WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.280 And now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:06.280 --> 00:09.600 Roma Wines presents Suspense. 00:11.600 --> 00:17.000 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. John Lund, as star of A Plain Case of Murder, 00:17.000 --> 00:21.800 a suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:21.800 --> 00:31.800 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:31.800 --> 00:35.800 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:35.800 --> 00:39.800 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:39.800 --> 00:44.800 to your happiness in entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:44.800 --> 00:47.800 Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant, 00:47.800 --> 00:52.800 as Roma Wines bring you the young actor who has just made such an auspicious screen debut 00:52.800 --> 00:55.800 in the Paramount picture to each his own. 00:55.800 --> 01:02.800 John Lund appears as Randy, with Kathy Lewis as Marion, in tonight's tale of Suspense. 01:05.800 --> 01:07.800 How you feeling now, Judson? 01:07.800 --> 01:10.800 Lousy. You the doctor? 01:10.800 --> 01:13.800 That's right. Who are those other two guys? 01:13.800 --> 01:15.800 They're from the district attorney's office. 01:15.800 --> 01:18.800 Huh. I suppose I might have known. 01:18.800 --> 01:22.800 First thing I open my eyes, I'd see those vultures hovering around. 01:22.800 --> 01:25.800 You're supposed right, all right. You gonna tell us about it? 01:25.800 --> 01:26.800 Why should I? 01:26.800 --> 01:30.800 Just to keep the records straight and save us a lot of trouble. 01:30.800 --> 01:32.800 And you've got nothing to lose. 01:32.800 --> 01:33.800 How do you figure that? 01:33.800 --> 01:37.800 Because they're gonna carry you out of here with a sheet over your face before morning. 01:37.800 --> 01:38.800 Is that right, Doc? 01:38.800 --> 01:41.800 I'm afraid that's right. 01:41.800 --> 01:42.800 Okay. 01:42.800 --> 01:43.800 Take this down, Sonny. 01:43.800 --> 01:45.800 Gotcha. 01:45.800 --> 01:49.800 You can call it a plain case of murder. 01:49.800 --> 01:52.800 Spelled P-L-A-N-E. 01:54.800 --> 01:56.800 I make jokes, get it? 01:56.800 --> 01:58.800 Yeah. Very, very funny. 01:58.800 --> 02:02.800 I've been home three weeks when I finally broke down and called her. 02:02.800 --> 02:06.800 And she said to come on out. Her husband wouldn't be home. 02:06.800 --> 02:12.800 It's funny. I'd already met Dorothy, but I called Marion anyway. 02:12.800 --> 02:15.800 Maybe I was crazy with hate even then. 02:15.800 --> 02:18.800 Maybe it was what I did to her. 02:18.800 --> 02:19.800 I don't know. 02:19.800 --> 02:20.800 I don't know. 02:20.800 --> 02:21.800 I don't know. 02:21.800 --> 02:22.800 I don't know. 02:22.800 --> 02:23.800 I don't know. 02:23.800 --> 02:24.800 I don't know. 02:24.800 --> 02:25.800 I don't know. 02:25.800 --> 02:26.800 I don't know. 02:26.800 --> 02:32.800 Maybe it was what I'd been through, stuck in one of those civilian concentration camps 02:32.800 --> 02:35.800 out in the Philippines for three long years. 02:35.800 --> 02:38.800 And all the time dreaming about Marion. 02:38.800 --> 02:45.800 Making up endless little scenes about how happy I was going to be when it was all over with Marion. 02:45.800 --> 02:48.800 Until it seemed that all I was living and fighting for was Marion. 02:48.800 --> 02:52.800 The whole war was just for Marion. 02:52.800 --> 02:56.800 And then to come back and find she's married to this other guy. 02:56.800 --> 03:00.800 Something like that will do things to you, no matter how good you are. 03:00.800 --> 03:04.800 And so, once she told me to come out, I went. 03:04.800 --> 03:06.800 Why? 03:06.800 --> 03:11.800 A sort of horrible fascination, I suppose, to see it with my own eyes. 03:11.800 --> 03:16.800 Because I already knew from everything I'd heard that she'd married the guy for his money. 03:16.800 --> 03:24.800 And that the Marion I'd been dreaming about all those years was just another cheap little gold digger. 03:24.800 --> 03:27.800 I went up to the big front door and rang the bell. 03:27.800 --> 03:30.800 She must have seen me coming up the drive. 03:30.800 --> 03:33.800 Because there she was right away to let me in herself. 