1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,800 Tonight, Auto Light brings you a transcribed tale of violence and tenderness. 3 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:30,800 A story we call the Gift of Jumbo Brannigan, starring Mr. William Bendix. 4 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,800 Before our play begins, here is a word about Auto Light from a good friend of ours. 5 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:45,800 Hello everybody, this is Harlow Auto Light Wilcox, singer of superlatives about those sturdy, stout, supremely scintillating stars of action and accuracy, 6 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:54,800 world famous Auto Light spark plugs. 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Shut up, you act like an amateur, talking, talking. Oh, that lousy no good bit. 17 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:27,800 I knew I should have picked it myself instead of letting a stupid kid do it. You pushed it too hard, that's why, Pro. 18 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,800 I never pushed a drill too hard in my life, come on, the other bit. Come on, Froggy, we ain't got all night. 19 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:36,800 Here, here Jumbo, don't get nervous. You're the ones having catfights. It's the last bit we got. I'll handle it like a baby. 20 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,800 We almost through anyhow. A couple of minutes, we're going to be three of the richest men in town. 21 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,800 Froggy, watch how you juggle that soup. Don't worry, if I drop it you won't see a thing. 22 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,800 Maybe I ought to hit the new watchman again, he might come around. Ain't you never been on a job before? 23 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,800 I've planned it. Well you don't sound like it. Now we're starting to come through. 24 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,800 I'll pour some more water in, can't break now. Don't worry. Jumbo, hold it a minute. 25 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:03,800 What's the matter now? I think I heard something, listen. I don't hear nothing. 26 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:09,800 Well come on, come on, let's finish up. You wasted ten seconds talking. Come on baby, get through it, get through it. 27 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,800 The alarm, the alarm. Jumbo, you set the alarm off. We'll never get out of here now, we're fried. 28 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:24,800 I dropped the drill and listened. The alarm was sounding in my head like cannon fire. 29 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,800 And I knew the next thing we'd hear would be size 12 Brogans pounding up the stairs with cops' feet in them. 30 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,800 You'd think that with 25 years at the business behind me I'd know better than a tripping alarm, wouldn't you? 31 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:41,800 Three weeks of freedom was all I'd been able to snatch. It didn't feel like three weeks, but more like three minutes ago somebody called my name out. 32 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,800 Francis Augustus Brennigan. 33 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,800 Alright, alright, knock off you guys. Knock off. 34 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,800 Binzy, you've been a trustee a long time. So maybe you'd trust me to rearrange your face. 35 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,800 The name's Jumbo, Jumbo Brennigan. 36 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:07,800 Don't get so excited, Jumbo. Only use your whole name for a joke. This is quite an occasion. 37 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,800 Oh, okay, Binzy, I guess this is the one day I should let you have your fun. 38 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,800 Warden sent me to get you. He's waiting. 39 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,800 You hear that, you failures? The warden's waiting for me. 40 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,800 So long, guys. Take care of yourselves. So long, Tigers. So long, Peanuts. So long. 41 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,800 Greatest bunch of no-good bums in the world. 42 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:29,800 Yeah. 43 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,800 Oh, how I've been waiting for this. For all my papers, writing, everything. 44 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:38,800 You're as clean as a snowflake, Jumbo. You release a sign, train tickets on the warden's desk. 45 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,800 All you gotta do is tell him to buy. 46 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,800 Goodbye, warden. Goodbye, warden. 47 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,800 You know, I might even say something nice to the creep. 48 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,800 Insult him for me, will you? I'm in no position to do it myself. 49 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:52,800 Alright, inside. 50 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:55,800 Just a second. 51 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:56,800 Alright. 52 00:04:58,800 --> 00:04:59,800 Yes, what is it? 53 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,800 Branigan's ready to leave, sir. 54 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:05,800 Ah, Branigan. 55 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:07,800 Hello, warden. Nice day, huh? 56 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,800 Beautiful. That'll be all, Binzy. 57 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,800 Goodbye, Jumbo. I'll keep a can in the window for you. 58 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,800 No, don't bother. Great guy. 59 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,800 How old are you, Branigan? 60 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:21,800 51, I think, warden. 61 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,800 How many years have you spent in prison? 62 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,800 Well, counting reform school and everything, 25 years. 63 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,800 Half your life. Don't you think you've been a failure long enough? 64 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,800 Oh, yeah. Yeah, warden, you're right. 65 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,800 Those long nights back in there really pounded a lesson into this thick skull. 66 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,800 From now on, I'm going to be known as Honest Jumbo Branigan. 67 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,800 Well, you'll have a chance to prove that. I wonder if you can. 68 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,800 What do you mean by that crack? 