WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 In just a moment, Auto Light presents Suspense, starring Margaret O'Brien. 00:07.000 --> 00:12.000 Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go. 00:12.000 --> 00:14.000 The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh. 00:14.000 --> 00:18.000 Why, Hap, Hap, that's not the way to sing hurrah for Thanksgiving Day. 00:18.000 --> 00:20.000 What are you telling me, Harlow Wilcox? Why, I've said that so... 00:20.000 --> 00:23.000 No, no, Hap, this is the way it goes today. 00:23.000 --> 00:26.000 Over the river and through the woods and never mind the snow, 00:26.000 --> 00:30.000 Grandpa is happy with his jalopy, his battery's never low. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.000 Over the river and through the woods blow high, ye winds blow low. 00:34.000 --> 00:39.000 The car's as snappy as Grandma and Papi with an Auto Light stay-full, you know. 00:39.000 --> 00:40.000 But Harlow, that's not... 00:40.000 --> 00:44.000 Why, you see, Hap, Auto Light stay-full batteries have changed a lot of things today. 00:44.000 --> 00:48.000 Harlow, isn't anything sacred anymore, it's Thanksgiving Day. 00:48.000 --> 00:56.000 Let's listen to Margaret O'Brien on Suspense. 01:02.000 --> 01:04.000 Suspense. 01:08.000 --> 01:13.000 Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you 01:13.000 --> 01:16.000 Radio's outstanding Theatre of Thrills. 01:16.000 --> 01:21.000 Starring tonight, Miss Margaret O'Brien in Anton Leder's production of 01:21.000 --> 01:23.000 The Screaming Woman. 01:23.000 --> 01:29.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 01:34.000 --> 01:37.000 I'm Margaret Leary and I've got to tell you how it happened. 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 It was Thanksgiving Day and it was nice and sunshiny. 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 Almost like summer except cooler. 01:42.000 --> 01:45.000 Mama was cooking the turkey and I was watching. 01:45.000 --> 01:48.000 And Mama said to me, Good heavens, I forgot. 01:48.000 --> 01:51.000 Your Aunt Cynthia's made some cranberry relish for us. 01:51.000 --> 01:54.000 Run over and get it, Margaret, so her feelings aren't hurt. 01:54.000 --> 01:58.000 And hurry, this turkey's down to a turn. 02:05.000 --> 02:10.000 So I ran to Aunt Cynthia's and on the way back I took a shortcut through Mr. Kelly's lot. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 It's a big lot, more like the side of a hill that slides down to Monument Creek. 02:14.000 --> 02:19.000 It's a swell place to play Indians and cowboys or explorers are hunting for treasures 02:19.000 --> 02:22.000 because trucks dump all kinds of stuff there. 02:22.000 --> 02:28.000 Loads of dirt and junk and even big things like old cars and big pipes and chunks of concrete. 02:28.000 --> 02:34.000 Well, this day, coming back from Aunt Cynthia's, I saw that a lot of new junk and dirt had been dumped there since Saturday. 02:34.000 --> 02:39.000 They'd even covered up our swell big concrete pipe that us kids called our fort. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 Covered it clear up. 02:41.000 --> 02:46.000 I was looking around to see where it used to be when all of a sudden... 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 I stopped and listened. 02:52.000 --> 02:55.000 The sound was coming up out of the ground. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 A woman was buried under the junk and dirt and glass 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 and she was screaming all wild and horrible for somebody to dig her out. 03:02.000 --> 03:05.000 I started to run. I fell down and got up and ran some more. 03:05.000 --> 03:08.000 It was an awful, awful long way to our house that day. 03:08.000 --> 03:11.000 Mama! Mama! Mama! Mama! Mama! 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 Oh, Margaret, haven't I told you not to slam the door? 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 Is that the relish? 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 Listen, Mama, there's a screaming woman in the lot. 03:17.000 --> 03:18.000 Wash your hands, Margaret. 03:18.000 --> 03:21.000 She was screaming and screaming and screaming. 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 Mama, listen to me. We've got to dig her out. 03:23.000 --> 03:25.000 She's buried under tons and tons of dirt. 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 I'm sure she can wait till after dinner. 03:27.000 --> 03:30.000 Oh, next year I swear I'm going to buy a bigger platter. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 Mama, don't you believe me? You've got to believe me. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 Margaret, I've got a million things to do. 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 Good gosh, look at you. 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 How'd you get your knees so dirty? 03:38.000 --> 03:39.000 Well, when he backs in the lot, I... 03:39.000 --> 03:42.000 Never mind. Scoot and tell your dad we're about to eat. 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 He's in the front room reading his paper. 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 Yes, Mama. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 Daddy! Oh, Daddy, I've got to tell you something. 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 Getting hungry, baby? 03:51.000 --> 03:54.000 Daddy, there's a screaming woman in the lot. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 I never knew a woman who didn't. 03:56.000 --> 03:57.000 Smell that turkey. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 We've got to get picks and shovels and dig her up 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 like we're an Egyptian mummy. Oh, Daddy! 