WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:24.720 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Rave Notice, a suspense play starring Mr. Milton Berle. 00:24.720 --> 00:27.420 Ring out, you hymn of hate, ring out. 00:27.420 --> 00:29.000 Send word that all who listen... 00:29.000 --> 00:30.500 No, no, no, no, no. 00:30.500 --> 00:31.500 Now what? 00:31.500 --> 00:34.000 You're supposed to be an actor, not a foghorn. 00:34.000 --> 00:35.000 Yes, sir. 00:35.000 --> 00:39.200 By what standards do you consider yourself to be an actor? 00:39.200 --> 00:40.400 You're persecuting me. 00:40.400 --> 00:41.720 I persecute nobody. 00:41.720 --> 00:45.000 A man cannot play a role, he's replaced. 00:45.000 --> 00:46.000 Replaced? 00:46.000 --> 00:48.400 There goes that persecution talk again. 00:48.400 --> 00:50.480 Replace me and I'll kill you. 00:50.480 --> 00:52.560 Witnesses, he's threatening me. 00:52.560 --> 00:54.240 Then don't talk of replacement. 00:54.240 --> 00:56.680 I'm not kidding, Norman. 00:56.680 --> 00:58.560 Replace me and I'll kill you. 00:58.560 --> 01:06.560 In just a moment, Mr. Milton Berle in the first act of Rave Notice. 01:06.560 --> 01:08.560 Willcocks, Arshay Willcocks. 01:08.560 --> 01:11.640 I hear you're a campaign manager. 01:11.640 --> 01:14.480 You bet, Senator, and my candidate's a cinch to win. 01:14.480 --> 01:15.480 What's his name? 01:15.480 --> 01:17.360 You're kidding, aren't you, Senator? 01:17.360 --> 01:19.680 He's the famous Auto Light staple battery. 01:19.680 --> 01:24.880 My candidate is so well known that every valiant voter flaunts his valor and veracity. 01:24.880 --> 01:25.880 What's his platform? 01:25.880 --> 01:30.280 Why, the famous Auto Light staple battery needs water only three times a year in normal 01:30.280 --> 01:31.880 car use, Senator. 01:31.880 --> 01:34.360 And he's running on a platform to give longer life. 01:34.360 --> 01:39.760 70% longer life, in fact, as proved by tests conducted according to the Society of Automotive 01:39.760 --> 01:42.560 Engineers minimum life cycle standards. 01:42.560 --> 01:44.560 And that's really an endorsement. 01:44.560 --> 01:48.680 Is your candidate prepared for a long cycle in office, Willcocks? 01:48.680 --> 01:53.200 He sure is, Senator, because every positive plate of the Auto Light staple battery is 01:53.200 --> 01:58.440 protected with a fiberglass retaining mat to help reduce flaking and shedding. 01:58.440 --> 02:02.800 So friends, join the crowd voting for the Auto Light staple battery, the battery that 02:02.800 --> 02:06.600 needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 02:06.600 --> 02:09.200 See your neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer. 02:09.200 --> 02:12.720 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 02:12.720 --> 02:18.000 And now with Rave Notice and the performance of Mr. Milton Berle, Auto Light hopes once 02:18.000 --> 02:30.200 again to keep you in suspense. 02:30.200 --> 02:35.000 Look when I'm walking across Times Square like this, I'm just an ordinary man, plain, 02:35.000 --> 02:36.000 unnoticeable. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.880 I watch the crowd, you wouldn't even notice me. 02:37.880 --> 02:39.520 It's as though I were invisible. 02:39.520 --> 02:41.440 Yeah, like that, invisible. 02:41.440 --> 02:44.380 But wait, come here. 02:44.380 --> 02:52.240 Come with me through this door, through here and into the darkness. 02:52.240 --> 02:59.600 Now I breathe deeply of the thick dark air and I become taller. 02:59.600 --> 03:03.880 My eyes drink in the gloomy shadows, become lustrous, birdlike, noble. 03:03.880 --> 03:08.200 Here in this temple of the passions, I throw off my cloak of invisibility and I reveal 03:08.200 --> 03:10.360 myself, my true self. 03:10.360 --> 03:14.360 For this is the theater and I, I am an actor. 