69 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,800 Have you forgotten about your boy? 70 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,800 Oh, yeah, the kid. 71 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,800 Well, I haven't heard much from him, and I don't even know what he looks like. 72 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,800 How he looks isn't important. It's how he feels. 73 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,800 Put yourself in his place. He's only 14 years old. 74 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,800 He spent 10 of those 14 years as a ward of the state. 75 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,800 Never had a family or a chance. 76 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,800 Poor kid. Too bad his mother didn't live. 77 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,800 I wish there was something I could do for him, but I guess there ain't. 78 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,800 Well, now here's where we start putting some lies back together, Jumbo. 79 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,800 There is something you can do for that kid. 80 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,800 I'm going to tell you just what it is. 81 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,800 When you get outside, you're going to take that kid, 82 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,800 and the two of you are going to live as father and son. 83 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,800 But wouldn't I? 84 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,800 We've already got an apartment for you. The rent's paid for six months. 85 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,800 We've gotten you an honest job. 86 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,800 Doing what? 87 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,800 Working in a department store. 88 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,800 Mr. Bishop, who does rehabilitation work, has agreed to take you on. 89 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,800 Oh, that's... that's... wow. 90 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,800 The parole office, the child welfare bureau, and the police department 91 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,800 are going to keep tabs on you both until you straighten out your life. 92 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:59,800 Brannigan, you step out of line once, and you'll wish you'd never been born. 93 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,800 Oh, Warden, I told you. I'm going out of here, and I'm going to go straight. 94 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,800 I'm planning to make a decent home for myself, 95 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,800 and I'll be glad to make a home for that kid. 96 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,800 He won't have to worry, and you won't have to worry. Nobody will. 97 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,800 Because Jumbo Brannigan's going to live an honest life from here on out. 98 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:16,800 Is that clear? 99 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,800 That's clear, Brannigan. You have my best wishes. 100 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,800 We walked to the gate, arm in arm, 101 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,800 and I could see that he really fell for that big speech of mine. 102 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,800 I should have been a politician. I almost fell for it myself. It was so good. 103 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,800 I wasn't going to go to work in any department store, 104 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,800 at least any longer than I had to. 105 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,800 I was heading right back where I belonged, over to the south side of town, 106 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,800 and I was going to go into business for myself. 107 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:51,800 Jumbo Brannigan for hire. Knights. 108 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,800 Then all of a sudden I was outside, free. 109 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,800 I spit on the sidewalk, stretched my arms out wide, 110 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,800 and took a good deep breath of that sucker's air. 111 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,800 Jumbo, Jumbo. 112 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,800 It's me, the kid. 113 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,800 What? The kid? Mine? 114 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,800 Sure. Didn't they tell you I was going to be waiting for you out here? 115 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,800 Well, no. I guess they forgot. 116 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,800 Well, you think I'd let you down? My old man, Jumbo Brannigan? 117 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,800 You're kind of skinny. 118 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,800 Oh, I've been a little off my feet. 119 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:31,800 You know, the excitement you get now. 120 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,800 Nothing to get excited about. I've been out before. 121 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,800 We're going to live together, huh? Have our own place, huh? 122 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,800 You're all right, kid, so we're going to live together. 123 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,800 But get this straight. I'm making the rules. 124 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,800 You keep out of trouble. You get in by 10 o'clock at night. 125 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,800 If you call me Daddy once, I'll loosen a few of those baby teeth. 126 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,800 Okay, Jumbo, we'll do anything you say. Anything you say. 127 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,800 You don't know how good it is to see you. My old man. 128 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,800 We took the train into town. 129 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,800 I never seen a kid so excited or anybody so taken with me. 130 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,800 He looked at me like I was an all-American fullback 131 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,800 who just scored the winning touchdown for Poe Dunkle. 132 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,800 The next morning, I reported for work at Peterson's department store. 133 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:18,800 Big, lush joint. 134 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,800 I met the manager, Mr. Bishop, the jerk the warden had told me about. 135 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,800 Well, Brannigan, it's nice to have you join our little family. 