WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.000 In just a moment, Auto Light presents Suspense with Jimmy Cagney. 00:06.000 --> 00:10.000 Harlow, tonight I understand we have an Auto Light Suspense special. 00:10.000 --> 00:14.000 Every bit as special as your star performance as the Auto Light Resistor Spark Plug Maestro. 00:14.000 --> 00:18.000 Is that a plug for me or for my favorites Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs have? 00:18.000 --> 00:21.000 Well, with no offense to either Harlow, it's neither. 00:21.000 --> 00:27.000 Tonight Jimmy Cagney and Auto Light and Suspense are dramatizing one of our great American tragedies. 00:27.000 --> 00:35.000 It's so tremendous a problem it warrants our entire nation warring against its grimness and the grim reaper who is its symbol. 00:35.000 --> 00:42.000 Tonight's Suspense story will remind you to drive carefully behind Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs or any other, Harlow. 00:42.000 --> 00:45.000 Then let's join the Auto Light audience and listen. 00:45.000 --> 00:57.000 Suspense. 01:01.000 --> 01:09.000 Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 01:09.000 --> 01:16.000 Starting tonight, Mr. James Cagney in Anton Leder's production of No Escape. 01:16.000 --> 01:21.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 01:25.000 --> 01:29.000 The only thing I can do now is tell you how it happened without any bunk. 01:29.000 --> 01:33.000 I don't care what you've heard or read about me. I'm not a devil or a mad dog. 01:33.000 --> 01:38.000 I don't know what people think happens to a fella. Do they think all of a sudden I turned into stone? 01:38.000 --> 01:44.000 I'm no different than anybody else. If I don't eat I get hungry. If I cut myself shaving I bleed. 01:44.000 --> 01:47.000 I'm just like the next guy and that's the whole idea. 01:47.000 --> 01:52.000 This, this it happened to me sure but it would have happened to anybody. 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 It could have happened to you. 02:00.000 --> 02:04.000 It was supposed to have been one of them days you circle on the calendar with a red pencil. 02:04.000 --> 02:10.000 You see with a little town like ours 23 miles from the big city right on the main highway we get the speed artists going both ways. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 Yeah and every couple of days they manage to leave something behind to remember them by. 02:14.000 --> 02:18.000 Like a kid with a broken back or well, well you get the idea. 02:18.000 --> 02:23.000 So a couple of years ago the Chamber of Commerce started a safety campaign to name the safest driver of the year. 02:23.000 --> 02:28.000 Something to kind of keep the guys in their toes and this year the fella they chose for the award was yours truly. 02:28.000 --> 02:35.000 And tonight was the big doings with a few well chosen words from me a lad who was a public speaker was a wonderful bus driver. 02:35.000 --> 02:39.000 I got to the house a little after six. Teddy my kid brother was just leaving. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 Hi you big shot. 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Hello. 02:42.000 --> 02:46.000 Ladies and gentlemen in this corner the world's champion driver. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 That's me all right. 02:48.000 --> 02:52.000 Hey that's a swell picture of you in the paper. You don't look so bad for an older man. 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 Quiet or I'll beat your ears in. 02:54.000 --> 02:58.000 Say Eve called to say you should wear your blue suit and try to look human. 02:58.000 --> 02:59.000 That I would like to see. 02:59.000 --> 03:00.000 Me too. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 Sorry I can't wait though. I'm late for a date. 03:03.000 --> 03:06.000 I'll see you in the morning and you can tell me how you slayed. 03:06.000 --> 03:09.000 All right Ted so long. 03:09.000 --> 03:13.000 I gave myself the words shower shave the blue suit like the lady said. 03:13.000 --> 03:16.000 Eve looked after me like I was at least five years old. 03:16.000 --> 03:17.000 I didn't mind a bit. 03:17.000 --> 03:22.000 Ever since Ma died in 42 I kept the house going for Teddy because a kid needs something like that. 03:22.000 --> 03:26.000 But he was getting out of school in June and then maybe Eve and I. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.000 Well it was nice thinking about it. 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 So nice that I guess I forgot all about the time that was passing. 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 Yeah. 03:34.000 --> 03:37.000 Look slow motion you should be halfway over here by now. 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 Okay Eve honey got the speech ready. 03:39.000 --> 03:44.000 Yes but if you don't get moving you'll be making that speech to a bunch of empty chairs and dirty plates. 03:44.000 --> 03:53.000 Yes mama be right over. 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 Eve lived outside of town. 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 I'd really have to step on it to pick her up and spend some time rehearsing the speech. 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 And then get to the high school auditorium by eight. 04:00.000 --> 04:05.000 I got into the car and I decided to take the canyon road through the hills where there wasn't any traffic. 