1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Yes, Roma wines taste better because only Roma selects from the world's greatest wine 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,400 reserves for your pleasure. 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:21,400 And now, Roma wines, R-O-M-A, Roma wines present Suspense. 4 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:29,560 Tonight, Roma wines bring you Mr. Lloyd Nolan in Green-Eyed Monster, a suspense play produced, 5 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:34,560 edited and directed for Roma wines by William Spear. 6 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:43,120 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma wines. 7 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,120 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 8 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:52,080 Those better tasting California wines, enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine. 9 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,640 For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 10 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:00,360 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma wines bring you Lloyd Nolan. 11 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:06,080 Get a remarkable tale of Suspense. 12 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,760 I got to sleep pretty late. 13 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,160 I'd been reading a book about the Civil War and I got interested in the section on Gettysburg. 14 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,720 There was some material there I hadn't known about. 15 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:21,120 I didn't sleep very well even after I had turned off the bed light. 16 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,400 You know, when you're accustomed to having someone else in the house, it's a sort of 17 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,560 an uneasy feeling to know that you're alone. 18 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:34,200 I remember hearing the clock in the front room strike four and I must have fallen asleep. 19 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:39,560 I was dreaming as I recall it about a very bloody battle between the blue and the gray. 20 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:45,080 When the alarm clock went off, it was set for seven because I knew I'd had a busy day 21 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:46,080 ahead. 22 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,600 It took me a little while to realize what it was because in the dream at that moment 23 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:54,280 I'd invented a bell that scared the opposing forces right off the field. 24 00:01:54,280 --> 00:02:00,200 That is nice and quiet then. 25 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:07,080 I lay warm in bed for a while trying to remember my dream and not succeeding. 26 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,100 When I did remember that I was alone in the house, that Margaret wasn't there to wake 27 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:15,240 me up if I dozed off for just a few more minutes. 28 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,960 I'd just gotten out of bed when the telephone made a loud early morning noise. 29 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:24,240 I shoved my feet halfway into some slippers and muttered down the hallway. 30 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,240 Yes? 31 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,240 Sorry to disturb you. 32 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:29,240 Is this Michael Dawson? 33 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,240 A little early, but I think so. 34 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,240 Do you drive a Pontiac convertible license number 99R479? 35 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:37,240 Yes. 36 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,240 Where's your car now, Mr. Dawson? 37 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,160 It's right in front of the house. 38 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:42,160 What's up? 39 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,160 Will you look and see if it's there? 40 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:44,160 Say, who is this? 41 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:45,160 Police Department, Sergeant O'Connell. 42 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:46,160 Oh, well, just a minute. 43 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:54,160 I thought it was awfully early in the morning for this to happen. 44 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:59,080 It's awfully hard to think clearly when you haven't had a cup of coffee or a cigarette. 45 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:04,920 I walked to the front window and my car wasn't there. 46 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:09,440 And I went back to the phone, still thinking how hard it is to think clearly when it's 47 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:10,440 early in the morning. 48 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:11,440 Hello? 49 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,400 Yeah, right here, Mr. Dawson. 50 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:14,400 It's gone, the car. 51 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:15,400 I just wanted to be sure. 52 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:16,400 Your car was stolen last night, Mr. Dawson. 53 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:17,400 It's pretty badly banged up. 54 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:18,400 You insured? 55 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:19,400 Well, I think so. 56 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,400 I don't know. 57 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,400 I suggest you report the theft of the insurance company and come down to the police garage 58 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,400 with a pink owner's slip. 59 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,400 Oh, all right. 60 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,400 I'll be down as soon as I can. 61 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:38,600 I got dressed, made coffee, drank it, had a cigarette, and I called Tommy Castle, my 62 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:39,600 insurance man. 63 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,360 I told him that the Pontiac had been stolen and what the cop had told me to do, and he 64 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,040 said he'd drive me down to the garage. 65 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,000 I had the pink slip on the desk and I took it with me. 66 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,600 It was a quarter to eight when Tommy picked me up in front of the house. 67 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,240 We drove down to the police station and started walking around to the garage. 68 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:57,240 You don't need to worry, Mike. 69 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:58,240 You're very well covered. 70 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,320 Now aren't you glad that you took all the insurance I recommended? 