1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Suspense. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:15,000 This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Suspense. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Suspense. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Suspense. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:38,000 In our starring Hollywood cast tonight are Mr. John Sutton, who appears as a young English doctor, Jim Norwood, 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:44,000 who knew a great deal more than he admitted concerning the strange events which we are about to relate, 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 and Mr. George Zuko, who plays the village curate, the Reverend Arthur Morley. 10 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Our story, and it bears none but a coincidental resemblance to H.G. Wells' famous short novel, The Invisible Man, 11 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:04,000 is by John Dickson Carr and is called The Man Without a Body, Tonight's Tale of Suspense. 12 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:11,000 If you have been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that Suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion 13 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:17,000 and dangerous adventure. In this series our tales calculated to intrigue you. 14 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:24,000 And so it is, with The Man Without a Body and the performances of John Sutton and George Zuko, 15 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 we again hope to keep you in... 16 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Suspense. 17 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,000 A lonely beach of low white sand hills, edged by the surf of the North Sea. 18 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:49,000 And back from the beach, drowsing as it has drowsed for ten centuries, lies the village of Aldbridge in Suffolk. 19 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:56,000 There is the seawall now defaced by air-raid shelters, and there are the rolling grain fields, 20 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000 the thatched white cottages, the spire of St. Luke's Church above the oak trees, 21 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,000 ancient and bell-haunted, lost among hedgerows. 22 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:10,000 This village could never cause consternation in London newspaper offices. 23 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 And yet, on that warm night nearly four years ago... 24 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,000 This time it's really happened. A man without a body, completely invisible. 25 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Dobby boy, Dobby boy, look at this dispatch. Reign of terror in Suffolk Village. 26 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Has another of H.G. Wells' romances come true? 27 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 An invisible man? I can't believe it. 28 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 What's the matter with that village? They all gone scatty? 29 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Mr. George Wellman, builder, states that as he was returning home along the main road from Bevy Seat Edmonds... 30 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:51,000 He distinctly saw a man's hat, without any head under it, moving towards him about six feet above the ground. 31 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Oh, George was a good man full of beer. We can't use this story. 32 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Coffee boy! 33 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Even more surprising evidence was given by the Reverend Arthur Morley Vicar of St. Luke's Church. 34 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Oh, the parson? You don't think he was full of beer? 35 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 One question above all agitates the village. Who is Professor An Smith? 36 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Who is this elderly American, said to be an inventor, who has settled at Aldridge... 37 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,000 And leased a part of the house belonging to the local doctor? 38 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Out of some terrifying workshop, to strike like a maniac, where least expected, has there at last emerged... 39 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:32,000 A real, invisible man? 40 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:38,000 The church of St. Luke, Aldridge, on that same Sunday evening. 41 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Evening service is over now, though an echo bell still lingers. 42 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,000 In the vestry at the rear of the church, where white surpluses hang like ghosts... 43 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 The Reverend Arthur Morley sits with his daughter, Janice. 44 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,000 It is a stone room of painted windows, now many-colored in the sunset. 45 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:03,000 And here, as the drowsy summer light turns to dusk... 46 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Janice, I don't believe it. 47 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,000 I know, Father. 48 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 I saw it with my own eyes, yet I don't believe it. 49 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 You don't think we were dreaming, do you? 50 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 No, Father. We weren't dreaming. 51 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 If this goes on, the whole village will be in a frenzy. But what can I do? 52 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,000 We could go to Professor An Smith and ask him straight out. 53 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Ask him whether he's responsible for these... 54 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Yes. 55 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 I wonder, Janice. A man isn't hurting anybody, you know. 56 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 You couldn't ask for a quieter person or a better neighbor. 57 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 And yet... 58 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 What's that? 59 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Father, you are upset. It's only Mr. Emmett coming down from the belfry. 60 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Emmett? Oh, yes, of course. 61 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Is that you, Mr. Emmett? 62 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 It's me, all right, sir. And very much in the flesh. 63 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Did you think I was the invisible man? 64 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Mr. Emmett, I forbid you to mention that subject. 65 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Very good, sir. But there's others begging your pardon that do mention it. 66 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Oh, yes, yes. Forgive me. I spoke too sharply. 67 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 That's all right, sir. No harm done, no bones broken. 68 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Mind you, not that I, old, with this talk about invisible men, ain't natural, I say. 69 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 It ain't hardly Christian. 70 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,000 I'm a greengrocer by trade, and I believe in what I can weigh and feel and... 71 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 What's the matter, Mr. Emmett? Is anything wrong? 72 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Excuse me, sir. And you too, miss. 73 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Do you see anybody in this room, except us? 74 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 No, of course not. Why? 75 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Because I could have sworn something brushed past me just now. 76 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 You're imagining things, Mr. Emmett. 