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01:56.840 --> 01:59.280 I know it's none of my business. 01:59.280 --> 02:01.240 Are you my father? 02:01.240 --> 02:02.240 Of course not. 02:02.240 --> 02:03.240 I'm only trying to... 02:03.240 --> 02:04.240 Well, don't call me son. 02:04.240 --> 02:07.320 And you're right, it's none of your business. 02:07.320 --> 02:09.000 Why, you fresh pup. 02:09.000 --> 02:11.720 If I were your father, I'd be ashamed to admit it. 02:11.720 --> 02:13.120 I watched where you got on. 02:13.120 --> 02:16.120 It's in the middle of the semester, bounced out on your ear, weren't you? 02:16.120 --> 02:19.440 I know your type, taking everything you can get from the old man and not giving anything 02:19.440 --> 02:20.440 back, only grief and gray hair. 02:20.440 --> 02:21.440 Ah, shut up. 02:21.440 --> 02:27.160 Mansfield, Mansfield, next station stop, Mansfield. 02:27.160 --> 02:30.160 Put away that bottle, kid, you're home. 02:30.160 --> 02:47.440 Mansfield, Mansfield. 02:47.440 --> 02:50.600 The old hometown depot again. 02:50.600 --> 02:53.040 Didn't look friendly. 02:53.040 --> 02:54.600 Nobody was going to look friendly. 02:54.600 --> 02:58.960 A whole term's tuition fee shot for the third time. 02:58.960 --> 03:04.380 Well, Dad had tried to cover up what he felt, but she wouldn't. 03:04.380 --> 03:06.080 Not glad. 03:06.080 --> 03:08.400 I could hear already in my imagination. 03:08.400 --> 03:10.440 Oh, so you're home again. 03:10.440 --> 03:13.680 I guess you found out it was all a waste of time. 03:13.680 --> 03:15.680 They couldn't teach you anything at college. 03:15.680 --> 03:17.800 Maybe they ought to change things. 03:17.800 --> 03:19.560 Maybe they ought to learn from you. 03:19.560 --> 03:23.760 And make them pay, Marty, dear, make them pay. 03:23.760 --> 03:25.360 Maybe we get back some of the money you've wasted. 03:25.360 --> 03:27.680 What do you think, you are a rich man's son? 03:27.680 --> 03:32.240 I knew you from the day I married your father, and I expect to see the day when I have to 03:32.240 --> 03:35.360 send you cartons of cigarettes up to the pen. 03:35.360 --> 03:38.720 Well, I was going to hear it again. 03:38.720 --> 03:42.040 No way of stopping that mouth. 03:42.040 --> 03:45.320 To break the ice, I called home from the station. 03:45.320 --> 03:46.320 Busy. 03:46.320 --> 03:50.600 Five minutes later, I called again. 03:50.600 --> 03:51.600 Busy. 03:51.600 --> 03:54.960 So I waited, and five minutes later, I called again. 03:54.960 --> 03:55.960 Talking, talking. 03:55.960 --> 03:58.560 That's all she ever had under a peroxide. 03:58.560 --> 04:01.320 Talk, talk with a cheap crowd of hers. 04:01.320 --> 04:03.560 It wasn't my dad on the telephone. 04:03.560 --> 04:05.560 He was in Baltimore working. 04:05.560 --> 04:12.320 Well, I grabbed a bus and went home. 04:12.320 --> 04:16.600 Glad. 04:16.600 --> 04:21.880 Hey, Glad, it's me. 04:21.880 --> 04:22.880 Hey, Glad. 04:22.880 --> 04:24.880 It's your loving stepson. 04:24.880 --> 04:26.880 Look at that. 04:26.880 --> 04:30.880 Didn't even bother to hang up the telephone. 04:30.880 --> 04:31.880 What a woman. 04:31.880 --> 04:32.880 Hello. 04:32.880 --> 04:33.880 What's that? 04:33.880 --> 04:34.880 Hello. 04:34.880 --> 04:35.880 Who is it? 04:35.880 --> 04:38.960 It was a man. 04:38.960 --> 04:41.200 It would be, with her. 04:41.200 --> 04:45.080 He heard my voice, thought it was Dad, and hung up. 04:45.080 --> 04:46.280 Dad had come home early today. 04:46.280 --> 04:47.280 Plenty of signs. 04:47.280 --> 04:50.120 There was the paper he always picked up in Baltimore. 04:50.120 --> 04:51.120 Cigarettes, stuff. 04:51.120 --> 04:52.120 And I knew it was his. 04:52.120 --> 04:55.640 It was that awful Turkish brand he'd been smoking since before I was born. 04:55.640 --> 04:57.120 No one else could stand. 04:57.120 --> 04:59.520 Yeah, he came home early. 04:59.520 --> 05:01.760 They must have gone out. 05:01.760 --> 05:04.120 I wandered into her bedroom. 05:04.120 --> 05:05.120 No reason. 05:05.120 --> 05:06.120 Just wandered. 05:06.120 --> 05:10.240 You know what I saw? 05:10.240 --> 05:12.160 She was curled up on the bed. 05:12.160 --> 05:16.400 Yes, Glad, curled up on the bed, sort of cuddling. 05:16.400 --> 05:18.080 No makeup. 05:18.080 --> 05:22.560 Hair all good up with that bleached stuff of hers, and she was dead. 05:22.560 --> 05:25.320 But dead. 05:25.320 --> 05:29.480 Somebody had broken her neck. 05:29.480 --> 05:33.480 If ever a man deserved a break, it's my dad. 05:33.480 --> 05:37.720 If ever a man deserved a decent, loving wife like my real mother, if ever a man deserved 05:37.720 --> 05:42.000 the kind of son fathers dream about instead of the mutt the rat I was turning out to be. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.960 Well, I didn't have much time for philosophizing. 