WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.000 Suspense. 00:19.000 --> 00:37.000 Hey, Sonny, what are you doing out so late? And holy smoke with nothing on but a ribbon. 00:37.000 --> 00:39.000 I'm not late, I'm early. 00:39.000 --> 00:42.000 Hold it, let's see that ribbon. Well, 1950. 00:42.000 --> 00:44.000 Just call me Happy. 00:44.000 --> 00:45.000 I see, Happy New Year. 00:45.000 --> 00:48.000 That's me. By the way, what do you do? 00:48.000 --> 00:50.000 Oh, I sell auto light resistor spark plugs. 00:50.000 --> 00:52.000 Auto light resistor spark plugs? 00:52.000 --> 00:55.000 You mean you haven't heard of auto light resistor spark plugs? 00:55.000 --> 00:59.000 Those perfectly perky, persistent performers that let your engine idle smoother, 00:59.000 --> 01:02.000 run better on leaner gas mixtures, save gas? 01:02.000 --> 01:06.000 Where I come from, we ride around on stars, not cars. 01:06.000 --> 01:13.000 Oh, well, anyway, auto light resistor spark plugs with that exclusive built-in 10,000 ohm auto light resistor 01:13.000 --> 01:15.000 have 200% greater electrode life. 01:15.000 --> 01:18.000 Cut down spark plug interference with radio and television. 01:18.000 --> 01:22.000 Say, young fella, now that you've come down to earth, you'll be using a car. 01:22.000 --> 01:25.000 So take a tip. See your friendly auto light spark plug dealer. 01:25.000 --> 01:30.000 And get a set of auto light resistor spark plugs, long recognized for their dependability. 01:30.000 --> 01:34.000 You're always right with auto light. 01:34.000 --> 01:40.000 And now with the bullet and the performance of our star, Miss Ida Lupino as Ruth Martin, 01:40.000 --> 01:47.000 with Elliot Lewis as her husband Harry, auto light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:50.000 --> 01:53.000 Ruth, turn around, Ruth. 01:53.000 --> 01:54.000 No. 01:54.000 --> 01:57.000 Turn around, Ruth. I've got the gun in my hand. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 Please, Harry, please. 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 I'm pressing the trigger. Will it be this time? 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 Harry, don't. Don't do this to me. 02:05.000 --> 02:10.000 Will it be this time, Ruth? Will it be this time? 02:14.000 --> 02:18.000 Yes, Harry. Yes, this time. 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 This time I'd die and it was like drowning. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 Going down for the last time. 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 Everything flooding through my mind. 02:26.000 --> 02:29.000 Step by step we'd come to this point. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 Neither one of us wanting to. 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 From the day Harry came back from prison, 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 he saw me in the station. 02:35.000 --> 02:41.000 Pale, haggard, in a suit, two sizes too big, nothing left but his stupid pride. 02:41.000 --> 02:45.000 And me. Well, I suppose I was quite a shock to Harry. 02:45.000 --> 02:49.000 He looked at me so strangely all the way as we walked back to the parking lot for the car. 02:49.000 --> 02:52.000 What'd you do to yourself? You're so changed. 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 For the better, I hope. 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Just changed. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 Now is that being gallant? 02:56.000 --> 02:57.000 Gallant? 02:57.000 --> 03:02.000 When I came out of the kitchen to take over the business, Harry, while you were away, I had to change from my apron. 03:02.000 --> 03:05.000 I had to dye your hair too. Had to become a real glamour girl, huh? 03:05.000 --> 03:07.000 And that dress, is that one of ours? 03:07.000 --> 03:10.000 How's the business going? You hardly mentioned it in your letters, holding it on. 03:10.000 --> 03:14.000 Better than that. Just about tripled our volume since you went away. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 Well, here we are. 03:15.000 --> 03:16.000 Why? 03:16.000 --> 03:18.000 The car. Here's the car. 03:18.000 --> 03:19.000 This Chromium Wonder? 03:19.000 --> 03:23.000 Sure, it's yours. Here's the key. Go on. We can afford it. 03:23.000 --> 03:25.000 Little lady really took over. 03:25.000 --> 03:26.000 Where's it starting? 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Right there. 03:28.000 --> 03:33.000 Harry, somebody had to take over when you went away. After all, dress styles are changing all the time. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 Don't have a chip on your shoulder. 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 Well, another thing. What's this when you went away routine? Like maybe I went to China. 03:38.000 --> 03:43.000 I took a chance at my business and I lost, so they dumped me into the Huss Gal for three years. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 I'm not ashamed of it, so don't you? 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 You're going the wrong way, Harry. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 Well, I guess I know the way to my own house. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 But we live in a new house. Something really special. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 What goes on here? 03:53.000 --> 03:57.000 What's wrong with you? I did the best I could to keep things going. There's nothing to be jealous of. 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 Jealous? 03:58.000 --> 04:01.000 Oh, Harry, why are we fighting? 04:01.000 --> 04:05.000 Oh, yeah, that's right. We've got nothing to fight about. 04:05.000 --> 04:08.000 I'm back in the business and you can go back to taking care of the house and cooking. 04:08.000 --> 04:09.000 No, I... 04:09.000 --> 04:10.000 Keeping things looking nice? 04:10.000 --> 04:11.000 No, Harry, I... 