1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Yes, Roma wines taste better because only Roma selects from the world's greatest wine reserves for your pleasure. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:15,000 And now Roma wines, R-O-M-A, Roma wines present Suspense. 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Tonight, Roma wines bring you Mr. William Bendix as star of Free Faces at Midnight, 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:30,000 a Suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma wines by William Spear. 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 6 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:49,000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines, those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine. 7 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 8 00:00:52,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Yes, right now, a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma wines bring you William Bendix in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 9 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:13,000 They say they got 58 million jobs in this country, 58 million jobs, and I had to pick this one. 10 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Well, that's the way it goes. Some guys have got some special ability that other guys don't have. 11 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 They just get picked out of the crowd, I guess, in spite of themselves. 12 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Well, this day I'm walking along Central Avenue, not paying much attention to anything in particular. 13 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Then I see this sign, help wallet, it says, jobs. 14 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Then it's got a list of different kinds of jobs, like chauffeur, house painter, salesman. 15 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 There's nothing so funny about that. 16 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:45,000 But then I see what kind of dough they're paying, and brother, what kind of dough they're paying. 17 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 I'm thinking maybe this inflation ain't such a bad idea after all. 18 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 And I walk in. 19 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Well, there's quite a bunch of guys in there, naturally, sitting around on benches. 20 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:01,000 And I sit down, and every so often a door opens, and a tough-looking little gray-haired guy comes out and picks out a guy. 21 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 And the guy goes in a sort of an office with him. 22 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 And that's the last we ever see of him. 23 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 So this keeps happening for a while, and I'm thinking this guy must really be handing out the jobs. 24 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 And then the door opens again, and the guy is looking at me. 25 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Hey, you. 26 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Me? 27 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Yes, you. 28 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 All right, sit down. 29 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 What's your name? 30 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Walters. 31 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000 First name? 32 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Uh... 33 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 What's the matter, don't you know it? 34 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Muscles. 35 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 What? 36 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Muscles. 37 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 And look, don't try to clown with me, pal. 38 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 What's your name? 39 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Listen, for your information, my first name is Sylvester. 40 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Only I don't like the name Sylvester, so most people don't call me Sylvester. 41 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,000 On account of it's better for them that way, so they call me Muscles. 42 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Now, you catch on? 43 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Yeah. 44 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Live here in town? 45 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,000 No. 46 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Where are you from? 47 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Brooklyn. 48 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,000 I should have known it. 49 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 What's your IQ? 50 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Come again? 51 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Skip it, skip it. 52 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Got any friends in town? 53 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,000 No, just... 54 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,000 And I can see why. 55 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Look, Pop, are you talking to me about a job or a poking a nose? 56 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,000 What? 57 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 You wouldn't try to get tough with me, would you, you big baboon? 58 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Wait. 59 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Is, uh, is that gun loaded, Pop? 60 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Yeah. 61 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Now you want to make something out of it? 62 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 No, I don't. 63 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,000 And how do you like that? 64 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:20,000 But if you will put that heater down for a minute, Pop, I will bend you around like a pretzel. 65 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 You know, I think you're going to be all right, son. 66 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Yeah? 67 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Hold it now. 68 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Hold it, hold it. 69 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Don't get sore. 70 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 I was just trying something out on you, that's all. 71 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 You take awful chances, Pop. 72 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Guns don't, uh, worry you much, do they? 73 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Guns? 74 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 I spent the last four years playing with firearms for Uncle Whiskers. 75 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Guns to me are like the measles. 76 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 I don't worry about them. 77 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 I, I just got a healthy respect for them, and I like to keep my distance, that's all. 78 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Especially when the other guys got them and I don't. 79 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Yeah, I think you're going to be all right. 80 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 For what? 81 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Oh, yeah, yeah. 82 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 What kind of a job did you want? 83 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Oh, I don't know. 84 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 I've been a cabbie, drove a truck. 85 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 I was a salesman for a while. 