WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.520 Suspense! 00:12.520 --> 00:20.280 This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 00:20.280 --> 00:27.000 Our star this evening is Miss Maureen O'Hara, whom you've seen rise to stardom in Hollywood 00:27.000 --> 00:30.240 within the short space of a year. 00:30.240 --> 00:36.440 Her performances in the 20th Century Fox production, How Green Was My Valley, then more recently 00:36.440 --> 00:42.840 in the Immortal Sergeant, and now currently in the RKO production, This Land Is Mine, 00:42.840 --> 00:49.360 have given her an enviable place in the ranks of America's new film favorites. 00:49.360 --> 00:54.640 Miss O'Hara makes her first appearance on our Suspense stage tonight as the heroine 00:54.640 --> 01:03.240 of a study in homicidal mania, The White Rose Murders by Cornell Woolrich, which is tonight's 01:03.240 --> 01:06.920 tale of Suspense. 01:06.920 --> 01:12.000 If you have been with us before, you will know that Suspense is compounded of mystery 01:12.000 --> 01:15.680 and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 01:15.680 --> 01:22.360 In this series are tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious 01:22.360 --> 01:30.240 situation and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. 01:30.240 --> 01:36.260 And so it is with The White Rose Murders and the performance of Maureen O'Hara, we again 01:36.260 --> 01:37.260 hope to keep you in. 01:37.260 --> 01:50.320 Suspense! 01:50.320 --> 01:52.320 He stood there waiting. 01:52.320 --> 01:56.240 He knew that presently they would come out of the second rate dance hall, out into the 01:56.240 --> 01:58.360 dimly lit street. 01:58.360 --> 02:05.200 He listened a while and smiled as the orchestra played that tune inside. 02:05.200 --> 02:11.080 And then they came out, the two girls, and still he waited, close enough to hear what 02:11.080 --> 02:12.080 they were saying. 02:12.080 --> 02:14.160 Well, I'll see you at the office tomorrow, Sally. 02:14.160 --> 02:17.080 Oh, I don't know how I'll get up. 02:17.080 --> 02:19.080 It's after one o'clock. 02:19.080 --> 02:20.560 Six hours sleep. 02:20.560 --> 02:22.840 Oh, I'll be dead tomorrow. 02:22.840 --> 02:23.840 Me too. 02:23.840 --> 02:28.600 Oh, gosh, I got to have at least eight hours or I'm no good at all. 02:28.600 --> 02:31.280 I wish I had someone to walk me to the bus. 02:31.280 --> 02:32.720 It's four long blocks. 02:32.720 --> 02:34.080 I'll walk you down, Sally. 02:34.080 --> 02:35.080 Oh, don't bother. 02:35.080 --> 02:36.080 We go in different directions. 02:36.080 --> 02:37.080 What's no trouble? 02:37.080 --> 02:38.080 Really, I don't mind. 02:38.080 --> 02:47.080 Really, it's not necessary. 02:47.080 --> 02:54.000 In a narrow alley that divides the dance hall from an ugly office building, he stood smiling. 02:54.000 --> 03:00.200 Just a little inside the alley, he stood stiffly against the wall, his head back, eyes closed, 03:00.200 --> 03:04.480 arms straight down, and in his left hand, a white rose. 03:04.480 --> 03:06.480 Well, all right then, Sally. 03:06.480 --> 03:07.480 Good night. 03:07.480 --> 03:08.480 Good night, Joan. 03:08.480 --> 03:09.480 See you in the morning. 03:09.480 --> 03:25.280 Oh, I hope I don't have to wait long for the bus. 03:25.280 --> 03:28.280 Who are you? 03:28.280 --> 03:30.280 Keep away. 03:30.280 --> 03:33.280 Keep away from me. 03:33.280 --> 03:36.280 Let me go. 03:36.280 --> 03:39.280 Let me go. 03:39.280 --> 03:42.960 The girl is dead. 03:42.960 --> 03:49.680 Tenderly, the figure straightens her hair and gently places the limp body on the ground. 03:49.680 --> 03:55.980 Then he opens her clenched fist and carefully so that the thorns will not bruise her flesh. 03:55.980 --> 04:00.680 He places in her hand the white rosebud. 04:00.680 --> 04:11.240 Pardon me, my good man. 04:11.240 --> 04:13.680 Is it true that you are the famous detective Terrence Riley? 04:13.680 --> 04:14.680 Huh? 04:14.680 --> 04:16.520 Oh, Ginny, I didn't see you come in. 04:16.520 --> 04:19.840 Well, now that I'm here, how about offering to buy a cup of coffee for the girl you're 04:19.840 --> 04:21.240 going to marry? 04:21.240 --> 04:23.240 You can never get up enough nerve to ask her. 04:23.240 --> 04:24.240 Oh, it's no use, Ginny. 04:24.240 --> 04:27.080 I guess we better call it quits. 04:27.080 --> 04:31.280 I'm just a dick on the homicide squad and that's all I'll ever be. 04:31.280 --> 04:33.160 And I'm a rich debutante. 