1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:24,720 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Rave Notice, a suspense play starring Mr. Milton Berle. 3 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,420 Ring out, you hymn of hate, ring out. 4 00:00:27,420 --> 00:00:29,000 Send word that all who listen... 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,500 No, no, no, no, no. 6 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:31,500 Now what? 7 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:34,000 You're supposed to be an actor, not a foghorn. 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Yes, sir. 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,200 By what standards do you consider yourself to be an actor? 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,400 You're persecuting me. 11 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:41,720 I persecute nobody. 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,000 A man cannot play a role, he's replaced. 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Replaced? 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,400 There goes that persecution talk again. 15 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,480 Replace me and I'll kill you. 16 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:52,560 Witnesses, he's threatening me. 17 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,240 Then don't talk of replacement. 18 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,680 I'm not kidding, Norman. 19 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,560 Replace me and I'll kill you. 20 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:06,560 In just a moment, Mr. Milton Berle in the first act of Rave Notice. 21 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,560 Willcocks, Arshay Willcocks. 22 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,640 I hear you're a campaign manager. 23 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,480 You bet, Senator, and my candidate's a cinch to win. 24 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:15,480 What's his name? 25 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:17,360 You're kidding, aren't you, Senator? 26 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,680 He's the famous Auto Light staple battery. 27 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:24,880 My candidate is so well known that every valiant voter flaunts his valor and veracity. 28 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:25,880 What's his platform? 29 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:30,280 Why, the famous Auto Light staple battery needs water only three times a year in normal 30 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:31,880 car use, Senator. 31 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,360 And he's running on a platform to give longer life. 32 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:39,760 70% longer life, in fact, as proved by tests conducted according to the Society of Automotive 33 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:42,560 Engineers minimum life cycle standards. 34 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,560 And that's really an endorsement. 35 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,680 Is your candidate prepared for a long cycle in office, Willcocks? 36 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:53,200 He sure is, Senator, because every positive plate of the Auto Light staple battery is 37 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:58,440 protected with a fiberglass retaining mat to help reduce flaking and shedding. 38 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,800 So friends, join the crowd voting for the Auto Light staple battery, the battery that 39 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,600 needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 40 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,200 See your neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer. 41 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,720 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 42 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:18,000 And now with Rave Notice and the performance of Mr. Milton Berle, Auto Light hopes once 43 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:30,200 again to keep you in suspense. 44 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:35,000 Look when I'm walking across Times Square like this, I'm just an ordinary man, plain, 45 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,000 unnoticeable. 46 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,880 I watch the crowd, you wouldn't even notice me. 47 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,520 It's as though I were invisible. 48 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,440 Yeah, like that, invisible. 49 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,380 But wait, come here. 50 00:02:44,380 --> 00:02:52,240 Come with me through this door, through here and into the darkness. 51 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:59,600 Now I breathe deeply of the thick dark air and I become taller. 52 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,880 My eyes drink in the gloomy shadows, become lustrous, birdlike, noble. 53 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,200 Here in this temple of the passions, I throw off my cloak of invisibility and I reveal 54 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,360 myself, my true self. 55 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,360 For this is the theater and I, I am an actor. 56 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:19,120 Down there beyond the empty seats lit by the single bare bulb are my fellow actors and we're 57 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,520 all here to make a play. 58 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:28,160 Friend Norman, seated alone in the third row, is our director. 59 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,000 This is the fifth day of the rehearsal. 60 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,600 Still rather rough, stiffish and so forth, but it's not a bad little play. 61 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,040 And you know Norman. 62 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,720 Norman will manage somehow to spoil it. 63 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,600 Norman will misdirect actors and lose values and I've known Norman for years. 64 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,840 From the group theater, we were in the group together. 65 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,560 Oh no, no, no, no, no. 66 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,360 But Norman, why not? 67 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,080 Because I'm the director and I say no, no. 68 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:54,080 Very well. 69 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:55,080 Try again. 