1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,540 Suspense! 2 00:00:09,540 --> 00:00:16,560 The highest honor that a California sherry can win has just been bestowed upon C-R-E-S-T-A 3 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:21,640 B-L-A-N-C-A 4 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,240 Cresta Blanca 5 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:25,240 Cresta Blanca 6 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:32,040 Yes, at the recent California State Fair, in the keenest judging of California wines 7 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:38,360 ever held, Cresta Blanca Triple Cream Sherry was the judge's choice to receive the gold 8 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,380 medal, top award for outstanding excellence. 9 00:00:42,380 --> 00:00:47,480 This is another tribute to Cresta Blanca Triple Cream by America's leading connoisseurs of 10 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:49,080 fine wines. 11 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:54,880 Proof indeed that when you pour distinguished Cresta Blanca, you serve the best. 12 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,600 Shenley's Cresta Blanca Wine Company, Livermore, California. 13 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:07,000 And now, Shenley brings you radio's outstanding theater of thrill, Suspense! 14 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:14,160 Presented by Roma Wines, that's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, for your everyday enjoyment. 15 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:20,680 Tonight, Roma Wines of Fresno, California bring you Michael O'Shea in The Twist, a suspense 16 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,240 play produced, edited and directed for Shenley by William Spears. 17 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:31,560 Listen, Gus, you've got to do the show. 18 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:32,560 I can't do it. 19 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,920 You've written for all the big comedians, you'd turn out a hit. 20 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:36,920 I don't have the time. 21 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:37,920 Oh, but Gus. 22 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:38,920 Look, I don't have the time. 23 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:40,640 Anyways, I couldn't do it. 24 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:41,640 Ridiculous. 25 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:42,840 A guy with your reputation. 26 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,280 Yeah, a guy with my reputation, yeah. 27 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:46,760 What do you know? 28 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:47,760 Listen. 29 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,720 12 years ago, I was on the cabs. 30 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,880 Gustav Green, the hack, lice and red. 31 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,480 Cripes, how I hated the cabs. 32 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,960 Worked like a slob, 12 or 14 hours a day for a lousy 27 bucks a week. 33 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,600 Now do you blame me that I took the daydreaming? 34 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:07,400 Like maybe it was my limousine and I was driving because my chauffeur had a day off? 35 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,760 I used to sit at the wheel figuring out the dondest situations. 36 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:15,680 Like I'd pick up some rich old dame and she'd leave me a million bucks or I'd save a guy. 37 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,640 All kinds of situations. 38 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:20,400 But all I got was 27 per a week. 39 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,360 Until the night I met Fann. 40 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,320 Hey, Cab. 41 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:26,320 Cabby. 42 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,920 Take me home, driver. 43 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:29,920 Home? 44 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:31,880 Your home or my home, wise guy? 45 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,480 Wait a second. 46 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,240 Well, you got talent and you're driving a cab. 47 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:38,720 Where can I get a job driving a cab? 48 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,120 You want the radio on? 49 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:41,120 Now definitely no. 50 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,400 Oh, now don't let's be bitter, shall we? 51 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,440 You know, radio was quite a medium. 52 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,240 Just think, some guy says a few words into a microphone and you can hear it as far west 53 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:50,240 as Georgia. 54 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:51,240 Gust of Green? 55 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:56,680 Well, Mr. Green, meet Van Hauser, the best gag man in the radio business. 56 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,200 Currently freelancing, unemployed, on the beach. 57 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,840 Well, if you're so good, why aren't you in there writing them yaks, wise guy? 58 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:03,840 Why? 59 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,800 Because words I know, rib tickling words, gags, yeah, jokes to make a corpse laugh. 60 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:08,800 But plots. 61 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:09,800 Situations. 62 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:10,800 Situations? 63 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:11,800 Yeah, that's another story. 64 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,560 I could coin a million if I could figure them out. 65 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:14,560 Well, look, situations. 66 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:18,040 Now let me tell you, I am a veritable Shaharazadi on situations. 67 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:19,040 I got a million. 68 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:28,080 Now look, for instance, the guy who says that if I'd have followed... 69 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,080 I don't know, something clicked between me and Van Hauser. 70 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,640 From the beginning, I always hated his guts, the way he talked to me like I was duped. 71 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:40,180 But up in his room, I started feeding him stories, stuff I dreamed up on the cab. 72 00:03:40,180 --> 00:03:43,560 He put it into good words and it came out very funny too. 73 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:48,840 Well, inside a couple of years, I was getting 1,500 bucks a week, but I was tied to that 74 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:49,840 guy. 75 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:50,840 I couldn't work with nobody else. 76 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,720 I'd sit down with another gag writer and nothing would happen. 77 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:58,160 Yeah, I knew it was Van all 40 bucks a week in some broken down job. 78 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,160 So? 79 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,160 So I hung onto him like a barnacle. 80 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,480 I worked with him, ate with him, played with him. 81 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,640 My place was just down the hall from his at the hotel. 82 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:11,720 Sometimes I thought I'd go nuts if I had a look at his sneer and ugly puss another day. 83 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:17,200 And the only satisfaction I had was that he needed me and hated me just like I needed 84 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:18,820 and hated him. 85 00:04:18,820 --> 00:04:24,160 But one day while we were writing a spot for Schmo for a day, he chose me a very unfunny 86 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:25,160 line. 87 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,800 Gus, my good boy, you may be interested to know that I'm going to marry Julie Phelps. 88 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,160 Julie Phelps, a dancer? 89 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,160 That's right. 