WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.360 Roma wines presents Suspense. 00:18.360 --> 00:23.280 Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:23.280 --> 00:24.280 Salud. 00:24.280 --> 00:26.280 Your health, senor. 00:26.280 --> 00:28.160 Roma wines toast the world. 00:28.160 --> 00:33.680 The wine for your table is Roma wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the 00:33.680 --> 00:34.680 world. 00:34.680 --> 00:40.500 This is the man in black here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California to introduce 00:40.500 --> 00:43.560 this weekly half hour of Suspense. 00:43.560 --> 00:49.320 Tonight from Hollywood, Roma wines bring you Joseph Cotton in a Suspense play called Sneak 00:49.320 --> 00:54.560 Preview, which tells of a rather remarkable adventure experienced by that noted director 00:54.560 --> 00:57.360 of screen thrillers, Frank Henderson. 00:57.360 --> 01:03.040 And so with Mr. Henderson's by far stranger than fiction story as related and enacted 01:03.040 --> 01:09.160 by Joseph Cotton, we again hope to keep you in Suspense. 01:09.160 --> 01:11.300 Go ahead please, Mr. Henderson. 01:11.300 --> 01:13.600 This all began, you say, two weeks ago? 01:13.600 --> 01:14.600 Yes, that's right. 01:14.600 --> 01:18.120 I just finished the final cutting and dubbing on my newest picture, Escape to Destiny. 01:18.120 --> 01:19.520 I think you'll like it, by the way. 01:19.520 --> 01:20.520 Llewelyn and I. 01:20.520 --> 01:21.520 Yes, yes, go on. 01:21.520 --> 01:25.060 Well, I took the film East with me and the first day I got there we ran it in the projection 01:25.060 --> 01:28.760 room for a few of the boys in the New York office, they seemed to like it pretty well. 01:28.760 --> 01:34.320 Ruth, now that it's all over and we're safe. 01:34.320 --> 01:35.320 Yes? 01:35.320 --> 01:39.000 Well, there's one thing that still worries me. 01:39.000 --> 01:40.000 What's that? 01:40.000 --> 01:45.600 It's, well it's, Ruth, will you marry me? 01:45.600 --> 02:01.720 Darling, that's the one thing I've known the answer to from the very beginning. 02:01.720 --> 02:03.320 Well boys, there it is. 02:03.320 --> 02:05.880 Frank, it is but terrific. 02:05.880 --> 02:07.560 It's the best picture you've ever made. 02:07.560 --> 02:09.280 Oh, it's great, great. 02:09.280 --> 02:10.800 Hitchcock will absolutely quit. 02:10.800 --> 02:11.880 No kidding, you really think so? 02:11.880 --> 02:13.120 I do, Frank, honestly. 02:13.120 --> 02:15.000 I think it even tops perilous journey. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 Definitely. 02:16.000 --> 02:17.440 And it's solid box office, Frank, solid. 02:17.440 --> 02:20.960 Well, it's all yours boys, I can't think of anything more to do to it. 02:20.960 --> 02:24.320 We might lighten the music a little under that scene and the wine, fellas. 02:24.320 --> 02:26.320 I'll get it. 02:26.320 --> 02:27.320 Hello? 02:27.320 --> 02:28.320 Who? 02:28.320 --> 02:30.640 What does he want? 02:30.640 --> 02:33.040 Okay, put him on. 02:33.040 --> 02:34.040 Hello? 02:34.040 --> 02:36.760 Yes, this is Frank Henderson. 02:36.760 --> 02:38.520 Who? 02:38.520 --> 02:41.440 I don't think I know any Captain McNeil. 02:41.440 --> 02:47.600 Oh, well, may I ask why the chief of the security bureau wants to... 02:47.600 --> 02:49.920 I hope there's nothing wrong. 02:49.920 --> 02:50.920 I see. 02:50.920 --> 02:52.920 All right, I'll be there. 02:52.920 --> 02:54.920 Who was it, Frank? 02:54.920 --> 02:56.760 Somebody at the police headquarters. 02:56.760 --> 02:57.760 Police headquarters? 02:57.760 --> 02:58.760 What does he want? 02:58.760 --> 03:03.760 That's what I'd like to know. 03:03.760 --> 03:13.040 Well, Mr. Henderson, my second hearing tells me you were a little mystified. 03:13.040 --> 03:14.040 Well, a little, I guess. 03:14.040 --> 03:16.040 You'd never heard of any Captain McNeil? 03:16.040 --> 03:21.320 Oh, no, no, it was just that I didn't think to connect you with the Captain McNeil. 03:21.320 --> 03:24.120 Very nicely put, Mr. Henderson, very nicely put. 03:24.120 --> 03:25.120 But you don't need to explain. 03:25.120 --> 03:29.240 There aren't so many people as you'd think who'd ever heard of any Captain McNeil. 03:29.240 --> 03:33.120 An undercover agent isn't very much good if everybody knows him. 03:33.120 --> 03:35.200 Oh, no, no, I guess not. 03:35.200 --> 03:39.120 Mr. Henderson, when I heard you were going to be in New York, I just couldn't resist 03:39.120 --> 03:40.120 meeting you. 03:40.120 --> 03:41.120 Oh, I... 03:41.120 --> 03:43.560 You see, Mr. Henderson, I'm probably your greatest living admirer. 