1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,080 Roma wines presents Suspense. 2 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,920 Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 3 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,840 Salud, your health, senor. 4 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:24,960 Roma wines toast the world. 5 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:30,720 The wine for your table is Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the 6 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:31,720 world. 7 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:37,760 This is the man in black here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California to introduce 8 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,240 this weekly half hour of Suspense. 9 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:46,920 Tonight from Hollywood Roma wines bring you Miss Michelle Morgan, Mr. Philip Dawn and 10 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:52,800 Mr. George Kolouris in a suspense play dealing with a painting of a beautiful woman and with 11 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:59,960 a lover and a husband and with an assassination for which only the death of one of these three 12 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:01,460 could atone. 13 00:01:01,460 --> 00:01:06,440 And so with portrait without a face and with the performances of Michelle Morgan as Colette 14 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:12,400 or Philip Dawn as the artist Paul Degel and of George Kolouris as Charles Gaveau, we again 15 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:23,160 hope to keep you in Suspense. 16 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:27,720 It was just twilight as she came out of the cathedral on Fifth Avenue and stood for a 17 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,800 moment on the north steps. 18 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,760 She looked across 51st Street at the discreet grey building with the discreet bronze sign 19 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,600 saying Furnay Gallery of Modern Art. 20 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,760 A freshly dressed couple came out of the gallery and the doorman called a taxi. 21 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:44,560 Surely it was safe now. 22 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,360 The crowds must be gone. 23 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,360 She hurried across the street. 24 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,680 Good evening. 25 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:52,840 The gallery is still open for a few minutes, isn't it? 26 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:54,080 Well, I'm sorry, Miss. 27 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:55,360 It's just closed not now. 28 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:56,360 Oh, you can't be. 29 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,320 I've come all the way from Boston and I... 30 00:01:58,320 --> 00:01:59,320 Well, I'm sorry, Miss. 31 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,880 We're half an hour past closed and now we open again at 11 tomorrow. 32 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:03,880 Eleven? 33 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,640 But I can't possibly wait over... 34 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:08,160 Do you think five dollars would... 35 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:09,160 No, Miss. 36 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:10,880 I could even go as high as ten. 37 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:11,880 No, Miss. 38 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:13,280 I could even go as high as... 39 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:14,280 No, Miss. 40 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,360 Oh, but there's a picture on exhibit that I must see. 41 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:18,560 I'd stay only a moment. 42 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,560 I must see it. 43 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:20,560 Really, it's called... 44 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:21,560 I know, Miss. 45 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:22,560 It's called Portrait Without a Face. 46 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:27,720 Half of New York was in to see it today and the other half will be in tomorrow. 47 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,120 And if you'll excuse me now... 48 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,480 Wait a moment, please. 49 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,040 Have... have you seen the picture? 50 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:35,040 Me? 51 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:36,040 What did I be doing? 52 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,040 Looking at pictures? 53 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,360 What a waste of time. 54 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:39,840 But I can tell you this. 55 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:40,840 Sure got people talking. 56 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,520 One of those critics was in here this morning and you... 57 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:44,920 Eh, hold on, Miss. 58 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:46,360 Maybe you can't go in after all. 59 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,960 You see that man coming down from Madison Avenue? 60 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,360 That's Paul Degel, the artist who painted the picture. 61 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:53,360 Maybe if you would ask him... 62 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,360 Degel? 63 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:55,360 Oh, no. 64 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:56,720 No, thank you. 65 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:57,720 I've changed my mind. 66 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:58,720 I'll... 67 00:02:58,720 --> 00:02:59,720 I'll come back some other time. 68 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:00,720 Taxi! 69 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:01,720 Taxi! 70 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:06,720 Some women like to drive you crazy. 71 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:10,360 Evening, Mr. Degel. 