WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:07.000 --> 00:16.000 Tonight, Auto Light brings you The Crowd, a suspense play starring Mr. Dana Andrews. 00:16.000 --> 00:29.000 All right, stand back. Keep moving. You got other places to go. Go to them. 00:29.000 --> 00:32.000 Officer, somebody dies, somebody gets killed. 00:32.000 --> 00:35.000 Yeah, yeah, now you know. So keep moving. 00:35.000 --> 00:39.000 Lieutenant, if you, Lieutenant, I didn't see you. I didn't mean to poke you in the tummy with my billy. 00:39.000 --> 00:40.000 What happened, officer? 00:40.000 --> 00:42.000 Lieutenant, the way it happened, I, uh... 00:42.000 --> 00:47.000 Officer, we got a night to know what it's all about. What's going on up there? I can't see. 00:47.000 --> 00:51.000 Get somebody to hoist you up on their shoulders, citizen, then you'll see. 00:51.000 --> 00:54.000 Sometimes I don't understand this kind of thing, Lieutenant. 00:54.000 --> 00:57.000 A couple of minutes ago, this was an empty street. Now this crowd... 00:57.000 --> 00:59.000 You still haven't told me what happened. 00:59.000 --> 01:04.000 Well, I was directing traffic up the street. A woman screamed, and I thought it was just, well, you know. 01:04.000 --> 01:08.000 But now it was this guy laying on the sidewalk with a knife in him. Dead, murdered. 01:08.000 --> 01:10.000 The people running around him, this crowd. 01:10.000 --> 01:11.000 Is he dead? 01:11.000 --> 01:12.000 Let me look! Let me look! 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 Get out of my way. I want to see. I want to see! 01:14.000 --> 01:16.000 Dead, huh? Dead. 01:20.000 --> 01:25.000 In just a moment, Mr. Dana Andrews, in the first act of The Crowd. 01:25.000 --> 01:27.000 Hi. A Hap? 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It had taken me maybe five minutes to get there and already the crowd was there. 03:09.000 --> 03:15.000 The crowd, a ring of shifting, compressing, changing faces looking down at the dead man, 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 watching the shape of death in his face. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 Stand back! Stand back! 03:19.000 --> 03:20.000 Officer? 03:20.000 --> 03:23.000 Have you gone through this man's pocket? Do you know who he is? 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 No, sir, I haven't had time. 03:24.000 --> 03:25.000 I'll do it. 03:25.000 --> 03:29.000 Here comes the ambulance, Lieutenant. 03:29.000 --> 03:34.000 All right, you people, why don't you move on? Give them room. Give them room. 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 Hello, Doc. 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 You're through with them? 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 Uh-huh. 03:38.000 --> 03:39.000 All right, boys. 03:39.000 --> 03:43.000 Let them through. Come on through. Out of the way, you. 03:51.000 --> 03:56.000 Here and there on the fringes of the crowd, a man detached himself from it, bit his lip and left. 03:56.000 --> 03:59.000 Even the spectacle of death can't compete with a time clock. 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 Get back to work and tell your friends about it. 04:02.000 --> 04:06.000 Then the sound of death fading away, and then the crowd too. 04:06.000 --> 04:13.000 And in a little while, the only thing left of it was an unconvinced passerby who looked over his shoulder at the spot and hurried on. 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 Then the leaving of the crowd. 04:19.000 --> 04:25.000 A dead man identified from a worn leather wallet as Edgar Dale, West 32nd Street. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 Name and address. 04:27.000 --> 04:31.000 Go there. Dig into a life that was done. Ask why. 04:31.000 --> 04:37.000 At Edgar Dale's rooming house, a woman opened the door only halfway, touched her cotton wrap around high on her throat. 04:37.000 --> 04:40.000 Shook her head to most of my questions. 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 Edgar Dale had no family, lived alone. 04:43.000 --> 04:47.000 And a shrug to what friends. 04:47.000 --> 04:51.000 He worked, that's all, at the Becker Sign Painting Company on First Avenue. 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 Maybe there, mister. 