WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.720 You are about to hear a story based on actual events. 00:04.720 --> 00:09.000 To protect the innocent, names and places have been changed. 00:09.000 --> 00:19.480 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Jeff Chandler in a story taken from life. 00:19.480 --> 00:23.880 Tonight's presentation of Suspense. 00:23.880 --> 00:32.320 Tonight, Auto Light presents the Steel River Prison Break. 00:32.320 --> 00:36.480 A story concerning one of the most fantastic prison breaks ever engineered. 00:36.480 --> 00:38.880 Starring Mr. Jeff Chandler. 00:38.880 --> 00:41.880 Hello, Harlow. 00:41.880 --> 00:48.640 Well, starch my sombrero if it's not Sheriff Sam. 00:48.640 --> 00:50.880 I've brought in a rustler, Harlow. 00:50.880 --> 00:51.880 A cattle rustler? 00:51.880 --> 00:53.480 No, for gas rustler. 00:53.480 --> 00:57.480 My car, it uses gas, something awful and bucks like a brown coal. 00:57.480 --> 01:00.240 Well, sounds like spark plug trouble, Sheriff. 01:00.240 --> 01:03.200 Your Auto Light spark plug dealer can help you in a jiffy. 01:03.200 --> 01:07.640 He has the exclusive plug check indicator that shows the exact condition of those spark plugs 01:07.640 --> 01:10.400 and whether they're right for your type of driving. 01:10.400 --> 01:13.880 Maybe they just need cleaning or adjusting, Harlow. 01:13.880 --> 01:18.080 Well, your Auto Light spark plug dealer has the special equipment to give you the best 01:18.080 --> 01:20.080 job money can buy, Sheriff. 01:20.080 --> 01:23.440 Yeah, but supposing them critters are dead. 01:23.440 --> 01:27.960 Well then, he'll replace them with a set of standard or resistor type ignition engineered 01:27.960 --> 01:29.800 Auto Light spark plugs. 01:29.800 --> 01:33.960 The spark plugs that are world famous for quality and performance. 01:33.960 --> 01:38.720 So friends, you'll find a page to have your spark plugs checked soon. 01:38.720 --> 01:43.640 See your Auto Light spark plug dealer and remember, from bumper to tail light, you're 01:43.640 --> 01:46.720 always right with Auto Light. 01:46.720 --> 01:52.320 And now, with the Steel River Prison Break and the performance of Mr. Jeff Chandler, 01:52.320 --> 02:06.680 Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 02:06.680 --> 02:08.440 It was set for Friday. 02:08.440 --> 02:09.440 I mean set. 02:09.440 --> 02:10.720 We'd thought of everything. 02:10.720 --> 02:13.400 Cronan would be waiting in a speedboat under the wall. 02:13.400 --> 02:15.600 We'd make it during the recreation period. 02:15.600 --> 02:18.040 Some of the boys would start a rhubarb in the far corner of the yard. 02:18.040 --> 02:21.840 We'd be up and over and in the river before the guards missed us. 02:21.840 --> 02:24.240 And Tuesday night, the radio changed everything. 02:24.240 --> 02:26.360 Word has just reached us from Pequot City. 02:26.360 --> 02:29.920 The river is three feet below flood stage at lock seven and rising. 02:29.920 --> 02:31.920 Flood stage is expected at midnight. 02:31.920 --> 02:34.200 Rain is still falling in the upper watershed. 02:34.200 --> 02:37.240 Flood warnings have been issued along the waterfront here in Frickburg. 02:37.240 --> 02:41.640 Elsewhere, rising waters are reported in the upper Allegheny and Monongahela and flood stages 02:41.640 --> 02:45.240 may be expected from New Kensington and Wheeling to Pittsburgh. 02:45.240 --> 02:53.520 We return you to Tuesday reveries with the Steel River Sinfonetta. 02:53.520 --> 02:54.520 That does it. 02:54.520 --> 02:55.520 And what's that? 02:55.520 --> 02:56.520 The flood. 