86 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,000 For who? 87 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Lionel Strongfort? 88 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,000 No. 89 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Ladies lingerie. 90 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Mail order house. 91 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Yeah? 92 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Well, you'll make a lot more on this job than you would as any salesman. 93 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Now, uh, listen, say this after me. 94 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 What? 95 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000 This is John, three faces for midnight. 96 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Come again? 97 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 Come on, come on, say it, say it. 98 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,000 It's part of the job. 99 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Listen, if this job means I got to play left end for the Nuthouse, it's out. 100 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Don't worry, pal, don't worry. 101 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 You're going to like this job. 102 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Now, come on, say it. 103 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:31,000 This is John, three faces for midnight. 104 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Huh? 105 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 What can I lose? 106 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 This is John, three faces for midnight. 107 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Again? 108 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 This is John, three faces for midnight. 109 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Mm-hmm. 110 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, you're going to be all right. 111 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Well, is that good? 112 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Listen to this. 113 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 What's that? 114 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 A dictograph that plays records. 115 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Oh, yeah, well, that's more like it. 116 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Now, you got cross- 117 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Shh, listen. 118 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Yes? 119 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 This is John. 120 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Which way is the road, three faces for midnight? 121 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Well, we're ready. 122 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Tomorrow night, regular time. 123 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 I'll call. 124 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 There, did you get it? 125 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Well, they sound just like a couple of mugs to me, especially that guy John. 126 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,000 I guess nobody ever does. 127 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Why? 128 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Recognize their own voice when they hear it. 129 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,000 That guy John sounds enough like you to be your twin brother. 130 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Well, I guess a guy can't help what he's- 131 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 You mean I sound like that? 132 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 I mean you're hired. 133 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 What a price to pay for a job. 134 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Go on through that door to the back and wait for me. 135 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 I got a couple of things to do and then we'll get busy. 136 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Well, okay, but this better be on the level. 137 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Because so far it sure stinks. 138 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Oh, pardon me. 139 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 You all alone in here? 140 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,000 I was. 141 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Well, I didn't mean to interrupt or anything. 142 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Only he sent me in here. 143 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Oh, it's quite all right. 144 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Like yourself quite at home. 145 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Well, thanks. 146 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Only I hope you won't mind if I return to the pursual of my magazine. 147 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Oh, oh, you were reading. 148 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 I like to read myself sometimes. 149 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 I'm sure. 150 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 You're working for this guy? 151 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 I'm afraid that's confidential. 152 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Ah, so he gave you that too, huh? 153 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Why, yes. 154 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Are you working for him? 155 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 I don't know if you could call it working. 156 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Well, didn't he tell you anything? 157 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Yeah. 158 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 All about how I sounded like a guy named John and what did I think about guns. 159 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Guns? 160 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,000 Yeah. 161 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Oh. 162 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Well, what are you supposed to do? 163 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Well, I don't know exactly. 164 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 That sounds just as crazy as what I'm supposed to do. 165 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Well, you see, I'm a photographer. 166 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Oh, you take pictures? 167 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Uh-huh. 168 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,000 I'm just an amateur really, but I get some very good pictures. 169 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 I showed him some, a 16 millimeter. 170 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,000 What's that? 171 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Movies with this camera here. 172 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,000 See? 173 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Oh, well, if this is some kind of gig for the movies, then it makes sense. 174 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 They say in that racket everybody's crazy. 175 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Well, I don't know. 176 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,000 I figured he wanted me to take some pictures of some kind of an affair, 177 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 some wedding or something. 178 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Well, what am I supposed to do, give the bride away? 179 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Now I wanted to... 180 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Oh, you two get acquainted? 181 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Well, we were making a start. 