WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.280 Now, Roma wines present... 00:05.280 --> 00:09.280 Suspense! 00:09.280 --> 00:27.560 Tonight, You Were Wonderful, starring Lena Horne. 00:27.560 --> 00:31.120 This is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:31.120 --> 00:33.880 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:33.880 --> 00:38.600 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:38.600 --> 00:43.480 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:43.480 --> 00:49.720 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you... 00:49.720 --> 00:52.720 Suspense! 00:52.720 --> 00:57.840 This is the Man in Black, here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 00:57.840 --> 01:04.080 Tonight Roma Wines bring you a star, the remarkable American singing actress, Miss Lena Horne, 01:04.080 --> 01:09.280 who has recently returned to Hollywood following a triumphal Eastern tour to resume her picture 01:09.280 --> 01:14.920 career at the studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in whose Technicolor production, Ziegfeld Follies, 01:14.920 --> 01:16.880 she will soon be seen. 01:16.880 --> 01:23.120 Tonight she appears as a noted entertainer called Lorne Aden, who found herself embroiled 01:23.120 --> 01:27.920 with dangerous intrigue and murder in a South American capital. 01:27.920 --> 01:33.440 And so with You Were Wonderful, and with the performance of Lena Horne, we again hope to 01:33.440 --> 01:34.440 keep you in... 01:34.440 --> 01:35.440 Suspense! 01:35.440 --> 01:47.560 Hola, Gianni. 01:47.560 --> 01:56.920 Ah, sure, here. 01:56.920 --> 01:57.920 Check the sombrero. 01:57.920 --> 01:59.920 Good evening, Mr. Wines. 01:59.920 --> 02:01.280 Do you wish a table? 02:01.280 --> 02:02.280 No, thanks, no. 02:02.280 --> 02:03.280 I'm just browsing. 02:03.280 --> 02:04.280 Is Ronaldo... 02:04.280 --> 02:05.280 Oh, there he is now. 02:05.280 --> 02:06.280 Oh, hello, Gianni, hello. 02:06.280 --> 02:07.280 Hi, Ronaldo. 02:07.280 --> 02:08.280 Well, sit down, have a little supper with me, huh? 02:08.280 --> 02:09.280 No, no, thanks, I'm not hungry. 02:09.280 --> 02:10.280 Well, come on, come on, sit down anyway. 02:10.280 --> 02:11.280 All right, anything to please you, sit down. 02:11.280 --> 02:12.280 Tell me, how's business? 02:12.280 --> 02:13.280 Oh, fine, great. 02:13.280 --> 02:14.280 Every time I get a bad break nowadays, Gianni, I get two good ones right after. 02:14.280 --> 02:15.280 Say, when did you ever get a bad break? 02:15.280 --> 02:16.280 Well, you know Jackie, my little singer. 02:16.280 --> 02:17.280 Yeah, sure, I know. 02:17.280 --> 02:18.280 Of course you do. 02:18.280 --> 02:19.280 Well, Jackie is quitting. 02:19.280 --> 02:20.280 Oh, that's too bad. 02:20.280 --> 02:21.280 Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 02:21.280 --> 02:22.280 I'm sorry. 02:22.280 --> 02:23.280 I'm sorry. 02:23.280 --> 02:24.280 I'm sorry. 02:24.280 --> 02:25.280 I'm sorry. 02:25.280 --> 02:26.280 I'm sorry. 02:26.280 --> 02:27.280 I'm sorry. 02:27.280 --> 02:35.400 I'm sorry. 02:35.400 --> 02:38.360 And who do you suppose I'm getting just by the nearest accident? 02:38.360 --> 02:40.680 Who do you suppose I'm getting to take our place, huh? 02:40.680 --> 02:41.680 All right, I'll bite. 02:41.680 --> 02:42.680 Lorna Dean. 02:42.680 --> 02:43.680 Lorna Dean? 02:43.680 --> 02:44.680 Oh, you're kidding. 02:44.680 --> 02:45.680 What do you think of that, huh? 02:45.680 --> 02:46.680 Very good, huh? 02:46.680 --> 02:54.080 Well, if you'll excuse the aspersions, Ronaldo, I think, what does a dame with an international 02:54.080 --> 02:57.720 reputation like Lorna Dean want to be singing in a third-rate cabaret like this for? 02:57.720 --> 03:01.320 Oh, no, no, second-rate maybe, but third-rate, no, no, no. 03:01.320 --> 03:02.600 All right, all right, second-rate. 03:02.600 --> 03:06.240 But you can't pay her a tenth of what she's used to getting. 03:06.240 --> 03:08.760 And what is she doing down here in Buenos Aires anyway? 03:08.760 --> 03:11.600 Oh, now, what you want to ask a lot of questions for. 03:11.600 --> 03:12.600 She's going to sing. 03:12.600 --> 03:13.600 That's good enough for me. 03:13.600 --> 03:14.600 Yeah? 03:14.600 --> 03:15.600 Hey, I guess it is. 03:15.600 --> 03:16.600 She's terrific, all right. 03:16.600 --> 03:17.600 Tell me, when does she start? 03:17.600 --> 03:18.600 Two weeks from tonight. 03:18.600 --> 03:19.600 Why the Jackie Queen? 03:19.600 --> 03:20.600 It's kind of subtle, isn't it? 03:20.600 --> 03:21.600 Oh, I don't know. 03:21.600 --> 03:24.600 She's nervous lately. 03:24.600 --> 03:29.600 She wants to go back to the States, I guess. 03:29.600 --> 03:30.600 Oh. 03:30.600 --> 03:31.600 Say, Johnny. 03:31.600 --> 03:32.600 Yeah? 03:32.600 --> 03:34.600 When are you going back? 03:34.600 --> 03:35.600 To the States? 