02:56.520 --> 03:02.760 Moish, you hear that on the radio? 03:02.760 --> 03:04.480 Yeah, I heard it. 03:04.480 --> 03:05.480 So it's raining outside. 03:05.480 --> 03:07.880 Yeah, it's raining up the river or it's raining in the mountains. 03:07.880 --> 03:11.720 We're mighty lucky to be nice and warm and a comfy little old presence, sir. 03:11.720 --> 03:12.720 We gotta move up the timetable. 03:12.720 --> 03:13.720 What? 03:13.720 --> 03:15.020 What are you talking about? 03:15.020 --> 03:17.600 We walk out of here tomorrow night, Thursday morning latest. 03:17.600 --> 03:18.600 Well, how come? 03:18.600 --> 03:21.280 Crona won't be here for us till Friday afternoon. 03:21.280 --> 03:22.760 What are you trying to do? 03:22.760 --> 03:23.760 Loss up the detail? 03:23.760 --> 03:26.600 Listen, the river will hit flood stage at lock seven at midnight tonight. 03:26.600 --> 03:27.600 So what? 03:27.600 --> 03:29.840 So lock seven is 80 miles upstream. 03:29.840 --> 03:31.840 Right below it, the Lucinda River runs into the steel. 03:31.840 --> 03:35.760 That means that lock eight at Renton will probably give way by tomorrow morning. 03:35.760 --> 03:39.480 Between lock eight and Frickburg, a half dozen little rivers pour into the steel. 03:39.480 --> 03:42.120 At midnight tomorrow night, the prison will be an island surrounded by the biggest flood 03:42.120 --> 03:43.800 since 1886. 03:43.800 --> 03:44.800 Very interesting. 03:44.800 --> 03:46.680 I don't know much about these things. 03:46.680 --> 03:49.440 We don't ever get much water on the real ground. 03:49.440 --> 03:50.440 Well, I know. 03:50.440 --> 03:51.600 I was born and raised a half a mile from here. 03:51.600 --> 03:52.600 I know floods. 03:52.600 --> 03:53.600 I was raised on them. 03:53.600 --> 03:55.160 Flooded out twice a year when I was a kid. 03:55.160 --> 03:56.160 Every fall and every spring. 03:56.160 --> 03:57.960 By tomorrow night, this cell block will be a swimming pool. 03:57.960 --> 04:00.120 Well, that'll be a change. 04:00.120 --> 04:01.120 Tomorrow night we go. 04:01.120 --> 04:02.120 What about Cronin? 04:02.120 --> 04:04.280 Cronin ain't gonna get here in this flood. 04:04.280 --> 04:06.760 Look, Bragg, I don't think we ought to risk it. 04:06.760 --> 04:07.760 There ain't any risk. 04:07.760 --> 04:09.840 I don't know how it is when there's a flood. 04:09.840 --> 04:10.840 People go crazy. 04:10.840 --> 04:13.040 We get out of here, we act like any other characters trying to get to high ground. 04:13.040 --> 04:16.240 Only we head for my house, we get a change of clothes, and we're on our way. 04:16.240 --> 04:19.240 But be it, Cronin's joint in Youngstown before we ever get started. 04:19.240 --> 04:20.240 I don't know, Bragg. 04:20.240 --> 04:23.120 If you're going with me, you're going, I say so, and I say tomorrow. 04:23.120 --> 04:24.120 But Bragg. 04:24.120 --> 04:25.120 What, Rutt? 04:25.120 --> 04:26.120 I can't swim. 04:26.120 --> 04:33.120 We already had a gun. 04:33.120 --> 04:38.920 No matter how, Cronin got it into me. 04:38.920 --> 04:41.640 I buried it in a can of tallow in a soap plant. 04:41.640 --> 04:44.680 When I put that can of tallow so far back in the corner, it wasn't nobody gonna use 04:44.680 --> 04:45.680 it to make soap. 04:45.680 --> 04:49.880 I broke it out yesterday and hid it behind the tubes and things in my radio. 04:49.880 --> 04:54.360 I got a radio in my cell, because I've been such a model prisoner. 04:54.360 --> 04:55.360 Me. 04:55.360 --> 04:59.560 Wednesday morning before breakfast, Lefty, the headscrew, came into the cell block and 04:59.560 --> 05:01.360 made us a little speech. 