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 I went. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 Something I can do for you? 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 I'm a police officer, Johnny Stilano. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Oh, how do you do? My name is Becker, Elliot Becker. 05:04.000 --> 05:05.000 A man worked for you. 05:05.000 --> 05:06.000 Edgar Dale? 05:06.000 --> 05:07.000 Edgar Dale. 05:07.000 --> 05:11.000 I just put the phone down on the police a minute ago. They called. 05:11.000 --> 05:12.000 Told me what happened. 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 Then you know why I'm here. 05:14.000 --> 05:15.000 I believe so. 05:15.000 --> 05:18.000 You'll want to know all about Edgar. I'll help all I can. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 Tell me about him. 05:19.000 --> 05:22.000 Edgar? Edgar was like... 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 Edgar was like anybody. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 Looked like anybody, talked like anybody. 05:27.000 --> 05:29.000 Kept to himself, he did his job. 05:29.000 --> 05:34.000 A man who sat in the supply room and back and read science fiction magazines when he didn't go outside to have lunch. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 What else? 05:36.000 --> 05:41.000 I don't know. You can only judge a solitary man by the things he did to give you that impression. 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 He listened to jokes but never told one. 05:43.000 --> 05:47.000 He clipped pictures of movie stars in bathing suits and pasted them over his workbench. 05:47.000 --> 05:51.000 Crossword puzzles, contests the newspapers ran, those things. 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 Friends? Girlfriends? 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 I don't know, Mr. Stilano. 05:56.000 --> 06:00.000 I've wondered sometimes who might enjoy Edgar as a friend but I don't know. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 Where was he killed? 06:02.000 --> 06:03.000 Two blacks from here. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 This morning. I saw the people running. I couldn't get away. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 That's too bad. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 How was he killed, Lieutenant? 06:10.000 --> 06:22.000 What did he look like? 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 Hello, Johnny. Been waiting for you. 06:23.000 --> 06:24.000 What's up, Rudin? 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 We've been getting phone calls. Five altogether. 06:26.000 --> 06:27.000 From whom? 06:27.000 --> 06:31.000 I don't know. I tried to wheedle it out of him but the man just wouldn't say. 06:31.000 --> 06:34.000 He said he'd keep trying though. He has to talk to you personally. 06:34.000 --> 06:35.000 What else? 06:35.000 --> 06:39.000 This envelope came addressed to your special delivery. It's marked personal. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 Open it. 06:41.000 --> 06:42.000 It says personal. 06:42.000 --> 06:52.000 Open it. 06:52.000 --> 06:53.000 What is it? 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 A picture, Johnny. Clip from this afternoon's extra in the news. 06:56.000 --> 07:00.000 I saw it there myself. A picture of the man who was stabbed to death on the street with the crowd around him. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 I see it. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 Look what's written under it, Johnny. 07:04.000 --> 07:12.000 I did well, didn't I, police? Next time it will be even better. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 John Estolano speaking. 07:14.000 --> 07:19.000 Oh, I finally got you in, Lieutenant. I read in the papers you were assigned to the case. 07:19.000 --> 07:23.000 The man found dead on the sidewalk. 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 Yes. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 I just called to ask you if you got the clipping I sent you. 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 The one of the dead man lying on the street. I sent it special. 