1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,160 And now, Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present... 2 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:14,160 Suspense! 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:26,080 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Mr. Robert Montgomery in... 4 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:37,240 The Thing in the Window, a suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Lieder. 5 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,360 Auto Light has been getting letter after letter from car owners who have switched from narrow 6 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,680 gap spark plugs to wide gap Auto Light resistor spark plugs. 7 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,400 And they all agree that wide gap Auto Light resistor spark plugs make their cars idle 8 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:54,720 smoother, give better performance with leaner gas mixtures, actually save gas dollars. 9 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,480 And here's another amazing fact, these folks noticed that wide gap Auto Light resistor 10 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:03,960 spark plugs actually cut down spark plug interference with radio and television reception. 11 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:08,720 So friends, head for your nearest Auto Light dealer to replace your narrow gap spark plugs 12 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,720 with wide gap Auto Light resistor spark plugs. 13 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:16,320 You and your engine will be mighty happy that you did. 14 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:23,880 And now, Auto Light presents Robert Montgomery in a tale well calculated to keep you in... 15 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:24,880 Mary. 16 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:25,880 Yes, Mr. Raines. 17 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:37,240 Turn that vacuum cleaner off for a minute, will you, and come over here. 18 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,320 I want to show you something. 19 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:41,440 Yes, sir. 20 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,440 Right here, out this window. 21 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,600 Now look across the street, directly across the opposite apartment. 22 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,760 See that window, about three windows in from the left, with kind of blue draperies. 23 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,600 There's something sitting there in a chair. 24 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:55,600 Someone. 25 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,240 He hasn't moved all night. 26 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:58,520 I think he must be dead. 27 00:01:58,520 --> 00:01:59,520 Dead? 28 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:00,960 Oh, Lord have mercy, Mr. Raines. 29 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,320 Take a good look at him and tell me what you think, Mary. 30 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,520 Okay, but I don't favor looking at no corpses, Mr. Raines. 31 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:07,520 It's unlucky. 32 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,320 Now, which window did you say sir'd one over? 33 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:11,800 I wish to have my glasses with me. 34 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,600 No, no, no, over there, over there, where my finger is pointing. 35 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,360 I'm afraid to don't see it yet, Mr. Raines. 36 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:18,360 Oh, no, no, look, look. 37 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,480 The window with the blue draperies, he's wearing a sort of gray suit. 38 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:22,480 The arm. 39 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,600 Can't you see the arm hanging down over the side of the chair? 40 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,400 No, but you've got good eyes, Mr. Raines. 41 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,600 If you see it, I'm not arguing with you. 42 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,080 What you gonna do about it, Mr. Raines? 43 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:33,540 Well, I don't know. 44 00:02:33,540 --> 00:02:36,280 I just began to notice it last night. 45 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:42,520 I guess I first have to find out if the man is really dead. 46 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:51,960 Yeah? 47 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:57,000 Hello, I'm Martin Ames. 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,240 Are you the superintendent of this apartment house? 49 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:00,480 That's what it says on the door. 50 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,200 I've come to inquire about one of your tenants. 51 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:04,200 What is it you want to know? 52 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,440 Well, I live across the street and, well, I'll be frank with you, sir. 53 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:11,400 I've been looking out my window across to this building now for two and a half days, 54 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,040 and there seems to be someone dead in one of the windows. 55 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:16,560 Yeah? 56 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:17,560 Which window? 57 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:18,560 Well, it's on the 10th floor. 58 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,760 I've counted up from the street and it's 10 stories up. 59 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,800 There's the window with blue draperies about three windows in from the left, facing toward 60 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,120 me that is, and there's a man sitting there slumped down in a chair. 61 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,120 Just a minute. 62 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:31,120 I'll get out my chart. 63 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,440 10th floor up from the street. 64 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:34,440 That's the 9th floor. 65 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:35,440 The lobby counts one. 66 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,280 We got three apartments there along the front of the house. 67 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:38,400 It's in the front. 68 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:39,400 That's right. 69 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,440 Well, three windows in from the left, that'd be 9B, a four room now. 70 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:43,440 It couldn't be right. 71 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,080 9B is two ladies, and you say this is a man? 72 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,080 Yes, yes. 73 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:48,080 Young or old? 74 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:49,080 Well, I can't tell. 75 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:50,080 The face isn't clearly visible. 76 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:54,080 The head's slumped forward, but he's wearing a gray suit and he's sitting in a high winged 77 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:55,080 back chair. 78 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:56,080 Don't place him. 79 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:57,360 Well, maybe he doesn't belong in the house. 