05:01.360 --> 05:04.360 Man, we're in for a flood. 05:04.360 --> 05:05.760 Looks like it's gonna be serious. 05:05.760 --> 05:08.920 Water's only a foot below the top of the downtown flood walls right now. 05:08.920 --> 05:10.440 Ain't that too bad? 05:10.440 --> 05:14.000 The Frickburg Disaster Committee's asked every able-bodied man to get down there and help 05:14.000 --> 05:15.480 sandbag those walls. 05:15.480 --> 05:17.120 I'm a stranger to town myself. 05:17.120 --> 05:18.600 That's for citizens and taxpayers. 05:18.600 --> 05:19.600 All right. 05:19.600 --> 05:22.440 How many of you wanna volunteer for the job? 05:22.440 --> 05:23.440 I'll go. 05:23.440 --> 05:24.440 All right. 05:24.440 --> 05:29.200 We'll take off after breakfast, but remember, this ain't no picnic. 05:29.200 --> 05:32.520 Don't try no funny stuff, because I'll be right there with you, me and the rest of my 05:32.520 --> 05:33.520 boys. 05:33.520 --> 05:35.720 Oh, you don't wanna stand out there in the rain all day. 05:35.720 --> 05:36.720 Okay. 05:36.720 --> 05:37.720 That's all. 05:37.720 --> 05:38.720 Breakfast in five minutes. 05:38.720 --> 05:42.600 In five minutes. 05:42.600 --> 05:44.000 Up goes the timetable again. 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 What? 05:45.000 --> 05:46.000 Don't have to wait for tonight. 05:46.000 --> 05:47.000 We make it this morning. 05:47.000 --> 05:50.200 What are you doing with that radio? 05:50.200 --> 05:51.200 What do you think? 05:51.200 --> 05:52.200 Give me the tape. 05:52.200 --> 05:53.200 Tape? 05:53.200 --> 05:54.200 The tape. 05:54.200 --> 05:56.400 That phony boil you bandaged the other day. 05:56.400 --> 05:57.400 Oh, oh, yeah. 05:57.400 --> 05:58.400 Yeah. 05:58.400 --> 05:59.400 Ow. 05:59.400 --> 06:00.400 That hurts. 06:00.400 --> 06:02.200 Oh, you don't take it off that way. 06:02.200 --> 06:03.200 You do it this way. 06:03.200 --> 06:04.200 It tickles. 06:04.200 --> 06:05.200 Shut up. 06:05.200 --> 06:06.200 Boy, that hurt me, Brad. 06:06.200 --> 06:11.920 I taped the sword and the medic on the inside of my leg. 06:11.920 --> 06:14.920 Yeah, we're on our way. 06:14.920 --> 06:16.920 Yeah, Brad? 06:16.920 --> 06:19.960 You all set, Mish? 06:19.960 --> 06:20.960 Set. 06:20.960 --> 06:23.400 When we get down to the river, we keep close together. 06:23.400 --> 06:24.400 Watch me. 06:24.400 --> 06:25.400 Sure, Brad. 06:25.400 --> 06:26.400 Whatever you say. 06:26.400 --> 06:43.360 Old town looks good. 06:43.360 --> 06:45.760 Yeah, what's so good about it? 06:45.760 --> 06:49.360 All those crummy houses all painted the same crummy color. 06:49.360 --> 06:51.600 Yeah, they was once painted different colors. 06:51.600 --> 06:53.880 And how come they're all the same color? 06:53.880 --> 06:55.480 All dingy gray like. 06:55.480 --> 06:57.560 Smoke, cold smoke from the mills. 06:57.560 --> 06:59.560 Oh, I get it. 06:59.560 --> 07:00.560 Like that home. 07:00.560 --> 07:05.360 Houses are all a crummy yellow and a crummy dust. 07:05.360 --> 07:06.360 See down the street? 07:06.360 --> 07:07.360 Third house on the left. 07:07.360 --> 07:08.360 Yeah. 07:08.360 --> 07:09.360 What about it? 07:09.360 --> 07:10.360 That's where we'll be tonight. 07:10.360 --> 07:11.360 That your joint? 07:11.360 --> 07:12.360 Yeah, home sweet home. 07:12.360 --> 07:13.360 Ma still lives here. 07:13.360 --> 07:14.720 Yeah, but any lab'll look for us there? 07:14.720 --> 07:15.720 They do. 07:15.720 --> 07:16.720 Ma'll take care of them. 07:16.720 --> 07:17.720 She got no use for cops. 07:17.720 --> 07:21.720 Ever since my old man got slapped around in the battle of barges up at Homestead. 