70 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,840 I wish somebody would tell me what it's all about. 71 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,200 Life, I mean. 72 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,800 I wish somebody would give me the word. 73 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:03,800 Adequate. 74 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,800 Thank you. 75 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:05,800 Uh, Norman. 76 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:06,800 Oh, oh hello there. 77 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:07,800 How are we coming? 78 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:08,800 I, uh, come over here. 79 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:09,800 I, I want to talk to you. 80 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:10,800 Sure. 81 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,800 Norman, sure. 82 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,840 What is it? 83 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:21,200 This is, uh, well believe me, Sam, the most difficult thing I've ever had to say. 84 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,200 Speak out, Norman. 85 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:23,200 You know me. 86 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:27,880 Well, I, I've had the turnover, the bell ringer to Luther. 87 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:28,880 The bell ringer? 88 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:30,440 What do you mean? 89 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,880 Norman, that's my part, the bell ringer. 90 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:34,320 What do you mean to Luther? 91 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,080 Don't make it difficult for me, Sam. 92 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:37,080 Difficult? 93 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:38,080 I'm not making it difficult. 94 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:39,080 Not at all. 95 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:40,080 The bell ringer role is mine. 96 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:41,080 Norman, that's all. 97 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:42,840 There's no difficulty involved. 98 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:43,840 Please. 99 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:44,840 You joke. 100 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:45,840 No. 101 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:47,400 It's not as if I hadn't warned you. 102 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:48,400 Tell me what's wrong. 103 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:49,560 Tell me where I've stepped off. 104 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:50,560 What irritates you? 105 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:51,560 What doesn't fit? 106 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:52,560 I'll fix it. 107 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:53,560 I'll fix it. 108 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:54,560 That's my role, Norman. 109 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,640 I carry the whole cast with that role. 110 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:57,640 Don't shout, Sam. 111 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:58,640 You're making a fool of yourself. 112 00:04:58,640 --> 00:04:59,640 A fool? 113 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,680 Norman, why are you doing this to me? 114 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,880 Because you're not right for it. 115 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:06,880 Not right? 116 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:07,880 Yes. 117 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:08,880 Wait. 118 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,360 You fat pig, what do you know? 119 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,360 Now, easy. 120 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:12,360 What do you know? 121 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:13,360 What do you know about acting? 122 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,360 Easy there. 123 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:15,360 Easy, I say. 124 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:16,360 Fat. 125 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,360 Fat belly, fat head, fat face. 126 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:18,360 That's enough. 127 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:19,360 You know nothing. 128 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:20,360 I know you. 129 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:21,360 I know actors. 130 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:22,360 You're no actor. 131 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:23,360 You stink. 132 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:24,360 I'll kill you for saying that. 133 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:25,360 I'll kill you. 134 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:26,360 What is this? 135 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:27,360 He's threatening me again. 136 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:28,360 Yes. 137 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:29,360 Listen good, Norman. 138 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:30,360 I'm going to kill you. 139 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:31,360 I'm going to kill you. 140 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:32,360 You see, you can't even deliver that line. 141 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,360 You stink. 142 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:50,320 Yes, sir? 143 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:51,320 I want to buy a gun. 144 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:52,320 Yes, sir. 145 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,320 What sort of a gun did you wish to buy? 146 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,120 One that will shoot through fat. 147 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:57,120 Yes, sir. 148 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:58,120 Pardon me. 149 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:59,120 I was thinking. 150 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,120 What have you got? 151 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:02,120 Why? 152 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:03,720 Guns, pistols, rifles, shotguns. 153 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,000 I don't know exactly. 