WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.000 Suspense! 00:08.000 --> 00:30.000 Tonight, The Singing Wall, starring Van Johnson. 00:30.000 --> 00:39.000 Have another cup, another nice hot cup. If that special queen makes it taste good. 00:39.000 --> 00:46.000 So a guy named Joe brought you, huh? You come up here from Joe's place. From Joe's place. 00:46.000 --> 00:55.000 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. 00:55.000 --> 01:03.000 Yeah, hear it? Ain't that pretty? Yeah, that's right. It comes right out of the walls. 01:03.000 --> 01:09.000 Singing walls. We got hot and cold running water here and singing walls, yeah. 01:09.000 --> 01:16.000 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. 01:16.000 --> 01:31.000 Have another cup, and a little more of the extra heavy cream. What? Well, lie down and take a little snooze. I'll be right back. 01:31.000 --> 01:42.000 Hey, look at you. It's blood. Blood all over your shirt. Oh, him? He's all right. Just lock him in the closet. 01:42.000 --> 01:50.000 I'll put the key right in your pocket so you'll know just where to find him. Sure, I'll be back. I'll be back in just a minute. 01:50.000 --> 02:10.000 No, let me out of here. No, let me out of here. No. Tommy! Tommy! Tommy! 02:10.000 --> 02:17.000 Tommy, wake up. What? What is it? I've been knocking at your door the longest time. You were having a dream or something. 02:17.000 --> 02:27.000 Yeah. Gee, what time is it? It's way afternoon. You came in pretty late. I did, huh? Toss me my bathrobe, will you, sis? 02:27.000 --> 02:36.000 Don't you know what time you got in? No, no, not exactly. Oh, Tommy, I know it's tough not having a job all these months, but the kind of people you're getting away with. 02:36.000 --> 02:43.000 Oh, my head. Have anything to eat last night? Yeah, yeah. They bought me some coffee. Coffee? Who did? Where was this? 02:43.000 --> 02:50.000 Oh, well, honest, sis, it's no alibi, but I don't remember where I was. Only just now I seem to be dreaming about it. 02:50.000 --> 03:00.000 About what? About last night. I could hear you banging on the door all the time I was dreaming. And it seemed as though I wasn't dreaming at all. I was remembering a lot of things. 03:00.000 --> 03:09.000 What sort of things? Oh, I was all mixed up. There was a guy with a kind of frog voice that kept giving me eats and coffee. I was sort of floating. 03:09.000 --> 03:17.000 There was a place with music coming out of the walls. There was something about blood on my shirt and a key to a closet. Tommy, you're shaking like a leaf. 03:17.000 --> 03:25.000 Yeah, it was a pretty scary dream, all right. If it was a dream. Well, you get dressed and come on downstairs. Here, here, I'll get your clean shirt. 03:25.000 --> 03:34.000 No, I better wear the old one. I've worn it only once. But it's all messy. Yeah, it does look kind of... Mildred. What? My shirt. Give me it. 03:34.000 --> 03:43.000 Now what's the matter? Look, Mildred, that's blood. Well, I guess it is. I know it is. Just like it was in the dream. 03:43.000 --> 03:51.000 Oh, Tommy, don't be silly. You must have hurt yourself somewhere. But I didn't. Look, there isn't a scratch on me. Well, then you got in a fight. 03:51.000 --> 03:57.000 Maybe. What else could it have been? That's what I'm trying to think. Well, stop thinking and hurry up and get dressed. 03:57.000 --> 04:07.000 Oh, my goodness. Look at the way you threw your clothes around last night. Trousers on the floor here. Oh, dear. Everything all over the place fell out of the pockets. 04:07.000 --> 04:14.000 I'll pick it up. You get dressed. Thanks. You didn't come home with much, did you? I didn't have much to start with. 04:14.000 --> 04:20.000 Well, I'll put it all up here on the bureau. 25 cents and change and your keys. Now hurry, will you? What did you say? I said hurry. 04:20.000 --> 04:30.000 No. Oh, I said I put your change and your keys up on the bureau. Keys? Yeah. Mildred, I only have one key. Well, there are two there now. 04:30.000 --> 04:40.000 I know. Let me see them. Here. One's the key to the front door. But the other one. Doesn't belong to any door in this house. It's the key to the closet. 04:40.000 --> 04:48.000 What closet? Last night. It wasn't a dream. Tommy, what are you talking about? Mildred, you better call Danny. Danny right away. 04:48.000 --> 04:55.000 But he's on duty. I know, I know. But get him over here right away. Tommy, what is it? Last night. I think I killed a man. 05:07.000 --> 05:16.000 Yeah. Let me look at your eyes, Tom. Listen, Danny. Uh-huh. You were doped, all right? I didn't know what it was. 05:16.000 --> 05:21.000 Never mind that now, kid. How much do you remember? Danny, I hated to bring you in on this, but I didn't know who else to go to. 05:21.000 --> 05:26.000 Skip it, skip it. What's the use of having a brother-in-law who's a cop if he can't help you once in a while? How much do you remember? 05:26.000 --> 05:34.000 Just what I've told you. Just like it was in the dream. Only it wasn't a dream. There was this guy, Joe. Just some guy I'd known from someplace. 05:34.000 --> 05:41.000 I don't know where. They met on the street and he took me to the party. Then the guy with the frog voice began giving me eats and coffee. 05:41.000 --> 05:48.000 He'd give me a lot of coffee. Then everything got confused. I was in the place with a singing wall, some harmonica playing or something. That's where the closet was. 05:48.000 --> 05:51.000 What about the guy you... the dead guy? 05:51.000 --> 05:55.000 First he wasn't there. Then he was. He was sort of slumped over in a big armchair. 05:55.000 --> 05:57.000 And then frog voice put him in the closet? 05:57.000 --> 06:05.000 That's what I remember. Then he left. I suddenly seem to realize that the guy in the closet was dead. That's when I get out of there. I don't know how. I don't know how. 