1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:18,800 Suspense! 2 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:25,440 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Joseph Cotton in Blood Sacrifice, a suspense 3 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:32,880 play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,800 Hap me boy, here's one that'll rattle the ivory between your ears. 5 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:41,200 What is it that carries water, has plates, gives continuous service, and is associated 6 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:42,200 with a good tip? 7 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:43,200 A waiter! 8 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:44,200 Oh, how dumb can you be? 9 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,520 Listen, I'll make it easy. 10 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,880 It needs water only three times a year in normal car use, and it's a tough little bundle 11 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:50,880 of potent energy. 12 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:51,880 Now, what is it? 13 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:52,880 A camel? 14 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:53,880 Oh, give me strength. 15 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:59,000 Look, Slap Happy, it's the famous Auto Light Stay Full Battery, the battery that needs 16 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,080 water only three times a year in normal car use. 17 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:06,560 Why, the Stay Full has over three times more liquid reserve above the plates than batteries 18 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,240 without Stay Full features. 19 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,560 You caught me with my brains down, Wilcox. 20 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,600 Glad to hear you admit it, because the Auto Light Stay Full battery is known from coast 21 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:20,540 to coast as the battery that gives 70% longer average life as compared to batteries without 22 00:01:20,540 --> 00:01:22,160 Stay Full features. 23 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:26,560 And this is proven by tests conducted according to SAE life cycle standards. 24 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,200 You're absolutely right, Harlow. 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,480 Of course, you're always right with Auto Light. 26 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:37,040 And now with blood sacrifice and the performance of Joseph Cotton, Auto Light hopes once again 27 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,840 to keep you in suspense. 28 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:55,080 Seeing his dressing room, Gary, his arm through mine, his great beautiful voice purring assuringly 29 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:56,080 in my ear. 30 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:57,080 It's wonderful, Johnny, wonderful. 31 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:58,080 Two hundred thousand. 32 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,080 Why, they didn't pay that for Gone with the Wind. 33 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,080 You're a success, boy, a success. 34 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:04,080 A success. 35 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,240 And well on the way towards being rich. 36 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:12,440 On the marquee above the theater in lights, Garrick Drury in Bitter Laurel and then in 37 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,520 slightly smaller lights by John Scales. 38 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,720 New clothes, best food, a fashionable hotel, new and fashionable queen. 39 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,320 And I owed it every bit of it to Garrick Drury. 40 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,960 Everyone said that, everyone except Gary. 41 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,320 We're just finished seeing the men from the Motion Picture Company. 42 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:36,520 Gary had been charming, courteous, thoughtful, protecting my royalties, protecting his rights. 43 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:37,960 And finally they were gone. 44 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,120 Walters, Gary's valet, came into the room. 45 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:41,520 Anything else, Mr. Drury? 46 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:42,520 Not tonight. 47 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,560 I'll pick you up in the car at the stage door at five minutes. 48 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:45,560 Yes, sir. 49 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,240 I'm going to see Mr. Scales to his taxi. 50 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,040 Sure I can't drop you anywhere, John? 51 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:50,040 No, no, quite sure. 52 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:51,040 Thanks. 53 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:52,040 Glad to, you know. 54 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:53,040 Oh, Walters. 55 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:54,040 Yes, sir. 56 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,000 Bring along that play of young, what's his name, ruggles, buggles, you know who I mean. 57 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,360 I promised Fanny Taylor I'd read it, but well, it's perfectly useless, of course. 58 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,160 We'll be playing Bitter Laurel for another two or three years yet. 59 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:05,160 Eh, Walton? 60 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Well, come along. 61 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,160 Five minutes, Walters. 62 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:08,160 Yes, sir. 63 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,800 Now look here, John. 64 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,880 Don't you worry about his movie deal. 65 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:15,880 I've handled these characters before. 66 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:16,880 Before. 67 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:17,880 Before! 68 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,680 Listen to that, John. 69 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,720 Wonderful sound. 70 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,120 The empty theater. 71 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,600 The empty, echoing, endless theater. 72 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,680 John, you know what? 73 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:32,680 Sure. 74 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:33,680 There's a play in it. 75 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:38,640 In the last scene, the actor dies in the empty, endless theater, pouring out his death on 76 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,600 eight pages to the ghosts of all the audience who didn't realize how great he was. 77 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:44,600 Alone. 