WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 This is Robert Montgomery. 00:02.000 --> 00:05.000 I have a new assignment and I am very happy about it. 00:05.000 --> 00:12.000 During these 60 minutes each Saturday, I am to be acting spokesman for one of radio's really great entertainments. 00:12.000 --> 00:15.000 A program which is a prime favorite with all of us. 00:15.000 --> 00:22.000 You have come to know its opening music as the curtain raiser for radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 00:22.000 --> 00:30.000 You know it as a show which each week for five years has brought you first class story material and exciting performances. 00:30.000 --> 00:37.000 You have come to recognize throughout the unique touch of our unique producer, my friend Bill Spear. 00:37.000 --> 00:43.000 All of which can be said in one word, suspense. 00:43.000 --> 00:52.000 An hour of suspense now. A full 60 minutes on Saturday night. 00:52.000 --> 00:57.000 And with the distinguished actor director Robert Montgomery as your host. 00:57.000 --> 01:01.000 Tonight Mr. Montgomery also appears as star in The Black Curtain. 01:01.000 --> 01:05.000 A suspense play produced, edited and directed by William Spear. 01:05.000 --> 01:13.000 I don't have very much to say in the prologue department tonight. 01:13.000 --> 01:18.000 That's because at this premiere of the full hour show, we're anxious to ring up our curtain. 01:18.000 --> 01:22.000 Our black curtain if you will, without unnecessary delay. 01:22.000 --> 01:25.000 Also because tonight I am appearing as an actor. 01:25.000 --> 01:31.000 The idea on most Saturday evenings is for me to make you welcome and chat about things you and I are mutually interested in. 01:31.000 --> 01:37.000 Crime mostly and the various types of criminal achievement, real and fictional. 01:37.000 --> 01:44.000 And the persons actual and invented who have committed those crimes and gotten themselves into those predicaments. 01:44.000 --> 01:54.000 And the people who have written about it and have compounded the particular brew of mystery and dangerous adventure which we serve up to you in the name of suspense. 01:54.000 --> 02:01.000 But tonight I am appearing for a good many of our 60 minutes as a man named Frank Townsend. 02:01.000 --> 02:06.000 Townsend will tell you his really amazing story in his own words. 02:06.000 --> 02:11.000 And so I think you will hear quite enough from him without hearing more from Robert Montgomery. 02:11.000 --> 02:16.000 And so if our producer Bill Spear is ready, we will ring up our curtain. 02:16.000 --> 02:33.000 Now with the black curtain from the novel by Cornell Woolrich and with the performance of Robert Montgomery, we hope once again to keep you in suspense. 02:33.000 --> 02:39.000 A man is born, he lives out his little life and he dies. 02:39.000 --> 02:42.000 That's the one real break I guess that every man can count on. 02:42.000 --> 02:50.000 The one thing nobody can take away from him, to be born just once and to die just once. 02:50.000 --> 03:03.000 Every man, that is except Frank Townsend, born with no strikes on him, died with two strikes on him and then was born again with three strikes on him. 03:03.000 --> 03:07.000 Pushed back into life that day on that street. 03:07.000 --> 03:20.000 My head was pounding like the percussion instruments beating out the anvil chorus. 03:20.000 --> 03:23.000 I could hear all the noise and the people milling around. 03:23.000 --> 03:25.000 At first everything was a jumble, sight and sound. 03:25.000 --> 03:31.000 Tall buildings, high sky, low faces, spinning and weaving and bells exploding. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 All right, get moving now, let the doc through. 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 I see it officer, I see it, he was running fast, the whammo clunked. 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 He's growing like an onion with his head down and his feet up. 03:41.000 --> 03:43.000 All right, all right, break it up, I'll break it up. 03:43.000 --> 03:44.000 Oh my head. 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 Take it easy now brother, just lie still. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 Who, what are? 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 I'm the doctor, just lie still and I'll take it easy. 03:51.000 --> 03:54.000 The copper, his wallet fell out of his pocket, a guy grabbed it and he ran. 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 All right, come on, get back, I'll get him in the lab, get back. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 I'm okay doc, I just feel a little. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 Sure, sure, here, let me help you up, see if you can stand. 04:01.000 --> 04:02.000 Thanks, thanks. 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 I guess I can talk to him now, eh doc? 04:04.000 --> 04:07.000 Just a nasty bump on his head, he'll be okay. 04:07.000 --> 04:08.000 Here, let me brush your coat off. 04:08.000 --> 04:13.000 Thanks doc, my coat, why am I wearing an overcoat? 04:13.000 --> 04:16.000 Just for my report mister, what's your name and address? 04:16.000 --> 04:21.000 Townsend, Frank Townsend, 820 Rutherford Street. 04:21.000 --> 04:24.000 He has a cigarette, he's still a little woozy. 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 No thanks, I don't smoke. 04:26.000 --> 04:27.000 Look, take a couple of aspirins. 04:27.000 --> 04:30.000 All right, all right, come on, this part's mine. 04:30.000 --> 04:31.000 Here's your hat mister. 04:31.000 --> 04:32.000 Thanks kid. 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 We'll see what we can do about the guy that snatched your wallet. 04:35.000 --> 04:36.000 Here's your cigar case. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 Mike, yes but I haven't got a... 04:38.000 --> 04:41.000 Well, good luck mister, I'm going to turn in my report. 04:41.000 --> 04:44.000 Cigar case? I don't smoke. 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 Oh, it just fell out of your pocket when we lifted you. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 Yeah, but look at the initials on it, D.N. 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 Yeah, same initials like in your hat, see, D.N. 04:52.000 --> 04:53.000 Yeah, but that isn't my hat. 04:53.000 --> 04:56.000 Oh, you got a nasty crack on the noggin mister and... 04:56.000 --> 04:59.000 Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm trying to think. 04:59.000 --> 05:00.000 Where is this? 05:00.000 --> 05:01.000 Where is what? 05:01.000 --> 05:03.000 This, this street. 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 This? This is Tillery Street. 05:05.000 --> 05:09.000 Tillery? What am I doing on Tillery Street? 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 Hey, look buddy, you sure you're okay? 05:11.000 --> 05:14.000 Well, what happened to me? 05:14.000 --> 05:18.000 Well, you were running, very dangerous running on this ice. 05:18.000 --> 05:21.000 Well, you slipped, hit your head and was out for about 20 minutes. 05:21.000 --> 05:22.000 Ice? 05:22.000 --> 05:26.000 After that blizzard we had last night, did you expect May flowers? 05:26.000 --> 05:30.000 Blizzard? In July? 05:30.000 --> 05:34.000 July? Oh, listen buddy, I got a flash for you. 05:34.000 --> 05:38.000 This is December, one week before Christmas, 1944. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 1940? 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 Oh, don't take it so hard, we all get older. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 You better get home and get a fast 40 winks. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 You need it. 05:47.000 --> 05:58.000 December 1944. 05:58.000 --> 06:02.000 December 1944. 06:02.000 --> 06:07.000 But the last I could remember was July 1941. 06:07.000 --> 06:11.000 Three years, gone, just gone. 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 A black curtain. 06:13.000 --> 06:17.000 That black curtain of amnesia comes down over your mind out of nowhere. 06:17.000 --> 06:22.000 That black curtain had been dropped over my eyes for three years. 06:22.000 --> 06:26.000 Where had I been? Who had I been? 06:26.000 --> 06:30.000 Not Frank Townsend, someone else, D.N. 06:30.000 --> 06:34.000 Someone whose initials were D.N. 06:34.000 --> 06:38.000 I walked along Tillery Street thinking about it. 06:38.000 --> 06:42.000 Those three years, I could have been married, 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 or could have been a thief. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 No, it was insane. 06:46.000 --> 06:50.000 20 minutes ago I left the little office where Johnny and I have our advertising business. 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 I was on my way to speak to a client. 06:52.000 --> 06:56.000 20 minutes ago I told Johnny that... 06:56.000 --> 07:02.000 But that was July 1941. 07:02.000 --> 07:07.000 There was no snow, no ice, no initials, D.N. 07:07.000 --> 07:11.000 I must see Johnny. He'd know, he'd tell me. 07:11.000 --> 07:15.000 I stopped dead. 