WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 00:06.000 --> 00:12.000 Suspense! 00:12.000 --> 00:22.600 Tonight, Roma wines bring you the suspenseful play called Fear Paints a Picture, starring 00:22.600 --> 00:28.280 Miss Lana Turner. 00:28.280 --> 00:31.840 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:31.840 --> 00:35.160 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:35.160 --> 00:39.760 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:39.760 --> 00:44.280 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:44.280 --> 00:50.800 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you a remarkable 00:50.800 --> 00:52.600 tale of suspense. 00:52.600 --> 00:56.600 And with Fear Paints a Picture, and with the performance of Hollywood's most glamorous 00:56.600 --> 01:10.240 young star, Miss Lana Turner, Roma Wines hope indeed to keep you in suspense. 01:10.240 --> 01:12.520 There is a picture hanging on a wall. 01:12.520 --> 01:16.440 You look at it casually, an extraordinary picture. 01:16.440 --> 01:19.680 You'll say, skillfully done. 01:19.680 --> 01:21.920 Look at those fine brush strokes. 01:21.920 --> 01:25.880 Look at those superb colors. 01:25.880 --> 01:29.080 Isn't the subject matter a little bizarre? 01:29.080 --> 01:32.280 It's something more than just bizarre. 01:32.280 --> 01:46.480 You see, it was that picture that first convinced me that I was insane. 01:46.480 --> 01:48.640 But let me begin from the beginning. 01:48.640 --> 01:53.320 In his last will and testament, my father made me heir to all his considerable fortune, 01:53.320 --> 02:00.120 except that, well, here, you read the will. 02:00.120 --> 02:05.800 I, Benjamin Powell, hereby request that after my death my daughter Julia live in my old 02:05.800 --> 02:11.000 San Francisco house with Mr. Harvey Lyons, my lifelong friend, until her twenty-third 02:11.000 --> 02:17.160 birthday, at which date all my worldly belongings will come into her possession, provided that 02:17.160 --> 02:23.680 nothing untoward happens to her by that time, but in the event that she is incapable of 02:23.680 --> 02:28.360 taking over my estate upon her twenty-third birthday, I hereby appoint Harvey and Laura 02:28.360 --> 02:33.160 Lyons as my final heirs, there being no other living blood relatives, and trust to their 02:33.160 --> 02:38.880 judgment that they will take care of Julia adequately and with kindness. 02:38.880 --> 02:46.120 Signed, Benjamin Powell. 02:46.120 --> 02:51.320 Three months later, seated around the huge ornate fireplace of that dark, musty living 02:51.320 --> 02:55.000 room, we were three silent people. 02:55.000 --> 03:00.400 Harvey was reading his newspaper, Laura was knitting with nibble fingers, and I stared 03:00.400 --> 03:03.320 with unseen eyes at an open book. 03:03.320 --> 03:05.360 You're not reading, Julia? 03:05.360 --> 03:07.880 I, uh, I'm not concentrating. 03:07.880 --> 03:09.320 Are you feeling all right, dear? 03:09.320 --> 03:11.240 Oh, yes, yes, I'm all right. 03:11.240 --> 03:14.000 You do look a little tired, Julia. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.360 Perhaps you'd better get some rest. 03:15.360 --> 03:17.200 I'm not tired, Harvey. 03:17.200 --> 03:19.640 I, I've been wanting to ask you... 03:19.640 --> 03:21.840 In a week, Julia will be twenty-three. 03:21.840 --> 03:23.280 Isn't that wonderful, Harvey? 03:23.280 --> 03:24.800 Next Tuesday is her birthday, and I think... 03:24.800 --> 03:26.320 Oh, yes, we'll have a party. 03:26.320 --> 03:30.640 I'll get old Tom and his fiddle, and we'll have a real old-fashioned party. 03:30.640 --> 03:33.440 Harvey, what did father mean by the will? 03:33.440 --> 03:34.440 The will? 03:34.440 --> 03:36.440 Perhaps you'd better go to bed. 03:36.440 --> 03:38.600 You look a little pale, Julia. 03:38.600 --> 03:44.600 The will said that I might not be able to take over the estate by my twenty-third birthday. 03:44.600 --> 03:45.600 What does it mean? 03:45.600 --> 03:48.080 I don't remember that. 03:48.080 --> 03:50.200 I didn't read the will very carefully. 03:50.200 --> 03:51.760 Oh, yes, you did, Harvey. 03:51.760 --> 03:53.200 You know what I'm talking about. 03:53.200 --> 03:54.800 Perhaps we'd better discuss it in the morning. 