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02:20.920 --> 02:29.440 Be sure to ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 02:29.440 --> 02:30.440 world. 02:30.440 --> 02:36.920 And now with the defense rests and with the performance of our star, Alan Ladd, as defendant 02:36.920 --> 02:42.760 Robert Tasker, supported by John McIntyre as the noted criminal lawyer, Max Kramer, we 02:42.760 --> 02:59.400 again hope to keep you in suspense. 02:59.400 --> 03:01.560 The people versus Robert Tasker. 03:01.560 --> 03:05.920 The defendant charged on the indictment with murder in the first degree. 03:05.920 --> 03:08.240 Is counsel for the defense prepared to proceed? 03:08.240 --> 03:09.720 I am, your honor. 03:09.720 --> 03:12.160 Very well, Mr. Kramer. 03:12.160 --> 03:18.840 Your honor, if the court please, I think it is fitting that for a moment I should speak 03:18.840 --> 03:26.320 openly to your honor and to the jury for matter which has, albeit indirectly, nonetheless, 03:26.320 --> 03:29.560 a substantial bearing on this case. 03:29.560 --> 03:35.640 I refer, of course, to the rather unique relationship existing between myself and the defendant 03:35.640 --> 03:38.960 Robert Tasker. 03:38.960 --> 03:45.920 It's true that my interest in him and in his fate is far greater than the normal interest 03:45.920 --> 03:48.760 of a lawyer and his client. 03:48.760 --> 03:54.880 It's true that that interest might be reasonably described as it has been so many times as 03:54.880 --> 03:55.880 fatherly. 03:55.880 --> 04:02.680 Yet, I ask your honor and the gentlemen of the jury to think of me in all fairness and 04:02.680 --> 04:07.200 without bias simply as a lawyer defending his client. 04:07.200 --> 04:14.200 It needs no expatiation on legal or practical ethics to demonstrate that if I did not, for 04:14.200 --> 04:33.560 me, with my whole heart and mind be... 04:33.560 --> 04:36.680 My name is Robert Tasker. 04:36.680 --> 04:40.080 I am sitting in a courtroom on trial for murder. 04:40.080 --> 04:44.880 As Mr. Kramer, my lawyer, stands there now telling the judge and the jury about me and 04:44.880 --> 04:51.840 about him, I can't help thinking that if it weren't for him, I wouldn't be here today. 04:51.840 --> 04:57.960 And thinking what irony it is too because Mr. Kramer is the only friend I've ever had 04:57.960 --> 04:59.880 in the world. 04:59.880 --> 05:02.640 I am an ex-con. 05:02.640 --> 05:05.320 My sentence was for 10 years. 05:05.320 --> 05:09.920 After I'd been there about a year, I began to write just short stories, little things. 05:09.920 --> 05:11.480 I had lots of time. 05:11.480 --> 05:15.960 Finally, I sent one to a magazine and they published it. 05:15.960 --> 05:17.720 Mr. Kramer happened to read it. 05:17.720 --> 05:18.720 He wrote to me. 05:18.720 --> 05:21.280 Then he came to see me. 05:21.280 --> 05:22.280 He remembered my case. 05:22.280 --> 05:24.560 He said he'd try to help me. 05:24.560 --> 05:28.600 Then one day I was called to the warden's office. 05:28.600 --> 05:32.440 Hello, Robert. 05:32.440 --> 05:35.160 Hello, Mr. Kramer. 05:35.160 --> 05:37.040 Robert, I've got some good news for you. 05:37.040 --> 05:38.040 I've got your parole. 05:38.040 --> 05:39.040 You're free. 05:39.040 --> 05:41.040 Well, you happy? 05:41.040 --> 05:42.040 Sure. 05:42.040 --> 05:45.840 It's just that I still don't quite believe it. 05:45.840 --> 05:46.840 It's official, Tasker. 05:46.840 --> 05:47.840 Here are your papers. 05:47.840 --> 05:48.840 Papers? 05:48.840 --> 05:52.720 That'll make everything easy, won't it? 05:52.720 --> 05:54.760 Passport to a brilliant future. 05:54.760 --> 05:55.760 Ex-con. 05:55.760 --> 06:00.020 Robert, I know it's going to be a little hard to adjust at first, but there's a job in my 06:00.020 --> 06:01.020 office that I... 06:01.020 --> 06:04.120 Thanks, Mr. Kramer, but I don't want charity even from you. 06:04.120 --> 06:05.120 I don't want charity, Robert. 06:05.120 --> 06:08.320 I need a clerk in my office or I wouldn't have offered you the job. 06:08.320 --> 06:12.240 You don't have to stay if you don't want to, but you'll be doing me a favor if you try it. 06:12.240 --> 06:14.560 Well, I guess I owe you at least one favor. 06:14.560 --> 06:16.280 No, Tasker, you're buying. 06:16.280 --> 06:17.280 Good luck. 06:17.280 --> 06:20.400 Just remember that what's happened up here is water over the dam. 06:20.400 --> 06:21.900 Don't hold any grudges. 06:21.900 --> 06:23.280 I don't hold any grudges. 06:23.280 --> 06:25.400 There's one man I hate, that's all. 06:25.400 --> 06:28.280 A man you hate, Robert? 06:28.280 --> 06:29.280 What's the use of kidding about it? 06:29.280 --> 06:31.240 His name is Arthur Hines and I hate him. 06:31.240 --> 06:32.520 Simple as that. 06:32.520 --> 06:33.960 Well, forget it, son. 06:33.960 --> 06:34.960 Hines was D.A. then. 06:34.960 --> 06:36.400 He was just doing a job, that's all. 06:36.400 --> 06:38.600 He had nothing against you. 06:38.600 --> 06:40.120 He was doing a job all right. 06:40.120 --> 06:41.880 Robert, you mustn't feel that way. 06:41.880 --> 06:44.520 You'll get along with Hines all right. 06:44.520 --> 06:45.520 Get along with him? 06:45.520 --> 06:46.520 In the office. 06:46.520 --> 06:48.880 Oh, didn't I tell you? 06:48.880 --> 06:52.200 Arthur Hines is my new partner. 