WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:13.000 --> 00:20.800 Tonight, Auto Light brings you a transcribed tale of violence and tenderness. 00:20.800 --> 00:30.800 A story we call the Gift of Jumbo Brannigan, starring Mr. William Bendix. 00:30.800 --> 00:35.800 Before our play begins, here is a word about Auto Light from a good friend of ours. 00:35.800 --> 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, 00:45.800 --> 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. 02:22.800 --> 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. 02:27.800 --> 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. 02:31.800 --> 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. 02:36.800 --> 02:40.800 We almost through anyhow. A couple of minutes, we're going to be three of the richest men in town. 02:40.800 --> 02:44.800 Froggy, watch how you juggle that soup. Don't worry, if I drop it you won't see a thing. 02:44.800 --> 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? 02:49.800 --> 02:53.800 I've planned it. Well you don't sound like it. Now we're starting to come through. 02:53.800 --> 02:58.800 I'll pour some more water in, can't break now. Don't worry. Jumbo, hold it a minute. 02:58.800 --> 03:03.800 What's the matter now? I think I heard something, listen. I don't hear nothing. 03:03.800 --> 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. 03:09.800 --> 03:14.800 The alarm, the alarm. Jumbo, you set the alarm off. We'll never get out of here now, we're fried. 03:19.800 --> 03:24.800 I dropped the drill and listened. The alarm was sounding in my head like cannon fire. 03:24.800 --> 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. 03:29.800 --> 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? 03:34.800 --> 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. 03:44.800 --> 03:46.800 Francis Augustus Brennigan. 03:48.800 --> 03:51.800 Alright, alright, knock off you guys. Knock off. 03:53.800 --> 03:58.800 Binzy, you've been a trustee a long time. So maybe you'd trust me to rearrange your face. 03:58.800 --> 04:01.800 The name's Jumbo, Jumbo Brennigan. 04:01.800 --> 04:07.800 Don't get so excited, Jumbo. Only use your whole name for a joke. This is quite an occasion. 04:07.800 --> 04:11.800 Oh, okay, Binzy, I guess this is the one day I should let you have your fun. 04:11.800 --> 04:13.800 Warden sent me to get you. He's waiting. 04:13.800 --> 04:17.800 You hear that, you failures? The warden's waiting for me. 04:19.800 --> 04:24.800 So long, guys. Take care of yourselves. So long, Tigers. So long, Peanuts. So long. 04:26.800 --> 04:28.800 Greatest bunch of no-good bums in the world. 04:28.800 --> 04:29.800 Yeah. 04:29.800 --> 04:33.800 Oh, how I've been waiting for this. For all my papers, writing, everything. 04:33.800 --> 04:38.800 You're as clean as a snowflake, Jumbo. You release a sign, train tickets on the warden's desk. 04:38.800 --> 04:40.800 All you gotta do is tell him to buy. 04:40.800 --> 04:43.800 Goodbye, warden. Goodbye, warden. 04:44.800 --> 04:47.800 You know, I might even say something nice to the creep. 04:47.800 --> 04:50.800 Insult him for me, will you? I'm in no position to do it myself. 04:51.800 --> 04:52.800 Alright, inside. 04:54.800 --> 04:55.800 Just a second. 04:55.800 --> 04:56.800 Alright. 04:58.800 --> 04:59.800 Yes, what is it? 04:59.800 --> 05:02.800 Branigan's ready to leave, sir. 05:04.800 --> 05:05.800 Ah, Branigan. 05:05.800 --> 05:07.800 Hello, warden. Nice day, huh? 05:07.800 --> 05:09.800 Beautiful. That'll be all, Binzy. 05:09.800 --> 05:12.800 Goodbye, Jumbo. I'll keep a can in the window for you. 05:12.800 --> 05:15.800 No, don't bother. Great guy. 05:17.800 --> 05:19.800 How old are you, Branigan? 05:19.800 --> 05:21.800 51, I think, warden. 05:21.800 --> 05:23.800 How many years have you spent in prison? 05:23.800 --> 05:27.800 Well, counting reform school and everything, 25 years. 05:27.800 --> 05:30.800 Half your life. Don't you think you've been a failure long enough? 05:30.800 --> 05:33.800 Oh, yeah. Yeah, warden, you're right. 05:33.800 --> 05:37.800 Those long nights back in there really pounded a lesson into this thick skull. 05:37.800 --> 05:40.800 From now on, I'm going to be known as Honest Jumbo Branigan. 05:40.800 --> 05:44.800 Well, you'll have a chance to prove that. I wonder if you can. 05:44.800 --> 05:46.800 What do you mean by that crack? 