72 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,520 Hello, John. 73 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,320 How are you? 74 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,320 Thank you. 75 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,320 Fine. 76 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:18,320 Is the exhibit driving people away? 77 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,720 That woman seemed to be in an awful hurry. 78 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:21,720 Huh? 79 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:23,000 She was trying to get in, sir. 80 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,400 In fact, she offered me five dollars if I... 81 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:26,400 What? 82 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,520 She offered me five dollars if I'd let her in. 83 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,440 Then she raised it to ten and I... 84 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:31,440 Wait, wait. 85 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:32,440 She offered you money? 86 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,000 Did she want to see portrait without a face? 87 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Not another. 88 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,440 She was pretty insistent about it, too. 89 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,240 She must have known about your work in France, Mr. Degel. 90 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:43,600 Had quite a foreign accent. 91 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,080 Foreign accent, you said. 92 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:46,640 John, is Mr. Furnay in? 93 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:47,640 Yes, sir, he is. 94 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:48,640 He's in the back. 95 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,400 There's some men with him. 96 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:51,400 Good. 97 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:52,840 I want to see those men. 98 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,840 I want to see them immediately. 99 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,840 Gentlemen. 100 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:06,560 Paul. 101 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,080 Gentlemen. 102 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,080 The woman we were looking for was here tonight. 103 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:13,080 Really? 104 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,080 Paul. 105 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:15,080 Yes, I'm sure of it. 106 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:16,720 I missed her only by a moment. 107 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:21,840 With every brushstroke I made on this canvas, I knew I was bringing her into our hands. 108 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:25,360 I knew she would have to see that portrait. 109 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,040 She had to know how much I knew. 110 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,280 I know, gentlemen, she will be back. 111 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:32,280 Paul. 112 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:33,280 Yes, Henry. 113 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:37,920 Will you still have the courage to finish the job when the time comes? 114 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:42,560 When the time comes, I'll kill with as little conscience as I would shoot down the Nazis 115 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,840 who have taken France. 116 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:52,320 That portrait is without a face, gentlemen, because I couldn't see her face. 117 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,520 But she will return and supply that feature. 118 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:57,880 Then we will know her for what she is. 119 00:04:57,880 --> 00:04:59,680 She will be back. 120 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,600 I'll stake my life on it. 121 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:16,120 Tonight, for Suspense, Roma wines bring you as stars, Michel Morgan and Philip Dawn with 122 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:17,120 George Calouris. 123 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:23,160 You have heard them in the prologue of Louis Pelletier's story, Portrait Without a Face, 124 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:34,440 which is tonight's adventure in Suspense. 125 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,960 During this intermission of tonight's Suspense drama presented by Roma wines, let us picture 126 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:42,320 a scene in the fashionable restaurant El Patio in Havana, Cuba. 127 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:47,480 From the next table, we hear a Cuban judge of fine wines describe in glowing terms the 128 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,480 wonderful climate and soil of our own California. 129 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:55,040 When his American guest points out that his Cuban host has never been to the United States, 130 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,760 the Cuban answers, it is true, I've never visited your California, but from only such 131 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:05,680 perfect wine country could come sherry of such superb quality as we have enjoyed, Roma, 132 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,160 California sherry. 133 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:12,960 Yes, by their example, wine connoisseurs of many other lands tell you that in Roma wines 134 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:18,040 are all the great qualities that must be present in a wine for great enjoyment. 135 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:23,240 As for this reason, these wine experts of other lands import Roma wines from great distances 136 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,960 to be enjoyed as a rare luxury. 137 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:31,600 But for you, this luxury of other lands becomes a daily pleasure because you can enjoy any 138 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:37,040 of Roma wines, many different taste appealing wine types without additional charge for import 139 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,920 duties and expensive shipment from great distance. 