WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 Suspense. 00:09.000 --> 00:15.000 This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 00:16.000 --> 00:19.000 Suspense. 00:20.000 --> 00:23.000 Suspense. 00:24.000 --> 00:27.000 Suspense. 00:27.000 --> 00:31.000 Here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 00:32.000 --> 00:38.000 In our starring Hollywood cast tonight are Mr. John Sutton, who appears as a young English doctor, Jim Norwood, 00:38.000 --> 00:44.000 who knew a great deal more than he admitted concerning the strange events which we are about to relate, 00:44.000 --> 00:49.000 and Mr. George Zuko, who plays the village curate, the Reverend Arthur Morley. 00:49.000 --> 00:57.000 Our story, and it bears none but a coincidental resemblance to H.G. Wells' famous short novel, The Invisible Man, 00:57.000 --> 01:04.000 is by John Dickson Carr and is called The Man Without a Body, Tonight's Tale of Suspense. 01:05.000 --> 01:11.000 If you have been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that Suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion 01:11.000 --> 01:17.000 and dangerous adventure. In this series our tales calculated to intrigue you. 01:17.000 --> 01:24.000 And so it is, with The Man Without a Body and the performances of John Sutton and George Zuko, 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 we again hope to keep you in... 01:27.000 --> 01:30.000 Suspense. 01:33.000 --> 01:39.000 A lonely beach of low white sand hills, edged by the surf of the North Sea. 01:39.000 --> 01:49.000 And back from the beach, drowsing as it has drowsed for ten centuries, lies the village of Aldbridge in Suffolk. 01:49.000 --> 01:56.000 There is the seawall now defaced by air-raid shelters, and there are the rolling grain fields, 01:56.000 --> 02:01.000 the thatched white cottages, the spire of St. Luke's Church above the oak trees, 02:01.000 --> 02:05.000 ancient and bell-haunted, lost among hedgerows. 02:05.000 --> 02:10.000 This village could never cause consternation in London newspaper offices. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 And yet, on that warm night nearly four years ago... 02:14.000 --> 02:20.000 This time it's really happened. A man without a body, completely invisible. 02:24.000 --> 02:29.000 Dobby boy, Dobby boy, look at this dispatch. Reign of terror in Suffolk Village. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 Has another of H.G. Wells' romances come true? 02:32.000 --> 02:35.000 An invisible man? I can't believe it. 02:35.000 --> 02:38.000 What's the matter with that village? They all gone scatty? 02:38.000 --> 02:44.000 Mr. George Wellman, builder, states that as he was returning home along the main road from Bevy Seat Edmonds... 02:44.000 --> 02:51.000 He distinctly saw a man's hat, without any head under it, moving towards him about six feet above the ground. 02:51.000 --> 02:55.000 Oh, George was a good man full of beer. We can't use this story. 02:55.000 --> 02:56.000 Coffee boy! 02:56.000 --> 03:01.000 Even more surprising evidence was given by the Reverend Arthur Morley Vicar of St. Luke's Church. 03:01.000 --> 03:05.000 Oh, the parson? You don't think he was full of beer? 03:05.000 --> 03:09.000 One question above all agitates the village. Who is Professor An Smith? 03:09.000 --> 03:14.000 Who is this elderly American, said to be an inventor, who has settled at Aldridge... 03:14.000 --> 03:18.000 And leased a part of the house belonging to the local doctor? 03:18.000 --> 03:27.000 Out of some terrifying workshop, to strike like a maniac, where least expected, has there at last emerged... 03:27.000 --> 03:32.000 A real, invisible man? 03:32.000 --> 03:38.000 The church of St. Luke, Aldridge, on that same Sunday evening. 03:38.000 --> 03:43.000 Evening service is over now, though an echo bell still lingers. 03:43.000 --> 03:48.000 In the vestry at the rear of the church, where white surpluses hang like ghosts... 03:48.000 --> 03:52.000 The Reverend Arthur Morley sits with his daughter, Janice. 03:52.000 --> 03:57.000 It is a stone room of painted windows, now many-colored in the sunset. 03:57.000 --> 04:03.000 And here, as the drowsy summer light turns to dusk... 04:03.000 --> 04:05.000 Janice, I don't believe it. 04:05.000 --> 04:06.000 I know, Father. 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 I saw it with my own eyes, yet I don't believe it. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 You don't think we were dreaming, do you? 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 No, Father. We weren't dreaming. 04:13.000 --> 04:17.000 If this goes on, the whole village will be in a frenzy. But what can I do? 04:17.000 --> 04:21.000 We could go to Professor An Smith and ask him straight out. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Ask him whether he's responsible for these... 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 Yes. 04:25.000 --> 04:29.000 I wonder, Janice. A man isn't hurting anybody, you know. 04:29.000 --> 04:32.000 You couldn't ask for a quieter person or a better neighbor. 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 And yet... 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 What's that? 04:36.000 --> 04:40.000 Father, you are upset. It's only Mr. Emmett coming down from the belfry. 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 Emmett? Oh, yes, of course. 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 Is that you, Mr. Emmett? 