1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,640 Now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:14,080 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world, Roma Wines present Suspense. 3 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:22,680 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Michael O'Shea as star of Photo Finish, a suspense 4 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,160 play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 5 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:37,520 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 6 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:43,480 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, those excellent California wines that can add so much 7 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:47,400 pleasantness to the way you live, to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your 8 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,760 enjoyment of everyday meals. 9 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:54,600 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you Michael 10 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,760 O'Shea in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 11 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:09,440 Well, it was hot enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk, about the worst we've had all year 12 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,240 and I hadn't made a dozen cash jobs since morning. 13 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,900 But at five o'clock I was still in there plugging because that's the way I am. 14 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:20,840 I level on a guy in a dame that looked like they might go for a good two shot and snap 15 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,480 them and hand the guy the card that tells him how he can get three prints of that fine 16 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,280 candid camera shot I just made of him for only a dollar. 17 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,400 But he just brushes me off like all the rest. 18 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:34,120 That was the last shot on the roll and I unload and figure to call it a day when I see a guy 19 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,240 coming through the crowd that's dressed up as sharp as a tack and he's sort of glancing 20 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,760 at himself sideways in the store windows and generally seems extra fond of himself. 21 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:47,280 So quick as a flash I get me sights on him and then a funny thing happens. 22 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,760 He sort of staggers as though somebody had just come along give him a big slap on the 23 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:55,400 back and he starts folding and all so sudden that I can't even stop myself and so help 24 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:59,640 me I snap him right in the middle of his dive and then he's out like a light and everybody 25 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:04,200 has a crowd around everybody's saying get the doctor in the heat somebody else is calling 26 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:05,880 him enough is enough. 27 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,500 I'm all burned up with this guy and the heat and the day and everything so I just turn 28 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:11,840 on my heel and head for Jake's place to cool off. 29 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,280 Hi Joe, what do you say, cup of coffee? 30 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:16,280 Yeah, yeah. 31 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:17,880 How'd you go today, doing any good? 32 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:19,400 Are you kidding? 33 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,120 People don't want to have their pictures made when they got perspiration running down their 34 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:26,160 faces and the guys are in their shirt sleeves and the dames dresses are all wrinkled up 35 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,160 out of shape. 36 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,640 All they want to do is to get somewhere where they can cool off like me. 37 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:32,400 Yeah, that's right, all right I guess. 38 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:33,920 What a day. 39 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:35,920 And the payoff, here listen to this. 40 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:39,680 I'm making a guy just before I come in here, a swell shot it would have been too and just 41 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,800 as I snap him, what do you suppose he does? 42 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:42,800 What? 43 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,200 He falls, he collapses right in the side work, ah boom, the heat or something, I don't know. 44 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:47,200 Is that right? 45 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,800 Yeah, boy do I pick the cash customers. 46 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,760 Oh, tough on the poor guy, huh? 47 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:51,760 Tough on him. 48 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:52,760 What about me? 49 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:54,200 I got a living to make do, you know. 50 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:55,200 Well yeah, that's right. 51 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:56,200 Oh, pardon me. 52 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,200 Go ahead. 53 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,200 Jake's Friendly Pharmacy? 54 00:02:58,200 --> 00:02:59,200 Huh? 55 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:00,200 Well, I don't know. 56 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,200 Well, just a moment, I'll see. 57 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,200 Hey Joe, it's your wife. 58 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:03,200 Uh oh, I forgot. 59 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:04,200 She told me specially to be home early today, she got a steak for tonight. 60 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,200 What'll I tell her? 61 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:06,200 Tell her I just left. 62 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:07,200 No, no, wait a minute. 63 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:08,200 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 64 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:09,200 I'm sorry. 65 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:10,200 I'm sorry. 66 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:11,200 I'm sorry. 67 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:12,200 I'm sorry. 68 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:13,200 I'm sorry. 69 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:14,200 I'm sorry. 70 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,200 Tell her I just left. 71 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:17,200 No, no, wait a minute. 72 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:18,200 Tell her you won't see me all day. 73 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:19,200 Okay. 74 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,200 Uh, no, no, he's not here Mrs. Mooney. 75 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,200 No, no I haven't. 76 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,200 Yes Mrs. Mooney. 77 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:26,200 Yes Mrs. Mooney. 78 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,200 Yeah, I sure will. 79 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:29,200 Yeah. 80 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,200 Uh, she said if I see you. 81 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,200 Hey, hey Joe. 82 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:33,200 Hey Joe, wait. 83 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:34,200 I ain't got time. 84 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:35,200 I'll see you tomorrow. 