05:46.800 --> 05:48.800 Have you forgotten about your boy? 05:48.800 --> 05:50.800 Oh, yeah, the kid. 05:50.800 --> 05:54.800 Well, I haven't heard much from him, and I don't even know what he looks like. 05:54.800 --> 05:57.800 How he looks isn't important. It's how he feels. 05:57.800 --> 06:01.800 Put yourself in his place. He's only 14 years old. 06:01.800 --> 06:04.800 He spent 10 of those 14 years as a ward of the state. 06:04.800 --> 06:07.800 Never had a family or a chance. 06:07.800 --> 06:10.800 Poor kid. Too bad his mother didn't live. 06:10.800 --> 06:14.800 I wish there was something I could do for him, but I guess there ain't. 06:14.800 --> 06:17.800 Well, now here's where we start putting some lies back together, Jumbo. 06:17.800 --> 06:20.800 There is something you can do for that kid. 06:20.800 --> 06:22.800 I'm going to tell you just what it is. 06:22.800 --> 06:25.800 When you get outside, you're going to take that kid, 06:25.800 --> 06:28.800 and the two of you are going to live as father and son. 06:28.800 --> 06:30.800 But wouldn't I? 06:30.800 --> 06:33.800 We've already got an apartment for you. The rent's paid for six months. 06:33.800 --> 06:35.800 We've gotten you an honest job. 06:35.800 --> 06:37.800 Doing what? 06:37.800 --> 06:39.800 Working in a department store. 06:39.800 --> 06:43.800 Mr. Bishop, who does rehabilitation work, has agreed to take you on. 06:43.800 --> 06:46.800 Oh, that's... that's... wow. 06:46.800 --> 06:49.800 The parole office, the child welfare bureau, and the police department 06:49.800 --> 06:53.800 are going to keep tabs on you both until you straighten out your life. 06:53.800 --> 06:59.800 Brannigan, you step out of line once, and you'll wish you'd never been born. 06:59.800 --> 07:03.800 Oh, Warden, I told you. I'm going out of here, and I'm going to go straight. 07:03.800 --> 07:05.800 I'm planning to make a decent home for myself, 07:05.800 --> 07:08.800 and I'll be glad to make a home for that kid. 07:08.800 --> 07:11.800 He won't have to worry, and you won't have to worry. Nobody will. 07:11.800 --> 07:14.800 Because Jumbo Brannigan's going to live an honest life from here on out. 07:14.800 --> 07:16.800 Is that clear? 07:16.800 --> 07:20.800 That's clear, Brannigan. You have my best wishes. 07:26.800 --> 07:28.800 We walked to the gate, arm in arm, 07:28.800 --> 07:31.800 and I could see that he really fell for that big speech of mine. 07:31.800 --> 07:36.800 I should have been a politician. I almost fell for it myself. It was so good. 07:36.800 --> 07:39.800 I wasn't going to go to work in any department store, 07:39.800 --> 07:41.800 at least any longer than I had to. 07:41.800 --> 07:45.800 I was heading right back where I belonged, over to the south side of town, 07:45.800 --> 07:48.800 and I was going to go into business for myself. 07:48.800 --> 07:51.800 Jumbo Brannigan for hire. Knights. 07:57.800 --> 08:00.800 Then all of a sudden I was outside, free. 08:00.800 --> 08:04.800 I spit on the sidewalk, stretched my arms out wide, 08:04.800 --> 08:07.800 and took a good deep breath of that sucker's air. 08:07.800 --> 08:09.800 Jumbo, Jumbo. 08:09.800 --> 08:11.800 It's me, the kid. 08:11.800 --> 08:14.800 What? The kid? Mine? 08:14.800 --> 08:17.800 Sure. Didn't they tell you I was going to be waiting for you out here? 08:17.800 --> 08:20.800 Well, no. I guess they forgot. 08:20.800 --> 08:25.800 Well, you think I'd let you down? My old man, Jumbo Brannigan? 08:25.800 --> 08:27.800 You're kind of skinny. 08:27.800 --> 08:29.800 Oh, I've been a little off my feet. 08:29.800 --> 08:31.800 You know, the excitement you get now. 08:31.800 --> 08:33.800 Nothing to get excited about. I've been out before. 08:33.800 --> 08:36.800 We're going to live together, huh? Have our own place, huh? 08:36.800 --> 08:38.800 You're all right, kid, so we're going to live together. 08:38.800 --> 08:40.800 But get this straight. I'm making the rules. 08:40.800 --> 08:43.800 You keep out of trouble. You get in by 10 o'clock at night. 08:43.800 --> 08:47.800 If you call me Daddy once, I'll loosen a few of those baby teeth. 08:47.800 --> 08:51.800 Okay, Jumbo, we'll do anything you say. Anything you say. 08:51.800 --> 08:55.800 You don't know how good it is to see you. My old man. 09:01.800 --> 09:03.800 We took the train into town. 09:03.800 --> 09:07.800 I never seen a kid so excited or anybody so taken with me. 09:07.800 --> 09:10.800 He looked at me like I was an all-American fullback 09:10.800 --> 09:13.800 who just scored the winning touchdown for Poe Dunkle. 