06:52.200 --> 06:58.960 Well, it certainly threw me for a second to hear I was going to be working side by side 06:58.960 --> 06:59.960 with that... 06:59.960 --> 07:03.360 Well, I figured they were right and I shouldn't hold grudges. 07:03.360 --> 07:06.160 I made up my mind to play ball. 07:06.160 --> 07:09.600 The work wasn't hard and I was able to do some writing on the side. 07:09.600 --> 07:14.680 Mr. Craig always encouraged me in that and Peggy helped me a lot too. 07:14.680 --> 07:17.760 She helped me to believe in myself. 07:17.760 --> 07:19.420 All that time I never saw Mr. Hines. 07:19.420 --> 07:21.840 He was out of town or something. 07:21.840 --> 07:23.840 And then one day he came back. 07:23.840 --> 07:29.240 I was nervous at the idea of seeing him but I thought I was all over my resentment then. 07:29.240 --> 07:30.600 He was in his office with someone. 07:30.600 --> 07:32.840 He had come in the private entrance. 07:32.840 --> 07:36.200 I was out in the ante room with Peggy by the switchboard when I heard the commotion. 07:36.200 --> 07:37.200 Don't you understand the English language? 07:37.200 --> 07:38.200 No. 07:38.200 --> 07:39.200 You're a liar. 07:39.200 --> 07:40.200 Now you get out of here. 07:40.200 --> 07:41.200 Get out. 07:41.200 --> 07:42.200 Don't give me that, Hines. 07:42.200 --> 07:44.320 You'll be the goner or you know who has. 07:44.320 --> 07:45.600 I don't know anything about it. 07:45.600 --> 07:46.600 I don't want to know. 07:46.600 --> 07:49.960 Don't you think I've got enough trouble nowadays keeping mugs like you out of the pen without 07:49.960 --> 07:51.760 being the fence for what you stole? 07:51.760 --> 07:53.800 Now you get out of my office and stay out. 07:53.800 --> 07:55.760 Okay, but I'll be back. 07:55.760 --> 07:58.600 Fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money. 07:58.600 --> 08:01.320 What do you want? 08:01.320 --> 08:02.320 Why... 08:02.320 --> 08:03.320 What brings you here, Mr. Hines? 08:03.320 --> 08:04.320 My name's Robert Tasker. 08:04.320 --> 08:05.680 Did Mr. Craig tell you about me? 08:05.680 --> 08:07.380 I knew I'd seen you before. 08:07.380 --> 08:09.800 You're that punk kid I sent up to San Quentin. 08:09.800 --> 08:11.320 What's for ten years? 08:11.320 --> 08:12.920 What do you mean you're working here? 08:12.920 --> 08:14.080 Well, Mr. Craig got me out. 08:14.080 --> 08:15.080 He gave me a job. 08:15.080 --> 08:16.080 Job of what? 08:16.080 --> 08:17.080 Snooping outside my office? 08:17.080 --> 08:18.080 Oh, I wasn't... 08:18.080 --> 08:19.980 Don't talk back to me, you dirty little jail rat! 08:19.980 --> 08:20.980 You... 08:20.980 --> 08:21.980 Why you... 08:21.980 --> 08:22.980 Robert, don't! 08:22.980 --> 08:23.980 Let me go. 08:23.980 --> 08:25.880 Well, what's the trouble here? 08:25.880 --> 08:26.880 Robert? 08:26.880 --> 08:27.880 Let me go. 08:27.880 --> 08:28.880 Stop it. 08:28.880 --> 08:29.880 Calm down. 08:29.880 --> 08:30.880 Calm down. 08:30.880 --> 08:32.680 What's the matter? 08:32.680 --> 08:34.840 What's the idea of bringing this kid into the office, Max? 08:34.840 --> 08:37.720 Isn't it bad enough to have to work with criminals all day without... 08:37.720 --> 08:39.480 Robert's not a criminal. 08:39.480 --> 08:41.920 He's here because I want him to be here. 08:41.920 --> 08:43.480 Because I believe in him and trust him. 08:43.480 --> 08:44.480 Oh, yeah? 08:44.480 --> 08:46.880 You don't still have anything against Robert, do you? 08:46.880 --> 08:50.360 I just don't like anybody hanging around outside my door when I'm having a private conference, 08:50.360 --> 08:51.360 that's all. 08:51.360 --> 08:52.360 All right, all right. 08:52.360 --> 08:53.360 Now, look. 08:53.360 --> 08:56.400 Robert Tasker is one of the finest, most gifted young people I've ever known. 08:56.400 --> 08:58.080 I want him to get along here. 08:58.080 --> 09:00.840 And I want him to get along with you, too, Arthur. 09:00.840 --> 09:01.840 Really? 09:01.840 --> 09:02.840 Well, to me, I can get along with anybody. 09:02.840 --> 09:03.840 Well, I've got to be in court. 09:03.840 --> 09:04.840 Wait a minute. 09:04.840 --> 09:05.840 Wait a minute. 09:05.840 --> 09:09.840 Now, shake hands with both of you, will you? 09:09.840 --> 09:12.240 Well, anything to keep peace in the family. 09:12.240 --> 09:13.240 That's fine. 09:13.240 --> 09:14.240 Everything forgotten. 09:14.240 --> 09:16.240 Sound off on a clean slate, right? 09:16.240 --> 09:17.240 Sure. 09:17.240 --> 09:20.240 Well, I'll see you later in the afternoon, Max. 09:20.240 --> 09:25.840 Oh, Robert, come into my office for a minute, will you? 09:25.840 --> 09:26.840 Sure. 09:26.840 --> 09:30.040 My boy, I'm terribly sorry. 09:30.040 --> 09:32.520 I don't know how to begin to apologize. 09:32.520 --> 09:33.520 Why should you apologize? 09:33.520 --> 09:34.960 Oh, it was all my fault. 09:34.960 --> 09:39.320 I don't know how I could have been stupid enough not to tell him beforehand for both 09:39.320 --> 09:40.320 your sakes. 09:40.320 --> 09:41.320 I know. 09:41.320 --> 09:43.320 But I just don't like him and he doesn't like me. 09:43.320 --> 09:45.000 Oh, Robert, you're wrong there. 09:45.000 --> 09:48.880 It's just that things have been happening lately to upset him, like this fellow Marvin 09:48.880 --> 09:51.160 and his $50,000. 09:51.160 --> 09:52.160 You know about that? 09:52.160 --> 09:56.640 Well, Robert, you know, we have to deal with some peculiar people in this business. 