1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,740 And now, Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present... 2 00:00:16,740 --> 00:00:19,740 Suspense! 3 00:00:19,740 --> 00:00:32,280 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Miss Joan Fontaine in Lovebirds, a suspense play produced and 4 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:39,000 directed by Anton M. Lieder. 5 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:44,760 Friends replace old narrow gap spark plugs with wide gap Auto Light resistor spark plugs. 6 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,840 Your car will idle smoother, give you better performance on leaner gas mixtures, actually 7 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:50,600 save gas dollars. 8 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:51,600 It's the new thing. 9 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:56,320 Yes, sirree, friends, Auto Light regular type spark plugs have long been standard factory 10 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,160 equipment on many leading makes of cars and trucks. 11 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:03,080 And now six, that's right, six of these leading makes of cars and trucks have switched to 12 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:08,320 the new Auto Light resistor type spark plugs for factory installation on their new 1949 13 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:09,320 models. 14 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:14,560 The new Auto Light resistor spark plugs are the spark plugs of today and the future. 15 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:18,440 Remember, you're right with Auto Light. 16 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:30,540 And now, Auto Light presents Miss Joan Fontaine in a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 17 00:01:30,540 --> 00:01:36,360 You know, Sam, I used to laugh just as everyone else does when I heard someone say, I've given 18 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,760 you the best years of my life. 19 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,400 But it's not funny to me anymore. 20 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,760 No because that's what I've done, Sam. 21 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:50,720 I've given you the best years of my life, waiting for you to die, but you wouldn't die. 22 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,240 For seven years you've been hanging on and I've been playing a part, playing it so well 23 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,760 that people call us the lovebirds. 24 00:01:58,760 --> 00:01:59,760 Lovebirds. 25 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,820 Now, here it is, our seventh anniversary. 26 00:02:04,820 --> 00:02:09,080 You wanted to show off that portrait you had painted of me to Doug and Betty Wilson and 27 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:10,440 Doc Roberts and the others. 28 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,560 You were proud, they were envious. 29 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,160 I was sick. 30 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,920 Yep, that's Martha all right, right down to the last eyelash. 31 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:18,920 Like it, Doc? 32 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:21,080 Perfect, Sam, just perfect. 33 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,560 The perfect portrait of the perfect girl. 34 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,560 Well, it's after midnight and I'm a nine o'clock guy. 35 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,080 Yeah, I've got to shove off too. 36 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,000 How's the asthma these days, Sam? 37 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,240 Oh, seems to be getting better, Doug, but my arthritis. 38 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:36,240 Don't blame you, Sam. 39 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,000 If I had Martha to look out for me, I'd stay sick too. 40 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Oh, no. 41 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Here's your coat, Doc. 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Oh, thanks, Martha. 43 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 No, Doug, where did I... 44 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,000 The hall closet, I'll get it. 45 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Oh, get mine too, darling. 46 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Coming up. 47 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Oh, it was a lovely party, Martha. 48 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Thank you. 49 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,840 And let me tell you, Mrs. Lovebird, if you keep on taking the kind of care of old Sam 50 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,600 you have been, we'll all be here for number 50. 51 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,000 Oh, go on, Doc. 52 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,040 I'm serious. 53 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,480 When you two first got hitched, I wouldn't give you two years, Sam. 54 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,040 Now I'd give even money you make... 55 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,040 Oh, it's nothing, Doug. 56 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:07,040 Here, I'll put it away. 57 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,480 Darn, box fell off the shelf when I reached for my hat. 58 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:10,480 Here, let me put it away. 59 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:11,480 No, Doug, please, it's nothing, Doc. 60 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:12,480 It's not. 61 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:13,480 You fellas keeping secrets? 62 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:14,480 What's the trouble, Doug? 63 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,760 Oh, looky here, travel folders, a whole box full of them. 64 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:24,000 Alluring Alaska, Acapulco, 30-day cruise, Sam Maritz, Capri. 65 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,480 Say, what is this? 66 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,240 Come on, Sam, spill it. 67 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,440 You two lovebirds planning to migrate somewhere? 68 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:31,440 News to me. 69 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:32,440 They're mine, Doug. 70 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:33,440 Oh. 71 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:38,000 Oh, well, Martha's kind of a pack rat. 72 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,800 Keeps all kinds of trash stowed away in strange corners. 73 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,920 You wouldn't kid us, Sam. 74 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,480 You're not really planning a trip. 75 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,080 Because it's out of the question, you know. 76 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,600 Out of the question, Doc said. 77 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,200 It sounded so final, Sam. 78 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,400 Out of the question. 79 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,960 Ran through my mind over and over after they got in, I stood washing the pile of dishes 80 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:00,960 in the kitchen. 81 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:01,960 Out of the question. 