03:33.800 --> 03:36.800 My dream girl, Marion. 03:36.800 --> 03:37.800 Randy. 03:37.800 --> 03:38.800 Hello, Marion. 03:38.800 --> 03:40.800 Hello, Randy. 03:40.800 --> 03:42.800 You mind if I come in? 03:42.800 --> 03:44.800 Of course not. 03:44.800 --> 03:47.800 Come on in here. It's a little more private. 03:47.800 --> 03:50.800 What do we need to be private about? 03:50.800 --> 03:52.800 Oh, I thought we'd like to have a little talk. 03:52.800 --> 03:56.800 Sure. Let's have a little talk. 03:56.800 --> 04:00.800 Oh, Randy, please don't be bitter. Don't you see I couldn't help it? 04:00.800 --> 04:03.800 Ed's such a wonderful person. I know you'll like him. 04:03.800 --> 04:04.800 I can see why you like him. 04:04.800 --> 04:06.800 No, no, Randy. It's nothing like that. 04:06.800 --> 04:10.800 I thought you were dead. And then Ed came along and... 04:10.800 --> 04:14.800 Well, we fell in love, that's all. A person can't help falling in love, can they? 04:14.800 --> 04:17.800 You never tried to find out how dead I was, though, did you? 04:17.800 --> 04:19.800 Oh, Randy, I did. I tried every way there was. 04:19.800 --> 04:22.800 I checked on that. There's no record that you ever tried. 04:22.800 --> 04:24.800 But I did. I swear I did. 04:24.800 --> 04:28.800 Okay, skip it. It's really a lovely place you've got here. 04:28.800 --> 04:32.800 Yes, isn't it? You can see the property better from over here. 04:32.800 --> 04:36.800 Ed owns all this part of the valley. Clear over to those trees. 04:36.800 --> 04:38.800 You can see them up against the mountain. You see? You see them? 04:38.800 --> 04:41.800 Uh-huh. What's he do with it all? 04:41.800 --> 04:43.800 Oh, nothing much. You see, Ed's real business is cattle. 04:43.800 --> 04:45.800 Of course, this isn't cattle country. 04:45.800 --> 04:47.800 He's visiting one of his cattle ranches now. 04:47.800 --> 04:51.800 Oh. He away quite a lot? 04:51.800 --> 04:55.800 Yes. Randy, tell me about you. 04:55.800 --> 04:57.800 I saw in the papers a big welcome they gave you. 04:57.800 --> 05:00.800 And all you've done out there, it must have been awful. 05:00.800 --> 05:01.800 Wasn't fun. 05:01.800 --> 05:04.800 Well, what are you doing now? 05:04.800 --> 05:08.800 Well, in a way, you know, a thing like that almost pays off. 05:08.800 --> 05:09.800 Pays off? 05:09.800 --> 05:12.800 Uh-huh. All that hero business. 05:12.800 --> 05:15.800 You know, I was out there for a commercial aircraft company. 05:15.800 --> 05:19.800 Selling private planes to sugar growers and gold miners and so on. 05:19.800 --> 05:20.800 Yes. 05:20.800 --> 05:25.800 Well, the first thing that happens is that the company makes me vice president in charge of sales. 05:25.800 --> 05:27.800 Seventy-five thousand a year. 05:27.800 --> 05:29.800 Seventy-five thousand? 05:29.800 --> 05:32.800 Uh-huh. And then the movies want to do my life story. 05:32.800 --> 05:37.800 And they discover that I've got such great executive ability, they make me a part-time producer. 05:37.800 --> 05:38.800 Another fifty thousand. 05:38.800 --> 05:45.800 Then, of course, a percentage of the picture and the story price itself will come to, oh, about another two hundred and fifty thousand. 05:45.800 --> 05:46.800 Well, Randy. 05:46.800 --> 05:51.800 And then, through contacts in the aircraft business, I run into some guys in the oil game. 05:51.800 --> 05:54.800 And that pays off. 05:54.800 --> 05:59.800 I don't know. I figure I'll be able to retire in three or four years with a cool million. 05:59.800 --> 06:03.800 I'd like more, of course, if I wanted to stick to it. But why be a hog? 06:03.800 --> 06:07.800 Why, Randy, that's wonderful. I never dreamed. 06:07.800 --> 06:10.800 Right then and there, I knew I had her. 06:10.800 --> 06:13.800 I don't know what had made me tell her all those lies to begin with. 06:13.800 --> 06:18.800 Just for the satisfaction of watching her show her hand and jump at it, I guess. 06:18.800 --> 06:20.800 But now I knew I had her. 06:20.800 --> 06:28.800 And as she talked, as I saw that greedy gleam coming into her eyes, I began to know what I was going to do about it. 06:28.800 --> 06:32.800 Well, well, Randy Judson, a big, rich, famous man. 06:32.800 --> 06:34.800 I'm so happy for you, Randy. 06:34.800 --> 06:37.800 Not even talking about running me for governor. 