03:43.560 --> 03:44.560 Well, thank you. 03:44.560 --> 03:48.000 I guess I've seen every picture of you since the first one you directed, most of them three 03:48.000 --> 03:49.000 or four times. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.400 I'll have to remember you and my will. 03:50.400 --> 03:53.960 You know, you'd have made a first-class professional detective. 03:53.960 --> 03:55.480 I'm not so sure about that. 03:55.480 --> 03:58.280 There's a lot of difference between fact and fiction, I guess. 03:58.280 --> 03:59.280 Not so much. 03:59.280 --> 04:02.040 I've always followed the reasoning in your pictures with complete agreement. 04:02.040 --> 04:03.640 Well, I'm glad to hear that. 04:03.640 --> 04:05.920 Yes, but with one exception. 04:05.920 --> 04:06.920 Huh? 04:06.920 --> 04:07.920 What was that? 04:07.920 --> 04:08.920 I couldn't go along with you there. 04:08.920 --> 04:11.760 It was in your fifth picture, Murder in the Morning. 04:11.760 --> 04:14.960 You remember near the end of the picture where the killer has the detective and his pal at 04:14.960 --> 04:16.280 gunpoint in an empty room? 04:16.280 --> 04:17.280 Oh, I remember. 04:17.280 --> 04:19.400 The friend is allowed to leave. 04:19.400 --> 04:24.880 He's helpless anyway, unless... and here was the point... unless the detective is able 04:24.880 --> 04:30.640 to get over certain vital information to the friend in the presence of the killer, but 04:30.640 --> 04:31.720 without his knowledge. 04:31.720 --> 04:32.720 Do you remember? 04:32.720 --> 04:33.720 Sure. 04:33.720 --> 04:37.160 And when the friend is leaving, the detective hands him his hat, and inside the hat band 04:37.160 --> 04:39.480 he's slipped a piece of paper with the information on it. 04:39.480 --> 04:40.920 Is that what you mean? 04:40.920 --> 04:41.920 Exactly. 04:41.920 --> 04:42.920 And that's where I disagree. 04:42.920 --> 04:47.640 Although I realize it probably wasn't your fault. 04:47.640 --> 04:48.640 Probably the writer or the producer. 04:48.640 --> 04:49.640 Oh, no, no. 04:49.640 --> 04:51.600 As a matter of fact, that was my own idea. 04:51.600 --> 04:55.320 It's too simple to unimaginative, if you'll forgive me the word. 04:55.320 --> 04:59.840 No intelligent criminal would allow a thing like that to happen right under his nose. 04:59.840 --> 05:01.840 The way the thing was done, I thought... 05:01.840 --> 05:05.640 Even so, how is the friend to know that this paper is under his hat band? 05:05.640 --> 05:06.640 Oh, what do you see, Hans? 05:06.640 --> 05:08.480 It isn't something you'd likely to notice. 05:08.480 --> 05:11.280 You don't look under your hat band every time you put on your hat. 05:11.280 --> 05:12.280 I know, but we... 05:12.280 --> 05:13.280 It's far too fetched. 05:13.280 --> 05:14.280 It's not true to life. 05:14.280 --> 05:15.280 It's fiction. 05:15.280 --> 05:18.280 Excuse me a moment. 05:18.280 --> 05:19.280 Hello? 05:19.280 --> 05:20.280 Yes? 05:20.280 --> 05:23.280 Yes, as I see. 05:23.280 --> 05:27.480 I'll be down in just a few minutes. 05:27.480 --> 05:28.480 Pardon the interruption. 05:28.480 --> 05:30.240 Not at all, Captain. 05:30.240 --> 05:31.240 I really ought to be going. 05:31.240 --> 05:32.240 I've kept you too long. 05:32.240 --> 05:37.200 Mr. Henderson, I wonder if you're interested in a real crime. 05:37.200 --> 05:38.480 Real crime? 05:38.480 --> 05:42.000 Have you ever seen an actual murderer? 05:42.000 --> 05:45.680 Well, you do make me feel like an amateur now. 05:45.680 --> 05:48.160 No, to tell you the truth, I never have. 05:48.160 --> 05:49.160 Come on, then. 05:49.160 --> 05:51.480 It might give you an idea. 05:51.480 --> 05:52.480 It's down the hall. 05:52.480 --> 05:56.320 As a matter of fact, I've never seen this particular murderer myself. 05:56.320 --> 05:58.120 But you know he is a murderer? 05:58.120 --> 06:01.480 Not much like a character in one of your pictures, though. 06:01.480 --> 06:03.560 Nothing romantic or exciting. 06:03.560 --> 06:04.560 Was he clever? 06:04.560 --> 06:05.560 Oh, yes, indeed. 06:05.560 --> 06:08.560 His career has been 20 years. 06:08.560 --> 06:11.160 There's never been enough evidence to convict him. 06:11.160 --> 06:13.760 There isn't even a photograph of him. 06:13.760 --> 06:15.280 Here we are. 06:15.280 --> 06:20.360 But if you don't know any more than that, what charge are you holding him on? 06:20.360 --> 06:22.400 Charge? 06:22.400 --> 06:25.000 You don't need any charge when you hold him here. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.120 There he is. 06:27.120 --> 06:28.120 Dead. 06:28.120 --> 06:30.440 Dead, at last. 06:30.440 --> 06:31.840 How did he die? 06:31.840 --> 06:34.080 Shot in the back. 06:34.080 --> 06:35.560 He found him in Central Park. 06:35.560 --> 06:37.520 Well, there you are. 06:37.520 --> 06:44.120 Gregory Sarko, murderer, spy, drug addict, and about everything else in the book. 06:44.120 --> 06:45.120 Know who killed him? 06:45.120 --> 06:46.120 Who knows? 