1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Suspense. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:24,640 Tonight, Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Ms. Dorothy Maguire in Last Confession, 3 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:31,200 a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:37,880 Friends, millions of masterful motorists have been made merry by the miraculous magic of 5 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,600 those magnificent Marvel's Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs. 6 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:47,320 They let your engine idle smoother, perform better on leaner gas mixtures, actually save 7 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:48,800 you gas. 8 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:55,360 They cut down on television interference too and have up to 200% longer electrode life. 9 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,740 Backed by the research and engineering know-how of Auto Light, Auto Light Resistor spark plugs 10 00:00:59,740 --> 00:01:04,640 today are used as original equipment in many of America's finest cars. 11 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:09,360 So friends, don't be satisfied with spark plugs supposed to be as good. 12 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,400 Get genuine Auto Light Resistor spark plugs. 13 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,200 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 14 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,840 And here's a reminder, suspense on television may be seen in many parts of the country 15 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,480 every Tuesday night. 16 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:27,320 And now with Last Confession and with the performance of Dorothy Maguire, Auto Light 17 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,200 hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 18 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:37,800 Isn't that horrible, Edna? 19 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:39,800 Let's see. 20 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,040 Gee, is that the way they found him? 21 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,120 Yeah, that's the way they found him. 22 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,680 Oh, he was knifed. 23 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,480 All twisted up like that. 24 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,880 Lying there in the mud. 25 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,320 Oh, who do you suppose is guilty? 26 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,040 They didn't even find the knife. 27 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:58,280 They'll never find out who did it. 28 00:01:58,280 --> 00:01:59,280 Oh, sure they will. 29 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:00,280 No, they won't. 30 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,760 Oh, Jesse, put that paper down. 31 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,720 Every time something awful happens, you have to read all about it down to the last detail. 32 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:08,720 No, I don't, Edna. 33 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:09,720 Yes, you do. 34 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:15,760 What can you see so fascinating in horrible things that make such a bad impression on 35 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:17,320 you? 36 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,120 Remember when we went to see Johnny Belinda in the movies? 37 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,520 You could hardly talk for a week. 38 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:24,080 That imagination of yours. 39 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:25,080 Oh, look. 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,760 It says here they found a lady's glove. 41 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:28,760 Black. 42 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:29,760 Size five. 43 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,760 Hey, that's my size. 44 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,920 Well, see, it could be anybody's size. 45 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:36,120 Five is my size, too. 46 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:37,880 Just think how many people could have done it. 47 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,200 They'll find out. 48 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,000 Somebody's conscience that will begin bothering them and then you'll see. 49 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 A person that would do a thing like that wouldn't have a conscience. 50 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,560 Besides, maybe he deserved it. 51 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:49,000 How do you know? 52 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,160 Everybody has a conscience. 53 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,780 They'll get whoever it was. 54 00:02:52,780 --> 00:02:53,800 Don't you worry. 55 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,440 I wonder who did it. 56 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:01,040 I wonder who it could have been. 57 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,320 It's funny how murders affect me. 58 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,520 reading about them in the papers or listening to the radio. 59 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,920 When someone's killed, I always feel like I did it. 60 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:15,720 Still, how can one person kill another person? 61 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,320 How can he? Human flesh and blood. 62 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,720 And then, not to confess it, how can he stand that guilt? 63 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,520 Could I ever kill someone? 