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 Oh. 07:33.000 --> 07:37.000 I just got in. I haven't had a chance to look at the mail. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 Will you hold on just a minute while I check? 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 Here, face this call quick. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 Bye, Johnny. 07:43.000 --> 07:46.000 I, uh, yes, I have it here. 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 The words written underneath. Did you write them? 07:49.000 --> 07:52.000 Oh, yes. And I meant them. Every word. 07:52.000 --> 07:56.000 There will be a next time, Lieutenant. There will be another murder. 07:56.000 --> 08:01.000 I believe you. I won't be so foolish as to think you're some kind of a crank who would just... 08:01.000 --> 08:04.000 ...see you're a very intelligent man. 08:04.000 --> 08:07.000 It was very clever how you committed the murder. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 Broad daylight on the street. 08:09.000 --> 08:13.000 Oh, the next one will be even more spectacular. Far more. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 Well, tell me about it. 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 Oh, there's no need. There'll be a crowd. You read about it. 08:19.000 --> 08:21.000 I'll send you a picture. 08:24.000 --> 08:25.000 We're in it. 08:25.000 --> 08:28.000 I got it, Johnny. Gilbert shoe repair. It's right around the corner from here. 08:28.000 --> 08:31.000 I got the blotter on my desk. Gilbert shoe repair. 08:43.000 --> 08:45.000 Gilbert. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 Hey, Gilbert. 08:47.000 --> 08:50.000 Turn off that machine. I want to talk to you. 08:50.000 --> 08:51.000 Huh? 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 Turn off that machine. 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 Oh, sure, Johnny. 08:55.000 --> 08:56.000 Huh? 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 Oh, you want your shoes, Johnny. 08:58.000 --> 09:02.000 You haven't been in here so long I was going to put them in the window with a for sale under them. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 I don't want to talk to you about shoes. 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 Not about shoes? 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 There's something else we can talk about? 09:08.000 --> 09:11.000 About a man. He just made a phone call from here. 09:11.000 --> 09:12.000 What man? 09:12.000 --> 09:16.000 Listen to me, Gilbert. Just a couple of minutes ago a man came in here. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 I don't know what man. He made a phone call. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 From here? He used my phone? 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 Maybe he did. All right, so he did. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 You don't understand, do you? 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 This man was a murderer. Two minutes ago he was in here using your phone. 09:28.000 --> 09:31.000 Oh, so what am I supposed to do about it? I'm a shoemaker. 09:31.000 --> 09:34.000 Look out through the window, Johnny. See all those people? 09:34.000 --> 09:38.000 Every now and then one of them breaks off, comes in, once his shoes fix, once he uses the phone. 09:38.000 --> 09:41.000 Yeah, oh yeah. A few minutes ago one of them did come in. 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 And he asked to use my phone. 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 Well, I didn't notice anything about it. I never noticed anything about it. 09:46.000 --> 09:49.000 They're all alike. Some are men, some are women. 09:49.000 --> 09:53.000 Oh, this one was a man. 09:56.000 --> 09:59.000 Then back into the street again and into the swarm of the crowd. 09:59.000 --> 10:02.000 Into the wash of anonymous faces, the blob. 10:02.000 --> 10:05.000 And somewhere in it, a murderer. 10:05.000 --> 10:09.000 Then back into the office, sit down again, stare at Reardon again. 10:09.000 --> 10:11.000 Reardon stares back. 10:11.000 --> 10:18.000 And then, get up, walk to the window, stare at the crowd. 10:18.000 --> 10:29.000 Phone's ringing, Johnny. 10:29.000 --> 10:37.000 Uh-huh. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.000 Don Estolano speaking. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 You don't run so fast, Lieutenant. 10:41.000 --> 10:45.000 You know, you almost knocked me down when you ran across the street into that shoemaker shop. 10:45.000 --> 10:48.000 Reardon? 10:48.000 --> 10:51.000 I'm close by, Lieutenant, in the pay phone on the subway. 10:51.000 --> 10:54.000 Derry 4th Street. Run fast, Lieutenant. 10:54.000 --> 10:58.000 Hello, hello? Never mind, Reardon. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 Him again? 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Him again. He even told me where he was. 11:02.000 --> 11:07.000 So I'd go there and close my eyes and point a finger at the five o'clock subway crowd and say, 11:07.000 --> 11:11.000 You, you're a killer. I almost knocked him down. 11:11.000 --> 11:17.000 We talk to him, we chat on the phone. 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 I can give you a category for this murderer. 11:19.000 --> 11:21.000 His phone calls, the boasting of his killing. 11:21.000 --> 11:24.000 I'm not a doctor and I know he's crazy. 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 Sure, sure, sure you do, Reardon. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 I don't know where to start. Where do I start, Reardon? 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 Take it easy, Johnny. 11:32.000 --> 11:35.000 A lonely little man is stabbed to death on the street in New York City. 11:35.000 --> 11:39.000 For all I know, this killer is standing right beside me, looking down at the dead man. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 The killer sends me a picture. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 The killer calls me on the phone. 11:43.000 --> 11:46.000 The killer tells me he's in a subway at 34th Street Station. 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 The killer... 11:48.000 --> 11:49.000 Lieutenant. 11:49.000 --> 11:50.000 Yeah. 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 Call box report just came in. 11:51.000 --> 12:01.000 The man was pushed in front of a subway at 34th Street Station. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 And the pattern repeated itself. 12:03.000 --> 12:09.000 With variation now, the body of a man broken, crushed without form like a child's drawing of death, 12:09.000 --> 12:13.000 lay on a beer of railroad ties of glistening steel rails, 12:13.000 --> 12:15.000 over him the shroud of a subway car, 12:15.000 --> 12:20.000 and deep in the cavern, the lament of hurtling steel, the crowd. 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 The crowd watching on the platform. 12:23.000 --> 12:24.000 No variation here. 12:24.000 --> 12:29.000 Same crowd that gathers and watches at all death's public performance. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 The crowd. 12:30.000 --> 12:31.000 Let me look, let me look. 12:31.000 --> 12:32.000 Get out of my way, I want to see. 12:32.000 --> 12:33.000 Dead, huh? 12:33.000 --> 12:34.000 Dead. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 Let me see, will you? 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 Look out. 12:36.000 --> 12:37.000 Hey, is he really dead? 12:37.000 --> 12:38.000 Hi, here it is. 12:38.000 --> 12:39.000 Really good. 12:39.000 --> 12:53.000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Dana Andrews in The Crowd. 12:53.000 --> 13:03.000 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:03.000 --> 13:08.000 Say, Wilcox, you have a good tailor. 13:08.000 --> 13:11.000 Sure, Sam is a suit-stitcher supreme now. 13:11.000 --> 13:15.000 He never makes the pants too long since his car worries stopped. 13:15.000 --> 13:16.000 What was his trouble? 13:16.000 --> 13:20.000 Why, Sam's sedan used a tank of gas just to get out of the garage. 13:20.000 --> 13:21.000 That's ridiculous. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 That's what I said. 13:23.000 --> 13:28.000 I told him to stop blowing his top and have his spark plugs checked by his friendly Auto 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 Light spark plug dealer. 13:29.000 --> 13:30.000 Did he do it? 