154 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,520 What was it you wished to use the gun for? 155 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:10,520 I want to kill a rat. 156 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,840 A.22 would be about your best bet. 157 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:16,880 Here's a nice little lighter. 158 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:17,880 Looks pretty small. 159 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,920 This is an awfully big rat. 160 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:21,920 Fat rat. 161 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,600 I think a shotgun, a.410. 162 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,960 You think that'll do it? 163 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,440 Oh, Mr. That gun will, I guarantee. 164 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,000 I use a gun like that myself. 165 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,080 Single barrel, light, handy, truly beautiful weapon. 166 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:38,080 Bullets. 167 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:39,080 You got bullets? 168 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:40,080 Or shells. 169 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:41,080 Shells are used in this weapon. 170 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:45,720 Now, there are all kinds depending on what weight shot you want to use. 171 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:46,720 You choose it. 172 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:47,720 I want one. 173 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:48,720 One box? 174 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:49,720 No. 175 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:50,720 One bullet. 176 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:51,720 One? 177 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:52,720 Yeah. 178 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,720 This rat, I'm not going to miss. 179 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:00,160 It's time now. 180 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:06,480 He'll come out of that far door of the entrance and he'll walk this way because he's going 181 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,720 to go into Sardis for a drink. 182 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:15,680 I slide it out from under my coat and I smile and I say, goodbye Norman. 183 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,080 Pull the trigger. 184 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:20,080 Heart or belly? 185 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:21,080 Heart or belly? 186 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:22,080 Belly, yes. 187 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:29,320 In the belly is cultivated paunch, fatted with actor's hearts. 188 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,200 Yes, belly. 189 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,560 Am I invisible now? 190 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,760 I mustn't be noticed until the moment. 191 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,760 Perhaps standing a little too tall. 192 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:40,760 Sag. 193 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:41,760 Perfect. 194 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:48,260 The actor plays himself as a non-actor. 195 00:07:48,260 --> 00:07:51,280 You should see this, Norman. 196 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:52,280 Now. 197 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:53,280 Goodbye, Norman. 198 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:54,280 Sam. 199 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:55,280 I'm shot. 200 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:56,280 I'm shot. 201 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:57,280 It hurts. 202 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:58,280 Norman, you're dying. 203 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:03,280 You're going to go to hell in a minute, Norman. 204 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:04,280 I'm shot. 205 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:05,280 Somebody call an ambulance. 206 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:10,280 It won't do you any good, Norman. 207 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,280 You're dying. 208 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:12,280 You'll be dead before it gets you. 209 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:13,280 Oh, it hurts. 210 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,280 Is this how you play a death scene? 211 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:18,280 Norman, you're dying. 212 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:19,280 Play it. 213 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:20,280 Please. 214 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:21,280 Somebody call an ambulance for me. 215 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:22,280 Don't let me lie here. 216 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:23,280 Oh. 217 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:24,280 Oh. 218 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:28,920 If an actor played a death scene for you as badly as you're playing your own, Norman, 219 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:29,920 do you know what you'd do? 220 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:30,920 Ambulance. 221 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:31,920 Help. 222 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:32,920 Please. 223 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:33,920 Ambulance. 224 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:34,920 There's a shotgun he did it. 225 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:35,920 Right in the middle of 45th Street. 226 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:36,920 Oh. 227 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:37,920 We brought him in an hour ago. 228 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:38,920 Give you any trouble? 229 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:39,920 Like a lamb. 230 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:50,920 Hello. 231 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,920 I thought you'd like to know. 232 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,920 That guy, he's still kicking. 233 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:57,920 Alive? 234 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:58,920 He's alive? 235 00:08:58,920 --> 00:08:59,920 Yep. 236 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:00,920 So you're not a murderer. 