64 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,320 You wouldn't think so. 65 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,520 You wouldn't think I'd be the sort of... 66 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,920 Well, then, nobody is ever the sort of person to be a killer 67 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,320 until he's killed someone. 68 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,120 I don't know. 69 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,120 Every time something like this murder comes up, 70 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,720 I keep thinking maybe... 71 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,520 Maybe I did it. 72 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,120 Maybe when I was asleep or something, I got up and did it. 73 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,120 Edna. 74 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,320 Hmm? 75 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,120 What day was he killed? 76 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,320 What day? 77 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:02,520 Yeah, what day? 78 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:03,720 Tuesday. 79 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,120 I think it was. It says here, someplace. 80 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,520 Wait a second. 81 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,320 Oh, during the woods, four miles from the city limits. 82 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,120 No, no, it isn't. 83 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:13,320 Yeah, yeah, here it is. 84 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,120 Police believe Howard was killed sometime between 5 and 7 p.m. 85 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,120 on Tuesday, July 12th. 86 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,520 Tuesday, July 12th. 87 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,120 How can they estimate that closely? 88 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,520 Oh, they can, all right. 89 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:26,720 Oh, is that his picture? 90 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:28,920 Yeah, here. Here, you take it. 91 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:32,320 Thomas L. Howard of Los Angeles, who was found dead, 92 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,120 in Woodland Grove here last... 93 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,520 No, tonight. 94 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,320 Poor Tommy. 95 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,520 Tommy, did you know him? 96 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,520 I went out with him once. 97 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,320 Hey, did you turn off the heat? 98 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:46,120 Huh? 99 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:47,520 Did you turn off the heat, Jesse? 100 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:48,920 The house seems awfully warm. 101 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,120 Yeah. 102 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,320 Oh, no, no, I didn't turn the heat off. 103 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,120 It's roasting in here. 104 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:55,720 Imagine turning on the heat anyway 105 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,320 during the summer months in Los Angeles. 106 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:58,920 Well, it was chilly in here this morning. 107 00:04:58,920 --> 00:04:59,920 Hey, Edna. 108 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:01,120 I can hear you. Keep talking. 109 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:02,520 Look at him. 110 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:03,520 At who? 111 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,120 At this picture of Howard, the man who was killed. 112 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:07,320 What about him? 113 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,920 Let's see. 114 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,120 Yeah, so what? What about him? 115 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:12,720 He's just like him. 116 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:13,520 Who? 117 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,520 Remember Henry Hackers, the boy I used to go with, 118 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:16,920 the one on Morella Avenue, 119 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,120 the dark-haired one with the funny kind of eyes? 120 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:19,920 You mean the one who... 121 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:20,720 Yeah? 122 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:22,120 Oh, sure. 123 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:23,720 But Tommy didn't look anything like Henry. 124 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,520 You're crazy. Look at that hairline, 125 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:26,520 and the cleft and the chin. 126 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:27,920 Oh, for Pete's sake. 127 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,120 Well, now, don't tell me you don't see any resemblance. 128 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,520 It's just like Henry Hackers. 129 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,320 Well, a little, maybe, but... 130 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,920 Gee whiz, Jesse. 131 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,320 You've got the darnedest imagination. 132 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:45,720 Henry Hackers. 133 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,320 He sure wasn't what you'd call good-looking. 134 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:49,920 Had a cute smile, though. 135 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:51,520 And sort of funny little way 136 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,520 he'd brush his hair out of his eyes. 137 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:54,720 And then he'd walk with one shoulder 138 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,320 just a little higher than the other. 