80 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:58,360 Maybe he was visiting somebody. 81 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,440 As I say, this is all conjecture, of course. 82 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,840 He may not be dead, but I've watched him a good deal. 83 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:04,160 I'm home a lot in the daytime. 84 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:08,360 My profession, the stage, you know, doesn't take up too much of my time and it looks mighty 85 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:09,360 suspicious. 86 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,120 Okay, I'll check it. 87 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:12,120 You mind if I stay around? 88 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:13,120 No, no, no, no, no. 89 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,120 Sit down. 90 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,920 I'll give 9B a ring first on the house phone. 91 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:19,920 Hello? 92 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,920 Miss Landis? 93 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,400 Yes, this is Miss Landis. 94 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:26,400 Who is this? 95 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,120 This is Mr. Anson, the super. 96 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,120 Everything all right up there, Miss Landis? 97 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:30,120 Everything all right? 98 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:31,120 Yes, yes, of course. 99 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,120 Okay, Miss Landis, thank you very much. 100 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,120 Thank you. 101 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,120 Well, that's that. 102 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:37,120 No surprise. 103 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,400 Well, that's that, no soap on 9B. 104 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:41,800 9A is in the country. 105 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:42,800 9C isn't home. 106 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,600 I just saw her go out. 107 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,560 I'll go up there a little later and take a look around. 108 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,280 Well, what about this 9A, the people in the country? 109 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:51,960 Well, maybe they're an old couple. 110 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,680 He could have come back and had a heart attack up there by himself. 111 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:55,680 Or maybe somebody else. 112 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,320 Some other person could have been using the apartment while they were away. 113 00:04:58,320 --> 00:04:59,320 Maybe. 114 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:00,320 I'll take a look in anyway. 115 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,560 Only if I got the window straight, like you said, it ought to be 9B. 116 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,840 Oh, the two single ladies? 117 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:08,080 Yeah, only it couldn't be them. 118 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:09,240 They're real old maids. 119 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,440 Say, if they knew you thought there was a man in that apartment, the two of them would 120 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,400 just about jump out of their skins. 121 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,040 Well, I don't know what to say if you're sure it must be that apartment. 122 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,440 Oh, yeah, yeah, that's the place. 123 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,240 But you probably just made a little mistake. 124 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,040 You know how your eyes can play tricks on you? 125 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,480 After all, it is quite a wide street. 126 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:37,200 Oh, I don't think I made any mistake. 127 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:42,120 Hanson speaking. 128 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,720 Oh, hello, Mr. Hanson. 129 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:46,720 This is Mr. Ame. 130 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:47,720 Again? 131 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:48,720 It's not there. 132 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:49,720 But Mr. Hanson... 133 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:51,520 I checked up on the three apartments this morning. 134 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,200 No dead bodies in the whole place. 135 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:54,200 But I can see it. 136 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:55,200 It's still there. 137 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,200 OK. 138 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:57,200 Just where? 139 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:58,200 Just tell me where. 140 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,080 In that same window, the one you said was 9B. 141 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:02,080 Have you gone inside 9B? 142 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,640 No, but I asked them if anybody was sick or dead and they said no. 143 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:06,960 You asked them? 144 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:07,960 Why don't you search the apartment? 145 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:08,960 Me? 146 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:09,960 You mean break in? 147 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:10,960 No, no, no. 148 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:11,960 Just ring the bell and walk in and do it. 149 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:12,960 Yeah? 150 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:13,960 Not without a search warrant from the police. 151 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:14,960 These apartments, you know, don't belong to me. 152 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:15,960 I just take care of the building for the company. 153 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:16,960 Well, then let's call the police. 154 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:17,960 Not me, mister. 155 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:18,960 I didn't see no dead body up there. 156 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:19,960 Then I will. 157 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:36,960 After all, somebody's got to do something. 158 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,080 I still maintain office of these two sisters. 159 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,320 They're as refined ladies as you could find anywhere. 160 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:42,920 High class church going ladies. 161 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:44,960 They used to teach school up here at P.S. 13. 162 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:46,920 Yeah, yeah, they don't mean a thing. 163 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:47,920 And they got a dog in there. 164 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,600 Now, will you tell me one dog that would stay for almost a week in a flat with a dead person? 