WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.000 Yes, Roma wines taste better because only Roma selects from the world's greatest wine 00:09.000 --> 00:12.400 reserves for your pleasure. 00:12.400 --> 00:21.400 And now, Roma wines, R-O-M-A, Roma wines present Suspense. 00:21.400 --> 00:29.560 Tonight, Roma wines bring you Mr. Lloyd Nolan in Green-Eyed Monster, a suspense play produced, 00:29.560 --> 00:34.560 edited and directed for Roma wines by William Spear. 00:34.560 --> 00:43.120 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma wines. 00:43.120 --> 00:46.120 That's R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 00:46.120 --> 00:52.080 Those better tasting California wines, enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine. 00:52.080 --> 00:54.640 For friendly entertaining, for delightful dining. 00:54.640 --> 01:00.360 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma wines bring you Lloyd Nolan. 01:00.360 --> 01:06.080 Get a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:06.080 --> 01:08.760 I got to sleep pretty late. 01:08.760 --> 01:13.160 I'd been reading a book about the Civil War and I got interested in the section on Gettysburg. 01:13.160 --> 01:16.720 There was some material there I hadn't known about. 01:16.720 --> 01:21.120 I didn't sleep very well even after I had turned off the bed light. 01:21.120 --> 01:25.400 You know, when you're accustomed to having someone else in the house, it's a sort of 01:25.400 --> 01:28.560 an uneasy feeling to know that you're alone. 01:28.560 --> 01:34.200 I remember hearing the clock in the front room strike four and I must have fallen asleep. 01:34.200 --> 01:39.560 I was dreaming as I recall it about a very bloody battle between the blue and the gray. 01:39.560 --> 01:45.080 When the alarm clock went off, it was set for seven because I knew I'd had a busy day 01:45.080 --> 01:46.080 ahead. 01:46.080 --> 01:49.600 It took me a little while to realize what it was because in the dream at that moment 01:49.600 --> 01:54.280 I'd invented a bell that scared the opposing forces right off the field. 01:54.280 --> 02:00.200 That is nice and quiet then. 02:00.200 --> 02:07.080 I lay warm in bed for a while trying to remember my dream and not succeeding. 02:07.080 --> 02:11.100 When I did remember that I was alone in the house, that Margaret wasn't there to wake 02:11.100 --> 02:15.240 me up if I dozed off for just a few more minutes. 02:15.240 --> 02:19.960 I'd just gotten out of bed when the telephone made a loud early morning noise. 02:19.960 --> 02:24.240 I shoved my feet halfway into some slippers and muttered down the hallway. 02:24.240 --> 02:25.240 Yes? 02:25.240 --> 02:28.240 Sorry to disturb you. 02:28.240 --> 02:29.240 Is this Michael Dawson? 02:29.240 --> 02:32.240 A little early, but I think so. 02:32.240 --> 02:36.240 Do you drive a Pontiac convertible license number 99R479? 02:36.240 --> 02:37.240 Yes. 02:37.240 --> 02:39.240 Where's your car now, Mr. Dawson? 02:39.240 --> 02:41.160 It's right in front of the house. 02:41.160 --> 02:42.160 What's up? 02:42.160 --> 02:43.160 Will you look and see if it's there? 02:43.160 --> 02:44.160 Say, who is this? 02:44.160 --> 02:45.160 Police Department, Sergeant O'Connell. 02:45.160 --> 02:46.160 Oh, well, just a minute. 02:46.160 --> 02:54.160 I thought it was awfully early in the morning for this to happen. 02:54.160 --> 02:59.080 It's awfully hard to think clearly when you haven't had a cup of coffee or a cigarette. 02:59.080 --> 03:04.920 I walked to the front window and my car wasn't there. 03:04.920 --> 03:09.440 And I went back to the phone, still thinking how hard it is to think clearly when it's 03:09.440 --> 03:10.440 early in the morning. 03:10.440 --> 03:11.440 Hello? 03:11.440 --> 03:13.400 Yeah, right here, Mr. Dawson. 03:13.400 --> 03:14.400 It's gone, the car. 03:14.400 --> 03:15.400 I just wanted to be sure. 03:15.400 --> 03:16.400 Your car was stolen last night, Mr. Dawson. 03:16.400 --> 03:17.400 It's pretty badly banged up. 03:17.400 --> 03:18.400 You insured? 03:18.400 --> 03:19.400 Well, I think so. 03:19.400 --> 03:20.400 I don't know. 03:20.400 --> 03:23.400 I suggest you report the theft of the insurance company and come down to the police garage 03:23.400 --> 03:26.400 with a pink owner's slip. 03:26.400 --> 03:28.400 Oh, all right. 03:28.400 --> 03:33.400 I'll be down as soon as I can. 03:33.400 --> 03:38.600 I got dressed, made coffee, drank it, had a cigarette, and I called Tommy Castle, my 03:38.600 --> 03:39.600 insurance man. 03:39.600 --> 03:44.360 I told him that the Pontiac had been stolen and what the cop had told me to do, and he 03:44.360 --> 03:46.040 said he'd drive me down to the garage. 