09:56.640 --> 09:59.640 There's a poor fellow who's been in prison himself for the last five years. 09:59.640 --> 10:01.680 He had quite a lot of money when he went in. 10:01.680 --> 10:03.000 Oh, he stole it, I guess. 10:03.000 --> 10:05.120 Oh, he thinks Hines hijacked it on him, huh? 10:05.120 --> 10:07.040 If he ever really had it. 10:07.040 --> 10:09.400 He says he left it with a pal of his. 10:09.400 --> 10:11.160 Later the pal was killed in a gunfight. 10:11.160 --> 10:12.640 Galucci, you remember the case? 10:12.640 --> 10:14.200 Yeah, I remember something about it. 10:14.200 --> 10:17.800 Anyway, just before he died, he told somebody he'd left the money with Hines. 10:17.800 --> 10:19.560 That's how the story goes. 10:19.560 --> 10:21.560 You know how these things travel on the grapevine. 10:21.560 --> 10:23.360 It's all nonsense, of course. 10:23.360 --> 10:25.040 That guy meant business just the same. 10:25.040 --> 10:27.000 That probably explains the whole thing. 10:27.000 --> 10:29.600 Hines is a little scared. 10:29.600 --> 10:31.400 Well, don't let it worry you, Robert. 10:31.400 --> 10:32.400 You will stay, won't you? 10:32.400 --> 10:33.720 Believe me, it's for the best. 10:33.720 --> 10:35.760 Well, I've got to trust somebody, I guess. 10:35.760 --> 10:37.040 Well, trust me, Robert. 10:37.040 --> 10:39.960 I've never given you a bum steer, have I? 10:39.960 --> 10:40.960 No. 10:40.960 --> 10:41.960 Okay. 10:41.960 --> 10:42.960 That's the spirit. 10:42.960 --> 10:46.680 And any other little troubles, you just bring them to me, see? 10:46.680 --> 10:47.680 Thanks. 10:47.680 --> 10:49.480 Well, I guess I'd better relieve Peggy on the board. 10:49.480 --> 10:51.480 Keep your chin up, kid. 10:51.480 --> 10:52.480 Sure. 10:52.480 --> 10:53.480 Sorry I kept you waiting, Peggy. 10:53.480 --> 10:54.480 That's all right. 10:54.480 --> 10:55.480 Hey, Peggy, what's the matter? 10:55.480 --> 10:56.480 Shh. 10:56.480 --> 10:57.480 Please. 10:57.480 --> 10:58.480 Don't say anything. 10:58.480 --> 10:59.760 But Peggy, what is it? 10:59.760 --> 11:00.760 Robert, I'm scared. 11:00.760 --> 11:01.760 Of what, Hines? 11:01.760 --> 11:02.760 Don't be silly. 11:02.760 --> 11:03.760 No, no, it's not him. 11:03.760 --> 11:04.760 Well, what is it? 11:04.760 --> 11:08.720 Robert, I shouldn't, but I've got to tell someone. 11:08.720 --> 11:09.720 Well, sure you have. 11:09.720 --> 11:10.720 Come on, take it easy now. 11:10.720 --> 11:11.720 What is it? 11:11.720 --> 11:13.720 Well, I've never told anyone before. 11:13.720 --> 11:15.840 Neither Mr. Hines nor Mr. Craig are known. 11:15.840 --> 11:16.840 I'd die if they did. 11:16.840 --> 11:17.840 You wouldn't tell anyone, would you? 11:17.840 --> 11:18.840 Of course I won't. 11:18.840 --> 11:19.840 Come on, come on, spell it. 11:19.840 --> 11:24.840 You saw that man who was in here who was arguing with Mr. Hines about the $50,000? 11:24.840 --> 11:25.840 Yeah. 11:25.840 --> 11:26.840 Well, it's true. 11:26.840 --> 11:27.840 There is $50,000. 11:27.840 --> 11:28.840 There is $50,000 somewhere. 11:28.840 --> 11:29.840 Yeah? 11:29.840 --> 11:32.680 Well, how do you know all this? 11:32.680 --> 11:33.680 I know and I'm scared. 11:33.680 --> 11:36.680 Robert, he's a killer. 11:36.680 --> 11:37.680 That guy? 11:37.680 --> 11:41.680 Well, I wouldn't be surprised, but how do you know? 11:41.680 --> 11:50.280 Because he's my own brother. 11:50.280 --> 11:52.840 I had a hunch to lamb out of there right then. 11:52.840 --> 11:56.720 I knew something was going to happen, but I hated to run out on Peggy when she was in 11:56.720 --> 11:59.360 the jam and might need help. 11:59.360 --> 12:02.720 And I didn't want to let Mr. Craig down either, so I stayed. 12:02.720 --> 12:06.520 Then one day, about two weeks later, it came. 12:06.520 --> 12:08.160 I hadn't had any more trouble with Hines. 12:08.160 --> 12:10.600 He was out of town most of the time anyway. 12:10.600 --> 12:12.880 He was still out of town that day. 12:12.880 --> 12:22.760 The day that he died. 12:22.760 --> 12:24.360 Craig and Hines. 12:24.360 --> 12:25.760 I'm sorry he's out of town. 12:25.760 --> 12:27.360 You might try later this afternoon. 12:27.360 --> 12:30.400 Yes, I'll tell Mr. Hines. 12:30.400 --> 12:31.400 Say Peggy. 12:31.400 --> 12:32.400 Uh-huh? 12:32.400 --> 12:33.400 Do you know when Mr. Craig will be in? 12:33.400 --> 12:34.400 No, he didn't say. 12:34.400 --> 12:35.400 He's still over in the court. 12:35.400 --> 12:36.400 Harry. 12:36.400 --> 12:37.400 Where is he? 12:37.400 --> 12:38.400 Who? 12:38.400 --> 12:39.400 You know who. 12:39.400 --> 12:40.400 Hines. 12:40.400 --> 12:41.400 Oh, Harry, I told you not to come. 12:41.400 --> 12:42.400 I begged you not to. 12:42.400 --> 12:43.400 Sure, sure. 12:43.400 --> 12:44.400 Always a little pal. 12:44.400 --> 12:45.400 Always a little... 12:45.400 --> 12:46.400 Hey, wait a minute. 12:46.400 --> 12:47.400 What does this guy know? 12:47.400 --> 12:51.200 I told him that we were... that you were my brother. 12:51.200 --> 12:52.200 But nobody else knows him. 12:52.200 --> 12:53.200 Yeah, sure. 12:53.200 --> 12:54.200 Okay. 12:54.200 --> 12:55.200 What do I care? 12:55.200 --> 12:56.200 I care about one thing. 12:56.200 --> 12:59.600 Harry, you promised you wouldn't come up here. 12:59.600 --> 13:00.600 Where's Hines? 