04:05.000 --> 04:08.000 I could make better time that way. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 Now wait wait wait just a second. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 Let me get my thoughts together. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 I got to get this part exactly right. 04:14.000 --> 04:20.000 You've got to see it just like it happened or else it's all a waste of time. 04:20.000 --> 04:24.000 All right. 04:24.000 --> 04:27.000 I was on the canyon road that wound up through the steep hills. 04:27.000 --> 04:30.000 The wall of the mountain on one side of the road and the deep canyon on the other. 04:30.000 --> 04:33.000 About about ten to seven but already dark. 04:33.000 --> 04:36.000 Nobody on the road but me so I stuck pretty close to the middle. 04:36.000 --> 04:39.000 And every time at every turn the scream of the tires. 04:39.000 --> 04:40.000 But I wasn't worried about that. 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 Four brand new tires hardly a week old and good brakes. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 I never take chances with things like that. 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 Going about about 50 miles an hour maybe a little bit better. 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 But I was all alone on the road so what difference did it make. 04:51.000 --> 04:55.000 I was maybe two thirds of the way up to the top right where the road makes a wide curve. 04:55.000 --> 05:00.000 I remember I put a cigarette in my mouth and I pushed the dashboard lighter in. 05:00.000 --> 05:03.000 I heard the lighter click and I started reaching for it. 05:03.000 --> 05:08.000 And then a pair of headlights blazing out of nowhere. 05:08.000 --> 05:11.000 And then a screeching horn. 05:11.000 --> 05:13.000 A car coming the other way. 05:13.000 --> 05:15.000 I felt my inside double up like a fist. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 I slammed my foot on the brake. 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 Swung the steering wheel to the right. 05:18.000 --> 05:22.000 I didn't feel anything hit and I thought oh God it's going to be OK. 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 I jammed on the emergency. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 I jerked the door open. 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 I looked back. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 The road was empty. 05:30.000 --> 05:35.000 I still heard the horn but far away and another sound too like a bunch of empty crates topping over and over. 05:35.000 --> 05:37.000 And at first it didn't register with me. 05:37.000 --> 05:40.000 For maybe half a second I just stood there wondering what happened. 05:40.000 --> 05:43.000 Then I saw the reflection of the flame lighting up the whole canyon. 05:43.000 --> 05:45.000 I went to the side of the road and looked down. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 The car was about 500 feet below. 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 Burning. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 And the horn still blasting away like the driver's body had fallen against it. 05:52.000 --> 05:55.000 I started down the canyon. 05:55.000 --> 05:57.000 It was almost straight down. 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 I fell and I rolled and I came to my feet again. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 Why didn't that horn stop? 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 Why didn't it stop? 06:06.000 --> 06:10.000 And then it did stop. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 And I realized that I had stopped. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 I had stopped too. 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 What was I waiting for? 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 To get my wind that's all. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 I went down another few feet. 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 And then I stopped again. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 Holding myself against the tree. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 Come on. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 Come on Harry. 06:27.000 --> 06:29.000 Get going. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 No. 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 No. 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 What good would it do to go down there? 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 It couldn't help who I was in that car. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.000 It was too late. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 Nobody could help. 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 Far down the road I saw another pair of headlights starting the long climb. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 I went back to my car. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 I told myself I was going for help. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 I drove on to the top of the hill. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 There was a little gas station up there. 06:48.000 --> 06:49.000 They had a phone. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 I was almost there. 