03:35.600 --> 03:36.600 Mm-hmm. 03:36.600 --> 03:40.000 Oh, six months, a year, two years, whenever this war is over. 03:40.000 --> 03:43.480 Don't you think you better go home maybe a little sooner, huh? 03:43.480 --> 03:46.600 Look, I don't want any lectures on my patriotism, if that's what you mean. 03:46.600 --> 03:48.600 Why, who's giving lectures? 03:48.600 --> 03:51.600 Down here, we are neutral. 03:51.600 --> 03:52.600 Yeah? 03:52.600 --> 03:54.600 Well, all right, that's what I am. 03:54.600 --> 03:55.600 The U.S. is okay, it's fine. 03:55.600 --> 03:59.600 It just happens that it never did so much for me that I feel like getting knocked off 03:59.600 --> 04:00.600 for it, that's all. 04:00.600 --> 04:02.600 Oh, I don't want you to get knocked off. 04:02.600 --> 04:04.600 That's what I'm talking about. 04:04.600 --> 04:06.600 What are you talking about? 04:06.600 --> 04:08.600 Your health, Johnny. 04:08.600 --> 04:10.600 Do I take that two ways or only one? 04:10.600 --> 04:11.600 One. 04:11.600 --> 04:12.600 Listen, Johnny, listen. 04:12.600 --> 04:14.600 I see these things before. 04:14.600 --> 04:17.600 Sometimes, when we stay around these places so long, they forget all about home. 04:17.600 --> 04:19.600 And then one day, finish. 04:19.600 --> 04:21.600 I pay my bills, don't I, eventually? 04:21.600 --> 04:23.600 Johnny, don't talk that way. 04:23.600 --> 04:25.600 It's only because I like you, you know that. 04:25.600 --> 04:26.600 All right, all right, cut it, cut it. 04:26.600 --> 04:27.600 Okay, okay. 04:27.600 --> 04:30.600 Ah, here comes Jackie now. 04:30.600 --> 04:32.600 Aha. 04:32.600 --> 04:48.600 Alma del Africa lejana, piena mi pecho, mi... 04:48.600 --> 04:49.600 What's happening? 04:49.600 --> 04:50.600 Ay, Dios. 04:50.600 --> 04:51.600 What's the matter? 04:51.600 --> 04:52.600 Come on, run out. 04:52.600 --> 04:53.600 I understand, she wasn't feeling well. 04:53.600 --> 04:54.600 Why didn't she tell me? 04:54.600 --> 04:55.600 She didn't have to go on. 04:55.600 --> 04:56.600 Coming through, please, please. 04:56.600 --> 04:57.600 Please stand back, please stand back. 04:57.600 --> 04:58.600 Now, what's the matter? 04:58.600 --> 05:02.600 This woman has been drugged, apparently. 05:02.600 --> 05:03.600 I am a doctor. 05:03.600 --> 05:04.600 Oh. 05:04.600 --> 05:05.600 Mr. Ronaldo. 05:05.600 --> 05:06.600 What do you want? 05:06.600 --> 05:07.600 I have no time. 05:07.600 --> 05:08.600 I want the job, now. 05:08.600 --> 05:09.600 Job? 05:09.600 --> 05:10.600 Oh, it's you, Miss D. 05:10.600 --> 05:13.600 Couldn't you even wait until they looked the poor kid over before coming here? 05:13.600 --> 05:14.600 Did I ask you anything? 05:14.600 --> 05:15.600 Look, Mr. Ronaldo, I'm sorry for the girl, but I'm a singer, not a top sister. 05:15.600 --> 05:16.600 I was going to start in two weeks anyway. 05:16.600 --> 05:17.600 I might as well start now. 05:17.600 --> 05:18.600 Well, I'm sorry. 05:18.600 --> 05:19.600 I'm sorry. 05:19.600 --> 05:20.600 I'm sorry. 05:20.600 --> 05:21.600 I'm sorry. 05:21.600 --> 05:22.600 I'm sorry. 05:22.600 --> 05:23.600 I'm sorry. 05:23.600 --> 05:24.600 I'm sorry. 05:24.600 --> 05:25.600 I'm sorry. 05:25.600 --> 05:26.600 I'm sorry. 05:26.600 --> 05:27.600 I'm sorry. 05:27.600 --> 05:28.600 I'll start now. 05:28.600 --> 05:29.600 All right. 05:29.600 --> 05:31.820 Then until Jackie can come back to finish out. 05:31.820 --> 05:32.820 Oh, yeah? 05:32.820 --> 05:35.840 It'll be about the longest run on record then. 05:35.840 --> 05:36.840 What do you mean? 05:36.840 --> 05:38.040 This young lady is right. 05:38.040 --> 05:39.040 Thank you, Ronaldo. 05:39.040 --> 05:41.000 This girl is dead. 05:41.000 --> 05:44.400 Do you still want the job? 05:44.400 --> 05:51.400 I still want the job. 05:51.400 --> 06:05.520 Tonight for Suspense, Roma wines are bringing you a star, Miss Lena Horne, whom you have 06:05.520 --> 06:09.600 heard in the prologue to You Were Wonderful by Robert L. Richards. 06:09.600 --> 06:21.320 Tonight's tale of Suspense. 06:21.320 --> 06:26.400 Roma wines made in California are of such uniformly superb quality that they are imported 06:26.400 --> 06:31.760 to many foreign countries as the choice of true connoisseurs of fine wines. 06:31.760 --> 06:38.080 Millions of Americans also enjoy the excellence of Roma wines daily, with meals and when entertaining. 06:38.080 --> 06:43.080 In fact, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 06:43.080 --> 06:48.960 They know that Roma wines are truly inexpensive, or wines of such distinguished character. 06:48.960 --> 06:54.720 They know Roma wines are of unvarying superb taste and quality, the result of age-old winemaking 06:54.720 --> 06:58.080 skill combined with modern knowledge. 06:58.080 --> 07:01.160 All this for only pennies a glass. 07:01.160 --> 07:06.760 So for maximum mealtime enjoyment, or when entertaining, serve Roma wines. 