06:46.120 --> 06:47.120 Who cares? 06:47.120 --> 06:50.360 There are plenty of people who would have been happy to do it if they did. 06:50.360 --> 06:52.560 I suppose he had identification on him. 06:52.560 --> 06:53.560 Sure. 06:53.560 --> 06:55.840 Bankbook, wallet, a few inconsequential papers. 06:55.840 --> 06:56.840 Is that all? 06:56.840 --> 06:57.840 That's all. 06:57.840 --> 07:01.920 Oh, a little money, handkerchief, chin of aspirin. 07:01.920 --> 07:02.920 Aspirin? 07:02.920 --> 07:03.920 Sure. 07:03.920 --> 07:05.920 Criminals have headaches just like other people. 07:05.920 --> 07:09.080 It was aspirin, I suppose. 07:09.080 --> 07:12.040 We professionals may not be romantic, Mr. Henderson. 07:12.040 --> 07:13.040 We are thorough. 07:13.040 --> 07:14.040 Oh, cool. 07:14.040 --> 07:15.040 Yes, it was aspirin. 07:15.040 --> 07:17.960 I remember you saying he was a drug addict. 07:17.960 --> 07:20.000 So that was all he had on him, huh? 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 That's right. 07:21.000 --> 07:22.720 Nothing very sensational or exciting. 07:22.720 --> 07:23.720 No clues. 07:23.720 --> 07:24.720 What about that bankbook? 07:24.720 --> 07:26.360 Was it in his own name? 07:26.360 --> 07:28.440 Oh, he had a lot of names. 07:28.440 --> 07:30.960 Gregory Sarko was the one in the bankbook. 07:30.960 --> 07:31.960 His own, by the way. 07:31.960 --> 07:32.960 Why? 07:32.960 --> 07:36.200 Because a perfectly crazy notion has just entered my head. 07:36.200 --> 07:37.200 For a new picture? 07:37.200 --> 07:38.200 It could be. 07:38.200 --> 07:41.880 But, well, here I am in New York, little time on my hands and... 07:41.880 --> 07:44.320 Well, the guy intrigues me, that's all. 07:44.320 --> 07:46.080 A dead man intrigues you? 07:46.080 --> 07:47.760 His life intrigues me, sure. 07:47.760 --> 07:50.160 Finding out more about it intrigues me. 07:50.160 --> 07:51.160 What's the difference? 07:51.160 --> 07:52.160 The guy's dead. 07:52.160 --> 07:53.160 What have I got to lose? 07:53.160 --> 07:56.280 Well, now, don't say it's likely, Mr. Henderson. 07:56.280 --> 08:11.000 But it's possible, just barely possible, that you might lose your life. 08:11.000 --> 08:15.960 To change from a mood of suspense to one of carefree gaiety, let us wish ourselves away 08:15.960 --> 08:20.840 to Havana, Cuba, seated at a table in the fashionable Hotel Nacional de Cuba. 08:20.840 --> 08:25.040 Near us, a group of Cubans are entertaining an American visitor. 08:25.040 --> 08:28.680 Our American has just remarked that in point of great enjoyment, the Cuban Rumba is one 08:28.680 --> 08:31.640 of America's most delighting imported dances. 08:31.640 --> 08:36.320 Then raising his wine glass, the Cuban host responds, then we have perhaps discharged some 08:36.320 --> 08:41.200 part of our debt to you Americans for this wonderful tasting wine that gives us such 08:41.200 --> 08:42.920 great enjoyment. 08:42.920 --> 08:46.640 It is wine that Cuba imports from your faraway California. 08:46.640 --> 08:49.000 It is Roma wine. 08:49.000 --> 08:52.640 Americans didn't have to wait for wine connoisseurs of other lands to discover the greatness 08:52.640 --> 08:54.680 of California's wine districts. 08:54.680 --> 08:57.920 The superb quality of Roma California wines. 08:57.920 --> 09:03.280 So many millions made this discovery for themselves that Roma wines have long been America's largest 09:03.280 --> 09:04.880 selling wines. 09:04.880 --> 09:07.160 But these millions discovered something more. 09:07.160 --> 09:12.440 In Roma wines, they discovered an easy, inexpensive way to increase the delights of daily living. 09:12.440 --> 09:17.040 Yes, millions have discovered that Roma wines is a beverage on the table and when used in 09:17.040 --> 09:20.800 entertaining, add charm of a special and wholesome kind. 09:20.800 --> 09:23.020 I told you Roma wines cost little. 09:23.020 --> 09:27.840 That's because here in America you pay no high import duty, no expensive shipping charges. 09:27.840 --> 09:32.720 Two, Roma wines are made in Roma's own wineries in the heart of choice California vineyard 09:32.720 --> 09:33.720 districts. 09:33.720 --> 09:41.400 So cost to you is only pennies a glass for R-O-M-A. Roma wines made in California for 09:41.400 --> 09:45.280 enjoyment throughout the world. 09:45.280 --> 09:50.080 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Joseph Cotton as movie 09:50.080 --> 09:53.600 director Frank Henderson and Robert L. Richards sneak preview. 