WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.000 Yes, Roma wines taste better because only Roma selects from the world's greatest wine reserves for your pleasure. 00:09.000 --> 00:15.000 And now Roma wines, R-O-M-A, Roma wines present Suspense. 00:19.000 --> 00:24.000 Tonight, Roma wines bring you Mr. William Bendix as star of Free Faces at Midnight, 00:24.000 --> 00:30.000 a Suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma wines by William Spear. 00:32.000 --> 00:39.000 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:39.000 --> 00:49.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines, those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine. 00:49.000 --> 00:52.000 For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 00:52.000 --> 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. 01:06.000 --> 01:13.000 They say they got 58 million jobs in this country, 58 million jobs, and I had to pick this one. 01:14.000 --> 01:19.000 Well, that's the way it goes. Some guys have got some special ability that other guys don't have. 01:19.000 --> 01:22.000 They just get picked out of the crowd, I guess, in spite of themselves. 01:23.000 --> 01:28.000 Well, this day I'm walking along Central Avenue, not paying much attention to anything in particular. 01:28.000 --> 01:32.000 Then I see this sign, help wallet, it says, jobs. 01:32.000 --> 01:37.000 Then it's got a list of different kinds of jobs, like chauffeur, house painter, salesman. 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 There's nothing so funny about that. 01:40.000 --> 01:45.000 But then I see what kind of dough they're paying, and brother, what kind of dough they're paying. 01:45.000 --> 01:49.000 I'm thinking maybe this inflation ain't such a bad idea after all. 01:49.000 --> 01:51.000 And I walk in. 01:51.000 --> 01:55.000 Well, there's quite a bunch of guys in there, naturally, sitting around on benches. 01:55.000 --> 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. 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 And the guy goes in a sort of an office with him. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 And that's the last we ever see of him. 02:06.000 --> 02:10.000 So this keeps happening for a while, and I'm thinking this guy must really be handing out the jobs. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 And then the door opens again, and the guy is looking at me. 02:14.000 --> 02:15.000 Hey, you. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 Me? 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 Yes, you. 02:17.000 --> 02:20.000 All right, sit down. 02:20.000 --> 02:21.000 What's your name? 02:21.000 --> 02:22.000 Walters. 02:22.000 --> 02:23.000 First name? 02:23.000 --> 02:24.000 Uh... 02:24.000 --> 02:27.000 What's the matter, don't you know it? 02:27.000 --> 02:28.000 Muscles. 02:28.000 --> 02:29.000 What? 02:29.000 --> 02:30.000 Muscles. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 And look, don't try to clown with me, pal. 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 What's your name? 02:33.000 --> 02:37.000 Listen, for your information, my first name is Sylvester. 02:37.000 --> 02:41.000 Only I don't like the name Sylvester, so most people don't call me Sylvester. 02:41.000 --> 02:45.000 On account of it's better for them that way, so they call me Muscles. 02:45.000 --> 02:46.000 Now, you catch on? 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 Yeah. 02:47.000 --> 02:48.000 Live here in town? 02:48.000 --> 02:49.000 No. 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 Where are you from? 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 Brooklyn. 02:51.000 --> 02:52.000 I should have known it. 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 What's your IQ? 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Come again? 02:54.000 --> 02:55.000 Skip it, skip it. 02:55.000 --> 02:56.000 Got any friends in town? 02:56.000 --> 02:57.000 No, just... 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 And I can see why. 02:58.000 --> 03:02.000 Look, Pop, are you talking to me about a job or a poking a nose? 03:02.000 --> 03:03.000 What? 03:03.000 --> 03:06.000 You wouldn't try to get tough with me, would you, you big baboon? 03:06.000 --> 03:07.000 Wait. 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 Is, uh, is that gun loaded, Pop? 03:10.000 --> 03:11.000 Yeah. 03:11.000 --> 03:13.000 Now you want to make something out of it? 03:13.000 --> 03:14.000 No, I don't. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 And how do you like that? 03:15.000 --> 03:20.000 But if you will put that heater down for a minute, Pop, I will bend you around like a pretzel. 03:20.000 --> 03:23.000 You know, I think you're going to be all right, son. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 Yeah? 03:24.000 --> 03:25.000 Hold it now. 03:25.000 --> 03:26.000 Hold it, hold it. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.000 Don't get sore. 03:27.000 --> 03:29.000 I was just trying something out on you, that's all. 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 You take awful chances, Pop. 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 Guns don't, uh, worry you much, do they? 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 Guns? 