05:44.960 --> 05:47.600 I got rid of the newspaper and cigarette butt. 05:47.600 --> 05:53.280 I mussed my hair, tore my clothes, picked up her dead hand with those purple cat-like fingernails, 05:53.280 --> 05:55.160 and I scratched it across my face. 05:55.160 --> 05:56.160 Ow! 05:56.160 --> 06:00.280 You'd think she was alive the way those nails dug in. 06:00.280 --> 06:06.080 And then I went to the phone. 06:06.080 --> 06:09.720 Police headquarters. 06:09.720 --> 06:15.240 Hello, this is Martin Delavan calling from 22 Beech Street South. 06:15.240 --> 06:16.240 Yeah. 06:16.240 --> 06:19.360 I think you'd better send somebody around to pick me up. 06:19.360 --> 06:34.240 I just murdered my stepmother. 06:34.240 --> 06:41.440 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Mickey Rooney in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 06:41.440 --> 06:42.440 Suspense. 06:42.440 --> 06:43.440 Hiya, hello. 06:43.440 --> 06:52.440 Say, that's quite a stack of letters you got. 06:52.440 --> 06:53.880 Yep, that's my fan mail. 06:53.880 --> 06:55.680 Auditorial letters, pay-ons of praise. 06:55.680 --> 06:57.520 You mean people like you? 06:57.520 --> 07:01.080 Of course they like me because I tell them to replace old narrow gap spark plugs with 07:01.080 --> 07:05.440 wide gap Auto Light resistor spark plugs, and naturally they like Auto Light resistor 07:05.440 --> 07:07.400 spark plugs once they try them. 07:07.400 --> 07:08.400 Here's one from Mr. W.E. 07:08.400 --> 07:12.600 Schmitz of Houston, Texas who writes, gentlemen, I recently switched to Auto Light resistor 07:12.600 --> 07:15.280 spark plugs for my 1942 car. 07:15.280 --> 07:18.840 I've been trying other brands for years, but when I switched to Auto Light, I can truthfully 07:18.840 --> 07:23.400 say I've never seen such an improvement in my 43 years in the automobile business simply 07:23.400 --> 07:24.680 by changing plugs. 07:24.680 --> 07:26.520 Well, from an automobile man, eh? 07:26.520 --> 07:30.560 From the sort of man who'd know that switching to Auto Light resistor spark plugs means smoother 07:30.560 --> 07:35.720 idling, better performance on leaner gas mixtures, and actual saving of gas. 07:35.720 --> 07:39.840 And Auto Light resistor spark plugs cut down spark plug interference with radio and television 07:39.840 --> 07:40.840 reception. 07:40.840 --> 07:46.440 All right, Harlow, but let's not interfere with the reception of suspense. 07:46.440 --> 07:53.000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Mickey Rooney as Martin Delavan 07:53.000 --> 07:54.800 in The Lie. 07:54.800 --> 08:13.160 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 08:13.160 --> 08:15.320 Don't get cocky with me, young fella. 08:15.320 --> 08:19.200 And just remember that you put yourself in a jam that always turns out to be pretty rugged. 08:19.200 --> 08:21.600 And let's have the story again. 08:21.600 --> 08:24.600 Look, I've told it to you twice. 08:24.600 --> 08:27.000 Let's have it again. 08:27.000 --> 08:29.040 You don't have to play McTavish of Scotland Yard. 08:29.040 --> 08:30.040 You don't have to find the killer. 08:30.040 --> 08:31.240 I told you I did it. 08:31.240 --> 08:34.000 But you make it sound so exciting. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Let's have it again. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.240 Okay, okay. 08:38.240 --> 08:39.240 Beginning where? 08:39.240 --> 08:41.760 You were expelled from college this morning for drinking. 08:41.760 --> 08:43.760 They always expel me for drinking. 08:43.760 --> 08:47.760 You took the early afternoon train at State Junction, got out here about six and telephoned 08:47.760 --> 08:48.760 from the station. 08:48.760 --> 08:49.760 Take it from there. 08:49.760 --> 08:50.760 The line was busy. 08:50.760 --> 08:51.880 I took a bus from the station. 08:51.880 --> 08:53.400 I came in without making any noise. 08:53.400 --> 08:55.120 It didn't happen to make any. 08:55.120 --> 08:57.120 From the hall out there, I hear this... 08:57.120 --> 08:58.120 This... 08:58.120 --> 09:00.080 I heard my stepmother talking on the phone. 09:00.080 --> 09:01.080 To a man? 09:01.080 --> 09:02.080 Yes. 09:02.080 --> 09:03.080 How'd you know it was a man? 09:03.080 --> 09:04.080 I could tell. 09:04.080 --> 09:05.280 Smart boy. 09:05.280 --> 09:06.280 What was she saying? 09:06.280 --> 09:07.280 She... 09:07.280 --> 09:08.280 She said enough. 09:08.280 --> 09:12.560 I'd like to find out what makes enough. 09:12.560 --> 09:14.600 Well... 09:14.600 --> 09:15.600 What makes enough? 09:15.600 --> 09:18.320 The point when you put your hands around somebody's neck and start to squeeze. 