136 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,800 Thank you, sir. It was nice of you to do something for me. 137 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,800 I'm not doing much for you, Brannigan, but you're doing something for me. 138 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,800 You're filling a necessary job in my department store. 139 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,800 I don't know much, but I'll do my best. 140 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,800 I'm sure you will. 141 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,800 I believe in the basic honesty of the human being. 142 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,800 And so far in this little rehabilitation venture, 143 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,800 I haven't been disappointed. 144 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:50,800 The parole board felt that if you had some definite responsibility, 145 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,800 you and your boy would make out all right. 146 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:53,800 I'll do my best, sir. 147 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,800 You don't have to call me sir. Just call me Bishop, as everyone else does. 148 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,800 I'm going to put you down in the shipping room to start. Suit you? 149 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:01,800 Oh, fine, sir. 150 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,800 Then you can move up into any job you want. 151 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,800 Who knows? Someday you might have my job, manager. 152 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,800 Oh, just any job would make me happy, sir. 153 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,800 Uh, Bishop, as long as it's honest. 154 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,800 That's the kind of talk I like to hear. 155 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,800 I'm pitting my faith on you, Brannigan. 156 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:22,800 Any time you have a problem or get the urge to, you know well, 157 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:24,800 come to me directly. 158 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,800 And remember, we work on the honor system. 159 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,800 Eh, honor system. It suited me just fine. 160 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,800 Inside of an hour, I'd case the layout and found the main safe. 161 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,800 It was on the second floor, and it was so beat up, 162 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,800 I could have opened it left-handed with a sectional jimmy. 163 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:41,800 Oh, what a setup. 164 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,800 It was the first time I'd ever been paid to case a joint by the very people 165 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:46,800 I was going to knock off. 166 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,800 Well, for the rest of my life, I've been a good man. 167 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:00,800 Well, three weeks went by while I tossed crates and boxes around 168 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,800 in the shipping room playing the innocent-eyed ex-con. 169 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,800 What I was really doing was mapping the place, 170 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,800 right down to the tacks and the rugs. 171 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:10,800 And then I decided it was time to operate. 172 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,800 The kid? I didn't even think about him. 173 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,800 I broke my parole by going down to the Roundhouse, 174 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,800 a bar I used to hang out in. 175 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:21,800 Jumbo! 176 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,800 You wanted me to hear you all the way down to the parole office, nuthead? 177 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,800 Oh, yeah, yeah. I got excited seeing you, Jumbo. 178 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,800 Well, don't lose your head. 179 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,800 The usual, Jumbo. 180 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,800 Yeah. What happened to Stinger McClure? 181 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:35,800 The Stinger? 182 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:36,800 Yeah. 183 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:38,800 He was picking somebody's pocket on the subway 184 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:40,800 and the door closed on his arm. 185 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,800 The way that undertaker fixed him up, 186 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,800 you wouldn't think he had a scratch on him. 187 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:46,800 Ha! It's good to see you back, Jumbo. 188 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,800 Julius, I've been kind of out of touch with things. 189 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,800 Maybe you can help me. 190 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:51,800 Try. 191 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:53,800 I need a couple of guys, Julius. 192 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,800 A good electrician who knows the wires, 193 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,800 a lookout, and a small guy who can squeeze in through a ventilator. 194 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:01,800 Let me see. 195 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,800 Anybody special in mind? 196 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,800 I was thinking of Ralph Petrucci and Froggy Quinn. 197 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,800 Those guys are around. They haven't been down here. 198 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:10,800 Not in the dog's age. 199 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,800 Any chance of getting a line on them? 200 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,800 Yeah. I got some ears I can mutter into. 201 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,800 Might be kind of hard, but I'll try. 202 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,800 Okay, Julius. I'll take care of you. 203 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:23,800 How about another splash in the glass? 204 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,800 Coming up. Also on the house. 205 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,800 Jumbo, I've been looking all over for you. 206 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,800 Kid, what do you think you're doing here? 207 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:30,800 What's important? 208 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:31,800 Well, it's after 10 o'clock, 209 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,800 and you're supposed to be in bed. That's what's important. 