WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.520 Now, Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present... 00:12.520 --> 00:13.520 Suspense! 00:13.520 --> 00:26.480 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Gregory Peck in Michael Vanning's Murder Through the Looking 00:26.480 --> 00:33.280 Glass, a suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Lieder. 00:33.280 --> 00:40.440 Friends, even a camel can't compete with an Auto Light Stayful Battery because an Auto 00:40.440 --> 00:44.720 Light Stayful Battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 00:44.720 --> 00:50.240 Yes, sir, that dandy dynamic dependable Auto Light Stayful Battery has extra plates too 00:50.240 --> 00:55.760 for extra power, protected by fiberglass insulation for longer life and stronger life. 00:55.760 --> 00:56.760 Did I say longer life? 00:56.760 --> 00:58.160 Well, I meant it. 00:58.160 --> 01:02.520 An Auto Light Stayful Battery has almost double the life of an ordinary battery. 01:02.520 --> 01:07.640 Why in tests conducted, according to the Society of Automotive Engineers of Life Cycle Standards, 01:07.640 --> 01:13.240 Auto Light Stayful Batteries give 70% longer average life than batteries without Stayful 01:13.240 --> 01:14.240 features. 01:14.240 --> 01:16.360 So, get wise, get Auto Light. 01:16.360 --> 01:20.320 Remember, you're right with Auto Light. 01:20.320 --> 01:36.560 And now, Auto Light presents Gregory Peck in a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 01:36.560 --> 01:43.800 The sound was a dull, monotonous roar in my ears and I listened, wondering if it were 01:43.800 --> 01:46.680 real or part of a dream. 01:46.680 --> 01:51.120 Suddenly, I was awake and I knew that I was riding on a train. 01:51.120 --> 01:53.120 But where? 01:53.120 --> 01:55.640 I didn't remember getting on a train. 01:55.640 --> 01:58.480 I opened my eyes and saw that I was in the lounge car. 01:58.480 --> 02:01.040 There was only darkness through the window. 02:01.040 --> 02:03.520 A man sat across from me reading. 02:03.520 --> 02:08.720 There was a bridge game down the aisle, a porter serving drinks. 02:08.720 --> 02:13.920 Everything nice and normal, except that I had no idea how I got on the train or why 02:13.920 --> 02:14.920 I was there. 02:14.920 --> 02:21.440 I tried to think of a reason for being there, but I couldn't. 02:21.440 --> 02:25.920 These spells of forgetfulness have been coming on more often lately. 02:25.920 --> 02:32.440 I leaned back and closed my eyes, listened to the rhythm of the train. 02:32.440 --> 02:35.440 A melody began to fit itself to the rhythm. 02:35.440 --> 02:40.600 I couldn't remember ever having heard such a song, but somehow I seemed to know the words. 02:40.600 --> 02:54.280 Down in the valley, valley so low, late in the evening, hear that train blow, hear that 02:54.280 --> 02:55.280 train blow. 02:55.280 --> 02:59.720 I beg your pardon, sir, but your singing is disturbing the other passengers. 02:59.720 --> 03:00.960 I'm sorry. 03:00.960 --> 03:02.840 You understand, sir, it's the other passengers. 03:02.840 --> 03:05.440 I kind of liked your singing myself. 03:05.440 --> 03:07.520 Your singing didn't disturb me either, young man. 03:07.520 --> 03:09.880 In fact, it was a rather pretty melody. 03:09.880 --> 03:10.880 What was the name of it? 03:10.880 --> 03:13.160 Why, it's, uh, I... 03:13.160 --> 03:15.320 You know, it's silly, but I don't know. 03:15.320 --> 03:17.800 I can't even remember the tune now. 03:17.800 --> 03:18.800 That's the way it is with songs. 03:18.800 --> 03:20.600 I've had the same thing happen to me. 03:20.600 --> 03:22.480 So what train is this? 03:22.480 --> 03:25.080 Why, it's New York Express to Philadelphia. 03:25.080 --> 03:28.480 It ought to be there any minute, too. 03:28.480 --> 03:31.520 You must have been on some party if it lasted all day. 03:31.520 --> 03:33.400 What time is it? 03:33.400 --> 03:35.000 Seven o'clock. 03:35.000 --> 03:36.720 P.M., that is. 03:36.720 --> 03:38.220 Yes, sir. 03:38.220 --> 03:40.680 Must have been pretty drunk out where you were. 03:40.680 --> 03:44.320 I think he said something else after that, but I wasn't listening then. 03:44.320 --> 03:46.960 I noticed that I was wearing a brown topcoat. 03:46.960 --> 03:48.520 It wasn't mine. 03:48.520 --> 03:52.000 Maybe I'd accidentally exchanged coats with someone. 03:52.000 --> 03:56.000 If I couldn't remember it, it must have been that kind of a party. 03:56.000 --> 03:58.880 If so, I felt for my wallet. 03:58.880 --> 03:59.880 It was there. 03:59.880 --> 04:04.880 I opened it to see if I had any money left, and my eye was caught by the driver's license 04:04.880 --> 04:07.280 made out to John Blake. 04:07.280 --> 04:14.360 In another pocket of the wallet, there were engraved cards reading John Blake Insurance. 04:14.360 --> 04:18.560 I wasn't John Blake. 04:18.560 --> 04:20.800 I was Jeffrey Bruno, a writer. 04:20.800 --> 04:22.560 I couldn't even drive a car. 04:22.560 --> 04:23.840 I didn't know anything about insurance. 04:23.840 --> 04:28.320 I'd never heard of a John Blake, but here was his identification in my wallet. 04:28.320 --> 04:29.320 What's the matter, young fellow? 