WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 Suspense! 00:04.000 --> 00:13.500 Tonight, Mr. Dane Clark, as star of Spoils for Victor, a suspense play produced, edited, 00:13.500 --> 00:19.000 and directed by William Spear. 00:19.000 --> 00:22.000 Suspense! 00:22.000 --> 00:28.000 Can he talk, Doc? 00:28.000 --> 00:30.000 I wouldn't advise it. 00:30.000 --> 00:33.000 Maybe what you ought to ask is, will he talk? 00:33.000 --> 00:35.000 Oh, I thought you were asleep. 00:35.000 --> 00:36.000 Hi, Harry. 00:36.000 --> 00:38.000 Remember me, do you? 00:38.000 --> 00:41.000 You had me down to the DA's office enough times, so I ought to... 00:41.000 --> 00:44.000 I didn't talk those times either, remember? 00:44.000 --> 00:47.000 You ought to save your strength as much as you can, Mr. Reddicker. 00:47.000 --> 00:49.000 Doc here thinks I'm going to die. 00:49.000 --> 00:50.000 Are you? 00:50.000 --> 00:52.000 I don't think so. 00:52.000 --> 00:53.000 I don't think I'm going to talk either. 00:53.000 --> 00:55.000 There's some questions we've got to have the answers to. 00:55.000 --> 00:59.000 If we don't get them from you, Vic, we're going to have to get them from somebody else. 00:59.000 --> 01:01.000 Oh. 01:01.000 --> 01:03.000 What kind of questions? 01:03.000 --> 01:06.000 About those two slugs you got in your ribs, among other things. 01:06.000 --> 01:09.000 They're not in there anymore, at least, that's what the Doc tells me. 01:09.000 --> 01:11.000 All right, Vic, I'm sorry. 01:11.000 --> 01:12.000 Wait. 01:12.000 --> 01:13.000 William and Harry. 01:13.000 --> 01:14.000 Yeah? 01:14.000 --> 01:22.000 Listen, I don't know how she feels about this, but if I talk, you've got to leave her out. 01:22.000 --> 01:25.000 All together, out, complete. 01:25.000 --> 01:26.000 See? 01:26.000 --> 01:28.000 That could be, Vic. 01:28.000 --> 01:30.000 You've always been a pretty right guy, Harry. 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 Is that on a level? 01:32.000 --> 01:33.000 On a level, Vic. 01:33.000 --> 01:35.000 All right. 01:35.000 --> 01:37.000 Maybe you can sell it to pictures. 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 Alan Ladd. 01:40.000 --> 01:52.000 You could call it the gangster and the lady. 01:52.000 --> 01:56.000 You know the mob, Bonnie Bernard, Pinky Roberts, and the rest. 01:56.000 --> 02:01.000 As far as they're concerned, it doesn't matter much now what I tell you, I guess. 02:01.000 --> 02:07.000 We were never big operators, nothing really big time, but we always had plenty of money in our pocket most of the time. 02:07.000 --> 02:11.000 But this time I'm talking about the dive had been pretty long. 02:11.000 --> 02:19.000 My pants were getting shiny in their seat, my shoes were getting holes from walking instead of riding, even Barney was getting a little rusty looking. 02:19.000 --> 02:25.000 And this one day, he's sitting around the office with Pinky when I come in and his chin is down around his belt buckle someplace. 02:25.000 --> 02:26.000 Hi, Vic. 02:26.000 --> 02:27.000 Hi, cutie. 02:27.000 --> 02:28.000 Hi there, what's new? 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 I hear there's a depression on it, want to think about it? 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 Ah, forget it, there's no money in it. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 Hey, did he cut the phone off yet? 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 He thinks he's kidding. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 Who you want to phone, a home relief? 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 A Dame, bet you three to one. 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 One what? 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 Why do you care, you ain't got it. 02:40.000 --> 02:44.000 Dames, Dames, Dames, boy I ain't never seen nothing like this guy with Dames. 02:44.000 --> 02:47.000 They buzz around him like he was John D. Rockefeller. 02:47.000 --> 02:49.000 There you go, always looking at the seamy side. 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 Some Dames like you for what you are, not what you got. 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 Sure, I know that kind, your mother and your grandmother. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 Hello, hello, is Madeline there? 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 Yeah, yeah, I guess so. 02:58.000 --> 03:02.000 Victor Ruttega, who's calling some guy said she's probably married. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 So what, she'd give you the phone number, didn't she? 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 Hello, Madeline? 03:05.000 --> 03:07.000 Yeah, remember? 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 Ha ha, say who's the guy answering the phone? 03:10.000 --> 03:14.000 Oh, so you got a sense of humor too, huh? 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 The butler, she said. 03:15.000 --> 03:19.000 I just called up to say hello, I don't like to let these things get cold, you know. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 That's right. 03:21.000 --> 03:22.000 What do you do with yourself? 03:22.000 --> 03:24.000 Well, now for instance. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 I see. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Hey sure, sure I would. 03:28.000 --> 03:29.000 Where do you live? 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 Wait, wait, wait, wait till I write it down. 03:31.000 --> 03:35.000 Uh huh, uh huh. 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 Okay, I'll do that. 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 Goodbye now. 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 Hey, where is the place called Woodford Way? 03:41.000 --> 03:42.000 Woodford Way? 03:42.000 --> 03:43.000 Yeah, you ever hear of it? 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 Yeah, it's in Bel Air, Vic. 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 Bel Air? 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 Yeah. 03:47.000 --> 03:48.000 Hey, that's pretty big stuff, ain't it? 03:48.000 --> 03:49.000 Yeah, plenty. 03:49.000 --> 03:51.000 Say, you don't suppose she does have a butler, do you? 03:51.000 --> 03:54.000 Sure, there's a butler all right, and she's the maid. 03:54.000 --> 03:55.000 What's she like, Vic? How'd you meet her? 03:55.000 --> 03:58.000 Well, I'm just walking along Vine Street, rubbing my last two nickels together. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 She comes out of a joint with her arms full of bundles, she bangs into me. 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 She goes one way, the bundles go the other, I pick her up. 04:02.000 --> 04:05.000 So one thing leads to another, I buy her a cup of coffee, 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 and I got her phone number before she decides to have another one, 04:07.000 --> 04:08.000 I scram, that's all. 04:08.000 --> 04:11.000 Nothing special, but she looks like she wouldn't try to promote you 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 for much more than a ticket to the movies, 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 and that's the best offer I had all week, so I gave her a ring. 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 Come up and see me, she said. 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 So I figure what can I lose, right? 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 Right. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 What's her name? Madeline what? 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Well, she didn't tell me, but the guy on the phone, wherever he was, 04:23.000 --> 04:28.000 he said it was, uh, Rawlins, Rawlies, something like that. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 So what? 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 You don't read the papers much, do you, Vic? 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 I guess I know where the horses are running as well as the next guy. 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 Why? Is that her? That dame in the picture, is that her? 04:38.000 --> 04:41.000 Yeah. Yeah! 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 You see what it says? 04:43.000 --> 04:47.000 Madeline Rawlins opened up the lair home. 04:47.000 --> 04:51.000 Wealthy Sugar Harris, whose personal fortune makes her one of the world's richest girl- 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 Holy smokes! 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 You ought to keep up on those things. 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 That's her, all right! That's her! 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 Oh, of all the dumb luck, boy, you got it. 04:59.000 --> 05:03.000 Yeah. Hey, I might be able to shake a little of that sugar out of there at that, huh? 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 What's the trouble with you, Vic? You think too small. 05:05.000 --> 05:08.000 Sure, what you want to do is marry the dame. 05:08.000 --> 05:12.000 Well, what's so funny about that? 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 Maybe I've been underestimating your talents, Vic. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 All right, funny man, what? 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 Funnier things have happened, Vic. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 Are you kidding? 05:19.000 --> 05:20.000 No. 05:20.000 --> 05:24.000 Ah, Barney, be yourself. So maybe the dame does go for me for a couple of weeks. 05:24.000 --> 05:28.000 All right, a couple of months, because I'm different from the guy she's been going around with. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 But take a guy like me serious? 05:30.000 --> 05:31.000 And nuts. 05:31.000 --> 05:34.000 Maybe we could do something about that so you wouldn't be so different. 