06:37.800 --> 06:40.800 Yeah, funny things fate does. 06:40.800 --> 06:42.800 Well, Marion, I've got to run along. 06:42.800 --> 06:43.800 Oh, Randy, must you? 06:43.800 --> 06:48.800 Yeah, there's a new field we think is coming in today. Not a million a year if it does. 06:48.800 --> 06:50.800 Well, all right, I'll walk you to the door. 06:50.800 --> 06:53.800 All right, thanks. 06:53.800 --> 06:55.800 Well, goodbye, Marion. 06:55.800 --> 06:56.800 Randy. 06:56.800 --> 06:57.800 What? 06:57.800 --> 07:00.800 Don't you want to kiss me goodbye? 07:00.800 --> 07:04.800 You know I do, Marion. 07:04.800 --> 07:08.800 Oh, Randy. Randy's seeing you again. 07:08.800 --> 07:11.800 I'm afraid I made a terrible mistake. 07:11.800 --> 07:15.800 Yes, Marion. I'm afraid you have. 07:21.800 --> 07:25.800 I was pretty sure after that that all I had to do was wait. 07:25.800 --> 07:28.800 There was some truth in what I told her. 07:28.800 --> 07:30.800 About 2%. 07:30.800 --> 07:34.800 I had been a salesman for a commercial aircraft company and I still was. 07:34.800 --> 07:40.800 And I had a little money, enough to look the part of the big executive when I was around Marion anyway. 07:40.800 --> 07:42.800 And of course it had to be secret. 07:42.800 --> 07:49.800 Not only because of Dorothy and of Marion's husband, but because of what I had figured out for later. 07:49.800 --> 07:52.800 But as the weeks went by, I saw her all right. 07:52.800 --> 07:55.800 I saw a lot of her and waited. 07:55.800 --> 07:57.800 And I didn't have to wait too long. 07:57.800 --> 08:00.800 Oh, Randy. Randy, I love you so much. 08:00.800 --> 08:01.800 I know you do, baby. 08:01.800 --> 08:03.800 Randy, what are we going to do? 08:03.800 --> 08:04.800 I don't know, Marion. 08:04.800 --> 08:06.800 There must be something we can do. 08:06.800 --> 08:07.800 Divorce? 08:07.800 --> 08:09.800 Oh, he'd never give me a divorce. You know that. Never. 08:09.800 --> 08:13.800 Yeah. It's just one of those things, I guess. 08:13.800 --> 08:16.800 Oh, Randy, I can't go on like this. Something's got to happen. 08:16.800 --> 08:18.800 Nothing's going to happen, Marion. 08:18.800 --> 08:20.800 It could. 08:20.800 --> 08:21.800 What could? 08:21.800 --> 08:26.800 Something, anything. Just so I could be free and be with you. 08:26.800 --> 08:29.800 There's only one thing that would do us any good. 08:29.800 --> 08:35.800 Things like that do happen. Somebody makes them happen. 08:35.800 --> 08:37.800 You want to kill him? 08:37.800 --> 08:42.800 Randy, I know it's terrible. I just know it's wicked to even think of such a thing. 08:42.800 --> 08:43.800 But you do. 08:43.800 --> 08:44.800 Yes. 08:44.800 --> 08:46.800 What's stopping you? 08:46.800 --> 08:49.800 Oh, I'm afraid. Alone. 08:49.800 --> 08:55.800 You mean you want to kill him, but you want me to help you to kill him? 08:55.800 --> 08:58.800 Yes. Yes. Yes. 09:05.800 --> 09:08.800 Marion, my dream girl. 09:08.800 --> 09:10.800 Oh, I agreed to help her, all right. 09:10.800 --> 09:14.800 Sure I did. I planned it for her. 09:14.800 --> 09:19.800 First there was the plane. That was going to do several things for us. 09:19.800 --> 09:23.800 And of course, my being an aircraft salesman made it easy. 09:23.800 --> 09:26.800 Marion suddenly became interested in aviation. 09:26.800 --> 09:30.800 She began reading about it, hanging around the airports. 09:30.800 --> 09:32.800 Then she started taking lessons. 09:32.800 --> 09:35.800 She learned fast, too, I'll say that for her. 09:35.800 --> 09:38.800 Soloed in six hours and had her license in ten. 09:38.800 --> 09:42.800 All this time I stayed out of the picture and just waited. 09:42.800 --> 09:45.800 Went out with Dorothy once in a while. 09:45.800 --> 09:47.800 This was the build-up. 09:47.800 --> 09:52.800 It lasted about six weeks until I got her call and went out there. 09:54.800 --> 09:56.800 My name is Judson, Mr. Dunham. 09:56.800 --> 09:58.800 Oh, how do you do? 09:58.800 --> 10:01.800 I've certainly been hearing a lot about your product lately. 10:01.800 --> 10:02.800 Oh, by the way, this is my wife. 10:02.800 --> 10:03.800 Mrs. Dunham. 10:03.800 --> 10:07.800 How do you do, Mr. Judson? Oh, my, she really is a beauty. 10:07.800 --> 10:09.800 It's a two-place job, you see. 10:09.800 --> 10:11.800 Funny room in the fuselage for baggage. 