04:46.000 --> 04:50.000 It's me, all right, sir. And very much in the flesh. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Did you think I was the invisible man? 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 Mr. Emmett, I forbid you to mention that subject. 04:54.000 --> 04:58.000 Very good, sir. But there's others begging your pardon that do mention it. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 Oh, yes, yes. Forgive me. I spoke too sharply. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 That's all right, sir. No harm done, no bones broken. 05:04.000 --> 05:09.000 Mind you, not that I, old, with this talk about invisible men, ain't natural, I say. 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 It ain't hardly Christian. 05:11.000 --> 05:16.000 I'm a greengrocer by trade, and I believe in what I can weigh and feel and... 05:16.000 --> 05:19.000 What's the matter, Mr. Emmett? Is anything wrong? 05:19.000 --> 05:22.000 Excuse me, sir. And you too, miss. 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 Do you see anybody in this room, except us? 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 No, of course not. Why? 05:28.000 --> 05:32.000 Because I could have sworn something brushed past me just now. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 You're imagining things, Mr. Emmett. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 Yes, sir, I dare say, but... 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 There's nobody hidden in the belfry tower, I hope. 05:38.000 --> 05:41.000 No, sir. I had a look-see. 05:41.000 --> 05:46.000 And what's more, there's not going to be anybody up there... 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 once I've locked the door. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 Now, let that blighter try and get in. 05:52.000 --> 05:55.000 Oh, please, Mr. Emmett, and you too, Father. 05:55.000 --> 05:59.000 You're talking about this invisible man as though... as though he actually existed. 05:59.000 --> 06:02.000 There's something funny going on, miss. You can't deny that. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 No, none of us can deny it. 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 And what's more, sir, it's getting pretty dark in here. 06:07.000 --> 06:11.000 Isn't you and Miss Janice better get along to the thick ridge while I lock up? 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 No, we can't go just yet, Mr. Emmett. We're expecting Dr. Norwood. 06:13.000 --> 06:17.000 Dr. Jim Norwood, sir? What does he say about all this? 06:20.000 --> 06:24.000 You might ask him yourself, Mr. Emmett. I think that's probably him now. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 Come in. The best-read door's not locked. 06:26.000 --> 06:30.000 Hello, Padre. Hello, Janice. I'm sorry I'm late. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 Hello, Jim. You seem a good deal out of breath. 06:32.000 --> 06:36.000 I am out of breath, Janice, because there's blue blazes to pay down in the village. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.000 Not more trouble. 06:37.000 --> 06:40.000 Yes, I'm afraid so. They're holding a mass meeting at the Coach and Horses... 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 and they're ready to murder Professor Annsmith. 06:42.000 --> 06:47.000 If this invisible man cuts any more capers, we may see a real old-fashioned lynching in an English village. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 Now, look here, my boy. This has got to stop. 06:49.000 --> 06:52.000 I know that, Padre, but how are we going to stop it? 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 Sit down there, Jim, across the table from me. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 Yes, sir. 06:55.000 --> 06:58.000 First of all, what do you know about this Professor Annsmith? 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 Nothing, sir. Nothing at all. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 But you've been part of your house to him. 07:02.000 --> 07:05.000 Oh, my dear Padre, that house is twice as big as I can possibly manage. 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 I was only too glad to get a tenant. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 He gave you references, I imagine? 07:09.000 --> 07:14.000 Yes, but I didn't bother to check them. He's a quiet old boy. Pays his rent on the dot. 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 Never does anything except read and go for long walks. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 Are you quite sure of that, Jim? 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 Her village has war nerves, that's all. 07:20.000 --> 07:24.000 With the camouflage aerodrome in the neighborhood, they're apt to imagine anything. 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 True, perhaps, but... 07:25.000 --> 07:28.000 That talk about dynamos humming in the old boy's room... 07:28.000 --> 07:31.000 and blue lights flashing his rubbish out of a sensational film. 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 They imagine the whole thing. 07:32.000 --> 07:37.000 Finally, this crazy story about an invisible man playing the gramophone. Why, that's a... 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 It's not a crazy story, Jim. Janice and I saw it happen. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 You what? 07:42.000 --> 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. 07:48.000 --> 07:51.000 On the way, we met Willie Kendrick and he joined us. 07:51.000 --> 07:52.000 Well, sir? 07:52.000 --> 07:57.000 Listen, Jim. On that side of the house, there's a little square room with two windows and no furniture... 07:57.000 --> 08:00.000 except a round table and a couple of chairs. Do you know the one we mean? 08:00.000 --> 08:03.000 Yes, of course. Professor Annsmith uses it. What about the room? 08:03.000 --> 08:06.000 It wasn't quite blackout time. 08:06.000 --> 08:12.000 The windows were up, the curtains weren't drawn, and the room was brightly lighted. 08:12.000 --> 08:18.000 On the table stood an old-fashioned gramophone with a horn and a crank handle. 08:18.000 --> 08:26.000 Beside it lay a pair of white cotton gloves, like... like gardener's gloves. 08:26.000 --> 08:32.000 The gramophone was playing away for dear life, but there was nobody in the room. 08:32.000 --> 08:39.000 Janice thought that was a bit odd, a gramophone going full tilt with nobody there, and called my attention to it. 08:39.000 --> 08:43.000 Just then, the gramophone started to run down. 08:43.000 --> 08:46.000 We could hear the record slow and go off key. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 As it did so... 08:48.000 --> 08:49.000 Well, sir, go on. 08:49.000 --> 08:53.000 As it did so, those white gloves got up off the table. 08:53.000 --> 08:54.000 Got up off the table? 08:54.000 --> 09:00.000 Got up off the table, took hold of the gramophone, and wound it up again. 09:00.000 --> 09:03.000 Mr. Emmett, what on earth are you doing? 09:03.000 --> 09:05.000 I dropped some candlesticks. 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 Oh, I see. Please pick them up again. 09:07.000 --> 09:08.000 Yes, ma'am. 09:08.000 --> 09:09.000 Padre, are you serious? 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 Perfectly serious. 09:10.000 --> 09:14.000 A pair of gloves without any hands inside them? 09:14.000 --> 09:15.000 Yes. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 But what did they do exactly? 09:17.000 --> 09:20.000 The left-hand gloves steadied the gramophone. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 The right-hand glove wound it up. 09:23.000 --> 09:28.000 Then they both hung in the air, beating time to the music. 09:28.000 --> 09:32.000 It should have been for me. I can only assure you it was not for me. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 What happened then? 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 Oh, Jim, it was horrible. 09:34.000 --> 09:38.000 Willie Kendrick let out a yell and ran down the lane between the apple trees 09:38.000 --> 09:39.000 as though the devil were after him. 09:39.000 --> 09:40.000 I can't say I blamed him. 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 Father and I just stood there and... 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 Stared is the word, my dear. 09:44.000 --> 09:47.000 Yes, stared. I can't forget any of it. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 The three-legged table and the whirling record 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 and the blue flowers on the wallpaper. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 But there was nobody there. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 We could see past the table and under the table and all over the room. 09:57.000 --> 09:59.000 And there was nobody there. 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 Except the man without anybody. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.000 Confound the man without anybody. 10:03.000 --> 10:05.000 Father, suppose it is true. 10:05.000 --> 10:07.000 As a clergyman, my dear, I prefer to remain agnostic. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 This thing's a trick. 10:09.000 --> 10:11.000 Yes, but how is it done and why? 10:11.000 --> 10:12.000 That's the whole point, Jim. 10:12.000 --> 10:15.000 What worries me is the effect on our people here. 10:15.000 --> 10:18.000 We call ourselves intelligent and yet look at us. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 Even Mr. Emmett there. 10:20.000 --> 10:22.000 Hey, hey, what's that about, Misha? 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 A few minutes ago you thought something brushed past you 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 when you were coming down the stairs from the bell tower. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 Now, didn't you? 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 Well, yes, sir. 10:29.000 --> 10:30.000 You see what I mean, Jim? 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 But I didn't really think so, sir. Not really. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 It was imagination, just like the doctor said. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 Because I searched that tower. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 I locked the door afterwards. 10:38.000 --> 10:39.000 Exactly. 10:39.000 --> 10:44.000 But the mere force of suggestion, nothing more, might lead you to believe. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 Ah! 10:48.000 --> 10:51.000 That's not suggestion, Father. 10:51.000 --> 10:54.000 Sir, oh, stay by, by below. 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 There's nobody in that bell tree. 