05:34.000 --> 05:38.000 So what? So what if I even- even if I did marry the dame, 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 do you think I could stick up with a setup like that? 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 I'd be out of my ear in six months. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 A lot can happen in six months, Vic. 05:44.000 --> 05:47.000 Nothing that I couldn't make happen in six weeks and without any marrying. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 Oh, yes it could, Vic. 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 What? 05:49.000 --> 05:50.000 Something could happen to her. 05:50.000 --> 05:51.000 Like what? 05:51.000 --> 05:55.000 Like an accident. Accidents happen all the time. 05:55.000 --> 05:59.000 And they got community property laws in this state. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 Oh. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 See? 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 Nothing doing. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 Okay, okay. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 You're going out to see her though, aren't you? 06:08.000 --> 06:09.000 Yeah, I guess so. 06:09.000 --> 06:12.000 Yeah. You might need it. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 Thanks, bro. 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 Fifty? What's that for? 06:16.000 --> 06:19.000 I just want you to make a good impression on the girl, that's all. 06:19.000 --> 06:20.000 Thanks. 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 And think about it, Vic. 06:28.000 --> 06:29.000 I did all right. 06:29.000 --> 06:34.000 I guess that's all I did think about the whole of that first afternoon I was out there to see her. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 I didn't see her again for over two weeks. 06:36.000 --> 06:39.000 Because that night we decided. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 Barney put up nearly all the cash he had left. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 He bought me a car, a suite of rooms that the ambassador closed. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 That's one of our very nicest numbers, Mr. Ruddigan. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 It looks just stunning on you. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 $185. 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 Leave or see something that ain't quite so worth. 06:52.000 --> 06:53.000 Well, shut up. We'll take it. 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 Splendid. How about shirts? Ties? 07:00.000 --> 07:03.000 I went around places. We hired a publicity agent. 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 I was supposed to be a wealthy young oil man. 07:05.000 --> 07:08.000 We even hired a guy to try to teach me to talk better. 07:08.000 --> 07:11.000 All right, Mr. Ruddigan. Repeat after me, please. 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 The house in Moiffy features turtle soup and oyster soup. 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 No, no, no, no, Mr. Ruddigan. You have it just backwards. 07:17.000 --> 07:20.000 Turtle soup and oyster stew. 07:20.000 --> 07:23.000 Uh, turtle soup and oyster stew. 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 Again, please. 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 The house in Moiffy features... 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 No, no, no, no. 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 After two weeks I looked a little better. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 Enough to get by in small doses anyway. 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 And I began to go out and see her again. 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 And after two months I wouldn't have known myself because... 07:41.000 --> 07:45.000 I was standing in a striped pants and a cutaway coat and shirt. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.000 And she was standing there beside me. 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 And the minister was standing in front of both of us. 07:49.000 --> 07:53.000 Do you, Victor, take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife? 07:53.000 --> 07:59.000 To have and to hold, to love and to cherish from this day forth. 07:59.000 --> 08:08.000 For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, in health, until death do you part? 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 I do. 08:09.000 --> 08:13.000 Do you, Madeleine, take this man to be your lawful wedded husband? 08:13.000 --> 08:18.000 And all the time all I could think of was that it was funny. 08:18.000 --> 08:23.000 And kind of tough too when you stop to figure how a woman is supposed to feel at a time like this. 08:23.000 --> 08:29.000 That when she spoke those two little words, she'd be signing her own death warrant. 08:29.000 --> 08:49.000 I do. 08:49.000 --> 08:53.000 In six months, Bonnie and Pinky and me were going to be rich. 