10:11.800 --> 10:12.800 Uh-huh. 10:12.800 --> 10:15.800 150 horsepower engine, variable prop. 10:15.800 --> 10:20.800 She'll cruise at nearly 150, and yet her landing speed isn't much more than 45. 10:20.800 --> 10:23.800 And of course she has flaps for low-speed landing. 10:23.800 --> 10:24.800 Uh-huh. 10:24.800 --> 10:27.800 I'm really sincere when I say that you can't match her. 10:27.800 --> 10:29.800 Anywhere near in the price field. 10:29.800 --> 10:33.800 Well, I don't know much about it, but if that's what Marion wants... 10:33.800 --> 10:35.800 Oh, Ed, you're a darling. 10:35.800 --> 10:37.800 Well, that's the way we like to make a sale. 10:37.800 --> 10:39.800 How about a little spin? 10:39.800 --> 10:41.800 Oh, I don't know. 10:41.800 --> 10:43.800 Oh, go on, Ed, you've got to begin sometime. 10:43.800 --> 10:45.800 Just around the field. 10:45.800 --> 10:49.800 Oh, by the way, you've got practically a perfect natural landing field here. 10:49.800 --> 10:51.800 Yeah, have to pull up a hanger, I suppose. 10:51.800 --> 10:53.800 Ah, that won't run you much. 10:53.800 --> 10:54.800 Climb in. 10:54.800 --> 10:56.800 I'll wait right here for you, dear. 10:56.800 --> 10:57.800 There you are. 10:57.800 --> 10:59.800 You keep on the way, no, Marion. 10:59.800 --> 11:00.800 I will. 11:00.800 --> 11:04.800 Oh, by the way, before I take you up, here's a release you have to sign. 11:04.800 --> 11:06.800 Just a formality. 11:06.800 --> 11:07.800 Oh. 11:07.800 --> 11:10.800 There's three copies, one for me as the pilot, one for the company, 11:10.800 --> 11:13.800 and one for the Bureau of Civilian Aeronautics. 11:13.800 --> 11:14.800 Uh-huh. 11:14.800 --> 11:16.800 Where do I sign? 11:16.800 --> 11:18.800 Oh, anywhere at the bottom there. 11:18.800 --> 11:20.800 Uh-huh. 11:20.800 --> 11:21.800 Okay. 11:21.800 --> 11:22.800 That's fine. 11:22.800 --> 11:24.800 Thank you, Mr. Dunham. 11:31.800 --> 11:33.800 It's funny. 11:33.800 --> 11:36.800 In spite of everything they tell you about reading anything you sign, 11:36.800 --> 11:41.800 the average man will glance through the first copy and sign the others without looking, 11:41.800 --> 11:44.800 particularly if he's nervous or in a hurry. 11:44.800 --> 11:46.800 That's what he did. 11:46.800 --> 11:49.800 The first two copies were just something I'd dreamed up, 11:49.800 --> 11:52.800 because there's no such release anyway. 11:52.800 --> 11:56.800 But the last was a blank piece of paper. 11:56.800 --> 12:08.800 And when he signed that, he signed his own death warrant. 12:08.800 --> 12:14.800 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you John Lund with Kathy Lewis in A Plain Case of Murder, 12:14.800 --> 12:17.800 a radio play by Robert L. 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He's had it for years. 14:46.800 --> 14:49.800 Well, you want me to keep this, or will you? 14:49.800 --> 14:50.800 I'll keep it. 14:50.800 --> 14:52.800 All right, doesn't matter. 14:52.800 --> 14:54.800 You're positive the gun is registered in his name? 14:54.800 --> 14:55.800 Yes. 14:55.800 --> 14:56.800 And he'll be alone tonight? 14:56.800 --> 14:57.800 Yes, we've been through all this. 14:57.800 --> 14:58.800 I know. 14:58.800 --> 15:01.800 I don't want any mistakes. This is no penny ante. 15:01.800 --> 15:03.800 Now, you got your reservation? 15:03.800 --> 15:05.800 Yeah, yeah, I checked again this morning. 15:05.800 --> 15:08.800 Okay. Now, you better leave in plenty of time. 15:08.800 --> 15:11.800 You want to be sure and make Phoenix before that little airport closes down. 15:11.800 --> 15:12.800 I know. 15:12.800 --> 15:17.800 I'll come down back at the house tonight a little beforehand, say, 12.45. 15:17.800 --> 15:20.800 Be sure you don't use any throttle coming in, a long glide. 15:20.800 --> 15:22.800 Cut your motor as far out as you can. 15:22.800 --> 15:23.800 Yeah, yeah, I will. 15:23.800 --> 15:25.800 I'll be on time. 15:25.800 --> 15:27.800 You've got to get back to Phoenix before daylight. 15:27.800 --> 15:30.800 And when you put through that call to me, lay it on thick. 15:30.800 --> 15:31.800 I will. 15:31.800 --> 15:32.800 And don't worry. 15:32.800 --> 15:34.800 I'm not worried. 