140 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:47,400 These two great Roma wine features, superb quality and small cost have made Roma wines 141 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,880 America's largest selling wines. 142 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:54,760 Why put off another day your enjoyment of this splendid quality, such thrilling taste 143 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:55,760 appeal. 144 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:03,480 I'll spell out the name for you, R-O-M-A, Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment 145 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,160 throughout the world. 146 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,480 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage, Michelle Morgan, 147 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:16,520 Philip Dawn and George Kolouris in Portrait Without a Face, a tale well calculated to 148 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:17,520 keep you in suspense. 149 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:18,520 Where have you been Colette? 150 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:34,840 For a walk Charles, along 50 haven't you? 151 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,040 I needed a breath of air. 152 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:37,040 You're lying. 153 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:38,640 You were at the Ferney Gallery. 154 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,720 Then I'm lying, I was at the Ferney Gallery. 155 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,760 You fool, I told you that they'd kill you once they're sure. 156 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,240 Yes, you told me Charles. 157 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,240 I'm going to bed. 158 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:48,880 Did you see the picture? 159 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:50,160 I'm going to bed Charles. 160 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:51,160 Answer my question. 161 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,120 No, I didn't see it. 162 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,360 What, the gallery was closed? 163 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:56,360 Yes. 164 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,360 That's good, good. 165 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,440 Well, drink? 166 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,000 No, thank you. 167 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,640 You don't mind if I do? 168 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:09,280 I haven't minded what you do since the second week of our marriage, Charles. 169 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,280 Really? 170 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,280 That distresses me. 171 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:12,280 Colette. 172 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:13,280 Yes? 173 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,360 Before you go to bed, there's something here I want you to read. 174 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:17,360 What is it Charles? 175 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,800 This art magazine my dear that just came on the newsstands today, contains a charming 176 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,560 series of reviews of the exhibit at the Ferney Gallery. 177 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,080 René Lautrec, the French critic, has done a little piece on the picture that you are 178 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:28,600 so anxious to see. 179 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,760 He heads his review, The Murderous. 180 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:33,760 Read it. 181 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:34,760 Please Charles. 182 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:35,760 Read it. 183 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,040 It'll satisfy your curiosity once and for all. 184 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:39,540 Begin here. 185 00:08:39,540 --> 00:08:41,440 This portrait. 186 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,480 This portrait without a face is no ordinary canvas. 187 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:47,520 This is a portrait of a crime. 188 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:52,960 A crime etched on the mind of a man who must have been there to see it happen. 189 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,520 One cannot describe the portrait in words. 190 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:57,900 Only in action. 191 00:08:57,900 --> 00:08:59,260 This way. 192 00:08:59,260 --> 00:09:04,960 The artist is sitting in a darkened room, resting from the noise of a party upstairs 193 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:05,960 in the big house. 194 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,000 Yes, the reception for General Vauban, Paris, 1939. 195 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Go on. 196 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,920 The artist. 197 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,440 The artist is resting in the darkened room. 198 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:16,840 Suddenly they are two shots. 199 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,800 The sliding doors to the library open. 200 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,520 Standing in the door, where's the silhouette of a woman in evening dress? 201 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:23,520 Charles, I can't... 202 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:24,520 Give it to me. 203 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,120 The woman's back is towards the artist. 204 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:27,120 He doesn't see her face. 205 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,920 At the woman's feet is a hand outstretched. 206 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,560 The hand of a dead man. 207 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:33,920 Who is the man, Colette? 208 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:34,920 Vauban. 209 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:36,480 General Vauban's dead. 210 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:37,760 All this happens in an instant. 211 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:39,800 The picture is photographed on the brain of the artist. 