03:46.040 --> 03:49.000 I had the pink slip on the desk and I took it with me. 03:49.000 --> 03:52.600 It was a quarter to eight when Tommy picked me up in front of the house. 03:52.600 --> 03:56.240 We drove down to the police station and started walking around to the garage. 03:56.240 --> 03:57.240 You don't need to worry, Mike. 03:57.240 --> 03:58.240 You're very well covered. 03:58.240 --> 04:00.320 Now aren't you glad that you took all the insurance I recommended? 04:00.320 --> 04:01.320 Well, I suppose so. 04:01.320 --> 04:02.680 Because you're very well covered. 04:02.680 --> 04:06.400 Well, that's swell, but if it's completely wrecked, where am I going to get another car? 04:06.400 --> 04:10.280 They can probably fix it like new, and it won't be long before the market will be flooded 04:10.280 --> 04:11.280 with new cars. 04:11.280 --> 04:12.280 Mr. Dawson? 04:12.280 --> 04:13.280 Yes? 04:13.280 --> 04:14.280 Sergeant O'Connor. 04:14.280 --> 04:15.680 Car's over there, Mr. Dawson. 04:15.680 --> 04:16.680 Where? 04:16.680 --> 04:17.680 Oh, yeah. 04:17.680 --> 04:18.680 Oh, I see. 04:18.680 --> 04:19.680 Pretty smashed up. 04:19.680 --> 04:22.040 Now, let's look it over very closely, Mike. 04:22.040 --> 04:24.080 What a mess. 04:24.080 --> 04:28.840 Well, it serves me right for leaving it out in the street all night. 04:28.840 --> 04:30.600 Never would have happened if my wife had been home. 04:30.600 --> 04:33.560 Yeah, Margaret, this is more thorough than you are, Mike. 04:33.560 --> 04:36.800 Is Mrs. Dawson a blonde, about five feet three? 04:36.800 --> 04:37.800 Oh, yeah. 04:37.800 --> 04:43.720 Why, do you know her? 04:43.720 --> 04:53.000 Is that your wife, Mr. Dawson? 04:53.000 --> 04:56.400 Stuffed in the trunk of the car was Margaret. 04:56.400 --> 04:59.560 She was wearing the same dress she'd had on the day. 04:59.560 --> 05:01.360 Tuesday it was. 05:01.360 --> 05:05.200 The day she'd gone to visit her mother, the whole scene was very clear. 05:05.200 --> 05:07.800 I can remember easily. 05:07.800 --> 05:14.000 Her face was smudged, and I thought she wouldn't like to be seen with her face dirty, and her 05:14.000 --> 05:16.720 clothes were badly rumpled. 05:16.720 --> 05:21.460 And just below the left shoulder blade, sticking up straight from her back, was the handle 05:21.460 --> 05:25.120 of a brass letter opener. 05:25.120 --> 05:27.680 I started to weave a little then. 05:27.680 --> 05:29.520 Hey, you all right, Mr. Dawson? 05:29.520 --> 05:30.520 Easy, Mike, easy. 05:30.520 --> 05:31.520 Come over here and sit down. 05:31.520 --> 05:32.520 I'm all right. 05:32.520 --> 05:33.520 Please, I'm all right. 05:33.520 --> 05:36.520 Sorry, I told you that way, but we had reasons. 05:36.520 --> 05:37.520 Reasons? 05:37.520 --> 05:39.520 Well, it seems to me that you could have been a little more of... 05:39.520 --> 05:40.520 Look what I've done. 05:40.520 --> 05:41.520 I wanted to kill Margaret. 05:41.520 --> 05:46.160 She had a few little faults the same as all of us who were on a kill for them. 05:46.160 --> 05:47.160 Here, now, here. 05:47.160 --> 05:48.160 Come on, sit down, sit down. 05:48.160 --> 05:52.560 Looks like our local Jack the Ripper again, stabbing the old general's setup. 05:52.560 --> 05:55.040 He never did anyone any harm. 05:55.040 --> 05:56.040 You better take him home. 05:56.040 --> 05:57.040 In a minute, in a minute. 05:57.040 --> 05:58.040 Let him sit here a while. 05:58.040 --> 05:59.040 Poor Margaret. 05:59.040 --> 06:10.080 Poor little blonde bug. 06:10.080 --> 06:12.640 I did that pretty well, don't you think? 06:12.640 --> 06:14.400 Because I wasn't surprised at all. 06:14.400 --> 06:16.960 I'd planned the whole morning. 06:16.960 --> 06:21.000 I didn't think it would all happen that early, but I knew it would happen. 06:21.000 --> 06:26.680 You see, I had stolen my car and left it wrecked for the police to find. 06:26.680 --> 06:32.320 And in the trunk of my car, I'd stuffed the body of my wife, Margaret, who I had stabbed 06:32.320 --> 06:44.760 in the back at 4.30 Tuesday afternoon. 06:44.760 --> 06:50.040 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Lloyd Nolan in Green-Eyed Monster. 06:50.040 --> 07:02.320 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 07:02.320 --> 07:07.600 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 07:07.600 --> 07:12.040 More Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 07:12.040 --> 07:18.560 Yes, Roma is America's favorite wine for everyday pleasure, for gracious hospitality. 