90 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:32,240 She used to be the club Catalina. 91 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:33,840 She making trouble for you. 92 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:34,840 Cut it. 93 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:35,840 All right, all right. 94 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:36,840 I didn't say nothing against her. 95 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:37,840 All right, you better not. 96 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:38,840 Okay. 97 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:39,840 Go ahead and enjoy yourself. 98 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:40,840 Thanks. 99 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:46,360 So, Gus, my cornball colleague, we may not be seeing so much of each other hence. 100 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:47,960 Oh, now look, you don't mean that. 101 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:48,960 Hey, now, wait a minute. 102 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:50,520 What's going to be with our partnership here? 103 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:51,520 We'll see. 104 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:52,800 I'll talk it over with Julie. 105 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:53,800 No, no, Van. 106 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:54,800 Now, look, I mean it. 107 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:55,800 We've always done what we wanted to. 108 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,160 Loafed all day, worked all night, ate and slept at any crazy hour. 109 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,080 Now no dame is going to stand for that. 110 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:02,080 Huh? 111 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:03,080 Julie is different. 112 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:04,080 No dame is different. 113 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:05,160 Yeah, she knows how we operate. 114 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:06,600 And she knows you, Gus. 115 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,840 Yeah, and she's not exactly crazy about me, neither. 116 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:09,840 Uh-huh. 117 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:10,840 I don't care about that. 118 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:12,240 Now, if you want to stay in with me, be nice to her. 119 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:13,600 It won't do no good. 120 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,720 Listen, Van, she'll make trouble between us. 121 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,880 See, she'll work on that as soon as the knot is tied. 122 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:18,880 I said... 123 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:19,880 Now, listen to me. 124 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:20,880 I'm your pal, Van. 125 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:21,880 A dame like that is bad business. 126 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:22,880 You know what? 127 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:23,880 The club catalina, Gus... 128 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:24,880 Well, she wasn't exactly... 129 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:25,880 Gus, Julie is one in a million. 130 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:26,880 A joke man like you comes a dime a dozen. 131 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:28,520 Okay, okay, if that's the way you feel. 132 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:29,520 That's the way I feel. 133 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,040 Pardon me for having any feet here. 134 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:32,040 All right, just be nice to her. 135 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:33,040 No cracks. 136 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:34,040 Okay, so I'll be nice. 137 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:35,840 Now, look, about Sunday show... 138 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:42,840 I said be nice to her, if you're not Gus, we're finished. 139 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:49,640 Yeah, I said I'd be nice, but I knew it wouldn't do no good. 140 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,720 Julie was a small town girl who soured on Broadway after she had a bust up with Nick 141 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:57,720 Edwards, the mug who runs the club catalina, and she wanted out. 142 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,000 And she was going to take Van with her too. 143 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,440 So it came to me that I'd better figure out a situation and pronto. 144 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,640 She didn't like me because she was a scare to me. 145 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,440 I knew about her and Nick Edwards and Van didn't. 146 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:14,040 So I says to myself, I says, Gus, maybe the Dame will scare away. 147 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,040 Hey. 148 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:16,040 Where's the van? 149 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:17,040 Oh, Gus Green, what a surprise. 150 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:18,040 Hello there, Julie. 151 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:19,040 Yeah, this is for you. 152 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:20,040 Flowers? 153 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:21,040 Yeah, yeah, Van told me about you, too, see, and I figured... 154 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:22,040 They're lovely. 155 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:23,040 Come on in, Gus. 156 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:24,040 Thanks. 157 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:25,040 I miss flowers so much in the city. 158 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:26,040 Back home, the garden's always full of them. 159 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:27,040 Yeah, yeah, say, this is a nice little garden. 160 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:28,040 Yeah, yeah, it's a nice little garden. 161 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:29,040 It's a nice little garden. 162 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:30,040 It's a nice little garden. 163 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,040 It's a nice little garden. 164 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,040 It's a nice little garden. 165 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,040 Back home, the garden's always full of them. 166 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,040 Yeah, yeah, say, this is a nice place you got here. 167 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:37,040 Thanks. 168 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:38,040 Yeah, very swanky. 169 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,640 Wasn't that chair once in the lobby of the Club Catalina? 170 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,760 Well, I bought it when they redecorated the place. 171 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,800 Oh, sure, sure you did, honey, but it just reminded me. 172 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:48,800 Of what? 173 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,880 I just happened to see your friend Nick Edwards today. 174 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:52,080 I haven't seen Nick in months. 175 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,960 Oh, sure you haven't, honey, but he's still carrying the torchola for you. 176 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:56,960 I'm not interested. 177 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,960 No, I didn't say you were, but you might be interested in the fact that Nick said, 178 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:06,000 if Van Hauser marries Julie, so help me, I'll kill him. 179 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,280 Did he say that? 180 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:09,320 Now would I lie, honey? 181 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:10,800 Well, that settles it. 182 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:12,120 I've had enough of show business. 183 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:13,840 Van and me are going back home. 184 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:15,980 Oh, no, no, you can't do that to Van, Julie. 