WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 Roma wines present. 00:12.000 --> 00:22.000 Suspense. 00:22.000 --> 00:27.000 Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:27.000 --> 00:32.000 Roma wines toast the world. 00:32.000 --> 00:35.000 The wine for your table is Roma wine. 00:35.000 --> 00:42.000 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:42.000 --> 00:47.000 This is the man in black here for the Roma wine company of Fresno, California. 00:47.000 --> 00:51.000 To introduce this weekly half hour of suspense. 00:51.000 --> 00:57.000 Tonight from Hollywood Roma wines bring you a star and old friend of these proceedings. 00:57.000 --> 01:01.000 Mr. Peter Laurie and a newcomer, Mr. Richard Condon. 01:01.000 --> 01:08.000 For their appearance tonight, Joe Isinger has written an original suspense play with sporting blood in its veins. 01:08.000 --> 01:11.000 And in which death has a ringside seat. 01:11.000 --> 01:17.000 Its title with apologies to Mr. Steinbeck is of Maestro and Man. 01:17.000 --> 01:23.000 And so with the performance of Peter Laurie as the Maestro and of Richard Condon as the Man. 01:23.000 --> 01:37.000 We again hope to keep you in suspense. 01:37.000 --> 01:39.000 And the number is eight. 01:39.000 --> 01:41.000 Ada from Decatur. 01:41.000 --> 01:42.000 Get aboard boys. 01:42.000 --> 01:44.000 Speculate so you can accumulate. 01:44.000 --> 01:47.000 Put down a handful, pick up a handful. 01:47.000 --> 01:49.000 And he throws a five. 01:49.000 --> 01:50.000 The money is eight. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 Make the point and break the joint. 01:52.000 --> 01:53.000 Seven to one the hard way. 01:53.000 --> 01:55.000 The man wants two fours. 01:55.000 --> 01:56.000 He'll make it the hard way. 01:56.000 --> 01:57.000 He's got a hunch. 01:57.000 --> 01:58.000 He bets a bunch. 01:58.000 --> 01:59.000 Get aboard boys. 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 And the dice read. 02:01.000 --> 02:02.000 Days in the week. 02:02.000 --> 02:04.000 Seven and the man's down. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 Pass the dice and make some ice. 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 Everybody plays and everybody wins. 02:08.000 --> 02:09.000 Lay it on the line. 02:09.000 --> 02:11.000 We pay it on the line. 02:11.000 --> 02:12.000 Three to two or six or an eight. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 Even money ten or four. 02:14.000 --> 02:15.000 I lay it and take it. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 Right or wrong I go along. 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 Tough one to lose Maestro. 02:18.000 --> 02:20.000 Mr. Crepe. 02:20.000 --> 02:21.000 Did I frighten you? 02:21.000 --> 02:22.000 No, no, no. 02:22.000 --> 02:23.000 It's just that I didn't... 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 Maybe your nerves need looking over Maestro. 02:26.000 --> 02:29.000 I think I'd have jitters too if I dropped a bundle like you did tonight. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 What time is it? 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 Three in the a.m. Maestro. 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 Too late to play again. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 Oh please another hour. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 I don't mean the time. 02:37.000 --> 02:40.000 I mean I think I got enough of your paper for one night. 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 My stick man just handed me these tabs. 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 15 G. 02:44.000 --> 02:47.000 You know that my IOU's are good Mr. Crepe. 02:47.000 --> 02:48.000 You know that. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 That's what I wanted to talk to you about. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 You ever see my private office Maestro? 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 Right this way. 02:57.000 --> 02:59.000 Sit down Maestro. 02:59.000 --> 03:01.000 Well it's growing late and I... 03:01.000 --> 03:03.000 This will only take a minute. 03:03.000 --> 03:05.000 How's Ricky? 03:05.000 --> 03:06.000 Oh Ricky. 03:06.000 --> 03:07.000 He's in the mountains. 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 He has a vacationer but a little rest. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 You know it's a great little welter that Ricky Martin. 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 Punch like a heavy feet like a fly weight. 03:15.000 --> 03:18.000 Yeah fine boy to have in your stable. 03:18.000 --> 03:21.000 I don't have what you call a stable Mr. Crepe. 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 Ricky Martin is all I've got. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 Yeah. 03:24.000 --> 03:28.000 All my life I dreamed of having a boy like Ricky Martin. 03:28.000 --> 03:31.000 Not for the money, not for what he'd bring just to own him. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 Like a fast horse carrying your colors. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 He leaves them all behind. 03:36.000 --> 03:40.000 You know I'd be willing to trade you any three of my boys for Ricky Martin. 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 Well that's very generous of you Mr. Crepe. 03:43.000 --> 03:44.000 But I don't think... 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 No I don't think you would. 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 Well you're a lucky man Maestro finding a boy like that. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 Yes I am. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 I sometimes wonder how you did it. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 You haven't been in the fight game long in this town. 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 I remember the first time I see you and your boy hanging around the garden. 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 Yes that's right. 03:58.000 --> 04:02.000 The fighting profession is still a little strange to me. 04:02.000 --> 04:06.000 You see all my life I've been well in in Bressere you might say. 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 In Paris, in Brussels, Vienna. 04:09.000 --> 04:12.000 Ballet, opera, plays. 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 And when I came to this country and found Ricky I... 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 Well I could see that he was a... 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 Yeah you could see all right. 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 Cigar? 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 Thank you. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 There you are. 04:24.000 --> 04:28.000 I always say there's nothing like a good cigar to promote good feeling in a business talk. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Business talk? What do you mean? 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 A little matter of 32G. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 Oh. 04:33.000 --> 04:36.000 Seventeen you dropped last week and fifteen tonight. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 Yes my luck has been a little bitter. 04:38.000 --> 04:42.000 You know that's a very impressive signature you've got Maestro. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 Like a professor or something. 04:44.000 --> 04:47.000 All those curls and loops very impressive. 04:47.000 --> 04:49.000 Looks like a million bucks on these tabs. 04:49.000 --> 04:51.000 I'm sure it's good for 32G. 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 Of course it is. 04:53.000 --> 04:54.000 Yeah. 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 Of course. 04:55.000 --> 04:56.000 I'm glad to hear you say that. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 Well if that's all Mr. Cripper. 04:58.000 --> 04:59.000 That's all Maestro. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 Well then good night Mr. Cripper. 05:01.000 --> 05:03.000 Just a minute my friend. 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 You're leaving something behind. 05:05.000 --> 05:06.000 What? 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 Your IOUs. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 I don't understand. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 I figure I got enough of your paper. 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 I want my money now. 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 I can't I... 05:16.000 --> 05:17.000 Then get it. 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 I must have time. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 I run a cash business. 