210 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,800 So are you, too. You're on parole. 211 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,800 But I'm going right home, Jumbo. Honest. 212 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,800 I just want you to come with me. 213 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,800 I, uh, I got a surprise for you. 214 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:43,800 What surprise? 215 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,800 I can't tell you here, but it's really big. 216 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:51,800 All right, kid, let's get it over with. 217 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:56,800 He led me out of the bar and up the street 218 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,800 like he'd just discovered oil in our kitchen. 219 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,800 I couldn't figure out what the surprise could be. 220 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,800 When we got to the apartment and opened the door, 221 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,800 you could have knocked me over with a baby's rattle. 222 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,800 Two guys I asked Julius, the bartender, to scout for me 223 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,800 were sitting on the sofa, big as the ears on a bull. 224 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:14,800 Ralph Petrucci and Froggy Quinn. 225 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,800 Oh, here he is, fellas. 226 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,800 How are you, Jumbo? Welcome home. 227 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,800 Oh, hello, Ralph. But how did... 228 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,800 Give me a minute, Jumbo. Froggy Quinn. 229 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,800 I can't believe it. How did you guys get here? 230 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:25,800 How did you know? 231 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,800 I got him, Jumbo. I knew you was looking for him. 232 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:30,800 You knew I was looking for them? 233 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:31,800 Sure, for the job. 234 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,800 What a kid, huh? 235 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,800 What job, kid? 236 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:36,800 Come on, tell me, what job? 237 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:38,800 The one we're gonna pull. 238 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:40,800 Oh, wait a minute. Let me get this straight. 239 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:41,800 We're not pulling any job. 240 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:42,800 Sure we are, Jumbo. 241 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,800 Let me tell him, Ralph. 242 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:46,800 Who do you think got you the parole? 243 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,800 Who do you think got you that job in the department store? 244 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:49,800 This apartment. 245 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:50,800 Who? 246 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:51,800 Me, that's who. 247 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:53,800 I went up to that creep Mr. Bishop 248 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,800 and cried my eyes out like a little baby, 249 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,800 telling him how much I needed my old man 250 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:58,800 and wouldn't he help me? 251 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:00,800 Kid, you don't know what you're talking about. 252 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:02,800 And furthermore, we're not gonna knock off 253 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,800 the department store the way you've been thinking. 254 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:05,800 Who says we're not? 255 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:06,800 I do. 256 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,800 We're clipping the loan company next door. 257 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:10,800 That's where they keep their money nights. 258 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:12,800 And that's where the real pile is. 259 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:13,800 Now, here's the plan. 260 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:14,800 Now hold on a minute, kid. 261 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:15,800 You going crazy or something? 262 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:16,800 He knows what he's doing. 263 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,800 Well, there's not gonna be any job like this. 264 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:20,800 And there's not gonna be any kid like that in on it. 265 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,800 Yes, there is, Jumbo, with or without you. 266 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,800 I've been planning this job three years. 267 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:28,800 And I'm gonna go on it. 268 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:29,800 Are you? 269 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,800 I stood there looking down at that 90-pound skinny little kid. 270 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,800 My own flesh and blood. 271 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:42,800 Planning a job like a hard guy 272 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:44,800 who'd been in the rackets all his life. 273 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,800 I felt like batting him right down through the floor. 274 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:49,800 But everybody stood there staring at me, 275 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,800 waiting for my answer. 276 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:53,800 And all of a sudden I knew what it was going to be. 277 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,800 Because I didn't like the looks of this job. 278 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:57,800 What was that, Jumbo? 279 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:58,800 You heard me, Froggy. 280 00:14:58,800 --> 00:14:59,800 Count me out. 281 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:00,800 I don't want any part of it. 282 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,800 Jumbo, you're nervous. 283 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,800 You just got out. 284 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,800 Now, we'll all pretend we didn't hear what you said. 285 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,800 Chance to say something else. 286 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:12,800 Jumbo, I thought you'd be proud. 