212 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,440 A woman in evening dress standing in a doorway, her back turned. 213 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:48,040 That is, portrait without a face. 214 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:52,200 Colette, it's time to move boldly. 215 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,540 Paul Desjelles will have to be put out of the way now. 216 00:09:54,540 --> 00:09:56,560 He knows enough to be dangerous. 217 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:59,760 I suppose it's somewhat of a pity to eliminate such a promising young artist. 218 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:01,560 He might have gone places. 219 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:06,280 However, tomorrow morning you will telephone Paul Desjelles at his apartment. 220 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,560 You will tell him you saw his name in the art magazine. 221 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:11,200 You will ask him where he's been all these years. 222 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,400 You will say that you must see him. 223 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:18,040 Your voice, and it will tremble just a little, will convey a message he's been waiting to 224 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,360 hear all these years. 225 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:21,640 You love him. 226 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:31,920 After all these years, you still love him. 227 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:39,120 Hello? 228 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,720 Yes, this is Paul Desjelles. 229 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,800 Colette, Colette, darling, where are you? 230 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:48,800 Where are you? 231 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:56,200 Yes, yes, naturally, every day, every moment, of course, anywhere you see. 232 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,200 Then the Carlton? 233 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:58,200 The Carlton? 234 00:10:58,200 --> 00:10:59,200 What time? 235 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,200 One or two? 236 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:01,200 Two. 237 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:02,200 Then at two o'clock, dear. 238 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:03,200 Till then... 239 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:04,200 Yes, till then. 240 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:05,200 I'm so happy, Colette. 241 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:06,200 Goodbye. 242 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:07,200 Goodbye, darling. 243 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:08,200 Goodbye, Paul. 244 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:09,200 That is very convincing, my dear. 245 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:10,200 So much sentiment in your voice. 246 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:11,200 See that it doesn't affect your actions. 247 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:12,200 It's your life or his, Colette. 248 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:13,200 So you've told me. 249 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:14,200 Well, remember it. 250 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:15,200 Stand up. 251 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:16,200 Let me have a look at you. 252 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:17,200 Oh, yes. 253 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:18,200 Oh, you're... 254 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:19,200 The crying Colette. 255 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:20,200 Oh, yes. 256 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:21,200 Oh, yes. 257 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:22,200 Oh, yes. 258 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:23,200 Oh, yes. 259 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:24,200 Oh, yes. 260 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:25,200 Oh, yes. 261 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:26,200 Oh, yes. 262 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:27,200 Oh, yes. 263 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:28,200 Oh, yes. 264 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:29,200 Oh, yes. 265 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:30,200 Oh, yes. 266 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:31,200 Oh, yes. 267 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:32,380 The crying, Colette. 268 00:11:32,380 --> 00:11:33,380 How touching. 269 00:11:33,380 --> 00:11:34,600 The lovers parted. 270 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,280 The lovers reunited. 271 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,080 April in Paris. 272 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,460 Chestnuts in blossom. 273 00:11:39,460 --> 00:11:40,800 Charles, please. 274 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,360 Oh, wouldn't he love to know you married me. 275 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:44,780 Me, of all people! 276 00:11:44,780 --> 00:11:47,060 And how I'd love to see you two meet. 277 00:11:47,060 --> 00:11:49,960 Colette, what will you say to him? 278 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:58,460 What can you say, Colette? 279 00:11:58,460 --> 00:12:03,460 What can I say, Paul? 280 00:12:03,460 --> 00:12:04,460 Nothing for a moment. 281 00:12:04,460 --> 00:12:05,460 Just let me look at you. 282 00:12:05,460 --> 00:12:06,460 With Monsieur Odeur now? 283 00:12:06,460 --> 00:12:07,460 No, no, not yet. 284 00:12:07,460 --> 00:12:08,460 Not just yet. 285 00:12:08,460 --> 00:12:09,460 Yes, wait. 286 00:12:09,460 --> 00:12:10,460 Bring us two charries, will you? 287 00:12:10,460 --> 00:12:11,460 Yes, thank you, Monsieur. 288 00:12:11,460 --> 00:12:12,460 I'm changed, Paul. 289 00:12:12,460 --> 00:12:13,460 You can see that. 290 00:12:13,460 --> 00:12:14,460 A little. 291 00:12:14,460 --> 00:12:15,460 A deepness around the eyes, perhaps. 292 00:12:15,460 --> 00:12:16,460 You've been unhappy, Colette. 293 00:12:16,460 --> 00:12:17,460 Yes. 294 00:12:17,460 --> 00:12:18,460 I wrote you almost every day for the last two days. 295 00:12:18,460 --> 00:12:19,460 I'm sorry. 296 00:12:19,460 --> 00:12:20,460 I'm sorry. 297 00:12:20,460 --> 00:12:21,460 I'm sorry. 298 00:12:21,460 --> 00:12:22,460 I'm sorry. 299 00:12:22,460 --> 00:12:23,460 I'm sorry. 300 00:12:23,460 --> 00:12:24,460 I'm sorry. 301 00:12:24,460 --> 00:12:25,460 I'm sorry. 