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 You don't have any idea where it was? 06:07.000 --> 06:09.000 No, I didn't even know where the party was. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 And you've never even seen any of these people before? 06:11.000 --> 06:15.000 Except this guy, Joe, who took me to the party. And that's all I know about him. 06:15.000 --> 06:21.000 Just a guy named Joe that I knew by sight from someplace. But I don't know where. His last name or anything. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Whew. That's not much to go on, is it, kid? 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 No, not much. 06:25.000 --> 06:30.000 A guy named Joe, singing walls in the closet, and another guy with a froggy voice. 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 Well, I'd recognize him or his voice if I ever saw him again. 06:33.000 --> 06:40.000 Tommy, you're in a jam, kid. The way it looks right now, there's a dead man in a closet somewhere in this town, and you killed him. 06:40.000 --> 06:46.000 Maybe you didn't. And if we find him before somebody else does, maybe we can figure out what did happen. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 But the way it stands now, kid, you're it. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 Yeah, I know. 06:50.000 --> 06:56.000 We haven't got much time either. If the place is an apartment, they've probably found the body already, and I'd know about it. 06:56.000 --> 07:01.000 If it's a hotel, they check the guest out by six o'clock. That gives us about four hours. 07:01.000 --> 07:06.000 Four hours for the murderer to find the guy he murdered. Kind of crazy, isn't it? 07:06.000 --> 07:12.000 Tommy, you know how I feel about Newwood. And you know I don't exactly hate you either. 07:12.000 --> 07:15.000 You know, I'll do everything in the world I possibly can to clear you. 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 Sure, Danny, I know, I know. 07:17.000 --> 07:23.000 But I'm a cop, Tommy. And if you did do it, you know I'm going to turn you in, don't you? 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 Sure. I know that too. 07:25.000 --> 07:28.000 Okay, kid, okay. Now let's start from the beginning. What about the Sky Joe? 07:28.000 --> 07:29.000 But I don't know anything about him. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 You know his name, you know his face. Now think, Tommy, think. 07:31.000 --> 07:36.000 I'm trying to. If I could only remember. If I could only remember. 07:36.000 --> 07:53.000 So a guy named Joe brought you, huh? You come up here from Joe's place. Joe's place. 07:53.000 --> 07:58.000 You see, Tommy, when you remembered that, you told me where Joe is. 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 I did? 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Yeah, sure. You see that sign over that restaurant? 08:01.000 --> 08:05.000 Yeah, Joe's place. Joe's place, yeah. 08:05.000 --> 08:10.000 Tommy, you were playing with bad boys last night. And this is where bad boys hang out. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 So? 08:11.000 --> 08:16.000 It all clicked when I remembered you. Said the guy with the frog voice asked you if you could come. 08:16.000 --> 08:25.000 And this is where bad boys hang out. It all clicked when I remembered you. Said the guy with the frog voice asked you if you could come up there from Joe's place. 08:25.000 --> 08:30.000 He didn't mean where Joe lived or anything. He meant this place. He thought maybe you were one of the boys. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 How did I ever meet this Joe? I've never been here in my life. 08:32.000 --> 08:37.000 He runs another place more respectable as a sort of cover. About three blocks from our house, the grotto. 08:37.000 --> 08:39.000 Hey, that's right. 08:39.000 --> 08:44.000 Yeah, remember now? If my hunch is right, Joe is going to be plenty surprised when he sees you walk in there. 08:44.000 --> 08:45.000 Me? Walk in there? 08:45.000 --> 08:53.000 Now, don't worry, kid. Just walk in and sit down at the table. If you're not out of that place in a couple of minutes, I'll know you recognize the guy and we're on the right track. 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 I'll come in as though I didn't see you and go to the phone booth. 08:55.000 --> 08:56.000 Then what? 08:56.000 --> 09:00.000 Then we'll see, kid. Are you okay? 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 Okay. 09:01.000 --> 09:05.000 Oh, one thing more. If he offers you anything to eat or drink, take it. 09:05.000 --> 09:16.000 Sure. Well, here goes. What'll it be, Mike? 09:16.000 --> 09:17.000 Orange juice. 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 Right. 09:19.000 --> 09:23.000 Well, well, well, well. What do you know? Hello, Tommy. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 Well, hi, Joe. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 What are you doing down in this part of town, kid, huh? 09:28.000 --> 09:31.000 Oh, I had to come down to see a guy. I didn't know you had this place. 09:31.000 --> 09:35.000 Ah, just a little sideline. That's where I first started, you know. 09:35.000 --> 09:36.000 Sure. 09:36.000 --> 09:39.000 One orange juice. That'll be ten cents. 09:39.000 --> 09:43.000 Oh, no. You gotta have a little something to eat on me, kid. What do you have? Coffee, at least, huh? 09:43.000 --> 09:44.000 Well... 09:44.000 --> 09:45.000 Nice hot cup? 09:45.000 --> 09:46.000 Yeah, okay. 09:46.000 --> 09:50.000 Coffee for the gentleman Larry with the extra heavy cream. Understand? 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 The extra heavy? Sure. 09:52.000 --> 09:57.000 I'll take tea with lemon. Hey, Tommy, that was some fun last night, huh? 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 Yeah. 09:58.000 --> 10:01.000 Yeah. What'd you disappear to? I was looking all over for you. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.000 Oh, that's the funny thing. I don't even remember. 10:03.000 --> 10:07.000 I get it. Well, a guy has to cut loose once in a while. 10:07.000 --> 10:12.000 Here, one coffee with extra heavy cream. One tea. 10:12.000 --> 10:13.000 Well, this'll warm you up. 10:13.000 --> 10:14.000 Wait a minute. 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 Hey, who are you? 10:15.000 --> 10:18.000 Oh, this is my brother-in-law, Denny. This is Joe. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 Say, you must have got things mixed up. You never drink coffee, Tommy. You only drink tea. 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 Yeah, that's right. 10:23.000 --> 10:26.000 Here, you take the tea, give Joe the coffee, and I'll take the orange juice. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 I don't like coffee. I never touch it. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 Okay, I'll take it. Thanks. 10:30.000 --> 10:34.000 By the way, Joe, you haven't got a little bottle I could pour this into, have you? 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 Hey, who do you think you're kidding, bub? 10:36.000 --> 10:39.000 I'm from headquarters. There's a badge. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 No, no, wait a minute. I didn't know that... 10:41.000 --> 10:45.000 I suppose you didn't know that what I'd find in this coffee if I took it down to have it analyzed, would you? 10:45.000 --> 10:48.000 Look, I don't want any trouble. I never had any. They'll tell you at headquarters. 10:48.000 --> 10:49.000 If it's a matter of dough... 10:49.000 --> 10:52.000 You can't buy your way out of this one, chum. I want talk and I want it quick. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 What kind of talk? 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 Where did you take Tommy last night? 10:56.000 --> 11:00.000 It was just a little party, a card party, just coffee and cake. 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 Yeah, and they slipped things in people's coffee there, too. 11:03.000 --> 11:06.000 I don't know anything about that, honest. I hardly know the people. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 Who's the guy with the frog voice? 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 Voice? I don't know any guy with a frog voice. 11:09.000 --> 11:11.000 Look, I don't want no trouble. They'll tell you at headquarters. 11:11.000 --> 11:15.000 Listen, there's a narcotics trap in this for somebody and it could be you. Come on, where was the party? 11:15.000 --> 11:20.000 Courtney Square West, number 75, some people named Sorel. 11:20.000 --> 11:24.000 Come on, Tommy, and you're going too, Joe, just in case. 11:32.000 --> 11:36.000 Sorel, A.J. Does this look like the place, Tommy? 11:36.000 --> 11:40.000 Yeah, it looks like it. It could be. Everything's been so confused since last night. 11:40.000 --> 11:41.000 This is it. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 It better be. Mrs. Sorel? 11:44.000 --> 11:45.000 Yes? 11:45.000 --> 11:46.000 I'm from police headquarters. 11:46.000 --> 11:47.000 Oh. 11:47.000 --> 11:48.000 Do you mind if we come in and look around? 11:48.000 --> 11:49.000 Oh, why, no. 11:49.000 --> 11:53.000 Come on, Tommy. You too, Joe. Oh, by the way, do you two know each other? 11:53.000 --> 11:58.000 He... Why his face is familiar? I think he's been here a couple of times. 11:58.000 --> 12:03.000 We play a lot of cards. All kinds of people wander in and out. Is that what the trouble is? 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 It might be. You know anyone with a froggy voice? 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 No. Not that I can remember. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Okay, let's look at the apartment. 12:10.000 --> 12:13.000 Well, this is the hall, of course, and here's the living room. 12:13.000 --> 12:18.000 Joe, you stay here in the hall, and you better be here when I get back. 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 I'll be here. 12:21.000 --> 12:22.000 So, this is the living room. 12:22.000 --> 12:25.000 Uh-huh. This is the bedroom. Looks kind of messy now. 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 See anything? 12:26.000 --> 12:27.000 No. 12:27.000 --> 12:28.000 Over here's the kitchenette. 12:28.000 --> 12:29.000 I see. 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 That's about all there is to it. 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 Denny, that closet. 12:33.000 --> 12:37.000 Oh, there's nothing in there. Just a lot of old odds and ends. 12:37.000 --> 12:38.000 Open it. 12:38.000 --> 12:39.000 Well, it's locked. 12:39.000 --> 12:40.000 All right, unlock it. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 I'm not sure where the key is. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 Then, lady, you'd better find it. 12:44.000 --> 12:46.000 Well, I'll try. 12:46.000 --> 12:47.000 Is this it, Tommy? 12:47.000 --> 12:50.000 There was a closet like that, and a window just over there where that one is, 12:50.000 --> 12:51.000 and the armchair and bed. 12:51.000 --> 12:52.000 Don't you remember? 12:52.000 --> 12:53.000 I can't, Denny. 12:53.000 --> 12:54.000 Let me have that key. 12:54.000 --> 12:55.000 Wait a minute. Here she comes. 12:55.000 --> 12:57.000 I think this is it. 12:57.000 --> 12:58.000 Try it. 12:58.000 --> 13:00.000 It sort of sticks sometimes. 13:00.000 --> 13:01.000 I'll help you. 13:01.000 --> 13:03.000 There it comes. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 See? Just a lot of old junk. 13:07.000 --> 13:08.000 Uh-huh. 13:09.000 --> 13:10.000 Come on, Denny. 13:10.000 --> 13:11.000 You sure? 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 Sure. Come on. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 Well, I guess that's all, Mr. Sorrell. 