78 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,600 His wife's gone to, uh, Hollywood. 79 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:47,600 Perfect. 80 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,520 Well, what are we waiting for, Johnny? 81 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:50,640 I'll put you in your taxi. 82 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:51,640 You go home and write it. 83 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,000 Bring it to me tomorrow night. 84 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,960 We'll fix it, and there we are. 85 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:56,400 I can read the notices now. 86 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:57,840 It is sensational, aren't they? 87 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,640 Gary Grury does it again. 88 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:01,840 Actor's death scene draws bravo. 89 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:03,800 Sir Gary Grury, maybe. 90 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,800 Well, come on. 91 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:05,800 We'll get you on your way. 92 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:06,800 Good night, Mr. Grury. 93 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:11,040 I thought your performance was exceedingly fine tonight. 94 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:12,040 Thank you. 95 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,040 Good night, Scotty. 96 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:14,040 Waters will be right out. 97 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,040 You can lock up. 98 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,040 Good night, Mr. Grury, Mr. Scales. 99 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,040 Good night, Scotty. 100 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,040 Well, this is as raining. 101 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,600 There's a cab stand right at the corner. 102 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:22,600 We make a run for it. 103 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:23,600 John, look out! 104 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:24,600 John, are you all right? 105 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:25,600 I... 106 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:26,600 Oh, my God. 107 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:27,600 Oh, my God. 108 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:28,600 Oh, my God. 109 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,600 Oh, my God. 110 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:30,600 Oh, my God. 111 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:31,600 Oh, my God. 112 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:32,600 Oh, I don't know. 113 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:33,600 Doctor, the... 114 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:34,600 Doctor, the breath out of me. 115 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:35,600 My side... 116 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:36,600 How about you? 117 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:37,600 You all right? 118 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:38,600 No. 119 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:39,600 Here, let me help you. 120 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:40,600 Bye. 121 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:41,600 You are hurt. 122 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:42,600 No, no, no. 123 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:43,600 Just jarred up a little. 124 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:44,600 No broken bones. 125 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:45,600 Gary! 126 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:46,600 Oh, my Lord. 127 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,600 I picked myself up from the curb where the car had thrown me, but it hit us. 128 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,600 My side hurt in my head. 129 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:55,600 Oh, my God. 130 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:56,600 Oh, my God. 131 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:57,600 Oh, my God. 132 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:58,600 Oh, my God. 133 00:04:58,600 --> 00:04:59,600 Oh, my God. 134 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:00,600 Oh, my God. 135 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,600 I was hurt in my head real, but Gary... 136 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:09,960 So I staggered out from the other side of the car, saw the jagged pain of broken glass in 137 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:15,000 the store window, saw the bright spurts dying the pavement crimson where Gary's right hand 138 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,440 clutched his left arm. 139 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,160 A policeman came running towards us. 140 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:19,240 Yeah, yeah, what happened? 141 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,240 It's Mr. Dury, officer. 142 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,720 They car skidded over the curb and knocked it through the window. 143 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,380 Yeah, yeah, but they will look now. 144 00:05:24,380 --> 00:05:25,380 Catch him, catch him. 145 00:05:25,380 --> 00:05:26,380 He's going faint. 146 00:05:26,380 --> 00:05:27,380 They've got him now. 147 00:05:27,380 --> 00:05:28,380 Oh, no wonder. 148 00:05:28,380 --> 00:05:29,380 He's got an artery. 149 00:05:29,380 --> 00:05:31,120 Hey, you, call an ambulance. 150 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:32,120 Get a doctor. 151 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,000 This man will bleed to death if we're not quick. 152 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Are you all right, sir? 153 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I hurt my side a little, sir. 154 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 I feel a bit faint. 155 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 I'll be all right. 156 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Good, good. 157 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,480 We've got to stop this bleeding here. 158 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:41,720 Now, help me. 159 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,000 You put your hand right here. 160 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,000 That's right, yeah. 161 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Now, squeeze hard. 162 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Yes. 163 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,000 And keep on squeezing. 164 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 You, you over there. 165 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Come on, give us a hand. 166 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,160 I'll take his head. 167 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,160 You take his feet now. 168 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:52,160 Easy does it. 169 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:53,160 All right. 