165 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:52,920 I am not telling you nothing. 166 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,880 All I know this gentleman, Mr. Ames, reported a stiff over here. 167 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,560 And if he says there is one, there is. 168 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:58,560 Until it's proved different. 169 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:59,560 Right, Mr. Ames? 170 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,960 Well, I keep seeing the thing day in and day out. 171 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,080 I'm not working at the moment and being home so much. 172 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,760 None of the other neighbors have complained. 173 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:06,760 Dead bodies ain't exactly... 174 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:07,760 Okay. 175 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:08,760 Right this way, please. 176 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:09,760 I hope they're home. 177 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,920 Well, if they ain't home, you got a passkey, haven't you? 178 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,680 Yeah, but we're not supposed to use it, though, unless for an emergency. 179 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:17,680 This is an emergency. 180 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,880 Will the dog bite? 181 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:20,880 Sometimes. 182 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:21,880 Quiet, baby, quiet. 183 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:22,880 Yes? 184 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:23,880 Who is it? 185 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:24,880 I... 186 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,960 I'm awful sorry, Miss Landis, but there's been some kind of a mix-up. 187 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:30,560 These two gentlemen want to look over your apartment. 188 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:31,560 But why? 189 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:32,800 It's not for rent. 190 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:33,800 I know. 191 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:34,800 Come on, come on. 192 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:35,800 Cut out the blabber. 193 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,880 Look, lady, a dead body's been reported sitting in one of your windows. 194 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:39,880 What? 195 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:40,880 Yeah, yeah. 196 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,640 This guy lives across the street and he's been seeing it over here for a week. 197 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:44,640 So come on now, open up. 198 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:45,640 Dead body? 199 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:46,640 But that's impossible. 200 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,080 My sister and I live here all alone. 201 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,080 Yeah, yeah, we know all about it. 202 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:52,080 Excuse me a minute. 203 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:53,080 I'll call my sister. 204 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:54,080 Vivian! 205 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:55,080 Vivian! 206 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:56,080 Come on! 207 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,080 Vivian! 208 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:58,080 It's the police! 209 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,720 Look, lady, I'm not standing here all day. 210 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:02,200 Hanson, give me the passkey. 211 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:03,200 It won't do no good. 212 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:04,200 They got a chain on the door from the inside. 213 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:05,200 Open up in the name of the law! 214 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:06,200 How do you do? 215 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:07,200 I'm Vivian Landis. 216 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:14,200 May I ask what this is all about, please? 217 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,000 Certainly, lady, I got a search warrant here and complained to this gentleman. 218 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,200 He says you got a dead body in there. 219 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:20,840 A dead body? 220 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:22,440 Why that's perfectly ridiculous. 221 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:24,360 Yeah, isn't it? 222 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,520 But it's been reported and kindly take that door off the chain and let us through. 223 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:29,760 Of course. 224 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:35,200 But first, may I ask, how did this peeping Tom see into our apartment? 225 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,040 I thought, Mr. Hanson, that we were quite private. 226 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,320 He lives across the street on the same level. 227 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:45,240 Oh, well, then we shall have to keep our shades down in the future. 228 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:50,480 Although one would think a grown man would have something better to do. 229 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,840 But do come in, gentlemen. 230 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:55,840 Make yourselves right at home. 231 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:56,840 Thanks. 232 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,000 Is he coming in here, too, Mr. Busybody? 233 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,440 No, he doesn't have to if you don't want him to. 234 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:02,920 Well, I most definitely don't. 235 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:04,960 OK, Mr. Ames, you better stay outside. 236 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:05,960 Yes, but, officer... 237 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,800 Oh, he does want to poke around in our private rooms. 238 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,280 Is that it? 239 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,040 Maybe he had some ulterior motive in worming his way in. 240 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,760 Maybe he's come to get the lay of the land so he can break in someday to rob us. 241 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:20,880 OK, OK, he's not coming in. 242 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,680 Now, let's take a look at your window, lady. 243 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:26,680 Ames. 244 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:28,680 Yes, officer? 245 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:36,000 What's the big idea? 246 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 You didn't find it? 247 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,000 No. 248 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,000 That's very strange. 249 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Yeah? 250 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,920 The only thing strange about it is your eyesight. 251 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:42,920 You ought to get your glasses changed. 