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 Letting your hair get back to the color it used to be. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 I can't do it. 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 Well, we'll see, baby. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 Look, I don't want to be the boss. 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 Thanks. 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 But I can be of help to you. 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 Sure. Have nice hot dinner waiting for me when I come home from work. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 We can afford a cook for that now. 04:25.000 --> 04:28.000 Cook? You're all the cook we need. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Harry, I'm not the same anymore. 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 I just can't sit home and wait for you to come and tell me what the world's all about. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 Then you're going to have to learn, baby. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 You're just going to have to learn. 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 But nothing worked out the way Harry planned it. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 He found he couldn't keep me home. He put me in a corner in the office. 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 Set out to prove he didn't need me at all. 04:52.000 --> 04:55.000 Only three years is a long time to be away from anything. 04:55.000 --> 04:56.000 We're new buyers. 04:56.000 --> 04:59.000 The buyers didn't know him. They knew me. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 No, this is not what I wanted, Mr. Martin. 05:01.000 --> 05:03.000 Well, then I'll show you something else. 05:03.000 --> 05:04.000 I've got plenty of time. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 Can't really say that I have. 05:06.000 --> 05:09.000 Didn't I see Mrs. Martin in your office when I came in today? 05:09.000 --> 05:13.000 Well, she's just getting things in order before she retires back to the kitchen. 05:13.000 --> 05:15.000 She always knows exactly what I want. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 Could you send for her, please? 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 But I'm sure I can show you... 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 Would you mind? 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 No, no, I wouldn't mind. 05:27.000 --> 05:30.000 One blow after another at his stupid pride. 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 Most of the workers had never known Harry. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 They were used to taking their orders from me. 05:35.000 --> 05:38.000 But he had to show them he was still the big shot. 05:38.000 --> 05:40.000 Stop that machine. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 Huh? Oh, yes, sir. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 I want these coats cut with a flare three inches longer. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 Oh, but Mrs. Martin works it all out. 05:46.000 --> 05:47.000 Don't tell me what Mrs. Martin worked out. 05:47.000 --> 05:49.000 That sign out on the front window says Harry Martin. 05:49.000 --> 05:50.000 Oh, yes, sir, but... 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 But nothing. Cut it the way I told you. 05:52.000 --> 05:56.000 But these new machines Mrs. Martin installed, they don't operate like that. 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 What? 05:57.000 --> 05:59.000 That's why we changed over. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 I see. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 So, shall I do it like Mrs. Martin said, sir? 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 Yeah, just like Mrs. Martin said. 06:12.000 --> 06:15.000 It got so we were like two strangers. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Harry wouldn't even look at me anymore. 06:17.000 --> 06:20.000 I think he actually began to hate me. 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 And then the final thing. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 He began finding out about George. 06:24.000 --> 06:27.000 Oh, listen, I'm no angel, but three years. 06:27.000 --> 06:29.000 I'm not trying to defend myself. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 It's just that it's terrible to be lonely. 06:31.000 --> 06:34.000 And George came along and treated me like... 06:34.000 --> 06:37.000 Like I was somebody to respect, somebody with dignity. 06:37.000 --> 06:42.000 Well, then I began to realize that when I took the car someplace, 06:42.000 --> 06:46.000 Harry's car would bob up behind me, follow for a few blocks, then disappear. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 I'd be shopping in a store. 06:48.000 --> 06:53.000 Suddenly Harry's face would begin to weave in and out of the crowd, then disappear. 06:53.000 --> 06:58.000 Or coming into the office one day and finding Harry had put an extension on my phone. 06:58.000 --> 07:01.000 I was being stifled. I couldn't breathe anymore. 07:01.000 --> 07:05.000 I didn't dare see George anymore. I hardly dared phone him. 07:05.000 --> 07:08.000 So it's like prohibition of any kind. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 Began to be important. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 George had never really meant very much to me. 07:12.000 --> 07:16.000 But now I started thinking he was the only thing I had to hang on to. 07:16.000 --> 07:20.000 And Harry, always playing little jokes, setting his little traps. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 Like the morning he left for the office early. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 Some business to take care of. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 Hearing his car back out of the garage, move down the street, 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 thinking I was free for a few minutes. 07:29.000 --> 07:32.000 Free to call George after all these days. 07:37.000 --> 07:38.000 Hello? 07:38.000 --> 07:39.000 George? 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 Ruth, darling, where have you been? Why haven't I heard from you? 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 Oh, George, I wanted to call... 07:44.000 --> 07:47.000 George who? George who? 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 What's the full name, baby? 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 I heard you leave. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 Head to Gardner, take the car to the gas station. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Dial George again, baby. Finish the conversation. 07:54.000 --> 07:58.000 Listen, you're driving me crazy with these tricks. What's wrong with you? 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 Here's the phone. Dial him again. 07:59.000 --> 08:00.000 Dial who? 08:00.000 --> 08:01.000 Who were you talking to? 08:01.000 --> 08:05.000 The Beaver Knitting Mill. George Baker. He's one of their salesmen. 08:05.000 --> 08:06.000 Why did you hang up so quick? 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 You startled me. What are you doing? 08:08.000 --> 08:12.000 Of course, three years is a long time. 08:12.000 --> 08:17.000 But three years ago, the Beaver Knitting Mill never opened before nine. 08:17.000 --> 08:19.000 Harry... 08:21.000 --> 08:26.000 You must have dialed wrong, baby. There's no answer. 08:26.000 --> 08:31.000 Sneaking around behind my back, spying on me, checking on my phone calls. 08:31.000 --> 08:34.000 Harry, I'm not going on this way. I'm not going to let you drive me crazy. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 What do you think you're going to do about it? 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 I want a divorce. 08:39.000 --> 08:40.000 You mean that? 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Yes. 08:42.000 --> 08:44.000 He must be quite a guy. 08:44.000 --> 08:45.000 Listen to me. 08:45.000 --> 08:49.000 No. You listen, lady. Okay, it's a deal. 08:49.000 --> 08:54.000 You'll get your divorce, but on my terms, lady. All the way down the line. 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 What kind of terms? 08:56.000 --> 08:59.000 I know all about the laws in this state, 50-50 on everything. 08:59.000 --> 09:02.000 But it's not going to be that way with us. 09:02.000 --> 09:07.000 You give me a release, giving me the whole business, and you're free as the air. 09:07.000 --> 09:11.000 Give you the business? But I built the business. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 There was nothing left when you went to prison. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 That's my deal, kiddo. 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 My whole life is tied up with that business. I worked. 09:16.000 --> 09:17.000 That's the deal. 09:17.000 --> 09:18.000 Why are you doing it, Harry? 09:18.000 --> 09:19.000 Because whoever this bum is... 09:19.000 --> 09:20.000 There's no one. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 Whoever he is. 09:22.000 --> 09:27.000 I got a hunch when he hears you're not bringing half the business as a dowry, 09:27.000 --> 09:32.000 his great love is just going to shrivel up and die. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 That's what you believe, is it? 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 Exactly. 09:34.000 --> 09:37.000 All right, Harry, you draw up the papers. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 Ruth, I just don't know what to say. 09:49.000 --> 09:52.000 But to be free. Free to be with you, darling. 09:52.000 --> 09:55.000 What kind of freedom is it when you have to grub for a buck? 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 That kind of freedom you can feed to the pigeons. 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 George, don't talk like that. 09:58.000 --> 10:01.000 We're not a couple of 19-year-old kids running off on a motorcycle. 10:01.000 --> 10:04.000 If you give up your business, how are we supposed to live? 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 That's the only way he'll let me go. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Then don't go. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 He was right. What he said about you was right. 10:13.000 --> 10:18.000 If he said I didn't care for you very, very much, then he was wrong. 10:18.000 --> 10:22.000 But if he said I like it nice with enough money coming in to make it comfy, 10:22.000 --> 10:23.000 and how he was right... 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 Shut up! 10:26.000 --> 10:29.000 What was that for, because I'm honest with you? 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 Aren't you even going to say goodbye? 10:34.000 --> 10:37.000 You know, I can't say goodbye. Not now. 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 I can't be alone. I've got to have somebody. 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 Well, it isn't me, baby. It never was. 10:44.000 --> 10:45.000 Oh, baby. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 Will I see you tonight? 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 No, I... 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 Will you call me? 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 I feel, I don't know, lost. 10:51.000 --> 10:55.000 I'll be at the office tonight. I'll be there alone, waiting for your call. 10:55.000 --> 10:58.000 George, will you call me? 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 All right, Ruth. 