82 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,760 How are you coming with the dishes, angel? 83 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:11,040 I could feel your hand, thin and dead white, touching my shoulder and I wanted to scream. 84 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,440 What right did you to touch me? 85 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,080 Why did I have to bear your half-dead hands when I was alive? 86 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:18,080 What's the matter, honey? 87 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,840 You're kind of quiet. 88 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:22,600 I feel quiet, I guess. 89 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,520 Say, where are my glasses? 90 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:26,520 I don't know. 91 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,040 Doc, I never can remember where I put the darn things. 92 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:31,560 I'm blind as a bat without them. 93 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,360 Look in the front room on the mantle. 94 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,360 A lot of good data do. 95 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,560 I can't find my glasses without my glasses. 96 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:39,560 Take a look for me, will you? 97 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:40,880 But my hands are wet, Sam. 98 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:41,880 Can't you wait until morning? 99 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:42,880 I've got to have them now. 100 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,240 All right, but I can't see why you need them in bed. 101 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:47,880 It's these sleeping pills. 102 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,560 Jim was out of my kind and gave me these. 103 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,800 Said they were just as good, but I can't read the directions. 104 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,960 But is it that important? 105 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,440 Of course it's important. 106 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:03,480 Why, just the other day I read where a fellow in Chicago took a couple too many and bingo. 107 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:10,280 Oh, I'll see if your glasses are on the mantle, Sam. 108 00:05:10,280 --> 00:05:14,000 I leaned back against the wall for a minute, out of the question. 109 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,600 It was ringing in my head like a bell, out of the question. 110 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:23,120 Then Sam, right then, I knew I couldn't take it any longer. 111 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:29,960 I went into the living room, picked up the pair of glasses on the mantle. 112 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,000 Seven years, seven long years of caring for you like a baby. 113 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,800 One sickness after another. 114 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:35,800 Everyone in the book. 115 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,560 You nearly died a dozen times. 116 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,820 And each time I saved you. 117 00:05:39,820 --> 00:05:41,960 That's what everyone said, even the doctor. 118 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:42,960 What a joke. 119 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,760 Here I was waiting for you to die, but you wouldn't, Sam. 120 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,920 You wouldn't have the decency to die and leave me the money so I could get away from this 121 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,400 little town and live like a normal human being. 122 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:55,400 Find them, darling? 123 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:56,400 No, no, Sam. 124 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:57,400 These are my glasses. 125 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,080 Mine ought to be in here somewhere. 126 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,640 It's too late tonight to worry about them, darling. 127 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,360 Here, let me see those new pills. 128 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:07,360 Yeah, yeah. 129 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,080 Take a look. 130 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:11,080 These are different. 131 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,880 Says two percent instead of five. 132 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:16,240 Six pills instead of two. 133 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:17,240 Really? 134 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:18,960 They don't sound very good, Sam. 135 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,160 I'll try to get some of your regular kind next time I go to Chicago. 136 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:23,160 Six? 137 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:24,720 That's what it says. 138 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:25,720 Funny. 139 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,040 Jim didn't say anything about it. 140 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:28,040 Hadn't you? 141 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:29,600 Better get ready for bed. 142 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:30,600 It's nearly one. 143 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,240 In a minute, in a minute. 144 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,280 Martha, would you tell me something honestly? 145 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:38,280 Of course. 146 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:39,280 What is it? 147 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:41,960 Well, that business about the travel folders. 148 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:48,160 Oh, I suppose it's nothing, but well, somehow I can't get it out of my head. 149 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,320 What about the travel folders? 150 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:55,080 Martha, would you really like to go to those far off places? 151 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:56,080 Just you and me? 152 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:57,080 Don't be silly. 153 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:58,080 You know what Doc Roberts said. 154 00:06:58,080 --> 00:06:59,960 I didn't ask you that. 155 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:03,200 I asked you if you wanted to go with me. 156 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:07,120 It's awfully important to me now, Martha, whether you'd want to go with me. 157 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:08,120 Why worry about it? 158 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,200 You know we can't go. 159 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,080 That's why I need you worse than ever, Martha. 160 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:17,760 That's why I guess it kind of hurts me to find you collecting travel folders like you 161 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,040 wanted to get away from me. 162 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,760 Well, I guess you're right. 