302 00:12:25,460 --> 00:12:26,460 I'm sorry. 303 00:12:26,460 --> 00:12:27,460 I'm sorry. 304 00:12:27,460 --> 00:12:28,460 I'm sorry. 305 00:12:28,460 --> 00:12:29,460 I'm so sorry I couldn't help but think. 306 00:12:29,460 --> 00:12:30,460 Iürü, yes. 307 00:12:30,460 --> 00:12:31,460 I told you. 308 00:12:31,460 --> 00:12:32,460 Okay. 309 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:33,460 Are you very happy? 310 00:12:33,460 --> 00:12:34,460 Yes. 311 00:12:34,460 --> 00:12:35,460 People often forget their friends. 312 00:12:35,460 --> 00:12:36,460 When someone forgets their friends. 313 00:12:36,460 --> 00:12:37,460 Some people forget their friends. 314 00:12:37,460 --> 00:12:38,460 I'm very happy you人es creed itself. 315 00:12:38,460 --> 00:12:39,460 I'm happy you Fam violated me. 316 00:12:39,460 --> 00:12:40,460 Of course, you are. 317 00:12:40,460 --> 00:12:41,460 In other words, he made you feel very suspicious, Colette. 318 00:12:41,460 --> 00:12:42,460 I'm not saying you must be afraid of him because he's your first bar searched by you. 319 00:12:42,460 --> 00:12:43,460 I saw it yourself. 320 00:12:43,460 --> 00:12:44,460 It seems your old friend. 321 00:12:44,460 --> 00:12:45,460 Let's go to school, Paul. 322 00:12:45,460 --> 00:12:46,460 Don't Per rév Millennials. 323 00:12:46,460 --> 00:12:35,040 I think I'm going to have a hard time because I have to put a 324 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:47,460 curse on you and she got married. 325 00:12:47,460 --> 00:12:48,460 What do you say. 326 00:12:48,460 --> 00:12:49,460 Good ruin, Paul. 327 00:12:49,460 --> 00:12:50,660 How insane he was about you. 328 00:12:50,660 --> 00:12:52,420 Oh, please, Paul, don't talk about Charles. 329 00:12:52,420 --> 00:12:55,620 I thought if you ever married Capuodin... 330 00:12:55,620 --> 00:12:57,100 I'm sorry. 331 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:59,860 There's so much I don't know about your life. 332 00:12:59,860 --> 00:13:01,260 Four years. 333 00:13:01,260 --> 00:13:03,100 Oh, I knew everything about you. 334 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:05,180 Yeah, press notices. 335 00:13:05,180 --> 00:13:07,780 I wanted to be a success for you, Colette. 336 00:13:07,780 --> 00:13:10,140 I followed everything you did. 337 00:13:10,140 --> 00:13:13,220 The prison camp, I remember that. 338 00:13:13,220 --> 00:13:17,780 When you escaped to this country, your first exhibit here, 339 00:13:17,780 --> 00:13:20,020 you had all the clippings. 340 00:13:20,020 --> 00:13:21,820 Oh, I was so happy for you, Paul. 341 00:13:21,820 --> 00:13:25,020 I was so glad they believed in you as I did. 342 00:13:25,020 --> 00:13:27,060 Yes, you have been good to me in this country. 343 00:13:27,060 --> 00:13:28,420 Very good to me. 344 00:13:28,420 --> 00:13:29,340 More than I deserve. 345 00:13:29,340 --> 00:13:31,100 No, not more. 346 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:33,620 Only you're just you. 347 00:13:33,620 --> 00:13:35,340 I know. 348 00:13:35,340 --> 00:13:38,900 I've read the reviews of the exhibit at the Ferney Gallery. 349 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:40,860 Yes, they seem to like that. 350 00:13:40,860 --> 00:13:44,260 Paul, I want to see that exhibit. 351 00:13:44,260 --> 00:13:46,300 Of course, Colette, any time. 352 00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:48,460 No, not any time. 353 00:13:48,460 --> 00:13:52,860 I want you to show it to me tonight. 354 00:13:52,860 --> 00:13:53,860 Tonight? 355 00:13:53,860 --> 00:13:55,620 Please, Paul. 356 00:13:55,620 --> 00:14:00,980 After the crowds have gone from the gallery, 357 00:14:00,980 --> 00:14:04,380 my first look at your work in so many years, 358 00:14:04,380 --> 00:14:07,380 I don't want to share it with anyone. 359 00:14:07,380 --> 00:14:11,380 I just want there to be you and I. 360 00:14:11,380 --> 00:14:13,740 Well, then that's how you shall have it. 361 00:14:13,740 --> 00:14:15,780 Darling, of course, I want you to see it. 362 00:14:15,780 --> 00:14:19,540 I want you to see every piece in the exhibit. 363 00:14:19,540 --> 00:14:23,660 There is one that has attracted considerable attention. 364 00:14:23,660 --> 00:14:26,780 Portrait without a face. 365 00:14:26,780 --> 00:14:27,700 Oh. 366 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:29,380 Oh, yes. 367 00:14:29,380 --> 00:14:31,900 I read about that one. 368 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:34,420 There was much of my life in that painting, Colette. 369 00:14:34,420 --> 00:14:36,140 Certainly much of the past four years. 370 00:14:36,140 --> 00:14:38,460 But your work on it has been so worthwhile. 371 00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:39,940 No, no, not entirely. 372 00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:42,100 Not just yet. 373 00:14:42,100 --> 00:14:45,540 Colette, do you remember the death of Jean-Paul Faux-Bin? 374 00:14:45,540 --> 00:14:47,220 Faux-Bin? 375 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:50,220 That was some time in 1940, wasn't it? 376 00:14:50,220 --> 00:14:52,940 1939, the year you left Paris. 377 00:14:52,940 --> 00:14:54,660 Oh, yes, that's right. 378 00:14:54,660 --> 00:14:57,860 As you recall, Faux-Bin was the greatest advocate of air power. 379 00:14:57,860 --> 00:15:00,860 There were people in Paris who hated Faux-Bin 380 00:15:00,860 --> 00:15:02,940 and wanted him out of the way. 381 00:15:02,940 --> 00:15:05,300 Your friend Charles Cavo and his newspapers 382 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:07,820 were the general's bitterest enemies. 383 00:15:07,820 --> 00:15:09,700 And do you know a curious thing, Colette? 384 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:10,700 What, Paul? 385 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:13,340 Some of the best people in France were duped by Cavo's newspapers 386 00:15:13,340 --> 00:15:15,140 into believing that Faux-Bin was an arch-criminal. 387 00:15:15,140 --> 00:15:17,100 Yes, yes, I remember. 388 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:22,060 Briefly, some deluded woman fancied herself a modern Joan of Arc 389 00:15:22,060 --> 00:15:25,140 and killed Faux-Bin, thinking she was saving her country. 390 00:15:25,140 --> 00:15:26,380 A woman? 391 00:15:26,380 --> 00:15:30,140 But they say the crime was never solved. 392 00:15:30,140 --> 00:15:35,460 It wasn't, but it will be, I think, very soon. 393 00:15:35,460 --> 00:15:38,380 Yes, I'm sure that... 394 00:15:38,380 --> 00:15:39,660 Forgive me, darling. 395 00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:41,820 I hadn't meant to burden you with this. 396 00:15:41,820 --> 00:15:44,860 Oh, it is yourself you must not burden, Paul. 397 00:15:44,860 --> 00:15:49,540 You have given this matter much of your life, 398 00:15:49,540 --> 00:15:51,540 much of your thought, haven't you? 399 00:15:51,540 --> 00:15:55,540 All of my thought, Colette, when I wasn't thinking of you. 400 00:15:55,540 --> 00:15:56,540 Or painting. 