05:19.000 --> 05:20.000 But you gave me credit. 05:20.000 --> 05:21.000 You got assets? 05:21.000 --> 05:22.000 What? 05:22.000 --> 05:23.000 Ricky Martin. 05:23.000 --> 05:24.000 No. 05:24.000 --> 05:25.000 Then pay. 05:25.000 --> 05:26.000 No. 05:26.000 --> 05:27.000 I won't let you steal him from me. 05:27.000 --> 05:29.000 He's mine. Do you hear me? He's mine. 05:29.000 --> 05:30.000 I found him. 05:30.000 --> 05:31.000 I billed him. 05:31.000 --> 05:32.000 And you can't steal him from me. 05:32.000 --> 05:33.000 I want that boy. 05:33.000 --> 05:34.000 No. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 I love him like a brother. 05:36.000 --> 05:37.000 Not you swindle him on every fight. 05:37.000 --> 05:39.000 I won't give him up. 05:39.000 --> 05:41.000 Then you'll pay my collectors 32G. 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 But it's a gambling that you can't collect. 05:43.000 --> 05:45.000 My collectors don't carry a summons. 05:45.000 --> 05:49.000 A barrel and 50 pounds of cement. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 All right Mr. Cripper. 05:52.000 --> 05:55.000 You leave me no arguments. 05:55.000 --> 06:00.000 And you've added greatly to my education. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 I don't think there's much I can teach you maestro. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 Only this time I'm out in front. 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 I'll show you I'm a generous man. 06:07.000 --> 06:08.000 Honest John Cripper. 06:08.000 --> 06:11.000 Run an honest game and I make a square deal. 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 50G for the boy. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 32 in tabs, 18 in cash. 06:15.000 --> 06:16.000 No beefs later. 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 Thank you. 06:18.000 --> 06:22.000 I'm sure you'd be sensible about this maestro. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 I had the contract drawn up. 06:24.000 --> 06:28.000 Just put that impressive signature on the dotted line. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 May I use your pen? 06:30.000 --> 06:31.000 Sure. 06:31.000 --> 06:35.000 Thank you. 06:35.000 --> 06:38.000 There you are Mr. Cripper. 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 Ricky Martin now belongs to me. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 Your pen writes very easily. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 You can keep it part of the deal. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 Thank you. 06:47.000 --> 06:51.000 I shall treasure it as the most expensive pen in the world. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 How soon will Ricky be back in town? 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 I expect him in my office tomorrow. 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 Good. 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 You'll tell him he now belongs to Honest John Cripper. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 Yes I'll tell him. 07:01.000 --> 07:07.000 You know Mr. Cripper, I don't think Ricky Martin is going to like being owned by you. 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 You just leave that worry to me maestro. 07:10.000 --> 07:13.000 I have a way of making people like me. 07:13.000 --> 07:26.000 Even if it kills them. 07:26.000 --> 07:30.000 Night for Suspense, Roma wines are bringing you the play called 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 Of Maestro and Man. 07:32.000 --> 07:35.000 You have heard Peter Laurie in the prologue to this study in 07:35.000 --> 07:46.000 Suspense. 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 And now for a moment, let's conjure up a scene of our own. 07:49.000 --> 07:52.000 Let's imagine ourselves in sun drenched Havana. 07:52.000 --> 07:55.000 Let's imagine that we're dining in the gay Club Momart. 07:55.000 --> 08:01.000 As you listen to the music, you put down your wine glass to tell our host how much you enjoy his hospitality. 08:01.000 --> 08:08.000 Part of the credit belongs to Cuba, he smilingly acknowledges, but part of the credit belongs also to your country. 08:08.000 --> 08:12.000 For producing this excellent wine which adds so much to our enjoyment. 