85 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,200 Hey Joe! 86 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:47,200 Yoo hoo. 87 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:48,200 Hello honey. 88 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:49,200 Don't honey me. 89 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,200 Ah. 90 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:51,200 Mmm. 91 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,200 Something smells good. 92 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:53,200 Supper ready? 93 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:54,200 Is supper ready? 94 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:55,200 Oh of course supper's ready. 95 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,200 The potatoes are all nice and dried up and the meat's good and tough. 96 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,200 Supper's been ready for an hour. 97 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,200 Oh it has? 98 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:02,200 Oh gee I... 99 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:03,200 You know I told you to be home on time tonight. 100 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,200 You think the hand of steak's out for good behavior nowadays? 101 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:06,200 Oh gosh Maud I forgot. 102 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:07,200 Forgot, forgot. 103 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,200 You'd forget your name if it wasn't pasted inside your hat. 104 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,200 Where have you been? 105 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:12,200 Why I... 106 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:13,200 I was working. 107 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:14,200 This late? 108 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:15,200 On a day like this? 109 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,200 Hey wait a minute let me look at you. 110 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,200 Oh now wait a minute Maud, now wait. 111 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,200 Maud listen. 112 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:21,200 Something happened today. 113 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,200 I wasn't gonna tell you about this. 114 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,200 I was gonna spare your feelings. 115 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:26,200 This one, it better be good. 116 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,200 Well it shook me up pretty bad I don't mind telling you. 117 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,200 And that was the whole trouble why I was late. 118 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,200 Yeah I suppose this time you found an atom bomb in his suitcase 119 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,200 and you picked it up. 120 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,200 No Maud. 121 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:37,200 Listen Maud. 122 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:38,200 I'm serious. 123 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,200 I saw a man die today Maud. 124 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,200 Well they do it every day don't they? 125 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:44,200 Yeah but Maud I was taking his picture. 126 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,200 He died right while I was snapping it right at me feet. 127 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:48,200 Swoon. 128 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,200 I suppose he grabbed you around the ankle so you couldn't come home. 129 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,200 But Maud they thought it was murder. 130 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:54,200 Murder? 131 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,200 Who thought so? 132 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:56,200 Why everybody. 133 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:57,200 The people that saw it. 134 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,200 They were asking me all kinds of questions. 135 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:00,200 Oh Joe. 136 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,200 Oh what do you want to tell me a story like that for? 137 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,200 I swear Maud I swear I can prove it. 138 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:05,200 I got the film. 139 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:06,200 I'll develop it right here tonight. 140 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,200 I got it right here in me camera and I'll get me my... 141 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,200 Now what? 142 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:12,200 My camera. 143 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:13,200 I must have forgot it. 144 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,200 I might have known this was all leading up to something. 145 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,200 Where's the ticket? 146 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:17,200 The what? 147 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:18,200 You know what? 148 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:19,200 The pawn ticket. 149 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,200 Oh Maud you got me all wrong. 150 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:22,200 The camera's all right. 151 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:23,200 It's right where I left it. 152 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:24,200 Right in Jake's place. 153 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,200 Ah Jake's place. 154 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,200 Well which is it? 155 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,200 The hawk shop or Jake's place? 156 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,200 Oh Maud I was only in there for a minute. 157 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,200 Oh Joe how can you do it? 158 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:40,200 Losing your camera, hanging around in that cheap joint when you know we're trying to save up for a studio of our own. 159 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,200 Oh Joe we're never going to get out of this rut. 160 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:44,200 Oh Maud. 161 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:45,200 Look look. 162 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,200 I had to leave the camera there. 163 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,200 Had to? 164 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:49,200 Why? 165 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:50,200 Because of that picture. 166 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:51,200 I was scared to bring it home. 167 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:52,200 It might be evidence or something. 168 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,200 Joe you just said a minute ago you had it with you. 169 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:55,200 You said that you... 170 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,200 I... 171 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:57,200 Oh who in the world could that be? 172 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:58,200 I'll get it honey. 173 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,200 You stay right here that's it. 174 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:01,200 Just rest yourself. 175 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:02,200 I'll go to the door. 176 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,200 Your name Moony? 177 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:05,200 Yeah that's right. 178 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,200 Sidewalk photographer ain't you? 179 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:08,200 Yes indeed that's right. 