163 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:29,440 I'd better get up to bed. 164 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:35,400 I watched you go up the stairs, and I put the glasses back on the mantle. 165 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,200 Your glasses, Sam, not mine. 166 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:44,080 I waited a long time downstairs listening to you shuffling around in your sandals, heard 167 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:50,080 the bathroom faucet go on, and I knew you were taking your pills. 168 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,960 Six pills instead of two. 169 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:59,960 Then there was the shuffling again and quiet. 170 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:10,680 The whole clock struck one, then two. 171 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,960 Then I couldn't wait any longer. 172 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,960 I went upstairs to your room. 173 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:17,560 Sam? 174 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,600 Sam? 175 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:24,280 I turned on the light. 176 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,400 Sam, wake up. 177 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:28,400 Sam? 178 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:29,400 Sam, can you hear me? 179 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:30,400 Sam! 180 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:31,400 It's working. 181 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:32,400 It's working! 182 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:48,400 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Miss Joan Fontaine in Radio's outstanding 183 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:52,960 theatre of thrills, Suspense. 184 00:08:52,960 --> 00:09:02,920 The newspaper says smart men are now wearing pastel colored shirts for business. 185 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,760 Well, now that you mention it, Hap, I have 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and truck owners everywhere the sensational advantages 197 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:42,240 of new resistor type spark plugs. 198 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,720 So head for your nearest Auto Light dealer and replace old narrow gap spark plugs with 199 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,200 Auto Light ignition engineered resistor spark plugs. 200 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,840 Your car will be glad you did. 201 00:09:53,840 --> 00:10:01,160 And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Joan Fontaine as Martha in The 202 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:07,640 Lovebirds, a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense. 203 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:15,520 Yes, Sam, it was quite a moment there in your bedroom as I looked down at you, drugged and 204 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,560 helpless on the bed. 205 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:19,400 I shook you and you didn't even groan. 206 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:20,560 I shook harder. 207 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:22,560 I shouted in your ear and pinched you. 208 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:23,560 You didn't move. 209 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:24,560 It was wonderful. 210 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:33,840 For the first time in seven years, I could laugh and mean it. 211 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,120 I gave you plenty of time, Sam. 212 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,120 You are gone. 213 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,560 I couldn't feel your pulse when I called Doc Roberts at six in the morning. 214 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:43,240 I waited downstairs for him to break the news to me. 215 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,880 Easy now, Martha. 216 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:46,840 Just lean back and rest. 217 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:48,680 Tell me what is it, Doc? 218 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:49,680 What's wrong with him? 219 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:50,680 He's going to die, isn't he? 220 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:51,680 He's going to leave me alone. 221 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:52,680 Let down now. 222 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:53,680 Just let go. 223 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:54,680 That's it. 224 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:55,680 He wouldn't wake up, Doc. 225 00:10:55,680 --> 00:10:56,680 I shook him. 226 00:10:56,680 --> 00:10:57,680 Yes, yes, I know. 227 00:10:57,680 --> 00:10:58,680 Is he dead? 228 00:10:58,680 --> 00:10:59,680 No, he'll live, Martha. 229 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:00,680 What? 230 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:01,680 Sam will be all right. 231 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:02,680 He's sleeping now. 232 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:03,680 Probably will till late this afternoon. 233 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:04,680 But what? 234 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:05,680 Martha, I think it'll be better if I say this straight out. 235 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:06,680 Say what straight out? 236 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:07,680 Looks to me like you're going to be a little bit more careful. 237 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:08,680 I'm not going to be a little bit more careful. 238 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:09,680 I'm going to be a little bit more careful. 239 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:10,680 I'm going to be a little bit more careful. 240 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:14,960 Say what straight out? 241 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,200 Looks to me like Sam took an overdose of sleeping medicine. 242 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:18,200 No. 243 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,080 Well, he might have made a mistake in counting or... 244 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,080 Suicide? 245 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:23,080 Maybe. 246 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,080 You noticed anything strange about him lately? 247 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,080 Well, you know how he's been since his asthma started. 248 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,440 What are you going to do, Doc? 249 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,040 I'm supposed to make a report on these things. 250 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:34,040 You can't do that. 251 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,720 What if it got around town? 252 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:36,720 What if it got back to Sam? 253 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:37,720 There's no telling what he... 254 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:38,720 Ah, that's true. 255 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,200 It still might have been an accident. 256 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,440 Oh, we've got to give him the benefit of the doubt. 257 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,720 It's a touchy business though, Martha. 