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 I spent the last four years playing with firearms for Uncle Whiskers. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 Guns to me are like the measles. 03:40.000 --> 03:41.000 I don't worry about them. 03:41.000 --> 03:46.000 I, I just got a healthy respect for them, and I like to keep my distance, that's all. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 Especially when the other guys got them and I don't. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 Yeah, I think you're going to be all right. 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 For what? 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 Oh, yeah, yeah. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 What kind of a job did you want? 03:54.000 --> 03:55.000 Oh, I don't know. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 I've been a cabbie, drove a truck. 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 I was a salesman for a while. 03:58.000 --> 03:59.000 For who? 03:59.000 --> 04:00.000 Lionel Strongfort? 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 No. 04:01.000 --> 04:02.000 Ladies lingerie. 04:02.000 --> 04:03.000 Mail order house. 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 Yeah? 04:04.000 --> 04:08.000 Well, you'll make a lot more on this job than you would as any salesman. 04:08.000 --> 04:11.000 Now, uh, listen, say this after me. 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 What? 04:12.000 --> 04:16.000 This is John, three faces for midnight. 04:16.000 --> 04:17.000 Come again? 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 Come on, come on, say it, say it. 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 It's part of the job. 04:19.000 --> 04:23.000 Listen, if this job means I got to play left end for the Nuthouse, it's out. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 Don't worry, pal, don't worry. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 You're going to like this job. 04:25.000 --> 04:26.000 Now, come on, say it. 04:26.000 --> 04:31.000 This is John, three faces for midnight. 04:31.000 --> 04:34.000 Huh? 04:34.000 --> 04:35.000 What can I lose? 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 This is John, three faces for midnight. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 Again? 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 This is John, three faces for midnight. 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 Mm-hmm. 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, you're going to be all right. 04:46.000 --> 04:47.000 Well, is that good? 04:47.000 --> 04:48.000 Listen to this. 04:48.000 --> 04:49.000 What's that? 04:49.000 --> 04:50.000 A dictograph that plays records. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Oh, yeah, well, that's more like it. 04:52.000 --> 04:53.000 Now, you got cross- 04:53.000 --> 04:54.000 Shh, listen. 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 Yes? 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 This is John. 04:57.000 --> 05:01.000 Which way is the road, three faces for midnight? 05:01.000 --> 05:03.000 Well, we're ready. 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 Tomorrow night, regular time. 05:05.000 --> 05:06.000 I'll call. 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 There, did you get it? 05:08.000 --> 05:11.000 Well, they sound just like a couple of mugs to me, especially that guy John. 05:11.000 --> 05:13.000 I guess nobody ever does. 05:13.000 --> 05:14.000 Why? 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 Recognize their own voice when they hear it. 05:16.000 --> 05:20.000 That guy John sounds enough like you to be your twin brother. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 Well, I guess a guy can't help what he's- 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 You mean I sound like that? 05:24.000 --> 05:25.000 I mean you're hired. 05:25.000 --> 05:27.000 What a price to pay for a job. 05:27.000 --> 05:30.000 Go on through that door to the back and wait for me. 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 I got a couple of things to do and then we'll get busy. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 Well, okay, but this better be on the level. 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 Because so far it sure stinks. 05:37.000 --> 05:40.000 Oh, pardon me. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 You all alone in here? 05:42.000 --> 05:43.000 I was. 05:43.000 --> 05:45.000 Well, I didn't mean to interrupt or anything. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 Only he sent me in here. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 Oh, it's quite all right. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 Like yourself quite at home. 05:50.000 --> 05:51.000 Well, thanks. 05:51.000 --> 05:56.000 Only I hope you won't mind if I return to the pursual of my magazine. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 Oh, oh, you were reading. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 I like to read myself sometimes. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 I'm sure. 06:02.000 --> 06:06.000 You're working for this guy? 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 I'm afraid that's confidential. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 Ah, so he gave you that too, huh? 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 Why, yes. 06:12.000 --> 06:13.000 Are you working for him? 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 I don't know if you could call it working. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Well, didn't he tell you anything? 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 Yeah. 06:18.000 --> 06:22.000 All about how I sounded like a guy named John and what did I think about guns. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 Guns? 06:23.000 --> 06:24.000 Yeah. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 Oh. 06:25.000 --> 06:26.000 Well, what are you supposed to do? 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 Well, I don't know exactly. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 That sounds just as crazy as what I'm supposed to do. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 Well, you see, I'm a photographer. 06:32.000 --> 06:33.000 Oh, you take pictures? 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 Uh-huh. 06:34.000 --> 06:38.000 I'm just an amateur really, but I get some very good pictures. 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 I showed him some, a 16 millimeter. 06:41.000 --> 06:42.000 What's that? 06:42.000 --> 06:43.000 Movies with this camera here. 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 See? 06:44.000 --> 06:47.000 Oh, well, if this is some kind of gig for the movies, then it makes sense. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 They say in that racket everybody's crazy. 06:49.000 --> 06:51.000 Well, I don't know. 06:51.000 --> 06:55.000 I figured he wanted me to take some pictures of some kind of an affair, 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 some wedding or something. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 Well, what am I supposed to do, give the bride away? 06:59.000 --> 07:00.000 Now I wanted to... 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 Oh, you two get acquainted? 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 Well, we were making a start. 07:04.000 --> 07:05.000 Good. 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 Okay, now look, I got all your instructions written down here. 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 Everything you're supposed to do. 07:10.000 --> 07:15.000 You take a train to Woodbridge and walk, not take a cab. 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 Walk to a certain house. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 There's a map here. 07:18.000 --> 07:19.000 You can't miss it. 07:19.000 --> 07:20.000 Well, aren't you coming? 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 I'll be there, but I got to go separately. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 There's a reason for that. 07:25.000 --> 07:26.000 So go on, beat it now. 07:26.000 --> 07:27.000 Your train leaves in a half an hour. 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 You can read over your instructions on the way. 07:29.000 --> 07:33.000 Okay, I'm playing along as though this was on the level, but it better be... 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 It's on the level, all right, but listen. 07:35.000 --> 07:36.000 Yeah? 07:36.000 --> 07:40.000 Don't you do anything that's not in those instructions. 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 See? 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 Why should we? 07:42.000 --> 07:48.000 I'm just telling you, because I wouldn't want to see anything happen to you. 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 Either of you. 07:50.000 --> 08:01.000 Well, that should have been the tip-off right there, especially for a smart guy like me. 08:01.000 --> 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. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 You know what I mean. 08:10.000 --> 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. 08:17.000 --> 08:18.000 So I do. 08:18.000 --> 08:23.000 And by the time we get out to this wood bridge, we're getting along pretty good, except for one thing. 08:23.000 --> 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. 08:29.000 --> 08:33.000 Only it gets wilder and wilder where we're going, right into the woods. 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 Must be a couple of miles. 08:35.000 --> 08:37.000 And then all of a sudden there's a house. 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 Well, that should have been a tip-off too. 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 You don't suppose that's it? 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 According to this map, it's got to be. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 But Sylvester. 08:44.000 --> 08:45.000 Helen. 08:45.000 --> 08:46.000 Yes, Sylvester? 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 If you call me that once more, I will bend. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 What? What did you say? 08:50.000 --> 08:55.000 I said I will bend every effort for you, but please don't call me that. 08:55.000 --> 08:57.000 Oh, well, I just can't call you muscle. 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 It's not refined. 