13:00.600 --> 13:01.600 I don't know. 13:01.600 --> 13:02.600 He's out. 13:02.600 --> 13:03.600 Well, then I'll wait till he comes back. 13:03.600 --> 13:04.600 Harry, you must... 13:04.600 --> 13:05.600 I'm staying. 13:05.600 --> 13:06.600 I'll get it out of him. 13:06.600 --> 13:08.360 Harry, your sister said you should leave. 13:08.360 --> 13:09.720 Keep out of this, punk. 13:09.720 --> 13:11.320 I don't like that word, pal. 13:11.320 --> 13:12.320 Robert, listen. 13:12.320 --> 13:14.120 Will you watch the board for a few minutes? 13:14.120 --> 13:15.120 Sure. 13:15.120 --> 13:16.120 It's lunchtime anyway. 13:16.120 --> 13:19.640 Harry, I've got some things I want to talk over with you, privately. 13:19.640 --> 13:20.640 Yeah? 13:20.640 --> 13:21.640 What things? 13:21.640 --> 13:23.680 About Hines and you know. 13:23.680 --> 13:25.880 Come on, we'll go downstairs to the grill in the lobby. 13:25.880 --> 13:28.440 You wouldn't be trying to ease me out of here, would you? 13:28.440 --> 13:29.440 No, honest. 13:29.440 --> 13:30.760 I've got to talk to you, Harry. 13:30.760 --> 13:31.760 Come on. 13:31.760 --> 13:32.760 Okay, and listen, pal. 13:32.760 --> 13:33.760 Yeah? 13:33.760 --> 13:38.280 If Mr. Hines comes in, you tell him I was here and tell him he better come across or 13:38.280 --> 13:39.280 else. 13:39.280 --> 13:40.280 Is that all? 13:40.280 --> 13:41.280 That's enough, isn't it? 13:41.280 --> 13:42.280 You know what I mean. 13:42.280 --> 13:43.280 Plenty. 13:43.280 --> 13:44.280 Sure. 13:44.280 --> 13:45.280 Craig and Hines. 13:45.280 --> 13:46.280 Hello, Robert. 13:46.280 --> 13:47.280 This is Max Craig. 13:47.280 --> 13:48.280 Oh, yes, Mr. Craig. 13:48.280 --> 13:49.280 Hey. 13:49.280 --> 13:53.960 You there all alone, pegging out to lunch, huh? 13:53.960 --> 13:54.960 Yes, she is. 13:54.960 --> 13:55.960 Well, that can't be helped. 13:55.960 --> 13:56.960 I'm in a hurry. 13:56.960 --> 13:57.960 Now, I'll tell you what I want you to do. 13:57.960 --> 13:58.960 Yes, sir. 13:58.960 --> 13:59.960 I'm across the street in the courthouse, Judge Andrews Court, the Ellsworth case. 13:59.960 --> 14:00.960 Now, there's some notes I've got to have over here right away. 14:00.960 --> 14:01.960 They're in my own handwriting and pencil and clearly marked Ellsworth. 14:01.960 --> 14:02.960 Yes, sir. 14:02.960 --> 14:03.960 You'll find them in Mr. Hines' office. 14:03.960 --> 14:04.960 The pages all clipped together. 14:04.960 --> 14:05.960 I don't know exactly where in his office. 14:05.960 --> 14:06.960 It may be on his desk or maybe one of the drawers or in the file. 14:06.960 --> 14:07.960 I don't know exactly where in his office. 14:07.960 --> 14:08.960 It may be on his desk or maybe one of the drawers or in the file. 14:08.960 --> 14:30.120 I'll be waiting for you. 14:30.120 --> 14:33.240 I left the switchboard and went into Mr. Hines' office. 14:33.240 --> 14:34.600 I started looking around for the notes. 14:34.600 --> 14:35.600 I looked everywhere. 14:35.600 --> 14:37.640 The desk drawers, the piling cabinet. 14:37.640 --> 14:41.080 I even tried to look in the safe, but it was locked. 14:41.080 --> 14:43.080 Then I noticed some yellow papers on top of the bookcase. 14:43.080 --> 14:44.760 I reached up and took them down. 14:44.760 --> 14:49.280 I was standing there with my back to the private entrance, looking the papers over to be sure 14:49.280 --> 14:50.680 that they were right ones when... 14:50.680 --> 14:55.600 What are you doing in here? 14:55.600 --> 14:57.280 Mr. Craigert wanted some papers, Mr. Hines. 14:57.280 --> 14:58.880 I thought I told you to stay away from my office. 14:58.880 --> 15:00.880 What are you snooping around in here for? 15:00.880 --> 15:02.920 Well, Mr. Craigert told me to look in here for... 15:02.920 --> 15:03.920 Yeah? 15:03.920 --> 15:06.480 There's something mighty funny going on around this office. 15:06.480 --> 15:07.480 There's nothing funny, Mr. Hines. 15:07.480 --> 15:08.480 What did Mr. Craigert just say? 15:08.480 --> 15:09.480 I say there is. 15:09.480 --> 15:13.840 What's that switchboard girl doing sneaking around the lobby with Harry Marvin? 15:13.840 --> 15:15.360 Tried to duck me, but I saw him. 15:15.360 --> 15:20.360 First, the switchboard girl turns out to have a crazy ex-convict for a boyfriend and now... 15:20.360 --> 15:21.360 That's a lie. 15:21.360 --> 15:22.360 He's her brother. 15:22.360 --> 15:23.360 Her brother? 15:23.360 --> 15:24.360 Oh, so that's it. 15:24.360 --> 15:25.360 I shouldn't have said that, Mr. Hines. 15:25.360 --> 15:26.360 I don't know anything about it. 15:26.360 --> 15:27.360 Oh, you don't? 15:27.360 --> 15:28.360 Well, I do. 15:28.360 --> 15:29.360 I get it now. 15:29.360 --> 15:30.360 I knew there was something. 15:30.360 --> 15:31.360 All of a sudden, I get it. 15:31.360 --> 15:32.360 Mr. Hines, there's nothing to get. 15:32.360 --> 15:33.360 Yeah, so the girl and her brother go down to the lobby. 15:33.360 --> 15:34.360 I don't know anything about it. 15:34.360 --> 15:35.360 I don't know anything about it. 15:35.360 --> 15:39.480 Yeah, so the girl and her brother go down to the lobby and set themselves an alibi because 15:39.480 --> 15:41.200 they know I'll suspect them. 15:41.200 --> 15:44.120 And then they get you to do their dirty work for a nice fat cut, I suppose. 15:44.120 --> 15:45.120 That's what you think. 