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Turn that vacuum cleaner off for a minute, will you? 30 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 And come over here, I want to show you something. 31 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Yes. 32 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Right here, out this window. 33 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Now look across the street, no, directly across, the opposite apartment. 34 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,000 See that window, about three windows in from the left with a kind of blue draperies? 35 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Uh-huh. 36 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,000 There's someone sitting there in a chair, he hasn't moved all night. 37 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 I think he must be dead. 38 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Dead? Lord have mercy, Mr. Ames. 39 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Take a good look at him and tell me what you think, Mary. 40 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Okay, but I don't favor looking at a corpse, Mr. Ames. It's unlucky. 41 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Now, which window did you say? Third one over. 42 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Oh, I wish I had me glasses with me. 43 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Oh, there, right there, where are my fingers pointing? 44 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 I'm afraid I don't see it yet, Mr. Ames. 45 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Oh, look, the window with the blue draperies, he's wearing a sort of a gray suit. 46 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 The arm, can't you see the arm hanging down over the side of the chair? 47 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 No, sir. But you've got good eyes, Mr. Ames. 48 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 If you see it, I'm not arguing with you. 49 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,000 What are you going to do about it? 50 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 I don't know, I just began to notice it last night, I guess. 51 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 I first have to be sure the man is really dead. 52 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,000 That's right, Mr. Ames. You don't want to get yourself into any trouble. 53 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Maybe he's only sleeping, or maybe he's incapacitated. 54 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Maybe the poor soul's just tricking the invalid, huh? 55 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Maybe. 56 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Yes? 57 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Hello, I'm Martin Ames. Are you the superintendent of this apartment house? 58 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 That's what it says on the door. 59 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I've come to inquire about one of your tenants. 60 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 What is it you want to know? 61 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 I live across the street, and, well, I'll be frank with you, sir. 62 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,000 I've been looking out of my window across to this building now for two and a half days, 63 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,000 and there seems to be someone dead in one of the windows. 64 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Eh? Which window? 65 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 It's the 10th floor. I've counted up from the street, and it's 10 stories up. 66 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 There's a window with blue draperies about three windows in from the left, 67 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000 facing toward me, that is, and there's a man sitting there, slumped down in a chair. 68 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Ah, just a minute. I'll get out my chart. 69 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000 10th floor up from the street, huh? Well, it's really the 9th floor. 70 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 The lobby counts one. 71 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 We've got two apartments along the front of the house. It's in the front, yeah? 72 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 That's right. 73 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Ah, now, three windows in from the left, that would be 9B, a four room. 74 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Ah, that couldn't be right. 9B is two ladies. You say this is a man? 75 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Yes, the face isn't clearly visible. The head slumped forward. 76 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,000 But he's wearing a gray suit, and he's sitting in a high winged back chair. 77 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Ah, I don't poison him. 78 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Maybe he doesn't belong in the house. Maybe he was visiting somebody. 79 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 As I say, this is all conjecture, of course. He may not be dead, 80 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 but I've watched him a good deal. I'm home a lot in the daytime. 81 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,000 My profession, the stage, doesn't take up too much of my time, 82 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 and it looks quite suspicious. 83 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Okay, I'll check on it. 84 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Mind if I stick around? 85 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Oh, no, no. Sit down. I'll give 9B a ring first on the house phone. 86 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Hello? Oh, Miss Landis? Yes, this is Miss Landis. Who is this? 87 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Oh, this is Mr. Anson, the super. Everything all right up there, Miss Landis? 88 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Everything all right? Why, yes. Yes, of course. 89 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Okay, Miss Landis. Thanks very much. Thank you. 90 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Well, that's that. No soap on 9B. 9A is in the country. 91 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Anyway, if I got the window straight, like you said, it ought to be 9B. 92 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 The two single ladies? 93 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Yeah, only it couldn't be them. They're real old maids. 94 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 They've been living in the house for years. Real old fashioned type, you know. 95 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Say, if they knew you thought there was a man in that apartment, 96 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 the two of them would just about jump out of their skins. 97 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Well, I don't know what to say. You're sure it must be that apartment? 98 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Oh, yeah, yeah. That's the place, all right, but you probably just made a little mistake. 99 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,000 You know how your eyes can play tricks on you. After all, it is a pretty wide street. 100 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 I don't think I made any mistake. 101 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Anson speaking. 