04:33.160 --> 04:34.360 We don't belong together. 04:34.360 --> 04:37.560 Oh, you've been reading too many of those romantic stories, Terry. 04:37.560 --> 04:39.440 What is it this time? 04:39.440 --> 04:40.440 What's wrong? 04:40.440 --> 04:43.160 They call him the white rose killer. 04:43.160 --> 04:44.160 He's got to be caught. 04:44.160 --> 04:49.320 It's a general demotion coming on if he isn't and that's all I need to get back into uniform. 04:49.320 --> 04:50.880 Oh, don't worry, darling. 04:50.880 --> 04:52.840 You always look good in blue. 04:52.840 --> 04:54.220 Yeah. 04:54.220 --> 04:56.640 Just to match the way I feel. 04:56.640 --> 04:58.720 Tell me more about the white rose killer. 04:58.720 --> 04:59.720 What's he like? 04:59.720 --> 05:01.560 That's the stumble. 05:01.560 --> 05:03.360 He could be anybody. 05:03.360 --> 05:07.680 No one's ever seen him except the dead and they don't talk about it afterwards. 05:07.680 --> 05:12.040 He just slips out of the shadows and kills and then slips back again. 05:12.040 --> 05:13.480 How many has he murdered? 05:13.480 --> 05:14.480 Four. 05:14.480 --> 05:15.480 He's not through yet. 05:15.480 --> 05:19.040 It's going to be one of those chain things if he's allowed to keep on. 05:19.040 --> 05:20.920 Are you sure it's always the same one? 05:20.920 --> 05:21.920 Yeah. 05:21.920 --> 05:22.920 That part of it we're sure of. 05:22.920 --> 05:26.520 It's the same touch, the same way of operating every time. 05:26.520 --> 05:27.520 How do you know that? 05:27.520 --> 05:33.920 Well, it's a rose, a white rosebud, a death rose. 05:33.920 --> 05:36.560 Puts it into each victim's hand after he kills her. 05:36.560 --> 05:37.560 Her? 05:37.560 --> 05:38.560 Yep. 05:38.560 --> 05:40.560 It's always a woman. 05:40.560 --> 05:44.120 A young woman between 19 and 23. 05:44.120 --> 05:45.160 What's behind it? 05:45.160 --> 05:46.160 Do you have any idea? 05:46.160 --> 05:49.640 Well, I'm not sure. 05:49.640 --> 05:51.440 But here's what I figured out. 05:51.440 --> 05:55.160 You know what a rose stands for, symbolically I mean. 05:55.160 --> 05:59.040 Why yes, it's the flower of love. 05:59.040 --> 06:01.920 The white rose, the bud, has another meaning. 06:01.920 --> 06:06.640 Purity, loyalty, devotion, and especially it stands for a young girl. 06:06.640 --> 06:07.640 That's right. 06:07.640 --> 06:09.880 And that's about the way I see it. 06:09.880 --> 06:15.140 So maybe it's a double cross committed against our murderer by some young girl whom he worshipped 06:15.140 --> 06:16.720 and who betrayed his faith in her. 06:16.720 --> 06:18.720 You ought to be a detective, not me. 06:18.720 --> 06:19.880 Thanks, darling. 06:19.880 --> 06:21.880 I've got a very fine teacher. 06:21.880 --> 06:22.880 Sweet. 06:22.880 --> 06:25.400 There's another thing. 06:25.400 --> 06:30.640 The murders were all committed near places where there was music, dance halls, cabarets 06:30.640 --> 06:31.640 and the like. 06:31.640 --> 06:37.080 There's a song that brings back the original shock that gives him the final push over into 06:37.080 --> 06:38.080 the darkness. 06:38.080 --> 06:41.360 As far as we can figure out, it's the beer barrel polka. 06:41.360 --> 06:43.440 Well, how does he commit the murder? 06:43.440 --> 06:44.920 Is it always the same way? 06:44.920 --> 06:45.920 Always. 06:45.920 --> 06:50.000 Strangulation between the hands with a thumb into the windpipe to keep his victims from 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 crying out. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.440 But isn't there anything else you know about him? 06:53.440 --> 06:56.400 No, that's why it's so hopeless. 06:56.400 --> 07:01.440 He's insane, of course, but there's only this one phase to his insanity. 07:01.440 --> 07:03.720 Probably perfectly normal in appearance and behavior. 07:03.720 --> 07:06.920 You could pass him on the street and even know it. 07:06.920 --> 07:12.240 Well, it's only when he sees someone vaguely like the girl he loved and hears that song 07:12.240 --> 07:17.640 that the one defective wire in him is jangled and short-circuited. 07:17.640 --> 07:18.640 But Terry, the flowers. 07:18.640 --> 07:20.340 Don't the flowers tell you? 07:20.340 --> 07:22.040 He must get them somewhere you could trace. 