185 00:07:15,980 --> 00:07:16,980 This is his life. 186 00:07:16,980 --> 00:07:18,160 What's he going to do in a small town? 187 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:19,160 I don't care. 188 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:20,160 I'm sick of it. 189 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,600 I'm sick of all the cheap characters, the bums and the hangers-on. 190 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:25,200 If I want him to, Van will come with me. 191 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:26,520 Oh, look, maybe he would. 192 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,120 Well, I'm sure he would, but Julie, what I really wanted to say was, why don't you give 193 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:32,120 me a few days? 194 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,000 I'll go talk to Nick and who knows, maybe I can fix the whole thing up. 195 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,640 Would you, Gus? 196 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,680 I'd like to stay for Van's sake. 197 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,280 I'd like to see him get a good job with regular hours, maybe an advertiser. 198 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:45,280 Sure, sure. 199 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:46,280 Nick will listen to me. 200 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,160 Well, at least I can try, huh? 201 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:49,160 Thanks, Gus. 202 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,160 You're nice. 203 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,360 I didn't know. 204 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:53,960 And then I get another idea. 205 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:54,960 What's that? 206 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:56,120 Maybe the three of us could all work together. 207 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:57,560 Oh, I can't write. 208 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:58,560 I can type. 209 00:07:58,560 --> 00:07:59,560 Well, we need a secretary. 210 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,120 We could dictate our stuff to you. 211 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:02,120 I don't know shorthand. 212 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:03,520 Ah, you don't have to. 213 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,520 After all, what is a comedy script? 214 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,640 Along the left-hand side of the page, you put the name of the character and then you 215 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,200 write out what he's supposed to say. 216 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:11,200 Simple? 217 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:12,200 Sounds simple. 218 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:13,960 You could spend more time with Van. 219 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:15,440 How would you like to try? 220 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:16,440 I'd love to. 221 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:21,440 Gus, it would be wonderful. 222 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:27,840 Sure, it'd be wonderful for me. 223 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,760 When she said she'd work with us, Julie was playing a part in a situation that I dreamed 224 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:32,760 up. 225 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,240 And let me tell you, it was a good one. 226 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:39,080 Because it ended with me still making a grand and a half per week and Julie Phelps, well, 227 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,600 Julie Phelps was just not there. 228 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,880 A music chaser and a commercial. 229 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:47,880 Credits and sign off. 230 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:48,880 Got that, darling? 231 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:49,880 Every word, Mr. Halsey. 232 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:51,480 Well, Van, how do you like our new secretary? 233 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:52,480 Oh, she's good, Gus. 234 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,280 How come you had such a swell idea? 235 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:56,880 Gus, if this works out, I'll be the happiest person alive. 236 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:58,480 Oh, no, you won't, Julie. 237 00:08:58,480 --> 00:08:59,480 I will. 238 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,600 Now, come on, I'd like to try dictating. 239 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:02,600 Ready? 240 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,240 OK, take a clean sheet of paper. 241 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,800 Here's a gag sequence for the Fred Benton show. 242 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,360 Look who's writing gags. 243 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,360 Don't laugh. 244 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:10,360 Genius. 245 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,800 Now look, Fred's talking to Mrs. Mishmash and she starts reading the wrong page of the 246 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:14,800 script, you see? 247 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:15,800 Ready? 248 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:16,800 Let's go. 249 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,440 Mrs. Mishmash, please don't laugh at me. 250 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,760 I think we've made a mistake. 251 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:22,760 Mistake. 252 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:23,760 Uh-huh. 253 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,040 Now, Fred Benton, I know I have. 254 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:27,040 Yes. 255 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,760 Mrs. M, let's start all over from the beginning. 256 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,720 All over from the beginning. 257 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,480 Fred, if you love me, you will. 258 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:36,480 That's funny. 259 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:37,480 No, no, that's charming. 260 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,080 Now, this is Mrs. Mishmash. 261 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,080 Am I going too fast? 262 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:41,080 No, no, that's fine. 263 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:42,400 OK, this is Mrs. Mishmash again. 264 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,320 I would do anything for you. 265 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:45,520 Anything for you. 266 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,840 Fred, he says, I mean, he says, I would like to see you. 267 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,440 Oh, I'm bored. 268 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,440 Now, Mrs. M again. 269 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:53,760 Let's talk this over. 270 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:54,760 How about tonight? 271 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,360 How about tonight? 272 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:57,360 Yeah. 273 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:58,360 Fred, when? 274 00:09:58,360 --> 00:09:59,360 At midnight. 275 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:00,360 Midnight. 276 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:02,240 Mrs. M, come, come. 277 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:03,720 I'm waiting for you right now. 278 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:04,720 For you right now. 279 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:05,720 Did you get it all? 280 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:06,720 Uh-huh. 281 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:07,720 Good. 282 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:08,720 Type it right up. 283 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:09,720 Wait, wait, wait. 284 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:10,720 What's the matter? 285 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:11,720 Don't bother, Julie. 286 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:12,720 We couldn't use that corn even on the Benton show. 287 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:13,720 All right, wise guy, give it to me, Julie. 