287 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:13,800 I planned it. 288 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:15,800 I said I want no part of it. 289 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:17,800 I don't waste time beating your gum. 290 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:18,800 What's the matter, Jumbo? 291 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:19,800 Don't you trust your own kid? 292 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,800 Save that drug guy for some stupid cop 293 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,800 when you're standing in a line-up. 294 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,800 Jumbo Brennigan don't trust nobody. 295 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,800 Jumbo, you're forgetting the kid here's got a real head on him. 296 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:30,800 He even sprung you. 297 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,800 I've already sank him. 298 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:33,800 So long. 299 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,800 Oh. 300 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,800 Oh, it's going to be that way, huh, Ralph? 301 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:39,800 Yeah, Jumbo, it's that way. 302 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,800 Now, while you're watching the gun, 303 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,800 let me explain something to you. 304 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,800 Before the kid could get in front of that parole board, 305 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:47,800 he had to hire a longmouth, 306 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,800 and that longmouth charged five grand. 307 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,800 Me and Froggy got it up, 308 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,800 and that means we sort of got an interest in you. 309 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:57,800 Is that right, kid? 310 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:58,800 Sure it is. 311 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:00,800 We got you out to pull this job tonight. 312 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:02,800 And it's gonna be pulled tonight. 313 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,800 We can't get nobody else to stand in for you. 314 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,800 I mean it, Jumbo. 315 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,800 Five grand don't grow on trees, 316 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,800 so just try to walk out of here, I'll kill you. 317 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,800 Right in front of your own kid. 318 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,800 Autolite is bringing you Mr. William Bendix 319 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,800 with Tommy Bernard 320 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,800 and the gift of Jumbo Branigan, 321 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,800 tonight's production in radio's outstanding 322 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,800 theater of thrills, Suspense. 323 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,800 I was hooked. 324 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:57,800 Oh, I wasn't worried about the heater 325 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,800 Petrucci was dangling around on his finger 326 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:01,800 or the way Froggy was sliding around 327 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,800 and backing me holding his shiv with a trick blade. 328 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,800 I could have given both of them plenty of trouble. 329 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,800 But I began to look at it another way. 330 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:11,800 All right, Jumbo, what do you say? 331 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,800 Well, you can put the Betsy away, I'm in. 332 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,800 What did I tell you guys? 333 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:17,800 He's the best girl in the business, my old man. 334 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:19,800 You'll have a chance to prove it. 335 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:24,800 Jumbo, there's 75 grand stashing that loan company safe, 336 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:26,800 just waiting for you to blow it out. 337 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,800 And that's what we have to do tonight, Jumbo. 338 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:30,800 They got all the receipts in for the tax people. 339 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,800 Come on, come on, let's get out of business. 340 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:37,800 Here's the layout. 341 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:38,800 Let me look at it. 342 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,800 How do we get in who's going to do the skylight part? 343 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:42,800 That's where the kid fits in, 344 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:43,800 only we don't need a skylighter. 345 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,800 I just get out of the Adams Street entrance, see? 346 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,800 And I stand there and blow my eyes out. 347 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:49,800 The watchman will see me through the glass. 348 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,800 There's only one on duty at 11.30. 349 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:52,800 What are you giving me? 350 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,800 Jumbo, I've been selling papers on that corner for three months. 351 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,800 It's a cinch, like I said. 352 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,800 The watchman will come out and wonder what's the matter with me. 353 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:00,800 And you guys will go in. 354 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:02,800 How's that for an angle, Jumbo? 355 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,800 Well, I've got to get some tools. 356 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:06,800 Don't worry, Jumbo, I already got them. 357 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:08,800 Look. 358 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,800 Silk drills, fuses, touch, everything. 