07:06.760 --> 07:11.360 A cool glass of appetizing Roma California sherry before dinner. 07:11.360 --> 07:16.880 A cool bottle of rich Roma California burgundy on the table with the meal. 07:16.880 --> 07:20.760 You'll appreciate the enthusiastic comments of the family and guests. 07:20.760 --> 07:26.640 You'll be pleasantly surprised at how much added zest Roma wine brings to your table. 07:26.640 --> 07:32.200 Tomorrow, ask your dealer for R.O.M.A. Roma wines. 07:32.200 --> 07:36.520 If he is temporarily out of Roma, please try again soon. 07:36.520 --> 07:42.800 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 07:42.800 --> 07:45.120 And now we return to the scene of our drama. 07:45.120 --> 07:49.480 The Rinaldos on the waterfront of Buenos Aires, where a famous American entertainer, Lorna 07:49.480 --> 07:54.720 Dean, takes the spotlight from a dead girl to begin the strangest singing engagement 07:54.720 --> 07:55.720 of her career. 07:55.720 --> 08:21.520 A situation well calculated to keep you in suspense. 08:21.520 --> 08:35.520 Embrace me, my sweet embrace of you. 08:35.520 --> 08:44.520 Embrace me, my replace of you. 08:44.520 --> 08:59.520 Just one look at you, my heart grew gypsy in me. 08:59.520 --> 09:12.520 You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me. 09:12.520 --> 09:27.520 I love all the mini-chums about you. 09:27.520 --> 09:42.520 Above all, I want my arms about you. 09:42.520 --> 09:49.520 Don't be a naughty baby. 09:49.520 --> 09:58.520 Come to your mama's door. 09:58.520 --> 10:12.520 My sweet embrace of you. 10:12.520 --> 10:29.880 Oh, gee, how was it, Johnny? 10:29.880 --> 10:31.400 You ask me that question every night. 10:31.400 --> 10:32.640 Don't I always give you the same answer? 10:32.640 --> 10:34.520 Ah, maybe I just like to hear it. 10:34.520 --> 10:35.640 All right, all right. 10:35.640 --> 10:37.320 You were wonderful, okay? 10:37.320 --> 10:38.320 Okay. 10:38.320 --> 10:41.120 We artists, you know, gotta hear that thunderous ovation. 10:41.120 --> 10:42.720 Hello there, Johnny. 10:42.720 --> 10:44.720 Oh, a friend of yours? 10:44.720 --> 10:46.720 Well, business acquaintances, you know. 10:46.720 --> 10:50.920 Well, that tall one's been giving me the glassy eye all through that monogathe last 10:50.920 --> 10:51.920 three nights. 10:51.920 --> 10:52.920 They're coming over. 10:52.920 --> 10:53.920 Maybe you want to talk to them. 10:53.920 --> 10:54.920 Oh, Johnny. 10:54.920 --> 10:55.920 Oh, please don't go, Miss Dean. 10:55.920 --> 10:56.920 Oh, that's all right. 10:56.920 --> 11:00.320 I've got to argue with Reynaldo about a baby pink spot. 11:00.320 --> 11:01.320 You know, we artists. 11:01.320 --> 11:02.320 See you later, Johnny. 11:02.320 --> 11:03.320 Okay. 11:03.320 --> 11:04.320 Sit down, Mr. Harman. 11:04.320 --> 11:05.320 Hi, Stinkle. 11:05.320 --> 11:06.320 Good evening. 11:06.320 --> 11:07.320 Terribly attractive girl. 11:07.320 --> 11:08.320 What? 11:08.320 --> 11:09.320 My favorite singer, too. 11:09.320 --> 11:10.320 Oh, by the way, I'm sorry. 11:10.320 --> 11:15.320 Oh, by the way, before I forget, Johnny, here's your remittance for the week. 11:15.320 --> 11:16.840 Oh, okay, thanks. 11:16.840 --> 11:22.040 And in that connection, old boy, I'm afraid I must tell you that we're not too satisfied 11:22.040 --> 11:23.040 with your work. 11:23.040 --> 11:24.320 Or maybe I'm not too satisfied with the job. 11:24.320 --> 11:29.200 Oh, if you're not, it doesn't require such enormous intellectual powers that we couldn't 11:29.200 --> 11:31.160 find someone else to do it, you know. 11:31.160 --> 11:32.160 Oh, keep your pants on. 11:32.160 --> 11:33.160 I didn't say I was quitting today. 11:33.160 --> 11:34.880 Now, look here, old boy. 11:34.880 --> 11:40.600 All we ask you to do is report their names when they enter the harbor and their sailing 11:40.600 --> 11:41.600 time when they leave. 11:41.600 --> 11:42.960 Now, that's easier now, isn't it? 11:42.960 --> 11:44.040 Yeah, sure, sure. 11:44.040 --> 11:46.280 Only to find out those things, the guy has to ask questions. 11:46.280 --> 11:48.360 And when you ask questions, people ask questions back. 11:48.360 --> 11:49.360 Don't forget that. 11:49.360 --> 11:52.680 Oh, you have been reading too many spy stories, Johnny. 11:52.680 --> 11:57.440 After all, even if there's a war, some of us are still in business. 11:57.440 --> 12:01.280 And when you're in business, sometimes it helps to know when your competitors are shipping 12:01.280 --> 12:02.280 their goods. 12:02.280 --> 12:03.280 Yeah, okay, okay. 12:03.280 --> 12:06.840 The guy likes to know what he's working for, that's all. 12:06.840 --> 12:12.400 About Miss Lorna Dean, I didn't know you were a particular friend of hers, Johnny. 12:12.400 --> 12:14.800 Not particular, just friends. 12:14.800 --> 12:16.280 She took Jackie's place. 