09:53.600 --> 10:09.440 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 10:09.440 --> 10:14.440 I'm not an adventurous or even a particularly courageous man and yet suddenly I found myself 10:14.440 --> 10:20.120 engaged in what might possibly as the captain had said be a fairly dangerous occupation. 10:20.120 --> 10:25.440 I poured for hours over Captain McNeil's file on Sarko, even persisting in the face of a 10:25.440 --> 10:30.640 sudden and somewhat mysterious reluctance on the part of the captain to have me do so. 10:30.640 --> 10:34.600 The next thing I did was to inquire at the bank which had issued Sarko's bank book and 10:34.600 --> 10:37.560 found out exactly nothing. 10:37.560 --> 10:47.880 I was pretty discouraged and about ready to quit when I went back to my hotel that evening. 10:47.880 --> 10:50.240 Would you mind closing the door please? 10:50.240 --> 10:51.240 Thank you Mr. Henderson. 10:51.240 --> 10:52.240 My name is Edward. 10:52.240 --> 10:54.360 How do you say what's the big idea? 10:54.360 --> 10:55.360 No, no Mr. Henderson. 10:55.360 --> 10:56.360 Keep away from the telephone please. 10:56.360 --> 10:57.760 Are you threatening me with that gun? 10:57.760 --> 10:59.040 I regret it Mr. Henderson. 10:59.040 --> 11:01.840 I deeply regret it but unfortunately I cannot deny it. 11:01.840 --> 11:05.480 Listen, this whole thing is ridiculous and melodramatic. 11:05.480 --> 11:09.920 Mr. Henderson, why are you so interested in Gregory Sarko? 11:09.920 --> 11:10.920 Sarko? 11:10.920 --> 11:13.440 Yes, Sarko. 11:13.440 --> 11:17.000 Just what if you will forgive a B picture expression is your racket. 11:17.000 --> 11:18.000 Racket? 11:18.000 --> 11:19.440 Oh no Mr. Henderson. 11:19.440 --> 11:21.320 I just like to make money, that's all. 11:21.320 --> 11:26.160 Look Mr. Edwards or whatever your name is, if it's any of your business and I don't see 11:26.160 --> 11:29.800 that it is, my interest in Sarko is simple curiosity. 11:29.800 --> 11:32.420 I was talking with the Captain McNeil at police headquarters. 11:32.420 --> 11:33.960 He showed me his file on Sarko. 11:33.960 --> 11:35.760 Of that much I'm quite aware sir. 11:35.760 --> 11:40.040 Well if you know so much what are you doing up here acting like a suspense radio character? 11:40.040 --> 11:44.960 It may sound silly to you but it was just that I'd never seen a murderer before, alive 11:44.960 --> 11:49.360 or dead and when I saw Sarko's body at police headquarters I got interested. 11:49.360 --> 11:50.960 Mr. Henderson, would you mind repeating that? 11:50.960 --> 11:52.280 I said I got interested. 11:52.280 --> 11:56.080 No, no you said you actually saw the body of Sarko? 11:56.080 --> 11:57.080 Sure. 11:57.080 --> 11:58.080 What's so terrific about that? 11:58.080 --> 11:59.080 Did you see his face? 11:59.080 --> 12:00.080 Of course. 12:00.080 --> 12:01.080 What did he look like? 12:01.080 --> 12:03.520 Iron gray hair, dark eyes. 12:03.520 --> 12:06.800 Yes, yes. 12:06.800 --> 12:09.840 Mr. Henderson we simply must reach an understanding. 12:09.840 --> 12:13.160 You've no idea what possibilities this opens for me. 12:13.160 --> 12:15.640 Well I'm no mind reader. 12:15.640 --> 12:20.280 Mr. Henderson may I have your word that you will do nothing unreasonable if I put away 12:20.280 --> 12:21.280 this gun? 12:21.280 --> 12:22.280 Okay. 12:22.280 --> 12:23.280 Thank you. 12:23.280 --> 12:25.000 I must administer my eye drops. 12:25.000 --> 12:26.920 My eyes are very bad perhaps you've noticed. 12:26.920 --> 12:29.280 I thought you might have a cold. 12:29.280 --> 12:31.320 Nothing so simple unfortunately. 12:31.320 --> 12:33.760 Ingenital weakness. 12:33.760 --> 12:36.760 There we are. 12:36.760 --> 12:41.600 Now Mr. Henderson my interest in all this is very sordid I'm afraid. 12:41.600 --> 12:45.760 Money to the extent of shall we say three hundred thousand dollars. 12:45.760 --> 12:46.760 Nice tidy little sum. 12:46.760 --> 12:49.000 Half of that sum could be yours Mr. Henderson. 12:49.000 --> 12:52.480 You'll forgive me if I don't jump at such a handsome offer without knowing a little 12:52.480 --> 12:53.480 more about it. 12:53.480 --> 12:58.080 I might have realized I suppose that mere Luca was not paramount to one of your position. 12:58.080 --> 13:00.240 Let's leave paramount out of this. 13:00.240 --> 13:06.080 But Mr. Henderson it so happens that I can put you in the way of quite a bit of rather 13:06.080 --> 13:08.440 special information about Sarko. 13:08.440 --> 13:10.840 I shall write several of them down for you here. 13:10.840 --> 13:13.400 That's just fine write several of what down? 13:13.400 --> 13:17.800 Names, addresses, places where you can discover what you want to know. 13:17.800 --> 13:18.800 Okay what's the catch? 