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Roma Wines. 00:44.000 --> 00:49.000 Those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine. 00:49.000 --> 00:53.000 For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 00:53.000 --> 00:56.000 Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant, 00:56.000 --> 01:01.000 as Roma Wines bring you Glen Ford in a remarkable tale of... 01:01.000 --> 01:03.000 Suspense. 01:07.000 --> 01:10.000 For an automobile salesman, I have expensive habits. 01:10.000 --> 01:15.000 I mean dames. It had been dames, dames, dames as long as I could remember. 01:15.000 --> 01:19.000 Ah, it's strictly murder. Also, it gets you definitely no place. 01:19.000 --> 01:23.000 So this day I was, well, I was turning over a new leaf. 01:23.000 --> 01:25.000 Nothing on my mind but business. 01:25.000 --> 01:28.000 Pencil in my hand, a sheet of figures on the desk, 01:28.000 --> 01:32.000 figuring out how to sell a million Excelsior 8s, make a billion dollars. 01:32.000 --> 01:35.000 And someone tapped on the glass. 01:35.000 --> 01:38.000 I didn't even look up, just the busy executive. 01:38.000 --> 01:40.000 And of course again, now I looked up. 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 Am I disturbing you? 01:42.000 --> 01:45.000 Was she disturbing me? 01:45.000 --> 01:48.000 I got up in a trance and followed her across the showroom floor. 01:48.000 --> 01:52.000 It seemed as though I'd never seen anyone walk like that before in all my life. 01:52.000 --> 01:55.000 This is my husband, Mr. Ganlin. Mr. Evans, the sales manager. 01:55.000 --> 01:57.000 How do you do, sir? 02:02.000 --> 02:04.000 So she had a husband. 02:04.000 --> 02:08.000 He was a little sourpuss runt with a limpy leg about twice her age, 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 dressed like a man. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 The kind of doughy that you would buy Excelsior 8s by the dozens. 02:14.000 --> 02:17.000 But I wasn't thinking about that now. I was thinking about her. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 I was thinking that the best way to guarantee seeing her again 02:19.000 --> 02:22.000 was to send them out that door in an Excelsior 8. 02:22.000 --> 02:26.000 So I pasted on the big salesman smile, went to town. 02:26.000 --> 02:30.000 Now, this is our customs line, Mr. Ganlin, distinctive in appearance. 02:30.000 --> 02:34.000 You'll notice the three-tone color effect inside and out. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 I'll post you the match, huh? 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 And the broad, graceful sweeping line. 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 The thing of beauty. What's under the hood? 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 That's a question that I've been waiting for. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.000 Why the world-famous Excelsior motor, Mr. Ganlin. 02:45.000 --> 02:48.000 Gan, please, I've never driven in an Excelsior. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Perhaps Mr. Evans would take us for a ride. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 Oh, now look here, Sylvia. Gan, please. 02:53.000 --> 02:56.000 All right. It won't take a minute. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 Here. Try that rear seat, Mr. Ganlin. 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 Find it broad and luxurious. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.000 Now, Mrs. Ganlin, you'd care to sit up here in front? 03:06.000 --> 03:09.000 You can see what it'll do. Thank you. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 Hey, you see how that handles, Mr. Ganlin? 03:11.000 --> 03:13.000 It's like a baby carriage, huh? 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 Well, keep your eyes on the road. 03:18.000 --> 03:20.000 I turned the corner on two wheels. 03:20.000 --> 03:23.000 Explained about the minimum sway being on account of the stabilizers. 03:23.000 --> 03:25.000 Well, I got a couple of grunts for that try. 03:25.000 --> 03:28.000 In the mirror, I saw he'd closed his eyes. 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 So I turned to her. 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 I still didn't know if this deal was going to be too easy, 03:32.000 --> 03:35.000 but one look at that look in those eyes, 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 and I began to have a rough idea. 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 What do they call you? Which they? 03:41.000 --> 03:44.000 Your friends. Speed. How about you? 03:44.000 --> 03:47.000 Sylvia, why the speed, Evans? 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 I like to get places. I like to go places. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 Eh, it's the same thing. 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 Maybe you're right. Maybe we're both right. 03:55.000 --> 03:58.000 Maybe. Speed. Maybe. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Maybe. 04:05.000 --> 04:08.000 She'd asked Ford how to make that Excelsior turn somersaults. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 As it was, I showed her some driving tricks 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 that'd make your hair stand on end. 04:12.000 --> 04:16.000 She loved them. Every once in a while, her eyes met mine 04:16.000 --> 04:19.000 and clung there just long enough. 