07:21.720 --> 07:22.720 Oh. 07:22.720 --> 07:23.720 What's the matter? 07:23.720 --> 07:26.520 Oh, that gun was making a little pinch. 07:26.520 --> 07:29.520 You can stand a few more minutes, can't you? 07:29.520 --> 07:30.520 You kidding? 07:30.520 --> 07:32.520 Hey, hey, look at that. 07:32.520 --> 07:34.360 That old red brick building? 07:34.360 --> 07:35.360 What about it? 07:35.360 --> 07:36.360 The Candler School. 07:36.360 --> 07:38.040 That's where I went. 07:38.040 --> 07:39.040 You graduate back? 07:39.040 --> 07:42.040 Ah, no, I transferred to Pine Hill, graduated there. 07:42.040 --> 07:43.040 Pine Hill? 07:43.040 --> 07:44.040 What's that? 07:44.040 --> 07:45.040 State Reformatory. 07:45.040 --> 07:46.040 Hey, what are they slowing down for? 07:46.040 --> 07:47.040 Well, ain't no ways near the river. 07:47.040 --> 07:48.040 Turn into a grass field? 07:48.040 --> 07:51.780 Yeah, but it's a little bit of a 07:51.780 --> 07:56.400 turn into a gravel yard, looks like. 07:56.400 --> 08:03.840 All right, boys, five of you drop off here to fill sandbags. 08:03.840 --> 08:06.840 Ninkowski, Steiner, Anthony, Walton, and Bragg. 08:06.840 --> 08:07.840 Me? 08:07.840 --> 08:08.840 Yeah, you. 08:08.840 --> 08:09.840 Come on, pile up. 08:09.840 --> 08:10.840 All right, what are we going to do? 08:10.840 --> 08:11.840 Nothing, no. 08:11.840 --> 08:13.840 Well, Bragg, there goes the ballgame. 08:13.840 --> 08:14.840 Only one inning. 08:14.840 --> 08:27.480 I knew that gravel yard used to play in it when I was a kid. 08:27.480 --> 08:29.880 There was just three blocks from my old lady's house. 08:29.880 --> 08:34.680 I could have made it easy through back alleys, but I ain't that kind of guy. 08:34.680 --> 08:36.400 I went in with a pen on the same rapid march. 08:36.400 --> 08:38.400 I wasn't going to leave it without him. 08:38.400 --> 08:39.400 A runt. 08:39.400 --> 08:44.000 I liked the bum, a little slow in the upstairs apartment, maybe, but a good guy. 08:44.000 --> 08:47.440 I'd wait, but it was tough. 08:47.440 --> 08:51.040 Filled in sandbags all day in the rain with that tape gun cutting into my leg. 08:51.040 --> 08:53.040 No blood getting to my foot. 08:53.040 --> 08:57.200 At first it hurt, then it was like pins and needles in my toes, and I couldn't feel nothing 08:57.200 --> 08:58.200 at all. 08:58.200 --> 09:00.920 It was real tough because I didn't dare limp. 09:00.920 --> 09:03.920 I couldn't take a chance on any nosy guard asking me what was the matter. 09:03.920 --> 09:04.920 It got tougher. 09:04.920 --> 09:09.200 Towards the end of the day, I was seeing spots in front of my eyes. 09:09.200 --> 09:12.560 I was like to pass out when the truck come by to pick us up. 09:12.560 --> 09:17.280 It wasn't until after chow when we was locked in my cell for the night I could get the thing 09:17.280 --> 09:18.280 off my leg. 09:18.280 --> 09:20.640 Then it all went into reverse. 09:20.640 --> 09:24.360 The pins and needles came back and after them the pain. 09:24.360 --> 09:26.400 That leg looks like you was branded. 09:26.400 --> 09:28.400 God, it feels it. 09:28.400 --> 09:31.840 Moshi and I never expected to see you back here. 09:31.840 --> 09:33.560 You're kidding? 09:33.560 --> 09:35.360 Well, you know. 09:35.360 --> 09:39.080 Turn on the radio and let's see how the flood's doing. 09:39.080 --> 09:40.080 All right. 09:40.080 --> 09:42.480 Tomorrow we got to make sure we stick together. 