12:16.280 --> 12:17.280 Yeah? 12:17.280 --> 12:18.280 Yeah. 12:18.280 --> 12:22.520 And there's a couple of questions that nobody has ever answered about that either. 12:22.520 --> 12:23.920 I suppose there are. 12:23.920 --> 12:25.400 Too bad, yeah. 12:25.400 --> 12:29.320 You know, I'd rather like to have a talk with Miss Dean. 12:29.320 --> 12:30.320 What about? 12:30.320 --> 12:31.320 Oh, singing. 12:31.320 --> 12:35.760 I didn't know you were such a particular lover of music. 12:35.760 --> 12:36.760 Oh, rather. 12:36.760 --> 12:38.720 I'd go for American folk songs. 12:38.720 --> 12:39.720 Primitive, you know. 12:39.720 --> 12:40.720 Stir the blood, what? 12:40.720 --> 12:41.720 Yeah. 12:41.720 --> 12:43.840 Well, here she comes back, and if you want my advice... 12:43.840 --> 12:46.600 I didn't ask for your advice, old boy. 12:46.600 --> 12:48.800 Now you just run along for 10 minutes. 12:48.800 --> 12:49.800 What for? 12:49.800 --> 12:53.120 I want to have a little private talk with Miss Dean. 12:53.120 --> 12:55.320 And you don't know enough about music. 12:55.320 --> 12:56.320 Okay. 12:56.320 --> 12:58.320 Hey, Johnny, guess what we're now... 12:58.320 --> 12:59.320 Hey, Johnny! 12:59.320 --> 13:01.520 I'll be back when I'm wanted. 13:01.520 --> 13:04.320 Oh, please, Miss Dean, do sit down. 13:04.320 --> 13:06.720 Well, what was all that about? 13:06.720 --> 13:07.720 Let him go. 13:07.720 --> 13:09.560 It's all the better for me, you know. 13:09.560 --> 13:10.560 Now I can talk to you. 13:10.560 --> 13:11.560 And perhaps you'd better learn your nonsense. 13:11.560 --> 13:12.560 It's quite all right. 13:12.560 --> 13:17.320 Well, Miss Dean, it's nice to see you again. 13:17.320 --> 13:20.800 I'm still wondering why America's favorite thrush is singing here. 13:20.800 --> 13:22.840 Oh, I sort of like the place. 13:22.840 --> 13:24.840 I wanted to help Ronaldo out of a jam. 13:24.840 --> 13:25.840 Charlie, good. 13:25.840 --> 13:28.320 I must confess I have a weakness for the place myself. 13:28.320 --> 13:29.960 Oh, have you? 13:29.960 --> 13:35.040 And how do you think Buenos Aires stacks up with Rio and all the other gay capitals of 13:35.040 --> 13:36.040 South America? 13:36.040 --> 13:37.040 I like it. 13:37.040 --> 13:42.320 My tour didn't take me here, but I just couldn't leave without seeing it. 13:42.320 --> 13:45.120 You know, I've always been a great admirer of yours, Miss Dean. 13:45.120 --> 13:47.960 I've heard you sing, oh, I don't know how many times. 13:47.960 --> 13:50.080 Oh, have you been in the States often? 13:50.080 --> 13:51.080 Oh, no, no, no. 13:51.080 --> 13:52.080 England. 13:52.080 --> 13:53.080 A short way, you know. 13:53.080 --> 13:55.080 Your voice carries very well over the wireless. 13:55.080 --> 13:56.080 Oh, you're English. 13:56.080 --> 13:57.080 And Austrian. 13:57.080 --> 14:00.080 I lived in England most of my life, though. 14:00.080 --> 14:03.080 You know, down here on business, war, you know. 14:03.080 --> 14:05.080 Oh, terrible thing, this war. 14:05.080 --> 14:06.080 Yes. 14:06.080 --> 14:09.080 I'm afraid it's been awfully disillusioning to a lot of people. 14:09.080 --> 14:13.080 Take your people in America, for instance. 14:13.080 --> 14:16.080 Not much for them, the fight war is down. 14:16.080 --> 14:18.080 Well, a lot of them are fighting just the same. 14:18.080 --> 14:20.080 I dare say. 14:20.080 --> 14:23.080 Anything better than what they have at home, eh? 14:23.080 --> 14:24.080 Strange war, though. 14:24.080 --> 14:26.080 There's the Japanese now. 14:26.080 --> 14:29.080 I understand that they have certain very progressive policies 14:29.080 --> 14:32.080 towards the, uh, color races. 14:32.080 --> 14:34.080 Except for the Chinese, I suppose. 14:34.080 --> 14:37.080 Yes, well, Chinese backward people, you know, 14:37.080 --> 14:39.080 always have been communists and so on. 14:39.080 --> 14:41.080 Confusing, just the same, isn't it? 14:41.080 --> 14:43.080 All this, uh, race business. 14:43.080 --> 14:45.080 I suppose it is to some people. 14:45.080 --> 14:47.080 Now they're the Nazis, cute devils. 14:47.080 --> 14:50.080 Always talk about a master race. 14:50.080 --> 14:52.080 They don't mean a word of it, you know. 14:52.080 --> 14:54.080 Can't we talk about something else? 14:54.080 --> 14:56.080 Oh, yes, of course, my dear. 14:56.080 --> 14:59.080 Now, now let's talk about your music. 14:59.080 --> 15:02.080 You know, I'm really quite a fan of American music. 15:02.080 --> 15:04.080 A bit unbalanced on the sub-unit, actually, I suppose. 15:04.080 --> 15:05.080 Oh, really? 15:05.080 --> 15:06.080 Yes. 15:06.080 --> 15:08.080 So much so that I think I might have a little 15:08.080 --> 15:11.080 financial proposition that would interest you. 15:11.080 --> 15:12.080 Hey, hey, hey, you. 15:12.080 --> 15:14.080 Are you speaking to me? 15:14.080 --> 15:15.080 Yes, go on, get out of here. 15:15.080 --> 15:17.080 You know what you're saying? 