15:45.120 --> 15:46.480 Please, Mr. Hines, don't talk that way. 15:46.480 --> 15:47.480 Well, you didn't find it, did you? 15:47.480 --> 15:48.480 And you won't. 15:48.480 --> 15:49.680 Now get out of here, you little punk, before I... 15:49.680 --> 15:50.680 I said don't talk that way. 15:50.680 --> 15:56.200 Why, you dirty, thieving little stirbuck. 15:56.200 --> 16:04.120 I told you not to talk that way. 16:04.120 --> 16:06.160 He fell and just lay there. 16:06.160 --> 16:08.400 For a minute, I didn't know what to do. 16:08.400 --> 16:12.240 Then I knew I'd have to tell Mr. Kroeger. 16:12.240 --> 16:14.800 I knew I was all worse up there anyway. 16:14.800 --> 16:18.400 I couldn't very well expect even a man like Mr. Kroeger to choose between his law partner 16:18.400 --> 16:19.680 and me. 16:19.680 --> 16:23.160 And I couldn't stay in the same office with Mr. Hines after what had happened. 16:23.160 --> 16:28.400 But somehow, I wanted to tell Mr. Kroeger myself before anyone else did. 16:28.400 --> 16:34.600 I went out to the switchboard and dialed the courthouse number. 16:34.600 --> 16:41.440 Judge Andrews, court, Johnson speaking. 16:41.440 --> 16:43.220 I want to speak to Mr. Max Kroeger. 16:43.220 --> 16:44.220 This is office calling, please. 16:44.220 --> 16:45.220 Well, I don't see him around here right now. 16:45.220 --> 16:46.220 The court's in recess. 16:46.220 --> 16:50.080 I know, but try to locate him, will you? 16:50.080 --> 16:51.080 It's important. 16:51.080 --> 16:52.080 Okay, hold the line. 16:52.080 --> 16:57.000 I sat there waiting for them to find Mr. Kroeger. 16:57.000 --> 17:00.320 And all of a sudden, I remembered the papers he wanted. 17:00.320 --> 17:02.840 I cut off the call on the switchboard. 17:02.840 --> 17:06.920 I had to take the papers over to him anyway, and I thought I might as well go over and 17:06.920 --> 17:11.160 give him the papers and tell him what had happened and get it over with. 17:11.160 --> 17:13.520 I was starting for the front door of the office. 17:13.520 --> 17:15.000 No, no, no. 17:15.000 --> 17:17.640 Then I heard a sound from Mr. Hines' office behind me. 17:17.640 --> 17:21.480 At first, I thought he was just coming to, and I kept going. 17:21.480 --> 17:24.120 Then something sort of clicked in my mind, and I stopped. 17:24.120 --> 17:27.760 The sound hadn't seemed quite right for a man just coming to. 17:27.760 --> 17:31.880 I listened, but I didn't hear anything more. 17:31.880 --> 17:33.240 That didn't seem quite natural either. 17:33.240 --> 17:37.140 I went back and opened the door to Mr. Hines' office. 17:37.140 --> 17:40.880 He was lying there just as I had left him, and there was something different. 17:40.880 --> 17:43.040 I went over and looked at him more closely. 17:43.040 --> 17:46.240 His face was a terrible gray. 17:46.240 --> 17:49.080 I touched his wrist, feeling for his pulse. 17:49.080 --> 17:53.720 The next thing I knew, I was down on my knees tearing open his collar, but even then I knew 17:53.720 --> 17:55.840 it wasn't any use. 17:55.840 --> 17:56.840 Mr. Hines was dead. 17:56.840 --> 18:03.520 I don't know how long I stood there in the room. 18:03.520 --> 18:05.040 It might have been hours. 18:05.040 --> 18:06.520 It might have been only a couple of minutes. 18:06.520 --> 18:11.080 I just stood there, my mind dazed, and yet at the same time racing through a thousand 18:11.080 --> 18:16.800 half-formed plots and schemes of escape, of what I could say, of some way out of it. 18:16.800 --> 18:20.440 Then the switchboard began to buzz with an incoming call. 18:20.440 --> 18:24.120 It sort of brought me to my senses more than anything else. 18:24.120 --> 18:26.480 I went to answer it. 18:26.480 --> 18:27.480 Kroeger and Hines. 18:27.480 --> 18:30.480 Robert, are you still there? 18:30.480 --> 18:31.480 Mr. Kroeger, I... 18:31.480 --> 18:32.480 Where are those notes? 18:32.480 --> 18:33.480 Haven't you found them yet? 18:33.480 --> 18:34.480 Yes, I found them all right. 18:34.480 --> 18:35.480 Well, bring them over here. 18:35.480 --> 18:36.480 I need them right away. 18:36.480 --> 18:37.480 Mr. Kroeger, I... 18:37.480 --> 18:38.480 Robert, what's the matter with you? 18:38.480 --> 18:39.480 I... 18:39.480 --> 18:40.480 I just killed Mr. Hines. 18:40.480 --> 18:55.760 You're just making it hard for yourself, Tesker. 18:55.760 --> 18:57.280 I've told you what happened. 18:57.280 --> 18:58.720 In a pig's eye you have. 18:58.720 --> 19:00.520 Well, I don't have to talk if I don't want to. 19:00.520 --> 19:01.520 Oh, no? 19:01.520 --> 19:02.520 I'm waiting for Mr. Kroeger. 19:02.520 --> 19:03.520 I told you that. 19:03.520 --> 19:05.280 Kroeger, what do you think he's gonna do for you? 19:05.280 --> 19:06.280 I don't know. 19:06.280 --> 19:07.280 Well, I do. 19:07.280 --> 19:08.280 He's gonna see that you're burned. 19:08.280 --> 19:09.280 That's what he's gonna do for you. 19:09.280 --> 19:10.280 Maybe. 19:10.280 --> 19:12.560 I suspect you killed a man's law partner right in his own office. 19:12.560 --> 19:13.920 You think he's gonna help you? 19:13.920 --> 19:14.920 Are you crazy? 19:14.920 --> 19:16.480 Well, he told me he'd come down. 19:16.480 --> 19:19.120 Sure, of course he'll come down to give evidence against you. 19:19.120 --> 19:20.120 Now, listen, Tesker. 19:20.120 --> 19:21.120 Oh, yeah? 19:21.120 --> 19:22.720 To give a full confession, we may be able to get you a break. 19:22.720 --> 19:23.720 All right. 19:23.720 --> 19:24.720 Mr. Kroeger's outside, Captain. 