77 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Yes, sir, I dare say, but... 78 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 There's nobody hidden in the belfry tower, I hope. 79 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,000 No, sir. I had a look-see. 80 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,000 And what's more, there's not going to be anybody up there... 81 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 once I've locked the door. 82 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Now, let that blighter try and get in. 83 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Oh, please, Mr. Emmett, and you too, Father. 84 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 You're talking about this invisible man as though... as though he actually existed. 85 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 There's something funny going on, miss. You can't deny that. 86 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 No, none of us can deny it. 87 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 And what's more, sir, it's getting pretty dark in here. 88 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Isn't you and Miss Janice better get along to the thick ridge while I lock up? 89 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,000 No, we can't go just yet, Mr. Emmett. We're expecting Dr. Norwood. 90 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Dr. Jim Norwood, sir? What does he say about all this? 91 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,000 You might ask him yourself, Mr. Emmett. I think that's probably him now. 92 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Come in. The best-read door's not locked. 93 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Hello, Padre. Hello, Janice. I'm sorry I'm late. 94 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Hello, Jim. You seem a good deal out of breath. 95 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I am out of breath, Janice, because there's blue blazes to pay down in the village. 96 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Not more trouble. 97 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Yes, I'm afraid so. They're holding a mass meeting at the Coach and Horses... 98 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 and they're ready to murder Professor Annsmith. 99 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,000 If this invisible man cuts any more capers, we may see a real old-fashioned lynching in an English village. 100 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Now, look here, my boy. This has got to stop. 101 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 I know that, Padre, but how are we going to stop it? 102 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Sit down there, Jim, across the table from me. 103 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Yes, sir. 104 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 First of all, what do you know about this Professor Annsmith? 105 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Nothing, sir. Nothing at all. 106 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 But you've been part of your house to him. 107 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Oh, my dear Padre, that house is twice as big as I can possibly manage. 108 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 I was only too glad to get a tenant. 109 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 He gave you references, I imagine? 110 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Yes, but I didn't bother to check them. He's a quiet old boy. Pays his rent on the dot. 111 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Never does anything except read and go for long walks. 112 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Are you quite sure of that, Jim? 113 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Her village has war nerves, that's all. 114 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 With the camouflage aerodrome in the neighborhood, they're apt to imagine anything. 115 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 True, perhaps, but... 116 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 That talk about dynamos humming in the old boy's room... 117 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 and blue lights flashing his rubbish out of a sensational film. 118 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 They imagine the whole thing. 119 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Finally, this crazy story about an invisible man playing the gramophone. Why, that's a... 120 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 It's not a crazy story, Jim. Janice and I saw it happen. 121 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 You what? 122 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Last night, about half past nine, Janice and I were out for a walk in the lane that runs past your house. 123 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 On the way, we met Willie Kendrick and he joined us. 124 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Well, sir? 125 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Listen, Jim. On that side of the house, there's a little square room with two windows and no furniture... 126 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 except a round table and a couple of chairs. Do you know the one we mean? 127 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Yes, of course. Professor Annsmith uses it. What about the room? 128 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 It wasn't quite blackout time. 129 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:12,000 The windows were up, the curtains weren't drawn, and the room was brightly lighted. 130 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:18,000 On the table stood an old-fashioned gramophone with a horn and a crank handle. 131 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Beside it lay a pair of white cotton gloves, like... like gardener's gloves. 132 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:32,000 The gramophone was playing away for dear life, but there was nobody in the room. 133 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Janice thought that was a bit odd, a gramophone going full tilt with nobody there, and called my attention to it. 134 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Just then, the gramophone started to run down. 135 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 We could hear the record slow and go off key. 136 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 As it did so... 137 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Well, sir, go on. 138 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,000 As it did so, those white gloves got up off the table. 139 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Got up off the table? 140 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Got up off the table, took hold of the gramophone, and wound it up again. 141 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Mr. Emmett, what on earth are you doing? 142 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 I dropped some candlesticks. 143 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Oh, I see. Please pick them up again. 144 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Yes, ma'am. 145 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Padre, are you serious? 146 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Perfectly serious. 147 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,000 A pair of gloves without any hands inside them? 148 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Yes. 149 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,000 But what did they do exactly? 150 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,000 The left-hand gloves steadied the gramophone. 151 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,000 The right-hand glove wound it up. 152 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Then they both hung in the air, beating time to the music. 