71 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,320 Well, I suppose so. 72 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:02,680 Because you're very well covered. 73 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,400 Well, that's swell, but if it's completely wrecked, where am I going to get another car? 74 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,280 They can probably fix it like new, and it won't be long before the market will be flooded 75 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:11,280 with new cars. 76 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:12,280 Mr. Dawson? 77 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,280 Yes? 78 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:14,280 Sergeant O'Connor. 79 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:15,680 Car's over there, Mr. Dawson. 80 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:16,680 Where? 81 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:17,680 Oh, yeah. 82 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:18,680 Oh, I see. 83 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:19,680 Pretty smashed up. 84 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,040 Now, let's look it over very closely, Mike. 85 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,080 What a mess. 86 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:28,840 Well, it serves me right for leaving it out in the street all night. 87 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:30,600 Never would have happened if my wife had been home. 88 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,560 Yeah, Margaret, this is more thorough than you are, Mike. 89 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,800 Is Mrs. Dawson a blonde, about five feet three? 90 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:37,800 Oh, yeah. 91 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:43,720 Why, do you know her? 92 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:53,000 Is that your wife, Mr. Dawson? 93 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,400 Stuffed in the trunk of the car was Margaret. 94 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,560 She was wearing the same dress she'd had on the day. 95 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,360 Tuesday it was. 96 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,200 The day she'd gone to visit her mother, the whole scene was very clear. 97 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,800 I can remember easily. 98 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:14,000 Her face was smudged, and I thought she wouldn't like to be seen with her face dirty, and her 99 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,720 clothes were badly rumpled. 100 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:21,460 And just below the left shoulder blade, sticking up straight from her back, was the handle 101 00:05:21,460 --> 00:05:25,120 of a brass letter opener. 102 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,680 I started to weave a little then. 103 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,520 Hey, you all right, Mr. Dawson? 104 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:30,520 Easy, Mike, easy. 105 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:31,520 Come over here and sit down. 106 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:32,520 I'm all right. 107 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:33,520 Please, I'm all right. 108 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,520 Sorry, I told you that way, but we had reasons. 109 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:37,520 Reasons? 110 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,520 Well, it seems to me that you could have been a little more of... 111 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:40,520 Look what I've done. 112 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:41,520 I wanted to kill Margaret. 113 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:46,160 She had a few little faults the same as all of us who were on a kill for them. 114 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,160 Here, now, here. 115 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:48,160 Come on, sit down, sit down. 116 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,560 Looks like our local Jack the Ripper again, stabbing the old general's setup. 117 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,040 He never did anyone any harm. 118 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:56,040 You better take him home. 119 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,040 In a minute, in a minute. 120 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:58,040 Let him sit here a while. 121 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,040 Poor Margaret. 122 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:10,080 Poor little blonde bug. 123 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,640 I did that pretty well, don't you think? 124 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:14,400 Because I wasn't surprised at all. 125 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,960 I'd planned the whole morning. 126 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:21,000 I didn't think it would all happen that early, but I knew it would happen. 127 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,680 You see, I had stolen my car and left it wrecked for the police to find. 128 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:32,320 And in the trunk of my car, I'd stuffed the body of my wife, Margaret, who I had stabbed 129 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:44,760 in the back at 4.30 Tuesday afternoon. 130 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:50,040 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Lloyd Nolan in Green-Eyed Monster. 131 00:06:50,040 --> 00:07:02,320 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 132 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:07,600 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 133 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,040 More Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 134 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:18,560 Yes, Roma is America's favorite wine for everyday pleasure, for gracious hospitality. 135 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:24,840 Because in Roma, you enjoy the important difference of better wine, extra goodness in fuller bouquet, 136 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,760 richer body, and better taste. 137 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,600 And there's a reason Roma wines taste better. 138 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,120 First, Roma selects California's choicest grapes. 139 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:40,160 Then, with ancient skill and America's finest winemaking resources, Roma master ventners 140 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:45,440 guide this grape treasure unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 141 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,680 Taste choice wines are placed with mellow Roma wines of years before. 142 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:56,640 And from these reserves, the world's greatest reserves of fine wines, Roma later selects 143 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,480 for your pleasure. 144 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:04,200 Discover for yourself the finer quality, the better taste of Roma California wines. 145 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:09,360 Tomorrow, enjoy a glass of Roma Sherry, Port or Muscatel. 