07:22.040 --> 07:23.800 We don't know where he gets them. 07:23.800 --> 07:25.840 Maybe he steals them or... 07:25.840 --> 07:28.640 Terry, what if you were the one to get him? 07:28.640 --> 07:33.040 Well, it would mean a citation and a promotion. 07:33.040 --> 07:36.640 And then all the things that stand between us would disappear? 07:36.640 --> 07:37.640 We could get married? 07:37.640 --> 07:40.640 Well, the chances would be a lot better anyway. 07:40.640 --> 07:42.680 But what chance have I? 07:42.680 --> 07:45.680 Everyone in the department has been working their heads off for weeks and they've all 07:45.680 --> 07:46.680 failed. 07:46.680 --> 07:47.680 Uh-huh. 07:47.680 --> 07:51.800 Uh, Terry, what were the girls like? 07:51.800 --> 07:52.800 The ones he killed? 07:52.800 --> 07:57.600 Well, as I told you, they were all between 19 and 23. 07:57.600 --> 07:59.160 Their heights were pretty much the same too. 07:59.160 --> 08:03.200 They were all tall girls, around five feet, six or seven. 08:03.200 --> 08:04.520 Little taller than you. 08:04.520 --> 08:06.120 And all dark-haired. 08:06.120 --> 08:07.520 How did they wear their hair? 08:07.520 --> 08:08.520 Why they... 08:08.520 --> 08:10.080 Say, what is this? 08:10.080 --> 08:11.080 Oh, nothing, darling. 08:11.080 --> 08:12.920 Just... just interested. 08:12.920 --> 08:13.920 How did they wear their hair? 08:13.920 --> 08:19.280 Well, from what I remember, they, uh, wore it sort of loose and curly down the back. 08:19.280 --> 08:23.120 I suppose each one had a resemblance to that long, dead love of his. 08:23.120 --> 08:24.520 That's probably it. 08:24.520 --> 08:27.840 Well, anyway, that's how the record stands. 08:27.840 --> 08:30.040 And we're all waiting for it to happen again. 08:30.040 --> 08:32.040 I see. 08:32.040 --> 08:35.640 Uh, Terry, um, I'd like to go home now. 08:35.640 --> 08:37.600 I shouldn't have told you all that stuff. 08:37.600 --> 08:38.600 I've given you the creeps. 08:38.600 --> 08:39.940 Oh, come on, Terry. 08:39.940 --> 08:40.940 Take me home. 08:40.940 --> 08:44.880 I'm going to bed. 08:44.880 --> 08:49.680 I'm going to bed. 08:49.680 --> 08:54.520 I'm going to bed. 08:54.520 --> 09:01.080 Later, Ginny stands by the window in her room, looking out, thinking. 09:01.080 --> 09:04.240 She doesn't move for a long time. 09:04.240 --> 09:10.400 Then suddenly, quickly, she goes to her closet and begins to rummage through her many pairs 09:10.400 --> 09:12.000 of shoes. 09:12.000 --> 09:15.880 Carefully, she picks one pair with three-inch heels. 09:15.880 --> 09:18.640 Five foot six or seven. 09:18.640 --> 09:24.560 Then she walks quickly to the dresser, opens a drawer, takes out a comb, and starts redoing 09:24.560 --> 09:25.560 her hair. 09:25.560 --> 09:28.960 Worn loose and curly down the back. 09:28.960 --> 09:32.200 Well, here we go. 09:32.200 --> 09:33.200 Edwards! 09:33.200 --> 09:34.200 Edwards! 09:34.200 --> 09:35.200 Yes, Miss? 09:35.200 --> 09:36.200 Is the car ready? 09:36.200 --> 09:37.200 Yes, Miss McGinnon. 09:37.200 --> 09:38.200 I've been waiting for you. 09:38.200 --> 09:39.200 Let's go. 09:39.200 --> 09:40.200 Let's go before Mother sees me. 09:40.200 --> 09:41.200 Your mother's been looking for you, Miss. 09:41.200 --> 09:42.200 I hope you didn't tell her. 09:42.200 --> 09:43.200 No, Miss McGinnon, I didn't. 09:43.200 --> 09:44.200 Good. 09:44.200 --> 09:45.200 Come on, Edwards. 09:45.200 --> 09:46.200 Where do you wish to go, Miss McGinnon? 09:46.200 --> 09:47.200 The Starlight Dance Hall on Grove and Second Street. 09:47.200 --> 09:48.200 The Starlight, Miss? 09:48.200 --> 09:49.200 Yes, Edwards, that's the place. 09:49.200 --> 09:50.200 I wouldn't go there unescorted if I were you, Miss. 09:50.200 --> 09:51.200 It's one of the worst places in the city. 09:51.200 --> 09:52.200 It has a very bad reputation. 09:52.200 --> 09:53.200 The Starlight Dance Hall, Edwards. 09:53.200 --> 09:54.200 Very good, Miss McGinnon. 09:54.200 --> 09:55.200 I'm going to bed. 09:55.200 --> 09:56.200 I'm going to bed. 09:56.200 --> 09:57.200 I'm going to bed. 09:57.200 --> 09:58.200 I'm going to bed. 09:58.200 --> 09:59.200 I'm going to bed. 09:59.200 --> 10:00.200 I'm going to bed. 10:00.200 --> 10:01.200 I'm going to bed. 10:01.200 --> 10:11.200 I'm going to bed. 10:11.200 --> 10:30.840 Ginny walks slowly around the low light of Dance Hall, trying to make herself conspicuous. 10:30.840 --> 10:38.040 A tall figure leaning against a pillar watches her intently as he idly smokes a cigarette. 10:38.040 --> 10:40.840 He doesn't seem to belong there. 