288 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:14,720 I'll file it under sustainers. 289 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,920 Look, if you're going to fight, I'm not going to work for either of you. 290 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,040 Van, be a dear and get me a pack of cigarettes downstairs, will you? 291 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:21,040 All right, hon. 292 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,760 But Gus, don't try to write any more of those charming gags. 293 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:24,760 I'm a little lost. 294 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:25,760 Gus? 295 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:26,760 Yeah? 296 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:27,760 Did you get anywhere with Nick? 297 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:31,120 Well, yeah, Julie, he's softened up, but he wants to see you. 298 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:32,520 Gus, I don't want that man near me. 299 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:36,720 Now, look, you don't see him, you better start wearing black for Van. 300 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:37,720 You know Nick Edwards. 301 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,520 I know Nick wouldn't stop at killing, but I... 302 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,600 Now listen, Julie, I haven't got time to argue with you now. 303 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,400 Van will come back, but why don't you come to my place tomorrow night at 11? 304 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:46,800 I'll run into Van for sure. 305 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,000 Well, then come before eight and wait for me. 306 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,000 We'll have rehearsals till then. 307 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 What about Van? 308 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,360 Tell him you're going to sleep early or something. 309 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:53,360 What if he calls anyway? 310 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:54,360 I'll cover you. 311 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:56,040 I'll probably be with him anyhow. 312 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:57,360 He must never know about Nick. 313 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:58,360 I get it, I get it. 314 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,720 Now, listen, Julie, you just leave everything to me and in a couple of days you won't have 315 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,480 to worry about Nick Edwards again. 316 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:12,200 Yeah, just leave everything to me and you won't have to worry about anything anymore, 317 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:13,560 Julie Phelps. 318 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:21,760 Not even your own funeral. 319 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,320 From eight o'clock the next evening I paid a little visit to my apartment, long enough 320 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,720 to see that Julie was comfortable and also to get the keys to her place out from her 321 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:30,720 handbag. 322 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:41,440 I drove over there and went upstairs to do some interior decorating, my kind. 323 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,440 Gonna take Van away for Broadway, are you? 324 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:47,360 Gonna send me back to 40 bucks a week in a pig's ear, you are, Julie Phelps. 325 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:53,360 Get that in a pig's ear. 326 00:11:53,360 --> 00:12:00,360 Now, just one more touch to complete the situation. 327 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,800 A little business outside the club, Catalina. 328 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,040 Hey kid, hey kid, come here. 329 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:07,040 Here, listen now. 330 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:08,800 Here's a dime, kid. 331 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,760 Take this note in this here envelope and give it to Nick Edwards. 332 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,840 And if anyone asks you, say a game, a dame gave it to you. 333 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:15,840 Got that? 334 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:16,840 A beautiful dame. 335 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,760 Got it from a beautiful dame, right? 336 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:26,680 Look, Gus, Gus, no more work. 337 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:27,680 Let's knock off. 338 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:28,680 What's the matter, Van? 339 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:29,680 You tired? 340 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:30,680 No, no, no. 341 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:31,680 What's eating you? 342 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:32,680 Oh, you wouldn't understand. 343 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:33,680 All right, so don't tell me. 344 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:34,680 I don't care anymore. 345 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:35,680 It's Julie. 346 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:36,680 Said she had to go to bed early tonight. 347 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:37,680 So what? 348 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:38,680 It ain't legal. 349 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:39,680 I called a half dozen times, no answer. 350 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:40,680 Uh-huh. 351 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:41,680 Afraid she's too time in your hand. 352 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:42,680 I didn't say that. 353 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:43,680 Yeah, but I know how you feel. 354 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:44,680 Yeah, well mind your own business. 355 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:47,520 Look, my friend, I'll do you a good turn. 356 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,520 Leave me dialed the number for you. 357 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:50,520 Number's on the pad. 358 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,040 Let's see what your fat fingers can do. 359 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,240 You could talk to her while I get down to my room to get my hat and coat. 360 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,360 I'll take you for a drive before we hit the sack. 361 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:00,360 Sometimes you're even human. 362 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:01,360 Okay, here, take it. 363 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:02,360 It's ringing now. 364 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:03,360 I'll be right back. 365 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:04,360 I'll see. 366 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:05,360 Hello? 367 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:06,360 Julie, darling. 368 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:07,360 Van. 369 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,360 Honey, I'm sure glad to hear your voice. 370 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:11,360 Where you been? 371 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:12,360 Why? 372 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:13,360 What about you? 373 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,200 I've been trying to get you all evening. 374 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:17,640 No answer, then Gus tried to... 375 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:18,640 Van, dear, I told you. 376 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,880 I was going home to get some sleep. 377 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:21,880 When I phoned you must have... 378 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:22,880 Maybe it didn't wake me. 379 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,880 Well, now baby, that's hardly likely with a phone right near your bed. 380 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:27,880 Sometimes I sleep. 381 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:28,880 Julie. 