146 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:14,240 You'll agree that Roma wine is your best buy in good taste. 147 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:19,120 That's R-O-M-A, Roma, the better tasting wine. 148 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:25,240 And now, Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Lloyd Nolan as Michael Dawson and 149 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:31,640 Kathy Lewis as his wife Judy in Green-Eyed Monster, a tale well calculated to keep you 150 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:43,440 in suspense. 151 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:48,440 I was, of course, the prime suspect in the murder of my wife, Margaret. 152 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:53,040 The only thing was that there had been a series of crimes in my neighborhood during the last 153 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,160 couple of months, crimes that all followed a general pattern. 154 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:01,320 And since I was clever enough to fix Margaret's murder so that the death was as neat as the 155 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:06,160 others had all been, it was decided at the coroner's inquest that the murder had been 156 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:11,600 committed by a person or persons unknown, by which they meant the Jack the Ripper character 157 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:21,440 that was running around loose, and I wasn't held. 158 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:29,200 I waited a decent week after it was all over, and then I called Judy, my Judy. 159 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,280 Oh, she was so beautiful. 160 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:38,480 She was tall and brunette and willowy and beautiful, with the loveliest green eyes you 161 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:39,800 ever saw. 162 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,840 She answered the phone right away and said she'd be right over. 163 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:49,880 Come in, honey. 164 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,320 You're the most beautiful thing in the world. 165 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,360 I'll bet you say that to all the girls. 166 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:57,360 Come here. 167 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,880 Really, everybody in the street will see us. 168 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:00,880 It's okay. 169 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,840 Say, where'd you get that dress? 170 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:04,840 An old aunt gave it to me. 171 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:05,840 It didn't fit her anymore. 172 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:06,840 It fits you. 173 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:07,840 Thank you. 174 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,440 Come on in. 175 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:11,440 In the kitchen. 176 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,360 Have you a new recipe for poached eggs? 177 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,040 No, I want to tell you something. 178 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:16,880 A story, Mike, so early? 179 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,960 A story, a beautiful story about a lovely brunette and a guy who's nuts about her. 180 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,000 Who could you mean? 181 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Come here, will you? 182 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,440 Oh, yeah. 183 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:28,800 You're very friendly today. 184 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,320 Well, you shouldn't have worn that dress. 185 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:32,320 This is the way it affects you. 186 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:33,320 I wear it all the time. 187 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:34,320 Have you missed me? 188 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:35,320 Sure. 189 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:36,320 Have you missed me a lot? 190 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:37,320 Naturally. 191 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:38,320 You love me, don't you? 192 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,320 Of course I love you. 193 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,040 You rehearsing for your bar exam? 194 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:43,040 Come on. 195 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:44,040 Sit down there. 196 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,040 All righty, I'll sit down here. 197 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:48,040 Cup of coffee? 198 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:49,040 A cup of coffee. 199 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:50,040 Okay. 200 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:51,040 There you are. 201 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:52,040 Don't you want some? 202 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:53,040 Uh-uh, no. 203 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:54,040 Sworn off? 204 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:55,040 No, I... 205 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:56,040 I have something to tell you. 206 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:57,040 I'm sorry about your wife. 207 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:58,040 Yeah. 208 00:10:58,040 --> 00:10:59,040 Yeah, it was quite a blow. 209 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:00,040 I'll bet you are. 210 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:01,040 I'm sorry. 211 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:02,040 I'm sorry. 212 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:03,040 I'm sorry. 213 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:04,040 I'm sorry. 214 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:05,040 I'm sorry. 215 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:06,040 I'm sorry. 216 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:07,040 I'm sorry. 217 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:08,040 I'm sorry. 218 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:09,040 You don't have to say that. 219 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:10,040 What do you mean by that? 220 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:11,040 I thought you said you loved me. 221 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:12,040 Well, I do. 222 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:13,600 Then you aren't too sad about Margaret, are you? 223 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,080 Well, it's shame that she had to end up that way. 224 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:18,080 You know how those things are. 225 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,360 Give me a kiss and stop talking so much. 226 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,760 Ah, new perfume? 