04:29.320 --> 04:30.320 Are you ill? 04:30.320 --> 04:33.120 A man across from me said something, but I didn't hear what it was. 04:33.120 --> 04:34.320 I looked through the other pockets. 04:34.320 --> 04:40.600 There was a bank book showing that John Blake had a bank balance of $647.55. 04:40.600 --> 04:43.400 My balance had never been higher than 15 bucks. 04:43.400 --> 04:47.040 There was a letter, a bill for shirts, addressed to John Blake at an address I'd never heard 04:47.040 --> 04:48.040 of before. 04:48.040 --> 04:52.280 There was a moment there, a few crazy seconds, when I wondered if I really was John Blake. 04:52.280 --> 04:53.720 No, I couldn't be. 04:53.720 --> 04:57.680 I knew I was Jeffrey Bruno, who lived at a two-room apartment in Greenwich Village and 04:57.680 --> 04:59.000 wrote mystery stories for a living. 04:59.000 --> 05:00.000 I knew who I was. 05:00.000 --> 05:01.000 Broad speech, please. 05:01.000 --> 05:02.000 Broad speech, please. 05:02.000 --> 05:03.000 Well, here we are. 05:03.000 --> 05:04.480 Or are you going on downtown? 05:04.480 --> 05:05.480 Well, I, uh... 05:05.480 --> 05:09.400 See, I could get a train back to New York here, couldn't I? 05:09.400 --> 05:12.280 Sure, right across from the other platform. 05:12.280 --> 05:14.880 That must have been some party. 05:14.880 --> 05:20.320 I had to get back to New York and straighten out this business about John Blake's coat 05:20.320 --> 05:21.320 and identification. 05:21.320 --> 05:24.560 He, whoever he was, might even be thinking I'd stolen them. 05:24.560 --> 05:28.800 Besides, I wanted to find out where I'd been the night before and all day and why I'd awakened 05:28.800 --> 05:29.800 on a train to Philadelphia. 05:29.800 --> 05:37.240 And then, just as I got up from the seat, I glanced out of the window. 05:37.240 --> 05:39.480 The newsboy was holding up a newspaper. 05:39.480 --> 05:41.480 Across the top was the big headline. 05:41.480 --> 05:43.480 Kill her, Blake! 05:43.480 --> 05:44.480 Escape! 05:44.480 --> 05:45.480 Blake! 05:45.480 --> 05:57.400 And just below it, there was a picture of... me. 05:57.400 --> 06:00.920 Rolling down my hat and turning up my coat collar, I managed to get on a New York train 06:00.920 --> 06:03.920 without anyone recognizing me. 06:03.920 --> 06:09.880 Then, fortunately, no one pays any attention to anyone else on New York subways. 06:09.880 --> 06:13.160 Two blocks from my apartment house, I stopped at the corner stand to buy a newspaper. 06:13.160 --> 06:15.560 Oh, there you are, Mr. Bruno. 06:15.560 --> 06:17.440 Haven't seen you around for a couple days. 06:17.440 --> 06:18.440 Yeah, I've been busy. 06:18.440 --> 06:24.080 Hey, you know, I saw your picture somewhere today. 06:24.080 --> 06:26.000 You got a story in one of the magazines, maybe? 06:26.000 --> 06:27.320 No, no, well, good... 06:27.320 --> 06:30.200 Wait a minute, I'll remember where I saw your picture. 06:30.200 --> 06:31.200 I never forget a picture... 06:31.200 --> 06:32.200 Yeah, I've got to go now. 06:32.200 --> 06:34.200 You can tell me about it tomorrow. 06:34.200 --> 06:36.320 I had to get away before he remembered. 06:36.320 --> 06:39.160 I looked down and saw my picture on his papers. 06:39.160 --> 06:42.160 At home, there were a lot of letters in my box. 06:42.160 --> 06:44.720 Too many for just one delivery. 06:44.720 --> 06:46.680 When I got to the apartment, I looked at them. 06:46.680 --> 06:51.240 Two of the letters had been postmarked in New York three days before. 06:51.240 --> 06:56.240 It doesn't take three days for letters to be delivered locally. 06:56.240 --> 06:58.200 Where have I been for three days? 06:58.200 --> 06:59.200 Oh! 06:59.200 --> 07:00.200 Uh, who's there? 07:00.200 --> 07:01.200 Rosalie! 07:01.200 --> 07:04.200 Oh, Rosalie, just a minute. 07:04.200 --> 07:06.200 Hi, Jeff. 07:06.200 --> 07:08.800 I thought I heard someone in here. 07:08.800 --> 07:11.600 A friend of yours stopped by, but you weren't home. 07:11.600 --> 07:14.640 He ran into me on the stairs and asked if I lived here and then wanted me to give you 07:14.640 --> 07:15.640 a message. 07:15.640 --> 07:16.640 Burnett was his name. 07:16.640 --> 07:17.640 Bill, I think he said. 07:17.640 --> 07:18.640 Oh, yeah. 07:18.640 --> 07:21.360 Well, I'm glad you're here, Rosalie. 07:21.360 --> 07:22.360 Stay and talk to me. 07:22.360 --> 07:25.400 We can have some coffee or a drink. 07:25.400 --> 07:27.200 And did you say Bill was here? 07:27.200 --> 07:28.200 Yesterday morning. 07:28.200 --> 07:31.320 He said something about having had a date with you the night before, but you never showed 07:31.320 --> 07:32.320 up. 07:32.320 --> 07:33.320 Yesterday morning? 07:33.320 --> 07:34.320 Oh, oh, yes. 07:34.320 --> 07:37.600 What's the matter, Jeff? 07:37.600 --> 07:38.600 Don't you feel well? 07:38.600 --> 07:39.600 Oh, sure. 07:39.600 --> 07:41.600 I feel fine. 07:41.600 --> 07:46.720 Rosalie, tell me, do I ever do anything out of the ordinary? 07:46.720 --> 07:52.000 I mean, do I, well, have I ever seemed strange? 07:52.000 --> 07:53.000 You mean, are you? 07:53.000 --> 07:57.640 Well, you've always seemed very sane to me, if that's what you mean, in spite of your 07:57.640 --> 07:58.640 vanishing acts. 07:58.640 --> 07:59.640 My what? 07:59.640 --> 08:02.880 The times you disappear. 