1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 In just a moment, suspense with William Powell. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Oh, Hap, here comes Harlow Wilcox. 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,000 I'll bet he forgets I already have two sets of Auto Light Resistor Spark plugs 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 and tries to high pressure me into buying another one. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Well, hello there, friends. 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Hello, Mr. Wilcox. 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,000 Hey, Hap, you look a little worried. 8 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Car not running right, maybe? 9 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Why? 10 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Spark plug trouble? 11 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Not at all. 12 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Ah, listen, pal, what you need is a set of those sensational new ignition engineered Auto Light Resistor Spark plugs. 13 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,000 But Harlow... 14 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Why, the get-up-and-go a spark-weary engine gets from Auto Light Resistor Spark plugs will turn your gloom to glee. 15 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Look, Harlow, I already have it. 16 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Why, when you replace your old narrow gap spark plugs with wide gap Auto Light Resistor Spark plugs, 17 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 by Cornelius, you can actually tell the difference in your car. 18 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Your engine idles smoother. 19 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Harlow, Harlow, wait a minute. 20 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 I'll listen to you and my engine later, but... 21 00:00:49,000 --> 00:01:02,000 But right now, let's listen to suspense. 22 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Suspense! 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 24 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Starring tonight, William Powell in Anton Leder's production of Give Me Liberty, 25 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:32,000 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 26 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 I embezzled a quarter of a million dollars. 27 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:41,000 I want you to know that needed brains, planning, patience. 28 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,000 I devoted three years of my life to the trick, and I got away with it. 29 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 30 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Of course, they caught me very easily, but they couldn't find the money. 31 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 So they handcuffed me, brought me back to stand trial. 32 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 The judge was as big a fool as the others. 33 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Seven years is a long time, Mr. French. 34 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 The insurance company will agree to a much lighter sentence if you will reveal where you've hidden that money. 35 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 But I only smile. 36 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,000 So my right wrist was handcuffed to the left wrist of a detective, 37 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,000 and they put me aboard a train bound for the penitentiary. 38 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 I could see that the detective had instructions to soften me up. 39 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 He was much, much too kind. 40 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,000 You're comfortable, Mr. French? You want a magazine? Anything? 41 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Well, I'd like to be able to lift my hand without raising yours into the air. 42 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Can't you guard me without being quite so attached to me? 43 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Sure, I guess we can work that out. 44 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Tell you what, you sit next to the window. 45 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 I'll kind of box you in. 46 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 And that way you can wear the cuffs all by yourself and nobody loses. 47 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Thank you. 48 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Let me get my keys. 49 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 There. 50 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Off for me, on to you. 51 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 I wonder if I've made a good change. Feels clumsy. 52 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 You get the hang of it in no time at all. 53 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,000 The biggest trouble is when you read a paper. 54 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Five inches of chain don't give you much room to turn a page. 55 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 And I'd better leave the newspaper for a less constricting occasion. 56 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 I'll have seven years for reading. 57 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Seven years? 58 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 And a quarter of a million. 59 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Say, how smart does a guy have to be to get his hooks on so much lettuce? 60 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Would you like some of it? 61 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 No, you're kidding. 62 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Well, let's make a deal. 63 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 You drop the key to those things on the floor. 64 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Then go have yourself a nice lunch. 65 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Sure. And when do I see Mr. French again? 66 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 When I meet you to pay off. 67 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 I wouldn't be taking kind of a chance there, would I? 68 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 This is a stupid conversation and I was only making words. 69 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,000 I looked out at the fields and brooks and houses rushing past. 70 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 I wouldn't see these things for seven years. 71 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Not counting time off for good behavior. 72 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 But then I'd be free again. 73 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 And I'd have my quarter million. 74 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Not a bad salary, huh? 75 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,000 I'd use my brains for myself this time. 76 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Suddenly... 77 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Everybody hold on! There's a lot of train on the track! 78 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,000 French. 79 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Are you all right? 80 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 I'm sorry. 81 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,000 I... 82 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 I beat a car. 83 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I gotta get out of here. 84 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 A car lay on its side. In flames. 85 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 And those passengers that could move scrambled through the broken windows. 86 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Paying no attention to a helpless man in handcuffs. 87 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 French. French. 