10:40.840 --> 10:44.840 His clothes don't have the nastiness of a dance lover. 10:44.840 --> 10:47.520 Ginny pauses not far from him. 10:47.520 --> 10:53.680 Deliberately, he throws his cigarette on the floor, steps on it, and slowly walks over 10:53.680 --> 10:56.680 to her. 10:56.680 --> 10:58.680 Hello. 10:58.680 --> 11:02.040 Oh, hello. 11:02.040 --> 11:05.200 You're not with anyone, are you? 11:05.200 --> 11:07.120 Oh, no, I'm alone. 11:07.120 --> 11:08.120 I thought so. 11:08.120 --> 11:10.520 I've been watching you all the time. 11:10.520 --> 11:11.520 Have you? 11:11.520 --> 11:13.200 I haven't seen you dance yet. 11:13.200 --> 11:15.200 I don't know anyone here. 11:15.200 --> 11:16.760 How about dancing with me then? 11:16.760 --> 11:17.760 All right. 11:17.760 --> 11:18.760 Come on. 11:18.760 --> 11:19.760 Let's go out on the floor. 11:19.760 --> 11:21.760 Do you come here often? 11:21.760 --> 11:22.760 No. 11:22.760 --> 11:25.120 I never go to the same place twice. 11:25.120 --> 11:26.120 You don't? 11:26.120 --> 11:27.120 Why? 11:27.120 --> 11:29.040 I'm always looking for new faces. 11:29.040 --> 11:30.040 I'm restless. 11:30.040 --> 11:33.440 Do you find the faces you're looking for? 11:33.440 --> 11:34.440 Listen. 11:34.440 --> 11:37.680 Listen to that song. 11:37.680 --> 11:39.240 I like that. 11:39.240 --> 11:41.000 I like it very much. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.080 Yes, it is a nice song. 11:44.080 --> 11:48.760 You know, you remind me of someone I used to know. 11:48.760 --> 11:50.360 I'm trying to think who. 11:50.360 --> 11:51.360 I do? 11:51.360 --> 11:52.360 Yeah. 11:52.360 --> 11:56.160 Do you mind if we stop dancing and go over and get a drink? 11:56.160 --> 11:57.160 No. 11:57.160 --> 11:58.160 Let's go. 11:58.160 --> 11:59.160 Oh, look. 11:59.160 --> 12:01.160 They sell flowers here. 12:01.160 --> 12:03.160 Yes, I see. 12:03.160 --> 12:05.920 I'll get you some. 12:05.920 --> 12:06.920 What kind would you like? 12:06.920 --> 12:07.920 Oh, any kind. 12:07.920 --> 12:09.760 Any kind. 12:09.760 --> 12:10.760 You pick it out. 12:10.760 --> 12:11.760 All right. 12:11.760 --> 12:12.760 Let's see. 12:12.760 --> 12:18.120 There's something kind of innocent and young about you, different from most of the girls 12:18.120 --> 12:19.120 that come here. 12:19.120 --> 12:21.360 Can't we stay here a little longer? 12:21.360 --> 12:22.960 It's intermission now. 12:22.960 --> 12:25.040 They won't play again for 10 minutes. 12:25.040 --> 12:26.040 Come on. 12:26.040 --> 12:27.040 But I like it here. 12:27.040 --> 12:29.040 Let's stay a little while longer. 12:29.040 --> 12:31.160 Well, then let's go down for some air. 12:31.160 --> 12:32.960 We can come back in a few minutes. 12:32.960 --> 12:33.960 Come on. 12:33.960 --> 12:34.960 But... 12:34.960 --> 12:35.960 We'll be back before the music starts. 12:35.960 --> 12:37.880 Oh, you're hurting my arm. 12:37.880 --> 12:38.880 Am I? 12:38.880 --> 12:39.880 I'm sorry. 12:39.880 --> 12:44.880 Fresh air smells good, doesn't it? 12:44.880 --> 12:48.120 It's so dark here. 12:48.120 --> 12:50.880 Let's go back. 12:50.880 --> 12:53.520 You're not scared, are you? 12:53.520 --> 12:54.520 Oh, no. 12:54.520 --> 12:55.520 It's... 12:55.520 --> 12:56.520 Let's walk down this alley and back. 12:56.520 --> 12:57.520 Please. 12:57.520 --> 12:58.520 Please. 12:58.520 --> 12:59.520 I'm scared. 12:59.520 --> 13:00.520 I'm scared. 13:00.520 --> 13:01.520 I'm scared. 13:01.520 --> 13:02.520 I'm scared. 13:02.520 --> 13:03.520 I'm scared. 13:03.520 --> 13:04.520 I'm scared. 13:04.520 --> 13:05.520 I'm scared. 13:05.520 --> 13:06.520 I'm scared. 13:06.520 --> 13:07.520 I'm scared. 13:07.520 --> 13:08.520 Please. 13:08.520 --> 13:09.520 No, you're scared. 13:09.520 --> 13:10.520 Let me go. 13:10.520 --> 13:11.520 Thanks. 13:11.520 --> 13:13.200 That's a lovely necklace, beautiful. 13:13.200 --> 13:14.200 Why, you're just a cheap... 13:14.200 --> 13:15.200 Shut up. 13:15.200 --> 13:16.200 All you wanted was my necklace. 13:16.200 --> 13:17.200 So long, beautiful. 13:17.200 --> 13:18.200 Look out. 13:18.200 --> 13:19.200 What's the matter? 13:19.200 --> 13:20.200 Behind you. 13:20.200 --> 13:21.200 Look. 13:21.200 --> 13:22.200 Holy... 13:22.200 --> 13:23.200 She's dead. 13:23.200 --> 13:24.200 A girl. 13:24.200 --> 13:25.200 Murdered. 13:25.200 --> 13:30.200 With a white rosebud in her hand. 13:30.200 --> 13:40.800 Well, Ginny, it happened again last night. 