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14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 A Lieutenant Johnny Stalano? 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 Wait a minute. 14:51.000 --> 14:52.000 Yeah. 14:52.000 --> 14:56.000 Stalano, somebody on a phone call here wants a Lieutenant Stalano. 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 Lieutenant Stalano on a phone. 14:58.000 --> 14:59.000 He's wanted. 14:59.000 --> 15:00.000 Sure he's wanted. 15:00.000 --> 15:01.000 By the draft force. 15:01.000 --> 15:02.000 Yeah, I'm here. 15:02.000 --> 15:03.000 Don't hang up. 15:03.000 --> 15:04.000 I'm here. 15:04.000 --> 15:05.000 What's the matter, Lieutenant? 15:05.000 --> 15:09.000 You're out of uniform. 15:09.000 --> 15:14.000 Former PFC presents you with a form. 15:14.000 --> 15:16.000 Johnny Stalano speaking. 15:16.000 --> 15:19.000 Oh, oh, I'm glad they reached you, Lieutenant. 15:19.000 --> 15:22.000 You see, there was another dead man. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 Crowd much better than the first. 15:24.000 --> 15:34.000 Much, don't you think? 15:34.000 --> 15:36.000 Much better, the man said. 15:36.000 --> 15:37.000 Much better. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 How good does death have to be? 15:39.000 --> 15:43.000 This time the murderer had chosen to push a man under a subway train. 15:43.000 --> 15:46.000 The crowd seemed to like this one better, too. 15:46.000 --> 15:54.000 They stayed longer after we got the body out from under the train. 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 Legwork, questions. 15:56.000 --> 16:00.000 The dead man, Adam Treple, the Bronx. 16:00.000 --> 16:04.000 Inquiries, there's merit, free children, and it's the supermarket. 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 More inquiries. 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 No motive for his murder. 16:08.000 --> 16:09.000 No one wanted him dead. 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 Everybody said so. 16:11.000 --> 16:14.000 Johnny, I brought you a thermos of coffee. 16:14.000 --> 16:15.000 Thanks. 16:15.000 --> 16:17.000 And this envelope just came for you. 16:17.000 --> 16:20.000 Special delivery, marked personal. 16:20.000 --> 16:28.000 Give it to me. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 Like the last time? 16:30.000 --> 16:31.000 Like the last time. 16:31.000 --> 16:32.000 Newspaper picture. 16:32.000 --> 16:39.000 This is a Treple under the subway train, with the crowd around. 16:39.000 --> 16:42.000 Look at him. 16:42.000 --> 16:43.000 And look at this one. 16:43.000 --> 16:46.000 The first one I got when Edgar Dale was stabbed. 16:46.000 --> 16:47.000 Crowd. 16:47.000 --> 16:50.000 Why do people always hang around other people's hurt? 16:50.000 --> 16:53.000 I'll pour you some coffee. 16:53.000 --> 16:56.000 You want coffee, Johnny? 16:56.000 --> 17:06.000 Yeah. 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 Here. 17:08.000 --> 17:12.000 Here you are, Johnny. 17:12.000 --> 17:13.000 Johnny? 17:13.000 --> 17:14.000 What? 17:14.000 --> 17:19.000 This man standing here in the picture, right up front of the crowd around Edgar Dale. 17:19.000 --> 17:20.000 This man here. 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 Not very clear. 17:22.000 --> 17:23.000 So? 17:23.000 --> 17:29.000 Look at him, will you? 17:29.000 --> 17:30.000 I'm looking. 17:30.000 --> 17:31.000 Hey. 17:31.000 --> 17:35.000 The same man reared in, the same man in both pictures. 17:35.000 --> 17:36.000 I won't say no. 17:36.000 --> 17:42.000 Me neither, because it's the same. 17:42.000 --> 17:46.000 It could have been a coincidence. 17:46.000 --> 17:49.000 It could have just happened that way. 17:49.000 --> 17:52.040 It could have just happened that way. 17:52.040 --> 17:56.120 One chance at 50,000, and 100,000, and 1,000,000. 17:56.120 --> 17:57.760 But it could have happened. 17:57.760 --> 18:02.640 One man, a part of a crowd, having his picture taken as a spectator of violent death on a 18:02.640 --> 18:05.140 crowded street in a subway. 