03:54.800 --> 03:55.800 You're tired. 03:55.800 --> 03:56.800 It's no use, Laura. 03:56.800 --> 03:57.800 I've got to know. 03:57.800 --> 04:03.480 Now, you're a very high-strung girl, Julia, and I'd rather not upset you before bedtime. 04:03.480 --> 04:04.480 Upset me? 04:04.480 --> 04:08.880 You, well, you sort of get moody very often. 04:08.880 --> 04:09.880 Now, Harvey... 04:09.880 --> 04:14.320 Laura, I'm not going to bed until I find out what all this means. 04:14.320 --> 04:16.760 I've got to find out. 04:16.760 --> 04:19.880 You don't like your room, do you? 04:19.880 --> 04:22.120 No, no, I don't. 04:22.120 --> 04:23.120 It's big. 04:23.120 --> 04:24.840 The wallpaper... 04:24.840 --> 04:26.480 I don't like the pictures on the wall. 04:26.480 --> 04:29.160 There's nothing wrong with a big room. 04:29.160 --> 04:31.040 Everyone prefers a large room. 04:31.040 --> 04:32.560 Everyone likes pictures in the wall. 04:32.560 --> 04:35.360 Well, maybe it's the kind of pictures. 04:35.360 --> 04:38.760 Yes, it's the pictures. 04:38.760 --> 04:40.280 They rub me the wrong way. 04:40.280 --> 04:41.280 You see? 04:41.280 --> 04:46.800 Your feelings about things are different, different from the feelings of normal people. 04:46.800 --> 04:47.800 Oh. 04:47.800 --> 04:48.800 Normal people? 04:48.800 --> 04:51.360 I can't stand this torturous way of telling her. 04:51.360 --> 04:53.000 I'll tell you, Julia. 04:53.000 --> 04:54.720 Your mother died in an asylum. 04:54.720 --> 04:57.000 She went mad after her 23rd year. 04:57.000 --> 04:58.960 It's been in the family for generations. 04:58.960 --> 05:02.720 But I never saw my mother. 05:02.720 --> 05:04.000 We didn't want to tell you this. 05:04.000 --> 05:07.480 I wish you hadn't, but you forced us. 05:07.480 --> 05:11.480 What do you mean, I'm liable to become insane? 05:11.480 --> 05:17.520 Well, you see, any one of us can become insane. 05:17.520 --> 05:18.720 There's nothing wrong with me. 05:18.720 --> 05:20.400 I'm perfectly all right. 05:20.400 --> 05:22.040 I'm as sane as anyone. 05:22.040 --> 05:24.080 Being high-strung doesn't make me mad. 05:24.080 --> 05:25.440 I don't like it here. 05:25.440 --> 05:27.440 I don't like this house. 05:27.440 --> 05:28.440 I'm sane. 05:28.440 --> 05:29.440 I'm sane. 05:29.440 --> 05:32.200 Of course you are, Julia. 05:32.200 --> 05:33.200 There's nothing the matter with you. 05:33.200 --> 05:34.960 You'll be all right. 05:34.960 --> 05:37.000 Your father wasn't sure, that's all. 05:37.000 --> 05:39.120 You're as sane as any one of us. 05:39.120 --> 05:40.120 Come along. 05:40.120 --> 05:41.120 I'll take you to your room. 05:41.120 --> 05:55.920 We'll have a cup of tea together. 05:55.920 --> 05:56.920 How is she, Laura? 05:56.920 --> 05:57.920 She's calmed down. 05:57.920 --> 05:58.920 Is she asleep? 05:58.920 --> 05:59.920 No, Harvey, she's reading. 05:59.920 --> 06:00.920 That must be Dr. Barrow. 06:00.920 --> 06:01.920 I'll open the door. 06:01.920 --> 06:09.360 How do you do, Mr. Lyons? 06:09.360 --> 06:10.360 Is it Dr. Barrow? 06:10.360 --> 06:11.360 That's right. 06:11.360 --> 06:12.360 This is my wife, Laura. 06:12.360 --> 06:13.360 How do you do? 06:13.360 --> 06:14.360 I'm glad to meet you, Doctor. 06:14.360 --> 06:15.360 Let me take your things. 06:15.360 --> 06:17.560 We'll have your room ready in a few minutes. 06:17.560 --> 06:18.560 Thank you. 06:18.560 --> 06:19.560 It's very good of you. 06:19.560 --> 06:20.560 Here, sit down. 06:20.560 --> 06:21.560 Sit down. 06:21.560 --> 06:22.560 Make yourself comfortable. 06:22.560 --> 06:23.560 Thank you. 06:23.560 --> 06:24.560 I will. 06:24.560 --> 06:25.560 Well, how's Julia? 06:25.560 --> 06:27.320 Oh, she's been very moody lately. 06:27.320 --> 06:28.320 Very moody. 06:28.320 --> 06:30.920 I've heard her talking to herself very often. 06:30.920 --> 06:31.920 Well, that's nothing. 06:31.920 --> 06:33.600 All of us talk to ourselves once in a while. 06:33.600 --> 06:35.200 I don't know, Doctor. 06:35.200 --> 06:37.640 I don't think she's very stable. 06:37.640 --> 06:40.360 Mr. Powell described Julia's case to me just before he died. 06:40.360 --> 06:42.560 I had occasion to observe her just once. 06:42.560 --> 06:43.960 You knew Mr. Powell well? 06:43.960 --> 06:44.960 Oh, yes. 06:44.960 --> 06:47.600 For quite a number of years, I treated his wife. 06:47.600 --> 06:49.800 Poor Mrs. Powell. 