170 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:54,160 Yeah, yeah. 171 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:55,160 What happened to you? 172 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:56,160 Mr. Dury. 173 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,520 What happened to you? 174 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:00,520 Mr. Dury. 175 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:01,520 There's been an accident. 176 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:02,520 Walter, here. 177 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:03,520 Come on, give him your hand. 178 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:04,520 Hang on to the artery. 179 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:05,520 I'm trying to. 180 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:06,520 What is it, Mr. Skeff? 181 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:07,520 Accident. 182 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:08,520 Mr. Dury cut an artery. 183 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:09,520 Here. 184 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:10,520 There's a couch. 185 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:11,520 Mr. Dury's dressing room officer right around this way. 186 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:12,520 What's the matter? 187 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:13,520 What happened to the light? 188 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:14,520 Turn off the light. 189 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:15,520 He fainted, Gary. 190 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:16,520 Oh, I see. 191 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:17,520 All right, all right. 192 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:18,520 Here, here on the couch. 193 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:19,520 Easy now. 194 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:20,520 Down we go. 195 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:21,520 Now, you, get an ambulance and a doctor. 196 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:22,520 All right. 197 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,520 My left arm, eh, John? 198 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,520 Do you suppose I'll lose the use of it? 199 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,680 Oh, well, it's lucky it's the army in play, isn't it, John? 200 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,520 I can always go on playing key. 201 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:39,520 Always. 202 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:45,240 For the rest of my life. 203 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,240 My play. 204 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,240 All the rest of his life. 205 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,480 The blood, I'm going to be sick. 206 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:57,440 The officer took his strong hand and gripped the artery in Gary's arm above my own shaking 207 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:58,440 fingers. 208 00:06:58,440 --> 00:06:59,440 Now, you look peaking. 209 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:00,440 Lie down, Mr. Skeff. 210 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:01,440 Let me hold that. 211 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,440 Now, you, help rig up a tourniquet. 212 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:04,440 Walters, whatever your name is. 213 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:05,440 Yes, sir. 214 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:06,440 Will someone try to get a doctor? 215 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:08,120 Just call for the doctor. 216 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:09,120 There's no one on emergency. 217 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,040 Everyone's out, and so are the ambulances. 218 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,280 Then call a private hospital. 219 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:13,920 This man is bleeding to death. 220 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:19,080 Bleeding to death. 221 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:20,520 This was the end with it. 222 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:24,280 No doctor on duty, and Garrick Drilly bleeding to death. 223 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,480 Then I came to. 224 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:34,520 I'll find a doctor. 225 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,640 But it was 40 minutes before the doctor finally came. 226 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:42,960 40 minutes while Garrick Drilly's life seeped out from the improvised tourniquet. 227 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,160 The doctor sat down his bag and took one look. 228 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,320 We're still trying to get hold of an ambulance, Dr. 229 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,560 Drilly, but we couldn't move him now anyway. 230 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:51,080 There's only one thing to do. 231 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:52,520 Give him a transfusion right here. 232 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:53,520 Yes. 233 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,080 Well, first we'll make a decent tourniquet. 234 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,080 I'll test his blood for type. 235 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,720 Oh, by the by, wait around, all of you. 236 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:07,640 I have to find someone among you with type of blood that matches his. 237 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,040 Garrick lay on a couch behind a screen in his dressing room. 238 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,480 There was a plate on the table, one with a border of pink roses, which during rehearsals 239 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,200 we'd often eat in hasty sandwiches. 240 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,000 Now there were four round blobs of red on it. 241 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,440 Blood, two blobs of mine and two of Garrick's valid, Walters. 242 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,280 Behind the screen, Walters was blubbering with grief while an intern arrived at last 243 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,080 for the ambulance was murmuring fearfully. 244 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,080 Doctor, I can't find his pulse. 245 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:35,080 You can't? 246 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,080 What? 247 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:37,080 Wait a minute. 248 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:38,080 Here, you idiot, let me see. 249 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,080 Yes, of course, here it is. 250 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:40,080 But we must hurry or we'll be gone. 251 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:41,080 Steady now, Walter, steady. 252 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:42,080 We know you love him. 253 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:43,080 We're doing our best. 254 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,760 Now, let's go look at those tests. 255 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,800 The important thing is to give transfusion as soon as possible. 