359 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,800 I'll all right you guys case on out of here. 360 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:15,800 What? 361 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,800 I said breeze, I want to talk to my kid. 362 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:18,800 Okay. 363 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,800 But don't make the mistake of changing your mind. 364 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:25,800 Ralph, you can push me only so far and I'll beat it. 365 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,800 Jumbo, I think the luckiest thing that ever happened in my life was being your son. 366 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:33,800 You think so? 367 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,800 Well, I'm bound to be a big-timer like you before I'm 17. 368 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,800 Think of all the things I'm going to learn from you. 369 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,800 Will you show me how to do a jam blast tonight? 370 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:42,800 Yeah, sure. 371 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:43,800 Sure, kid, anything. 372 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,800 Something on your mind? 373 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:46,800 Huh? 374 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:47,800 Oh, no. 375 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,800 No, I'm just thinking over this job. 376 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,800 You always got to think them out good. 377 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:52,800 I'm learning already. 378 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,800 Maybe I'll grow up to be just like you, huh? 379 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:56,800 Would you like that? 380 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:57,800 Would I? 381 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:58,800 Why, you got everything. 382 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:00,800 Think of all the big dough you handled in your time. 383 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,800 Look at the friends you got. 384 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:03,800 Yeah. 385 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,800 For Ralph and Froggy says there's no one can touch you in your line. 386 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:07,800 They're right, no one. 387 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,800 Tell me about the Siemens National, will you? 388 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:10,800 The Siemens National. 389 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:11,800 You heard about that? 390 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:12,800 Sure I heard about it. 391 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,800 And I heard about the Daily Smith thing in Denver. 392 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,800 And the neat switch you pulled up in Montreal. 393 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,800 Sounds like a history book on me. 394 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,800 Wait till you see this. 395 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:25,800 Scrapbook, Jumbo. 396 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:26,800 I got all your clippings. 397 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,800 From the first time they nailed you on the St. Louis thing. 398 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,800 St. Louis? 399 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:32,800 I was 15. 400 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,800 Yeah, and right down to the Akron, Ohio, caper. 401 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,800 Boy, was that something. 402 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:38,800 Yeah. 403 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:40,800 Kid. 404 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:41,800 What? 405 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,800 You believe me when I tell you something? 406 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:44,800 I know what kind of guy you are. 407 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:45,800 You wouldn't kid me. 408 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,800 Sure, I believe you. 409 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,800 Well then pay attention tonight on the job. 410 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:50,800 Do like I say. 411 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:51,800 Sure, Jumbo. 412 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:52,800 You're the boss. 413 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:53,800 Anything you want. 414 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:54,800 This is your first time. 415 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:55,800 No mistakes. 416 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:56,800 No mistakes. 417 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:57,800 Wait till you see me in action. 418 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:58,800 You'll be proud of me. 419 00:19:58,800 --> 00:19:59,800 Like I'm proud of you. 420 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:00,800 Just watch. 421 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:01,800 Yeah, kid. 422 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:02,800 I'll be watching. 423 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,800 I'm glad you aren't sore about me lining up this thing. 424 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,800 Getting hold of Froggy and Ralph and all. 425 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:08,800 No, no hard feelings, kid. 426 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:15,800 I'm not sore one bit. 427 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,800 We all started out at a quarter after 11. 428 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,800 Ralph and Froggy were nervous. 429 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,800 The kid acted like an old trooper on opening night. 430 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,800 We stood in a doorway where he went into his act. 431 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:31,800 The watchman opened the door. 432 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:32,800 What's the matter, sonny? 433 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:34,800 What are you crying for? 434 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,800 I got no place to go. 435 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,800 No place to go? 436 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,800 But you only get where's your mother and father? 437 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,800 I don't have any, mister. 438 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,800 I'm all alone. 439 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:46,800 I'm afraid. 440 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,800 Well, I shouldn't do this, but... 441 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:50,800 Shut up. 442 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:51,800 Get back inside. 443 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,800 Make one sound and I'll blast your head off. 444 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:54,800 Froggy. 