09:42.480 --> 09:43.480 How are we going to do that? 09:43.480 --> 09:45.920 I don't know, but we got to because tomorrow's going to be our last chance. 09:45.920 --> 09:49.400 Ohio Avenue Bridge, 41 feet, 6 inches and rising. 09:49.400 --> 09:50.400 Holy crap. 09:50.400 --> 09:53.400 That's 4 feet above flood stage. 09:53.400 --> 09:56.920 We'll remain on the air throughout the night to bring you flood bulletins and assist in 09:56.920 --> 09:58.920 directing rescue operations. 09:58.920 --> 09:59.920 Attention please. 09:59.920 --> 10:03.160 The flood wall at Water Street and 4th has given way. 10:03.160 --> 10:07.720 All residents of the Brownsville district are advised to evacuate their homes at once. 10:07.720 --> 10:08.720 Here we go. 10:08.720 --> 10:09.720 What? 10:09.720 --> 10:10.720 Brownsville. 10:10.720 --> 10:12.720 Right here. 10:12.720 --> 10:15.720 Send the boat to 317 California Street. 10:15.720 --> 10:16.720 Hey, Moshi. 10:16.720 --> 10:17.720 Yeah, Brad. 10:17.720 --> 10:18.720 You getting this? 10:18.720 --> 10:19.720 Everywhere. 10:19.720 --> 10:20.720 It won't be long now. 10:20.720 --> 10:21.720 Brad, look. 10:21.720 --> 10:22.720 What? 10:22.720 --> 10:23.720 The flood, the end of the sail block. 10:23.720 --> 10:24.720 What? 10:24.720 --> 10:25.720 A triple of water, I told you. 10:25.720 --> 10:28.720 That means there's a foot and a half or two feet out in the yard. 10:28.720 --> 10:30.720 The boat to 42 Watson Alley. 10:30.720 --> 10:32.720 Hey, the lights went out. 10:32.720 --> 10:33.720 Hey. 10:33.720 --> 10:34.720 The lights went out. 10:34.720 --> 10:35.720 The lights went out. 10:35.720 --> 10:36.720 The lights went out. 10:36.720 --> 10:37.720 The lights went out. 10:37.720 --> 10:38.720 All right, all right. 10:38.720 --> 10:43.720 Let's have a little quiet in here. 10:43.720 --> 10:46.720 Turn on the light. 10:46.720 --> 10:48.720 Now listen to me. 10:48.720 --> 10:50.720 There ain't any lights. 10:50.720 --> 10:51.720 Dynamos flooded out. 10:51.720 --> 10:53.720 We're going to move you men. 10:53.720 --> 10:56.720 There'll be six foot of water in the sail block by morning. 10:56.720 --> 10:57.720 We're moving you out. 10:57.720 --> 11:00.720 Why are you taking us, Wesley? 11:00.720 --> 11:03.720 We're moving you to the Conestoga County Jail. 11:03.720 --> 11:04.720 It's on high ground. 11:04.720 --> 11:06.720 You'll be safe there until the water drops. 11:06.720 --> 11:08.720 You'll be in the drunk tank on the fourth floor. 11:08.720 --> 11:09.720 I have checked. 11:09.720 --> 11:10.720 All right. 11:10.720 --> 11:11.720 Now let's make it snappy. 11:11.720 --> 11:13.720 The water's rising two feet an hour. 11:13.720 --> 11:14.720 I'm going to open the doors. 11:14.720 --> 11:16.720 Form a line and follow me. 11:16.720 --> 11:18.720 No funny business. 11:18.720 --> 11:21.720 All set, look? 11:21.720 --> 11:22.720 Yeah. 11:22.720 --> 11:23.720 Moist? 11:23.720 --> 11:24.720 Hey, you forgot. 11:24.720 --> 11:25.720 No, I didn't. 11:25.720 --> 11:27.720 And you don't tape it to your leg? 11:27.720 --> 11:28.720 Not this time. 11:28.720 --> 11:29.720 It goes into my belt. 11:29.720 --> 11:30.720 I'm going to need it in less than three minutes. 11:30.720 --> 11:31.720 Now stick close to me. 11:31.720 --> 11:33.720 All right, now. 11:33.720 --> 11:35.720 Line up. 11:35.720 --> 11:36.720 Let's go. 11:36.720 --> 11:54.720 All right, come on this way, man. 11:54.720 --> 11:55.720 The buses are right here at the gate. 11:55.720 --> 11:56.720 Come on, man. 11:56.720 --> 11:57.720 Come on. 11:57.720 --> 11:58.720 Keep it moving. 