256 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:49,800 Let me give it to him. 257 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:50,800 I'll give my life for Mr. Drury. 258 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:51,800 Let me give the transfusion. 259 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:52,800 Now, now, now, now, we'll see. 260 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,800 I've already told you, Drury's blood is type three, very difficult. 261 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:00,600 We can only give him a transfusion from someone of his own type or a type four universal donor. 262 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,600 Anything else would be like giving him prussic acid. 263 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,600 I only hope that you or Mr. Scales will do. 264 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:07,600 We'll have to make sure. 265 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:08,600 All right, now let me see. 266 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:09,600 All right, now, Walter, let me see. 267 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:16,600 We'll have to make sure. 268 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:21,040 The doctor bent over the plate, pouring liquid out of vials onto the red drops. 269 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:25,240 I stood where I'd been standing when he put the blood onto the plate before the intern's 270 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:26,240 voice had cried out, 271 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:27,240 Dr. I can't find his pulse. 272 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:32,200 Walter's and the doctor had plunged around the screen to where Gary lay unconscious. 273 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,440 I watched while the doctor finished with the vials. 274 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,560 Then he picked up a grease pencil from the dressing table and drew a line across the 275 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:40,560 plate, cutting it in half. 276 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:45,160 Then with a pencil, he marked the side on which I stood with an S and the side on which 277 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,320 Walter's had stood with a W. 278 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:48,320 There now. 279 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,000 Now we'll be sure of which is which. 280 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,040 It will take a few minutes to see if there's any agglutination. 281 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,920 Oh, that's hope. 282 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:57,960 That's all we can do is hope. 283 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:01,280 And he disappeared once again behind the screen. 284 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:06,360 It was then that I noticed the one rose on the border of the plate which had been blurred 285 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:07,360 in the firing. 286 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:08,840 I noticed it before. 287 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:14,040 Many times I've noticed it today in the last few minutes, looking stupidly at it as you 288 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,280 do at such things. 289 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:21,760 But before, before the doctor had marked it, before he and Walter's had gone running behind 290 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:29,560 the screen, then hadn't the blurred rose been on the left, my left, but now it was on the 291 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:31,560 right. 292 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:36,360 Might Walter's in passing have brushed it and turned it around? 293 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:42,280 I stood and stared at the tiny pool on the side marked W. Little hard purple crystals 294 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,600 were beginning to form around the edges. 295 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:49,360 I looked at the side of the plate marked S, my side, supposedly. 296 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,160 The blood was clear and bright. 297 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:57,000 But what if the plate had been turned around and the blood on the other side was mine? 298 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,200 It was mine that was forming little purple crystals. 299 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,480 I stood staring at the plate as the doctor came around from behind the screen. 300 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,680 Now let's have a look at this. 301 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:07,680 Hmm, where? 302 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:09,680 Looks as though we're in luck. 303 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:10,680 Is it mine? 304 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:12,480 May I give him the transfusion, sir? 305 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:13,600 Oh, sorry, old man. 306 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,080 Not unless you want to murder him. 307 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:20,280 No, no, but Mr. Scales here, it looks as if he were that useful animal, a universal donor. 308 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,800 All right, Mr. Scales, let's make ready. 309 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:23,800 What? 310 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:24,800 You're it, Mr. Scales. 311 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,280 I, oh, there's something I ought, well, I ought to mention that... 312 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:29,280 You're not frightened, are you? 313 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:30,280 Not that, I... 314 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:31,280 There's no danger from giving a transfusion, you know. 315 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:32,280 I don't know that. 316 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:33,280 No, no, no, no, I'm not frightened, doctor. 317 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,720 Then come around here and let's get busy. 318 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:36,720 We haven't much time. 319 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:37,720 Doctor, I... 320 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:38,720 Hello, John, old fellow. 321 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:39,720 What's this? 322 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:40,720 Final curtain. 323 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:41,720 Don't be silly. 324 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:42,720 That's a rotten exit. 325 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:43,720 Dying Egypt. 326 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:44,720 Dying... 327 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:45,720 Not dead yet. 328 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:46,720 My long shot. 329 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:47,720 Take off your coat, please, Mr. Scales, and roll up your sleeve. 