88 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Give me a hand. 89 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 That was the detective. His legs pinned by the wreckage. 90 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 You move, will you? 91 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 You want to see me roasted? 92 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 What can I do with my hands like this? 93 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Where do you carry the key? 94 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,000 What do you want with a key? 95 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 You can pull me out by an arm, can't you? 96 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 You can grab me by the head. 97 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Get the kid at full will both die here if I can't use my hands! 98 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 You can use them good enough. 99 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Where's the key? 100 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 I... I can't find it. 101 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 French, it ain't in my pocket. 102 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Look on the floor. 103 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,000 You're a liar. 104 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 French, my shoes are on fire. Please. 105 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 The only weapon was a suitcase. 106 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 I kicked him in the face. 107 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 I crashed my suitcase on his head. 108 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 And he didn't have the key. 109 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 I emptied his pockets down to the last crumb of tobacco. 110 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 But a fire kept closer. 111 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 He hadn't the key to the handcuffs. 112 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 And I wanted it. 113 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Because this wouldn't be an escape. 114 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 This would be a disappearance. 115 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Oh, what a chance. What a chance! 116 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 I'd have my liberty. 117 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 And I'd have my money. 118 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,000 There's somebody in my car, but that car is also being owned in there! 119 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 I threw away his pistol. 120 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 I wouldn't need a gun. I used my head. 121 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 I squeezed my college ring on his finger. 122 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 I switched wallets. 123 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Is there anybody in that car? 124 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Pete, this way! Over here! 125 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000 There was a conductor out there. 126 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 A crowd of passengers. 127 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 I got to the opposite side of the car. 128 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 No one. Not a soul. 129 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 And there wasn't a splinter of glass left in the window. 130 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 I slid down the side of the car, 131 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 cleared the wheels, 132 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 and struck the ground running. 133 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 A few moments, a few hundred steps, 134 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 and I was safe in the darkness. 135 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,000 I was free. 136 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 They'd think I was dead. 137 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:29,000 And I had a quarter of a million dollars. 138 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 For Suspense, Auto Light is bringing you William Powell 139 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:45,000 in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 140 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Hap, my friend, have you ever heard a conversation between two cars? 141 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Two cocks? Harlow, Wilcox, are you crazy? 142 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Crazy like a fox. 143 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Listen, a sorrowful looking sedan came up to me on the street the other day 144 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 and said, p-p-pardon me, pal, 145 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 but have you got a papotent pill for a sput-puttering engine 146 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 that keeps popping along on poor firing spark plugs? 147 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Well, this car had sure come to the right man, old A-L-R-S-P, Wilcox. 148 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 A-L-R-S-P? 149 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 A-L-R-S-P for Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs, of course. 150 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Oh. 151 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Well, before I could answer this fumbling foredoor, 152 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000 up glides a cute coupé with a mellow murmur, 153 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 and says, say, chum, if you want to hum and hustle on the highway, 154 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 if you want to idle smooth as a satin slipper, 155 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 if you want better luck with lean gas mixtures, actually save gas, 156 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 why, switch your narrow gap plugs for a set of those wonderful, 157 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,000 sensational wide gap Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs. 158 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 What's more, continues this chatty convertible, 159 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs cut down spark plug interference 160 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,000 with radio and television reception. 161 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Really, the spark plug of the future. 162 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Why, I was talking to a delighted television set yesterday... 163 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Wait a minute, wait a minute, Harlow. 164 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Now you've got a car talking to a television set. 165 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 By Cornelius Hap, television sets, cars, and everybody 166 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 are talking about Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs. 167 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 And no wonder, because new Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs 168 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,000 have a 10,000 ohm resistor ignition engineered right into the spark plug 169 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 and a wider spark gap setting that means smoother idling 170 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 and gas dollars saved. 171 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs fit any make and size of car, 172 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000 and don't forget, Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs are backed 173 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,000 by the reputation of Auto Light and the over 400 automotive, 174 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 marine, and aviation parts made by the Auto Light people. 