13:18.800 --> 13:21.000 Mr. Henderson you must trust me. 13:21.000 --> 13:22.000 What do you want? 13:22.000 --> 13:24.120 I want very little. 13:24.120 --> 13:27.720 But when you've seen these people and when what they tell you suggests that there is 13:27.720 --> 13:30.680 still more to know come to see me. 13:30.680 --> 13:33.440 I've written that address down too. 13:33.440 --> 13:44.480 Good night and good hunting. 13:44.480 --> 13:47.880 Well by this time I was so obsessed with the thing that I actually set out to follow the 13:47.880 --> 13:52.320 itinerary of the rather sinister Mr. Edwards to the very latter. 13:52.320 --> 13:58.400 There was a man serving a life term at Sing Sing his name was Collet. 13:58.400 --> 14:04.800 Well it didn't used to be so healthy to talk about Sarko but seeing he's dead yeah I know 14:04.800 --> 14:05.800 him pretty well. 14:05.800 --> 14:08.720 Did you ever do any business with him? 14:08.720 --> 14:13.160 Yeah we had one little deal he helped me in some business I had with Senator O'Malley. 14:13.160 --> 14:14.160 You remember him? 14:14.160 --> 14:18.520 He was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee during the disarmament conferences after the 14:18.520 --> 14:19.520 last war. 14:19.520 --> 14:21.720 That's right until 1927. 14:21.720 --> 14:25.920 Was that the year you and Sarko had your business with him? 14:25.920 --> 14:26.920 That's right. 14:26.920 --> 14:29.320 That was the year he was assassinated wasn't it? 14:29.320 --> 14:40.640 Yeah it was quite a coincidence Mr. Henderson quite a coincidence. 14:40.640 --> 14:41.640 Sarko huh? 14:41.640 --> 14:43.360 I just hope he didn't die easy. 14:43.360 --> 14:45.560 I don't think he did from the looks of him. 14:45.560 --> 14:47.480 Maybe there is some justice after all. 14:47.480 --> 14:49.760 Are you quite sure he was a drug addict? 14:49.760 --> 14:55.560 Huh how do you think I first learned to take this stuff at the convent? 14:55.560 --> 15:04.920 Yeah there is one guy who might talk I never seen him but they called him Eddie the Greek 15:04.920 --> 15:11.400 he used to hang around Doyle's gambling place. 15:11.400 --> 15:20.080 Oh you see Mr. Henderson it all turned out rather well from your point of view didn't 15:20.080 --> 15:21.080 it? 15:21.080 --> 15:22.080 In a way. 15:22.080 --> 15:25.160 But there are a few little pieces of the picture still missing huh? 15:25.160 --> 15:28.040 You see that's why I dared hope that you'd come back to see me. 15:28.040 --> 15:29.360 That's fine. 15:29.360 --> 15:30.760 What about Eddie the Greek? 15:30.760 --> 15:32.920 Oh yes Eddie the Greek. 15:32.920 --> 15:36.760 I hope it won't be too great a shock if I have the strong impression that Eddie the 15:36.760 --> 15:40.360 Greek is one of your pseudonyms Mr. Edwards. 15:40.360 --> 15:42.400 Very good Mr. Henderson very good indeed. 15:42.400 --> 15:44.520 Yes I have been called that on occasion. 15:44.520 --> 15:46.720 Then what's the idea of the wild goose chase? 15:46.720 --> 15:49.200 You're supposed to know more about Sarko than anybody. 15:49.200 --> 15:52.600 All in good time Mr. Henderson all in good time. 15:52.600 --> 15:54.600 At the moment there is a rather more pressing matter. 15:54.600 --> 15:55.600 Oh is there? 15:55.600 --> 15:59.240 Oh yes there is a little matter of the three hundred thousand dollars. 15:59.240 --> 16:03.080 Look I'm in a business where they pay pretty good dough but nobody can earn three hundred 16:03.080 --> 16:05.560 thousand dollars just overnight and beyond the level. 16:05.560 --> 16:08.680 But my dear Mr. Henderson there is no question of earning. 16:08.680 --> 16:11.000 Okay okay you tell me. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.680 Well it's really quite simple Mr. Henderson. 16:13.680 --> 16:18.080 With the information you possess together with the information I possess there is a 16:18.080 --> 16:23.040 very liberal and sensible gentleman of my acquaintance who will give us three hundred 16:23.040 --> 16:24.040 thousand dollars. 16:24.040 --> 16:25.040 Blackmail huh? 16:25.040 --> 16:29.460 Oh but what possible objection can you have to the transfer of three hundred thousand 16:29.460 --> 16:33.080 dollars from the pocket of one scoundrel to the pocket of another. 16:33.080 --> 16:37.800 None I guess except that I just don't want to have any part of it. 16:37.800 --> 16:39.080 Huh? 16:39.080 --> 16:43.680 Not even if it meant you're coming into the possession of the final and I might say the 16:43.680 --> 16:49.560 most sensational part of your missing information about Sarko. 16:49.560 --> 16:51.640 How do I know you can supply it? 16:51.640 --> 16:56.280 Oh I have something here at my desk which I think you might consider sufficient proof. 