182 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Good. 183 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Okay, now look, I got all your instructions written down here. 184 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Everything you're supposed to do. 185 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,000 You take a train to Woodbridge and walk, not take a cab. 186 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Walk to a certain house. 187 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,000 There's a map here. 188 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,000 You can't miss it. 189 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Well, aren't you coming? 190 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. 191 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 I'll be there, but I got to go separately. 192 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 There's a reason for that. 193 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000 So go on, beat it now. 194 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Your train leaves in a half an hour. 195 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 You can read over your instructions on the way. 196 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Okay, I'm playing along as though this was on the level, but it better be... 197 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 It's on the level, all right, but listen. 198 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Yeah? 199 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Don't you do anything that's not in those instructions. 200 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 See? 201 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Why should we? 202 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:48,000 I'm just telling you, because I wouldn't want to see anything happen to you. 203 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Either of you. 204 00:07:50,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Well, that should have been the tip-off right there, especially for a smart guy like me. 205 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:08,000 But if you must know, by this time I'm thinking about this dame who's a slick chick, but real refined too. 206 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 You know what I mean. 207 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:17,000 And I'm thinking that this is probably the big break for her if it is on the level, so I ought to help her through with it. 208 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 So I do. 209 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:23,000 And by the time we get out to this wood bridge, we're getting along pretty good, except for one thing. 210 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:29,000 We start off from the railroad station, like it says on the map the guy gave us, looking for this certain house. 211 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Only it gets wilder and wilder where we're going, right into the woods. 212 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Must be a couple of miles. 213 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 And then all of a sudden there's a house. 214 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Well, that should have been a tip-off too. 215 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 You don't suppose that's it? 216 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 According to this map, it's got to be. 217 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 But Sylvester. 218 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Helen. 219 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Yes, Sylvester? 220 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 If you call me that once more, I will bend. 221 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 What? What did you say? 222 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:55,000 I said I will bend every effort for you, but please don't call me that. 223 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Oh, well, I just can't call you muscle. 224 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,000 It's not refined. 225 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Well, then this must be the place. 226 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 But it certainly is a funny place to have any kind of an affair. 227 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Don't look like it's been lived in for 20 years. 228 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Listen. 229 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Yeah, it's going to be a storm. 230 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Well, we better just go on inside, you know, like it says to do. 231 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 That door don't sound like it's ever been opened. 232 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Oh, gee, it's spooky in here. 233 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Yeah, I can't afraid to light it. 234 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Maybe that knife, Mr. Oh, Sylvester. 235 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,000 What? 236 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 I don't even know his name. Do you? 237 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 No, and I wish I didn't know him. 238 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Close the door. 239 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Oh, shh. 240 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 It's all right. It's me. 241 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Ah, that's the idea. 242 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Now we can have some light. 243 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Ah. 244 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Well. 245 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Well, it's nice on the inside, isn't it? 246 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Really refined. 247 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Yeah. Yeah, it used to be an old hideout. 248 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Now come on in the front room here and I'll give you the pitch. 249 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Well, don't think we're in any hurry to know because we are, see? 250 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,000 All right. 251 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Now listen. 252 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,000 In about an hour, there's going to be a guy come out here to take a bribe. 253 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:08,000 He's quite a big guy in this town and he's taken a big bribe. 254 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Two hundred thousand dollars. 255 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Two hundred grand? 256 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Yeah. He's going to take the money from another guy that he's never seen before. 257 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,000 A guy named John. 258 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 You're going to be John. 259 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Oh. Oh, so I'm going to be John. 260 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 That's right. 261 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,000 The guy you heard on the record in my office, the guy you sound like. 262 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,000 The other guy you heard is the guy that's taken the money. 263 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Yeah? 264 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Well, you can count me out. The whole thing's sti... 265 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Sylvester. 266 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Smeltz. 267 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 And if I hadn't known that you were getting a young girl... 268 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Now, wait a minute. 