1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,240 Suspense. 2 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:21,760 Presented by Roma Wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 3 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:22,760 Salud. 4 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:23,960 Your health, signore. 5 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,680 The world toasts Roma, and Roma toasts the world. 6 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:36,320 The wine for your table is Roma, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 7 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:42,400 This is the Man in Black, here for Roma Wines to introduce this weekly half hour of Suspense. 8 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:48,800 Tonight in Hollywood, we are honored and happy to have with us one of the entertainment world's 9 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,320 most distinguished gentlemen, Mr. Cary Grant. 10 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:57,880 The Suspense play, which stars Cary Grant, and which is produced and directed by William 11 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:05,720 Spear, is the exciting and tense bestseller by Cornell Woolrich called The Black Curtain. 12 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:11,640 Suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 13 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:17,920 In this series, Roma brings you tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer 14 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:23,720 you a precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. 15 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,120 And so, with The Black Curtain, and with the performance of Cary Grant, we again hope to 16 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,880 keep you in Suspense. 17 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:50,280 It began, or rather life began again for me, I guess you'd say, that day, on that street. 18 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:51,520 My head was pounding terribly. 19 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,920 I could hear all the noise and the people milling around. 20 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,920 Everything was a jumble at first. 21 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:06,120 All right, gangway there. 22 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:07,120 Now let the doctor through. 23 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:08,120 I seen it happen, Mr. Policeman. 24 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:09,120 He was running. 25 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,120 Boy, he really gave himself a clunk on the beam. 26 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:11,120 All right, sir. 27 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:12,120 Now get back there. 28 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:13,120 Everybody back. 29 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:14,120 Oh, my head. 30 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:19,120 His wallet fell out of his pocket, and a big boy grabbed it and ran away. 31 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:20,120 He went away. 32 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,120 All right, now back, everybody. 33 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:22,120 Let the doctor through. 34 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:23,120 Give him air here. 35 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,120 I'm okay. 36 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,120 Never mind, Doc. 37 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:26,120 I'm okay. 38 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:27,120 Seems to be not a much of a matter with you, sir. 39 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:28,120 No, I'm all right. 40 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:29,120 Yes, I can talk to him now, Doc. 41 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,120 Just a bad bump on the head, I think. 42 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:31,120 That's right. 43 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:32,120 We can walk, all right, can't you? 44 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:33,120 Yeah, I think so. 45 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:34,120 Sure. 46 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,120 Here, now let me brush you off. 47 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:36,120 Thanks, thanks. 48 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:37,120 I'll be fine. 49 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:38,120 Hey, wait a minute. 50 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,120 What am I doing with an overcoat on? 51 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,120 All right now, mister. 52 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:41,120 Just so they got it on the bladder. 53 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,120 What's your name? 54 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,120 Where do you live? 55 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:44,120 Townsend, Frank Townsend, 820 Rutherford Street. 56 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,120 You want a cigarette? 57 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:46,120 You're still shaking. 58 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:47,120 No, thanks. 59 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:48,120 I don't smoke. 60 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:49,120 Well, while we're getting back, then, drop in at the receiving hospital if you want us 61 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:50,120 to take you off. 62 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,120 Yeah, I will. 63 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:52,120 Hey, here's your hat, mister. 64 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:53,120 High five. 65 00:02:53,120 --> 00:03:00,120 Oh, thanks, kid. 66 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,120 All right, so now come on. 67 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,120 Move along. 68 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,120 Guy's all right. 69 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:04,120 Come on. 70 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:05,120 Oh, well, thanks. 71 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,120 I'm sorry about the fellow that got your wallet. 72 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,120 Anyway, here's your cigar case, Mr. Townsend. 73 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,120 Guy found it right alongside of you. 74 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,120 Hey, wait a minute. 75 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,120 This isn't my hat. 76 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:12,120 D.N. 77 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,120 Those aren't my initials, D.N. 78 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:14,120 Sure that's your hat. 79 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:15,120 I seen it roll off you when you went down. 80 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,120 Try it on. 81 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:17,120 You see, it fits. 82 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:18,120 Looks good. 83 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,120 Yeah. 84 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:20,120 But, what's that? 85 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,120 Looks good. 86 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,120 But what am I doing with the cigar case? 87 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,120 D.N. 88 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:27,120 Same initials as the hat. 89 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,120 Don't you even know your own hat, mister? 90 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,120 Wait a minute, wait a minute. 91 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:31,120 I'm trying to think. 92 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:32,120 Where is this? 93 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:33,120 What? 94 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,120 This street. 95 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:35,120 You're on Tillery Street. 96 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:36,120 Tillery Street? 97 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:37,120 What am I doing on Tillery Street? 