16:56.280 --> 16:58.640 Oh yes here it is. 16:58.640 --> 17:02.800 A photograph but before you look at the face read the writing across the bottom please. 17:02.800 --> 17:08.080 To my good friend Gregory Sarko from Count Orlando Montesero. 17:08.080 --> 17:13.880 Was a quite famous Spanish gentleman except that lately he's been engaged in some really 17:13.880 --> 17:17.520 very subversive activity in South America. 17:17.520 --> 17:19.160 Another face please. 17:19.160 --> 17:21.440 But it's Sarko. 17:21.440 --> 17:25.800 Rather shall we say it is the man whose body you saw at police headquarters but are you 17:25.800 --> 17:26.800 positive? 17:26.800 --> 17:27.800 Of course I am. 17:27.800 --> 17:31.560 Would you be so good as to write a few words of that effect across the face of the picture? 17:31.560 --> 17:32.560 Why? 17:32.560 --> 17:37.720 Because be sure and even on our brief acquaintance Mr. Henderson I know that you would not write 17:37.720 --> 17:40.280 anything above your signature that was not absolutely true. 17:40.280 --> 17:43.320 Sure if it'll make you feel any better it is true. 17:43.320 --> 17:44.320 Yeah. 17:44.320 --> 17:47.280 So now you see it Mr. Henderson. 17:47.280 --> 17:51.720 You saw this body you alone except for one or two police officers with whom I confess 17:51.720 --> 17:56.960 it is a little difficult for me to deal and the body is not that of Sarko. 17:56.960 --> 17:58.720 And the real Sarko? 17:58.720 --> 18:02.640 He's alive and quite well I'm happy to say and here in New York. 18:02.640 --> 18:03.640 How could I meet him? 18:03.640 --> 18:17.400 Oh you will meet him Mr. Henderson when he pays us the three hundred thousand dollars. 18:17.400 --> 18:19.480 By this time I had to go through with it. 18:19.480 --> 18:21.600 I could see the whole thing on film. 18:21.600 --> 18:22.960 What a thrill. 18:22.960 --> 18:24.760 I left everything in the hands of Mr. Edwards. 18:24.760 --> 18:27.440 A meeting was arranged a hotel room the hour eight thirty. 18:27.440 --> 18:32.200 And there we waited for the man I traced all over the underworld of New York. 18:32.200 --> 18:40.840 The murderous spy dope peddler Gregory Sarko. 18:40.840 --> 18:42.960 Not nervous are you Mr. Henderson? 18:42.960 --> 18:43.960 Aren't you? 18:43.960 --> 18:44.960 A little. 18:44.960 --> 18:51.520 Yes I must confess our visitor this evening is not what you might call an easygoing man. 18:51.520 --> 18:52.520 But we will not be murdered. 18:52.520 --> 18:55.560 No we will not even be followed at least not successfully. 18:55.560 --> 18:56.560 Where do you go from here? 18:56.560 --> 18:58.680 To my little apartment where you met me. 18:58.680 --> 19:01.160 It's the safest place in all New York. 19:01.160 --> 19:04.880 You don't mind if I catch up on my notes while we wait. 19:04.880 --> 19:05.880 Your notes? 19:05.880 --> 19:06.880 My private file on Sarko. 19:06.880 --> 19:07.880 Oh of course. 19:07.880 --> 19:12.320 You know Mr. Henderson sometimes I fear that you might think that I've not been quite as 19:12.320 --> 19:14.360 candid with you in this matter as I might. 19:14.360 --> 19:17.760 There are one or two little things aren't there? 19:17.760 --> 19:20.160 Your own connection with Sarko for instance. 19:20.160 --> 19:23.000 Naturally but I honestly believe that once you just. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.720 Will you stand by the door please Mr. Henderson open it when I give you the word. 19:25.720 --> 19:27.280 You have to point that gun. 19:27.280 --> 19:31.080 There will be no shooting this gun is just in case. 19:31.080 --> 19:33.120 You may open the door now Mr. Henderson. 19:33.120 --> 19:34.120 Come in. 19:34.120 --> 19:38.160 Good evening gentlemen. 19:38.160 --> 19:39.160 Captain McNeil. 19:39.160 --> 19:40.160 Surprised to see me? 19:40.160 --> 19:41.160 Naturally he is. 19:41.160 --> 19:45.920 When an appointment has been carefully arranged for Mr. Henderson to meet the arch criminal 19:45.920 --> 19:50.800 Sarko and when that arch criminal turns out to be none other than the illustrious Captain 19:50.800 --> 19:52.280 McNeil naturally. 19:52.280 --> 19:59.480 Oh I sort of wondered how you managed to get yourself a part in this little drama Mr. Henderson. 19:59.480 --> 20:00.480 Now I know. 20:00.480 --> 20:03.000 Well would you mind awfully explaining it to me. 20:03.000 --> 20:08.800 If I were to tell you that I am not Sarko but rather that you are Confederate Mr. Edwards 20:08.800 --> 20:11.320 is Sarko would that help? 20:11.320 --> 20:14.600 Oh I'm truly sorry Mr. Henderson. 20:14.600 --> 20:18.080 It seems my fate to be forced from one deception to another. 20:18.080 --> 20:20.560 Then you are Sarko. 