03:14.360 --> 03:19.120 Down there beyond the empty seats lit by the single bare bulb are my fellow actors and we're 03:19.120 --> 03:21.520 all here to make a play. 03:21.520 --> 03:28.160 Friend Norman, seated alone in the third row, is our director. 03:28.160 --> 03:30.000 This is the fifth day of the rehearsal. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.600 Still rather rough, stiffish and so forth, but it's not a bad little play. 03:33.600 --> 03:36.040 And you know Norman. 03:36.040 --> 03:38.720 Norman will manage somehow to spoil it. 03:38.720 --> 03:42.600 Norman will misdirect actors and lose values and I've known Norman for years. 03:42.600 --> 03:45.840 From the group theater, we were in the group together. 03:45.840 --> 03:48.560 Oh no, no, no, no, no. 03:48.560 --> 03:50.360 But Norman, why not? 03:50.360 --> 03:53.080 Because I'm the director and I say no, no. 03:53.080 --> 03:54.080 Very well. 03:54.080 --> 03:55.080 Try again. 03:55.080 --> 03:58.840 I wish somebody would tell me what it's all about. 03:58.840 --> 04:00.200 Life, I mean. 04:00.200 --> 04:02.800 I wish somebody would give me the word. 04:02.800 --> 04:03.800 Adequate. 04:03.800 --> 04:04.800 Thank you. 04:04.800 --> 04:05.800 Uh, Norman. 04:05.800 --> 04:06.800 Oh, oh hello there. 04:06.800 --> 04:07.800 How are we coming? 04:07.800 --> 04:08.800 I, uh, come over here. 04:08.800 --> 04:09.800 I, I want to talk to you. 04:09.800 --> 04:10.800 Sure. 04:10.800 --> 04:12.800 Norman, sure. 04:12.800 --> 04:16.840 What is it? 04:16.840 --> 04:21.200 This is, uh, well believe me, Sam, the most difficult thing I've ever had to say. 04:21.200 --> 04:22.200 Speak out, Norman. 04:22.200 --> 04:23.200 You know me. 04:23.200 --> 04:27.880 Well, I, I've had the turnover, the bell ringer to Luther. 04:27.880 --> 04:28.880 The bell ringer? 04:28.880 --> 04:30.440 What do you mean? 04:30.440 --> 04:32.880 Norman, that's my part, the bell ringer. 04:32.880 --> 04:34.320 What do you mean to Luther? 04:34.320 --> 04:36.080 Don't make it difficult for me, Sam. 04:36.080 --> 04:37.080 Difficult? 04:37.080 --> 04:38.080 I'm not making it difficult. 04:38.080 --> 04:39.080 Not at all. 04:39.080 --> 04:40.080 The bell ringer role is mine. 04:40.080 --> 04:41.080 Norman, that's all. 04:41.080 --> 04:42.840 There's no difficulty involved. 04:42.840 --> 04:43.840 Please. 04:43.840 --> 04:44.840 You joke. 04:44.840 --> 04:45.840 No. 04:45.840 --> 04:47.400 It's not as if I hadn't warned you. 04:47.400 --> 04:48.400 Tell me what's wrong. 04:48.400 --> 04:49.560 Tell me where I've stepped off. 04:49.560 --> 04:50.560 What irritates you? 04:50.560 --> 04:51.560 What doesn't fit? 04:51.560 --> 04:52.560 I'll fix it. 04:52.560 --> 04:53.560 I'll fix it. 04:53.560 --> 04:54.560 That's my role, Norman. 04:54.560 --> 04:56.640 I carry the whole cast with that role. 04:56.640 --> 04:57.640 Don't shout, Sam. 04:57.640 --> 04:58.640 You're making a fool of yourself. 04:58.640 --> 04:59.640 A fool? 04:59.640 --> 05:03.680 Norman, why are you doing this to me? 05:03.680 --> 05:05.880 Because you're not right for it. 05:05.880 --> 05:06.880 Not right? 05:06.880 --> 05:07.880 Yes. 05:07.880 --> 05:08.880 Wait. 05:08.880 --> 05:10.360 You fat pig, what do you know? 05:10.360 --> 05:11.360 Now, easy. 05:11.360 --> 05:12.360 What do you know? 05:12.360 --> 05:13.360 What do you know about acting? 05:13.360 --> 05:14.360 Easy there. 05:14.360 --> 05:15.360 Easy, I say. 05:15.360 --> 05:16.360 Fat. 05:16.360 --> 05:17.360 Fat belly, fat head, fat face. 05:17.360 --> 05:18.360 That's enough. 05:18.360 --> 05:19.360 You know nothing. 05:19.360 --> 05:20.360 I know you. 05:20.360 --> 05:21.360 I know actors. 05:21.360 --> 05:22.360 You're no actor. 05:22.360 --> 05:23.360 You stink. 05:23.360 --> 05:24.360 I'll kill you for saying that. 05:24.360 --> 05:25.360 I'll kill you. 05:25.360 --> 05:26.360 What is this? 05:26.360 --> 05:27.360 He's threatening me again. 05:27.360 --> 05:28.360 Yes. 05:28.360 --> 05:29.360 Listen good, Norman. 