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 Be there at ten. I'll call you. 11:11.000 --> 11:13.000 He wasn't that important to me. 11:13.000 --> 11:18.000 I wanted affection and love from somebody. So much. 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 George would be calling at the office at ten o'clock. 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 It seemed that's all there was for me. 11:23.000 --> 11:26.000 I walked. I sat in the park. I waited. 11:26.000 --> 11:29.000 A telephone call from George. 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 When I got to the building, I looked up at our windows. 11:32.000 --> 11:35.000 Dark. Not a light on the whole floor. 11:35.000 --> 11:39.000 When I got to the outer door of the office, I stopped and listened. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 Not a sound. 11:43.000 --> 11:46.000 I went inside. Found the light switch. 11:46.000 --> 11:49.000 Oh, I've been waiting for you, Ruth. 11:49.000 --> 11:51.000 Where have you been? 11:51.000 --> 11:54.000 Harry, why were you waiting here in the dark? 11:54.000 --> 11:57.000 I tried to take a snooze, just stretched out here from... 11:57.000 --> 12:00.000 I haven't been sleeping much lately. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 Yes, I know. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 You neither, have I, huh? 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 No, not much. 12:06.000 --> 12:09.000 I have the paper. I left it here on your desk. 12:09.000 --> 12:10.000 Paper? 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 Yeah, it's all very legal. 12:12.000 --> 12:16.000 If you relinquish all claims to the business, then I bow out of your life. 12:16.000 --> 12:17.000 No. 12:17.000 --> 12:20.000 These lawyers, they can find word. 12:20.000 --> 12:21.000 What did you say? 12:21.000 --> 12:24.000 I've changed my mind. I'm not gonna sign it. 12:24.000 --> 12:26.000 That's the only way I'll give you a divorce. 12:26.000 --> 12:28.000 Then we'll just have to forget about the divorce. 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 I want you to sign this paper, Ruth. 12:30.000 --> 12:33.000 I won't, Harry. And I don't want to argue about it. 12:33.000 --> 12:34.000 Wait. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 Yes? 12:35.000 --> 12:37.000 I know who he is, baby. 12:37.000 --> 12:38.000 What are you talking about? 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 I'm talking about George Groves. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 George Groves? 12:42.000 --> 12:43.000 You've been giving him money. 12:43.000 --> 12:44.000 That's a lie. 12:44.000 --> 12:47.000 I found this deposit slip weeks ago in your writing made out to his bank account. 12:47.000 --> 12:48.000 $300. 12:48.000 --> 12:49.000 Lies. 12:49.000 --> 12:52.000 And this deposit slip, $200. And this one, $250. 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 Who is he? 12:54.000 --> 12:58.000 You're not getting out of here until you tell me who he is. 12:58.000 --> 13:01.000 Harry, I wanted to tell you, but I just couldn't. 13:01.000 --> 13:02.000 Who is he? 13:02.000 --> 13:05.000 He's... He's a gambler. 13:05.000 --> 13:08.000 Gambler? 13:08.000 --> 13:09.000 Who are you kidding? 13:09.000 --> 13:12.000 You asked me. So I told you. Now I'm going. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 Wait. That doesn't make sense. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 You... You never gambled? 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 Well, I was like a lost dog. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 Nothing to do, no one to tend to. 13:21.000 --> 13:24.000 I lost that money and quite a bit more. 13:24.000 --> 13:25.000 Ruth, if that were true... 13:25.000 --> 13:27.000 It is true. 13:27.000 --> 13:28.000 There isn't any other man. 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 There never was. 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 Ten o'clock. 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 George Groves, a gambler. 13:35.000 --> 13:38.000 Here, you shouldn't keep these things lying around, baby. 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 I've got to go, Harry. 13:40.000 --> 13:43.000 To Ruth. Since I got off that train a month ago, 13:43.000 --> 13:47.000 I've been acting like... like I don't know what. 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 You think we've got any chance to start all over again? 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 Right from the beginning, baby. 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 I don't know, Harry. 13:54.000 --> 13:57.000 I can't think straight. Let's go someplace. 13:57.000 --> 13:58.000 Let's not talk about it here. 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 You're right. Here's where all the trouble started. 14:00.000 --> 14:01.000 Let's get out in the air. 14:01.000 --> 14:02.000 Yes, come on. 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 Sure. A gambler. 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 I bet he really took you to the cleaners. 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 Well, you know something, I'm not sore at him. 14:09.000 --> 14:10.000 Not a bit. 14:10.000 --> 14:11.000 Oh, wait. Let me turn out the light. 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Well, hurry. 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 Okay. Now let's... 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 Ah, your phone. 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 I... I don't understand. 14:19.000 --> 14:20.000 Who'll be calling at this hour? 14:20.000 --> 14:22.000 Nobody. Must be a wrong number. Come on. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 What do you mean, come on? At least answer it. 14:24.000 --> 14:25.000 Oh, never mind. I'll take it. 14:25.000 --> 14:26.000 No, I... 14:26.000 --> 14:27.000 What? 