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 Bells can't ring by themselves, old man. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.000 There's somebody pulling the rope up there and we're going to find out who it is. 11:01.000 --> 11:02.000 One moment, all of you. 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 What's wrong, Padre? You're as white as a ghost. 11:05.000 --> 11:09.000 This blasphemous mockery, it seems, extends even to the church. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 Very well. You will stay with the Janice, my boy. 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 Emmett and I will collar this invisible man. 11:15.000 --> 11:16.000 Why can't I go too? 11:16.000 --> 11:21.000 I don't believe in this, but I should prefer to have someone with the Janice. 11:21.000 --> 11:24.000 You're not afraid, Mr. Emmett? 11:24.000 --> 11:28.000 If it's alive, sir, I'm not afraid of it. 11:28.000 --> 11:32.000 And if it's dead, well, you're not afraid of it. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 The tower door's open, sir. 11:38.000 --> 11:39.000 I'm ready. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 Don't do it, Father. Don't go. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 You can't help them, Janice. 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 Sit down here. Take it easy. 11:45.000 --> 11:47.000 Jim Norwood, what's wrong with you? 11:47.000 --> 11:48.000 Wrong with me? 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 You've got an odd look, too. 11:50.000 --> 11:53.000 And the light's fading. And the surpluses look like ghosts. 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 And in another minute, that fellow would drive me mad. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 Suppose he has got him. 11:58.000 --> 11:59.000 Who? 11:59.000 --> 12:00.000 The invisible man. 12:00.000 --> 12:01.000 Oh, don't talk rot. 12:01.000 --> 12:06.000 As there are sounds that the ear cannot hear, so there are colors that the eye cannot see. 12:06.000 --> 12:10.000 I read that somewhere. He hasn't heard anybody yet. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 But suppose he turns nasty and does hurt somebody. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 He can't hurt anybody. 12:14.000 --> 12:15.000 How do you know? 12:15.000 --> 12:18.000 Janice, listen to me. Take my hand. 12:18.000 --> 12:19.000 But Jim... 12:19.000 --> 12:22.000 I have to tell you a few things you won't understand. 12:22.000 --> 12:25.000 I don't ask you to understand. I just ask you to remember. 12:25.000 --> 12:27.000 Well, what is it? 12:27.000 --> 12:29.000 The first is a question. 12:29.000 --> 12:33.000 If you were a government official and wanted to find an expert on camouflage, where would you go? 12:33.000 --> 12:35.000 An expert on camouflage? 12:35.000 --> 12:39.000 Yes. And the second point is this. I studied medicine in Germany. 12:39.000 --> 12:40.000 I know that, but that's got... 12:40.000 --> 12:44.000 One night on a bet I hid backstage at the Wintergarden Theater in Berlin. 12:44.000 --> 12:47.000 I saw the whole show from backstage and... 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 I learned a great deal. 12:49.000 --> 12:51.000 Jim Norwood, what on earth are you talking about? 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 George Wellman and I have talked the whole thing over. 12:53.000 --> 12:56.000 In a way, Janice, there is an invisible man. 12:56.000 --> 12:59.000 I can tell you who he is and how he works. 12:59.000 --> 13:03.000 But there's no danger, do you understand? There's no danger at all. 13:03.000 --> 13:05.000 Ah! 13:05.000 --> 13:08.000 Jim, what was that? 13:08.000 --> 13:09.000 I don't know. 13:09.000 --> 13:13.000 You do know. I can see it in your face. You do know! 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 I think somebody's fallen. 13:15.000 --> 13:16.000 Fallen? 13:16.000 --> 13:17.000 No, the belfry. 13:17.000 --> 13:18.000 Father! 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 Stay here, Janice. You can't do any good. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 Let go of my arm! I'm going up there! 13:21.000 --> 13:24.000 No, you're not. I didn't think what the danger might be. 13:24.000 --> 13:26.000 Besides, there's somebody coming down the stairs now. 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 Stay just where you are and don't move until... 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 Oh, Father! Father, are you all right? 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 Steady, sir. Take it easy now. 13:32.000 --> 13:34.000 I'm perfectly all right, yes. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 But you'd better go into the churchyard and see to Emmett. 13:36.000 --> 13:37.000 He fell? 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 No, Janice, he did not fall. He was thrown. 13:39.000 --> 13:40.000 Thrown? By whom? 13:40.000 --> 13:43.000 There's no time to argue now. You're a doctor. Go out and see to him. 13:43.000 --> 13:44.000 Well, is he in... 13:44.000 --> 13:45.000 I don't know. Go! 13:45.000 --> 13:46.000 Yes, sir. 13:48.000 --> 13:53.000 For I will work a deed in your days which ye will not believe though it be told you. 13:53.000 --> 13:55.000 Janice, this is incredible. 13:55.000 --> 13:56.000 Why? 13:56.000 --> 14:00.000 You heard the bell ring. I saw it ring. 