269 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,000 There are only two people in the world who know about this. 270 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Me and... 271 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Yeah, and who are you? 272 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Just call me Tim. 273 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Me and Grover T. Wyatt. 274 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 You know who he is. 275 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 No. 276 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 You don't mean Governor Wyatt? 277 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Yes. 278 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Why, he's nice. I voted for him. 279 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Why, he's one of the best looking men. 280 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,000 For his age, I mean. 281 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Wyatt's a swell guy. Clean as a whistle for 20 years. 282 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,000 But he made one little mistake back there. 283 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 And a certain guy has caught on to it. 284 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Well, all I can say is that if this thing doesn't come off, 285 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 if he doesn't hear from me by 3 o'clock this afternoon, 286 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 well, Governor Wyatt's a dead pigeon. 287 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 I don't care if he's a dead horse. 288 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 But I know that a grand is plenty of lettuce, 289 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 and that means plenty of trouble. 290 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 And what about this John that I'm supposed to be? 291 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000 He knows it too. 292 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,000 He's been our contact man on the phone with the scripter, and I... 293 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Well, I don't like it. And Helen here. 294 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000 What are you squawking about? 295 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 There's nothing gonna happen to you. 296 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 And there's a bonus of five apiece in there for both of you. 297 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,000 So, we stick our necks out for a lousy five bucks. 298 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Five hundred bucks? 299 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 That's what I said. A lousy five... 300 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Uh, five hundred? 301 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 That's what I said. 302 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Wow. Wow. 303 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Say, where is this bum that's been giving trouble to the Governor? 304 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 I will bend him around like a pretzel. 305 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,000 We don't need any of that. 306 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 We're just gonna get him good this time, and that's the end of him. 307 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,000 And you want me to take pictures of the, uh, transaction? 308 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Yes. Now you're getting smart. 309 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Yeah, from that landing up there. 310 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 That's why we've got so much light in here. 311 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Will it be okay? 312 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Oh, it'll be quite all right, I'm sure. 313 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Yeah, but, uh, but there's just one thing. 314 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000 What? 315 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,000 So this guy shows up and he thinks I'm John, because he's never seen John. 316 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 But what if John shows up? 317 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Well, now, this John was sort of a double-crosser. 318 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 He won't show up. 319 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 How do you know? 320 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,000 He had a little accident this morning. 321 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 He's dead. 322 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:57,000 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you William Bendix in Three Faces at Midnight. 323 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 324 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. 325 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Are you enjoying today's biggest value in an entertainment beverage? 326 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:28,000 You are when you serve Roma Wine, because Roma Wine is America's first choice for more pleasure at moderate cost. 327 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Yes, Roma's popularity proves that in Roma Wines you enjoy an important difference, 328 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:40,000 an extra goodness in fuller bouquet, richer body, and better taste. 329 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:47,000 And this difference, this better taste of Roma Wines, starts with California's choicest grapes. 330 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Then Roma master vintners, with America's finest winemaking resources, 331 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:57,000 carefully, unhurriedly guide this grape treasure to tempting taste perfection. 332 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,000 This wine is placed with mellow Roma Wines of years before. 333 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:09,000 And later, from this world's greatest reserves of fine wines, Roma selects for your pleasure. 334 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:16,000 That's why Roma Wines are different, why Roma Wines taste better every time. 335 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:27,000 So for your best buy in good taste, insist on Roma Wine, R-O-M-A, Roma, the greatest name in wine. 336 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:33,000 And now, Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood Soundstage, William Bendix as Sylvester Walters, 337 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:39,000 with Sandra Gould as Helen, his partner in adventure, in Three Faces at Midnight, 338 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,000 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 339 00:14:43,000 --> 00:15:02,000 So there we are, just sitting and waiting in a house that looks like something Boris Karloff moved out of because it made him nervous. 340 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Me and this guy called Tim that's working for this governor called Wyatt, 341 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,000 and this slick chick called Helen that's going to take the pictures, 342 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:16,000 just sitting and waiting for a guy that's going to come and take a bribe of 200 grand from another guy called John. 343 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Only I'm going to be John on a kind of ice sound just like him, and this other guy has never seen him, 344 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,000 and anyway this John has just got himself knocked off. 345 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,000 You don't get it? Neither do I. 346 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,000 But for 500 bucks, who am I to have to know everybody's business? 