04:19.000 --> 04:22.000 We knew, both of us, what I was selling, 04:22.000 --> 04:25.000 and it wasn't an Excelsior. 04:25.000 --> 04:28.000 I can have the car ready for delivery. 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 First thing in the morning, Mr. Ganlin, what do you say? 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 Gan, please. 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 Oh, all right, Sylvia, all right. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 Now if you'll just sign the order. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 I want it now, and I pay cash. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 That's fine, Mr. Ganlin. That's just fine. 04:41.000 --> 04:44.000 I think you'll find the desk in my office the most convenient. 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 Is that your office there? 04:46.000 --> 04:48.000 Yes, that's right, Mr. Ganlin. 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 I'll collect all the necessary papers 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 while you're making out the check. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 All right, all right. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 How did you like it? 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 Like what? 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 The car, for a start. 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 I love it. 05:02.000 --> 05:07.000 You better drive in for a service check as soon as you can. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 When? 05:09.000 --> 05:10.000 Tomorrow? 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 Tomorrow. 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 You suppose you could manage to be alone? 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 Yes, I'll be alone. 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 She came in the next morning. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 She was alone. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 Well, from that day, we went places. 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 We went there fast. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 But this was, well, it was different. 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 She was different, different from anything I'd ever known before. 05:29.000 --> 05:33.000 And in less than two weeks, I knew I didn't care about husbands 05:33.000 --> 05:36.000 or Excelsior rates or even a million dollars. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 All I cared about was her. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 And I was going to be a good husband. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 I was going to be a good husband. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 I was going to be a good husband. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 All I cared about was her. 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 And it was the same with her most of the time. 05:49.000 --> 05:51.000 That was what was tearing me up. 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 The way it was other times. 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 Standoffish, scared. 05:55.000 --> 05:57.000 I was screwy. I didn't get it. 05:57.000 --> 05:59.000 Well, one day we were down at the beach, as usual lately. 05:59.000 --> 06:01.000 We were arguing about it. 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 Oh, please, Speed, don't. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 What's the matter with Reno? 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 We've got to do something about it some day, haven't we? 06:07.000 --> 06:09.000 Yes, yes. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 Well, that's what they got Reno for. 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 He'll come after me. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 Speed, I want to run along the beach. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Come on. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 Hey, it's 33. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 I'm too old for this stuff. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Hey, wait a minute. Anyway, look, look. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Speed, you've got to learn to relax. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 I lost my roller skates. 06:27.000 --> 06:29.000 I'll get you another pair. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 I don't need skates. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 Yes, you do. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 All right, Sylvia, look, listen, Sylvia, 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 cut out the horseplay and quit stalling. 06:37.000 --> 06:39.000 I want a decision. One way or another now. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 Oh, darling, now you're angry. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 You want to leave him, but you won't. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 Oh, but I will, darling. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 Speed, you see, there's so many things. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 They're all complicated and mixed up. 06:49.000 --> 06:51.000 First, there's my father. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 What about him? 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 Well, you see, my father and Ganon were 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 mining partners in a little town called Phoebe, Arizona. 06:57.000 --> 07:01.000 And then there was a cave in and my father was killed. 07:01.000 --> 07:03.000 Oh, he was such a wonderful man. 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 We were so terribly close. 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 It's tough, baby. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 Sometimes it's almost as though we were alive. 07:09.000 --> 07:13.000 I see him, Speed, in dreams every so often. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 I hear him speak. 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 It was ten years ago. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 What's all this got to do with you and Ganon? 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 Stop it! Stop touching me! Can't you just leave me alone? 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 Leave me alone! 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 Okay, okay, if that's what you want. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 Oh, no. Speed, don't. 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 Look, look, baby, I don't know about you, 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 but I'm leaving town tonight. 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 I can't take this any longer. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 I'm going back now, quit my job and draw my three bucks 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 out of the bank and pack a bag. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 I'll be back tonight with you or without you. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 Oh, no, Speed, you can't. You can't go without me. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 Well, that's up to you, baby. 07:43.000 --> 07:45.000 I'm afraid. I don't know. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.000 Well, we'll worry about that later. What about it? 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 All right. All right, I'll go. 07:55.000 --> 07:59.000 I was to meet her at the usual place at eight o'clock. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 I was on time, but even before I got there, 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 I realized she'd never show up. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 I waited an hour and then I crossed the street 08:05.000 --> 08:10.000 to the apartment where they lived, the seventh floor, 707. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 She must have been hanging around the door 08:15.000 --> 08:17.000 because it opened almost at once. 08:17.000 --> 08:19.000 She came out in the hall, closed it behind her. 08:19.000 --> 08:21.000 She was scared to death. Speed, you've got to get away. 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 Right away. Not without you, baby. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 No, listen, listen to me, Speed. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 I lied to you this afternoon. No kidding. 08:27.000 --> 08:31.000 I mean, about my father. He wasn't just killed in a cave. 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 He was murdered. 08:33.000 --> 08:36.000 So you married Galin to kind of show your appreciation. 08:36.000 --> 08:37.000 Yes, I mean... 08:37.000 --> 08:39.000 You look, you don't make sense, baby. Come on, we're going inside. 08:39.000 --> 08:40.000 No, Speed, no. 08:40.000 --> 08:43.000 We're going to settle this once and for all now. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 In the living room, Galin was lying on the couch 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 with his shoes off, his feet propped up. 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 In a chair opposite was a young punk in a tan overcoat 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 who looked like he took the wrong kind of nose drops 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 when he needed courage. 09:00.000 --> 09:03.000 He let it be known fairly obvious that he had a gun in his pocket. 09:03.000 --> 09:05.000 Galin didn't even get up. 09:05.000 --> 09:09.000 Well, Mr. Evans, this is an unexpected pleasure. 09:09.000 --> 09:12.000 I'm afraid it's no pleasure either way. 09:12.000 --> 09:16.000 I've come to tell you that your wife is leaving you with me. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 Oh, is she? 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 What about it, Sylvia? 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 You don't seem to have entirely convinced her, Mr. Evans. 09:23.000 --> 09:26.000 Listen, I don't know exactly what goes on here. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 But I do know that she's headed straight for a crack-up 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 and that you're at the bottom of it, so she's leaving tonight. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 Go on, Sylvia, get your things. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 All right. 