139 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,320 Henry Hackers. 140 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,320 You're such a nice boy. 141 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:05,520 Although, I never thought he'd want to get serious. 142 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,520 A man can make you feel so guilty if you don't love him. 143 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:11,920 Just because he loves you, he thinks, 144 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:16,120 oh, and that awful thing he said the last time. 145 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:17,920 When was that? 146 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,320 When was that? 147 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:21,520 But, Jesse, I... 148 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,920 I can't help it. It's just the way I feel about you. 149 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:25,320 But at least let me call you. 150 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:26,320 You might change your mind. 151 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,120 I won't change my mind, Henry. 152 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:29,520 But you can't do it, Jesse. 153 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:30,920 We had something, you and me. 154 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,120 We made such a swell couple. 155 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:34,520 I had wonderful plans for it, Jesse. 156 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:35,920 Well, Henry, I can't help it. 157 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,720 But the way I feel is just the way I feel. 158 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,920 It's been getting too serious lately. 159 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:42,320 You know what I mean? 160 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,720 And when a slight flirtation grows out of hand, 161 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:46,520 things can happen that'll only make people 162 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,920 awfully unhappy when things don't work out. 163 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,520 Slight flirtation? 164 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,120 Well, I'm sorry. I'm very sorry. 165 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,120 But I thought it was a little more than a slight flirtation. 166 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:58,720 The nights I laid awake thinking about it. 167 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,120 Oh, don't get so... 168 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,120 Well, I want you to know this, Jesse. 169 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:03,720 I just want you to know it and remember it 170 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,320 as long as you live. 171 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,320 You've done something to me that's beyond repair. 172 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:09,720 And if something should happen to me, 173 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,920 and believe me, it very well might, 174 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,320 I just want you to know you're responsible. 175 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:16,120 Henry! 176 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:17,520 What a horrible thing to say. 177 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:18,520 It's like... 178 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,720 It's like a curse. 179 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:29,720 Now, if you want, I'll drive you home. 180 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,120 Responsible. 181 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,520 Telling me I'd be responsible. 182 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,120 Ah, poor Henry. 183 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:36,920 I should have talked to him again after that. 184 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:38,720 He kept calling. 185 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,520 But I felt so guilty. 186 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,720 Wouldn't it be funny if instead of this Tommy fellow here, 187 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,720 it was Henry that got killed? 188 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,920 Between 5 and 7 o'clock on Tuesday, July 12th. 189 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,720 Tuesday, July 12th. 190 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,320 Let's see. 191 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:55,720 Tuesday, July 12th. 192 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,120 I came from work at 4, 193 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,920 and I told Ed and I was going out and I wouldn't be back. 194 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,720 Now, where was I going? 195 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:05,320 Gosh! 196 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:06,120 My memory. 197 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:07,320 Where was I going? 198 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,520 What's the matter with me? 199 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,520 Where was I between 5 and 7 on Tuesday, July 12th? 200 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:14,520 Of course, that wasn't so long ago. 201 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:16,120 I should remember that. 202 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,320 I remember later that night. 203 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:22,720 I remember at 11, I was in bed because Wednesday, 204 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,520 I had to be down to work an hour early to get out those new invoice forms. 