WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:25.000 Suspense! 00:25.000 --> 00:32.000 Tonight, a banner presentation of Emeline Williams' classic, Night Must Fall, directed by Anton M. Leder and produced by Robert Montgomery. 00:32.000 --> 00:40.000 Our stars, Mr. Montgomery and Dame Mae Whitty, with Heather Angel, Richard Ney and Matthew Bolton, in Night Must Fall. 00:40.000 --> 01:03.000 This is Robert Montgomery. I cannot introduce Night Must Fall. I have no words in prologue, so surely do I feel that the play is the thing. 01:03.000 --> 01:17.000 But I can introduce, with great anticipation and pride, the performance of Dame Mae Whitty as Mrs. Bramson, Heather Angel as Olivia Grain, Richard Ney as Hubert Lowry, and Matthew Bolton as Inspector Belsize. 01:17.000 --> 01:29.000 It is our particular pride that both Dame Mae Whitty and Matthew Bolton are playing the roles they created in the original stage play in London. And I, I will play Danny. 01:29.000 --> 01:35.000 With these performances, and with Night Must Fall, we again hope to keep you in... 01:35.000 --> 02:01.000 Suspense! 02:01.000 --> 02:13.000 It is a smallish place. A typical English country cottage, rambling and comfortable, with roses climbing upon the walls and the fences. 02:13.000 --> 02:25.000 Surrounding it on every side stands the dark bulk of the forest, the massive trees, close packed, their interlacing canopies shadowing the undergrowth below. 02:25.000 --> 02:37.000 It is an out of the way place, far from the nearest village, a mile or more from the nearest neighbor. A proper place for a murder, you might say. 02:37.000 --> 02:52.000 Usually the forest quiet is undisturbed, but today one might hear a few scattered shouts, see strange men in uncomfortable city clothes poking about through the brush, searching. 02:52.000 --> 02:58.000 And in the Bramson cottage, Dora the maid is receiving a visitor in the kitchen. 02:58.000 --> 03:07.000 Oh Danny, I'm so glad you've come. I've been half off Meraka, what with that old witch in there, saying all those terrible things about you and me. 03:07.000 --> 03:15.000 The police turning the place upside down and asking all kinds of questions. Oh Danny! 03:15.000 --> 03:19.000 Here, here, here, steady now. What's all the rattle? What police? 03:19.000 --> 03:30.000 You mean you haven't heard? That Mrs. Chalfont, the woman from the tall balls, has disappeared. Nobody knows what's become of her. 03:30.000 --> 03:31.000 All that? 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 And there's even a man from Scotland Yard. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 Scotland Yard? That is gratifying. 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 Gratifying? 03:38.000 --> 03:45.000 Well I mean there being Johnny on the spot like that, shows we're getting our tax money's worth. Now, what's the matter with the old girl? 03:45.000 --> 03:54.000 Oh Danny, she knows about us. And she says if you don't marry me, she'll give me the sack. 03:54.000 --> 03:59.000 Oh Danny, you will. You will, won't you? If you don't... 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 No, I've heard about it. Always had the very same thing in mind myself. 04:02.000 --> 04:03.000 Oh Danny. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 I expect she wants to talk to me. Where is it? Through there? 04:06.000 --> 04:11.000 Oh, you can't go in now. She's got people with her. The Scotland Yard man. 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 Well I can look, can't I? 04:13.000 --> 04:17.000 Danny, be careful. If she hears you... 04:17.000 --> 04:25.000 Cat can look at a king, you know. So that's Mrs. Bramson there. They say she don't have half a bit tucked away. 04:25.000 --> 04:28.000 Oh, she's rich and all, but try to get hold of her. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Who's the girl with the spectacles? 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 Oh, that's her niece, Miss Grine. Miss Olivia Grine. Poor thing. 04:34.000 --> 04:35.000 And the chap with her, I suppose? 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 Mr. Lorry. He wants to marry her, but... 04:38.000 --> 04:41.000 I don't think she wants to, not really. 04:41.000 --> 04:50.000 Well now, if you see anything unusual or anybody strange wandering in the woods, our men are stationed nearby and they'll just let them know. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Good morning, Mrs. Bramson. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 Who's that? Just left. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 The detective. Scotland Yard. 04:56.000 --> 05:00.000 Wish I had a better look at him. Never seen anyone from Scotland Yard before. 05:00.000 --> 05:04.000 Dora? Is that your young man, I guess, talking about out there? 05:04.000 --> 05:07.000 No, Mum. That is... Yes, Mum. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 Well, send him in here. Instantly. 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 Yes, Mum. Go on. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as they say. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 Will? 05:17.000 --> 05:19.000 Morning, all. 05:19.000 --> 05:22.000 So your babyface's daughter calls you. 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 That's me. Silly name, isn't it? 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 What's your real name? 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 Dan. Just call me Dan. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 You smoke, I see. 05:30.000 --> 05:36.000 Yes. Oh, I am sorry. I always forget my manners with a cigarette when I'm in company. I am sorry. 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 You know my maid, Dora Parco, I believe. 05:39.000 --> 05:41.000 We have met, yes. 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 You walked out of there last August bank holiday. 05:43.000 --> 05:48.000 Yes. Excuse me smiling, but it sounds funny when you put it like that, doesn't it? 05:48.000 --> 05:51.000 You ought to be ashamed of yourself. 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 Oh, I am. I've thought about it a good bit since, I can tell you. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 You work at the Tall Boys, don't you? 05:56.000 --> 06:00.000 Yes, Miss. 24 hours a day, Miss. 06:00.000 --> 06:04.000 Oh, well then perhaps you can tell us something about that female who's been murdered. 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 Hmm? Well, can you tell us? 06:07.000 --> 06:12.000 You know, there's Mrs. Chalfont staying at the Tall Boys who went off one day. 06:12.000 --> 06:13.000 Yes? 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 Well, nobody's seen her since. 06:15.000 --> 06:16.000 I know. 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 What's she like? 06:18.000 --> 06:22.000 But I thought you said, or somebody said, something about to murder. 06:22.000 --> 06:26.000 Well, we don't know, of course, but there might have been, mightn't there? 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 Oh, yes, there might have been, yes. 06:29.000 --> 06:30.000 Have you ever seen her? 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 Oh, yes. I used to take cigarettes and drinks up to her. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 Well, what's she like? 06:35.000 --> 06:38.000 What's she like? She's on the tall side. 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 Thin ankles with one of them bracelets on one of them. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 Fair hair and... 06:43.000 --> 06:47.000 Well, go on. 06:47.000 --> 06:52.000 Thin eyebrows with white marks where they were pulled out to be in the fashion, you know. 06:52.000 --> 06:57.000 Her mouth, a bit thin as well, with red stuff painted round it. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 You can rub it off, I suppose. 07:00.000 --> 07:07.000 Her neck, rather thick, laughs a bit loud, and then it stops. 07:07.000 --> 07:10.000 She's very lively. 07:10.000 --> 07:13.000 You can't say I don't keep my eyes skinned, can you? 07:13.000 --> 07:16.000 Jo, I should say you do, a living portrait if ever there was one. 07:16.000 --> 07:17.000 Now, er... 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 Weren't you going for a walk? 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 So I was, by Jove. Well, I'll just charge off. Goodbye. 07:22.000 --> 07:25.000 Goodbye, Hubert. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 You're very observant, young man. 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 Oh, the ladies, you know. 07:28.000 --> 07:32.000 If you weren't so observant, that Dora mightn't be in the flummox she is now. 07:32.000 --> 07:33.000 Ha-ha, that's true, ma'am. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 You don't sound very repentant. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 Well, what's done's done's my motto, isn't it? 07:38.000 --> 07:39.000 Or you leave and miss. 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 If you don't mind. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 She'd be a nice bit of ice for next summer, wouldn't she? 07:44.000 --> 07:48.000 You're a proper word to talk about next summer, when Dora will be... 07:48.000 --> 07:49.000 Well, what is it now? 07:49.000 --> 07:52.000 Oh, Mrs Branson, the butcher wants paying, 07:52.000 --> 07:55.000 and he says there's men ferret in at the bottom of the garden 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 looking for that Mrs Chalfont, and do you know about it? 07:58.000 --> 08:02.000 Well, they won't ferret long, not amongst my pampas grass. 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 Olivia? Olivia! 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 Oh, that girl's never there. 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 Here, you! Come out of my garden, you! 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 Come out! You there! 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 You! You come out of my garden! 08:15.000 --> 08:17.000 You're the cook, I suppose. 08:17.000 --> 08:19.000 Why, I'll never know. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 Won't let me buy the butcher, so I won't know where she keeps her purse. 08:22.000 --> 08:26.000 But I do know, so put that in your pipe and smoke it. 08:26.000 --> 08:29.000 They do say down at the tall boys that she's got enough inside of her purse, too. 08:29.000 --> 08:31.000 Well, nobody's seen it open. 08:31.000 --> 08:34.000 If you have a peep inside, young fella, you'll go down in history. 08:34.000 --> 08:37.000 That's what you'll do. Oh, something's boiling over! 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 Auntie, did you... Oh. 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 Hello, Miss. 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 Did Mrs Branson call me, do you know? 08:43.000 --> 08:45.000 I'm sorry. I don't know your name. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 Oh. 08:47.000 --> 08:51.000 There is, er, not much doing around here for a girl, is there? 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 I'm not a snob. 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 But in case you ever call here again, 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 I'd like to point out that though I'm employed by my aunt, 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 I'm not quite in Dora's position. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 Oh, I hope not. 09:02.000 --> 09:05.000 Though I'll be putting it all right for Dora. I'm going to marry her and I... 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 I don't believe you. 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 You don't like me, do you? 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 No. 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 Everybody else does? 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 Your eyes are set quite wide apart. 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 Your hands are quite good. I... 09:16.000 --> 09:19.000 I don't really know what's wrong with you. 09:19.000 --> 09:22.000 You know, I've been looking at you too. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 You're lonely, aren't you? 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 You know, I could see... I'm sorry. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 It's a waste of time you're doing your stuff with me. 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 I'm not the type. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 Are you playing up to Mrs Branson? 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 Playing up? 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 You stand a pretty poor chance there, you know. 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 What do you bet? 09:38.000 --> 09:41.000 They say they've got permits to look for that silly woman. 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 Who are they, I'd like to know? 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 If there's anything I hate, it's these men who think they've got authority. 09:46.000 --> 09:49.000 I don't think they're quite as bad as men who think they've got charm. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 What do you mean by that? 09:51.000 --> 09:54.000 Well, it's no good thinking she's got any, is it? 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 Now, young man, what about Dora? 09:56.000 --> 09:59.000 Wait a minute, wait a minute. Are you sure you're comfortable like that? 09:59.000 --> 10:03.000 Don't you think, Mrs Branson, you ought to be facing a wee bit more to this side. 10:03.000 --> 10:06.000 There, towards the sun more now. You're looking pale, you know. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Pale? Did you say pale? 10:08.000 --> 10:11.000 Washed out. The minute I saw you just now, I said to myself, 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 now there is a lady that's got a lot to contend with. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.000 Well, I have. Nobody knows it better than I do. 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Oh, no, I'm sure. 10:19.000 --> 10:22.000 Oh, it must be terrible to watch everybody else striding up and down, 10:22.000 --> 10:25.000 enjoying everything and to see everybody tasting the fruit and... 10:25.000 --> 10:29.000 Oh, I am sorry. I shouldn't have ought to say that. 10:29.000 --> 10:32.000 But it's true. As true as you're my witness. 10:32.000 --> 10:35.000 Do you mind if I ask you what your ailments are? 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 Well, hadn't you better sit down? 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 Thank you, ma'am. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 Well, I have the most terrible palpitations. 10:41.000 --> 10:44.000 Palpitations? But the way you get about. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 Oh? 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 Well, it's a pretty bad thing to have, you know. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 Do you know that nine women out of ten in your position 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 to be just sitting down and giving way? 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Would they? Yes, they would. 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 I've known people with palpitations. 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 Somebody very close to me. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 They're dead now. Oh. 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 My mother, as a matter of fact. 11:03.000 --> 11:06.000 I can just remember her. Oh. 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 As a matter of fact... Yes? 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 Oh, no, it's a daft thing. 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 Come along now, out with it. 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 Well, it's only fancy, I suppose, but you remind me a bit of her. 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 Of your mother? Oh. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 Have you got a son? 11:20.000 --> 11:22.000 I haven't anybody at all. 11:22.000 --> 11:26.000 She had the same eyes, very wide apart as you. 11:26.000 --> 11:29.000 And the same very good hands. 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 And the same palpitations. And the same palpitations. 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 You don't mind my talking about your health, do you? 11:34.000 --> 11:36.000 No. 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 You know, you ought to get used to letting other people do things for you. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 Yes. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 Yes. 11:43.000 --> 11:46.000 You're a funny boy to be a pageboy. 11:46.000 --> 11:49.000 I've taken a liking to you. 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 That's very kind of you, Mrs Bramson. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 Aunty, shall I pack these books for the post now? 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 I'll post them for you. With pleasure. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 Have you got to go back? 11:58.000 --> 12:00.000 Now? Well, no, not really. This is my half-day. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 Stay to lunch. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 Well, I don't like to impose myself. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 In the kitchen, of course. Oh, I know. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 Well, there's plenty of food. Stay to lunch. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Well, I don't know. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 All right, so long as you let me help a bit this morning. 12:12.000 --> 12:15.000 Don't you want some string for this? Where is it kept? 12:15.000 --> 12:17.000 Oh, that woman knows. In the kitchen somewhere. 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 Through here? Yes, that's right. 12:19.000 --> 12:24.000 Dane, what did she say? 12:24.000 --> 12:26.000 Sorry? About us. 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 Oh, it's all right. I told her I'm going to marry you. 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 Oh, Dane! 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 Here, here, here. Now, I'm on an errand for the old girl. 12:32.000 --> 12:34.000 I want a bit of string. 12:34.000 --> 12:36.000 Oh, yes. Brought here in the jar. 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 An errand for Mrs Brams? 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 That's right. Aha! This'll do. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 Oh, Dane, she likes you. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 And why not? 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 Here's something in the paper. 12:54.000 --> 12:58.000 A keeper in the Sheffley Woods was closely questioned, 12:58.000 --> 13:01.000 but he had heard nothing beyond a woman's voice in the woods 13:01.000 --> 13:03.000 and a man's voice probably with her. 13:03.000 --> 13:05.000 Rubbish, the whole business. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 You, Dan, or whatever your name is. 13:07.000 --> 13:10.000 Are those men still rummaging in my garden? 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 They're out there poking about, right enough. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 I must go this minute and have a look at my pampas grass. 13:15.000 --> 13:19.000 And if they've damaged it, I'll bring an action. 13:19.000 --> 13:22.000 Have your package ready in half a shake now, Miss. 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 Thank you. 13:24.000 --> 13:27.000 WHISTLING 13:33.000 --> 13:35.000 What's that you're whistling? 13:35.000 --> 13:37.000 I don't know. Some song I picked up. 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 Mighty Like a Rose, I think they call it. 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 Do you know what it says here in the paper? 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 About what? 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 The murder. 13:45.000 --> 13:47.000 Oh? You're sure of that now, are you? 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 It says a keeper heard a woman's voice in the woods 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 on the afternoon in question 13:52.000 --> 13:56.000 and a man's voice probably with her singing Mighty Like a Rose. 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 Is that a fact now? 13:58.000 --> 14:01.000 Popular song, that one. Pretty, too. 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 Pretty little fella. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 Everybody knows 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 Don't know what to call me 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 But I'm mighty like a rose 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 Do-do-do 14:11.000 --> 14:30.000 MUSIC PLAYS 14:30.000 --> 14:33.000 I'm sorry. Is my cigarette worrying you? 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 Not at all. I like it. 14:35.000 --> 14:38.000 I can never make this horrid game come out. 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 Look, the red nine on the black ten. 14:40.000 --> 14:42.000 Don't interfere. I saw that. 14:42.000 --> 14:44.000 Now I wonder... 14:44.000 --> 14:46.000 No, no, no, no. The other one, the other one. 14:46.000 --> 14:49.000 Oh, yes, dear, of course. 14:49.000 --> 14:53.000 I am sorry. Is my cigarette bothering you? 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 No, dear, no. 14:55.000 --> 14:57.000 Oh, I'm sick of solitaire. 14:57.000 --> 14:59.000 I want to be read to. 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 Right away now. Let's see what we have. Ah. 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 You old-fashioned child. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.000 What? 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 It's Eastland. It's your favourite book, isn't it? 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 Oh, why, yes, dear, so it is. 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 Go on. 15:11.000 --> 15:14.000 You old-fashioned child, retorted Mrs Vane, 15:14.000 --> 15:17.000 why did you not put on your diamonds? 15:17.000 --> 15:20.000 I did put on my diamonds, 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 stammered Lady Isabelle, 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 but I took them off again. 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 What on earth for... 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 That's the other lady speaking there. Yes, dear. 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 What on earth for? 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 I did not like to be too fine, 15:32.000 --> 15:34.000 answered Lady Isabelle with a laugh. 15:34.000 --> 15:36.000 Good, isn't it? Oh, yes, realistic. 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Ah, time for your medicine. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 Oh, Danny, you always remember. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 Hello, hello, hello, everyone. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 Any news? Hello, Hubert. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 News? About what? Why, about the... 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 That is, the missing woman. What else? 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 All I know is those idiot policemen 15:50.000 --> 15:52.000 are still potting about in my garden 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 and my Pampers Brass is practically ruined. 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 They haven't found anything, of course. 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 They never will. 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 Lot of nonsense. Well, where there's life, there's hope. 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 What? Ah, Mrs Bramson, time for your walk. 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 Oh, yes, dear. Have you got my pills? 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 Got them in my pocket. And my chocolates? 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 Got them in my pocket, too. 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 Here's your hat now, and I carry your rug on my shoulder. 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 See you later. Be good. 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 Right you are. Mind you take good care of her. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 Hubert. Yes? 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 What do you think of him? 16:20.000 --> 16:22.000 Granny's white-haired boy, you mean? 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 He's all right, I suppose. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 He's made quite a hit with her. Yes, hasn't he? 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 And in such a short time. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 Something I haven't been able to manage in a year. 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 Yes. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 It was just two weeks ago today he moved in, 16:34.000 --> 16:36.000 bag and baggage. 16:36.000 --> 16:38.000 He came the afternoon after... 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 that woman disappeared. 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 By Jove, that's right. 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 Hubert. Hmm? 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 Have you noticed how he acts as if he doesn't care 16:46.000 --> 16:48.000 tophans, but all the time he's watching 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 to see what we're thinking of him? 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 Oh, yes, I've thought of that. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 It's his incredible vanity. 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 They always have it. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 Who? 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 Murderers. 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 Good heavens, Olivia. Do you mean this woman 17:02.000 --> 17:04.000 we're looking for? Yes. 17:04.000 --> 17:06.000 But why... Oh, that's incredible. 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 I say... Hubert, I'm going to look through his things. 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 Right now, will you? 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 While they're out. I say, now, 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 that's a bit thick, spying. 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 We may never have another chance. Please, will you help me? 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 But... well, I suppose... 17:18.000 --> 17:34.000 Come on. 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 Wait a minute. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 Wasn't there another one? 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 Oh, yes. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 This hat box. Old-fashioned, isn't it? 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 Bit heavy, too. 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 Suppose there's something 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 inside it. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 It's locked. Damn! 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 But I've got the key 17:52.000 --> 17:54.000 somewhere about, if you... Oh, no, no, no. 17:54.000 --> 17:56.000 We were just... Could I have my wallet back, please? 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 It's the only one I got. 17:58.000 --> 18:00.000 Oh, yes, of course. Thank you very much. 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 Not at all. Did you see the picture 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 of me when I was a little fella? 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 Yes, it's very jolly. Did you? 18:06.000 --> 18:08.000 It was on the inside 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 of my wallet. Oh, was it? 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 Yes. 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 But I should be keeping my money. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 The only bit of money I have, I always keep on me. 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 Safer, don't you think? 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 Yes. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 I only keep one ten-barb note 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 in there at this wallet for emergencies. 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 Oh. 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 That's funny. It's gone. 18:28.000 --> 18:30.000 I expect I dropped it somewhere. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 What did you think 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 of the letter? Letter? 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 You got it in your hand. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 Oh, well, I didn't. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 That means well, does Lil, but we had a row. 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 She would spy on me. 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 If there's anything I hate, it's a spy. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 Don't you agree? Yes. 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 I'd sooner have anything 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 than a spy. Bar 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 a murderer, of course. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 What? What did you say? 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 I said bar a murderer, of course. 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 Talking of murder, do you know 18:58.000 --> 19:00.000 anything about Mrs Chalfont's whereabouts 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 at the moment? I've got nothing to go 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 on, but I think she's been murdered. 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 Oh, you do? Yes, I do. 19:06.000 --> 19:08.000 Who by? They say she had several chaps 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 on a string. And... 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 there was one fella, a London 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 chap, a bachelor, 19:14.000 --> 19:16.000 very citified, with a fair moustache. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 What are you 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 looking at me for? 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 Well, you wasn't around 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 these parts the day she bunked, was you? 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 Yes, I was, as a matter of fact. 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 Uh-huh. What in heaven's name 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 are you getting at? Well, if the shoe fits, eh? 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 I'm going out for a breath of air, 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 Olivia. 19:34.000 --> 19:36.000 I'm sorry. 19:36.000 --> 19:38.000 I really am 19:38.000 --> 19:40.000 about going through your things. 19:40.000 --> 19:42.000 Sorry you were caught at it, you mean? 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 Did you do it? 19:44.000 --> 19:46.000 You know, you wouldn't be 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 bad-looking without them glasses. 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 It doesn't interest me very much what I look like. 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 Don't you believe it? You're very conceited, aren't you? 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 Yes. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 And you're acting all the time, aren't you? 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 Acting? Acting what? 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 Look at the way I can look you in the eyes. 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 I'll stare you out. I have a theory. 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 It's the criminals who can look you in the eyes. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 And the honest people who blush 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 and look away. 20:08.000 --> 20:10.000 Oh? It's a very blank 20:10.000 --> 20:12.000 look, though, isn't it? Is it? 20:12.000 --> 20:14.000 You are acting, aren't you? 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 Yes. And what do you like when you're not acting? 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 I don't know it so long since I stopped. But when you're alone... 20:18.000 --> 20:20.000 Then I act more than ever I do. Why? I don't know, because I like it. 20:22.000 --> 20:24.000 Now, what do you say if I ask 20:24.000 --> 20:26.000 a question or two for a change? 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 Just for a change. 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 Why can't you take a bit of an interest 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 in some other body but me? I'm not interested 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 in you. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 But you... you don't talk. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 That's bound to make 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 people wonder. I can talk a lot sometimes. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 A drop of drink makes a 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 power of difference to me. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 You'll be surprised. I wonder if I would. 20:46.000 --> 20:48.000 I know you would. I think 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 I can diagnose you all right. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 Carry on. You haven't 20:52.000 --> 20:54.000 any feelings at all. 20:54.000 --> 20:56.000 But you live in a world of your own. 20:56.000 --> 20:58.000 A world of your own imagination. 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 I don't understand 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 you so very well. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Not being so very literary. 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 You follow me perfectly well. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 Do you still think there's 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 been a bit of dirty work? I 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 don't know what to think now. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 I suppose not. Disappointed? 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 What on earth do you mean? Disappointed? 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 Yes. I suppose I am. Why? 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Oh, I don't know. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 Because nothing has ever happened 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 to me. It's a dull 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 day and it's the depths of the country. 21:28.000 --> 21:32.000 I don't know. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 Dora, what is it? 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 I'm thinking in the rubbish bin. Well? 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 There's something sticking out. What is it? 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 A hand. Somebody's hand. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 A Miss Grimes. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 Somebody's hand. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 Oh. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 They've found her. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 Yes. Where are you going? 21:50.000 --> 22:18.000 To have a look. 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 In tonight's Full Hour of Suspense, 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 Mr. Robert Montgomery 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 stars as Danny, 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 with Dame Mae Whitty, Richard 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 May, Heather Angel, and Matthew 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 Bolton in Night Must 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 Fall. Tonight's study 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 in Suspense. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 In just a moment, we will return 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 with Act Two of Suspense. 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 This is CBS, 22:48.000 --> 22:50.000 the Columbia Broadcasting System. 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 And now, 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 back to our Hollywood Sound 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 stage and Act Two 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 of Night Must Fall, 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 starring Robert Montgomery, 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 Dame Mae Whitty, Heather Angel, Richard 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 May, and featuring Matthew 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 Bolton in a narrative 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 well calculated to keep you in 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 Suspense. 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 The forest around 23:42.000 --> 23:44.000 Mrs. Bramson's cottage 23:44.000 --> 23:46.000 had always been quiet and peaceful 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 until the 23:48.000 --> 23:50.000 day they found the body. 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 From that day on, 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 there was no more quiet. 23:54.000 --> 23:56.000 There were policemen in 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 questions. There were busloads 23:58.000 --> 24:00.000 of sightseers and newspaper men and 24:00.000 --> 24:02.000 photographers. Suddenly, 24:02.000 --> 24:04.000 the little rose-covered cottage 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 was a focus of national 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 curiosity. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 And the people who lived there 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 basked in the reflected glory. 24:40.000 --> 24:42.000 And now, 25:10.000 --> 25:12.000 the 25:12.000 --> 25:14.000 people who lived there 25:14.000 --> 25:16.000 basked in the 25:16.000 --> 25:18.000 reflected glory. 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 And now, 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 the little rose-covered cottage 25:22.000 --> 25:24.000 was a focus of national 25:24.000 --> 25:26.000 curiosity. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 And now, 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 the little rose-covered cottage 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 was a focus of national 25:32.000 --> 25:34.000 curiosity. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 And now, 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 the little rose-covered cottage 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 was a focus of national 25:40.000 --> 25:42.000 curiosity. 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 The still feisty 25:44.000 --> 25:46.000 West corner 25:46.000 --> 25:58.000 of the Hill como 25:58.000 --> 26:02.000 the 26:02.000 --> 26:04.000 year-round 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 Times Square 26:06.000 --> 26:11.660 him silly girl made up her mind a bit sudden didn't you oh I don't know what's 26:11.660 --> 26:15.960 got into the girl this last week or so she's been touchy as a cat with kittens 26:15.960 --> 26:22.260 maybe she's lost her heart to someone tell me have any more of those terrible 26:22.260 --> 26:27.280 people called reporters police there's a definite falling off in attendance today 26:27.280 --> 26:32.280 it's Sunday I expect this don't talk like that dear sorry mom and don't you call 26:32.280 --> 26:36.760 me mom well if I can't call you mrs. Bramson and I can't call you mom what 26:36.760 --> 26:47.200 can I call you well if you're very good I might let you call me mother okay I 26:47.200 --> 26:51.560 want to be read to now your servant mother of mine what do you have now let's 26:51.560 --> 26:54.760 see there's the Channings and Red Court farm 26:54.760 --> 27:04.440 well what about the Bible Bible Sunday you know oh well all right dear makes a 27:04.440 --> 27:09.640 nice change not that I don't often dip into it I'm sure you do now where I read 27:09.640 --> 27:17.080 all at random is nice don't you think dear at random yes I the paper boys at 27:17.080 --> 27:21.400 the back door he says your pictures in the news of the world again oh he says 27:21.400 --> 27:25.200 he won't leave the paper until he's been paid says he hasn't been paid for a 27:25.200 --> 27:30.680 month been paid he mad are you mad why don't you pay because you don't give me 27:30.680 --> 27:35.500 the money to do it with well oh well wheel me over to that cupboard right you 27:35.500 --> 27:42.840 are auntie well what what don't you think I mean wouldn't Danny 27:42.840 --> 27:47.600 where I keep my money don't you dear since you told me of course course well 27:47.600 --> 27:53.040 now here here's the key I wait till I get it from around my neck now help me 27:53.040 --> 27:57.640 with it right you are dear there you are 28:01.640 --> 28:07.480 well Olivia what you're staring at isn't that rather a lot of money to have in 28:07.480 --> 28:12.480 the house put not your trust in banks is my motto and always will be and so 28:12.480 --> 28:17.400 right so right but there's hundreds of pounds it don't be a silly goose here 28:17.400 --> 28:23.320 go and get the paper yes and hurry back now lock the box up and put it back 28:23.320 --> 28:32.240 there's a dear right what were those sort of colored folders look like 28:32.240 --> 28:36.280 somebody's will or something all their bonds and stocks nothing you'd understand 28:36.280 --> 28:41.940 about dear where is that girl with the paper thank you miss I'll find the place 28:41.940 --> 28:44.400 for you there you are no mother of mine oh look 28:44.400 --> 28:51.160 whole page headlines and all yes the victims past another picture of me 28:51.160 --> 28:58.280 underneath Oh taken a ton bridge a year before the war really the bungalow of 28:58.280 --> 29:05.760 death fiendish murder still at large the enigma of the missing head oh this 29:05.760 --> 29:10.960 prints too small shall I read it to you yes dear do the let's see now oh yeah 29:10.960 --> 29:17.160 the murderer