07:18.560 --> 07:24.840 Because in Roma, you enjoy the important difference of better wine, extra goodness in fuller bouquet, 07:24.840 --> 07:27.760 richer body, and better taste. 07:27.760 --> 07:30.600 And there's a reason Roma wines taste better. 07:30.600 --> 07:34.120 First, Roma selects California's choicest grapes. 07:34.120 --> 07:40.160 Then, with ancient skill and America's finest winemaking resources, Roma master ventners 07:40.160 --> 07:45.440 guide this grape treasure unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 07:45.440 --> 07:49.680 Taste choice wines are placed with mellow Roma wines of years before. 07:49.680 --> 07:56.640 And from these reserves, the world's greatest reserves of fine wines, Roma later selects 07:56.640 --> 07:58.480 for your pleasure. 07:58.480 --> 08:04.200 Discover for yourself the finer quality, the better taste of Roma California wines. 08:04.200 --> 08:09.360 Tomorrow, enjoy a glass of Roma Sherry, Port or Muscatel. 08:09.360 --> 08:14.240 You'll agree that Roma wine is your best buy in good taste. 08:14.240 --> 08:19.120 That's R-O-M-A, Roma, the better tasting wine. 08:19.120 --> 08:25.240 And now, Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Lloyd Nolan as Michael Dawson and 08:25.240 --> 08:31.640 Kathy Lewis as his wife Judy in Green-Eyed Monster, a tale well calculated to keep you 08:31.640 --> 08:43.440 in suspense. 08:43.440 --> 08:48.440 I was, of course, the prime suspect in the murder of my wife, Margaret. 08:48.440 --> 08:53.040 The only thing was that there had been a series of crimes in my neighborhood during the last 08:53.040 --> 08:57.160 couple of months, crimes that all followed a general pattern. 08:57.160 --> 09:01.320 And since I was clever enough to fix Margaret's murder so that the death was as neat as the 09:01.320 --> 09:06.160 others had all been, it was decided at the coroner's inquest that the murder had been 09:06.160 --> 09:11.600 committed by a person or persons unknown, by which they meant the Jack the Ripper character 09:11.600 --> 09:21.440 that was running around loose, and I wasn't held. 09:21.440 --> 09:29.200 I waited a decent week after it was all over, and then I called Judy, my Judy. 09:29.200 --> 09:31.280 Oh, she was so beautiful. 09:31.280 --> 09:38.480 She was tall and brunette and willowy and beautiful, with the loveliest green eyes you 09:38.480 --> 09:39.800 ever saw. 09:39.800 --> 09:43.840 She answered the phone right away and said she'd be right over. 09:43.840 --> 09:49.880 Come in, honey. 09:49.880 --> 09:52.320 You're the most beautiful thing in the world. 09:52.320 --> 09:56.360 I'll bet you say that to all the girls. 09:56.360 --> 09:57.360 Come here. 09:57.360 --> 09:59.880 Really, everybody in the street will see us. 09:59.880 --> 10:00.880 It's okay. 10:00.880 --> 10:03.840 Say, where'd you get that dress? 10:03.840 --> 10:04.840 An old aunt gave it to me. 10:04.840 --> 10:05.840 It didn't fit her anymore. 10:05.840 --> 10:06.840 It fits you. 10:06.840 --> 10:07.840 Thank you. 10:07.840 --> 10:10.440 Come on in. 10:10.440 --> 10:11.440 In the kitchen. 10:11.440 --> 10:13.360 Have you a new recipe for poached eggs? 10:13.360 --> 10:15.040 No, I want to tell you something. 10:15.040 --> 10:16.880 A story, Mike, so early? 10:16.880 --> 10:21.960 A story, a beautiful story about a lovely brunette and a guy who's nuts about her. 10:21.960 --> 10:24.000 Who could you mean? 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Come here, will you? 10:26.000 --> 10:27.440 Oh, yeah. 10:27.440 --> 10:28.800 You're very friendly today. 10:28.800 --> 10:31.320 Well, you shouldn't have worn that dress. 10:31.320 --> 10:32.320 This is the way it affects you. 10:32.320 --> 10:33.320 I wear it all the time. 10:33.320 --> 10:34.320 Have you missed me? 10:34.320 --> 10:35.320 Sure. 10:35.320 --> 10:36.320 Have you missed me a lot? 10:36.320 --> 10:37.320 Naturally. 10:37.320 --> 10:38.320 You love me, don't you? 10:38.320 --> 10:39.320 Of course I love you. 10:39.320 --> 10:42.040 You rehearsing for your bar exam? 10:42.040 --> 10:43.040 Come on. 10:43.040 --> 10:44.040 Sit down there. 10:44.040 --> 10:47.040 All righty, I'll sit down here. 10:47.040 --> 10:48.040 Cup of coffee? 10:48.040 --> 10:49.040 A cup of coffee. 10:49.040 --> 10:50.040 Okay. 10:50.040 --> 10:51.040 There you are. 10:51.040 --> 10:52.040 Don't you want some? 10:52.040 --> 10:53.040 Uh-uh, no. 10:53.040 --> 10:54.040 Sworn off? 10:54.040 --> 10:55.040 No, I... 10:55.040 --> 10:56.040 I have something to tell you. 10:56.040 --> 10:57.040 I'm sorry about your wife. 10:57.040 --> 10:58.040 Yeah. 10:58.040 --> 10:59.040 Yeah, it was quite a blow. 10:59.040 --> 11:00.040 I'll bet you are. 11:00.040 --> 11:01.040 I'm sorry. 