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 An old fellow in white overalls was putting around the pumps. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 I started slowing down. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 My whole life was about to be smashed. 06:56.000 --> 06:57.000 I'd have to tell them the truth. 06:57.000 --> 06:58.000 And what good would it do? 06:58.000 --> 06:59.000 What about Eve? 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 What about my kid brother Teddy? 07:01.000 --> 07:04.000 He was more important than a man's own family. 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 I'd reached the gravel driveway to the gas station. 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 The old guy heard me coming and started straightening up. 07:09.000 --> 07:14.000 Now, now, I swung back onto the highway and pushed the accelerators to the floor. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 I got to Eve's house a little before 7.30. 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 It was funny. 07:28.000 --> 07:31.000 I thought I was okay until I reached for the door handle. 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 And then my finger seemed to go dead and my heart stopped. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 It started going a mile a minute. 07:36.000 --> 07:38.000 Harry? Is that you? 07:38.000 --> 07:39.000 That's me. 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 I'm sorry. 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 Sorry I'm late, Eve. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 Where in heaven's name have you been? 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Honestly, if you aren't the most aggravi... 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 Harry Graham. 07:48.000 --> 07:49.000 What? 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 Look at you. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 You look like you've been run through a threshing machine. 07:53.000 --> 07:54.000 Yeah, I know. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 Let's go in and out. I'll clean up a little. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 What in the world happened? 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 I had a flat tire. I had to change it on the road. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Flat tire? Oh, fine. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 All right, wait right here. 08:02.000 --> 08:03.000 I'll get the Whist Room. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 Of all things to happen tonight... 08:05.000 --> 08:06.000 All right, all right. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 Happen. Lay off, will you? 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 Harry. 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 I'm sorry. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 Well, don't just stand there. 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 While I'm doing this, take your comb out and start combing your hair. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 Took my comb out and turned toward the whole mirror. 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 Funny. 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 I didn't look any different than yesterday or the day before that. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 I was still Harry Graham. 08:24.000 --> 08:28.000 After... after Eve finished with me, we went back to the car. 08:31.000 --> 08:32.000 Get in. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 I tell you what, you're so upset anyhow. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Why don't you let me drive into town? 08:36.000 --> 08:37.000 Okay, if you want to. 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 See, now I turn left to the next block, don't I, for the Canyon Road? 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 Canyon Road? 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 Yes, we can save some time going that way. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 No, no. 08:44.000 --> 08:45.000 Huh? 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 No, no, I don't want to go to Canyon Road. 08:47.000 --> 08:48.000 I want you to go the regular way. 08:48.000 --> 08:49.000 But we're going to be late. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 Do what I tell you. I'll drive the car myself. 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 But, Harry, we always... 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 Do what I tell you, Eve. 08:54.000 --> 08:55.000 All right. 08:55.000 --> 08:57.000 I don't have to bite my head off. 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 What have you got against Canyon Road? 08:59.000 --> 09:01.000 It's... it's too dangerous at night. 09:01.000 --> 09:08.000 Well, all I've got to say is that when they picked you for the safest driver of the year, Harry Graham, they really hit the jackpot. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 We got to the high school auditorium just a couple of minutes late. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 But it turned out we weren't the only ones late. 09:17.000 --> 09:20.000 We got to the main table and I saw that the chair next to mine was empty. 