11:58.720 --> 11:59.720 Run. 11:59.720 --> 12:00.720 Yeah. 12:00.720 --> 12:01.720 Follow me by the gate. 12:01.720 --> 12:02.720 I'll take him from behind. 12:02.720 --> 12:03.720 You get his gun. 12:03.720 --> 12:04.720 Right. 12:04.720 --> 12:05.720 I'll take the gun. 12:05.720 --> 12:06.720 You got the gun. 12:06.720 --> 12:07.720 Right. 12:07.720 --> 12:08.720 I got it. 12:08.720 --> 12:09.720 Hey, get back in line. 12:09.720 --> 12:10.720 Make me. 12:10.720 --> 12:11.720 Stand right where you are. 12:11.720 --> 12:12.720 Don't let anybody move. 12:12.720 --> 12:13.720 Get behind me. 12:13.720 --> 12:14.720 Run. 12:14.720 --> 12:15.720 Okay. 12:15.720 --> 12:16.720 Come on and shoot, Lefty. 12:16.720 --> 12:17.720 Fatty makes a good chest protector. 12:17.720 --> 12:18.720 No, no. 12:18.720 --> 12:19.720 Relax, Fatty. 12:19.720 --> 12:20.720 You might not get hurt. 12:20.720 --> 12:21.720 Stop that, man. 12:21.720 --> 12:22.720 Bragg. 12:22.720 --> 12:23.720 And your gun. 12:23.720 --> 12:24.720 You make a pretty good target, Lefty. 12:24.720 --> 12:25.720 They just might drop you. 12:25.720 --> 12:26.720 You know what? 12:26.720 --> 12:27.720 That's what I'm talking about. 12:27.720 --> 12:28.720 I'm not going to let you get hurt. 12:28.720 --> 12:29.720 I'm not going to let you get hurt. 12:29.720 --> 12:30.720 I'm not going to let you get hurt. 12:30.720 --> 12:31.720 I'm not going to let you get hurt. 12:31.720 --> 12:34.720 I'm not going to let you get hurt. 12:34.720 --> 12:35.720 No, Lefty. 12:35.720 --> 12:36.720 No, Lefty. 12:36.720 --> 12:37.720 They just might drop you. 12:37.720 --> 12:38.720 You know what? 12:38.720 --> 12:39.720 That'll get you. 12:39.720 --> 12:40.720 Sure. 12:40.720 --> 12:41.720 What's the difference? 12:41.720 --> 12:42.720 One guard or two guards? 12:42.720 --> 12:43.720 It's the same, Hot Seat. 12:43.720 --> 12:44.720 Bragg, we better move. 12:44.720 --> 12:45.720 Every screw in the place will be down here now. 12:45.720 --> 12:46.720 Yeah. 12:46.720 --> 12:47.720 Let's go, boys. 12:47.720 --> 13:00.720 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Jeff Chandler in, the Steel River Project. 13:00.720 --> 13:02.720 The Steel River Prison Break. 13:02.720 --> 13:07.720 Tonight's production in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:07.720 --> 13:20.720 Well, you happy sheriff? 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15:12.720 --> 15:13.720 I didn't want him taking a chance. 15:13.720 --> 15:23.720 You dumb jerk, breaking out of stores one thing murders another. Come on, this way. 15:23.720 --> 15:26.720 We splashed up Ohio Street and there wasn't no one following us. 15:26.720 --> 15:29.720 Screws were too busy getting the other cons into the buses. 15:29.720 --> 15:36.720 They couldn't have found us anyway because we lost ourselves behind the swinging doors of Harley-Heath Salon where I used to rush the growler for my old man. 15:36.720 --> 15:42.720 We were in pretty good shape. I hadn't used my own gun yet. Run had three rounds left in the guard's gun. 15:42.720 --> 15:50.720 We just stood there in the dark with the water lapping around our knees and watched the buses loaded with stir-bricks pull out one by one for the Conestoga County Jail. 15:50.720 --> 15:54.720 We made it. We made it. 15:54.720 --> 15:57.720 So far. What do we do now, swim? 15:57.720 --> 15:58.720 I can't swim. 15:58.720 --> 16:00.720 We ain't gonna walk, that's for sure. 16:00.720 --> 16:04.720 My house is ten blocks closer to the river. This water's going up, not down. 16:04.720 --> 16:05.720 It stinks. 16:05.720 --> 16:09.720 Sure it stinks. Floods always stink. You ought to smell what it's like when the water drops. 