237 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:01,920 Not yet. 238 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:13,920 I brought your lawyer. 239 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:15,280 What's that? 240 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:16,280 I'm your lawyer. 241 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:17,280 How do you do? 242 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:18,280 Sit down, won't you? 243 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:19,280 Thank you. 244 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,280 They say he's still not dead. 245 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:23,280 No, but he's sinking. 246 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:24,280 How much longer? 247 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:25,280 They didn't say. 248 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:26,280 When he dies, I become an actor. 249 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:27,280 Oh. 250 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:28,280 Oh. 251 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:29,280 Oh. 252 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:30,280 Oh. 253 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:31,280 Oh. 254 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:32,280 When he dies, I become a murderer. 255 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,280 Yes. 256 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:34,280 They'll electrocute me. 257 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:35,280 Yes? 258 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:36,280 Must have been crazy. 259 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:37,280 I thought of that. 260 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:38,280 What do you mean? 261 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:39,280 Temporary insanity. 262 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:40,280 I thought we might plead death. 263 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:41,280 Oh, why don't we? 264 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:42,280 Because you threatened him before witnesses, at least twice. 265 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:43,280 Went to a store, chose a gun with great care, waited for him to appear. 266 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:44,280 You did all this and then you shot him. 267 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:45,280 That's right, I did. 268 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:46,280 That's premeditated murder, first degree murder. 269 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:47,280 So the temporary insanity is a murder? 270 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,280 Yes. 271 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:49,280 Oh. 272 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,280 Oh. 273 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:51,280 Oh. 274 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:52,280 Oh. 275 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:53,280 Oh. 276 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:54,280 Oh. 277 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:55,280 Oh. 278 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:56,280 Oh. 279 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:57,280 Oh. 280 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:58,280 Oh. 281 00:09:58,280 --> 00:09:59,280 Oh. 282 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:00,280 Oh. 283 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:01,880 I mean, the temporary insanity thing is out. 284 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:02,880 Way out. 285 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:07,160 The only other thing I can think of is we could prove you were insane all along. 286 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:08,160 Me? 287 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:09,160 Insane? 288 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:10,160 Of course not. 289 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:11,580 I should say not. 290 00:10:11,580 --> 00:10:12,580 What? 291 00:10:12,580 --> 00:10:17,480 What would happen, I mean, if I were? 292 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,720 Oh, they'd get the psychiatrist in, examine you, send you off to be cured. 293 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:22,720 Yeah? 294 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:23,720 You seem very calm. 295 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:24,720 I'm an actor. 296 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:25,720 I'm an actor. 297 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:26,720 I'm an actor. 298 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,720 I'm an actor. 299 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,720 He's gone and I sit here seeming very calm. 300 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,720 From time to time the god passes, looks at me curiously. 301 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,720 I know what's on his mind. 302 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:43,720 He's saying this, it's a cold-blooded murderer. 303 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:45,720 I know. 304 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,720 All my life I've studied the human beings, 305 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,720 memorized their gestures, tones, expressions, inflections, emotions. 306 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:55,720 I've learned to probe every moment of my own experience from early childhood, 307 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,720 searched out my every reaction, emotion, 308 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:00,720 learned to feel the parallel emotions of others. 309 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,720 The Stanislavski method of acting. 310 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,720 I have it. Know it. 311 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,720 Of course, if we could prove you were insane all along. 312 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,720 But I'm not. 313 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,720 The insane man moves without motive and I had a motive. 314 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,720 I know you. I know actors. You're no actor. 315 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,720 Oh, I could do it again. 316 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,720 No actor, no actor, no actor. 317 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,720 I could do it again. 