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 Without anybody there? 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 I was as close to that bell as I am to you now. 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 No hand held the rope. 14:07.000 --> 14:11.000 There were no strings or wires or any tricks to make it move. 14:11.000 --> 14:15.000 Yet it clanged back and forth alone in the tower. 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 And I thought I heard someone laugh. 14:17.000 --> 14:18.000 Laugh? 14:18.000 --> 14:21.000 Oh, don't take that too seriously. We were both overwrought and the noise of the bell was deafening. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 What about Mr. Emmett? 14:22.000 --> 14:25.000 Emmett yelled some words I couldn't hear and lunged for the bell. 14:25.000 --> 14:27.000 Then something caught him. 14:27.000 --> 14:31.000 Something caught him and gave him a sledgehammer blow in the back. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 That bell feels nothing but open arches. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 You heard him scream. 14:35.000 --> 14:38.000 I saw his face just before he went over. 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 Lock the door to the tower, Father. Lock it! 14:40.000 --> 14:42.000 I can't lock it. Emmett has the key. 14:42.000 --> 14:44.000 But why should I lock it? 14:44.000 --> 14:45.000 Because he's still in there. 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 He? 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 He hadn't done any harm before, but he's done harm now. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 There's no telling what might happen if he gets loose. 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 You mean? 14:51.000 --> 14:54.000 I mean Professor Ansmith's protege, whoever he is. 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 The man without a body. 15:01.000 --> 15:04.000 Under the red sunset some quarter of a mile away, 15:04.000 --> 15:08.000 a grass carpeted lane winds between rows of apple trees. 15:08.000 --> 15:14.000 The lane is dusky, though lights shine into it from the windows of a large stone house, 15:14.000 --> 15:18.000 Dr. Norwood's house beyond the apple trees. 15:18.000 --> 15:21.000 Up and down. 15:21.000 --> 15:25.000 Up and down a shadowy figure is pacing. 15:25.000 --> 15:31.000 An elderly figure, a dejected figure, tall and frail as a shadow among shadows, 15:31.000 --> 15:34.000 muttering to itself, shaking its head, 15:34.000 --> 15:38.000 now and then raising one fist in bewilderment or anguish. 15:38.000 --> 15:43.000 Sometimes the light gleams on large spectacles in a kindly mouth. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 Up and down. 15:45.000 --> 15:49.000 Endlessly up and down strides Professor Ansmith. 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 I'm not guilty. 15:51.000 --> 15:55.000 I'm not guilty. How can I convince them that I'm not gui... 15:55.000 --> 15:58.000 Who's there? 15:58.000 --> 16:01.000 I saw you dodge behind that tree. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 Stand out, sir. 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 Did you call me, Professor Ansmith? 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 Yes, I did call you. Who are you? 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 You probably won't recognize me, Professor Ansmith. 16:11.000 --> 16:15.000 Nevertheless, my friend, may I ask what your name is? 16:15.000 --> 16:18.000 My name is Wellman, Professor George Wellman. 16:18.000 --> 16:21.000 Wellman, Wellman. I've heard that name. 16:21.000 --> 16:26.000 Maybe you have. I'm a builder by trade and a great friend of Dr. Norwood's. 16:26.000 --> 16:32.000 Wait one moment. Aren't you the young man whose firm is putting up these air raid shelters along the seawall? 16:32.000 --> 16:36.000 And making such an unholy din with your riveting machines? 16:36.000 --> 16:37.000 That's me. 16:37.000 --> 16:43.000 And come to think of it, aren't you the one who first started this alarm about an invisible man? 16:43.000 --> 16:46.000 Yes, because I met him. 16:46.000 --> 16:49.000 You did not meet him, sir. 16:49.000 --> 16:53.000 This whole thesis is scientific nonsense. And I won't have it. 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 You won't have what? 16:55.000 --> 16:58.000 I'm an old man, Mr. Wellman. 16:58.000 --> 17:01.000 I never did anybody the least harm. 17:01.000 --> 17:06.000 As God is my judge, I know nothing whatever about this, this... 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 What's that? 17:08.000 --> 17:11.000 It looks like the vicar's car, Professor. You'd better stand back. 17:11.000 --> 17:14.000 This is a pretty narrow lane. 17:14.000 --> 17:17.000 Ansmith! Professor Ansmith! 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 Yes, Mr. Morley, I hear you. 17:19.000 --> 17:22.000 We thought you'd better drive over here straight away. 17:22.000 --> 17:26.000 I think you've met my daughter. And of course you know Dr. Norwood. 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 There's no time for any social formalities. 17:28.000 --> 17:31.000 Get into your house, Professor Ansmith. Get in quickly and close the shutters. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 But why should I do that? 17:33.000 --> 17:35.000 Because there's a mob coming, sir, and we can't stop them. 17:35.000 --> 17:36.000 Hurry, do hurry. 