720 Laura. 24:40.720 --> 24:42.720 Laura, is that you? 24:42.720 --> 24:44.720 Laura! 24:44.720 --> 24:46.720 Oh, she's gone. 24:46.720 --> 24:48.720 She's left me alone. 24:48.720 --> 24:50.720 But I'm not alone. 24:50.720 --> 24:52.720 Something woke me. 24:52.720 --> 24:54.720 The picture. 24:54.720 --> 24:56.720 It's the picture. 24:56.720 --> 24:58.720 I must look at it again. 24:58.720 --> 25:00.720 If he's moved again, I... 25:00.720 --> 25:02.720 I don't know what I'll do. 25:02.720 --> 25:06.720 I'll turn around and look straight at it. 25:06.720 --> 25:10.720 I'll look straight at it. 25:10.720 --> 25:12.720 Oh! 25:12.720 --> 25:14.720 He's killed the girl. 25:14.720 --> 25:16.720 He stabbed her. 25:16.720 --> 25:18.720 He stabbed me. I'm the girl. 25:18.720 --> 25:22.720 Oh, I've got to get out! Out! 25:24.720 --> 25:26.720 It's no use. 25:26.720 --> 25:28.720 I've lost. 25:28.720 --> 25:30.720 I've lost everything. 25:30.720 --> 25:32.720 My reason. My sanity. 25:32.720 --> 25:34.720 I can't fight anymore. 25:34.720 --> 25:36.720 I can't fight against... 25:36.720 --> 25:38.720 you and the black scarf. 25:38.720 --> 25:40.720 And now... 25:40.720 --> 25:42.720 you're here. 25:42.720 --> 25:44.720 I can touch you. 25:44.720 --> 25:46.720 I can feel you. 25:46.720 --> 25:48.720 It's real this time. 25:48.720 --> 25:52.720 What do you want me to do? 25:52.720 --> 25:54.720 No? 25:54.720 --> 25:56.720 I won't run away. 25:56.720 --> 26:00.720 I won't scream. 26:00.720 --> 26:02.720 Do I want to spend the rest of my life 26:02.720 --> 26:06.720 in an asylum like my mother? 26:06.720 --> 26:08.720 No, I don't. 26:08.720 --> 26:10.720 I don't. 26:10.720 --> 26:14.720 You're pointing at the window. 26:14.720 --> 26:18.720 You want me to open the window? 26:18.720 --> 26:20.720 Yes. 26:20.720 --> 26:22.720 I'll open it. 26:26.720 --> 26:30.720 You say it will be best for everybody if I jump. 26:30.720 --> 26:32.720 Yes. 26:32.720 --> 26:34.720 The only way out. 26:34.720 --> 26:36.720 The only way. 26:36.720 --> 26:38.720 I'll do it. 26:38.720 --> 26:40.720 I'll do it now without thinking. 26:40.720 --> 26:42.720 It will only take a moment. 26:42.720 --> 26:44.720 Julia! 26:44.720 --> 26:46.720 Julia! 26:46.720 --> 26:48.720 Stop! 26:48.720 --> 26:50.720 We came just in time. I've got her. Is she safe? 26:50.720 --> 26:52.720 I'm safe. 26:52.720 --> 26:54.720 You can come out from behind that chair, my friend. 26:54.720 --> 26:56.720 Come out or I'll shoot. 26:56.720 --> 26:58.720 I don't understand. My head's going round in a circle. 26:58.720 --> 27:00.720 I'm not disturbing you. 27:00.720 --> 27:02.720 The procedure was a little unusual. 27:02.720 --> 27:04.720 I'll do the explaining, Dr. Barrow. 27:04.720 --> 27:06.720 You tried to drive Julia crazy. 27:06.720 --> 27:08.720 Tried to drive me crazy? 27:08.720 --> 27:10.720 That's right. He tried to do it with the picture. 27:10.720 --> 27:12.720 You're all making a serious mistake. 27:12.720 --> 27:14.720 Mistake? Look at the picture. 27:14.720 --> 27:16.720 The figure is inside the room stabbing the girl. 27:16.720 --> 27:18.720 No, it wasn't your imagination, Julia. 27:18.720 --> 27:20.720 He painted several pictures, each one of them with a figure close to the girl. 27:20.720 --> 27:22.720 He used the storeroom upstairs. That's why you heard footsteps. 27:22.720 --> 27:24.720 I got suspicious when I found a black scarf in his room. 27:24.720 --> 27:26.720 And when I looked at the picture a little while ago, it was full of dust. 27:26.720 --> 27:28.720 I saw it off myself a few hours before. 27:28.720 --> 27:30.720 Yes, and Dr. Barrow seemed to know there was a storeroom above you. 27:30.720 --> 27:32.720 I couldn't understand how he knew that since it had been closed for years. 27:32.720 --> 27:34.720 But why? Why should he want to drive me crazy? 27:34.720 --> 27:36.720 Because he's not Dr. Barrow. 27:36.720 --> 27:38.720 He's Ralph Powell, your cousin, who disappeared many years ago. 27:38.720 --> 27:40.720 Everyone thought he was dead. 27:40.720 --> 27:44.720 After I got suspicious, Harvey and I went up to the storeroom and found a lot of pictures he's been painting. 27:44.720 --> 27:46.720 This scoundrel is a very talented artist. 27:46.720 --> 27:48.720 He's been changing the pictures on the wall. 27:48.720 --> 27:52.720 His plan was to drive you insane and then contest the will since he's your nearest blood relative. 27:52.720 --> 27:54.720 Oh, horrible. And I really thought he... 27:54.720 --> 27:56.720 I had no intention of killing, Julia. 27:56.720 --> 27:58.720 I swear I didn't. I just wanted to frighten her. 27:58.720 --> 28:00.720 I almost jumped out of the window. 28:00.720 --> 28:02.720 I might have been dead right now, lying dead outside. 28:02.720 --> 28:04.720 Don't think about it, Julia. 28:04.720 --> 28:06.720 It's all over now. 28:06.720 --> 28:08.720 You're all right. 28:08.720 --> 28:10.720 I'm not insane. 28:10.720 --> 28:12.720 Of course not, Julia. 28:12.720 --> 28:14.720 Oh, I almost forgot. 28:14.720 --> 28:16.720 It's already Tuesday. 28:16.720 --> 28:18.720 Happy birthday, Julia. 28:18.720 --> 28:20.720 How does it feel to be 23 years old? 28:20.720 --> 28:24.720 It feels wonderful. 28:24.720 --> 28:42.720 And so closes Fear Paints a Picture starring Nancy Coleman, tonight's tale of... 28:42.720 --> 28:46.720 Suspense. 28:46.720 --> 28:54.720 Appearing with Miss Coleman were Edwin Maxwell as Harvey Lyons, Fred McKay as Dr. Barrow, and Beatrice Benaderi as Laura. 28:54.720 --> 29:10.720 This is your narrator, the man in black, who conveys to you Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in suspense with us again next Tuesday when our star will be Mr. Peter Lorre in the suspense play called The Moment of Darkness. 29:10.720 --> 29:22.720 William Spear, the producer, Ted Bliss, the director, Lucian Marowick, the composer, Ladd Kluskin, the musical director, and Sigmund Miller, the author, collaborated on tonight's Suspense. 29:22.720 --> 29:40.720 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.