04:01.000 --> 04:04.000 I don't feel much like an archaeologist today, Margaret. 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 I can't think of anything but food. 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 Let's have an expedition next Sunday and dig her up. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 But we can't wait that long. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 Oh, Daddy, she'll die if we don't do it now. 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 I'll give you some money. 04:13.000 --> 04:16.000 Oh, so it's a business proposition. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 Well, how much do you pay by the hour? 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 I've got five whole dollars. It took me a year to save. 04:21.000 --> 04:24.000 Come here, boy. You know I'm touched. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 Oh, but Daddy... 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 You want me to play with you and you're willing to pay me for my time. 04:27.000 --> 04:28.000 Oh, but... 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Why, dear, you're shaking. Calm down. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 Oh, Daddy, please. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 After our Thanksgiving dinner, 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 I'll come out and listen to your screaming woman. 04:35.000 --> 04:36.000 How's that? 04:36.000 --> 04:37.000 Oh, no, now, Daddy. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 Maybe she'll die if you don't come out now. 04:39.000 --> 04:40.000 Oh, you've got to come now. 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 Margaret. 04:41.000 --> 04:42.000 If you believe me, you wouldn't wait. 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 You never believe me. 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 Mama doesn't believe me. 04:44.000 --> 04:45.000 Nobody believes me. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 Margaret, quiet down right this minute. 04:47.000 --> 04:48.000 Or I not only won't go with you, 04:48.000 --> 04:52.000 but you'll go to your room and stay in without your Thanksgiving dinner. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 Oh, is that clear? 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 Yes, sir. It's clear. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 I always like Thanksgiving. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 Almost next best to Christmas. 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 But that was an awful one. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 Dinner was a million years long. 05:10.000 --> 05:14.000 Everybody moved so slow, like a slow motion movie. 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 Forks and knives and spoons move slow. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 And Dad's cheek muscles moved slow when he chewed. 05:21.000 --> 05:24.000 I won't try to make things faster. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 Margaret, you heard your mother now. 05:27.000 --> 05:28.000 Don't eat so fast. 05:28.000 --> 05:32.000 But, Daddy, the screaming woman, we've got to hurry. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 My dear young lady, this is Thanksgiving dinner. 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 An occasion when we do not hurry. 05:37.000 --> 05:40.000 I intend to eat four or five helpings of everything 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 until I can't eat anymore. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 And I'm going to make an extra effort 05:44.000 --> 05:49.000 and find room for pumpkin pie, a few walnuts, stuffed dates. 05:49.000 --> 05:51.000 Oh, please, please, Daddy. 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 If you pester me anymore, if you mention her again, 05:53.000 --> 05:58.000 this screaming watsis, I won't go out with you to hear a recital at all. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 Am I understood? 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 Yes, sir, it's understood. 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 I wanted to yell. 06:05.000 --> 06:08.000 Oh, please, rush, get up, run around, come on, hurry. 06:08.000 --> 06:11.000 But I had to sit still while out there in the lot 06:11.000 --> 06:15.000 with the sun shining down, all alone with nobody to hear or to help her. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 It was the screaming woman. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 I could hear in my mind screaming. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Mom and Daddy couldn't hear. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 They just kept on eating and talking. 06:27.000 --> 06:31.000 Well, now that I can be thankful for a full stomach, 06:31.000 --> 06:35.000 I guess we should consider what other things we have to be thankful for. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 Well, we're all healthy. 06:37.000 --> 06:39.000 Prices are sky high, but we're not in debt. 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 Yet. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 Those are mundane things, my dear. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 I am thankful for my big daughter. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 Right, Puss? 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 Yes, Dad. 06:48.000 --> 06:52.000 And for my loving wife, who is still the most romantic woman I know. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 Oh, silly. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 I'm thankful I didn't marry somebody else. 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 Who nearly married Dora Lampelle. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 Even gave her a ring. 07:01.000 --> 07:03.000 I never meant a thing. 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 No one. 07:05.000 --> 07:06.000 No. 07:06.000 --> 07:10.000 You're the only one who's been the serious competitor since we were all kids. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 Oh. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 There's only one. One other. 07:14.000 --> 07:15.000 Who? 07:15.000 --> 07:16.000 Helen Nesbitt. 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 Oh. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 Helen was my first love. 07:20.000 --> 07:23.000 When she was about as old as Margaret, I gave her a present one Christmas, 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 and she gave me one, but I still have it. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 Oh, that paperweight on your desk. 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 Funny how we hang on to things that were important when we were kids. 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 Daddy. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 Just a little longer, Puss. 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 Want to open my coffee, will you, dear? 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 You know what I'm thankful for, dear? 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 Seriously. 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 That we stayed here in this same town where we grew up. 07:44.000 --> 07:45.000 Here you are, dear. 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 Thank you. 07:46.000 --> 07:47.000 The same friends. 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 Even the same street. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 It's been a peaceful life. 07:51.000 --> 07:52.000 Not very exciting, but... 07:52.000 --> 07:53.000 Daddy! 07:53.000 --> 07:54.000 Margaret finds it pretty exciting. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 Yes. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 You better take her out to the lot before she collapses. 08:09.000 --> 08:12.000 All right, now, where is your screaming woman? 08:12.000 --> 08:13.000 Lead me to her. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 Over here, where our fort used to be. 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 Fort? 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 The big concrete pipe. 08:17.000 --> 08:19.000 It's all covered up now. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 Kelly's really getting this lot filled in. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 All right, where's the lady? 08:24.000 --> 08:25.000 Right about here, Daddy. 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 Listen. 08:28.000 --> 08:29.000 Don't hear a thing. 08:29.000 --> 08:30.000 Except the wind. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 Better button up your sweater, Puss. 08:32.000 --> 08:33.000 Shh! 08:33.000 --> 08:34.000 Listen. 08:37.000 --> 08:39.000 That's the trolley over on Aspen Street. 08:39.000 --> 08:40.000 Hey, there! 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 Screaming woman! 08:41.000 --> 08:42.000 Hey! 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 Looks like the Dolans are starting out for a drive. 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 Well, I guess your screaming woman's let you down, Puss. 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 But she was here, Daddy. 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 Right under here where they dumped all this dirt. 08:54.000 --> 08:58.000 I heard her screaming and screaming like she was underneath the fort. 08:58.000 --> 09:01.000 Somebody's dumped tons and tons right on top of our fort. 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 Yeah, too bad they buried your fort, Margaret. 09:03.000 --> 09:06.000 I saw two of Kelly's big trucks back in here last evening. 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 There was a dump truck in here this morning, too. 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 It isn't because they covered the fort. 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 That must be your screaming woman doesn't like grown-ups. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Only delivers her solo for kids, I guess. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 Maybe she can't scream anymore. 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 Well, I'm going back and take a nap. 09:19.000 --> 09:20.000 Let my dinner settle. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 Well, aren't you going to help me dig? 09:22.000 --> 09:25.000 Now, listen, my dear, don't you think this is a sort of a silly game? 09:25.000 --> 09:26.000 But it's not a game. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 Now, don't stay too long, dear. 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 Mama probably likes some help with those dishes. 09:30.000 --> 09:31.000 Daddy! 09:31.000 --> 09:32.000 Daddy! 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 I know I heard her scream. 09:35.000 --> 09:36.000 I know it. 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 Oh, darn, darn, darn! 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 You're there! 09:43.000 --> 09:44.000 You're still there! 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 Hey, screaming woman! 09:48.000 --> 09:49.000 Why did you scream before? 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Why didn't you scream so Daddy could hear you? 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 Don't just scream for me. 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 I can't help you all by myself. 10:04.000 --> 10:05.000 Daddy! 