18:05.140 --> 18:08.680 One man pushing his way to the front of the crowd to have his picture taken, just because 18:08.680 --> 18:11.400 it happened to him twice in the same day. 18:11.400 --> 18:15.920 By some sly smile of fortune, it was arranged for two people to die just where he happened 18:15.920 --> 18:20.040 to be, just where there was a man with a camera to take a picture to. 18:20.040 --> 18:24.880 A picture that would give him a name in his neighborhood, make people look up to him. 18:24.880 --> 18:26.200 Don't tell me how it was. 18:26.200 --> 18:28.720 He was there, twice. 18:28.720 --> 18:32.440 Then there was the other chance, that he was the murderer. 18:32.440 --> 18:35.240 That's the one a policeman had to put his money on. 18:35.240 --> 18:39.240 He could do that by talking to a man he knew in a newspaper office, a man in charge of 18:39.240 --> 18:42.280 the morgue, named Marty Powell. 18:42.280 --> 18:43.280 You're slumming, Lieutenant? 18:43.280 --> 18:45.400 Don't you ever open a window in here, Marty? 18:45.400 --> 18:46.800 Who wants fresh air? 18:46.800 --> 18:47.800 Fresh air is for the bird. 18:47.800 --> 18:49.920 If you don't like it here, go away. 18:49.920 --> 18:51.400 Still sour, huh, Marty? 18:51.400 --> 18:52.800 You come from out there. 18:52.800 --> 18:55.200 Anything happen to what out there just before you came in? 18:55.200 --> 18:56.200 No. 18:56.200 --> 18:57.200 I didn't think so. 18:57.200 --> 19:03.280 When it does, when it dries up and blows away out there, I might sweeten up, if I feel like 19:03.280 --> 19:04.280 it. 19:04.280 --> 19:05.280 What can I do for you, Lieutenant? 19:05.280 --> 19:06.680 I want to look at some pictures. 19:06.680 --> 19:08.320 Don't we all? 19:08.320 --> 19:10.040 Pictures where people were killed, where... 19:10.040 --> 19:14.640 Look, Lieutenant, I got files and files of those to the ceiling, see? 19:14.640 --> 19:15.640 More explicit. 19:15.640 --> 19:17.680 How were they killed? 19:17.680 --> 19:18.680 Accident? 19:18.680 --> 19:19.680 War? 19:19.680 --> 19:20.680 By a wife? 19:20.680 --> 19:22.160 A jealous lover? 19:22.160 --> 19:23.160 Suicide? 19:23.160 --> 19:24.520 Stop me any time you like. 19:24.520 --> 19:26.000 I tire easy. 19:26.000 --> 19:27.000 Unloaded revolver? 19:27.000 --> 19:31.480 Well, it's hard to explain, Marty, but pictures like these. 19:31.480 --> 19:32.480 Local. 19:32.480 --> 19:35.480 Let me see. 19:35.480 --> 19:39.400 Pictures like unsolved murders, huh, Lieutenant? 19:39.400 --> 19:41.280 Where the killing was violent. 19:41.280 --> 19:43.520 Too violent for you boys to solve? 19:43.520 --> 19:45.000 I'll get some for you. 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 Hard to explain. 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 How far back, Lieutenant? 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 Two, three years, maybe. 19:50.000 --> 19:55.000 I was afraid of that. 19:55.000 --> 20:02.080 Here, I made a selection for you. 20:02.080 --> 20:05.000 The most artistic, the most captivating. 20:05.000 --> 20:06.600 Several of these won prizes. 20:06.600 --> 20:09.080 We are very proud of this one, for example. 20:09.080 --> 20:11.080 To your taste? 20:11.080 --> 20:13.720 Let's see some more. 20:13.720 --> 20:14.720 This one. 20:14.720 --> 20:19.720 Hold that one out, Marty. 20:19.720 --> 20:24.720 Not the one with the guy who fell out of the window or the other one? 20:24.720 --> 20:25.720 The window. 20:25.720 --> 20:26.720 I'll see some more. 20:26.720 --> 20:31.720 You've been here for two hours, Lieutenant. 20:31.720 --> 20:34.720 I told you, I tire easy. 20:34.720 --> 20:35.720 More? 20:35.720 --> 20:36.720 Okay. 20:36.720 --> 20:37.720 That one. 20:37.720 --> 20:38.720 I'll take these two. 20:38.720 --> 20:41.720 Goodbye, Marty. 20:41.720 --> 20:50.720 You ready on that projector, Airdon? 20:50.720 --> 20:51.720 Uh-huh. 20:51.720 --> 20:54.720 I'll pull the screen down. 20:54.720 --> 20:58.720 Okay, turn out the lights. 20:58.720 --> 21:03.960 Let's have the first one. 21:03.960 --> 21:05.800 This is a picture of a man pulled out of the river. 21:05.800 --> 21:06.800 He was shot. 21:06.800 --> 21:09.800 This picture was taken in December 1948. 21:09.800 --> 21:11.220 Notice the crowd. 21:11.220 --> 21:15.800 Notice this spectator, the one in the front row, not wearing a hat. 21:15.800 --> 21:18.960 Let's have number two. 21:18.960 --> 21:22.960 Picture of a man who was pushed or fell out of a window from a 10-story building, June, 21:22.960 --> 21:23.960 this year. 21:23.960 --> 21:25.960 Again, notice the crowd. 