13:15.000 --> 13:16.000 Thanks for showing us around. 13:16.000 --> 13:17.000 That's all right. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 Hello, Joe. 13:19.000 --> 13:20.000 Still here? 13:20.000 --> 13:21.000 Yeah. 13:21.000 --> 13:24.000 You, uh, don't mind if I stay here and visit a while, do you? 13:24.000 --> 13:25.000 No, I guess not. 13:26.000 --> 13:27.000 Well, goodbye. 13:27.000 --> 13:28.000 Goodbye. 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 Thanks again. 13:29.000 --> 13:30.000 Goodbye. 13:30.000 --> 13:31.000 Good luck. 13:31.000 --> 13:32.000 Copper. 13:33.000 --> 13:34.000 I'm sorry, Denny. 13:35.000 --> 13:36.000 Well, it was a try. 13:37.000 --> 13:38.000 What do we do now? 13:39.000 --> 13:40.000 I don't know, Tommy. 13:40.000 --> 13:41.000 We found Joe. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 Now, what about those singing walls? 13:43.000 --> 13:46.000 Come on, think, Tommy, think! 13:50.000 --> 13:51.000 Yeah, yeah. 13:51.000 --> 13:52.000 That's right. 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 It comes right out of the walls. 13:54.000 --> 13:57.000 We got hot and cold running water here. 13:57.000 --> 13:59.000 And singing walls. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 Yeah, singing walls. 14:06.000 --> 14:07.000 Denny. 14:07.000 --> 14:08.000 Yeah? 14:08.000 --> 14:09.000 Listen. 14:09.000 --> 14:10.000 What? 14:10.000 --> 14:11.000 That's it. 14:11.000 --> 14:12.000 The singing walls. 14:12.000 --> 14:13.000 Sure. 14:13.000 --> 14:14.000 Sure. 14:14.000 --> 14:15.000 I remember the piece and the harmonica and everything. 14:15.000 --> 14:16.000 It's coming from around here someplace. 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 Denny, it's coming from their apartment. 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 The one we just left, Sorel's. 14:20.000 --> 14:21.000 Come on! 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 This must be the place, Tommy. 14:23.000 --> 14:24.000 The closet and now the music. 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 They must have been pulling a fast one on us. 14:26.000 --> 14:27.000 Well? 14:27.000 --> 14:28.000 All right, quit stalling. 14:28.000 --> 14:29.000 Come on, Tommy. 14:29.000 --> 14:30.000 Stalling? 14:30.000 --> 14:31.000 Yes, you heard me. 14:31.000 --> 14:32.000 You two brushed us off pretty slick, didn't you? 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 Listen, I don't know what this is all about, but... 14:34.000 --> 14:35.000 Where's that music coming from? 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 Well, from the radio. 14:37.000 --> 14:38.000 The radio? 14:38.000 --> 14:39.000 Yeah. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 I turned it on the kitchen just now when I started to fix dinner. 14:41.000 --> 14:42.000 It's a little portable. 14:42.000 --> 14:43.000 From here. 14:43.000 --> 14:44.000 See? 14:44.000 --> 14:45.000 Okay. 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 I don't get it. 14:46.000 --> 14:47.000 What did you mean by... 14:47.000 --> 14:48.000 Oh, skip it, skip it. 14:48.000 --> 14:49.000 Well, Tommy, here we go again. 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 I don't care. 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 That was the music I heard. 14:51.000 --> 14:52.000 And that's the same number. 14:52.000 --> 14:53.000 Sounds like the same band. 14:53.000 --> 14:54.000 Hey, wait a minute. 14:54.000 --> 14:55.000 Now what? 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 Where's your phone? 14:56.000 --> 14:57.000 On the desk. 14:57.000 --> 14:58.000 Denny, look and see what station that's coming over. 14:58.000 --> 14:59.000 It's WBTA. 14:59.000 --> 15:00.000 Thanks. 15:00.000 --> 15:01.000 Hello, operator? 15:01.000 --> 15:02.000 Get me station WBTA, a radio station. 15:02.000 --> 15:03.000 I don't know what you're talking about. 15:03.000 --> 15:04.000 I'm sorry. 15:04.000 --> 15:05.000 I'm sorry. 15:05.000 --> 15:06.000 I'm sorry. 15:06.000 --> 15:07.000 I'm sorry. 15:07.000 --> 15:08.000 I'm sorry. 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 I'm sorry. 15:09.000 --> 15:10.000 I'm sorry. 15:10.000 --> 15:11.000 I'm sorry. 15:11.000 --> 15:12.000 It's a radio station. 15:12.000 --> 15:13.000 I don't know what the number is here. 15:13.000 --> 15:14.000 Tell him it's a police call. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 It's a police call. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 Thanks. 15:16.000 --> 15:19.000 I may be wrong, Denny, but I got a hunch. 15:19.000 --> 15:20.000 Hello. 15:20.000 --> 15:21.000 WBTA? 15:21.000 --> 15:22.900 What's that band you've got on now? 15:22.900 --> 15:24.660 I don't care if it's an electrical transcription. 15:24.660 --> 15:26.000 What's the guy's name? 15:26.000 --> 15:27.000 What? 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 Turn off that radio. 15:29.000 --> 15:30.000 What was that name? 15:30.000 --> 15:31.000 He, uh... 15:31.000 --> 15:32.000 Uh. 15:32.000 --> 15:35.000 Well, where can you get a hold of this guy? 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 Where does he hang out? 15:36.000 --> 15:37.000 I see. 15:37.000 --> 15:42.000 I see. Five nights a week. That include tonight? Thanks. 15:42.000 --> 15:43.000 Well? 15:43.000 --> 15:47.000 He's a small town bandleader. Harmonica Hall and his harmoniers, he calls himself. 15:47.000 --> 15:50.000 And he plays at a place called the Silver Slipper out in the concourse. 15:50.000 --> 15:51.000 Come on! 15:54.000 --> 15:55.000 You better get on that phone, Joe. 15:55.000 --> 15:59.000 Ah, you dumb. You would have to turn on that radio. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 There's the Silver Slipper right over there. 16:01.000 --> 16:02.000 Okay, let us out here. 16:02.000 --> 16:03.000 Right. 