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 Daddy, where are you? 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Up there, my dear. 10:08.000 --> 10:09.000 Daddy! 10:09.000 --> 10:11.000 Daddy, she's screaming again. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 Right after you left, she started to scream. 10:13.000 --> 10:14.000 You've got to come back. 10:14.000 --> 10:15.000 Oh, there, now. 10:15.000 --> 10:16.000 Come here. 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 Let me feel your head. 10:17.000 --> 10:18.000 Please, Dad. 10:18.000 --> 10:20.000 Why, you've got a fever. 10:20.000 --> 10:21.000 You're going to lie down, young lady. 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 We can't leave her down there, Dad. 10:22.000 --> 10:23.000 We just can't. 10:23.000 --> 10:24.000 Come on along. 10:24.000 --> 10:25.000 Come on into your room. 10:25.000 --> 10:26.000 That's right. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 It's awful, Dad. 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 It's awful for her to be screaming and nobody listening. 10:29.000 --> 10:30.000 Nobody caring. 10:30.000 --> 10:31.000 You lie down, folks. 10:31.000 --> 10:32.000 Lie down. 10:32.000 --> 10:33.000 Now, come on. 10:33.000 --> 10:34.000 She'll choke where there isn't any more air and she'll die. 10:34.000 --> 10:38.000 Now, you're going to lie down the rest of the afternoon before you make yourself sick. 10:38.000 --> 10:39.000 No, I've got to dig. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 I've got to dig her up. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 All those comic books you read. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 Now, I forbid you to leave the house. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 Close your eyes now and take a nap. 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 That's my good girl. 10:48.000 --> 10:53.000 Oh, what am I going to do? 10:53.000 --> 11:08.000 What am I going to do? 11:08.000 --> 11:14.000 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Miss Margaret O'Brien in radio's outstanding theater 11:14.000 --> 11:17.000 of thrills, Suspense. 11:17.000 --> 11:28.160 I have a hunch you're going to give me another Auto Light stay full battery Thanksgiving 11:28.160 --> 11:29.160 song. 11:29.160 --> 11:30.160 No, not me, Hap. 11:30.160 --> 11:31.160 No? 11:31.160 --> 11:32.160 No, sirree. 11:32.160 --> 11:34.520 By Cornelius, I'm going to tell a Thanksgiving story. 11:34.520 --> 11:35.520 It's a fable. 11:35.520 --> 11:37.000 Couldn't be anything else if you told it. 11:37.000 --> 11:40.000 Now, listen to this, my trigger tongue trooper. 11:40.000 --> 11:44.000 Last year at this time, my car called me out to the garage. 11:44.000 --> 11:45.400 Quite a car too, Hap. 11:45.400 --> 11:47.000 Once a year she overhauls me. 11:47.000 --> 11:49.000 Wow, and on Thanksgiving Day too. 11:49.000 --> 11:53.440 Harlow, she said, I have an empty feeling and I'm so confounded thirsty all the time, 11:53.440 --> 11:55.600 I think you ought to do something about it. 11:55.600 --> 11:59.620 I'd like to end up Thanksgiving Day with that fine fool feeling that lulls you to sleep 11:59.620 --> 12:01.600 as soon as the mince pie disappears. 12:01.600 --> 12:05.280 Well, how, my pretty, says I, can all this be accomplished? 12:05.280 --> 12:06.720 Easy, she chimes. 12:06.720 --> 12:09.800 I need to switch to an Auto Light stay full battery. 12:09.800 --> 12:14.120 Why, with an Auto Light stay full battery, I'll never be thirsty, and if you use me normally, 12:14.120 --> 12:16.200 I'll need only three drinks a year. 12:16.200 --> 12:20.320 And what's more, with the oversized electrical capacity and fiberglass insulation of that 12:20.320 --> 12:26.000 Auto Light stay full battery, I'll have more power, stay lively longer, and save you time, 12:26.000 --> 12:27.960 trouble, work, and worry. 12:27.960 --> 12:31.680 And Harlow, for a fellow as lazy as you are, think what all this means. 12:31.680 --> 12:37.320 Well, when she came up with all those points in my favor, I hurried, I hastened, I hurdled 12:37.320 --> 12:42.080 till I was exhausted, and by Christopher, I got an Auto Light stay full battery and 12:42.080 --> 12:47.160 gave it to Clarissa, I call my car Clarissa, Thanksgiving morning. 12:47.160 --> 12:51.320 We took a spin, and I could tell she was happier than a penguin with skis. 12:51.320 --> 12:53.240 Sounds like Harlow in Wonderland. 12:53.240 --> 12:59.520 Well, now, let's get back to Margaret O'Brien and the Screaming Woman. 12:59.520 --> 13:06.480 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Miss Margaret O'Brien as Margaret 13:06.480 --> 13:24.000 in the Screaming Woman, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:24.000 --> 13:25.920 After a while, I stopped crying. 13:25.920 --> 13:30.280 I had to get back to the lot where that woman was screaming, but I was locked in. 13:30.280 --> 13:33.880 I tied a sheet to the bed and let it out the window and shunned down to the ground. 13:33.880 --> 13:37.240 Then I ran to the garage and got shovels and ran to the empty lot. 13:37.240 --> 13:40.400 The sun was almost down and it was getting cold. 13:40.400 --> 13:41.880 I started to dig fast. 13:41.880 --> 13:42.880 Hiya, Maggie. 13:42.880 --> 13:46.280 It was Dippy Smith who was 10 years old, the same as me. 13:46.280 --> 13:47.280 He goes to my school. 13:47.280 --> 13:48.880 What you digging for? 13:48.880 --> 13:49.880 For a screaming woman. 13:49.880 --> 13:52.240 She's down in the ground and I'm going to dig her up. 13:52.240 --> 13:54.040 You can help me dig, Dippy. 13:54.040 --> 13:56.120 There's an extra shovel. 13:56.120 --> 13:57.120 I don't hear nothing. 13:57.120 --> 13:59.600 And I don't dig unless I hear a scream. 