382 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:29,880 I can... 383 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:30,880 Julie, is there someone there with you? 384 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:31,880 Of course not, Van. 385 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:32,880 I'm alone. 386 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:33,880 I'm by myself. 387 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:34,880 What are you... 388 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:35,880 No. 389 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:36,880 Julie. 390 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:37,880 Van! 391 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:38,880 Julie! 392 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:39,880 Julie, what's the matter? 393 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:40,880 Julie! 394 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:41,880 Julie! 395 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:51,320 A very neat situation, you're granted, Warden. 396 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:52,320 Sure. 397 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,280 Julie being killed in her apartment two miles away, Van hearing it over the phone, and me 398 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:58,380 in the next room to him at the hotel. 399 00:13:58,380 --> 00:13:59,380 You like it, huh, Warden? 400 00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:02,200 Yeah, I like it too, and I did it. 401 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:13,640 It was a very sensational situation. 402 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:18,000 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Mr. Michael O'Shea in The Twist. 403 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:27,120 Roma Wines presentation tonight in Radio's Outstanding Theater Thrills, Suspense. 404 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:35,040 Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills is presented by Roma. 405 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:43,000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, selected from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines. 406 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,040 Have you discovered how much Roma California wines add to your everyday enjoyment? 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428 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:22,960 Did you get her? 429 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:23,960 Yeah, yeah, she answered the phone. 430 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:24,960 So? 431 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,840 Well, she sounded funny like there was someone in the same room and then suddenly she sounded 432 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,800 like she was hit or choked or something. 433 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,520 Well, maybe it's just a gag she was pulling. 434 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,200 You know, dames do that sometimes. 435 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:33,200 You think so? 436 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:34,200 Why, sure. 437 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,200 No, no, no, it couldn't be. 438 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:36,200 I heard her, Gus. 439 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:37,200 Gus, what should I do? 440 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:38,200 Now, come on, keep your shite on, Van. 441 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:39,200 The way she screamed. 442 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:40,200 Did you call her back? 443 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:41,200 No, no, I didn't. 444 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:42,200 Well, why don't you? 445 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:43,200 That's right. 446 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:44,200 That's right, call her back. 447 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:45,200 That's what I'll do. 448 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:46,200 Sure. 449 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:52,240 Well, here, here, something's happened, I know it has. 450 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:53,240 Line busy? 451 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:54,240 No, no, no answer. 452 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:55,640 Maybe you just spoke to her a minute ago. 453 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:56,960 Gus, I'm worried, I'm worried sick. 454 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:58,480 I get it, she's all right. 455 00:16:58,480 --> 00:16:59,480 Come on out for a ride. 456 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:00,480 Oh, no, I couldn't. 457 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,120 Look, tell you what I'll do for a pound. 458 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:03,280 I'll drive you over there. 459 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:13,680 You can check up for yourself. 460 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:17,080 Didn't look pretty grim as we drove over to Julie's place in the West 70s. 461 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:22,360 I checked over everything I'd done and figured how I'd work out the rest of the situation. 462 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:25,960 And we turned off Central Park West into the side street where Julie lived on the second 463 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:27,760 floor of a converted brownstone. 464 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:35,000 Hey, look, there's a guy coming out of the house. 465 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000 That's probably nobody. 466 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000 I can't see who it is. 467 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,000 He's making a getaway. 468 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Gus, follow him. 469 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000 I never catch him now. 470 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,800 Oh, gosh, Gus, if you'd only got close enough to see his license number. 471 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:44,800 Well, I did. 472 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:45,800 What was it? 473 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:46,800 LK573498. 474 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:47,800 LK573498. 475 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:56,960 All right, Sam Spade, now let's go upstairs and visit Julie, huh? 476 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,680 The door to Julie's apartment was wide open when we got upstairs and the place was just 477 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:01,920 like I left it. 478 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:03,400 Like there'd been some kind of a fight. 479 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,920 And then, then I saw where I'd made a mistake. 480 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,440 The telephone where Julie was supposed to be strangled was as neat as a pin. 481 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:15,560 I watched Ben's face to see if he noticed it, but he was too broken up to notice anything. 482 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,440 Julie, Julie. 483 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,200 Gus, she was a sweet kid. 484 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:22,200 What do you mean, was? 485 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:23,200 I know. 486 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:24,200 She's dead. 487 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:25,200 What do you know? 488 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,000 All you see is that her apartment is all busted up. 489 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,360 I heard her scream tonight. 490 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:32,640 Gus, I waited 20 years to meet a girl that I could marry. 491 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:33,640 So help me. 492 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,040 I'm not going to die till a guy who did this is in his grave. 493 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:37,040 You'll see. 494 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:38,040 You'll see, Gus. 495 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:42,320 I'm kind of mixed up now, but in a little while I'll be able to think. 496 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:43,800 I know what to do. 497 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,600 Sure, I'll know what to do. 498 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:47,480 Look, that's the telephone. 499 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:48,480 What about the telephone? 