08:02.880 --> 08:03.880 You don't know? 08:03.880 --> 08:04.880 I'm sorry. 08:04.880 --> 08:07.380 Let me finish it for you. 08:07.380 --> 08:12.920 You mean the days when I've awakened, thinking it was Tuesday, only to turn out to be Thursday. 08:12.920 --> 08:17.280 You mean I'd disappear for a couple of days, go somewhere else, become somebody else. 08:17.280 --> 08:18.880 I wouldn't have said anything, Jeff, but... 08:18.880 --> 08:20.280 Well, then why don't I remember? 08:20.280 --> 08:27.040 Now, I've heard of people drawing blanks because they've had too much to drink, but now maybe 08:27.040 --> 08:28.200 it's something different. 08:28.200 --> 08:29.200 What is, Jeff? 08:29.200 --> 08:31.800 Well, I've told her all about it. 08:31.800 --> 08:32.800 All I knew anyway. 08:32.800 --> 08:37.280 At first she was frightened, but then I guess she felt sorry for me and she got over it. 08:37.280 --> 08:40.840 Before Rosalie had always been just a beautiful, desirable girl. 08:40.840 --> 08:45.760 I'd had drinks with her a few times in her apartment of mine, but that was all. 08:45.760 --> 08:49.840 Not that I hadn't wanted to take her out, but she was a model and I was sure that she 08:49.840 --> 08:53.480 led a glamorous life with rich men begging to take her out. 08:53.480 --> 08:57.800 But now she didn't look as glamorous as she looked understanding. 08:57.800 --> 08:58.800 I needed that. 08:58.800 --> 09:04.520 But I was beginning to believe that the explanation of John Blake wasn't as simple as I first 09:04.520 --> 09:05.520 thought. 09:05.520 --> 09:07.200 I'm glad I came in, Jeff. 09:07.200 --> 09:11.040 You need someone, and it doesn't matter whether you're John Blake or not. 09:11.040 --> 09:12.360 Well, it matters to me. 09:12.360 --> 09:17.000 Look, I know I'm Jeffrey Bruno and not some guy named John Blake. 09:17.000 --> 09:22.160 I can remember my whole life living on the farm, going to school, working on a newspaper, 09:22.160 --> 09:23.160 coming to New York. 09:23.160 --> 09:25.560 I can remember every minute of it. 09:25.560 --> 09:26.560 Every minute? 09:26.560 --> 09:27.560 Oh, no. 09:27.560 --> 09:28.560 No, not every minute. 09:28.560 --> 09:35.000 You know, Jeff, such things can happen. 09:35.000 --> 09:38.200 White bearded old men with eyeglasses write books about such things. 09:38.200 --> 09:39.800 They've got a word for it. 09:39.800 --> 09:44.440 I can't pronounce it, but it means that you can be two people at one time and not know 09:44.440 --> 09:45.440 it. 09:45.440 --> 09:46.440 So maybe... 09:46.440 --> 09:47.440 I was John Blake, too. 09:47.440 --> 09:49.600 I was a way ahead of you in thinking that. 09:49.600 --> 09:53.960 And if you are, that's a sickness, and people can get over being sick. 09:53.960 --> 09:55.840 Maybe you'll remember all the things John Blake did. 09:55.840 --> 09:57.640 I already know one thing he did. 09:57.640 --> 09:58.640 He killed someone. 09:58.640 --> 10:01.880 I don't know who or how, but I... 10:01.880 --> 10:03.840 John Blake murdered someone. 10:03.840 --> 10:05.400 You brought a paper home. 10:05.400 --> 10:07.160 Why not see? 10:07.160 --> 10:10.880 Whatever happened, Jeff, we'll find a way to work it out. 10:10.880 --> 10:11.880 Thanks, Rosalie. 10:11.880 --> 10:15.440 Here it is. 10:15.440 --> 10:17.400 His name was Rufus Carrington. 10:17.400 --> 10:19.600 He was an old man and wealthy. 10:19.600 --> 10:24.360 I, John Blake, worked part time for his nephew, Roger Gunn. 10:24.360 --> 10:28.120 There's money missing from the firm, and it's believed Rufus Carrington may have found out 10:28.120 --> 10:29.120 about it. 10:29.120 --> 10:30.120 I see. 10:30.120 --> 10:33.160 Roger Gunn arrived to see his uncle this morning and was told by the butler that the old man 10:33.160 --> 10:35.640 was in the study with an unknown caller. 10:35.640 --> 10:39.360 Roger Gunn was talking to the butler when they heard the old man cry out. 10:39.360 --> 10:41.680 He ran to the study and found him dead. 10:41.680 --> 10:43.000 Oh, how awful. 10:43.000 --> 10:46.880 Your nephew saw me, the killer, escaping and recognized him. 10:46.880 --> 10:51.120 Well, if I were John Blake, my other self didn't do things in a small way. 10:51.120 --> 10:52.120 Oh, don't, Jeff. 10:52.120 --> 10:54.120 I never wanted the things John Blake must have wanted. 10:54.120 --> 10:55.480 I never wanted riches. 10:55.480 --> 10:58.360 Never thought of going into a business like insurance. 10:58.360 --> 11:00.040 I just can't understand this thing. 11:00.040 --> 11:01.480 They'll understand, Jeff. 11:01.480 --> 11:04.040 They have people who understand things like that. 11:04.040 --> 11:07.760 Rosalie, whatever happens, will you promise me that if you don't like Jeffrey Bruno, you'll 11:07.760 --> 11:09.640 like John Blake? 11:09.640 --> 11:12.160 But like one of us, it doesn't matter which one it is. 11:12.160 --> 11:15.080 I like you, whichever one of them you are. 11:15.080 --> 11:18.880 You see, Rosalie, I'm innocent, even if John Blake isn't. 11:18.880 --> 11:20.840 I haven't murdered anyone. 