17:36.000 --> 17:39.000 A mob coming here? Why? 17:39.000 --> 17:40.000 Haven't you heard the news? 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 I've heard nothing, my friend. 17:42.000 --> 17:48.000 The only person I've seen has been that young man there who chews a toothpick and hides behind the trees. 17:48.000 --> 17:51.000 George Wellman? What on earth are you doing here? 17:51.000 --> 17:56.000 Watching, Janice. Watching and waiting, just as usual. 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 Listen to me, Professor Ansmith. 17:58.000 --> 18:03.000 Henry Emmett, the head verger at St. Luke's, was thrown from the belfry window not twenty minutes ago. 18:03.000 --> 18:07.000 Not by me, sir, I assure you. I had nothing to do with it. 18:07.000 --> 18:11.000 No, not by you, but apparently by the invisible man. 18:11.000 --> 18:14.000 Oh, Father in heaven, will this never stop? 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 Not till we catch the fellow. 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 No, be quiet, Mr. Wellman, please. 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 I'm sorry, Padre, I take it back. 18:20.000 --> 18:23.000 I myself can testify that no visible person laid hands on Emmett. 18:23.000 --> 18:27.000 He was struck, struck as though with a gigantic fist. 18:29.000 --> 18:33.000 What's the matter, Professor Ansmith? Is anything wrong? 18:33.000 --> 18:38.000 No, no, no, no, no. I was just thinking. Is Emmett dead? 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 Fortunately, no. 18:40.000 --> 18:44.000 I'm glad of that, my friend, for a certain person's sake. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 He's not even seriously hurt. 18:46.000 --> 18:49.000 The bell tower isn't high and a tree broke a fourth of his fall. 18:49.000 --> 18:54.000 But he's badly shaken up, and that crowd of the coach and horses means trouble. 18:54.000 --> 18:59.000 If you haven't anything to say to us, if you haven't a word of explanation to utter... 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 Listen, Padre, don't you hear anything? 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 Yes, I thought I heard voices. 19:06.000 --> 19:09.000 Can't be that crowd from the village. We're too far ahead of them. 19:09.000 --> 19:12.000 It's a crowd, all right, and they've been here for hours. 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 But where? I don't see anybody. 19:14.000 --> 19:16.000 Jim, look, behind the trees. 19:16.000 --> 19:20.000 Look beyond the hedgerows. Look for any place where a watcher can hide. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 And may I ask what they're doing here? 19:22.000 --> 19:25.000 They're watching you, Professor Ansmith. 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 More of your spies, you mean. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 You can call them anything you please. 19:29.000 --> 19:31.000 They're getting impatient and they want to show down. 19:31.000 --> 19:34.000 If I as much as hold my hand up like this... 19:34.000 --> 19:36.000 What the? 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 Don't throw stones at the windows, you fools! 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 Don't only break the doctor's windows! 19:41.000 --> 19:44.000 Gentlemen, I can't have any more of this. 19:44.000 --> 19:47.000 Be quiet, all of you, and listen to me! 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 Well, sir, we're listening. 19:51.000 --> 19:53.000 I'm a peaceful man. 19:53.000 --> 19:56.000 I like to live in peace with my neighbors. 19:56.000 --> 20:01.000 I have nothing to do with this so-called reign of terror. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 But you don't believe that, do you? 20:03.000 --> 20:04.000 No. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 Then I must expose a fraud. 20:06.000 --> 20:10.000 Now, don't blame me if I expose the trickster, too. 20:10.000 --> 20:16.000 I have made preparations to show you the invisible man. 20:16.000 --> 20:20.000 The man without a body. 20:20.000 --> 20:22.000 Quiet, everybody! 20:22.000 --> 20:25.000 Mr. Morley, I believe you and your daughter... 20:25.000 --> 20:27.000 walked through this lane last night... 20:27.000 --> 20:30.000 while I was away at the Berry St. Edmunds. 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 I don't know about your being away, sir. 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 My daughter and I were certainly here, yes. 20:34.000 --> 20:35.000 Good, good. 20:35.000 --> 20:36.000 Miss Janice Morley. 20:36.000 --> 20:37.000 Yes, Professor Ansmith. 20:37.000 --> 20:40.000 Will you look toward your right, please, at the house? 20:40.000 --> 20:41.000 What do you see? 20:41.000 --> 20:42.000 It's the same room. 20:42.000 --> 20:43.000 What room? 20:43.000 --> 20:45.000 The room with the little round table and the gramophone. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 It's a three-legged table, you notice. 20:47.000 --> 20:48.000 Yes, of course. 20:48.000 --> 20:49.000 But there's nobody in the room. 20:49.000 --> 20:50.000 No, nobody at all. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 Are conditions exactly as they were last night? 20:52.000 --> 20:55.000 Yes, except there aren't any gloves on the table. 