15:34.800 --> 15:37.800 No, I don't think you are. 15:42.800 --> 15:46.800 The wheels were moving. Complicated, but good. 15:46.800 --> 15:50.800 We'd been over it enough, rehearsed it line by line, 15:50.800 --> 15:55.800 so I knew exactly what she'd be doing and saying almost every minute. 15:55.800 --> 16:01.800 First, she'd be circling that little airport about a mile from the hotel 16:01.800 --> 16:03.800 and sounding as though she was in trouble, 16:03.800 --> 16:07.800 a little trick of thinning out the mixture that I'd showed her. 16:07.800 --> 16:12.800 And then she'd be coming in for a landing, taxiing over to the hangar. 16:12.800 --> 16:16.800 That would be a little before five. 16:16.800 --> 16:19.800 There, sounds like she's acting up on you, huh? 16:19.800 --> 16:21.800 Yeah, she is. I didn't think I was going to make it. 16:21.800 --> 16:23.800 Oh, carburation maybe. 16:23.800 --> 16:25.800 Exhaust valve sticking, I think. 16:25.800 --> 16:27.800 Yeah, yeah, that could be it all right. 16:27.800 --> 16:28.800 Thanks. 16:28.800 --> 16:29.800 Hey, you staying in Phoenix? 16:29.800 --> 16:30.800 Yeah, for a few days. Can I leave it here? 16:30.800 --> 16:33.800 Oh, sure. Tomorrow, first thing, I'll get a man. 16:33.800 --> 16:35.800 No, no, I'm going to get the man down here who sold it to me. 16:35.800 --> 16:37.800 I've only flown it about eight hours. 16:37.800 --> 16:38.800 Oh, gee, it shouldn't be doing that. 16:38.800 --> 16:40.800 I'll say it shouldn't. Is there anybody here at night? 16:40.800 --> 16:43.800 No, I'm sorry, ma'am. I come on again at eight in the morning. 16:43.800 --> 16:45.800 Well, he may be down here. 16:45.800 --> 16:47.800 Because I'm going to get him out of bed if it's the last thing I do. 16:47.800 --> 16:49.800 It's a brand new $6,500 airplane. 16:49.800 --> 16:51.800 Oh, I don't blame you. 16:51.800 --> 16:53.800 Well, in case you're out here before I am, 16:53.800 --> 16:55.800 I'll give you the key to the shop, so if there's anything you need... 16:55.800 --> 16:57.800 Thanks, but don't bother now. Just send it around the hotel. 16:57.800 --> 16:59.800 Okay. Where are you staying? 16:59.800 --> 17:15.800 Desert Inn, Mrs. Marion Dunham. 17:15.800 --> 17:16.800 Hello. 17:16.800 --> 17:19.800 This is the hotel operator, Mrs. Dunham. I have your call to Los Angeles now. 17:19.800 --> 17:20.800 Oh, yes, thank you. 17:20.800 --> 17:22.800 Go ahead, Los Angeles. 17:22.800 --> 17:23.800 Hello. 17:23.800 --> 17:25.800 Mr. Judson, this is Marion Dunham. 17:25.800 --> 17:28.800 Who? Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Dunham? 17:28.800 --> 17:32.800 I don't do so well, Mr. Judson. In fact, if you ask me, I'm lucky to be alive. 17:32.800 --> 17:33.800 What? 17:33.800 --> 17:35.800 I'm mad, Mr. Judson. I think I've got a right to be. 17:35.800 --> 17:39.800 I started out for Phoenix today, and that airplane you sold me, I just barely made it. 17:39.800 --> 17:43.800 I don't see why a brand new $6,500 airplane could possibly... 17:43.800 --> 17:47.800 I can't understand it, Mrs. Dunham. What seemed to be the trouble? 17:47.800 --> 17:50.800 Well, an exhaust valve or two just burned up, apparently. 17:50.800 --> 17:52.800 The plane's absolutely useless to me in the condition it's in now. 17:52.800 --> 17:54.800 I doubt if it'd even get off the ground. 17:54.800 --> 17:57.800 Oh, I quite understand, Mrs. Dunham. I'll send a man to the first thing. 17:57.800 --> 18:01.800 I don't want just a man. I think you ought to come down here and look at it yourself, Mr. Judson. 18:01.800 --> 18:04.800 I should come. Why, there's nothing in particular that I could... 18:04.800 --> 18:08.800 Well, are you responsible for these planes you sell to people, Mr. Judson, or aren't you? 18:08.800 --> 18:13.800 Well, I... Oh, all right, Mrs. Dunham. I'll be down first thing in the morning. 18:13.800 --> 18:14.800 Where are you staying? 18:14.800 --> 18:15.800 The Desert Inn. 18:15.800 --> 18:18.800 The Desert Inn. All right, Mrs. Dunham. Tomorrow morning, then. 18:18.800 --> 18:20.800 Well, thank you, Mr. Judson. Good night. 18:20.800 --> 18:22.800 Good night, Mrs. Dunham. 18:22.800 --> 18:25.800 Did you get your call to Los Angeles, Mrs. Dunham? 18:25.800 --> 18:28.800 Yes, thank you. But is the doctor on his way up here? 18:28.800 --> 18:30.800 Oh, never mind. Never mind. That must be him. Thank you. 18:30.800 --> 18:32.800 Come in. 18:32.800 --> 18:33.800 Mrs. Dunham? 