180 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,200 Did you take a picture of a guy keeling over on Main Street about five o'clock this afternoon? 181 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:13,200 That's right. 182 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:14,200 I was just telling my wife. 183 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,200 You got your camera here with the picture? 184 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,200 Why no I left it downtown. 185 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,200 You better come along with us then. 186 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:21,200 Hey say what is this? 187 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:22,200 Who are you? 188 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,200 Police headquarters. 189 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:24,200 Police? 190 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:25,200 Police. 191 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,200 Say what is this all about? 192 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,200 Oh you saw the guy bumped off didn't you? 193 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,200 Bumped off yeah I... 194 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:31,200 Maude! 195 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,200 The guy is dead. 196 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:34,200 He was murdered. 197 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:45,200 Of course I can see now how that picture might be pretty important evidence so naturally I'm 198 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,200 glad to go along with these coppers and help them out all I can. 199 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:52,200 When we get out on the sidewalk there's a car there and two other guys sitting in all plain 200 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:57,200 clothes cops evidently the homicide squad I suppose and we go over to the side of the 201 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:58,200 car. 202 00:06:58,200 --> 00:06:59,200 That's the guy? 203 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,200 Yeah but he don't have it with him. 204 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:02,200 Where is it? 205 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,200 Downtown I forgot and left it there a place on Main Street. 206 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,200 Oh that's bad we got that other call to make and Main Street's out of the way. 207 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,200 Well gee I'm sorry it just happened tonight I forgot. 208 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,200 You talk when you're told to the rest of the time you keep quiet see. 209 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,200 Well sure officer just as you say. 210 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,200 Well we go by this joint on Main Street and then we make the other call. 211 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,200 No we can't we got to be on time for that one right on time. 212 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,200 Going by Main Street we'd never make it. 213 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,200 Then we got to take this mug along. 214 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,200 Well say that'll make it awful crowded after we leave the... 215 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,200 Well after we leave the other place. 216 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:31,200 Hey Mooney you got a car? 217 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,200 Yeah why certainly officer there one right ahead. 218 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,200 Hey that's an idea we take his car and put the... 219 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:40,200 Alright alright you and Harry take him in his car Harry drives you follow us you got it? 220 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:41,200 Okay Frankie. 221 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:42,200 Let's go. 222 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,200 We get in my car and start downtown after the others. 223 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,200 The cop they call Harry is driving and I'm sitting in the back seat with the other one. 224 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,200 At first I don't say nothing especially after the crack that other cop had made. 225 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,200 Anyway I see these two are sort of tense and nervous. 226 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,200 I can see these cops are taking this crime pretty serious. 227 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:10,200 But after a while they loosen up between themselves and I look for a chance to get myself into the conversation. 228 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,200 Frankie's taking it easier than I thought. 229 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,200 Yeah but I wouldn't want to be those guys that mess it up. 230 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,200 Say I sure hope I can be of some help to you fellas. 231 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,200 I wouldn't worry none about that. 232 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,200 That's about the least of your worries. 233 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,200 Well it's nice of you to put it that way. 234 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,200 Say you got any clues I mean like who killed this guy or anything? 235 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,200 Yeah some guys that didn't like him. 236 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,200 Gee it's funny though I never would have thought it. 237 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,200 I mean I didn't notice anything like a shot or anything. 238 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,200 It was a silencer job. 239 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:41,200 You talk too much. 240 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,200 What's the difference you'll read it all in the papers won't you? 241 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:44,200 You still talk too much. 242 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,200 Where are we going now? 243 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,200 The morgue. 244 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,200 Oh yeah the morgue? 245 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,200 Yeah we want you to sort of identify the body. 246 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:03,200 We get to the morgue and drive up to the entrance and wait outside while these cops in the other car go in. 247 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,200 To fix it up for me to do my stuff I figure. 248 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:11,200 But in about five minutes they come running out and two of them are carrying something wrapped up in a sheet. 249 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,200 And I don't need no x-ray eyes to see it is a stiff. 250 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:19,200 And then they throw it into our car on the floor the back seat like it was a bundle of wood. 251 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:25,200 And then we take out of there like somebody was after us following the other car heading for the west side of town. 252 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:32,200 I don't know it all happened so fast and I'm hanging on so tight when we go around the corners on two wheels. 253 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:37,200 And trying to keep my feet out of this stiff space and beginning to feel not so good about the whole thing. 254 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,200 Well at first I don't dare open my mouth for fear my heart will jump right out to me left. 255 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,200 But after a while I can't help it. 256 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,200 I just got to find out what it's all about. 257 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,200 Hey I guess that's the body huh? 258 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,200 This boy's bright Harry he must have went to college. 