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 No, but the invisible man is there. 20:58.000 --> 20:59.000 Oh! 20:59.000 --> 21:04.000 A living presence, ready to act and breathe and even kill. 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 Even kill? 21:05.000 --> 21:08.000 With your permission, I shall now address him. 21:08.000 --> 21:11.000 Hello in there. 21:11.000 --> 21:14.000 Hello in there. 21:14.000 --> 21:17.000 Hello in there. 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 If anybody answers him, Father, I'm going to scream. 21:19.000 --> 21:20.000 Quiet, Janice, quiet. 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Father, look. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 The gloves are appearing on the table. 21:24.000 --> 21:28.000 I call out to him and I speak as follows. 21:28.000 --> 21:32.000 Hold the phonograph with your left glove. 21:32.000 --> 21:35.000 That's it. 21:35.000 --> 21:38.000 Turn the handle with your right. 21:38.000 --> 21:44.000 One turn, two, three, four. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 That's enough. 21:46.000 --> 21:49.000 Touch the spring with your left hand. 21:49.000 --> 21:53.000 Push the record. 21:53.000 --> 22:02.000 Nor the needle with your right and... 22:02.000 --> 22:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, the invisible man. 22:07.000 --> 22:08.000 Hold him off! 22:08.000 --> 22:09.000 Hold him off! 22:09.000 --> 22:10.000 Don't you see? 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 On the contrary, let them throw all they like. 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 Aim at the table, my friend. 22:15.000 --> 22:16.000 Aim at the table. 22:16.000 --> 22:17.000 Why at the table? 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 Because then they'll see the trick. 22:19.000 --> 22:20.000 I don't follow you. 22:20.000 --> 22:21.000 What trick? 22:21.000 --> 22:23.000 The trick of the looking glasses. 22:23.000 --> 22:27.000 There. 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 You see now, my friend? 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 I think I do. 22:31.000 --> 22:35.000 The legs of the table form a triangle with its point towards you. 22:35.000 --> 22:40.000 Panels of looking glass are fitted in the two sides facing you. 22:40.000 --> 22:41.000 What do you know about that? 22:41.000 --> 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. 22:50.000 --> 22:51.000 Oh, wait a minute. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 You mean... 22:52.000 --> 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. 23:00.000 --> 23:05.000 It's a very old trick, first shown by Quintal Stadair at the London Polytechnic. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 And that's what happened last night? 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 Yes. 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 And you had nothing to do with it? 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 Nothing whatever, nor had my servant. 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 Then who did do it and why? 23:13.000 --> 23:15.000 What is the explanation of all this? 23:15.000 --> 23:16.000 Well, I can't tell you why. 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 That's what beats me. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 But I can tell you everything else. 23:20.000 --> 23:23.000 This invisible man who's been scaring us all silly. 23:23.000 --> 23:26.000 My dear young lady, there's no invisible man. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 There never has been. 23:28.000 --> 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. 23:35.000 --> 23:40.000 And poor old Emmett flung out of the tower as though a giant hand had got hold of him. 23:40.000 --> 23:43.000 You're not saying that was done with the looking glasses? 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 No, my friend, not at all. 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 That was really clever. 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 Strings, wires, ropes? 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 No, they weren't necessary. 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 But the thing's impossible. 23:53.000 --> 23:54.000 Oh, no. 23:54.000 --> 24:00.000 The same principle was used by my old friend J.N. Maskelyne to make mechanical figures work. 24:00.000 --> 24:04.000 Psycho played twists and Zoe drew pictures. 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 I myself, I... 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 Go on, sir. 24:08.000 --> 24:11.000 You yourself, what are you going to say? 24:11.000 --> 24:15.000 The secret I was about to say remains unknown even today. 24:15.000 --> 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. 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 A giant had got hold of him. 24:23.000 --> 24:25.000 At least, a gigantic force. 24:25.000 --> 24:29.000 Before we all go completely mad, would you mind telling us what this gigantic force was? 24:29.000 --> 24:32.000 Not at all. It was compressed air. 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 Compressed air? 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 But don't you see it even yet, any of you? 24:36.000 --> 24:38.000 No. 24:38.000 --> 24:46.000 A compressed air pipe with a thousand pounds pressure behind it was run up into the tower facing the bell. 24:46.000 --> 24:50.000 It could be operated from the ground outside. 