15:17.080 --> 15:18.080 What possible reason can you have? 15:18.080 --> 15:20.080 I don't know anything. I don't have any reason. 15:20.080 --> 15:22.080 I just can't afford to get into trouble myself. 15:22.080 --> 15:24.080 Maybe I just don't like your face. 15:24.080 --> 15:25.080 Now go on, go on, get out. 15:25.080 --> 15:26.080 Now sit here, Ronaldo. 15:26.080 --> 15:28.080 Get out and don't come back. 15:28.080 --> 15:30.080 Very well. 15:30.080 --> 15:32.080 Come along, Stingle. 15:32.080 --> 15:33.080 Good night, Miss Dean. 15:33.080 --> 15:35.080 Good night. 15:35.080 --> 15:39.080 Ronaldo, you're making rather a bad mistake, my love. 15:39.080 --> 15:40.080 That's what you think. 15:40.080 --> 15:43.080 That's what I know. 15:43.080 --> 15:45.080 Good night. 15:45.080 --> 15:49.080 Well, with my powers, the bum's right, Che, Ronaldo. 15:49.080 --> 15:51.080 Johnny, why do you want to hang around with guys like that? 15:51.080 --> 15:52.080 I don't hang around with them. 15:52.080 --> 15:53.080 I just do business with them. 15:53.080 --> 15:55.080 Sure, fine business. 15:55.080 --> 15:56.080 What do you know about it? 15:56.080 --> 15:58.080 I don't know anything yet, for sure. 15:58.080 --> 16:00.080 I just smell a couple of rats. 16:00.080 --> 16:02.080 Now you go on, go home too, Johnny. 16:02.080 --> 16:03.080 We're closing up. 16:03.080 --> 16:04.080 Okay, Ronaldo. 16:04.080 --> 16:07.080 Hey, Johnny, you left in a sort of hurry, didn't you? 16:07.080 --> 16:09.080 Well, maybe I had orders to leave in a hurry. 16:09.080 --> 16:11.080 I kind of thought that might be it. 16:11.080 --> 16:13.080 I guess it didn't matter much. 16:13.080 --> 16:16.080 You seem to know the boys pretty well. 16:16.080 --> 16:19.080 Oh, I meet a lot of people in this business. 16:19.080 --> 16:20.080 Oh, sure, sure. 16:20.080 --> 16:21.080 What did they want? 16:21.080 --> 16:23.080 How did you know they wanted something? 16:23.080 --> 16:25.080 Because they generally do. What was it? 16:25.080 --> 16:27.080 Oh, they just wanted to make me a sort of proposition. 16:27.080 --> 16:28.080 What kind of a proposition? 16:28.080 --> 16:29.080 Well, I don't know, but... 16:29.080 --> 16:30.080 But what? 16:30.080 --> 16:32.080 I think it had something to do with singing. 16:32.080 --> 16:34.080 Uh-huh. You gonna take it? 16:34.080 --> 16:36.080 Because there's money in it. 16:36.080 --> 16:39.080 Don't you care if money you earn has blood on it? 16:39.080 --> 16:52.080 No. Do you? 16:52.080 --> 16:56.080 Cause he's done something to me 16:56.080 --> 16:59.080 And my heart won't keep still 16:59.080 --> 17:02.080 Give me one dozen roses 17:02.080 --> 17:06.080 Put my heart in beside them 17:06.080 --> 17:12.080 And send them to the one I love 17:12.080 --> 17:15.080 Bravo! Bravo! Splendid! 17:15.080 --> 17:17.080 I couldn't have done better myself. 17:17.080 --> 17:19.080 Is that the way you like it? 17:19.080 --> 17:20.080 Oh, yes, yes, rather. 17:20.080 --> 17:22.080 You ought to feel flattered, you know. 17:22.080 --> 17:24.080 This is the first time I've given an audition 17:24.080 --> 17:26.080 since I got my start in show business. 17:26.080 --> 17:27.080 Oh, I do hope you didn't mind, 17:27.080 --> 17:29.080 but I just couldn't resist asking you to sing it through 17:29.080 --> 17:33.080 now that we've concluded our little business arrangement. 17:33.080 --> 17:34.080 And that's all there is to it, huh? 17:34.080 --> 17:35.080 I just sing it. 17:35.080 --> 17:37.080 That's all there is to it. 17:37.080 --> 17:39.080 Well, you're paying for it. 17:39.080 --> 17:41.080 I just wish it was a song I did better. 17:41.080 --> 17:42.080 Oh, cut out the false modesty. 17:42.080 --> 17:45.080 I'll bet you were wonderful. 17:45.080 --> 17:46.080 Oh, hello, Jordan. 17:46.080 --> 17:47.080 Hi, Stingle. 17:47.080 --> 17:49.080 You're up early, aren't you, old boy? 17:49.080 --> 17:50.080 Still daylight. 17:50.080 --> 17:52.080 I haven't been to bed. 17:52.080 --> 17:53.080 I was sitting up with a sick friend. 17:53.080 --> 17:54.080 Oh, no, no, no, no. 17:54.080 --> 17:56.080 No, not that old chestnut. 17:56.080 --> 17:57.080 Only this time it's not. 17:57.080 --> 18:01.080 I was with Ronaldo. I suppose you heard. 18:01.080 --> 18:02.080 Oh, yes. Too bad. 18:02.080 --> 18:04.080 What's the matter with Ronaldo? 18:04.080 --> 18:06.080 Oh, nothing, no. He's dead. 18:06.080 --> 18:07.080 Dead? 18:07.080 --> 18:08.080 Yeah. 18:08.080 --> 18:10.080 Sudden, wasn't it? 18:10.080 --> 18:13.080 Anyone know yet what happened? 18:13.080 --> 18:15.080 Yes, by natural causes, Stingle. 18:15.080 --> 18:17.080 And his wife, you know, is scared of the police 18:17.080 --> 18:19.080 and superstitious besides. 18:19.080 --> 18:20.080 Didn't want an autopsy. 18:20.080 --> 18:22.080 Anyway, that's how it stands. 