98 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:38,120 He's lost. 99 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:39,120 All right, now, sir. 100 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:40,120 My suggestion is that you go on home and go lie down. 101 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:41,120 It's cold and starting to snow. 102 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:42,120 No, no, please. 103 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:43,120 Wait a minute. 104 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:44,120 Don't leave me. 105 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,120 Tell me. 106 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:46,120 What's the matter? 107 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:51,120 Well, you slipped on this icy sidewalk. 108 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,120 Fell down and hit your head good and hard on the curb. 109 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,120 You're out for about 20 minutes and then you... 110 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,120 Wait, wait, wait. 111 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,120 Ice on a sidewalk? 112 00:03:58,120 --> 00:03:59,120 Well, look at it. 113 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,120 That street cleaning department ought to clear the way the snow... 114 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:03,120 What? 115 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:04,120 Snow and ice? 116 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:05,120 Sure, why? 117 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,120 Snow? 118 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,120 In July? 119 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,120 July? 120 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:09,120 It's December. 121 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:10,120 December 1943. 122 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:11,120 December 1943. 123 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:12,120 December 1943. 124 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:13,120 December 1943. 125 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,120 December 1943. 126 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,120 December 1943. 127 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:16,120 1943. 128 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,120 You better go on home, son. 129 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,120 Good night. 130 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,120 1943? 131 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:33,120 December 1943. 132 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:39,120 The last I remember was July 1940. 133 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,120 Three years, just gone. 134 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,120 I was in Amnesia. 135 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,120 A black curtain comes down over your mind. 136 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,120 That black curtain had been over mine for three years. 137 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Where had I been? 138 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,120 Who had I been? 139 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,120 I hadn't been Frank Townsend. 140 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,120 I'd been someone else. 141 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,120 D.N. 142 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:06,120 Someone whose initials were D.N. 143 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:12,120 I walked along Tillery Street thinking about it those three years. 144 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:13,120 I could have been married. 145 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:14,120 I could have been a thief. 146 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:15,120 I could have... 147 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,120 Something made me turn around on the street for a moment. 148 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,120 That was when I first saw him. 149 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:22,120 Grey eyes. 150 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,120 He'd been talking to the cop who took my name. 151 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:25,120 He looked up as I did. 152 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,120 And then he started to walk rapidly in my direction. 153 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,120 And backed away instinctively. 154 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,120 Something about him spelled trouble. 155 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,120 He called to me as he came forward. 156 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:35,120 Hey, you, stop! 157 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:36,120 Townsend! 158 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:38,120 Instinctively I knew I should run and get away from him. 159 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:39,120 Hey, you! 160 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:40,120 I looked back as I rounded the corner. 161 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:41,120 He had a gun in his hand. 162 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:42,120 He raised it. 163 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,120 And I turned, ran for my life. 164 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,120 What lay behind that black curtain 165 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,120 which separated Townsend from his past? 166 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,120 With this remarkable story 167 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,120 and with Hollywood's distinguished Cary Grant as our star, 168 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,120 the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California, 169 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,120 tonight assumes the sponsorship of Suspense, 170 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,120 radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 171 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,120 This is the dinner hour at an exclusive yacht club in Latin America. 172 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,120 And we discreetly eavesdrop on that gentleman and his lady there at the table. 173 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,120 This has been a lovely dinner, Ramon. 174 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,120 And only you would have thought to have such a delicious wine as the finale. 175 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,120 It was so perfect. 176 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,120 Is it truly a wine from California in North America? 177 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:44,120 Yes, see? 178 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,120 This is the noted Roma port of California in the United States. 179 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,120 We were fortunate to have it tonight for now in time of war. 180 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,120 Only occasional ships can bring us Roma wines. 181 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,120 I knew that you would. 182 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,120 Fortunate? 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With a gun. 202 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,120 What did Grey Eyes want with me? I must have done something. 203 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,120 I beat it on the subway and hid. I had to think it all out carefully. 204 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:36,120 I knew I was on the spot for something. Grey Eyes meant business. 205 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,120 What could it be? Who had I been? 206 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,120 During those last three years with that black curtain in front of them. 207 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,120 Well, maybe I'd been a gangster and he was one of them mobbed and one to rub me out. 208 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,120 I didn't know. No identification, my wallet stolen. 209 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,120 Nothing in my pockets that would help. 210 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:59,120 Just D-N in the hat and D-N on the cigar case. D-N! 211 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,120 My head was aching with worry. My stomach had panic in it. 212 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,120 I had to find out who I'd been, what I'd done. 213 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,120 But how? Where? 214 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:14,120 Tellery Street. That's where I'd been when I woke up. Tellery Street. 