500 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:49,480 I'm going to call the police. 501 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:50,480 You know, Van, now wait a minute. 502 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:51,480 Don't be crazy. 503 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:52,480 What? 504 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:53,480 Look, put that telephone down. 505 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:54,480 Why shouldn't I call the police? 506 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:55,480 It's very simple. 507 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:56,480 You got no evidence she was murdered. 508 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:57,480 But I heard her scream. 509 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:58,480 Use your eyes, Van. 510 00:18:58,480 --> 00:18:59,480 Will you use your eyes? 511 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:00,480 Julie said she was in bed. 512 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:01,920 Has the bed been slept in? 513 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:02,920 And where's her coat? 514 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:03,920 Where's her purse? 515 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:04,920 And where's her hat? 516 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:06,280 She said she... 517 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,200 You're right, Gus. 518 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:10,720 You're right, I won't phone. 519 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:11,720 Maybe she's still alive. 520 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:12,720 That's better. 521 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:19,000 Now look, Van, sometimes we haven't felt too good towards each other, but after all, 522 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,720 we've been partners for a long time, kid. 523 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,200 Now tell you what, I'll do anything. 524 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:24,320 Anything you say to help you out. 525 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:25,320 All right, then look. 526 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:29,000 Look, just on an off chance, Gus, trace that license plate, will you? 527 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:35,440 Let's find out who that guy was. 528 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,400 We went back to our hotel. 529 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:42,440 I slept like a log because I knew that Julie was 10 feet from my bed in the closet. 530 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:43,680 Very dead. 531 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,040 Where she couldn't come between me and Van anymore. 532 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:49,840 Next morning I told Van I'd checked at the license bureau. 533 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:50,840 Whose car was it? 534 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,120 Nick Edwards. 535 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:53,120 Kathleen Edwards? 536 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:54,120 That's right. 537 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:55,120 Why, that dirty goon. 538 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:56,120 Now look, you don't think that he... 539 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:57,120 I don't have to think. 540 00:19:57,120 --> 00:19:58,120 I'll let the police do the... 541 00:19:58,120 --> 00:19:59,120 Wait a minute, hold it. 542 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:04,280 Look, Van, I never told you this before, but I knew all along that Julie was playing around 543 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:05,280 with Nick Edwards. 544 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:06,280 With Nick Edwards? 545 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:07,280 Yeah. 546 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:08,280 That's why I never liked her. 547 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,360 Now you better not call the cops. 548 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,960 Maybe we was just busting in on a private little party last night. 549 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:14,080 No, no, no, I can't believe it. 550 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,080 No, not Julie. 551 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,020 Well, we gotta find out where she is. 552 00:20:17,020 --> 00:20:18,800 And the guy who knows is Nick Edwards. 553 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,560 What makes you think he'll tell? 554 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:24,200 I'll tell you what, I'll call him at the club tonight and ask him over. 555 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,840 I think maybe he'll accept my invitation. 556 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:34,520 Well, Nick arrived at 11 p.m. 557 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:39,400 And from my window, I watched him park his black car in a dark side street near the hotel, 558 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,200 just like I told him to. 559 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,600 And I carried Julie's body down the back stairs and put it in the luggage compartment of Nick's 560 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:46,600 car. 561 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:47,600 Nobody saw me. 562 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,440 And a few minutes later, I knocked on Van's door. 563 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:51,440 That you, Gus? 564 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:52,440 Come in. 565 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:53,440 Hi, Van. 566 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:54,440 Hi, Nick. 567 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:55,440 Good evening, Gus. 568 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,440 Nick was just telling me, Gus. 569 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:01,440 Look, I'm just as worried about Julie as you guys are, see? 570 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,240 Yeah, that's easy to say. 571 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,120 OK, OK, don't take my word for it. 572 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:08,560 But I've had her house called every half hour all day. 573 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,360 Why'd you go there last night in the first place? 574 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:13,280 You haven't been around long, have you? 575 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:14,280 Never mind that, wise guy. 576 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:15,920 Why'd you visit my girl? 577 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,480 Who said she was your girl? 578 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,000 She was engaged to me. 579 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,280 She was tired of you. 580 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:21,280 Why, you little... 581 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:22,280 Sit down. 582 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,720 She told me so herself. 583 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:25,720 When? 584 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:26,720 Yesterday. 585 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,720 Then you saw her yesterday, Nick? 586 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:29,720 No. 587 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,440 No, I ain't seen her since she quit working at the club and started to pal around with 588 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:34,880 your friend here. 589 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,160 But you just said that... 590 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,920 Julie was the only gal who ever had me on the ropes, eh? 591 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,360 But when she called it quits, I went along. 592 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:47,360 She was too good for an ex-con like me anyway, I figured. 593 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:50,400 But last night, someone gives me a note in her handwriting. 594 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:51,400 Oh? 595 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:52,400 What did the note say, Nick? 596 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,480 Oh, it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. 597 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,760 I read it over and over until I knew it by heart. 