08:12.000 --> 08:18.000 For this is Roma wine from California in your own USA. 08:18.000 --> 08:23.000 Now it is a fact that connoisseurs of many other lands know the excellence of Roma wines 08:23.000 --> 08:29.000 made in famous wineries located in the heart of the choice wine districts of California. 08:29.000 --> 08:37.000 But millions of Americans also know these things and have made Roma by far America's largest selling wine. 08:37.000 --> 08:44.000 Here at home, Roma wines are truly inexpensive, no duty, no overseas shipping costs to pay. 08:44.000 --> 08:52.000 And for only pennies a glass, your meals, your entertaining can have the added delight of superb Roma wines. 08:52.000 --> 08:56.000 You will find them a truly excellent flavor and character. 08:56.000 --> 09:03.000 Fine products of age-old winemaking skill perfected by modern quality controls and tests. 09:03.000 --> 09:13.000 Ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 09:13.000 --> 09:19.000 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Peter Laurie as the maestro 09:19.000 --> 09:24.000 and Richard Conte as Ricky Martin in A Maestro and Man. 09:24.000 --> 09:28.000 We'll well calculated to keep you in suspense. 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 See Ricky hasn't come yet. 09:42.000 --> 09:49.000 Oh, oh no boss. I've been sitting here in your office like you told me but he ain't come and he ain't called. 09:49.000 --> 09:53.000 I don't understand it. I can't. His train arrived two hours ago and... 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 Hello. Hello maestro, Sam. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 Ricky. Who have you? 09:58.000 --> 09:59.000 Maestro, this is Lynn Carter. 09:59.000 --> 10:00.000 How do you do? 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 How do you do Miss Carter? 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 And this is Sam Lynn. He was my trainer. 10:04.000 --> 10:05.000 Hello. 10:05.000 --> 10:08.000 Ricky has told me so much about you during the past two weeks that I feel like... 10:08.000 --> 10:13.000 You know how it is maestro. Out on a lake at night, the guy gets the rambling and... 10:13.000 --> 10:14.000 I found it all very colorful. 10:14.000 --> 10:19.000 Ricky, there's something I must tell you. Miss Carter will excuse us for it. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 But there's something I must tell you maestro. 10:21.000 --> 10:26.000 It's about Lynn and me. You see we... 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 What is it Ricky? 10:27.000 --> 10:31.000 Well Lynn and me, we're gonna be married. 10:31.000 --> 10:32.000 Married? 10:32.000 --> 10:33.000 What? 10:33.000 --> 10:39.000 Yeah, we just will. When I met Lynn I... I don't know how to tell you this maestro. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 You know how I feel about you. 10:41.000 --> 10:44.000 Ricky, Ricky what are you trying to say? Tell me. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 It's just that I... 10:46.000 --> 10:49.000 Ricky is trying to tell you maestro that he's quitting the ring. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 Ricky's quitting the ring? 10:51.000 --> 10:52.000 Ricky quit? 10:52.000 --> 10:56.000 I must maestro. I'm going away with Lynn to South America. Her father owns a... 10:56.000 --> 10:59.000 He wants us to live down there. I'm going to wake for him. 10:59.000 --> 11:04.000 But Ricky... Ricky you can't. Not now. I just... 11:04.000 --> 11:08.000 I'm sorry maestro but don't make it tougher for me. You know I always wanted to quit. 11:08.000 --> 11:13.000 Always hated it. Now I have a good reason. We're taking a plane to Rio tonight. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 But you can't Ricky. You can't run out on me like this. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 I don't figure I'm running out on anybody. 11:18.000 --> 11:23.000 But you don't know what's happened Ricky. You can't quit. I sold you. 11:23.000 --> 11:24.000 What? 11:24.000 --> 11:25.000 To Crip. 11:25.000 --> 11:29.000 To Crip? To that? Why didn't you ask me first? 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 I couldn't Ricky. I had to. 11:31.000 --> 11:34.000 Buying and selling me so much beef on the hoof is so much a pound. 11:34.000 --> 11:37.000 Buy me and sell me until I can't take any more punishment and there's no buyer. 11:37.000 --> 11:41.000 That's why I'm getting out. Lynn was right. Two, three years in the Crip stable. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 I'm a punching bag for the new boys. A gibbering idiot like poor Sam here. 11:44.000 --> 11:45.000 Who's that? 11:45.000 --> 11:49.000 I'm sorry Sam. I just... Don't call me. I'll kill you. 11:49.000 --> 11:55.000 Shut up Sam. So Lynn was right. I knew it was her fault. 11:55.000 --> 11:59.000 I knew it the minute she walked in here. Smelling of her perfume. 11:59.000 --> 12:02.000 Yes, it's all your fault. Why didn't you leave him alone? 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 My fault. 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 He's different from you. He's not your... 12:05.000 --> 12:06.000 Cut it. 12:06.000 --> 12:12.000 No, no. You like the way he looked in the sun in trunks. These muscles and that beautiful body. 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 Cut it off. 12:13.000 --> 12:18.000 You, you just had to have him. You had to bring him back to show to your friends. 12:18.000 --> 12:23.000 Great catch. You, you scheming, conniving, five cent... 12:23.000 --> 12:27.000 Ricky, no. Sam, stop him. You'll kill him. 12:27.000 --> 12:28.000 Ricky. 12:28.000 --> 12:29.000 Ricky. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 Ricky. 12:30.000 --> 12:33.000 Ricky. Ricky, he's choking. 12:36.000 --> 12:39.000 All right. I'm all right now. 12:39.000 --> 12:42.000 Oh, Ricky. Ricky. 12:42.000 --> 12:46.000 I should have killed him for that. Come on, let's get out of here. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 Boss, you all right, boss? 12:53.000 --> 12:55.000 Yes, sir. I am. 12:55.000 --> 13:00.000 Well, he'll like to kill you then. Your face is a funny color. 13:00.000 --> 13:04.000 Come, Sam. Help me through the car, will you? 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 Sure, boss. Sure. 13:07.000 --> 13:11.000 Hey, are you all right now, boys? 13:12.000 --> 13:17.000 Yes, sir. I'm all right now, Sam. 13:18.000 --> 13:20.000 You're a good boy, Sam. 13:20.000 --> 13:27.000 Sure. Sure, Sam's a good boy. Sam's no rat, but Ricky's a rat, huh? Huh, boss? Ricky's a rat. 13:27.000 --> 13:32.000 Sam, we... we must do something. Sam... 13:32.000 --> 13:41.000 Oh, sure, boss. That Ricky is a rat. He called me an idiot. I'll kill him, boss. Sam's a good boy. 13:41.000 --> 13:45.000 He don't like for Ricky to do the boss no hate. I'll kill him. 13:45.000 --> 13:53.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, Sam. Please, you must not get excited, Sam. We must think. 13:53.000 --> 14:00.000 Sure, boss. Let's think. Your lip is all with bleed, boy. 14:00.000 --> 14:06.000 Yes, you're a good boy. He called you an idiot, yes, but you're a good boy, Sam. 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 I like when you pat me on the head like that, boy. 14:09.000 --> 14:15.000 We have a problem, Sam. Mr. Crip must not hear about Ricky quitting. 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 Ricky quitting, boys? 14:17.000 --> 14:22.000 Something happened to Ricky. An accident. They happen every day, Sam. 14:22.000 --> 14:26.000 Oh, sure, accidents happen. When I was a little boy, it's true. 14:26.000 --> 14:35.000 I could go to Crip and say, it's a tragic thing, Mr. Crip. Fine boy like that. You're a boy, Mr. Crip. 14:35.000 --> 14:46.000 You were a $50,000 boy, Mr. Crip. It's a tragic thing, huh? Yes. Tragic finale to a promising career. 14:46.000 --> 14:51.000 Oh, yeah, boss. That would be some tragic, some... some finale, huh? 14:51.000 --> 14:56.000 It would be an accident, Sam. Mr. Crip must never be able to say it. You understand that, Sam? 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 Sure, boy. When I was a little boy... 14:58.000 --> 14:59.000 Sam? 14:59.000 --> 15:00.000 Yeah, boys? 15:00.000 --> 15:05.000 Sam, in Lantern's gym. You know what a main steam valve for the steam room is? 15:05.000 --> 15:06.000 What, boys? 15:06.000 --> 15:11.000 The valve, Sam. The one that lets the life steam into the steam room. 15:11.000 --> 15:17.000 Oh, sure, boss. The gadget that the guy turns off and on the steam, right, huh? 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 That's right, Sam. 15:18.000 --> 15:23.000 That's right, boys. It's under the stairs in the basement on the other side of the gym. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 You know, on the side where the pipe is. 15:25.000 --> 15:29.000 Yes, Sam, yes. Do you think you could get under the stairs into the basement? 