09:13.800 --> 09:16.800 The next morning, I reported for work at Peterson's department store. 09:16.800 --> 09:18.800 Big, lush joint. 09:18.800 --> 09:21.800 I met the manager, Mr. Bishop, the jerk the warden had told me about. 09:21.800 --> 09:24.800 Well, Brannigan, it's nice to have you join our little family. 09:24.800 --> 09:27.800 Thank you, sir. It was nice of you to do something for me. 09:27.800 --> 09:30.800 I'm not doing much for you, Brannigan, but you're doing something for me. 09:30.800 --> 09:33.800 You're filling a necessary job in my department store. 09:33.800 --> 09:35.800 I don't know much, but I'll do my best. 09:35.800 --> 09:37.800 I'm sure you will. 09:37.800 --> 09:40.800 I believe in the basic honesty of the human being. 09:40.800 --> 09:43.800 And so far in this little rehabilitation venture, 09:43.800 --> 09:45.800 I haven't been disappointed. 09:45.800 --> 09:50.800 The parole board felt that if you had some definite responsibility, 09:50.800 --> 09:52.800 you and your boy would make out all right. 09:52.800 --> 09:53.800 I'll do my best, sir. 09:53.800 --> 09:57.800 You don't have to call me sir. Just call me Bishop, as everyone else does. 09:57.800 --> 10:00.800 I'm going to put you down in the shipping room to start. Suit you? 10:00.800 --> 10:01.800 Oh, fine, sir. 10:01.800 --> 10:03.800 Then you can move up into any job you want. 10:03.800 --> 10:06.800 Who knows? Someday you might have my job, manager. 10:06.800 --> 10:08.800 Oh, just any job would make me happy, sir. 10:08.800 --> 10:11.800 Uh, Bishop, as long as it's honest. 10:11.800 --> 10:13.800 That's the kind of talk I like to hear. 10:13.800 --> 10:16.800 I'm pitting my faith on you, Brannigan. 10:16.800 --> 10:22.800 Any time you have a problem or get the urge to, you know well, 10:22.800 --> 10:24.800 come to me directly. 10:24.800 --> 10:27.800 And remember, we work on the honor system. 10:27.800 --> 10:31.800 Eh, honor system. It suited me just fine. 10:31.800 --> 10:35.800 Inside of an hour, I'd case the layout and found the main safe. 10:35.800 --> 10:37.800 It was on the second floor, and it was so beat up, 10:37.800 --> 10:40.800 I could have opened it left-handed with a sectional jimmy. 10:40.800 --> 10:41.800 Oh, what a setup. 10:41.800 --> 10:44.800 It was the first time I'd ever been paid to case a joint by the very people 10:44.800 --> 10:46.800 I was going to knock off. 10:52.800 --> 10:56.800 Well, for the rest of my life, I've been a good man. 10:56.800 --> 11:00.800 Well, three weeks went by while I tossed crates and boxes around 11:00.800 --> 11:03.800 in the shipping room playing the innocent-eyed ex-con. 11:03.800 --> 11:05.800 What I was really doing was mapping the place, 11:05.800 --> 11:08.800 right down to the tacks and the rugs. 11:08.800 --> 11:10.800 And then I decided it was time to operate. 11:10.800 --> 11:13.800 The kid? I didn't even think about him. 11:13.800 --> 11:16.800 I broke my parole by going down to the Roundhouse, 11:16.800 --> 11:18.800 a bar I used to hang out in. 11:20.800 --> 11:21.800 Jumbo! 11:21.800 --> 11:24.800 You wanted me to hear you all the way down to the parole office, nuthead? 11:24.800 --> 11:27.800 Oh, yeah, yeah. I got excited seeing you, Jumbo. 11:27.800 --> 11:29.800 Well, don't lose your head. 11:29.800 --> 11:31.800 The usual, Jumbo. 11:31.800 --> 11:34.800 Yeah. What happened to Stinger McClure? 11:34.800 --> 11:35.800 The Stinger? 11:35.800 --> 11:36.800 Yeah. 11:36.800 --> 11:38.800 He was picking somebody's pocket on the subway 11:38.800 --> 11:40.800 and the door closed on his arm. 11:40.800 --> 11:42.800 The way that undertaker fixed him up, 11:42.800 --> 11:44.800 you wouldn't think he had a scratch on him. 11:44.800 --> 11:46.800 Ha! It's good to see you back, Jumbo. 11:46.800 --> 11:48.800 Julius, I've been kind of out of touch with things. 11:48.800 --> 11:50.800 Maybe you can help me. 11:50.800 --> 11:51.800 Try. 11:51.800 --> 11:53.800 I need a couple of guys, Julius. 11:53.800 --> 11:55.800 A good electrician who knows the wires, 11:55.800 --> 11:59.800 a lookout, and a small guy who can squeeze in through a ventilator. 11:59.800 --> 12:01.800 Let me see. 12:01.800 --> 12:03.800 Anybody special in mind? 12:04.800 --> 12:07.800 I was thinking of Ralph Petrucci and Froggy Quinn. 