08:59.000 --> 09:01.000 Well, then this must be the place. 09:01.000 --> 09:04.000 But it certainly is a funny place to have any kind of an affair. 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 Don't look like it's been lived in for 20 years. 09:07.000 --> 09:08.000 Listen. 09:08.000 --> 09:09.000 Yeah, it's going to be a storm. 09:09.000 --> 09:13.000 Well, we better just go on inside, you know, like it says to do. 09:15.000 --> 09:18.000 That door don't sound like it's ever been opened. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 Oh, gee, it's spooky in here. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 Yeah, I can't afraid to light it. 09:22.000 --> 09:25.000 Maybe that knife, Mr. Oh, Sylvester. 09:25.000 --> 09:26.000 What? 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 I don't even know his name. Do you? 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 No, and I wish I didn't know him. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 Close the door. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 Oh, shh. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 It's all right. It's me. 09:37.000 --> 09:38.000 Ah, that's the idea. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 Now we can have some light. 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 Ah. 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 Well. 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 Well, it's nice on the inside, isn't it? 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 Really refined. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 Yeah. Yeah, it used to be an old hideout. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Now come on in the front room here and I'll give you the pitch. 09:51.000 --> 09:55.000 Well, don't think we're in any hurry to know because we are, see? 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 All right. 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 Now listen. 09:58.000 --> 10:02.000 In about an hour, there's going to be a guy come out here to take a bribe. 10:02.000 --> 10:08.000 He's quite a big guy in this town and he's taken a big bribe. 10:08.000 --> 10:10.000 Two hundred thousand dollars. 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 Two hundred grand? 10:12.000 --> 10:16.000 Yeah. He's going to take the money from another guy that he's never seen before. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 A guy named John. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 You're going to be John. 10:20.000 --> 10:24.000 Oh. Oh, so I'm going to be John. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 That's right. 10:26.000 --> 10:30.000 The guy you heard on the record in my office, the guy you sound like. 10:30.000 --> 10:34.000 The other guy you heard is the guy that's taken the money. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 Yeah? 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 Well, you can count me out. The whole thing's sti... 10:38.000 --> 10:39.000 Sylvester. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 Smeltz. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 And if I hadn't known that you were getting a young girl... 10:42.000 --> 10:43.000 Now, wait a minute. 10:43.000 --> 10:46.000 There are only two people in the world who know about this. 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 Me and... 10:47.000 --> 10:48.000 Yeah, and who are you? 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 Just call me Tim. 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 Me and Grover T. Wyatt. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 You know who he is. 10:54.000 --> 10:55.000 No. 10:55.000 --> 10:57.000 You don't mean Governor Wyatt? 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 Yes. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.000 Why, he's nice. I voted for him. 11:01.000 --> 11:03.000 Why, he's one of the best looking men. 11:03.000 --> 11:05.000 For his age, I mean. 11:05.000 --> 11:08.000 Wyatt's a swell guy. Clean as a whistle for 20 years. 11:08.000 --> 11:12.000 But he made one little mistake back there. 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 And a certain guy has caught on to it. 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 Well, all I can say is that if this thing doesn't come off, 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 if he doesn't hear from me by 3 o'clock this afternoon, 11:21.000 --> 11:24.000 well, Governor Wyatt's a dead pigeon. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 I don't care if he's a dead horse. 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 But I know that a grand is plenty of lettuce, 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 and that means plenty of trouble. 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 And what about this John that I'm supposed to be? 11:32.000 --> 11:33.000 He knows it too. 11:33.000 --> 11:36.000 He's been our contact man on the phone with the scripter, and I... 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 Well, I don't like it. And Helen here. 11:38.000 --> 11:39.000 What are you squawking about? 11:39.000 --> 11:40.000 There's nothing gonna happen to you. 