227 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:24,760 Mm-hmm. 228 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:25,760 Where'd you get it? 229 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:26,760 Oh! 230 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:27,760 Where'd you get it? 231 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:28,760 Well, really? 232 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:29,760 Do you own me or something? 233 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:30,760 I want to know where you got that perfume. 234 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:31,760 Well, sit down and relax. 235 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,760 What's the matter with you? 236 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:34,760 I ought to slap your face. 237 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,760 You do and I'll slap you right back. 238 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:38,760 Judy, I love you. 239 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:39,760 Of course you do. 240 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:41,760 Well, that's what I want to know. I get jealous. 241 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:42,760 Naturally. 242 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:43,760 Do you love me? 243 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:44,760 Sure. 244 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:46,760 You don't act like you love me. 245 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,760 Do you want me to gaze at you with great, fond eyes? 246 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:50,760 No, no, of course not. 247 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:51,760 What do you want? 248 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,760 I want you to tell me that you love me. 249 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:55,760 Why? 250 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:56,760 Because I... 251 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:57,760 Go on. 252 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:02,760 Well, I've proven how much I want you. I think that you should return the feeling. 253 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:03,760 How have you? 254 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:04,760 Have what? 255 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:05,760 Proven how much you want me. 256 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:11,760 Why, by telling you over and over again that I love you by loving you more than Margaret. Why? 257 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,760 By killing Margaret. 258 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:15,760 What? 259 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,760 You heard me. 260 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:18,760 What makes you think I killed Margaret? 261 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:19,760 Didn't you? 262 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,760 Now look, Judy, this is a pretty tough way to treat me. 263 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,760 Didn't you? 264 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,760 Yes. 265 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,760 Then I love you. 266 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,760 Kiss me, Mike. 267 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:45,760 She loved me. She really loved me. That's all I cared about, all I could think about. 268 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,760 She was so wonderful. She just... 269 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:53,760 We got a little house in Glendale and were married out there when nobody knew us. 270 00:12:53,760 --> 00:13:00,760 And then that first evening, the first hour almost, that we were alone together in our own home, somebody came to the door. 271 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,760 Now there was Tommy Cassely barged in. He talked and talked about insurance. 272 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,760 Now you know I'm your friend, Mike, and yours too, Mrs. Dawson. 273 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:12,760 That's why... well, that's why I feel it's my privilege, yes, my duty to talk to you this way. 274 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:13,760 Yeah. 275 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:17,760 Now, I'm the last one in the world who wants to stir up any unhappy memories, but... 276 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:24,760 Well, if you remember, Mike, I urged you repeatedly to take out a joint life insurance policy on yourself and on your... well, that is the former... 277 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:25,760 You mean Margaret. 278 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:27,760 Yes, yes, thank you, thank you. 279 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:29,760 Well, you know what happened? 280 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:30,760 What happened, Mr. Cassely? 281 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:38,760 Why, he never took out the insurance. And so when Margaret... when the... I mean she simply wasn't insured. 282 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:40,760 Maybe that's just as well, Mr. Cassely. 283 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,760 Well, I'm afraid I don't follow you, Mr. Cassely. 284 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:49,760 Mike had collected any insurance when Margaret was killed. Those silly policemen, you know how they are. 285 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,760 They might have thought Mike had some reason... 286 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:52,760 What, Judy? 287 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:58,760 Well, as I was saying, now you two are just married. A whole new life ahead for you, and now is the time to think about the future. 288 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:02,760 Now listen, I don't like this whole conversation. This is no way to talk to a man on his wedding day. 289 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:07,760 Ah, but Mike, that's where you're wrong, my boy. This is just the way to talk to a man on his wedding day. 290 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:09,760 Now, can I talk to you for just a second, Mike, private? 291 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,760 No, no, no, please, please don't go, Mrs. Dawson. This will only take a second. 292 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:14,760 Now, listen, Tommy, this is our wedding day after... 293 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,760 Mike, Mike, listen to me. You ought to sign an application on Judy's life. 294 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,760 Why do you know how many women are killed in automobile accidents every year? 295 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:28,760 And here, here in Los Angeles, this Jack the Ripper character only kills women, you know. 296 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,760 All right, all right, let me sign it, and please, Tommy, will you? 297 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,760 Why, sure, sure. Yeah, there we are. 298 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,760 Of course you'll have to take a physical examination, but that'll be nothing to a youngster like you, you know. 299 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,760 Folks, I can't tell you how much this is going to mean to you when... 300 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,760 What did I do with my hat? Oh, yeah, there it is, there it is. 301 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,760 I can't tell you how much this is going... 