18:22.080 --> 18:24.080 Yes, of course, poor woman. 18:24.080 --> 18:26.080 I was in a position to do a little something for her. 18:26.080 --> 18:27.080 Oh, were you? 18:27.080 --> 18:30.080 Yes, I rang up her lawyer as soon as I heard. 18:30.080 --> 18:33.080 Seems she doesn't feel like trying to run the club all alone, 18:33.080 --> 18:35.080 so I bought it. 18:35.080 --> 18:36.080 Well, that was nice. 18:36.080 --> 18:39.080 Yeah, so you see, you're working for me now, Miss Dean. 18:39.080 --> 18:41.080 It won't make any difference, of course. 18:41.080 --> 18:42.080 I see. 18:42.080 --> 18:44.080 Well, I must be running along now. 18:44.080 --> 18:45.080 See you this evening. 18:45.080 --> 18:46.080 Goodbye. 18:46.080 --> 18:47.080 Yes. 18:47.080 --> 18:48.080 Mm-hmm. 18:48.080 --> 18:50.080 So you're working for him now? 18:50.080 --> 18:53.080 We're working for him, huh, Johnny? 18:53.080 --> 18:55.080 Is that how come the command performance 18:55.080 --> 18:57.080 you were giving him when I came in? 18:57.080 --> 19:00.080 No, I didn't know anything about anything then. 19:00.080 --> 19:03.080 He just said he wanted me to sing that as a request number once in a while. 19:03.080 --> 19:04.080 That's all. 19:04.080 --> 19:06.080 How bad does he want you to sing it? 19:06.080 --> 19:07.080 Bad enough. 19:07.080 --> 19:08.080 And you don't sing it until he tells you to. 19:08.080 --> 19:09.080 Is that the deal? 19:09.080 --> 19:11.080 How do you know so much about it? 19:11.080 --> 19:12.080 Because I'm not dumb. 19:12.080 --> 19:13.080 Well, are you going to do it? 19:13.080 --> 19:14.080 Why not? 19:14.080 --> 19:15.080 He'll pay my expenses. 19:15.080 --> 19:18.080 A lot more expenses than poor old Ronaldo could pay, huh? 19:18.080 --> 19:20.080 Well, turning it down won't bring him back to life, 19:20.080 --> 19:21.080 now will it? 19:21.080 --> 19:25.080 You're really a cold-hearted little dame, aren't you? 19:25.080 --> 19:29.080 Listen, Johnny, I'm entertained because I like it 19:29.080 --> 19:31.080 and because it's the only way I can make enough money 19:31.080 --> 19:34.080 to live halfway like a human being. 19:34.080 --> 19:38.080 With money, I can do what I want to, more or less. 19:38.080 --> 19:39.080 I can live where I want to, 19:39.080 --> 19:43.080 go where I want to, be like other people, more or less. 19:43.080 --> 19:45.080 Do you know what even that much freedom means 19:45.080 --> 19:47.080 to somebody like me, Johnny? 19:47.080 --> 19:49.080 All right. 19:49.080 --> 19:51.080 But you don't need money so bad you have to make it this way. 19:51.080 --> 19:52.080 What way? 19:52.080 --> 19:53.080 You know what I mean. 19:53.080 --> 19:54.080 Do I? 19:54.080 --> 19:56.080 All I know is they want me to sing a song. 19:56.080 --> 19:57.080 Yeah, but why? 19:57.080 --> 19:59.080 I don't ask questions like that. 19:59.080 --> 20:02.080 But if you know so much about it, why don't you tell me? 20:02.080 --> 20:04.080 Maybe, maybe I can't. 20:04.080 --> 20:06.080 Because you're afraid of sticking your neck out, huh? 20:06.080 --> 20:08.080 But you ask me to trust you. 20:08.080 --> 20:09.080 Oh, Lana, don't you see? 20:09.080 --> 20:11.080 All I see is you want me out of the picture. 20:11.080 --> 20:13.080 Well, I'm not leaving. 20:13.080 --> 20:17.080 You're working for them, so am I. 20:17.080 --> 20:19.080 You've got your reasons. 20:19.080 --> 20:21.080 Oh, right. 20:21.080 --> 20:23.080 You won't talk, neither will I. 20:23.080 --> 20:25.080 Let's leave it like that, huh? 20:25.080 --> 20:28.080 Okay, but from now on, you're on your own. 20:28.080 --> 20:29.080 That's funny. 20:29.080 --> 20:31.080 I've always been on my own. 20:31.080 --> 20:33.080 And it isn't just the money. 20:33.080 --> 20:35.080 Maybe it's something you wouldn't understand. 20:35.080 --> 20:38.080 But I know what I'm after, and I'm going to get it. 20:38.080 --> 20:40.080 You said it there, sister. 20:40.080 --> 20:56.080 You're going to get it. 20:56.080 --> 20:57.080 Who is it? 20:57.080 --> 20:58.080 It's me. 20:58.080 --> 21:00.080 Ah, come on in. 21:00.080 --> 21:01.080 Hi, Lana. 21:01.080 --> 21:02.080 Back to singing? 21:02.080 --> 21:03.080 Oh, not especially. 21:03.080 --> 21:05.080 Oh, I thought maybe you had your orders. 21:05.080 --> 21:06.080 What orders? 21:06.080 --> 21:08.080 I ought to sing that song tonight. 21:08.080 --> 21:09.080 Yes. 21:09.080 --> 21:10.080 What did you know? 21:10.080 --> 21:11.080 Oh, a little birdie told me. 21:11.080 --> 21:13.080 Look, look, I got you a present. 21:13.080 --> 21:14.080 What is it? 21:14.080 --> 21:15.080 A little portable radio. 21:15.080 --> 21:17.080 It's a good one, too, made in the States. 21:17.080 --> 21:19.080 You know I don't speak enough Spanish, 21:19.080 --> 21:21.080 so if that thing will do me any good down here. 21:21.080 --> 21:23.080 Ah, but don't forget the short waves. 