215 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,120 Well, maybe Grey Eyes would go back there too looking for me. 216 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:29,120 But I had to take that chance. Tellery Street. 217 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:32,120 Yes? 218 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,120 Oh, good evening, Pop. 219 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,120 Oh, hello there. Couldn't see you under that hat at first. 220 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:39,120 Oh, you know me? 221 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,120 Sure. What can I get you, son? 222 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,120 Well, you got any evening paper I could look at? 223 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:49,120 Nope. Sorry. Never read them. Too much trouble in the world these days anyhow. 224 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,120 Say, how you been? You haven't been around two or three weeks. 225 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,120 Oh, well, I've been kind of busy. 226 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,120 Uh, look, Pop. 227 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:56,120 Yeah? 228 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:00,120 I made a bet with a guy that even though you see so many customers, 229 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,120 you'd walk right up and give me my full name. 230 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,120 Oh, well, I'm sorry. I don't know it. I don't think I ever heard your name. 231 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:07,120 Oh. 232 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:08,120 But I know your girl. 233 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:09,120 My girl? 234 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:10,120 Uh-huh. 235 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:11,120 You do, huh? 236 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:11,120 Yeah. 237 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,120 Well, now, maybe I can still win my bet if you'll give me her name. 238 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,120 Gee, I... 239 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,120 I've heard you mention it. I... 240 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,120 I'd know it if I heard it. 241 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,120 You what? 242 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,120 Well, uh, see if I can steer you a little. 243 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:25,120 Now, is it Mary? 244 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:26,120 Nope. 245 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,120 Uh, Alice? Lillian? 246 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:29,120 Ah, Margaret. 247 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,120 No. Wait a minute. Wait. 248 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,120 I know. Ruth. That's it. Ruth. 249 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:35,120 Ruth? 250 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:36,120 Yeah. 251 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,120 Well, sure, you got it. 252 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,120 Now, now, what's Ruth's last name? 253 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,120 Gee, I don't know her... I know where she lives, though. 254 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:43,120 You do? 255 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,120 Yeah. Right across the street. Attillery Apartments. 256 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,120 Well, it's right. 257 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,120 Ah, but now, now, what apartment? 258 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,120 What's the number of Ruth's apartment? 259 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,120 Hmm... 260 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,120 3C. Apartment 3C. 261 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,120 Say, that's pretty good if I do say so. 262 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,120 I was only there once, remember? The night I brought the Sam's... 263 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,120 Well, thanks. 264 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,120 Will you win your bet, mister? 265 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,120 Huh? Oh, yeah, yeah. I think I will. 266 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,120 Uh, what's your name? So I'll know it next time. 267 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,120 Oh, I'll tell you tomorrow. I hope. 268 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:15,120 So long. 269 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,120 So long, Pop. Thank you. I'll be... 270 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:20,120 What's the matter? 271 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:24,120 Nothing. Nothing. I... just tied him a shoe. 272 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,120 I'd just been going to walk out when I saw him standing across the street, gray eyes again. 273 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,120 I ducked down behind the store window and watched him. 274 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,120 He looked over in my direction and then up and down the street. 275 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,120 Oh, then he did a cigarette and stalled down the corner. 276 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,120 The minute he disappeared, I yanked the door open, dashed out, 277 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,120 went across the tillery apartments and went in. 278 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:55,120 Who is it? 279 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:56,120 Ruth? 280 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:57,120 Yes? 281 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,120 It's me. 282 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,120 Dan! Oh, Danny, where have you... 283 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,120 Get in here. 284 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,120 Oh, darling, it's really you. 285 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:08,120 I thought you... 286 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,120 Hello, Ruth. 287 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,120 Oh, Danny, why did you come here? 288 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:12,120 He's been around here twice today. 289 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,120 He may be in the neighborhood right now, for all you know. 290 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,120 Who? 291 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,120 Oh, well, Fattery, of course. 292 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:19,120 Has he got gray eyes? 293 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,120 What? Yeah. 294 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,120 Did you ever see a detective that didn't? 295 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,120 Oh, I see. Sure, sure. 296 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:26,120 Danny, what's the matter with you? 297 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:27,120 You're acting so strangely. 298 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,120 Well, I... I just want to look at you. 299 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,120 You seem so different, so far away. 300 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:34,120 You haven't kissed me. 301 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:36,120 Well, that's easily fixed. 302 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,120 Oh, darling, where have you been for three weeks? 303 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,120 All around. Miss me? 304 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,120 You know I did. 305 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,120 Oh, Danny, you suppose... 306 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,120 Do you think we could get away tonight? 307 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:49,120 I've got $3,000 saved up. 308 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,120 We could go to Mexico or South America. 309 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:52,120 We could get married. 310 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,120 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Nearing. Tour of the world. 311 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,120 Daniel Nearing? 