21:25.960 --> 21:29.160 And the man in the right-hand corner of the crowd being pushed back by a policeman. 21:29.160 --> 21:33.080 Now run the slides of the ones we had made from the newspaper clipping. 21:33.080 --> 21:36.880 The crowd around Edgar Dale. 21:36.880 --> 21:39.880 Notice that man up front on the end. 21:39.880 --> 21:42.720 Okay. 21:42.720 --> 21:44.560 The crowd around Adam Treple. 21:44.560 --> 21:46.240 Notice the fourth man down in the front row. 21:46.240 --> 21:48.240 What do you think, Airdon? 21:48.240 --> 21:50.240 They're all the same man. 21:50.240 --> 21:51.240 You sure? 21:51.240 --> 21:52.240 The same man. 21:52.240 --> 22:02.880 It took an hour for the newspapers to hit the streets with a front-page picture of a 22:02.880 --> 22:03.880 man wanted for murder. 22:03.880 --> 22:08.520 A man in the crowd who, for two or three years, had quietly committed murder. 22:08.520 --> 22:10.400 Four killings to our knowledge. 22:10.400 --> 22:13.960 Now we knew what he looked like, what went on inside his mind. 22:13.960 --> 22:14.960 He liked to kill. 22:14.960 --> 22:18.240 He liked to stand with the crowd over his kill. 22:18.240 --> 22:20.560 With the crowd, liked to see death up close. 22:20.560 --> 22:22.560 That man is my husband. 22:22.560 --> 22:24.120 Where's your husband now? 22:24.120 --> 22:25.120 He's in bed. 22:25.120 --> 22:26.120 He pretends he's an invalid. 22:26.120 --> 22:30.680 He's been lying there for five years, but I know he sneaks out at night when I'm asleep. 22:30.680 --> 22:35.360 I've been waiting on him hand and foot for five years, and I know he don't let you tend 22:35.360 --> 22:36.360 me. 22:36.360 --> 22:37.360 We checked it. 22:37.360 --> 22:38.360 The man was an invalid, paralyzed. 22:38.360 --> 22:39.360 Then? 22:39.360 --> 22:40.360 I'm the man. 22:40.360 --> 22:41.360 I'm the man you want. 22:41.360 --> 22:42.360 I did all those killings. 22:42.360 --> 22:45.520 This picture of you we have, you don't look the same. 22:45.520 --> 22:46.520 You've changed. 22:46.520 --> 22:47.520 That's right. 22:47.520 --> 22:48.520 I've changed. 22:48.520 --> 22:49.520 I change all the time. 22:49.520 --> 22:50.520 Don't you think that's clever of me? 22:50.520 --> 22:51.520 Yes, it is. 22:51.520 --> 22:52.520 Will you wait here a moment? 22:52.520 --> 22:53.520 Airdon. 22:53.520 --> 22:54.520 Yeah, what is it, Johnny? 22:54.520 --> 22:55.520 There's a man in my office. 22:55.520 --> 22:56.520 Take him to the cycle. 22:56.520 --> 23:00.800 John Estolano speaking. 23:00.800 --> 23:05.720 Please, can you come here quickly? 23:05.720 --> 23:08.720 Who is this? 23:08.720 --> 23:11.720 I'm Mrs. Jane Shirley. 23:11.720 --> 23:22.160 I have a rooming house at 1216 East 38th. 23:22.160 --> 23:23.160 What is it you want, Mrs. Shirley? 23:23.160 --> 23:26.800 The man whose picture is in the paper, the man you're looking for. 23:26.800 --> 23:27.800 He has a room in my house. 23:27.800 --> 23:28.800 Is he there now? 23:28.800 --> 23:29.800 No, but I expect him home any minute. 23:29.800 --> 23:30.800 Please, will you come quickly? 23:30.800 --> 23:31.800 Right away. 23:31.800 --> 23:32.800 His name is Charles Turner, Mr. Estolano. 23:32.800 --> 23:45.800 At least that's what he told me it was. 23:45.800 --> 23:49.080 He's been living here for the past seven years. 23:49.080 --> 23:50.360 I don't know much more about him than that. 23:50.360 --> 23:51.360 He comes and he goes. 23:51.360 --> 23:53.400 Take me to his room, Mrs. Shirley. 23:53.400 --> 23:58.680 Yeah, right down the hall. 23:58.680 --> 24:06.320 Turn on the light. 24:06.320 --> 24:08.640 This is his room. 24:08.640 --> 24:14.320 These pictures on the wall, a man in a subway on a street corner, a man who fell out of 24:14.320 --> 24:15.320 a building. 24:15.320 --> 24:16.320 Yes, they all belong to Mr. Turner. 24:16.320 --> 24:17.320 He hung them on the wall. 24:17.320 --> 24:18.320 I never asked him. 24:18.320 --> 24:19.320 What are you doing here? 24:19.320 --> 24:22.400 I never asked him what will happen now. 24:22.400 --> 24:24.840 Do you have a room near the front of the house? 