19:24.720 --> 19:25.720 He wants to see you. 19:25.720 --> 19:26.720 Sure, send him in. 19:26.720 --> 19:27.720 Okay, Mr. Kroeger. 19:27.720 --> 19:28.720 Thank you. 19:28.720 --> 19:29.720 Oh, hi, boys. 19:29.720 --> 19:30.720 Hey, Mr. Kroeger. 19:30.720 --> 19:31.720 Hello, Robert. 19:31.720 --> 19:32.720 Hello, Mr. Kroeger. 19:32.720 --> 19:33.720 I've been treating you all right? 19:33.720 --> 19:34.720 Pretty good. 19:34.720 --> 19:35.720 Fine. 19:35.720 --> 19:38.640 I don't like to have my people treated roughly. 19:38.640 --> 19:40.040 You know what? 19:40.040 --> 19:42.880 You heard me, Captain, and while you're at it, you might as well take those handcuffs 19:42.880 --> 19:43.880 off of him. 19:43.880 --> 19:46.440 Because from this moment, he's out on bond, released in my custody. 19:46.440 --> 19:47.840 I've got the papers right here. 19:47.840 --> 19:49.240 Say, are you crazy? 19:49.240 --> 19:50.240 Certainly not. 19:50.240 --> 19:52.240 I simply don't believe the boy did it, that's all. 19:52.240 --> 19:53.240 Well, I'll be... 19:53.240 --> 19:55.000 All right, Hawkshaw. 19:55.000 --> 19:56.280 Who do you think did it? 19:56.280 --> 19:57.620 That, Captain, is your department. 19:57.620 --> 19:59.520 My job is simply to defend an innocent man. 19:59.520 --> 20:01.040 Now, look, Kroeger, don't try to kid us. 20:01.040 --> 20:02.040 It's an open and shut case. 20:02.040 --> 20:05.800 Tesker's the only person who had the opportunity, the only one who had a motive. 20:05.800 --> 20:06.800 Uh-huh. 20:06.800 --> 20:07.800 Well? 20:07.800 --> 20:08.800 Not to speak ill of the deed, Captain. 20:08.800 --> 20:12.840 Although Arthur Hines was my lower partner, it is unfortunately true that quite a number 20:12.840 --> 20:14.840 of people at least thought they had a motive. 20:14.840 --> 20:15.840 Sure. 20:15.840 --> 20:18.920 So maybe this ex-con Harry Marvin had a motive, or even the dame on the switchboard had a motive, 20:18.920 --> 20:19.920 for all I know. 20:19.920 --> 20:21.400 But they couldn't have done it. 20:21.400 --> 20:24.200 Fifty people saw him together downstairs in the lobby of the building at the time the murder 20:24.200 --> 20:25.200 was committed. 20:25.200 --> 20:26.840 Oh, you talked to them, have you? 20:26.840 --> 20:27.840 Sure. 20:27.840 --> 20:28.840 So what? 20:28.840 --> 20:30.920 Listen, this kid admits he had a quarrel with Hines. 20:30.920 --> 20:32.240 He always hated him anyway. 20:32.240 --> 20:33.240 He admits he hit him. 20:33.240 --> 20:36.200 So he picks the paperweight off the desk and smashes him over the head. 20:36.200 --> 20:37.200 Wait a minute. 20:37.200 --> 20:39.000 You didn't say anything about that, Robert? 20:39.000 --> 20:41.440 No, I didn't even know about it before. 20:41.440 --> 20:42.440 I didn't hit him with a paperweight. 20:42.440 --> 20:43.440 Stop it, will you? 20:43.440 --> 20:46.240 The back of the man's head is bashed in with that paperweight. 20:46.240 --> 20:48.760 This kid's fingerprints are all over it. 20:48.760 --> 20:49.800 What's so funny? 20:49.800 --> 20:50.840 This is murder, mister. 20:50.840 --> 20:54.920 I'm sorry, but you find out if you ever try to bring this boy to trial for killing Arthur 20:54.920 --> 20:55.920 Hines with a paperweight. 20:55.920 --> 20:57.880 Listen, Craig, I know you're pretty smart. 20:57.880 --> 21:00.160 I know you go around bragging you never lost a case. 21:00.160 --> 21:01.480 And that goes for this one. 21:01.480 --> 21:02.480 Double. 21:02.480 --> 21:04.000 But you're not going to make a chump out of me. 21:04.000 --> 21:06.160 This boy is going to be indicted for murder. 21:06.160 --> 21:07.920 He's going to be convicted of murder. 21:07.920 --> 21:12.760 And he's going to burn for murder. 21:12.760 --> 21:20.440 Indicted, convicted, burned. 21:20.440 --> 21:21.440 Three promises. 21:21.440 --> 21:24.320 And the first one's already happened. 21:24.320 --> 21:29.480 The second one, well, even I can see we don't stand much chance. 21:29.480 --> 21:33.680 And the third one, I just try not to think about it. 21:33.680 --> 21:37.040 I'm not going to be a good judge, Mr. Craig, up before that jury. 21:37.040 --> 21:40.520 Acting as though it was an absolute certainty that I'd be cleared. 21:40.520 --> 21:44.720 Pleading for me as though I were the only guy in the world. 21:44.720 --> 21:50.520 Because well, that's the kind of a man he is. 21:50.520 --> 22:00.160 Ladies and gentlemen, it is my firm conviction that when you've heard this boy's story from 22:00.160 --> 22:05.880 his own lips and went through it, you have in some measure, as I have in large measure, 22:05.880 --> 22:11.380 gained insight into the depth and integrity of his character and spirit, you will also 22:11.380 --> 22:13.340 believe him innocent. 22:13.340 --> 22:14.340 He is innocent. 22:14.340 --> 22:21.080 Now, Robert, I'll ask you to take a stand. 22:21.080 --> 22:22.080 Raise your right hand. 22:22.080 --> 22:24.680 You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, to help your God? 22:24.680 --> 22:25.680 I do. 22:25.680 --> 22:28.480 Now, Robert, just for the record, will you tell the court your full name? 22:28.480 --> 22:29.480 Robert Loringtasca. 22:29.480 --> 22:30.480 Your age? 22:30.480 --> 22:31.480 Twenty-four. 22:31.480 --> 22:33.240 Your mother and father are dead. 22:33.240 --> 22:34.680 You have no living relatives? 