21:23.080 --> 21:25.080 Short waves, wireless, what? 21:25.080 --> 21:27.080 Okay, Johnny, what's the gag? 21:27.080 --> 21:29.080 Oh, just something I want you to hear. 21:29.080 --> 21:31.080 You probably won't be able to understand it, 21:31.080 --> 21:33.080 but fortunately in me you haven't accomplished 21:33.080 --> 21:35.080 this anyway, I can tell you now. 21:35.080 --> 21:39.080 Well, that little gadget, the wireless, huh? 21:39.080 --> 21:40.080 That wasn't Spanish. 21:40.080 --> 21:42.080 Right, and I'll give you three nice big guesses 21:42.080 --> 21:43.080 what it was. 21:43.080 --> 21:46.080 Johnny, wouldn't it be easier if you just up 21:46.080 --> 21:48.080 and told me what you came here to tell me? 21:48.080 --> 21:49.080 Don't play innocent with me. 21:49.080 --> 21:52.080 Don't try to tell me you don't know what this is all about. 21:52.080 --> 21:55.080 Maybe I just want to know how much you know. 21:55.080 --> 21:56.080 I know. 21:56.080 --> 21:58.080 You said I had a little secret. 21:58.080 --> 21:59.080 I'm not going to tell you. 21:59.080 --> 22:00.080 I'm going to tell you. 22:00.080 --> 22:01.080 I'm going to tell you. 22:01.080 --> 22:02.080 I'm going to tell you. 22:02.080 --> 22:03.080 I'm going to tell you. 22:03.080 --> 22:05.080 I know, I know. 22:05.080 --> 22:07.080 You said I was afraid to stick my neck out. 22:07.080 --> 22:09.080 Well, all right, listen to this. 22:09.080 --> 22:11.080 That guy you just heard talking is the captain 22:11.080 --> 22:13.080 of a German submarine about 15 miles outside the harbor. 22:13.080 --> 22:14.080 How do you know? 22:14.080 --> 22:16.080 Because I saw it. 22:16.080 --> 22:18.080 And there's a convoy that leaves this harbor regularly 22:18.080 --> 22:20.080 to take stuff from South America to our guys in England, 22:20.080 --> 22:22.080 and they're leaving tonight. 22:22.080 --> 22:24.080 And all that sub-captain out there is waiting for 22:24.080 --> 22:26.080 to plow into that convoy and sink every ship in it 22:26.080 --> 22:29.080 is the tip-off, and the tip-off is you. 22:29.080 --> 22:30.080 Me? 22:30.080 --> 22:32.080 Oh, stop it, will you? 22:32.080 --> 22:34.080 I think Harman wanted you to sing a particular song 22:34.080 --> 22:36.080 at a particular time for, and a song that's at least 22:36.080 --> 22:38.080 two years out of date at that, if it wasn't 22:38.080 --> 22:40.080 the tip-off somebody. 22:40.080 --> 22:41.080 You know your stuff is broadcast. 22:41.080 --> 22:43.080 Come on, use your head. 22:43.080 --> 22:45.080 Listen, Johnny, if you know all this, 22:45.080 --> 22:46.080 why didn't you tell me sooner? 22:46.080 --> 22:47.080 That's my business. 22:47.080 --> 22:49.080 Maybe I wasn't sure until now. 22:49.080 --> 22:50.080 Business? 22:50.080 --> 22:53.080 Yeah, business is just about the right word for it, 22:53.080 --> 22:54.080 isn't it? 22:54.080 --> 22:55.080 Okay. 22:55.080 --> 22:57.080 I didn't expect any thanks for it. 22:57.080 --> 23:00.080 But they're just using you for a fall guy, that's all. 23:00.080 --> 23:02.080 Oh, listen, Lorna, listen. 23:02.080 --> 23:03.080 You've got your life ahead of you. 23:03.080 --> 23:05.080 A great career back home. 23:05.080 --> 23:07.080 Popularity, everything in the world to lose. 23:07.080 --> 23:09.080 And the stuff in those ships is going to save 23:09.080 --> 23:10.080 the lives of Americans. 23:10.080 --> 23:11.080 Ha ha ha ha. 23:11.080 --> 23:12.080 Coming from you, Johnny. 23:12.080 --> 23:13.080 That's real cute. 23:13.080 --> 23:14.080 All right. 23:14.080 --> 23:16.080 All right, so I don't have a country anymore, 23:16.080 --> 23:18.080 but you do. 23:18.080 --> 23:19.080 Johnny, listen. 23:19.080 --> 23:22.080 You remind me of a preacher I used to know back home. 23:22.080 --> 23:24.080 He figured he was such a good preacher 23:24.080 --> 23:26.080 because he knew so much about sin. 23:26.080 --> 23:28.080 He said he'd sin more than anybody else 23:28.080 --> 23:30.080 in the whole congregation. 23:30.080 --> 23:31.080 Go ahead. 23:31.080 --> 23:32.080 Laugh. 23:32.080 --> 23:35.080 Laugh when I'm telling you for your own good. 23:35.080 --> 23:36.080 Get out of town. 23:36.080 --> 23:38.080 I can't, Johnny. 23:38.080 --> 23:41.080 I've got a date to sing tonight, remember? 23:41.080 --> 23:42.080 Who is it? 23:42.080 --> 23:43.080 It's Arlen. 23:43.080 --> 23:45.080 We're about ready for you, Miss D. 23:45.080 --> 23:47.080 Oh, time for me to go on, huh? 23:47.080 --> 23:48.080 Okay, I'll be right there. 23:48.080 --> 23:50.080 Right you are. 23:50.080 --> 23:51.080 Okay. 23:51.080 --> 23:52.080 That's it. 23:52.080 --> 23:54.080 I hope you know what kind of a spot you're in, 23:54.080 --> 23:56.080 because if you sing that song 23:56.080 --> 23:59.080 as far as the public in the States is concerned, 23:59.080 --> 24:01.080 you'll be washed for good. 24:01.080 --> 24:03.080 Who's going to say anything, Johnny? 