13:40.800 --> 13:42.360 Just like the other times. 13:42.360 --> 13:45.720 A girl strangled in an alley and a white rose in her hand. 13:45.720 --> 13:47.200 Any news of the killer? 13:47.200 --> 13:48.200 No. 13:48.200 --> 13:51.040 He might just as well float through the air for all the trace he leaves. 13:51.040 --> 13:54.160 He must have bought the flower upstairs in the dance hall. 13:54.160 --> 13:56.440 He must have been there earlier, bought it and saved it until... 13:56.440 --> 13:58.980 No, it was only one rose sold up there all night. 13:58.980 --> 14:01.280 It was a man who had a different girl with him. 14:01.280 --> 14:03.280 We had the flower girl. 14:03.280 --> 14:07.800 How did you know that they sold flowers there? 14:07.800 --> 14:08.800 I didn't tell you. 14:08.800 --> 14:09.800 Well, I... 14:09.800 --> 14:11.800 I must have read it somewhere. 14:11.800 --> 14:12.800 You couldn't have. 14:12.800 --> 14:15.120 It wasn't in any of the papers. 14:15.120 --> 14:20.160 No details were given, just the statements that an unidentified body was found. 14:20.160 --> 14:21.160 Well, I... 14:21.160 --> 14:26.000 Well, I just imagined that they'd sell flowers in a place like that. 14:26.000 --> 14:29.680 Well, I'm glad you don't go near those dance halls. 14:29.680 --> 14:31.080 Why were this nut running around, Luce? 14:31.080 --> 14:33.200 Oh, don't bother about that. 14:33.200 --> 14:35.080 We'd better catch this killer. 14:35.080 --> 14:36.080 And fast. 14:36.080 --> 14:38.640 Wouldn't you get this wee stuff? 14:38.640 --> 14:41.760 To hear you talk, you'd think that you were on the case too. 14:41.760 --> 14:43.440 Wouldn't you think so? 14:43.440 --> 14:44.440 To hear me talk? 14:44.440 --> 15:05.440 Again, Jenny tours the low dives, hunting for the white rose killer. 15:05.440 --> 15:12.320 Her search carries her to the waterfront. 15:12.320 --> 15:28.760 And as she walks past each dingy bar, she listens to the jukebox music. 15:28.760 --> 15:33.760 A little after midnight, she passes a dirty windowed saloon. 15:33.760 --> 15:43.400 The thin music catches her ear. 15:43.400 --> 15:50.720 She pauses and listens, her eyes alive for some sign, some indication of the person she's 15:50.720 --> 15:53.000 looking for. 15:53.000 --> 16:00.440 Then suddenly her body becomes rigid as her eyes fall upon a figure huddled in the shadows. 16:00.440 --> 16:02.000 Someone's watching me. 16:02.000 --> 16:08.640 Suddenly she starts to walk up the street. 16:08.640 --> 16:15.120 Behind her, the heavy tread of a man's footsteps keep pace with hers. 16:15.120 --> 16:26.800 It's a quiet tread, unhurried but deliberate, for several blocks that keeps the exact distance. 16:26.800 --> 16:27.800 Jenny starts to walk faster. 16:27.800 --> 16:30.560 I've got to know if he's really following me. 16:30.560 --> 16:36.040 The man quickens his pace. 16:36.040 --> 16:37.840 Jenny starts across the street. 16:37.840 --> 16:39.240 The man follows. 16:39.240 --> 16:42.360 She's sure now, sure that the man is following her. 16:42.360 --> 16:44.360 She fumbles for something in her purse. 16:44.360 --> 16:45.960 Her hand closes around a gun. 16:45.960 --> 16:48.960 If he tries anything, I'll shoot. 16:48.960 --> 16:53.920 You in any trouble, lady? 16:53.920 --> 16:54.920 Oh, no, officer. 16:54.920 --> 16:55.920 It's all right. 16:55.920 --> 16:56.920 You scared him away. 16:56.920 --> 16:57.920 Scared who away? 16:57.920 --> 17:00.280 Oh, just a man who wanted to bring me flowers. 17:00.280 --> 17:01.280 That's all. 17:01.280 --> 17:03.960 Well, he brought you one anyhow, lady. 17:03.960 --> 17:04.960 What do you mean? 17:04.960 --> 17:06.960 Right there on the ground, right by your feet. 17:06.960 --> 17:15.960 A white rose. 17:15.960 --> 17:16.960 Coffee, Mabel. 17:16.960 --> 17:18.960 Sure, coming right up. 17:18.960 --> 17:20.960 Here you are. 17:20.960 --> 17:21.960 Terry. 17:21.960 --> 17:22.960 Terry. 17:22.960 --> 17:23.960 Hello, Jenny. 17:23.960 --> 17:24.960 Sit down. 17:24.960 --> 17:25.960 Thank you. 17:25.960 --> 17:27.480 Say, what's the matter with you? 17:27.480 --> 17:31.440 It's all right, darling. 17:31.440 --> 17:34.440 What daughter of a socially prominent family 17:34.440 --> 17:36.920 is that way about a detective 17:36.920 --> 17:39.360 and waits for him outside the station house 17:39.360 --> 17:43.120 in her limousine every night? 17:43.120 --> 17:48.440 Private chauffeur and all, but mama says no. 17:48.440 --> 17:49.720 That's not so funny. 