175 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Pipe that. 176 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Okay, okay, but right now, let's pipe suspense. 177 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage 178 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:38,000 William Powell as Earl French in Give Me Liberty. 179 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 180 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000 It's Ben. 181 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,000 My first job after escaping was to break out of those manacles. 182 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000 I sat on a wheat field, holding my hands overhead 183 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,000 so the blood would run through my hands and wrists and leave them slim. 184 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,000 It didn't work. 185 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,000 I tried that until my shoulders were in agony, and it didn't work. 186 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 I couldn't snap the chain. 187 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 I twisted it. 188 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,000 I pulled at it. 189 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 I had to fling my hands apart, and it wouldn't break. 190 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 I rubbed it against stones until my skin was torn and bleeding, 191 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,000 and it wouldn't break. 192 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 By this time, it was morning, and I was pretty desperate. 193 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 I found a match in my pocket. 194 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,000 I went into the woods that boarded the field and built a fire. 195 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 First, the chain grew hot, and then my wrists. 196 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:42,000 But I held them over the fire until I couldn't keep back the scream. 197 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,000 And not until then would I believe that I needed help. 198 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,000 I pushed through the wheat and the corn beyond it, 199 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,000 and I stumbled down a slope in a barnyard. 200 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Down, Jack, down! 201 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 A woman was standing near one of the hen houses, 202 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 pan of chicken feet in her hand. 203 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 What do you want? 204 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 There was nothing to say. 205 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,000 She had seen the handcuffs. 206 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Come on, speak up. 207 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 What do you want? 208 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 I'm innocent, I swear to you. I'm innocent. 209 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Where are you from? How did you get away? 210 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Well, I... 211 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,000 We were going up to the prison, and there was an accident. 212 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Well, what do you want from me? 213 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Could you lend me a file? 214 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 And if you could spare some food, I'll be glad to pay for... 215 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 You don't have to pay me for anything. 216 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Wait here, Jack, they're watching. 217 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,000 The fool went into the house, 218 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,000 and the dog sat down on its belly and placed its nose between its paws. 219 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,000 And its eyes never left my face for an instant. 220 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 And then through the stillness, 221 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 I heard the cracking of an old-fashioned wall telephone, 222 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 and I knew what she was doing. 223 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 I ran, I ran like a whirlwind. 224 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 I couldn't get them off. 225 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 I couldn't get the handcuffs off. 226 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 I couldn't get anything to eat. 227 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 I couldn't show myself. 228 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Do you know what it means to say food all about you 229 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 and not be able to buy it? 230 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Don't tell me I could have eaten corn and fruit and roots. 231 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 I can tell you the nature of every dog in that area 232 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 and the feel of every barbed wire fence 233 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,000 and the spang and roar of every rifle and shotgun. 234 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 That was him, Harry. 235 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 That was him down at the brush, and he ran to the other side. 236 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 I crept into a village one night 237 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,000 and forced up the window of a hardware store. 238 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 I wanted a file, just a file. 239 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Do you know what they carry in hardware stores these days? 240 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Glassware, kitchen gadgets, 241 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,000 garden tools, seeds, ovens, rat poisons, dresses. 242 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 And then I moved behind a counter 243 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 and I saw a man with a gun in his hand. 244 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 He was a man of the law. 245 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 And then I moved behind a counter. 246 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 A hardware store has to have a file somewhere. 247 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 And my foot struck a wire, stretched across the floor. 248 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 How tired have you been? 249 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Have you ever been so tired 250 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 that your eyes felt like stones in your head? 251 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 So weary that your jaw hung slack 252 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,000 and your tongue seemed thick and heavy in your mouth? 253 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Ah, there were times when I thought I'd die. 254 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 And on the evening of the fourth day of my liberty, 255 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,000 I crawled quietly to the garbage cans 256 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 back of a roadside diner 257 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 and began to paw about for something I could eat. 258 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 There was a step behind me, a world about. 259 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 It was a boy. 260 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,000 We looked at each other for a long moment. 