401 00:15:56,540 --> 00:15:57,540 Painting? 402 00:15:57,540 --> 00:15:59,540 When I was painting, I thought of you most. 403 00:15:59,540 --> 00:16:02,540 I think that in every picture there was something of you. 404 00:16:02,540 --> 00:16:04,540 Sometimes the light on your hair, 405 00:16:04,540 --> 00:16:07,540 sometimes the way you hold your hand... 406 00:16:07,540 --> 00:16:10,540 Even in portrait without a face? 407 00:16:10,540 --> 00:16:13,540 Is there something of me in that one? 408 00:16:13,540 --> 00:16:15,540 Two cherries, monsieur. 409 00:16:15,540 --> 00:16:17,540 Oh, yes, thank you. 410 00:16:17,540 --> 00:16:19,540 Yes, Colette, I think that even in that one 411 00:16:19,540 --> 00:16:21,540 there's something of you. 412 00:16:21,540 --> 00:16:24,540 And it's very strange because you... 413 00:16:24,540 --> 00:16:28,540 Well, anyway, tonight you'll see for yourself. 414 00:16:28,540 --> 00:16:30,540 To you, darling. 415 00:16:30,540 --> 00:16:32,540 To our reunion, Paul. 416 00:16:32,540 --> 00:16:35,540 To our reunion, that's what she said, gentlemen. 417 00:16:35,540 --> 00:16:37,540 To our reunion. 418 00:16:37,540 --> 00:16:40,540 You are sure, Paul, that she does not suspect? 419 00:16:40,540 --> 00:16:41,540 Positive. 420 00:16:41,540 --> 00:16:45,540 She is utterly convinced that I am as blindly infatuated with her as ever. 421 00:16:45,540 --> 00:16:47,540 She is convinced that in my blindness 422 00:16:47,540 --> 00:16:51,540 I shall step out upon the stage she has set for me. 423 00:16:51,540 --> 00:16:55,540 I am convinced that I am as blinded as she is. 424 00:16:55,540 --> 00:16:59,540 I am convinced that I am as blinded as she is. 425 00:16:59,540 --> 00:17:03,540 I am convinced that I am as blinded as she is. 426 00:17:03,540 --> 00:17:06,540 We shall see who has set the stage. 427 00:17:06,540 --> 00:17:09,540 We shall see who portrays the victim. 428 00:17:09,540 --> 00:17:11,540 It will take courage, Paul. 429 00:17:11,540 --> 00:17:12,540 Perhaps. 430 00:17:12,540 --> 00:17:14,540 There are not many who have your kind of courage. 431 00:17:14,540 --> 00:17:17,540 No, there are not many who have my kind of hate 432 00:17:17,540 --> 00:17:19,540 or who have waited so long to spend it. 433 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:21,540 But have no fear, gentlemen. 434 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:23,540 You will see that I do not fail. 435 00:17:23,540 --> 00:17:26,540 You will be with me tonight, all of you. 436 00:17:26,540 --> 00:17:28,540 With you? I do not understand. 437 00:17:28,540 --> 00:17:34,540 I have already said you will be present in the wings just off the stage. 438 00:17:34,540 --> 00:17:36,540 It's just ten now. 439 00:17:36,540 --> 00:17:39,540 In less than an hour my guest will arrive. 440 00:17:39,540 --> 00:17:43,540 Before long, he will come into this room to see the portrait. 441 00:17:43,540 --> 00:17:45,540 The room will be quite dark. 442 00:17:45,540 --> 00:17:47,540 You will be in the background. 443 00:17:47,540 --> 00:17:59,540 There will be no way to prevent that. 444 00:17:59,540 --> 00:18:01,540 You have much time. Are you ready? 445 00:18:01,540 --> 00:18:02,540 Yes. 446 00:18:02,540 --> 00:18:03,540 Wait, which purse are you carrying? 447 00:18:03,540 --> 00:18:04,540 That black one on the table. 448 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:05,540 Hand it to me. 449 00:18:05,540 --> 00:18:08,540 Good. Just the right size. 450 00:18:08,540 --> 00:18:11,540 Oh, don't look so wide-eyed and innocent. 451 00:18:11,540 --> 00:18:12,540 You've seen a pistol loaded before? 452 00:18:12,540 --> 00:18:14,540 Charles, couldn't we? 453 00:18:14,540 --> 00:18:18,540 Perhaps it would be best for me to have a look in on you and Desjardins this evening. 454 00:18:18,540 --> 00:18:19,540 Oh, please, Charles. 455 00:18:19,540 --> 00:18:21,540 How do I know that you'll do what you're told? 456 00:18:21,540 --> 00:18:23,540 You said it was his life or mine. 457 00:18:23,540 --> 00:18:25,540 But you're a sentimental fool. You might we... 458 00:18:25,540 --> 00:18:26,540 I'll do what I'm told. 459 00:18:26,540 --> 00:18:27,540 Very well. 460 00:18:27,540 --> 00:18:30,540 Remember, I'll be waiting across the street on the cathedral steps. 461 00:18:30,540 --> 00:18:32,540 I'll give you till eleven o'clock. 462 00:18:32,540 --> 00:18:33,540 If you're not out at eleven... 463 00:18:33,540 --> 00:18:34,540 I'll be out. 464 00:18:34,540 --> 00:18:38,540 Yes. Yes, you'd better be. 465 00:18:38,540 --> 00:18:40,540 Ready to fire. Here's your purse. 466 00:18:40,540 --> 00:18:43,540 The pistol, you see, on top. 467 00:18:43,540 --> 00:18:45,540 Watch out when you pay the cab fare. 468 00:18:45,540 --> 00:18:46,540 Yes, Charles. 469 00:18:46,540 --> 00:18:49,540 I'll be waiting for you on the cathedral steps. 470 00:18:49,540 --> 00:18:51,540 And you have till eleven o'clock. 471 00:19:03,540 --> 00:19:05,540 Do you remember this picture, Colette? 472 00:19:05,540 --> 00:19:06,540 Oh, Paul, of course. 473 00:19:06,540 --> 00:19:09,540 That was the summer we were at Nice. 474 00:19:09,540 --> 00:19:10,540 Lovely summer, wasn't it? 475 00:19:10,540 --> 00:19:12,540 Oh, so lovely. 476 00:19:12,540 --> 00:19:14,540 You see the fishing boat, Lirondelle? 477 00:19:14,540 --> 00:19:16,540 Remember her? 478 00:19:16,540 --> 00:19:19,540 Oh, too well. She made me seasick once. 479 00:19:19,540 --> 00:19:21,540 But it was a beautiful summer, Paul. 480 00:19:21,540 --> 00:19:23,540 Wonderful summer. 481 00:19:23,540 --> 00:19:25,540 Yes. Yes, it was. 482 00:19:25,540 --> 00:19:28,540 Well, that's all of the Paris pictures. 483 00:19:28,540 --> 00:19:30,540 Now, uh... 484 00:19:30,540 --> 00:19:32,540 Now I guess you would like to see the... 485 00:19:32,540 --> 00:19:34,540 the portrait. 486 00:19:34,540 --> 00:19:36,540 Yes. 487 00:19:36,540 --> 00:19:38,540 Now I'd like to see it. 488 00:19:38,540 --> 00:19:39,540 It's in the next room. 489 00:19:39,540 --> 00:19:42,540 They have given it a room by itself. 490 00:19:42,540 --> 00:19:43,540 Oh. 491 00:19:43,540 --> 00:19:44,540 Take my hand, Colette. 492 00:19:44,540 --> 00:19:46,540 I've kept the lights out in there. 493 00:19:46,540 --> 00:19:47,540 I want you to sit on the bench. 494 00:19:47,540 --> 00:19:49,540 Then I'll turn the lights on. 495 00:19:49,540 --> 00:19:51,540 And you will see the picture as... 496 00:19:51,540 --> 00:19:52,540 as I saw it. 497 00:19:52,540 --> 00:19:54,540 I mean, in my mind's eye. 498 00:19:54,540 --> 00:19:55,540 Yes, Paul. 499 00:19:55,540 --> 00:19:57,540 This way. Now, careful. 500 00:19:57,540 --> 00:19:59,540 Two steps down. 501 00:20:03,540 --> 00:20:05,540 You are trembling, Colette. 502 00:20:05,540 --> 00:20:07,540 I've always been afraid of the dark. 503 00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:08,540 Here's the bench. 