11:20.840 --> 11:22.800 It was another part of me. 11:22.800 --> 11:25.400 But if I try to run away, they'll find me. 11:25.400 --> 11:26.400 They'll kill... 11:26.400 --> 11:29.640 They'll hurt me for what John Blake did. 11:29.640 --> 11:30.640 Where can I go? 11:30.640 --> 11:31.640 What can I do? 11:31.640 --> 11:35.880 You can go to the police and tell them the whole truth, because you see, they can't do 11:35.880 --> 11:37.400 anything to you. 11:37.400 --> 11:40.400 You're not responsible for what you did as John Blake. 11:40.400 --> 11:41.400 Yeah. 11:41.400 --> 11:42.400 Maybe you're right. 11:42.400 --> 11:45.800 There's no point in running. 11:45.800 --> 11:50.600 I know I have no right to ask it, but would you go with me, Rosalie? 11:50.600 --> 11:53.120 Of course I will, Jeff. 11:53.120 --> 11:59.320 It's like being haunted, knowing that somewhere inside of me there's another man, never knowing 11:59.320 --> 12:01.640 when I'll be him. 12:01.640 --> 12:05.100 Say, what if... 12:05.100 --> 12:11.760 What if I turn into John Blake before we even get to the police? 12:11.760 --> 12:24.840 For Suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Gregory Peck in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 12:24.840 --> 12:27.920 Suspense. 12:27.920 --> 12:34.480 Say, half the sound men and I have cooked up our own suspense show. 12:34.480 --> 12:35.960 Yeah, well, let's hear it. 12:35.960 --> 12:36.960 All right. 12:36.960 --> 12:39.800 Our hero, Jim Brown, is in a frantic rush to get to his office. 12:39.800 --> 12:45.560 He leaps into his car, tries to start it. 12:45.560 --> 12:46.560 Will it start? 12:46.560 --> 12:47.560 Won't it start? 12:47.560 --> 12:51.480 Will our hero get to his office in time to read his morning paper before his stenographer 12:51.480 --> 12:52.680 puts him to work? 12:52.680 --> 12:53.680 That's real suspense, Harlow. 12:53.680 --> 12:54.920 Ah, but I come along. 12:54.920 --> 12:57.540 I give him a hot tip on sure fire starting. 12:57.540 --> 12:59.540 Get an Auto Light, stay full battery. 12:59.540 --> 13:01.040 And now this happens. 13:01.040 --> 13:03.580 There, see what I mean? 13:03.580 --> 13:08.560 That Auto Light, stay full battery takes the suspense out of starting and puts it on CBS. 13:08.560 --> 13:12.520 By an Auto Light, stay full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car 13:12.520 --> 13:17.320 use, that liberal liquid libation practically eliminates one of the major causes of battery 13:17.320 --> 13:18.320 failure. 13:18.320 --> 13:22.760 Imagine, an Auto Light, stay full battery needs water only three times a year in normal 13:22.760 --> 13:24.160 car use. 13:24.160 --> 13:28.240 An Auto Light, stay full battery has extra plates too for extra power. 13:28.240 --> 13:32.000 And fiberglass insulation adds months to the life of a battery. 13:32.000 --> 13:34.360 Money can't buy a better battery. 13:34.360 --> 13:37.760 So switch to Auto Light. 13:37.760 --> 13:45.160 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Gregory Peck as Jeffrey in Murder 13:45.160 --> 13:46.560 Through the Looking Glass. 13:46.560 --> 13:52.680 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:52.680 --> 13:53.680 Rosalie was right. 13:53.680 --> 13:56.480 I thought about it as we walked down the stairs. 13:56.480 --> 13:58.080 They'd know what to do with a case like mine. 13:58.080 --> 14:02.040 They'd know that Jeffrey Bruno wasn't responsible for what John Blake did. 14:02.040 --> 14:08.680 Of course, they'd lock me up for my own good and then they'd leave me in there. 14:08.680 --> 14:10.080 What's the matter, Jeff? 14:10.080 --> 14:11.560 Wait, wait, Rosalie. 14:11.560 --> 14:12.560 You're right. 14:12.560 --> 14:13.560 I mustn't run away. 14:13.560 --> 14:17.720 But first, I've got to find out about the other me, about John Blake. 14:17.720 --> 14:19.240 All I know is that he murdered someone. 14:19.240 --> 14:21.680 I have to know other things about him, what he was really like. 14:21.680 --> 14:24.360 I understand, Jeff, but you mustn't do anything foolish. 14:24.360 --> 14:28.520 I have to know about my other life, what books I read, what kind of girls I like. 14:28.520 --> 14:30.160 You can see that's important, can't you? 14:30.160 --> 14:31.160 Of course. 14:31.160 --> 14:32.800 Jeff, I just thought of something. 14:32.800 --> 14:34.960 I know a man, a psychiatrist. 14:34.960 --> 14:37.160 Maybe if I called him, you could see him tonight. 14:37.160 --> 14:38.640 He'd understand. 14:38.640 --> 14:40.360 Maybe he could tell you what to do. 14:40.360 --> 14:41.360 Will you talk to him? 14:41.360 --> 14:42.360 I'll do anything. 14:42.360 --> 14:46.440 It'll help me to understand what I was like when I was John Blake and why I was like that. 14:46.440 --> 14:48.240 I'll go in the drug store here and call him. 14:48.240 --> 14:54.680 I'm sure he'll see you and we'll do whatever he says. 14:54.680 --> 15:02.360 Now, Mr. Bruno, you say there have been many times when you haven't remembered what happened 15:02.360 --> 15:03.360 for days. 15:03.360 --> 15:04.360 Oh, not many. 15:04.360 --> 15:05.360 A few times. 15:05.360 --> 15:09.800 It only happened after I'd been drinking and I thought that's all it was until this. 15:09.800 --> 15:10.800 I see. 15:10.800 --> 15:13.200 It's a very interesting case. 15:13.200 --> 15:14.760 What is it, doctor? 