347 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:38,000 And Helen, she's sitting there as cool as though bribes of 200 grand and dead guys named John 348 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,000 was just something she run across at the dime store novelty counter. 349 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 So we go over what I'm supposed to say to this guy a couple of times, 350 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,000 and the storm outside getting worse all the time. 351 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 And then we hear the knock on the door. 352 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,000 That's him. That's him. Now all the dough's there in the briefcase. You know what to do. 353 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Helen, up on that landing quick. 354 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Okay, okay. 355 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Where are you going to be? 356 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Right in this closet. Now go to it and make it look good. 357 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Excuse me. Is this Mr. Hampton? 358 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 No, this is John. 359 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Oh. I guess I lost my way. Which way is the road? 360 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Three faces for midnight. 361 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Okay. I knew your voice anyway. 362 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Come on in. 363 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 You alone? 364 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000 What do you think? 365 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,000 I'm asking. 366 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,000 200 grand. I got to answer questions two nuts. 367 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Okay, okay. You got it? 368 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Yeah. And this briefcase. 369 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 200 G notes. 370 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 I don't like that. It was supposed to be smaller. 371 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 What's the point? 372 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Well, that's how you're getting it. You want to count it? 373 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 What for? It better be right. 374 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Yeah, look it over. I don't want no kickbacks. 375 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Okay. 200 grand. 376 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,000 But you'll never get to spend it. 377 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Oh, a plant, huh? 378 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Yes, with pictures. Do you like it? 379 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Well, that's too bad, Tim. Too bad for you boys. 380 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Look out! 381 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Why did you do that for? 382 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Drop that gun! Drop it! 383 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,000 I got it. I got it. 384 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Now stand. Stand back from the muscles. 385 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Stand back. 386 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Tim! No, not him! No! Not him! 387 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:23,000 No! No! 388 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Nice. Nice. 389 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Muscle. 390 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Oh, Phil Baxter. 391 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Yeah. 392 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Are they... 393 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Dead? Yeah. Both of them. 394 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Oh, Phil Baxter. What are we going to do? 395 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Well, I got what you might call a rough idea. 396 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,000 What? 397 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Come on. We're going to get to... 398 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Out of here! 399 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,000 We have to walk the two miles to the station through the pouring rain. 400 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,000 But even all that cold water don't seem to make my brains work any better. 401 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:11,000 We don't get back to town until about 4.30 and I still don't have it figured out. 402 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 And Helen, well, I guess you can't blame her. 403 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,000 She just don't seem to have much experience in these things. 404 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,000 So we're standing there under an awning, arguing. 405 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 But, Phil Baxter, why don't we just go to the police or somebody and tell them? 406 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Look, sugar, there's three guys been knocked off today. 407 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,000 We were there when it happened, the two of them. 408 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 And how do we know that that guy Tim told us was on the level? 409 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Well, maybe the police would tell us. 410 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Yeah, with a rubber hose. And here's another thing. 411 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:39,000 We're carrying around a briefcase full of 200 grand of somebody else's dough. 412 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,000 And that ain't hay and it ain't good. 413 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Well, my goodness, what's so bad about it? 414 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 All we have to do is keep it until Sunday. 415 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Helen, look, I'm not really a tough guy, see? 416 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 All I know is what I see in the movies. 417 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 But I know that when you're walking around with that much hot money, 418 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,000 you're apt to wake up some day and find you've been living on borrowed time. 419 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Didn't you see what happened to that guy in that movie, the killers? 420 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Oh, yeah, wasn't that good? That poor Burt Lancaster. I felt so sorry for him. 421 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Well, I don't want to wind up no Burt Lancaster. 422 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Even to make you feel sorry for me. 423 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 So the first thing we got to do is ditch this dough. 424 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Ditch? Really? 425 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,000 I mean before they find those two stiffs out there 426 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000 and then start trying to find a funny-looking guy 427 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 and a cute-looking dame with a sack full of dough. 428 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,000 We got to find the parties that belong to it before they find us. 429 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Now you catch on. 430 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 But we can't give it back to the man it belongs to. 431 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Yeah, and he said there was nobody in on the deal but him and the governor. 