13:59.600 --> 14:01.640 Then listen. 14:01.640 --> 14:03.840 I don't hear nothing. 14:03.840 --> 14:04.840 Just wait. 14:04.840 --> 14:05.840 You will. 14:05.840 --> 14:06.840 There. 14:06.840 --> 14:07.840 Did you hear it? 14:07.840 --> 14:08.840 Hey, that's okay. 14:08.840 --> 14:09.840 Do it again. 14:09.840 --> 14:10.840 Do what again? 14:10.840 --> 14:11.840 Scream. 14:11.840 --> 14:12.840 Do it again. 14:12.840 --> 14:13.840 Go on. 14:13.840 --> 14:16.840 I'll give you this Aggie to teach me to do it. 14:16.840 --> 14:23.920 Hot dog, did you get that Ben Trilliquist book for a dime from that magic company? 14:23.920 --> 14:26.440 You got one of those 10 things in your mouth? 14:26.440 --> 14:28.600 I won't tell unless you help me dig. 14:28.600 --> 14:29.600 Okay, swell. 14:29.600 --> 14:30.600 Give me the shovel. 14:30.600 --> 14:31.600 Hot dog. 14:31.600 --> 14:32.600 And you got to dig fast. 14:32.600 --> 14:33.600 Like this, Dippy. 14:33.600 --> 14:34.600 Boy, you think she will right under our feet. 14:34.600 --> 14:35.600 You're wonderful, Aggie. 14:35.600 --> 14:36.600 Say, what's the screaming woman's name? 14:36.600 --> 14:37.600 You must have made her up a name. 14:37.600 --> 14:38.600 Oh sure. 14:38.600 --> 14:39.600 Her name is Wilma Schwager and she's a rich old lady, 160 years old. 14:39.600 --> 14:40.600 And she was buried by a crook named Spike. 14:40.600 --> 14:41.600 Come on, Dippy. 14:41.600 --> 14:42.600 Dig. 14:42.600 --> 14:43.600 I can't. 14:43.600 --> 14:44.600 I can't. 14:44.600 --> 14:45.600 I can't. 14:45.600 --> 14:46.600 I can't. 14:46.600 --> 14:47.600 I can't. 14:47.600 --> 14:48.600 I can't. 14:48.600 --> 14:49.600 I can't. 14:49.600 --> 14:50.600 I can't. 14:50.600 --> 14:51.600 I can't. 14:51.600 --> 14:52.600 I can't. 14:52.600 --> 14:53.600 I can't. 14:53.600 --> 14:54.600 I can't. 14:54.600 --> 14:55.600 I can't. 14:55.600 --> 14:56.600 I can't. 14:56.600 --> 14:57.600 I can't. 14:57.600 --> 14:58.600 I can't. 14:58.600 --> 14:59.600 I can't. 14:59.600 --> 15:00.600 I can't. 15:00.600 --> 15:01.600 I can't. 15:01.600 --> 15:02.600 I can't. 15:02.600 --> 15:03.600 I can't. 15:03.600 --> 15:04.600 I can't. 15:04.600 --> 15:05.600 I can't. 15:05.600 --> 15:06.600 I can't. 15:06.600 --> 15:07.600 I can't. 15:07.600 --> 15:08.600 I can't. 15:08.600 --> 15:09.600 I can't. 15:09.600 --> 15:10.600 I can't. 15:10.600 --> 15:11.600 I can't. 15:11.600 --> 15:12.600 I can't. 15:12.600 --> 15:13.600 I can't. 15:13.600 --> 15:14.600 I can't. 15:14.600 --> 15:15.600 I can't. 15:15.600 --> 15:16.600 I can't. 15:16.600 --> 15:17.600 I can't. 15:17.600 --> 15:18.600 I can't. 15:18.600 --> 15:19.600 I can't. 15:19.600 --> 15:20.600 I can't. 15:20.600 --> 15:21.600 I can't. 15:21.600 --> 15:22.600 I can't. 15:22.600 --> 15:23.600 I can't. 15:23.600 --> 15:24.600 I can't. 15:24.600 --> 15:25.600 OK? 15:25.600 --> 15:26.600 Yeah. 15:26.600 --> 15:27.600 I can't. 15:27.600 --> 15:28.600 I can't. 15:28.600 --> 15:29.600 I can't. 15:29.600 --> 15:30.600 I can't. 15:30.600 --> 15:33.600 Now look, Dibby, I'll go way over here, and then you listen. 15:33.600 --> 15:34.600 Okay. 15:34.600 --> 15:35.600 Listen. 15:35.600 --> 15:40.600 Hey, there really is a woman here. 15:40.600 --> 15:41.600 That's what I told you. 15:41.600 --> 15:43.600 Come on, let's dig. 15:45.600 --> 15:47.600 How's she breathing, do you think? 15:47.600 --> 15:50.600 I think she's in the fort, remember? 15:50.600 --> 15:54.600 Sure, that's where she must be. 15:54.600 --> 15:59.600 Five or six of us kids could get in it so it's big enough. 15:59.600 --> 16:02.600 I sure hope it isn't just a radio or something. 16:02.600 --> 16:05.600 Well, a radio would be nice too. 16:05.600 --> 16:07.600 Here, here, what do you kids think you're doing? 16:07.600 --> 16:10.600 Oh, hello, Mr. Kelly. 16:10.600 --> 16:12.600 I'm tired of chasing you out of this lot. 16:12.600 --> 16:14.600 If one of you gets hurt, it may be your folks at Sue Me. 16:14.600 --> 16:16.600 But Mr. Kelly, there's a woman screaming. 16:16.600 --> 16:18.600 You kids beat her, do you hear? 16:18.600 --> 16:19.600 Yes, sir. 16:19.600 --> 16:21.600 But listen, Mr. Kelly, don't you hear? 16:21.600 --> 16:23.600 There. 16:23.600 --> 16:25.600 I don't hear a thing, and neither do you now. 16:25.600 --> 16:26.600 Now beat it. 16:26.600 --> 16:27.600 Come on, Maggie. 16:27.600 --> 16:29.600 Mr. Kelly, somebody's got to dig her up. 16:29.600 --> 16:31.600 Don't argue with me or I'll phone your folks. 16:31.600 --> 16:32.600 This is my property. 16:32.600 --> 16:34.600 Do I have to put up a fence? 16:34.600 --> 16:37.600 Why should I spend money to keep people off my own property? 16:37.600 --> 16:39.600 Dippy, it's him. He's the one. 16:39.600 --> 16:40.600 Huh? 16:40.600 --> 16:42.600 He murdered Mrs. Kelly. 16:42.600 --> 16:44.600 He hit her on the head and stuck her in the fort 16:44.600 --> 16:46.600 and dumped loads of dirt on top. 16:46.600 --> 16:48.600 But she wasn't dead. She came, too. 16:48.600 --> 16:49.600 Why, you saw him. 16:49.600 --> 16:50.600 He stood right there when she screamed 16:50.600 --> 16:51.600 and wouldn't pay any attention. 16:51.600 --> 16:52.600 Hey, that's right. 16:52.600 --> 16:55.600 He stood right there and lied to us. 16:55.600 --> 16:57.600 What'll we do, Maggie? 16:57.600 --> 16:58.600 There's only one thing to do. 16:58.600 --> 17:00.600 We'll phone the police and tell them 17:00.600 --> 17:02.600 to come and arrest Mr. Kelly. 17:19.600 --> 17:21.600 Hey, they sure got here fast, Maggie. 17:21.600 --> 17:25.600 Shh. Don't make a sound. 17:27.600 --> 17:29.600 Is Mr. Kelly in the house? 17:29.600 --> 17:32.600 Yes. He went right home from the lot. 17:37.600 --> 17:38.600 Yes, officer. 17:38.600 --> 17:39.600 You, Mr. Kelly? 17:39.600 --> 17:40.600 Yes, sir. 17:40.600 --> 17:41.600 What can I do for you? 17:41.600 --> 17:43.600 Is Mrs. Kelly at home this evening? 