17:49.720 --> 17:53.400 Oh, they held a big family war council over me just now. 17:53.400 --> 17:55.960 Indian powwow, feathered headdress and everything. 17:55.960 --> 17:57.840 They did, huh? 17:57.840 --> 18:00.240 Well, what did they decide? 18:00.240 --> 18:01.640 Oh, I was asked to give my word 18:01.640 --> 18:03.360 that I wouldn't see you anymore. 18:03.360 --> 18:05.960 I refused, of course, so I had to be exiled. 18:05.960 --> 18:06.960 Where to? 18:06.960 --> 18:08.120 Our summer home. 18:08.120 --> 18:09.640 It's just a few hours out of town, 18:09.640 --> 18:11.720 but I'll be there all by myself, 18:11.720 --> 18:13.720 just with Mrs. Crosby, the housekeeper. 18:13.720 --> 18:15.400 Oh, maybe they're right. 18:15.400 --> 18:17.000 Why don't you listen to them? 18:17.000 --> 18:18.360 Are you on their side too? 18:18.360 --> 18:19.360 No. 18:21.680 --> 18:22.840 When are you leaving? 18:22.840 --> 18:23.920 Right away. 18:23.920 --> 18:25.760 Edwards is driving me out. 18:25.760 --> 18:28.080 I just slipped out to let you know. 18:28.080 --> 18:29.680 Here's the address and phone number of the place 18:29.680 --> 18:31.720 in case you want to reach me. 18:31.720 --> 18:32.960 Don't lose it. 18:32.960 --> 18:34.600 I won't. 18:34.600 --> 18:38.080 Well, what's new and exciting about the white rose killer? 18:38.080 --> 18:41.040 Our famous lover of flowers. 18:41.040 --> 18:43.560 We're still trying to track him down. 18:43.560 --> 18:46.320 I suppose I'll go looking for him at the flower show 18:46.320 --> 18:47.480 that's just opened. 18:47.480 --> 18:49.920 Oh, a flower show just opened? 18:49.920 --> 18:51.480 Yeah. 18:51.480 --> 18:54.520 Well, goodbye now. 18:54.520 --> 18:56.000 I'll be seeing you. 19:05.720 --> 19:07.760 What floor is the flower show, please? 19:07.760 --> 19:09.440 Third floor, Miss. 19:09.440 --> 19:10.440 Three, please. 19:21.720 --> 19:23.080 Third floor. 19:23.080 --> 19:24.920 Where's the rose display, please? 19:24.920 --> 19:26.040 To your left, over there. 19:26.040 --> 19:27.840 See where the man in the gray coat is? 19:27.840 --> 19:29.280 In the gray coat? 19:29.280 --> 19:30.120 Yes, thank you. 19:38.400 --> 19:39.600 They are lovely, aren't they? 19:39.600 --> 19:42.200 Oh, you startled me. 19:42.200 --> 19:43.280 I'm sorry. 19:43.280 --> 19:45.120 I was just admiring the roses. 19:45.120 --> 19:46.960 Oh, yes, the nicest flowers here. 19:46.960 --> 19:49.520 I just can't keep my eyes off them. 19:49.520 --> 19:52.080 Yes, you can feel that way about some flowers. 19:52.080 --> 19:55.160 And that's the way I feel about white roses. 19:55.160 --> 19:56.320 Have you been here long? 19:56.320 --> 19:57.320 I really don't know. 19:57.320 --> 19:58.720 I suppose so. 19:58.720 --> 20:01.640 You see, I've come here every day since the show opened. 20:01.640 --> 20:05.280 I like to be near the roses, the white roses. 20:05.280 --> 20:07.200 Those big ones are nice. 20:07.200 --> 20:08.840 No, I like the little ones best, 20:08.840 --> 20:11.280 the little tightly curled rose buds. 20:11.280 --> 20:16.080 They're so little and innocent. 20:16.080 --> 20:17.800 Oh, well, I really better be going. 20:17.800 --> 20:18.760 Are you going down? 20:18.760 --> 20:28.520 Yes. 20:28.520 --> 20:29.480 Down, please. 20:33.560 --> 20:38.000 Here, Miss, I took a rose for you. 20:38.000 --> 20:39.320 Thank you. 20:39.320 --> 20:40.160 It's lovely. 20:45.200 --> 20:47.880 Would you care to have a drink with me? 20:47.880 --> 20:49.240 Why, yes, thank you. 20:49.240 --> 20:51.240 I know the little place a block or two down there. 20:51.240 --> 20:52.200 They have nice music. 20:52.200 --> 20:53.040 We'll go there. 20:53.040 --> 20:54.480 All right, whatever you say. 21:00.760 --> 21:01.960 This is it. 21:01.960 --> 21:03.200 Where's the music? 21:03.200 --> 21:04.960 Nickel in the jukebox, does it? 21:04.960 --> 21:07.080 Any special song you'd like? 21:07.080 --> 21:09.080 No, go ahead and pick one. 21:09.080 --> 21:10.080 OK. 21:10.080 --> 21:20.680 And there we are. 21:20.680 --> 21:23.240 Oh, that's my favorite song. 21:23.240 --> 21:27.800 Reminds me of a girl I used to know. 21:27.800 --> 21:31.640 Excuse me, I want to powder my nose. 21:31.640 --> 21:33.000 I'll be right back. 21:33.000 --> 21:33.520 Do you mind? 21:33.520 --> 21:52.240 No, of course not. 21:52.240 --> 21:55.080 7th Police Precinct, Sergeant Thomas speaking. 