11:01.040 --> 11:02.040 I'm sorry. 11:02.040 --> 11:03.040 I'm sorry. 11:03.040 --> 11:04.040 I'm sorry. 11:04.040 --> 11:05.040 I'm sorry. 11:05.040 --> 11:06.040 I'm sorry. 11:06.040 --> 11:07.040 I'm sorry. 11:07.040 --> 11:08.040 I'm sorry. 11:08.040 --> 11:09.040 You don't have to say that. 11:09.040 --> 11:10.040 What do you mean by that? 11:10.040 --> 11:11.040 I thought you said you loved me. 11:11.040 --> 11:12.040 Well, I do. 11:12.040 --> 11:13.600 Then you aren't too sad about Margaret, are you? 11:13.600 --> 11:17.080 Well, it's shame that she had to end up that way. 11:17.080 --> 11:18.080 You know how those things are. 11:18.080 --> 11:21.360 Give me a kiss and stop talking so much. 11:21.360 --> 11:23.760 Ah, new perfume? 11:23.760 --> 11:24.760 Mm-hmm. 11:24.760 --> 11:25.760 Where'd you get it? 11:25.760 --> 11:26.760 Oh! 11:26.760 --> 11:27.760 Where'd you get it? 11:27.760 --> 11:28.760 Well, really? 11:28.760 --> 11:29.760 Do you own me or something? 11:29.760 --> 11:30.760 I want to know where you got that perfume. 11:30.760 --> 11:31.760 Well, sit down and relax. 11:31.760 --> 11:33.760 What's the matter with you? 11:33.760 --> 11:34.760 I ought to slap your face. 11:34.760 --> 11:36.760 You do and I'll slap you right back. 11:36.760 --> 11:38.760 Judy, I love you. 11:38.760 --> 11:39.760 Of course you do. 11:39.760 --> 11:41.760 Well, that's what I want to know. I get jealous. 11:41.760 --> 11:42.760 Naturally. 11:42.760 --> 11:43.760 Do you love me? 11:43.760 --> 11:44.760 Sure. 11:44.760 --> 11:46.760 You don't act like you love me. 11:46.760 --> 11:49.760 Do you want me to gaze at you with great, fond eyes? 11:49.760 --> 11:50.760 No, no, of course not. 11:50.760 --> 11:51.760 What do you want? 11:51.760 --> 11:54.760 I want you to tell me that you love me. 11:54.760 --> 11:55.760 Why? 11:55.760 --> 11:56.760 Because I... 11:56.760 --> 11:57.760 Go on. 11:57.760 --> 12:02.760 Well, I've proven how much I want you. I think that you should return the feeling. 12:02.760 --> 12:03.760 How have you? 12:03.760 --> 12:04.760 Have what? 12:04.760 --> 12:05.760 Proven how much you want me. 12:05.760 --> 12:11.760 Why, by telling you over and over again that I love you by loving you more than Margaret. Why? 12:11.760 --> 12:14.760 By killing Margaret. 12:14.760 --> 12:15.760 What? 12:15.760 --> 12:17.760 You heard me. 12:17.760 --> 12:18.760 What makes you think I killed Margaret? 12:18.760 --> 12:19.760 Didn't you? 12:19.760 --> 12:23.760 Now look, Judy, this is a pretty tough way to treat me. 12:23.760 --> 12:26.760 Didn't you? 12:26.760 --> 12:28.760 Yes. 12:28.760 --> 12:30.760 Then I love you. 12:30.760 --> 12:33.760 Kiss me, Mike. 12:40.760 --> 12:45.760 She loved me. She really loved me. That's all I cared about, all I could think about. 12:45.760 --> 12:48.760 She was so wonderful. She just... 12:48.760 --> 12:53.760 We got a little house in Glendale and were married out there when nobody knew us. 12:53.760 --> 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. 13:00.760 --> 13:04.760 Now there was Tommy Cassely barged in. He talked and talked about insurance. 13:04.760 --> 13:07.760 Now you know I'm your friend, Mike, and yours too, Mrs. Dawson. 13:07.760 --> 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. 13:12.760 --> 13:13.760 Yeah. 13:13.760 --> 13:17.760 Now, I'm the last one in the world who wants to stir up any unhappy memories, but... 13:17.760 --> 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... 13:24.760 --> 13:25.760 You mean Margaret. 13:25.760 --> 13:27.760 Yes, yes, thank you, thank you. 13:27.760 --> 13:29.760 Well, you know what happened? 13:29.760 --> 13:30.760 What happened, Mr. Cassely? 13:30.760 --> 13:38.760 Why, he never took out the insurance. And so when Margaret... when the... I mean she simply wasn't insured. 13:38.760 --> 13:40.760 Maybe that's just as well, Mr. Cassely. 13:40.760 --> 13:43.760 Well, I'm afraid I don't follow you, Mr. Cassely. 13:43.760 --> 13:49.760 Mike had collected any insurance when Margaret was killed. Those silly policemen, you know how they are. 13:49.760 --> 13:51.760 They might have thought Mike had some reason... 13:51.760 --> 13:52.760 What, Judy? 13:52.760 --> 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. 13:58.760 --> 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. 14:02.760 --> 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. 