302 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:48,760 Mr. Castle, are you going straight back into town? 303 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,760 Ah, yes, yes, yes, I am. Anything I can do? 304 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:53,760 I think I'll ride in with you if you don't mind. 305 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,760 Well, yeah, I'd be delighted to... 306 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:57,760 But, Judy... 307 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,760 I'm sorry, Mike, I forgot to tell you an old girlfriend of mine called me today. 308 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:02,760 She's in town just the one night, and I told her I'd see her. 309 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:03,760 But, Judy, it's... 310 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:05,760 I know, but just one of those things, dear. 311 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,760 Are we ready, Mr. Castle? 312 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,760 Uh, yeah, ready? Sure, sure, I'm ready. 313 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,760 Don't worry, darling, don't wait up. 314 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:18,760 Well, I just stood there. 315 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,760 I didn't know what to say or what to do. 316 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:26,760 On our wedding night, I moved a curtain aside and watched her go down the walk with Tommy. 317 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,760 She was holding onto his arm real tight, too tight. 318 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,760 She smiled up at him. 319 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,760 I went into the living room and tried to read Sandberg's Lincoln. 320 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:38,760 It's quite a book, five big volumes. 321 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:40,760 Oh, but I couldn't read. 322 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,760 By midnight, I was in a blind rage. 323 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,760 I was going to get in the car and go look for it. 324 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,760 I was going to call the police. 325 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:51,760 And a minute later, I was in a cold sweat of fear that something might have happened to her. 326 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,760 And then back to a blind, scalding jealousy again. 327 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,760 Finally, it got to be 3.30 in the morning. 328 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:05,760 Hello? 329 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,760 Tommy, is that you, Tommy? 330 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,760 Oh, Mike, I just came in. 331 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:12,760 I heard the phone ringing and ran up the stairs. 332 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:14,760 I'm a little out of breath. 333 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:15,760 Where's Judy? 334 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:16,760 Judy? 335 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:17,760 Oh, you mean the missus? 336 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,760 I don't know, didn't she? 337 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:20,760 When did you see her last? 338 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:24,760 Why, I let her out at sunset on Western and that was about... 339 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:26,760 Oh, you did, didn't you? 340 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:27,760 Of course I did. 341 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,760 Good gosh, Mike, you don't think that I... 342 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,760 Hello, darling, I told you not to wait up. 343 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:34,760 It's four o'clock in the morning. 344 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:36,760 I know, darling, I'm sorry. 345 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:38,760 Poor Ethel wanted to talk about her troubles. 346 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:39,760 I just couldn't bear to leave. 347 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:40,760 I smell coffee. 348 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,760 Poor Ethel, this was our wedding night. 349 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,760 Darling, you're white as a sheet and you're trembling. 350 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:48,760 But sure I am. 351 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,760 I'm wondering about it this hour in this... 352 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,760 this jack-the-ripper character... 353 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:53,760 What was that? 354 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,760 Where have you been? What have you been doing? 355 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,760 I just told you, Ethel, darling, we want... 356 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:58,760 Now listen to me. 357 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:00,760 Listen to me. 358 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:04,760 If you ever do anything like this again... 359 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:06,760 Now, darling, you listen to me. 360 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,760 You're not going to try to run my life for me, are you? 361 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,760 Your life? I'm thinking about our life. 362 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:12,760 I'm thinking about the... 363 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,760 Mike, that's what I'm thinking about our life. 364 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:17,760 And that's not all I'm thinking about. 365 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:18,760 Well, all right then. 366 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,760 I'm thinking about Margaret. 367 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:22,760 Margaret? 368 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:24,760 You mustn't be like this, darling. 369 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:27,760 You must promise me not ever again. 370 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,760 Because I don't think Margaret would like it. 371 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,760 Well, she couldn't have made it much plainer, could she? 372 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,760 And that's the way it was. 373 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,760 From then on, my life was a nightmare. 374 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,760 Someone you're crazy in love with and crazy jealous of. 375 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:49,760 Wondering where they are, who they're with. 376 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,760 Not able to do a thing about it. 377 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:54,760 Sometimes I'd think it was getting better. 378 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:55,760 It was going to be all right. 