22:34.680 --> 22:36.280 No, not one. 22:36.280 --> 22:41.480 Now, before you begin your story, there are one or two extremely important points that 22:41.480 --> 22:44.480 I particularly wish to emphasize to the court. 22:44.480 --> 22:50.360 Now, tell me, Robert, how long was it between the time you quarreled with Mr. Himes and 22:50.360 --> 22:53.520 the time you went back into his office and found him dead? 22:53.520 --> 22:56.000 Not long, six or seven minutes, perhaps. 22:56.000 --> 23:00.480 But it was long enough for someone to have entered Mr. Himes' office by the back entrance, 23:00.480 --> 23:02.680 struck him, and left again, was it not? 23:02.680 --> 23:05.120 Yes, it was long enough for that to have happened. 23:05.120 --> 23:07.920 Would you have necessarily heard such a person enter the office? 23:07.920 --> 23:11.280 No, you can't hear much from outside when the door's closed. 23:11.280 --> 23:14.800 Particularly if there were no conversation, because Mr. Himes is already unconscious. 23:14.800 --> 23:15.800 Is that correct? 23:15.800 --> 23:18.280 Yes, then I wouldn't have heard anything. 23:18.280 --> 23:24.440 Now, concerning this famous paperweight the prosecution has talked so much about, I have 23:24.440 --> 23:25.440 it here. 23:25.440 --> 23:27.040 Do you recognize it? 23:27.040 --> 23:29.520 Yes, it was always on Mr. Himes' desk. 23:29.520 --> 23:34.080 Now, when you went into his office, at my order, to look for certain papers, you touched 23:34.080 --> 23:35.840 this paperweight, did you not? 23:35.840 --> 23:38.720 Yes, I saw just about everything on the desk. 23:38.720 --> 23:39.720 Exactly. 23:39.720 --> 23:43.120 In other words, your fingerprints would be found not only on this paperweight, but on 23:43.120 --> 23:45.480 practically everything else in the room. 23:45.480 --> 23:47.640 Well, yes, they would. 23:47.640 --> 23:53.240 In due course, Your Honor, we shall demonstrate that such is, in fact, precisely the case. 23:53.240 --> 23:59.520 Now, Robert, when Mr. Himes found you in his room, he was irate and highly suspicious, 23:59.520 --> 24:00.520 was he not? 24:00.520 --> 24:01.520 Yes, he was. 24:01.520 --> 24:05.000 In fact, he even suspected that there was some plot against him involving Peggy, the 24:05.000 --> 24:07.840 switchboard girl, and the client of his name, Harry Marvin. 24:07.840 --> 24:08.840 Yes, he did. 24:08.840 --> 24:12.120 You denied this, saying that in fact they were brother and sister? 24:12.120 --> 24:13.120 Yes. 24:13.120 --> 24:15.600 Yes, that's right. 24:15.600 --> 24:16.600 How is that again? 24:16.600 --> 24:21.400 You denied the charge of a plot saying that Peggy and Harry Marvin were brother and sister. 24:21.400 --> 24:24.200 And Mr. Himes went so far as to accuse you of stealing? 24:24.200 --> 24:25.200 Your Honor. 24:25.200 --> 24:26.200 Yes? 24:26.200 --> 24:29.840 Your Honor, there's something I've just thought of, some new evidence. 24:29.840 --> 24:32.000 I'd like a few minutes alone with my lawyer, please. 24:32.000 --> 24:34.120 Well, if counsel has no objection. 24:34.120 --> 24:35.120 Robert, what is it? 24:35.120 --> 24:38.000 It's just something that I think I ought to tell you in private. 24:38.000 --> 24:39.000 Very well. 24:39.000 --> 24:40.560 If Your Honor, please, then. 24:40.560 --> 24:41.560 By all means. 24:41.560 --> 24:43.160 Perhaps you would like to use my chambers. 24:43.160 --> 24:44.160 Thank you, Your Honor. 24:44.160 --> 24:47.160 Come along, Robert. 24:47.160 --> 24:52.720 Well, you didn't have to lock the door, Robert. 24:52.720 --> 24:53.720 I wanted to be private. 24:53.720 --> 24:54.720 All right. 24:54.720 --> 24:56.120 But Robert, you mustn't worry like this. 24:56.120 --> 24:57.120 Let me do the worrying. 24:57.120 --> 24:58.120 They can't convict you. 24:58.120 --> 24:59.520 If there's a reasonable doubt, that's the law. 24:59.520 --> 25:01.040 And there is a reasonable doubt. 25:01.040 --> 25:03.540 Somebody did come in and hit Hines in those six or seven minutes. 25:03.540 --> 25:04.720 It must have been that way. 25:04.720 --> 25:05.720 Yeah, I know. 25:05.720 --> 25:06.720 Of course you do. 25:06.720 --> 25:07.720 We've been over the whole thing. 25:07.720 --> 25:09.520 Now, let's go back into that courtroom. 25:09.520 --> 25:13.400 Mr. Craig, there's something I haven't told you. 25:13.400 --> 25:14.400 Something you haven't told me? 25:14.400 --> 25:15.400 What? 25:15.400 --> 25:18.200 Well, it's not something, but it's kind of important because it's something I never told 25:18.200 --> 25:19.200 anyone. 25:19.200 --> 25:20.400 Well, what is it? 25:20.400 --> 25:27.120 I never told anyone that Peggy was Harry Marvin's sister, except Mr. Hines, by mistake. 25:27.120 --> 25:28.120 And he's dead. 25:28.120 --> 25:30.920 Now, Robert, don't you think that's a little trivial to be... 25:30.920 --> 25:32.080 No. 25:32.080 --> 25:34.000 Because you know about it. 25:34.000 --> 25:35.600 You just said so in the courtroom. 25:35.600 --> 25:36.600 Well, I... 25:36.600 --> 25:38.880 There's only one way you could have found out. 25:38.880 --> 25:42.480 He must have been in your office when I had the fight with Hines and heard me tell him. 25:42.480 --> 25:43.480 Robert, that's ridiculous. 25:43.480 --> 25:44.800 Oh, no, it isn't. 25:44.800 --> 25:46.360 And you're right. 25:46.360 --> 25:49.640 Somebody did come in in those six or seven minutes and kill Hines. 25:49.640 --> 25:50.640 You did. 25:50.640 --> 25:51.640 You're crazy. 