15:29.000 --> 15:34.000 Oh, sure. Nobody cares if I go to the basement. Sometimes I go down... 15:34.000 --> 15:40.000 Yes, Sam. And do you think you could open the valve as wide as it'll go? 15:40.000 --> 15:44.000 Open the... for all the steam to go fast into the steam room? 15:44.000 --> 15:45.000 Yes, Sam. 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 Oh, boy, that's some hot, all that steam, boys. 15:48.000 --> 15:51.000 You can't steam in there all that hot. 15:51.000 --> 15:58.000 The Jew was up the gym when poor Sharky got all the hot because the valve broke and the door was stuck. 15:58.000 --> 16:03.000 The Jew was there when they brung him out. Boy, that was some looking dead Sharky, all right? 16:03.000 --> 16:06.000 Yes, Sam. A very tragic accident. 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 Some tragic, all right. 16:08.000 --> 16:12.000 Sam, come here. Take my watch. Can you read the time? 16:12.000 --> 16:15.000 Sure. What do you think? I'm a dumb... 16:15.000 --> 16:20.000 The little hand is on a two and the big hand is on a six. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 That's right. 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 And that means a half past two, no? 16:23.000 --> 16:32.000 That's right, Sam. Now, look. When the little hand will be on a five, you see, and the big hand on a 12 here, it'll be... 16:32.000 --> 16:33.000 Five o'clock. 16:33.000 --> 16:34.000 That's right. 16:34.000 --> 16:36.000 You see, I'm no dumb. Five o'clock. 16:36.000 --> 16:42.000 Five o'clock, Sam, you must be in the basement at Langton's gym at a steam valve. 16:42.000 --> 16:47.000 And exactly five o'clock, Sam, you'll open the valve all the way. 16:47.000 --> 16:48.000 All the hot? 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 Yes, Sam, all the hot. 16:50.000 --> 16:53.000 But you can't stay in... The Jew was up the gym one shot. 16:53.000 --> 17:09.000 Being a steam room, Sam, but Ricky will. Alone. 17:09.000 --> 17:10.000 Shortham Hotel. 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 Ricky, Martin's apartment, please. 17:12.000 --> 17:17.000 One moment, please. 17:17.000 --> 17:18.000 Hello? 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 Ricky? Hello, Ricky. This is... 17:20.000 --> 17:21.000 What do you want? 17:21.000 --> 17:28.000 Ricky, please, I don't know how to begin, but you've got... I've got to see you. There is so much I want to say to you. 17:28.000 --> 17:29.000 I'm sorry, maestro. 17:29.000 --> 17:35.000 Look, Ricky, please, just for a few minutes. Please, Ricky. Look, meet me at Langton's gymnasium, huh? 17:35.000 --> 17:40.000 Look, you have all your old boxing things in the locker room. 17:40.000 --> 17:46.000 I want you to give them to me. I want to keep them, Ricky, as a souvenir. 17:46.000 --> 17:50.000 Well, okay, maestro, just for a few minutes, though. I have to meet Linda at the airport at six. 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 Oh, thank you, Ricky. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 Forget it. Meet you at Langton's in a half an hour. 17:53.000 --> 17:57.000 Fine. Goodbye, Ricky. You'll come. 17:57.000 --> 18:00.000 Ricky? And you'll get them in a steam room? 18:00.000 --> 18:08.000 Yes, Sam. Yes. I'll get him into the steam room. And I'll sit there with him and talk to him. 18:08.000 --> 18:16.000 And talk to him about this and about that. With a steam thick around us, hiding us from each other. 18:16.000 --> 18:27.000 And when I begin to feel the live heat, Sam, at five o'clock, Sam, at five o'clock, I'll be talking about old times. 18:27.000 --> 18:35.000 As I quietly slip out of the room and he'll be sitting there alone, thinking of old times. 18:35.000 --> 18:41.000 Not knowing I'm gone and that he's alone. Until it is too late. 18:41.000 --> 18:46.000 He will hear the sudden rush of steam and feel the scalding heat. 18:46.000 --> 18:50.000 And he'll run to the door, but it will not open. 18:50.000 --> 18:55.000 And he'll pound and scream in agony. But the door will stick. 