379 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,760 She'd stay at home for days of the stretcher a couple of weeks. 380 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,760 And then it would begin all over again. 381 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,760 She'd just take the car and go. 382 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,760 Always some girlfriend, she said. 383 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:07,760 Girlfriend. 384 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:09,760 Well, finally, I guess I did go a little crazy. 385 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:10,760 I had to know one way or the other. 386 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:12,760 So one night when she was getting ready to go out, 387 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:13,760 I went to the garage. 388 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,760 I jimmyed the lock on the trunk compartment of the car 389 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,760 so she couldn't be snapped shut again. 390 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,760 And I crawled in, pulled the lid down after me. 391 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,760 It must have been crazy because it never even crossed my mind 392 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,760 until I was lying in there all scrunched up in the dark 393 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,760 about the last time anybody had been in there. 394 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:32,760 I mean, Margaret. 395 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,760 She drove for quite a while. 396 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,760 It almost seemed as though she was just cruising around. 397 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,760 I mean, not heading for any place in particular. 398 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,760 Finally she stopped. 399 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:56,760 I heard her get out of the car and go in somewhere. 400 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:57,760 When I was sure she had gone, 401 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:00,760 I cracked the lid of the trunk open and looked out. 402 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:02,760 It was dark. 403 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:06,760 She was going into a crummy little cafe. 404 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,760 She was in there a long time. 405 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,760 And when she came out, there was somebody with her. 406 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:13,760 It was a girl. 407 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:14,760 There we are. 408 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,760 Thanks, trouble. I'll drive you home. 409 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:17,760 It's kind of a long way. 410 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,760 I could get a taxi. 411 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:20,760 I don't mind. 412 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:21,760 Go ahead, get in. 413 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,760 Well, thanks. 414 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:32,760 So it was a girl, Carly. 415 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,760 This time anyway. 416 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,760 And then the car was stopping. 417 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,760 I cracked the lid of the trunk again. 418 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,760 It was a nice night and the convertible top was down 419 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:44,760 and I heard it all. 420 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:45,760 But this isn't the way. 421 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,760 Why are we stopping? 422 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:48,760 You'll find out. 423 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:49,760 Get out. 424 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:50,760 Don't argue. Get out. 425 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:52,760 Say, if this is your idea of a joke or something, 426 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:53,760 all I can say is... 427 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:02,760 As the car roared off, 428 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,760 I had a glimpse of it lying there by the road. 429 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,760 The girl's body with a knife in the back, dead. 430 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,760 After the car was back in the garage, 431 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,760 it seemed as though I lay in that dark trunk for hours, 432 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,760 shaking, trembling all over. 433 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:21,760 After a while, I crawled out of the trunk, 434 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,760 all cramped and stiff and went into the house. 435 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:27,760 And there she was in bed. 436 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:31,760 She looked at me with those half-closed eyes. 437 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,760 Those lovely, 438 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,760 lovely eyes. 439 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,760 And then she turned over with a little sigh 440 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,760 and was fast asleep. 441 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,760 As I lay there in bed staring into the darkness, 442 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,760 the only answer that seemed to make any sense 443 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:56,760 was that I was losing my mind 444 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,760 because of what I'd done to Margaret, maybe. 445 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:00,760 I was just a little girl. 446 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,760 I was a little girl. 447 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,760 I was losing my mind because of what I'd done to Margaret, maybe. 448 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,760 That I'd imagined the whole thing. 449 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,760 But the next morning, there it all was in the papers. 450 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,760 More murder pictures. 451 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,760 Fiend strikes again. 452 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,760 Fiend. 453 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:22,760 That was my Judy. 454 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,760 My lovely, wonderful Judy. 455 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:32,760 The woman I was in love with. 456 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,760 From then on, I watched her like a hawk. 457 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,760 Day and night, I never let her out of my sight. 