06:49.800 --> 06:50.800 She went mad. 06:50.800 --> 06:53.080 And now poor Julia. 06:53.080 --> 06:55.560 I wouldn't make that comparison, Mr. Lyons. 06:55.560 --> 06:58.280 So far, there's no basis for any such theory. 06:58.280 --> 07:00.920 Well then, Julia just has strong dislikes. 07:00.920 --> 07:03.360 Took a hate to the pictures in her room. 07:03.360 --> 07:04.360 Oh, pictures, eh? 07:04.360 --> 07:07.360 I'd like to go up and see her if she's not asleep. 07:07.360 --> 07:08.360 Well, I guess it's all right. 07:08.360 --> 07:09.360 She's not asleep yet. 07:09.360 --> 07:12.880 The room's the second from the right, as you reach the top of the stairs. 07:12.880 --> 07:13.880 Thank you. 07:13.880 --> 07:14.880 I'll just stop in for a few minutes. 07:14.880 --> 07:15.880 Come in. 07:15.880 --> 07:16.880 Hello, Julia. 07:16.880 --> 07:17.880 You remember me, don't you? 07:17.880 --> 07:18.880 No. 07:18.880 --> 07:19.880 No, not exactly. 07:19.880 --> 07:20.880 I guess maybe I do. 07:20.880 --> 07:21.880 I'm not sure. 07:21.880 --> 07:22.880 I'm not sure. 07:22.880 --> 07:23.880 I'm not sure. 07:23.880 --> 07:24.880 I'm not sure. 07:24.880 --> 07:25.880 I'm not sure. 07:25.880 --> 07:26.880 I'm not sure. 07:26.880 --> 07:27.880 I'm not sure. 07:27.880 --> 07:28.880 I guess maybe I've seen your face. 07:28.880 --> 07:29.880 I don't know. 07:29.880 --> 07:30.880 I'm Dr. Barrow, a friend of your father's. 07:30.880 --> 07:31.880 I treated your mother. 07:31.880 --> 07:32.880 My mother? 07:32.880 --> 07:33.880 No, no. 07:33.880 --> 07:34.880 Don't be alarmed. 07:34.880 --> 07:37.880 I'm staying with your guardians for a few weeks. 07:37.880 --> 07:39.880 I'm sure you're going to be all right. 07:39.880 --> 07:41.880 Do you mind if I come in for a few minutes? 07:41.880 --> 07:42.880 No. 07:42.880 --> 07:45.880 No, I guess not. 07:45.880 --> 07:47.880 Well, this is a fine room, Julia. 07:47.880 --> 07:48.880 A very comfortable one. 07:48.880 --> 07:49.880 I don't like it. 07:49.880 --> 07:50.880 It's too big. 07:50.880 --> 07:52.880 It makes me lonely. 07:52.880 --> 07:53.880 Oh, nonsense. 07:53.880 --> 07:56.880 You're just imaginative. 07:56.880 --> 08:00.880 You think someone might be hiding in here while you're asleep, don't you now, huh? 08:00.880 --> 08:01.880 It isn't that. 08:01.880 --> 08:04.880 Don't you like that picture, Julia? 08:04.880 --> 08:05.880 What picture? 08:05.880 --> 08:07.880 The one you're staring at. 08:07.880 --> 08:10.880 Oh, it's an unpleasant picture. 08:10.880 --> 08:12.880 It gives me nightmares. 08:12.880 --> 08:13.880 Look at it. 08:13.880 --> 08:16.880 That frightful-looking man about to come through the doorway, 08:16.880 --> 08:19.880 and the unsuspecting girl sitting in a chair with her back towards him. 08:19.880 --> 08:21.880 He's not frightful-looking at all. 08:21.880 --> 08:24.880 It's just a black scarf around his neck. 08:24.880 --> 08:26.880 He's about to kill her. 08:26.880 --> 08:29.880 You certainly have a vivid imagination. 08:29.880 --> 08:32.880 I'm sure the artist had no such idea in mind. 08:32.880 --> 08:35.880 That picture has a horrible fascination for me. 08:35.880 --> 08:37.880 I just can't take my eyes away from it. 08:37.880 --> 08:41.880 Why, last night, I dreamed that the man in the picture came through the door 08:41.880 --> 08:45.880 with a knife in his hands and killed the girl. 08:45.880 --> 08:47.880 It was an awful dream. 08:47.880 --> 08:49.880 It was only a dream. 08:49.880 --> 08:51.880 But if I take that painting off the wall, Julia, 08:51.880 --> 08:53.880 you'll find other things to be afraid of, dear. 08:53.880 --> 08:57.880 You've got to conquer your fears, or they'll conquer you, Julia. 08:57.880 --> 08:59.880 Now, now, you do as I say. 08:59.880 --> 09:01.880 Forget about this picture. Get a good night's sleep. 09:01.880 --> 09:04.880 There's nothing like a good night's sleep to lift the spirits. 09:04.880 --> 09:06.880 If the picture fascinates you, well, keep on looking at it, 09:06.880 --> 09:08.880 but don't be afraid of it, Julia. 