318 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,720 Insane, crazy, nuts. 319 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,720 I know a joke. 320 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,720 I know a joke, a wonderful joke. 321 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,720 I'm going to beat Norman even in his grave. 322 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,720 I'm going to have myself exonerated of his murder. 323 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,720 Yes, freed of the charges. 324 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,720 It's so simple. I can hear it. 325 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,720 Not guilty by reason of insanity. 326 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,720 I'm going to play the greatest role of my life. 327 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,720 Play it without makeup, without lights, without anything. 328 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:53,720 Without lights, without script or cue. 329 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,720 I'm going to play a part strangely foreign to my nature. 330 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,720 I'm going to play a homicidal maniac. 331 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,720 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Milton Berle in rave notice. 332 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:25,720 A production in radio's outstanding theater thrills, Suspense. 333 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,720 Wilcox, what's this? 334 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,720 A campaign slogan for your candidate? 335 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:39,720 Right, oh, Senator. 336 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:44,720 The Auto Light's day full battery is the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 337 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,720 That's my candidate's simple, sound and superior slogan. 338 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,720 Seems pretty dry to me, Wilcox. 339 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,720 Why am I droll dignitary? Let me tell you about my candidate's characteristics. 340 00:12:54,720 --> 00:13:00,720 He has fiberglass retaining mats protecting every positive plate to help reduce flaking and shedding. 341 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:06,720 And Senator, everybody votes for Auto Light's day full batteries because you can't buy a better battery for your car. 342 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,720 What's the opposition, Wilcox? 343 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:09,720 No opposition. 344 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:17,720 Senator, why would a 70% longer life as proved by tests conducted according to SAE minimum life cycle standards 345 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,720 who would even think of opposing an Auto Light's day full battery? 346 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,720 He's in, Wilcox. What did you say he was running for? 347 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:30,720 For the wonderful dealers from coast to coast who sell Auto Light's day full batteries to the masterminded motorists 348 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,720 who drive their cars to perfection with Auto Light's day full batteries. 349 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,720 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 350 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,720 Better see your Auto Light dealer and get an Auto Light battery at once, Senator. 351 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:43,720 Good idea, Wilcox. 352 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,720 And remember, Senator, you're always right with Auto Light. 353 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:51,720 And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Milton Berle 354 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:59,720 in Elliot Lewis's production of Rave Notice, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 355 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,720 I'm going to play a homicidal maniac. 356 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:13,720 How? How? How? 357 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,720 What is the most terrible thing I ever did? 358 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:17,720 The thing closest to murder. 359 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:25,720 Must recreate that move. Murder. Killing. Blood. 360 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,720 I killed a cat once. Yeah. Yeah. 361 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,720 I was six years old. I didn't mean to kill it, but I had this stick. 362 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,720 It was in an alley, this cat, and I poked it just for laughs. 363 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,720 He didn't run. That's all I wanted to do was just to make him run. 364 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,720 Oh, he scratched me and I hit him. 365 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:46,720 I hit him across the back with the stick and he started this howling and squalling and oh, I thought, 366 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:52,720 oh, I thought I'm going to get into trouble. Stop that noise. 367 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,720 Stop that noise. I hit him again to make him stop and again to make him stop and again. 368 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:01,720 And there was blood. Red blood on the gray cement and struck and struck and struck out the screams. 369 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:06,720 Struck out the life. Struck out the awful gaze of those great yellow eyes. 370 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:11,720 Struck out the life. Struck out the spirit and the spark. 371 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:18,720 I kill. A murderer I am. I kill for the thrill of silence of the cat. 372 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:27,720 I am a murderer. A murderer I am. I kill without reason. 373 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,720 That's it. That's it. That's it. That's the character. 374 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,720 All I need for turning it on is the memory. Those key points. 375 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:43,720 Gray cement, cat's eyes, my feelings as a six year old. Oh, there will be refinements. I'll refine it. 376 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,720 Oh, Norman, if you were only here to see this scene. 377 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:52,720 If you were only here. Dim the house lights. Raise the curtain. 