252 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:44,520 There wasn't anything in 9B? 253 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:45,520 No. 254 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:46,520 I don't understand it. 255 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,120 How could I have seen it so distinctly and it not there? 256 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,280 But perhaps it... perhaps it isn't in the window now. 257 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,880 Perhaps they hid it while we were waiting outside that door. 258 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:55,880 Hid it? 259 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:57,760 Now, where does one hide a dead body in a four-room flat? 260 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,360 I looked in all the clothes closets, under the sofas, in the chest. 261 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,400 Well, perhaps they got it out with some help. 262 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:04,400 What about that fellow Anson? 263 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,000 He acted so nervous and subservient. 264 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,280 Maybe, but I doubt it. 265 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,000 Anson's been running this house a long time and he's a family man. 266 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,480 It'd be taking an awful chance. 267 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:12,480 I see. 268 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:16,600 Well, you probably think that... you know, it's so terrible to keep seeing it and seeing 269 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:19,520 it, feeling that it's slowly decaying in there in secret. 270 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:20,960 Why the thing could be there for weeks. 271 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,340 It's so high above the street and it only seems to be visible from my apartment. 272 00:10:24,340 --> 00:10:27,320 Do you think if you investigated those two women... 273 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:28,320 Investigated them? 274 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:29,320 How? 275 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:30,320 I searched their flat. 276 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:31,640 I mean, their whereabouts for the last couple of weeks, their backgrounds. 277 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:32,640 Perhaps if you had them followed... 278 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:33,640 By what right? 279 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,240 On the grounds that you say you saw a dead man in the window? 280 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,400 There ain't no legal corpus delicti. 281 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:39,840 And don't you think so, my friend? 282 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:40,840 I know, I know. 283 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,040 That's the awful part of it for me. 284 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:46,480 Legally, my hands are tied until the actual body is found, but perhaps it'll never be 285 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:47,640 found. 286 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:49,040 Perhaps it's already being destroyed. 287 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,120 Well then, if it's gone, what have you got to worry about? 288 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:52,840 You won't have to sit and look at it no more. 289 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:53,840 No. 290 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:54,840 No, I hope it is. 291 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:55,840 I... 292 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:56,840 I tell you, it's really getting me down. 293 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,480 I haven't slept for nights keeping vigil. 294 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,400 I'm in a nervous state and I haven't been this nervous in years. 295 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,720 Yeah, I can see that. 296 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,160 Well, why don't you try forgetting it for a while? 297 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,520 Try not to look over into that window or go away for a change. 298 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,240 You've done what you could, Mr. Ames. 299 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,480 If there is a stiff over there, well, that's my business, ain't it? 300 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:14,480 And if there isn't... 301 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,880 You mean... you think I'm... 302 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:17,880 I may be... 303 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:22,400 I am not saying nothing, Mr. Ames, but if I was you, I'd try catching up on my night's 304 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:23,400 sleep. 305 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:41,440 Hello? 306 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:46,400 Miss Landis, I'm sorry to disturb you at this time of night, but I really... 307 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:47,560 I'm desperate. 308 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:49,040 I haven't anywhere else to turn. 309 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:50,040 What? 310 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:51,040 Who is this? 311 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,400 Mr. Ames, Martin Ames, your neighbor, the one across the street. 312 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:55,400 Oh. 313 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,240 Now, please don't think me a pest, Miss Landis. 314 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:58,520 I didn't mean to annoy you. 315 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,480 It was only because I was so desperate that I initiated this search. 316 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:02,480 It's quite all right. 317 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,480 Goodbye. 318 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:04,480 No, no, no, no, no. 319 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,080 Now, please don't hang up because it's worse now than it ever was. 320 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:13,040 Miss Landis, I've been sitting here opposite your apartment, staring into your windows, 321 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,440 and I'm only asking you to help me, Miss Landis. 322 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:17,440 Help me just a little. 323 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:18,440 Help you? 324 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:20,440 It's still there, Miss Landis. 325 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:21,440 It is. 326 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,000 What is still there? 327 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,880 The dead body in your window. 328 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:25,880 But there isn't. 329 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:28,600 How dare you, when the police... 330 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,360 I know, I know, I know. 331 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,420 Now it hasn't anything to do with you. 332 00:12:32,420 --> 00:12:34,920 But would you do me just one favor, Miss Landis? 