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 And there's a bonus of five apiece in there for both of you. 11:42.000 --> 11:45.000 So, we stick our necks out for a lousy five bucks. 11:45.000 --> 11:46.000 Five hundred bucks? 11:46.000 --> 11:49.000 That's what I said. A lousy five... 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 Uh, five hundred? 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 That's what I said. 11:54.000 --> 11:57.000 Wow. Wow. 11:57.000 --> 12:00.000 Say, where is this bum that's been giving trouble to the Governor? 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 I will bend him around like a pretzel. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 We don't need any of that. 12:04.000 --> 12:07.000 We're just gonna get him good this time, and that's the end of him. 12:07.000 --> 12:11.000 And you want me to take pictures of the, uh, transaction? 12:11.000 --> 12:12.000 Yes. Now you're getting smart. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 Yeah, from that landing up there. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 That's why we've got so much light in here. 12:16.000 --> 12:17.000 Will it be okay? 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 Oh, it'll be quite all right, I'm sure. 12:19.000 --> 12:23.000 Yeah, but, uh, but there's just one thing. 12:23.000 --> 12:24.000 What? 12:24.000 --> 12:28.000 So this guy shows up and he thinks I'm John, because he's never seen John. 12:28.000 --> 12:31.000 But what if John shows up? 12:31.000 --> 12:36.000 Well, now, this John was sort of a double-crosser. 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 He won't show up. 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 How do you know? 12:40.000 --> 12:43.000 He had a little accident this morning. 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 He's dead. 12:45.000 --> 12:57.000 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you William Bendix in Three Faces at Midnight. 12:57.000 --> 13:11.000 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:11.000 --> 13:16.000 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. 13:16.000 --> 13:20.000 Are you enjoying today's biggest value in an entertainment beverage? 13:20.000 --> 13:28.000 You are when you serve Roma Wine, because Roma Wine is America's first choice for more pleasure at moderate cost. 13:28.000 --> 13:34.000 Yes, Roma's popularity proves that in Roma Wines you enjoy an important difference, 13:34.000 --> 13:40.000 an extra goodness in fuller bouquet, richer body, and better taste. 13:40.000 --> 13:47.000 And this difference, this better taste of Roma Wines, starts with California's choicest grapes. 13:47.000 --> 13:51.000 Then Roma master vintners, with America's finest winemaking resources, 13:51.000 --> 13:57.000 carefully, unhurriedly guide this grape treasure to tempting taste perfection. 13:57.000 --> 14:02.000 This wine is placed with mellow Roma Wines of years before. 14:02.000 --> 14:09.000 And later, from this world's greatest reserves of fine wines, Roma selects for your pleasure. 14:09.000 --> 14:16.000 That's why Roma Wines are different, why Roma Wines taste better every time. 14:16.000 --> 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. 14:27.000 --> 14:33.000 And now, Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood Soundstage, William Bendix as Sylvester Walters, 14:33.000 --> 14:39.000 with Sandra Gould as Helen, his partner in adventure, in Three Faces at Midnight, 14:39.000 --> 14:43.000 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:43.000 --> 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. 15:02.000 --> 15:06.000 Me and this guy called Tim that's working for this governor called Wyatt, 15:06.000 --> 15:10.000 and this slick chick called Helen that's going to take the pictures, 15:10.000 --> 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. 15:16.000 --> 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, 15:21.000 --> 15:24.000 and anyway this John has just got himself knocked off. 15:24.000 --> 15:28.000 You don't get it? Neither do I. 15:28.000 --> 15:32.000 But for 500 bucks, who am I to have to know everybody's business? 15:32.000 --> 15:38.000 And Helen, she's sitting there as cool as though bribes of 200 grand and dead guys named John 15:38.000 --> 15:42.000 was just something she run across at the dime store novelty counter. 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 So we go over what I'm supposed to say to this guy a couple of times, 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 and the storm outside getting worse all the time. 15:48.000 --> 15:51.000 And then we hear the knock on the door. 15:51.000 --> 15:55.000 That's him. That's him. Now all the dough's there in the briefcase. You know what to do. 15:55.000 --> 15:56.000 Helen, up on that landing quick. 15:56.000 --> 15:57.000 Okay, okay. 15:57.000 --> 15:58.000 Where are you going to be? 15:58.000 --> 16:02.000 Right in this closet. Now go to it and make it look good. 16:11.000 --> 16:14.000 Excuse me. Is this Mr. Hampton? 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 No, this is John. 16:16.000 --> 16:22.000 Oh. I guess I lost my way. Which way is the road? 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 Three faces for midnight. 16:24.000 --> 16:27.000 Okay. I knew your voice anyway. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 Come on in. 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 You alone? 16:31.000 --> 16:32.000 What do you think? 16:32.000 --> 16:33.000 I'm asking. 16:33.000 --> 16:36.000 200 grand. I got to answer questions two nuts. 16:36.000 --> 16:37.000 Okay, okay. You got it? 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 Yeah. And this briefcase. 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 200 G notes. 16:41.000 --> 16:44.000 I don't like that. It was supposed to be smaller. 16:44.000 --> 16:45.000 What's the point? 16:45.000 --> 16:47.000 Well, that's how you're getting it. You want to count it? 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 What for? It better be right. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 Yeah, look it over. I don't want no kickbacks. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 Okay. 200 grand. 16:53.000 --> 16:54.000 But you'll never get to spend it. 16:54.000 --> 16:55.000 Oh, a plant, huh? 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 Yes, with pictures. Do you like it? 16:57.000 --> 17:00.000 Well, that's too bad, Tim. Too bad for you boys. 17:00.000 --> 17:01.000 Look out! 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 Why did you do that for? 17:03.000 --> 17:04.000 Drop that gun! Drop it! 17:07.000 --> 17:10.000 I got it. I got it. 17:10.000 --> 17:13.000 Now stand. Stand back from the muscles. 17:13.000 --> 17:14.000 Stand back. 17:14.000 --> 17:17.000 Tim! No, not him! No! Not him! 17:17.000 --> 17:23.000 No! No! 17:23.000 --> 17:27.000 Nice. Nice. 17:27.000 --> 17:29.000 Muscle. 17:35.000 --> 17:36.000 Oh, Phil Baxter. 17:36.000 --> 17:37.000 Yeah. 17:37.000 --> 17:38.000 Are they... 17:38.000 --> 17:41.000 Dead? Yeah. Both of them. 17:41.000 --> 17:44.000 Oh, Phil Baxter. What are we going to do? 17:44.000 --> 17:48.000 Well, I got what you might call a rough idea. 17:48.000 --> 17:49.000 What? 17:49.000 --> 17:50.000 Come on. We're going to get to... 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 Out of here! 17:59.000 --> 18:02.000 We have to walk the two miles to the station through the pouring rain. 18:02.000 --> 18:06.000 But even all that cold water don't seem to make my brains work any better. 18:06.000 --> 18:11.000 We don't get back to town until about 4.30 and I still don't have it figured out. 18:11.000 --> 18:14.000 And Helen, well, I guess you can't blame her. 18:14.000 --> 18:17.000 She just don't seem to have much experience in these things. 18:17.000 --> 18:20.000 So we're standing there under an awning, arguing. 18:20.000 --> 18:24.000 But, Phil Baxter, why don't we just go to the police or somebody and tell them? 18:24.000 --> 18:27.000 Look, sugar, there's three guys been knocked off today. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 We were there when it happened, the two of them. 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 And how do we know that that guy Tim told us was on the level? 18:31.000 --> 18:33.000 Well, maybe the police would tell us. 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 Yeah, with a rubber hose. And here's another thing. 18:35.000 --> 18:39.000 We're carrying around a briefcase full of 200 grand of somebody else's dough. 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 And that ain't hay and it ain't good. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 Well, my goodness, what's so bad about it? 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 All we have to do is keep it until Sunday. 18:45.000 --> 18:49.000 Helen, look, I'm not really a tough guy, see? 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 All I know is what I see in the movies. 18:51.000 --> 18:54.000 But I know that when you're walking around with that much hot money, 18:54.000 --> 18:58.000 you're apt to wake up some day and find you've been living on borrowed time. 18:58.000 --> 19:01.000 Didn't you see what happened to that guy in that movie, the killers? 19:01.000 --> 19:05.000 Oh, yeah, wasn't that good? That poor Burt Lancaster. I felt so sorry for him. 19:05.000 --> 19:08.000 Well, I don't want to wind up no Burt Lancaster. 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 Even to make you feel sorry for me. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 So the first thing we got to do is ditch this dough. 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 Ditch? Really? 19:14.000 --> 19:16.000 I mean before they find those two stiffs out there 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 and then start trying to find a funny-looking guy 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 and a cute-looking dame with a sack full of dough. 19:20.000 --> 19:23.000 We got to find the parties that belong to it before they find us. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 Now you catch on. 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 But we can't give it back to the man it belongs to. 19:27.000 --> 19:31.000 Yeah, and he said there was nobody in on the deal but him and the governor. 19:31.000 --> 19:35.000 The governor? Why, that's what we'll do, silly. Just call the governor. 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 Yeah, how do you do that? Just look him up in the classified ads? 19:38.000 --> 19:42.000 I don't know. Ask information. Somebody must know his number. 