261 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,000 He was waiting for me to speak. 262 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 I said, hello, Sonny. 263 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Hello. 264 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 You live in this neighborhood? 265 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Yeah. 266 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 I don't. I'm traveling. 267 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 With handcuffs on. 268 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Oh, these? 269 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Yeah, a friend put the money for a joke. 270 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Say, that gives me an idea, Sonny. 271 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Would you do me a big favor? 272 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Depends upon how big. 273 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Well, big to me, anyway. 274 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Sonny, it's worth $10 to be able to have these handcuffs off 275 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 before my friend shows up. 276 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Look, can you get me a file or chop them off of an axe 277 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,000 or something like that so I can have a laugh on him? 278 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 No. 279 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Look, I'll let you keep them. They're fun. 280 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000 No. 281 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Oh. 282 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Well, then, would you do something else for me? 283 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Depends. 284 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,000 I'm a little embarrassed about going into the lunch wagon like this. 285 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Look, would you step in there and buy a few hamburgers for me? 286 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,000 How much? 287 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Same $10. 288 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 For a couple of hamburgers? 289 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Then maybe you'd change your mind about the file. 290 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Let's see the money. 291 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,000 I got it right here in my pocket, ready to jump into your hand. 292 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Hey, there are lots of things that a boy can buy with $10. 293 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Ah, there we are. 294 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 How do I know it's good? 295 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Don't you trust me? 296 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Drop it on the ground. 297 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Drop it? Why? 298 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 You drop it and back away. 299 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Then I'll pick it up. 300 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 Oh, say, that's very smart. 301 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 How's that? Far enough? 302 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 I guess. 303 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 He picked it up and began to walk around the diner. 304 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,000 But when he was out of reach, he broke into a run. 305 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Pop, there's a cop in the back. 306 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Pop, I'm going with 10. 307 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Pop, if there's a cop in the back, I'm going with 10. 308 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Well? 309 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 I got away. 310 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 And I couldn't tear them off. I couldn't. 311 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:45,000 I had $250,000 buried away, and it was worthless to me. 312 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Do you know what can be bought with a quarter of a million? 313 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,000 By a man's soul can be bought for less than a quarter of a million dollars. 314 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,000 And I couldn't buy a 10-cent file. 315 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 I couldn't buy a 10-cent file. 316 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,000 And I couldn't buy a 10-cent file. 317 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,000 I spent that night in a nest of cast-off railway ties 318 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 attached to a siding. 319 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,000 When I opened my eyes in the morning, I had company. 320 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:19,000 There was a hobo sitting on the top of my fortress-like bedroom. 321 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:24,000 A very unusual-looking hobo in blue jeans and a navy coat. 322 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:30,000 She was counting my money, smoothing each bill with loving care. 323 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 She grinned when she saw I was awake. 324 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Good morning, Chum. 325 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,000 You sleep like an honest man. 326 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 What's the matter, Chum? 327 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Never speak till they bring your orange juice? 328 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Listen, I'm in trouble. I want you to help me. 329 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 To get the bracelets off? 330 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Yeah. 331 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Ah, Chum, wouldn't that be kind of silly? 332 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,000 I might lose all this hard-earned dough. 333 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Look, there's more where that came from. 334 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000 A lot more. 335 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000 I'll make you rich. 336 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Yeah, I heard that one before. 337 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,000 So long, Chum. 338 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Listen. Listen to me. 339 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 I got a quarter of a million dollars. 340 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Yeah, I get feelings like that, too. 341 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Come back, will you? It's true. 342 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Don't you read the papers? 343 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,000 I'm Earl French. 344 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Never heard of you. 345 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 And where would you get that much dough? 346 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Look, go into town and buy one of the newspapers 347 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,000 six days ago. That'll tell you. 348 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Tell me what? 349 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 You don't even know how to read anymore? 350 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Earl French, the embezzler. 351 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 I stole $250,000. 352 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Uh-huh, and you're wearing those things 353 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 so you won't pick your own pocket. 354 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Don't try to be clever. 