09:08.880 --> 09:10.880 Will you do that now? 09:10.880 --> 09:13.880 Well, yes, Dr. Barrow, if you say so. 09:13.880 --> 09:16.880 Ah, that's fine. I'll see you in the morning. 09:16.880 --> 09:17.880 Good night, Julia. 09:17.880 --> 09:23.880 Good night. 09:30.880 --> 09:34.880 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Miss Lana Turner, 09:34.880 --> 09:38.880 whom you have heard in the first act of Fear Paints a Picture 09:38.880 --> 09:50.880 by Sigmund Miller, which is Roma Wines presentation tonight of Suspense. 09:50.880 --> 09:55.880 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 09:55.880 --> 10:00.880 Elsa Maxwell is recognized internationally as an authority on gracious living. 10:00.880 --> 10:05.880 The other day, she said this about wine and wartime food rationing. 10:05.880 --> 10:06.880 Listen. 10:06.880 --> 10:10.880 I find that people who know one simple secret of delicious meals 10:10.880 --> 10:12.880 aren't bothered much by food rationing. 10:12.880 --> 10:16.880 That secret is to enjoy good Roma wine with food. 10:16.880 --> 10:21.880 For instance, I recently had dinner where the main dish was kidney bean casserole. 10:21.880 --> 10:24.880 And to give this simple food a delightful party flavor, 10:24.880 --> 10:28.880 my hostess served cool Roma California Burgundy. 10:28.880 --> 10:31.880 Everyone remarked about its wonderful bouquet and aroma, 10:31.880 --> 10:36.880 and about the way that good Roma Burgundy added enjoyment to our plain meal. 10:36.880 --> 10:41.880 Such added enjoyment is one of the reasons why more and more people 10:41.880 --> 10:43.880 serve delightful Roma wine. 10:43.880 --> 10:46.880 That's a grand suggestion from Elsa Maxwell. 10:46.880 --> 10:51.880 So why not try Roma California Burgundy with your dinner tomorrow night? 10:51.880 --> 10:56.880 You'll enjoy its tart piquancy, its fruity, robust taste, 10:56.880 --> 11:01.880 the happy result of selecting luscious wine grapes from California's choicest vineyards, 11:01.880 --> 11:07.880 guiding them to perfection by the ancient wine skill of Roma's famed wineries. 11:07.880 --> 11:10.880 Good Roma wines never vary. 11:10.880 --> 11:14.880 They are always enjoyable, yet cost only pennies a glass. 11:14.880 --> 11:19.880 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 11:19.880 --> 11:23.880 R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 11:23.880 --> 11:28.880 And now Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Lana Turner, 11:28.880 --> 11:31.880 as Julia Powell in Fear Paints a Picture, 11:31.880 --> 11:36.880 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11:47.880 --> 11:51.880 About midnight in my room, the large room with its many pictures, 11:51.880 --> 11:55.880 I was dreaming, dreaming again of the man in the picture, 11:55.880 --> 11:59.880 and the figure with the flowing black scarf was alive. 11:59.880 --> 12:03.880 And his hands grew longer and longer. 12:03.880 --> 12:08.880 And there were footsteps, footsteps over my head. 12:08.880 --> 12:14.880 And then, then I was awake, wide awake, with my eyes staring at it. 12:14.880 --> 12:17.880 And on the wall, oh, oh! 12:17.880 --> 12:22.880 Oh! Ah! 12:23.880 --> 12:25.880 Julia, what's happened? 12:25.880 --> 12:26.880 What are you doing out here in the hall? 12:26.880 --> 12:27.880 We're together, Julia. 12:27.880 --> 12:29.880 Oh, that man, that man. 12:29.880 --> 12:30.880 What man? 12:30.880 --> 12:32.880 The man in the picture, he's moved. 12:32.880 --> 12:33.880 What do you mean? 12:33.880 --> 12:34.880 The picture, the man at the door. 12:34.880 --> 12:37.880 He's not at the door. He's inside the room. 12:37.880 --> 12:38.880 Oh, you must have been dreaming. 12:38.880 --> 12:39.880 The man screams. 12:39.880 --> 12:42.880 Julia, what's happened to you? 12:42.880 --> 12:46.880 He moved. I saw it. He's not outside the door anymore. 12:46.880 --> 12:47.880 He's inside. 12:47.880 --> 12:48.880 Now, now, now, Julia, let's... 12:48.880 --> 12:51.880 It wasn't a dream. The thunder woke me. 12:51.880 --> 12:54.880 And I heard footsteps coming from the ceiling. 12:54.880 --> 12:56.880 And then I looked at the picture. 12:56.880 --> 12:59.880 The picture I told you I didn't like, Doctor. 12:59.880 --> 13:00.880 The man was inside the room. 13:00.880 --> 13:02.880 That's highly possible, Julia. 