12:07.800 --> 12:09.800 Those guys are around. They haven't been down here. 12:09.800 --> 12:10.800 Not in the dog's age. 12:10.800 --> 12:12.800 Any chance of getting a line on them? 12:12.800 --> 12:16.800 Yeah. I got some ears I can mutter into. 12:16.800 --> 12:19.800 Might be kind of hard, but I'll try. 12:19.800 --> 12:21.800 Okay, Julius. I'll take care of you. 12:21.800 --> 12:23.800 How about another splash in the glass? 12:23.800 --> 12:25.800 Coming up. Also on the house. 12:25.800 --> 12:27.800 Jumbo, I've been looking all over for you. 12:27.800 --> 12:29.800 Kid, what do you think you're doing here? 12:29.800 --> 12:30.800 What's important? 12:30.800 --> 12:31.800 Well, it's after 10 o'clock, 12:31.800 --> 12:33.800 and you're supposed to be in bed. That's what's important. 12:33.800 --> 12:35.800 So are you, too. You're on parole. 12:35.800 --> 12:37.800 But I'm going right home, Jumbo. Honest. 12:37.800 --> 12:39.800 I just want you to come with me. 12:39.800 --> 12:42.800 I, uh, I got a surprise for you. 12:42.800 --> 12:43.800 What surprise? 12:43.800 --> 12:46.800 I can't tell you here, but it's really big. 12:46.800 --> 12:51.800 All right, kid, let's get it over with. 12:54.800 --> 12:56.800 He led me out of the bar and up the street 12:56.800 --> 12:58.800 like he'd just discovered oil in our kitchen. 12:58.800 --> 13:01.800 I couldn't figure out what the surprise could be. 13:01.800 --> 13:03.800 When we got to the apartment and opened the door, 13:03.800 --> 13:06.800 you could have knocked me over with a baby's rattle. 13:06.800 --> 13:09.800 Two guys I asked Julius, the bartender, to scout for me 13:09.800 --> 13:12.800 were sitting on the sofa, big as the ears on a bull. 13:12.800 --> 13:14.800 Ralph Petrucci and Froggy Quinn. 13:14.800 --> 13:16.800 Oh, here he is, fellas. 13:16.800 --> 13:18.800 How are you, Jumbo? Welcome home. 13:18.800 --> 13:20.800 Oh, hello, Ralph. But how did... 13:20.800 --> 13:22.800 Give me a minute, Jumbo. Froggy Quinn. 13:22.800 --> 13:24.800 I can't believe it. How did you guys get here? 13:24.800 --> 13:25.800 How did you know? 13:25.800 --> 13:28.800 I got him, Jumbo. I knew you was looking for him. 13:28.800 --> 13:30.800 You knew I was looking for them? 13:30.800 --> 13:31.800 Sure, for the job. 13:31.800 --> 13:33.800 What a kid, huh? 13:33.800 --> 13:35.800 What job, kid? 13:35.800 --> 13:36.800 Come on, tell me, what job? 13:36.800 --> 13:38.800 The one we're gonna pull. 13:38.800 --> 13:40.800 Oh, wait a minute. Let me get this straight. 13:40.800 --> 13:41.800 We're not pulling any job. 13:41.800 --> 13:42.800 Sure we are, Jumbo. 13:42.800 --> 13:44.800 Let me tell him, Ralph. 13:44.800 --> 13:46.800 Who do you think got you the parole? 13:46.800 --> 13:48.800 Who do you think got you that job in the department store? 13:48.800 --> 13:49.800 This apartment. 13:49.800 --> 13:50.800 Who? 13:50.800 --> 13:51.800 Me, that's who. 13:51.800 --> 13:53.800 I went up to that creep Mr. Bishop 13:53.800 --> 13:55.800 and cried my eyes out like a little baby, 13:55.800 --> 13:57.800 telling him how much I needed my old man 13:57.800 --> 13:58.800 and wouldn't he help me? 13:58.800 --> 14:00.800 Kid, you don't know what you're talking about. 14:00.800 --> 14:02.800 And furthermore, we're not gonna knock off 14:02.800 --> 14:04.800 the department store the way you've been thinking. 14:04.800 --> 14:05.800 Who says we're not? 14:05.800 --> 14:06.800 I do. 14:06.800 --> 14:08.800 We're clipping the loan company next door. 14:08.800 --> 14:10.800 That's where they keep their money nights. 14:10.800 --> 14:12.800 And that's where the real pile is. 14:12.800 --> 14:13.800 Now, here's the plan. 14:13.800 --> 14:14.800 Now hold on a minute, kid. 14:14.800 --> 14:15.800 You going crazy or something? 14:15.800 --> 14:16.800 He knows what he's doing. 14:16.800 --> 14:18.800 Well, there's not gonna be any job like this. 14:18.800 --> 14:20.800 And there's not gonna be any kid like that in on it. 14:20.800 --> 14:23.800 Yes, there is, Jumbo, with or without you. 14:23.800 --> 14:26.800 I've been planning this job three years. 14:26.800 --> 14:28.800 And I'm gonna go on it. 14:28.800 --> 14:29.800 Are you? 14:34.800 --> 14:38.800 I stood there looking down at that 90-pound skinny little kid. 14:38.800 --> 14:40.800 My own flesh and blood. 14:40.800 --> 14:42.800 Planning a job like a hard guy 14:42.800 --> 14:44.800 who'd been in the rackets all his life. 14:44.800 --> 14:47.800 I felt like batting him right down through the floor. 14:47.800 --> 14:49.800 But everybody stood there staring at me, 14:49.800 --> 14:51.800 waiting for my answer. 