258 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,240 He mustn't think that we suspect it. 259 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,000 Doc, there's no telling what he'd do. 260 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,800 I'll tell him he had a fever in the night. 261 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:56,040 Maybe you're right. 262 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:01,400 You know, the body's a pretty durable thing, even a body like Sam's, but the mind, that's 263 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,120 something else again. 264 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:14,520 I'll do all I can, Martha, but the big job is yours. 265 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,680 For a second after he left, I thought I was going to faint. 266 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:20,760 I got a drink from the sideboard. 267 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,000 Made me feel better. 268 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,080 Until I remembered something else. 269 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:31,840 The doctor didn't suspect, but you, Sam, when you read the instructions on that box of pills... 270 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:40,960 I drove all the way to Chicago that morning, Sam, and I got what I wanted. 271 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,880 It wasn't quite noon when I returned to your room. 272 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:50,600 Put the new box on the stand beside your bed and threw the other in the furnace. 273 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,800 It was a long way to go, but you gave me plenty of time. 274 00:12:55,800 --> 00:13:00,400 Where have I been? 275 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:01,400 Martha! 276 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,360 Right here, Sam. 277 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,280 Oh, I feel... 278 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:06,280 I feel dopey. 279 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,360 Doc said you had a touch of fever last night. 280 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:10,360 Doc? 281 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:11,360 Mm-hmm. 282 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,200 He looked you over this morning. 283 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:14,200 What time is it? 284 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:15,200 Noon. 285 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,200 Funny. 286 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,480 I don't remember anything about it. 287 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:19,760 Hmm. 288 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:20,760 What's this? 289 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:21,760 What? 290 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:23,680 The box on the stand here. 291 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:25,000 That's not the one I bought. 292 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,880 I got rid of your new pills. 293 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,680 Picked up some of the regular kind this morning while I was shopping. 294 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:33,840 You never quit, do you? 295 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,480 What do you mean, Sam? 296 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,480 Spoiling me like this. 297 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:43,440 First thing you know, I'll be as helpless as a baby. 298 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,680 What's for lunch? 299 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:48,680 It was that easy, Sam. 300 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:50,640 You never suspected. 301 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:55,000 I was afraid of Doc Roberts at first, but he didn't say a thing. 302 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,800 And for a while there was whispers you didn't hear. 303 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,040 They were so sure you'd tried to kill yourself, Sam. 304 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,040 They were so afraid you tried a second time. 305 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,880 Then I stopped being afraid. 306 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,320 This was no time to lie back and wait. 307 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,600 They'd given me a weapon. 308 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,200 This was the time to do it. 309 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,040 Well, let's see, Martha. 310 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,600 I reckon the surest thing would be poison. 311 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:19,600 Thiosianum. 312 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,040 But isn't that sort of dangerous, Jim? 313 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:24,040 Not if you're careful. 314 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,000 How much will I need? 315 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,040 Oh, one package ought to do it. 316 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:29,960 Depends on how bad they are. 317 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:30,960 The rats. 318 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:31,960 Here. 319 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,960 There you are. 320 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:36,440 Hope it does the trick. 321 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:37,440 Thanks, Jim. 322 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:38,440 So do I. 323 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:45,480 It was going to be different this time, Sam. 324 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:46,920 This time I knew where I was going. 325 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,920 That's where I'd made the mistake before, you see. 326 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,560 I hadn't planned. 327 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,360 A week later, I was ready. 328 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:59,960 I remember you came home early that evening, and I was in the kitchen starting your dinner. 329 00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:00,960 Salad. 330 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,080 Tossed lettuce and garlic. 331 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:04,080 Plenty of garlic. 332 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:05,080 Getting dinner, Martha? 333 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,080 It's almost done. 334 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:07,080 Have it ready in a minute. 335 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:08,080 Mmm. 336 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:09,080 That roast smells good. 337 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:10,080 Better go and wash so things won't get cold. 338 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:11,080 What's that you're mixing there? 339 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:12,080 Dressing for the salad. 340 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:13,080 Oh, dressing. 