16:09.720 --> 16:11.720 Only way you're gonna be here is smelling. 16:11.720 --> 16:12.720 Wait a minute. Listen. 16:12.720 --> 16:13.720 Yeah. 16:18.720 --> 16:19.720 Where's that radio coming from? 16:19.720 --> 16:24.720 Ah, a rescue boat. All the river men help when there's a flood like this. Not even a radio. 16:24.720 --> 16:25.720 Maybe a rescue, huh? 16:25.720 --> 16:30.720 Yes, but I figured right. Now let me handle it. You two act a little tight. 16:30.720 --> 16:33.720 Hey, hey, Mac! Over this way. 16:33.720 --> 16:35.720 Where were you? 16:35.720 --> 16:37.720 Just stay behind these swinging toys. 16:37.720 --> 16:39.720 Over here, in that hurly! 16:47.720 --> 16:51.720 Now, what are you doing there? You took the last guy out there a half hour ago. 16:51.720 --> 16:56.720 Oh, we were sitting back room with a picture of beer. We're twice as ready to leave yet. 16:56.720 --> 17:02.720 Well, look, I cut through this way. Now that the cons are out of the panacea and panoramic, it's been weird. 17:02.720 --> 17:04.720 You guys might have browned. 17:04.720 --> 17:06.720 Yeah, I guess you remind him. 17:06.720 --> 17:07.720 Oh, here. Touch my hand. 17:07.720 --> 17:08.720 Yeah. 17:09.720 --> 17:10.720 Oh, thanks, mister. 17:10.720 --> 17:12.720 I haven't felt so much pain in my life. 17:13.720 --> 17:14.720 Oh, all aboard? 17:14.720 --> 17:15.720 Yep. 17:15.720 --> 17:19.720 Well, then let's... Hey, what kind of suits is that? 17:19.720 --> 17:21.720 Are you guys a convict or what? 17:22.720 --> 17:24.720 That's right, buddy. I'll take off his windbreaker right now. 17:24.720 --> 17:25.720 What? 17:25.720 --> 17:27.720 Strip him. I want to cover this number on my back. 17:27.720 --> 17:29.720 Oh, yeah, sure. Come on, give me a hand, boys. 17:29.720 --> 17:30.720 Hey, Albright. 17:30.720 --> 17:32.720 Good. Over the side with him. 17:32.720 --> 17:33.720 Huh? Oh, you ain't gonna... 17:33.720 --> 17:35.720 No, I ain't gonna. You are. Over the side. 17:35.720 --> 17:37.720 But that's murder. 17:37.720 --> 17:41.720 Look at this talk. You shot a guard 10 minutes ago. What was that, target practice? Over the side. 17:42.720 --> 17:43.720 Okay, Brian. 17:44.720 --> 17:48.720 All right, Jesus. Hit the deck out of sight. Here we go. 17:56.720 --> 17:57.720 Where we going, Greg? 17:57.720 --> 17:58.720 Marshal. 17:58.720 --> 18:00.720 On Ohio Street now. 18:00.720 --> 18:03.720 Turn left onto Liberty. Eight blocks from there we're home. 18:04.720 --> 18:05.720 Turn off that radio. 18:07.720 --> 18:10.720 Here's Liberty Street now. Hang on. 18:14.720 --> 18:15.720 Take it easy, Greg. 18:15.720 --> 18:18.720 Watch out, Greg. There's a boatload of people up here. 18:18.720 --> 18:20.720 Get down, Rod. Get down! 18:21.720 --> 18:23.720 No, Greg! I can't! 18:23.720 --> 18:28.720 Greg, I can't swim! 18:28.720 --> 18:29.720 Greg, you ran down that boat. 18:29.720 --> 18:30.720 Yeah, yeah, I know. 18:30.720 --> 18:31.720 There were women and kids in it. 18:31.720 --> 18:32.720 That's that tough luck. 18:32.720 --> 18:33.720 We gotta go back. 18:33.720 --> 18:35.720 We can't go back. Where's Rod? 18:35.720 --> 18:38.720 Huh? Rod? Hey, Rod, where are you? 18:38.720 --> 18:39.720 Get down, Mike. Stay out of sight. 18:39.720 --> 18:40.720 He ain't here. 18:40.720 --> 18:41.720 He must have fell out when we hit the boat. 18:41.720 --> 18:42.720 We gotta go back for him. 18:42.720 --> 18:43.720 We can't, Mike. 18:43.720 --> 18:44.720 Yeah, but he's got the gun. 18:44.720 --> 18:46.720 I got the guard's gun. I still got mine with a full clip. 18:46.720 --> 18:47.720 But, Greg, he can't swim. 18:47.720 --> 18:48.720 I know. 18:48.720 --> 18:50.720 Well, maybe the water ain't deep there. Maybe he can walk. 18:50.720 --> 18:53.720 You're kidding. Look at those storefronts. 