14:51.800 --> 14:53.800 And all of a sudden I knew what it was going to be. 14:53.800 --> 14:56.800 Because I didn't like the looks of this job. 14:56.800 --> 14:57.800 What was that, Jumbo? 14:57.800 --> 14:58.800 You heard me, Froggy. 14:58.800 --> 14:59.800 Count me out. 14:59.800 --> 15:00.800 I don't want any part of it. 15:00.800 --> 15:02.800 Jumbo, you're nervous. 15:02.800 --> 15:04.800 You just got out. 15:04.800 --> 15:08.800 Now, we'll all pretend we didn't hear what you said. 15:08.800 --> 15:10.800 Chance to say something else. 15:10.800 --> 15:12.800 Jumbo, I thought you'd be proud. 15:12.800 --> 15:13.800 I planned it. 15:13.800 --> 15:15.800 I said I want no part of it. 15:15.800 --> 15:17.800 I don't waste time beating your gum. 15:17.800 --> 15:18.800 What's the matter, Jumbo? 15:18.800 --> 15:19.800 Don't you trust your own kid? 15:19.800 --> 15:21.800 Save that drug guy for some stupid cop 15:21.800 --> 15:23.800 when you're standing in a line-up. 15:23.800 --> 15:25.800 Jumbo Brennigan don't trust nobody. 15:25.800 --> 15:28.800 Jumbo, you're forgetting the kid here's got a real head on him. 15:28.800 --> 15:30.800 He even sprung you. 15:30.800 --> 15:32.800 I've already sank him. 15:32.800 --> 15:33.800 So long. 15:33.800 --> 15:35.800 Oh. 15:35.800 --> 15:37.800 Oh, it's going to be that way, huh, Ralph? 15:37.800 --> 15:39.800 Yeah, Jumbo, it's that way. 15:39.800 --> 15:41.800 Now, while you're watching the gun, 15:41.800 --> 15:43.800 let me explain something to you. 15:43.800 --> 15:46.800 Before the kid could get in front of that parole board, 15:46.800 --> 15:47.800 he had to hire a longmouth, 15:47.800 --> 15:50.800 and that longmouth charged five grand. 15:50.800 --> 15:52.800 Me and Froggy got it up, 15:52.800 --> 15:56.800 and that means we sort of got an interest in you. 15:56.800 --> 15:57.800 Is that right, kid? 15:57.800 --> 15:58.800 Sure it is. 15:58.800 --> 16:00.800 We got you out to pull this job tonight. 16:00.800 --> 16:02.800 And it's gonna be pulled tonight. 16:02.800 --> 16:05.800 We can't get nobody else to stand in for you. 16:05.800 --> 16:07.800 I mean it, Jumbo. 16:07.800 --> 16:09.800 Five grand don't grow on trees, 16:09.800 --> 16:12.800 so just try to walk out of here, I'll kill you. 16:12.800 --> 16:15.800 Right in front of your own kid. 16:25.800 --> 16:28.800 Autolite is bringing you Mr. William Bendix 16:28.800 --> 16:30.800 with Tommy Bernard 16:30.800 --> 16:32.800 and the gift of Jumbo Branigan, 16:32.800 --> 16:34.800 tonight's production in radio's outstanding 16:34.800 --> 16:38.800 theater of thrills, Suspense. 16:53.800 --> 16:55.800 I was hooked. 16:55.800 --> 16:57.800 Oh, I wasn't worried about the heater 16:57.800 --> 17:00.800 Petrucci was dangling around on his finger 17:00.800 --> 17:01.800 or the way Froggy was sliding around 17:01.800 --> 17:04.800 and backing me holding his shiv with a trick blade. 17:04.800 --> 17:07.800 I could have given both of them plenty of trouble. 17:07.800 --> 17:10.800 But I began to look at it another way. 17:10.800 --> 17:11.800 All right, Jumbo, what do you say? 17:11.800 --> 17:13.800 Well, you can put the Betsy away, I'm in. 17:13.800 --> 17:15.800 What did I tell you guys? 17:15.800 --> 17:17.800 He's the best girl in the business, my old man. 17:17.800 --> 17:19.800 You'll have a chance to prove it. 17:19.800 --> 17:24.800 Jumbo, there's 75 grand stashing that loan company safe, 17:24.800 --> 17:26.800 just waiting for you to blow it out. 17:26.800 --> 17:28.800 And that's what we have to do tonight, Jumbo. 17:28.800 --> 17:30.800 They got all the receipts in for the tax people. 17:30.800 --> 17:32.800 Come on, come on, let's get out of business. 17:36.800 --> 17:37.800 Here's the layout. 17:37.800 --> 17:38.800 Let me look at it. 17:38.800 --> 17:41.800 How do we get in who's going to do the skylight part? 17:41.800 --> 17:42.800 That's where the kid fits in, 17:42.800 --> 17:43.800 only we don't need a skylighter. 17:43.800 --> 17:45.800 I just get out of the Adams Street entrance, see? 17:45.800 --> 17:47.800 And I stand there and blow my eyes out. 17:47.800 --> 17:49.800 The watchman will see me through the glass. 17:49.800 --> 17:51.800 There's only one on duty at 11.30. 17:51.800 --> 17:52.800 What are you giving me? 17:52.800 --> 17:55.800 Jumbo, I've been selling papers on that corner for three months. 17:55.800 --> 17:57.800 It's a cinch, like I said. 17:57.800 --> 17:59.800 The watchman will come out and wonder what's the matter with me. 17:59.800 --> 18:00.800 And you guys will go in. 18:00.800 --> 18:02.800 How's that for an angle, Jumbo? 