445 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:55,800 Yeah. 446 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:56,800 His gun. 447 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:57,800 Got it. 448 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:58,800 Now inside. 449 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,800 The street's all clear, Jumbo. 450 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:01,800 You sure? 451 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:02,800 Like a dance hall Sunday morning. 452 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:03,800 Let me take care of this guy. 453 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:04,800 I'll do it. 454 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,800 Now look here. 455 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,800 You hit him kind of hard, Jumbo. 456 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:12,800 What's the matter? 457 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:13,800 No guts? 458 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:14,800 Froggy, tie him up. 459 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:15,800 Okay, Jumbo. 460 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:16,800 And gag him. 461 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:17,800 Right. 462 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:18,800 Ralph, the shades. 463 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:19,800 Okay. 464 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:20,800 Where's he alone? 465 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:21,800 I told you, you don't have to worry a thing about that, Jumbo. 466 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,800 You let me do the thinking. 467 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,800 It's by the office door. 468 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,800 I wonder if he's dead. 469 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:30,800 The guard just made his call in. 470 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,800 We got 15 minutes to crack it. 471 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,800 Do you think we can do it, Jumbo? 472 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:36,800 You think we can? 473 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,800 All right, yellow belly, this is where you get off. 474 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:39,800 Get off? 475 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:40,800 Yeah, outside. 476 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:41,800 Go on, get out of here. 477 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,800 But Jumbo, what's the matter? 478 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:44,800 What did I do? 479 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:45,800 You dumb little bonehead. 480 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,800 Anybody could have set this cracker box up. 481 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:48,800 Now get out of here. 482 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,800 I waited a long time for this. 483 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,800 I won't go. 484 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,800 I thought we were pals. 485 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:57,800 And you hit me. 486 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:59,800 You're kind of hot on a kid, ain't you? 487 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,800 Keep your mouth shut or you'll get the same thing. 488 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,800 We can't have him hanging around. 489 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:04,800 I won't go. 490 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:05,800 You can kill me first. 491 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:06,800 Oh, no. 492 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:07,800 You won't. 493 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:08,800 You won't throw me out. 494 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,800 I want to be in on the job. 495 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,800 I want to be in... 496 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,800 Now get away from here or you'll 497 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,800 burn up the whole thing with your ball and... 498 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:17,800 Jumbo. 499 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,800 Now let's get to the men's work. 500 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,800 The tin can was an antique, but it was tough. 501 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,800 I worked as fast as I dared. 502 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,800 Ralph and Froggy helped me, but the drills kept breaking off. 503 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,800 Ralph was nervous and Froggy was juggling the nitroglycerin 504 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,800 in a way that set us all on edge. 505 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,800 I was using my last drill bit 506 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,800 when the job came to a sudden end. 507 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:43,800 The alarm. 508 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:44,800 Jumbo, you set the alarm off. 509 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,800 We'll never get out of here now. 510 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:47,800 Froggy, put that nitro down. 511 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:48,800 Okay, but I'm blind. 512 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,800 All right, everybody, put up your hands. 513 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:51,800 Stay where you are. 514 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:52,800 Nobody's going to take... 515 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:53,800 Froggy, put that gun down. 516 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,800 You won't buy me that easy. 517 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:56,800 Ralph. 518 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:57,800 Get out of my way, Jumbo. 519 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,800 Get back. 520 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,800 Ralph. 521 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,800 Ralph, you... 522 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,800 You really lost us. 523 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,800 Up. 524 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:26,800 Is that all, Brannigan? 525 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,800 That's all, Father. 526 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:29,800 There you go. 527 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:30,800 Take of Salvo. 528 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:31,800 And I'm going to... 529 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:32,800 Let me through. 