102 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Oh, hello, Mr. Anson. This is Mr. Ames. 103 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Again? It's not there. 104 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,000 But Mr. Anson... 105 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 I checked up on the two apartments this morning. 9A is back from the country. 106 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Everybody's OK. And 9B is out walking a dog. 107 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 No dead bodies in the whole place. 108 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 But I can see it. It's still there. 109 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 OK, just where? Will you just tell me where? 110 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,000 In the same window. The one you said was 9B. Have you gone inside 9B? 111 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 No, no, but I asked them if anybody was sick or dead, and they said no. 112 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,000 You asked them? Well, why don't you search that apartment? 113 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 What do you mean, break in while they're out? 114 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 No, search it while they're there. Ring the bell, walk in and do it. 115 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Yeah, not without a search warrant from the police. 116 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,000 These apartments, you know, don't belong to me. I just take care of the building for the company. 117 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Then let's call the police. 118 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Oh, not me, mister. I didn't see no dead body up there. 119 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 But I will. After all, somebody's got to do something. 120 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 I still maintain, officer, these two sisters are as refined ladies as you could find anywhere. 121 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,000 High class, nice, church-going ladies. They used to teach school up here at P.S. 33. 122 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Yeah, that don't mean a thing. 123 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,000 As it happens, there's a play on Broadway right now in which two nice old ladies commit murder after murder. 124 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,000 They got a dog in there. Now, will you tell me one dog that would stay for almost a week in a flat with a dead person? 125 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,000 I'm not telling you anything. All I know, this gentleman, Mr. Ames, here reported a stiff over here. 126 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,000 And if he says there is one, there is. Until it's proved different. Right, Mr. Ames? 127 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Well, I keep seeing the thing day in and day out. I'm not working at the moment and being home so much. 128 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 None of the other neighbors have complained. Dead bodies ain't exactly... 129 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Oh, it's right this way, please. I hope they're home. 130 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,000 They ain't home. You got a passkey, haven't you? 131 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Well, yeah, we're not supposed to use it, though, unless for an emergency. 132 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 This is an emergency. 133 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 The dog bite? 134 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Sometimes. 135 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Yes? Who is it? 136 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 I'm awfully sorry, Miss Landis, but there's been some kind of mix-up. 137 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,000 These two gentlemen want to look over your apartment. 138 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,000 But why? It's not for rent. 139 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,000 I know. It's just, well, they want to search around and check up on... 140 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Come on, come on. Cut out the plover. 141 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Hey, look, lady. A dead body's been reported sitting in one of your windows. 142 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 What? 143 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Yeah, yeah. This guy lives across the street and he's been seeing it over here for a week. 144 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Oh, come on. Now open up. 145 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 A dead body? Well, that's impossible. My sister and I live here all alone. 146 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know all about it. 147 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Excuse me a minute. I'll call my sister. 148 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Vivian! Vivian! 149 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Oh, come on! 150 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Vivian! 151 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Hey, look, lady. I'm not standing out here all day. 152 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Come on, give me the pasquey, Anson. 153 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 It won't do no good. They got a chain on the door from the inside. 154 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Open up, in the name of the law! 155 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,000 How do you do? 156 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 I am Vivian Landis. May I ask what this is all about, please? 157 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Certainly, lady. I got a search warrant here made out by this gentleman to search your place. 158 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,000 He says you got a dead body in there. 159 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 A dead body? Why, that's perfectly ridiculous. 160 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Yeah, isn't it? But it's been reported. 161 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 And kindly take that door off the chain and let us through. 162 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Of course. First, may I ask how did this peeping Tom see into our apartment? 163 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,000 I thought, Mr. Anson, that we were quite private. 164 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Well, you see... 165 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Look, he lives across the street on the same level. 166 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,000 I just happened to be... 167 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Oh! Well, then we shall have to keep our shades down in the future. 168 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Although one would think a grown man would have something better to do. 169 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,000 But you do come right in, gentlemen. Make yourselves right at home. 170 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Thanks. 171 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Is he coming in here, too, Mr. Busybody? 172 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 No, he doesn't have to, if you don't want him. 173 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Well, I most definitely don't. 174 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Okay, Mr. Ames, you better stay outside. 