355 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 I died in the train wreck near Scottsville. 356 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 You're so sure about that, Chum. 357 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 You croaked only a few days ago. 358 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 No, you fool. They only think I did. 359 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Now, you get those newspapers. 360 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 You come back here with a file and some food. 361 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 No, no, no. Don't order me around, Chum. 362 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 If you're a corpse, I won't take it from you. 363 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 If you're not a corpse, I'll poke you in the eye. 364 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Just play it easy, huh? 365 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Yeah, maybe I'll be back. 366 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Could happen. 367 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,000 I waited for her all through that long, blistering day, 368 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,000 crouching within those four walls of railway ties. 369 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 I laid there like a trapped animal. 370 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 And yet I knew she'd be back. 371 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 She couldn't resist it. 372 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Cheap little thing like that. 373 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,000 I knew she'd be back. 374 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Chum, it seems you were a very important guy in your time. 375 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Ah, you saw the papers. 376 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Yeah, and I got good news for you. 377 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Mr. French, you're now burnt to a crisp. 378 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,000 That's the way they found you in the train. 379 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Recognize me by the ring on my finger? 380 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Yeah. Well, you're dead all right. 381 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,000 You and 250 grand. 382 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Well, we'll come to that later. 383 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 You get to work with the file. 384 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 No, no, no, no. You're giving orders again. 385 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 And I told you I don't like it. 386 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Give me that file. 387 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 And that's where it stays until you lead me to my share of that dough. 388 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Oh, you'll get it. You'll get it. 389 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Chum, listen to Mama. 390 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,000 I can pick up 500 fish by turning in an escaped prisoner, 391 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,000 or you can dig up that treasure chest 392 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000 and buy this file for half the plunder. 393 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 That's 400 miles away. 394 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 That's a fair distance. 395 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,000 But I can't ride a train or a bus with these on my wrists. 396 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,000 That's okay, Chum. We'll walk. 397 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,000 400 miles? 398 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Since. I've done it before. 399 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,000 You've seen it? Not at night. 400 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,000 How do I eat? Where will I sleep? 401 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000 You'll sleep in the woods and I'll bring the grub to you. 402 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Me, I'll sleep in town where I'll be snug and safe. 403 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Don't take this file from me, Chum. 404 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Not till I see my half of that dough. 405 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 And that's how it was. 406 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 That same evening we started a walk. 407 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,000 At first it wasn't so bad. 408 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 It gave me time to think. 409 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 And I knew I'd think of something. 410 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,000 You know, there's kind of a sneaky look about you. 411 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000 What? 412 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 You figure that in 400 miles a lot of things can happen. 413 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Oh, no, no. 414 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 After all, I want to do what's fair. 415 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Let's split. 416 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,000 If we don't, I'll split your skull and don't kid yourself that I won't, 417 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,000 little Chum. 418 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,000 I've been waiting a long time for a break like this. 419 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 We walked. 420 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:25,000 But the handcuffs digging so deep into my flesh that I began to believe they were a part of me. 421 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Yeah, she brought me food. 422 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000 But she wouldn't come close enough to hand it to me. 423 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,000 And every time I reached for anything, it was torture. 424 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,000 My hands on wrists were a mass of misery. 425 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 As though her pet animal were on a leash. 426 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,000 My friend always walked six paces behind me. 427 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,000 She was too smart. 428 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 And I realized that I had to get away from her. 429 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,000 And soon. 430 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 And the morning I decided to do it, 431 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,000 she found me a shack to hole up in. 432 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,000 I could hardly wait for her to leave and go back into town. 433 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Yeah, this shack looks good. 434 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 I'll meet you back here tonight. 435 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,000 All right. See you tonight. 436 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,000 That's the way I like you, Chum. 437 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Nice and agreeable. 438 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Why not? Why shouldn't I be? 439 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 See you tonight, as usual. 440 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Sure there isn't anything special you'd like me to bring you to eat? 441 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 No, nothing special. 442 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,000 Say, Chum, I think you better turn around. 443 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Why? 444 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Because! 