09:33.000 --> 09:36.000 Mr. Evans, I'm not sure you fully appreciate 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 the penalties of stealing a man's wife. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 There's divorce courts to handle that, 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 besides other ways if you're big enough. 09:42.000 --> 09:46.000 Well, since you've brought up the question of superior force. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 All right, Zeke, take him. 09:48.000 --> 09:49.000 Okay, put him up. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Hi, funny face. 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 Gunsles with guns you have, huh? 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 Sometimes they come in handy, Mr. Evans. 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 Come on, start walking. 09:57.000 --> 09:59.000 Any particular direction? 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 Yeah, outside. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 All right. 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 All right, you win, Mr. Ganlin. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 Take him out and kick him down the stairs, Zeke. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Kick him. 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 The punk was plenty shaky, 10:12.000 --> 10:15.000 and he had the gun jammed right in my back. 10:15.000 --> 10:18.000 That's not smart if your guy knows a little judo. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 I made a quick half turn and fired, but not soon enough. 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 I had broken his arm before he could fire again. 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 The gun scooted across the floor somewhere, 10:25.000 --> 10:28.000 and I was thinking as lucky they soundproofed these fancy apartments. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 Then it started going off again. 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 I whirled around to see Sylvia with a gun in her hand, 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 stalking Ganlin like a tigress. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 He was cowering behind the furniture, 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 and she was moving around trying to get a clear shot at him. 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 It took me one good leap to get over there and knock her out cold. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 There was a bowl of water, some flowers on the table. 10:42.000 --> 10:46.000 I threw the flowers on the floor, threw the water on Sylvia. 10:46.000 --> 10:49.000 She opened her eyes, looked around. 10:49.000 --> 10:53.000 Oh, Speed, why did you do it? 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Oh. 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 Hello, darling. 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 Feeling any better, baby? 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 Oh, yes. 13:43.000 --> 13:47.000 I had such a wonderful dream. 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 I was a little girl again. 13:50.000 --> 13:53.000 And I was with my father, 13:53.000 --> 13:57.000 and he was rowing across a lake. 13:57.000 --> 13:59.000 And then... 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 Then what? 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 Speed. 14:03.000 --> 14:06.000 I lied to you about Ganlin. 14:06.000 --> 14:08.000 He didn't kill my father. 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 I was wicked to say that, wasn't I? 14:10.000 --> 14:14.000 Oh, you're just a little mixed up, that's all. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 Speed. Yeah? 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 Where are we going? 14:18.000 --> 14:21.000 We're going to your hometown, baby. Phoebe, Arizona. 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 Oh. You like the idea? 14:23.000 --> 14:26.000 I suppose so. Why? 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 Look, baby, I'm no psychiatrist, 14:28.000 --> 14:30.000 but something happened back there when you were a kid. 14:30.000 --> 14:33.000 Something to do with the death of your father. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 It's had you on the merry-go-round ever since. 14:35.000 --> 14:38.000 So much so that about nine hours ago you tried to kill a man. 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 I said I was sorry about that, Speed. 14:40.000 --> 14:43.000 Sure, sure, but if you and I are going to make a go at this, 14:43.000 --> 14:46.000 I think we ought to do something more besides just saying we feel sorry, don't you? 14:46.000 --> 14:50.000 You make it sound as though you thought I was going to go around killing people for the rest of my life. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 All I say is that you're not... 14:52.000 --> 14:55.000 Well, you're not going to be very happy until we know the facts about this thing, 14:55.000 --> 14:57.000 whatever they are, until you've faced the facts, 14:57.000 --> 15:01.000 and from then on we can forget it. 15:01.000 --> 15:04.000 Speed. Yeah? 15:04.000 --> 15:06.000 I'm terribly hungry, aren't you? 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 Yeah, I... 15:08.000 --> 15:10.000 I could do with a little something. 