09:18.320 --> 09:20.360 She was two-timing your father, huh? 09:20.360 --> 09:22.360 All right, go on. 09:22.360 --> 09:24.000 I guess I lost my hit. 09:24.000 --> 09:27.760 I remember grabbing her by the neck just as she heard me and turned around, and I remember 09:27.760 --> 09:31.200 her fingernails coming up toward my eyes and digging into my face. 09:31.200 --> 09:33.480 Would you say she did a good job on me? 09:33.480 --> 09:36.000 Yeah, look at these scratches. 09:36.000 --> 09:37.640 You did a better one on her. 09:37.640 --> 09:40.840 Well, this is about checks with what you sent before. 09:40.840 --> 09:41.840 Good for me. 09:41.840 --> 09:42.840 You don't want to change anything? 09:42.840 --> 09:45.200 I want you to take me downtown and book me. 09:45.200 --> 09:47.080 There's no hurry. 09:47.080 --> 09:50.920 I want you to reenact this for us before a motion picture camera. 09:50.920 --> 09:52.520 The mo...movies? 09:52.520 --> 09:54.560 That'll be fun. 09:54.560 --> 09:56.840 Hey, what's the matter? 09:56.840 --> 09:57.840 You don't look happy. 09:57.840 --> 10:01.280 Would it have pleased you more if you'd had to beat it out of me with a rubber hose? 10:01.280 --> 10:02.280 Maybe. 10:02.280 --> 10:03.280 Maybe it would. 10:03.280 --> 10:04.280 And a good... 10:04.280 --> 10:05.280 Right here, Lieutenant, in the kitchen. 10:05.280 --> 10:06.280 Now, break out your camera. 10:06.280 --> 10:07.280 Somebody burned a newspaper in the kitchen stove. 10:07.280 --> 10:08.280 The ashes are still warm. 10:08.280 --> 10:09.280 And which paper? 10:09.280 --> 10:10.280 Can you make it out? 10:10.280 --> 10:11.280 No, no, no. 10:11.280 --> 10:12.280 The ashes are all stirred up. 10:12.280 --> 10:13.280 Did you burn a newspaper, kid? 10:13.280 --> 10:14.280 Yes. 10:14.280 --> 10:15.280 Why? 10:15.280 --> 10:16.280 Well, after I killed her, I got kind of a bad feeling. 10:16.280 --> 10:17.280 I mean, I'm not sure. 10:17.280 --> 10:18.280 I mean, I'm not sure. 10:18.280 --> 10:19.280 I mean, I'm not sure. 10:19.280 --> 10:20.280 I mean, I'm not sure. 10:20.280 --> 10:23.580 I got kind of a chill, and I thought I'd start a fire. 10:23.580 --> 10:24.880 And then you changed your mind, huh? 10:24.880 --> 10:25.880 That's right. 10:25.880 --> 10:29.780 So, you just waited for it to burn out, and you just stirred up the ashes, huh? 10:29.780 --> 10:32.480 Listen, if people were always rational, they wouldn't commit murders. 10:32.480 --> 10:34.640 Psychologists, too, huh? 10:34.640 --> 10:38.800 Okay, set up the first shot from the hallway, Endocott, as it comes in. 10:38.800 --> 10:39.800 Jack. 10:39.800 --> 10:40.800 Where's your father, Delavan? 10:40.800 --> 10:41.800 Where can we reach him? 10:41.800 --> 10:42.800 I don't want him pulled into this. 10:42.800 --> 10:43.800 Leave him alone. 10:43.800 --> 10:44.800 Don't start jabbering at him, making things worse than they are. 10:44.800 --> 10:46.800 Get hold of your blood pressure, Bob. 10:46.800 --> 10:48.400 It happens that you killed his wife. 10:48.400 --> 10:50.400 Now, where do we reach him? 10:50.400 --> 10:52.400 He's in Baltimore. 10:52.400 --> 10:55.400 Henry Dullivan Company, import and export. 10:55.400 --> 10:56.400 Commutes every day? 10:56.400 --> 10:58.400 Yeah, yeah, but he wouldn't be at his office now. 10:58.400 --> 11:00.400 It's long past closing time. 11:00.400 --> 11:01.400 All set, Lieutenant. 11:01.400 --> 11:02.400 All right with you. 11:02.400 --> 11:04.400 You like your old man, huh? 11:04.400 --> 11:06.400 Oh, I guess he passes. 11:06.400 --> 11:07.400 And that's all? 11:07.400 --> 11:09.400 We haven't seen much of each other since he married that... 11:09.400 --> 11:11.400 since he got married again. 11:11.400 --> 11:14.400 I get expelled from different colleges, and he balls me out, 11:14.400 --> 11:17.400 and I write him for checks, and he sends them. 11:17.400 --> 11:19.400 Mm-hmm. 11:19.400 --> 11:22.400 Okay, let's make our try for the Oscar, shall we? 11:22.400 --> 11:24.400 You just go through the motions starting at the door, 11:24.400 --> 11:26.400 exactly as it happened. 11:26.400 --> 11:28.400 Without my make-up, Lieutenant? 11:28.400 --> 11:32.400 Very funny, except there's a dead woman in the bedroom. 11:32.400 --> 11:34.400 You better change your attitude, kid. 11:34.400 --> 11:35.400 Who's this? 11:35.400 --> 11:36.400 It's my father, please. 11:36.400 --> 11:37.400 Take it easy with him. 11:37.400 --> 11:39.400 Dad! Dad! 11:39.400 --> 11:41.400 What's going on in my house? 11:41.400 --> 11:44.400 Marty, what are you doing here this time of year? 11:44.400 --> 11:45.400 Let me break into him my way. 11:45.400 --> 11:47.400 You shut up. 11:47.400 --> 11:49.400 Where's Glad? Where's your mother? 11:49.400 --> 11:52.400 And what are all the police doing around here? 11:52.400 --> 11:55.400 Marty, speak up. 11:55.400 --> 11:57.400 All right. 11:57.400 --> 11:59.400 I'll give it to you straight. 11:59.400 --> 12:00.400 She's dead. 12:00.400 --> 12:01.400 What? What do you mean? 12:01.400 --> 12:02.400 You know what dead means? 