09:20.000 --> 09:24.000 Police Chief Blake, who was supposed to introduce me for my speech, hadn't showed up yet. 09:28.000 --> 09:29.000 And they... 09:29.000 --> 09:34.000 Then when the dinner was ended, Chief Blake came through the door and he looked awfully. 09:34.000 --> 09:39.000 He went over to the chairman of the meeting and whispered something, pointing at me. 09:39.000 --> 09:43.000 And then... then he started for me and I... I thought my heart would quit beating. 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 I was looking for a way to escape, maybe when... 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 Hello, Harry. 09:47.000 --> 09:48.000 Oh, hello, Chief. 09:48.000 --> 09:49.000 Hello. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Folks, folks, please. 09:52.000 --> 09:53.000 I'm sorry I'm so late. 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 I've just come from Canyon Road. 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 Another terrible accident. 09:57.000 --> 10:00.000 The car went over the canyon, four people killed and burned. 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 Oh, my God. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.000 We still haven't gotten them out of the wreckage. 10:03.000 --> 10:05.000 It looks like they were forced off the road. 10:05.000 --> 10:08.000 Another dirty hit-and-run case. 10:08.000 --> 10:09.000 Oh, that's terrible. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 My boys are up there now looking for traces of this other car. 10:13.000 --> 10:19.000 I don't have to tell you that we're gonna keep on looking till we find out who it was. 10:19.000 --> 10:23.000 That's why I had one of my boys bring me back to town here to this meeting tonight. 10:23.000 --> 10:29.000 Because now it's even more important to let a fellow like our friend Harry Graham here 10:29.000 --> 10:34.000 know we appreciate his good work and wish to the Saints that were more like him. 10:34.000 --> 10:43.000 As after what I just saw on Canyon Road, I'm really proud of Harry Graham. 10:43.000 --> 10:59.000 For Suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Mr. James Cagney in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 10:59.000 --> 11:06.000 This show hits with the zing of a set of auto light resistor spark plugs. 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 It gets me right between the optics. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 I know. I've been doing a little research. 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 Yes? 11:11.000 --> 11:16.000 The frigid facts on faulty driving should dispel the optical illusions of any automobile driver 11:16.000 --> 11:19.000 foolish enough to relax his vigilance for one single moment. 11:19.000 --> 11:24.020 Every 30 seconds, a man is about to see the 11:24.020 --> 11:29.000 man, woman, or child is injured on our streets or highways. 11:29.000 --> 11:33.000 This year, 32,300 people are doomed to death. 11:33.000 --> 11:36.000 By Cornelius Hap, I never stopped to realize. 11:36.000 --> 11:42.000 You know, Harlow, it takes 10 seconds and 336 feet to stop a car traveling at 60 miles an hour. 11:42.000 --> 11:45.000 That's why brains are more important than brakes. 11:45.000 --> 11:49.000 Why the man behind the wheel should be aware of the speed at which he's driving. 11:49.000 --> 11:53.000 Why safe and sane are synonymous with the speed of the car. 11:53.000 --> 11:58.000 And synonymous words to drivers who value their fellow's lives as well as their own. 11:58.000 --> 12:02.000 In other words, Hap, just because auto light resistor spark plugs give your car more pep, 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 don't try to use all of it, eh? 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 Exactly, Harlow. But there's more. 12:06.000 --> 12:12.000 The good Samaritan is the gracious guy or gal who not only knows and keeps the rules of the road, 12:12.000 --> 12:17.000 but also keeps his temper in his head when some bungling Benny gives him the hog, the road hog treatment. 12:17.000 --> 12:24.000 Yes, Hap, it's sad but true that one right way to wrong driving is to always demand your highway rights. 12:24.000 --> 12:25.000 Be sure to be safe. 12:25.000 --> 12:29.000 Right, Harlow. And now let's get back to suspense. 12:29.000 --> 12:38.000 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. James Cagney as Harry in No Escape. 12:38.000 --> 12:43.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:43.000 --> 12:49.000 I had to keep my eyes on the table. I couldn't even look at the chief as he stood there praising me. 12:49.000 --> 12:51.000 All I could see was that burning wreck at the foot of the cliff. 12:51.000 --> 12:54.000 And all I could hear was that awful horn blowing. 12:54.000 --> 12:57.000 I had to bite my lips to keep him screaming, I did it. 12:57.000 --> 12:59.000 Harry. Harry. 12:59.000 --> 13:00.000 What? Oh, what? 13:00.000 --> 13:03.000 Open your feet, son. We'd like to hear a few words from you. 13:03.000 --> 13:11.000 Look, look, look, look, chief, folks. I don't think anybody wants to listen to me tonight. Please, let's forget it. 13:11.000 --> 13:15.000 No, Harry. Now more than ever we should hear what a fellow like you has to say. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 Come on, Harry. Say a few words. 13:17.000 --> 13:18.000 But listen, listen. 13:18.000 --> 13:20.000 Go on, Harry. 13:20.000 --> 13:28.000 Oh, well, all right. I'm afraid I'm no great shakes as a speech maker. Just a lucky thing my girl's a good English teacher. 