330 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:48,720 Rotten exit. 331 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:49,720 Rotten rake for you too, John. 332 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:50,720 I have to close the play. 333 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:51,720 Close the play. 334 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:52,720 Close the play. 335 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:53,720 Close the play. 336 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:54,720 Close the play. 337 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:55,720 Close the play. 338 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:56,720 Close the play. 339 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:57,720 Close the play. 340 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:58,720 Close the play. 341 00:11:58,720 --> 00:11:59,720 Close the play. 342 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:00,720 Close the play. 343 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:01,720 Close the play. 344 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:02,720 Close the play. 345 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:03,720 Close the play. 346 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:04,720 Close the play. 347 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:05,720 Close the play. 348 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:06,720 I'm ready, doctor. 349 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:07,720 That's to be sure. 350 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:08,720 Sit down here. 351 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:09,720 Hold still. 352 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:10,720 You will hardly notice this. 353 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:11,720 Make a fist. 354 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:12,720 Tight. 355 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:13,720 That's it. 356 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:18,720 Maybe feel a little dizzy for a minute afterward, but in an hour you'll be right as rain. 357 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:19,720 That's all right. 358 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:20,720 Now, now, still. 359 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:21,720 There. 360 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:22,720 Yeah. 361 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:23,720 Not bad, was it? 362 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:24,720 Lie back. 363 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:25,720 That's right. 364 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:26,720 Good old John. 365 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:27,720 Give me... 366 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:39,720 Lord, what a publicity story this will make. 367 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:47,720 Playwright had actors bedside, gives blood to save famous star's life. 368 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:55,280 If he had kept quiet, if he'd only... 369 00:12:55,280 --> 00:13:00,920 It might not have been too late then, but then I knew, I knew that I would never tell 370 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:01,920 the doctor. 371 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:02,920 I would never tell anyone. 372 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,720 I would only wait and see. 373 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:10,160 The revulsion, the contempt, the hatred that had been caged up in me for that smiling, 374 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:17,320 posturing ape on the couch, leaped now, clawing at the bars, howling for revenge. 375 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:18,320 Going all right, Scales? 376 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:19,320 Yes. 377 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:20,320 Yes, perfectly. 378 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:21,320 Thank you, doctor. 379 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:43,960 Auto Light is bringing you Joseph Cotton in Blood Sacrifice, tonight's production in radio's 380 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:54,080 outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 381 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:55,920 Now it's my turn, Wilcox. 382 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,220 Riddle me this. 383 00:13:57,220 --> 00:14:02,280 What is it that lives a long time, has great power and endurance, and can store water? 384 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,760 Well, that's easy, Hap, an Auto Light stay full battery. 385 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:05,760 Oh, no. 386 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:10,520 Yes, yes, that Auto Light stay full battery needs no more water than a cactus because 387 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:14,440 it has more than three times the liquid reserve above the plates as compared to batteries 388 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:15,720 without stay full features. 389 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,280 Stop that, Wilcox, and answer my riddle. 390 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:19,400 Now, let's see now. 391 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:20,720 You mentioned long life. 392 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:25,420 The Auto Light stay full battery has a fiberglass retaining mat protecting every positive plate. 393 00:14:25,420 --> 00:14:27,920 That accounts for its incredibly long life. 394 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:33,040 Why, a recent test based on SAE life cycle standards proved that Auto Light stay full 395 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:37,640 batteries give 70% longer average life than batteries without stay full features. 396 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:39,760 You're not even getting warm, Wilcox. 397 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:43,160 Why, man, this Auto Light stay full battery is tops in batteries. 398 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,440 Talk about power, it's phenomenal. 399 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:46,440 Endurance sensational. 400 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:51,200 And remember, it's the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car 401 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:52,200 use. 402 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,720 Elefant is what I had in mind, Harlow. 403 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:58,200 But I'm right too, Hap, because you're always right with Auto Light. 404 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:04,680 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage our star, Joseph Cotton, in Blood 405 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:14,920 Sacrifice, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 406 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,400 I lay back there on the chair in the dressing room. 407 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,880 The doctor had been right, there was no pain about it. 408 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:26,120 I could feel little tinglings as the blood said goodbye to my body on the way to inhabiting 409 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:29,160 the much bluer veins of a distinguished actor. 410 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,080 No, no, I felt nothing. 