259 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,200 Yes well what do you want me to identify it? 260 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,200 Oh you'll have plenty of time for that Junior. 261 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,200 Guess you're not going by the joint in Main Street for my camera huh? 262 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,200 One thing at a time bud one thing at a time. 263 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,200 You ask too many questions that ain't healthy. 264 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,200 Healthy? 265 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:13,200 Cops. 266 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:14,200 Cops? 267 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,200 Look Frankie's signaling. 268 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,200 Yeah he means we should separate. 269 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,200 Take your next turn to the left and head for the hills. 270 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,200 Cops? What are cops chasing us for? If you guys are... 271 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,200 Oh my god. 272 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,200 The best thing we can do is ditch this heap. I ain't taking no rap for Frankie in a job like this. 273 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,200 You ain't cops. You guys ain't cops at all. 274 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:32,200 Well what do we do with him? 275 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:33,200 What do you think? 276 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:34,200 Hey now wait what are you guys gonna do? 277 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:35,200 What are you thinking? 278 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:43,200 No no wait a minute. 279 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,200 That is the last thing I remember. 280 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,200 A world full of stars. 281 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:57,200 A veritable blackout. 282 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:02,200 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Michael O'Shea in Photo Finish. 283 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,200 A radio play by Roy Grandy and Robert Richards. 284 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:20,200 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 285 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,200 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley reminding you that as the temperature goes up, 286 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:34,200 so does the popularity of tall frosty thirst quenching drinks and topping them all for cooling delicious refreshment 287 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:39,200 is Roma Wine and Soda Iced, America's smartest, coolest summer drink. 288 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:47,200 Roma Wine and Soda, so cool for a hot tired husband to come home to, so delightfully pleasing to guests. 289 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,200 And serving Roma Wine and Soda is simplicity itself. 290 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:58,200 You just half fill tall glasses with Roma California Burgundy or Sauternes or any other Roma Wine type you prefer. 291 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:02,200 Then add ice and sparkling water and sweeten to taste. 292 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:11,200 Good, you'll agree Roma Wine and Soda Iced is the coolest, most refreshing tall drink you ever tasted. 293 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:17,200 And remember, because Roma Wines are selected for your pleasure from the world's greatest reserves of wines, 294 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,200 your Roma Wine and Soda is better tasting every time. 295 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:31,200 Yes, Roma, drawn from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines, brings you unvaryingly fine wine always at reasonable cost. 296 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,200 So insist on Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 297 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:42,200 Discover for yourself why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 298 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:50,200 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Michael O'Shea as fearless photographer Joe Mooney in photo finish. 299 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:55,200 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 300 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,200 There's something that sounds like heavy machinery at work where my brains ought to be. 301 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:13,200 And every time this machine turns over it feels like it's going to blow the top off my head and I'm all sprawled out someplace. 302 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,200 And then it turns out to be the back seat of a car. 303 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:24,200 I manage to stumble over something that's down on the floor and then I'm out of this car and standing in a little dirt road and it's sometime at night. 304 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,200 I don't know what it's all about. I don't know what I'm doing here at all. 305 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:33,200 And then I see that this is my car and that makes some sense and then I remember my camera. 306 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,200 I gotta get my camera, that's it, on account of Mord says I shouldn't have left it. 307 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:44,200 Jake's place, that's where I left it and so I crawl back into the car and I get it turned around and headed down this dirt road. 308 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,200 Pretty soon I'm on a bigger road and then I'm on the main highway back to town. 309 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,200 All the time I'm thinking this is a funny thing for me to be doing. 310 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,200 But the main thing is I gotta get the camera. 311 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,200 And then I'm pulling up in front of Jake's place and I'm going in. 312 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,200 Hey Joe, where you been? 313 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:03,200 Your wife was looking for you. 314 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,200 Mord? Was she in here? 315 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,200 Yeah, she come down to pick up your camera. 316 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,200 Oh well that's okay then, that's what I came by for. 317 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,200 Hey, you alright? 318 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:12,200 Yeah, I guess so. 319 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,200 Well you don't look it, where's your hat? 320 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,200 Hat? What hat? I don't know, maybe it's out in the car. 321 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:17,200 Hey come here. 322 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,200 What happened to your head? 323 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:20,200 Ouch, don't touch it. 324 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,200 You better go home and get some sleep Joe and have somebody look at that head. 325 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,200 Put some tincture of Mercure Chrome on it. 326 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,200 Oh, this ain't like you at all. 327 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,200 No, yeah I better be going, huh? 328 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,200 Oh wait, your wife left her purse. 329 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,200 She was kind of upset anyway, worried about you I guess. 330 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:36,200 Oh thanks. 