15:14.760 --> 15:19.040 I've done some reading on psychiatry and it sounds, is it split personality? 15:19.040 --> 15:20.040 Schizophrenia? 15:20.040 --> 15:22.040 Yes, it's very possible. 15:22.040 --> 15:25.880 For instance, subconsciously you might have had a desire for things which consciously 15:25.880 --> 15:28.240 you'd convinced yourself were bad. 15:28.240 --> 15:33.120 That desire became so great that you created John Blake so you could satisfy it without 15:33.120 --> 15:34.600 compromising Jeffrey Bruno. 15:34.600 --> 15:37.640 Wouldn't I be partly aware of wanting those things? 15:37.640 --> 15:42.320 Isn't it possible that I'm not John Blake, that all of this is something else? 15:42.320 --> 15:45.280 I'll let you answer that yourself, Mr. Bruno. 15:45.280 --> 15:46.280 How can I? 15:46.280 --> 15:48.440 If I could answer it, I wouldn't be here. 15:48.440 --> 15:52.640 Mr. Bruno, do you honestly believe that there is a real person named John Blake, a person 15:52.640 --> 15:57.340 who looks exactly like you, a person whose coat and identification came accidentally 15:57.340 --> 15:58.340 into your possession? 15:58.340 --> 16:02.360 No, I guess I don't. 16:02.360 --> 16:04.000 But there must be another explanation. 16:04.000 --> 16:08.400 The alternative would be to believe that someone is framing you. 16:08.400 --> 16:12.280 Do you believe that someone drugged you several times or there'd be days you couldn't account 16:12.280 --> 16:13.280 for? 16:13.280 --> 16:16.320 That someone forged the papers of John Blake and planted them on you? 16:16.320 --> 16:20.040 Can you believe that someone planned to commit this murder months ago, rented an apartment 16:20.040 --> 16:23.600 in the name of John Blake, filled it with clothing in your size, put your photograph 16:23.600 --> 16:24.600 in the apartment? 16:24.600 --> 16:25.600 No, but... 16:25.600 --> 16:29.240 According to the newspaper story, the nephew of the murder victim was the only man to identify 16:29.240 --> 16:30.240 your picture. 16:30.240 --> 16:33.240 Therefore, he would have to have been the one to frame you. 16:33.240 --> 16:38.400 Well, this would imply that this Roger Gunn knew you and you knew him. 16:38.400 --> 16:39.400 Do you? 16:39.400 --> 16:41.280 No, I don't remember. 16:41.280 --> 16:45.640 Then can you believe that he was able to drug you to know your clothes size, to get a photograph 16:45.640 --> 16:46.640 of you? 16:46.640 --> 16:47.640 I guess not. 16:47.640 --> 16:50.240 Besides, if he framed you, that implies he is the murderer. 16:50.240 --> 16:53.640 But that can't be, because according to the butler, the nephew was with him at the time 16:53.640 --> 16:55.200 the murder took place. 16:55.200 --> 16:58.040 You see, Mr. Bruno? 16:58.040 --> 17:00.000 I see. 17:00.000 --> 17:01.440 What can I do, Doctor? 17:01.440 --> 17:05.040 Well, if this were not a murder case, the answer would be a simple one. 17:05.040 --> 17:06.680 I'd undertake to treat you. 17:06.680 --> 17:10.880 But as it is, I'm afraid I must suggest that you go to the police. 17:10.880 --> 17:13.200 Yeah, I suppose you're right. 17:13.200 --> 17:16.840 I'm sorry I wasn't able to help you, young man, if you'd only come to me sooner. 17:16.840 --> 17:19.160 Jeff, can you help him, Doctor? 17:19.160 --> 17:22.720 Under the circumstances, it's too late for me to do anything directly. 17:22.720 --> 17:26.440 I've advised Mr. Bruno to go to the police. 17:26.440 --> 17:27.680 Come on, Jeff. 17:27.680 --> 17:28.680 I'll go with you. 17:28.680 --> 17:29.680 All right. 17:29.680 --> 17:30.680 Well, thank you, Doctor. 17:30.680 --> 17:31.680 Oh, not at all. 17:31.680 --> 17:33.680 Sorry, I can't do more. 17:33.680 --> 17:34.680 Good night. 17:34.680 --> 17:35.680 Good night. 17:35.680 --> 17:37.160 Good night. 17:37.160 --> 17:40.400 I'm sorry, Jeff, but they'll have to believe you. 17:40.400 --> 17:43.960 They can't make you suffer for what John Blake did. 17:43.960 --> 17:46.760 And then, when you're well... 17:46.760 --> 17:47.760 When I'm well? 17:47.760 --> 17:48.760 What? 17:48.760 --> 17:49.760 We'll see. 17:49.760 --> 17:57.720 Rosalie, there's one more thing I want to do before I go to the police. 17:57.720 --> 18:00.680 I want to see the apartment where I lived when I was John Blake. 18:00.680 --> 18:03.240 I still don't know what I was like when I was being here. 18:03.240 --> 18:10.640 Maybe if I can only see how I lived, it'll give me a clue. 18:10.640 --> 18:16.120 There it is, Jeff, right across the street. 18:16.120 --> 18:17.120 The lobby looks empty. 18:17.120 --> 18:18.120 Now, let's see. 18:18.120 --> 18:21.280 The address on the letter is apartment 203. 18:21.280 --> 18:22.280 Wasn't there anything in the letter? 18:22.280 --> 18:23.280 It was a bill. 18:23.280 --> 18:27.800 It seems that I'm not only an embezzler and a murderer, but I didn't even pay John Blake's 18:27.800 --> 18:28.800 bills. 18:28.800 --> 18:29.800 Please, Jeff, don't joke about it. 18:29.800 --> 18:30.800 All right, Rosalie, no joking. 18:30.800 --> 18:32.800 I don't think it's very funny either. 18:32.800 --> 18:38.200 Now, if I were John Blake, I ought to have a key to my own apartment. 