312 00:12:58,120 --> 00:12:59,120 Yeah, and wife? 313 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,120 Sounds plenty good to me. 314 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:02,120 You'll never know how good. 315 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,120 We'll get out of here tonight. 316 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,120 I'll call up and tell him I'm quitting my job. 317 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:07,120 I'll say I'm sick. 318 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:08,120 All my stuff's here. 319 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,120 Nothing's out there but a couple of uniforms. 320 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,120 I'll make Alma and Franklin a present of those. 321 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:14,120 Alma and Franklin? 322 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,120 Don't you bother your pretty head about those two charmers. 323 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,120 Maybe they weren't glad when it happened. 324 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:20,120 Couple of vultures. 325 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,120 I'd buy to them. 326 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,120 All with you back, Danny. 327 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,120 Just think with my $3,000 we could... 328 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:27,120 Oh, dear. 329 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:28,120 Do you think you ought to quit your job? 330 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,120 Absolutely, I think so. 331 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,120 I was never cut out to be a nurse anyway. 332 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:34,120 I guess you weren't. 333 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,120 Any more than I was cut out... 334 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,120 Any more than you were meant to be a secretary. 335 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:40,120 That's right. 336 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,120 Well, I never wanted to be a secretary. 337 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,120 Just drifted into it, I guess. 338 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,120 Kind of got on my nerves, especially toward the end. 339 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,120 You know, the boss was no cinch to work for. 340 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:52,120 He certainly wasn't. 341 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,120 He was a rat. 342 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,120 The whole Dakerid bunch are mean, rotten. 343 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:57,120 The whole family. 344 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,120 Yeah, that's right. 345 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,120 Well, except the old man. 346 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,120 Oh, yeah, the old man. 347 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,120 I sort of liked him, didn't I? 348 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,120 He loved you, Danny. 349 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,120 I think he wished you'd been his son. 350 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,120 Poor old man. 351 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,120 He's the only reason I've stuck around out there this long. 352 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,120 How are things out there? 353 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,120 Oh, they've been questioning all of us. 354 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,120 They've laid off lately, though, since you... 355 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:21,120 Oh, Danny, don't let's talk any more about it. 356 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,120 You're back. That's the main thing. 357 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,120 I just want to forget new Jericho and the whole family. 358 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,120 You're forgetting new Jericho and the whole family? 359 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:30,120 New Jericho, huh? 360 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,120 Yes. 361 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,120 Oh, Danny. 362 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,120 Danny, if only it hadn't happened. 363 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:36,120 What hadn't? 364 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,120 You know what? 365 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,120 Oh, Danny, what's going to become of you and me? 366 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,120 I wish I knew. 367 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,120 Danny, get away from that window. 368 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:46,120 Leave that shade down. 369 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:47,120 He's down there. 370 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:48,120 Who? 371 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:49,120 Grey Eyes. 372 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,120 He's standing in front of the hydrant. 373 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:52,120 He's coming in here, in the building. 374 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:54,120 Did he see you? 375 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:55,120 Ruth, will you help me? 376 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:56,120 What are you going to do? 377 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:57,120 I'm going to give myself up. 378 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:58,120 No, no, you're not... 379 00:14:58,120 --> 00:14:59,120 Well, it's better than getting shot at. 380 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:00,120 What can they do to me? 381 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,120 You crazy fool, they can send you to the chair. 382 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:03,120 The chair? 383 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,120 What do you think happens to a man when he's guilty of murder? 384 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:11,120 Murder? 385 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:12,120 Ruth, listen to me. 386 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,120 I'm not a murderer. 387 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:15,120 The whole world says I committed murder. 388 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:16,120 I say I didn't. 389 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,120 The me that's in me says I didn't. 390 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:19,120 I never said you were, Danny. 391 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,120 I always said you didn't do it. 392 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,120 I'll be ahead and run away. 393 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,120 So that's it. 394 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,120 All right, nearing. Open up. 395 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:29,120 Why did you come here, Danny? Why? 396 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:30,120 Ruth, wait. 397 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:31,120 We've got to get out of here. 398 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:32,120 How about the fire escape shaft? 399 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:33,120 Dumb waiter. 400 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:34,120 Dumb waiter. 401 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:35,120 Here. 402 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:36,120 All right, get in. 403 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:37,120 I'll stand on top and work the ropes. 404 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:38,120 I don't think it can hold us both. 405 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:39,120 Got to. 406 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:43,120 Can you hear me? 407 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,120 Yes, yes, Danny. 408 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,120 Danny, what do we do? 409 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,120 We're going back there to New Jericho. 410 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:49,120 New Jericho? 411 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,120 No, Danny, don't. Please, for me. 412 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:52,120 Got to. 413 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:53,120 I've got to find out. 414 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:54,120 We're going together. 415 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,120 No, Danny, no. I've got the money. 