13:28.000 --> 13:36.000 I don't believe we should honor a man for safe driving any more than we should honor him because he's never killed anyone with a gun. 13:36.000 --> 13:42.000 When a man gets behind the wheel of a car, he doesn't give up his responsibilities to his fellow men. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.000 No one can escape the responsibility of being his brother's keeper. 13:47.000 --> 13:52.000 And that goes for, that goes for, that's... 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 Harry, what's wrong? 13:54.000 --> 14:00.000 Listen to me. How can I stand up here and read a speech after what, after what Chief Blake just told us? 14:00.000 --> 14:05.000 No, I can't do it. I'm sorry. I can't do it. 14:05.000 --> 14:11.000 I guess Harry's right after all, folks. I guess maybe we just better call the meeting off. 14:11.000 --> 14:15.000 I know I've got to get back to Canyon Road as soon as I can. 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 Come on, Eve. Come on. Let's get out of here. 14:17.000 --> 14:18.000 All right, honey. 14:18.000 --> 14:19.000 Oh, Harry. 14:19.000 --> 14:20.000 Yeah, Chief. 14:20.000 --> 14:23.000 You can do me a big favor. A fellow brought me down here. I had to beat it right back to the accident. 14:23.000 --> 14:24.000 Oh, so? 14:24.000 --> 14:27.000 I've got to get back there myself right away. Can you give me a lift? 14:27.000 --> 14:30.000 Well, I sure like to, Chief, but well, I've got to, I've got to get Eve home. 14:30.000 --> 14:33.000 Well, you could take me home by the way to Canyon Road. We've gone that way before, honey. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 But I'd be much obliged to you, Harry. 14:35.000 --> 14:36.000 Well, you see, Chief... 14:36.000 --> 14:37.000 Harry! 14:37.000 --> 14:39.000 Okay, okay. Let's go. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 It's too bad the meeting had to end like this. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 When I have a hunch, you feel like I do, Harry. 14:44.000 --> 14:48.000 Like you can't sit still until you find the rat who killed those people. 14:48.000 --> 14:53.000 Well, I promise you this, Harry. Whoever he is, we'll get him. 14:53.000 --> 14:58.000 Oh, yeah. Wasn't that one for the book? 14:58.000 --> 15:02.000 Less than two hours after my accident with the other car going over into the canyon, 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 I was back on Canyon Road. 15:04.000 --> 15:08.000 Only this time with Eve sitting behind me and the Chief of Police in back. 15:08.000 --> 15:12.000 Harry, if you don't mind could you step on it a little bit? 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 I promise you I won't give you a ticket. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 Okay, Chief. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 Honey, push the lighter in, will you? 15:16.000 --> 15:17.000 The lighter? 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 For my cigarette. 15:18.000 --> 15:20.000 Oh, sure, sure. 15:20.000 --> 15:23.000 This speed better, Chief? 15:23.000 --> 15:26.000 Harry hates this road. I wanted him to take it earlier tonight. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 It's all right if you got good tires. 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 You don't have to worry about that. 15:30.000 --> 15:33.000 Had four brand new ones put on just last week. 15:33.000 --> 15:35.000 Oh, here's your light, Eve. 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 Eve. 15:36.000 --> 15:40.000 Huh? Oh, thanks. 15:40.000 --> 15:45.000 Her voice didn't sound right. Her voice didn't sound right. 15:45.000 --> 15:46.000 Then I remembered. 15:46.000 --> 15:49.000 When I picked her up tonight, I heard a voice. 15:49.000 --> 15:54.000 When I picked her up tonight, I told her the reason I was so messed up was that I had to change a tire. 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 She was thinking about that now. 15:56.000 --> 15:59.000 I knew she was, trying to figure out why I'd lied to her. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 Nobody said anything after that. 16:01.000 --> 16:06.000 When we reached the part of the road just before it made the big bend, I started slowing down. 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 I hope I got you here quick enough, Chief. 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 Yeah, you did fine. 16:10.000 --> 16:11.000 Is this where it was? 16:11.000 --> 16:12.000 Yeah, just around this bend. 16:12.000 --> 16:13.000 Yeah, that's right. 16:13.000 --> 16:14.000 But how did... 16:14.000 --> 16:15.000 Huh? 16:15.000 --> 16:24.000 Nothing. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 Again, again, I'd said the wrong thing. 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 What was the matter with me? 16:28.000 --> 16:31.000 How was I supposed to know that that axon was around the bend? 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 I was cutting my own throat, but now... 16:33.000 --> 16:36.000 Now I'd made the turn and there was the red flares burning on the road... 16:36.000 --> 16:38.000 and a big crash truck at the edge of the canyon... 16:38.000 --> 16:42.000 and police cars blocking the highway. 16:42.000 --> 16:43.000 Just pull over the side, Harry. 16:43.000 --> 16:47.000 Okay. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 They're coming down there, Fraser. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 Hello, Chief. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 You're ready to start bringing them up soon. 16:53.000 --> 16:56.000 That's a walkie-talkie he's working with? 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 Yeah, he keeps contact with the men down the canyon. 16:59.000 --> 17:03.000 Say, Harry, why don't you come along with me and really see how we work here? 17:03.000 --> 17:05.000 Oh, thanks, but I've got to get Yvonne home. 17:05.000 --> 17:07.000 The schoolteachers have got to get up early, isn't that right, Basie? 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 I don't mind waiting if you'd like to stay. 17:09.000 --> 17:10.000 Huh? 17:10.000 --> 17:11.000 Come along, Harry. 17:11.000 --> 17:15.000 I don't mind waiting, Harry. 17:15.000 --> 17:19.000 Now...now it was me against all of them. 17:19.000 --> 17:23.000 Oh, I was sick about that car down there in the canyon, those four bodies inside. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 But, well, nothing could change that now. 17:25.000 --> 17:28.000 And I was fighting for my own life. 17:28.000 --> 17:32.000 And they wouldn't break me down. 17:32.000 --> 17:34.000 I stood with my foot on the bumper and Chief Blake... 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 leaning against the fender of my car... 17:36.000 --> 17:39.000 while his boys gave their reports about the hit-and-run car... 17:39.000 --> 17:41.000 and didn't bother me a bit. 17:41.000 --> 17:46.000 Two of them told about the plastic cars they'd made of a tire mop they'd found on the road. 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 Uh, does it help you any, Chief? 17:48.000 --> 17:51.000 Uh, not much, Harry. No tire. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 A lot of people have new tires. 17:53.000 --> 17:55.000 You, for instance. 17:55.000 --> 17:56.000 Hmm. 17:56.000 --> 17:59.000 I kicked my new front tire for them, kicked it hard. 17:59.000 --> 18:02.000 They brought over an old fellow in white overalls. 18:02.000 --> 18:06.000 The guy in the service station where I'd almost turned in to report the accident. 18:06.000 --> 18:09.000 The chief asked him if he thought the car he'd seen was a hit-and-run. 18:09.000 --> 18:12.000 It must have been just about that time, you know... 18:12.000 --> 18:16.000 the way this fellow skidoodled away for no reason at all. 18:16.000 --> 18:19.000 I don't know what kind of a car it was, though. 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 A black sedan, I'd say. 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 Like this one, maybe? 18:23.000 --> 18:26.000 Well, might be. Might be that. 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 But there's two darks, to be sure. 18:28.000 --> 18:32.000 Well, first thing tomorrow, I'm gonna get myself a green convertible. 18:32.000 --> 18:33.000 Yeah. 18:33.000 --> 18:36.000 And everybody got a good laugh out of that, but I would have to be careful. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 Mustn't go too far. 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 It was me against all of them, and I felt the kind of excitement... 18:41.000 --> 18:44.000 that a guy might get from walking a tightrope. 18:44.000 --> 18:49.000 Thinking back now, sure seems screwy, but that's how I felt. 18:49.000 --> 18:53.000 And maybe that is the worst thing that happens to a guy in my spot. 18:53.000 --> 18:56.000 The way it turns you into a wild animal against the world. 18:56.000 --> 18:57.000 All right, Charlie. 18:57.000 --> 18:58.000 Chief Blake. 18:58.000 --> 18:59.000 There you are, Charlie. 18:59.000 --> 19:02.000 There was the fellow with the walkie-talkie over near the crash truck. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 We're ready to start bringing up the bodies. 19:04.000 --> 19:05.000 Okay. 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 Come on, Harry. Let's go over. 19:07.000 --> 19:10.000 Something flopped coldly in my stomach. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 And then lay still. 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 This was the test. 19:13.000 --> 19:17.000 If they didn't break me down now, they could never do it never in a million years. 19:17.000 --> 19:21.000 All the people who had come up in the town started gathering around the crash truck. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 I wanted to run and never stop running. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 But I didn't move. 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 And just then... 19:27.000 --> 19:35.000 The first body swung into view. 19:35.000 --> 19:39.000 And you could hear everyone in the crowd suck in his breath. 19:39.000 --> 19:42.000 And I bit down hard on my lip till I tasted blood. 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 The brown blanket wrapped neatly around something. 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 And then the bundle rested on the ground. 19:47.000 --> 19:51.000 And everyone seemed to edge away from it like it could hurt them. 19:51.000 --> 19:53.000 And the cable went down into the valley again. 19:53.000 --> 19:56.000 And then there was a second bundle. 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 And then there was a third. 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 And then a fourth. 