05:29.360 --> 05:30.360 I'm going to kill you. 05:30.360 --> 05:31.360 I'm going to kill you. 05:31.360 --> 05:32.360 You see, you can't even deliver that line. 05:32.360 --> 05:33.360 You stink. 05:33.360 --> 05:50.320 Yes, sir? 05:50.320 --> 05:51.320 I want to buy a gun. 05:51.320 --> 05:52.320 Yes, sir. 05:52.320 --> 05:54.320 What sort of a gun did you wish to buy? 05:54.320 --> 05:56.120 One that will shoot through fat. 05:56.120 --> 05:57.120 Yes, sir. 05:57.120 --> 05:58.120 Pardon me. 05:58.120 --> 05:59.120 I was thinking. 05:59.120 --> 06:01.120 What have you got? 06:01.120 --> 06:02.120 Why? 06:02.120 --> 06:03.720 Guns, pistols, rifles, shotguns. 06:03.720 --> 06:07.000 I don't know exactly. 06:07.000 --> 06:09.520 What was it you wished to use the gun for? 06:09.520 --> 06:10.520 I want to kill a rat. 06:10.520 --> 06:12.840 A.22 would be about your best bet. 06:12.840 --> 06:16.880 Here's a nice little lighter. 06:16.880 --> 06:17.880 Looks pretty small. 06:17.880 --> 06:20.920 This is an awfully big rat. 06:20.920 --> 06:21.920 Fat rat. 06:21.920 --> 06:25.600 I think a shotgun, a.410. 06:25.600 --> 06:29.960 You think that'll do it? 06:29.960 --> 06:32.440 Oh, Mr. That gun will, I guarantee. 06:32.440 --> 06:34.000 I use a gun like that myself. 06:34.000 --> 06:37.080 Single barrel, light, handy, truly beautiful weapon. 06:37.080 --> 06:38.080 Bullets. 06:38.080 --> 06:39.080 You got bullets? 06:39.080 --> 06:40.080 Or shells. 06:40.080 --> 06:41.080 Shells are used in this weapon. 06:41.080 --> 06:45.720 Now, there are all kinds depending on what weight shot you want to use. 06:45.720 --> 06:46.720 You choose it. 06:46.720 --> 06:47.720 I want one. 06:47.720 --> 06:48.720 One box? 06:48.720 --> 06:49.720 No. 06:49.720 --> 06:50.720 One bullet. 06:50.720 --> 06:51.720 One? 06:51.720 --> 06:52.720 Yeah. 06:52.720 --> 06:55.720 This rat, I'm not going to miss. 06:55.720 --> 07:00.160 It's time now. 07:00.160 --> 07:06.480 He'll come out of that far door of the entrance and he'll walk this way because he's going 07:06.480 --> 07:08.720 to go into Sardis for a drink. 07:08.720 --> 07:15.680 I slide it out from under my coat and I smile and I say, goodbye Norman. 07:15.680 --> 07:19.080 Pull the trigger. 07:19.080 --> 07:20.080 Heart or belly? 07:20.080 --> 07:21.080 Heart or belly? 07:21.080 --> 07:22.080 Belly, yes. 07:22.080 --> 07:29.320 In the belly is cultivated paunch, fatted with actor's hearts. 07:29.320 --> 07:31.200 Yes, belly. 07:31.200 --> 07:33.560 Am I invisible now? 07:33.560 --> 07:36.760 I mustn't be noticed until the moment. 07:36.760 --> 07:39.760 Perhaps standing a little too tall. 07:39.760 --> 07:40.760 Sag. 07:40.760 --> 07:41.760 Perfect. 07:41.760 --> 07:48.260 The actor plays himself as a non-actor. 07:48.260 --> 07:51.280 You should see this, Norman. 07:51.280 --> 07:52.280 Now. 07:52.280 --> 07:53.280 Goodbye, Norman. 07:53.280 --> 07:54.280 Sam. 07:54.280 --> 07:55.280 I'm shot. 07:55.280 --> 07:56.280 I'm shot. 07:56.280 --> 07:57.280 It hurts. 07:57.280 --> 07:58.280 Norman, you're dying. 07:58.280 --> 08:03.280 You're going to go to hell in a minute, Norman. 08:03.280 --> 08:04.280 I'm shot. 08:04.280 --> 08:05.280 Somebody call an ambulance. 08:05.280 --> 08:10.280 It won't do you any good, Norman. 08:10.280 --> 08:11.280 You're dying. 08:11.280 --> 08:12.280 You'll be dead before it gets you. 08:12.280 --> 08:13.280 Oh, it hurts. 08:13.280 --> 08:17.280 Is this how you play a death scene? 08:17.280 --> 08:18.280 Norman, you're dying. 08:18.280 --> 08:19.280 Play it. 08:19.280 --> 08:20.280 Please. 08:20.280 --> 08:21.280 Somebody call an ambulance for me. 08:21.280 --> 08:22.280 Don't let me lie here. 08:22.280 --> 08:23.280 Oh. 08:23.280 --> 08:24.280 Oh. 08:24.280 --> 08:28.920 If an actor played a death scene for you as badly as you're playing your own, Norman, 08:28.920 --> 08:29.920 do you know what you'd do? 08:29.920 --> 08:30.920 Ambulance. 08:30.920 --> 08:31.920 Help. 08:31.920 --> 08:32.920 Please. 