20:20.560 --> 20:22.360 In a word yes. 20:22.360 --> 20:26.800 You see Captain McNeil would scarcely have exceeded to my request if he had not feared 20:26.800 --> 20:31.760 that a third and highly respectable party were also privy to our little secret. 20:31.760 --> 20:36.440 After all there would be ways of dealing with Sarko but a well known motion picture director 20:36.440 --> 20:38.200 that would be another story. 20:38.200 --> 20:40.320 By the way Captain did you bring the money please? 20:40.320 --> 20:41.440 I did. 20:41.440 --> 20:46.000 How convenient to deal with a police officer who also happens to have a large private fortune. 20:46.000 --> 20:47.160 Would you want to count it? 20:47.160 --> 20:49.360 Oh I can see it's close enough. 20:49.360 --> 20:53.200 Mr. Edwards if you think you're going to get me to play cat's paw for you you are... 20:53.200 --> 20:58.200 Ah Mr. Henderson you forget that I have your signature on the photograph of that man whom 20:58.200 --> 21:01.760 the good Captain McNeil mistakenly killed. 21:01.760 --> 21:05.600 You see where you fit into the picture now Mr. Henderson? 21:05.600 --> 21:07.640 And not a very pretty picture either. 21:07.640 --> 21:13.000 Yes it would be most inconvenient for Captain McNeil if it were known that he had accidentally 21:13.000 --> 21:18.160 liquidated the good Count Montresero even though from a patriotic standpoint it's undoubtedly 21:18.160 --> 21:20.280 an excellent thing that he did. 21:20.280 --> 21:24.400 But there might even be international complications might there not Captain? 21:24.400 --> 21:29.160 Ah Mr. Henderson if I'd only resisted the temptation to show you that body. 21:29.160 --> 21:32.040 If only you had Captain McNeil. 21:32.040 --> 21:34.560 You'll forgive me gentlemen if I administer my eye drops. 21:34.560 --> 21:38.300 My eyes seem to grow worse as my fortunes grow better. 21:38.300 --> 21:43.920 And you'll forgive me if I leave now perhaps some day there'll be another meeting. 21:43.920 --> 21:44.920 It could happen. 21:44.920 --> 21:45.920 Yes who knows. 21:45.920 --> 21:48.800 Ah your hat Captain McNeil. 21:48.800 --> 21:52.120 Thank you good night. 21:52.120 --> 21:54.840 So you're the great Sarkozy Mr. Edwards. 21:54.840 --> 21:59.000 You see why I could not tell you before believe me I wish to if only because your interest 21:59.000 --> 22:00.000 was so flatly. 22:00.000 --> 22:03.080 You know he'll catch up with you someday Mr. Edwards. 22:03.080 --> 22:04.080 Captain McNeil? 22:04.080 --> 22:05.080 Hmm. 22:05.080 --> 22:08.040 Not as long as I can prove that he killed Count Montresero. 22:08.040 --> 22:13.200 By the way was that just a sort of happy coincidence for you or was it? 22:13.200 --> 22:14.200 Not quite. 22:14.200 --> 22:17.840 I had done some business with the Count which had turned out rather badly. 22:17.840 --> 22:20.600 He was a pure Nazi agent without doubt. 22:20.600 --> 22:24.600 In any event I was in difficulties with the fellow and I persuaded him that he could secure 22:24.600 --> 22:29.800 some very valuable information if he would appear in New York as Sarko which he was unwise 22:29.800 --> 22:30.800 enough to do. 22:30.800 --> 22:34.640 And then you tipped off Captain McNeil that Sarko was in town. 22:34.640 --> 22:37.120 You're a pretty clever boy aren't you Mr. Edwards? 22:37.120 --> 22:39.140 Thank you Mr. Henderson thank you. 22:39.140 --> 22:41.960 And now may I suggest that we return to my little flat. 22:41.960 --> 22:42.960 We? 22:42.960 --> 22:44.880 We do not want to be in such a situation Mr. Henderson. 22:44.880 --> 22:59.120 I believe it would be safer for both of us. 22:59.120 --> 23:00.480 Do you like your drink Mr. Henderson? 23:00.480 --> 23:02.360 Oh it's very good thanks thanks. 23:02.360 --> 23:07.240 Uh, of Mr. Edwards I do wish you'd put that gun away. 23:07.240 --> 23:09.400 Oh yes the gun. 23:09.400 --> 23:14.360 Mr. Henderson I've been trying to think of a way out of this dilemma all evening. 23:14.360 --> 23:17.960 I would have liked to spare you this last little deception. 23:17.960 --> 23:21.040 What little deception? 23:21.040 --> 23:23.240 I'm going to have to kill you. 23:23.240 --> 23:24.240 Oh. 23:24.240 --> 23:29.240 I am sincerely sorry you've been a most pleasant companion but knowing as much about me as 23:29.240 --> 23:30.240 you do you... 23:30.240 --> 23:32.240 Oh may I finish my drink please? 23:32.240 --> 23:34.000 Oh but certainly. 23:34.000 --> 23:37.320 And now if you'll excuse me for a moment my eye drops are in my coat in the hall. 23:37.320 --> 23:41.680 Oh by the way it's useless to try to escape Mr. Henderson. 23:41.680 --> 23:45.160 This is the only way out and the windows are barred with steel shutters. 23:45.160 --> 23:48.160 Thank you for the information. 