21:55.080 --> 21:57.640 Hello, is Terry Riley there? 21:57.640 --> 21:59.360 Just a moment, I'll see. 21:59.360 --> 22:02.200 Please hurry, it's important. 22:02.200 --> 22:05.240 Oh, sorry, Miss, Terry Riley's not here just now. 22:05.240 --> 22:11.800 Oh, will you tell him that I can't keep that date with him? 22:11.800 --> 22:12.800 Goodbye. 22:15.720 --> 22:17.080 Do you always go to the phone booth 22:17.080 --> 22:18.640 when you want to powder your nose? 22:18.640 --> 22:22.000 Why, I had to make a call. 22:22.000 --> 22:23.560 Uh-huh. 22:23.560 --> 22:25.080 I'm afraid I'll have to leave you. 22:25.080 --> 22:26.800 Oh, wait, let me come with you. 22:26.800 --> 22:29.160 I'm sorry, Miss, but I've got other things to do. 22:29.160 --> 22:30.440 Oh. 22:30.440 --> 22:31.680 What's the matter? 22:31.680 --> 22:33.400 That car, someone that knows me. 22:33.400 --> 22:34.400 Let's get away from here. 22:34.400 --> 22:37.040 That's just what I'm going to do. 22:37.040 --> 22:38.120 So long, lady. 22:38.120 --> 22:40.560 Wait, wait, please don't go. 22:40.560 --> 22:43.280 Miss Virginia, Miss Virginia. 22:43.280 --> 22:46.280 I'm sorry, Miss Virginia, but I must speak to you for a minute. 22:46.280 --> 22:47.960 Oh, Edwards, what do you want? 22:47.960 --> 22:50.320 I'm sorry, Miss, you'd better come with me at once. 22:50.320 --> 22:52.080 I've been looking for you everywhere. 22:52.080 --> 22:54.000 Your mother's been taken seriously ill. 22:54.000 --> 22:54.920 Mother? 22:54.920 --> 22:55.560 Where is she? 22:55.560 --> 22:57.240 She's out at the country place, Miss. 22:57.240 --> 22:59.640 I drove her there shortly before dinner. 22:59.640 --> 23:01.440 She wanted to pay you a surprise visit. 23:01.440 --> 23:02.280 Oh. 23:02.280 --> 23:04.800 I believe the shock of not finding you there upset her, Miss. 23:04.800 --> 23:05.800 Is she very bad? 23:05.800 --> 23:07.840 She had the doctor with her when I left. 23:07.840 --> 23:09.800 Mrs. Crosby has gone away for the day. 23:09.800 --> 23:11.160 Your mother needs you, Miss. 23:11.160 --> 23:11.920 Well, let's go. 23:11.920 --> 23:13.240 Hurry, Edwards, please. 23:13.240 --> 23:14.040 Right, Miss. 23:23.840 --> 23:24.800 Where is Mother Edwards? 23:24.800 --> 23:25.760 In her room, Miss. 23:25.760 --> 23:26.760 You'd better hurry. 23:26.760 --> 23:27.760 Mother? 23:27.760 --> 23:28.760 Mother? 23:28.760 --> 23:30.240 It's Ginny. 23:30.240 --> 23:32.560 Is the doctor in there with you? 23:32.560 --> 23:33.360 Mother? 23:36.160 --> 23:37.760 Why, there's no one here. 23:37.760 --> 23:39.360 The room's empty. 23:39.360 --> 23:40.760 The bed hasn't been touched. 23:46.560 --> 23:47.760 Edwards, what are you doing? 23:47.760 --> 23:48.960 Nearly playing a song, Miss. 23:48.960 --> 23:50.360 A favorite of mine. 23:50.360 --> 23:51.360 A favorite? 23:51.360 --> 23:52.760 Yes, Miss Virginia. 23:52.760 --> 23:53.760 Where is it? 23:53.760 --> 23:57.760 She's in the city, Miss. 23:57.760 --> 23:58.760 You lied to me. 23:58.760 --> 24:00.760 I'm afraid I did, Miss Virginia. 24:02.760 --> 24:03.760 Why are you locking the door? 24:03.760 --> 24:05.760 You know why, Miss Virginia. 24:05.760 --> 24:07.760 It can't be. 24:07.760 --> 24:08.760 You are not the... 24:08.760 --> 24:10.760 The white rose killer. 24:10.760 --> 24:12.760 But you see, I am, Miss Virginia. 24:12.760 --> 24:16.760 Driving you and your family around day after day. 24:16.760 --> 24:19.760 Sitting there right in front of you all the time. 24:19.760 --> 24:22.760 It was amusing to watch you hunting for me. 24:22.760 --> 24:26.760 Hunting for someone you saw several times a day. 24:26.760 --> 24:28.760 It can't be. 24:28.760 --> 24:29.760 You're not insane. 24:29.760 --> 24:30.760 Of course not. 24:30.760 --> 24:32.760 Who said I was? 24:32.760 --> 24:35.760 Edwards, you know I'm not the girl who betrayed you. 24:35.760 --> 24:37.760 Yes, I know that. 24:37.760 --> 24:39.760 Well, then unlock the door and let me out. 24:39.760 --> 24:40.760 Please, Edwards. 24:40.760 --> 24:42.760 I've killed five times. 24:42.760 --> 24:44.760 I've never regretted it. 24:44.760 --> 24:46.760 I'm going to kill you, Miss Virginia. 24:46.760 --> 24:48.760 Why, Edwards? Why? 24:48.760 --> 24:50.760 Because you've been so clever. 24:50.760 --> 24:51.760 Too clever. 24:51.760 --> 24:53.760 You made yourself look like her. 24:53.760 --> 24:55.760 The girl who deceived me. 24:55.760 --> 24:58.760 I could have killed you the day you first went out looking for me. 24:58.760 --> 25:00.760 But I had to be careful. 