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 After all, you know, he's a very important man. 19:44.000 --> 19:46.000 Well, it might be worth a try at that. 19:46.000 --> 19:50.000 Of course it is. There's probably a phone booth right here in the dress store. 19:50.000 --> 19:53.000 Yeah, but calling the governor just like that, I don't know. 19:53.000 --> 19:57.000 X-3, X-3, governor, commit suicide, paper-butt-feeted. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 I've got enough to worry me without the gov... 19:59.000 --> 20:05.000 The governor. Tell him. The governor. He's dead. 20:10.000 --> 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. 20:16.000 --> 20:20.000 But it's too late now for that to do anybody much good to us or him either. 20:20.000 --> 20:23.000 There was just one more chance, that employment agency. 20:23.000 --> 20:27.000 The rain had almost stopped now and we went over to Central Avenue to look for it. 20:27.000 --> 20:30.000 Of course this is the place. I'd recognize it any time. 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 Yeah, where's the sign with the jobs on it? 20:32.000 --> 20:36.000 I don't know. Maybe they took it to take it down when it rained to keep the letters from running. 20:36.000 --> 20:40.000 Yeah, maybe. The joint looks closed to me. It is. 20:40.000 --> 20:46.000 Hey, anybody in there? Hey, hey, open up. Come on, open up, open up. 20:49.000 --> 20:50.000 What do you want? 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 We, uh, we want to see the boss. 20:52.000 --> 20:55.000 I'm in charge here. What do you want? 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 Well, we were sort of looking for a couple of jobs. 20:58.000 --> 21:02.000 I don't have no jobs. I'm just trying to rent this place. It's vacant. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Vacant? Isn't this an employment agency? 21:04.000 --> 21:07.000 Not since this morning. You want to rent it? 21:07.000 --> 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? 21:14.000 --> 21:18.000 Yeah, yeah, that's a guy. A guy by the name of Whiting. George Whiting. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 I know his name with him. 21:20.000 --> 21:23.000 Look, lady, if you know so much, what are you asking me for? 21:23.000 --> 21:27.000 It's all right. He probably had two names. You wouldn't know his home address, would you? 21:27.000 --> 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. 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 But he can't. He's dead. 21:38.000 --> 21:41.000 He's worried to skip it. We got the wrong guy. 21:46.000 --> 21:50.000 That last crack didn't help none because I knew that guy would remember us sure. 21:50.000 --> 21:56.000 And now I saw the whole thing. That employment racket was just a phony setup to catch a couple of patsies. 21:56.000 --> 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. 22:04.000 --> 22:07.000 Leave town? Oh, but I don't want to leave town. It's nice here. 22:07.000 --> 22:12.000 Yeah, they got nice comfortable slabs in the morgue, too. Come on, we're going to check this briefcase. 22:12.000 --> 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. 22:17.000 --> 22:22.000 Look, sugar, for the last time, I hope, three guys are dead. 22:22.000 --> 22:27.000 The governor of a state almost as important as Brooklyn has just knocked himself off. 22:27.000 --> 22:33.000 All on account of what's in this bag. We are ditching this bag, sugar, and we are lambing. 22:33.000 --> 22:37.000 I'll explain what that means later. Uh, check this, will you, bud? 22:37.000 --> 22:40.000 When do you want it? Sometime next week. I'm going out of town. 22:40.000 --> 22:44.000 Okay, two bits now and two bits more for every day you leave it. You pay the rest later. 22:44.000 --> 22:50.000 Here we are. 25,000. 25,000. 22:50.000 --> 22:54.000 Hey, what is this, a gag? Well, what's the matter now? 22:54.000 --> 22:58.000 A thousand bucks. Oh, oh, oh, I must have made a mistake. 22:58.000 --> 23:02.000 You sure must have. Yeah, yeah, but I don't seem to have nothing smaller. 23:02.000 --> 23:06.000 Well, I sure ain't going to change this. Okay, okay, give me the bag. Come on, Helen. 23:06.000 --> 23:10.000 Hey, wait. Hey, Jerry, stop that guy. What? Hey, hey, you, wait a minute. 23:10.000 --> 23:15.000 Now look, officer, I just... Come on, come on, the man wants to see you. What's the matter, Sam? 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 That guy must be nuts. He just walked off and left a thousand dollar bill. 23:18.000 --> 23:22.000 Oh, did I say? A G-note, let me see. Well, it's mine. Ask him. 23:22.000 --> 23:27.000 Where'd you get this, bud? Well, why, officer, I, I, well, I just made a little killing at the track. 23:27.000 --> 23:32.000 Which track? Why, the, uh, look, I just wanted to check my bag, officer. 23:32.000 --> 23:36.000 What's in that bag? Nothing, nothing, officer, just some purely personal stuff. 23:36.000 --> 23:40.000 Ah, let me see. Say, what is it? Give me that bag. 23:40.000 --> 23:44.000 Well, well, well. What's in it, Jerry? 23:44.000 --> 23:49.000 Aye, there's nothing in this bag at all. Nothing at all. Just a little movie camera. 