378 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,720 Now to get my audience in. 379 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:06,720 What's that? Sounds like the shotgun guy. He's laughing. We better go see what's up. 380 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:16,720 Hey. Hey. Hey, you. 381 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:22,720 Who? Who may I ask? Are you? What? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? 382 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:27,720 What? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Oh, come on now, Mac. Calm down. 383 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,720 I asked a civil question and I expect a civil answer. Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? 384 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,720 He was so nice and quiet for a while there. Yeah. Hey. 385 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:39,720 Just answer my question. That's all I ask and that's not much reward for a hero to be asking now, is it? 386 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,720 Don't you know who we are? I think he's putting on an act. 387 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,720 Don't turn your head away. We know you hear us. Not. Leave him be. 388 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:52,720 You think he's kidding? What does it matter? 389 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:59,720 Oh, that was lousy. You can do better than that, Sam. You're supposed to be a murderer. 390 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:07,720 A homicidal maniac. So what's the emotion? Guilt. Guilt. You've got to be guilty. Guilty, guilty, guilty. 391 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:14,720 Smear yourself with the stuff. Guilty. Bloody hands. That's you. Guilty and you want to be punished. 392 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:19,720 Yeah, punished. Punish yourself. That'll do it. But it'll hurt. So what? So what? 393 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,720 Not like it hurts when they shave your head and slit your trousers and strap you to your seat. 394 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:30,720 Oh, that seat. Ten thousand volts coursing through this poor player's frail body with which I am cursed. 395 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:38,720 Murderer. Guilty. Guilty. Should be punished. Should be punished. 396 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:47,720 One, two, three. Curtain going up. Guilty. Guilty. There's blood on my hands. 397 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:53,720 There he goes again. You go. Ah, what a job. I smashed him on the grease and smashed him. Murder, murder. 398 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:59,720 I murdered him. I am a murderer. I am a murderer and I confess it. I confess I'm a murderer. 399 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:05,720 Hey, hey. I want to confess it. You don't have to do that. To confess to purge myself of this guilt. 400 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:10,720 But you did all that when you first come in here. I am a murderer. I am guilty here. I smashed him. I smashed him. 401 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,720 What are you getting yourself so worked up about? That guy isn't even dead yet. 402 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:20,720 Not dead. He is dead. He's been dead these past 36 years. 36 years. Oh, oh, if you won't punish me, I... 403 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:26,720 Hey, hey, what are you doing? Hey, hey. I am guilty and I shall be smashed as he was smashed. 404 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,720 Your hands. You're going to bust your head in that wall. I shall be smashed. It is written. 405 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:36,720 You know the writing in the blood that lies across the counter pain in the bed under the pillow when little boys are supposed to be far away and slumber... 406 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:38,720 Jones, get the doctor. 407 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:48,720 Good God, he's getting attacked. My hand, my hand is killing me. 408 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:55,720 It seems that something broke. I don't mind the bloody scraped knuckles or even breaking the nails, but not the bones. 409 00:18:55,720 --> 00:19:03,720 I want to be sure I can use this, Jonesy, when I get out of here. When? If I ever get out of here. 410 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:12,720 Two cats dead, murdered by my stick. Four cats dead, murdered by my stick. Six cats dead. 411 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:22,720 Right here, Doc. I'll open the cell if you want to go in. Of course I do. 412 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:28,720 How long has he been doing this? About 15 minutes, Doctor, since just before I sent Schulze after you. 413 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,720 I see. All right now. You can stop that. 414 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:38,720 I don't stop. I don't stop. I don't look. I keep right out of it. I keep in the pot. Murder and guilty. 415 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:45,720 It hurts, but if I keep at it, if I keep at it, I'm paying a price. I am paying my way out of being electrocuted. 416 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,720 I'm going to be freed. I can only keep it up. Keep it up. 417 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:54,720 You want to do yourself real good this way, man? Now, put it out. All right, grab it. 418 00:19:54,720 --> 00:20:01,720 I keep it. Leave me. Leave me alone. I want to pay. I am the guilty one and I want to pay the sentence to the court. 419 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:08,720 Hold him in. Come on. Let me go. Let me go. I must pay. I must pay. I must pay. 420 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,720 Now, now, now, steady, steady, man. 421 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:18,720 The timing needle. He's pressing the syringe. It'll knock me out. I can't act. I'm unconscious. 422 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:38,720 I can't play the part. I'm guilty. I can't. I can't. I can't. 423 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:49,720 So quiet here. So white. Such sweet stillness and peace. Gone the darkness of the steel and concrete and the cell, this white ceiling. 424 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:59,720 Well, they're watching me very carefully. The taller one. He's new. The other gave me the hypodermic. Yes. 425 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:09,720 I have hypodermic. I wonder if I've been out. Did I say anything while I was out? Perhaps if I keep still, they'll let me know. 426 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,720 I must have been wrong. Are you awake? 