458 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:41,760 I hardly slept at all. 459 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,760 I did things like letting the air out of the tires 460 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,760 so she couldn't use the car. 461 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:47,760 Like hiding everything in the whole house 462 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:48,760 that was sharp, appointed. 463 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,760 Knives, ice picks, scissors, letter openers. 464 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,760 And Judy, she was wonderful. 465 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:56,760 Calm, serene. 466 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,760 Apparently without the faintest idea of what was in my mind. 467 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:06,760 I watched her and I began to think what I had before. 468 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,760 That somehow it must have been a terrible mistake. 469 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,760 That was what I was thinking last night. 470 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,760 Here we are. 471 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,760 I brought you some tea and Malviteau's, darling. 472 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:16,760 Oh. 473 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:17,760 You're looking better, I think. 474 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:19,760 Well, thanks. Thanks, Judy. 475 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,760 By the way, whatever happened to that letter opener? 476 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,760 The new one we used to have on the desk. 477 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,760 The, uh, the what? 478 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,760 The letter opener. 479 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,760 What do you want it for? 480 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:31,760 Open letters, silly. 481 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,760 First of the month, there's a stack of bills in there that high. 482 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,760 You're not thinking of going out, are you? 483 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,760 You don't know where that letter opener is? 484 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,760 No. No, I don't. 485 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,760 I guess I can find something else that will do just as well. 486 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,760 I had the letter open, of course, 487 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,760 but I didn't tell her, I didn't dare. 488 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,760 I could feel it inside my inside pocket 489 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,760 as I lay there on the couch in the den 490 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,760 where I could watch the front hall and the living room door. 491 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,760 I heard her fussing around upstairs for a while 492 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,760 and then she came down and I heard the back door close. 493 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,760 She was going to the garage. 494 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:18,760 As I got up, I could feel the letter opener pressing against my side. 495 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:24,760 It was a terrible pain in my head. 496 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,760 I don't know exactly what happened after that. 497 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,760 The next thing, the phone was ringing and it was morning. 498 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:45,760 I got up off the couch and I stumbled out into the hall to answer. 499 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,760 I'm always groggy in the morning, 500 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,760 but before I've had my coffee and a cigarette, 501 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,760 but this morning was as though I'd been drugged or something. 502 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,760 I couldn't think at all. 503 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:00,760 Hello? 504 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,760 Mr. Dawson? Michael Dawson? 505 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:03,760 Yeah, yeah. 506 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,760 You drive a Pontiac convertible license number 99R479? 507 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,760 Yeah, yeah, I think that's the number one. 508 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,760 Well, we've got your car, Mr. Dawson. 509 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,760 Your insurance agent, Mr. Castle, is down here already. 510 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:16,760 Oh, yes. 511 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,760 We'd like you to come down here right away and bring your pink owner's slip. 512 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:20,760 Oh, wait, who's this? 513 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,760 This is the police department. 514 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,760 I was still pretty much in a bog when I got down there. 515 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,760 I couldn't quite figure things out. 516 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,760 My car must have been stolen again, really stolen this time. 517 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,760 Wrecked, I suppose. 518 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,760 And where was Judy? 519 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,760 Maybe she'd wrecked it. 520 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,760 Or maybe they'd caught her. 521 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,760 No, but then they'd have told me about it, 522 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,760 not just asked about the car. 523 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,760 Tommy met me outside. He must have been waiting for me. 524 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:52,760 How are you feeling, old man? 525 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,760 I... all right, I guess. 526 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,760 I'm afraid you're in for kind of a shock. 527 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:57,760 Why, is it pretty bad? 528 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:58,760 Pretty bad. 529 00:24:58,760 --> 00:24:59,760 Oh, there he is now. 530 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:00,760 Mr. Dawson? 531 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:01,760 Yes. 532 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,760 Come this way, please. 533 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,760 Is that your car, Mr. Dawson? 534 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:07,760 Yes. 535 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,760 Yes, but it isn't wrecked. 536 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,760 Doesn't seem to be anything the matter with it at all. 537 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:13,760 Lift up the trunk, will you, Sergeant? 