14:07.760 --> 14:09.760 Now, can I talk to you for just a second, Mike, private? 14:09.760 --> 14:12.760 No, no, no, please, please don't go, Mrs. Dawson. This will only take a second. 14:12.760 --> 14:14.760 Now, listen, Tommy, this is our wedding day after... 14:14.760 --> 14:18.760 Mike, Mike, listen to me. You ought to sign an application on Judy's life. 14:18.760 --> 14:22.760 Why do you know how many women are killed in automobile accidents every year? 14:22.760 --> 14:28.760 And here, here in Los Angeles, this Jack the Ripper character only kills women, you know. 14:28.760 --> 14:32.760 All right, all right, let me sign it, and please, Tommy, will you? 14:32.760 --> 14:35.760 Why, sure, sure. Yeah, there we are. 14:35.760 --> 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. 14:39.760 --> 14:42.760 Folks, I can't tell you how much this is going to mean to you when... 14:42.760 --> 14:44.760 What did I do with my hat? Oh, yeah, there it is, there it is. 14:44.760 --> 14:46.760 I can't tell you how much this is going... 14:46.760 --> 14:48.760 Mr. Castle, are you going straight back into town? 14:48.760 --> 14:51.760 Ah, yes, yes, yes, I am. Anything I can do? 14:51.760 --> 14:53.760 I think I'll ride in with you if you don't mind. 14:53.760 --> 14:56.760 Well, yeah, I'd be delighted to... 14:56.760 --> 14:57.760 But, Judy... 14:57.760 --> 15:00.760 I'm sorry, Mike, I forgot to tell you an old girlfriend of mine called me today. 15:00.760 --> 15:02.760 She's in town just the one night, and I told her I'd see her. 15:02.760 --> 15:03.760 But, Judy, it's... 15:03.760 --> 15:05.760 I know, but just one of those things, dear. 15:05.760 --> 15:07.760 Are we ready, Mr. Castle? 15:07.760 --> 15:09.760 Uh, yeah, ready? Sure, sure, I'm ready. 15:09.760 --> 15:11.760 Don't worry, darling, don't wait up. 15:16.760 --> 15:18.760 Well, I just stood there. 15:18.760 --> 15:20.760 I didn't know what to say or what to do. 15:20.760 --> 15:26.760 On our wedding night, I moved a curtain aside and watched her go down the walk with Tommy. 15:26.760 --> 15:29.760 She was holding onto his arm real tight, too tight. 15:29.760 --> 15:31.760 She smiled up at him. 15:32.760 --> 15:36.760 I went into the living room and tried to read Sandberg's Lincoln. 15:36.760 --> 15:38.760 It's quite a book, five big volumes. 15:38.760 --> 15:40.760 Oh, but I couldn't read. 15:40.760 --> 15:43.760 By midnight, I was in a blind rage. 15:43.760 --> 15:45.760 I was going to get in the car and go look for it. 15:45.760 --> 15:47.760 I was going to call the police. 15:47.760 --> 15:51.760 And a minute later, I was in a cold sweat of fear that something might have happened to her. 15:51.760 --> 15:54.760 And then back to a blind, scalding jealousy again. 15:54.760 --> 15:57.760 Finally, it got to be 3.30 in the morning. 16:04.760 --> 16:05.760 Hello? 16:05.760 --> 16:07.760 Tommy, is that you, Tommy? 16:07.760 --> 16:10.760 Oh, Mike, I just came in. 16:10.760 --> 16:12.760 I heard the phone ringing and ran up the stairs. 16:12.760 --> 16:14.760 I'm a little out of breath. 16:14.760 --> 16:15.760 Where's Judy? 16:15.760 --> 16:16.760 Judy? 16:16.760 --> 16:17.760 Oh, you mean the missus? 16:17.760 --> 16:19.760 I don't know, didn't she? 16:19.760 --> 16:20.760 When did you see her last? 16:20.760 --> 16:24.760 Why, I let her out at sunset on Western and that was about... 16:24.760 --> 16:26.760 Oh, you did, didn't you? 16:26.760 --> 16:27.760 Of course I did. 16:27.760 --> 16:29.760 Good gosh, Mike, you don't think that I... 16:29.760 --> 16:32.760 Hello, darling, I told you not to wait up. 16:32.760 --> 16:34.760 It's four o'clock in the morning. 16:34.760 --> 16:36.760 I know, darling, I'm sorry. 16:36.760 --> 16:38.760 Poor Ethel wanted to talk about her troubles. 16:38.760 --> 16:39.760 I just couldn't bear to leave. 16:39.760 --> 16:40.760 I smell coffee. 16:40.760 --> 16:43.760 Poor Ethel, this was our wedding night. 16:43.760 --> 16:46.760 Darling, you're white as a sheet and you're trembling. 16:46.760 --> 16:48.760 But sure I am. 16:48.760 --> 16:50.760 I'm wondering about it this hour in this... 16:50.760 --> 16:52.760 this jack-the-ripper character... 16:52.760 --> 16:53.760 What was that? 16:53.760 --> 16:55.760 Where have you been? What have you been doing? 16:55.760 --> 16:57.760 I just told you, Ethel, darling, we want... 16:57.760 --> 16:58.760 Now listen to me. 16:58.760 --> 17:00.760 Listen to me. 17:00.760 --> 17:04.760 If you ever do anything like this again... 