175 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Officer, I will... 176 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Oh, he does want to poke around in our private rooms, is that it? 177 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Maybe he had some ulterior motive in worming his way in. 178 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Maybe he's come to get the lay of the land so he can break in some day to rob us. 179 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Okay, okay. He's not coming in. 180 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Now, let's take a look at your window, Daddy. 181 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm sorry. Okay. 182 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Hey, hey! 183 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Yes, officer? 184 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Now, what's the big idea? 185 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 You didn't find it? 186 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,000 No. 187 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,000 That's very strange. 188 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Yeah? The only thing strange about it's your eyesight. 189 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 You want to get your glasses changed. 190 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Wasn't anything in 9B? 191 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 No. 192 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000 I don't understand it. How could I have seen it so distinctly and it's not there? 193 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Perhaps it isn't in the window now. Perhaps they hid it while we were waiting outside the door. 194 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Hid it? Now, where do you hide a dead body in a four-room flat? 195 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,000 I looked in all the clothes closets, under the sofas, in the chairs. 196 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Perhaps they got it out at the back into the service elevator. 197 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Single-handed? With all the garbage cans and laundry going up and down? 198 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Perhaps they had a compass. 199 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Oh, you probably think, oh, it's so terrible to keep seeing it and seeing it and feeling it, 200 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,000 slowly decaying there in secret. 201 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Why, the thing could be there for weeks. It's so high above the streets. 202 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Perhaps it'll never be found. Perhaps it's already being destroyed. 203 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Well, then, if it's gone, what have you got to worry about? 204 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 You don't have to sit and look at it no more. 205 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,000 No, I hope it is. I tell you, it's really getting me down. 206 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,000 I haven't slept for nights keeping vigil. I'm in a nervous state. 207 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 I haven't been this nervous in years. 208 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Yeah, I can see that. Well, look, why don't you try forgetting it for a while? 209 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Try not to look over into that window. Or go away for a change. 210 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,000 You've done what you could, Mr. Ames. 211 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 If there is a stiff over there, well, that's my business, ain't it? 212 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000 And if there isn't... 213 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,000 You mean, you think I'm... I may be... 214 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 I'm not saying nothing, Mr. Ames. 215 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 But if I was you, I'd try catching up on my night's sleep. 216 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Hello? 217 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Miss Landis, I... I'm sorry to disturb you at this time of night, but I really... 218 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,000 I'm desperate. I... I haven't anywhere else to turn. 219 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 What? Who is this? 220 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,000 This is Mr. Ames, Martin Ames, your neighbor, the one across the street. 221 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I was in your apartment yesterday morning with the police, or... 222 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Rather, I was almost in your apartment. Your sister wouldn't let me in. 223 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Oh. 224 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Now, please don't take me apest, Miss Landis. I... I don't mean to annoy you. 225 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,000 It was only because I was... I was so desperate that... that I initiated that search. 226 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 It's quite all right. Goodbye. 227 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,000 No, no, no, please don't hang up, because... it's worse now... than it ever was. 228 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Miss Landis, I... I've been sitting here opposite your apartment, 229 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 staring into your windows, and I... 230 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,000 I... I'm only asking you to help me, Miss Landis. Help me just a little. 231 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Help you? 232 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 It's still there, Miss Landis. 233 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000 What is still there? 234 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 The dead body in your window. 235 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Oh, but... there isn't... How dare you? When the police... 236 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,000 I know, I know. I know now it hasn't anything to do with you. 237 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 But would you do me just one favor, Miss Landis? 238 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Would you go into your living room and just check once more? 239 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Oh, I won't. I'll do nothing of the kind. 240 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 You're out of your mind. No... 241 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Perhaps I am, Miss Landis. That's what I'm trying to find out. 242 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Then perhaps your sister Vivian would help me. 243 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 She's not at home. 244 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Oh, Lord. 245 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,000 And anyway, I don't see how you can see in. 246 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,000 I pulled the shades down in there yesterday morning. 247 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 I know. They're all down still. 248 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Then how can you see? 249 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Oh, Lord. At least not the actual body. It's just a silhouette. 250 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 I'm not belining you or your sister, Miss Landis. 