12:02.400 --> 12:04.400 She's dead. I...I killed her. 12:04.400 --> 12:06.400 No, no, Marty, don't say that. It isn't true. 12:06.400 --> 12:08.400 You...why, you don't know how... 12:08.400 --> 12:09.400 I killed her! 12:09.400 --> 12:10.400 How would you know anything about it? 12:10.400 --> 12:12.400 You were in Baltimore. 12:12.400 --> 12:14.400 You were in Baltimore, weren't you? 12:14.400 --> 12:16.400 Gentlemen, please. 12:16.400 --> 12:17.400 I'm Lieutenant Steele. 12:17.400 --> 12:19.400 Lieutenant, don't listen to my boy. 12:19.400 --> 12:20.400 He couldn't have possibly... 12:20.400 --> 12:22.400 Don't try to tell anybody what I couldn't have done. 12:22.400 --> 12:24.400 You know I always wanted to kill her. 12:24.400 --> 12:26.400 Anyway, you weren't here. 12:26.400 --> 12:29.400 You were in Baltimore until now at your office. 12:29.400 --> 12:30.400 I wasn't in my office. 12:30.400 --> 12:31.400 Dad! 12:31.400 --> 12:33.400 I didn't feel very well long about noon. 12:33.400 --> 12:35.400 I quit for the day. 12:35.400 --> 12:37.400 May I see my wife, please? 12:37.400 --> 12:38.400 In the bedroom. 12:38.400 --> 12:41.400 And what did you do for the rest of the day, Mr. Delavan? 12:41.400 --> 12:42.400 You don't have to answer that, Dad. 12:42.400 --> 12:43.400 You don't have to say anything. 12:43.400 --> 12:44.400 I'm trying to full confession, Dad. 12:44.400 --> 12:46.400 I went to a Turkish bath and I stayed there for several hours. 12:46.400 --> 12:48.400 Yeah, we can check that easily enough. 12:48.400 --> 12:49.400 Of course. 12:49.400 --> 12:51.400 I'm sorry to say that my son is right, Lieutenant. 12:51.400 --> 12:53.400 I wasn't here. 12:57.400 --> 13:02.400 When you commit a crime, it's as though someone snapped a switch and the sun went out. 13:02.400 --> 13:04.400 Now you live in shadow. 13:04.400 --> 13:08.400 You wear faded blue denims with your number on them. 13:08.400 --> 13:10.400 You're surrounded by so much iron. 13:10.400 --> 13:14.400 Doors and bars and the bed you sleep on. 13:14.400 --> 13:18.400 You weigh every word before you say it. 13:18.400 --> 13:23.400 Because it might make the difference between living and dying. 13:23.400 --> 13:26.400 Most of the time you're angling to live. 13:26.400 --> 13:31.400 By the time I was through, I made sure I would die. 13:31.400 --> 13:34.400 You did a bad thing, Marty. 13:34.400 --> 13:35.400 Why did you do it? 13:35.400 --> 13:37.400 The important thing is that I did it. 13:37.400 --> 13:39.400 That's what we've got to keep remembering. 13:39.400 --> 13:40.400 Now don't let me down. 13:40.400 --> 13:42.400 You haven't said anything, have you? 13:42.400 --> 13:43.400 About what? 13:43.400 --> 13:44.400 About you. 13:44.400 --> 13:47.400 Well, what's there to say? 13:47.400 --> 13:49.400 What's there to... 13:49.400 --> 13:51.400 Oh, I get it. 13:51.400 --> 13:52.400 I get it. 13:52.400 --> 13:53.400 Swell. 13:53.400 --> 13:54.400 Swell, we'll keep it that way. 13:54.400 --> 13:56.400 Oh, I suppose I ought to be keeping it that way. 13:56.400 --> 13:58.400 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 13:58.400 --> 14:01.400 Swell, we'll keep it that way. 14:01.400 --> 14:04.400 I suppose I ought to be able to understand what you're trying to say, Marty. 14:04.400 --> 14:05.400 But I can't. 14:05.400 --> 14:07.400 I'm so confused. 14:07.400 --> 14:11.400 They keep hammering away at me, trying to break down my story, where I was. 14:11.400 --> 14:13.400 That Turkish bath routine wasn't very bright. 14:13.400 --> 14:15.400 They can check on that dad. 14:15.400 --> 14:16.400 They did. 14:16.400 --> 14:18.400 There's no question about that, Marty. 14:18.400 --> 14:20.400 I was there. 14:20.400 --> 14:21.400 When? 14:21.400 --> 14:22.400 All that afternoon. 14:22.400 --> 14:24.400 From two until five. 14:24.400 --> 14:25.400 Who says you were there? 14:25.400 --> 14:26.400 Beside yourself. 14:26.400 --> 14:28.400 The clerk, the attendants, the rubbers. 14:28.400 --> 14:30.400 They all know me, Marty. 14:30.400 --> 14:34.400 I've been going there every Wednesday for months. 14:34.400 --> 14:36.400 This couldn't be true. 14:36.400 --> 14:39.400 Everything else about the whole nightmare could happen. 14:39.400 --> 14:41.400 It was happening. 14:41.400 --> 14:43.400 But not this. 14:43.400 --> 14:45.400 He had killed her. 14:45.400 --> 14:48.400 He must have killed her. 14:48.400 --> 14:52.400 I'd hung a perfect frame on myself because he did it. 14:52.400 --> 14:55.400 What's the matter, son? 14:55.400 --> 15:01.400 Dad, how would that day's Baltimore paper get into our house before you came home? 15:01.400 --> 15:02.400 Well, it's delivered to me. 15:02.400 --> 15:04.400 I buy one in the morning to read it on the way in, 15:04.400 --> 15:07.400 and the one that's delivered I read in the evening at home. 15:07.400 --> 15:09.400 It's that simple. 