445 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:40,000 When I awoke, with a dull ache filling my head, 446 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,000 I found myself neatly trussed up. 447 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,000 I could move a little, but not enough to get three. 448 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Talk about female intuition. 449 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 She had guessed that I was going to try to get away from her, 450 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 and she beat me to it. 451 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 But I didn't give up, though. 452 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 She'd have to make one mistake. 453 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 How the next night, we'd stop for a rest. 454 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Hey, uh, French. 455 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,000 Yeah? 456 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,000 How can you be sure that dough is still there? 457 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,000 It's safe. 458 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 How do you know? What kind of a place you hide it in? 459 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 You'll see. 460 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Hey, don't you trust me? 461 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Of course. As much as you trust me. 462 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,000 And it's time we stopped playing this little game. 463 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Now, get out that file. 464 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000 When I see the dough, little Chum... 465 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Take them off, will you? 466 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000 How long do you think I'm going to... 467 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Shut up! Shut up! 468 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 You'll wake up the neighbors. 469 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Now, move! 470 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000 No. 471 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000 I said move! 472 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 No. 473 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,000 That money's mine. 474 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 And you'll never see it unless I want you to. 475 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 And we'll go to it the way I say. 476 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Chum, you're making me mad. 477 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 You get out that file and take these off. 478 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Go on, get it out. 479 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000 I can give orders, too. 480 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,000 What do you think of yourself? An animal trainer? 481 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Now, that's not a bad idea. 482 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Is it? But it happens that I'm not an animal. 483 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 And it happens that... 484 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 What's that for? 485 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000 You can't frighten me with a knife. 486 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 I wouldn't try. 487 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 You use that on me and we both lose out. 488 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Whenever my own man used to beat one of us kids, 489 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 he always said the same thing. 490 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,000 He said, never use a switch thicker than your thumb. 491 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 It breaks the skin but no bones. 492 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000 A kid can go on working. 493 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000 A switch? 494 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Yeah, like this one. 495 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Nice and green and limber. 496 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000 That's all a knife is for. 497 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 I wouldn't use a knife on a buddy. 498 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,000 You won't use that either. 499 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Put it down. 500 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,000 You know, this is something I wanted to do ever since I found you sleeping in those railroad ties. 501 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 You gonna get up? 502 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 No. 503 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 This'll hurt. 504 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,000 I'll kill you someday. I swear I'll kill you. 505 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 I once had a husband like you. 506 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Brave enough outside but once anybody put on the pressure... 507 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000 You talk too much. 508 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Go on, I'm calling your bluff. 509 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,000 I'm sick of hearing you talk. 510 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:14,000 It's all right. 511 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,000 We walked. 512 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,000 God, how I hated her. 513 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 And she... 514 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Well, she was sure she'd beat me down altogether because she didn't even bother now to taunt me anymore. 515 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 She was very quiet after that. 516 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 And a little careless. 517 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,000 I stopped now and then and she'd bump into me in the darkness. 518 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:41,000 But she'd always stop dreaming before I could get my hands on her. 519 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Well... 520 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,000 All things must end. 521 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:51,000 Our pilgrimage ended one morning when I said... 522 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Here it is. 523 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 What? 524 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,000 The money. 525 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Where? 526 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,000 We're standing over it. 527 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,000 You up to some sneaky trick again? We're standing in the middle of a highway. You didn't do any digging here, chum. 528 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Look, there's a culvert running under the road here. A 24-inch pipe. 529 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Come into the ditch. I'll show you. 530 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000 You didn't stick that dough into the pipe. 531 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,000 Must have washed away. 532 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:17,000 It's not in the pipe. It's in a deep crevice between the pipe and the concrete. 533 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Pull out some of those stones. 534 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,000 You pull them out. 535 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,000 What, with these hands? 536 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Why, I can't touch anything without screaming. 