341 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:14,080 You sure? 342 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:15,080 What do you mean? 343 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:16,080 I'm just making sure I don't get cold. 344 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:17,080 I'm not going to get cold. 345 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:18,080 I'm not going to get cold. 346 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:19,080 I'm not going to get cold. 347 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:20,080 I'm not going to get cold. 348 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:21,080 I'm not going to get cold. 349 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:22,080 I'm not going to get cold. 350 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:23,080 Why not? 351 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,160 It wouldn't be a love potion for me. 352 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:26,520 Would it, Martha? 353 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:30,280 Or maybe just maybe a death potion. 354 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,320 Oh dear, you've cracked the salad bowl. 355 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:35,320 What's the matter, Martha? 356 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,120 Afraid you'll fail this time too? 357 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,160 Oh, Sam, you're talking nonsense. 358 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:41,480 I don't know what you're talking about. 359 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,760 You should, Martha. 360 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:51,440 Jim tells me they haven't had my kind of sleeping pills at the drug store for a long time. 361 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,200 How far did you have to go to get them? 362 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:54,200 You're sick, Sam. 363 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,840 You're building things up in your mind. 364 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,320 I wish I were. 365 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:04,520 You see, I made a mistake this morning, Martha. 366 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:06,880 I decided to wear my white shirt, the one 367 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:08,040 with the French cuffs. 368 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:08,880 Shirt? 369 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,560 You can't wear a shirt like that without cufflinks. 370 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,440 I guess you forgot that, Martha, didn't you? 371 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:19,520 That I kept my cufflinks in your jewelry box. 372 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,080 Yes. 373 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,880 Yes, Martha, I found it. 374 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:25,200 I found the poison. 375 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,040 Oh, well, that's what's worrying you. 376 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,160 It's for the rats, Emma. 377 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,880 I bought it for the rats. 378 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,240 Rats. 379 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:34,920 Should have bought some rats, too, 380 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,360 because there aren't any around here. 381 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,400 There's a certificate from an extermination company 382 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,680 in the file that says so. 383 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,480 That's a nice looking salad, Martha. 384 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,240 Here, taste it. 385 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:48,040 Don't be a fool. 386 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,240 You're the fool. 387 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:56,520 You bought the poison for some rats that don't exist. 388 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:58,360 I ran out of the kitchen upstairs to my room. 389 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,080 I was scared, Sam, and lost. 390 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:01,800 I grabbed my coat and hat without thinking 391 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,760 and started down the stairs. 392 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:05,840 Better not go, Martha. 393 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,000 Leave me alone. 394 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,640 Do you want to hang? 395 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:10,040 Hang? 396 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:11,680 That's right, Martha. 397 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,000 Don't be ridiculous. 398 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,560 There's got to be a murder first. 399 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,120 There will be. 400 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:20,200 The minute you leave this house, remember, my dear wife, 401 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,160 I have the poison. 402 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:23,280 So? 403 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:24,280 OK. 404 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:25,680 Go on. 405 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,240 Go on and leave, Martha. 406 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,200 But just remember, when you walk out that door, 407 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,400 I'll take enough of that poison to make them hunt you down 408 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,120 from one end of the earth to the other. 409 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:43,360 I'll take enough of it to make them hang you 20 times. 410 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:45,240 If someone had put a gun in my hand, 411 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,280 I'd have killed you right there. 412 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,160 But all I could do was swallow the screen that 413 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:53,120 rose up in my throat and fight the weakness in my knees. 414 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:54,840 And yet, Sam, I think with it all, 415 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,760 I think with all the terror and sick defeat inside me, 416 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,600 I still wanted to laugh. 417 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,520 Remember, this was the house of the lovebirds. 418 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,920 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 419 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,520 That night, I lay in bed, twisting and turning, 420 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,600 waiting for you to go to sleep. 421 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,800 I was in a prison, Sam. 422 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,320 And only one thing would free me. 423 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:20,560 I had to destroy the evidence. 424 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:21,760 I had to find that poison. 425 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,160 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 426 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:32,400 At 1 o'clock, I walked across to your door, opened it quietly. 427 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,600 Listened. 428 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,640 You were asleep. 429 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,000 Your clothes were draped over a chair next to the bed. 430 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,560 I went through them first, into the closet 431 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:44,800 and your other things, and then the dresser. 