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 I don't know why. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 Something made me turn my head. 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 And that's when I first saw him. 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 Grey eyes. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 He'd been talking to the cop who took my name. 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 He looked after me as I turned my head. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 He started for me. I found myself backing away. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 Something about him screamed trouble. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 He quickened his step. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 You! Townsend! Stop! 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 The sound of his voice sent terror roaring into my skull. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 I ran, he lunged after me. 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 I saw him come as I rounded the corner, and in his hand he held a gun. 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 He raised it. 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 I ducked my head and ran for my life, for the second life that I'd been born into. 07:53.000 --> 07:54.000 It was the ice that saved me. 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 I flew across it, my toes barely touching its treacherous surface. 07:57.000 --> 08:00.000 But grey eyes slipped, spun through the air, gun flying from his fingers. 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 By the time his heavy body had flooded to the ground, 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 I'd hurled myself down the subway steps, walked vaulted the turnstile, 08:05.000 --> 08:09.000 cheated the steel edge of the subway door as the train pulled out of the station. 08:09.000 --> 08:12.000 And for two hours, I rode the rails under the city. 08:12.000 --> 08:16.000 And for two hours, my stomach was gripped by terror. 08:23.000 --> 08:26.000 Dusk, and a new snowfall had settled over the city. 08:27.000 --> 08:30.000 I entered the sleek lobby of the Greystone building on 34th Street, 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 where Johnny and I had our office. 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 In a few minutes, I'd be sitting across the desk from Johnny. 08:35.000 --> 08:39.000 A good bottle between us and then everything would be all right. 08:39.000 --> 08:40.000 Johnny would know what to do. 08:40.000 --> 08:43.000 He always knew, ever since we'd been in school together. 08:44.000 --> 08:49.000 He'd know how to find out who I'd been, what the initials D.N. meant, 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 why Grey Eyes tried to kill me. 08:52.000 --> 08:56.000 An elevator door slid open and I stepped into the cage. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 Floor, please. 08:58.000 --> 08:59.000 Ten. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 Pass, please. 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 What? 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 Your pass. I gotta see it. 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 What pass? 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 To go up to the 10th floor. 09:06.000 --> 09:07.000 Pass to... 09:07.000 --> 09:10.000 But I don't understand. My office is up there. 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 Look, buddy, all I do is run this elevator, not the country. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 Yes, but I... 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 Save it, save it. Guard! 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 Two men came from the rear of the lobby. 09:19.000 --> 09:21.000 They were big men. 09:21.000 --> 09:25.000 They wore uniforms, the blue trousers tucked into brown parties, 09:25.000 --> 09:30.000 their thumbs tucked into heavy belts that supported heavy guns and heavy clubs. 09:30.000 --> 09:35.000 White armbands read SP. They eyed me with suspicion. 09:35.000 --> 09:36.000 What's the trouble, mate? 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 10th floor, no pass. 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 What's your business on the 10th floor, sir? 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 Advertising. I mean, my office is there and I... 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 Yeah, you're sure you're in the right building? 09:45.000 --> 09:48.000 Well, I... Isn't this the Greystone building? 09:48.000 --> 09:51.000 You can't have no office in this building higher than the 5th floor. 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 But I tell you, we're my partner and me, we're on the... 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 Nobody's on the 10th floor but the Navy. 09:56.000 --> 09:57.000 The Navy? 09:57.000 --> 10:00.000 All the way from the 6th to the roof. 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 Why? 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 You're kidding, sir? 10:02.000 --> 10:05.000 Ain't you heard there's a war on? 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 War? 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 Look, mister, if this is supposed to be funny, you're in the wrong department. 10:09.000 --> 10:10.000 What's your name? 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 Look, will you help me, please? My name is Townsend. 10:12.000 --> 10:16.000 I have an office here on the 10th floor advertising Townsend and Gale. 10:16.000 --> 10:19.000 Oh, yeah, Townsend and Gale. 10:19.000 --> 10:22.000 Well, that folded when the Navy took over. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 Where's Johnny Gale? 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 He joined the Navy. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 Where can I find him? 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 Oh, it'll be tough finding, mister. 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 He was buried last month on Okinawa. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 Johnny. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 Dead. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 Buried on Okinawa. 10:44.000 --> 10:47.000 The name meant nothing to me. 10:47.000 --> 10:52.000 Only that at Okinawa was buried my strongest link to my past. 10:52.000 --> 10:56.000 One slender thread leading back through the years remained. 10:56.000 --> 10:59.000 The apartment on Rutherford Street. 10:59.000 --> 11:01.000 I started to draw it in. 11:16.000 --> 11:17.000 Oh! 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 Hello, Mrs. Hudson. 11:20.000 --> 11:23.000 Why, Mr. Townsend? 11:23.000 --> 11:26.000 I, uh, I guess I startled you. 11:26.000 --> 11:29.000 Why, no. No, not at all. I was expecting... 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 I mean, I thought that you... 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 Yeah, it's been a long time. 11:34.000 --> 11:36.000 Not, not at all. 11:36.000 --> 11:40.000 I kept... I mean, I knew you'd come back and... 11:40.000 --> 11:43.000 Well, your apartment is just where you left it. 11:43.000 --> 11:46.000 You kept the apartment for me, huh? 11:46.000 --> 11:49.000 After all, Mr. Townsend, you were my favorite tenant and... 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 Come in. Come in. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 Thank you. 11:55.000 --> 11:59.000 You just go right on up, Mr. Townsend. 11:59.000 --> 12:03.000 I, uh... Aren't you going to ask me what happened to me? 12:03.000 --> 12:08.000 Hi. You... You look very well, Mr. Townsend. 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 I'm... I'm glad you're back. 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 And... and... 12:14.000 --> 12:17.000 Yes. Yes, I'm glad I'm... 12:17.000 --> 12:20.000 Thank you, Mrs. Hudson. 12:27.000 --> 12:32.000 I started up the stairs, the same stairs, the same creeks, 12:32.000 --> 12:35.000 the same loose board halfway up. 12:35.000 --> 12:38.000 Everything the same, but everything unreal. 12:38.000 --> 12:41.000 Mrs. Hudson, unreal. 12:41.000 --> 12:44.000 I sensed her eyes following me up the stairs. 12:44.000 --> 12:49.000 I stopped, turned, looked down. 12:49.000 --> 12:53.000 She stared up at me, mouth slightly open, 12:53.000 --> 12:58.000 and for a long, long moment, neither of us spoke. 12:58.000 --> 13:02.000 Yes? Mr. Townsend? 13:02.000 --> 13:05.000 Mrs. Hudson, uh... 13:05.000 --> 13:08.000 Yes? Mr. Townsend? 13:08.000 --> 13:13.000 Well, it's nothing, but you used to call me Frank. 13:13.000 --> 13:16.000 Come on. 13:25.000 --> 13:28.000 Come all the way in, son. 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 He was sitting in the large chair by the window. 13:35.000 --> 13:39.000 In his left hand, he held a half-smoked cigar. 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 It was pointed at the ceiling. 