427 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,720 You say he showed definite suicidal tendencies? 428 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:25,720 Suicidal immediate are simply self destructive. While he was unconscious, I listened to him. He spoke. He seemed under the delusion that he is invisible. 429 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,720 Invisible? That's a new one. 430 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:32,720 Now, let me look. He's opening his eyes. Hello. Are you awake? 431 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:37,720 Who are you? You remember me, don't you? No. 432 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,720 Well, I did something to quiet you a little while ago. A little while ago? 433 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:47,720 You're trying to injure yourself that we think you're insane. You've decided to give that up, haven't you? 434 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,720 If you only let me go, let me out of here. I have to carry out sentence, you know. 435 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:58,720 How will you carry out sentence? He smashed. I have to be smashed as I have smashed the cat. Is that the law? An eye for an eye. 436 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,720 And a tooth for a tooth. Do you believe in that? 437 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:08,720 If you believe in the eye for eye law, don't you feel it's right that you receive the same thing you gave your victim? 438 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,720 Yes. I smashed him with a stick in the eyes that stared at me. 439 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:16,720 Stick? You mean shotgun, don't you? Why would I say shotgun if I meant stick? I said stick. 440 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,720 But you shot the man with a shotgun. You're out of your mind. 441 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:25,720 After you smashed him with a stick, what happened? What? What? What came after he was dead? 442 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:32,720 Oh, I was frightened. I went home. Mama was there. She said, how did you get blood on your hands? 443 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,720 And I said a dog licked my hand and he had blood on his teeth. 444 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:41,720 I understand you're an actor. We are all actors. We try to act innocent when we are guilty. 445 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:49,720 Doctor, come outside a moment, will you? 446 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:55,720 I've got them. I've got them. Just keep playing it cold and clear. 447 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:00,720 What are they talking about out there? Oh, I wish I knew. Doesn't matter. 448 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:06,720 I have them. I know that. I've got them. I've got them. 449 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,720 Well, I guess you'll be leaving us soon. 450 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:15,720 That's what I asked for. Thank you. Thank you. You're understanding, doctor. 451 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,720 I am guilty and I must carry out sentence. You know that. 452 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:23,720 What the doctor means is that you're going to a place where they'll help you to get well. 453 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,720 Get well? But I am well. I'm just guilty, that's all. 454 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:33,720 Of course. If you let me, after David's drawn up outside, and you get a court order committee... 455 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:34,720 Right. 456 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:40,720 It means you were right all along. You know, I always be thrilled until you told me about the man who was shot... 457 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:41,720 ...out his recovery. 458 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:46,720 Oh, yes. The guards told us the man hid recovered, but he didn't comprehend it to us. 459 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,720 He went right on screaming and punishing me. 460 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:54,720 See. Well, let's go. What would they have given him were he tamed? 461 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:59,720 Well, that depends. The injured party refused to press charges. He'd be out of here in an hour. 462 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:04,720 Amen. 463 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:09,720 Recovered? Recovered. They didn't tell me he'd recovered. 464 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,720 How could he have recovered? I shot him. I shot him in his fat paunch in his belly. 465 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:18,720 When did they tell me? It was while I was screaming, maybe. 466 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:23,720 I was really into the part then, deep in it. Couldn't have heard them. Couldn't have heard. 467 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:29,720 And now... now he will walk out of here, and I will go off to an insane asylum... 468 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,720 ...married to a role that I loathe, that I hate. 469 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:38,720 No. No. Doctor, come back here. Come back here. Please. It was all a joke. 470 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,720 Doctor, come back. Come back. 471 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:41,720 What is it? 472 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:48,720 Listen, doctor. Listen. I have a confession to make, doctor. I'm not insane. Please believe me. Please believe me. 473 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:53,720 Question now. Just a little confused, that's all. Yes. Yeah. Why, not even confused, don't you see? 474 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,720 It was all a gag. It was just a gag. 475 00:24:55,720 --> 00:25:00,720 Of course it was. Now you're going to a place where you can rest, and everything's going to be all right. 476 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,720 Oh, no. Believe me. Believe me, I am sane. 477 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:04,720 Why shout? 478 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,720 I'm not shouting. I only want to impress upon you. 479 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,720 But you were shouting rather loudly. 480 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:15,720 Oh, look. I shot him, and my lawyer said if I could prove insanity, I wouldn't go to the chair. 