15:10.000 --> 15:12.000 Look, there's a place up ahead. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 Oh, okay. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 Bus just pulled in. 15:17.000 --> 15:20.000 Yeah, it's one of the regular stops here. 15:20.000 --> 15:24.000 Speed, kiss me. 15:25.000 --> 15:27.000 How's that? 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 Oh, that's wonderful. 15:29.000 --> 15:31.000 All right, let's go, huh? 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 I owed a lot of people. 15:33.000 --> 15:36.000 Ah, those big buses that hold a lot of people, baby. 15:36.000 --> 15:39.000 Help! Help! I'm being kidnapped! 15:39.000 --> 15:40.000 Come here. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 Help me! Help! 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 It's all right. It's all right. She's my wife. 15:44.000 --> 15:45.000 Hey, what's going on here? 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 I'm not. I'm not. I've never seen him before in my life. 15:47.000 --> 15:49.000 I'm being kidnapped. 15:49.000 --> 15:50.000 He hit her! 15:50.000 --> 15:52.000 Hey, that's no way to treat even your wife, mister. 15:52.000 --> 15:55.000 All right, if you must know, she's crazy. 15:55.000 --> 15:57.000 She's my wife, but she's hopelessly insane. 15:57.000 --> 16:01.000 But I don't care! 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 About five minutes later, she snapped out of it. 16:07.000 --> 16:09.000 You'd think nothing at all had happened, 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 but I wasn't taking any more chances. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 I took to the side roads wherever I could, 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 figuring the cops would be on my tail any minute, 16:15.000 --> 16:18.000 so we didn't cross the state line until after midnight. 16:18.000 --> 16:22.000 That was next morning when I kicked it out of gear at Phoebe, Arizona. 16:22.000 --> 16:25.000 There was only one hotel we registered, 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 the Joining Room. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 All the time, I was watching her like a hawk. 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 I didn't need to. 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 Now that we were there, she... 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 I don't know, she seemed glad. 16:35.000 --> 16:38.000 Now we'd been in our rooms about five minutes when the phone rang. 16:38.000 --> 16:39.000 Hello. 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 Mr. Evans? 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 Yeah? 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 Just a moment, Mr. Evans. 16:45.000 --> 16:49.000 Mr. Evans, this is San Francisco, operator 23. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 We've got a long-distance call for you. 16:51.000 --> 16:52.000 San Francisco? 16:52.000 --> 16:55.000 Yes, sir. We've been trying to reach you all night. 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 Shall I put your party on now? 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 All right, go ahead. 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 Hello. Evans? 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 Yeah? 17:05.000 --> 17:07.000 This is Ganlon. 17:07.000 --> 17:10.000 You must have a private eye on your payroll, too. 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 I know you're an intelligent man, Evans, 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 whatever else you may be. 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 I knew where you'd go, but I want to tell you something. 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 You're getting in deep water, 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 deeper than you know anything about. 17:20.000 --> 17:23.000 Deep while drowned, huh? All right, maybe I will. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 But I'm still wading in. 17:25.000 --> 17:27.000 I'm coming down there, Evans. 17:27.000 --> 17:29.000 In the meantime, keep quiet and keep her quiet. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 And keep your nose out of things. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 What's that supposed to be? A threat? 17:33.000 --> 17:35.000 I'm not threatening you, I'm telling you. 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 For your own good. 17:39.000 --> 17:41.000 It was Ganlon, wasn't it? 17:41.000 --> 17:45.000 Yeah, yeah, he called to give us his blessing. 17:45.000 --> 17:47.000 He's coming down, too, isn't he? 17:48.000 --> 17:49.000 Maybe. 17:49.000 --> 17:52.000 I'm glad, Speed. You just can't know how glad I am. 17:52.000 --> 17:56.000 Yeah, that's gonna be real cozy, just the three of us. 17:56.000 --> 17:59.000 You've been cruel to me, Speed. 17:59.000 --> 18:00.000 Who, me? 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 I've forgiven you, though, you know that. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 Well, sure, baby. 18:04.000 --> 18:07.000 I just didn't understand at first, but I understand now. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 Why you brought me here, I mean. 18:09.000 --> 18:12.000 You're going to find proof that Gan killed my father. 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 I'll work on that. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 I can tell you exactly how it happened. 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 You said yesterday you were lying. 18:18.000 --> 18:21.000 You try to confuse me, Speed. Do you want to know or don't you? 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 Sure, let's have it. 18:23.000 --> 18:27.000 Well, my father and Gan were tunneling a new shaft inside of the mountain. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 They were working alone that day. 18:29.000 --> 18:34.000 They'd set a dynamite charge inside the shaft with wires out to the ignition box. 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 The box worked with a plunger, but when my father pushed it down, 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 the dynamite didn't go off. 18:41.000 --> 18:44.000 He went back inside to find the trouble. 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 While he was in there, Gan pushed down the plunger again. 18:47.000 --> 18:51.000 My father was blown to bits. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 Just like that, huh? 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 Don't you believe me? 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 Hmm. 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 Like I say, I'll work on it. 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 They'll hang him, won't they? 19:02.000 --> 19:03.000 Hang who? 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 Ganlin, they'll hang him when you find proof. 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 If he's guilty, they'll hang him. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 You'll prove it, darling. 19:09.000 --> 19:13.000 Promise me you will so they can arrest him when he arrives. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 You'll do it for your baby, I know. 19:16.000 --> 19:19.000 Kiss me, darling. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 How's that? 19:23.000 --> 19:26.000 Oh, that's wonderful. 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 That's all I care about. 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 That and seeing Ganlin hanged. 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 She went to sleep then, just as peaceful as you please, 19:39.000 --> 19:42.000 dreaming of Ganlin with a rope around his neck. 19:42.000 --> 19:46.000 Well, I found the thing they call the City Hall. 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 I asked to see records on her old man's death. 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 Well, they hemmed in a hot sum, and then it came out 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 that half the town was burned down a few years back. 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 The records went up with it. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 They finally suggested I see an old timer named Konski 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 who had been her father's mind-former 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 at one time or another. 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 I did. He was already waiting for me. 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 He seemed to know what I was after. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 He was all primed with the answers. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 Sure I know, Sylvia. 20:08.000 --> 20:11.000 Sweetest, prettiest little kid I ever see all my life. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 And of course you knew her father. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 Sure I knew. 20:15.000 --> 20:19.000 I guess Sylvia must have been pretty fond of him. 20:19.000 --> 20:22.000 Sure, she was crazy about him. 20:22.000 --> 20:24.000 Well, wasn't she? 20:24.000 --> 20:27.000 Maybe. But if she was, she was the only one in this town 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 wasn't glad to see him die. 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 Look, you don't have to be cagey with me. 20:31.000 --> 20:33.000 I'm trying to help Sylvia. 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 All right. You know what this best thing you can do? 20:35.000 --> 20:36.000 What? 20:36.000 --> 20:41.000 Get out of town before you make plenty trouble. 20:43.000 --> 20:44.000 That was that. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 The next stop was the office of the weekly paper 20:46.000 --> 20:48.000 owned, published, printed and peddled by one guy, 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 a guy named McLean. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 He seemed to know all about my business too, 20:52.000 --> 20:54.000 had the files all laid out for me. 20:54.000 --> 20:55.000 Why don't you lay off it, Evans? 20:55.000 --> 20:57.000 It's ten years old, dead and buried. 20:57.000 --> 20:58.000 Mind if I look at your files? 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 Sure, sure. Go ahead. You can see what it says. 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 Mind disaster, premature explosion, accidental death. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Any chance it wasn't accidental? 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 What do you mean? 