08:32.920 --> 08:33.920 Ambulance. 08:33.920 --> 08:34.920 There's a shotgun he did it. 08:34.920 --> 08:35.920 Right in the middle of 45th Street. 08:35.920 --> 08:36.920 Oh. 08:36.920 --> 08:37.920 We brought him in an hour ago. 08:37.920 --> 08:38.920 Give you any trouble? 08:38.920 --> 08:39.920 Like a lamb. 08:39.920 --> 08:50.920 Hello. 08:50.920 --> 08:53.920 I thought you'd like to know. 08:53.920 --> 08:56.920 That guy, he's still kicking. 08:56.920 --> 08:57.920 Alive? 08:57.920 --> 08:58.920 He's alive? 08:58.920 --> 08:59.920 Yep. 08:59.920 --> 09:00.920 So you're not a murderer. 09:00.920 --> 09:01.920 Not yet. 09:01.920 --> 09:13.920 I brought your lawyer. 09:13.920 --> 09:15.280 What's that? 09:15.280 --> 09:16.280 I'm your lawyer. 09:16.280 --> 09:17.280 How do you do? 09:17.280 --> 09:18.280 Sit down, won't you? 09:18.280 --> 09:19.280 Thank you. 09:19.280 --> 09:22.280 They say he's still not dead. 09:22.280 --> 09:23.280 No, but he's sinking. 09:23.280 --> 09:24.280 How much longer? 09:24.280 --> 09:25.280 They didn't say. 09:25.280 --> 09:26.280 When he dies, I become an actor. 09:26.280 --> 09:27.280 Oh. 09:27.280 --> 09:28.280 Oh. 09:28.280 --> 09:29.280 Oh. 09:29.280 --> 09:30.280 Oh. 09:30.280 --> 09:31.280 Oh. 09:31.280 --> 09:32.280 When he dies, I become a murderer. 09:32.280 --> 09:33.280 Yes. 09:33.280 --> 09:34.280 They'll electrocute me. 09:34.280 --> 09:35.280 Yes? 09:35.280 --> 09:36.280 Must have been crazy. 09:36.280 --> 09:37.280 I thought of that. 09:37.280 --> 09:38.280 What do you mean? 09:38.280 --> 09:39.280 Temporary insanity. 09:39.280 --> 09:40.280 I thought we might plead death. 09:40.280 --> 09:41.280 Oh, why don't we? 09:41.280 --> 09:42.280 Because you threatened him before witnesses, at least twice. 09:42.280 --> 09:43.280 Went to a store, chose a gun with great care, waited for him to appear. 09:43.280 --> 09:44.280 You did all this and then you shot him. 09:44.280 --> 09:45.280 That's right, I did. 09:45.280 --> 09:46.280 That's premeditated murder, first degree murder. 09:46.280 --> 09:47.280 So the temporary insanity is a murder? 09:47.280 --> 09:48.280 Yes. 09:48.280 --> 09:49.280 Oh. 09:49.280 --> 09:50.280 Oh. 09:50.280 --> 09:51.280 Oh. 09:51.280 --> 09:52.280 Oh. 09:52.280 --> 09:53.280 Oh. 09:53.280 --> 09:54.280 Oh. 09:54.280 --> 09:55.280 Oh. 09:55.280 --> 09:56.280 Oh. 09:56.280 --> 09:57.280 Oh. 09:57.280 --> 09:58.280 Oh. 09:58.280 --> 09:59.280 Oh. 09:59.280 --> 10:00.280 Oh. 10:00.280 --> 10:01.880 I mean, the temporary insanity thing is out. 10:01.880 --> 10:02.880 Way out. 10:02.880 --> 10:07.160 The only other thing I can think of is we could prove you were insane all along. 10:07.160 --> 10:08.160 Me? 10:08.160 --> 10:09.160 Insane? 10:09.160 --> 10:10.160 Of course not. 10:10.160 --> 10:11.580 I should say not. 10:11.580 --> 10:12.580 What? 10:12.580 --> 10:17.480 What would happen, I mean, if I were? 10:17.480 --> 10:21.720 Oh, they'd get the psychiatrist in, examine you, send you off to be cured. 10:21.720 --> 10:22.720 Yeah? 10:22.720 --> 10:23.720 You seem very calm. 10:23.720 --> 10:24.720 I'm an actor. 10:24.720 --> 10:25.720 I'm an actor. 10:25.720 --> 10:26.720 I'm an actor. 10:26.720 --> 10:28.720 I'm an actor. 10:33.720 --> 10:36.720 He's gone and I sit here seeming very calm. 10:36.720 --> 10:39.720 From time to time the god passes, looks at me curiously. 10:39.720 --> 10:41.720 I know what's on his mind. 10:41.720 --> 10:43.720 He's saying this, it's a cold-blooded murderer. 10:43.720 --> 10:45.720 I know. 10:45.720 --> 10:47.720 All my life I've studied the human beings, 10:47.720 --> 10:51.720 memorized their gestures, tones, expressions, inflections, emotions. 10:51.720 --> 10:55.720 I've learned to probe every moment of my own experience from early childhood, 10:55.720 --> 10:58.720 searched out my every reaction, emotion, 10:58.720 --> 11:00.720 learned to feel the parallel emotions of others. 11:00.720 --> 11:02.720 The Stanislavski method of acting. 