411 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:37,960 Only a gentle warmth dropped for a while and a lovely serenity. 412 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:43,680 And with it came little visual effects inside my closed eyelids, a kaleidoscope like they 413 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,200 use in films to dissolve into flashbacks. 414 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,200 That, that was that. 415 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,920 Yes, I was having a flashback. 416 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,680 I hadn't wanted to send the play to Gary in the first place, but I was new in London 417 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,680 and good old George Stoepfots who was handling me said he had a hunch about it. 418 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:01,280 Everything to gain, my boy, nothing to lose. 419 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,000 May as well try, you know, can't get hurt trying. 420 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,040 Lord George, Gary Drury, it's just, just not his kind of play. 421 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,240 It's a tragedy, a bitter, cynical, disillusioned tragedy. 422 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,920 Ah, he may, he just may like it, you know. 423 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,840 I'll send it along over to his hotel. 424 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:16,840 We'll see. 425 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:21,120 I'd never met Gary until then. 426 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:26,560 Of course, this tremendous charm of his, this flashing, winning, infectious and comparable 427 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:27,560 style of the man. 428 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,000 When, when you talked to him, you were lost. 429 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,920 He did like the play, at least he said he liked it. 430 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:37,840 Oh yes, wonderful idea, very strong, perhaps a little grim, but then these are grim times. 431 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,320 Of course, there are one or two things that need touching up and we may have to make a 432 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:42,520 change here and there. 433 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,960 There's never been a play produced that didn't have to have a certain amount of rewriting 434 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:46,960 during rehearsal. 435 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:47,960 You understand. 436 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,960 But I didn't understand. 437 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:54,960 I was still too bewildered to understand. 438 00:16:54,960 --> 00:17:00,280 The man had this fantastic charm and he'd used it before I was out of his office. 439 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,040 I'd signed a contract giving me a very pretty share of the royalties and Gary the right to 440 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,240 make any reasonable changes. 441 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,880 He might be necessary to the script. 442 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:11,880 Reasonable changes. 443 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,880 During rehearsals, we'd sit halfway back in the theater. 444 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:15,880 Oh, John, I've been thinking. 445 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:16,880 Yes, the cocktail scene in the first act was bothersome. 446 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:17,880 It seems out of character. 447 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:18,880 What do you mean? 448 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:19,880 Keith wouldn't have acted that way. 449 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:20,880 He'd have been shocked and hurt and angry. 450 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,880 He'd have denounced her and left the party. 451 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:26,880 Wonderful scene. 452 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:31,880 And then at the very end, Keith rolls up his uniformed tunic with all the decorations on 453 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:36,880 it and lays it under his head for a pillow and lies down on the bed. 454 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:38,880 Oh, wonderful curtain line. 455 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,880 He said, I rest upon my laurels. 456 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:42,880 Wonderful. 457 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:43,880 Can you write it, boy? 458 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:44,880 You are not serious. 459 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:45,880 Of course I'm serious. 460 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:46,880 I look here, Johnny. 461 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:47,880 I'm not serious. 462 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,880 Of course I'm serious. 463 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:51,880 This is your play. 464 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:52,880 I'm only concerned. 465 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:54,880 That's not the play, Gary. 466 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:56,880 It's all out of key with the rest of it. 467 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:57,880 Oh, you said it reminds me. 468 00:17:57,880 --> 00:17:59,880 I've been a little bothered about the ending, too. 469 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:02,880 Of course, very dramatic, of course. 470 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:11,880 But just at this time, it seems a little bad taste, don't you think? 471 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,880 The play altered, butchered, finally opened. 472 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,880 We sat up waiting for the morning papers, and then they came. 473 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,880 I read them, and I wanted to run away. 474 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:21,880 I couldn't. 475 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,880 The voices of the critics sang to the public. 476 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:30,880 This broken-back play is only held together by the magnificent acting of Mr. Garrick Drury. 477 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:35,880 Saccharin, as it is, fitter laurel, provides a personal triumph for Mr. Garrick Drury. 478 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,880 Nothing in the play is consistent except the assured acting of Garrick Drury. 479 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:47,880 Mr. John Scales has constructed his situations with great skill to display Mr. Drury in all his attitudes, 480 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:49,880 and that is a sure recipe for success. 481 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:58,880 We prophesy a long run for bitter laurel. 482 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,880 And run it dead, there was no stopping it. 483 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:06,880 I caught myself wishing Garrick Drury would die or lose his looks or his voice or his popularity 484 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:14,880 so that the whole thing could be buried and forgotten. 