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 Well, it's on my line. 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 Then you answer it. 14:31.000 --> 14:32.000 Why are you going to your extension? 14:32.000 --> 14:33.000 Answer the phone, Ruth. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 You're starting it all over again. 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 I said answer the phone. 14:37.000 --> 14:39.000 Answer the phone. 14:39.000 --> 14:42.000 Ruth, answer the phone. 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 You almost had me believing your fairy tale. 14:48.000 --> 14:49.000 You almost made it. 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 Harry, listen to me. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 All I want you to do is sign this release and clear out. 14:52.000 --> 14:53.000 No. 14:53.000 --> 14:54.000 You heard what I said, Ruth. 14:54.000 --> 14:55.000 I'll never sign it. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 Okay. 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 One last trick, baby. 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 Look what I got in this drawer. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 I asked you to look. 15:02.000 --> 15:05.000 Harry, put away that gun. 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 I want you to get a good look at it. 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 It's called a war souvenir. 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 Only if you don't sign this release. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 You know what, baby? 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 Someday I'm going to kill you with this gun. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 No. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 Someday I'm going to say to you, Ruthie, 15:17.000 --> 15:20.000 I'll give you three seconds to sign this release. 15:20.000 --> 15:21.000 One. 15:21.000 --> 15:22.000 Harry. 15:22.000 --> 15:23.000 Two. 15:22.000 --> 15:23.000 Don't, Harry. 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 Three. 15:24.000 --> 15:25.000 No. 15:27.000 --> 15:28.000 What's the matter, Ruth? 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 You tried to kill me. 15:30.000 --> 15:31.000 Don't be silly. 15:31.000 --> 15:32.000 I told you it was a trick. 15:32.000 --> 15:33.000 The gun's harmless. 15:33.000 --> 15:35.000 It's unloaded, see? 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 Why did you do that to me? 15:36.000 --> 15:37.000 Why? 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 Put it away. 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 That's strange. 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 You know it's not loaded and you're still afraid. 15:43.000 --> 15:44.000 Put it away. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 That's the beauty of the trick, Ruth. 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 That's why someday you're going to break down 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 and sign that release. 15:50.000 --> 15:54.000 You see, you'll never know just when it will be loaded. 15:54.000 --> 16:09.000 You'll never know, Ruth. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 Auto Light is bringing you The Bullet, 16:11.000 --> 16:14.000 starring Ida Lupino with Elliot Lewis 16:14.000 --> 16:25.000 in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspend. 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 Hey, happy, happy new year. 16:27.000 --> 16:28.000 Yes, sir. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 How about showing me what's in store for 1950? 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17:22.000 --> 17:25.000 Hey, you really want a happy and prosperous new year, 17:25.000 --> 17:26.000 don't you? 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 You bet, and it will be a year of happier driving 17:29.000 --> 17:32.000 for motorists who make it an Auto Light year. 17:32.000 --> 17:34.000 Because you're always right with Auto Light. 17:34.000 --> 17:38.000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage 17:38.000 --> 17:43.000 our star Ida Lupino with Elliot Lewis in The Bullet. 17:43.000 --> 17:46.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 Suspended. 17:52.000 --> 17:55.000 That night I made up my bed on the couch in the den. 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 Just hearing him walk, 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 knowing he was in the house, kept me awake. 17:59.000 --> 18:02.000 I locked the door and I lay there. 18:02.000 --> 18:05.000 And I must have dozed off in spite of myself 18:05.000 --> 18:08.000 as I came awake with a sudden violence. 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 Fresh air was fanning my face. 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 There couldn't be. 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 The window had been shut. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 And now the window was open. 18:16.000 --> 18:17.000 Harry! 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 If you don't sign the release, 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 someday I'm going to give you three seconds. 18:21.000 --> 18:22.000 One. 18:22.000 --> 18:23.000 Harry! 18:23.000 --> 18:24.000 Two. 18:24.000 --> 18:25.000 Don't shoot me, Harry! 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 Shoot you? 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 You must have had a bad dream. 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 I don't even have the gun. 18:31.000 --> 18:35.000 Oh, no. 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 Threatening to kill you? 18:45.000 --> 18:46.000 Yes, he has a gun. 