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 And she was going to be dead. 08:55.000 --> 09:02.000 I didn't have any feelings about her at first. Inside of me I was feeling like an old stray dog that just found a swell home. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 I was tired. 09:04.000 --> 09:11.000 I hadn't known how terribly sick and tired the years of snarling and snapping for every bone had made me. 09:11.000 --> 09:14.000 And so at first I just stretched my paws out to the fire. 09:14.000 --> 09:17.000 I lay around in the sun and enjoyed myself. 09:17.000 --> 09:20.000 I didn't even mind, Madeleine. 09:20.000 --> 09:25.000 Then after I got over feeling tired, something else began inside. Something began eating me. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 Just a little thing at first, but it got bigger. 09:28.000 --> 09:34.000 I didn't know what it was except I knew it wasn't my conscience. I hadn't had one of those since I was ten years old. 09:34.000 --> 09:38.000 For a while I thought maybe I was just missing the old gang, the old ways. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 But that didn't fit either. 09:40.000 --> 09:44.000 And then one day, we'd been married about four months then, and we were going out for dinner. 09:44.000 --> 09:49.000 I was upstairs getting ready, and I passed by her dressing room, and she was in there with her maid fixing her hair. 09:49.000 --> 09:53.000 Well, there you are. You'd better hurry if you expect to take me out anywhere. 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 Yeah, I will. Say, that's a new hairdo, isn't it? 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 It will be. You like it? 09:58.000 --> 09:59.000 Yeah, it looks kind of cute. 09:59.000 --> 10:00.000 Hand me the dryer now, will you, Marie? 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 Yes, Madame. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 What's that? 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 Electric hair dryer. You've seen me use it before. 10:04.000 --> 10:05.000 I don't remember. 10:05.000 --> 10:07.000 Don't bother, Marie. I'll plug it in. You can go now. 10:07.000 --> 10:08.000 Yes, Madame. 10:08.000 --> 10:12.000 Hey, hey, wait a minute. You ought to be careful handling those electric gimmicks when your hands are wet that way. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 Oh, silly, I've been doing this. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.000 Madeleine! Madeleine! 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Get a doctor, Marie! Get a doctor! 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 Oh, yes, Monsieur. 10:21.000 --> 10:26.000 Then I was down on the floor beside her remembering from somewhere that with people who had an electric shot, 10:26.000 --> 10:33.000 she gave them artificial respiration, and I pressed my hands against her ribs, and I was talking to her without hardly knowing myself what I was saying. 10:33.000 --> 10:36.000 Madeleine! Madeleine, baby! 10:36.000 --> 10:39.000 Come on, baby, come on, snap out of it. You're going to be all right, baby. You've got to be. 10:39.000 --> 10:43.000 Oh, please, baby, please. Please, please. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 What happened? 10:45.000 --> 10:47.000 Oh, Madeleine. 10:47.000 --> 10:48.000 Are you all right? 10:48.000 --> 10:52.000 I'm sick. You're crying. 10:52.000 --> 10:57.000 Me? You're crazy. Oh, baby, baby. 10:57.000 --> 11:11.000 So there it was. So now I knew. Because if I'd just stood there, she'd have died. 11:11.000 --> 11:17.000 But I couldn't stand there. Not for all the money in the treasury could I have stood there. 11:17.000 --> 11:28.000 Because I was in love with her. 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 I tried. I tried to keep my mind on all that money and what I could do with it. 11:31.000 --> 11:36.000 I tried to tell myself that no dame was worth that much to me or to any other guy. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 And all the time I was going nuts. 11:38.000 --> 11:42.000 I wasn't fit to be living with wild animals and say nothing to a girl like Madeleine. 11:42.000 --> 11:46.000 Vic, have you decided about going up to Arrowhead this next weekend? 11:46.000 --> 11:47.000 What? 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 Vic, please put down the paper and listen to me. 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 Where are you going? 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 Uh, business. I got a little deal. 11:53.000 --> 11:58.000 Oh, it must be quite a deal, Vic, to make you feel the way you have been lately. 11:58.000 --> 12:08.000 It is, Madeleine. Quite a deal. 12:08.000 --> 12:09.000 Hiya, playboy. How's it coming? 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 Hi, Bonnie. Hiya, Pinky. 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 Hi, kid. Hey, you're looking great. Not that you hadn't ought to be. 12:14.000 --> 12:18.000 Yeah, we missed you, Vic. But we've been reading all about you in the society columns. 