13:41.000 --> 13:44.000 In his right hand, he held a gun. 13:44.000 --> 13:47.000 It was pointed at me. 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 It was gray eyes. 13:52.000 --> 13:56.000 Tell her, East Street, just couldn't stay away from there, could you? 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 Well, never feels. 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 What do you want? There's some mistake. I... 14:00.000 --> 14:03.000 Given that harness bull the phony name, but the right address. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 Very unbright. 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 Listen, my name is Townsend, Frank Townsend. 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 So, all right, so we'll bury you under that name. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 What difference does it make? 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Bury me? But why? Why? What have I done? 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 Suppose you tell me. 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 Maybe you can make it sound better. 14:17.000 --> 14:21.000 If I have to die, all right, I'll die, but I got a right to know why, haven't I? 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 Tell me what I've done. What am I dying for? 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 Stand still! 14:25.000 --> 14:31.000 Now, just give me one more excuse, son, and I'll kill you right here and right now. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 Yeah, that's better. 14:35.000 --> 14:39.000 Now, settle back and relax. Now, sit down over there. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 Lean back against the chair. 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 All the way. 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 Now, put your hands on your head. 14:47.000 --> 14:53.000 And, son, just pray that you don't get an itchy nose, because if you even start to scratch it, it'll be the last itch you'll ever feel. 14:56.000 --> 15:02.000 Now, while we're waiting for the boys, we'll just sit and chat, nice and friendly-like. 15:02.000 --> 15:06.000 Anything special you'd like to talk about? 15:08.000 --> 15:11.000 No? Okay, maybe I can suggest something. 15:11.000 --> 15:15.000 Maybe you'll find the loot on an interesting topic of conversation. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 Sounds promising. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 The loot. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 What'd you do with it? 15:24.000 --> 15:27.000 I sat with my hands clasped to my head. 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 I didn't dare move. 15:29.000 --> 15:35.000 He had the safety catch off, and I knew he'd send a bullet through my head without a second thought. 15:35.000 --> 15:40.000 That why you took the chance of going back to Tillery Street? Maybe the doll crossed you up, huh? 15:40.000 --> 15:43.000 Sure, you waited all week and she never showed. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 Maybe she liked it. 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 Nothing, he said, made any sense to me. 15:47.000 --> 15:51.000 All I knew was that he expected others to arrive, and they would take me. 15:51.000 --> 15:53.000 Where? 15:53.000 --> 15:59.000 His gray eyes went on and on, his voice droning, until I no longer cared what happened to me. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 Or why. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 I think I was beginning to nod. 16:03.000 --> 16:06.000 Went from the corner of my eye. 16:06.000 --> 16:09.000 I saw the door open slightly. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 I didn't stir. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 Gray eyes droned on. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 A man was standing in the doorway behind him. 16:15.000 --> 16:21.000 A small man with small hands, and he held a small finger up to his lips. 16:21.000 --> 16:24.000 His small feet made quick, noiseless steps. 16:24.000 --> 16:27.000 He stopped silently behind the chair in which gray eyes was sitting. 16:27.000 --> 16:32.000 Then he raised a small gun, and his small fist... 16:36.000 --> 16:41.000 Gray eyes emitted a small gasp and fell forward at my feet. 16:41.000 --> 16:43.000 I stared down at him stupidly. 16:43.000 --> 16:46.000 The small man chuckled. 16:46.000 --> 16:51.000 I am so small, and yet I have so much strength. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 It is revolting. 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 You... I think you killed him. 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 Perhaps. 16:57.000 --> 17:00.000 So you did not expect to see me, no? 17:00.000 --> 17:01.000 No. 17:01.000 --> 17:05.000 My friend, I did not observe you all these years for nothing. 17:05.000 --> 17:11.000 When the deed was done, I knew that your romantic American soul would eventually betray you. 17:11.000 --> 17:17.000 And so I said to myself, Dangler, I said, you must go to Tillery Street. 17:17.000 --> 17:24.000 Endure the cold and the wind, but watch, watch, watch, and be patient while you watch. 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 Yes, this I did. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 And you see, my patience was rewarded. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 Dangler? 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 Yes, my friend. 17:33.000 --> 17:37.000 Tell me, how... how bad are things? 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 My friend, I will tell you this. 17:39.000 --> 17:43.000 The situation for you is desperate, but not serious. 17:43.000 --> 17:47.000 I will guarantee safe conduct for you over the border to Mexico. 17:47.000 --> 17:54.000 But you must insist that I accept and press upon me when I refuse a fair share of the money. 17:54.000 --> 17:55.000 The money? 17:55.000 --> 17:56.000 Precisely. 17:56.000 --> 17:59.000 Now what would be fair? 17:59.000 --> 18:04.000 Well, in view of the difficult situation, we should share equally. 18:04.000 --> 18:08.000 Yes, one thousand for me, one thousand for you. 18:08.000 --> 18:11.000 And then you will give me the balance of eight thousand for expenses. 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 Yes, for expenses. 18:13.000 --> 18:16.000 Give you nine thousand? 18:16.000 --> 18:19.000 A truly fair and honorable distribution. 18:19.000 --> 18:25.000 Especially, my friend, when you consider that the nine thousand you give me is an item which is completely deductible. 18:25.000 --> 18:28.000 Yes, deductible from your income tax. 18:28.000 --> 18:29.000 I see. 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 And suppose I refuse your offer? 18:31.000 --> 18:33.000 How can you refuse? 18:33.000 --> 18:37.000 Didn't I save your life by assaulting this thug from behind? 18:37.000 --> 18:42.000 And didn't I have the good sense to snatch your wallet when you so stupidly fell in the street? 18:42.000 --> 18:43.000 Yes. 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 See? 18:44.000 --> 18:45.000 Here it is. 18:45.000 --> 18:48.000 It was I who took it before the police could examine it. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 You have the... Let me see it. 18:50.000 --> 18:51.000 You may have it. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 Here, wait. 18:53.000 --> 18:54.000 What? 18:54.000 --> 18:57.000 Where's... Where's my cards, my identification? 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 Where's his identification, he asks. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 I told you you were stupid. 19:01.000 --> 19:05.000 Would I dare walk about with your identification cards upon my person? 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 Idiot! 19:07.000 --> 19:10.000 I begin to feel it is not safe to deal with you. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 All right, all right. 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 I'll play ball. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 I begin to feel you have a little good sense. 19:16.000 --> 19:17.000 Now, where is the money? 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 You think I carry it with me? 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 Well, with a man like you, who knows? 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 Very well. 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 You must arrange to get it. 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 I will be waiting for you at my office. 19:26.000 --> 19:27.000 Do not come there. 19:27.000 --> 19:28.000 Call me. 19:28.000 --> 19:29.000 Then we will contrive to meet. 19:29.000 --> 19:30.000 Is that clear? 19:30.000 --> 19:31.000 Yes. 19:31.000 --> 19:32.000 Good. 