committed the crime in the forest he buried the body shallow in the 29:17.160 --> 29:22.640 open pit cunningly chancing it being filled which it was the next day the 29:22.640 --> 29:25.940 11th that was the day before I come here so it was the head was severed by a 29:25.940 --> 29:31.240 skilled person possibly a butcher the murder of what's the matter 29:31.240 --> 29:38.760 can you hear something I forgot it was Sunday they're going to church in the 29:38.760 --> 29:45.040 villages all got up in their Sunday best with the prayer books and the organ 29:45.040 --> 29:49.000 playing and the windows shining shining on holy things because holy things isn't 29:49.000 --> 29:52.880 afraid of the daylight and Danny what all the time the daylights moving over the 29:52.880 --> 29:55.840 floor and by the end of the sermon the air and the church is tearing and gray 29:55.840 --> 30:00.180 and people isn't able to think of holy things so much anymore only of the 30:00.180 --> 30:03.800 terrible things that's going on outside that everybody's reading about in the 30:03.800 --> 30:06.800 papers because they know that though it's still daylight and everything's 30:06.800 --> 30:12.880 ordinary and quiet today will be the same as all the other days and come to 30:12.880 --> 30:20.880 an end and it'll be night I forgot it was Sunday good gracious what's come over 30:20.880 --> 30:24.560 you Danny I speech if I like anything when I'm roused I used to go to Sunday 30:24.560 --> 30:27.600 school see and the thoughts are popping to my head like as if I was reading them 30:27.600 --> 30:33.520 off a book you should have been a preacher you should I want to lie down 30:33.520 --> 30:38.320 now anything you say mother of mine no no you'll push me about enough for one 30:38.320 --> 30:46.520 day you might try to cheer Olivia up a bit though only too happy to try mom 30:46.520 --> 30:53.000 that is if you like me to miss Olivia you've been drinking haven't you you 30:53.000 --> 31:00.640 don't miss much do you no I've had a drink and I feel fine you wouldn't like 31:00.640 --> 31:07.080 another dose of Eden I prefer talking carry on asking questions carry on are 31:07.080 --> 31:12.360 you sure you were ever a sailor are you sure you weren't a butcher 31:12.360 --> 31:18.760 talking's daft doings the thing you can talk to yes to hear me just now she's 31:18.760 --> 31:22.520 right you know I should have been a preacher I remember when I was a kid 31:22.520 --> 31:26.760 sitting in Sunday school catching my mother's eye where she was sitting by 31:26.760 --> 31:32.400 the door and she pointed to the pulpit and then to me as if to say that's the 31:32.400 --> 31:38.720 place for you I never forgot that I don't believe a word of it neither do I 31:38.720 --> 31:43.600 but it sounds wonderful doesn't it I never saw my mom and I never had a dad 31:43.600 --> 31:47.640 and the first thing I remember is the cardiff docks and you're the first woman 31:47.640 --> 31:54.000 I ever told that to so you can compliment yourself or the drink I think 31:54.000 --> 31:58.480 the drink you do live in your imagination don't you yes it's the only 31:58.480 --> 32:04.040 way to bear with the awful things you have to do what awful thing well you I 32:04.040 --> 32:08.720 haven't had as much to drink as all that you haven't a very high opinion of 32:08.720 --> 32:12.160 women have you women don't have to drink be drunk to talk you don't talk that 32:12.160 --> 32:17.720 much though fair play you're a dark horse you are you know this isn't that 32:17.720 --> 32:24.520 life for you what is there to it tell me that what is there to it yes getting up 32:24.520 --> 32:29.040 at 7 having breakfast with a Vixen ish old woman and spending the rest of the 32:29.040 --> 32:34.280 day with her in a dreary house in the middle of a wood going to bed at 11 I'm 32:34.280 --> 32:41.440 plain I haven't got any money I'm shy and I haven't got any friends don't you 32:41.440 --> 32:46.800 like the old lady I could kill her oh no you couldn't not many people have it in 32:46.800 --> 32:55.400 them to kill people oh no and what was your life at the tall boys my life well 32:55.400 --> 33:00.160 the day didn't start so good well I just stuck up boots to clean and a lot of 33:00.160 --> 33:04.400 silly high heels all along the passage waiting for a polish odd as odd as odd 33:04.400 --> 33:08.280 as go here do this do that open the door for me get a move on wait in my 33:08.280 --> 33:12.720 tea stone cold I'm not a waiter I'm a millionaire and everybody's under me and 33:12.720 --> 33:15.600 just when I think I got a bit of peace there's somebody lock in the bedroom 33:15.600 --> 33:20.120 door won't let me out talk talk talk won't fork out with no more money at me 33:20.120 --> 33:23.920 at me at me calls me everything lies on the floor and screams and screams and 33:23.920 --> 33:27.440 nothing keeps that mouth shut only 33:32.120 --> 33:40.480 it's raining out of the window and the leaves is off the trees oh lord I wish I 33:40.480 --> 33:46.240 could hear the better music and I do inside of myself and I have a drop of 33:46.240 --> 33:53.760 drink and everything's fine and what is tonight go on I do fly floor for you 33:53.760 --> 33:58.640 aren't I you'd like to know wouldn't you why would you like to know why do you 33:58.640 --> 34:06.000 lie awake nights don't I'm frightened of why how do you know I lie awake at night 34:06.000 --> 34:12.880 shall I tell you why because you're awake yourself you can't sleep can you 34:12.880 --> 34:19.480 you can't sleep there's one thing that keeps you awake isn't there one thing 34:19.480 --> 34:23.200 you've pushed into the back of your mind and you can't do any more about it and 34:23.200 --> 34:32.320 you never will and you know what it is it's a little thing a box only a box but 34:32.320 --> 34:40.240 it's rather heavy it's the only thing that keeps me awake mind you the only 34:40.240 --> 34:45.320 thing but I don't know what to do you see nothing worries me nothing in the 34:45.320 --> 34:49.120 world only I don't like a pair of eyes staring at me with no look at them I 34:49.120 --> 35:00.680 don't know what to do I don't know don't there's someone at the door 35:00.680 --> 35:08.920 all right anybody's there I'll deal with them I'll manage him myself you watch 35:08.920 --> 35:16.360 oh not so bad mr. inspector good afternoon mr. how do you do if you'll 35:16.360 --> 35:21.320 excuse me of course are you bearing up a damn yes sir bearing up you know we 35:21.320 --> 35:24.840 haven't scared you're out of the house yet I see no fears no more news me I 35:24.840 --> 35:28.840 suppose no sir too bad too bad you might have sat down please do sir would you 35:28.840 --> 35:33.080 like to see mrs. Bramson's plenty of time for that how she bearing up well 35:33.080 --> 35:36.560 it's been a bit of a shock for her then finding the remains of the lady at the 35:36.560 --> 35:39.480 bottom of the garden you know why didn't you sleep in your bed on the night of 35:39.480 --> 35:45.240 the 10th what did you say why didn't you sleep in your bed on the night of the 35:45.240 --> 35:50.800 murder I did I know you didn't yes I did oh oh oh for except about half an hour 35:50.800 --> 35:53.480 that's right I couldn't sleep for a toffee and I went up on the fire escape 35:53.480 --> 35:57.400 it oh what time was that poor about what I go you know how it is when you wake up 35:57.400 --> 36:01.120 in the middle of the night you don't know what time it is why didn't you tell 36:01.120 --> 36:05.200 us you were on intimate terms with the deceased woman intimate terms now come 36:05.200 --> 36:09.720 along old chap she was seen by two of the maids talking to you in the shrubbery 36:09.720 --> 36:17.240 well sir it's been on my conscience ever since so you were oh no sir not that I 36:17.240 --> 36:20.760 avoided her ever after the day she stopped me sir when they asked me about 36:20.760 --> 36:23.760 her I got frightened to tell about her stopping me but now you know about a 36:23.760 --> 36:28.000 certain it's a weight off my mind you wouldn't believe as a matter of fact sir 36:28.000 --> 36:30.680 it was the disgust like I'm nearly getting mixed up with her that was 36:30.680 --> 36:36.080 keeping me awake at nights I see you're a bit of a milk sub aren't you 36:36.080 --> 36:41.600 am I sir yes well that'll be all for today I'll let you off just this once 36:41.600 --> 36:46.880 but don't well there's just one thing if you don't mind I'll have a quick look 36:46.880 --> 36:51.800 through your luggage just a matter of form oh yes well where do you hang out 36:51.800 --> 36:58.080 right in there sir first door facing first door face you can't miss it I'll 36:58.080 --> 37:05.680 find it it's open I think you can't miss it you can't miss it you can't miss it 37:05.680 --> 37:12.800 you can't miss it this hat box is locked have you got the key it isn't mine not 37:12.800 --> 37:21.040 yours no who's is it then I don't know it isn't mine oh I'm sorry I thought why 37:21.040 --> 37:26.320 inspector what are you doing with my box your box yes it's got all my letters in 37:26.320 --> 37:32.000 it but I found it oh Dan's room used to be the box room oh I see I'll keep it in 37:32.000 --> 37:37.600 my wardrobe it'll be safer there if you'll give it to me please of course I'm 37:37.600 --> 37:44.840 very sorry miss I'm afraid I've offended her she'll be all right sir well young 37:44.840 --> 37:48.360 fella I must be off you might tell the old lady I popped in will you tell her I 37:48.360 --> 37:53.760 hope she's better thank you sir good day sir good night good day sir 37:53.760 --> 38:22.280 good 38:22.280 --> 38:29.760 welcome back to the land of the living Oh daddy we thought the murderer got you 38:29.760 --> 38:36.160 whatever come over you I don't know I felt sick I think waiting hand and foot 38:36.160 --> 38:44.080 on madam crocodile enough to wear King Kong out here have a sip of this 38:44.080 --> 38:52.080 is that bitter yes clears the brain no end faint and indeed is the proper girls 38:52.080 --> 38:59.200 trick I'm ashamed of myself where's miss Olivia gone somewhere for the night gone 38:59.200 --> 39:04.080 for the night said she was frightened just a good excuse to get away from the 39:04.080 --> 39:11.280 old dragon if you ask me did she say why she was right not her not miss high and 39:11.280 --> 39:18.840 mighty I've got my own ideas about where she was going let mr. you never you mind 39:18.840 --> 39:23.560 about her and mr. Hubert maybe the poor thing was frightened she tried to get 39:23.560 --> 39:28.600 the old lady to leave with her didn't she well not that she'd ever bunch we've 39:28.600 --> 39:32.040 got to get on if we're to get through the woods before it's too dark well come 39:32.040 --> 39:34.520 along then I'd come with you only I'm going the other direction 39:34.520 --> 39:41.240 Paley Hill way you going out yes I feel a bit funny but you can't leave her here 39:41.240 --> 39:45.560 by yourself oh no she'll scream the place dad I asked her a while back and she 39:45.560 --> 39:49.480 didn't seem to mind you know what she is she said do me good won't hear of me 39:49.480 --> 39:55.960 staying it's no good arguing with you have a nice long walk while you get the 39:55.960 --> 39:59.840 chance you white on her too much 39:59.840 --> 40:09.240 curtains painted dark out got the torch Dora good night Dan if you aren't coming 40:09.240 --> 40:35.560 our way see you in the morning good night good night good night here good 40:35.560 --> 40:39.880 night there anyone who sees the night before judgment day what's the matter 40:39.880 --> 40:45.880 with talking to myself wish people wouldn't walk out of rooms and leave me 40:45.880 --> 40:55.480 high and dry don't like it where's my chocolates that girls been at them again 40:55.480 --> 41:10.880 what oh lord Danny Danny it must have been an owl oh thank 41:10.880 --> 41:28.840 heaven Danny what's that boy doing in the kitchen Danny I've got the jitters I've 41:28.840 --> 41:34.400 got the jitters I've got the jitters Danny 41:34.400 --> 41:43.680 they've all gone they've left me here alone oh Lord help a poor old woman 41:43.680 --> 41:53.960 Danny Danny where are you Danny Danny I'm going to be murdered Danny Danny 41:53.960 --> 42:00.000 Danny Danny Danny there's something outside 42:00.000 --> 42:08.360 Danny Danny Danny where are you where are you Danny Danny Danny there's something 42:08.360 --> 42:16.560 outside oh Lord help me help me help me oh Lord forgive us our trespasses as we 42:16.560 --> 42:30.600 forgive Danny it's all right it's all right it's only Danny it's only Danny 42:30.600 --> 42:47.680 I am sorry really you see they wanted me to see them to the main path past the 42:47.680 --> 42:51.320 rubbish heap in case it was frightened now that's better isn't it 42:51.320 --> 43:18.840 yeah oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh when I saw your face I'll bet you wasn't half 43:18.840 --> 43:23.280 glad you're the only one that understands me Danny that's what you are that's right 43:23.280 --> 43:30.960 oh Danny dear that day you said to me about me reminding you of your mother 43:30.960 --> 43:36.320 yes that was a beautiful thought yes when you think you're just an ignorant boy 43:36.320 --> 43:45.040 it's startling that's right that's right I'll never forget it no not as long as 43:45.040 --> 43:54.840 ever I want a chocolate now right you are right you are now a nice one with a 43:54.840 --> 43:59.280 soft center the kind you like here's one straight away now now shut your eyes 43:59.280 --> 44:12.160 open your mouth oh strong hands you have a pet my little chubby face my little 44:12.160 --> 44:22.960 baby face my Danny I'm in a draft got to take care of myself haven't I I have I 44:22.960 --> 44:30.680 want to be read to now okay what you have the old Eastlin no no I don't feel 44:30.680 --> 44:35.800 like anything sentimental tonight what do you have then well I think I'd like 44:35.800 --> 44:41.840 the Bible you were going to read from it this morning it's right here now it's 44:41.840 --> 44:50.120 Sunday isn't that nice all the aches and pains quiet for once pretty peaceful 44:50.120 --> 44:56.880 blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly nor standeth 44:56.880 --> 45:01.400 not in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful you read so 45:01.400 --> 45:06.720 nicely Danny kind of you my lady but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in 45:06.720 --> 45:16.200 his law doth he meditate day and night what hear something yes sort of thumping 45:16.200 --> 45:28.680 noise why Danny it's you it's your heart beating fine fine I've been running 45:28.680 --> 45:31.920 along the path see I've been out a train and I suppose when I was at sea I never 45:31.920 --> 45:35.720 missed a day running around the decks of course cause I remember those mornings 45:35.720 --> 45:41.000 on some see very misty place it is with the Sun like breathing silver where he's 45:41.000 --> 45:47.400 coming up across the water and only me about and nothing else and the Sun just 45:47.400 --> 45:56.240 me and the Sun there's no Sun now dear it's night it's night now the ungodly 45:56.240 --> 46:01.640 are not so but I like the chaff which the wind driveth away I think I'll go to 46:01.640 --> 46:07.640 bye-bye's and have the rest tomorrow shall we help me dear help me you know 46:07.640 --> 46:12.520 what I am yes wait a minute wait a minute I've only got two more verses I 46:12.520 --> 46:17.800 don't want to wake up in the morning with a nasty cold therefore the ungodly shall 46:17.800 --> 46:21.200 not stand in the way of judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the 46:21.200 --> 46:26.120 righteous for the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the 46:26.120 --> 46:35.800 ungodly shall perish that's the end oh well it's been a long day you're quite 46:35.800 --> 46:41.840 comfortable bit a cake glad to go to bed hope that woman's put my bottle in bet 46:41.840 --> 46:45.360 she has to show you're comfortable wouldn't you like this cushion back of 46:45.360 --> 46:50.160 your head no just wheel me I think you'd be more comfortable with a cushion 46:50.160 --> 46:59.040 pretty little fella everybody knows no no what to call me funny look on your 46:59.040 --> 47:09.920 face dear smiling like that you look so kind so kind what you're going to do 47:09.920 --> 47:22.040 with that cushion 47:22.040 --> 47:38.840 I'll trouble you for that key, Mum. 47:38.840 --> 47:39.840 Thanks. 47:39.840 --> 47:55.280 Now you'll be put to some proper use. 47:55.280 --> 48:10.720 I'll have a proper bonfire. 48:10.720 --> 48:13.720 What was that? 48:13.720 --> 48:17.920 In the sun room. 48:17.920 --> 48:18.920 Where? 48:18.920 --> 48:21.840 No, no, she's dead. 48:21.840 --> 48:25.080 Get hold of yourself, Dan. 48:25.080 --> 48:29.760 There's somebody there, behind the curtains. 48:29.760 --> 48:31.760 We'll see. 48:31.760 --> 48:35.480 We'll see. 48:35.480 --> 48:43.080 Ah, it's you. 48:43.080 --> 48:45.440 I've never seen a dead body before. 48:45.440 --> 48:50.800 I climbed through the window, nearly fell over it. 48:50.800 --> 48:57.240 Like a sack of potatoes or something, I thought it was at first. 48:57.240 --> 48:58.240 That's murder. 48:58.240 --> 49:01.360 But it's so ordinary. 49:01.360 --> 49:04.200 I came back expecting... 49:04.200 --> 49:05.880 I don't know. 49:05.880 --> 49:09.120 And here I find you smoking a cigarette. 49:09.120 --> 49:12.760 You might have been tidying up the room for the night. 49:12.760 --> 49:13.760 It's so ordinary. 