333 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,080 Would you go into your living room and check just once more? 334 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:39,080 I won't. 335 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:40,080 I'll do nothing of the kind. 336 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:41,080 You're out of your mind. 337 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,120 Perhaps I am, Miss Landis. 338 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,600 That's what I'm trying to find out. 339 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:49,160 And anyway, I don't see how you can see, and I pulled the shades down in there yesterday 340 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:50,160 morning. 341 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:51,160 They're all down still. 342 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,560 And how can you see? 343 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:54,560 I can't. 344 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:56,120 At least not the actual body. 345 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:57,920 It's just the silhouette. 346 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,320 I'm not maligning you or your sister, Miss Landis. 347 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:04,060 If there's someone dead in there, it's not you who are doing it, but think of me. 348 00:13:04,060 --> 00:13:08,160 If you could just be here and look over and see the shadow of those quiet fingers and 349 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:09,440 that shoulder and that head. 350 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:10,440 Oh, please, stop it. 351 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:11,440 Stop it. 352 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:12,440 It's not here. 353 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:13,440 It isn't. 354 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,880 Tell me just one thing, Miss Landis. 355 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,440 There is a chair by that window, though, isn't there? 356 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:19,800 Yes, yes, there's a chair. 357 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,920 A high-backed winged chair. 358 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:22,920 Yes. 359 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,400 And have you anything on it? 360 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,680 Anything piled up, I mean, like curtains or cushions or a dressmaker's dummy? 361 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:29,360 Oh, of course not. 362 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,160 Then would you do me just one more favor, Miss Landis, please? 363 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:38,240 As an experiment, would you just go into the living room and move that chair away from 364 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:39,240 that window? 365 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:43,440 If I do it, will you stop pestering us? 366 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,000 Will you let us alone forever? 367 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Yes, yes, if it works. 368 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000 If it... 369 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000 What do you mean? 370 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Do you mean that... 371 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,000 I can't tell you, Miss Landis, until you move the chair. 372 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Oh, all right. 373 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,000 I moved it away from the window. 374 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000 It's at the other end of the room and there's nothing in it. 375 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 It's empty. 376 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 I see. 377 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Well, thank you very much, Miss Landis. 378 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 I know what I have to do now. 379 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 You mean... 380 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Yes, Miss Landis. 381 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 It's still there. 382 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:26,080 Course of the world is taught by hyung saeng when we even are announced at last. 383 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,320 Yes. 384 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:38,640 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Robert Montgomery in Radio's outstanding 385 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:44,120 theater of thrills, Suspense. 386 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:53,600 Say, Hap, what have these stars around here got that I haven't got? 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417 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:48,600 And what are the tenants of that other apartment to think? 418 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:55,160 Oh, Miss Landis. 419 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:56,160 Where is it? 420 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:57,760 I want to see it at once. 421 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,480 Yes, Miss Landis, come in. 422 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:01,120 I do hope you'll excuse my appearance. 423 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:02,840 I've just passed another sleepless night. 424 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,600 So has my sister, and so have I. 425 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,200 What do you mean by all this business, Mr. Ames? 426 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:12,960 You frighten my poor sister nearly to death, seeing things that aren't there when you know 427 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:13,960 they're not. 428 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:14,960 I know they're not. 429 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:16,200 I wish they weren't. 430 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,200 I wish to heaven I'd never looked out that window. 431 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:22,680 I wish these walls were solid stone, and your walls too. 432 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,480 You're a sick man, Mr. Ames. 433 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:25,560 Oh, am I? 434 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:26,560 I wish I were. 435 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,040 But I'm perfectly sane and well. 436 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,040 I went to a psychiatrist yesterday, and guess what he told me? 437 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,080 There's nothing wrong with me, nothing. 438 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:34,440 I can't believe that. 439 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,520 To you, I suppose it's a form of madness to persist and persist in seeing this hideous 440 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:39,520 image. 441 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:40,520 But not to me, Miss Landis. 442 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,360 I've finally come to an entirely different conclusion. 443 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:45,240 And what is that? 444 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,000 The supernatural. 445 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,000 The supernatural? 446 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 A ghost? 447 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,400 What nonsense, Mr. Ames. 448 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,040 Yes, yes, I suppose it is nonsense to you, isn't it? 449 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:55,080 You've been a schoolteacher. 