11:02.720 --> 11:05.720 I have it. Know it. 11:05.720 --> 11:08.720 Of course, if we could prove you were insane all along. 11:08.720 --> 11:10.720 But I'm not. 11:10.720 --> 11:13.720 The insane man moves without motive and I had a motive. 11:13.720 --> 11:16.720 I know you. I know actors. You're no actor. 11:16.720 --> 11:18.720 Oh, I could do it again. 11:18.720 --> 11:20.720 No actor, no actor, no actor. 11:20.720 --> 11:22.720 I could do it again. 11:22.720 --> 11:25.720 Insane, crazy, nuts. 11:27.720 --> 11:29.720 I know a joke. 11:29.720 --> 11:32.720 I know a joke, a wonderful joke. 11:32.720 --> 11:35.720 I'm going to beat Norman even in his grave. 11:35.720 --> 11:37.720 I'm going to have myself exonerated of his murder. 11:37.720 --> 11:39.720 Yes, freed of the charges. 11:39.720 --> 11:43.720 It's so simple. I can hear it. 11:43.720 --> 11:46.720 Not guilty by reason of insanity. 11:46.720 --> 11:48.720 I'm going to play the greatest role of my life. 11:48.720 --> 11:51.720 Play it without makeup, without lights, without anything. 11:51.720 --> 11:53.720 Without lights, without script or cue. 11:53.720 --> 11:57.720 I'm going to play a part strangely foreign to my nature. 11:57.720 --> 12:01.720 I'm going to play a homicidal maniac. 12:16.720 --> 12:20.720 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Milton Berle in rave notice. 12:20.720 --> 12:25.720 A production in radio's outstanding theater thrills, Suspense. 12:33.720 --> 12:35.720 Wilcox, what's this? 12:35.720 --> 12:38.720 A campaign slogan for your candidate? 12:38.720 --> 12:39.720 Right, oh, Senator. 12:39.720 --> 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. 12:44.720 --> 12:48.720 That's my candidate's simple, sound and superior slogan. 12:48.720 --> 12:50.720 Seems pretty dry to me, Wilcox. 12:50.720 --> 12:54.720 Why am I droll dignitary? Let me tell you about my candidate's characteristics. 12:54.720 --> 13:00.720 He has fiberglass retaining mats protecting every positive plate to help reduce flaking and shedding. 13:00.720 --> 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. 13:06.720 --> 13:08.720 What's the opposition, Wilcox? 13:08.720 --> 13:09.720 No opposition. 13:09.720 --> 13:17.720 Senator, why would a 70% longer life as proved by tests conducted according to SAE minimum life cycle standards 13:17.720 --> 13:20.720 who would even think of opposing an Auto Light's day full battery? 13:20.720 --> 13:24.720 He's in, Wilcox. What did you say he was running for? 13:24.720 --> 13:30.720 For the wonderful dealers from coast to coast who sell Auto Light's day full batteries to the masterminded motorists 13:30.720 --> 13:33.720 who drive their cars to perfection with Auto Light's day full batteries. 13:33.720 --> 13:37.720 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 13:37.720 --> 13:41.720 Better see your Auto Light dealer and get an Auto Light battery at once, Senator. 13:41.720 --> 13:43.720 Good idea, Wilcox. 13:43.720 --> 13:46.720 And remember, Senator, you're always right with Auto Light. 13:46.720 --> 13:51.720 And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Milton Berle 13:51.720 --> 13:59.720 in Elliot Lewis's production of Rave Notice, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:06.720 --> 14:09.720 I'm going to play a homicidal maniac. 14:09.720 --> 14:13.720 How? How? How? 14:13.720 --> 14:15.720 What is the most terrible thing I ever did? 14:15.720 --> 14:17.720 The thing closest to murder. 14:17.720 --> 14:25.720 Must recreate that move. Murder. Killing. Blood. 14:25.720 --> 14:29.720 I killed a cat once. Yeah. Yeah. 14:29.720 --> 14:33.720 I was six years old. I didn't mean to kill it, but I had this stick. 14:33.720 --> 14:36.720 It was in an alley, this cat, and I poked it just for laughs. 