24:03.080 --> 24:05.080 It's a sure thing you won't. 24:05.080 --> 24:07.080 Well, he'll get back somehow. 24:07.080 --> 24:09.080 You know what happens if you don't sing it. 24:09.080 --> 24:10.080 What? 24:10.080 --> 24:12.080 Remember what happened to Jackie? 24:12.080 --> 24:14.080 What did happen, Johnny? 24:14.080 --> 24:16.080 She tried a devil course. 24:16.080 --> 24:18.080 And the same night she was dead. 24:18.080 --> 24:20.080 Now laugh that off. 24:20.080 --> 24:22.080 I haven't forgotten. 24:22.080 --> 24:24.080 By the way, Johnny, suppose I tell you 24:24.080 --> 24:26.080 that I knew all about that submarine out there. 24:26.080 --> 24:27.080 What? 24:27.080 --> 24:29.080 Now you laugh that off. 24:29.080 --> 24:31.080 You better get out there and listen with your friends. 24:31.080 --> 24:33.080 Your table's ready. 24:41.080 --> 24:43.080 Hello there, Johnny. 24:43.080 --> 24:44.080 Over here. 24:44.080 --> 24:46.080 There you are, old boy. 24:46.080 --> 24:47.080 The best table in the house. 24:47.080 --> 24:49.080 Well, you're feeling great, aren't you? 24:49.080 --> 24:51.080 Business must be pretty good. 24:51.080 --> 24:52.080 Good, old boy. 24:52.080 --> 24:54.080 Yes. 24:54.080 --> 24:56.080 Perfect. 25:02.080 --> 25:03.080 Thank you. 25:03.080 --> 25:05.080 Thank you very much. 25:05.080 --> 25:08.080 Tonight I want to sing a song. 25:08.080 --> 25:13.080 I want to sing something that's been made a special request. 25:13.080 --> 25:17.080 It's a song that's very popular in my own country. 25:17.080 --> 25:22.080 And I'm sure it is with many of you down here. 25:22.080 --> 25:33.080 My country is of thee, sweet land of liberty, 25:33.080 --> 25:38.080 Of thee I sing. 25:38.080 --> 25:44.080 Land where my father's dead, 25:44.080 --> 25:50.080 Land of the pilgrim's pride, 25:50.080 --> 25:56.080 From every mountain side, 25:56.080 --> 26:03.080 Let freedom ring. 26:03.080 --> 26:05.080 Bravo! 26:05.080 --> 26:07.080 Bravo! 26:07.080 --> 26:09.080 Bravo! 26:09.080 --> 26:12.080 Well, you don't look very happy, Harmon. 26:12.080 --> 26:13.080 You surprised? 26:13.080 --> 26:15.080 Yes. 26:15.080 --> 26:17.080 Come along, Mr. Kendall. 26:17.080 --> 26:19.080 You better wait here, Johnny. 26:19.080 --> 26:21.080 Yes, sure. Anything you say. 26:21.080 --> 26:23.080 Oh, Miss Dean. Miss Dean. 26:23.080 --> 26:24.080 Yes? 26:24.080 --> 26:26.080 May I have a word with you? 26:26.080 --> 26:28.080 I suppose so. 26:28.080 --> 26:30.080 Perhaps we'd better slip out into the hall. 26:30.080 --> 26:32.080 All right. 26:35.080 --> 26:36.080 Well? 26:36.080 --> 26:39.080 That was very naughty of you, Miss Dean. 26:39.080 --> 26:40.080 Was it? 26:40.080 --> 26:44.080 Yes. That wasn't the song I asked you to sing tonight. 26:44.080 --> 26:46.080 That's right. 26:46.080 --> 26:50.080 And by the way, don't waste any time looking for that submarine of yours out there. 26:50.080 --> 26:51.080 Submarine? 26:51.080 --> 26:53.080 Unless you look awful deep. 26:53.080 --> 26:56.080 Because when I found out what you boys were doing, I arranged a little tip-off of my own. 26:56.080 --> 26:59.080 And what you heard me sing tonight was it. 26:59.080 --> 27:03.080 I see. All right, Kendall. 27:03.080 --> 27:04.080 You'd better get it over with. 27:04.080 --> 27:06.080 No, no! 27:10.080 --> 27:11.080 Johnny! 27:11.080 --> 27:12.080 Come on, come on. Let's get out of here. 27:12.080 --> 27:13.080 What about? 27:13.080 --> 27:14.080 They won't make anybody any more trouble. 27:14.080 --> 27:15.080 Where are we going? 27:15.080 --> 27:16.080 The American Embassy. 27:16.080 --> 27:17.080 Are you with the government? 27:17.080 --> 27:19.080 It had to be an undercover job. 27:19.080 --> 27:21.080 The authorities down here couldn't very well get mixed up. 27:21.080 --> 27:22.080 After all, it's a neutral country. 27:22.080 --> 27:23.080 But how did you know I wouldn't? 27:23.080 --> 27:26.080 I cut the wires. It wouldn't have gone out over the air, even if you had. 27:26.080 --> 27:27.080 What was your angle? 27:27.080 --> 27:30.080 I knew Jackie. She told me she was in trouble with him. 27:30.080 --> 27:33.080 She never had time to tell me what it was about. 27:33.080 --> 27:35.080 I came down to talk to her about it that night. 27:35.080 --> 27:39.080 She was home this morning when Aldo's wife told me that he'd found out about the submarine out there. 27:39.080 --> 27:41.080 That's why they had to kill him. 27:41.080 --> 27:43.080 You were taking an awful chance playing the lone hand like that. 27:43.080 --> 27:45.080 Why did you do it? 27:45.080 --> 27:49.080 Oh, just to get in my licks at the master race. 27:49.080 --> 27:50.080 Johnny? 27:50.080 --> 27:51.080 Yeah? 27:51.080 --> 27:52.080 How was I? 27:52.080 --> 28:09.080 You? 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