450 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:59,760 You believe in logic, common sense, the things that give a pretense of solidity to this frail 451 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:01,660 little life of ours. 452 00:18:01,660 --> 00:18:02,920 But I'm an artist. 453 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:08,200 I've always had a feeling for the thing beyond, the intangible, the shadowy. 454 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:13,720 And sometimes out of the shadows we glimpse the yawning fangs of the eternal. 455 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:18,380 You put things rather oddly, Mr. Ames. 456 00:18:18,380 --> 00:18:20,360 Just exactly what do you mean? 457 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:21,360 Simply this. 458 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:24,640 I checked on that building with the real estate agents yesterday afternoon after I'd left 459 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,120 my psychiatrist, and there was a murder. 460 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:29,120 In our apartment? 461 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:30,120 The report didn't say. 462 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:33,440 You know how they try to hush these things up, but it was a man, a young man, the lover 463 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,200 of one of the tenants, a Miss Sweetser. 464 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:36,200 Sweetser? 465 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,320 Why, that's the name of the people who lived there before us. 466 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,720 But they were an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Sweetser. 467 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,600 I never saw any Miss Sweetser. 468 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:45,600 She died. 469 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:46,600 She was the daughter. 470 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,040 She killed herself afterwards by jumping out one of the windows. 471 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,080 Oh, how perfectly awful. 472 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,680 It's rather a ghastly coincidence, isn't it? 473 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,000 Was it out of our window? 474 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,960 Who knows? 475 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,200 She must have been a very neurotic person, though, this Miss Sweetser. 476 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,080 Half crazed almost with love or jealousy. 477 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,580 I checked on the details in an old newspaper. 478 00:19:05,580 --> 00:19:08,900 She cut his throat, nearly decapitated him, and it said that when they lifted his body 479 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:09,900 out of the chair later... 480 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:10,900 Oh, excuse me, Mr. Ames. 481 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:13,520 I'd rather not hear. 482 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:22,040 I still can't believe... if there is something, if there could possibly be something. 483 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,520 Why haven't we seen it, too? 484 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,320 Why should you? 485 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,280 Haven't you seen it, Miss Landis? 486 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:30,280 No. 487 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:31,280 You're sure? 488 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:32,280 Never? 489 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:36,040 Perhaps in the middle of the night, getting up and passing that room, seeing that chair 490 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:37,960 outlined against the window. 491 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:39,400 Just in passing, perhaps? 492 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:40,400 You've never had a glimpse? 493 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:41,400 No. 494 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:42,400 I really must be going. 495 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:43,400 No, no, no, no. 496 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:44,400 Please stay and look at it. 497 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,600 I want you to see it out of my window. 498 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:48,680 My sister Elaine, she's so nervous. 499 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,000 I just can't leave her alone so long. 500 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,960 But then how will I know, Miss Landis? 501 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:54,120 I thought you came here especially. 502 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,000 It'll only take a minute. 503 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,760 It's right here in this bedroom. 504 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,040 I just have to let up the Venetian blind. 505 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,040 Miss Landis! 506 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:03,040 Miss Landis. 507 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:04,040 Hello. 508 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:25,400 Sergeant, this is Ames, Martin Ames. 509 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,320 I just called to let you know that I think you're right about that good night's sleep. 510 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:33,880 Yes, yes, I'm going away tomorrow for a long rest, shutting up my apartment. 511 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:35,560 Yes, I'm all tied up in knots. 512 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,080 I don't know what to think. 513 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,800 Oh, oh, they did. 514 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:45,080 Yes, I saw the moving van in front of the house, but I didn't know it was those sisters. 515 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:46,920 Couldn't take it, eh? 516 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:55,840 Well, I can't take it much longer myself. 517 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:07,520 Well, Marty, bravo, bravissimo, old boy. 518 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:08,520 Not so loud. 519 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:09,760 Why all the mystery? 520 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,320 The superintendent here doesn't like me. 521 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,920 I should think he would not like you grabbing this beautiful apartment right from under 522 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:17,920 his nose. 523 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,440 He probably had a promise to a friend. 524 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,400 But you've got it now, Ronald, just as I said. 525 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,600 So I have a voice, so I have. 526 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:24,600 And it's beautiful. 527 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:25,600 I'm crazy about it. 528 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:26,600 You've outdone yourself. 529 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:27,960 You've been more than generous. 530 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:28,960 Nothing of it, Ronald. 531 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,000 I'm glad to do it for such a distinguished colleague. 