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 Now, I shake your hand and wish you well. 19:34.000 --> 19:37.000 If you succeed in going out once more into Tilleries Street 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 and coming out safely with the money, 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 I will be waiting for you. 19:41.000 --> 19:46.000 And if you do not come out, I will make a small novena for you. 19:46.000 --> 19:47.000 Goodbye, my friend. 19:47.000 --> 19:48.000 Goodbye. 19:54.000 --> 19:57.000 I shut off all process of thought and feeling. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 Reason was useless in an irrational world, 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 feeling dangerous in a dangerous one. 20:03.000 --> 20:07.000 I moved like an automaton, moving now from A to B, 20:07.000 --> 20:10.000 from B to C, from Rutherford Street to Tillerie. 20:10.000 --> 20:13.000 Grey eyes and dangler. 20:13.000 --> 20:18.000 Both had made Tilleries Street their point of arrival and departure. 20:18.000 --> 20:20.000 And the point of my rebirth, 20:20.000 --> 20:25.000 I took the chance that might rent the black curtain and let in the sun, 20:25.000 --> 20:30.000 or rent my heart and let out my life. 20:30.000 --> 20:33.000 I returned to Tilleries Street. 20:49.000 --> 20:50.000 Yes? 20:50.000 --> 20:51.000 Good evening. 20:51.000 --> 20:52.000 What can I do? 20:52.000 --> 20:55.000 Oh, hello. Hello. How are you? 20:55.000 --> 20:57.000 You, uh, you know me. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 Oh, why shouldn't I know you? 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 I couldn't see you under that head at first. 21:01.000 --> 21:02.000 What can I do for you? 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Have you got an evening paper that I could look at? 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 No, I'm sorry. I never read them. 21:06.000 --> 21:09.000 Too much trouble in the world these days anyhow. 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 How have you been? 21:10.000 --> 21:13.000 You haven't been around in two or three weeks. 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 Yes, well, I've been busy. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 I... Look, Pop, I... 21:16.000 --> 21:20.000 I made a bet with a guy that even though you see so many customers, 21:20.000 --> 21:23.000 you'd walk right up and give me my full name. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know it. 21:25.000 --> 21:28.000 I don't think I ever heard your name. 21:28.000 --> 21:29.000 Oh. 21:29.000 --> 21:31.000 But I know your girl. 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 My girl? My girl? Oh, you do? 21:33.000 --> 21:34.000 Yes. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 Well, now maybe I can still win my bet, huh? 21:36.000 --> 21:39.000 Of course. Ruth. Ruth. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 She lives right across the street. 21:41.000 --> 21:42.000 The Tillerie Apartments. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 Well, that's right. Ruth. 21:44.000 --> 21:47.000 Ah. But now, what apartment? 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 Apartment 3C, of course. 21:49.000 --> 21:52.000 Don't I take the sandwiches up there every night? 21:52.000 --> 21:55.000 3C. Yes. Well, thanks. 21:55.000 --> 21:56.000 Will you win your bet, mister? 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 What? Oh, yes, I think I will. 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 What's your name so I'll know it next time? 22:00.000 --> 22:02.000 I'll tell you tomorrow. 22:02.000 --> 22:03.000 So long. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 So long, Pop. I'll be seeing... 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 What's the matter? You dropped something? 22:08.000 --> 22:11.000 Nothing. Nothing, I... 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 Just tying my shoe. 22:16.000 --> 22:19.000 I'd just been going to walk out when I saw him standing across the street, 22:19.000 --> 22:22.000 a man built like grey eyes, dressed like him, 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 and I knew he was looking for me. 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 I ducked down behind the store window and watched him. 22:26.000 --> 22:29.000 He looked over in my direction and then up and down the street, 22:29.000 --> 22:32.000 lit a cigarette, and then strolled down to the corner. 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 The minute he disappeared, I yanked the door open, 22:34.000 --> 23:00.000 dashed out and ran across to the artillery apartments and went in. 23:00.000 --> 23:01.000 Who is it? 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 Ruth. 23:03.000 --> 23:04.000 Yes? 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 It's me. 23:08.000 --> 23:11.000 Dan? Oh, darling. 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 Get in here. 23:13.000 --> 23:17.000 Oh, darling, it's really you. 23:17.000 --> 23:18.000 I thought... 23:18.000 --> 23:19.000 Hello, Ruth. 23:19.000 --> 23:20.000 Oh, Danny, why did you come here? 23:20.000 --> 23:21.000 He's been around twice a day. 23:21.000 --> 23:23.000 He may be in the neighborhood right now, for all you know. 23:23.000 --> 23:24.000 Who? 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 Who? Well, Slattery, of course. 23:26.000 --> 23:27.000 Does he got grey eyes? 23:27.000 --> 23:28.000 What? 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 Yeah, did you ever see a detective that didn't? 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 Sure, sure, I but... 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 Danny, what's the matter with you? 23:34.000 --> 23:35.000 You're acting so strangely. 23:35.000 --> 23:39.000 I...I just wanted to look at you. 23:39.000 --> 23:42.000 It seems a difference, so far away. 23:42.000 --> 23:43.000 You haven't kissed me. 23:43.000 --> 23:48.000 Well, that's easily fixed. 23:48.000 --> 23:51.000 Oh, darling, where have you been? 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 All around. Miss me? 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 You know I did. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 Oh, Danny, do you suppose... 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 Do you think we could get away tonight? 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 I've got ten dollars... some money saved up. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 We could go to Mexico or South America. 24:03.000 --> 24:04.000 We could get married. 24:04.000 --> 24:08.000 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Nearing tour the world. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 Daniel Nearing? And wife? 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 Sounds plenty good to me. 24:12.000 --> 24:13.000 You'll never know how good. 24:13.000 --> 24:14.000 Well, get out of here tonight. 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 I'll call up and tell them I'm quitting my job. 24:16.000 --> 24:17.000 I'll say I'm sick. 24:17.000 --> 24:18.000 All my stuff's here. 24:18.000 --> 24:21.000 Nothing's out there but a couple of uniforms. 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 I'll make Ada and Franklin a present of those. 24:23.000 --> 24:24.000 Ada and Franklin? 24:24.000 --> 24:26.000 Don't you bother your pretty head about those two. 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 Maybe they weren't glad when it happened. 24:28.000 --> 24:29.000 Couple of vultures. 24:29.000 --> 24:30.000 Goodbye to them. 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 Oh... 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 Oh, with your back, Danny. 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 Just think of the money I have. 24:36.000 --> 24:38.000 Do you think you ought to have quit your job? 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 I never was cut out to be a nurse. 24:40.000 --> 24:41.000 Oh, you weren't, were you? 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 Any more than I was cut out to... 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 Any more than you were meant to be a secretary. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 That's right. I never wanted to be a secretary. 24:47.000 --> 24:50.000 I just drifted into it, I guess, and... 24:50.000 --> 24:54.000 it got on my nerves, especially towards the end, huh? 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 The boss was no cinch to work for. 24:56.000 --> 24:58.000 He certainly wasn't. He was a rat. 24:58.000 --> 25:02.000 Oh, the whole Dietrich Bunch are mean, rotten, the whole family. 25:02.000 --> 25:04.000 Yeah. That's right. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 I'll accept the old man. 25:06.000 --> 25:07.000 Oh, the old man. 25:07.000 --> 25:09.000 Yeah, I sort of liked him, didn't I? 25:09.000 --> 25:11.000 He loved you too, Danny. 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 I think he wished you'd been his son. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 Poor old man. 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 He's the only reason I've stuck around out there this long. 25:17.000 --> 25:19.000 How, uh... 25:19.000 --> 25:20.000 How are things out there? 