15:09.400 --> 15:11.400 And I suppose you're going to tell me that since I've been away, 15:11.400 --> 15:14.400 Gladys learned how to smoke those Turkish blowtorches. 15:14.400 --> 15:17.400 No, but you know how chain smokers are, son. 15:17.400 --> 15:19.400 They're bound to run out of their own brand sometime, 15:19.400 --> 15:22.400 and they'll smoke anything they can get their hands on. 15:22.400 --> 15:24.400 Anything they can get? 15:24.400 --> 15:27.400 Oh, sure. Anyone could figure that out. 15:27.400 --> 15:30.400 But why talk about newspapers and cigarettes, Marty? 15:30.400 --> 15:33.400 We have only five minutes together. 15:33.400 --> 15:36.400 Don't talk about anything. 15:36.400 --> 15:39.400 What a chump I've been. 15:39.400 --> 15:41.400 What a sap. 15:41.400 --> 15:44.400 Oh, Dad, Dad, you don't know. 15:44.400 --> 15:48.400 I know only one thing, Marty, that you didn't do it. 15:48.400 --> 15:49.400 How do you know that? 15:49.400 --> 15:51.400 Well, who would have known better? 15:51.400 --> 15:53.400 What does that mean? 15:53.400 --> 15:55.400 Why, why, you're my boy. 15:55.400 --> 15:58.400 Oh, you've been wild, but that was because you were so hurt 15:58.400 --> 15:59.400 when I remarried. 15:59.400 --> 16:01.400 And when she turned out to be what she was. 16:01.400 --> 16:04.400 Oh, you don't have to keep reminding me of that, son. 16:04.400 --> 16:07.400 Oh, I'm sorry, Dad, I'm sorry. 16:07.400 --> 16:12.400 Anyway, I know my boy, Marty, and you didn't kill her. 16:12.400 --> 16:15.400 Makes no difference, Dad. 16:15.400 --> 16:18.400 They got an airtight case against me. 16:18.400 --> 16:23.400 I'm going to fry just as crisp as though I did it. 16:26.400 --> 16:29.400 I never thought for more than a second that you killed her, Marty. 16:29.400 --> 16:32.400 The way you kept jabbering, you were in Baltimore, I was here, 16:32.400 --> 16:35.400 you were in Baltimore, like a needle stuck in a reckon. 16:35.400 --> 16:37.400 What can we do now, Lieutenant? 16:37.400 --> 16:40.400 Do? It's out of my hands. You go to trial. 16:40.400 --> 16:42.400 Trial? For what? 16:42.400 --> 16:44.400 You say you know I didn't kill her. 16:44.400 --> 16:46.400 Listen, kid, you framed yourself too well. 16:46.400 --> 16:49.400 You didn't leave a shred of evidence that points to the real killer. 16:49.400 --> 16:50.400 You had a motive. 16:50.400 --> 16:52.400 You cleaned up every trace of someone else. 16:52.400 --> 16:55.400 And now that someone else is laughing up his sleeve. 16:55.400 --> 16:59.400 But, wait a minute, they can't convict me and execute me for a crime I didn't commit. 16:59.400 --> 17:00.400 Take it easy, kid. 17:00.400 --> 17:02.400 Take it easy? You mean take the rap? 17:02.400 --> 17:04.400 You mean you'd like me to sit with my hands folded like a good little boy 17:04.400 --> 17:06.400 and let him shave my skull, slit open my pants leg 17:06.400 --> 17:08.400 because somebody else broke her neck? 17:08.400 --> 17:11.400 Well, have you got a real idea who that somebody could be? 17:11.400 --> 17:12.400 How would I know? 17:12.400 --> 17:14.400 You think I ran around with her friends? 17:14.400 --> 17:16.400 I never saw one of them. 17:16.400 --> 17:19.400 But I'll bet she had a little black book that was so full it was spilling over. 17:19.400 --> 17:21.400 Son, I told you this thing is out of my hands. 17:21.400 --> 17:22.400 According to police routine... 17:22.400 --> 17:24.400 But we're talking about her life! Don't you understand? My life! 17:24.400 --> 17:27.400 And I'm trying to tell you that you're talking to the wrong man. 17:27.400 --> 17:29.400 See the D.A., kid. 17:29.400 --> 17:31.400 He's the only one who can help you. 17:38.400 --> 17:40.400 Every word of my confession was a... 17:40.400 --> 17:42.400 was a deliberate lie, sir. 17:42.400 --> 17:46.400 A lie. See, I dictated it and I reenacted the whole thing before the camera 17:46.400 --> 17:49.400 because I thought I was protecting someone else, see? 17:49.400 --> 17:51.400 A real murderer? 17:51.400 --> 17:54.400 No, no, but I thought so at the time. 17:54.400 --> 17:56.400 What was this somebody's name? 17:56.400 --> 17:58.400 I'd rather not tell you that. 17:58.400 --> 17:59.400 Why not if he's innocent? 17:59.400 --> 18:01.400 Because I don't want him dragged through the mud. 18:01.400 --> 18:02.400 I... 18:02.400 --> 18:04.400 Here's the report you've been waiting for, sir. 18:04.400 --> 18:06.400 Oh, thanks, Endicott. 18:06.400 --> 18:07.400 Yes, sir. 18:07.400 --> 18:09.400 Listen... 18:09.400 --> 18:11.400 Now look, Delavan, I am too busy to play games. 18:11.400 --> 18:15.400 This report establishes beyond doubt that it was your skin and blood under her fingernails. 18:15.400 --> 18:16.400 That clinches it for me. 18:16.400 --> 18:17.400 But wait a minute, don't you... 18:17.400 --> 18:18.400 That's all. I'll see you at the trial. 