153 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 It should have been for me. I can only assure you it was not for me. 154 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,000 What happened then? 155 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Oh, Jim, it was horrible. 156 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Willie Kendrick let out a yell and ran down the lane between the apple trees 157 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,000 as though the devil were after him. 158 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,000 I can't say I blamed him. 159 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Father and I just stood there and... 160 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Stared is the word, my dear. 161 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Yes, stared. I can't forget any of it. 162 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 The three-legged table and the whirling record 163 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 and the blue flowers on the wallpaper. 164 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 But there was nobody there. 165 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,000 We could see past the table and under the table and all over the room. 166 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 And there was nobody there. 167 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Except the man without anybody. 168 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Confound the man without anybody. 169 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Father, suppose it is true. 170 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 As a clergyman, my dear, I prefer to remain agnostic. 171 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 This thing's a trick. 172 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Yes, but how is it done and why? 173 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,000 That's the whole point, Jim. 174 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 What worries me is the effect on our people here. 175 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,000 We call ourselves intelligent and yet look at us. 176 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Even Mr. Emmett there. 177 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Hey, hey, what's that about, Misha? 178 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 A few minutes ago you thought something brushed past you 179 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 when you were coming down the stairs from the bell tower. 180 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Now, didn't you? 181 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Well, yes, sir. 182 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 You see what I mean, Jim? 183 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 But I didn't really think so, sir. Not really. 184 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 It was imagination, just like the doctor said. 185 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Because I searched that tower. 186 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 I locked the door afterwards. 187 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Exactly. 188 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,000 But the mere force of suggestion, nothing more, might lead you to believe. 189 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Ah! 190 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 That's not suggestion, Father. 191 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Sir, oh, stay by, by below. 192 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 There's nobody in that bell tree. 193 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Bells can't ring by themselves, old man. 194 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,000 There's somebody pulling the rope up there and we're going to find out who it is. 195 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,000 One moment, all of you. 196 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,000 What's wrong, Padre? You're as white as a ghost. 197 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 This blasphemous mockery, it seems, extends even to the church. 198 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Very well. You will stay with the Janice, my boy. 199 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Emmett and I will collar this invisible man. 200 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Why can't I go too? 201 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:21,000 I don't believe in this, but I should prefer to have someone with the Janice. 202 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 You're not afraid, Mr. Emmett? 203 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,000 If it's alive, sir, I'm not afraid of it. 204 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,000 And if it's dead, well, you're not afraid of it. 205 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 The tower door's open, sir. 206 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000 I'm ready. 207 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Don't do it, Father. Don't go. 208 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 You can't help them, Janice. 209 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Sit down here. Take it easy. 210 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Jim Norwood, what's wrong with you? 211 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Wrong with me? 212 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 You've got an odd look, too. 213 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 And the light's fading. And the surpluses look like ghosts. 214 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 And in another minute, that fellow would drive me mad. 215 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Suppose he has got him. 216 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Who? 217 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,000 The invisible man. 218 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Oh, don't talk rot. 219 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:06,000 As there are sounds that the ear cannot hear, so there are colors that the eye cannot see. 220 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 I read that somewhere. He hasn't heard anybody yet. 221 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 But suppose he turns nasty and does hurt somebody. 222 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 He can't hurt anybody. 223 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000 How do you know? 224 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Janice, listen to me. Take my hand. 225 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,000 But Jim... 226 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 I have to tell you a few things you won't understand. 227 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 I don't ask you to understand. I just ask you to remember. 228 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Well, what is it? 229 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,000 The first is a question. 230 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,000 If you were a government official and wanted to find an expert on camouflage, where would you go? 231 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 An expert on camouflage? 232 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Yes. And the second point is this. I studied medicine in Germany. 233 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,000 I know that, but that's got... 234 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,000 One night on a bet I hid backstage at the Wintergarden Theater in Berlin. 235 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 I saw the whole show from backstage and... 236 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 I learned a great deal. 237 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Jim Norwood, what on earth are you talking about? 