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 How could you expect them to be? 25:22.000 --> 25:23.000 Not very pleasant, huh? 25:23.000 --> 25:26.000 Oh, it's been great. Just great. 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 With the questioning and keeping after me, 25:29.000 --> 25:32.000 and me sick to my stomach with worry for you, 25:32.000 --> 25:36.000 not knowing where you were if you were alive or dead. 25:36.000 --> 25:39.000 Oh, Danny, Danny, it's been horrible. 25:39.000 --> 25:43.000 But you're back with me, and that's all that matters. 25:43.000 --> 25:44.000 I just want to forget everything. 25:44.000 --> 25:46.000 The Dietrichs, New Jericho... 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 New... New Jericho, huh? 25:48.000 --> 25:49.000 Everything that happened. 25:49.000 --> 25:50.000 Like what? 25:50.000 --> 25:53.000 Oh, darling, please, let's not talk about it. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 We're the important thing now. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 I must know what's going to become of you. 25:57.000 --> 26:01.000 Because whatever it is means me too. 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 I don't know, Ruth. 26:03.000 --> 26:05.000 I don't know. 26:05.000 --> 26:07.000 I saw Dingler today. 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 Franklin's lawyer? 26:09.000 --> 26:10.000 Yeah. 26:10.000 --> 26:11.000 Where? 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 I, uh... He passed me on the street. 26:13.000 --> 26:14.000 Did he see you? 26:14.000 --> 26:15.000 No. 26:15.000 --> 26:17.000 Are you sure he didn't? Are you sure, darling? 26:17.000 --> 26:18.000 He didn't speak to me. 26:18.000 --> 26:19.000 You know how clever he is. 26:19.000 --> 26:21.000 He just let you go by and follow you. 26:21.000 --> 26:23.000 Why? Why wouldn't he talk to me if he saw me? 26:23.000 --> 26:25.000 Well, he figures you're dangerous, darling. 26:25.000 --> 26:27.000 It wouldn't be safe for him to try it alone. 26:27.000 --> 26:28.000 Why am I dangerous? 26:28.000 --> 26:30.000 Well, whether it's true or not, darling, doesn't matter. 26:30.000 --> 26:32.000 It's what he believes that counts. 26:32.000 --> 26:34.000 And he believes like the rest of them. You know that. 26:34.000 --> 26:37.000 Yes. Yes, I guess I do. I... 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 Danny, look at me. 26:39.000 --> 26:41.000 Oh, my dear. 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 Your poor, tired eyes. 26:43.000 --> 26:45.000 Your face so strained. 26:45.000 --> 26:47.000 You need a shave, too. 26:47.000 --> 26:49.000 When did you sleep last? 26:49.000 --> 26:51.000 Sleep? 26:51.000 --> 26:53.000 I haven't thought about it. 26:53.000 --> 26:55.000 I don't remember. 26:55.000 --> 26:57.000 That you can believe, Angel. 26:57.000 --> 26:59.000 I don't remember when I slept last. 26:59.000 --> 27:01.000 Danny, we must wait until the moon is down, 27:01.000 --> 27:03.000 and we'll try to leave then. 27:03.000 --> 27:05.000 But now I want you to go in there and have a hot shower 27:05.000 --> 27:07.000 and a shave and then sleep for a while. 27:07.000 --> 27:09.000 You must, darling. 27:09.000 --> 27:11.000 You can't go on like this. 27:18.000 --> 27:20.000 I found my way to the bath 27:20.000 --> 27:22.000 without making a blunder, 27:22.000 --> 27:24.000 and the warm water felt good. 27:24.000 --> 27:27.000 I stood under the shower for a long, long time. 27:27.000 --> 27:29.000 It would have been pleasant to stand out 27:29.000 --> 27:31.000 the rest of my life just that way, 27:31.000 --> 27:33.000 under that soothing spray. 27:33.000 --> 27:35.000 In the medicine cabinet, 27:35.000 --> 27:38.000 I found a safety razor, shaving cream. 27:38.000 --> 27:41.000 I usually have trouble with a new razor. 27:41.000 --> 27:44.000 It takes me time to grow accustomed to it. 27:44.000 --> 27:47.000 But this one felt just fine. 27:47.000 --> 27:49.000 I slipped into my shirt and trousers 27:49.000 --> 27:51.000 and found my way to the bedroom. 27:51.000 --> 27:53.000 On a small tray near the bed, 27:53.000 --> 27:56.000 Ruth had placed a hot glass of milk and some toast. 27:56.000 --> 27:58.000 I was hungry. 27:58.000 --> 28:00.000 I ate. 28:00.000 --> 28:03.000 I slid between the sheets and they caressed my body 28:03.000 --> 28:07.000 with a gentleness that I hadn't known since childhood. 28:09.000 --> 28:11.000 Everything all right, darling? 28:11.000 --> 28:13.000 Right now. 28:13.000 --> 28:15.000 Here, let me tuck you in and open the window. 28:15.000 --> 28:17.000 The air's good for you. 28:17.000 --> 28:19.000 I'll leave the shade up. 28:19.000 --> 28:21.000 Don't turn the light on. 28:21.000 --> 28:24.000 The dark feels warm and friendly. 28:24.000 --> 28:26.000 Cigarette before you doze off? 28:26.000 --> 28:28.000 No, thanks. 28:28.000 --> 28:30.000 I don't smoke. 28:31.000 --> 28:33.000 Sure. 28:35.000 --> 28:37.000 I like your eyes by match light, darling. 28:37.000 --> 28:39.000 They shine. 28:39.000 --> 28:40.000 No, don't blow it out. 28:40.000 --> 28:42.000 Let me. I'll make a wish. 28:42.000 --> 28:44.000 There. 28:45.000 --> 28:47.000 What was your wish? 28:47.000 --> 28:51.000 To be with you forever. 28:52.000 --> 28:55.000 Just to be with you like this. 28:55.000 --> 29:01.000 Feeling your dear face, your chin, your jaw. 29:01.000 --> 29:05.000 Closing my eyes and still knowing you're here near me. 29:05.000 --> 29:09.000 This is all I want out of life. 29:09.000 --> 29:12.000 I wouldn't change places with any woman who knows 29:12.000 --> 29:15.000 and is sure she has her man forever. 29:15.000 --> 29:21.000 Who knows no one might come at any minute to take him from her. 29:22.000 --> 29:25.000 You're all I want, Danny. 29:25.000 --> 29:27.000 Forever. 29:28.000 --> 29:31.000 I'm going to be with you forever. 29:31.000 --> 29:36.000 Forever. Now and forever. 29:38.000 --> 29:44.000 Because for us, darling, forever is now. 29:54.000 --> 29:56.000 And then I slept. 29:56.000 --> 29:58.000 And yet I didn't sleep. 29:58.000 --> 30:02.000 The dream held more reality than the bed I was in. 30:02.000 --> 30:05.000 The dream held no distortions, no goblin shapes, 30:05.000 --> 30:07.000 no complete persons at all. 30:07.000 --> 30:10.000 Nothing in it but a pair of feet and a patch of pavement 30:10.000 --> 30:12.000 just large enough to contain them. 30:12.000 --> 30:15.000 They kept moving forward, toward me, towards my eyes, 30:15.000 --> 30:17.000 and the pavement kept slipping past beneath them 30:17.000 --> 30:20.000 like a treadmill going the other way. 30:20.000 --> 30:22.000 It was as though I were moving backwards away from the feet, 30:22.000 --> 30:25.000 and they kept moving toward me, coming toward me, 30:25.000 --> 30:29.000 toes pointed straight at me, remorseless and inevitable. 30:29.000 --> 30:33.000 That simple pair of black shard feet, never at a run, 30:33.000 --> 30:37.000 always at the same, even implacable, persistent walk. 30:37.000 --> 30:41.000 The cushioned thud of their incessant fall on the pavement, 30:41.000 --> 30:43.000 the rhythm of the walk. 30:43.000 --> 30:48.000 Pat, pat. Pat, pat. Pat, pat. 30:48.000 --> 30:51.000 The echoing night sound when streets are still 30:51.000 --> 30:54.000 with someone coming toward you in the distance. 30:54.000 --> 30:56.000 It was as though the feet knew they needn't hurry, 30:56.000 --> 30:58.000 for nothing, no one could escape them. 30:58.000 --> 31:00.000 And then slowly they began to gain on me, 31:00.000 --> 31:02.000 closer and closer to my eyes. 31:02.000 --> 31:03.000 There was no escape. 31:03.000 --> 31:05.000 To turn aside and let them go by was impossible. 31:05.000 --> 31:07.000 The crevice between the sole and the pavement 31:07.000 --> 31:09.000 opening and closing like a hungry mouth, 31:09.000 --> 31:12.000 grazing, threatening to trap and crush and trample me. 31:12.000 --> 31:15.000 And that's when I gassed from there and jumped from the bed. 31:20.000 --> 31:23.000 Cold sweat poured down my legs and back. 31:23.000 --> 31:25.000 I was stifling. 31:25.000 --> 31:28.000 The darkness in the room lay over my head like a blanket 31:28.000 --> 31:30.000 that seemed to shut out the air. 31:30.000 --> 31:32.000 Still gripped by the terror of the dream I threw on the light, 31:32.000 --> 31:36.000 leaned out of the window and sucked in huge gulps of cold, clean air. 31:38.000 --> 31:41.000 Danny! Danny, get away from that window! 31:41.000 --> 31:44.000 Ruth, I just saw him. He's down there. 31:44.000 --> 31:45.000 That man, like grey eyes. 31:45.000 --> 31:46.000 Without the light! 31:46.000 --> 31:48.000 I must see if... 31:48.000 --> 31:50.000 He's standing in front of the hydrant. 31:50.000 --> 31:52.000 He's coming in here, in the building. 31:52.000 --> 31:53.000 Did he see you? 31:53.000 --> 31:55.000 Ruth, I need... Will you help me? 31:55.000 --> 31:56.000 What are you going to do? 31:56.000 --> 31:57.000 Go down and face it. I can't stand it. 31:57.000 --> 31:58.000 No, no, no, you can't. 31:58.000 --> 32:00.000 It's better than waiting for it here like this. 32:00.000 --> 32:01.000 No, darling, no, no! 32:01.000 --> 32:03.000 You haven't got a chance. 