18:33.800 --> 18:35.800 Yes. Come in, doctor. 18:35.800 --> 18:39.800 I'm awfully sorry to bother you, doctor, but I've got a frightful headache. 18:39.800 --> 18:43.800 I flew in from Los Angeles today and something went wrong with my plane. 18:43.800 --> 18:47.800 I suppose it's just nerves, but I was wondering if you could give me something to help me sleep. 18:47.800 --> 18:52.800 Why, certainly, Mrs. Dunham. Thank you. 18:52.800 --> 18:54.800 I've got just the thing for you right here. 18:54.800 --> 18:57.800 Here, take one of these or two if you think you need them. 18:57.800 --> 18:58.800 Well, I'd better take two. 18:58.800 --> 19:00.800 Well, they're pretty strong. 19:00.800 --> 19:02.800 How long will they make me sleep? 19:02.800 --> 19:06.800 You'll be dead to the world for a good eight or nine hours. Particularly if you take two. 19:06.800 --> 19:09.800 Well, thank you, doctor. I'll go in and take them right now. 19:09.800 --> 19:13.800 Would you mind hanging that do not disturb sign on the door when you go out? 19:13.800 --> 19:15.800 Not at all, Mrs. Dunham. 19:15.800 --> 19:18.800 Good night. Good night, doctor. 19:26.800 --> 19:30.800 I was at the field back of her house a little ahead of time. 19:30.800 --> 19:34.800 And I had a little bottle of chloroform in my pocket. 19:34.800 --> 19:37.800 Oh, the plan was all right. 19:37.800 --> 19:40.800 Like I say, it was perfect. 19:40.800 --> 19:44.800 But it was just a little bit too perfect for Marion. 19:44.800 --> 19:48.800 Because when they found her lying there beside the corpse, 19:48.800 --> 19:54.800 every one of those little steps she'd taken to give herself an alibi would prove that she'd planned it. 19:54.800 --> 19:57.800 Premeditated. Murder in the first degree. 19:57.800 --> 20:02.800 They'd say it went wrong only because her husband managed to knock her cold before he died. 20:02.800 --> 20:05.800 The suicide note? There wouldn't be any. 20:05.800 --> 20:07.800 I'd see to that. 20:07.800 --> 20:09.800 And I'd even be a witness against her. 20:09.800 --> 20:15.800 Because instead of flying down to Phoenix with a couple of burned valves in my pocket to support her alibi, 20:15.800 --> 20:20.800 I'd fly down there and find there wasn't any plane or any Marion. 20:20.800 --> 20:24.800 And when she started that last walk to the gas chamber, 20:24.800 --> 20:27.800 maybe she'd begin to realize what I'd been through. 20:27.800 --> 20:30.800 My dream girl. 20:30.800 --> 20:35.800 I knew she'd sneaked out of the hotel a good two hours ago. 20:35.800 --> 20:40.800 And sure enough, I heard the motor. 20:40.800 --> 20:43.800 Then I heard her cut it, then she was gliding in, 20:43.800 --> 20:46.800 and then we were walking together over towards the darkened house. 20:46.800 --> 20:48.800 Yes, yes, everything went all right. 20:48.800 --> 20:50.800 What's the matter with you? You haven't spoken a civil word to me yet. 20:50.800 --> 20:52.800 I'm just nervous, I guess. 20:52.800 --> 20:54.800 You got your keys? Yes, I got it. Be quiet now. 20:56.800 --> 21:00.800 This way. It's dark. I got a flesh. No! 21:02.800 --> 21:04.800 I knocked something over. Shhh! 21:04.800 --> 21:06.800 What's there? It's Joachim. 21:06.800 --> 21:09.800 Who is it? I'll have to go to him and stall him somehow. 21:09.800 --> 21:12.800 All right. Get in there. Get into the plot, quick. 21:12.800 --> 21:14.800 Okay. 21:14.800 --> 21:17.800 It's me, Ed. Oh, what in the world are you doing, Bob? 21:17.800 --> 21:19.800 Oh, I thought I'd come in a little later. 21:19.800 --> 21:24.800 It seemed like an hour that I was in there, straining to hear and not being able to. 21:24.800 --> 21:26.800 Ah! 21:26.800 --> 21:30.800 She'd done it. I heard her running down the hall. She'd done it. 21:30.800 --> 21:33.800 I had my hand on the door knob and was just about to step out. 21:33.800 --> 21:37.800 When there was a click and the knob wouldn't turn. 21:37.800 --> 21:41.800 Marion! Marion! Marion! 21:44.800 --> 21:49.800 That was the front door. I was locked in and she was gone. 21:58.800 --> 22:01.800 For a moment I almost fainted. 22:01.800 --> 22:04.800 Because I could see just how she'd planned it. 22:04.800 --> 22:06.800 Just what I'd planned to do to her. 22:06.800 --> 22:10.800 She'd fly back to Phoenix and then put in a call to her husband on some pretext. 