13:02.880 --> 13:04.880 Figures in pictures can't move. 13:04.880 --> 13:06.880 Of course not. It was just a bad dream. 13:06.880 --> 13:07.880 No, it's true. I saw it. 13:07.880 --> 13:09.880 All right, come along, Julia. 13:09.880 --> 13:10.880 We'll all take a look at the picture. 13:10.880 --> 13:13.880 Oh, no. No, I don't want to go back into the room. 13:13.880 --> 13:14.880 Now, there's nothing to be afraid of. 13:14.880 --> 13:15.880 We'll all go with you, dear. 13:15.880 --> 13:18.880 Yes, come on, Julia. Don't be frightened. 13:18.880 --> 13:20.880 You've got to fight off these delusions. 13:20.880 --> 13:23.880 Here, give me your hand. Come along. 13:25.880 --> 13:27.880 Now, which picture is it? 13:27.880 --> 13:29.880 The one... the one near the bed. 13:29.880 --> 13:31.880 Oh, yes, the picture by Ralph Powell. 13:31.880 --> 13:33.880 Your family was always very proud of it. 13:33.880 --> 13:35.880 Well, there it is. 13:35.880 --> 13:37.880 It's the same as I saw it a few hours ago. 13:37.880 --> 13:39.880 Look at it, Julia. 13:39.880 --> 13:43.880 Why, I... I can't believe it. 13:43.880 --> 13:46.880 The man with the black scarf is still outside the door. 13:46.880 --> 13:50.880 And we'll stay there, Julia, until the picture crumbles to dust. 13:50.880 --> 13:53.880 Oh, but I... I was so sure. 13:53.880 --> 13:56.880 I... I saw him inside the room, 13:56.880 --> 13:59.880 approaching the girl, and then the footsteps... 13:59.880 --> 14:00.880 Dreams can be very vivid, 14:00.880 --> 14:03.880 and there are no footsteps coming from the storeroom. 14:03.880 --> 14:07.880 Oh, I must be out of my mind. 14:07.880 --> 14:08.880 I could have sworn... 14:08.880 --> 14:10.880 If Julia wants to, I'll take the picture out of her room. 14:10.880 --> 14:12.880 No, no, I don't think it's wise. 14:12.880 --> 14:15.880 Julia, you will have to fight these unreasonable fears. 14:15.880 --> 14:17.880 Never give in to them. 14:17.880 --> 14:20.880 I'll go crazy if I keep looking at that picture. 14:20.880 --> 14:22.880 It might be the other way around, Julia. 14:22.880 --> 14:24.880 If you run away from it, 14:24.880 --> 14:26.880 the mental disease prevalent in your family 14:26.880 --> 14:28.880 will take a firm hold in you. 14:28.880 --> 14:31.880 You'll get worse and worse, as Dr. Barrow says. 14:31.880 --> 14:33.880 You tend to be afraid of your own shadow. 14:33.880 --> 14:34.880 No. 14:34.880 --> 14:36.880 You'll be afraid of everything, of everyone you meet. 14:36.880 --> 14:37.880 No. 14:36.880 --> 14:38.880 Afraid to be alone, afraid to be with people, 14:38.880 --> 14:41.880 afraid of yourself, afraid of your own clutching fingers. 14:41.880 --> 14:43.880 Oh, no, don't tell me anymore. 14:43.880 --> 14:44.880 Please, Mr. Lyons, please. 14:44.880 --> 14:47.880 There's no need for this kind of talk. 14:47.880 --> 14:49.880 Look at the picture, Julia. 14:49.880 --> 14:51.880 It's nothing but some paint on a canvas 14:51.880 --> 14:52.880 with a frame around it. 14:52.880 --> 14:55.880 There's nothing about it that can harm you. 14:55.880 --> 14:56.880 The danger lies in yourself. 14:56.880 --> 14:59.880 You've got to keep staring at it as often as you can 14:59.880 --> 15:01.880 by candlelight in the dark 15:01.880 --> 15:03.880 until you've learned to laugh at it. 15:03.880 --> 15:05.880 It won't be easy. 15:05.880 --> 15:07.880 Well, I... I'll try. 15:07.880 --> 15:10.880 That's fine. I knew you had courage. 15:10.880 --> 15:12.880 I thought you were sedative so that you'll be able to sleep. 15:12.880 --> 15:15.880 Oh, but I'll be all right in the morning. 15:15.880 --> 15:18.880 I'm sure I'll be all right. 15:24.880 --> 15:26.880 And I was all right for a few days. 15:26.880 --> 15:29.880 The figure in the picture remained motionless, 15:29.880 --> 15:32.880 and I heard no more footsteps until one evening... 15:32.880 --> 15:33.880 Well, Julia, it's 11 o'clock, 15:33.880 --> 15:35.880 and you know what Dr. Barrow says. 15:35.880 --> 15:37.880 I'm not at all sleepy, Laura. 15:37.880 --> 15:39.880 I'd much rather stay up for a while. 15:39.880 --> 15:41.880 You see, I'm in the middle of a fascinating story... 15:41.880 --> 15:43.880 Is everything wrong, Julia? 