205 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:32,320 Hey, you know, if they hauled me down to the police station right now 206 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,720 and began asking me where were you on Tuesday, July 12th, 207 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:44,720 between 5 and 7 p.m., I wouldn't have a thing to say. 208 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,120 Edna? 209 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:47,520 Have you read a little after yet? 210 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:49,920 Edna, listen, put down that paper. 211 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:50,720 Yeah? 212 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,920 Look, now don't laugh, will you? 213 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:53,320 At what? 214 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:54,520 At what I'm going to say. 215 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:55,920 What I'm going to ask you. 216 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,720 Go ahead, I won't laugh. 217 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:59,920 Do you remember where you were on Tuesday, July 12th, 218 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:01,920 between 5 and 7 p.m.? 219 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:02,320 Why? 220 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:03,720 Do you remember? 221 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:05,720 Well, let's see. 222 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,320 Sure, July 12th. 223 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,920 Sure, I went shopping over at Rockins and then I ate dinner 224 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,320 and then met Carl Maffaletti and we went to a movie. 225 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:14,920 Gee, that's funny. 226 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:15,320 What? 227 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,320 Well, you remember so easy. 228 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,520 Oh, well, I know it was Tuesday because Tuesday was the day 229 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:20,920 they had the sale at Rockins. 230 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,720 That's why I went shopping that day. 231 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,720 I can't remember at all. 232 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:25,320 What do you mean? 233 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,920 Do you remember what I did between 5 and 7? 234 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:29,220 I was gone all day, honey. 235 00:09:29,220 --> 00:09:29,920 I just explained that. 236 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,920 Well, it's funny, but I can't remember a thing during those two hours. 237 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:33,320 Well... 238 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:34,520 Well, I must have done something. 239 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,920 I just didn't die between 5 and 7 on Tuesday, July 12th. 240 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:39,120 Oh, forget it, Jesse. 241 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,420 I'm going out on the fire escape and take the sun. 242 00:09:41,420 --> 00:09:43,120 If the phone rings, get it, will you? 243 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:44,520 Sure. 244 00:09:46,220 --> 00:09:48,820 I haven't talked to him for such a long time. 245 00:09:48,820 --> 00:09:50,520 I'm going to call him. 246 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,220 It's the least I can do after all the times he called me and 247 00:09:57,220 --> 00:09:59,320 I didn't even answer the phone. 248 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:01,420 Hello? 249 00:10:01,420 --> 00:10:02,420 Mrs. Hackers? 250 00:10:02,420 --> 00:10:04,220 Yes, who is this? 251 00:10:04,220 --> 00:10:06,720 This is Jesse Larkin, Mrs. Hackers. 252 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:07,320 Yes. 253 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:08,920 Is Henry there? 254 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:09,420 Henry? 255 00:10:09,420 --> 00:10:10,920 Yes, is he there? 256 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,120 If this is your idea of a joke, Jesse, it's in terribly bad taste. 257 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:14,720 A joke? 258 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:15,420 I'm not joking. 259 00:10:15,420 --> 00:10:16,420 I'd like to talk to him. 260 00:10:16,420 --> 00:10:19,520 I know how you feel about the way I treated him, Mrs. Hackers, but really... 261 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,220 I don't know what's the matter with you, Jesse. 262 00:10:21,220 --> 00:10:23,420 I don't know whether you're crazy or what. 263 00:10:23,420 --> 00:10:26,120 You know that Henry is dead. 264 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:27,020 Dead? 265 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,420 Henry Hackers, dead. 266 00:10:35,420 --> 00:10:37,620 How could I forget a thing like that? 267 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:39,720 It's simple forgetting your coat in a restaurant or 268 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:45,020 your purse in a movie, but forgetting the boy you used to date. 269 00:10:45,020 --> 00:10:47,920 The boy you refused to marry just a few days ago. 270 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:49,820 Forgetting he's dead. 271 00:10:49,820 --> 00:10:52,020 What just doesn't happen? 272 00:10:52,020 --> 00:10:54,220 Henry dead. 273 00:10:54,220 --> 00:10:56,020 How? 274 00:10:56,020 --> 00:10:58,320 I'm responsible, just like he said. 275 00:10:58,320 --> 00:10:59,620 Like a curse. 276 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:02,420 Just like I took a knife out of the kitchen drawer and deliberately 277 00:11:02,420 --> 00:11:04,420 plunged it into his heart. 278 00:11:04,420 --> 00:11:05,820 Yeah. 279 00:11:05,820 --> 00:11:07,420 But could I? 280 00:11:07,420 --> 00:11:09,320 Could I murder? 281 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,220 Actually murder? 282 00:11:11,220 --> 00:11:12,720 With a knife? 283 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:13,620 Kill? 284 00:11:16,820 --> 00:11:17,920 Black glove. 