432 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,640 Had to be somewhere. 433 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,760 I tried to put myself in your place. 434 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,080 Where would I have hidden it? 435 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:52,640 Your snoring seemed to grow louder, 436 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,640 pounding in my eardrums. 437 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:56,240 I think it was then that I felt the paper 438 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,000 weight on the nightstand. 439 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,400 And for a moment, I thought if I stopped that snoring, 440 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,400 everything would be all right. 441 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,080 I held it above your head, ready to smash and smash 442 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:06,800 again and again. 443 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,960 Why don't you strike, dear? 444 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:10,600 No. 445 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,480 You know better than to kill me, don't you? 446 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,600 That'd be silly, Martha. 447 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:16,880 Stupid, too. 448 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,200 Where did you put that poison? 449 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,360 In a good, safe place. 450 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,160 You're wasting your time, you know. 451 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,400 You'll never find it. 452 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,520 I have planned to use it myself in my own good time. 453 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:29,720 What do you mean? 454 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,640 You'll find it one of these days when the mood strikes me. 455 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:34,360 Sam! 456 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:35,720 Why not? 457 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,000 Remember you bought the poison, and they'll figure 458 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,960 you got caught in your own trap. 459 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,720 Maybe got hold of a cup of coffee or a cheese sandwich 460 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,840 or something you'd fixed for me by mistake. 461 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:49,240 Better get back to bed now. 462 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,560 Get some rest. 463 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,120 You've got a trying head a day ahead of you. 464 00:19:54,120 --> 00:20:02,440 There was no sleep for me after that, Sam. 465 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,880 Just white-hot nightmares, endless hours of darkness, 466 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:10,160 and day after day of torture of a cat and mouse game 467 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,800 with each of us watching each other. 468 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:13,800 I didn't eat. 469 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,080 I couldn't let you poison my food. 470 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:20,520 It was closing in on me, Sam, something I couldn't stand. 471 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:21,480 I had a headache. 472 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,200 My stomach was sick from hunger. 473 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:25,360 I'll give it to you, Sam. 474 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:26,520 You know your business. 475 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,720 You know how to torture. 476 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,840 And then one day, I got dizzy and nearly fainted. 477 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,440 I had to eat something. 478 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,040 I went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. 479 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:39,760 The milk hadn't been opened. 480 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,360 I poured a glass and drank it. 481 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,120 Tasted so good. 482 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:50,520 Then I remembered some poisons are tasteless. 483 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:54,720 I was crazy to drink milk, of all things. 484 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,520 I poured it down the sink, feeling spasms and cramps 485 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,240 in my stomach. 486 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:01,320 I could feel them, Sam. 487 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:02,920 They were real. 488 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,880 Don't care for milk, Martha. 489 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,160 You're not being sensible at all. 490 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,800 Milk is nature's perfect food, says so on the bottle. 491 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,960 Oh, let me alone. 492 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,680 Let's see here. 493 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,320 Pretty good selection. 494 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,680 How about some cheese? 495 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,160 Cheese is awfully good. 496 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,720 And the roast beef is fresh cut. 497 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,440 Doug brought it in from the country today. 498 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:27,360 How long are you going on with this, Sam? 499 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:29,560 Why? 500 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,520 I can't stand it much longer. 501 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,840 Afraid to die, Martha? 502 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,000 Well, just relax. 503 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 You're dying right now. 504 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,360 Milk. 505 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:43,360 You poisoned the milk. 506 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:44,880 No. 507 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,760 No, I didn't mean that. 508 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,200 It's just that, well, Martha, you're not 509 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,520 as beautiful as you were. 510 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,320 I was just looking at that portrait over the mantle. 511 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:59,360 Did you know you were getting circles under your eyes? 512 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:03,400 And your figure isn't at all what it was. 513 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,720 I'm not sure even an invalid would want you now. 514 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,560 I guess I lost track of time for a while after that. 515 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,960 The days slid by, the nights too. 516 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,480 I was hungry all the time. 517 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,760 At first, I found some canned goods. 