598 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,200 Please don't laugh at me. 599 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:01,440 I think we made a mistake. 600 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,160 I know I have. 601 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,800 Let's start all over from the beginning. 602 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,080 If you really love me, you will. 603 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:08,640 I love you. 604 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,720 I'll do anything for you. 605 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:11,720 I'd like to see you. 606 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,560 Let's talk this over. 607 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:14,560 How about tonight? 608 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:15,560 When? 609 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:16,560 At midnight? 610 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:17,560 Come. 611 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:26,520 I'm waiting for you right now. 612 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,880 As soon as Nick Edwards left, I told Van I didn't believe anything he said. 613 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:34,880 And as far as I was concerned, Nick either killed Julie or had taken her away. 614 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,360 Van agreed with me and we called the police. 615 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:44,400 Ah, yes. 616 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,400 It all made a perfect situation. 617 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,200 The best I'd ever dreamed up. 618 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,720 All of Nick Edwards' high powered lawyers couldn't save him from being sentenced to 619 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:52,720 the chair. 620 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,840 Yes, sir, life looked pretty sweet. 621 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,240 But there was just one thing wrong. 622 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,840 Van's comedy was getting worse and worse. 623 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,600 Fred Benton told us we'd have to get better or else. 624 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:08,200 Now we sat in Van's room sweating out a Benton program that was a day overdue. 625 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:13,000 Van, Van, for the love of Mike, will you pull yourself together? 626 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,680 Of course I can't think. 627 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:15,680 You don't have to think. 628 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:16,680 I'll save you the whole situation. 629 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:18,640 All you gotta do is write the gags for it. 630 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:19,640 Gags? 631 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,640 Now look, look, in the first scene, Fred and Mrs. Mishmash steal a horse. 632 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:23,760 But here's the twist. 633 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:24,760 The horse is blind. 634 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:25,760 You get it? 635 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:26,760 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 636 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:27,760 Well, come on, then, give. 637 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:28,760 You know hundreds of horse gags. 638 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:30,760 Now just give them a twist and fit the situation. 639 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:31,760 I can't. 640 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:32,760 They just won't come. 641 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,200 Look, if we don't get this script in tomorrow, Fred will can us. 642 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:36,600 Now come on, Guy, will you write? 643 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:37,600 Well, go write yourself. 644 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,200 Van, you know I can't write. 645 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,200 I'm no good without a gag man. 646 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:41,560 Get yourself another gag man. 647 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:42,560 I'm through. 648 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:43,560 Look. 649 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:44,560 Washed up. 650 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:45,560 It's not gonna work, Van. 651 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:46,560 You know that. 652 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:47,560 I've tried it on the QT. 653 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,760 I was afraid that someday it would break up, but it never worked. 654 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,200 With you and me, Van, something happens. 655 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:52,660 We're a great team. 656 00:23:52,660 --> 00:23:54,720 Without me, you're just another guy making with words. 657 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,280 Without you, I'm just another Joe. 658 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,160 Now don't you see, kid? 659 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,000 That's why we gotta stick together. 660 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,480 Even if we do hate each other's guts. 661 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,280 That's why nobody can't never break us up. 662 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,280 Now come on, Guy, write, will you? 663 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,800 I can't think of anything. 664 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,040 Look how we got something in the files we haven't used yet. 665 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:13,040 Files. 666 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,120 You had a senior dictator to Julie. 667 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:15,120 What was that? 668 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:16,120 Huh? 669 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,120 That Mrs. Mishmash or something. 670 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:18,120 No. 671 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:19,120 Fred. 672 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:20,120 Was it, please don't laugh at me or something? 673 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:21,120 I think we made a mistake. 674 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:22,120 No, no, no, Van. 675 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:23,960 Look, that's a no good situation. 676 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:24,960 That's dead. 677 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:25,960 Let's get something new. 678 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:26,960 Gus, it's a good situation. 679 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:27,960 No, um. 680 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:28,960 A very clever situation. 681 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:29,960 All I need are the lines. 682 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:30,960 Please don't laugh at me. 683 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:31,960 Now, Van, I'm telling you, it's no good. 684 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:32,960 The lines, the lines, the lines. 685 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,960 The lines, please don't laugh at me. 686 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,520 I'm telling you, it's no good, Van. 687 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:37,520 Of course. 688 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:38,780 Why didn't I think of that before? 689 00:24:38,780 --> 00:24:40,960 Those lines you dictated to Julie, they fit. 690 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:41,960 No, they don't fit. 691 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,200 Besides, I can't ride gags, you know that. 692 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:45,200 That wasn't a gag, Gus. 693 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:46,360 That was a situation. 694 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,040 The most desperate situation you ever invented. 695 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,040 Now, wait a minute. 