238 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 George Wellman and I have talked the whole thing over. 239 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 In a way, Janice, there is an invisible man. 240 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 I can tell you who he is and how he works. 241 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,000 But there's no danger, do you understand? There's no danger at all. 242 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Ah! 243 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Jim, what was that? 244 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,000 I don't know. 245 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,000 You do know. I can see it in your face. You do know! 246 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 I think somebody's fallen. 247 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Fallen? 248 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,000 No, the belfry. 249 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Father! 250 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Stay here, Janice. You can't do any good. 251 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Let go of my arm! I'm going up there! 252 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,000 No, you're not. I didn't think what the danger might be. 253 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Besides, there's somebody coming down the stairs now. 254 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Stay just where you are and don't move until... 255 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Oh, Father! Father, are you all right? 256 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Steady, sir. Take it easy now. 257 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 I'm perfectly all right, yes. 258 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 But you'd better go into the churchyard and see to Emmett. 259 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,000 He fell? 260 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 No, Janice, he did not fall. He was thrown. 261 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Thrown? By whom? 262 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 There's no time to argue now. You're a doctor. Go out and see to him. 263 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Well, is he in... 264 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000 I don't know. Go! 265 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Yes, sir. 266 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:53,000 For I will work a deed in your days which ye will not believe though it be told you. 267 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Janice, this is incredible. 268 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Why? 269 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,000 You heard the bell ring. I saw it ring. 270 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Without anybody there? 271 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 I was as close to that bell as I am to you now. 272 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 No hand held the rope. 273 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 There were no strings or wires or any tricks to make it move. 274 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Yet it clanged back and forth alone in the tower. 275 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 And I thought I heard someone laugh. 276 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Laugh? 277 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Oh, don't take that too seriously. We were both overwrought and the noise of the bell was deafening. 278 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 What about Mr. Emmett? 279 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Emmett yelled some words I couldn't hear and lunged for the bell. 280 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Then something caught him. 281 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Something caught him and gave him a sledgehammer blow in the back. 282 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 That bell feels nothing but open arches. 283 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 You heard him scream. 284 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,000 I saw his face just before he went over. 285 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Lock the door to the tower, Father. Lock it! 286 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 I can't lock it. Emmett has the key. 287 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000 But why should I lock it? 288 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Because he's still in there. 289 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 He? 290 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 He hadn't done any harm before, but he's done harm now. 291 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 There's no telling what might happen if he gets loose. 292 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,000 You mean? 293 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,000 I mean Professor Ansmith's protege, whoever he is. 294 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,000 The man without a body. 295 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Under the red sunset some quarter of a mile away, 296 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,000 a grass carpeted lane winds between rows of apple trees. 297 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:14,000 The lane is dusky, though lights shine into it from the windows of a large stone house, 298 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Dr. Norwood's house beyond the apple trees. 299 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Up and down. 300 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Up and down a shadowy figure is pacing. 301 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:31,000 An elderly figure, a dejected figure, tall and frail as a shadow among shadows, 302 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,000 muttering to itself, shaking its head, 303 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,000 now and then raising one fist in bewilderment or anguish. 304 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Sometimes the light gleams on large spectacles in a kindly mouth. 305 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Up and down. 306 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Endlessly up and down strides Professor Ansmith. 307 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 I'm not guilty. 308 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,000 I'm not guilty. How can I convince them that I'm not gui... 309 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Who's there? 310 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 I saw you dodge behind that tree. 311 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Stand out, sir. 312 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Did you call me, Professor Ansmith? 313 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Yes, I did call you. Who are you? 314 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 You probably won't recognize me, Professor Ansmith. 315 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Nevertheless, my friend, may I ask what your name is? 316 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 My name is Wellman, Professor George Wellman. 317 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Wellman, Wellman. I've heard that name. 318 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:26,000 Maybe you have. I'm a builder by trade and a great friend of Dr. Norwood's. 319 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Wait one moment. Aren't you the young man whose firm is putting up these air raid shelters along the seawall? 320 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,000 And making such an unholy din with your riveting machines? 321 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 That's me. 322 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:43,000 And come to think of it, aren't you the one who first started this alarm about an invisible man? 323 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Yes, because I met him. 324 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 You did not meet him, sir. 325 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,000 This whole thesis is scientific nonsense. And I won't have it. 326 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 You won't have what? 327 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,000 I'm an old man, Mr. Wellman. 