251 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 If there's someone dead in there, it's not you who are doing it. 252 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 But think of me. 253 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,000 If you could just be here and look over there and... 254 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:42,000 see the shadow of those quiet fingers, that shoulder, that head. 255 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Oh, please! Stop it! Stop it! It's not here! It is... 256 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Tell me just one thing, Miss Landis. 257 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 There is a chair by that window, though, isn't there? 258 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Yes. There's a chair. 259 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 A high-backed winged chair. 260 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 And have you anything on it? 261 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Anything piled up? I mean, like curtains or cushions or dressmakers' dummy? 262 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Of course not! 263 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Or do you have a plant in the window in front of it? Some kind of a odd table? 264 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Anything? Anything that would cast a shadow like a man's head slumped forward 265 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 or an arm hanging limp? 266 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,000 No. There is nothing. Nothing but the chair. 267 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Then would you do me just one more favor, Miss Landis? Please, please. 268 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,000 As an experiment, would you just go into the living room 269 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,000 and move that chair from the window, please? 270 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:31,000 I... If I do it, will you stop pestering us? 271 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Yes. 272 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Will you let us alone forever? 273 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Yes, yes, if it works. 274 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,000 If it works, what do you mean? 275 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 I can't tell Miss Landis until you move the chair! 276 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Oh, all right! 277 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Hello! 278 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Yes. 279 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 I moved it away from the window. 280 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,000 It's at the other end of the room, and there's nothing in it. 281 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 It's empty. 282 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Oh, I see. 283 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Well, thanks very much, Miss Landis. 284 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,000 I know what I have to do now. 285 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,000 You mean... 286 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Yes, Miss Landis. It's still there. 287 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Miss Landis! 288 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Where is it? I want to see it at once. 289 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 Oh, yes, Miss Landis, come in. 290 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 I hope you'll excuse my appearance. 291 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 I've just passed another sleepless night. 292 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,000 So has my sister, and so have I. 293 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 What do you mean by all this business, Miss Reims? 294 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 You have frightened my poor sister nearly to death. 295 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,000 I... 296 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Seeing things that aren't fair when you know that they're not. 297 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 I know they're not? Oh! 298 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Oh, I wish they were. 299 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,000 I wish to heaven I'd never looked out that window. 300 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,000 I wish those walls were solid stone, and your walls... Oh! 301 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 You are a sick man, Mr. Innes. 302 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 Oh, am I? 303 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 I wish I were, but I'm perfectly sane and well. 304 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 I went to a psychiatrist yesterday, and guess what he told me? 305 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,000 That there's nothing wrong with me, nothing. 306 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,000 I can't believe that. 307 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 But to you, I suppose it's a form of madness 308 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,000 to persist and persist in seeing this hideous image. 309 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,000 But not me, Miss Landis. 310 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 No. 311 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 I've finally come to an entirely different conclusion. 312 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 And what is that? 313 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 The supernatural. 314 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 That's supernatural? 315 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 A ghost? What nonsense, Mr. Innes. 316 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Yes, I suppose it is nonsense to you. 317 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,000 You've been a schoolteacher. You believe in logic and common sense. 318 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 The things that give a pretense of solidity, 319 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 but it's for a little life of ours. 320 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,000 But I'm an artist. 321 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,000 I've always had a feeling for the thing beyond, 322 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 the intangible, the shadowy. 323 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 We're children, Miss Landis, 324 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 children playing along the edge of the ocean. 325 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000 We laugh and toy with the waves and mock fright. 326 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:13,000 But sometime, sometime one of us slips down into the darkness. 327 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Sometimes the depths rise and we glimpse the yawning fangs of the eternal. 328 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 You put things rather oddly, Mr. Innes. 329 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Just exactly what do you mean? 330 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Simply this. 331 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,000 I checked on that building with the real estate agents yesterday afternoon 332 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 after I left my psychiatrist. 333 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 And there was a murder. 334 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 In our apartment? 