18:18.400 --> 18:20.400 And I guess you know how it'll come out. 18:27.400 --> 18:30.400 So callous was this killer, so conscienceless, 18:30.400 --> 18:32.400 that not only did he freely admit his guilt, 18:32.400 --> 18:35.400 he willingly reenacted the whole ghastly thing 18:35.400 --> 18:38.400 before the police department's cameras you've seen. 18:38.400 --> 18:41.400 Far from showing remorse for his crime, he gloried in it. 18:41.400 --> 18:43.400 You know the evidence. 18:43.400 --> 18:45.400 His finger prints his blood under her nails. 18:45.400 --> 18:49.400 I ask that you return a verdict that will make mandatory the extreme penalty. 18:49.400 --> 18:51.400 Death for Martin Delavan. 19:02.400 --> 19:03.400 I... 19:03.400 --> 19:04.400 I'm gonna die. 19:04.400 --> 19:05.400 Dad... 19:05.400 --> 19:06.400 Dad... 19:06.400 --> 19:08.400 Find a way out for me, will you? 19:08.400 --> 19:10.400 I don't know where to turn, Marty. 19:10.400 --> 19:12.400 I'd give my life to save you. 19:12.400 --> 19:14.400 Would you, Dad, would you sometimes, you know, 19:14.400 --> 19:16.400 people just use that expression? 19:16.400 --> 19:19.400 I sometimes wonder if they really would do a thing like that. 19:19.400 --> 19:22.400 Isn't that what you did for me? 19:22.400 --> 19:26.400 It's such a shame, Marty, that this should happen to us because of her. 19:26.400 --> 19:30.400 The only good thing she ever did was to bring us together again. 19:30.400 --> 19:32.400 By dying. 19:32.400 --> 19:35.400 Then you knew all about her. 19:35.400 --> 19:37.400 For a long time. 19:37.400 --> 19:39.400 But I kept hoping... 19:39.400 --> 19:42.400 Well, maybe she didn't appreciate you, Dad, but... 19:42.400 --> 19:44.400 but I do. 19:46.400 --> 19:48.400 You're not so bad yourself. 19:48.400 --> 19:49.400 Dad? 19:49.400 --> 19:51.400 Yes? 19:51.400 --> 19:54.400 It's probably too late, but... 19:54.400 --> 19:56.400 one part of my story was true. 19:56.400 --> 19:58.400 She had been talking to somebody. 19:58.400 --> 19:59.400 What? 19:59.400 --> 20:01.400 The receiver was off the hook and there was still a party on the other end. 20:01.400 --> 20:02.400 Who was it? 20:02.400 --> 20:03.400 That I don't know. 20:03.400 --> 20:05.400 I picked up the receiver and I said, hello. 20:05.400 --> 20:08.400 I heard a funny kind of gasp and then a click. 20:08.400 --> 20:10.400 But Dad, don't you see? 20:10.400 --> 20:12.400 It means somebody's ear was in on that murder. 20:12.400 --> 20:13.400 We've got a witness. 20:13.400 --> 20:15.400 Somebody who knows I didn't do it. 20:15.400 --> 20:17.400 He and the guy who murdered her. 20:17.400 --> 20:18.400 Time's up, kid. 20:18.400 --> 20:20.400 We have just another five minutes. 20:20.400 --> 20:21.400 We've got rules here, mister. 20:21.400 --> 20:23.400 I'm just the right guy to be worried about rules. 20:23.400 --> 20:24.400 Shove off, will you? 20:24.400 --> 20:25.400 Wait a minute. 20:25.400 --> 20:26.400 Shove off, will you? 20:26.400 --> 20:27.400 Dad, did you try everything? 20:27.400 --> 20:28.400 Try everything. 20:28.400 --> 20:30.400 Take your hands off of me! 20:30.400 --> 20:32.400 Just because you're going to die, don't give you any special privileges. 20:32.400 --> 20:33.400 Let me go. 20:33.400 --> 20:34.400 Hey, Joe. 20:34.400 --> 20:35.400 Dad, Dad, help me. 20:35.400 --> 20:36.400 Come on, Marty. 20:36.400 --> 20:37.400 Tell me what to do. 20:37.400 --> 20:38.400 Help me, Dad. 20:38.400 --> 20:39.400 Marty, tell me how to help you. 20:39.400 --> 20:40.400 Steal! 20:40.400 --> 20:41.400 Steal, Dr. Steal! 20:41.400 --> 20:42.400 Lieutenant Steal, tell him. 20:42.400 --> 20:43.400 Tell him about the vote. 20:43.400 --> 20:44.400 Go! 20:44.400 --> 20:45.400 Tell him we've got a witness. 20:45.400 --> 20:46.400 Dad, remember, it's a matter of time. 20:46.400 --> 20:47.400 I haven't got much time! 20:47.400 --> 20:48.400 Now, look, Miss Jane, a boy's life depends on this. 20:48.400 --> 21:03.400 And we haven't got much time either. 21:03.400 --> 21:05.400 There's anything I can do to help. 21:05.400 --> 21:06.400 Fine. 21:06.400 --> 21:07.400 Now, let's see. 21:07.400 --> 21:09.880 It was around six in the evening when Marty Delavan got off the train and tried to call 21:09.880 --> 21:10.880 home. 21:10.880 --> 21:11.880 Uh-huh. 21:11.880 --> 21:12.880 He got a busy signal. 21:12.880 --> 21:15.640 Let's give ourselves a break and say it was the same party who was on the line when he 21:15.640 --> 21:16.640 came home. 21:16.640 --> 21:17.640 Could you trace that call? 21:17.640 --> 21:18.640 I'm a trial lieutenant. 21:18.640 --> 21:21.360 A call that long would have plenty of overtime on it. 21:21.360 --> 21:24.040 Well, stretch it out a little, kind of narrow down the field. 