328 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,000 I never did anybody the least harm. 329 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,000 As God is my judge, I know nothing whatever about this, this... 330 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 What's that? 331 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,000 It looks like the vicar's car, Professor. You'd better stand back. 332 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 This is a pretty narrow lane. 333 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Ansmith! Professor Ansmith! 334 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Yes, Mr. Morley, I hear you. 335 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,000 We thought you'd better drive over here straight away. 336 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:26,000 I think you've met my daughter. And of course you know Dr. Norwood. 337 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000 There's no time for any social formalities. 338 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Get into your house, Professor Ansmith. Get in quickly and close the shutters. 339 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,000 But why should I do that? 340 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Because there's a mob coming, sir, and we can't stop them. 341 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Hurry, do hurry. 342 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,000 A mob coming here? Why? 343 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Haven't you heard the news? 344 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 I've heard nothing, my friend. 345 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:48,000 The only person I've seen has been that young man there who chews a toothpick and hides behind the trees. 346 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,000 George Wellman? What on earth are you doing here? 347 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Watching, Janice. Watching and waiting, just as usual. 348 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Listen to me, Professor Ansmith. 349 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Henry Emmett, the head verger at St. Luke's, was thrown from the belfry window not twenty minutes ago. 350 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Not by me, sir, I assure you. I had nothing to do with it. 351 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:11,000 No, not by you, but apparently by the invisible man. 352 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Oh, Father in heaven, will this never stop? 353 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Not till we catch the fellow. 354 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 No, be quiet, Mr. Wellman, please. 355 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000 I'm sorry, Padre, I take it back. 356 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,000 I myself can testify that no visible person laid hands on Emmett. 357 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,000 He was struck, struck as though with a gigantic fist. 358 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,000 What's the matter, Professor Ansmith? Is anything wrong? 359 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:38,000 No, no, no, no, no. I was just thinking. Is Emmett dead? 360 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Fortunately, no. 361 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:44,000 I'm glad of that, my friend, for a certain person's sake. 362 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 He's not even seriously hurt. 363 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,000 The bell tower isn't high and a tree broke a fourth of his fall. 364 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:54,000 But he's badly shaken up, and that crowd of the coach and horses means trouble. 365 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:59,000 If you haven't anything to say to us, if you haven't a word of explanation to utter... 366 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Listen, Padre, don't you hear anything? 367 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Yes, I thought I heard voices. 368 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Can't be that crowd from the village. We're too far ahead of them. 369 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000 It's a crowd, all right, and they've been here for hours. 370 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 But where? I don't see anybody. 371 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Jim, look, behind the trees. 372 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Look beyond the hedgerows. Look for any place where a watcher can hide. 373 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 And may I ask what they're doing here? 374 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,000 They're watching you, Professor Ansmith. 375 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 More of your spies, you mean. 376 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 You can call them anything you please. 377 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 They're getting impatient and they want to show down. 378 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,000 If I as much as hold my hand up like this... 379 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 What the? 380 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Don't throw stones at the windows, you fools! 381 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Don't only break the doctor's windows! 382 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Gentlemen, I can't have any more of this. 383 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Be quiet, all of you, and listen to me! 384 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Well, sir, we're listening. 385 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 I'm a peaceful man. 386 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,000 I like to live in peace with my neighbors. 387 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:01,000 I have nothing to do with this so-called reign of terror. 388 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 But you don't believe that, do you? 389 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,000 No. 390 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Then I must expose a fraud. 391 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Now, don't blame me if I expose the trickster, too. 392 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:16,000 I have made preparations to show you the invisible man. 393 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 The man without a body. 394 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Quiet, everybody! 395 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Mr. Morley, I believe you and your daughter... 396 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000 walked through this lane last night... 397 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,000 while I was away at the Berry St. Edmunds. 398 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,000 I don't know about your being away, sir. 399 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,000 My daughter and I were certainly here, yes. 400 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Good, good. 401 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Miss Janice Morley. 402 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,000 Yes, Professor Ansmith. 403 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Will you look toward your right, please, at the house? 404 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,000 What do you see? 405 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,000 It's the same room. 406 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,000 What room? 407 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000 The room with the little round table and the gramophone. 