537 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Pull them out. 538 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:30,000 French, sir, help me if this is a gag. 539 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000 She believed me. She had to. 540 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 She saw the truth in my eyes. 541 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,000 The money was there, my quarter of a million. 542 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 She bent over to tug at the stones. 543 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000 She turned her back to me for the first time. 544 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000 And that was it. That was the mistake I was waiting for. 545 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,000 I sprang forward and I crushed her hand down on her head. 546 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,000 The back of her neck. Her head. 547 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 The pain. The pain on my wrist. 548 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 But I didn't care. I didn't care. 549 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000 My hands. My hands. 550 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,000 Covered with blood. 551 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,000 Her blood. Mine. 552 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000 She was dead. 553 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 But I couldn't move. 554 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000 My hands. My poor hands. 555 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 I had to wait until the shot drained out of them. 556 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Finally I reached into her pockets for the file. 557 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000 It isn't there. 558 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000 It must be in this one. 559 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,000 No. No. 560 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 Not. 561 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 No. 562 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 No file. 563 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 She hasn't got a file. 564 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 She never had one. 565 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Ah, that sheet. 566 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 That dirty little sheet. 567 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Come on. 568 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Come on. 569 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Come on, little children. 570 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000 Come on. 571 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Come out, you babies. 572 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Two hundred and fifty thousand. 573 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Beautiful little babies. 574 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Come on. 575 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 I can't get a hold of it. 576 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,000 I need a few inches. 577 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000 I can't. I can't. 578 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,000 With these handcuffs on, I need one arm free. 579 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 You handcuffs, you. 580 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:39,000 I'll break this chain if I have to rip my hands off. 581 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,000 I'll get that money. 582 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,000 I must have my money. 583 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,000 I want my money. 584 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:55,000 I must have my money. I want my money. 585 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000 My money. 586 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 It's my money. 587 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000 That's the way I found him, Chief. 588 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Sitting in the ditch beside a dead girl. 589 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000 And babbling like an idiot. 590 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Thank you, William Powell, for a splendid performance. 591 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,000 Mr. Powell returns in just a moment. 592 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Well, Hap, my friend, now that you... 593 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Harlow, Harlow, I've been trying to tell you, 594 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,000 I already have two complete sets of auto light resistor spark plugs. 595 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Congratulations. 596 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000 Everyone should have a complete set of auto light resistor spark plugs. 597 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Those modern miracles of auto light ignition engineers. 598 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000 Those monuments to tireless auto light research. 599 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,000 So, friends, why not drive down to your nearest auto light dealer tomorrow, 600 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,000 early tomorrow, and get your car a set of auto light resistor spark plugs. 601 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,000 They're sensational. 602 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,000 And not because I said so either, but because they really are. 603 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,000 Auto light means spark plugs. 604 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,000 Ignition engineered resistor spark plugs. 605 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Auto light means batteries. 606 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Stay full, batteries. 607 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000 Auto light means ignition system. 608 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 The lifeline of your car. 609 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000 And now here again is William Powell. 610 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,000 My thanks to the fine cast of suspense actors 611 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,000 who helped to make my appearance here so pleasant an experience. 612 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,000 I'm a regular listener to radio's outstanding theater thrills, 613 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,000 and I'll be tuned in next time to hear John Garfield in Death Sentence, 614 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 another gripping study in... 615 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Suspense. 616 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000 William Powell appeared by arrangement with Metro-Bulwin-Mayer Studios, 617 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000 producers of the Technicolor production The Three Musketeers, 618 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,000 starring Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allison, and Van Heflin. 619 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000 Tonight's suspense play was written by Herb Meadow 620 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,000 with music composed by Lucian Mora-Wacken, 621 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000 conducted by Lut Bluskin. 622 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Anne Morrison played the part of the hobo. 623 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Leder. 624 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000 This is the Auto Light Suspense Show. 625 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,000 Subscribe to your local community chest. 626 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,000 Everybody benefits. Everybody gives. 627 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,000 Good night. 628 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:36,000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.