14:36.720 --> 14:40.720 He didn't run. That's all I wanted to do was just to make him run. 14:40.720 --> 14:42.720 Oh, he scratched me and I hit him. 14:42.720 --> 14:46.720 I hit him across the back with the stick and he started this howling and squalling and oh, I thought, 14:46.720 --> 14:52.720 oh, I thought I'm going to get into trouble. Stop that noise. 14:52.720 --> 14:56.720 Stop that noise. I hit him again to make him stop and again to make him stop and again. 14:56.720 --> 15:01.720 And there was blood. Red blood on the gray cement and struck and struck and struck out the screams. 15:01.720 --> 15:06.720 Struck out the life. Struck out the awful gaze of those great yellow eyes. 15:06.720 --> 15:11.720 Struck out the life. Struck out the spirit and the spark. 15:11.720 --> 15:18.720 I kill. A murderer I am. I kill for the thrill of silence of the cat. 15:18.720 --> 15:27.720 I am a murderer. A murderer I am. I kill without reason. 15:27.720 --> 15:31.720 That's it. That's it. That's it. That's the character. 15:31.720 --> 15:35.720 All I need for turning it on is the memory. Those key points. 15:35.720 --> 15:43.720 Gray cement, cat's eyes, my feelings as a six year old. Oh, there will be refinements. I'll refine it. 15:43.720 --> 15:47.720 Oh, Norman, if you were only here to see this scene. 15:47.720 --> 15:52.720 If you were only here. Dim the house lights. Raise the curtain. 15:52.720 --> 15:56.720 Now to get my audience in. 15:56.720 --> 16:06.720 What's that? Sounds like the shotgun guy. He's laughing. We better go see what's up. 16:06.720 --> 16:16.720 Hey. Hey. Hey, you. 16:16.720 --> 16:22.720 Who? Who may I ask? Are you? What? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? 16:22.720 --> 16:27.720 What? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Oh, come on now, Mac. Calm down. 16:27.720 --> 16:31.720 I asked a civil question and I expect a civil answer. Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? 16:31.720 --> 16:34.720 He was so nice and quiet for a while there. Yeah. Hey. 16:34.720 --> 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? 16:39.720 --> 16:42.720 Don't you know who we are? I think he's putting on an act. 16:42.720 --> 16:46.720 Don't turn your head away. We know you hear us. Not. Leave him be. 16:46.720 --> 16:52.720 You think he's kidding? What does it matter? 16:52.720 --> 16:59.720 Oh, that was lousy. You can do better than that, Sam. You're supposed to be a murderer. 16:59.720 --> 17:07.720 A homicidal maniac. So what's the emotion? Guilt. Guilt. You've got to be guilty. Guilty, guilty, guilty. 17:07.720 --> 17:14.720 Smear yourself with the stuff. Guilty. Bloody hands. That's you. Guilty and you want to be punished. 17:14.720 --> 17:19.720 Yeah, punished. Punish yourself. That'll do it. But it'll hurt. So what? So what? 17:19.720 --> 17:24.720 Not like it hurts when they shave your head and slit your trousers and strap you to your seat. 17:24.720 --> 17:30.720 Oh, that seat. Ten thousand volts coursing through this poor player's frail body with which I am cursed. 17:30.720 --> 17:38.720 Murderer. Guilty. Guilty. Should be punished. Should be punished. 17:38.720 --> 17:47.720 One, two, three. Curtain going up. Guilty. Guilty. There's blood on my hands. 17:47.720 --> 17:53.720 There he goes again. You go. Ah, what a job. I smashed him on the grease and smashed him. Murder, murder. 17:53.720 --> 17:59.720 I murdered him. I am a murderer. I am a murderer and I confess it. I confess I'm a murderer. 17:59.720 --> 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. 18:05.720 --> 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. 18:10.720 --> 18:13.720 What are you getting yourself so worked up about? That guy isn't even dead yet. 18:13.720 --> 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... 18:20.720 --> 18:26.720 Hey, hey, what are you doing? Hey, hey. I am guilty and I shall be smashed as he was smashed. 18:26.720 --> 18:30.720 Your hands. You're going to bust your head in that wall. I shall be smashed. It is written. 18:30.720 --> 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... 