17:04.760 --> 17:06.760 Now, darling, you listen to me. 17:06.760 --> 17:09.760 You're not going to try to run my life for me, are you? 17:09.760 --> 17:11.760 Your life? I'm thinking about our life. 17:11.760 --> 17:12.760 I'm thinking about the... 17:12.760 --> 17:15.760 Mike, that's what I'm thinking about our life. 17:15.760 --> 17:17.760 And that's not all I'm thinking about. 17:17.760 --> 17:18.760 Well, all right then. 17:18.760 --> 17:21.760 I'm thinking about Margaret. 17:21.760 --> 17:22.760 Margaret? 17:22.760 --> 17:24.760 You mustn't be like this, darling. 17:24.760 --> 17:27.760 You must promise me not ever again. 17:27.760 --> 17:30.760 Because I don't think Margaret would like it. 17:35.760 --> 17:38.760 Well, she couldn't have made it much plainer, could she? 17:38.760 --> 17:41.760 And that's the way it was. 17:41.760 --> 17:43.760 From then on, my life was a nightmare. 17:43.760 --> 17:47.760 Someone you're crazy in love with and crazy jealous of. 17:47.760 --> 17:49.760 Wondering where they are, who they're with. 17:49.760 --> 17:52.760 Not able to do a thing about it. 17:52.760 --> 17:54.760 Sometimes I'd think it was getting better. 17:54.760 --> 17:55.760 It was going to be all right. 17:55.760 --> 17:58.760 She'd stay at home for days of the stretcher a couple of weeks. 17:58.760 --> 18:00.760 And then it would begin all over again. 18:00.760 --> 18:02.760 She'd just take the car and go. 18:02.760 --> 18:05.760 Always some girlfriend, she said. 18:05.760 --> 18:07.760 Girlfriend. 18:07.760 --> 18:09.760 Well, finally, I guess I did go a little crazy. 18:09.760 --> 18:10.760 I had to know one way or the other. 18:10.760 --> 18:12.760 So one night when she was getting ready to go out, 18:12.760 --> 18:13.760 I went to the garage. 18:13.760 --> 18:15.760 I jimmyed the lock on the trunk compartment of the car 18:15.760 --> 18:17.760 so she couldn't be snapped shut again. 18:17.760 --> 18:20.760 And I crawled in, pulled the lid down after me. 18:20.760 --> 18:24.760 It must have been crazy because it never even crossed my mind 18:24.760 --> 18:27.760 until I was lying in there all scrunched up in the dark 18:27.760 --> 18:30.760 about the last time anybody had been in there. 18:30.760 --> 18:32.760 I mean, Margaret. 18:37.760 --> 18:40.760 She drove for quite a while. 18:40.760 --> 18:44.760 It almost seemed as though she was just cruising around. 18:44.760 --> 18:48.760 I mean, not heading for any place in particular. 18:48.760 --> 18:51.760 Finally she stopped. 18:51.760 --> 18:56.760 I heard her get out of the car and go in somewhere. 18:56.760 --> 18:57.760 When I was sure she had gone, 18:57.760 --> 19:00.760 I cracked the lid of the trunk open and looked out. 19:00.760 --> 19:02.760 It was dark. 19:02.760 --> 19:06.760 She was going into a crummy little cafe. 19:06.760 --> 19:10.760 She was in there a long time. 19:10.760 --> 19:12.760 And when she came out, there was somebody with her. 19:12.760 --> 19:13.760 It was a girl. 19:13.760 --> 19:14.760 There we are. 19:14.760 --> 19:16.760 Thanks, trouble. I'll drive you home. 19:16.760 --> 19:17.760 It's kind of a long way. 19:17.760 --> 19:19.760 I could get a taxi. 19:19.760 --> 19:20.760 I don't mind. 19:20.760 --> 19:21.760 Go ahead, get in. 19:21.760 --> 19:23.760 Well, thanks. 19:30.760 --> 19:32.760 So it was a girl, Carly. 19:32.760 --> 19:34.760 This time anyway. 19:34.760 --> 19:37.760 And then the car was stopping. 19:37.760 --> 19:40.760 I cracked the lid of the trunk again. 19:40.760 --> 19:43.760 It was a nice night and the convertible top was down 19:43.760 --> 19:44.760 and I heard it all. 19:44.760 --> 19:45.760 But this isn't the way. 19:45.760 --> 19:47.760 Why are we stopping? 19:47.760 --> 19:48.760 You'll find out. 19:48.760 --> 19:49.760 Get out. 19:49.760 --> 19:50.760 Don't argue. Get out. 19:50.760 --> 19:52.760 Say, if this is your idea of a joke or something, 19:52.760 --> 19:53.760 all I can say is... 20:01.760 --> 20:02.760 As the car roared off, 20:02.760 --> 20:05.760 I had a glimpse of it lying there by the road. 20:05.760 --> 20:09.760 The girl's body with a knife in the back, dead. 20:09.760 --> 20:12.760 After the car was back in the garage, 20:12.760 --> 20:16.760 it seemed as though I lay in that dark trunk for hours, 20:16.760 --> 20:19.760 shaking, trembling all over. 20:19.760 --> 20:21.760 After a while, I crawled out of the trunk, 20:21.760 --> 20:24.760 all cramped and stiff and went into the house. 20:24.760 --> 20:27.760 And there she was in bed. 20:27.760 --> 20:31.760 She looked at me with those half-closed eyes. 20:31.760 --> 20:33.760 Those lovely, 20:33.760 --> 20:35.760 lovely eyes. 20:35.760 --> 20:39.760 And then she turned over with a little sigh 20:39.760 --> 20:41.760 and was fast asleep. 