17:43.600 --> 17:44.600 Why, sure. 17:44.600 --> 17:45.600 Can I see her, sir? 17:45.600 --> 17:46.600 Why, sure. 17:46.600 --> 17:48.600 Hey, Anna. 17:48.600 --> 17:49.600 What's up? 17:49.600 --> 17:50.600 We got a call. 17:50.600 --> 17:51.600 Oh, good evening, ma'am. 17:51.600 --> 17:52.600 What did he do? 17:52.600 --> 17:53.600 Oh. 17:53.600 --> 17:54.600 I'm sorry, folks. 17:54.600 --> 17:56.600 We got a call that Mrs. Kelly was buried alive 17:56.600 --> 17:58.600 in an empty lot. 17:58.600 --> 17:59.600 Sounded like some kid calling, 17:59.600 --> 18:01.600 but we had to make sure. 18:01.600 --> 18:02.600 Always check, you know. 18:02.600 --> 18:03.600 Oh, yeah, I can't understand what you're... 18:03.600 --> 18:05.600 It's those blasted kids. 18:05.600 --> 18:07.600 If I ever catch them, I'll break their necks. 18:07.600 --> 18:23.600 Maggie, jeez it! 18:23.600 --> 18:25.600 Boy, if Mr. Kelly telephones my dad, 18:25.600 --> 18:26.600 I'll get a lickin'. 18:26.600 --> 18:28.600 What'll we do about the screaming woman? 18:28.600 --> 18:29.600 What the heck with her? 18:29.600 --> 18:31.600 I'm not going near that lot again. 18:31.600 --> 18:32.600 Wait, Dippy. 18:32.600 --> 18:33.600 Huh? 18:33.600 --> 18:35.600 I know why he didn't hear the screams. 18:35.600 --> 18:36.600 Kelly's sort of deaf. 18:36.600 --> 18:38.600 Mama says he's hard of hearing. 18:38.600 --> 18:39.600 He heard us, didn't he? 18:39.600 --> 18:40.600 He heard the cop. 18:40.600 --> 18:41.600 He reads people's lips, 18:41.600 --> 18:43.600 but he couldn't hear the screaming woman 18:43.600 --> 18:44.600 because he couldn't see her. 18:44.600 --> 18:45.600 Dippy, come on. 18:45.600 --> 18:46.600 We gotta dig some more. 18:46.600 --> 18:47.600 No, sir. 18:47.600 --> 18:48.600 But we've got to. 18:48.600 --> 18:50.600 We're already in a peck of trouble 18:50.600 --> 18:52.600 over your darn old ventriloquist voice. 18:52.600 --> 18:54.600 I'm not going to get in any more trouble. 18:54.600 --> 18:55.600 No, sir. 18:55.600 --> 19:01.600 And he went off and left me alone. 19:01.600 --> 19:03.600 I wanted to crawl down under the ground 19:03.600 --> 19:05.600 with the screaming woman and die, too. 19:05.600 --> 19:06.600 It was dark now, 19:06.600 --> 19:08.600 and Dad would be hunting for me. 19:08.600 --> 19:10.600 If he found me, I'd get a licking and be put to bed. 19:10.600 --> 19:13.600 And then nobody would help the screaming woman at all. 19:13.600 --> 19:15.600 There was only one last thing to do. 19:15.600 --> 19:16.600 So I did it, 19:16.600 --> 19:19.600 to go all over the neighborhood from house to house 19:19.600 --> 19:21.600 and find out who's missing. 19:22.600 --> 19:24.600 Why, hello, dear. 19:24.600 --> 19:25.600 Hello, Mrs. Griswold. 19:25.600 --> 19:27.600 Is anybody missing from your house? 19:27.600 --> 19:29.600 Is your sister from Detroit still here? 19:29.600 --> 19:32.600 Yes, she's sitting right over there by the radio. 19:32.600 --> 19:33.600 Don't you see her? 19:33.600 --> 19:35.600 Em, little Margaret Leary wants to... 19:35.600 --> 19:38.600 No, I only wanted to see her, Mrs. Griswold. 19:38.600 --> 19:39.600 I was just wondering. 19:39.600 --> 19:41.600 I just wanted to know if she was here. 19:47.600 --> 19:48.600 Hello, Mrs. Pikes. 19:48.600 --> 19:49.600 You're looking good. 19:49.600 --> 19:51.600 I'm glad to see you're at home, Mrs. Pikes. 19:51.600 --> 19:53.600 I'm awful glad. 19:58.600 --> 20:00.600 Mr. Hyde, is your wife still here? 20:00.600 --> 20:03.600 Dora, aren't you out pretty late, Margaret? 20:03.600 --> 20:05.600 Yes. Oh, hello, Mrs. Hyde. 20:05.600 --> 20:07.600 What is it, Margaret? 20:07.600 --> 20:09.600 I just wanted to see you, Mrs. Hyde. 20:09.600 --> 20:10.600 That's all. 20:16.600 --> 20:18.600 The hours were just rolling along 20:18.600 --> 20:21.600 and I rang bells and knocked and I rang bells. 20:21.600 --> 20:25.600 I was about to give up when I came to the Nesbitt's house. 20:25.600 --> 20:28.600 The house was quiet like nobody was at home. 20:28.600 --> 20:31.600 But I saw a dim, spooky light inside somewhere. 20:31.600 --> 20:34.600 So I just kept knocking and knocking. 20:40.600 --> 20:41.600 Oh. 20:41.600 --> 20:42.600 What do you want? 20:42.600 --> 20:43.600 Oh, nothing, Mr. Nesbitt. 20:43.600 --> 20:45.600 I only wanted to see Mrs. Nesbitt. 20:45.600 --> 20:48.600 She's not here. She's gone to the store. 20:48.600 --> 20:49.600 At night? 20:49.600 --> 20:51.600 Besides, it's closed today, I think. 20:51.600 --> 20:53.600 The drug store down on Clark Street. 20:53.600 --> 20:56.600 Oh, well, then she ought to be back pretty quick. 20:56.600 --> 20:57.600 I'll come in and wait. 20:57.600 --> 20:58.600 Hey, wait, wait a minute. 20:58.600 --> 21:00.600 I'll just sit down here and wait. 21:00.600 --> 21:02.600 I sure like this rocking chair. 21:03.600 --> 21:05.600 Go right ahead and do whatever you were doing, Mr. Nesbitt. 21:05.600 --> 21:07.600 I wasn't doing anything. 21:07.600 --> 21:10.600 Oh, looks like you were packing or something 21:10.600 --> 21:12.600 with all those boxes and trunks around. 21:12.600 --> 21:13.600 Going away? 21:13.600 --> 21:16.600 Oh, Helen's been sorting things out, 21:16.600 --> 21:18.600 getting rid of a lot of stuff. 21:18.600 --> 21:20.600 Oh, burning it up in the fireplace. 21:20.600 --> 21:22.600 Yeah, that's right. 21:22.600 --> 21:24.600 Dad always burns our junk out in the alley. 21:24.600 --> 21:26.600 Clothes smell awful when they burn. 21:26.600 --> 21:30.600 Look, Helen may have gone on from the store to visit a friend. 21:30.600 --> 21:32.600 Well, if she doesn't come back soon, I'll leave. 21:32.600 --> 21:34.600 Yeah, I'll tell her you were here. 21:36.600 --> 21:38.600 What do you want to see her about? 