18:38.200 --> 18:39.200 This must be it. 18:39.200 --> 18:44.000 I don't remember ever seeing it before, but the number 203 is stamped on it. 18:44.000 --> 18:45.000 Well, Rosalie... 18:45.000 --> 18:47.960 I'll stay here and warn you if the police come. 18:47.960 --> 18:50.000 Good luck, Jeff. 18:50.000 --> 18:51.840 The lobby was empty. 18:51.840 --> 18:55.960 I got on the self-service elevator and I rode up to the second floor. 18:55.960 --> 19:00.960 It too was deserted and I walked to the door of John... of my apartment. 19:00.960 --> 19:05.240 I hesitated, wondering if maybe there were a policeman inside. 19:05.240 --> 19:06.240 Well, I... 19:06.240 --> 19:08.960 I had to take the chance. 19:08.960 --> 19:12.800 A key worked and I stepped inside. 19:12.800 --> 19:14.760 The place seemed empty. 19:14.760 --> 19:16.280 I turned on the light. 19:16.280 --> 19:22.320 It was a small apartment, inexpensive, perfectly correct and dull. 19:22.320 --> 19:25.160 There were hunting prints on the wall. 19:25.160 --> 19:27.280 There were two suits in the wardrobe. 19:27.280 --> 19:31.600 My size all right, even though I couldn't remember buying them. 19:31.600 --> 19:34.080 There were even monogrammed handkerchiefs. 19:34.080 --> 19:37.480 It was unreal. 19:37.480 --> 19:43.440 Yet I had to believe all these things belonged to me, that there had been times when I liked 19:43.440 --> 19:44.440 wearing them. 19:44.440 --> 19:51.440 My head was spinning by now and I leaned up against the wall. 19:51.440 --> 19:56.880 I don't know how long I stood there, unaware of anything except the pain inside. 19:56.880 --> 19:57.880 Gradually, I... 19:57.880 --> 20:04.320 I was aware that somebody was knocking on a door, but it was several seconds before I 20:04.320 --> 20:05.520 located it. 20:05.520 --> 20:06.520 It was... 20:06.520 --> 20:08.800 It was at my door. 20:08.800 --> 20:09.800 The police? 20:09.800 --> 20:11.600 Oh no, Rosalie said she'd warned me. 20:11.600 --> 20:14.920 It was the police. 20:14.920 --> 20:16.520 I wasn't ready to give myself up yet. 20:16.520 --> 20:17.640 I ran to the window. 20:17.640 --> 20:20.720 There was a fire escape outside. 20:20.720 --> 20:22.400 I raised the window and looked out. 20:22.400 --> 20:23.400 I couldn't see anyone. 20:23.400 --> 20:28.240 I could take a chance that there wasn't a cop at the bottom of the fire escape. 20:28.240 --> 20:30.280 I could climb out and close the window. 20:30.280 --> 20:33.520 As I started to break in, I ran down the fire escape. 20:33.520 --> 20:36.000 I jumped to the ground and looked around the corner. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.120 There was one man sitting in the police car. 20:38.120 --> 20:44.000 I turned and ran the other way. 20:44.000 --> 20:48.280 I must have run two blocks before I heard footsteps behind me. 20:48.280 --> 20:49.280 I turned and it... 20:49.280 --> 20:50.280 It was Rosalie. 20:50.280 --> 20:51.520 Oh Jeff. 20:51.520 --> 20:52.520 You said you'd warned me. 20:52.520 --> 20:53.520 What happened? 20:53.520 --> 20:54.520 But I did, Jeff. 20:54.520 --> 20:56.800 I rang the buzzer twice while they were getting out of the car. 20:56.800 --> 20:59.600 When I saw you getting away, I thought you'd heard. 20:59.600 --> 21:00.720 You must have heard it. 21:00.720 --> 21:01.720 You rang twice? 21:01.720 --> 21:04.480 The bell must be out of order, just like John Blake. 21:04.480 --> 21:05.880 I didn't hear it. 21:05.880 --> 21:07.680 I almost didn't hear them knocking. 21:07.680 --> 21:09.680 I'm sorry, Rosalie. 21:09.680 --> 21:11.080 I just... 21:11.080 --> 21:12.080 I don't know. 21:12.080 --> 21:13.080 It doesn't matter, Jeff. 21:13.080 --> 21:14.080 I was so frightened. 21:14.080 --> 21:15.080 No, you mustn't be. 21:15.080 --> 21:17.720 I promise I won't do anything to involve you or hurt you. 21:17.720 --> 21:19.600 I wasn't thinking of myself. 21:19.600 --> 21:20.920 You can't go on like this, Jeff. 21:20.920 --> 21:23.600 You've got to go in, give yourself a chance to get well. 21:23.600 --> 21:24.600 I know. 21:24.600 --> 21:29.880 You know, upstairs there for a minute, I thought of running away, of going to some little town 21:29.880 --> 21:33.920 and changing my name, but that's no good either. 21:33.920 --> 21:35.440 That wouldn't get rid of John Blake. 21:35.440 --> 21:36.440 Then? 21:36.440 --> 21:37.860 I've got an idea. 21:37.860 --> 21:39.920 Just one more try. 21:39.920 --> 21:41.520 Another hour won't make any difference to the police. 21:41.520 --> 21:42.520 All right, Jeff. 21:42.520 --> 21:43.520 Where are we going? 21:43.520 --> 21:44.520 Not we, Rosalie. 21:44.520 --> 21:45.880 I'm not going to involve you in this anymore. 21:45.880 --> 21:47.400 I was John Blake. 21:47.400 --> 21:50.800 I did the things John Blake did, and I have to see it through to the finish. 21:50.800 --> 21:51.800 At least tell me where you're going. 21:51.800 --> 21:53.040 It'll be better if you don't know. 21:53.040 --> 21:54.040 Oh, please, Jeff. 21:54.040 --> 21:55.920 No, this is the way it has to be. 21:55.920 --> 22:00.400 Then if it turns out worse than we think, you can just remember that for a few hours 22:00.400 --> 22:03.080 you were friendly to someone who needed it. 22:03.080 --> 22:06.080 If I come through this, if I get well, then... 22:06.080 --> 22:07.560 Yes, Jeff? 22:07.560 --> 22:17.800 Well, as you said, Rosalie, we'll see. 22:17.800 --> 22:22.000 I put her in a cab and gave the driver the address in the village. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.800 Then I went to the place where I was afraid to go. 22:24.800 --> 22:28.080 Yet it was the one place I had to go. 22:28.080 --> 22:30.800 Yes, sir? 22:30.800 --> 22:35.160 Well, don't... aren't you Mr. Carrington's butler? 22:35.160 --> 22:36.160 Yes, sir. 22:36.160 --> 22:38.280 Clark is the name, sir. 22:38.280 --> 22:43.840 I've been... I was in Mr. Carrington's service for 40 years. 22:43.840 --> 22:44.840 But why do you ask? 22:44.840 --> 22:47.880 Well, don't you recognize me? 22:47.880 --> 22:51.480 I... I don't believe so, sir. 22:51.480 --> 22:54.600 Of course, there were so many of you here today from the newspapers. 22:54.600 --> 22:57.080 But I was here even earlier. 22:57.080 --> 22:59.080 I'm John Blake. 22:59.080 --> 23:00.080 Oh. 23:00.080 --> 23:05.800 Then you're the gentleman who murdered Mr. Carrington, according to the newspapers. 23:05.800 --> 23:07.760 Why do you say according to the newspapers? 23:07.760 --> 23:11.800 I don't believe you killed Mr. Carrington, sir. 23:11.800 --> 23:12.800 You don't? 23:12.800 --> 23:13.800 Why not? 23:13.800 --> 23:16.080 Why, he didn't even know you, sir. 23:16.080 --> 23:20.240 Well, maybe he only got acquainted with me this morning when I came to kill him. 23:20.240 --> 23:24.640 If he had made an appointment with you, sir, I would have known. 23:24.640 --> 23:26.480 But didn't you let me in to see him? 23:26.480 --> 23:27.880 Oh, no, sir. 23:27.880 --> 23:32.040 He answered the door himself when his visitor arrived. 23:32.040 --> 23:34.840 I see. 23:34.840 --> 23:36.960 Is Mr. Carrington's nephew here? 23:36.960 --> 23:37.960 Mr. Gunn? 23:37.960 --> 23:38.960 Yes, sir. 23:38.960 --> 23:41.600 But he left word not to be disturbed. 23:41.600 --> 23:43.600 He did, did he? 23:43.600 --> 23:46.040 Well, did Mr. Carrington have a gun? 23:46.040 --> 23:47.040 Yes, sir. 23:47.040 --> 23:50.040 Would you trust me with it if it might help catch the murderer? 23:50.040 --> 23:53.200 I guarantee it'll catch him. 23:53.200 --> 23:54.200 Won't you step in? 23:54.200 --> 23:55.200 Thank you. 23:55.200 --> 23:59.960 I was very fond of Mr. Carrington, sir. 23:59.960 --> 24:03.240 He kept the gun here in the hall near the door. 24:03.240 --> 24:06.280 Oh, here it is, sir. 24:06.280 --> 24:11.240 I'm an old man myself, and perhaps I'm foolish to even... 24:11.240 --> 24:13.680 Don't you worry, just take me to see Mr. Gunn. 24:13.680 --> 24:16.080 Oh, but I can't do that, sir. 24:16.080 --> 24:17.080 Clark! 24:17.080 --> 24:18.080 Pardon me, sir. 24:18.080 --> 24:19.080 Yes, Mr. Gunn? 24:19.080 --> 24:20.080 Who are you talking to, Clark? 24:20.080 --> 24:21.080 Is that the attorney? 24:21.080 --> 24:22.080 No, sir, it's a young man. 24:22.080 --> 24:25.080 Wait a minute, I know that voice. 24:25.080 --> 24:26.080 I'm sorry, Clark. 24:26.080 --> 24:27.080 Who the devil? 24:27.080 --> 24:28.080 You. 24:28.080 --> 24:31.400 Yes, me, Mr. Gunn, or should I say Dr. Gunn? 24:31.400 --> 24:32.400 Clark, leave the room. 24:32.400 --> 24:33.400 Yes, sir. 24:33.400 --> 24:37.240 Well, this is all a terrible mistake. 24:37.240 --> 24:38.240 You bet it is. 24:38.240 --> 24:42.480 And I want to hear why the nephew of the man I'm supposed to have murdered is also the 24:42.480 --> 24:46.040 psychiatrist who convinced me I was crazy in order to surrender to the police. 24:46.040 --> 24:47.040 Don't move. 24:47.040 --> 24:48.600 Don't point that gun at me, please. 24:48.600 --> 24:52.360 I'm expecting a phone call from the attorney about the will. 24:52.360 --> 24:55.280 And then I'm sure we can straighten this thing out. 24:55.280 --> 24:57.040 I'll give you money. 24:57.040 --> 24:59.600 We'll straighten it out now, without money. 24:59.600 --> 25:01.160 You killed your uncle, didn't you? 25:01.160 --> 25:02.360 No, I was with Clark. 25:02.360 --> 25:03.360 He can tell you. 25:03.360 --> 25:04.360 Don't answer that. 25:04.360 --> 25:07.960 Clark will answer it then, on the extension. 25:07.960 --> 25:08.960 And he knows I'm here. 25:08.960 --> 25:09.960 Then let Clark answer it. 25:09.960 --> 25:13.920 But I'm going to get the truth out of you before you have a chance to talk to anyone. 25:13.920 --> 25:14.920 Hi. 25:14.920 --> 25:16.600 I meant you no harm. 25:16.600 --> 25:17.600 Not much. 25:17.600 --> 25:20.680 You just wanted me to take your seat in the electric chair. 25:20.680 --> 25:24.240 You told me the whole thing when you were posing as the psychiatrist, didn't you? 25:24.240 --> 25:27.560 You told me the truth, making me think it couldn't have been like that. 25:27.560 --> 25:30.920 The only thing you didn't tell me was about the person who killed your uncle and helped 25:30.920 --> 25:31.920 frame me. 25:31.920 --> 25:35.040 I beg your pardon, sir, but it's an urgent call. 25:35.040 --> 25:36.040 Don't move, Gunn. 25:36.040 --> 25:37.840 If it's so urgent, I'll take it for you. 25:37.840 --> 25:38.840 Yes? 25:38.840 --> 25:39.840 Roger. 25:39.840 --> 25:42.840 I'm calling you from our usual place. 