518 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,680 But then you caught on, and you punched holes 519 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,480 in the rest of the cans. 520 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,800 And then I didn't dare touch them after that. 521 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,800 I couldn't go on, Sam. 522 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,120 I knew I couldn't last out. 523 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:36,080 I was at the end of my rope that night when Betty and Doug stopped by. 524 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:40,240 I can never forget that night, Sam, because as we sat there 525 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:44,000 in the living room with that terrible, smiling portrait of me 526 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:49,240 staring down at us, Betty said something, something that made 527 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:53,200 me realize I wasn't trapped, that there was a way out, 528 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,640 after all, an easy way. 529 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:56,760 Let me get you a drink, Doug. 530 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,280 Sure, Samble. 531 00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,680 Easy on the soda. 532 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,400 Me too, but easy on the liquor. 533 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,680 Jack, how about you, Martha? 534 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:05,600 You look a little tired. 535 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:06,440 Might pick you up. 536 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,680 I was about to say you look tired, Martha. 537 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,280 Oh, it's nothing, Doug. 538 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:10,960 I know. 539 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,560 The old slave driver here is probably working you too hard, Martha. 540 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:15,760 You need a vacation. 541 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:16,400 Yeah. 542 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,160 How about driving down to Florida with us next week, huh? 543 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:19,680 Florida? 544 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:20,200 Oh, well. 545 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:21,800 We can't make it, Doug. 546 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,360 The doc wants to keep an eye on me. 547 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:25,800 I don't know. 548 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,760 Heaven knows I like my home as well as the next one. 549 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,240 But if I had to stick as close to it as Martha does, 550 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,680 I'd probably go right out of my mind. 551 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:34,480 Ho, ho. 552 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:40,920 I sat very still. 553 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,920 It was all I could do to keep a smile frozen on my face 554 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,560 like a mask. 555 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,840 That moment, Sam, I felt like a prisoner 556 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,280 who'd just been handed the key. 557 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,120 It was a marvelous feeling, surging up inside me like fire. 558 00:23:55,120 --> 00:24:01,000 Well, of course, if they thought I was crazy, they'd take me away. 559 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,480 And no matter what you did, you couldn't touch me. 560 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,000 I looked around the room, saw the poker by the fireplace 561 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,800 under the portrait. 562 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,680 I remember how your eyes followed me as I got up 563 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,720 and walked to the fireplace, picked up the poker. 564 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,680 I gave you one last smile. 565 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,400 And then I turned to the painting, 566 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,680 and I raised the poker high. 567 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:27,680 Martha, what are you doing? 568 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:28,680 I hate this painting. 569 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:29,680 I hate this. 570 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:30,680 Oh! 571 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:31,680 Ah! 572 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:32,680 Get her, Sam. 573 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:33,680 Martha, put down that poker. 574 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:34,680 I got her. 575 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:35,680 Give it to me, Martha. 576 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:36,680 Give me that poker. 577 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:37,680 He's gone. 578 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:38,680 Let me go. 579 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:39,680 Ow, she bit me. 580 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:40,680 Give me your hand, Doug. 581 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:41,680 I got her. 582 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:42,680 I got her now. 583 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:43,680 Sam. 584 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:44,680 Good Lord. 585 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:45,680 She's here. 586 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:46,680 She's here. 587 00:24:46,680 --> 00:25:01,800 I like it here at the home, Sam. 588 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,280 It's quiet. 589 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,840 And I get a lot of rest. 590 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,560 I'm getting my weight back. 591 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:12,760 But most of all, it's nice to feel safe. 592 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:13,760 How long is it now? 593 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,080 Three months, four. 594 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:17,680 Pretending I'm insane? 595 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,880 Anyway, I'll take my time. 596 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,720 Think it through very carefully. 597 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,320 And then when I'm ready to drop the act, 598 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,560 show them I'm qualified to leave, 599 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:36,200 then I think you know what I'm going to do, don't you, Sam? 600 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,000 I'm going to kill you. 601 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,880 That'll give you something to think about during the long nights alone 602 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,960 in the lovebird house on Pinewood Drive. 