16:06.000 --> 16:07.000 Here you are. 16:07.000 --> 16:08.000 Thank you, sir. 16:10.000 --> 16:13.000 It looked familiar to you around here, Tommy? 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 I'm afraid it's a bum steer, Denny. 16:16.000 --> 16:19.000 Look, kid, do you know what time it was when you heard the music? 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 It was just night. That's all I know. 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 All right. They don't play with the music. 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 They don't play with the music. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 They don't play with the music. 16:26.000 --> 16:29.000 It was just night. That's all I know. 16:29.000 --> 16:32.000 All right. They don't play recording so much at night, particularly of small bands. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 And this Silver Slipper isn't on the air. 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 So maybe you were out here someplace and you heard the band itself. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 Yeah, maybe. 16:40.000 --> 16:44.000 I know it's kind of a long shot, kid, but right now it's the best we got. 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 Let's case the joint. 16:46.000 --> 16:47.000 Okay. 16:49.000 --> 16:53.000 Hmm. Don't look like there were any rooms with closets in the Silver Slipper. 16:53.000 --> 16:56.000 Denny, look, right next to it. 16:56.000 --> 16:57.000 Yeah, a hotel. 16:57.000 --> 16:58.000 That would make sense. 16:58.000 --> 17:01.000 Yes, and the shape you were in, you probably would have signed your own name too. 17:01.000 --> 17:02.000 Come on. 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 Oh, by the way, what time you got? 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 Ten to six. 17:05.000 --> 17:08.000 Ten to six. Our deadline's getting pretty close, kid. 17:08.000 --> 17:09.000 Yeah. 17:09.000 --> 17:10.000 This better be right. 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 Oh, what a place. 17:14.000 --> 17:15.000 I can only remember. 17:15.000 --> 17:18.000 There's the clerk. We'll see, kid. We'll see. 17:18.000 --> 17:21.000 Say, lady, you got a guy named Tom Cochran here? 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 Tom Cochran? I don't know. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 Oh, it's all right. It's all right. We're friends of his. 17:25.000 --> 17:27.000 I'll see. When did he register? 17:27.000 --> 17:28.000 Last night. 17:28.000 --> 17:32.000 Yeah. Oh, sure. Here he is. Tom Cochran and Ben Doyle. 17:32.000 --> 17:33.000 Yeah, yeah. 17:33.000 --> 17:35.000 Room 209. I don't think they're in, though. 17:35.000 --> 17:36.000 Oh, no? 17:36.000 --> 17:39.000 No. I've been ringing them to see if they were going to check out by six. 17:39.000 --> 17:42.000 I was just going to send somebody up. Shall I ring again? 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 No, no. We'll sort of surprise them. 17:44.000 --> 17:49.000 Okay. Right up those stairs. They got to be out by six to pay for another night. 17:49.000 --> 17:51.000 Yeah, well, we'll take care of it. Let's go, Tom. 17:51.000 --> 17:54.000 Denny, did you see the handwriting on that register? 17:54.000 --> 17:55.000 Yeah, yeah. 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 It was mine all right, Denny. 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 This is it, Tommy. One way or another. 17:59.000 --> 18:00.000 Yeah. 18:00.000 --> 18:01.000 Here we are. 18:01.000 --> 18:05.000 Don't put your hand on that doorknob, kid. Fingerprints. Use your handkerchief. 18:06.000 --> 18:10.000 Locked. I got some keys. It's an easy lock. 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 Here we go, kid. 18:14.000 --> 18:15.000 Denny, this is it. 18:15.000 --> 18:16.000 Close that door. 18:16.000 --> 18:17.000 That's the closet. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 Give me your key. Here. 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 Here, you better hold my gun on that door just in case. 18:21.000 --> 18:22.000 All right. 18:23.000 --> 18:24.000 Denny, look out. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 Oh, he was just falling. 18:30.000 --> 18:31.000 He's dead. 18:31.000 --> 18:35.000 Oh, gee. This is... 18:35.000 --> 18:37.000 You remember now? 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 Yeah. Yeah. 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 Let's have a look at him. 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 Stabbed. 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 And here's his driver's license. Benjamin Doyle. 18:48.000 --> 18:49.000 Denny. 18:49.000 --> 18:50.000 Give me it. 18:50.000 --> 18:51.000 Hello? 18:52.000 --> 18:53.000 Yeah, we found him all right. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 No, they're going to keep the room for another night. 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 No, there's not a thing we want. 18:58.000 --> 18:59.000 We're in for it now, kid. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 Denny, look. On the floor over there. 19:02.000 --> 19:05.000 A clasp knife covered with blood. That's what did it all right. 19:05.000 --> 19:06.000 Yeah. 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 Hey. 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 I know. I know. It's mine. 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 Tom, why didn't you tell me? 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 Honest, Denny. I didn't even remember I'd lost it until I saw it there just now. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 Fingerprints all over it. 19:18.000 --> 19:21.000 That's clear as though they'd been made in ceiling wax. 19:22.000 --> 19:23.000 Right-handed, aren't you, Tommy? 