12:18.000 --> 12:22.000 Yeah, you've been living up there in a fatted land for quite a while. 12:22.000 --> 12:25.000 Yeah. But near six months, Vic. 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 That's right. 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 So, we've been sort of expecting you. 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 That's where I figure. That's why I come. 12:30.000 --> 12:34.000 And I hope you're ready to talk business, Vic, because we are. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 That's why I'm here. 12:35.000 --> 12:37.000 Okay, okay. So let's we start talking. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 Listen, Bonnie, look. Wait a minute. 12:39.000 --> 12:42.000 Suppose, suppose I figured out a better way. 12:42.000 --> 12:43.000 A better way to what? 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 A better way to get Doe out of the setup. 12:45.000 --> 12:46.000 How much, Doe? 12:46.000 --> 12:47.000 Maybe a million dollars. 12:47.000 --> 12:51.000 A million dollars? Are you kidding? 12:51.000 --> 12:53.000 What's the matter with a million dollars? 12:53.000 --> 12:57.000 Nothing. Only my way we get about ten times that much, and that's what we're in this for, 12:57.000 --> 12:59.000 and that's what we're gonna get, see? 12:59.000 --> 13:02.000 I might even be able to get more than a million in time. 13:02.000 --> 13:05.000 You're not trying to tell me you're getting soft, are you, Vic? 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 I don't like murder, that's all. 13:07.000 --> 13:10.000 And you wouldn't try to tell me you've fallen for the dame, would you? 13:10.000 --> 13:11.000 Well, what if I did? 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 Because I wouldn't believe you. 13:13.000 --> 13:17.000 I've known you for a long time, Vic, and I know you ain't that kind of a guy. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 No, I wouldn't figure it that way, Vic. 13:19.000 --> 13:20.000 No. 13:20.000 --> 13:25.000 No. I'd figure that maybe you were getting away with it up there a lot better than you expected, 13:25.000 --> 13:28.000 and you didn't see no reason for not hanging on to the rest of the Doe. 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 All by yourself. 13:29.000 --> 13:32.000 Oh, no, no. I don't like murder, Bonnie. 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 Maybe you don't. I can see how maybe you wouldn't. 13:35.000 --> 13:38.000 But I put my Doe under this. I put my brains into it. 13:38.000 --> 13:41.000 It's the biggest thing that anybody's ever pulled. Ten million bucks! 13:41.000 --> 13:44.000 And I ain't taking any less. It's my way. 13:44.000 --> 13:46.000 Or else? 13:46.000 --> 13:50.000 Well, what about it? 13:50.000 --> 13:51.000 Okay. 13:51.000 --> 13:52.000 That's better. 13:52.000 --> 13:53.000 You got it all figured out? 13:53.000 --> 13:54.000 With the accident? 13:54.000 --> 13:57.000 Sure, a burglary. Pinky here breaks in. 13:57.000 --> 14:00.000 You and her hear the noise, you go down and find Pinky at the wall safe. 14:00.000 --> 14:01.000 You got one, haven't you? 14:01.000 --> 14:02.000 Yeah, in the library. 14:02.000 --> 14:03.000 So you catch Pinky and you shoot. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 Only you hit her. 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 I do. Why not Pinky? 14:07.000 --> 14:11.000 No, no, no. If it's an outside job, they'll keep looking for the guy and that might find him. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 And if you do it, it's an accident. Open and shut. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 No more trouble. You like it? 14:16.000 --> 14:17.000 Sure, it's great. 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 You got a gun, haven't you? Registered to you? 14:19.000 --> 14:20.000 Yeah, for the house. 14:20.000 --> 14:21.000 Use that. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 Want to set a time? 14:22.000 --> 14:25.000 Sooner the better. Friday night? Friday night. 14:25.000 --> 14:26.000 Okay, Pinky? 14:26.000 --> 14:27.000 Sure, any time. 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 Check with me Thursday, okay? 14:29.000 --> 14:30.000 Okay. 14:30.000 --> 14:31.000 And Vic? 14:31.000 --> 14:32.000 Yeah? 14:32.000 --> 14:48.000 Don't miss. 14:48.000 --> 14:49.000 Hello? 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 Hello, Helen? 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 Yeah? 14:51.000 --> 14:53.000 This is Vic. Victor Ruttega. 14:53.000 --> 14:57.000 Vic! Why, you old so-and-so. I never thought I'd ever hear from you again. 14:57.000 --> 14:59.000 Look, Helen, I want you to help me. 14:59.000 --> 15:00.000 Why, sure. What is it? 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 I wouldn't ask you, Helen, but I'm on a spot. 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 Yeah, I was on a spot once, too, remember? 