285 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:18,620 Size five. 286 00:11:18,620 --> 00:11:20,820 Was found at the scene of the crime. 287 00:11:24,220 --> 00:11:25,320 Only one. 288 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,120 Just one black glove in the drawer. 289 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,420 Oh, Jesse. 290 00:11:28,420 --> 00:11:30,320 Oh. 291 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:31,920 What'd I wear on Tuesday? 292 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,720 Oh, there'd be tears in the dress from the twigs. 293 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:35,820 And mud, baby. 294 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:40,720 From when I dragged them. 295 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:42,520 No. 296 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,720 Oh, everything's all right. 297 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:47,620 Oh. 298 00:11:47,620 --> 00:11:49,820 My blue dress. 299 00:11:49,820 --> 00:11:53,120 The seam on the sleeve and the hem and the mud on the skirt. 300 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:54,120 I did it. 301 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:55,420 There lies poor Henry. 302 00:11:55,420 --> 00:11:57,720 Henry face down in the mud in the woods. 303 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:58,720 And I did it. 304 00:11:58,720 --> 00:11:59,520 I did it. 305 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:00,620 I did it. 306 00:12:00,620 --> 00:12:18,520 I did it. 307 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,520 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Dorothy McGuire in Last Confession, 308 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:36,320 the night's production in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 309 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:37,320 Hi, Harlow. 310 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:38,720 All set for fall driving? 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I've got to know. 345 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:18,720 Gosh. 346 00:14:19,220 --> 00:14:22,220 I wonder why I picked a place like this. All these bushes. 347 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:27,020 Hmm, might be snakes and all sorts of dangerous things. 348 00:14:27,020 --> 00:14:28,120 Stand where you are. 349 00:14:29,020 --> 00:14:29,520 What? 350 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:30,920 Okay, you don't move. 351 00:14:31,420 --> 00:14:33,420 Just stay right where you are. 352 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:36,220 Lieutenant Fleming. 353 00:14:37,220 --> 00:14:38,120 Oh. 354 00:14:38,820 --> 00:14:40,120 Hello, Lieutenant. 355 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:41,120 What are you doing here? 356 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,020 Oh, just, just curious really. 357 00:14:44,020 --> 00:14:45,820 You know, I read about it in the papers. 358 00:14:45,820 --> 00:14:46,520 What's your name? 359 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:47,620 I'm just curious, that's all. 360 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:48,720 What's your name? 361 00:14:49,420 --> 00:14:50,120 Jesse. 362 00:14:50,620 --> 00:14:51,620 Jesse Larkin. 363 00:14:52,620 --> 00:14:53,720 Okay, Jesse. 364 00:14:54,020 --> 00:14:54,720 Run along. 365 00:14:55,220 --> 00:14:57,420 You ought to know better than to hang around a place like this, 366 00:14:57,420 --> 00:14:58,620 especially so late at night. 367 00:14:58,620 --> 00:15:00,520 Well, it was the glove size. 368 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:01,420 The black glove. 369 00:15:01,420 --> 00:15:04,020 I, I, I know a girl that wears that size. 370 00:15:04,020 --> 00:15:04,920 You think so? 371 00:15:05,420 --> 00:15:06,120 Yeah. 372 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:08,820 Have you found the murder weapon yet? 373 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:10,020 Not yet. 374 00:15:10,820 --> 00:15:12,720 That's pretty essential to find, isn't it? 375 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:14,420 I mean to prove somebody's guilt. 376 00:15:14,420 --> 00:15:15,020 Yeah. 377 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:17,920 Sometimes they save us all the trouble, though. 378 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:19,720 Come in and confess. 379 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:21,120 Oh. 380 00:15:22,020 --> 00:15:23,920 Say, it's terrible, isn't it? 381 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,120 A nice young man like that. 382 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:26,620 Yeah. 383 00:15:27,220 --> 00:15:28,520 Well, there you are. 384 00:15:29,820 --> 00:15:31,520 You still don't know who did it. 385 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,520 No, we've got it pretty well narrowed down to one of his girlfriends. 386 00:15:34,620 --> 00:15:35,220 Oh. 387 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:36,820 Hey, you run along now. 388 00:15:36,820 --> 00:15:40,220 I wouldn't worry too much about the Tommy Howard killing if I were you, Jesse. 389 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:41,320 Howard killing? 390 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:42,320 Oh. 391 00:15:42,820 --> 00:15:44,020 No, I won't. 392 00:15:47,820 --> 00:15:48,620 Howard. 393 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:50,620 He called him Howard. 394 00:15:50,620 --> 00:15:51,520 Why? 395 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,020 Why would that lieutenant call him Howard? 396 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:58,820 I've got to buy a paper and found out if they know that it really was Henry Hackers. 397 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,120 But then Mrs. Hackers told me and... 398 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:04,620 I'm so mixed up. 399 00:16:04,620 --> 00:16:06,820 I'm, I'm forgetting so many things. 400 00:16:07,420 --> 00:16:09,020 Henry's last name was Hackers. 401 00:16:09,020 --> 00:16:10,020 Henry Hack... 402 00:16:10,020 --> 00:16:11,020 No. 403 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,320 Henry Howard. 404 00:16:13,820 --> 00:16:14,820 Henry... 405 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:16,520 Howard. 