32:03.000 --> 32:05.000 They'll send you to the chair. 32:05.000 --> 32:06.000 The chair? 32:06.000 --> 32:09.000 Well, what did you think happens to a man when he's guilty of murder? 32:12.000 --> 32:13.000 Murder! 32:13.000 --> 32:16.000 Ruth, listen to me. I'm not a murderer. 32:16.000 --> 32:18.000 If the whole world says I committed murder, 32:18.000 --> 32:19.000 I say I didn't. 32:19.000 --> 32:21.000 The me that's in me says I didn't. 32:21.000 --> 32:24.000 I never said you were, Danny. I always said you didn't do it. 32:24.000 --> 32:26.000 But they found the body and they... 32:26.000 --> 32:28.000 Oh, if only you hadn't run away. 32:28.000 --> 32:29.000 So that's it. 32:29.000 --> 32:31.000 You shouldn't have, Danny. 32:31.000 --> 32:34.000 Why did you come here, Danny? Why? Why? 32:34.000 --> 32:35.000 Ruth, quick, we've got to get out of here. 32:35.000 --> 32:37.000 How about the fire escape, the shaft, the dumbwaiter? 32:37.000 --> 32:39.000 The dumbwaiter? Oh, here. 32:39.000 --> 32:40.000 Lock that kitchen door. 32:40.000 --> 32:42.000 I'll stand on top and work the ropes. 32:42.000 --> 32:43.000 I don't think it can hold us both. 32:43.000 --> 32:44.000 It's got to. 32:47.000 --> 32:48.000 Can you hear me? 32:48.000 --> 32:49.000 Yes, yes. 32:49.000 --> 32:51.000 Danny, Danny, what do we do? 32:51.000 --> 32:53.000 We're going back there to New Jericho. 32:53.000 --> 32:55.000 New Jericho? Oh, no, Danny, don't. 32:55.000 --> 32:57.000 Please, for me, don't do it. 32:57.000 --> 33:00.000 I've got to. I've got to find out. We're going together. 33:00.000 --> 33:03.000 No! No, Danny. No, I've got the money. 33:03.000 --> 33:04.000 We can get out of here. 33:04.000 --> 33:05.000 Stop it. Stop it! 33:05.000 --> 33:08.000 Danny! You're hurting me. 33:08.000 --> 33:10.000 From here on in, we're sticking together. 33:10.000 --> 33:12.000 You're going to take me back there, back where it happened. 33:12.000 --> 33:15.000 All right, darling, all right. 33:15.000 --> 33:19.000 It's crazy, but I'll go wherever you go. 33:19.000 --> 33:22.000 I can't lose you again. 33:30.000 --> 33:34.000 In tonight's full hour of Suspense, Robert Montgomery, our star, 33:34.000 --> 33:38.000 appears as Frank Townsend with Eurene Tuttle playing opposite him as Ruth Dillon 33:38.000 --> 33:43.000 in William Spears' production of The Black Curtain by Cornell Woolrich. 33:43.000 --> 33:46.000 Tonight's study ends Suspense. 33:55.000 --> 33:59.000 In just a moment, we will return with Act Two of The Black Curtain. 33:59.000 --> 34:14.000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 34:14.000 --> 34:21.000 Now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Robert Montgomery as Frank Townsend, alias Danny Nearing, 34:21.000 --> 34:25.000 and Eurene Tuttle as Ruth Dillon in Act Two of The Black Curtain, 34:25.000 --> 34:30.000 a play well calculated to keep you in Suspense. 34:44.000 --> 34:47.000 On the train, Ruth and I said very little to each other. 34:47.000 --> 34:52.000 While I'd hid in the phone booth at the Penn Station, she'd bought us a couple of cheap raincoats, 34:52.000 --> 34:57.000 and I sat hunched up in mine, thinking, yet not daring to think. 34:57.000 --> 35:02.000 Ruth had brought along the newspaper clippings. I read them for the twentieth time. 35:02.000 --> 35:09.000 They all read alike. Dietrich Slayer Assault, Secretary wanted in brutal slaying at suburban estate, 35:09.000 --> 35:15.000 police suppressing the search for Daniel Nearing, Secretary and the employee of the late John Dietrich, 58, 35:15.000 --> 35:20.000 member of a well-known local family who was shot and killed in the drawing room of his New Jericho estate 35:20.000 --> 35:26.000 on the morning of December 15th. The wall safe was robbed of $20,000. 35:26.000 --> 35:32.000 Nearing disappeared December 15th, on the morning of which date he is known to have had a bitter quarrel with the deceased. 35:32.000 --> 35:40.000 This last was attested to at the inquest by Ada and Franklin Dietrich, widow and brother of the murdered man. 35:40.000 --> 35:47.000 I had all the facts now, wanted for murder, and yet everything that was in me told me that no matter who I had been, 35:47.000 --> 35:52.000 however many memories I had lost, that I was no killer, that I just couldn't have... 35:52.000 --> 35:55.000 New Jericho, New Jericho! 35:55.000 --> 35:59.000 I had to get into the Dietrich house and stand again in that room where it all had happened. 35:59.000 --> 36:03.000 Maybe something would come back to me. Maybe there would be... 36:03.000 --> 36:05.000 New Jericho! 36:05.000 --> 36:10.000 New Jericho! 36:17.000 --> 36:22.000 Oh, Danny. Oh, I'm so proud of you. 36:22.000 --> 36:25.000 You're the man who saved my life. 36:25.000 --> 36:28.000 You saved my life. 36:28.000 --> 36:30.000 You saved my life. 36:30.000 --> 36:35.000 Oh, Danny. Oh, I'm so frightened. 36:35.000 --> 36:39.000 What if someone here at the station should see you? 36:39.000 --> 36:41.000 That would be fatal. 36:41.000 --> 36:46.000 Oh, darling, let's just go away. Let's go. Danny, be careful. It's the station master. He knows you. 36:46.000 --> 36:47.000 He's coming this way. 36:47.000 --> 36:49.000 Quick, behind this post. 36:49.000 --> 36:52.000 Good evening. Good evening, Miss Dilly. 36:52.000 --> 36:54.000 Oh, good evening, Mr. April. 36:54.000 --> 36:56.000 Hey, thought I saw somebody get off with you. 36:56.000 --> 37:00.000 Oh, oh, yes, just some man. Went to the cab stand. 37:00.000 --> 37:02.000 Oh, strange, huh? 37:02.000 --> 37:04.000 Oh, it's cold. 37:04.000 --> 37:07.000 Bad night. Trains lead all up and down the line. 37:07.000 --> 37:09.000 Well, this time of year, you know. 37:09.000 --> 37:11.000 Eh, got to expect it, as the fellow says. 37:11.000 --> 37:14.000 Just going home, Miss Dillon, for a shivery. 37:14.000 --> 37:16.000 Give you a lift out to Dietrich house. 37:16.000 --> 37:20.000 No, no, thank you. They're sending the station wagon for me. 37:20.000 --> 37:22.000 Nasty night to wait. 37:22.000 --> 37:24.000 Oh, I don't mind. Really, I don't. 37:24.000 --> 37:29.000 Eh, see where that Niren fella, or Townsend, 37:29.000 --> 37:30.000 or whatever he calls himself now... 37:30.000 --> 37:31.000 Townsend? 37:31.000 --> 37:34.000 Eh, it was right out in the city on Rutherford Street 37:34.000 --> 37:35.000 under the name Townsend. 37:35.000 --> 37:37.000 City detective caught up with him, 37:37.000 --> 37:39.000 and this Niren, he fractured his skull. 37:39.000 --> 37:40.000 Oh. 37:40.000 --> 37:43.000 Eh, bad actor, that fella. Always thought so. 37:43.000 --> 37:45.000 Well, detective's in the hospital. 37:45.000 --> 37:48.000 Don't expect him to live, says here in the paper. 37:48.000 --> 37:50.000 City police have orders to shoot to kill. 37:50.000 --> 37:51.000 Oh, no. 37:51.000 --> 37:52.000 Eh, shoot to kill. 37:52.000 --> 37:55.000 Only thing to do with a mad dog, shoot to kill. 37:55.000 --> 37:58.000 Eh, hey there. You all right, Miss Dillon? 37:58.000 --> 38:01.000 Oh, yes, I... I'm just feeling... 38:02.000 --> 38:04.000 I'm all right. 38:04.000 --> 38:05.000 Well, eh... 38:05.000 --> 38:07.000 Are you sure you don't want me to... 38:07.000 --> 38:10.000 No, no, I'm fine, Miss Dillon. I'm fine. 38:10.000 --> 38:13.000 You go ahead. I'll wait for the Dietrichs in the station. 38:13.000 --> 38:16.000 Well, shoot yourself, I always say. 38:16.000 --> 38:18.000 Good night, Miss Dillon. 38:18.000 --> 38:20.000 Eh, Merry Christmas. 38:20.000 --> 38:22.000 Good night, Mr. April. 38:24.000 --> 38:25.000 Danny. 38:25.000 --> 38:27.000 All right, Danny. 38:27.000 --> 38:29.000 Listen, Ruth, what he said just now, 38:29.000 --> 38:30.000 I didn't attack that detective. 38:30.000 --> 38:32.000 It doesn't matter, darling. It doesn't matter. 38:32.000 --> 38:34.000 It does matter. It matters more than anything else in the whole world, 38:34.000 --> 38:37.000 because now I'm a mad killer, and I didn't attack or kill anyone. 38:37.000 --> 38:39.000 Not anyone. It was Dengue. 38:39.000 --> 38:40.000 He hit that detective with... 38:40.000 --> 38:41.000 Oh, Danny, who would believe you? 38:41.000 --> 38:44.000 Franklin's lawyer, a man weighing less, and... 38:44.000 --> 38:45.000 You've got to believe me. 38:45.000 --> 38:47.000 If you don't believe me about this, 38:47.000 --> 38:49.000 then you must believe that I killed Dietrich too. 38:49.000 --> 38:51.000 All I know is that I love you. 38:51.000 --> 38:54.000 Quick. Oh, in the bushes. 39:05.000 --> 39:06.000 Did you see them? 39:06.000 --> 39:07.000 Who was it? 39:07.000 --> 39:09.000 It was Aidan, Franklin, in the station wagon. 39:09.000 --> 39:11.000 Then the house will be safe for us. There's no one there. 39:11.000 --> 39:13.000 No, no one for a while. 