23:49.000 --> 23:53.000 You see, I told you. And about a million bucks. Come on. 23:53.000 --> 23:58.000 Come on, Sylvester. Come clean. 23:58.000 --> 24:02.000 I told you. And please, please don't call me that. 24:02.000 --> 24:06.000 We ain't started to call you nothing yet, Sylvester. Why'd you kill him? 24:06.000 --> 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? 24:09.000 --> 24:14.000 This is your gun, isn't it? No, no, no. I told you, they knocked off each other. I was just... 24:14.000 --> 24:18.000 Sure, sure, with the same gun. One guy shoots the other one and then hands him over to the police. 24:18.000 --> 24:23.000 Only the gun's got your prints all over it. 24:23.000 --> 24:26.000 I took it away from the guy. You were robbing the house, weren't you? 24:26.000 --> 24:29.000 They came to make their deal and you knocked them off. Listen, the governor himself knew... 24:29.000 --> 24:32.000 Sure, we'll get the governor to come right down and make a statement. 24:32.000 --> 24:35.000 You trying to be funny, Sylvester? 24:35.000 --> 24:38.000 You were robbing the house. You swiped the camera and you put it in the bag and then they came in. 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 You saw all that dough and you knocked them off. 24:40.000 --> 24:44.000 Listen, Sylvester, you don't want to get that sweet little girlfriend of yours to do that. 24:44.000 --> 24:49.000 Listen, Sylvester, you don't want to get that sweet little girlfriend of yours in the jam, do you? 24:49.000 --> 24:52.000 Helen, what have you done to her? Nothing. 24:52.000 --> 24:56.000 Yet. Come on, come clean and we'll let her go. 24:56.000 --> 25:02.000 But I tell you, I... Come on, Sylvester, or we'll send her to the hot seat with you. 25:02.000 --> 25:07.000 You wouldn't. You couldn't. No, that's what you think. You killed him, didn't you? You killed him. 25:07.000 --> 25:13.000 Well, okay. Okay, I killed him. Now you're happy? 25:13.000 --> 25:18.000 That's a boy. That's a boy. Sylvester. Hey, get this, Harry. 25:18.000 --> 25:22.000 Now will you stop calling me that? Okay, Sylvester, you killed him. 25:22.000 --> 25:26.000 What was the girl doing there? She had nothing to do with it. She was just taking the pictures. 25:26.000 --> 25:32.000 What pictures? The pictures. The pictures! 25:32.000 --> 25:45.000 There's your answer, you big dopes. Go look at the pictures. 25:45.000 --> 25:48.000 Oh, he's right, Mac. Those pictures show the whole thing. 25:48.000 --> 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. 25:53.000 --> 25:58.000 Yeah. Now you catch on? You sure? No argument, Mac. It's all right there in the film. 25:58.000 --> 26:05.000 Well, you're a lucky boy, Sylvester. Yeah, sure. I get all the breaks. 26:05.000 --> 26:09.000 Now go on. Beat it. Beat it before we think of something else. Okay, you've had your fun. 26:09.000 --> 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. 26:17.000 --> 26:38.000 You mean right here, Sylvester? Yeah, right here. 26:38.000 --> 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. 26:48.000 --> 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. 26:57.000 --> 27:18.000 She's Mrs. Mussels Walters. 27:18.000 --> 27:27.000 Suspense. Presented by Roma Wines. R-O-M-A. Roma. America's favorite wine. 27:27.000 --> 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. 27:34.000 --> 27:39.000 Bill, are those bulges in your coat really Mussels or did your tailor install them? 27:39.000 --> 27:42.000 Well, they ain't morph balls, chum. You want to see me tear up a phone book? 27:42.000 --> 27:48.000 Ah, you're safe. I don't happen to have one on me. Well, I will demonstrate with my script. 27:48.000 --> 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. 28:05.000 --> 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? 28:16.000 --> 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. 28:25.000 --> 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. 28:32.000 --> 28:40.000 Certainly, Bill. Roma Sherry is the perfect first call for dinner, the ideal wine for entertaining anytime. 28:40.000 --> 28:49.000 Roma Sherry is the favorite of millions because golden amber fragrant Roma Sherry is so good, so many tasty ways. 28:49.000 --> 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. 28:59.000 --> 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. 29:12.000 --> 29:19.000 That's why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. He's done it. Thanks, Ken, and good night. 29:19.000 --> 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. 29:27.000 --> 29:32.000 Tonight's Suspense Play was written by John Eugene Hasty and Robert Richards. 29:32.000 --> 29:39.000 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Eddie Bracken as star of Suspense. 29:41.000 --> 29:47.000 Produced and directed by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 29:47.000 --> 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. 29:59.000 --> 30:05.000 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, radio's outstanding theatre of thrill. 30:05.000 --> 30:12.000 Stay tuned for the thrilling adventures of the FBI in Peace and War, following immediately over most of these stations. 30:12.000 --> 30:17.000 This is PBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.