408 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000 It's a three-legged table, you notice. 409 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Yes, of course. 410 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 But there's nobody in the room. 411 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,000 No, nobody at all. 412 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Are conditions exactly as they were last night? 413 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Yes, except there aren't any gloves on the table. 414 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 No, but the invisible man is there. 415 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Oh! 416 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:04,000 A living presence, ready to act and breathe and even kill. 417 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Even kill? 418 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 With your permission, I shall now address him. 419 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Hello in there. 420 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Hello in there. 421 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Hello in there. 422 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 If anybody answers him, Father, I'm going to scream. 423 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Quiet, Janice, quiet. 424 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Father, look. 425 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000 The gloves are appearing on the table. 426 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,000 I call out to him and I speak as follows. 427 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Hold the phonograph with your left glove. 428 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,000 That's it. 429 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Turn the handle with your right. 430 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:44,000 One turn, two, three, four. 431 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000 That's enough. 432 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Touch the spring with your left hand. 433 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Push the record. 434 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Nor the needle with your right and... 435 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Ladies and gentlemen, the invisible man. 436 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Hold him off! 437 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Hold him off! 438 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Don't you see? 439 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 On the contrary, let them throw all they like. 440 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 Aim at the table, my friend. 441 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Aim at the table. 442 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Why at the table? 443 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Because then they'll see the trick. 444 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,000 I don't follow you. 445 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000 What trick? 446 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 The trick of the looking glasses. 447 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,000 There. 448 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 You see now, my friend? 449 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,000 I think I do. 450 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,000 The legs of the table form a triangle with its point towards you. 451 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Panels of looking glass are fitted in the two sides facing you. 452 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,000 What do you know about that? 453 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:50,000 You think you can see under the table, but what you actually see are the side walls of the room reflected in those two mirrors. 454 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Oh, wait a minute. 455 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 You mean... 456 00:22:52,000 --> 00:23:00,000 I mean that my old servant, hidden behind the mirrors, has just been working the gloves to a panel in the tabletop. 457 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:05,000 It's a very old trick, first shown by Quintal Stadair at the London Polytechnic. 458 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,000 And that's what happened last night? 459 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Yes. 460 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000 And you had nothing to do with it? 461 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Nothing whatever, nor had my servant. 462 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Then who did do it and why? 463 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 What is the explanation of all this? 464 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Well, I can't tell you why. 465 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 That's what beats me. 466 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 But I can tell you everything else. 467 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,000 This invisible man who's been scaring us all silly. 468 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,000 My dear young lady, there's no invisible man. 469 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 There never has been. 470 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:35,000 I might believe that, Professor Ansmith, if I hadn't seen a church bell ringing where there was no hand to ring it. 471 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:40,000 And poor old Emmett flung out of the tower as though a giant hand had got hold of him. 472 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000 You're not saying that was done with the looking glasses? 473 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 No, my friend, not at all. 474 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 That was really clever. 475 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Strings, wires, ropes? 476 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 No, they weren't necessary. 477 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 But the thing's impossible. 478 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,000 Oh, no. 479 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:00,000 The same principle was used by my old friend J.N. Maskelyne to make mechanical figures work. 480 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,000 Psycho played twists and Zoe drew pictures. 481 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 I myself, I... 482 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Go on, sir. 483 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000 You yourself, what are you going to say? 484 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,000 The secret I was about to say remains unknown even today. 485 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:21,000 You were right in the way when you tell us that Emmett acted as though a giant had got hold of him. 486 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,000 A giant had got hold of him. 487 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 At least, a gigantic force. 488 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Before we all go completely mad, would you mind telling us what this gigantic force was? 489 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Not at all. It was compressed air. 490 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Compressed air? 491 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 But don't you see it even yet, any of you? 492 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000 No. 493 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:46,000 A compressed air pipe with a thousand pounds pressure behind it was run up into the tower facing the bell. 494 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,000 It could be operated from the ground outside. 