25:42.840 --> 25:44.840 He hasn't gone to the police yet. 25:44.840 --> 25:46.840 Roger, are you there? 25:46.840 --> 25:47.840 I, uh, yes. 25:47.840 --> 25:50.120 I, uh, I can't talk now. 25:50.120 --> 25:51.120 The attorney's here. 25:51.120 --> 25:52.120 Wait, Roger. 25:52.120 --> 25:53.120 I think he's on his way over there. 25:53.120 --> 25:54.120 Be careful. 25:54.120 --> 25:55.120 All right. 25:55.120 --> 25:56.120 You don't sound right. 25:56.120 --> 25:57.120 Are you getting frightened again? 25:57.120 --> 26:02.000 After all we've done so far, you've got to keep your nerve up. 26:02.000 --> 26:03.000 I'm coming over, Roger. 26:03.000 --> 26:04.000 Good. 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 I'll be there in five minutes. 26:06.000 --> 26:07.000 Stall him when he arrives. 26:07.000 --> 26:08.000 Goodbye, Roger. 26:08.000 --> 26:09.000 Goodbye, Rosalie. 26:09.000 --> 26:10.000 Clark. 26:10.000 --> 26:11.000 Yes, sir? 26:11.000 --> 26:12.000 You were right before. 26:12.000 --> 26:16.000 Mr. Carrington opened the door this morning for a beautiful young lady after a date had 26:16.000 --> 26:19.000 been made by Mr. Roger Gunn here. 26:19.000 --> 26:24.000 I, I told him she was blackmailing me and I, I wanted him to see her because he'd had 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 experience handling that sort of thing. 26:26.000 --> 26:29.000 But I, I swear Rosalie didn't tell me she was going to kill... 26:29.000 --> 26:30.000 Never mind. 26:30.000 --> 26:31.000 Clark, I'm sorry. 26:31.000 --> 26:32.000 I'm sorry. 26:32.000 --> 26:33.000 I'm sorry. 26:33.000 --> 26:34.000 I'm sorry. 26:34.000 --> 26:37.000 I didn't tell me she was going to kill... 26:37.000 --> 26:38.000 Never mind. 26:38.000 --> 26:39.000 Clark, call the police. 26:39.000 --> 26:44.760 Tell them by the time they arrive, the murderer of Mr. Carrington will be here waiting for 26:44.760 --> 26:59.560 them. 26:59.560 --> 27:02.120 Thank you, Gregory Peck, for a great suspense show. 27:02.120 --> 27:07.000 Say, Greg, while out driving one Sunday afternoon recently, I heard you on the family hour of 27:07.000 --> 27:08.000 stars. 27:08.000 --> 27:09.000 Busman's holiday. 27:09.000 --> 27:10.000 Yes. 27:10.000 --> 27:14.560 And I was thinking then how you always give a splendid performance, just like a stay full 27:14.560 --> 27:15.560 battery. 27:15.560 --> 27:17.200 A battery I'm being compared to now. 27:17.200 --> 27:20.760 Well, not just a battery, Greg, but auto light stay full batteries. 27:20.760 --> 27:23.200 They're as tops in their field as you are in yours. 27:23.200 --> 27:26.280 Well, then you can just call me Stay Full Peck from now on. 27:26.280 --> 27:27.280 Tell me more. 27:27.280 --> 27:31.640 Well, Greg, stay full batteries are made by auto light men who make over 400 products 27:31.640 --> 27:36.200 for cars, trucks, airplanes, and boats in 28 auto light plants from coast to coast. 27:36.200 --> 27:37.200 Yes, sir. 27:37.200 --> 27:40.840 And auto light also makes complete electrical systems for many makes of America's finest 27:40.840 --> 27:41.840 cars. 27:41.840 --> 27:45.960 Spark plugs, generators, starting motors, coils, distributors, all ignition engineered 27:45.960 --> 27:50.640 to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly because they're a perfect team. 27:50.640 --> 27:54.480 So folks, don't accept electrical parts that are supposed to be just as good. 27:54.480 --> 27:59.000 Ask for and insist on auto light, original factory parts at your neighborhood service 27:59.000 --> 28:01.840 station, car dealer, garage or repair shop. 28:01.840 --> 28:10.200 Remember, you're right with auto light. 28:10.200 --> 28:12.160 And now here again is Mr. Gregory Peck. 28:12.160 --> 28:15.640 Well, as usual, it's been great fun to do a suspense play. 28:15.640 --> 28:19.440 It's one of the programs that every actor in Hollywood most enjoys to appear on and 28:19.440 --> 28:20.440 to listen to. 28:20.440 --> 28:25.720 For instance, I wouldn't miss next week's show when Pat O'Brien stars in a really outstanding 28:25.720 --> 28:32.240 story, Dead Ernest, another gripping study in suspense. 28:32.240 --> 28:36.160 Gregory Peck can currently be seen starring in the 20th Century Fox production, Yellow 28:36.160 --> 28:37.160 Sky. 28:37.160 --> 28:40.400 Tonight's suspense story was by Michael Venning, whose books have also been written under the 28:40.400 --> 28:42.720 more familiar name of Craig Rice. 28:42.720 --> 28:45.120 The adaptation for radio was by Ken Crossan. 28:45.120 --> 28:48.720 Music was composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:48.720 --> 28:52.560 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Leder. 28:52.560 --> 29:00.720 Next Thursday, same time, here Pat O'Brien in Dead Ernest. 29:00.720 --> 29:06.240 You can buy auto light electrical parts, auto light resistor spark plugs, auto light staple 29:06.240 --> 29:08.920 batteries at your neighborhood auto light dealer. 29:08.920 --> 29:10.880 Switch to auto light. 29:10.880 --> 29:12.320 Good night. 29:12.320 --> 29:15.520 We have the highest standard of living in the world. 29:15.520 --> 29:18.400 Safeguard the American way. 29:18.400 --> 29:31.600 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.