19:23.000 --> 19:24.000 Uh-huh. 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 Let me see your right hand. 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 Doesn't take an expert to read these. 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 Those are your prints, all right, kid? 19:34.000 --> 19:36.000 Yeah, I guess they are. 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 And you still don't remember? 19:39.000 --> 19:40.000 Honest, Denny. I don't. 19:40.000 --> 19:42.000 Can you think of any other explanation? 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 No. There's the guy with the frog voice. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 How much I just dreamed him up. I don't know. I don't know. 19:50.000 --> 19:51.000 Well, kid? 19:52.000 --> 19:55.000 You did all you could, Denny. But don't feel bad. 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 We can plead insanity or something. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 Maybe we can prove you were doped. 19:59.000 --> 20:00.000 Maybe. 20:01.000 --> 20:04.000 You better call headquarters, Denny. Let's get it over with. 20:04.000 --> 20:05.000 All right. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 Where are you going? 20:07.000 --> 20:10.000 I don't want a phone from here. That clerk will listen in. 20:10.000 --> 20:13.000 There's no use getting all the wolves on us before we have to. 20:13.000 --> 20:14.000 Aren't you afraid I'll... 20:14.000 --> 20:15.000 No, no. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.000 I won't. 20:17.000 --> 20:20.000 I'll just have them send a detective car, kid. 20:20.000 --> 20:22.000 You won't have to go in the wagon. 20:22.000 --> 20:23.000 Thanks. 20:23.000 --> 20:27.000 Oh. You better let me have my gun. 20:27.000 --> 20:30.000 Huh? Oh. Yeah, sure. 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 I'll be back, kid. 20:33.000 --> 20:36.000 Lie down for a couple of minutes. You look kind of sick. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 I am. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 Oh. 20:47.000 --> 20:50.000 That's the idea. Take a little snooze. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 I'll be right back. 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 Hey, look at you. Blood. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 Blood all over your shirt. 20:59.000 --> 21:02.000 Him? Oh, he's all right. 21:02.000 --> 21:06.000 Put him in the closet. Yeah, lock the door. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 Be right in your pocket. 21:08.000 --> 21:13.000 Sure, I'll be right back. Be right back. Be right back. 21:19.000 --> 21:20.000 Here he is. 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 You? Yeah, me. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 What are you gonna do with him, Froggy? 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 Get him in the other room until his copper friend misses him and starts looking. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 Listen, I don't want to be in on anything like this. 21:27.000 --> 21:30.000 Shut up. You're in it up to your neck already. 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 Come on, you. Come on, get up. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 Okay. And get going. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 Get going up the hall. 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 Open the other door, Joe. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 Sure. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 Get in there. 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 Is that the guy, Frog? Yeah, yeah. 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 Listen, Froggy, this don't look so good. 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 There were people who knew you were getting ready to give it a doil. 21:49.000 --> 21:51.000 Sure, that's why I framed this guy. 21:51.000 --> 21:55.000 Oh, that trouble I went to. Doped him and brought doil in there while he was out. 21:55.000 --> 21:58.000 Planted the key on him, bloodied him up, put the knife in his head. 21:58.000 --> 22:01.000 I still don't see how he ever come to in time. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 Yeah, but he did. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 So what? We frame him again. 22:05.000 --> 22:07.000 Music. Yeah. 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 You like music, don't you? 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 You're pretty sweet about music, huh? 22:11.000 --> 22:15.000 Well, for your information, that's how Monica Hale rehearsed for the night. 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 And in this room, it comes through the window. 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 On the counter, there is a window. 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 But in the other room, it comes through the walls. 22:21.000 --> 22:23.000 On the counter, there ain't no window. 22:23.000 --> 22:24.000 Catch on. 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 Better close the window, Joe. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 Wait a minute. I do like music. 22:28.000 --> 22:31.000 You mind if a guy on a spot like I am hears a little music? 22:31.000 --> 22:32.000 What about it, Froggy? 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 Sure, sure, sure. Leave it open. Leave it open. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 Let's have some music while we work. 22:36.000 --> 22:39.000 He'll cover up the noise if he makes any fuss. 22:39.000 --> 22:40.000 So what's the new angle? 22:40.000 --> 22:42.000 Knock him out, dump him in the park. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 Dead by his own hand. 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 Yeah. Remorse. 