21:38.600 --> 21:39.600 Oh, nothing much. 21:39.600 --> 21:41.600 Hey, that's too bad. 21:41.600 --> 21:42.600 What? 21:42.600 --> 21:43.600 I guess you lost the key to that box. 21:43.600 --> 21:44.600 You had to break the lock. 21:44.600 --> 21:46.600 No, no, it was broken already. 21:47.600 --> 21:50.600 Yeah, I bet your folks don't know where you are, kid. 21:50.600 --> 21:52.600 No, sir, they think I'm in bed. 21:52.600 --> 21:54.600 What friend did Mrs. Nesbitt go to visit? 21:54.600 --> 21:56.600 I don't know what... 21:56.600 --> 21:59.600 I mean, look, kid, I ought to tell you, she won't be back tonight. 21:59.600 --> 22:00.600 Oh? 22:00.600 --> 22:02.600 No, she went to the store, like I said, 22:02.600 --> 22:08.600 but she was going from there over to Beechwood to visit her mother on a bus. 22:08.600 --> 22:10.600 She'll be gone in two or three days. 22:10.600 --> 22:11.600 Oh, that's a shame. 22:11.600 --> 22:12.600 Why? 22:12.600 --> 22:16.600 Well, Mama was expecting Mrs. Nesbitt to come over tomorrow, maybe to sell. 22:16.600 --> 22:18.600 You better not tell your mother. 22:19.600 --> 22:22.600 You see, it's kind of secret about Helen going away. 22:22.600 --> 22:24.600 She doesn't want people to know for a while. 22:24.600 --> 22:25.600 Oh. 22:25.600 --> 22:27.600 You know how to keep a secret, kid? 22:27.600 --> 22:28.600 I guess so. 22:28.600 --> 22:30.600 I'll give you something for not telling. 22:30.600 --> 22:32.600 I'll give you a reward. 22:32.600 --> 22:34.600 Let's see. 22:34.600 --> 22:36.600 Hey, here, here's something for a kid. 22:36.600 --> 22:37.600 A doll. 22:37.600 --> 22:38.600 A doll? 22:38.600 --> 22:40.600 Yeah, Helen was going to give it to you. 22:40.600 --> 22:44.600 I heard her say when she was sorting the stuff, she said, 22:44.600 --> 22:46.600 I'll give this to the little leery girl. 22:46.600 --> 22:48.600 Mrs. Nesbitt always calls me Margaret. 22:48.600 --> 22:51.600 Well, sure, that's what she said. 22:51.600 --> 22:52.600 Margaret. 22:52.600 --> 22:54.600 That's quite a doll. 22:54.600 --> 22:56.600 Old-fashioned. 22:56.600 --> 22:57.600 It's made of leather. 22:57.600 --> 22:59.600 It faces China or something. 22:59.600 --> 23:00.600 See? 23:00.600 --> 23:01.600 Mm-hmm. 23:01.600 --> 23:02.600 Thank you, Mr. Nesbitt. 23:02.600 --> 23:06.600 It's a reward for not saying anything about Helen being gone. 23:06.600 --> 23:07.600 Understand? 23:07.600 --> 23:09.600 Now, come on. 23:09.600 --> 23:11.600 I'll snap on the porch light. 23:11.600 --> 23:14.600 Mr. Nesbitt, did you finish your driveway? 23:14.600 --> 23:15.600 What do you mean? 23:15.600 --> 23:17.600 Did you get all the dirt hauled off to make it smooth? 23:17.600 --> 23:18.600 Sure. 23:18.600 --> 23:19.600 Sure. 23:19.600 --> 23:20.600 Now, come on. 23:20.600 --> 23:22.600 I saw your dump truck in the lot this morning and... 23:22.600 --> 23:24.600 What do you mean? 23:24.600 --> 23:25.600 Were you in the lot this morning? 23:25.600 --> 23:27.600 No, no, I was at home. 23:27.600 --> 23:28.600 I looked out the window. 23:28.600 --> 23:30.600 Please, Mr. Nesbitt, let go of my arm. 23:30.600 --> 23:32.600 You've been playing out there today? 23:32.600 --> 23:33.600 Answer me. 23:33.600 --> 23:34.600 Oh, don't, that hurts. 23:34.600 --> 23:35.600 I wasn't playing. 23:35.600 --> 23:37.600 It's no fun now with our fort all covered up and... 23:37.600 --> 23:38.600 The fort? 23:38.600 --> 23:39.600 What's that? 23:39.600 --> 23:40.600 Nothing. 23:40.600 --> 23:41.600 Nothing, Mr. Nesbitt. 23:41.600 --> 23:43.600 Tell me what you're talking about. 23:43.600 --> 23:44.600 Nothing but that old concrete pipe. 23:44.600 --> 23:45.600 You know something. 23:45.600 --> 23:46.600 That's why you came here. 23:46.600 --> 23:49.600 You've been snooping around that lot and you found out something. 23:49.600 --> 23:50.600 What do you know? 23:50.600 --> 23:51.600 I don't know anything. 23:51.600 --> 23:52.600 Let me go, Mr. Nesbitt. 23:52.600 --> 23:53.600 If you don't let me go, I'll... 23:53.600 --> 23:54.600 Ow! 23:54.600 --> 23:55.600 Bear! 23:55.600 --> 23:56.600 Come back! 23:56.600 --> 23:57.600 Come back, kid. 23:57.600 --> 23:58.600 I'll give you something else. 23:58.600 --> 23:59.600 I'll give you something else. 23:59.600 --> 24:00.600 Come back, kid. 24:00.600 --> 24:01.600 Come back. 24:01.600 --> 24:02.600 Mr. Nesbitt yelled because I kicked and bit his hand. 24:02.600 --> 24:03.600 Then I ran, but I heard him running after me. 24:03.600 --> 24:18.600 It was dark and quiet and scary on the streets, and more scary out there in the lot. 24:18.600 --> 24:22.600 I ran straight across the place where I heard the screaming, and it was so quiet. 24:22.600 --> 24:25.600 And all of a sudden there was a man in the lot, right in front of me. 24:25.600 --> 24:26.600 Stop, Margaret. 24:26.600 --> 24:27.600 Oh. 24:27.600 --> 24:28.600 Margaret. 24:28.600 --> 24:29.600 Oh, Daddy. 24:29.600 --> 24:30.600 Margaret, where have you been? 24:30.600 --> 24:32.600 Do you have any idea how your mama's worried? 24:32.600 --> 24:33.600 Do you know how late it is? 24:33.600 --> 24:34.600 Daddy, Daddy, he's after me. 24:34.600 --> 24:37.600 We've been up and down alleys and clear down to Clark Street. 24:37.600 --> 24:38.600 I was about to call the police. 24:38.600 --> 24:39.600 The screaming woman. 24:39.600 --> 24:40.600 It's Mrs. Nesbitt down there. 24:40.600 --> 24:41.600 I'm going to give you a good licking. 24:41.600 --> 24:42.600 Mr. Nesbitt killed her, and now he wants to kill me. 24:42.600 --> 24:43.600 I've had all of that idiotic talk. 24:43.600 --> 24:44.600 I can stand. 24:44.600 --> 24:45.600 It's true. 24:45.600 --> 24:48.600 You've got to be with me. 24:48.600 --> 24:51.600 Margaret, I'm going to lick you right now, right here. 24:51.600 --> 24:52.600 I've had enough. 