532 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,400 It certainly was nice of you. 533 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,320 And I wish I could do something in return, Marty. 534 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:36,320 I really do. 535 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:41,080 Perhaps that play I'm doing next season, there's a part in it, a very small part, but very 536 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:42,080 necessary. 537 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,080 I'm doing pretty well just now, Ronald. 538 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,680 Do you like the place, Ronald? 539 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:49,680 Like it? 540 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,600 Look at that living room, those gorgeous casement windows. 541 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,160 It's like a stage. 542 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:55,160 And what a place for parties. 543 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,320 I don't know how you found it, Marty, in this housing shortage. 544 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,280 You must have a sweetheart in the real estate business. 545 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:01,280 Oh, I manage. 546 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,880 Why, when your call came, I wouldn't trust this to anyone but myself. 547 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,600 I left the whole cast just standing there on the stage while I came over. 548 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,080 Tell me, how did you do it? 549 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,520 Oh, it's rather a long story. 550 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:13,800 Let's sit down, shall we? 551 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,200 Here, in the living room. 552 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:16,600 No, no, no, no, no. 553 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,600 You take the chair. 554 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,120 I guess they must have left it when they moved out. 555 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:27,880 Well, to be frank, Ronald, I got this apartment by a ruse. 556 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,200 A ruse? 557 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:30,200 What kind of a ruse? 558 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:31,200 Oh, it was a nasty one, all right. 559 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,160 I frightened the last tenants away. 560 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,280 I told them I saw a dead man sitting here in this window. 561 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,280 Oh, no, not really. 562 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:40,280 How clever of you. 563 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,720 But of course, there was. 564 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,880 No, no, of course not. 565 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,600 I made him up out of whole cloth. 566 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,720 You see, I live across the street, directly across, in that apartment with the striped 567 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:49,720 curtains. 568 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:50,720 Oh. 569 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:51,720 They were very scary women. 570 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,320 I used to watch them from my own place, always going to bed early, always pulling down the 571 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:56,320 shades at night. 572 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,760 I know the talk. 573 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:04,120 Then there was this chair by the window, that very one that you're sitting in now. 574 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:05,120 Really? 575 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:08,160 One night, just sitting there late, I got an amusing thought. 576 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,520 There was a kind of shadow across the chair that night, reminded me a little bit of a 577 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:12,760 corpse. 578 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,560 It came to me that it might be fun to create a part, a character, a corpse that wasn't 579 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:18,560 there. 580 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:19,560 I don't follow you quite. 581 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,880 Some actors need a play, Ronald, to create a role. 582 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,080 Others, the great ones, work out their own dramas. 583 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:26,960 I proceeded to invent a part for myself. 584 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,680 I was the eyewitness, the innocent bystander across the street who saw the corpse in here. 585 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,520 I kept seeing it and seeing it, and finally, by the power of suggestion, it became real 586 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,160 enough to frighten them away. 587 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,440 It's very clever, but rather drastic. 588 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:41,720 Not at all. 589 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:42,720 Prove my point, didn't it? 590 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:43,720 Oh, yes. 591 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:44,720 And it got you the apartment. 592 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,200 Well, really, that was very kind. 593 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,000 I've always hoped we'd be neighbors, Ronald. 594 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,600 As a matter of fact, the whole idea for this thing came to me on that day last May when 595 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,760 you turned me down for that part outside of Sardis. 596 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:55,760 Do you remember? 597 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,760 You said you were looking for a place then. 598 00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:58,760 Did I? 599 00:23:58,760 --> 00:23:59,760 Oh, yes. 600 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:04,080 It was then that I first thought how nice it would be to see you, right across the street, 601 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,760 sitting in this window. 602 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,260 I simply had to bring it about. 603 00:24:08,260 --> 00:24:10,280 That was the night I went to work on the thing in earnest. 604 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,420 No, no, no, Ronald. 605 00:24:11,420 --> 00:24:12,420 Don't get up. 606 00:24:12,420 --> 00:24:13,420 I'm not through. 607 00:24:13,420 --> 00:24:14,420 Oh, really, old boy? 608 00:24:14,420 --> 00:24:15,420 I'm afraid the gang is at the theater. 609 00:24:15,420 --> 00:24:16,760 They don't even know I'm here. 610 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:17,760 They'll wait. 611 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,080 People always wait for you, don't they, Ronald? 612 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,960 I could call them for you, of course, but the phone's been disconnected. 613 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:23,960 I'm afraid. 614 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:24,960 Which way is the door, old boy? 615 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,600 Really, Marty, it's been very kind of you. 616 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:27,600 What's the matter? 