49:13.760 --> 49:16.920 Why don't you say something? 49:16.920 --> 49:21.200 I thought you were going to spend the night in town. 49:21.200 --> 49:22.760 I was. 49:22.760 --> 49:25.600 Why did you come back? 49:25.600 --> 49:27.880 To find you out. 49:27.880 --> 49:30.840 You've kept me guessing for a fortnight, guessing hard. 49:30.840 --> 49:34.640 I very nearly knew all the time, but not quite. 49:34.640 --> 49:35.640 And now I do know. 49:35.640 --> 49:36.960 Why are you so keen on finding me out? 49:36.960 --> 49:41.480 In the same way any sane, decent-minded human being would want... 49:41.480 --> 49:44.160 would want to have you arrested for the monster that you are. 49:44.160 --> 49:46.840 Why did you come back? 49:46.840 --> 49:47.840 I... 49:47.840 --> 49:48.840 I told you. 49:48.840 --> 49:49.840 Ha! 49:49.840 --> 49:52.760 She didn't keep any money anywhere else, did she? 49:52.760 --> 49:54.680 I've read a lot about evil. 49:54.680 --> 49:57.800 I never expected to come across it in real life. 49:57.800 --> 49:59.720 You shouldn't read so much. 49:59.720 --> 50:02.080 I never got through a book yet. 50:02.080 --> 50:05.080 But I'll read you all right. 50:05.080 --> 50:08.680 You haven't had a drop to drink, and yet you feel as if you had. 50:08.680 --> 50:11.120 You never knew there was such a secret part inside of you. 50:11.120 --> 50:12.120 I hate you. 50:12.120 --> 50:13.120 I hate you. 50:13.120 --> 50:16.640 You feel as light as air, same as I feel sometimes. 50:16.640 --> 50:19.920 Why, this is my big chance. 50:19.920 --> 50:22.000 You're the one I can tell about myself. 50:22.000 --> 50:24.440 I'm sick of hearing how clever everybody else is. 50:24.440 --> 50:26.760 I want to tell them how clever I am for a change. 50:26.760 --> 50:28.800 Money I've got to have, and people doing what they're told, 50:28.800 --> 50:29.800 and me telling them what to do it. 50:29.800 --> 50:32.040 There was a woman at the tall boys, wasn't there? 50:32.040 --> 50:33.600 She wouldn't be told, would she? 50:33.600 --> 50:36.280 She never knew it was me she was dealing with. 50:36.280 --> 50:37.280 Me? 50:37.280 --> 50:41.040 Because I made her think she was a chronically invalid, 50:41.040 --> 50:43.380 this old girl who's been treating me like a son. 50:43.380 --> 50:46.120 She's been more used to me tonight than she's been to any other buddy 50:46.120 --> 50:47.600 in her whole life. 50:47.600 --> 50:48.600 Stupid. 50:48.600 --> 50:50.080 That's what people are. 50:50.080 --> 50:51.080 Stupid. 50:51.080 --> 50:54.400 You said just now, murder's ordinary. 50:54.400 --> 50:57.640 Well, it isn't ordinary at all, see? 50:57.640 --> 50:59.760 And I'm not an ordinary chap. 50:59.760 --> 51:01.680 There's one big difference between me and the other fellows 51:01.680 --> 51:03.040 that tried this game. 51:03.040 --> 51:07.240 I'll never be found out, because I don't care that. 51:07.240 --> 51:09.800 The world's got to be fair from me. 51:09.800 --> 51:10.800 That's me. 51:10.800 --> 51:11.800 You wait. 51:11.800 --> 51:14.800 But you can't wait, can you? 51:14.800 --> 51:16.680 What do you mean? 51:16.680 --> 51:22.160 Well, when I say I'll never be found out, what I mean is, 51:22.160 --> 51:28.080 no living soul will ever be able to tell any other living soul about me. 51:28.080 --> 51:30.920 Can you think of anybody who can go tomorrow and tell the police 51:30.920 --> 51:35.120 the fire at Forrest Corner wasn't an accident at all? 51:35.120 --> 51:36.120 I can. 51:36.120 --> 51:37.120 No, you can't. 51:37.120 --> 51:38.120 Why can't I? 51:38.120 --> 51:40.480 Well, I'm not against a very serious problem, I am. 51:40.480 --> 51:43.680 But the answer to it is simple as pie to a fellow like me. 51:43.680 --> 51:48.000 And as pie, she isn't going to be the only one found tomorrow 51:48.000 --> 51:50.480 in the fire at Forrest Corner. 51:50.480 --> 51:52.520 Aren't you frightened? 51:52.520 --> 51:55.800 You ought to be. 51:55.800 --> 51:56.800 Don't you think I'll do it? 51:56.800 --> 51:57.800 I know you will. 51:57.800 --> 52:00.200 I just can't realise it. 52:00.200 --> 52:02.280 You know, when I told you all about myself just now, 52:02.280 --> 52:04.800 I made up my mind then about you. 52:04.800 --> 52:05.800 That's what I am, see. 52:05.800 --> 52:09.240 I make up my mind to do a thing, and I do it. 52:09.240 --> 52:10.240 I... 52:10.240 --> 52:12.640 What's that light in there? 52:12.640 --> 52:13.640 What light? 52:13.640 --> 52:14.640 There's somebody in this room holding a flashlight. 52:14.640 --> 52:16.480 It can't be in this room. 52:16.480 --> 52:17.480 It must be a light in the wood. 52:17.480 --> 52:18.480 Well, it can't be. 52:18.480 --> 52:19.480 Look, there, the window. 52:19.480 --> 52:20.480 Somebody's watching the bungalow. 52:20.480 --> 52:21.480 Nobody's watching. 52:21.480 --> 52:22.480 I'm the one that watches. 52:22.480 --> 52:23.480 They've got no call to watch me. 52:23.480 --> 52:24.480 I'll go out and tell them that and all. 52:24.480 --> 52:25.480 I'm the one who watches. 52:25.480 --> 52:26.480 Look, behind them trees, hundreds of eyes back of each tree, 52:26.480 --> 52:27.480 thousands of eyes, the whole world's on the track. 52:27.480 --> 52:28.480 What's that? 52:28.480 --> 52:29.480 What's that noise? 52:29.480 --> 52:30.480 Like a big wall falling over into the sea. 52:30.480 --> 52:31.480 I don't know. 52:31.480 --> 52:32.480 I don't know. 52:32.480 --> 52:33.480 I don't know. 52:33.480 --> 52:34.480 I don't know. 52:34.480 --> 52:35.480 I don't know. 52:35.480 --> 52:36.480 I don't know. 52:36.480 --> 52:37.480 I don't know. 52:37.480 --> 52:38.480 I don't know. 52:38.480 --> 52:43.800 I don't know. 52:43.800 --> 52:49.760 I don't know. 52:49.760 --> 52:55.320 I don't know. 52:55.320 --> 53:00.800 I don't know. 53:00.800 --> 53:08.840 I don't know. 53:08.840 --> 53:16.080 I don't know. 53:16.080 --> 53:22.160 I don't know. 53:22.160 --> 53:31.920 I don't know. 53:31.920 --> 53:40.480 I don't know. 53:40.480 --> 53:43.480 I don't know. 53:43.480 --> 53:47.640 I don't know. 53:47.640 --> 53:54.120 I don't know. 53:54.120 --> 53:59.400 I don't know. 53:59.400 --> 54:05.960 I don't know. 54:05.960 --> 54:12.200 I don't know. 54:12.200 --> 54:18.640 I don't know. 54:18.640 --> 54:23.840 I don't know. 54:23.840 --> 54:30.600 I don't know. 54:30.600 --> 54:35.600 I don't know. 54:35.600 --> 54:42.600 I don't know. 54:42.600 --> 54:47.600 I don't know. 54:47.600 --> 54:54.600 I don't know. 54:54.600 --> 55:01.600 I don't know. 55:01.600 --> 55:08.600 I don't know. 55:08.600 --> 55:15.600 I don't know. 55:15.600 --> 55:24.600 I don't know. 55:24.600 --> 55:31.600 I don't know. 55:31.600 --> 55:38.600 I don't know. 55:38.600 --> 55:47.600 I don't know. 55:47.600 --> 55:54.600 I don't know. 55:54.600 --> 56:01.600 I don't know. 56:01.600 --> 56:06.600 I don't know. 56:06.600 --> 56:15.600 I don't know. 56:15.600 --> 56:22.600 I don't know. 56:22.600 --> 56:29.600 I don't know. 56:29.600 --> 56:34.600 I don't know. 56:34.600 --> 56:41.600 I don't know. 56:41.600 --> 56:48.600 I don't know. 56:48.600 --> 56:55.600 I don't know. 56:55.600 --> 57:02.600 I don't know. 57:02.600 --> 57:12.600 I don't know. 57:12.600 --> 57:20.600 I don't know. 57:20.600 --> 57:26.600 This is Robert Montgomery again, with very grateful thanks to you, Dame May Witte, Heather 57:26.600 --> 57:31.600 Angel, Richard Nay, and Matthew Bolton, for your superb performances in Night Must Fall. 57:31.600 --> 57:34.600 We all count your appearances here a distinct compliment. 57:34.600 --> 57:39.600 It was, of course, a great personal thrill to join you for tonight's play. 57:39.600 --> 58:02.600 Good night and thank you. 58:09.600 --> 58:25.600 Mr. Montgomery may soon be seen in the Universal International Production, The Saxon Charm. 58:25.600 --> 58:29.600 Dame May Witte's current picture is Columbia's Sign of the Ram. 58:29.600 --> 58:34.600 Heather Angel may soon be seen in Universal International's The Saxon Charm. 58:34.600 --> 58:38.600 Richard Nay's next picture is Joan of Lorraine. 58:38.600 --> 58:43.600 Night Must Fall by Emmalyn Williams was adapted from the stage play by Robert L. Richards, 58:43.600 --> 58:48.600 was directed by Anton M. Leder, and produced by Robert Montgomery. 58:48.600 --> 58:55.600 Lud Gloskin is our musical director and conductor, and Lucian Morowak composes the original scores. 58:55.600 --> 59:01.600 Next week, hear Dorothy Sayers' Suspicion on radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 59:01.600 --> 59:30.600 Suspense! 59:31.600 --> 59:41.600 Be sure to hear the new Shorty Bell Show, starring Mickey Rooney, tomorrow, Sunday night at 9.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, over most of these stations. 59:41.600 --> 01:00:08.600 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.