432 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,000 The governor? Why, that's what we'll do, silly. Just call the governor. 433 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Yeah, how do you do that? Just look him up in the classified ads? 434 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,000 I don't know. Ask information. Somebody must know his number. 435 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 After all, you know, he's a very important man. 436 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Well, it might be worth a try at that. 437 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Of course it is. There's probably a phone booth right here in the dress store. 438 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Yeah, but calling the governor just like that, I don't know. 439 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,000 X-3, X-3, governor, commit suicide, paper-butt-feeted. 440 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 I've got enough to worry me without the gov... 441 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:05,000 The governor. Tell him. The governor. He's dead. 442 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Well, of course. Now I remember what that guy said about the governor being a dead pigeon if he didn't get word by 3 o'clock. 443 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 But it's too late now for that to do anybody much good to us or him either. 444 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 There was just one more chance, that employment agency. 445 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,000 The rain had almost stopped now and we went over to Central Avenue to look for it. 446 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Of course this is the place. I'd recognize it any time. 447 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Yeah, where's the sign with the jobs on it? 448 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,000 I don't know. Maybe they took it to take it down when it rained to keep the letters from running. 449 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Yeah, maybe. The joint looks closed to me. It is. 450 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Hey, anybody in there? Hey, hey, open up. Come on, open up, open up. 451 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,000 What do you want? 452 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 We, uh, we want to see the boss. 453 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,000 I'm in charge here. What do you want? 454 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Well, we were sort of looking for a couple of jobs. 455 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000 I don't have no jobs. I'm just trying to rent this place. It's vacant. 456 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000 Vacant? Isn't this an employment agency? 457 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Not since this morning. You want to rent it? 458 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Look, this is kind of important to us. The guy that had it before, he was sort of a tough looking little gray haired guy, huh? 459 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Yeah, yeah, that's a guy. A guy by the name of Whiting. George Whiting. 460 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000 I know his name with him. 461 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Look, lady, if you know so much, what are you asking me for? 462 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,000 It's all right. He probably had two names. You wouldn't know his home address, would you? 463 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:36,000 I don't know a thing about the man, fella. If you got to see him so bad, the only thing I could advise you to do is, uh, stick around on the off chance he might come back. 464 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 But he can't. He's dead. 465 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,000 He's worried to skip it. We got the wrong guy. 466 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,000 That last crack didn't help none because I knew that guy would remember us sure. 467 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:56,000 And now I saw the whole thing. That employment racket was just a phony setup to catch a couple of patsies. 468 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Plus, I headed us back to the choo-choo station. On the way I slipped a G-note out of the briefcase. It was time to do something fast. 469 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Leave town? Oh, but I don't want to leave town. It's nice here. 470 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Yeah, they got nice comfortable slabs in the morgue, too. Come on, we're going to check this briefcase. 471 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:17,000 But what are we going to check it for if we're going to leave town? If it's too heavy, Mr. Walters, I'll carry it. 472 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Look, sugar, for the last time, I hope, three guys are dead. 473 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,000 The governor of a state almost as important as Brooklyn has just knocked himself off. 474 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:33,000 All on account of what's in this bag. We are ditching this bag, sugar, and we are lambing. 475 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,000 I'll explain what that means later. Uh, check this, will you, bud? 476 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,000 When do you want it? Sometime next week. I'm going out of town. 477 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Okay, two bits now and two bits more for every day you leave it. You pay the rest later. 478 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Here we are. 25,000. 25,000. 479 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Hey, what is this, a gag? Well, what's the matter now? 480 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:58,000 A thousand bucks. Oh, oh, oh, I must have made a mistake. 481 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,000 You sure must have. Yeah, yeah, but I don't seem to have nothing smaller. 482 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Well, I sure ain't going to change this. Okay, okay, give me the bag. Come on, Helen. 483 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Hey, wait. Hey, Jerry, stop that guy. What? Hey, hey, you, wait a minute. 484 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Now look, officer, I just... Come on, come on, the man wants to see you. What's the matter, Sam? 485 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000 That guy must be nuts. He just walked off and left a thousand dollar bill. 486 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Oh, did I say? A G-note, let me see. Well, it's mine. Ask him. 487 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Where'd you get this, bud? Well, why, officer, I, I, well, I just made a little killing at the track. 488 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Which track? Why, the, uh, look, I just wanted to check my bag, officer. 489 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,000 What's in that bag? Nothing, nothing, officer, just some purely personal stuff. 490 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Ah, let me see. Say, what is it? Give me that bag. 491 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Well, well, well. What's in it, Jerry? 492 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Aye, there's nothing in this bag at all. Nothing at all. Just a little movie camera. 493 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,000 You see, I told you. And about a million bucks. Come on. 494 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:58,000 Come on, Sylvester. Come clean. 