21:24.040 --> 21:28.080 Say five minutes before he called, another ten before he gave up, another ten to get 21:28.080 --> 21:31.800 out to the house on the bus and then coming in, looking around, finding the receiver off 21:31.800 --> 21:32.800 the hook. 21:32.800 --> 21:33.800 Say, uh, say 45 minutes. 21:33.800 --> 21:34.800 Oh, my gosh. 21:34.800 --> 21:35.800 What's the matter? 21:35.800 --> 21:38.620 I just happened to think. 21:38.620 --> 21:40.480 What if Mrs. Delavan put in that call? 21:40.480 --> 21:43.640 You'd have a record of it, but the charge would be on her bill. 21:43.640 --> 21:46.400 That wouldn't show the name of the person she was calling. 21:46.400 --> 21:47.840 Those are the breaks. 21:47.840 --> 21:49.840 I'll see what I can do. 21:49.840 --> 21:50.840 Hello. 21:50.840 --> 21:51.840 Hello, Lieutenant. 21:51.840 --> 21:52.840 Oh, what'd you find? 21:52.840 --> 21:53.840 Well, that call was placed by Mrs. Delavan. 21:53.840 --> 21:54.840 No. 21:54.840 --> 21:55.840 To a Mr. William J. Simmons. 21:55.840 --> 21:56.840 Sure. 21:56.840 --> 21:57.840 What? 21:57.840 --> 21:58.840 You see, Mrs. Delavan always complained about her bills. 21:58.840 --> 21:59.840 She never stopped saying we were cheating her. 21:59.840 --> 22:00.840 Well, we had to put a monitor on her telephone and make a record of the bill. 22:00.840 --> 22:01.840 And then we had to go back to the house and say, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, 22:01.840 --> 22:02.840 uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, 22:02.840 --> 22:31.400 uh, uh, uh, y- y- you know, 22:31.400 --> 22:40.560 Now, look, V.A., that kid isn't any of the things you called him in the courtroom. 22:40.560 --> 22:41.560 I know. 22:41.560 --> 22:44.320 And I couldn't stand by and see him fry for a murder he didn't commit. 22:44.320 --> 22:47.520 Steele, you're a fine detective, but a little too much of an optimist. 22:47.520 --> 22:51.320 Now, this weasel you brought in here, his story is only as good as the amount of proof 22:51.320 --> 22:52.320 you can attach to it. 22:52.320 --> 22:53.520 Look, I'm no weasel. 22:53.520 --> 22:57.040 I didn't want to get mixed up in this because I got a wife and kids, see? 22:57.040 --> 23:00.000 You know what it means if your wife finds out you've been playing around? 23:00.000 --> 23:01.960 Fill it into the dictograph. 23:01.960 --> 23:02.960 Huh? 23:02.960 --> 23:03.960 How do I start? 23:03.960 --> 23:08.080 With your name. 23:08.080 --> 23:11.480 William J. Simmons, 798 Shore Avenue. 23:11.480 --> 23:12.480 Okay. 23:12.480 --> 23:14.120 You were acquainted with Mrs. Gladys Delevingne? 23:14.120 --> 23:15.120 Yes. 23:15.120 --> 23:16.840 You were in love with her? 23:16.840 --> 23:18.920 Well, in a way. 23:18.920 --> 23:22.160 Tell us what you heard over the telephone at six o'clock on the evening she was murdered. 23:22.160 --> 23:29.200 Well, we were talking, just talking, see, about... about how we felt. 23:29.200 --> 23:32.480 Suddenly I hear this guy's voice on the phone somewhere off in her house. 23:32.480 --> 23:35.480 He yells, where were you yesterday? 23:35.480 --> 23:36.880 We had a date, didn't we? 23:36.880 --> 23:38.600 Then he comes closer, still yelling. 23:38.600 --> 23:39.600 What did he say? 23:39.600 --> 23:41.560 Oh, all kinds of stuff, names, things like that. 23:41.560 --> 23:46.200 Then she begins to scream, don't, Steve, don't, you're hurting me, Steve. 23:46.200 --> 23:47.880 I can tell he's got her by the neck, he's choking her. 23:47.880 --> 23:50.880 I can tell he's choking her. 23:50.880 --> 24:00.880 Come on, kid, on your feet. 24:00.880 --> 24:04.520 Is it... is it time? 24:04.520 --> 24:05.520 Time for what? 24:05.520 --> 24:06.520 You... you know... 24:06.520 --> 24:09.640 I don't know anything you wanted in the warden's office. 24:09.640 --> 24:10.640 Come on. 24:10.640 --> 24:13.160 What... what's up? 24:13.160 --> 24:14.160 Search me. 24:14.160 --> 24:15.960 Hey, that's pretty good. 24:15.960 --> 24:19.320 I'm the guard, you're the prisoner, but I say you search me. 24:19.320 --> 24:22.240 Do you know who's with the warden? 24:22.240 --> 24:25.000 Well, that local Dick Steele. 24:25.000 --> 24:26.360 McTavish of Scotland Yard. 24:26.360 --> 24:28.240 A couple of other guys and your old man. 24:28.240 --> 24:29.240 My father. 24:29.240 --> 24:34.520 My father, what... what do they want with my father? 24:34.520 --> 24:35.520 Search me. 24:35.520 --> 24:40.520 Hey, I said it again. 24:40.520 --> 24:50.440 We ought to hold you for obstructing justice, young fellow, but I suppose you and your father 24:50.440 --> 24:52.440 have suffered enough. 24:52.440 --> 24:55.880 So it was somebody else. 24:55.880 --> 24:56.880 Somebody else all the time. 24:56.880 --> 24:59.840 Your description of the murdered lady was very accurate. 24:59.840 --> 25:01.880 She got around. 25:01.880 --> 25:03.280 Who... who is he? 25:03.280 --> 25:04.800 How'd you find him? 25:04.800 --> 25:07.520 Well, that's a pretty terrific story, Marty. 