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 Any chance it gallanted it? 21:06.000 --> 21:07.000 Not a chance. 21:07.000 --> 21:08.000 You seem pretty sure. 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 You ever notice that gippy leg of his? 21:10.000 --> 21:11.000 Yeah. 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 Well, that's how he got it. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 He was in the mine when it happened. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 I was getting no place fast, only a suspicion 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 and not a very comfortable one. 21:21.000 --> 21:24.000 I hadn't the faintest idea where to go from here. 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 And I thought of the doctor. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 There had to be a doctor sign a death certificate. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Well, I found out who he was, dug him up 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 and he looked like the worst bed of the bunch. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 He was half wacky from the effects of age 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 and a misspent life, nothing left but his dignity. 21:36.000 --> 21:39.000 And the collection of photographs that he insisted on talking about 21:39.000 --> 21:40.000 until I wanted to smack him. 21:40.000 --> 21:43.000 Yes, it was my hobby before my eyes went back on me, 21:43.000 --> 21:46.000 but those you see on the wall are only a few. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 Ah, here, here. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 Take a look at some of these. 21:50.000 --> 21:53.000 Who are all you people covering up for, Doc? 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 I beg your pardon? 21:55.000 --> 21:56.000 You heard me. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 Young man, you realize that what you've just said 21:58.000 --> 22:03.000 constitutes the most serious slur on my professional reputation. 22:03.000 --> 22:04.000 Oh, nuts. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 Look, I'm trying to help a girl that I'm in love with. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 Can't anybody understand that? 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 Take this one, for instance. 22:10.000 --> 22:14.000 Notice the contrasts, the light and shadow. 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 I don't suppose you understand the meaning 22:17.000 --> 22:20.000 of the term traumatic experience. 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 No, I thought not. 22:22.000 --> 22:25.000 The psychic structure of the personality 22:25.000 --> 22:27.000 is a very delicate mechanism. 22:27.000 --> 22:30.000 For instance, in the case of Sylvia. 22:30.000 --> 22:33.000 Now, take her to a competent man in the field, Mr. Evans. 22:33.000 --> 22:35.000 I no longer handle such cases. 22:35.000 --> 22:37.000 That's not what I came to you for, and you know it. 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 I'm afraid I can't help you. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 Retired some time ago, you see. 22:41.000 --> 22:44.000 Now, look at some of these. 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 They're older, of course, 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 but there's still some very good ones among them. 22:48.000 --> 22:51.000 Look, Doc, I don't want to look at pictures. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 All I want... 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 Oh, we found one you like, eh? 22:55.000 --> 22:56.000 I knew you'd... 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 It has a date on it. July 14, 1935. 22:58.000 --> 23:00.000 That mean anything to you? 23:00.000 --> 23:03.000 Is that the stalagmite encrustation? 23:03.000 --> 23:04.000 If so, it's... 23:04.000 --> 23:05.000 I don't know, it's just some rocks 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 and a hole in the mountain to me, 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 but that date is the date that Sylvia's father was killed. 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 Give it to me, give it to me. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 No, no, you don't. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 I'm afraid you're torn to dust. 23:12.000 --> 23:13.000 Give it back to me, I said. 23:13.000 --> 23:15.000 Yeah, but the part I got is still enough 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 to show who killed him. 23:19.000 --> 23:21.000 I started back for the hotel, 23:21.000 --> 23:23.000 but I didn't feel so good. 23:23.000 --> 23:26.000 I didn't feel good at all. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 I asked at the desk if Gannan had arrived, 23:28.000 --> 23:29.000 but he hadn't, 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 so I went on up to Sylvia's room. 23:31.000 --> 23:32.000 She was sitting at the dressing table, 23:32.000 --> 23:33.000 making up her face. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 She looked up at me in the mirror. 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 You know, 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 I can tell by your eyes, you know. 23:41.000 --> 23:44.000 Yes, baby, I know. 23:44.000 --> 23:46.000 Then they'll hang him, won't they? 23:46.000 --> 23:47.000 Gannan? 