20:48.760 --> 20:52.760 As I lay there in bed staring into the darkness, 20:52.760 --> 20:54.760 the only answer that seemed to make any sense 20:54.760 --> 20:56.760 was that I was losing my mind 20:56.760 --> 20:58.760 because of what I'd done to Margaret, maybe. 20:58.760 --> 21:00.760 I was just a little girl. 21:00.760 --> 21:02.760 I was a little girl. 21:02.760 --> 21:06.760 I was losing my mind because of what I'd done to Margaret, maybe. 21:06.760 --> 21:09.760 That I'd imagined the whole thing. 21:09.760 --> 21:13.760 But the next morning, there it all was in the papers. 21:13.760 --> 21:15.760 More murder pictures. 21:15.760 --> 21:18.760 Fiend strikes again. 21:18.760 --> 21:20.760 Fiend. 21:20.760 --> 21:22.760 That was my Judy. 21:22.760 --> 21:25.760 My lovely, wonderful Judy. 21:25.760 --> 21:32.760 The woman I was in love with. 21:34.760 --> 21:37.760 From then on, I watched her like a hawk. 21:37.760 --> 21:39.760 Day and night, I never let her out of my sight. 21:39.760 --> 21:41.760 I hardly slept at all. 21:41.760 --> 21:43.760 I did things like letting the air out of the tires 21:43.760 --> 21:45.760 so she couldn't use the car. 21:45.760 --> 21:47.760 Like hiding everything in the whole house 21:47.760 --> 21:48.760 that was sharp, appointed. 21:48.760 --> 21:51.760 Knives, ice picks, scissors, letter openers. 21:51.760 --> 21:54.760 And Judy, she was wonderful. 21:54.760 --> 21:56.760 Calm, serene. 21:56.760 --> 22:00.760 Apparently without the faintest idea of what was in my mind. 22:00.760 --> 22:06.760 I watched her and I began to think what I had before. 22:06.760 --> 22:09.760 That somehow it must have been a terrible mistake. 22:09.760 --> 22:11.760 That was what I was thinking last night. 22:11.760 --> 22:13.760 Here we are. 22:13.760 --> 22:15.760 I brought you some tea and Malviteau's, darling. 22:15.760 --> 22:16.760 Oh. 22:16.760 --> 22:17.760 You're looking better, I think. 22:17.760 --> 22:19.760 Well, thanks. Thanks, Judy. 22:19.760 --> 22:22.760 By the way, whatever happened to that letter opener? 22:22.760 --> 22:24.760 The new one we used to have on the desk. 22:24.760 --> 22:26.760 The, uh, the what? 22:26.760 --> 22:28.760 The letter opener. 22:28.760 --> 22:30.760 What do you want it for? 22:30.760 --> 22:31.760 Open letters, silly. 22:31.760 --> 22:34.760 First of the month, there's a stack of bills in there that high. 22:34.760 --> 22:37.760 You're not thinking of going out, are you? 22:37.760 --> 22:39.760 You don't know where that letter opener is? 22:39.760 --> 22:42.760 No. No, I don't. 22:42.760 --> 22:46.760 I guess I can find something else that will do just as well. 22:48.760 --> 22:50.760 I had the letter open, of course, 22:50.760 --> 22:53.760 but I didn't tell her, I didn't dare. 22:53.760 --> 22:56.760 I could feel it inside my inside pocket 22:56.760 --> 22:58.760 as I lay there on the couch in the den 22:58.760 --> 23:01.760 where I could watch the front hall and the living room door. 23:01.760 --> 23:04.760 I heard her fussing around upstairs for a while 23:04.760 --> 23:09.760 and then she came down and I heard the back door close. 23:09.760 --> 23:12.760 She was going to the garage. 23:12.760 --> 23:18.760 As I got up, I could feel the letter opener pressing against my side. 23:18.760 --> 23:24.760 It was a terrible pain in my head. 23:24.760 --> 23:28.760 I don't know exactly what happened after that. 23:36.760 --> 23:40.760 The next thing, the phone was ringing and it was morning. 23:40.760 --> 23:45.760 I got up off the couch and I stumbled out into the hall to answer. 23:45.760 --> 23:48.760 I'm always groggy in the morning, 23:48.760 --> 23:51.760 but before I've had my coffee and a cigarette, 23:51.760 --> 23:55.760 but this morning was as though I'd been drugged or something. 23:55.760 --> 23:58.760 I couldn't think at all. 23:59.760 --> 24:00.760 Hello? 24:00.760 --> 24:02.760 Mr. Dawson? Michael Dawson? 24:02.760 --> 24:03.760 Yeah, yeah. 24:03.760 --> 24:07.760 You drive a Pontiac convertible license number 99R479? 24:07.760 --> 24:10.760 Yeah, yeah, I think that's the number one. 24:10.760 --> 24:12.760 Well, we've got your car, Mr. Dawson. 24:12.760 --> 24:15.760 Your insurance agent, Mr. Castle, is down here already. 24:15.760 --> 24:16.760 Oh, yes. 24:16.760 --> 24:19.760 We'd like you to come down here right away and bring your pink owner's slip. 24:19.760 --> 24:20.760 Oh, wait, who's this? 24:20.760 --> 24:23.760 This is the police department. 