406 00:16:17,020 --> 00:16:18,020 Yes, that was it. 407 00:16:18,020 --> 00:16:20,020 I remember when Edna showed me the paper. 408 00:16:20,020 --> 00:16:21,020 That's what it said. 409 00:16:21,020 --> 00:16:22,020 Henry Howard. 410 00:16:23,020 --> 00:16:25,520 His girlfriends, the officer said. 411 00:16:26,020 --> 00:16:28,020 Henry didn't go out with very many girls. 412 00:16:28,020 --> 00:16:30,020 Let's see, there was Fran Gilbert. 413 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,520 I know he took her out a couple of times. 414 00:16:33,020 --> 00:16:35,020 And Barbara. 415 00:16:35,020 --> 00:16:36,520 Barbara, what was her name? 416 00:16:37,020 --> 00:16:38,020 Oh, I've got to see them. 417 00:16:38,020 --> 00:16:40,020 I've got to see whether they've got alibis. 418 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,020 If none of them did it, then it must have been me. 419 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,020 Well, I've got to be clever about it. 420 00:16:45,020 --> 00:16:47,020 Not let them know what I'm after. 421 00:16:47,020 --> 00:16:49,020 I'll say, real casual. 422 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,020 By the way, Fran. 423 00:16:51,020 --> 00:16:55,020 What were you doing between 5 and 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12th? 424 00:16:59,020 --> 00:17:01,020 Well, it's been a nice chat, honey. 425 00:17:01,020 --> 00:17:05,020 I still don't know who you are or what you're doing here, but it's been real nice. 426 00:17:05,020 --> 00:17:09,020 Well, I told you, I heard you were an actress and I've always wanted to be one. 427 00:17:09,020 --> 00:17:11,020 Oh, come on, leave us on up. 428 00:17:12,020 --> 00:17:14,020 You hear about Henry, what's his name? 429 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:15,520 Henry. 430 00:17:16,020 --> 00:17:17,020 Yes. 431 00:17:17,020 --> 00:17:18,020 Something about his estate? 432 00:17:19,020 --> 00:17:24,020 Well, he left me nothing but the memory of two miserable evenings over some warm beer. 433 00:17:24,020 --> 00:17:25,020 No, nothing like that. 434 00:17:25,020 --> 00:17:31,020 I was just sort of wondering what you were doing between 5 and 7 on Tuesday, July 12th. 435 00:17:31,020 --> 00:17:33,020 Between what and what on when? 436 00:17:33,020 --> 00:17:36,020 5 and 7 on Tuesday, July 12th. 437 00:17:36,020 --> 00:17:37,020 Wait a minute. 438 00:17:38,020 --> 00:17:40,020 Are you a cop gal or something? 439 00:17:40,020 --> 00:17:42,020 That was the time the paper said that Howard was killed. 440 00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:43,020 Howard? 441 00:17:44,020 --> 00:17:47,020 Look, blue eyes talking in circles makes me dizzy. 442 00:17:47,020 --> 00:17:50,020 You're either crazy or a cop or a digger with an angle. 443 00:17:50,020 --> 00:17:53,020 Whichever it is, I'm surprisingly uninterested. Scoot. 444 00:17:53,020 --> 00:17:54,020 Well, all right. 445 00:17:54,020 --> 00:17:56,020 If you're sure you know what you were doing. 446 00:17:56,020 --> 00:18:01,020 Just to ease your mind, my lady, I was swabbing decks on the USS New Mexico with a vacuum cleaner 447 00:18:01,020 --> 00:18:04,020 and the Navy will back me up. Satisfied? 448 00:18:04,020 --> 00:18:07,020 Well, thank you. Goodbye. 449 00:18:08,020 --> 00:18:09,020 It was nice meeting you. 450 00:18:09,020 --> 00:18:11,020 Oh, no. 451 00:18:13,020 --> 00:18:16,020 She's got an alibi. She didn't do it. She couldn't have. 452 00:18:16,020 --> 00:18:18,020 She didn't even remember Henry's last name. 453 00:18:25,020 --> 00:18:27,020 I don't quite understand, Miss Larkin. 454 00:18:27,020 --> 00:18:30,020 I'm from the Los Angeles Police Department. 455 00:18:30,020 --> 00:18:32,020 Los Angeles Police Department, Miss Keely. 456 00:18:32,020 --> 00:18:33,020 What do you want? 457 00:18:33,020 --> 00:18:35,020 I'm a policewoman, you understand? 458 00:18:35,020 --> 00:18:36,020 Yes. 459 00:18:36,020 --> 00:18:37,020 I'm interested in a Henry... 460 00:18:37,020 --> 00:18:39,020 Hackers? Yes. 461 00:18:39,020 --> 00:18:43,020 Yes. You knew he was found four miles from the city limits in the woods? 462 00:18:43,020 --> 00:18:47,020 Henry? Henry Hackers is dead, but... 463 00:18:47,020 --> 00:18:50,020 Were you talking about the Howard case? 464 00:18:50,020 --> 00:18:52,020 I don't know a thing about that. 465 00:18:52,020 --> 00:18:57,020 Where were you and what were you doing between the hours of five and seven on Tuesday, July 12th? 466 00:18:57,020 --> 00:19:01,020 I don't see any reason for answering any of your questions. 467 00:19:01,020 --> 00:19:02,020 Do you have a warrant? 468 00:19:02,020 --> 00:19:05,020 Well, I thought it best to make this an informal visit. 469 00:19:05,020 --> 00:19:08,020 I thought perhaps I wouldn't need to go into any legalities. 470 00:19:08,020 --> 00:19:11,020 We can make this very simple without a lot of complications. 471 00:19:11,020 --> 00:19:15,020 Now, what were you doing between five and seven on July 12th? 472 00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:18,020 I think you'd better talk to my lawyer, Miss Larkin. 473 00:19:18,020 --> 00:19:22,020 I'm answering no questions without his permission. Good day. 474 00:19:22,020 --> 00:19:24,020 Very well. Goodbye. 475 00:19:24,020 --> 00:19:26,020 I'll be seeing you again. 476 00:19:26,020 --> 00:19:27,020 Goodbye. 477 00:19:27,020 --> 00:19:31,020 Just remember, we have your name on file. 478 00:19:37,020 --> 00:19:40,020 All of them have alibis. I knew they would, really. 479 00:19:40,020 --> 00:19:44,020 And that leaves only me. I must have done it. 480 00:19:44,020 --> 00:19:48,020 Henry was right. I am responsible for his death. 481 00:19:48,020 --> 00:19:52,020 I deserve what I'll get. I'll deserve it when they sentence me. 482 00:19:52,020 --> 00:19:56,020 And the judge and no one to stand by me. 483 00:19:56,020 --> 00:19:58,020 No one in the world but Edna. 484 00:19:58,020 --> 00:20:01,020 Edna, I'll tell her everything. 485 00:20:01,020 --> 00:20:04,020 She'll understand how it is. 486 00:20:10,020 --> 00:20:14,020 Jesse, say, where have you been? Where did you go? 487 00:20:14,020 --> 00:20:15,020 I've been so worried. 488 00:20:15,020 --> 00:20:17,020 I'll tell you. I'll tell you everything. 489 00:20:17,020 --> 00:20:20,020 I've got to trust you, Edna. You're the only one in the world I can trust. 490 00:20:20,020 --> 00:20:24,020 Well? Well, you know the murder in the papers. 