504 00:20:08,540 --> 00:20:10,540 Sit here. No, no, no, no. Sit here. 505 00:20:10,540 --> 00:20:13,540 You're in front of the picture now. 506 00:20:13,540 --> 00:20:15,540 I'm going to turn on the light. 507 00:20:15,540 --> 00:20:17,540 Hurry, Paul. I don't like this. 508 00:20:17,540 --> 00:20:20,540 I just want to give you the full effect of it. 509 00:20:20,540 --> 00:20:22,540 Are you watching? 510 00:20:22,540 --> 00:20:23,540 Straight ahead. 511 00:20:23,540 --> 00:20:24,540 Yes, Paul. 512 00:20:24,540 --> 00:20:25,540 So... 513 00:20:25,540 --> 00:20:27,540 May I present then... 514 00:20:27,540 --> 00:20:30,540 my portrait without a face? 515 00:20:30,540 --> 00:20:32,540 Oh, Paul! 516 00:20:35,540 --> 00:20:37,540 Oh, Paul. 517 00:20:37,540 --> 00:20:39,540 I thought you would find it effective. 518 00:20:39,540 --> 00:20:41,540 Now we'll put aside pretense. 519 00:20:41,540 --> 00:20:43,540 You know who that woman is. 520 00:20:43,540 --> 00:20:44,540 She's Colette. 521 00:20:44,540 --> 00:20:47,540 Standing in the doorway of General Vauban's library. 522 00:20:47,540 --> 00:20:49,540 The hand of the dead man at her feet 523 00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:51,540 is the hand of General Vauban, my friend. 524 00:20:51,540 --> 00:20:54,540 The blood on the floor is the blood of Vauban. 525 00:20:54,540 --> 00:20:57,540 The blood that is touching the evening slipper of Colette. 526 00:20:57,540 --> 00:20:58,540 Stop it, Paul. Stop it! 527 00:20:58,540 --> 00:21:01,540 I've waited a long time for you, Colette. Four years. 528 00:21:01,540 --> 00:21:04,540 I said then that I would make someone pay for the murder of General Vauban. 529 00:21:04,540 --> 00:21:06,540 We have a committee, Colette. 530 00:21:06,540 --> 00:21:08,540 We formed it back there in Paris in the dark days, 531 00:21:08,540 --> 00:21:10,540 just before the war broke out. 532 00:21:10,540 --> 00:21:13,540 The committee knows everything about the people who planned the death of Vauban. 533 00:21:13,540 --> 00:21:15,540 The committee knows who did the murder itself. 534 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:20,540 Settling with that person has been my special assignment. 535 00:21:20,540 --> 00:21:23,540 I have been your special assignment. 536 00:21:23,540 --> 00:21:25,540 Your special prize. 537 00:21:25,540 --> 00:21:27,540 Is that what you mean? 538 00:21:27,540 --> 00:21:29,540 That's what I mean. 539 00:21:29,540 --> 00:21:31,540 I don't care really. Not now. 540 00:21:31,540 --> 00:21:33,540 You cared enough to want to fight back. 541 00:21:33,540 --> 00:21:34,540 You came here armed. 542 00:21:34,540 --> 00:21:36,540 Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Don't open your purse. 543 00:21:36,540 --> 00:21:40,540 I took the trouble to remove the pistol while you were taking off your coat. 544 00:21:40,540 --> 00:21:43,540 No, no, not this one in my right hand. That's mine. 545 00:21:43,540 --> 00:21:46,540 This one. This pistol here. 546 00:21:46,540 --> 00:21:48,540 It is yours, isn't it? 547 00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:49,540 Yes. 548 00:21:49,540 --> 00:21:52,540 French make. Did Charles give it to you? 549 00:21:52,540 --> 00:21:53,540 Charles? 550 00:21:53,540 --> 00:21:56,540 Yes, Charles. I knew you married Charles. 551 00:21:56,540 --> 00:21:59,540 I found it out just before I lost track of you two years ago. 552 00:21:59,540 --> 00:22:02,540 I knew you married Charles and I knew why. 553 00:22:02,540 --> 00:22:04,540 And you told me this afternoon. 554 00:22:04,540 --> 00:22:07,540 Yes, I made you believe that I didn't know about Charles. 555 00:22:07,540 --> 00:22:09,540 I want you to come up here to the gallery. 556 00:22:09,540 --> 00:22:14,540 I knew you had to come here to find out how much I knew. 557 00:22:14,540 --> 00:22:17,540 Charles was right. He said it was your life or mine. 558 00:22:17,540 --> 00:22:19,540 He's very clever, Charles. 559 00:22:19,540 --> 00:22:22,540 Do you remember when you first met him and I warned you away? 560 00:22:22,540 --> 00:22:23,540 I remember. 561 00:22:23,540 --> 00:22:26,540 You were impressed by Charles and his politically wise friends. 562 00:22:26,540 --> 00:22:29,540 But you didn't know that Charles had sold out his country. 563 00:22:29,540 --> 00:22:30,540 I didn't know. 564 00:22:30,540 --> 00:22:32,540 You were duped into believing that Vauban was a traitor. 565 00:22:32,540 --> 00:22:36,540 Charles dominated your mind. He controlled you as an hypnotist. 566 00:22:36,540 --> 00:22:40,540 They needed someone to murder Vauban, so you were chosen. 567 00:22:40,540 --> 00:22:43,540 You were to be the savior of France. 568 00:22:43,540 --> 00:22:46,540 You excelled in the role and you believed it. 569 00:22:46,540 --> 00:22:50,540 Yes, up to the very last, up to the last moment. 570 00:22:50,540 --> 00:22:53,540 Then I didn't see how I could go through with it. 571 00:22:53,540 --> 00:22:57,540 I couldn't bear the thought of killing a man. 572 00:22:57,540 --> 00:22:58,540 You're lying, Collette. 573 00:22:58,540 --> 00:23:00,540 No, Paul, no, listen to me. 574 00:23:00,540 --> 00:23:04,540 I stood there looking at Vauban, the pistol in my hand. 575 00:23:04,540 --> 00:23:08,540 He looked up, he started walking toward me, telling me to give him the pistol. 576 00:23:08,540 --> 00:23:12,540 I felt dizzy. Oh, I wanted to run away too. 577 00:23:12,540 --> 00:23:16,540 But I, I raised the pistol. 578 00:23:16,540 --> 00:23:19,540 There were two shots. 579 00:23:19,540 --> 00:23:22,540 And he fell at my feet. 580 00:23:22,540 --> 00:23:23,540 I dropped the gun. 581 00:23:23,540 --> 00:23:26,540 Then you opened the library door to escape. 582 00:23:26,540 --> 00:23:29,540 Yes, I ran out on the terrace and through the garden. 583 00:23:29,540 --> 00:23:33,540 I ran blindly and fell. 584 00:23:33,540 --> 00:23:36,540 Then I felt a strong pair of arms lift me up. 585 00:23:36,540 --> 00:23:37,540 Charles was there. 586 00:23:37,540 --> 00:23:39,540 You told him you had killed Vauban. 587 00:23:39,540 --> 00:23:42,540 Yes, I begged him to take me away too. 588 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:45,540 I needed someone desperately. 589 00:23:45,540 --> 00:23:50,540 He promised me to take me out of France and let me forget. 590 00:23:50,540 --> 00:23:52,540 Oh, Paul. 591 00:23:52,540 --> 00:23:56,540 Paul, turn out the light on that horrible picture, please. 592 00:23:56,540 --> 00:23:58,540 The light stays on, Collette. 593 00:23:58,540 --> 00:24:02,540 I want you to keep looking at the picture. 594 00:24:02,540 --> 00:24:05,540 That picture was painted for a purpose. 595 00:24:05,540 --> 00:24:07,540 And now the purpose is going to be fulfilled. 596 00:24:07,540 --> 00:24:11,540 Paul, will you believe that I didn't want to kill Vauban? 597 00:24:11,540 --> 00:24:13,540 Four years I've waited, Collette. 