416 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:57,120 We can get out of here and we... 417 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:58,120 Stop it. 418 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,120 Danny, ouch, my arm. 419 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:01,120 You're hurting me. 420 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,120 From here on in, we're sticking together. 421 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:04,120 You're going to take me back there, 422 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,120 back where it happened. 423 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,120 All right, darling. 424 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,120 It's crazy, but I'll go wherever you go. 425 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,120 I can't lose you again. 426 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,120 On the train, Ruth and I said very little to each other. 427 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:17,120 While I hid in the telephone booth 428 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:18,120 at the Pennsylvania station, 429 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,120 she bought us a couple of cheap overcoats. 430 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:24,120 I sat hunched up in mine, thinking, thinking. 431 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,120 Ruth had brought along the newspaper clippings. 432 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,120 I looked at what they said for the 20th time, 433 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,120 trying to see if there was anything there 434 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:32,120 that would help me. 435 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,120 Deep tricks slammed into my head. 436 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:35,120 I was so scared. 437 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:36,120 I was so scared. 438 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:37,120 I was so scared. 439 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:38,120 I was so scared. 440 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:39,120 I was so scared. 441 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:40,120 I was so scared. 442 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:41,120 I was so scared. 443 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:42,120 I was so scared. 444 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,120 Dietrich Slayer's saw it, it said. 445 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,120 The secretary wanted him brutal slaying 446 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:47,120 at Suburban Estate. 447 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,120 Police are pressing the search for Daniel Nearing, 448 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,120 secretary and the employer of the late John Dietrich, 58, 449 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,120 member of a well-known local family 450 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:56,120 who was shot and killed 451 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,120 in the drawing room of his new Jericho estate 452 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,120 on the morning of November the 7th. 453 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,120 Nearing disappeared November the 7th 454 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:04,120 on the morning of which date 455 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:07,120 he is known to have had a bitter quarrel with the deceased. 456 00:17:07,120 --> 00:17:09,120 This last was attested to at the inquest 457 00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:10,120 by Elmer and Franklin Dietrich, 458 00:17:10,120 --> 00:17:12,120 widow and brother of the murdered maid. 459 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:18,120 Well, I had all the facts now. 460 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:20,120 Wanted for murder. 461 00:17:21,120 --> 00:17:23,120 And yet everything that was in me 462 00:17:23,120 --> 00:17:25,120 told me that no matter who I'd been, 463 00:17:25,120 --> 00:17:26,120 however many memories I'd lost, 464 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:27,120 that I was no killer, 465 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:28,120 that I couldn't have. 466 00:17:28,120 --> 00:17:30,120 Jericho! Jericho! 467 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:32,120 I had to get into that Dietrich house 468 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:33,120 and stand again in the room 469 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:35,120 in which it had all happened. 470 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:37,120 Maybe something would come back to me. 471 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:38,120 Maybe there would be... 472 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:40,120 Jericho! 473 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:56,120 Danny! Danny! 474 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:57,120 Over here, Ruth. 475 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:00,120 It's dark. I couldn't see you. 476 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:01,120 Elmer and Franklin just left. 477 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:03,120 They drove down to the village. 478 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:05,120 Did they say anything about you being out here on your day off? 479 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,120 Yeah. Elmer said something. 480 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:09,120 But I said I had nothing to do in town. 481 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:11,120 He came out to write some letters. 482 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:12,120 Let's go, then. 483 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:14,120 Oh, Danny, I'm scared. 484 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:15,120 Please, let's not stay out here. 485 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:17,120 I thought you said you loved me. 486 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:18,120 I do, Danny, I do. 487 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:19,120 That's why I'm scared. 488 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:21,120 They're only going to the village. 489 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:23,120 They'll be back in half an hour at the most. 490 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:25,120 Go on, open the door, Ruth. 491 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:26,120 Hurry. 492 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:27,120 I've got to see the inside. 493 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:29,120 That room, the place where it happened. 494 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:30,120 It's wrong, Danny. 495 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:31,120 I'm telling you, you're wrong. 496 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:32,120 You know, find... 497 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:33,120 Open the door, Ruth. 498 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:34,120 Quickly. 499 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:35,120 All right. 500 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:36,120 Now, let's have a look at that room. 501 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:38,120 Please, Danny, please, don't talk about it. 502 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:42,120 Oh. 503 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:45,120 So this is where I'm supposed to have murdered John Dietrich, huh? 504 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:46,120 Danny, please. 505 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:47,120 Where was it? 506 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:48,120 Show me exactly where it was, Ruth. 507 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:50,120 I've got to know. 508 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:51,120 It was there. 509 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:52,120 Right there. 510 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:55,120 He was standing by the grandfather's clock when... 511 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:57,120 Why are you going crazy, Danny? 512 00:18:57,120 --> 00:18:59,120 If they get you, you'll hang. 513 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:00,120 By the clock, huh? 514 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:02,120 You still believe in me, don't you, Ruth? 515 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:03,120 I still believe in you. 516 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:04,120 You still believe in me, don't you, Ruth? 517 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:06,120 I believe you, Danny, but I'm scared. 