23:48.160 --> 23:51.160 Edwards Edwards. 23:51.160 --> 23:53.360 Dad. 23:53.360 --> 23:56.600 Captain McNeil. 23:56.600 --> 24:05.480 I take it that someone has just liquidated our friend Sarko or Edwards as you prefer. 24:05.480 --> 24:07.280 Ah so it would seem. 24:07.280 --> 24:08.280 Did you see it happen? 24:08.280 --> 24:10.080 No no. 24:10.080 --> 24:13.680 Did you have much trouble finding your way here? 24:13.680 --> 24:15.560 None whatsoever Mr. Henderson. 24:15.560 --> 24:17.960 I'm afraid I have a little confession. 24:17.960 --> 24:18.960 You don't need to. 24:18.960 --> 24:20.840 But I do. 24:20.840 --> 24:23.680 You remember the metal of the information on the piece of paper slipped under the hat 24:23.680 --> 24:24.680 band? 24:24.680 --> 24:26.560 The thing in your picture that I disagreed with? 24:26.560 --> 24:27.560 I remember. 24:27.560 --> 24:29.040 I apologize. 24:29.040 --> 24:31.520 It's a highly practical device. 24:31.520 --> 24:32.520 Highly practical. 24:32.520 --> 24:36.200 Perhaps it wasn't made clear enough in the picture that the paper was rolled up into 24:36.200 --> 24:37.480 a little hard ball. 24:37.480 --> 24:39.960 I suppose it hurt your head when you put your hat on. 24:39.960 --> 24:40.960 It did. 24:40.960 --> 24:43.840 And I found the address of this place when I removed it. 24:43.840 --> 24:46.840 You'd make a fine detective Mr. Henderson. 24:46.840 --> 24:49.080 By the way how much have you known? 24:49.080 --> 24:52.760 You know I'm kind of surprised myself quite a lot as a matter of fact. 24:52.760 --> 24:54.560 You knew about the body I showed you? 24:54.560 --> 24:59.120 Well I was pretty sure it wasn't Sarko, a drug addict who takes a precaution of carrying 24:59.120 --> 25:03.400 aspirin for his headaches who would certainly carry his favorite drug too. 25:03.400 --> 25:05.480 I used that in a picture once myself. 25:05.480 --> 25:06.480 Don't you remember? 25:06.480 --> 25:07.480 The blue canary? 25:07.480 --> 25:08.480 So you did now. 25:08.480 --> 25:09.480 So you did. 25:09.480 --> 25:10.480 I sure do remember. 25:10.480 --> 25:12.960 And I suspected Edwards because of the eye drops. 25:12.960 --> 25:14.600 There was nothing the matter with his eyes. 25:14.600 --> 25:19.000 His particular brand of drug works on any mucous membrane including the eyes. 25:19.000 --> 25:21.480 Mr. Henderson you're all right. 25:21.480 --> 25:24.240 And just what are your immediate plans? 25:24.240 --> 25:27.880 Well I'd kind of like to get out of here. 25:27.880 --> 25:29.360 What about the money in the photograph? 25:29.360 --> 25:30.680 Don't let it worry you. 25:30.680 --> 25:32.760 The money in the photograph is safe. 25:32.760 --> 25:34.840 I kind of thought so. 25:34.840 --> 25:41.200 And I suppose we can safely leave to the regular police force the question of who killed Sarko. 25:41.200 --> 25:42.880 I think we can. 25:42.880 --> 25:46.120 If I knew who I'd sort of like to thank him. 25:46.120 --> 25:48.200 He did save my life you know. 25:48.200 --> 25:55.440 And if he knew you I'm sure he'd want to thank you as well because in a way you also saved 25:55.440 --> 26:12.760 his life. 26:12.760 --> 26:16.160 Well that's about all there is to the story. 26:16.160 --> 26:17.160 Pretty exciting stuff. 26:17.160 --> 26:20.440 Be good material for one of your pictures I'd think Mr. Henderson. 26:20.440 --> 26:22.000 Yeah sure Edward sure. 26:22.000 --> 26:26.720 For that dumb studio of mine I called a big meeting just before I left New York and I 26:26.720 --> 26:30.600 told this story changing a few names and places of course. 26:30.600 --> 26:31.600 And what happened? 26:31.600 --> 26:40.520 I don't know Frank it's a good story but I don't know. 26:40.520 --> 26:42.680 What's the matter I think it would make a swell picture. 26:42.680 --> 26:45.280 Public could never go for it Frank it's too crazy. 26:45.280 --> 26:46.280 It's unbelievable. 26:46.280 --> 26:47.280 I wouldn't buy it. 26:47.280 --> 26:49.560 You're entirely right LG. 26:49.560 --> 26:50.560 Don't make sense Frank. 26:50.560 --> 26:52.240 Something like that couldn't happen. 26:52.240 --> 26:53.960 Look I'm telling you that... 26:53.960 --> 26:55.560 You are entirely too arty. 26:55.560 --> 26:57.040 It wouldn't gross a dime. 26:57.040 --> 27:00.280 And by the way Frank I wanted to talk to you about the new release. 27:00.280 --> 27:01.280 Where have you been? 27:01.280 --> 27:02.280 Me? 27:02.280 --> 27:05.440 Yeah the last time we saw you you beat it out of the projection room to see some cop 27:05.440 --> 27:07.720 and nobody's heard a word from you for two weeks. 27:07.720 --> 27:08.720 Where you been? 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