18:02.800 --> 18:04.800 Well, I've got to get some tools. 18:04.800 --> 18:06.800 Don't worry, Jumbo, I already got them. 18:07.800 --> 18:08.800 Look. 18:08.800 --> 18:11.800 Silk drills, fuses, touch, everything. 18:11.800 --> 18:14.800 I'll all right you guys case on out of here. 18:14.800 --> 18:15.800 What? 18:15.800 --> 18:17.800 I said breeze, I want to talk to my kid. 18:17.800 --> 18:18.800 Okay. 18:18.800 --> 18:20.800 But don't make the mistake of changing your mind. 18:20.800 --> 18:25.800 Ralph, you can push me only so far and I'll beat it. 18:28.800 --> 18:32.800 Jumbo, I think the luckiest thing that ever happened in my life was being your son. 18:32.800 --> 18:33.800 You think so? 18:33.800 --> 18:37.800 Well, I'm bound to be a big-timer like you before I'm 17. 18:37.800 --> 18:39.800 Think of all the things I'm going to learn from you. 18:39.800 --> 18:41.800 Will you show me how to do a jam blast tonight? 18:41.800 --> 18:42.800 Yeah, sure. 18:42.800 --> 18:43.800 Sure, kid, anything. 18:43.800 --> 18:45.800 Something on your mind? 18:45.800 --> 18:46.800 Huh? 18:46.800 --> 18:47.800 Oh, no. 18:47.800 --> 18:49.800 No, I'm just thinking over this job. 18:49.800 --> 18:51.800 You always got to think them out good. 18:51.800 --> 18:52.800 I'm learning already. 18:52.800 --> 18:55.800 Maybe I'll grow up to be just like you, huh? 18:55.800 --> 18:56.800 Would you like that? 18:56.800 --> 18:57.800 Would I? 18:57.800 --> 18:58.800 Why, you got everything. 18:58.800 --> 19:00.800 Think of all the big dough you handled in your time. 19:00.800 --> 19:02.800 Look at the friends you got. 19:02.800 --> 19:03.800 Yeah. 19:03.800 --> 19:06.800 For Ralph and Froggy says there's no one can touch you in your line. 19:06.800 --> 19:07.800 They're right, no one. 19:07.800 --> 19:09.800 Tell me about the Siemens National, will you? 19:09.800 --> 19:10.800 The Siemens National. 19:10.800 --> 19:11.800 You heard about that? 19:11.800 --> 19:12.800 Sure I heard about it. 19:12.800 --> 19:15.800 And I heard about the Daily Smith thing in Denver. 19:15.800 --> 19:17.800 And the neat switch you pulled up in Montreal. 19:17.800 --> 19:19.800 Sounds like a history book on me. 19:19.800 --> 19:21.800 Wait till you see this. 19:23.800 --> 19:25.800 Scrapbook, Jumbo. 19:25.800 --> 19:26.800 I got all your clippings. 19:26.800 --> 19:29.800 From the first time they nailed you on the St. Louis thing. 19:29.800 --> 19:31.800 St. Louis? 19:31.800 --> 19:32.800 I was 15. 19:32.800 --> 19:35.800 Yeah, and right down to the Akron, Ohio, caper. 19:35.800 --> 19:37.800 Boy, was that something. 19:37.800 --> 19:38.800 Yeah. 19:39.800 --> 19:40.800 Kid. 19:40.800 --> 19:41.800 What? 19:41.800 --> 19:43.800 You believe me when I tell you something? 19:43.800 --> 19:44.800 I know what kind of guy you are. 19:44.800 --> 19:45.800 You wouldn't kid me. 19:45.800 --> 19:47.800 Sure, I believe you. 19:47.800 --> 19:49.800 Well then pay attention tonight on the job. 19:49.800 --> 19:50.800 Do like I say. 19:50.800 --> 19:51.800 Sure, Jumbo. 19:51.800 --> 19:52.800 You're the boss. 19:52.800 --> 19:53.800 Anything you want. 19:53.800 --> 19:54.800 This is your first time. 19:54.800 --> 19:55.800 No mistakes. 19:55.800 --> 19:56.800 No mistakes. 19:56.800 --> 19:57.800 Wait till you see me in action. 19:57.800 --> 19:58.800 You'll be proud of me. 19:58.800 --> 19:59.800 Like I'm proud of you. 19:59.800 --> 20:00.800 Just watch. 20:00.800 --> 20:01.800 Yeah, kid. 20:01.800 --> 20:02.800 I'll be watching. 20:02.800 --> 20:05.800 I'm glad you aren't sore about me lining up this thing. 20:05.800 --> 20:07.800 Getting hold of Froggy and Ralph and all. 20:07.800 --> 20:08.800 No, no hard feelings, kid. 20:08.800 --> 20:15.800 I'm not sore one bit. 20:15.800 --> 20:18.800 We all started out at a quarter after 11. 20:18.800 --> 20:20.800 Ralph and Froggy were nervous. 20:20.800 --> 20:23.800 The kid acted like an old trooper on opening night. 20:23.800 --> 20:26.800 We stood in a doorway where he went into his act. 20:26.800 --> 20:31.800 The watchman opened the door. 20:31.800 --> 20:32.800 What's the matter, sonny? 20:32.800 --> 20:34.800 What are you crying for? 20:34.800 --> 20:36.800 I got no place to go. 20:36.800 --> 20:38.800 No place to go? 20:38.800 --> 20:41.800 But you only get where's your mother and father? 20:41.800 --> 20:43.800 I don't have any, mister. 