331 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:37,200 Boy you're a lucky guy Joe. 332 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,200 I didn't know the missus was anything like that. 333 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,200 What a knockout. 334 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:43,200 Huh? 335 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,200 Yeah, she's gorgeous Joe. 336 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:46,200 That don't sound like Mord. 337 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,200 It don't, well it was. 338 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,200 Hey, what did this dame look like that picked up my camera? 339 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:55,200 Listen, you ain't so far gone you can't remember what your own wife looks like are ya? 340 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,200 No, only this ain't my wife's purse. 341 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:58,200 It ain't? 342 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,200 No, what did the dame look like? 343 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:04,200 Oh, medium size, young, blonde, terrific figure, gorgeous face. 344 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,200 Uh uh, that ain't Mord. 345 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:07,200 No? 346 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:12,200 No, Mord is kind of, well, but she's nothing like that. 347 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,200 Well, what do you know? 348 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:19,200 Listen Jake, I've been having some awful peculiar experiences tonight. 349 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,200 Yeah, you must have been. 350 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,200 Yeah, I better call Mord, she can always figure these things out. 351 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,200 Now wait a minute Joe, maybe you had an order just now. 352 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,200 I wish you'd let me fix you up with a little something to straighten you out. 353 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,200 I got the greatest thing in the world for you. 354 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:33,200 It'll make you feel a lot better. 355 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,200 I saw it come in the other night, you just lost it. 356 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,200 Hey, I can fix them up, not at all. 357 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,200 Yeah, sure. 358 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:42,200 Hello? 359 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,200 Hello, oh hello, Mord? 360 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:48,200 Well, it's about time you turned up, I've been worried to death. 361 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,200 Listen Mord, I came by to get the camera. 362 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:54,200 Only some girls, some blonde had already picked it up, but I'm going to find it now and get the camera. 363 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:55,200 So don't you worry. 364 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,200 Now just listen to me, don't you go getting mixed up with any blondes, you're mixed up enough already. 365 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,200 But it's alright Mord, I'll just pick up the camera and come right home. 366 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:06,200 It's funny though, when she came by here to get it, she said she was you. 367 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,200 Yeah, yeah, that's not all that's funny. 368 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,200 You're in pretty deep Joe Mooney, in the first place those men you went out with weren't the police at all. 369 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:13,200 Those men, the cops? 370 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,200 I'm trying to tell you they weren't cops. 371 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,200 I called the police headquarters myself and they said they'd never... 372 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,200 Oh wait, wait, Mord, now I remember. 373 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,200 We were going to go to get my camera, only we didn't get it. 374 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,200 We got in my car and we went to the morgue and then... 375 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:27,200 Mord! 376 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:28,200 Joe! 377 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:29,200 My car! 378 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,200 I got a dead man in my car! 379 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,200 Joe, what's the matter? 380 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,200 You look like you've seen a ghost. 381 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:36,200 Don't say that Jake. 382 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,200 Now come on, you've got to help me, come on. 383 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:39,200 Okay Joe, but... 384 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:40,200 Come on, out in my car. 385 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,200 I'll show it to you Jake. 386 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:43,200 What will I do? What am I going to do? 387 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:44,200 Show me what? 388 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:45,200 The stiff, the dead man. 389 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:46,200 What? 390 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:47,200 Yeah, in my car. 391 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:48,200 Now listen Joe, come on back inside. 392 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:49,200 Let me fix you up a little something. 393 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,200 No, no, it's there, I'm telling you. 394 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:52,200 We've got to do something. 395 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,200 Okay Joe, but let's just leave it there for a while. 396 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:55,200 Maybe it'll go away. 397 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:56,200 Go. 398 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:57,200 Hey Freddy! 399 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,200 Alright, alright, alright. 400 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,200 You think I'm crazy, huh? 401 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:00,200 But here, look. 402 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:01,200 Yeah? 403 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,200 Oh no, it's gone. 404 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,200 Well there, now isn't that nice? 405 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,200 Jake, no look, on the level Jake. 406 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:08,200 I remember the whole thing now. 407 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,200 I was hijacked by gangsters and they stole the stiff out of the morgue. 408 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,200 The guy that was killed that I took the picture of, remember? 409 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,200 And then the cops chased us and they hit me on the head. 410 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,200 And when I talked to Mord, the whole thing came back to me. 411 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,200 Sure, sure it did Joe. 412 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,200 Now you come on back inside, let me fix you. 413 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,200 I couldn't have dreamed it all Jake. 414 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:26,200 I couldn't have dreamed it. 415 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,200 Could I? 416 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,200 Now you just sit down right here and I'll fix you up. 417 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,200 Now wait, listen, Mord will tell you Jake. 418 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,200 She called the cops when I didn't show up. 419 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:36,200 And what's that blonde doing after my camera? 