25:00.760 --> 25:03.760 I almost caught you that night at the waterfront. 25:03.760 --> 25:06.760 The night I dropped the white rose when that police car came. 25:06.760 --> 25:08.760 Edwards, I... 25:08.760 --> 25:10.760 I've never done you any harm. 25:10.760 --> 25:12.760 Your sweetheart, Terry. 25:12.760 --> 25:14.760 He loves you, doesn't he? 25:14.760 --> 25:15.760 Yes. 25:15.760 --> 25:17.760 That's good. 25:17.760 --> 25:21.760 Because now you won't be able to deceive him like my girl deceived me. 25:21.760 --> 25:23.760 Keep away, Edwards. 25:23.760 --> 25:25.760 Keep away or I'll... 25:25.760 --> 25:27.760 You thought you'd use your gun, eh? 25:27.760 --> 25:30.760 Well, don't think I was fool enough to overlook that. 25:30.760 --> 25:33.760 I took your gun out of your purse. 25:33.760 --> 25:35.760 It won't do you any good to kill me, Edwards. 25:35.760 --> 25:37.760 I didn't have anything to do with... 25:37.760 --> 25:41.760 No, and you're not going to have a chance to break another man's heart 25:41.760 --> 25:43.760 like she broke mine. 25:43.760 --> 25:45.760 Ginny, Ginny, where are you? 25:45.760 --> 25:46.760 Terry, Terry! 25:46.760 --> 25:48.760 It won't do you any good to call to him. 25:48.760 --> 25:51.760 He can't get in here without breaking down the door. 25:51.760 --> 25:53.760 Keep away from me. Terry! 25:53.760 --> 25:57.760 It'll be too late then, because I'm going to kill you now. 25:57.760 --> 25:58.760 Ginny, where are you? 25:58.760 --> 25:59.760 Terry! 25:59.760 --> 26:02.760 Just let me get my hands on that pretty white rose. 26:02.760 --> 26:04.760 Oh, keep away. Keep away from me. Terry! 26:09.760 --> 26:11.760 Ginny, are you all right? 26:11.760 --> 26:13.760 Yes, Terry, I... 26:13.760 --> 26:15.760 I'm all right. 26:15.760 --> 26:18.760 Take it easy. Here, sit down. 26:18.760 --> 26:21.760 Oh, Terry, I was so scared. 26:21.760 --> 26:25.760 There was nobody here but Edwards and I. 26:25.760 --> 26:28.760 How... how did you know where I was? 26:28.760 --> 26:30.760 Oh, it was simple. 26:30.760 --> 26:33.760 You were supposed to meet me at the coffee shop. 26:33.760 --> 26:36.760 You never broke an appointment, and when you didn't show up, 26:36.760 --> 26:38.760 I called the number you gave me. 26:38.760 --> 26:41.760 You told me the housekeeper was here all the time. 26:41.760 --> 26:43.760 And when there was no answer, 26:43.760 --> 26:46.760 you got suspicious and came down. 26:46.760 --> 26:49.760 Besides, when I got a message down at headquarters 26:49.760 --> 26:52.760 that you had to break a date with me, 26:52.760 --> 26:55.760 I knew something was wrong. 26:55.760 --> 26:57.760 Are you sure you're all right? 26:57.760 --> 26:59.760 Yes, I... 26:59.760 --> 27:02.760 I'm... 27:02.760 --> 27:04.760 Terry! 27:04.760 --> 27:06.760 Look. 27:06.760 --> 27:08.760 On the floor beside Edwards. 27:08.760 --> 27:11.760 A white rose. 27:11.760 --> 27:14.760 Must have fallen out of his pocket. 27:14.760 --> 27:16.760 That was meant for me. 27:16.760 --> 27:20.760 Oh, Terry, it... it's all crushed. 27:20.760 --> 27:22.760 Yeah. 27:22.760 --> 27:24.760 Crushed and dead. 27:24.760 --> 27:46.760 Just like the white rose killer. 27:46.760 --> 27:49.760 And so closes The White Rose Murders, 27:49.760 --> 27:52.760 starring Maureen O'Hara. 27:52.760 --> 27:55.760 Tonight's tale of... 27:55.760 --> 27:58.760 Suspense. 27:58.760 --> 28:01.760 This is your narrator, the man in black, 28:01.760 --> 28:03.760 who, speaking for Columbia, 28:03.760 --> 28:20.760 hopes you have enjoyed Miss O'Hara's performance and our play. 28:20.760 --> 28:23.760 Next week, because of a special broadcast 28:23.760 --> 28:25.760 of the All-Star Baseball Game, 28:25.760 --> 28:28.760 suspense will not be heard. 28:28.760 --> 28:30.760 But again the following week, 28:30.760 --> 28:33.760 we will be back with another play on this series 28:33.760 --> 28:37.760 and more of your Hollywood favorites. 28:37.760 --> 28:40.760 The producer of these broadcasts is William Spear, 28:40.760 --> 28:43.760 who with Ted Bliss, the director, 28:43.760 --> 28:46.760 Bernard Herrmann and Lucy Ann Marowick, 28:46.760 --> 28:48.760 conductor and composer, 28:48.760 --> 28:51.760 and Cornell Woolrich, the author, 28:51.760 --> 29:04.760 collaborated on tonight's Suspense. 29:04.760 --> 29:19.760 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.