495 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,000 I told you. And please, please don't call me that. 496 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,000 We ain't started to call you nothing yet, Sylvester. Why'd you kill him? 497 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,000 They kill him for the dough, didn't you? Where'd you hear about it? How'd you know he had the dough? 498 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:14,000 This is your gun, isn't it? No, no, no. I told you, they knocked off each other. I was just... 499 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Sure, sure, with the same gun. One guy shoots the other one and then hands him over to the police. 500 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Only the gun's got your prints all over it. 501 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,000 I took it away from the guy. You were robbing the house, weren't you? 502 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000 They came to make their deal and you knocked them off. Listen, the governor himself knew... 503 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Sure, we'll get the governor to come right down and make a statement. 504 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 You trying to be funny, Sylvester? 505 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000 You were robbing the house. You swiped the camera and you put it in the bag and then they came in. 506 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 You saw all that dough and you knocked them off. 507 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Listen, Sylvester, you don't want to get that sweet little girlfriend of yours to do that. 508 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:49,000 Listen, Sylvester, you don't want to get that sweet little girlfriend of yours in the jam, do you? 509 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Helen, what have you done to her? Nothing. 510 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000 Yet. Come on, come clean and we'll let her go. 511 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:02,000 But I tell you, I... Come on, Sylvester, or we'll send her to the hot seat with you. 512 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:07,000 You wouldn't. You couldn't. No, that's what you think. You killed him, didn't you? You killed him. 513 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Well, okay. Okay, I killed him. Now you're happy? 514 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:18,000 That's a boy. That's a boy. Sylvester. Hey, get this, Harry. 515 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Now will you stop calling me that? Okay, Sylvester, you killed him. 516 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 What was the girl doing there? She had nothing to do with it. She was just taking the pictures. 517 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:32,000 What pictures? The pictures. The pictures! 518 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:45,000 There's your answer, you big dopes. Go look at the pictures. 519 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Oh, he's right, Mac. Those pictures show the whole thing. 520 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Pete shot Tim O'Mara and then this guy got the gun away from him and O'Mara shot Pete, just like he said. 521 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Yeah. Now you catch on? You sure? No argument, Mac. It's all right there in the film. 522 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Well, you're a lucky boy, Sylvester. Yeah, sure. I get all the breaks. 523 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Now go on. Beat it. Beat it before we think of something else. Okay, you've had your fun. 524 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Didn't you like it, Sylvester? But if you'll take off that gun and that badge for a minute, I will bend you around like a pretzel. 525 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:38,000 You mean right here, Sylvester? Yeah, right here. 526 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:48,000 After I served my 90 days, I went and got my name changed by a judge from Sylvester to Mussels. It's legal now. 527 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:57,000 Mr. Mussels Walters. It may sound funny to you, but I like it. Oh, yeah. And Helen got her name changed, too. 528 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:18,000 She's Mrs. Mussels Walters. 529 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:27,000 Suspense. Presented by Roma Wines. R-O-M-A. Roma. America's favorite wine. 530 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:34,000 And now this is Ken Niles returning for a curtain call with the rugged star of tonight's suspense play, William Bendix. 531 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Bill, are those bulges in your coat really Mussels or did your tailor install them? 532 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Well, they ain't morph balls, chum. You want to see me tear up a phone book? 533 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:48,000 Ah, you're safe. I don't happen to have one on me. Well, I will demonstrate with my script. 534 00:27:48,000 --> 00:28:05,000 Hmm. Only 30 pages. Hey, give me yours too, Ken. Well, uh. Now, I fold them once, then twice, and then I stack up the pieces and. 535 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Oh, that's fine. There went both scripts. Now what do we read from? But you don't need a script to tell folks how good Roma wines are, do you? 536 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Ah, you're right, Bill. And to start with, here's a gift basket of Roma California wines with compliments from Roma, the greatest name in wine. 537 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:32,000 Well, that's what I call a magnanimous gesture. And now let me hear you tell about this Roma Sherry without a script. 538 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:40,000 Certainly, Bill. Roma Sherry is the perfect first call for dinner, the ideal wine for entertaining anytime. 539 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:49,000 Roma Sherry is the favorite of millions because golden amber fragrant Roma Sherry is so good, so many tasty ways. 540 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:59,000 You'll enjoy Roma Sherry before dinner, Bill. And when guests drop in, delight them with the warmth and graciousness, the tempting nut-like taste of Roma Sherry. 541 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:12,000 This guy knows his way. Yes, because I know that in all Roma wines you enjoy an important difference, an extra goodness in fuller bouquet, richer body, and better taste. 542 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:19,000 That's why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. He's done it. Thanks, Ken, and good night. 543 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:27,000 William Bendix appears through the courtesy of Procter & Gamble, makers of DREF, and can soon be seen in the Paramount picture, Blaze of Noon. 544 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,000 Tonight's Suspense Play was written by John Eugene Hasty and Robert Richards. 545 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:39,000 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Eddie Bracken as star of Suspense. 546 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:47,000 Produced and directed by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 547 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:59,000 In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars as Howard De Silva, Kirk Douglas, James Stewart, Nancy Kelly, and many others. 548 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:05,000 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, radio's outstanding theatre of thrill. 549 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:12,000 Stay tuned for the thrilling adventures of the FBI in Peace and War, following immediately over most of these stations. 550 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:17,000 This is PBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.