420 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:37,200 What about her? 421 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:38,200 Well now that's a different story. 422 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:39,200 That wasn't all ghost. 423 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,200 Jake, I've got to get that camera. 424 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,200 Now listen, in the first place, you don't know how to find a dame. 425 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,200 Well, maybe there's an address in her purse. 426 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,200 And in the second place, if there was all these guzzles and stiffs and all, 427 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,200 maybe she's mixed up with them. 428 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,200 And in the third place, hey that reminds me, 429 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,200 there was a funny thing about that camera. 430 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,200 Here's the address, here, right here. 431 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,200 When your wife called, the first time I mean, on the phone, 432 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,200 I guess it was your wife, well anyway she said for me to... 433 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:03,200 Oh, pardon me. 434 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,200 Wait a minute. 435 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:06,200 Jake's Friendly Pharmacy. 436 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:07,200 Jake's Friendly Pharmacy. 437 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:11,200 Oh? Oh, yeah, yeah. 438 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,200 Yeah, well now just a minute. 439 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,200 Joe, it's the blonde on the phone now. 440 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:17,200 The blonde? 441 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,200 Yeah, she's still saying she's your wife, wants to know if she left her purse here. 442 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,200 Oh, well, I want to talk to her. 443 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,200 Yeah, well, okay, take it in the boot, huh, Joe? 444 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:25,200 You know, the customer. 445 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,200 Yeah, yeah, customer. 446 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,200 Hello? 447 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,200 Oh, I'm awfully sorry to trouble you. Did you find it? 448 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,200 Listen, madam, this is Joe Mooney. 449 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,200 What's the idea of saying you're my wife and swiping my camera? 450 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:37,200 Oh, Mr. Mooney. 451 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,200 Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm listening. 452 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,200 Oh, Mr. Mooney, I don't know how to tell you. 453 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,200 Well, you'd better find out, because my wife mortis plenty sore, 454 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,200 and I want my camera. 455 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,200 Oh, I know it was a terrible thing to do, 456 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,200 but that picture you took of the man who was killed. 457 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:53,200 Yeah? 458 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,200 He was my brother. 459 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:57,200 Your brother? Oh, gee. 460 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,200 Oh, I don't know why those terrible men killed him. 461 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:05,200 He was wayward, but he wasn't a bad boy, and he was all I had. 462 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,200 Gee, I didn't know about that. 463 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,200 I never had a picture of him. 464 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:14,200 I wanted sort of last memento, but I didn't know if you... 465 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,200 Oh, I'm so ashamed. 466 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,200 Why, sure, I'd give it to you. Sure I would. 467 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:19,200 Would you? 468 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,200 Sure, you can have it. 469 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,200 Oh, Mr. Mooney. 470 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:23,200 What about my camera? 471 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:24,200 Oh, I have the camera. 472 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,200 You can come up and get it now if you want to. 473 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,200 Well, that'd be fine if it ain't too late. 474 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,200 Oh, no. No, I... 475 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,200 I sort of need company now. 476 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:34,200 Why, sure, you poor kid. 477 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,200 Well, I'll be right up. I got your address right here. 478 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,200 Oh, Mr. Mooney, I don't know how to thank you. 479 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,200 Why, don't even try to mention it. 480 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,200 And would you mind bringing my purse when you come? 481 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:44,200 Why, St. Nene? 482 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:45,200 I'll be waiting. 483 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,200 Okay, babe. Miss, I'll be right up. 484 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:59,200 Well, on the way up, I get to thinking this is an awful funny picture to want as a souvenir of a guy. 485 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,200 A shot of him getting bumped off in the street. 486 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,200 But, of course, there's no account for dames. 487 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,200 And then I figure she probably don't even know the kind of a shot it is, the poor kid. 488 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:12,200 And I figure I'd better break it to her as gentle as I can, which is only what anyone else would do. 489 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,200 Especially if she's the knockout that Jake says. 490 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,200 And she is. 491 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:18,200 Mr. Mooney? 492 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:19,200 Yeah, yeah. 493 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:20,200 Won't you come in? 494 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,200 Well, thank you, Miss... 495 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:22,200 O'Day. 496 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:23,200 O'Day. 497 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,200 Oh, Mr. Mooney, you must think I'm a terrible person. 498 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,200 Why, no, not at all, Miss O'Day. 499 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,200 Why, I knew the minute I talked to you on the phone that you wasn't like some girls. 500 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,200 I mean that you was... 501 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:35,200 Well, you was the real thing. 502 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,200 Oh, Mr. Mooney. 503 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:38,200 Here's your purse. 504 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,200 Oh, thank you. 505 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,200 You got my camera? 506 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,200 Oh, yes, I've got the camera. 