603 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,920 I'm going to kill you. 604 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:48,920 Kill you. 605 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:49,920 Kill you. 606 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:50,920 Here, here. 607 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:51,920 Cool down. 608 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:52,920 I got her. 609 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:53,920 OK. 610 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:54,920 Ease her down on the cot. 611 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:55,920 Shall I get the jacket? 612 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:56,920 No, she'll be all right. 613 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:57,920 Gets like that once in a while. 614 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:58,920 Too bad. 615 00:25:58,920 --> 00:25:59,920 Nice looking woman. 616 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:00,920 Goes off like that every once in a while. 617 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:01,920 Sure makes enough noise. 618 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:02,920 Gets a little wild sometimes. 619 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:03,920 Used to be a guy come to see her. 620 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:04,920 Little fella. 621 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:05,920 I can remember him. 622 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:06,920 He was a little boy. 623 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:07,920 He was a little boy. 624 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:08,920 He was a little boy. 625 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:09,920 He was a little boy. 626 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:10,920 He was a little boy. 627 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,920 He was a little boy. 628 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:12,920 He was a little boy. 629 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:13,920 He was a little boy. 630 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:14,920 He was a little boy. 631 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:15,920 He was a little boy. 632 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,640 I can remember he used to get down on his knees there beside her and say something like, 633 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,920 Martha, I didn't have it on us, darling. 634 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,600 Yeah, that's it. 635 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:30,600 Then he'd say, I threw it away as soon as I found it in your jewelry box. 636 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,320 He'd say it over and over like he thought he didn't bring her out of it. 637 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,360 Then he'd just stand there and cry like his heart was broken. 638 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:40,280 Sure must have loved her an awful lot. 639 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,540 But he was like the rest of them. 640 00:26:43,540 --> 00:26:45,960 After a while he stopped coming. 641 00:26:45,960 --> 00:27:03,680 I don't suppose he's been back now for 10 or 11 years. 642 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,840 Thank you, Joan Fontaine, for a splendid performance. 643 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:07,840 Miss Fontaine. 644 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:08,840 Yes, Mr. Wilcox. 645 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,660 I ran across your picture today in the new two color auto light spark plug advertisement 646 00:27:12,660 --> 00:27:14,880 in this week's issue of the Saturday Evening Post. 647 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,400 Oh, yes, I saw that. 648 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,440 And from reading it, I learned more about auto light resistor spark plugs. 649 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:21,480 Oh, that's swell. 650 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,620 You know, Miss Fontaine, during the coming weeks, that same two color advertisement will 651 00:27:24,620 --> 00:27:27,160 appear in many national publications. 652 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:32,240 Auto light wants to make sure that car owners everywhere replace old narrow gap spark plugs 653 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:36,080 with sensational new wide gap auto light resistor spark plugs. 654 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,520 They're made by auto light men who make over 400 products for cars, trucks, airplanes and 655 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,760 boats in 28 auto light plants from coast to coast. 656 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:48,240 Yes, sirree, auto light also makes complete electrical systems for many makes of America's 657 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:53,920 finest cars, batteries, spark plugs, generators, starting motors, coils, distributors, all 658 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:59,040 ignition engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly because they're a 659 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,600 perfect team. 660 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,700 So folks, don't accept electrical parts that are supposed to be as good. 661 00:28:04,700 --> 00:28:08,920 Ask for and insist on auto light, original factory parts at your neighborhood service 662 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,000 station, car dealer, garage or repair shop. 663 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:22,440 Remember, you're always right with auto light. 664 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,280 And now here again is Miss Joan Fontaine. 665 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,760 I very much enjoyed my appearance on suspense tonight. 666 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,720 And I'll be listening next week when Van Hefflin appears in a really unusual story by Cornell 667 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,300 Woolrich called Three O'Clock. 668 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:42,160 I know it will be another gripping study in suspense. 669 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,440 Joan Fontaine can currently be seen in You Gotta Stay Happy, a Rampart production costarring 670 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:47,800 James Stewart. 671 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,800 Lester Sharp played the part of Sam. 672 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,200 Tonight's suspense play The Lovebirds was written by Sheryl Hendricks and adapted by 673 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:58,340 Harold Swanton with music composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 674 00:28:58,340 --> 00:29:02,100 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Leder. 675 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:11,160 Next Thursday same time, hear Van Hefflin in Three O'Clock. 676 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:16,640 You can buy auto light electrical parts, auto light resistor spark plugs, auto light staple 677 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,480 batteries at your neighborhood auto light dealer. 678 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,440 Switch to auto light. 679 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:22,920 Good night. 680 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,760 Help to relieve human suffering across the nation, across the world. 681 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,400 Give through your Red Cross. 682 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:34,400 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.