20:43.800 --> 20:45.800 I'm all alone. 20:45.800 --> 20:46.800 I'm afraid. 20:46.800 --> 20:49.800 Well, I shouldn't do this, but... 20:49.800 --> 20:50.800 Shut up. 20:50.800 --> 20:51.800 Get back inside. 20:51.800 --> 20:53.800 Make one sound and I'll blast your head off. 20:53.800 --> 20:54.800 Froggy. 20:54.800 --> 20:55.800 Yeah. 20:55.800 --> 20:56.800 His gun. 20:56.800 --> 20:57.800 Got it. 20:57.800 --> 20:58.800 Now inside. 20:58.800 --> 21:00.800 The street's all clear, Jumbo. 21:00.800 --> 21:01.800 You sure? 21:01.800 --> 21:02.800 Like a dance hall Sunday morning. 21:02.800 --> 21:03.800 Let me take care of this guy. 21:03.800 --> 21:04.800 I'll do it. 21:04.800 --> 21:09.800 Now look here. 21:09.800 --> 21:11.800 You hit him kind of hard, Jumbo. 21:11.800 --> 21:12.800 What's the matter? 21:12.800 --> 21:13.800 No guts? 21:13.800 --> 21:14.800 Froggy, tie him up. 21:14.800 --> 21:15.800 Okay, Jumbo. 21:15.800 --> 21:16.800 And gag him. 21:16.800 --> 21:17.800 Right. 21:17.800 --> 21:18.800 Ralph, the shades. 21:18.800 --> 21:19.800 Okay. 21:19.800 --> 21:20.800 Where's he alone? 21:20.800 --> 21:21.800 I told you, you don't have to worry a thing about that, Jumbo. 21:21.800 --> 21:23.800 You let me do the thinking. 21:23.800 --> 21:26.800 It's by the office door. 21:26.800 --> 21:29.800 I wonder if he's dead. 21:29.800 --> 21:30.800 The guard just made his call in. 21:30.800 --> 21:32.800 We got 15 minutes to crack it. 21:32.800 --> 21:35.800 Do you think we can do it, Jumbo? 21:35.800 --> 21:36.800 You think we can? 21:36.800 --> 21:38.800 All right, yellow belly, this is where you get off. 21:38.800 --> 21:39.800 Get off? 21:39.800 --> 21:40.800 Yeah, outside. 21:40.800 --> 21:41.800 Go on, get out of here. 21:41.800 --> 21:43.800 But Jumbo, what's the matter? 21:43.800 --> 21:44.800 What did I do? 21:44.800 --> 21:45.800 You dumb little bonehead. 21:45.800 --> 21:47.800 Anybody could have set this cracker box up. 21:47.800 --> 21:48.800 Now get out of here. 21:48.800 --> 21:50.800 I waited a long time for this. 21:50.800 --> 21:53.800 I won't go. 21:53.800 --> 21:56.800 I thought we were pals. 21:56.800 --> 21:57.800 And you hit me. 21:57.800 --> 21:59.800 You're kind of hot on a kid, ain't you? 21:59.800 --> 22:01.800 Keep your mouth shut or you'll get the same thing. 22:01.800 --> 22:03.800 We can't have him hanging around. 22:03.800 --> 22:04.800 I won't go. 22:04.800 --> 22:05.800 You can kill me first. 22:05.800 --> 22:06.800 Oh, no. 22:06.800 --> 22:07.800 You won't. 22:07.800 --> 22:08.800 You won't throw me out. 22:08.800 --> 22:10.800 I want to be in on the job. 22:10.800 --> 22:12.800 I want to be in... 22:12.800 --> 22:14.800 Now get away from here or you'll 22:14.800 --> 22:16.800 burn up the whole thing with your ball and... 22:16.800 --> 22:17.800 Jumbo. 22:17.800 --> 22:20.800 Now let's get to the men's work. 22:25.800 --> 22:27.800 The tin can was an antique, but it was tough. 22:27.800 --> 22:30.800 I worked as fast as I dared. 22:30.800 --> 22:33.800 Ralph and Froggy helped me, but the drills kept breaking off. 22:33.800 --> 22:36.800 Ralph was nervous and Froggy was juggling the nitroglycerin 22:36.800 --> 22:38.800 in a way that set us all on edge. 22:38.800 --> 22:40.800 I was using my last drill bit 22:40.800 --> 22:42.800 when the job came to a sudden end. 22:42.800 --> 22:43.800 The alarm. 22:43.800 --> 22:44.800 Jumbo, you set the alarm off. 22:44.800 --> 22:46.800 We'll never get out of here now. 22:46.800 --> 22:47.800 Froggy, put that nitro down. 22:47.800 --> 22:48.800 Okay, but I'm blind. 22:48.800 --> 22:50.800 All right, everybody, put up your hands. 22:50.800 --> 22:51.800 Stay where you are. 22:51.800 --> 22:52.800 Nobody's going to take... 22:52.800 --> 22:53.800 Froggy, put that gun down. 22:53.800 --> 22:55.800 You won't buy me that easy. 22:55.800 --> 22:56.800 Ralph. 22:56.800 --> 22:57.800 Get out of my way, Jumbo. 22:57.800 --> 23:00.800 Get back. 23:03.800 --> 23:05.800 Ralph. 23:05.800 --> 23:07.800 Ralph, you... 23:07.800 --> 23:09.800 You really lost us. 23:09.800 --> 23:11.800 Up. 23:25.800 --> 23:26.800 Is that all, Brannigan? 23:26.800 --> 23:28.800 That's all, Father. 23:28.800 --> 23:29.800 There you go. 23:29.800 --> 23:30.800 Take of Salvo. 23:30.800 --> 23:31.800 And I'm going to... 23:31.800 --> 23:32.800 Let me through. 23:32.800 --> 23:33.800 Let me through. 23:33.800 --> 23:35.800 That's my old man there. 23:35.800 --> 23:37.800 Jumbo. 