22:46.000 --> 22:50.000 We leave the gun be signed up and plant some doil stuff on him. 22:50.000 --> 22:51.000 I got it. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 All right, get going, get going. Tie him up. 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 Put a handkerchief at least, and a coat of coat around him. 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 He's sick, see? We're taking care of him. 22:57.000 --> 22:58.000 Okay. 22:58.000 --> 22:59.000 Where's the car? 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 It's around the back. It's around the back. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 Nobody else see us going out that way. You ready? 23:03.000 --> 23:04.000 Yeah. 23:04.000 --> 23:05.000 Take a look out the door. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 Okay. 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 All clear? 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 Yeah, yeah. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 Let's go, let's go. Lock the door after we go out. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 Okay. 23:13.000 --> 23:14.000 Down the hall to the back. 23:14.000 --> 23:15.000 All right. 23:15.000 --> 23:16.000 Hey, hey, what? 23:16.000 --> 23:17.000 Stop those guns and put them up. 23:17.000 --> 23:18.000 Cover them up, you guys. 23:18.000 --> 23:19.000 I got him. 23:19.000 --> 23:20.000 Hey, what is this? 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 You'll find out, Grutziani. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Get the gag out of the kid's mouth and untie him, Mike. 23:24.000 --> 23:25.000 Yeah, sure. 23:25.000 --> 23:26.000 Denny. 23:26.000 --> 23:27.000 Yeah, kid, I heard the music. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 I hoped you would. I asked him to leave the window open. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 I heard the conversation too. Enough. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 Okay, boys, okay. Take him down. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 All right, all right. Come on, man. 23:35.000 --> 23:36.000 You don't need to cut me into it. 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 Boy, who are they? 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 Grutziani's a mobster. 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 Doyle was one of his boys who double-crossed him. 23:42.000 --> 23:43.000 How you feeling, kid? 23:43.000 --> 23:44.000 Okay, I guess. 23:44.000 --> 23:45.000 It's kind of close. 23:45.000 --> 23:46.000 Yeah. 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 All the way around. 23:48.000 --> 23:49.000 Yeah. 23:49.000 --> 23:50.000 Look, kid, uh... 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 Oh, skip it. 23:52.000 --> 23:55.000 I'm...I'm sorry, Tommy. 23:55.000 --> 23:58.000 Honest, I am. I...I thought you did it. 23:58.000 --> 24:02.000 Denny, until just now, so did I. 24:02.000 --> 24:07.000 And so closes The Singing Wall, starring Van Johnson. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 Tonight's study in... 24:09.000 --> 24:11.000 Suspense. 24:11.000 --> 24:15.000 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 And now, further to entreat you, 24:17.000 --> 24:19.000 we have a special guest, 24:19.000 --> 24:21.000 the famous actor, 24:21.000 --> 24:24.000 who has been a great actor for many years. 24:24.000 --> 24:26.000 He's a great actor, 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 and he's been a great actor for many years. 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 He's been a great actor, 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 and now, further to intrigue you, 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 we of Suspense present a special preview 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 of our next exciting tale. 24:36.000 --> 24:38.000 And here it is, 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 a tantalizing glimpse of our next adventure 24:40.000 --> 24:42.000 in Suspense. 24:47.000 --> 24:48.000 Hola, Johnny. 24:48.000 --> 24:49.000 Ah? 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 Que de nuevo? 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 Que de nuevo, Johnny? 24:52.000 --> 24:53.000 Ah, sure, here. 24:53.000 --> 24:54.000 Sombero? 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 Yeah, check the sombero. 24:56.000 --> 24:57.000 Good evening, Mr. Winnington. 24:57.000 --> 24:58.000 Do you wish a table? 24:58.000 --> 24:59.000 No, thanks. 24:59.000 --> 25:00.000 No, I'm just browsing. 25:00.000 --> 25:01.000 Is, uh, Ronaldo... 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 Oh, there he is now. 25:03.000 --> 25:04.000 Oh. 25:04.000 --> 25:05.000 Hello, Johnny. Hello. 25:05.000 --> 25:06.000 Hi, Ronaldo. 25:06.000 --> 25:07.000 Well, um, sit down. 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 Have a little supper with me, huh? 25:09.000 --> 25:10.000 Oh, no, thanks. I'm not hungry. 25:10.000 --> 25:12.000 Well, come on, come on. Sit down anyway. 25:12.000 --> 25:14.000 All right. Anything to please you, sweetheart. 25:14.000 --> 25:16.000 Tell me, how's business? 25:16.000 --> 25:17.000 Oh, fine, great. 25:17.000 --> 25:20.000 Every time I get a bad break nowadays, Johnny, 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 I get two good ones right after. 25:22.000 --> 25:23.000 Ha, ha, ha. 25:23.000 --> 25:25.000 Say, when did you ever get a bad break? 25:25.000 --> 25:27.000 Well, you know Jackie, my little singer. 25:27.000 --> 25:28.000 Yeah, sure, I know. 25:28.000 --> 25:29.000 Yeah, of course you do. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 Well, Jackie is quitting. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 Oh, that's too bad. 25:33.000 --> 25:34.000 And who do you suppose I'm getting, 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 just by the merest accident? 