485 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,880 Well, now, perhaps he was going to die. 486 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,880 I watched the blood from my veins fill up the container. 487 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:26,880 I thought of the blurred rose on the plate that might have got turned around. 488 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,880 I heard Walter still complaining about something. I listened to the doctor. 489 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:36,880 Our blood won't do at all, Walter. Lucky for Mr. Drury that Mr. Scales was around, good man to have around, universal donor. 490 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:41,880 Blood mixes with all types. 491 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:46,880 What was it, my blood, or Walter's, that mixed with all types? I didn't know. I couldn't be sure. 492 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:54,880 Yet somehow I was sure that the plate had been turned around, and that would mean that if the doctor used my blood for a transfusion, 493 00:19:54,880 --> 00:20:03,880 it would be like giving Garrick prussic acid. It would be murder. 494 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:09,880 No one would ever know. The doctor might guess, but he would never dare speak. It would be put down to his own negligence. 495 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:17,880 He came over to me and looked at the level in the container, nodded his head approvingly, and turned to Garrick again. 496 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:24,880 I felt myself pulsing and drifting like a man dozing in a snowdrift. 497 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,880 Flower for your left hand, sir. Flower for your left hand. 498 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:27,880 Good evening, Flora. 499 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,880 Oh, good evening, Mr. Drury. Looks like Ryan Drury. 500 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:34,880 He does indeed. But then we can't complain. Well, John, you must let me run. 501 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,880 Here, sir. Take a flower. 502 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,880 Thank you, Flora. The show must go on, you know. 503 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,880 Bless you. Oh, good evening, Mr. Scales. 504 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,880 Flora, may I have a carnation? 505 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:46,880 Yes, sir. Two shillings, sir. 506 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:47,880 Here you are. 507 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:48,880 Can I turn it on for you? 508 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:49,880 Oh, thank you. 509 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:55,880 It's wonderful about your play, Mr. Scales. It's been a wonderful run. But then Mr. Drury does know how to pick them. 510 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,880 Yes, yes. It looks as if it might run forever, doesn't it? 511 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,880 No matter what he's in, they all come to see him. Not that yours isn't a wonderful play. 512 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,880 Mr. Drury gave me a ticket for the second night. 513 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:07,880 Oh. 514 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:08,880 He's always so thoughtful. 515 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:09,880 What did you think of it? 516 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:18,880 I thought it was lovely. I cried ever so. When Mr. Drury came back with only one arm and found his fiancée with that other fellow at the cocktail party. 517 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:19,880 Exactly. 518 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:26,880 I will rest on my laurels. It was a beautiful curtain line you gave him there, Mr. Scales, and the way you put it over. 519 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:31,880 Yes, there's no one like Drury to put over that kind of line. Good evening, Flora. 520 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,880 Good evening, Mr. Scales. 521 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,880 Better logo. 522 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:43,880 Oh, good Lord, Molly. Sheridan. Hello. It's good to see you. It's been months. 523 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,880 Look who's here. New York's rising drama. 524 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,880 Oh, no, don't, don't. Have you seen it? I sent you tickets. 525 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:54,880 Yes. Kind of, if you think of us in your busy life. Yes, we saw the show. 526 00:21:54,880 --> 00:22:03,880 I know, I know. But like a fool, I signed a contract without a controlling clause, and by the time Drury and his producer had finished knocking the script around, there wasn't one. 527 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,880 Oh, John, it's a shame. 528 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,880 Now, look, let's forget the play and go have a drink together, shall we? 529 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:14,880 Oh, sorry, Obot. We have to think of our reputations, you know. Good night, John. Come along, Sheridan. 530 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:17,880 John. 531 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:26,880 John, it was a good play. How under any circumstances could you have let them do this to it? Come along, Sheridan. 532 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,880 Good night, John. Good night. 533 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,880 Ah, fine. Almost full court. That ought to do it. Feel all right, Mr. Scales? 534 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:40,880 Yes. 535 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,880 Good. Now, we'll throw you out of here and go to work. 536 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:52,880 The doctor ushered me out of the room onto the stage. I saw him disappearing around the screen with a flag in his hands as I closed the door. 537 00:22:52,880 --> 00:23:00,880 Just as I thought. There were the reporters waiting. I sat down. I felt weak, not right at all. 538 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,880 Mr. Scales, how is he? Will he live, do they think? 539 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,880 Well, they think he may. They're giving him a transfusion. 540 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,880 With your blood. Oh, what a story. 541 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:09,880 Please don't use that. 542 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,880 Oh, yes, we know how you feel, Dr. Rollins. 543 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,880 I'm just doing what anyone else would do. He was my friend. I owed him everything. 544 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,880 Of course, but you're a hero. You don't know how people feel about Gary Drury. 545 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:19,880 Don't I? 546 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,880 Incidentally, Mr. Scales, we hear you sold these screenwriters on the play. 547 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:28,880 Oh, no, no, not yet. It was, well, we'd been talking it over tonight. But if anything happens to Mr. Drury... 