15:04.000 --> 15:05.000 What do you want? 15:05.000 --> 15:09.000 You're a good kid, Helen. Now listen, I can't tell you over the phone and don't talk to anybody, 15:09.000 --> 15:13.000 not to anybody, until I tell you. But what are you doing Friday night? 15:13.000 --> 15:14.000 Whatever you say. 15:14.000 --> 15:35.000 Okay, I'll be in touch with you. Remember, Friday night. 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 Yes? 15:36.000 --> 15:37.000 Hello, Madeline? 15:37.000 --> 15:38.000 Well, Vic. 15:38.000 --> 15:43.000 Look, hon, look. I think Arrowhead this weekend would be a great idea. What do you say? 15:43.000 --> 15:50.000 Vic, that's wonderful. Well, I'll start getting things ready right away. When do you think you're leaving? 15:50.000 --> 15:52.000 What about first thing Friday morning? 15:52.000 --> 16:04.000 Well, Vic, fine. That's wonderful, darling. Friday morning. 16:04.000 --> 16:08.000 It's about 90 miles to Arrowhead, and I usually make it in two hours easy the way I drive. 16:08.000 --> 16:15.000 But this time I guess my mind was on almost everything except my driving. 16:15.000 --> 16:18.000 You made up your mind pretty suddenly, didn't you, darling? 16:18.000 --> 16:19.000 About what? 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 About coming up here. 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 Oh, I, well, I don't know. I... 16:23.000 --> 16:27.000 Vic! Vic, please, not so fast on these turns. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 Fast? It was too slow a while back. 16:29.000 --> 16:33.000 Well, a while back it was too slow. You were crawling. 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 Why did you tell the servants to go away for the weekend? 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 Away? I didn't tell them to go away. 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 Well, the way you said it, it meant that. 16:39.000 --> 16:42.000 Well, we were going to be away. I figured they might like a little vacation too. 16:42.000 --> 16:46.000 Oh, I see. Vic, what is it? 16:46.000 --> 16:47.000 What's what? 16:47.000 --> 16:48.000 What's the matter? 16:48.000 --> 16:52.000 Nothing the matter, Madeline. It's just business. Business, that's all. 16:52.000 --> 16:53.000 Victor, I don't believe you. 16:53.000 --> 16:54.000 What do you mean? 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 I mean, I don't believe it's business. I believe it's something else. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 Well, what else could it be? 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 I believe it's something about you and me. 17:01.000 --> 17:06.000 Oh, it isn't. It isn't, Madeline. It isn't. It's a deal, that's all. And the law will be over by a few days. 17:06.000 --> 17:07.000 Will it? 17:07.000 --> 17:08.000 Of course it will. 17:08.000 --> 17:12.000 Vic, I love you. I could never fool myself about that. 17:12.000 --> 17:17.000 I'd do something... I'd do something awful if anything ever came between you and me. 17:17.000 --> 17:18.000 Anything or anyone. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 I know, Madeline. 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 You don't want to talk about it, do you? 17:22.000 --> 17:23.000 I can't, Madeline. 17:23.000 --> 17:27.000 All right, all right. Remember, anything or anyone. 17:27.000 --> 17:32.000 We got up to the cabin around noon and I helped her unpack and we changed and I moped around a couple of hours stalling. 17:32.000 --> 17:35.000 And then I knew I couldn't stall much longer and I had to come out with it. 17:35.000 --> 17:38.000 Vic, I thought we were going to go riding after we had... 17:38.000 --> 17:39.000 Oh, Madeline. 17:39.000 --> 17:40.000 What? 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 Madeline, I just thought of something terrible. 17:42.000 --> 17:43.000 What? What is it? 17:43.000 --> 17:46.000 I got an appointment to see a guy tonight in town. 17:46.000 --> 17:47.000 Oh. 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 Oh, I don't see how I could have forgotten it. 17:49.000 --> 17:50.000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 I'm sorry. 17:51.000 --> 17:52.000 I'm sorry. 17:52.000 --> 17:53.000 I'm sorry. 17:53.000 --> 17:54.000 I'm sorry. 17:54.000 --> 17:55.000 I'm sorry. 17:55.000 --> 17:59.000 Oh, I don't see how I could have forgotten it, but it's terribly important. 17:59.000 --> 18:00.000 I'll just have to go. 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 Yes, I suppose you will. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 But I'll be back first thing in the morning. 18:04.000 --> 18:07.000 I'll have to take the car, but they'll loan you a station wagon at the hotel if you're going to be going anywhere. 18:07.000 --> 18:08.000 Yes, yes. 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 Will you be staying at the house? 18:10.000 --> 18:11.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, sure. 18:11.000 --> 18:12.000 I... 18:12.000 --> 18:15.000 Oh, Madeline, don't look at me that way. 