530 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:33,800 Let me through. 531 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,800 That's my old man there. 532 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,800 Jumbo. 533 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,800 What's the matter, kid? 534 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,800 Ain't you ever seen a guy lie in a gutter and die? 535 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:44,800 I thought... 536 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,800 I thought you'd been around. 537 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,800 It happens lots of times to guys like me. 538 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,800 You can do it yourself someday. 539 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,800 Just keep on the way you're going. 540 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,800 Jumbo, I was going to learn things from you. 541 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,800 You can still learn things. 542 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,800 After I'm gone, study that scrapbook. 543 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,800 Look at the pictures in it of me in and out of jail. 544 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,800 Pictures like the ones they've taken of me right now. 545 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,800 They ought to be swell for you. 546 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:11,800 Go on. 547 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:12,800 Get away from me. 548 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,800 Get away from me. 549 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,800 Don't forget the way you saw me dying, will you? 550 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,800 Don't forget. 551 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,800 Because if you're as dumb as I've been, 552 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,800 you're going to end up the same way. 553 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,800 Kid! 554 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,800 Take a good look at me. 555 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,800 Was that the best way? 556 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,800 It was the only way. 557 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,800 Maybe he understands now. 558 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,800 Hi, Captain Cross. 559 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,800 Thanks for answering my phone call. 560 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,800 You wouldn't have been hit, Jumbo, 561 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,800 if the truth she hadn't tried to run. 562 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:51,800 It's all right. 563 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,800 I just saved everybody out of trouble. 564 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,800 Jumbo, why did you tip me off in advance 565 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,800 that you were going to pull a job? 566 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,800 The Padre here can tell you, Captain. 567 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:06,800 It was a little gift I arranged for my... 568 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,800 my kid. 569 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,800 In the name of God, the Lord, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, 570 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,800 the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit. 571 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:21,800 Amen. 572 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,800 Suspense, presented by Auto Light. 573 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,800 Tonight's star, Mr. William Bendix. 574 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,800 This is Harlow Wilcox again to tell you that Auto Light 575 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,800 makes over 400 fine products for cars, trucks, planes, and boats 576 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,800 in 28 plants from coast to coast. 577 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,800 These include complete ignition systems 578 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,800 used as original factory equipment 579 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,800 on many leading makes of our finest cars. 580 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,800 Generators, coils, distributors, electric windshield wipers, 581 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,800 voltage regulators, wiring cables, starting motors, and many more. 582 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,800 They're all engineered to fit together perfectly, 583 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,800 work together perfectly, because they're all part of the Auto Light team. 584 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:22,800 So friends, don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 585 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,800 Ask for and insist on Auto Light original factory parts 586 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,800 at your neighborhood service station, car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 587 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:43,800 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 588 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,800 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Mr. Ronald Coleman 589 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,800 in Vision of Death. 590 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,800 And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars 591 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:58,800 as Mr. Van Johnson, Miss Joan Crawford, and Mr. Jack Carson. 592 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:10,800 It's all on Suspense. 593 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,800 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, 594 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,800 with music composed by Lucian Moraweck and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 595 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,800 Portions of this program were transcribed. 596 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,800 In tonight's play, Tommy Bernard was young Branigan, 597 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,800 Jane Avello was heard as Froggy, and Ed Max was Ralph. 598 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,800 Others in the cast were Leo Cleary, Joseph Kearns, Herb Butterfield, 599 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,800 Junious Matthews, and Charles Calvert. 600 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,800 The gift of Jumbo Branigan was written for Suspense 601 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,800 by E. 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