548 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:29,880 You mean you, we won't sell them? 549 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:34,880 If anything happens to Gary, Bitter Laurel will never be performed again. 550 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:40,880 My hands were wet and cold, and I could feel the perspiration running down my back. 551 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,880 My head was light, and I seemed to be walking on air. 552 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,880 The voices of the reporters were distant and indistinct. 553 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,880 I felt the sudden need to lie down to rest. Sleep. 554 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:57,880 The door to Gary's dressing room opened, and I saw the doctor stand in there, his face and his voice were blurred. 555 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,880 Scales, I... will you come, please? 556 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:01,880 What is it? 557 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:06,880 He's complaining of a pain in his back. He did almost immediately. We started the transfusion. He's asking for you. 558 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:07,880 Of course. 559 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,880 I just don't understand it. I don't understand. 560 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,880 We all did our best. So much hemorrhage, shock, cardiac strain. 561 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,880 It's always a gamble, you see, when the operation is left so late. 562 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,880 Sometimes there is a particular idiosyncrasy. 563 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:26,880 I should have preferred a direct test, but that's no good if the patient dies while you wait to make sure. 564 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,880 Mr. Drury, oh, Mr. Drury. 565 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:29,880 What is it? 566 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,880 Where's Bran? 567 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:32,880 Oh, your son? 568 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:33,880 No, no, he's under study. 569 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:35,880 He'll be here in a minute, Mr. Drury. 570 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,880 They're waiting. 571 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:38,880 Bran! 572 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,880 That's Bran! 573 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,880 The curtain must go up! 574 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,880 I don't understand it. 575 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,880 Yes, yes, he's dead. 576 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,880 Why did he die, doctor? 577 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,880 There's blood transfusion, but I don't understand it. 578 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:02,880 This is scales of the type four, universal donor. 579 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,880 Still there are sometimes personal idiosyncrasies. 580 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,880 Here, I... 581 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,880 I caught Walter's gaze and followed it. 582 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,880 He was staring fascinated at the plate, which still stood on the table. 583 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,880 The rose. That one there that smudged from the filing. 584 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,880 I remember noticing it. It was originally on my right. 585 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:25,880 Now it's on my left. 586 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,880 You did it! You turned the plate around! 587 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,880 Because you knew that my blood would save him and that yours wouldn't! 588 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:31,880 Oh, don't be a fool, Walters! 589 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,880 I lost everything by his death. Why should I want him dead? 590 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,880 You hated him. I've known I've seen it all the time. 591 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:37,880 Because of the plate! 592 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:38,880 Walter! 593 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:39,880 You killed him! 594 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:40,880 Don't be a fool! 595 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,880 Too fantastic! What coroner! Coroner's due... 596 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,880 Oh! Oh! What coroner! 597 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,880 Oh, there it happens. 598 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:59,880 The roaring in my ears, the spastic constriction of my stomach. 599 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,880 The room began to teeter and twirl and stagger toward a chair. 600 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:11,880 I can hear the doctor faintly slow from a long, long way on. 601 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,880 What's the matter? What's the matter? 602 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,880 He's in shock. 603 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:23,880 No, no, no. Here. Here, my... my thigh, where the car hit me. 604 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:24,880 Where? Show me. 605 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,880 Just here. 606 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,880 Good Lord, man. Why didn't you tell us? You're hurt! 607 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:30,880 Walters. 608 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:31,880 Yes, sir. 609 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,880 Tell them to bring in the stretcher from the ambulance, quickly, man. 610 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:34,880 Yes, sir. 611 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,880 It's ironic. 612 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:47,880 When the car hit me, it was an injury to the spleen. 613 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,880 The spleen, think of it. 614 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:57,880 So, you see, all the time I was giving Gary blood for a transfusion, 615 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,880 I was bleeding to death inside myself. 616 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:09,880 Ironic, isn't it? Death from shock and loss of blood. 617 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:15,880 They gave me a transfusion too, too late. 618 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,880 But I wouldn't have to die, they said. 619 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:40,880 I would have lived if I hadn't given my blood to kill Gary Crury. 620 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:47,880 Suspense, presented by Auto Light, the night star Joseph Cotton. 621 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,880 Simmer down, Harlow. 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