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 Who do you suppose I'm getting to take her place, huh? 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 All right, I'll bite. 25:40.000 --> 25:41.000 Lor Nadine. 25:41.000 --> 25:43.000 Lor Nadine? Oh, you're kidding. 25:43.000 --> 25:46.000 Oh, what do you think of that, huh? 25:46.000 --> 25:47.000 Pretty good, huh? 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 Well, if you'll excuse the aspersions, Ronaldo, 25:49.000 --> 25:52.000 I think what does a dame with an international reputation 25:52.000 --> 25:54.000 like Lor Nadine want to be singing 25:54.000 --> 25:55.000 in a third-rate cabaret like this for? 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 Oh, no, no, second-rate maybe, 25:57.000 --> 25:59.000 but third-rate, no, no, no. 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 All right, all right, second-rate. 26:01.000 --> 26:04.000 But you can't pay her a tenth of what she's used to getting. 26:04.000 --> 26:07.000 And what is she doing down here in Buenos Aires anyway? 26:07.000 --> 26:10.000 Oh, now, what you want to ask a lot of questions for. 26:10.000 --> 26:11.000 She's going to sing. 26:11.000 --> 26:12.000 That's good enough for me. 26:12.000 --> 26:14.000 Yeah, I guess it is. 26:14.000 --> 26:15.000 She's terrific, all right. 26:15.000 --> 26:16.000 Tell me, when does she start? 26:16.000 --> 26:18.000 Uh, two weeks from tonight. 26:18.000 --> 26:20.000 Why, uh, why did Jackie quit? 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 It was kind of sudden, wasn't it? 26:22.000 --> 26:23.000 Oh, I don't know. 26:23.000 --> 26:25.000 She's, uh, nervous lately. 26:25.000 --> 26:27.000 She wants to go back to the States, I guess. 26:27.000 --> 26:28.000 Oh. 26:28.000 --> 26:30.000 Say, uh, Johnny. 26:30.000 --> 26:31.000 Yeah? 26:31.000 --> 26:33.000 Uh, when are you going back? 26:33.000 --> 26:34.000 To the States? 26:33.000 --> 26:34.000 Mm-hmm. 26:34.000 --> 26:38.000 Oh, six months a year, two years, whenever this war is over. 26:38.000 --> 26:40.000 Don't you think you better, uh, 26:40.000 --> 26:42.000 better go home maybe a little sooner, huh? 26:42.000 --> 26:44.000 Look, I don't want any lectures on my patriotism, 26:44.000 --> 26:45.000 if that's what you mean. 26:45.000 --> 26:47.000 Well, who's giving lectures? 26:47.000 --> 26:50.000 Down here, we are, uh, well, we are neutral. 26:50.000 --> 26:51.000 Yeah? 26:51.000 --> 26:53.000 Well, all right, that's what I am. 26:53.000 --> 26:55.000 The U.S. is okay, it's fine. 26:55.000 --> 26:57.000 It just happens that it never did so much for me 26:57.000 --> 26:59.000 that I feel like getting knocked off for it, that's all. 26:59.000 --> 27:01.000 Sure, sure, I don't want you to get knocked off. 27:01.000 --> 27:03.000 That's what I'm talking about. 27:03.000 --> 27:05.000 What are you talking about? 27:05.000 --> 27:07.000 Your health, Johnny. 27:07.000 --> 27:09.000 Do I take that two ways or only one? 27:09.000 --> 27:10.000 One. 27:10.000 --> 27:13.000 Listen, Johnny, listen, I see these things before. 27:13.000 --> 27:15.000 Sometimes, folks stay around these places so long, 27:15.000 --> 27:17.000 they forget all about home. 27:17.000 --> 27:19.000 And then one day, pfft, finish. 27:19.000 --> 27:21.000 I pay my bills, don't I, eventually? 27:21.000 --> 27:23.000 Johnny, don't talk that way. 27:23.000 --> 27:25.000 It's only because I like you, you know that. 27:25.000 --> 27:27.000 All right, all right, cut it, cut it. 27:27.000 --> 27:28.000 Okay, okay. 27:28.000 --> 27:30.000 Ah, here comes Jackie now. 27:30.000 --> 27:32.000 Ha-ha. 27:32.000 --> 27:35.000 Al-ma 27:35.000 --> 27:41.000 De la frica lejana 27:41.000 --> 27:44.000 Ye-na 27:44.000 --> 27:46.000 Mi pecho, mi... 27:46.000 --> 27:48.000 What's wrong? 27:48.000 --> 27:50.000 What's happening? 27:50.000 --> 27:52.000 Come on, Ronaldo. 27:52.000 --> 27:54.000 I can't understand. 27:54.000 --> 27:56.000 She wasn't feeling well. Why didn't she tell me? 27:56.000 --> 27:58.000 She didn't have to go on. 27:58.000 --> 28:00.000 Coming through, please, please. 28:00.000 --> 28:02.000 Please stand back, please stand back. 28:02.000 --> 28:04.000 What's the matter here? 28:04.000 --> 28:06.000 This woman has been drugged, apparently. 28:06.000 --> 28:08.000 I am a doctor. 28:08.000 --> 28:10.000 Please let me through. 28:10.000 --> 28:12.000 Mr. Ronaldo. 28:12.000 --> 28:14.000 What do you want? I have no time now. 28:14.000 --> 28:16.000 I want the job, now. 28:16.000 --> 28:18.000 Job? Oh, it's you, Miss Dean. 28:18.000 --> 28:20.000 You got the poor kid over before coming here. 28:20.000 --> 28:22.000 Did I ask you anything? 28:22.000 --> 28:24.000 Look, Mr. Ronaldo, I'm sorry for the girl, 28:24.000 --> 28:26.000 but I'm a singer, not a sob sister. 28:26.000 --> 28:28.000 I was going to start in two weeks anyway. 28:28.000 --> 28:30.000 I might as well start now. 28:30.000 --> 28:32.000 Well, all right then, until Jackie can come back 28:32.000 --> 28:34.000 to finish off. 28:34.000 --> 28:36.000 Oh, yeah? It'll be about the longest run on record, then. 28:36.000 --> 28:38.000 What do you mean? 28:38.000 --> 28:40.000 This young lady is right, Senor Ronaldo. 28:40.000 --> 28:42.000 This girl is dead. 28:42.000 --> 28:44.000 Dead? 28:44.000 --> 28:46.000 Do you still want the job, Miss Dean? 28:46.000 --> 28:48.000 I still want the job. 28:54.000 --> 28:56.000 And so until our next performance, 28:56.000 --> 28:58.000 when you will hear the rest of this exciting tale, 28:58.000 --> 29:00.000 we keep you in... 29:00.000 --> 29:16.000 Suspense! 29:30.000 --> 29:32.000 Suspense! 30:00.000 --> 30:02.000 Suspense! 30:02.000 --> 30:18.000 This is the Armed Forces Radio Service. 30:32.000 --> 30:34.000 The Armed Forces Radio Service. 31:02.000 --> 31:04.000 The Armed Forces Radio Service.