39:13.000 --> 39:14.000 Except the old man. 39:14.000 --> 39:15.000 Maybe he's out too. 39:15.000 --> 39:17.000 Oh, Danny, that's a cruel joke. 39:17.000 --> 39:18.000 And you know how he feels about you. 39:18.000 --> 39:20.000 Yes, but it seems that everything I say is a cruel joke, 39:20.000 --> 39:22.000 whether I know it or not. 39:22.000 --> 39:23.000 Let's go. 39:41.000 --> 39:43.000 Open the door, Ruth. 39:43.000 --> 39:45.000 Hurry. I've got to see the inside. 39:45.000 --> 39:47.000 That room, the place where it happened. 39:47.000 --> 39:50.000 It's wrong, Danny, it's wrong. I'm telling you, you're crazy. 39:50.000 --> 39:51.000 They'll find you. 39:51.000 --> 39:53.000 Open the door, Ruth, quick. 39:57.000 --> 40:00.000 All right, now. Let's have a look at the room. 40:00.000 --> 40:02.000 Please, Danny, please. Don't talk about it. 40:06.000 --> 40:09.000 So this is where I'm supposed to have murdered John Dietrich. 40:09.000 --> 40:10.000 Danny, please. 40:10.000 --> 40:12.000 Where was it? 40:12.000 --> 40:14.000 Show me exactly where it was, Ruth. 40:14.000 --> 40:15.000 I've got to know. 40:15.000 --> 40:18.000 It... it was there. 40:18.000 --> 40:19.000 Right there. 40:19.000 --> 40:21.000 He was standing by the grandfather's clock. 40:21.000 --> 40:23.000 Are you going crazy, Danny? 40:23.000 --> 40:25.000 If they get you, you'll hang. 40:25.000 --> 40:26.000 The clock. 40:26.000 --> 40:27.000 You still believe me, don't you, Ruth? 40:27.000 --> 40:29.000 I believe you, Danny, but I'm scared. 40:29.000 --> 40:31.000 And I love you. 40:31.000 --> 40:33.000 Ruth. 40:33.000 --> 40:34.000 What's that? Listen. 40:34.000 --> 40:35.000 That's only the old man. 40:35.000 --> 40:37.000 He's asleep in that room off there. 40:37.000 --> 40:39.000 Don't go in there, Danny. Don't please. You'll wake him. 40:39.000 --> 40:40.000 I want to see him. 40:40.000 --> 40:42.000 Don't, Danny. He can't help you. 40:42.000 --> 40:45.000 Turn on the light. I want to see him. 40:50.000 --> 40:52.000 I looked at him lying there. 40:52.000 --> 40:54.000 The old man. 40:54.000 --> 40:57.000 The old man who was supposed to love me like a son. 40:57.000 --> 41:00.000 The old man who breathed and ate and suffered, 41:00.000 --> 41:02.000 but did not live. 41:02.000 --> 41:03.000 Inert. 41:03.000 --> 41:05.000 Shaped in the likeness of a human form 41:05.000 --> 41:08.000 that might have been molded out of pink dough. 41:08.000 --> 41:11.000 Cheeks sunken, limbs withered, 41:11.000 --> 41:15.000 sucking air greedily through lips that were distorted old. 41:15.000 --> 41:18.000 The old man stared up at me from his bed. 41:18.000 --> 41:23.000 Every nerve, every muscle in his body were paralyzed. 41:25.000 --> 41:28.000 He couldn't even talk, nor move. 41:28.000 --> 41:32.000 He was doomed to endless days of seeing and hearing, 41:32.000 --> 41:34.000 filled with the secrets of others, 41:34.000 --> 41:38.000 secrets he was forced to carry to the grave with him. 41:38.000 --> 41:43.000 And this was the old man on whom I had planned my last hopes. 41:50.000 --> 41:52.000 Oh, there you woke him. 41:52.000 --> 41:54.000 It's me, Mr. Dietrich. 41:54.000 --> 41:55.000 Bruce. 41:55.000 --> 41:57.000 This is Danny. 41:57.000 --> 41:59.000 You remember Danny, don't you? 41:59.000 --> 42:00.000 Hello, Mr. Dietrich. 42:00.000 --> 42:02.000 See how his eyes are shining. 42:02.000 --> 42:03.000 Yeah. 42:03.000 --> 42:05.000 Was he here when it happened? 42:05.000 --> 42:07.000 You know that, Danny. Why do you ask such funny questions? 42:07.000 --> 42:09.000 He's been in bed here for five years. 42:09.000 --> 42:12.000 That mirror on the wall there, the clock. 42:12.000 --> 42:14.000 Look, you can see the grandfather's clock in the other room. 42:14.000 --> 42:15.000 What are you getting at, Danny? 42:15.000 --> 42:16.000 He could see it. 42:16.000 --> 42:18.000 The old man could see the murder through the mirror. 42:18.000 --> 42:20.000 If he could only talk. 42:20.000 --> 42:21.000 But he can't talk. 42:21.000 --> 42:22.000 You scare me, Danny. 42:22.000 --> 42:24.000 He saw the man who killed John Dietrich. 42:24.000 --> 42:25.000 Look, he understands what I'm saying. 42:25.000 --> 42:27.000 He's blinking his eyes. 42:27.000 --> 42:29.000 Oh, stop torturing him, Danny. 42:29.000 --> 42:30.000 Can't you see what you're doing to him? 42:30.000 --> 42:31.000 He's trying to say something. 42:31.000 --> 42:32.000 Look, his eyes are blinking. 42:32.000 --> 42:34.000 He's going to help me. 42:34.000 --> 42:35.000 Go outside and watch, Ruth. Go on. 42:35.000 --> 42:37.000 I'll watch out at the entrance, Wade. 42:37.000 --> 42:38.000 Be careful, Danny, or they'll be back any minute. 42:38.000 --> 42:39.000 Leave me alone with him. 42:39.000 --> 42:40.000 I'll call if I hear them coming. 42:40.000 --> 42:41.000 Yeah. 42:41.000 --> 42:44.000 Look, now, Mr. Dietrich, don't be afraid. 42:44.000 --> 42:47.000 I'm going to ask you a question, and you're going to answer me. 42:47.000 --> 42:49.000 Are you going to tell me something about the murder? 42:49.000 --> 42:51.000 Now blink your eyes. Blink twice if you are. 42:51.000 --> 42:55.000 That's it. That's it. Once. Twice. That's good. 42:55.000 --> 42:58.000 Did you see it happen here in your mirror? 42:58.000 --> 42:59.000 Blink once if the answer is no. 42:59.000 --> 43:01.000 Twice if the answer is yes. 43:01.000 --> 43:03.000 Once. Twice. 43:03.000 --> 43:04.000 You did, huh? You saw it. 43:04.000 --> 43:06.000 Now then, is the murderer in this house? 43:06.000 --> 43:07.000 Danny, Danny, they're coming. 43:07.000 --> 43:08.000 Franklin and Nega, get out of here. 43:08.000 --> 43:10.000 Hide. Run, Danny. Run, run. 43:10.000 --> 43:14.000 The murderer in this house blink once for no, twice for yes. 43:14.000 --> 43:15.000 Yes. 43:15.000 --> 43:16.000 Danny, Danny, they're coming. 43:16.000 --> 43:18.000 Wait, I almost got it. Mr. Dietrich. 43:18.000 --> 43:20.000 Mr. Dietrich, was it me? 43:20.000 --> 43:21.000 Oh, Danny, come on. 43:21.000 --> 43:22.000 Once for me, once for no, twice for yes. 43:22.000 --> 43:23.000 Was it me? 43:23.000 --> 43:25.000 Get out of here, Danny, please. 43:25.000 --> 43:27.000 There's a big room behind the curtains. 43:27.000 --> 43:28.000 I'll talk to them. They're here. 43:28.000 --> 43:34.000 Okay. Thanks, Mr. Dietrich. I'll be right back. 43:40.000 --> 43:44.000 Oh, Ruth. Ruth, is that you in Father's room? 43:44.000 --> 43:45.000 Yes, Mrs. Dietrich. 43:45.000 --> 43:46.000 Oh. 43:46.000 --> 43:47.000 You here alone? 43:47.000 --> 43:49.000 Yes, I am. Why? 43:49.000 --> 43:51.000 We thought we heard voices. 43:51.000 --> 43:53.000 What are you so jittery about, Ruth? 43:53.000 --> 43:55.000 I'm just tired, that's all. 43:55.000 --> 43:56.000 May I go to bed now? 43:56.000 --> 43:58.000 Oh, Father's still awake, Ruth. 43:58.000 --> 44:00.000 He'll go to sleep all right. 44:00.000 --> 44:02.000 I'm going upstairs, Mrs. Dietrich, now. 44:02.000 --> 44:03.000 All right. Good night, Ruth. 44:03.000 --> 44:04.000 Good night. 44:04.000 --> 44:05.000 Good night. 44:05.000 --> 44:07.000 She's brought someone back here with her. 44:07.000 --> 44:08.000 It's him, I think. 44:08.000 --> 44:11.000 Who? Dan? Oh, Franklin. 44:11.000 --> 44:14.000 Take it easy. If he's here, we'll get him. 44:14.000 --> 44:17.000 After the evidence we gave against him at the hearing? 44:17.000 --> 44:20.000 Franklin, I'm scared. Let's get out of here, fast. 44:20.000 --> 44:22.000 I'll go to the village with the police. 44:22.000 --> 44:23.000 Call them, Louise. I'll do it. 44:23.000 --> 44:24.000 Yes. 44:24.000 --> 44:26.000 Hello. Hello. 44:26.000 --> 44:29.000 Too late. It's dead. The wire's cut. 44:29.000 --> 44:31.000 Come on. We'll both drive to the village. 44:31.000 --> 44:34.000 No, no. He may be waiting for us out by the cover. 44:34.000 --> 44:37.000 What are you thinking? 44:37.000 --> 44:39.000 Oh. 44:39.000 --> 44:43.000 Uh, what are you doing there, Franklin? 44:43.000 --> 44:47.000 I, uh, I think I just might need my gun. 44:47.000 --> 45:00.000 Well, let's be on our way. 45:00.000 --> 45:03.000 Now, Mr. Dietrich, you're helping me fine. 45:03.000 --> 45:05.000 You know I'm trying to save my life, don't you? 45:05.000 --> 45:07.000 Now, the murderer. Was it me? 45:07.000 --> 45:10.000 Was it me who did it? Me, Danny Mearing. 45:10.000 --> 45:13.000 Blink once for no. Once. Once. 45:13.000 --> 45:16.000 You're sure. You're sure it wasn't me. 45:16.000 --> 45:18.000 You're smiling, Mr. Dietrich. You're smiling. 45:18.000 --> 45:20.000 Now, was it somebody in this house? 45:20.000 --> 45:22.000 Then who was it? Can't you make a sound? 45:22.000 --> 45:24.000 Help me. You've got to. 45:24.000 --> 45:26.000 Was it Ada? Twice for yes. Once for no. 45:26.000 --> 45:28.000 Once. Not Ada. 45:28.000 --> 45:30.000 All right. Then was it Franklin? Was it... 45:30.000 --> 45:31.000 Up with the hands, Mearing. 45:31.000 --> 45:33.000 Up or you'll never go to trial. 45:33.000 --> 45:35.000 Franklin, you've got to listen. You've got to... 45:35.000 --> 45:37.000 Shut up and drop that flashlight. 45:37.000 --> 45:39.000 Trying to kill the old man, too, huh? 45:39.000 --> 45:41.000 The murderer returns to the scene of his crime. 