491 00:20:24,020 --> 00:20:25,020 Yeah, what about it? 492 00:20:25,020 --> 00:20:27,020 It was me. 493 00:20:28,020 --> 00:20:31,020 What? Yes, it was me. 494 00:20:31,020 --> 00:20:32,020 You're out of your head. 495 00:20:32,020 --> 00:20:34,020 No, I wish I was, Edna. Honest, I wish I was. 496 00:20:34,020 --> 00:20:36,020 You ought to see a doctor, kid. Honest, I mean it. 497 00:20:36,020 --> 00:20:38,020 No, we were out there together in a car. 498 00:20:38,020 --> 00:20:41,020 I remember it so clearly. And he started getting fresh. 499 00:20:41,020 --> 00:20:43,020 But I mean fresh. And I slapped him. 500 00:20:43,020 --> 00:20:46,020 Well, I had this knife with me. I don't remember where I got it. 501 00:20:46,020 --> 00:20:48,020 But I had it in my purse. And I stabbed him. 502 00:20:48,020 --> 00:20:50,020 And I stabbed him. And I stabbed him. 503 00:20:50,020 --> 00:20:53,020 And then I realized what I'd done. And I was terribly sorry, Edna. 504 00:20:53,020 --> 00:20:55,020 Oh, I was awfully sorry. But I had to get rid of him. 505 00:20:55,020 --> 00:20:58,020 So I dragged the body to the woods, inside, away from the highway. 506 00:20:58,020 --> 00:21:00,020 And I left him there. And I took the knife. 507 00:21:00,020 --> 00:21:02,020 But I forgot one of my gloves. 508 00:21:02,020 --> 00:21:07,020 Jesse. Jesse, we've been roommates for three years, honey. 509 00:21:07,020 --> 00:21:09,020 I would have sworn you couldn't have dreamed of anything like this. 510 00:21:09,020 --> 00:21:11,020 Do you honestly believe it? 511 00:21:11,020 --> 00:21:13,020 I always had a violent temper. You know that, Edna. 512 00:21:13,020 --> 00:21:14,020 Not to kill. 513 00:21:14,020 --> 00:21:16,020 Well, I did. And now the only thing is I can't find the knife. 514 00:21:16,020 --> 00:21:18,020 Where would I have put it, Edna? 515 00:21:18,020 --> 00:21:20,020 Look, Jesse. Jesse, you stay here. 516 00:21:20,020 --> 00:21:22,020 Will you promise to stay here until I come back? 517 00:21:22,020 --> 00:21:24,020 I can't, Edna. I've got to confess. 518 00:21:24,020 --> 00:21:26,020 I couldn't live with a thing like that on my conscience. 519 00:21:26,020 --> 00:21:28,020 Promise me. Please, Jesse, promise. 520 00:21:28,020 --> 00:21:31,020 You're not to leave the house. 521 00:21:31,020 --> 00:21:34,020 Well, all right. 522 00:21:35,020 --> 00:21:37,020 If you say so. 523 00:21:37,020 --> 00:21:40,020 See what kind of a person I am? 524 00:21:40,020 --> 00:21:43,020 I couldn't even keep a simple promise to my best friend. 525 00:21:43,020 --> 00:21:45,020 I had to go. 526 00:21:45,020 --> 00:21:50,020 Maybe after I confess, this terrible headache will go away. 527 00:21:52,020 --> 00:21:56,020 There it is. The police station. 528 00:21:56,020 --> 00:22:01,020 Well, I certainly will deserve what I get. 529 00:22:01,020 --> 00:22:07,020 I hope they give me the maximum penalty prescribed by law. 530 00:22:15,020 --> 00:22:18,020 Yes? Oh, hello. 531 00:22:18,020 --> 00:22:20,020 Are you in charge here? 532 00:22:20,020 --> 00:22:23,020 Almost. What can I do for you? 533 00:22:23,020 --> 00:22:26,020 I'd like to confess to the Howard murder, who was the victim. 534 00:22:26,020 --> 00:22:28,020 I'm sorry. 535 00:22:28,020 --> 00:22:32,020 I'd like to confess to the Howard murder. Who do I see? 536 00:22:48,020 --> 00:22:51,020 Hello, Jesse. May I talk to you? 537 00:22:51,020 --> 00:22:54,020 Certainly, Lieutenant. Sit down. 538 00:22:54,020 --> 00:22:56,020 Thank you. 539 00:22:56,020 --> 00:22:59,020 Jesse, I... 540 00:22:59,020 --> 00:23:02,020 Well, your case is solved, isn't it? 541 00:23:02,020 --> 00:23:04,020 Yes. 542 00:23:04,020 --> 00:23:06,020 You don't seem to feel too good about it. 543 00:23:06,020 --> 00:23:09,020 I don't. I don't, Jesse. 544 00:23:09,020 --> 00:23:11,020 Did you find the knife? 545 00:23:11,020 --> 00:23:13,020 Yes. 546 00:23:13,020 --> 00:23:17,020 Jesse, we have a couple of visitors for you. 547 00:23:17,020 --> 00:23:21,020 I think after you've seen them, you'll feel much better. 548 00:23:21,020 --> 00:23:23,020 That's what our doctor thinks. 549 00:23:23,020 --> 00:23:25,020 Visitors who? 550 00:23:25,020 --> 00:23:28,020 Mrs. Hackers, will you come in, please? 551 00:23:28,020 --> 00:23:30,020 Mrs. Hackers. 552 00:23:30,020 --> 00:23:32,020 Oh, don't hate me too much, Mrs. Hackers. 553 00:23:32,020 --> 00:23:34,020 You're going to be released, Jesse. 554 00:23:34,020 --> 00:23:38,020 The police can take no action on your case, and not at the present time. 555 00:23:38,020 --> 00:23:42,020 Mrs. Hackers here read about your confessions in the papers. 556 00:23:42,020 --> 00:23:44,020 She called us and told us you couldn't have killed Howard. 557 00:23:44,020 --> 00:23:46,020 Oh, Jesse, my poor child. 558 00:23:46,020 --> 00:23:48,020 Why did you call him, Mrs. Hackers? 559 00:23:48,020 --> 00:23:52,020 When you knew I deserved it, when you knew I killed him, your only son. 560 00:23:52,020 --> 00:23:54,020 Tell him the truth, Mrs. Hackers. 561 00:23:54,020 --> 00:23:56,020 You didn't kill Henry, Jesse. 562 00:23:56,020 --> 00:23:58,020 Between 5 and 7 on July 12th... 563 00:23:58,020 --> 00:24:00,020 Jesse, don't you remember where you were? 564 00:24:00,020 --> 00:24:02,020 I was... I was... 565 00:24:02,020 --> 00:24:05,020 No, I can't think. I can't remember. 566 00:24:05,020 --> 00:24:07,020 Now think, Jesse. Try to remember. 567 00:24:07,020 --> 00:24:09,020 Between 5 and 7 on July 12th. 568 00:24:09,020 --> 00:24:12,020 If you remember, everything will be straightened out in your mind. 569 00:24:12,020 --> 00:24:13,020 I can't. 570 00:24:13,020 --> 00:24:15,020 The flowers, dear. You were crying. 571 00:24:15,020 --> 00:24:17,020 You cried when I put down the flowers. 572 00:24:17,020 --> 00:24:19,020 The flowers. 573 00:24:19,020 --> 00:24:21,020 You cried, Jesse. Don't you remember? 574 00:24:21,020 --> 00:24:23,020 The flowers. The funeral. 575 00:24:23,020 --> 00:24:26,020 I... I cried when you put the flowers down. 576 00:24:26,020 --> 00:24:28,020 That's right, dear. 577 00:24:28,020 --> 00:24:32,020 The doctor says maybe you felt guilty inside or something because he was dead. 578 00:24:32,020 --> 00:24:34,020 But you're going to be all right. 579 00:24:34,020 --> 00:24:36,020 Yes, Jesse. 580 00:24:36,020 --> 00:24:38,020 Apparently you just blotted those two hours out of your mind. 581 00:24:38,020 --> 00:24:41,020 Doctors sometimes it happens that way, some of us. 582 00:24:41,020 --> 00:24:45,020 Your mind just blots out a thing that's too painful to remember. 