25:51.640 --> 25:55.000 Yes, it must have been for that $50,000 you hijacked the hijacker. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.840 And you knew they'd pin it on me with my record. 25:57.840 --> 25:59.680 Maybe that's why you got me out of the pen in the first place. 25:59.680 --> 26:00.680 It is, isn't it? 26:00.680 --> 26:02.680 Well, I'm not going to stay here and listen to any such nonsense. 26:02.680 --> 26:05.680 Oh, yes, you are, because I'm going to get the truth out of you right now. 26:05.680 --> 26:07.640 You planned it that way, didn't you? 26:07.640 --> 26:10.800 You sent me into Hines' office that day and you probably sent him. 26:10.800 --> 26:14.520 And you figured you were such a hot lawyer that might even get me off at 20 years or 26:14.520 --> 26:16.920 so to ease your dirty conscience, didn't you? 26:16.920 --> 26:17.920 Talk, Kroeger. 26:17.920 --> 26:20.240 You won't get anywhere using violence with me. 26:20.240 --> 26:21.240 No. 26:21.240 --> 26:22.240 Talk! 26:22.240 --> 26:23.240 Now, wait a minute. 26:23.240 --> 26:26.160 Even if I did confess, it wouldn't hold up as evidence. 26:26.160 --> 26:27.160 Talk! 26:27.160 --> 26:28.160 Listen! 26:28.160 --> 26:32.080 Listen, we've postponed the trial. 26:32.080 --> 26:33.080 I can get you out of the country. 26:33.080 --> 26:34.080 I'll give you money. 26:34.080 --> 26:35.080 That's all I wanted to know. 26:35.080 --> 26:36.080 Talk! 26:36.080 --> 26:37.080 No, don't! 26:37.080 --> 26:38.080 You're dead! 26:38.080 --> 26:39.080 You killed him! 26:39.080 --> 26:44.080 That's why you were when I found you at court and I could find you, weren't you? 26:44.080 --> 26:47.080 You were killing Hines, weren't you? 26:47.080 --> 26:49.080 Yes, yes, I did. 26:49.080 --> 26:50.080 I did it. 26:50.080 --> 26:51.080 I killed him. 26:51.080 --> 26:52.080 Okay. 26:52.080 --> 26:55.080 I guess we can unlock the door now. 26:55.080 --> 26:56.080 What's going on here? 26:56.080 --> 26:57.080 He's under the garb of him! 26:57.080 --> 26:58.080 He's crazy. 26:58.080 --> 26:59.080 He attacked me. 26:59.080 --> 27:00.080 So I gather. 27:00.080 --> 27:01.080 He even killed me a murder. 27:01.080 --> 27:02.080 Yes, I heard him. 27:02.080 --> 27:06.960 Tell me, Kroeger, where were you when this boy phoned you here at court when they couldn't 27:06.960 --> 27:07.960 find you? 27:07.960 --> 27:12.560 Why, as a matter of fact, I was right here, right in this very room. 27:12.560 --> 27:14.160 I had some work to do. 27:14.160 --> 27:15.160 I wanted privacy. 27:15.160 --> 27:16.680 Your court was in recent. 27:16.680 --> 27:17.680 You were out of town. 27:17.680 --> 27:18.680 Yes, I know. 27:18.680 --> 27:20.680 But there's something you don't know. 27:20.680 --> 27:21.680 I, hey, what? 27:21.680 --> 27:25.840 On the day of the murder, the floor of this room was being repainted. 27:25.840 --> 27:29.440 And the paint, Mr. Kroeger, was quite wet. 27:29.440 --> 27:46.920 Your Honor, the defense rests. 27:46.920 --> 27:50.520 And so closes the defense rest starring Alan Ladd. 27:50.520 --> 27:55.080 Tonight's tale of Suspense. 27:55.080 --> 27:58.960 Alan Ladd appeared through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures, producers of Lady in the 27:58.960 --> 27:59.960 Dark. 27:59.960 --> 28:03.320 John McIntyre played lawyer Max Kroeger. 28:03.320 --> 28:08.200 Before Mr. Ladd returns to our microphone, here is a definition of yourself that may 28:08.200 --> 28:09.720 interest you. 28:09.720 --> 28:15.840 Connoisseur, one competent to act as a critical judge of an art or in a matter of taste. 28:15.840 --> 28:17.000 That's what Webster says. 28:17.000 --> 28:21.680 So that makes you a wine connoisseur because certainly you are competent to act as a critical 28:21.680 --> 28:24.320 judge of a wine's taste. 28:24.320 --> 28:28.440 Matter of fact, all you have to know to be a true wine connoisseur in the opinion of 28:28.440 --> 28:31.840 your friends and guests is a single word. 28:31.840 --> 28:35.320 Roma, R-O-M-A. 28:35.320 --> 28:40.520 To get the proof, make your own taste test of the tangy, appetizing Roma Sherry, the 28:40.520 --> 28:46.600 hearty, satisfying Roma Burgundy, the heavier, sweeter Roma Port, or any of the many different 28:46.600 --> 28:49.560 delicious Roma California wines. 28:49.560 --> 28:54.080 If your favorite dealer is temporarily out of the kind of Roma wine you prefer, ask for 28:54.080 --> 28:55.760 it again, please. 28:55.760 --> 29:04.240 Just be sure to say R-O-M-A, Roma wines, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 29:04.240 --> 29:05.240 world. 29:05.240 --> 29:07.800 Well, this is Alan Ladd. 29:07.800 --> 29:10.840 It was a pleasure to make another appearance on this program, which is a great favorite 29:10.840 --> 29:12.200 of mine. 29:12.200 --> 29:17.120 Next week they tell me Ladd Krieger will be your star, and I know you'll want to be listening, 29:17.120 --> 29:18.840 because I certainly will. 29:18.840 --> 29:19.840 Good night. 29:19.840 --> 29:22.800 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 29:22.800 --> 29:26.120 Tonight's play was written by Roland Brown and Robert L. Richards. 29:26.120 --> 29:30.000 Don't forget then next Thursday for Ladd Krieger in Suspense. 29:30.000 --> 29:39.680 Presented by Roma wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 29:39.680 --> 29:55.120 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.