518 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:07,120 I love you. 519 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:08,120 Ruth, wait a minute. 520 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:09,120 What's that? 521 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:10,120 Listen. 522 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:12,120 It's only the old man. 523 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,120 He's asleep in that room up there. 524 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:15,120 Don't go in there, Danny. 525 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:16,120 You'll wake him. 526 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:17,120 I want to see him. 527 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:18,120 No. 528 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:19,120 No, don't, Danny. 529 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:20,120 He can't help you. 530 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:22,120 You know he's paralyzed and he can't talk. 531 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:23,120 Turn on the light. 532 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:24,120 I want to see him. 533 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:26,120 Here, you woke him. 534 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:28,120 It's me, Mr. Dietrich. 535 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:29,120 Ruth. 536 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:31,120 This is Danny. 537 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:33,120 You remember Danny, don't you? 538 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:34,120 Hello, Mr. Dietrich. 539 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:36,120 See how his eyes are shining? 540 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:37,120 Yeah. 541 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:39,120 Was he here when it happened? 542 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:40,120 You know that, Danny. 543 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:42,120 Why do you ask such funny questions? 544 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:44,120 He's been in bed here for five years. 545 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:46,120 That mirror. 546 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:47,120 On the wall there. 547 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:48,120 The clock. 548 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:49,120 Look. 549 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:52,120 You can see the grandfather's clock in the other room. 550 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:53,120 What are you getting at, Danny? 551 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:54,120 He could see it. 552 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:57,120 The old man could see the murder through the mirror. 553 00:19:57,120 --> 00:19:59,120 Oh, if only he could talk. 554 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:00,120 He can't talk. 555 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:01,120 You scare me, Danny. 556 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:03,120 He saw the man who killed John Dietrich. 557 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:04,120 Look, look. 558 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:06,120 He understands what I'm saying. 559 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:07,120 He's blinking his eyes. 560 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:08,120 Oh, stop torturing him, Danny. 561 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:09,120 Can't you see what you're doing? 562 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:11,120 He's trying to say something. 563 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:12,120 Look. 564 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:13,120 Look. 565 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:15,120 His eyes are blinking. 566 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:17,120 He's going to help me. 567 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:18,120 Go outside and watch, Ruth. 568 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:19,120 Go on. 569 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:20,120 Now watch out at the entrance way. 570 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:21,120 Be careful, Danny. 571 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:22,120 Please, they'll be back any minute. 572 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:23,120 All right, leave me alone with them. 573 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:25,120 I'll call if I hear them coming. 574 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:27,120 Look now, Mr. Dietrich. 575 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:29,120 Don't be afraid. 576 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:32,120 I'm going to ask you a question, and you're going to answer me. 577 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:35,120 Are you trying to tell me something about the murder? 578 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:37,120 Now blink your eyes. 579 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:39,120 Blink twice if you are. 580 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:40,120 And that's it. 581 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:41,120 Once. 582 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:42,120 Twice. 583 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:43,120 That's good. 584 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:45,120 Did you see it happen? 585 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:47,120 Here in your mirror. 586 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:49,120 Blink once if the answer is no. 587 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:51,120 Twice if the answer is yes. 588 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:52,120 Once. 589 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:53,120 Twice. 590 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:54,120 You're dead, huh? 591 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:56,120 You saw it. 592 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:59,120 Now then, is the murderer in this house? 593 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:00,120 Danny, Danny, they're coming. 594 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:02,120 Franklin and Alma, get out of here. 595 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:03,120 Run, Danny, run. 596 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:05,120 Is the murderer in this house? 597 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:06,120 Blink once for no. 598 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:08,120 Twice for yes. 599 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:09,120 Yes. 600 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:10,120 In this house. 601 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:11,120 Danny, Danny, they're coming. 602 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:13,120 Wait, wait, I've almost got it. 603 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:16,120 Now, Mr. Dietrich, was it me? 604 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:17,120 Once for no. 605 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:18,120 Twice for yes. 606 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:19,120 Was it me? 607 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:20,120 Get out of here, Danny. 608 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:22,120 Into the big room behind the curtains. 609 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:24,120 I'll talk to them. 610 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:25,120 All right, all right. 611 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:26,120 All right. 612 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:27,120 Thanks, Mr. Dietrich. 613 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:29,120 I'll be back. 614 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:31,120 Ruth? 615 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:33,120 Ruth, is that you in Father's room? 616 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:34,120 Yes. 617 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:36,120 Are you here alone? 618 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:37,120 Oh, yes. 619 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:38,120 Why? 620 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:40,120 Well, we thought we heard voices. 621 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:42,120 What are you so jittery about, Ruth? 622 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:44,120 I'm just tired, that's all. 623 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:46,120 May I go to bed now? 624 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:48,120 Father's still awake, Ruth. 625 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:50,120 You'll go to sleep all right. 