24:26.760 --> 24:29.760 I was still pretty much in a bog when I got down there. 24:29.760 --> 24:32.760 I couldn't quite figure things out. 24:32.760 --> 24:36.760 My car must have been stolen again, really stolen this time. 24:36.760 --> 24:38.760 Wrecked, I suppose. 24:38.760 --> 24:40.760 And where was Judy? 24:40.760 --> 24:42.760 Maybe she'd wrecked it. 24:42.760 --> 24:44.760 Or maybe they'd caught her. 24:44.760 --> 24:46.760 No, but then they'd have told me about it, 24:46.760 --> 24:49.760 not just asked about the car. 24:49.760 --> 24:51.760 Tommy met me outside. He must have been waiting for me. 24:51.760 --> 24:52.760 How are you feeling, old man? 24:52.760 --> 24:54.760 I... all right, I guess. 24:54.760 --> 24:56.760 I'm afraid you're in for kind of a shock. 24:56.760 --> 24:57.760 Why, is it pretty bad? 24:57.760 --> 24:58.760 Pretty bad. 24:58.760 --> 24:59.760 Oh, there he is now. 24:59.760 --> 25:00.760 Mr. Dawson? 25:00.760 --> 25:01.760 Yes. 25:01.760 --> 25:03.760 Come this way, please. 25:04.760 --> 25:06.760 Is that your car, Mr. Dawson? 25:06.760 --> 25:07.760 Yes. 25:07.760 --> 25:10.760 Yes, but it isn't wrecked. 25:10.760 --> 25:12.760 Doesn't seem to be anything the matter with it at all. 25:12.760 --> 25:13.760 Lift up the trunk, will you, Sergeant? 25:13.760 --> 25:15.760 Yes, sir. 25:25.760 --> 25:29.760 She was lying in there with her head twisted round, 25:29.760 --> 25:37.760 staring at me with those lovely sightless green eyes, dead. 25:37.760 --> 25:41.760 Judy, my Judy. 25:41.760 --> 25:44.760 And the letter opener was in her back. 25:46.760 --> 25:47.760 I'll be all right. 25:47.760 --> 25:48.760 You'll come around in a minute. 25:48.760 --> 25:49.760 You better get a sonographer in. 25:49.760 --> 25:51.760 He'll probably want to make a statement now. 25:51.760 --> 25:53.760 You all right now, old man? 25:53.760 --> 25:54.760 Yeah, sure. 25:54.760 --> 25:55.760 Well, you can't pay the insurance, of course, you know. 25:55.760 --> 25:56.760 You understand that? 25:56.760 --> 25:57.760 Insurance? 25:57.760 --> 26:00.760 Yes, the life insurance on Judy, but I'll get your lawyer to do anything I can. 26:00.760 --> 26:01.760 Lawyer? 26:01.760 --> 26:03.760 Don't you think you're going to need one, Mr. Dawson? 26:03.760 --> 26:04.760 Oh, I'll take care of all of that. 26:04.760 --> 26:08.760 One accident, that's one thing, but two, two wives, both in your car. 26:08.760 --> 26:10.760 Now there's your letter opener with your fingerprints on it. 26:10.760 --> 26:12.760 It won't go, Mr. Dawson, not anymore. 26:12.760 --> 26:14.760 And then, of course, there are all the others, 26:14.760 --> 26:16.760 seven of them that you've killed in the last three months. 26:16.760 --> 26:17.760 That I killed? 26:17.760 --> 26:21.760 Now, now, Mr. Dawson, you're not going to give us any trouble, are you? 26:21.760 --> 26:22.760 No. 26:22.760 --> 26:23.760 No. 26:23.760 --> 26:31.760 No, I'm not going to give you any trouble. 26:31.760 --> 26:37.760 Well, I guess, I guess I killed her, all right, and I must have. 26:37.760 --> 26:40.760 I didn't kill the others, of course, but I confessed to them. 26:40.760 --> 26:42.760 I was glad to. 26:42.760 --> 26:50.760 I'd rather have them think that it was me than Judy, my beautiful, green-eyed Judy. 26:50.760 --> 26:54.760 Well, I've got lots of time to read. 26:54.760 --> 26:59.760 I'm almost through the third volume now, till that life of Lincoln. 26:59.760 --> 27:02.760 Only two more volumes to go. 27:02.760 --> 27:23.760 They're pretty long, pretty thick, but I think I'll make it just about. 27:23.760 --> 27:24.760 Suspense. 27:24.760 --> 27:31.760 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, Roma, America's favorite wines. 27:31.760 --> 27:35.760 This is Truman Bradley bringing back for A Curtain Call our suspense star of the evening, 27:35.760 --> 27:36.760 Lloyd Nolan. 27:36.760 --> 27:40.760 Lloyd, ever since I saw you in Lady and the Lake, I've been wanting to ask you how you 27:40.760 --> 27:42.760 liked acting directly into the camera. 27:42.760 --> 27:46.760 You know, talking and looking right at the lens as if it were an individual. 27:46.760 --> 27:51.760 Well, I really, I enjoyed it, but it was a little tough acting as easier when you're 27:51.760 --> 27:52.760 talking to another person. 27:52.760 --> 27:57.760 It sort of helps to watch his reactions, see his expressions change as you deliver the 27:57.760 --> 27:58.760 lines. 27:58.760 --> 28:02.760 Well, Lloyd, if you like to watch reactions, just try this idea, will you? 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