598 00:24:13,540 --> 00:24:15,540 Now it works out according to plan. 599 00:24:15,540 --> 00:24:17,540 I didn't want to kill a man. 600 00:24:17,540 --> 00:24:21,540 I didn't want to go away with Charles, but I was in too deep. 601 00:24:21,540 --> 00:24:26,540 Paul, Paul, listen to me. 602 00:24:26,540 --> 00:24:29,540 I've loved you, always. 603 00:24:29,540 --> 00:24:31,540 You must know that. 604 00:24:31,540 --> 00:24:32,540 After tonight? 605 00:24:32,540 --> 00:24:34,540 After you're coming here to kill me? 606 00:24:34,540 --> 00:24:36,540 Open my gun, Paul. 607 00:24:36,540 --> 00:24:38,540 Open it up. 608 00:24:38,540 --> 00:24:40,540 You'll see that it's empty. 609 00:24:40,540 --> 00:24:43,540 I took the shells out on my way here. 610 00:24:43,540 --> 00:24:47,540 Why don't you do it, Paul? It's true. 611 00:24:47,540 --> 00:24:50,540 I knew I couldn't go through with it. 612 00:24:50,540 --> 00:24:52,540 Not this time. 613 00:24:52,540 --> 00:24:55,540 Not with you. 614 00:24:55,540 --> 00:24:57,540 Paul. 615 00:24:57,540 --> 00:24:59,540 It's too late, Collette. 616 00:24:59,540 --> 00:25:00,540 Paul. 617 00:25:00,540 --> 00:25:02,540 Keep sitting on the bench, Collette. 618 00:25:02,540 --> 00:25:04,540 Keep looking at the picture. 619 00:25:04,540 --> 00:25:05,540 Don't move. 620 00:25:05,540 --> 00:25:07,540 I won't. 621 00:25:07,540 --> 00:25:09,540 I won't, but you must believe me. 622 00:25:09,540 --> 00:25:11,540 Paul, Paul, wait! 623 00:25:11,540 --> 00:25:13,540 Just look at the picture, Collette. 624 00:25:13,540 --> 00:25:15,540 The picture. 625 00:25:15,540 --> 00:25:16,540 Listen. 626 00:25:16,540 --> 00:25:17,540 Please listen. 627 00:25:17,540 --> 00:25:20,540 I'm telling the truth, Paul. 628 00:25:20,540 --> 00:25:23,540 My gun wasn't loaded. 629 00:25:23,540 --> 00:25:26,540 Listen, Paul! 630 00:25:26,540 --> 00:25:28,540 For you, Dijon. 631 00:25:28,540 --> 00:25:30,540 And you, mister. 632 00:25:37,540 --> 00:25:38,540 Oh, heavens. 633 00:25:38,540 --> 00:25:40,540 Paul, are you all right? 634 00:25:40,540 --> 00:25:43,540 Yes, yes, I'm all right, gentlemen. 635 00:25:43,540 --> 00:25:49,540 Gentlemen, may I present the late Monsieur Charles Gaveau. 636 00:25:49,540 --> 00:25:51,540 Four years. 637 00:25:51,540 --> 00:25:55,540 Four years of painting and planning and waiting. 638 00:25:55,540 --> 00:25:58,540 Paul, take me out of here. 639 00:25:58,540 --> 00:26:00,540 Yes, darling. 640 00:26:00,540 --> 00:26:03,540 Collette, I'm sorry I had to do this to you. 641 00:26:03,540 --> 00:26:05,540 It was the only way to find him. 642 00:26:05,540 --> 00:26:08,540 I knew he was here to kill again. 643 00:26:08,540 --> 00:26:10,540 Both of us. 644 00:26:10,540 --> 00:26:11,540 Charles? 645 00:26:11,540 --> 00:26:12,540 Charles killed Vauban. 646 00:26:12,540 --> 00:26:14,540 I picked up the pistol you dropped that night, Collette. 647 00:26:14,540 --> 00:26:16,540 It had never been fired. 648 00:26:16,540 --> 00:26:19,540 Charles was never certain you would have the nerve to go through with it. 649 00:26:19,540 --> 00:26:22,540 At the last moment, he took a hint himself. 650 00:26:22,540 --> 00:26:25,540 The shots that killed Vauban were fired from the terrace. 651 00:26:25,540 --> 00:26:29,540 In your terror, you believe that you did it. 652 00:26:29,540 --> 00:26:31,540 Charles let you believe it all these years. 653 00:26:31,540 --> 00:26:33,540 Oh, Paul. 654 00:26:33,540 --> 00:26:35,540 I knew he would follow you here tonight. 655 00:26:35,540 --> 00:26:37,540 I left the door open for him. 656 00:26:37,540 --> 00:26:40,540 He came downstairs when we entered his room. 657 00:26:40,540 --> 00:26:42,540 He could hear us talking. 658 00:26:42,540 --> 00:26:43,540 I wanted him to hear. 659 00:26:43,540 --> 00:26:46,540 I needed time, time, Collette. 660 00:26:46,540 --> 00:26:48,540 Collette, I'm sorry. 661 00:26:48,540 --> 00:26:51,540 That was the only way to meet him face to face. 662 00:26:51,540 --> 00:26:52,540 Oh, Paul. 663 00:26:52,540 --> 00:26:54,540 Don't ever leave me. 664 00:26:54,540 --> 00:26:56,540 Never, never leave me. 665 00:26:56,540 --> 00:26:58,540 Never, Collette. 666 00:26:58,540 --> 00:27:00,540 We are together now. 667 00:27:00,540 --> 00:27:02,540 For always. 668 00:27:02,540 --> 00:27:06,540 But before we go, there's one thing left. 669 00:27:06,540 --> 00:27:10,540 You see this knife. 670 00:27:10,540 --> 00:27:15,540 For us, that is the end of portrait without a face. 671 00:27:27,540 --> 00:27:33,540 And so closes Portrait Without a Face, starring Michelle Morgan, Philip Dawn, and George Kolouris. 672 00:27:33,540 --> 00:27:37,540 Tonight's tale of suspense. 673 00:27:37,540 --> 00:27:41,540 Miss Morgan is currently being seen in Warner Brothers' Passage to Marseilles. 674 00:27:41,540 --> 00:27:45,540 Mr. Dawn appeared through the courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of Madame Curie. 675 00:27:45,540 --> 00:27:51,540 You know, if we could bring to this microphone a man typical of all Roma wine dealers, this is what he might tell you. 676 00:27:51,540 --> 00:27:54,540 I sell a lot of the good Roma wines. 677 00:27:54,540 --> 00:27:58,540 They are, you know, America's largest selling wines. 678 00:27:58,540 --> 00:28:04,540 My Roma wine customers, I've noticed, are sociable people who enjoy entertaining friends. 679 00:28:04,540 --> 00:28:12,540 Talking with me, they give a lot of credit for the success of their entertaining to the enjoyable Roma wines they serve. 680 00:28:12,540 --> 00:28:16,540 They're thrifty people, too, these buyers of Roma wines. 681 00:28:16,540 --> 00:28:20,540 What else could offer so much enjoyment for so little cost? 682 00:28:20,540 --> 00:28:23,540 Only pennies a glass by actual check. 683 00:28:23,540 --> 00:28:26,540 Now, that doesn't leave much for me to add, except this, perhaps. 684 00:28:26,540 --> 00:28:30,540 If you are not already one of the millions enjoying Roma wines regularly, 685 00:28:30,540 --> 00:28:36,540 make your own taste test of any of Roma wine's many different taste-delighting California wine types, 686 00:28:36,540 --> 00:28:42,540 such as the delicious Tangy Roma Sherry, or the hearty Roma Burgundy, or the sweeter, heavier Roma Port, 687 00:28:42,540 --> 00:28:46,540 and discover for yourself why Roma wines are winning international praise. 688 00:28:46,540 --> 00:28:51,540 Voiced in this phrase, Roma wines are truly magnificent. 689 00:28:51,540 --> 00:29:00,540 Let me repeat the name, R-O-M-A, Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 690 00:29:00,540 --> 00:29:04,540 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 691 00:29:04,540 --> 00:29:10,540 Don't forget, then, next Thursday for Alan Ladd in Suspense. 692 00:29:10,540 --> 00:29:30,540 Presented by Roma wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 693 00:29:30,540 --> 00:29:40,540 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.