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 Please, you understand how it is, don't you? 18:17.000 --> 18:25.000 Yes, Vic, I think I do. 18:25.000 --> 18:30.000 I drove on down feeling like the world's worst healer and scared and excited too. 18:30.000 --> 18:33.000 I called Helen and told her how to get out there and where to leave her car 18:33.000 --> 18:36.000 and how to get in without anyone seeing her in case they were already watching the joint. 18:36.000 --> 18:41.000 It was good and dark about 8 o'clock when I let her in. 18:41.000 --> 18:42.000 Am I on time? 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 Sure, swell. 18:43.000 --> 18:46.000 Boy, what a dump. 18:46.000 --> 18:47.000 Yeah, yeah, it's quite a place, isn't it? 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 It's awful empty, though. 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 I had an idea it was kind of a party or something. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 It is, kind of. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 The people I'm expecting will be along later now. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 Come on up this way. 18:57.000 --> 19:01.000 Gee, I knew you'd married into the gravy, Vic, but I didn't know it was anything like this. 19:01.000 --> 19:02.000 You coming here? 19:02.000 --> 19:03.000 No, what's this? 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 A bedroom, dressing room. 19:05.000 --> 19:08.000 So this is what rich people call a bedroom. 19:08.000 --> 19:09.000 Look at the mirrors. 19:09.000 --> 19:13.000 Yeah, yeah, look, Helen, Helen, can you put your hair up over your head? 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 You know, that sort of crown business on top? 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 Like this? Sure. 19:17.000 --> 19:18.000 Yeah. 19:18.000 --> 19:19.000 That part of the act? 19:19.000 --> 19:20.000 Yeah, that's it. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 And while you're at it, put on this nightgown, will you? 19:22.000 --> 19:23.000 And the dressing gown, too. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 And there ought to be some slippers in there that will fit you. 19:25.000 --> 19:26.000 Now, wait a minute. 19:26.000 --> 19:27.000 Now, wait a minute, Helen, it's nothing like that. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 I'll wait outside. 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 Vic, it is one of those divorce things, is it? 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 No, like I said, it's a sort of a gag. 19:34.000 --> 19:37.000 Okay, you're the doctor. 19:37.000 --> 19:38.000 And what's that? 19:38.000 --> 19:39.000 Phone. 19:39.000 --> 19:40.000 Aren't you going to answer it? 19:40.000 --> 19:47.000 Probably isn't important. 19:47.000 --> 19:48.000 Well, who do you suppose it could be? 19:48.000 --> 19:49.000 I don't know, I don't know. 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 Vic, it might be your wife. 19:51.000 --> 19:55.000 Yeah, yeah, it might be. 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 Well, for heaven's sake, why don't you answer it? 19:57.000 --> 19:58.000 I can't answer it. 19:58.000 --> 19:59.000 Oh, all right, all right, all right. 19:59.000 --> 20:02.000 Oh, gee, these things have your wife and darling. 20:02.000 --> 20:03.000 How do I look, huh? 20:03.000 --> 20:14.000 You look just about right. 20:14.000 --> 20:17.000 I hated the part about Helen, but I know I didn't stand a chance in the world 20:17.000 --> 20:20.000 of getting Barney inside unless he thought he was seeing Madeline. 20:20.000 --> 20:23.000 He'd never seen her, except from a distance, that lousy newspaper picture. 20:23.000 --> 20:26.000 And what with the hair doing all, Helen looked pretty good. 20:26.000 --> 20:29.000 And after a while, I went around the house, I put off all the lights, 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 and after that, we had to sit in the dark. 20:31.000 --> 20:34.000 I didn't even dare talk to Helen anymore. 20:34.000 --> 20:39.000 Pretty soon, she just went to sleep, and I waited. 20:39.000 --> 20:42.000 I heard a clock in the downstairs hall strike four, 20:42.000 --> 20:46.000 and then right on the dot, I heard what I'd been waiting for. 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 Helen, Helen, wake up. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 What time is it? 20:51.000 --> 20:52.000 Shh, shh, shh. 20:52.000 --> 20:53.000 Come on, the people are here. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 All right, aren't you going to put on the light? 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 When we get to the library. 20:56.000 --> 20:59.000 Now, you stay right behind me, and as quiet as you can, 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 and I'll shine a flashlight so you can see. 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 I can see. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 And when I go in, you come in right behind me, close the door, 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 and just stand right there, right against the door. 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 All right. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 All right, here we are. 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 All right, Pinky, drop that gun. 21:10.000 --> 21:11.000 What's the idea, Vic? 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 Just not taking any chances. 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 Drop it! 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Now, kick it across the floor, over to me. 21:19.000 --> 21:20.000 Bonnie outside? 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 Yeah. 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 Alone? 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 Yeah. 21:23.000 --> 21:26.000 I want you to go to that side door where you came in and whistled at him. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 And when he shows, tell him we need him in here. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 And that's all. 21:30.000 --> 21:31.000 Anything more and I shoot. 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 Understand? 21:33.000 --> 21:34.000 This ain't right, Vic. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 When this happens, I want Bonnie in here. 21:36.000 --> 21:40.000 Just in case you wouldn't want you and me to be the only suckers, would you? 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 That's right, too. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 All right. 21:51.000 --> 21:53.000 Hey, Bonnie, we need you. 21:55.000 --> 21:56.000 He's coming. 21:56.000 --> 21:57.000 Vic. 21:57.000 --> 21:58.000 All right, all right. 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 Put up your hands and keep him up. 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 What's the idea? 22:01.000 --> 22:02.000 Better go outside, baby. 22:02.000 --> 22:03.000 All right, Vic. 22:03.000 --> 22:04.000 That ain't your wife. 22:04.000 --> 22:05.000 Close the door after you. 22:05.000 --> 22:07.000 What is this, the old double cross? 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 Yeah. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 The old double cross. 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 I don't, I don't, I don't. 22:16.000 --> 22:17.000 Vic. 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 Oh, Vic, you killed him. 22:20.000 --> 22:21.000 They broke into my house. They were burglars. 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 But that's Barney Bernard. 22:22.000 --> 22:23.000 They broke into my house. 22:23.000 --> 22:24.000 Oh, Vic, I don't want to be mixed up in anything. 22:24.000 --> 22:25.000 You're not going to be mixed up in anything. 22:25.000 --> 22:26.000 Nobody saw you come. Nobody will see you go. 22:26.000 --> 22:27.000 Is that why? 22:27.000 --> 22:28.000 I mean, your wife nightgowned. 22:28.000 --> 22:29.000 I'm sorry. I couldn't tell you more. 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 I can't tell you now either, but you better get your things and scram. 22:31.000 --> 22:32.000 I've got to call the cops. 22:32.000 --> 22:33.000 All right, Vic. 22:33.000 --> 22:34.000 What's that? 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 Madeline. 22:37.000 --> 22:38.000 I told you what I'd do, Vic. 22:38.000 --> 22:39.000 Madeline. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 Put down that gun. Listen, will you? 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 I'll do anything or anyone. 22:43.000 --> 22:44.000 Madeline. 22:44.000 --> 22:45.000 There it is, Harry. 22:46.000 --> 22:50.000 But remember, you said the D.A.'s office would lay off her. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 That's right. 22:53.000 --> 22:54.000 You better lie down there. 22:55.000 --> 22:56.000 Look. 22:57.000 --> 22:58.000 You can't just lie there. 22:59.000 --> 23:00.000 I'm not lying. 23:01.000 --> 23:02.000 You're lying. 23:02.000 --> 23:03.000 You're lying. 23:04.000 --> 23:05.000 You're lying. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 You're lying. 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 You're lying. 23:09.000 --> 23:10.000 You're lying. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 You're lying. 23:12.000 --> 23:13.000 You're lying. 23:13.000 --> 23:16.000 Look, Harry, do you think... 23:16.000 --> 23:19.000 Do you think the way it was... 23:19.000 --> 23:21.000 It might make a difference? 23:21.000 --> 23:24.000 How? 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 To her? 23:26.000 --> 23:30.000 Yeah, Vic. Yeah. 23:30.000 --> 23:45.000 I think it might. 24:30.000 --> 24:57.000 This is the Armed Forces Radio Service. 24:57.000 --> 25:26.000 The Armed Forces Radio Service. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 The Armed Forces Radio Service.