15:43.880 --> 15:45.880 No, no, of course not. 15:45.880 --> 15:46.880 Everything's fine, Laura. 15:46.880 --> 15:49.880 You're afraid to go to sleep, aren't you, Julia dear? 15:49.880 --> 15:52.880 No, no, it isn't that. 15:52.880 --> 15:55.880 Is that picture bothering you again? 15:55.880 --> 15:57.880 Oh, yes. 15:57.880 --> 16:00.880 Last night, I heard footsteps again. 16:00.880 --> 16:03.880 The sound woke me and the figure in the picture. 16:03.880 --> 16:05.880 It moved. 16:05.880 --> 16:07.880 It moved closer to the girl. 16:07.880 --> 16:08.880 Oh, how terrible. 16:08.880 --> 16:10.880 We thought you were over it. 16:10.880 --> 16:12.880 Well, I took some sleeping tablets, 16:12.880 --> 16:14.880 and I fell asleep again. 16:14.880 --> 16:16.880 And in the morning, well, 16:16.880 --> 16:18.880 the picture was the same as ever. 16:18.880 --> 16:20.880 I see. 16:20.880 --> 16:24.880 Oh, Laura, do you think I'm crazy? 16:24.880 --> 16:26.880 Oh, of course not. 16:26.880 --> 16:28.880 You're as sane as I am. 16:28.880 --> 16:30.880 Tell me the truth. I must know. 16:30.880 --> 16:32.880 Well, you're just nervous and high strung, 16:32.880 --> 16:34.880 and you have a vivid imagination, and that's all. 16:34.880 --> 16:36.880 Oh, you're trying to soothe me. 16:36.880 --> 16:39.880 Why didn't you tell the doctor that you thought the picture moved again? 16:39.880 --> 16:41.880 Well, I... I was ashamed. 16:41.880 --> 16:43.880 You shouldn't be ashamed. 16:43.880 --> 16:46.880 Dr. Barry was here to help you get well, and I'm sure that... 16:46.880 --> 16:47.880 Hello, Laura. 16:47.880 --> 16:50.880 Well, I've arranged to have old Tom and his fiddle here tomorrow night 16:50.880 --> 16:53.880 for Julia's birthday, and I've invited the Grovers, 16:53.880 --> 16:55.880 and they'll be delighted to come. 16:55.880 --> 16:57.880 That is, if Julia's feeling well. 16:57.880 --> 16:59.880 Julia, you should be in bed. It's after 11. 16:59.880 --> 17:01.880 She's afraid to go to sleep. 17:01.880 --> 17:03.880 Oh, please, Laura. 17:03.880 --> 17:05.880 It's the picture again, isn't it? 17:05.880 --> 17:07.880 It moved again. 17:07.880 --> 17:09.880 At least I thought it moved. 17:09.880 --> 17:11.880 Oh, but I went back to sleep. 17:11.880 --> 17:13.880 Well, well, that's an improvement. 17:13.880 --> 17:16.880 You didn't get hysterical and tried to run away like the last time. 17:16.880 --> 17:19.880 Come, Julia. I'll go with you to your room. 17:19.880 --> 17:22.880 Perhaps Laura couldn't sleep in my room tonight. 17:22.880 --> 17:24.880 Oh, just tonight. 17:24.880 --> 17:26.880 You see, I'll feel a lot more comfortable, 17:26.880 --> 17:30.880 and tomorrow night, well, I'll be able to face it alone much better. 17:30.880 --> 17:34.880 Well, Julia, that would be an admission of defeat, you know, 17:34.880 --> 17:36.880 but if you... 17:36.880 --> 17:40.880 Oh, well, all right, if you think it's best. 17:40.880 --> 17:42.880 Good night. 17:42.880 --> 17:44.880 Good night, Julia. 17:44.880 --> 17:46.880 Keep up your courage. 17:46.880 --> 17:48.880 Whew. 17:48.880 --> 17:50.880 It doesn't look so good, does it, Doctor? 17:50.880 --> 17:52.880 Well, not too good, but it's not hopeless. 17:52.880 --> 17:54.880 She has an unstable imaginative mind 17:54.880 --> 17:56.880 subject to delusions which become very real to her. 17:56.880 --> 17:58.880 Oh, her obsession about the picture's not so bad. 17:58.880 --> 18:01.880 We all suffer occasionally from optical illusions, 18:01.880 --> 18:04.880 but hearing footsteps coming from the storeroom above her... 18:04.880 --> 18:06.880 The storeroom? 18:06.880 --> 18:09.880 How did you know there's a storeroom above her? 18:09.880 --> 18:11.880 Why, your wife told me about it. 18:11.880 --> 18:13.880 Oh, of course. 18:13.880 --> 18:15.880 Well, that storeroom hasn't been open in years. 18:15.880 --> 18:18.880 I guess there's no point in investigating it, is there? 18:18.880 --> 18:20.880 No, I don't think so. 18:20.880 --> 18:23.880 Those footsteps, like the moving figure in the painting, are all in her mind. 18:23.880 --> 18:28.880 Oh, her mother behaved just like that before she went mad, didn't she? 18:28.880 --> 18:31.880 Well, there's some similarity in... 18:31.880 --> 18:34.880 Say, you haven't been to the storeroom recently, have you? 18:34.880 --> 18:38.880 No, no, I just mentioned to you that it hasn't been open in years. 