507 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,200 But you were going to give me the picture, weren't you? 508 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,200 Oh, sure, after you give me the camera. 509 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:50,200 After I give you the camera? 510 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:54,200 Yeah, you see, the picture, the film, that is, is still in the camera. 511 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,200 Oh, but it isn't, Mr. Mooney. 512 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:57,200 I looked. 513 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,200 It isn't, but it's gotta be. 514 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,200 Are you trying to tell me you don't have the film, Mr. Mooney? 515 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,200 Well, how could I? 516 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,200 I ain't had my hands in that camera since I left it at Jake's this afternoon. 517 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,200 Look, Mr. Mooney, let's not be difficult. 518 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:08,200 Just give me the film. 519 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,200 But I ain't got it, I'm telling you, I ain't got it. 520 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:12,200 All right, boys. 521 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,200 What boys? 522 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,200 Hey, what is this? 523 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,200 Hello, Junior. 524 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,200 Hey, where did they come from? 525 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:19,200 They're friends of mine. 526 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,200 Yeah, but they put a dead body in my car. 527 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:22,200 Oh, that stiff? 528 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:23,200 Well, now, wait a minute. 529 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:24,200 Don't you worry about that none. 530 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,200 He's in a nice, safe place. 531 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,200 All right, all right, we ain't got all night. 532 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:29,200 Where's that film? 533 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:30,200 Film? I don't know. 534 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:31,200 Frisk him. 535 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,200 Okay, hold still now, Junior. 536 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,200 Hold still. 537 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,200 But Miss O'Day, these guys, that body, that was your brother. 538 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,200 It's getting so you just can't believe nothing the dame tells you. 539 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,200 Ain't it true, Junior, huh? 540 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,200 I don't have it on him, Frankie. 541 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,200 Now, look, fellas, I don't want to have no trouble. 542 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,200 All I want is my camera. 543 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:48,200 We don't want no trouble. 544 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,200 Now, listen, Mooney, we want that film and we don't care how we get it. 545 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,200 So talk and talk fast. 546 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:54,200 Yeah, but how could I have it? 547 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,200 I ain't had the camera. 548 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,200 Nobody could have got that film except her, unless Jake. 549 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,200 Jake, the mug at the drugstore. 550 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,200 Yeah, yeah, do you think that guy's got it? 551 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:04,200 Get it, Gene. 552 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,200 Okay. 553 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:06,200 Yeah? 554 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,200 Yeah? 555 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,200 All right, okay. 556 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,200 Thanks, Harry. 557 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,200 It's a tip-off. 558 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:11,200 They're on their way up here. 559 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:12,200 Oh, come on, we got a scram. 560 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:13,200 What about him? 561 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:14,200 What do you think? 562 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,200 Oh, no, now, wait a minute. 563 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:16,200 Oh! 564 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,200 I can see it coming, but I can't move. 565 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:30,200 And there's that world full of stars again and that veritable blackouts. 566 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:37,200 It was all like something that had happened before, that big machine banging away in my 567 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,200 head and the thoughts beginning to flow up around it little by little. 568 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:42,200 Only this time I'm in a room. 569 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,200 The lights are on, but there's nobody there. 570 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,200 And then I saw my camera and I remembered. 571 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,200 I remembered there was a phone someplace, too, and I found it and crawled over to it 572 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,200 and started dialing my number. 573 00:22:53,200 --> 00:23:00,200 Hello? 574 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,200 Maude. 575 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:02,200 Joe. 576 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,200 I got the camera, Maude. 577 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,200 The camera? 578 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:05,200 Never mind the camera, you nitwit. 579 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:06,200 Where are you? 580 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,200 Well, I came up to that blonde's place. 581 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,200 You see... 582 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,200 Blonde, my Aunt Fanny, don't you know by this time you're mixed up with a bunch of gangsters? 583 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,200 Yeah, I know. 584 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,200 They wanted that film. 585 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:12,200 Never mind about the film either. 586 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:13,200 You just come home. 587 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:14,200 Yeah, but the film wasn't in the camera. 588 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:15,200 Now, you listen to me, Joe Mooney. 589 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:16,200 I know all about that film. 590 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:17,200 I don't trust anybody, not even the police, and I realize that film might be a good thing. 591 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:18,200 I don't trust anybody, not even the police, and I realize that film might be a good thing. 592 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:25,200 I don't trust anybody, not even the police, and I realize that film might be a good thing. 593 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,200 So after you left, I phoned Jake and told him to take the film out of the camera before 594 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:29,200 he gave it to anybody. 595 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:30,200 And then Jake came back to the phone and told me... 596 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:31,200 Maude, Maude, wait, there's somebody coming. 