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 George, I'm coming to you. 18:48.000 --> 18:49.000 You've got to... 18:48.000 --> 18:49.000 No! 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 If all is here and kills the both of us, 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 does that make everything just dandy? 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 Look, Ruth, do me a favor, will you? 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 Kind of forget this address from now on. 18:57.000 --> 18:58.000 But George, don't say that. 18:58.000 --> 18:59.000 I'm sorry. 18:59.000 --> 19:00.000 But you've got to help me. What can I do? 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 You can go to the police. 19:02.000 --> 19:03.000 Police? 19:03.000 --> 19:06.000 You know, threatening somebody's life is slightly illegal. 19:06.000 --> 19:08.000 Yes. Yes, the police. 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 Yes, of course. They'll help me. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 Oh, yes, George, that's very smart of you. 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 They'll help me. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 I went to the police. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 Told them what Harry was trying to do. 19:25.000 --> 19:28.000 Instructed one of their men to go with me and investigate. 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 When we reached the lobby of the office building, 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 I couldn't go on. 19:32.000 --> 19:35.000 I was afraid of face Harry when the policeman would find the gun. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 What's the matter, Mrs. Martin? 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 Well, I... I think I'd better wait down here. 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 Ah, you don't need to be afraid. Come on. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 Please. It's on the third floor, officer. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 You'll see the name on the reception door 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 the minute you get off the elevator. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 Please, do you mind? 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 You're really scared, aren't you? 19:51.000 --> 19:58.000 All right, all right. I'll be down soon enough. 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 I began to feel a sense of relief. 20:02.000 --> 20:05.000 Harry wouldn't terrorise me any longer. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 Soon the officer would bring him down. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 He'd be off to police headquarters. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 And then I'd swear out a complaint. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 By the time he got out of jail, 20:13.000 --> 20:16.000 I would have started proceedings of my own to divorce him. 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 And then I started to cry at that. 20:19.000 --> 20:22.000 I don't know why, just standing there and waiting. 20:22.000 --> 20:26.000 And then I began to wonder what they were doing up there so long. 20:26.000 --> 20:29.000 More than a half hour had gone by. 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 When the elevator door opened, 20:32.000 --> 20:36.000 I expected to see Harry being pushed along, handcuffed. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 The officer was all by himself. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 And he was smiling. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 Well, now I just had a nice chat with your husband. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 You've been worrying for nothing, Mrs. Martin. 20:44.000 --> 20:45.000 But the gun! 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 Oh, sure, I saw the gun. Just a war souvenir. 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 It's not even loaded. He doesn't have ammunition for it. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 But someday it will be loaded. 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 Someday he's going to kill me, he said that. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 I tell you why. He's in love with you, crazy about you. 20:55.000 --> 20:57.000 Now, he feels pretty bad about this. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 He did it just as a, you know, just as a funny little joke. 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 No, no, I tell you... 21:00.000 --> 21:03.000 He says if you're going to go and get scared, he'll never do it again. 21:03.000 --> 21:04.000 But listen to me! 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 Now, look, why don't you go on upstairs? 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 He wants to apologise for scaring you like this. 21:08.000 --> 21:09.000 He's a very nice guy. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 I tell you he's going to kill me. I'm not... 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 You're just upset. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 Like he said, you've been working too hard. You ought to rest up. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 I don't care what you think. 21:16.000 --> 21:19.000 I want him arrested for threatening me with a deadly weapon. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 An empty gun. That's not a deadly weapon. 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 Now, listen to me! 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 No, you listen to me. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 Even if I wanted to, there's nothing I could do. 21:25.000 --> 21:28.000 As long as that gun is empty, it's not a deadly weapon and we can't touch him. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 In this state, that's the law, Mrs Martin. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 Go ask a lawyer about it. Anybody who knows the law knows that. 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 That's a deadly weapon, that's that I'm afraid. 21:35.000 --> 21:39.000 If we can actually prove, Mrs Martin, that your husband wanted to kill you, 21:39.000 --> 21:42.000 then you could put him away for years. 21:42.000 --> 21:43.000 For years? 21:43.000 --> 21:46.000 That's right, but he can't hurt you with an empty gun. 21:46.000 --> 21:50.000 And as long as that gun is empty, we can't touch him. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 In this state, that's the law. 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 So there was nothing I could do. Nothing. 22:02.000 --> 22:06.000 Until there was a bullet in the gun, I could do nothing to him. 22:06.000 --> 22:09.000 But then the answer came to me. 22:09.000 --> 22:12.000 It was so simple, so obvious all the time. 22:12.000 --> 22:16.000 What would happen if I put the bullet in the gun? 22:16.000 --> 22:20.000 It was late Saturday afternoon. The offices were closed. 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 I went to the desk where he kept the gun. 22:22.000 --> 22:27.000 I found the caliber marked alongside the barrel. 31.6. 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 Put the gun back, closed the drawer. 22:29.000 --> 22:32.000 My heart was pounding. I kept saying it all the way to the gun shop. 22:32.000 --> 22:38.000 31.6, 31.6, 31.6, 31.6. 22:38.000 --> 22:42.000 That must be a foreign mate. Don't have any bullets of that caliber. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 Will, do you know any place that does carry them? 22:44.000 --> 22:48.000 No, not unless you wrote to maybe one of the big outfits back east. 22:48.000 --> 22:49.000 That would take so long. 22:49.000 --> 22:54.000 Of course, a.32 shell would work just as well if you weren't so fussy. 22:54.000 --> 22:57.000 No, that'll be fine. I'm not at all fussy. 23:03.000 --> 23:07.000 I went back to the office. I took out his gun and broke it open. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 I opened my purse, took the bullets out. 23:09.000 --> 23:12.000 Years in prison, that's what the lawyer said. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.000 Well, it'd serve him right after what he'd made me go through. 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 I forced the bullets inside the gun, then closed it. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 Now it was a deadly weapon. 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 I put the gun back in the drawer. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 I went to my desk to call the police. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 Now they'd see the gun for themselves. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 Now they'd see Harry planned to kill me. 23:28.000 --> 23:31.000 Years in prison, yes, that's what I wanted them to get. 23:33.000 --> 23:34.000 All A-Z quarters. 23:34.000 --> 23:38.000 This is Mrs. Martin. My husband has just threatened me with a loaded gun. 23:38.000 --> 23:41.000 Yeah, just a moment, Mrs. Martin. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Now I'll connect you with such a voice. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 Harry! 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 Calling George Ruth? 23:48.000 --> 23:50.000 You think you're so clever, don't you? 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 No, I'm not very clever. 23:53.000 --> 23:56.000 I thought I'd take a ride in the country. I thought it would relax me. 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 Nothing seems to relax me. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 Everything going to pot around here. 24:01.000 --> 24:02.000 I'll be going. 24:02.000 --> 24:04.000 Still not interested in this release, huh? 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 I've told you a million times. 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 Well, I'll see you later. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 What's your rush? 24:10.000 --> 24:14.000 You're not interested in the release, then maybe you might be interested in this souvenir. 24:15.000 --> 24:16.000 Harry. 24:16.000 --> 24:18.000 Turn around and look at it, Ruth. 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 It's part of the little trick, you know. 24:20.000 --> 24:21.000 No. 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 I said turn around. 24:23.000 --> 24:27.000 Isn't it remarkable? Even after all this time, it still fills you with terror. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 Put the gun down, Harry. 24:29.000 --> 24:31.000 Someday it's going to be like I always said. 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 Don't start that again. 24:33.000 --> 24:37.000 Someday I'm going to say, Ruth, I'll give you three seconds to sign that release. 24:37.000 --> 24:38.000 One. 24:38.000 --> 24:39.000 No. 24:39.000 --> 24:40.000 Two. 24:40.000 --> 24:41.000 No. 24:41.000 --> 24:42.000 Three. 24:42.000 --> 24:45.000 No, don't shoot. I'll sign it. I'll sign it. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 All right, go on. 24:47.000 --> 24:49.000 Put the gun down on the desk. 24:49.000 --> 24:51.000 First sign it, Ruth. Here's the pen. Sign it. 24:51.000 --> 24:53.000 All right, all right. 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 There. 24:56.000 --> 24:58.000 Now please put down the gun. 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 Yeah, all right. 25:00.000 --> 25:02.000 So I finally wore you down. 25:02.000 --> 25:04.000 No. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 I've got the gun. 25:06.000 --> 25:08.000 What do you think you're going to do with it? 25:08.000 --> 25:11.000 There's something you don't know, Harry, that should interest you very much. 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 This gun isn't empty anymore. 25:13.000 --> 25:14.000 What? 25:14.000 --> 25:16.000 Oh, it's loaded. 25:16.000 --> 25:18.000 So that's what you were doing in the sporting goods shop. 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 You followed me everywhere, haven't you? 25:20.000 --> 25:21.000 Yeah. 25:21.000 --> 25:22.000 I was in luck. 25:22.000 --> 25:24.000 The gun is loaded, Harry. 25:24.000 --> 25:25.000 So give me back the paper. 25:25.000 --> 25:27.000 Sorry, Ruth. Not this. 25:27.000 --> 25:28.000 Harry. 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 If you don't give me back the release, I'm going to count three. 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 Just like you, remember? 25:32.000 --> 25:34.000 And then I'm going to pull the trigger. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 Only this time it won't just click. 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 So give me back the paper. 25:40.000 --> 25:42.000 All right. 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 One. 25:44.000 --> 25:46.000 I tell you there are bullets in this gun. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 I may have it, Ruth. 25:48.000 --> 25:49.000 Give me the paper. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 Give me the gun, Ruth. 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 I mean it, Harry. I'll kill you. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 Ruth. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 Ruth. 25:57.000 --> 25:59.000 I can't. 25:59.000 --> 26:01.000 I can't hurt you anymore. 26:01.000 --> 26:03.000 I can't. 26:03.000 --> 26:05.000 Here. 26:05.000 --> 26:07.000 Stop the crying. 26:07.000 --> 26:09.000 Ruthie, baby. 26:09.000 --> 26:11.000 If you want the guy, you can have him. 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 And you're sure of the business, too. 26:13.000 --> 26:15.000 The whole works if you want it. 26:15.000 --> 26:17.000 I never wanted anyone but you, Harry. 26:17.000 --> 26:19.000 I must have been crazy. 26:19.000 --> 26:21.000 The things I've been doing. 26:21.000 --> 26:23.000 Like a crazy dream. Like it wasn't really me. 26:23.000 --> 26:25.000 Could you ever understand what went on inside me? 26:25.000 --> 26:27.000 Could you try to understand? 26:27.000 --> 26:29.000 Do you think you could, Ruth? 26:29.000 --> 26:31.000 Yes, I could try. 26:31.000 --> 26:33.000 Baby, baby. 26:33.000 --> 26:35.000 Hey, hey. Do you hear what I said? 26:35.000 --> 26:37.000 Don't cry. 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 Please. 26:39.000 --> 26:41.000 Don't cry. 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 Oh, let me, Harry. 26:43.000 --> 27:01.000 Please let me. 27:01.000 --> 27:03.000 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 27:03.000 --> 27:07.000 Tonight's star, Ida Lupino with Elliot Lewis. 27:07.000 --> 27:11.000 So long, Mr. Wilcox. See you in two days. 27:11.000 --> 27:13.000 Officially. 27:13.000 --> 27:15.000 Bye, young fella. And happy. 27:15.000 --> 27:17.000 Oh, no point in my wishing him happy New Year. 27:17.000 --> 27:21.000 But to you folks listening, let me and Auto Light's 96,000 dealers 27:21.000 --> 27:25.000 extend hearty wishes for a very prosperous 1950. 27:25.000 --> 27:27.000 From Auto Light. 27:27.000 --> 27:29.000 Makers of Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs and over 400 other products. 27:29.000 --> 27:33.000 For cars, trucks, planes and boats in 28 plants coast to coast. 27:33.000 --> 27:37.000 These include complete electrical systems used as original equipment 27:37.000 --> 27:39.000 on many makes of America's cars. 27:39.000 --> 27:43.000 Batteries, spark plugs, generators, coils, distributors, starting motors 27:43.000 --> 27:45.000 and bullseye sealed beam headlights. 27:45.000 --> 27:49.000 All engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly 27:49.000 --> 27:51.000 because they're a perfect team. 27:51.000 --> 27:54.000 So don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 27:54.000 --> 27:58.000 Ask for and insist on Auto Light Original Factory Parts 27:58.000 --> 28:01.000 at your neighborhood service station, car dealer, garage or repair shop. 28:01.000 --> 28:09.000 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 28:09.000 --> 28:13.000 Next Thursday for Suspense, Danny Kaye will be our star. 28:13.000 --> 28:15.000 The play is called I Never Met the Dead Man. 28:15.000 --> 28:22.000 And it is as we say, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 28:22.000 --> 28:25.000 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear 28:25.000 --> 28:27.000 and directed by Norman MacDonald. 28:27.000 --> 28:30.000 Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian Morrowek 28:30.000 --> 28:32.000 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:32.000 --> 28:35.000 The bullet is an original radio play by Larry Marcus. 28:35.000 --> 28:38.000 Ida Lupino appeared through the courtesy of Filmmakers Incorporated, 28:38.000 --> 28:41.000 producers of Never Fear, soon to be released. 28:41.000 --> 28:43.000 In the coming weeks you will hear such stars as Robert Taylor, 28:43.000 --> 28:46.000 William Powell and Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. 28:46.000 --> 28:49.000 Don't forget next Thursday same time Auto Light will present Suspense 28:49.000 --> 28:52.000 starring Danny Kaye. 28:52.000 --> 28:57.000 You can buy Auto Light resistor or regular spark plugs, 28:57.000 --> 28:58.000 Auto Light staple batteries, 28:58.000 --> 29:01.000 Auto Light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealer. 29:01.000 --> 29:04.000 Switch to Auto Light. 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