626 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:52,120 I'm going upstairs, Mr. Dietrich, now. 627 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:53,120 Good night, Ruth. 628 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,120 And take your flashlight with you. 629 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:57,120 Oh, I'm sorry. 630 00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:59,120 It was dark on the road tonight. 631 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:00,120 Good night, Ruth. 632 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:02,120 Good night. 633 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:04,120 She's brought him back here with her. 634 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:05,120 Hey, my thing. 635 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:07,120 Who? Dan? 636 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:08,120 Oh, Franklin. 637 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:09,120 Take it easy. 638 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:10,120 If he's here, we'll get him. 639 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,120 After the evidence we gave against him at the hearing, 640 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,120 I... 641 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:14,120 Oh, I'm frightened. 642 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:16,120 Let's get out of here fast. 643 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:17,120 I'll go to the village for the police. 644 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:18,120 Call the police. 645 00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:20,120 No, I'll do it. 646 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:22,120 Hello? 647 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:24,120 Hello? 648 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:26,120 It's too late. It's dead. The wire's cut. 649 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:28,120 Come on, we'll both drive to the village. 650 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:30,120 But he may be waiting for us out by the car. 651 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:31,120 Uh-uh. Oh. 652 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,120 What? 653 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:34,120 Eh. 654 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:36,120 What are you doing there, Franklin? 655 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:39,120 I think I just might need my gun. 656 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:41,120 Come along. 657 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:50,120 The moment they left the house, I made for the old man's room. 658 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:52,120 I called for Ruth, but she was gone. 659 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:55,120 Maybe Franklin and Alma had caught her after she cut the telephone wire. 660 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:56,120 But I couldn't wait. 661 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:58,120 My life was hanging on minutes now. 662 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:01,120 I shot the flashlight on the old man's face. 663 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:06,120 Now, Mr. Dietrich, you're helping me fine. 664 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:09,120 You know I'm trying to save my life, don't you? 665 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:11,120 Now, the murderer. 666 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:13,120 Was it me? 667 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:14,120 Was it me who did it? 668 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:16,120 Me, Danny Nearing. 669 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:18,120 Blink once for no. 670 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:20,120 Once. 671 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:21,120 Once! 672 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:22,120 Oh, you're sure. 673 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:24,120 You're sure it wasn't me. 674 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:27,120 Oh, you're smiling, Mr. Dietrich. 675 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:28,120 Smiling. 676 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:30,120 Now, it was somebody in this house. 677 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:32,120 Then who was it? 678 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:35,120 Oh, can't you make a sound? 679 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:37,120 Help me, you've got to. 680 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:38,120 Was it Alma? 681 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:40,120 Twice for yes, once for no. 682 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:41,120 Once. 683 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:42,120 Not Alma. 684 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:43,120 All right, then. 685 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:44,120 Was it Franklin? 686 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:46,120 I'll just put the hands, Nearing. 687 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:48,120 You'll never go to trial. 688 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:50,120 Franklin, look, you've got to listen. 689 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:52,120 Shut up and drop that flashlight. 690 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:54,120 Trying to kill the old man, too, huh? 691 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:56,120 The murderer returns the scene of his crime. 692 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:57,120 You know I didn't kill him. 693 00:23:57,120 --> 00:23:59,120 Why don't you tell that to the police? 694 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:01,120 Alma will have him here in a couple of minutes. 695 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:02,120 Where's your girlfriend, Ruth? 696 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:04,120 She's not here. I don't know where she went. 697 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:06,120 Never mind. They'll find her. 698 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:07,120 You're a dead duck, Nearing. 699 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:09,120 You killed my brother and beat it. 700 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:10,120 Where'd you get out of it? 701 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:11,120 That's always puzzled us. 702 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:14,120 You killed your brother, and now you're going to kill me. 703 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,120 You've gone nuts, too. Why should I kill my own brother, you idiot? 704 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:19,120 To get his share of the estate and his wife Alma, 705 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:20,120 amongst other things. 706 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:22,120 But you can't stop with killing me. 707 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:24,120 Someone else knows the truth. 708 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:27,120 The old man saw it in the mirror. 709 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:29,120 You'll have to kill your own father, too. 710 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:31,120 The old man saw it? How do you know? 711 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:32,120 He told me. 712 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:34,120 Oh, you're lying. He can't talk. He can't even move. 713 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:35,120 He can hear. 714 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:36,120 And he can blink his eyes. 715 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:37,120 Come over here and look. 716 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,120 I'll look here, all right? 717 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:41,120 Ruth! 718 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:43,120 He'll be all right. 719 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:45,120 I heard him. He was going to kill you. 720 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:47,120 Here's the gun, Danny. Take it. 721 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:49,120 Oh, Ruth, you shouldn't have. In another minute. 722 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,120 I'm not sure it was Franklin. 