597 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:32,200 Joe! 598 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:33,200 Maude, Maude, I gotta go, I gotta go! 599 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,200 Hello? 600 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,200 I grabbed my camera and find a service entrance in the kitchen and even though my head feels 601 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:36,200 like it's bouncing on every step, I'm down those back stairs and I'm trying to figure out 602 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,200 what's going on. 603 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,200 I'm trying to figure out what's going on. 604 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:39,200 Hey, hey, hey, hey! 605 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,200 Hello. 606 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:41,200 Hello. 607 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:42,200 Hello. 608 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:43,200 Hello. 609 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:44,200 Hello. 610 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,200 Hello. 611 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,200 Hello. 612 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:47,200 Hello. 613 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:48,200 It's Maude, Maude. 614 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,200 I'm down those back stairs on winks. 615 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,820 Then I'm into my car and ten blocks away before I bet them guys up there have even had time 616 00:23:53,820 --> 00:23:57,580 to crack the lock on the door, and I keep on going until I'm back where there's plenty 617 00:23:57,580 --> 00:23:58,580 of lights. 618 00:23:58,580 --> 00:24:03,300 And then I feel really safe, and believe me, I的ave some sigh of relief. 619 00:24:03,300 --> 00:24:04,300 Oh, boy. 620 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:05,580 Well, I'd be glad to see Maude in the old shack. 621 00:24:05,580 --> 00:24:09,360 Well, it's about that time I noticed this other car pulling up along side. 622 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:10,360 Hey, you! 623 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,360 Pull over! 624 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:12,360 Huh? 625 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:15,500 Pull over to the side, we're from headquarters. 626 00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:16,500 Ah ha ha ha! 627 00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:19,500 Not twice you don't, not teres cookie. 628 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:26,580 I got the jump on him and I got that thing down to the floor because I figure my luck 629 00:24:26,580 --> 00:24:31,180 is about to run out and if I'm dumb enough to let these guys grab me again, I don't deserve 630 00:24:31,180 --> 00:24:34,900 the answer for the consequences. 631 00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:38,700 I make a right and head for the lower part of town that's just cut out for duck and wide 632 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:41,340 chumps like them and then I look around to see where they are. 633 00:24:41,340 --> 00:24:43,100 Out of a good half a mile behind. 634 00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:47,500 I figure to make it easy only when I look back at the road, there ain't no road. 635 00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:49,140 There's a lamp post. 636 00:24:49,140 --> 00:24:53,220 Moony, you're going to know them stars better than the head of the planetarium is what I'm 637 00:24:53,220 --> 00:25:02,300 thinking when it happens. 638 00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:07,620 This time I am walking and a guy all dressed in white has me by the arm so naturally I 639 00:25:07,620 --> 00:25:09,700 think I'm coming up to the pearly gates. 640 00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:15,220 And sure enough there's a big iron gate only it looks too much like the door of the bullpen 641 00:25:15,220 --> 00:25:17,580 and headquarters to suit me. 642 00:25:17,580 --> 00:25:21,980 And a guy that looks like a guard is opening it and then I'm in a room with a lot of people, 643 00:25:21,980 --> 00:25:25,180 cops and all them gangsters and the blonde and Maude. 644 00:25:25,180 --> 00:25:27,740 He's still a little dazed but he'll be alright. 645 00:25:27,740 --> 00:25:28,740 Maude. 646 00:25:28,740 --> 00:25:31,700 Joe, for heaven's sake what happened to your head? 647 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:32,700 Plenty. 648 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:35,220 I'm sorry about the accident Mrs. Moony but he tried to run away from us. 649 00:25:35,220 --> 00:25:37,300 I expect he brought it on himself alright. 650 00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:38,300 He usually does. 651 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:41,580 I just want to ask him one question Mrs. Moony if he feels like answering it. 652 00:25:41,580 --> 00:25:43,620 Of course he can answer it. 653 00:25:43,620 --> 00:25:47,340 Mr. Moony can you identify these people as the one who stole the dead body out of the 654 00:25:47,340 --> 00:25:48,340 morgue? 655 00:25:48,340 --> 00:25:49,580 I sure can and how? 656 00:25:49,580 --> 00:25:50,580 That's all then Mrs. Moony. 657 00:25:50,580 --> 00:25:52,780 We'll call you when we need you again. 658 00:25:52,780 --> 00:25:54,540 He does get the reward though doesn't he? 659 00:25:54,540 --> 00:25:56,380 Oh yes he'll get the reward alright. 660 00:25:56,380 --> 00:25:57,380 The reward? 661 00:25:57,380 --> 00:25:58,900 You better get him home now Mrs. Moony. 662 00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:01,020 Yeah yeah come on come on Joe. 663 00:26:01,020 --> 00:26:03,580 But Maude wait what is this with this reward here? 664 00:26:03,580 --> 00:26:04,580 Ten thousand dollars. 665 00:26:04,580 --> 00:26:05,580 Ten thousand. 666 00:26:05,580 --> 00:26:06,580 Steady Joe. 667 00:26:06,580 --> 00:26:07,580 Steady. 668 00:26:07,580 --> 00:26:08,580 Ten thousand dollars. 669 00:26:08,580 --> 00:26:11,300 Oh goodness Joe don't you know yet what's been going on? 670 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:12,300 Well why... 671 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:14,700 Listen Joe those people were wanted all over the country. 672 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:15,700 Sure they were. 673 00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:17,740 They were a gang of bank robbers or something. 674 00:26:17,740 --> 00:26:20,540 That man they killed had double crossed him somehow see. 675 00:26:20,540 --> 00:26:24,220 And then they went to the morgue and they held up the attendant and they stole the body 676 00:26:24,220 --> 00:26:26,140 and disposed of it you see. 677 00:26:26,140 --> 00:26:29,340 Because they figured with the body and that film of yours out of the way there wouldn't 678 00:26:29,340 --> 00:26:31,180 be any evidence against them. 679 00:26:31,180 --> 00:26:32,180 Yeah that's right. 680 00:26:32,180 --> 00:26:33,180 The film. 681 00:26:33,180 --> 00:26:34,180 Oh no. 682 00:26:34,180 --> 00:26:35,180 Oh. 683 00:26:35,180 --> 00:26:37,820 I guess that film was pretty important evidence huh? 684 00:26:37,820 --> 00:26:38,820 Ten thousand dollars worth. 685 00:26:38,820 --> 00:26:40,980 Oh Joe Moony you are a nitwit. 686 00:26:40,980 --> 00:26:43,540 You're the only one who could identify him. 687 00:26:43,540 --> 00:26:44,540 That's all. 688 00:26:44,540 --> 00:26:45,540 Maybe I'm a nitwit. 689 00:26:45,540 --> 00:26:46,540 Maybe I'm a nitwit. 690 00:26:46,540 --> 00:26:49,260 But I wasn't too dumb to get that ten thousand dollar picture was I huh? 691 00:26:49,260 --> 00:26:50,260 Well was I? 692 00:26:50,260 --> 00:26:51,780 Oh you took the picture alright. 693 00:26:51,780 --> 00:26:52,780 Alright. 694 00:26:52,780 --> 00:26:54,780 But there wasn't any film. 695 00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:57,900 No film? 696 00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:01,340 Because you forgot to put film in your camera. 697 00:27:01,340 --> 00:27:02,340 Mine. 698 00:27:02,340 --> 00:27:13,140 Suspense. 699 00:27:13,140 --> 00:27:14,860 Presented by Roma Wines. 700 00:27:14,860 --> 00:27:19,980 R-O-M-A. 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