20:00.000 --> 20:06.000 And over and over like a drum beat, like a prayer I told myself they wouldn't break me down. 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 And then someone pushed forward from the crowd. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 Joe Mandel. 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 The little tailor. 20:12.000 --> 20:18.000 He seemed shy and embarrassed as though he had no business being here. 20:18.000 --> 20:21.000 Chief Blake. 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 Oh, yeah, Joe. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 My boy, Philip. 20:25.000 --> 20:28.000 He didn't come home for supper tonight. 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 You want to look? 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 Well, you know how a woman is. 20:32.000 --> 20:36.000 Rose will feel better if I tell her, OK, I looked and it wasn't. 20:36.000 --> 20:37.000 Well, you know. 20:37.000 --> 20:38.000 All right, Joe. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 Doesn't hurt none. 20:40.000 --> 20:47.000 Thank you. 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 No. 20:49.000 --> 20:54.000 No. 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 I'd better go back to my house. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 Sorry, Joe. 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 Wait a minute. 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 Yes. 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 Do you know who Phil was going to be with tonight? 21:04.000 --> 21:07.000 His best friend was Mike Robock. 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 They were always together. 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 The Goldust twins. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 Everybody called him. 21:12.000 --> 21:13.000 Thanks, Joe. 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 Excuse me, Chief. 21:14.000 --> 21:15.000 I must go to Rose now. 21:15.000 --> 21:16.000 Fraser. 21:16.000 --> 21:17.000 Yes, Chief. 21:17.000 --> 21:18.000 Get back to town. 21:18.000 --> 21:19.000 Go over the Robocks. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 Don't tell them anything is wrong. 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 Just see if Mike's home. 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 OK. 21:23.000 --> 21:34.000 I couldn't take anymore. 21:34.000 --> 21:35.000 I started back for the car. 21:35.000 --> 21:38.000 My legs felt like they weighed a ton. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 I heard a sudden movement in the crowd behind me. 21:40.000 --> 21:41.000 Oh, no. 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 Oh, my baby. 21:43.000 --> 21:46.000 My baby. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 They wouldn't break me down. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 They wouldn't break me down. 21:50.000 --> 21:54.000 I opened the car door and Eve was there. 21:54.000 --> 21:55.000 I'd almost forgotten her. 21:55.000 --> 21:58.000 And I was sure she knew the truth. 21:58.000 --> 21:59.000 They brought up all four? 21:59.000 --> 22:00.000 Yeah. 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 Harry. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 I don't want to hear anything now. 22:03.000 --> 22:04.000 I'm taking you home. 22:04.000 --> 22:05.000 Wait, Harry. 22:05.000 --> 22:06.000 Listen, I'm telling you. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 Kiss me, Harry. 22:07.000 --> 22:08.000 What? 22:08.000 --> 22:11.000 Hold me and kiss me. 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 I'm such a stupid fool. 22:13.000 --> 22:14.000 Hold me. 22:14.000 --> 22:15.000 Hold me. 22:15.000 --> 22:16.000 All right, all right. 22:16.000 --> 22:17.000 Now, now, stop it. 22:17.000 --> 22:18.000 Stop it. 22:18.000 --> 22:19.000 Harry. 22:19.000 --> 22:20.000 I'm telling you, Harry. 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 If you knew what's been going through my mind. 22:22.000 --> 22:23.000 Okay, okay. 22:23.000 --> 22:24.000 Stop it. 22:24.000 --> 22:25.000 I'm just a fool, a stupid fool. 22:25.000 --> 22:30.000 And then when I saw you come back to the car, the look on your face. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 Oh, Harry. 22:32.000 --> 22:33.000 How could I have ever thought? 22:33.000 --> 22:34.000 All right, all right. 22:34.000 --> 22:37.000 Now, we'll talk about it later. 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 I'll never talk about it again. 22:39.000 --> 22:50.000 Never, Harry. 22:50.000 --> 22:59.000 So, it was all over with. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 I was going to be okay. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 God, I wasn't proud. 23:03.000 --> 23:06.000 I felt rotten and sick. 23:06.000 --> 23:13.000 And now that it was all over, the strength ran out of me like water running out of a glass. 23:13.000 --> 23:16.000 But what good would it have been to crucify myself? 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 It wouldn't have changed anything. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 I wasn't a bad guy. 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 It could have happened to anybody. 23:22.000 --> 23:26.000 And now, now I was going to be able to take care of my own. 