335 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Well, the report didn't say. 336 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 You know how they try to hush those things up. 337 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 But it was a man, a young man, 338 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 the lover of one of the tenants, a Miss Sweetser. 339 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Sweetser? 340 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,000 That's the name of the people who lived there before us. 341 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 They were an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Sweetser. 342 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,000 I never saw any Miss Sweetser. 343 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,000 She died. She was a daughter. 344 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,000 She killed herself afterwards by jumping out one of the windows. 345 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Oh, hi. 346 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Perfectly awful. 347 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Rather a ghastly coincidence, isn't it? 348 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Was it out our window? 349 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Who knows? 350 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,000 She must have been a very neurotic person, though, this Miss Sweetser. 351 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Half crazed, almost with love or jealousy. 352 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,000 I checked on the details in an old newspaper. 353 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 She cut his throat, 354 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000 nearly decapitated. 355 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,000 And it said that when they lifted his body out of the chair later, 356 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,000 his head almost rolled. 357 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Excuse me. 358 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Mr. Ames, I'd rather not hear. 359 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 I still can't believe it. 360 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,000 If there is something, if there could possibly be something, 361 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000 why haven't we seen it, too? Why should you be... 362 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Haven't you seen it, Miss Landis? 363 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,000 No. 364 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 You sure? Never? 365 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Perhaps in the middle of the night, getting up and passing that room, 366 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:55,000 seeing that chair outlined against the window just in passing, perhaps? 367 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 You've never had a glimpse? 368 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,000 No, I... I really must be going. 369 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 No, no, no. Please stay and look at it. 370 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,000 I want you to see it out of my window. 371 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,000 My sister Elaine, she's very nervous. 372 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,000 I can't leave her so long alone. 373 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Then how will I go? How? 374 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Miss Landis, I thought you came here especially. 375 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 It'll only take a minute. 376 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Right in here, in the bedroom. 377 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,000 I just have to let up to Venetian blinds. 378 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Oh, Miss Landis! Don't go! 379 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Miss... Landis! 380 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Hello. Oh, hello, Sergeant. 381 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000 This is Ames, Martin Ames. 382 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 I just called to let you know, 383 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,000 I think you're right about that good night's sleep. 384 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,000 Yes, I'm going away tomorrow for a long rest, 385 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000 shutting up my apartment. 386 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Yes, I'm all... I'm all kind of in knots. 387 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 I don't know what to think. 388 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 Oh, they did. 389 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Yes, I saw the moving van in front of the house, 390 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 but I didn't know it was those sisters. 391 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Couldn't take it, huh? 392 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Well, I can't take it much longer myself. 393 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Well, Marty, bravo, bravissimo, boy. 394 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Shh, shh, not so loud. 395 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Why, all the mystery. 396 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 The superintendent doesn't like me. 397 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 I should think he wouldn't like you 398 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 grabbing this beautiful apartment 399 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 right from under his nose. 400 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 He probably had a promise to a friend. 401 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 But you've got it now, Ronald, just as I did. 402 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 403 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 I'm sorry. 404 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 I'm sorry. 405 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 I'm sorry. 406 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 You've got it now, Ronald, just as I did. 407 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Well, so I have, old boy, so I have. 408 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 And it's beautiful. You know, I'm crazy about it. 409 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Marty, you've outdone yourself. 410 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,000 You've been more than just... 411 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,000 I'll take nothing of it, Ronald. 412 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,000 I'm glad to do it for such a distinguished colleague. 413 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Well, it certainly was nice. 414 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 I wish I could do something in the term, Marty. 415 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,000 I really do. 416 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Perhaps let's play. I'm doing next season. 417 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 You know, there's a part in it, rather small, 418 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 a small part, but very necessary. 419 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Thanks, just the same, but I'm doing pretty well 420 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 in the term, you know, just now, Ronald. 421 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000 I don't know how you found it, Marty. 422 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 In his housing shortage. 