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 No, baby, he's in the clear. 23:49.000 --> 23:50.000 But he isn't! 23:50.000 --> 23:51.000 He can't be! 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 He murdered my father, I know he did! 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 You're lying to me, Speed. 23:55.000 --> 23:56.000 Take it easy, baby. 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 It's gonna be all right. 23:58.000 --> 24:00.000 Just let's get it over with, 24:00.000 --> 24:02.000 and then we can forget it, huh? 24:02.000 --> 24:04.000 Get what over with? 24:04.000 --> 24:05.000 You're acting so funny, darling. 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 Take a look at this picture. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 Hmm? 24:09.000 --> 24:13.000 Oh, well, that's me, isn't it? 24:13.000 --> 24:16.000 When I was a little girl. 24:16.000 --> 24:17.000 I'm awfully far away, 24:17.000 --> 24:19.000 but I'd still know it's me. 24:19.000 --> 24:21.000 With this smoke. 24:21.000 --> 24:22.000 Don't you remember? 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 Please, Speed, my head's hurting. 24:24.000 --> 24:25.000 Don't... 24:25.000 --> 24:26.000 Try to remember. 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 You're tormenting me. 24:28.000 --> 24:29.000 You're trying to hurt me. 24:29.000 --> 24:31.000 That smoke is the explosion, isn't it? 24:31.000 --> 24:32.000 I don't know. I don't know! 24:32.000 --> 24:33.000 You pushed the plunger. 24:33.000 --> 24:34.000 I don't know. 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 Remember while your father was inside the shaft. 24:36.000 --> 24:37.000 I don't know. 24:37.000 --> 24:38.000 Remember? 24:38.000 --> 24:39.000 Yes! 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 Yes, I killed him! 24:44.000 --> 24:46.000 All right. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 All right, baby, that's all there is to it. 24:48.000 --> 24:50.000 You can forget. 24:50.000 --> 24:53.000 I hated him. 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 It's all I live for. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 It's all I ever dreamed of. 24:57.000 --> 25:00.000 See his face bloody and battered. 25:00.000 --> 25:03.000 See his body mangled and dirty. 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 I hated him. 25:05.000 --> 25:06.000 I hate you! 25:06.000 --> 25:07.000 I hate all men! 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 If I could kill every man in the world! 25:09.000 --> 25:11.000 Where did you get that gun, baby? 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 Out of your overcoat. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 Yeah, better put it down. 25:15.000 --> 25:19.000 I tried to kill Ganlin because he knew. 25:19.000 --> 25:21.000 Now you know. 25:21.000 --> 25:23.000 Put it down. 25:23.000 --> 25:26.000 It's too late, Speed. 25:26.000 --> 25:27.000 Goodbye, darling. 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 Listen, it's all over now. 25:29.000 --> 25:30.000 You were only a kid. 25:30.000 --> 25:31.000 I know how he treated you. 25:31.000 --> 25:32.000 The whole town covered up for you. 25:32.000 --> 25:33.000 They're still covering. 25:33.000 --> 25:35.000 Goodbye. 25:39.000 --> 25:40.000 When the door flew open, I ducked. 25:40.000 --> 25:41.000 And then the shots came. 25:41.000 --> 25:44.000 When I looked around, Ganlin was lying on the open door. 25:44.000 --> 25:45.000 The gun still in his hand. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 He walked right into it. 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 He must have got in one shot, though. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 That was enough. 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 She was still breathing when I got to her. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 But that was about all. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 Oh. 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 It's... 26:02.000 --> 26:04.000 It's all right now. 26:04.000 --> 26:05.000 Isn't it, darling? 26:05.000 --> 26:07.000 Sure, sure, baby. 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 Everything's gonna be all right. 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 Kiss me. 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 Yeah. 26:13.000 --> 26:15.000 How's that? 26:15.000 --> 26:18.000 Oh, that's wonderful. 26:18.000 --> 26:22.000 But I wasn't so lucky this time, was I? 26:22.000 --> 26:25.000 Not...not too lucky. 26:25.000 --> 26:27.000 I didn't miss. 26:27.000 --> 26:29.000 No, baby. 26:29.000 --> 26:31.000 You didn't miss. 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 Well, any time you want to buy an Excelsior A, 26:43.000 --> 26:47.000 just come on in and see old Speed Evans. 26:47.000 --> 26:49.000 No, I won't tell you my troubles. 26:49.000 --> 26:51.000 Dames, that's my trouble. 26:51.000 --> 26:55.000 It's been dames, dames, dames as long as I can remember. 26:55.000 --> 26:58.000 Ah, it's too bad, though. 26:58.000 --> 27:14.000 We'd have probably had a couple of kids by now. 27:18.000 --> 27:20.000 Suspense. 27:20.000 --> 27:22.000 Presented by Roma Wines. 27:22.000 --> 27:24.000 R-O-M-A. 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