18:38.880 --> 18:40.880 Oh, yes, yes, so you did, so you did. 18:40.880 --> 18:44.880 Oh, I just hope that Julia will be all well for her party tomorrow. 18:44.880 --> 18:46.880 Well, I had no idea she was having a birthday. 18:46.880 --> 18:48.880 How old will she be? 18:48.880 --> 18:50.880 She'll be 23. 18:50.880 --> 18:52.880 Really? Well, I must remember to get her a gift. 18:52.880 --> 18:54.880 Well, I guess I'll go to bed. 18:54.880 --> 18:58.880 So will I. See you in the morning. 19:03.880 --> 19:06.880 But I wasn't thinking about my birthday. 19:06.880 --> 19:13.880 When I stood alone inside my own room, panic, black, unreasoning panic, began to take hold of me. 19:13.880 --> 19:19.880 In wild haste, I began to undress, never looking at the picture and... 19:19.880 --> 19:24.880 and talking to myself, yes, talking to myself all the while. 19:24.880 --> 19:27.880 Now, now, I won't look at it. 19:27.880 --> 19:30.880 I'll take some pills and fall asleep. 19:30.880 --> 19:33.880 All I have to do is keep from looking at the picture. 19:33.880 --> 19:35.880 It can't do me any harm. 19:35.880 --> 19:39.880 If I don't see it, I mustn't even think of it. 19:39.880 --> 19:43.880 I know, I'll think about the trip I made to South America. 19:43.880 --> 19:46.880 Oh, it was a wonderful trip. 19:46.880 --> 19:50.880 The sunsets and...what was that? 19:50.880 --> 19:54.880 Footsteps. Those footsteps again. 19:54.880 --> 19:58.880 But I mustn't hear it. I mustn't hear it. 19:58.880 --> 20:01.880 It was a wonderful trip. 20:01.880 --> 20:05.880 The blue caribbean and...you know, Rio is a beautiful city. 20:05.880 --> 20:09.880 Sugarloaf Mountain and the music and the dancing. 20:09.880 --> 20:13.880 Why, it's not the footsteps. 20:13.880 --> 20:16.880 It's just my heart beating. 20:16.880 --> 20:19.880 I know, I'll close my eyes. 20:19.880 --> 20:23.880 Oh, please, please let me sleep. 20:23.880 --> 20:27.880 I don't want to look at the picture. I won't. 20:27.880 --> 20:30.880 I know what I'll see. 20:30.880 --> 20:32.880 He'll be closer to her. 20:32.880 --> 20:35.880 And maybe he'll have killed her. 20:35.880 --> 20:38.880 Oh, but I mustn't open my eyes. 20:38.880 --> 20:42.880 I mustn't. I won't. I...I... 20:42.880 --> 20:45.880 Oh, but I've got to look at it. 20:45.880 --> 20:48.880 Oh! 20:48.880 --> 20:52.880 He has moved. He's closer to the girl. 20:52.880 --> 20:55.880 I'm not dreaming. 20:55.880 --> 20:58.880 It's real. The girl... 20:58.880 --> 21:02.880 Why, it's me. That girl is me. 21:02.880 --> 21:07.880 Me, I...I can't stand it. I...I can't, I can't! 21:07.880 --> 21:11.880 Julia! Oh, you poor, poor dear girl. 21:11.880 --> 21:14.880 Oh, well, it's the same thing, Laura, again and again. 21:14.880 --> 21:17.880 I tried not to look at the picture, Laura. I tried so very hard. 21:17.880 --> 21:20.880 But it was hopeless. I had to. 21:20.880 --> 21:23.880 And the figure with the black scarf was inside the room. 21:23.880 --> 21:26.880 A knife in his hands, very close to the girl. 21:26.880 --> 21:30.880 But this time the girl had turned around and... 21:30.880 --> 21:34.880 And it was my face. My face! 21:34.880 --> 21:37.880 My face! Did you hear any footsteps? 21:37.880 --> 21:40.880 Yes. Yes, I heard them as soon as I got into the room, 21:40.880 --> 21:44.880 but...but the picture, it's...it's the same. 21:44.880 --> 21:47.880 It hasn't changed. Look at it. 21:47.880 --> 21:50.880 Yes, the picture doesn't seem to have... 21:50.880 --> 21:52.880 What's the matter, Laura? 21:52.880 --> 21:54.880 Nothing. Nothing at all. 21:54.880 --> 21:58.880 There. There, did you hear it? Footsteps. 21:58.880 --> 22:01.880 It was probably a board creaking. Now you go to sleep. 22:01.880 --> 22:04.880 I think everything will be all right in the morning. 22:04.880 --> 22:06.880 Oh, and you won't leave me? 22:06.880 --> 22:11.880 No, Julia. I'll stay here till you fall asleep. 22:11.880 --> 22:33.880 Oh, thank you, Laura. Thank you very much. 22:33.880 --> 22:37.880 Laura? Laura? Is that you? 22:37.880 --> 22:42.880 Laura? Why, she's gone. 22:42.880 --> 22:47.880 She's left me alone. But I...I'm not alone. 