22:10.800 --> 22:13.800 And she wouldn't get any answer and pretend to be worried and call the cops. 22:13.800 --> 22:15.800 And they'd find me. 22:15.800 --> 22:19.800 They'd say I killed them and then got in a panic and locked myself in the closet by mistake. 22:19.800 --> 22:22.800 It was a spring lock and it could happen. 22:23.800 --> 22:27.800 The door was solid. Oak. At least two inches thick. 22:27.800 --> 22:30.800 I went frantically through my pockets for something to work in the lock with. 22:30.800 --> 22:34.800 It was no good. But I did find my pocket knife. 22:34.800 --> 22:36.800 There was just one chance. 22:36.800 --> 22:40.800 I had about three hours to whittle a hole through that door big enough for me to get my hand through. 22:40.800 --> 22:42.800 I went to work. 22:45.800 --> 22:48.800 In ten minutes my clothes were wringing wet. 22:48.800 --> 22:51.800 In twenty minutes I thought I was going to die of exhaustion. 22:51.800 --> 22:55.800 And I'd hardly begun. Somehow I kept going. 22:55.800 --> 22:59.800 Then the knife blade broke. I was almost crying. 22:59.800 --> 23:01.800 I opened the small blade and kept on. 23:01.800 --> 23:04.800 My hand was raw with broken blisters. 23:04.800 --> 23:06.800 The second blade broke. 23:06.800 --> 23:08.800 I kept on with the stump of the big one. 23:08.800 --> 23:10.800 Hours passed it seems. 23:10.800 --> 23:13.800 And then at last I was through. 23:13.800 --> 23:15.800 But the hole wasn't big enough yet. 23:15.800 --> 23:17.800 More hours. 23:17.800 --> 23:20.800 And then I tore half the skin off my hand and got it through. 23:20.800 --> 23:22.800 I opened the door. 23:22.800 --> 23:24.800 I was free. 23:24.800 --> 23:28.800 As I started out the front door, the phone rang in the hall. 23:28.800 --> 23:30.800 I picked it up and listened. 23:30.800 --> 23:32.800 Phoenix Arizona calling Mr. Edward Dunham. 23:32.800 --> 23:35.800 Hello? Hello? Operator? 23:36.800 --> 23:39.800 I put the phone quietly back. 23:39.800 --> 23:41.800 That would be Marion. 23:41.800 --> 23:43.800 That meant that she'd call the cops next. 23:43.800 --> 23:45.800 And they'd be out to investigate. 23:45.800 --> 23:47.800 I only had a few minutes left. 23:47.800 --> 23:49.800 But there was still my plane. 23:49.800 --> 23:51.800 I started running across the field to where it stood. 23:51.800 --> 23:53.800 If I could get it, I'd be able to get it. 23:53.800 --> 23:55.800 If I could get off in that plane, I had a chance. 23:55.800 --> 23:57.800 A good... 23:57.800 --> 23:59.800 And then I stopped. 23:59.800 --> 24:01.800 Marion. 24:01.800 --> 24:03.800 She'd fly back. 24:03.800 --> 24:05.800 She'd land right on this very field. 24:11.800 --> 24:14.800 Sure enough, in about 20 minutes the cops came. 24:14.800 --> 24:16.800 Then more cops. 24:16.800 --> 24:18.800 From homicide, I suppose. 24:18.800 --> 24:20.800 They prowled all over the place. 24:20.800 --> 24:22.800 But they didn't find me. 24:22.800 --> 24:24.800 I was hidden in that little clump of trees. 24:24.800 --> 24:27.800 And pretty soon, they went away. 24:27.800 --> 24:29.800 And I waited. 24:29.800 --> 24:31.800 Three hours more. 24:33.800 --> 24:35.800 Then I heard it. 24:35.800 --> 24:37.800 Marion's plane. 24:37.800 --> 24:39.800 And then I saw her coming into land. 24:39.800 --> 24:41.800 I was out there and up on the wing 24:41.800 --> 24:43.800 before she even rolled to a stop. 24:44.800 --> 24:46.800 Randy! 24:46.800 --> 24:47.800 The double cross, huh? 24:47.800 --> 24:49.800 You're a fine one to talk. 24:49.800 --> 24:51.800 You and your Dorothy. I suppose you thought I didn't know about her. 24:51.800 --> 24:53.800 That you got engaged to her the very day that... 24:53.800 --> 24:55.800 You were gonna frame me, weren't you? 24:55.800 --> 24:57.800 Well, I beat you to it and you'll die! 24:57.800 --> 24:59.800 Do you hear me? You'll die! 25:05.800 --> 25:07.800 She was dead when I let go of her. 25:08.800 --> 25:10.800 My dream girl. 25:13.800 --> 25:15.800 I had to get out of there! 25:15.800 --> 25:17.800 The cops had seen her land and they must have seen me too. 25:17.800 --> 25:19.800 Because they were running out on the field 25:19.800 --> 25:21.800 and began shooting as I took off. 25:24.800 --> 25:26.800 But something was wrong! 