538 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:15,760 Yes, sir. 539 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:29,760 She was lying in there with her head twisted round, 540 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:37,760 staring at me with those lovely sightless green eyes, dead. 541 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,760 Judy, my Judy. 542 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,760 And the letter opener was in her back. 543 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:47,760 I'll be all right. 544 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:48,760 You'll come around in a minute. 545 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:49,760 You better get a sonographer in. 546 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,760 He'll probably want to make a statement now. 547 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,760 You all right now, old man? 548 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:54,760 Yeah, sure. 549 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:55,760 Well, you can't pay the insurance, of course, you know. 550 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:56,760 You understand that? 551 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:57,760 Insurance? 552 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,760 Yes, the life insurance on Judy, but I'll get your lawyer to do anything I can. 553 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:01,760 Lawyer? 554 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,760 Don't you think you're going to need one, Mr. Dawson? 555 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:04,760 Oh, I'll take care of all of that. 556 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,760 One accident, that's one thing, but two, two wives, both in your car. 557 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,760 Now there's your letter opener with your fingerprints on it. 558 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,760 It won't go, Mr. Dawson, not anymore. 559 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,760 And then, of course, there are all the others, 560 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,760 seven of them that you've killed in the last three months. 561 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:17,760 That I killed? 562 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,760 Now, now, Mr. Dawson, you're not going to give us any trouble, are you? 563 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:22,760 No. 564 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:23,760 No. 565 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:31,760 No, I'm not going to give you any trouble. 566 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:37,760 Well, I guess, I guess I killed her, all right, and I must have. 567 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,760 I didn't kill the others, of course, but I confessed to them. 568 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,760 I was glad to. 569 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:50,760 I'd rather have them think that it was me than Judy, my beautiful, green-eyed Judy. 570 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,760 Well, I've got lots of time to read. 571 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,760 I'm almost through the third volume now, till that life of Lincoln. 572 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,760 Only two more volumes to go. 573 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:23,760 They're pretty long, pretty thick, but I think I'll make it just about. 574 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:24,760 Suspense. 575 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:31,760 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, Roma, America's favorite wines. 576 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,760 This is Truman Bradley bringing back for A Curtain Call our suspense star of the evening, 577 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:36,760 Lloyd Nolan. 578 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,760 Lloyd, ever since I saw you in Lady and the Lake, I've been wanting to ask you how you 579 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:42,760 liked acting directly into the camera. 580 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,760 You know, talking and looking right at the lens as if it were an individual. 581 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:51,760 Well, I really, I enjoyed it, but it was a little tough acting as easier when you're 582 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:52,760 talking to another person. 583 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,760 It sort of helps to watch his reactions, see his expressions change as you deliver the 584 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:58,760 lines. 585 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,760 Well, Lloyd, if you like to watch reactions, just try this idea, will you? 586 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,760 To see your friend's expressions reflect pleasant anticipation, serve them Roma California 587 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,760 Sherry from this hamper of Roma wines. 588 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:14,760 Yours to enjoy with the compliments of Roma, the greatest name in wine. 589 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:15,760 Thanks, Truman, I will. 590 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,760 I'm sure you'll find, as I do, that everyone enjoys Roma Sherry. 591 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,760 For this gold and amber, fragrant wine with its tempting nut-like taste is so good so 592 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:25,760 many ways. 593 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:31,760 Roma Sherry is the perfect first call to dinner, the ideal start to a pleasant meal every day. 594 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,760 And Roma Sherry is delightful and right for friendly entertaining anytime. 595 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,760 That's right, Truman. 596 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,760 Roma Sherry is always the best to taste. 597 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:44,760 Yes, Roma Sherry does taste better because Roma selects the better tasting wines from 598 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,760 the world's greatest wine reserves. 599 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:51,760 That accounts for the delightful difference in Roma wines, the fuller bouquet, richer 600 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,760 body, and the better taste. 601 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:59,760 That's why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 602 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,760 Three very good reasons, Truman. 603 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,760 Well, thank you and good night. 604 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,760 Lloyd Nolan appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox, producers of the late 605 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,760 George Apley. 606 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,760 Tonight's suspense play was written by Elliot Lewis and Robert Richards. 607 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:21,760 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Richard Conte as star of Suspense. 608 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:30,760 Produced and directed by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 609 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:51,760 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.