617 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:28,600 Don't you like the apartment? 618 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,040 Aren't you going to take it after all my work? 619 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,040 Oh, yes, yes. 620 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:32,040 I like it very much. 621 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,040 I... 622 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,040 The door's locked. 623 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:40,280 Yes, Ronald. 624 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,320 I'm afraid you'll have to find your way out. 625 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:56,120 That'll keep you quieter. 626 00:24:56,120 --> 00:25:02,400 Silence always became you better than all that ranting and glibness and charm, Ronald. 627 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:11,240 And now I've got the part for you, a part to end all parts. 628 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:16,680 You play it, of course, entirely in a chair. 629 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:22,040 There isn't much action, not a line to say. 630 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,340 You just sit, Ronald. 631 00:25:24,340 --> 00:25:31,960 You sit in this chair by the window. 632 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,520 It'll be the greatest performance of your career. 633 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,720 You like to hog all the fattest roles for yourself, didn't you? 634 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:44,440 Well, this is a part that's been talked about up and down this street for weeks. 635 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:50,240 You'll play the part of a ghost, of a corpse that never was, and hallucination in my brain. 636 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:51,400 And who'll be your audience? 637 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:52,400 I will. 638 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,800 I, the insignificant outmoded ham who wasn't fit to appear in your precious plays, but 639 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,200 good enough to put you here. 640 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:07,880 Who's the better actor now, Ronald? 641 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,240 Goodbye, Ronald. 642 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:15,880 No one will see me go out, but I'll see you across the street. 643 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:21,800 Okay, Miss Landis, I got the passkey right here. 644 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,680 That's so kind of you, Mr. Anson. 645 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:29,000 Personally, I begged her to leave the old thing here and had you throw it out, but Elaine 646 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,000 listened. 647 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,400 It's Mr. Ames. 648 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:33,400 Ames. 649 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,960 Yes, yes, I was just going. 650 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:41,720 I couldn't resist coming up and making one final check just for myself. 651 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:46,040 The door seemed to be open and I, anyway, the illusions quite vanished. 652 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,360 Quite. 653 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:48,360 There's nothing there. 654 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:50,400 Really, Mr. Ames? 655 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:51,400 That's good. 656 00:26:51,400 --> 00:27:07,120 All right, Mr. Anson, will you ask the moving men to go in there now and take away the chair? 657 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:09,560 Thank you, Robert Montgomery, for a splendid performance. 658 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,040 Say a half before we hear from Robert Montgomery again. 659 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,440 Did I ever tell you that thousands of car and truck owners from coast to coast have 660 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,480 switched to auto light resistor spark plugs? 661 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:18,480 Without a doubt, huh? 662 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,160 They know that wide gap auto light resistor spark plugs make cars idle smoother, give 663 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,400 better performance with leaner gas mixtures, actually save gas dollars. 664 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,080 And they also know that auto light makes more than 400 automotive, aviation, and marine 665 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,080 products in 28 plants from coast to coast. 666 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,040 So switch to auto light because only auto light offers car and truck owners everywhere 667 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,360 the sensational advantages of resistor type spark plugs. 668 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:42,480 You're right with auto light. 669 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,200 Remember, auto light means spark plug. 670 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,760 Ignition engineered resistor spark plug. 671 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,080 Auto light means batteries. 672 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,760 Stay full battery. 673 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,320 Auto light means ignition system. 674 00:27:52,320 --> 00:28:00,720 The lifeline of your car. 675 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,480 And now here again is Mr. Robert Montgomery. 676 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,520 It has been a great pleasure to return to suspense. 677 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,840 And I wish to thank the splendid cast which Tony Leader assembled for tonight's performance. 678 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:16,220 Two, I want to call your attention to the very unusual program planned for next week. 679 00:28:16,220 --> 00:28:21,400 And radio's outstanding theater of thrills will bring you Jim and Marion Jordan, Fibber 680 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:27,560 McGee and Molly, and a special story called Backseat Driver, another gripping story in 681 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:31,480 suspense. 682 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,440 Robert Montgomery may currently be seen in the Warner Brothers picture, June Bride. 683 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,800 Tonight's suspense play was written by Lucille Fletcher. 684 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,200 Music was composed by Lucien Morrowek and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 685 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,160 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Leader. 686 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,120 Every Thursday, hear Fibber McGee and Molly in Backseat Driver. 687 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:55,200 This is the auto light suspense show. 688 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,480 Remember you're right with auto light. 689 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,160 So switch to auto light. 690 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,600 Thousands of polio victims need your help. 691 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,080 Join the march of dimes today. 692 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:17,280 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.