25:26.800 --> 25:29.800 Maybe Marion had even figured on this. I don't know. 25:29.800 --> 25:31.800 I remember fighting to pull it up 25:31.800 --> 25:33.800 and then those trees coming at me. 25:33.800 --> 25:49.800 In the trash! In the fire! 25:49.800 --> 25:51.800 You got all that, Scotty? 25:51.800 --> 25:52.800 I got it. 25:52.800 --> 25:53.800 How is he, Doc? 25:53.800 --> 25:54.800 Not so good. 25:54.800 --> 25:56.800 Here, Justin. Sign here. 25:56.800 --> 25:59.800 Sure. I'll sign. 25:59.800 --> 26:01.800 Hurry up. Sign it. 26:01.800 --> 26:04.800 Hey, Doc. 26:04.800 --> 26:06.800 He's gone. 26:06.800 --> 26:07.800 Dead, huh? 26:07.800 --> 26:08.800 Dead. 26:08.800 --> 26:10.800 Fine thing. 26:10.800 --> 26:12.800 I got a confession and no one to sign it. 26:12.800 --> 26:14.800 What's the difference? You got witnesses. 26:14.800 --> 26:15.800 Yeah. 26:15.800 --> 26:17.800 Plain case of murder. 26:17.800 --> 26:20.800 Spelled P-L-A-N-E. 26:20.800 --> 26:36.800 Very, very funny. 26:36.800 --> 26:38.800 Suspense! 26:38.800 --> 26:41.800 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A. 26:41.800 --> 26:45.800 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 26:45.800 --> 26:49.800 And now this is Ken Niles bringing back to our suspense microphone 26:49.800 --> 26:51.800 our star of the evening, John Lund. 26:51.800 --> 26:55.800 John, may we all congratulate you on a swell job of acting. 26:55.800 --> 26:58.800 And may I too offer you the thanks of the Roma Wine Company 26:58.800 --> 27:00.800 with this gift basket of Roma wine. 27:00.800 --> 27:02.800 Oh, thanks a lot, Ken. 27:02.800 --> 27:05.800 And my thanks to Roma for the basket. 27:05.800 --> 27:09.800 You know, at this point I should be able to add a little bit of an immortal line about wine. 27:09.800 --> 27:14.800 But all I can think of is a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and now. 27:14.800 --> 27:18.800 And I don't recall whether Omar Khayyam specified Roma wine or not. 27:18.800 --> 27:23.800 Oh, John, if Omar were living today, I'm sure he would specify Roma. 27:23.800 --> 27:30.800 Because for both host and guest, there's real pleasure in the tempting nut-like taste of Roma California sherry. 27:30.800 --> 27:36.800 Golden Amber Roma sherry assures tasteful, gracious hospitality for the party giver, 27:36.800 --> 27:38.800 satisfying enjoyment for guests. 27:38.800 --> 27:45.800 No wonder famous hosts from Hollywood to Manhattan praise Roma sherry as the perfect first call for dinner. 27:45.800 --> 27:48.800 The all-occasion wine for entertaining anytime. 27:48.800 --> 27:51.800 Roma sherry before dinner. Sounds good to me. 27:51.800 --> 27:57.800 Well, John, Roma sherry is good because starting with choicest grapes from California's finest vineyards, 27:57.800 --> 28:05.800 Roma sherry is patiently, unhurriedly guided to tempting taste perfection by the unmatched skill of Roma vintners, 28:05.800 --> 28:08.800 by the unequaled resources of Roma's famed wineries. 28:08.800 --> 28:17.800 Then, along with Roma wines of years before, Roma sherry awaits selection from the world's greatest wine reserves for your pleasure. 28:17.800 --> 28:22.800 So for better taste, always insist on Roma wines. 28:22.800 --> 28:26.800 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 28:26.800 --> 28:31.800 Ken, speaking of things that most Americans enjoy, who's for suspense next Thursday? 28:31.800 --> 28:35.800 Well, it's going to be a particularly unusual and original show next Thursday. 28:35.800 --> 28:40.800 The play is called The Man Who Wanted to Be Edward G. Robinson, and our star, of course, will be... 28:40.800 --> 28:41.800 None other than Edward G. 28:41.800 --> 28:47.800 None other, indeed. He'll play two roles. He'll be sort of a switch family Robinson. 28:47.800 --> 28:53.800 Well, I'll be listening. Oh, by the way, I hope nobody was too surprised that Mark Stevens and I switched dates tonight. 28:53.800 --> 28:56.800 However, to each his own, to each his own. 28:56.800 --> 29:01.800 Well, good night, John. We'll be looking forward to seeing you in Paramount's Technicolor production, Perils of Pauline. 29:01.800 --> 29:09.800 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Edward G. 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