495 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,000 The pressure was turned on and off in bursts. 496 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:58,000 It made that heavy bell swing like a toy. 497 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,000 Emmett, don't you remember? Emmett rushed forwards towards the bell. 498 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000 And the air pressure? 499 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:09,000 The air pressure struck him like a sledgehammer and flung him headlong out of the tower. 500 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:14,000 There's your miracle, gentlemen. That's all there was to it. 501 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Sir, I can't doubt what you say. It's too circumstantial and too right. 502 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 But what, my friend? 503 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 The compressed air tanks. The mechanical apparatus is to work this trick. 504 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,000 Well, what about it? 505 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Where did it come from? Such things don't grow on bushes. 506 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,000 No, but they do grow on riveting machines. 507 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Riveting machines? 508 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:43,000 Yes, such as the riveting machine they're using on the air raid shelters along the seawall. 509 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:52,000 Would you care to tell us, Dr. James Norwood, why you and your friend Wellman have been playing all these tricks? 510 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000 What did he say? 511 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,000 Emmett! 512 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 All of you! 513 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Jim Norwood, is this true? 514 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 Why, of course it's true, Mr. Morley. Don't be so gullible. 515 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Jim and George Wellman doing all this? I don't believe it. 516 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Take a look at their faces, young lady. Did you ever see a guiltier-looking pair? 517 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,000 So we look guilty, do we? 518 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,000 Frankly, you do. 519 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,000 We played the whole game and convinced the village there was an invisible man. Is that it? 520 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Yes. You worked the glove trick in your own house, and Wellman worked the air trick with his own equipment. 521 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Everything else was nothing but a pack of lies and a lot of atmosphere. Playing conjurers and making a blasted hash of it. 522 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000 Is that all, Professor Annsmith? 523 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,000 Well, remember, you brought this on yourself. I didn't want to expose you. 524 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,000 No, Professor, I bet you didn't. 525 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,000 Easy, George, take it easy. 526 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Jim, is this true? 527 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:52,000 Before you start pitching into me, Janice, let me have my word first. Do you remember what I said to you at the church tonight? 528 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,000 At the church? 529 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:59,000 Yes, I asked you to remember something, even if you didn't understand it. All right, can you remember what it was? 530 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Oh, Jim, please. You're only trying to evade this. I'm so confused now, I don't remember anything. 531 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:12,000 All I can think of is this horrible business and what's behind it. Father can't believe his ears and I'm not much better. 532 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:20,000 We practically idolized you. All we want you to do is answer a straight question. Jim, are these accusations true? 533 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Yes, they are true. 534 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Oh, that's good. 535 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:31,000 Doubtless he had a good reason, Janice. Doubtless he had a good reason. 536 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Yes, we had a good reason. 537 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,000 The very best reason in the world. 538 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,000 You had a good reason for scaring people half to death and trying to kill poor old Henry Emmett. 539 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 We didn't mean any harm against Emmett. That was an accident. 540 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 But you dare to defend yourself now? 541 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Yes, just that. 542 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Before we go home, Father, shall we apologize to Professor Annsmith? I hope he'll try to think better of English hospitality. 543 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000 Good, Janice, good. I hope he will too. 544 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,000 You hope he will. 545 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Listen, Janice, before you act on any belief, you have to be absolutely sure in your own mind. 546 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,000 George and I have to prove something and now I'm glad to say we have proved it. 547 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:11,000 Oh, I can't stand this any longer. If you have anything to say, go on and say it straight out. What was it you had to prove? 548 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,000 We had to prove through our own satisfaction that this pretended American who calls himself Professor Annsmith... 549 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,000 Pretended American? 550 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Who calls himself Professor Annsmith? 551 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:27,000 We had to prove that this pretended American was no other than Karl Heinrich von Keis, the celebrated stage magician from the Wintergarten Theatre in Berlin. 552 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000 What? 553 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Whose real job is to find the camouflage aerodrome near Bury St. Edmunds. 554 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,000 No. 555 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:51,000 He explained his own tricks very nicely, George. We'll swear out a warrant in the morning. 556 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:58,000 And so closes The Man Without a Body, starring John Sutton and George Zuko. Tonight's tale of... 557 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Suspense. 558 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:07,000 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... 559 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:14,000 When the distinguished actress, Miss Agnes Moorhead, will be heard in one of her many brilliant characterizations. 560 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:22,000 Starring with Miss Moorhead will be Miss Ellen Drew, who as Carol Linden tells the amazing story of Uncle Henry's Rosebush. 561 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:29,000 The producer of these broadcasts is William Spear with Ted Bliss, the director, Bernard Herman and Lucian Mahawick, conductor and composer... 562 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:35,000 And John Dixon Carr, the author, collaborated on tonight's Suspense. 563 00:29:35,000 --> 00:30:04,000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.