723 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:53,120 Oh, Dan, darling, please. Let's run for it. 724 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:54,120 They'll be here in a second. 725 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:56,120 It's your last chance. They'll all swear you did it. 726 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:58,120 Not if I can be with the old man another half minute. 727 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:01,120 Mr. Dietrich. Mr. Dietrich. 728 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:02,120 It's Danny again. 729 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:04,120 No, Danny, don't. Don't. 730 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:07,120 Tell me, Mr. Dietrich. Was it Franklin? 731 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:09,120 Did Franklin kill your son John? 732 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:12,120 Think once if he did. He's afraid. 733 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:15,120 Why are you afraid? 734 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:17,120 Oh, there's this gun. 735 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:19,120 Here, take the gun, Ruth. You take it. 736 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:21,120 He's afraid. 737 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:23,120 I'm not going to hurt you, Mr. Dietrich. 738 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:25,120 What's the matter? 739 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:27,120 Why don't you answer me? 740 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:29,120 Who killed John Dietrich? 741 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:32,120 It wasn't me. It wasn't Elmer. It wasn't Franklin. 742 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:34,120 But someone in the house. 743 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:38,120 Was it? 744 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,120 What? 745 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:44,120 Ruth. Ruth. You. 746 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:48,120 I told you. I told you not to come. 747 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:50,120 Oh, I love you, Danny. I wanted you. 748 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:52,120 I wouldn't have let them get you. 749 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:55,120 Why? Why, Ruth? Why did you kill him? 750 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:58,120 He was always after me. Wouldn't leave me alone. 751 00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:00,120 I hated him. 752 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:03,120 Then that night he came at me, threatened me, said he'd kill me. 753 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:06,120 If he couldn't have me, nobody could. 754 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:09,120 He had a gun. I got it away from him. 755 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:13,120 He hit the clock. He leaned against it. 756 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:17,120 I thought he'd never fall down and die. 757 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:20,120 It was the day you ran away and I was crazy. 758 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:23,120 They thought it was you. They started looking. 759 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:25,120 I love you, Danny. I still love you. 760 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:27,120 I begged you not to come back here. 761 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:29,120 Ruth. Put down that gun, Ruth. 762 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:31,120 No. Stand back, Danny. 763 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:33,120 Stay over there. 764 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:36,120 I just want to look at you. 765 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:39,120 I was hoping we could get away together. 766 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:42,120 But you've been through enough, Danny. 767 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,120 And all because of me. 768 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:47,120 Now you're clear, Danny. 769 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,120 And this is going to clear me. 770 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:52,120 Darling. 771 00:26:52,120 --> 00:27:01,120 Ruth. 772 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:15,120 Well, I guess that's about all there is to tell. 773 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:17,120 I tried to put it all behind me. 774 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:21,120 To resume my life where I left off over three years ago. 775 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:25,120 Sometimes when it gets dark evening, I go and walk along Tilleries Street. 776 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:29,120 Once in a while somebody, somebody I don't know, will say, 777 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:31,120 Hello, Danny. 778 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:34,120 I just say hello and walk on. 779 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:37,120 I don't want to find out anything anymore. 780 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:40,120 I want it all to die away and be still. 781 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:42,120 And it will. 782 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:44,120 All except Ruth. 783 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:47,120 Because somewhere behind that black curtain I was loved. 784 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:50,120 And loved someone. 785 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:54,120 We must have known a love that I'll never know again. 786 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:12,120 And so closes The Black Curtain starring Mr. Cary Grant. 787 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:14,120 Tonight's tale of... 788 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:16,120 Suspense. 789 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:20,120 Since the beginnings of history, people have enjoyed wine. 790 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:25,120 Ages ago our ancestors found that wine made any food taste better. 791 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:28,120 Wine is a simple pleasure that anyone can enjoy. 792 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:32,120 That is why Roma has devoted all its wine making skill 793 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:36,120 to producing wines of fine quality at a price that means you can enjoy them often. 794 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:38,120 Just a few cents a glass. 795 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:43,120 Don't feel that you need fine crystal or a special occasion to serve Roma wine. 796 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,120 Next time you have a quick supper, serve Roma wine in plain tumblers 797 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,120 with your spaghetti or cold meats. 798 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,120 And notice how much more enjoyment and zest it adds to the meal. 799 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,120 Serve Roma wine often, cool or chilled. 800 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:00,120 You'll quickly discover why Roma, R-O-M-A, 801 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,120 Roma wines are America's largest selling wines. 802 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,120 Yes, Roma wines are true to type. 803 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,120 Roma wines are faithful in flavor. 804 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,120 Roma wines are sound of character. 805 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,120 Roma wines are reasonable in cost. 806 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,120 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 807 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,120 Our thanks to Cary Grant for his suspenseful performance here tonight. 808 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,120 And Mr. Grant wants us to say that he will be listening with you 809 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,120 next week at the same hour to Mr. Robert Young 810 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,120 in the story called The Night Reveals. 811 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,120 Don't forget then, next week same time for Robert Young in... 812 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:35,120 Suspense. 813 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,120 Presented by Roma Wines. 814 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:42,120 R-O-M-A. 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