24:50.000 --> 24:53.000 The pressure was turned on and off in bursts. 24:53.000 --> 24:58.000 It made that heavy bell swing like a toy. 24:58.000 --> 25:02.000 Emmett, don't you remember? Emmett rushed forwards towards the bell. 25:02.000 --> 25:03.000 And the air pressure? 25:03.000 --> 25:09.000 The air pressure struck him like a sledgehammer and flung him headlong out of the tower. 25:09.000 --> 25:14.000 There's your miracle, gentlemen. That's all there was to it. 25:14.000 --> 25:20.000 Sir, I can't doubt what you say. It's too circumstantial and too right. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 But what, my friend? 25:22.000 --> 25:26.000 The compressed air tanks. The mechanical apparatus is to work this trick. 25:26.000 --> 25:27.000 Well, what about it? 25:27.000 --> 25:30.000 Where did it come from? Such things don't grow on bushes. 25:30.000 --> 25:34.000 No, but they do grow on riveting machines. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 Riveting machines? 25:36.000 --> 25:43.000 Yes, such as the riveting machine they're using on the air raid shelters along the seawall. 25:43.000 --> 25:52.000 Would you care to tell us, Dr. James Norwood, why you and your friend Wellman have been playing all these tricks? 25:52.000 --> 25:54.000 What did he say? 25:54.000 --> 25:56.000 Emmett! 25:56.000 --> 25:58.000 All of you! 25:58.000 --> 26:01.000 Jim Norwood, is this true? 26:01.000 --> 26:04.000 Why, of course it's true, Mr. Morley. Don't be so gullible. 26:04.000 --> 26:07.000 Jim and George Wellman doing all this? I don't believe it. 26:07.000 --> 26:12.000 Take a look at their faces, young lady. Did you ever see a guiltier-looking pair? 26:12.000 --> 26:13.000 So we look guilty, do we? 26:13.000 --> 26:14.000 Frankly, you do. 26:14.000 --> 26:18.000 We played the whole game and convinced the village there was an invisible man. Is that it? 26:18.000 --> 26:26.000 Yes. You worked the glove trick in your own house, and Wellman worked the air trick with his own equipment. 26:26.000 --> 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. 26:34.000 --> 26:36.000 Is that all, Professor Annsmith? 26:36.000 --> 26:41.000 Well, remember, you brought this on yourself. I didn't want to expose you. 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 No, Professor, I bet you didn't. 26:43.000 --> 26:44.000 Easy, George, take it easy. 26:44.000 --> 26:46.000 Jim, is this true? 26:46.000 --> 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? 26:52.000 --> 26:53.000 At the church? 26:53.000 --> 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? 26:59.000 --> 27:05.000 Oh, Jim, please. You're only trying to evade this. I'm so confused now, I don't remember anything. 27:05.000 --> 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. 27:12.000 --> 27:20.000 We practically idolized you. All we want you to do is answer a straight question. Jim, are these accusations true? 27:20.000 --> 27:22.000 Yes, they are true. 27:22.000 --> 27:24.000 Oh, that's good. 27:24.000 --> 27:31.000 Doubtless he had a good reason, Janice. Doubtless he had a good reason. 27:31.000 --> 27:33.000 Yes, we had a good reason. 27:33.000 --> 27:35.000 The very best reason in the world. 27:35.000 --> 27:39.000 You had a good reason for scaring people half to death and trying to kill poor old Henry Emmett. 27:39.000 --> 27:42.000 We didn't mean any harm against Emmett. That was an accident. 27:42.000 --> 27:44.000 But you dare to defend yourself now? 27:44.000 --> 27:45.000 Yes, just that. 27:45.000 --> 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. 27:52.000 --> 27:54.000 Good, Janice, good. I hope he will too. 27:54.000 --> 27:55.000 You hope he will. 27:55.000 --> 28:00.000 Listen, Janice, before you act on any belief, you have to be absolutely sure in your own mind. 28:00.000 --> 28:04.000 George and I have to prove something and now I'm glad to say we have proved it. 28:04.000 --> 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? 28:11.000 --> 28:16.000 We had to prove through our own satisfaction that this pretended American who calls himself Professor Annsmith... 28:16.000 --> 28:17.000 Pretended American? 28:17.000 --> 28:19.000 Who calls himself Professor Annsmith? 28:19.000 --> 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. 28:27.000 --> 28:28.000 What? 28:28.000 --> 28:31.000 Whose real job is to find the camouflage aerodrome near Bury St. Edmunds. 28:31.000 --> 28:32.000 No. 28:32.000 --> 28:51.000 He explained his own tricks very nicely, George. We'll swear out a warrant in the morning. 28:51.000 --> 28:58.000 And so closes The Man Without a Body, starring John Sutton and George Zuko. Tonight's tale of... 28:58.000 --> 29:00.000 Suspense. 29:00.000 --> 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... 29:07.000 --> 29:14.000 When the distinguished actress, Miss Agnes Moorhead, will be heard in one of her many brilliant characterizations. 29:14.000 --> 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. 29:22.000 --> 29:29.000 The producer of these broadcasts is William Spear with Ted Bliss, the director, Bernard Herman and Lucian Mahawick, conductor and composer... 29:29.000 --> 29:35.000 And John Dixon Carr, the author, collaborated on tonight's Suspense. 29:35.000 --> 30:04.000 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.