423 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 You know, why even the superintendent is nervous for rent? 424 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,000 When your call came to my manager, I left rehearsal. 425 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 I wouldn't trust it, anyone but myself. 426 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 I left the whole cast just standing there 427 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 when I came over. 428 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000 And when I asked this gloomy character, Anton, 429 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000 he said he'd heard nothing about it. 430 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000 I insisted, of course, I don't know who I was. 431 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Finally, he called up. 432 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Sure enough, it seems these two sisters who lived here 433 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 just decided to move on. 434 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 I hope you didn't mention my name, though, 435 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,000 if Anton knows that I tipped you off. 436 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Oh, no, no, no, you asked me not to. 437 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Anyway, I think my own name is enough. 438 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Seriously, Marty, how did you know? 439 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Were they friends with you? 440 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Oh, no, no, it's rather a long story. 441 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Here, let it sit down, shall we, in the living room. 442 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Oh, no, no, no, you take the chair. 443 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,000 I guess they must have left that when they moved out. 444 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 No, thank you. 445 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Well, to be frank, Ronald, I got this apartment by a ruse. 446 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 A ruse, Marty, what kind of a ruse? 447 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Oh, pretty nasty one, I... 448 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000 I frightened the last tenants away. 449 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,000 I told them I saw a dead man sitting here in this window. 450 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 No, no, not really. 451 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 How clever of you. 452 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Of course, there was one. 453 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 You see, I live across the street, directly across, 454 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 in that apartment there with the striped curtains. 455 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Oh. 456 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 One night, just sitting there late, 457 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 I got an amusing thought. 458 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 There was a kind of shadow across this chair, 459 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 the one that you're sitting in. 460 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 It gave me a little bit of a corpse. 461 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 And it came to me that it might be fun 462 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 to create a great part, a character, 463 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000 a corpse that wasn't there. 464 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 I don't fully... 465 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,000 Some actors need a play, Ronald, to create a role. 466 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Others, the great ones, work out their own dramas. 467 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000 I proceeded to invent a part for myself. 468 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,000 I was the eyewitness, the innocent bystander 469 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,000 across the street who saw a corpse in here. 470 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,000 And I kept seeing it and kept seeing it. 471 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000 And finally, by the power of suggestion, 472 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,000 it became real enough to frighten them away. 473 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,000 Very clever. 474 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 One that's rather drastic. 475 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,000 I'd always hoped we'd be neighbors, Ronald. 476 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000 As a matter of fact, the whole idea for this thing 477 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 came to me that day in October, 478 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 when you turned me down for that part 479 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 outside of Sardis, remember? 480 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 You said you were looking for a place then. 481 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 Oh, yes. 482 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 It was then I thought how nice it would be 483 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000 to see you, 484 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 right across the street, sitting in this window. 485 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 I simply had to bring it about. 486 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 I... 487 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 No, no, no, Ronald, don't get up yet. I'm not rude. 488 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 Really, oh, boy, I'm afraid the gang at the theater, 489 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 you know, they don't even know that I'm here. 490 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000 They'll wait. People always wait for you, 491 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 don't they, Ronald? 492 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 I could call them for you, of course, but the phone's been disconnected. 493 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Well, I'm afraid that I'm... 494 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Which way's the door, oh, boy? 495 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Really, Marty, it's been very tiring... 496 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 What's the matter? Don't you like the apartment, Ronald? 497 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Aren't you going to take it? 498 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 After all my work? 499 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 Yes, I like it very much. 500 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 The door's locked. Yes, Ronald. 501 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000 I'm afraid you'll have to find your way out alone. 502 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000 There. 503 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,000 That'll keep you quiet. 504 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Silence always became you better 505 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,000 than all that ratting and glibness and charm, Ronald. 506 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 And now I've got the part for you. 507 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 A part to end all parts. 