45:41.000 --> 45:43.000 You know I didn't kill him. 45:43.000 --> 45:46.000 Tell that to the police. Ada will have them here in a couple of minutes. 45:46.000 --> 45:47.000 Where's your girlfriend, Ruth? 45:47.000 --> 45:49.000 She's not here. I don't know where she went. 45:49.000 --> 45:51.000 Never mind. They'll find her. 45:51.000 --> 45:54.000 Dead duck, Mearing. Killed my brother and beat him. 45:54.000 --> 45:56.000 What did you get out of it? That's always puzzled. 45:56.000 --> 45:59.000 You killed your brother and now you're going to kill me. 45:59.000 --> 46:01.000 You've gone nuts, too. Why should I kill my own brother, you idiot? 46:01.000 --> 46:05.000 To get his share of the estate and his wife, Ada, among other things. 46:05.000 --> 46:07.000 But you can't stop with killing me. 46:07.000 --> 46:10.000 Someone else knows the truth. The old man saw it in the mirror. 46:10.000 --> 46:12.000 You'll have to kill your own father, too. 46:12.000 --> 46:14.000 The old man saw it. He told me. He told me. 46:14.000 --> 46:16.000 He can't talk. He can't even move. 46:16.000 --> 46:18.000 He can hear and he can blink his eyes. 46:18.000 --> 46:19.000 Come over here and look. 46:19.000 --> 46:20.000 Look here. I want... 46:20.000 --> 46:22.000 Ruth! 46:22.000 --> 46:26.000 I had the door, Danny. I heard him. He was going to kill you. 46:26.000 --> 46:27.000 Here's his gun, Danny. Take it. 46:27.000 --> 46:29.000 But Ruth, you shouldn't have in another minute. 46:29.000 --> 46:30.000 I'm not sure it was Franklin. 46:30.000 --> 46:32.000 Dan, darling, please. Let's run for it. 46:32.000 --> 46:34.000 They'll be here in a second. It's your last chance. 46:34.000 --> 46:36.000 They'll all swear you didn't. 46:36.000 --> 46:38.000 Not if I can be with the old man another half a minute. 46:38.000 --> 46:40.000 Mr. Dietrich. Mr. Dietrich, it's Danny again. 46:40.000 --> 46:41.000 No, Danny, don't. Don't. 46:41.000 --> 46:43.000 Tell me, Mr. Dietrich, was it Franklin? 46:43.000 --> 46:46.000 Did Franklin kill your son John? Blink once if he did. 46:46.000 --> 46:48.000 What's the matter, Mr. Dietrich? Don't be afraid. 46:48.000 --> 46:50.000 I won't hurt you. Why are you afraid? 46:50.000 --> 46:51.000 He's afraid, Ruth. 46:51.000 --> 46:53.000 What's this gun? Take the gun, Ruth. You take it. 46:53.000 --> 46:56.000 He's afraid. I'm not going to hurt you, Mr. Dietrich. 46:56.000 --> 46:59.000 What's the matter? Why don't you answer me? 46:59.000 --> 47:01.000 Who killed John Dietrich? 47:01.000 --> 47:03.000 It wasn't me. It wasn't Ada. It wasn't Franklin. 47:03.000 --> 47:05.000 But someone in this house... 47:05.000 --> 47:07.000 Was it... 47:08.000 --> 47:10.000 Ruth! 47:10.000 --> 47:12.000 Ruth! 47:12.000 --> 47:14.000 You! 47:16.000 --> 47:20.000 I told you. I told you not to come. 47:20.000 --> 47:23.000 Oh, I love you, Danny. 47:23.000 --> 47:25.000 And I wanted you. 47:25.000 --> 47:27.000 I wouldn't have let them get you. 47:27.000 --> 47:29.000 Why, Ruth? Why? 47:29.000 --> 47:31.000 Why did you kill John Dietrich? 47:31.000 --> 47:33.000 He was always after me. 47:33.000 --> 47:35.000 He wouldn't leave me alone. And I hated him. 47:35.000 --> 47:37.000 And then that night he came at me. 47:37.000 --> 47:39.000 He threatened me. Said he'd kill me. 47:39.000 --> 47:41.000 If he couldn't have me, nobody could. 47:41.000 --> 47:43.000 He had a gun, Danny. 47:43.000 --> 47:45.000 And I got it away from him. 47:45.000 --> 47:48.000 It... He hit the clock. 47:48.000 --> 47:50.000 He leaned against it. 47:50.000 --> 47:54.000 I thought he'd never fall down and die. 47:54.000 --> 47:57.000 I took the money to make it look like robbery. 47:57.000 --> 48:01.000 It was the day you ran away. I was crazy, I know. 48:01.000 --> 48:03.000 And they thought it was you. 48:03.000 --> 48:05.000 And they started looking. 48:06.000 --> 48:08.000 You? 48:08.000 --> 48:10.000 Why was it you? 48:10.000 --> 48:12.000 I love you, Danny. 48:12.000 --> 48:14.000 I love you. 48:14.000 --> 48:16.000 I begged you not to come back here. 48:16.000 --> 48:18.000 Ruth, put that gun down. 48:18.000 --> 48:20.000 No! Don't come near me, Danny. 48:21.000 --> 48:23.000 I just want to look at you. 48:23.000 --> 48:25.000 Just once more. 48:26.000 --> 48:29.000 I was hoping we could get away together. 48:29.000 --> 48:32.000 But you've been through enough because of me. 48:32.000 --> 48:34.000 All right, open up. 48:34.000 --> 48:36.000 Open up! 48:36.000 --> 48:38.000 And now you're clear, Danny. 48:39.000 --> 48:41.000 And this is gonna clear me. 48:41.000 --> 48:43.000 Forever. 48:43.000 --> 48:44.000 My darling! 48:44.000 --> 48:46.000 Ruth, no, they'll kill you! 48:48.000 --> 48:50.000 No! 48:50.000 --> 49:06.000 Ruth! 49:06.000 --> 49:10.000 Well, that's about all there is to tell, I guess. 49:10.000 --> 49:15.000 Ruth faced that door, fired a shot into the ceiling, 49:15.000 --> 49:18.000 and the guns of the police chopped her down. 49:18.000 --> 49:21.000 That's the way she wanted it, I guess. 49:21.000 --> 49:24.000 It was gray eyes, bandaged head and all. 49:24.000 --> 49:27.000 But what's the use of talking about it? 49:27.000 --> 49:30.000 I'm trying to put it all behind me. 49:30.000 --> 49:34.000 Resume my life where it left off three years ago. 49:34.000 --> 49:37.000 Sometimes when it gets toward evening, 49:37.000 --> 49:39.000 I walk along Tillery Street. 49:39.000 --> 49:43.000 And once in a while, somebody, somebody I don't know, 49:43.000 --> 49:46.000 will say, hello, Danny. 49:46.000 --> 49:53.000 And I, well, I just say, hello, and walk on. 49:53.000 --> 49:57.000 I don't want to find out anything anymore. 49:57.000 --> 50:02.000 I want it all to die away and be still. 50:02.000 --> 50:07.000 And it will, all except Ruth, 50:07.000 --> 50:10.000 because somewhere behind that black curtain, 50:10.000 --> 50:14.000 I was loved and loved someone. 50:14.000 --> 50:19.000 We must have known a love that I'll never know again. 50:44.000 --> 50:50.000 And so closes the Black Curtain, tonight's tale of Suspense. 50:50.000 --> 50:53.000 In a moment, the spokesman of Suspense and tonight's star, 50:53.000 --> 50:55.000 Robert Montgomery, will be back. 50:55.000 --> 50:58.000 For the benefit of late comers among our audience, 50:58.000 --> 51:02.000 may we say that Suspense is now being heard as a full hour program 51:02.000 --> 51:04.000 on Saturday nights at this hour, 51:04.000 --> 51:07.000 8 to 9 o'clock Eastern Standard Time. 51:07.000 --> 51:12.000 Suspense, as always, is produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. 51:12.000 --> 51:15.000 Our musical director and conductor is Lud Gluskin. 51:15.000 --> 51:18.000 The composer of our original scores is Lucian Morrowak. 51:18.000 --> 51:22.000 Lorraine Tuttle appeared opposite Mr. Montgomery as Ruth Dillon. 51:22.000 --> 51:26.000 And you heard performances by Kathy Lewis, Janet Nolan, Sydney Miller, 51:26.000 --> 51:30.000 Conrad Binion, Jack Crushen, Bill Conrad, Jerry Hausner, 51:30.000 --> 51:36.000 Paul Frese, Ira Grossell, Junious Matthews, Harry Lang, and Joseph Kearns. 51:36.000 --> 51:39.000 This is Bill Spear, twice as much out of breath as usual 51:39.000 --> 51:42.000 after our first hour of production of Suspense. 51:42.000 --> 51:45.000 I certainly want to thank everyone connected with our adventure this evening, 51:45.000 --> 51:47.000 and naturally it begins with Mr. Montgomery. 51:47.000 --> 51:49.000 Bob, this is going to be truly wonderful working with you. 51:49.000 --> 51:50.000 Thank you, Bill. 51:50.000 --> 51:53.000 We didn't have much more time, and we don't have much more time, 51:53.000 --> 51:56.000 and I think all of us are about ready to wrap up and go home. 51:56.000 --> 52:01.000 In the next weeks of Suspense, we plan to bring you the very best of novels and plays. 52:01.000 --> 52:05.000 Stories by such acknowledged masters and mistresses in the art of Suspense 52:05.000 --> 52:09.000 as Mary Bellac-Lownes, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, Eric Ambler, 52:09.000 --> 52:13.000 John Buckin, James M. Kane, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler, 52:13.000 --> 52:17.000 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and last but by no means least, Mr. William Shakespeare. 52:17.000 --> 52:21.000 Mr. Spear and I, and all of us, would be tremendously interested to know 52:21.000 --> 52:24.000 what you think about the new Saturday night full hour of Suspense. 52:24.000 --> 52:29.000 Any suggestions and comments that you may have will certainly be valuable to us. 52:29.000 --> 52:32.000 We hope that from now on you will want to set this hour aside each week 52:32.000 --> 52:35.000 and leave the door of your radio ajar for us. 52:35.000 --> 52:36.000 See you next Saturday. 52:36.000 --> 52:40.000 Robert Montgomery is currently being seen in the universal international production 52:40.000 --> 52:42.000 Ride the Pink Horse. 52:42.000 --> 52:45.000 Don't forget next Saturday, 8 to 9 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, 52:45.000 --> 53:02.000 another 60 minutes of Suspense. 53:15.000 --> 53:37.000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.