18:55.000 --> 19:04.000 And his scream will draw burning steam into his lungs. And then they'll find him. 19:04.000 --> 19:07.000 But it'll be too late. 19:07.000 --> 19:11.000 Too late. It will be too late. 19:24.000 --> 19:30.000 Oh, hello, Ricky. Hello. I'm so glad you came. See, I was just going to take my steam bath. 19:30.000 --> 19:33.000 I had to wait until Lynn called me. I told her to meet us at the airport at six. 19:33.000 --> 19:37.000 Oh, good, good, good. Come, Ricky, let's go to the locker room, huh? 19:37.000 --> 19:42.000 Look, here is your old locker, Ricky. You have the key? 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 Yes. Here, you open it. 19:44.000 --> 19:49.000 Thank you. But first, Ricky, please, I want to tell you how I feel. 19:49.000 --> 19:53.000 I've been so miserable because you should have killed me, Ricky. 19:53.000 --> 19:54.000 Maestro. 19:54.000 --> 19:59.000 Yes, Ricky, I deserved it. You see, I wasn't myself. You know that. 19:59.000 --> 20:02.000 Let's forget it, Maestro. Go ahead, open the locker. 20:02.000 --> 20:12.000 Thank you. See? Look. Your punching bag. Look, your trunks. Your gloves. 20:12.000 --> 20:18.000 And here, look here, Ricky, this pair. This pair you wore the night you beat Kit Foy. 20:18.000 --> 20:24.000 Wasn't that a fight, Ricky? How can we ever forget the third round? 20:24.000 --> 20:30.000 Remember what the newspaper said? Every word is burned into my memory. 20:30.000 --> 20:38.000 Last night, a new star of the ring was born. Ricky Martin. Sensational new welter. 20:38.000 --> 20:44.000 Cut it, Maestro. Here, sir. I'm sorry, Ricky. I know how you feel. 20:44.000 --> 20:50.000 Ricky, Ricky, are you sure? Isn't there one chance that you'll change your mind? 20:50.000 --> 20:55.000 No, Maestro. Not a prayer. What time is it? 20:55.000 --> 21:01.000 It's only about quarter to five. Come on, Ricky, don't you want to have your last team with the old Maestro? 21:01.000 --> 21:02.000 Well, I... 21:02.000 --> 21:03.000 Come. 21:03.000 --> 21:06.000 Well, okay, but remember, old Maestro, five o'clock's my deadline. 21:06.000 --> 21:09.000 Well, Ricky, that I guarantee you. 21:09.000 --> 21:12.000 Say, who's the runner this time of the day? 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 Oh, you. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 Sam, I wanted to tell you how sorry I am. 21:16.000 --> 21:21.000 Oh, sure, I'm sorry, all right. Call me an idiot. Put on a boss of slugs. 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 Come on, get going. 21:22.000 --> 21:26.000 Oh, boy, sure gonna be some hot sorry, all right. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 Sam, stop mumbling. Get going. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Some hot tragic finale, all right. 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 Get going. 21:32.000 --> 21:37.000 Oh, that poor guy. See, Maestro, that's why I'm getting out now. 21:37.000 --> 21:41.000 I don't want to look like that in five years. Here's your towel, Ricky. 21:41.000 --> 21:42.000 Are you ready? 21:42.000 --> 21:45.000 Yeah. I'm ready. 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 How much time we got? 21:47.000 --> 21:53.000 Oh, it's just a couple of minutes before five. It's time for a quick steam and a shower, and then we meet Lynn. 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 Okay. 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 Ah, good old steam room. 21:59.000 --> 22:01.000 It really got that steam up today. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 Yeah, it's so thick you can't see your hand in front of you. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 Yeah, but it's good for you. 22:05.000 --> 22:10.000 Come on here. Feel your way over here, Ricky. Come sit here with me on a second chance. 22:10.000 --> 22:11.000 Here. 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 Yeah, that's right. 22:13.000 --> 22:18.000 Just keep your head down and your eyes closed and relax like me. 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 Yes. This feels fine. 22:21.000 --> 22:23.000 Yes. 22:23.000 --> 22:26.000 You'll begin to feel even better later. 22:28.000 --> 22:32.000 Tell me, Ricky. Tell me how you met Lynn. 22:32.000 --> 22:36.000 Well, she was staying at the same hotel with her mother and father. 22:36.000 --> 22:40.000 He came up on business. A right guy, Maestro. You'd like him. 22:40.000 --> 22:43.000 Yes, I'm sure I would. 22:43.000 --> 22:50.000 One night I just found myself dancing with her. I don't know yet how it happened, but there we were. 22:50.000 --> 22:55.000 And after that, well, it seemed like there was nobody else in the world but we two. 22:55.000 --> 23:01.000 I don't know, Maestro, but suddenly I realized that what I wanted most in the world was right there. 