22:47.880 --> 22:51.880 Something woke me. The picture. 22:51.880 --> 22:57.880 I...it's the picture. I must look at it again. 22:57.880 --> 23:03.880 If he's moved again. Oh, but I must look straight at it. 23:03.880 --> 23:06.880 I'll look straight at it. 23:06.880 --> 23:11.880 Oh. Why, he...he's killed the girl. 23:11.880 --> 23:15.880 He stabbed her. He stabbed me. 23:15.880 --> 23:22.880 I'm the girl. And I've got to get out. Out! 23:22.880 --> 23:28.880 Oh. Oh, and now you're here. 23:28.880 --> 23:31.880 Why, you...you've come to life. 23:31.880 --> 23:36.880 In my room. The man in the black scarf. 23:36.880 --> 23:40.880 You...what do you want me to do? 23:40.880 --> 23:45.880 No. No, I won't run away. 23:45.880 --> 23:51.880 And I won't scream. What are you asking me? 23:51.880 --> 23:56.880 Do I want to spend the rest of my life in an asylum like my mother? 23:56.880 --> 24:02.880 No. No, I don't. I don't. 24:02.880 --> 24:07.880 You...you want me to open the window? 24:07.880 --> 24:12.880 Why, yes. Yes, I'll open it. 24:12.880 --> 24:20.880 There. You say...you say it would be best for everybody if I jump? 24:20.880 --> 24:26.880 Oh, yes. It's the only way out. 24:26.880 --> 24:31.880 The only way and I'll do it. 24:31.880 --> 24:35.880 I'll do it now without even thinking. 24:35.880 --> 24:39.880 It will only take a moment. 24:42.880 --> 24:44.880 Julia! Stop! Stop, Julia! 24:44.880 --> 24:46.880 Harvey! Clara, what are you doing? 24:46.880 --> 24:49.880 We came just in time. I've got her, Harvey. She's safe. 24:49.880 --> 24:52.880 I...I'm safe? You can come out from behind that chair, my friend. 24:52.880 --> 24:55.880 Friend? Come out or I'll shoot. 24:55.880 --> 24:59.880 I don't understand. My head's going around in a circle. 24:59.880 --> 25:02.880 I can explain everything. I was merely observing, Julia. 25:02.880 --> 25:04.880 The procedure was a little unusual. I'll admit... 25:04.880 --> 25:08.880 I'll do the explaining, Dr. Barrow. You tried to drive Julia crazy. 25:08.880 --> 25:11.880 He...he tried to drive me crazy. That's right. 25:11.880 --> 25:14.880 He tried to do it with the picture. You're all making a serious mistake. 25:14.880 --> 25:16.880 A mistake? Look at the picture. 25:16.880 --> 25:19.880 The figure is inside the room stabbing the girl. 25:19.880 --> 25:21.880 No, it wasn't your imagination, Julia. 25:21.880 --> 25:25.880 He painted several pictures. Each one of them the figure closer to the girl. 25:25.880 --> 25:28.880 He used the storeroom upstairs. That's why you heard footsteps. 25:28.880 --> 25:30.880 I got suspicious when I found a black scarf in his room. 25:30.880 --> 25:33.880 And when I looked at the picture a little while ago, it was full of dust. 25:33.880 --> 25:35.880 I had dusted it off myself a few hours just before. 25:35.880 --> 25:38.880 Yes, and Dr. Barrow seemed to know there was a storeroom above you. 25:38.880 --> 25:41.880 I couldn't understand how he knew that. 25:41.880 --> 25:44.880 Because this old house of your father's had been closed for years. 25:44.880 --> 25:48.880 Oh, but why? Why should he want to drive me crazy? 25:48.880 --> 25:50.880 Because he's not Dr. Barrow. 25:50.880 --> 25:51.880 What? 25:51.880 --> 25:54.880 He's Ralph...Ralph Powell, your cousin who disappeared many years ago. 25:54.880 --> 25:55.880 Everyone thought he was dead. 25:55.880 --> 25:58.880 He painted the picture originally so it was easy for him. 25:58.880 --> 26:00.880 His plan was to drive you insane. 26:00.880 --> 26:03.880 Then contest the will since he's the nearest blood relative. 26:03.880 --> 26:06.880 I had no intention of killing Julia. I swear I didn't. I just wanted to frighten her. 26:06.880 --> 26:11.880 Why...I almost...I almost jumped out of the window. 26:11.880 --> 26:14.880 I might have been dead right now. 26:14.880 --> 26:16.880 Lying dead outside. 26:16.880 --> 26:21.880 Don't think about it, Julia dear. It's all over now. You're all right. 26:21.880 --> 26:25.880 You mean I...I'm not insane? 26:25.880 --> 26:27.880 Why, of course not, Julia. 26:27.880 --> 26:31.880 Oh, I almost forgot. Why, it's Thursday. 26:31.880 --> 26:34.880 Why, yes. 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