481 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,720 Chair? I thought you were to be, you said, mesh. 482 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,720 Forget that. That was part of the method. 483 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:22,720 Method? 484 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,720 You know, the Stanislavski method. It's the system of acting. 485 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:26,720 What do you think, doctor? 486 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,720 I don't know. 487 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,720 You think so? 488 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,720 I can fool you all over again if you feel it's necessary to prove my point. 489 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,720 No, I don't believe you'll be able to fool me again. 490 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:38,720 Well, doctor? 491 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:48,720 Sane. I say sane. I say the man is in full control of his faculties, is aware of his crimes, committed it out of what society calls sober motive. 492 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,720 And you, sir? Do you agree with the doctor? 493 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,720 It's what I've been telling you. 494 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,720 And I say sane. That makes it unanimous. 495 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:01,720 Oh, glad that's over. Wow. What a performance. 496 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:07,720 Gentlemen, never in the history of the theater has such a performance been rendered, nor under such adverse conditions. 497 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:08,720 Just one more question. 498 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,720 Shoot, shoot. Why did you kill him? 499 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,720 Kill him? But I didn't. I shot him, that's all. 500 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,720 Shot. You mean shot, don't you? 501 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,720 Well, don't you? 502 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:21,720 No. 503 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,720 He... Norman is dead? 504 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:30,720 You were sane. You're going to repay society with your life. 505 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:36,720 Norman is dead? Oh, crutchery. Villainy. 506 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,720 Bring down the curtain. Bring down the curtain. 507 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:45,720 Suspense presented by Auto Life, tonight's star, Milton Berle. 508 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,720 Well, Wilcox, did your candidate win? 509 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,720 Well, I'm not sure. 510 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,720 Well, I'm not sure. 511 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,720 Well, I'm not sure. 512 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,720 Well, I'm not sure. 513 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,720 Well, I'm not sure. 514 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,720 Well, I'm not sure. 515 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,720 Well, I'm not sure. 516 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,720 Wilcox, did your candidate win? 517 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,720 Win, Senator, why the Auto largest they full battery 518 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,720 is the winningest candidate the polls have ever produced. 519 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,720 And this winsome leader is only one of over 400 Auto Lite winners 520 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:26,720 for cars, trucks, planes, and boats made by Auto Lite in 28 plants coast-to-coast. 521 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,720 These include complete electrical systems used as original equipment 522 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,720 on many makes of America's finest cars. 523 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,720 Spark plugs, batteries, generators, coils, distributors, 524 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:41,360 windshield wipers, starting motors, bullseye sealed beam headlight. 525 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:45,080 All engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly, because they're a 526 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:46,080 perfect team. 527 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,880 So friends, don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 528 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,160 Ask for and insist on auto light, original factory parts at your neighborhood service 529 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,960 station, car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 530 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,600 Remember, you're always right with auto light. 531 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:14,640 Next week on Suspense, Miss Barbara Stanwyck as a woman who gambled and the stake was death 532 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,000 in the wages of sin. 533 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,000 And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars as Richard Widmark, Herbert Marshall, 534 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:31,320 and William Holden, all appearing in tales well calculated to keep you in suspense. 535 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,600 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian 536 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,480 Moraweck and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 537 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,520 Parts of this program were transcribed. 538 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,760 Brave notice was written for suspense by James Pohl. 539 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,600 Milton Berle appeared to the courtesy of Texaco. 540 00:28:46,600 --> 00:29:05,680 And remember next week on Suspense, Miss Barbara Stanwyck in the wages of sin. 541 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,880 You can buy auto light, staple batteries, auto light standard or resistive spark plugs, 542 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,520 auto light electrical parts at your neighborhood auto light dealers. 543 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:13,880 Switch to auto light. 544 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:14,880 Good night. 545 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,200 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.