23:37.800 --> 23:39.800 What's the matter, kid? 23:39.800 --> 23:43.800 Ain't you ever seen a guy lie in a gutter and die? 23:43.800 --> 23:44.800 I thought... 23:44.800 --> 23:46.800 I thought you'd been around. 23:46.800 --> 23:50.800 It happens lots of times to guys like me. 23:50.800 --> 23:53.800 You can do it yourself someday. 23:53.800 --> 23:55.800 Just keep on the way you're going. 23:55.800 --> 23:58.800 Jumbo, I was going to learn things from you. 23:58.800 --> 24:00.800 You can still learn things. 24:00.800 --> 24:02.800 After I'm gone, study that scrapbook. 24:02.800 --> 24:05.800 Look at the pictures in it of me in and out of jail. 24:05.800 --> 24:08.800 Pictures like the ones they've taken of me right now. 24:08.800 --> 24:10.800 They ought to be swell for you. 24:10.800 --> 24:11.800 Go on. 24:11.800 --> 24:12.800 Get away from me. 24:12.800 --> 24:14.800 Get away from me. 24:14.800 --> 24:17.800 Don't forget the way you saw me dying, will you? 24:17.800 --> 24:19.800 Don't forget. 24:19.800 --> 24:21.800 Because if you're as dumb as I've been, 24:21.800 --> 24:23.800 you're going to end up the same way. 24:23.800 --> 24:25.800 Kid! 24:25.800 --> 24:27.800 Take a good look at me. 24:30.800 --> 24:32.800 Was that the best way? 24:32.800 --> 24:36.800 It was the only way. 24:36.800 --> 24:38.800 Maybe he understands now. 24:42.800 --> 24:44.800 Hi, Captain Cross. 24:44.800 --> 24:46.800 Thanks for answering my phone call. 24:46.800 --> 24:48.800 You wouldn't have been hit, Jumbo, 24:48.800 --> 24:50.800 if the truth she hadn't tried to run. 24:50.800 --> 24:51.800 It's all right. 24:51.800 --> 24:53.800 I just saved everybody out of trouble. 24:53.800 --> 24:57.800 Jumbo, why did you tip me off in advance 24:57.800 --> 24:59.800 that you were going to pull a job? 24:59.800 --> 25:01.800 The Padre here can tell you, Captain. 25:01.800 --> 25:06.800 It was a little gift I arranged for my... 25:06.800 --> 25:08.800 my kid. 25:08.800 --> 25:11.800 In the name of God, the Lord, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, 25:11.800 --> 25:14.800 the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit. 25:14.800 --> 25:21.800 Amen. 25:34.800 --> 25:38.800 Suspense, presented by Auto Light. 25:38.800 --> 25:42.800 Tonight's star, Mr. William Bendix. 25:42.800 --> 25:46.800 This is Harlow Wilcox again to tell you that Auto Light 25:46.800 --> 25:51.800 makes over 400 fine products for cars, trucks, planes, and boats 25:51.800 --> 25:54.800 in 28 plants from coast to coast. 25:54.800 --> 25:56.800 These include complete ignition systems 25:56.800 --> 25:58.800 used as original factory equipment 25:58.800 --> 26:01.800 on many leading makes of our finest cars. 26:01.800 --> 26:05.800 Generators, coils, distributors, electric windshield wipers, 26:05.800 --> 26:09.800 voltage regulators, wiring cables, starting motors, and many more. 26:09.800 --> 26:12.800 They're all engineered to fit together perfectly, 26:12.800 --> 26:17.800 work together perfectly, because they're all part of the Auto Light team. 26:17.800 --> 26:22.800 So friends, don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 26:22.800 --> 26:26.800 Ask for and insist on Auto Light original factory parts 26:26.800 --> 26:31.800 at your neighborhood service station, car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 26:31.800 --> 26:43.800 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 26:43.800 --> 26:47.800 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Mr. Ronald Coleman 26:47.800 --> 26:50.800 in Vision of Death. 26:50.800 --> 26:53.800 And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars 26:53.800 --> 26:58.800 as Mr. Van Johnson, Miss Joan Crawford, and Mr. Jack Carson. 26:58.800 --> 27:10.800 It's all on Suspense. 27:10.800 --> 27:13.800 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, 27:13.800 --> 27:18.800 with music composed by Lucian Moraweck and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 27:18.800 --> 27:20.800 Portions of this program were transcribed. 27:20.800 --> 27:23.800 In tonight's play, Tommy Bernard was young Branigan, 27:23.800 --> 27:27.800 Jane Avello was heard as Froggy, and Ed Max was Ralph. 27:27.800 --> 27:31.800 Others in the cast were Leo Cleary, Joseph Kearns, Herb Butterfield, 27:31.800 --> 27:34.800 Junious Matthews, and Charles Calvert. 27:34.800 --> 27:36.800 The gift of Jumbo Branigan was written for Suspense 27:36.800 --> 27:40.800 by E. 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