25:07.520 --> 25:11.600 You see, we traced the guy who was on the phone and he heard Mrs. Delavan holler the 25:11.600 --> 25:12.600 name Steve. 25:12.600 --> 25:15.080 Now, a detective has to be smart. 25:15.080 --> 25:19.200 He's got to be a psychologist, a science bug, an incredible kind of a guy who can take the 25:19.200 --> 25:23.760 name Steve and pick a murderer out of 140 million people. 25:23.760 --> 25:25.640 So how did I do it? 25:25.640 --> 25:26.960 Well, how? 25:26.960 --> 25:29.160 I opened her little black address book. 25:29.160 --> 25:34.280 Remember, you tipped me off to that and looked for a guy named Steve and there he was, Steve 25:34.280 --> 25:35.480 Barton. 25:35.480 --> 25:38.480 So I picked him up. 25:38.480 --> 25:43.000 Mc... McTavish of... of Scotland Yard. 25:43.000 --> 25:44.520 And this time with a real confession. 25:44.520 --> 25:46.120 How do you feel now, Simon? 25:46.120 --> 25:47.560 Oh, I... I don't know. 25:47.560 --> 25:52.480 I've done so much thinking about what it means to die that I'm not sure which world I'm standing 25:52.480 --> 25:53.480 in. 25:53.480 --> 25:58.760 Now tell me, kid, what was the name of that newspaper you burned and who did smoke that 25:58.760 --> 25:59.760 cigarette? 25:59.760 --> 26:00.760 Dad, is all this on the level? 26:00.760 --> 26:02.760 On the level, Marty. 26:02.760 --> 26:08.920 Well, just to keep it on the level, gentlemen, it was the Baltimore Star, the paper my dad 26:08.920 --> 26:13.680 always reads and the cigarette was his favorite brand. 26:13.680 --> 26:16.240 Maybe you understand now. 26:16.240 --> 26:17.560 Come on, Dad. 26:17.560 --> 26:18.560 Take me home. 26:18.560 --> 26:38.960 Thank you, Mickey Rooney, for a splendid performance. 26:38.960 --> 26:39.960 It was fun to do. 26:39.960 --> 26:43.160 Say, Harlow, I've heard great things about some new award suspensions received. 26:43.160 --> 26:48.600 Why, yes, Mickey, the Alfred P. Sloan Award for the outstanding radio program in 1948, 26:48.600 --> 26:52.560 promoting highway safety, was awarded to CBS and Auto Light last week. 26:52.560 --> 26:56.080 Well, say, wasn't that the Jimmy Cagney Suspense Show of last December? 26:56.080 --> 27:00.600 Right, Mickey, and coincidentally enough, last week the National Safety Council announced 27:00.600 --> 27:04.760 a similar award to Auto Light for the same program and for their promotion of safety 27:04.760 --> 27:05.760 on the highways. 27:05.760 --> 27:07.120 Wow, that's great going. 27:07.120 --> 27:09.800 And it reminds me, haven't I often heard an announcement on this show? 27:09.800 --> 27:10.800 Let's see. 27:10.800 --> 27:11.800 How does it go? 27:11.800 --> 27:12.800 Oh, yeah, I know. 27:12.800 --> 27:15.960 And, actually, the life you save may be your own. 27:15.960 --> 27:16.960 That's right, Mickey. 27:16.960 --> 27:22.120 Yes, Auto Light is proud to lend support to the promotion of highway safety. 27:22.120 --> 27:26.800 They're proud, too, of the more than 400 products for cars, trucks, airplanes, and boats that 27:26.800 --> 27:30.260 are made in 28 Auto Light plants from coast to coast. 27:30.260 --> 27:34.720 And Auto Light also makes complete electrical systems for many makes of America's finest 27:34.720 --> 27:39.760 cars, batteries, spark plugs, generators, starting motors, coils, distributors, all 27:39.760 --> 27:44.840 engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly, because they're a perfect 27:44.840 --> 27:45.840 team. 27:45.840 --> 27:49.760 So, folks, don't accept electrical parts that are supposed to be as good. 27:49.760 --> 27:54.000 Ask for and insist on Auto Light original factory parts at your neighborhood service 27:54.000 --> 27:56.920 station, car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 27:56.920 --> 28:01.080 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 28:01.080 --> 28:09.520 Now, again, here is Mickey Rooney. 28:09.520 --> 28:12.960 It's been a real pleasure to be here, and I'll be listening next week when radio's 28:12.960 --> 28:20.600 outstanding theater of thrills presents Bob Hope in Death Has a Shadow, another gripping 28:20.600 --> 28:23.040 study in... 28:23.040 --> 28:31.880 Suspense. 28:31.880 --> 28:35.800 Mickey Rooney appeared by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of the technicolor 28:35.800 --> 28:40.000 picture Little Women, starring June Allison, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, and Elizabeth 28:40.000 --> 28:41.000 Taylor. 28:41.000 --> 28:46.240 Tonight's suspense play was based on a story by William Irish and adapted by Herb Meadow. 28:46.240 --> 28:50.080 Music was composed by Lucian Morrowake and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:50.080 --> 28:54.280 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. 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