24:52.600 --> 24:55.600 What have you got there? 24:55.600 --> 24:56.600 Where did you get that doll? 24:56.600 --> 24:58.600 Well, I gave it to her, Leary. 24:58.600 --> 25:00.600 The kid stopped by the house. 25:00.600 --> 25:05.600 I remembered Helen said she wanted to throw it away. 25:05.600 --> 25:06.600 Helen said to throw it away? 25:06.600 --> 25:07.600 He's lying, Dad. 25:07.600 --> 25:09.600 He gave it to me so I wouldn't tell about her. 25:09.600 --> 25:10.600 It was locked up in a box. 25:10.600 --> 25:11.600 He didn't have the key. 25:11.600 --> 25:12.600 He broke it open. 25:12.600 --> 25:14.600 She's a high strung kid, Leary. 25:14.600 --> 25:16.600 All the stuff she was telling me. 25:16.600 --> 25:17.600 He's lying, Dad. 25:17.600 --> 25:19.600 Yes, he is lying. 25:19.600 --> 25:21.600 Why are you lying, Charlie? 25:21.600 --> 25:22.600 Lying? 25:22.600 --> 25:24.600 How do you get that, Leary? 25:24.600 --> 25:25.600 Helen never let you have that doll. 25:25.600 --> 25:27.600 It was locked up. 25:27.600 --> 25:29.600 It was a present I gave her a long time ago. 25:29.600 --> 25:30.600 She wouldn't throw it away anymore, 25:30.600 --> 25:32.600 and I'd throw away the paperweight she gave me. 25:32.600 --> 25:33.600 Why are you lying, Charlie? 25:33.600 --> 25:34.600 I'm not. 25:34.600 --> 25:36.600 Don't look at me that way, Leary. 25:36.600 --> 25:39.600 As God is my witness, I... 25:39.600 --> 25:47.600 It's her. 25:47.600 --> 25:51.600 Dad is the screaming woman. 25:51.600 --> 25:53.600 As God is your witness. 25:53.600 --> 25:55.600 No, Leary, don't. 25:55.600 --> 25:58.600 Oh, God. 25:58.600 --> 26:05.600 Margaret, run to the house. 26:05.600 --> 26:07.600 Phone the police and tell them to hurry. 26:07.600 --> 26:25.600 Tell them we've got to dig. 26:25.600 --> 26:26.600 Hello? 26:26.600 --> 26:27.600 Hi, Dippy. 26:27.600 --> 26:28.600 Everything's fine. 26:28.600 --> 26:30.600 Everything's worked out keen. 26:30.600 --> 26:32.600 The screaming woman isn't screaming anymore, 26:32.600 --> 26:35.600 and they've got a lot of people down there digging her up. 26:35.600 --> 26:37.600 Hey, that's swell. Hot dog. 26:37.600 --> 26:39.600 And you know what else, Dippy? 26:39.600 --> 26:41.600 They're going to uncover our fort again. 26:41.600 --> 27:01.600 Oh, Dippy, wasn't it a keen Thanksgiving? 27:01.600 --> 27:04.600 Thank you, Margaret O'Brien, for a splendid performance. 27:04.600 --> 27:07.600 Miss O'Brien will return in just a moment. 27:07.600 --> 27:10.600 Oh, no, that autolite stay-full-battery fable wasn't bad, 27:10.600 --> 27:12.600 coming from a fairly fabulous fiver. 27:12.600 --> 27:14.600 Ah, but you haven't heard all of it, Hap. 27:14.600 --> 27:16.600 Why, bye, Cornelius. 27:16.600 --> 27:19.600 Clarissa, that's my car, spoke to me again this morning. 27:19.600 --> 27:22.600 Thanks to you, she said, and that autolite stay-full-battery, 27:22.600 --> 27:24.600 this has been the happiest year of my life. 27:24.600 --> 27:28.600 Why, even these cruel cold mornings, I've got that autolite pep, 27:28.600 --> 27:31.600 that stay-full-battery, get up and go. 27:31.600 --> 27:35.600 Well, Clarissa, I says to my gas buggy, you're the Queen of the May, 27:35.600 --> 27:39.600 the last with the delicate air, and the pride of Wilcox Alley all in one. 27:39.600 --> 27:42.600 What do you want now, my Thanksgiving precious? 27:42.600 --> 27:45.600 And she says, just to go to sleep out in the garage once again. 27:45.600 --> 27:49.600 Why, Harlow, you can even use my autolite stay-full-battery for a pillow. 27:49.600 --> 27:51.600 Happy slumber and good night, everybody. 27:51.600 --> 27:52.600 And remember... 27:52.600 --> 27:54.600 Autolite means batteries. 27:54.600 --> 27:56.600 Stay-full-battery. 27:56.600 --> 27:58.600 Autolite means spark plug. 27:58.600 --> 28:00.600 Ignition-engineered resistor spark plug. 28:00.600 --> 28:02.600 Autolite means ignition systems. 28:02.600 --> 28:05.600 The lifeline of your car. 28:11.600 --> 28:14.600 And now here again is Miss Margaret O'Brien. 28:14.600 --> 28:16.600 It's been just wonderful being on suspense, 28:16.600 --> 28:18.600 and I hope you let me come back again sometime. 28:18.600 --> 28:20.600 We will, Margaret. 28:20.600 --> 28:23.600 And now let me tell our listeners about next week. 28:23.600 --> 28:27.600 Claude Rains and Vincent Price in the famous mystery story, 28:27.600 --> 28:30.600 The Hands of Mr. Ottermole. 28:30.600 --> 28:32.600 Another gripping study in... 28:32.600 --> 28:34.600 Suspense. 28:34.600 --> 28:37.600 Margaret O'Brien appeared by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 28:37.600 --> 28:40.600 producers of the Technicolor picture, The Three Musketeers, 28:40.600 --> 28:43.600 starring Lana Turner, Gene Kelly and June Allison. 28:43.600 --> 28:45.600 Tonight's suspense play was by Ray Bradbury, 28:45.600 --> 28:47.600 adapted for radio by Sylvia Richards, 28:47.600 --> 28:51.600 with music composed by Lucian Morawak and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 28:51.600 --> 28:55.600 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Lieder. 28:55.600 --> 28:57.600 In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars 28:57.600 --> 29:00.600 as Rosalind Russell, James Cagney, Ronald Coleman, William Bendix 29:00.600 --> 29:01.600 and many others. 29:01.600 --> 29:03.600 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to 29:03.600 --> 29:07.600 Suspense, Radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 29:07.600 --> 29:11.600 And next Thursday, same time, hear Claude Rains and Vincent Price 29:11.600 --> 29:14.600 in The Hands of Mr. Ottermole. 29:16.600 --> 29:19.600 This is the Autolite Suspense Show signing off. 29:19.600 --> 29:22.600 Good night. Switch to Autolite. 29:22.600 --> 29:26.600 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.