24:24.840 --> 24:25.840 My room? 24:25.840 --> 24:29.840 Well, wait for Mr. Turner there. 24:29.840 --> 24:36.400 Mr. Estolano. 24:36.400 --> 24:54.880 Don't worry about a thing. 24:54.880 --> 24:56.880 I'll get it. 24:56.880 --> 25:02.720 Johnny, who are you looking at me like that for? 25:02.720 --> 25:04.560 I told you to wait in the squad car. 25:04.560 --> 25:06.800 Well, a call just come through, a guy's holding our killer. 25:06.800 --> 25:07.800 What? 25:07.800 --> 25:09.240 Yeah, a greasy spoon lunch room down the corner. 25:09.240 --> 25:11.120 Mr. Turner always eats right down the corner. 25:11.120 --> 25:14.360 The guy who runs the joint phoned in that our man is eating his supper there right now. 25:14.360 --> 25:15.360 Let's go. 25:15.360 --> 25:20.360 There's a crowd. 25:20.360 --> 25:23.200 That's funny. 25:23.200 --> 25:25.080 The street was deserted less than a minute ago. 25:25.080 --> 25:26.080 Let's go. 25:26.080 --> 25:31.080 All right, let us through here. 25:31.080 --> 25:36.800 Officers, let us through. 25:36.800 --> 25:38.440 What happened to you? 25:38.440 --> 25:40.560 You police? 25:40.560 --> 25:41.640 That's right. 25:41.640 --> 25:43.720 I own this place. 25:43.720 --> 25:48.200 He saw me making the phone call, ran out. 25:48.200 --> 25:49.880 I ran after him. 25:49.880 --> 25:54.160 He had a knife and... 25:54.160 --> 25:55.160 He's dead, Reardon. 25:55.160 --> 25:56.160 Johnny, he's not. 25:56.160 --> 25:57.160 He just fainted. 25:57.160 --> 26:00.160 I said he's dead. 26:00.160 --> 26:03.000 One of you people in the crowd go in the store and call an ambulance. 26:03.000 --> 26:04.000 This man's dead. 26:04.000 --> 26:05.000 Let me through. 26:05.000 --> 26:06.000 Let me through. 26:06.000 --> 26:07.000 Reardon. 26:07.000 --> 26:08.000 That's him, Johnny. 26:08.000 --> 26:09.000 This man. 26:09.000 --> 26:10.000 Is he dead? 26:10.000 --> 26:11.000 What happened to him? 26:11.000 --> 26:12.000 Anybody know what happened? 26:12.000 --> 26:13.000 Would you like to see him, mister? 26:13.000 --> 26:14.000 Would you like to see him up close? 26:14.000 --> 26:15.000 Why, why, I... 26:15.000 --> 26:16.000 The photographers will be here in a few minutes. 26:16.000 --> 26:17.000 Why don't you stick around and have your picture taken, Mr. Turner? 26:17.000 --> 26:18.000 You're wrong. 26:18.000 --> 26:19.000 My name is not Turner. 26:19.000 --> 26:20.000 I just wanted to know whether the man was dead. 26:20.000 --> 26:21.000 That's all. 26:21.000 --> 26:22.000 I want to get out of here. 26:22.000 --> 26:23.000 Come back here tonight. 26:23.000 --> 26:24.000 I'm going to the store. 26:24.000 --> 26:25.000 I'm going to the store. 26:25.000 --> 26:26.000 I'm going to the store. 26:26.000 --> 26:27.000 I'm going to the store. 26:27.000 --> 26:30.240 The man was dead, that's all. 26:30.240 --> 26:33.240 I want to get out of here. 26:33.240 --> 26:36.240 Come back here, Turner. 26:36.240 --> 26:37.240 One side. 26:37.240 --> 26:38.240 Come back here. 26:38.240 --> 26:39.240 Johnny? 26:39.240 --> 26:40.240 Yep. 26:40.240 --> 26:41.240 Let's go over there. 26:41.240 --> 26:42.240 Dead. 26:42.240 --> 26:43.240 Johnny, look at him. 26:43.240 --> 26:44.240 Look at him. 26:44.240 --> 26:45.240 Yeah. 26:45.240 --> 26:46.240 Here comes the crowd. 26:46.240 --> 26:47.240 Is he dead? 26:47.240 --> 26:48.240 What? 26:48.240 --> 26:49.240 What? 26:49.240 --> 26:50.240 What? 26:50.240 --> 26:51.240 What? 26:51.240 --> 26:52.240 What? 26:52.240 --> 26:53.240 What? 26:53.240 --> 26:54.240 What? 26:54.240 --> 26:55.240 What? 26:55.240 --> 26:56.240 What? 26:56.240 --> 26:57.240 Let me out. 26:57.240 --> 26:58.240 Let me out of here. 26:58.240 --> 26:59.240 Ooh, okay. 26:59.240 --> 27:00.240 Let me down. 27:00.240 --> 27:01.240 Get out of my way, I want to see. 27:01.240 --> 27:02.240 Dead? 27:02.240 --> 27:03.240 Did you really die? 27:03.240 --> 27:04.240 I want to see him. 27:04.240 --> 27:06.240 Is he really dead? 27:06.240 --> 27:07.640 Look at him. 27:07.640 --> 27:09.560 You're dead now. 27:09.560 --> 27:11.840 Come to me. 27:11.840 --> 27:14.020 Tighten that stand. 27:14.020 --> 27:18.240 What did he get you into? 27:18.240 --> 27:33.240 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 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