18:36.720 --> 18:38.720 Jones, get the doctor. 18:43.720 --> 18:48.720 Good God, he's getting attacked. My hand, my hand is killing me. 18:48.720 --> 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. 18:55.720 --> 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. 19:03.720 --> 19:12.720 Two cats dead, murdered by my stick. Four cats dead, murdered by my stick. Six cats dead. 19:12.720 --> 19:22.720 Right here, Doc. I'll open the cell if you want to go in. Of course I do. 19:22.720 --> 19:28.720 How long has he been doing this? About 15 minutes, Doctor, since just before I sent Schulze after you. 19:28.720 --> 19:32.720 I see. All right now. You can stop that. 19:32.720 --> 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. 19:38.720 --> 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. 19:45.720 --> 19:49.720 I'm going to be freed. I can only keep it up. Keep it up. 19:49.720 --> 19:54.720 You want to do yourself real good this way, man? Now, put it out. All right, grab it. 19:54.720 --> 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. 20:01.720 --> 20:08.720 Hold him in. Come on. Let me go. Let me go. I must pay. I must pay. I must pay. 20:08.720 --> 20:10.720 Now, now, now, steady, steady, man. 20:10.720 --> 20:18.720 The timing needle. He's pressing the syringe. It'll knock me out. I can't act. I'm unconscious. 20:18.720 --> 20:38.720 I can't play the part. I'm guilty. I can't. I can't. I can't. 20:38.720 --> 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. 20:49.720 --> 20:59.720 Well, they're watching me very carefully. The taller one. He's new. The other gave me the hypodermic. Yes. 20:59.720 --> 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. 21:09.720 --> 21:13.720 I must have been wrong. Are you awake? 21:13.720 --> 21:15.720 You say he showed definite suicidal tendencies? 21:15.720 --> 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. 21:25.720 --> 21:27.720 Invisible? That's a new one. 21:27.720 --> 21:32.720 Now, let me look. He's opening his eyes. Hello. Are you awake? 21:32.720 --> 21:37.720 Who are you? You remember me, don't you? No. 21:37.720 --> 21:41.720 Well, I did something to quiet you a little while ago. A little while ago? 21:41.720 --> 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? 21:47.720 --> 21:51.720 If you only let me go, let me out of here. I have to carry out sentence, you know. 21:51.720 --> 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. 21:58.720 --> 22:01.720 And a tooth for a tooth. Do you believe in that? 22:01.720 --> 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? 22:08.720 --> 22:11.720 Yes. I smashed him with a stick in the eyes that stared at me. 22:11.720 --> 22:16.720 Stick? You mean shotgun, don't you? Why would I say shotgun if I meant stick? I said stick. 22:16.720 --> 22:19.720 But you shot the man with a shotgun. You're out of your mind. 22:19.720 --> 22:25.720 After you smashed him with a stick, what happened? What? What? What came after he was dead? 22:25.720 --> 22:32.720 Oh, I was frightened. I went home. Mama was there. She said, how did you get blood on your hands? 22:32.720 --> 22:35.720 And I said a dog licked my hand and he had blood on his teeth. 22:35.720 --> 22:41.720 I understand you're an actor. We are all actors. We try to act innocent when we are guilty. 22:41.720 --> 22:49.720 Doctor, come outside a moment, will you? 22:49.720 --> 22:55.720 I've got them. I've got them. Just keep playing it cold and clear. 22:55.720 --> 23:00.720 What are they talking about out there? Oh, I wish I knew. Doesn't matter. 23:00.720 --> 23:06.720 I have them. I know that. I've got them. I've got them. 23:06.720 --> 23:09.720 Well, I guess you'll be leaving us soon. 23:09.720 --> 23:15.720 That's what I asked for. Thank you. Thank you. You're understanding, doctor. 