23:01.000 --> 23:08.000 Something I can't remember having. Something I wanted all the time and with all my heart. 23:08.000 --> 23:14.000 I'm tired of hotel rooms and training camps and fight talk and knowing there's nothing to come home to. 23:14.000 --> 23:18.000 I love Lynn. I love her family. They love me. 23:18.000 --> 23:23.000 That's all there is, Maestro. I guess that's the crop for any man. 23:23.000 --> 23:27.000 Hey, it's getting kind of hot, Maestro. 23:27.000 --> 23:31.000 Remember, Ricky, remember the day we first met? 23:31.000 --> 23:36.000 Maestro, the steam is getting a little too much. 23:36.000 --> 23:40.000 Remember, it was backstage at the Met. 23:40.000 --> 23:43.000 He wanted to be a ballet dancer. 23:43.000 --> 23:47.000 I must laugh when I think of those days. 23:47.000 --> 23:54.000 You had muscle and you had grace and you had power, but you didn't know what to do with them. 23:54.000 --> 24:01.000 And I, I showed you. Not ballet. Years of sacrifice. 24:01.000 --> 24:09.000 For what? I found you and I found the ring and I brought the two of you together. 24:09.000 --> 24:12.000 One year you were near the top. 24:12.000 --> 24:17.000 Yes, it was a long year, Ricky, but we went through it together. 24:17.000 --> 24:26.000 Yes, I can't help feeling that your leaving is almost a tragic finale to a brilliant ring career. 24:26.000 --> 24:27.000 What? 24:27.000 --> 24:31.000 Yes, a tragic finale. 24:31.000 --> 24:38.000 And then we got your first fight in New York. 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 How nervous you were. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 Your New York debut. 24:43.000 --> 24:50.000 Not at the Met to the music of, of Offenbach's Gaiete, Parisienne, no. 24:50.000 --> 24:57.000 But at the Madison Square Garden to the roar of 15,000 trolls. 24:57.000 --> 25:04.000 And do you remember the last thing you said to me before you went into the ring? 25:04.000 --> 25:07.000 Remember? 25:07.000 --> 25:11.000 Hey, Ricky. 25:11.000 --> 25:16.000 Ricky, where are you? 25:16.000 --> 25:21.000 Ricky, where are you, Ricky? 25:21.000 --> 25:25.000 Ricky. Ricky. 25:25.000 --> 25:30.000 Ricky, don't leave me here, Ricky. 25:30.000 --> 25:36.000 Ricky, come back. Please come back, Ricky. 25:36.000 --> 25:41.000 Open the door. Ricky. 25:41.000 --> 25:44.000 Don't leave me. Ricky. 25:44.000 --> 25:49.000 Ricky. Ricky. My, my life. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 Ricky. 25:51.000 --> 25:55.000 Ricky. 26:11.000 --> 26:16.000 Attention please. Attention please. Will Colonel Joy please go to the reservation desk. 26:16.000 --> 26:21.000 Colonel Joy. Attention please. Flight 17, Clipper to Rio, ready. 26:21.000 --> 26:28.000 Flight 17, ready. Mr. Gluskin, Miss Thompson, Captain J. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Martin. 26:28.000 --> 26:30.000 Flight 17, board please. 26:30.000 --> 26:33.000 Ricky. Ricky, here, hurry. 26:33.000 --> 26:35.000 Hello, darling. Sorry I'm late. 26:35.000 --> 26:37.000 Come on, we've only got, where's the maestro? 26:37.000 --> 26:41.000 The maestro? I left him in the steam room at the gym. 26:41.000 --> 26:46.000 Slipped out on a night. I couldn't take it. Poor guy's all broken up. 26:46.000 --> 26:51.000 It feels like it's, well, what he'd call a tragic finale. 26:51.000 --> 26:54.000 Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Martin, board Flight 17, please. 26:54.000 --> 27:14.000 Come on, darling, let's go. 27:14.000 --> 27:24.000 And so closes up Maestro and Man, starring Peter Lorre with Richard Conte, Knight's Tale of Suspense. 27:24.000 --> 27:28.000 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 27:28.000 --> 27:40.000 It's my job, it's my privilege, to tell you how much pleasure and enjoyment you can add to everyday living by serving Roma wines with meals when entertaining or anytime. 27:40.000 --> 27:45.000 And in hot weather, let me suggest Roma wine cooler offers. 27:45.000 --> 27:52.000 Just put ice cubes in a tall glass, half fill it with your favorite Roma wine, then fill it up with sparkling water. 27:52.000 --> 27:54.000 For a sweeter drink, add sugar. 27:54.000 --> 28:01.000 Ah, that, my people, is really something. 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