508 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000 You play it entirely in a chair. 509 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,000 There isn't much action, not a line to say you just sit, Ronald. 510 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000 You sit in this chair on the window. 511 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Yeah. 512 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 It'll be the greatest performance of your career. 513 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,000 You liked to hog all the fattest roles for yourself, didn't you? 514 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Well, this is a part that's been talked about 515 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 up and down the street for weeks. 516 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 You'll play the part of a ghost. 517 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 A ghost? 518 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 The part of a ghost. 519 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 A corpse that never was. 520 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 A hallucination in my brain. 521 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 And who'll be your audience? 522 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000 I will. 523 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,000 I, the insignificant out-moded ham 524 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,000 who wouldn't, wasn't fit to appear in your precious play. 525 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000 But good enough to put you here, Ronald. 526 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,000 Who's the better actor now, Ronald? 527 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Ha. 528 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000 Goodbye, Ronald. 529 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 See you across the street. 530 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Suspense. 531 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, Roma, America's favorite wine. 532 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,000 And now this is the first act of the show. 533 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 I'm so excited to see what you'll be doing. 534 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:32,920 You'll be the first to play the role of the 535 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,920 playwright here. 536 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,920 And I'm so excited to be here. 537 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,920 I'm so excited to be here. 538 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,920 I'm so excited to be here. 539 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,920 I'm so excited to be here. 540 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,920 I'm so excited to be here. 541 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,920 And now this is Ken Niles with a curtain call for the star of tonight's play, 542 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,920 that perennial suspense favorite, Joseph Cotton. 543 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,920 Joe, tonight marks your seventh appearance on Suspense in less than three years, 544 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,920 making you our all-time champion guest. 545 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,920 No cotton shortage on Suspense, again. 546 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,920 And no shortage of suspense when cotton's on hand, either. 547 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,920 In appreciation of those seven stellar performances, 548 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:10,920 here's a Christmas present for you, Joe. 549 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,920 Please accept this gift basket of Grand Estate wines 550 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,920 from your host, Roma, America's greatest vendor. 551 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:18,920 Thank you, Ken. 552 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:24,920 And you're an outstanding host this Christmas when you serve these magnificent Grand Estate wines. 553 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,920 For Grand Estate wines reflect the host's desire to offer only the finest. 554 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,920 Grand Estate wines delight the most discriminating guests, whatever their case. 555 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,920 I'll remember that, Ken. 556 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,920 And don't forget Grand Estate wines make ideal gifts, 557 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,920 friendly, thoughtful gifts, in perfect taste. 558 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:48,920 Yes, for gifts or guests, America offers no finer wines than distinguished Grand Estate wines. 559 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:54,920 For the holidays, keep on hand all five Grand Estate California wines. 560 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,920 When entertaining, serve medium sherry, ruby port, or golden muscatel. 561 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,920 For gracious dining, burgundy or sartorne. 562 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,920 Each limited bottling of Grand Estate wine, carefully selected by Roma, 563 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,920 is a wine outstanding in rare taste places. 564 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,920 So this Christmas, give or serve the finest. 565 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,920 Grand Estate wines, the crowning achievement of Vintner skill. 566 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,920 Well put, Ken, but I must know one more thing. 567 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,920 What about next Thursday's show? 568 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,920 Well, it's a double threat show, with the honors going to two distinguished ladies. 569 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,920 It's called Philomel Cotton. 570 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,920 The author is England's number one feminine mistress of the art of suspense, Agatha Christie. 571 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:42,920 And our star will be the most provocative European leading lady to visit our shores and many a moon, 572 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:43,920 Miss Lily Palmer. 573 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,920 Well, I've never missed a suspense show yet, 574 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,920 and certainly next week sounds even more intriguing than usual. 575 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:49,920 Good night. 576 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:50,920 Good night, Joe. 577 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,920 We're all looking forward to seeing you and David O. Selznick's production, Duel in the Sun. 578 00:28:54,920 --> 00:29:02,920 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Miss Lily Palmer as star of Suspense. 579 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:16,920 Produced and directed by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 580 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:21,920 Stay tuned for the thrilling adventures of the FBI in Peace and War, 581 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:27,920 following immediately over most of these stations. 582 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,920 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.