23:15.720 --> 23:18.720 I am guilty and I must carry out sentence. You know that. 23:18.720 --> 23:23.720 What the doctor means is that you're going to a place where they'll help you to get well. 23:23.720 --> 23:27.720 Get well? But I am well. I'm just guilty, that's all. 23:27.720 --> 23:33.720 Of course. If you let me, after David's drawn up outside, and you get a court order committee... 23:33.720 --> 23:34.720 Right. 23:34.720 --> 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... 23:40.720 --> 23:41.720 ...out his recovery. 23:41.720 --> 23:46.720 Oh, yes. The guards told us the man hid recovered, but he didn't comprehend it to us. 23:46.720 --> 23:49.720 He went right on screaming and punishing me. 23:49.720 --> 23:54.720 See. Well, let's go. What would they have given him were he tamed? 23:54.720 --> 23:59.720 Well, that depends. The injured party refused to press charges. He'd be out of here in an hour. 23:59.720 --> 24:04.720 Amen. 24:04.720 --> 24:09.720 Recovered? Recovered. They didn't tell me he'd recovered. 24:09.720 --> 24:13.720 How could he have recovered? I shot him. I shot him in his fat paunch in his belly. 24:13.720 --> 24:18.720 When did they tell me? It was while I was screaming, maybe. 24:18.720 --> 24:23.720 I was really into the part then, deep in it. Couldn't have heard them. Couldn't have heard. 24:23.720 --> 24:29.720 And now... now he will walk out of here, and I will go off to an insane asylum... 24:29.720 --> 24:32.720 ...married to a role that I loathe, that I hate. 24:32.720 --> 24:38.720 No. No. Doctor, come back here. Come back here. Please. It was all a joke. 24:38.720 --> 24:40.720 Doctor, come back. Come back. 24:40.720 --> 24:41.720 What is it? 24:41.720 --> 24:48.720 Listen, doctor. Listen. I have a confession to make, doctor. I'm not insane. Please believe me. Please believe me. 24:48.720 --> 24:53.720 Question now. Just a little confused, that's all. Yes. Yeah. Why, not even confused, don't you see? 24:53.720 --> 24:55.720 It was all a gag. It was just a gag. 24:55.720 --> 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. 25:00.720 --> 25:03.720 Oh, no. Believe me. Believe me, I am sane. 25:03.720 --> 25:04.720 Why shout? 25:04.720 --> 25:06.720 I'm not shouting. I only want to impress upon you. 25:06.720 --> 25:09.720 But you were shouting rather loudly. 25:09.720 --> 25:15.720 Oh, look. I shot him, and my lawyer said if I could prove insanity, I wouldn't go to the chair. 25:15.720 --> 25:19.720 Chair? I thought you were to be, you said, mesh. 25:19.720 --> 25:21.720 Forget that. That was part of the method. 25:21.720 --> 25:22.720 Method? 25:22.720 --> 25:25.720 You know, the Stanislavski method. It's the system of acting. 25:25.720 --> 25:26.720 What do you think, doctor? 25:26.720 --> 25:28.720 I don't know. 25:28.720 --> 25:30.720 You think so? 25:30.720 --> 25:34.720 I can fool you all over again if you feel it's necessary to prove my point. 25:34.720 --> 25:37.720 No, I don't believe you'll be able to fool me again. 25:37.720 --> 25:38.720 Well, doctor? 25:38.720 --> 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. 25:48.720 --> 25:50.720 And you, sir? Do you agree with the doctor? 25:50.720 --> 25:52.720 It's what I've been telling you. 25:52.720 --> 25:55.720 And I say sane. That makes it unanimous. 25:55.720 --> 26:01.720 Oh, glad that's over. Wow. What a performance. 26:01.720 --> 26:07.720 Gentlemen, never in the history of the theater has such a performance been rendered, nor under such adverse conditions. 26:07.720 --> 26:08.720 Just one more question. 26:08.720 --> 26:11.720 Shoot, shoot. Why did you kill him? 26:11.720 --> 26:15.720 Kill him? But I didn't. I shot him, that's all. 26:15.720 --> 26:18.720 Shot. You mean shot, don't you? 26:18.720 --> 26:20.720 Well, don't you? 26:20.720 --> 26:21.720 No. 26:21.720 --> 26:25.720 He... Norman is dead? 26:25.720 --> 26:30.720 You were sane. You're going to repay society with your life. 26:30.720 --> 26:36.720 Norman is dead? Oh, crutchery. Villainy. 26:36.720 --> 26:40.720 Bring down the curtain. 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