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 Eve and my kid brother Teddy. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 Was that a bad guy? 23:31.000 --> 23:35.000 A fellow who wanted to do right for his family? 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 I started the car. 23:37.000 --> 23:40.000 I put in gear and then looking at me through the windows, 23:40.000 --> 23:44.000 was Chief Blake signaling me to wait. 23:44.000 --> 23:47.000 I turned the key off. 23:47.000 --> 23:54.000 Well, whatever it was, I was very tired. 23:54.000 --> 23:55.000 Come on out, Harry. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 I've got to get Eve home. 23:57.000 --> 23:58.000 Come on out of the car. 23:58.000 --> 24:04.000 But, Harry, do like I tell you. 24:04.000 --> 24:05.000 Come with me. 24:05.000 --> 24:06.000 What do you want? 24:06.000 --> 24:09.000 Come with me. 24:09.000 --> 24:13.000 When you drove up here tonight, I didn't think it would end like this. 24:13.000 --> 24:14.000 You know about it? 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 You, of all people, Harry. 24:16.000 --> 24:18.000 Listen, you've got to believe me. 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 It shouldn't have happened to a fellow like you. 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 You've got to hear my side. 24:22.000 --> 24:23.000 Right here, Harry. 24:23.000 --> 24:24.000 Huh? 24:24.000 --> 24:25.000 Huh? 24:25.000 --> 24:26.000 What are you... 24:26.000 --> 24:30.000 Take a look at this fourth body. 24:30.000 --> 24:33.000 Why should I? 24:33.000 --> 24:38.000 Pull the blanket back, Harry. 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 Oh, no. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 No. 24:43.000 --> 24:46.000 Teddy. 24:46.000 --> 25:11.000 So, that's it. 25:11.000 --> 25:14.000 The whole works. 25:14.000 --> 25:17.000 I don't care what you heard or read in the papers. 25:17.000 --> 25:18.000 That's the story. 25:18.000 --> 25:19.000 Just like it happened. 25:19.000 --> 25:21.000 No bunk. 25:21.000 --> 25:28.000 And thinking back, I guess I kind of hit the nail on the head in that speech that I made that night. 25:28.000 --> 25:47.000 You know, that part about no man can ever escape the responsibility of being his brother's keeper. 25:47.000 --> 26:12.000 Thank you, James Cagney, for a magnificent performance. 26:12.000 --> 26:17.000 Mr. Cagney will return in just a moment. 26:17.000 --> 26:24.000 Well, Hap, after that performance of Jimmy Cagney's and your heartfelt expressions on the rights and wrongs of the driving man, 26:24.000 --> 26:28.000 it's hard to switch the conversation to auto light resistor spark plugs. 26:28.000 --> 26:31.000 Well, Harlow, I'm sure you'll find a way. 26:31.000 --> 26:39.000 Yes, I think I'll just say, friends, switch to a set of auto light resistor spark plugs just as quickly as you can swing into a service station. 26:39.000 --> 26:46.000 When you replace your narrow gap spark plugs with wide gap auto light resistor spark plugs, your car will idle smoother, 26:46.000 --> 26:50.000 give you better luck with lean gas mixtures, actually save you gas dollars. 26:50.000 --> 26:56.000 What's more, auto light resistor spark plugs cut down spark plug interference with radio and television reception. 26:56.000 --> 27:00.000 Switch to auto light resistor spark plugs today. 27:00.000 --> 27:03.000 And remember, auto light means spark plug. 27:03.000 --> 27:06.000 Ignition engineered resistor spark plug. 27:06.000 --> 27:08.000 Auto light means batteries. 27:08.000 --> 27:10.000 Stay full, batteries. 27:10.000 --> 27:12.000 Auto light means ignition system. 27:12.000 --> 27:23.000 The lifeline of your car. 27:23.000 --> 27:26.000 And now here again is Mr. James Cagney. 27:26.000 --> 27:32.000 It's always a pleasure to appear on suspense, but I was especially pleased when Tony Leader asked me to do tonight's story. 27:32.000 --> 27:36.000 That's because I feel strongly about the kind of thing that happened to Harry Graham. 27:36.000 --> 27:44.000 I believe that any person who gets behind the wheel of a car assumes a great responsibility to himself, to his family, to his fellow men. 27:44.000 --> 27:50.000 That one moment of carelessness or recklessness or drunkenness can mean a lifetime of pain and misery for someone. 27:50.000 --> 27:53.000 And it might be you or me. 27:53.000 --> 27:58.000 Yes, when you're driving an automobile, we are our brother's keeper. 27:58.000 --> 28:01.000 Over the holiday season and all the time. 28:01.000 --> 28:03.000 Drive carefully. 28:03.000 --> 28:09.000 Next week on radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Herbert Marshall will appear in a story with a Christmas atmosphere. 28:09.000 --> 28:15.000 Another study in suspense. 28:15.000 --> 28:21.000 James Cagney is now appearing in the photo play of William Saroyan's prize stage hit, The Time of Your Life. 28:21.000 --> 28:30.000 Copies of tonight's suspense play, No Escape by Larry Marcus, will be available for educational use by groups interested in highway safety. 28:30.000 --> 28:36.000 They may be obtained by writing Suspense, the Columbia Broadcasting System, Hollywood, California. 28:36.000 --> 28:40.000 Music was composed by Lucian Morrowak and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:40.000 --> 28:44.000 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. 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