583 00:24:45,020 --> 00:24:47,020 Yes, but then... I dressed in the gloves. 584 00:24:47,020 --> 00:24:50,020 Oh, no, I must have somehow. I must have. 585 00:24:50,020 --> 00:24:52,020 Just a minute, Jesse. Please. 586 00:24:52,020 --> 00:24:54,020 All right. Come in, please. 587 00:24:54,020 --> 00:24:56,020 Oh, hello, Jesse. 588 00:24:56,020 --> 00:24:58,020 Edna, I'm so glad you came. 589 00:24:58,020 --> 00:25:00,020 Jesse, you promised me you wouldn't leave the house. 590 00:25:00,020 --> 00:25:02,020 Edna, I couldn't have done it. I couldn't have. 591 00:25:02,020 --> 00:25:06,020 Mrs. Hacker said I was with her at Henry's funeral between 5 and 7 on July 12th. 592 00:25:06,020 --> 00:25:10,020 The only thing I can't figure out is my missing glove and my blue dress. 593 00:25:10,020 --> 00:25:14,020 Jesse, I didn't want to tell you because I was afraid to, but... 594 00:25:14,020 --> 00:25:18,020 That day on July 12th, I borrowed your blue dress and your gloves. 595 00:25:18,020 --> 00:25:19,020 You borrowed them? 596 00:25:19,020 --> 00:25:20,020 I had a date. 597 00:25:20,020 --> 00:25:24,020 I knew you'd be wearing your black dress to the funeral, so I... 598 00:25:24,020 --> 00:25:29,020 Oh, Jesse, I kept quiet when it looked as though nobody else was going to be blamed for it, but... 599 00:25:29,020 --> 00:25:31,020 Edna, I don't believe it. 600 00:25:31,020 --> 00:25:32,020 It's true, Jesse. 601 00:25:32,020 --> 00:25:36,020 If it hadn't been for you, I'd never have told anybody. 602 00:25:36,020 --> 00:25:40,020 I didn't know that all these days you've been convincing yourself that you... 603 00:25:40,020 --> 00:25:41,020 Edna, Edna. 604 00:25:41,020 --> 00:25:47,020 When I went out, when I told you not to leave the house, I went and got the knife. 605 00:25:47,020 --> 00:25:51,020 I buried it in a vacant lot. 606 00:25:51,020 --> 00:25:54,020 And I brought it to the police. 607 00:25:54,020 --> 00:25:57,020 Poor Edna. 608 00:25:57,020 --> 00:25:58,020 All that guilt. 609 00:25:58,020 --> 00:26:02,020 But I want you to know, Jesse, that Tom Howard was no good. 610 00:26:02,020 --> 00:26:05,020 And if anybody ever deserved... 611 00:26:07,020 --> 00:26:09,020 Can I please go now? 612 00:26:09,020 --> 00:26:11,020 Yes. 613 00:26:11,020 --> 00:26:14,020 How do you feel now, Jesse? 614 00:26:14,020 --> 00:26:15,020 What? 615 00:26:15,020 --> 00:26:18,020 How do you feel? 616 00:26:18,020 --> 00:26:19,020 Poor Edna. 617 00:26:19,020 --> 00:26:22,020 She was your roommate, wasn't she, Jesse? 618 00:26:22,020 --> 00:26:25,020 Not just a roommate, Mrs. Hackers. 619 00:26:25,020 --> 00:26:27,020 She was my best friend. 620 00:26:27,020 --> 00:26:28,020 Come on, dear. 621 00:26:28,020 --> 00:26:30,020 I'll take you home. 622 00:26:30,020 --> 00:26:31,020 Mrs. Hackers. 623 00:26:31,020 --> 00:26:32,020 Yes, dear? 624 00:26:32,020 --> 00:26:35,020 How did Henry die? 625 00:26:35,020 --> 00:26:36,020 Of pneumonia. 626 00:26:36,020 --> 00:26:38,020 He died very badly. 627 00:26:38,020 --> 00:26:42,020 Of pneumonia. He died very peacefully. 628 00:26:42,020 --> 00:26:44,020 Oh. 629 00:26:44,020 --> 00:26:47,020 I'm sorry. 630 00:26:47,020 --> 00:26:51,020 I'm very sorry for all the trouble I caused. 631 00:26:51,020 --> 00:27:09,020 I'm very sorry. 632 00:27:09,020 --> 00:27:12,020 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 633 00:27:12,020 --> 00:27:15,020 Tonight's star, Dorothy McGuire, in Last Confession. 634 00:27:15,020 --> 00:27:17,020 Notice the day is getting shorter, Harlow. 635 00:27:17,020 --> 00:27:18,020 Did you say shorter? 636 00:27:18,020 --> 00:27:20,020 Don't use that word around here. 637 00:27:20,020 --> 00:27:23,020 We're only interested in things that last longer, 638 00:27:23,020 --> 00:27:25,020 like Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs, 639 00:27:25,020 --> 00:27:28,020 those famous fast-firing wide-gap spark plugs 640 00:27:28,020 --> 00:27:32,020 that have up to 200% longer electrode life. 641 00:27:32,020 --> 00:27:34,020 And Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs let your engine 642 00:27:34,020 --> 00:27:38,020 run better on leaner gas mixtures, actually save you gas. 643 00:27:38,020 --> 00:27:40,020 Auto Light makes complete electrical systems 644 00:27:40,020 --> 00:27:43,020 for many makes of America's finest cars. 645 00:27:43,020 --> 00:27:47,020 Batteries, spark plugs, generators, starting motors, coils, distributors. 646 00:27:47,020 --> 00:27:50,020 All engineered to fit together perfectly, 647 00:27:50,020 --> 00:27:54,020 work together perfectly, because they're a perfect team. 648 00:27:54,020 --> 00:27:57,020 Get Auto Light original factory parts at your neighborhood service station, 649 00:27:57,020 --> 00:28:00,020 car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 650 00:28:00,020 --> 00:28:03,020 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 651 00:28:03,020 --> 00:28:14,020 Next Thursday for Suspense, John Lund will be our star. 652 00:28:14,020 --> 00:28:18,020 The play is called Experiment 6R, and it is, as we say... 653 00:28:18,020 --> 00:28:21,020 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 654 00:28:21,020 --> 00:28:23,020 Suspense! 655 00:28:36,020 --> 00:28:39,020 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear 656 00:28:39,020 --> 00:28:41,020 and directed by Norman MacDonald. 657 00:28:41,020 --> 00:28:44,020 Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian Morrowek 658 00:28:44,020 --> 00:28:46,020 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 659 00:28:46,020 --> 00:28:49,020 Last Confession was a radio play by David Ellis. 660 00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:54,020 Dorothy McGuire will soon be seen in the 20th Century Fox picture, Oh Doctor. 661 00:28:54,020 --> 00:28:57,020 In the coming weeks, you will hear such stars as Charles Lawton, 662 00:28:57,020 --> 00:29:00,020 June Havoc, Van Johnson, and Betty Davis. 663 00:29:00,020 --> 00:29:03,020 Oh, and don't forget, next Thursday same time, Auto Light will present 664 00:29:03,020 --> 00:29:11,020 Suspense, starring John Lund. 665 00:29:11,020 --> 00:29:18,020 You can buy Auto Light resistor spark plugs, Auto Light staple batteries, 666 00:29:18,020 --> 00:29:21,020 Auto Light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 667 00:29:21,020 --> 00:29:24,020 Switch to Auto Light. 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