696 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,040 What are you beating your gums about here? 697 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,040 We'll find out. 698 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,040 What are you going to do? 699 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,580 Operator, I want to speak to Inspector Martin of police headquarters. 700 00:24:55,580 --> 00:24:56,580 Get away from that door, Gus. 701 00:24:56,580 --> 00:24:57,580 I got a gun. 702 00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:58,580 Now, don't shoot, Van. 703 00:24:58,580 --> 00:24:59,580 Wait a minute. 704 00:24:59,580 --> 00:25:00,580 Don't shoot. 705 00:25:00,580 --> 00:25:01,580 Don't move. 706 00:25:01,580 --> 00:25:02,580 Police headquarters, Inspector Martin. 707 00:25:02,580 --> 00:25:03,760 Oh, Inspector Martin, this is Van Hauser of the Julie Phelps case. 708 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,320 Hey, I've been trying to get... 709 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,320 Edwards didn't kill Julie. 710 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:07,320 Gus Green did. 711 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,320 And I got proof. 712 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,320 That makes it even worse. 713 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:10,800 Edward says you framed him. 714 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:11,800 Green did. 715 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,400 And that was a script dictated to Julie, minus the character names. 716 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:15,640 How about his alibi? 717 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,280 He dialed his own number, Inspector, not hers. 718 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,480 And killed her while she was speaking on the phone. 719 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,520 To make things look right, he messed up her apartment. 720 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,320 I never could quite figure out why there were no signs of struggle around her telephone. 721 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:27,320 Now I know. 722 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,720 Yeah, he must have stowed her body in Nick's car. 723 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,640 Better send some cops over right away before I shoot him. 724 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,720 They're coming over, Hauser, to protect you. 725 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:35,720 Edwards broke out about an hour ago. 726 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:36,720 Want you out for him. 727 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:37,720 Nick Edwards? 728 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:38,720 Yes. 729 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:39,720 Yes, Nick Edwards. 730 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:40,720 Huh? 731 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,720 All right, Hauser, come across with that gun. 732 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:44,720 Come on. 733 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,600 Nick, you heard what I said, didn't you? 734 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:47,600 So what? 735 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:48,600 I didn't frame you. 736 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:49,600 Gus did. 737 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:50,600 He's a guy with a situation. 738 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:51,600 So what? 739 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,600 You took my girl away from me, didn't you? 740 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:53,600 All right, give me that gun. 741 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:54,600 Now, Nick, wait a minute. 742 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,600 What are you going to do with it? 743 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:56,600 Nothing except give me that gun, Hauser. 744 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:57,600 Gus, don't let him get that gun, Gus. 745 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:58,600 I'm a little too quick for you, Gus. 746 00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,600 Now, Nick, please. 747 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:00,600 Now, don't shoot me. 748 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:01,600 Let me tell you how this... 749 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:02,600 Cut it, you. 750 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:03,600 I've had a belly full of your stories. 751 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:04,600 They put me in jail, remember? 752 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:05,600 They're all stuffed up in here. 753 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:12,600 But like they say, there ain't no situation that can't take a new twist. 754 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,600 Here's the twist to this one. 755 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,600 You ain't going to die for the murder of my poor Julie. 756 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:19,600 No, no. 757 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,600 You're going to die for something you didn't do. 758 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,600 What do you mean, Nick? 759 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,600 Just this. 760 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,600 The murder of Van Dyke. 761 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:36,600 The murder of Van Hauser. 762 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:50,600 Well, they didn't believe me at the trial. 763 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,600 So I'm up for killing my late, un lamented partner. 764 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,600 But you know me, I always like a twist. 765 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,600 They got Nick for killing Julie. 766 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:04,600 Now, I guess you can understand why I can't write the prisoner's annual show, can't you, 767 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:05,600 warden? 768 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:06,600 Not without Van. 769 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:21,600 And besides, like I said, I don't have too much time, do I, before I go to the chair? 770 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,600 Suspense. 771 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:31,600 The Twist, starring Michael O'Shea, presented by Roma Wines. 772 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:38,600 That's R-O-M-A, Roma California Wines, America's largest selling wines. 773 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:44,600 When your family and friends enjoy glorious golden amber Roma Sherry or ruby red Roma Port, 774 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:52,600 you share the rich reward of choicest California grapes, selected and gently pressed at peak taste richness 775 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,600 with ancient skills and winemaking resources unmatched in America. 776 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:04,600 Roma master ventners guide this grape treasure unhurriedly to full taste perfection. 777 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:10,600 These choice wines then are laid down with mellow Roma wines of years before, and from these, 778 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:17,600 the world's great reserves of fine wines, Roma later selects for your taste pleasure. 779 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:23,600 Tomorrow and every day, enjoy this naturally better taste of Roma Wines. 780 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:33,600 Whether your favorite Roma Wine is not like Roma Sherry or rich Roma Port, you'll find that every Roma Wine is better tasting wine. 781 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:38,600 That's why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wines. 782 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,600 Tonight's Suspense Play was by Baef Blau. 783 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:48,600 Next Thursday same time, you will hear Donald O'Connor as star of Suspense, 784 00:28:48,600 --> 00:29:01,600 produced and directed by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 785 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:07,600 In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars as Claire Trevor, Kirk Douglas and others. 786 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:23,600 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, radio's outstanding theater thrills. 787 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:37,600 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.