18:53.720 --> 18:55.720 There's 15 feet of water under us. 19:04.720 --> 19:07.720 We tied up to the front porch roof of Ma's house. 19:08.720 --> 19:11.720 Didn't take long to rip the radio and battery out of that launch, 19:11.720 --> 19:13.720 kick a hole in her bottom, and sink her on Ma's front yard. 19:14.720 --> 19:15.720 We needed the radio. 19:15.720 --> 19:20.720 I wanted to know whether the boys were looking for us or for flood victims. 19:20.720 --> 19:22.720 A boat to 754 Stanton Alley. 19:22.720 --> 19:24.720 Joel, they picked that one up. 19:24.720 --> 19:25.720 Correction. 19:25.720 --> 19:28.720 Disregard 754 Stanton Alley. 19:28.720 --> 19:33.720 Attention all doctors and nurses in Crane Valley, New Thames, and Henry Roy. 19:33.720 --> 19:34.720 Your services are at death's door. 19:34.720 --> 19:36.720 They were looking for flood victims. 19:36.720 --> 19:40.720 With people drowning and typhoid threatening, the water supply cut off, 19:40.720 --> 19:42.720 the phone lines out, and the National Guard and Army called in, 19:42.720 --> 19:45.720 no one was thinking much about three escapees. 19:46.720 --> 19:47.720 I mean, two. 19:49.720 --> 19:51.720 Ma wasn't home much. 19:51.720 --> 19:52.720 She was in old hamper floods. 19:52.720 --> 19:55.720 When that water hits 35 feet at Ohio Avenue Bridge, 19:55.720 --> 19:59.720 Ma always lights up her Aunt Carrie's in Mount Austin, sits it out. 19:59.720 --> 20:04.720 But everything was snug on the second floor, and my room was just like I left it. 20:04.720 --> 20:08.720 So much and I hit the sack hoping the water wouldn't come any higher. 20:08.720 --> 20:12.720 And it didn't. 20:23.720 --> 20:24.720 Hey, Marsh. 20:24.720 --> 20:25.720 Huh? 20:25.720 --> 20:27.720 Come on, rise and shine. Wake up. 20:27.720 --> 20:28.720 Huh? 20:28.720 --> 20:29.720 Hey, what are you doing in my cell? 20:29.720 --> 20:31.720 This ain't a cell, you jerk. 20:31.720 --> 20:33.720 Huh? Where am I? 20:33.720 --> 20:36.720 You're in my Ma's house, remember? We ain't in store no longer. 20:36.720 --> 20:37.720 Oh, yeah, yeah. 20:37.720 --> 20:39.720 Come on, come on, get with it. Look out the window. 20:39.720 --> 20:40.720 Hey, I'm hungry. 20:40.720 --> 20:41.720 Oh, wait, look at that. 20:41.720 --> 20:42.720 What? 20:42.720 --> 20:43.720 Stop raining, the water's dropping. 20:43.720 --> 20:46.720 You can see the parlor windows on the house across the street. 20:46.720 --> 20:47.720 So? 20:47.720 --> 20:48.720 So by this afternoon we can move. 20:48.720 --> 20:49.720 I'm hungry. 20:49.720 --> 20:51.720 You're gonna be hungrier. 20:51.720 --> 20:53.720 Ma's kitchen will be three inches deep and muck. 20:53.720 --> 20:55.720 Hey, when the water drops they'll be looking for us. 20:55.720 --> 20:56.720 We won't be here. 20:56.720 --> 20:59.720 By midnight tonight we'll be in Cronin's joint in Youngstown. 20:59.720 --> 21:00.720 How? 21:00.720 --> 21:02.720 You're here, ain't you? 21:02.720 --> 21:03.720 Yeah. 21:03.720 --> 21:05.720 Don't ask how, just take my word for it. 21:05.720 --> 21:07.720 We'll be there. 21:12.720 --> 21:15.720 By five o'clock that afternoon we were plenty hungry. 21:15.720 --> 21:18.720 We could stand a little more of that because the water had drained out of the street. 21:18.720 --> 21:20.720 People were beginning to drift back to their homes, 21:20.720 --> 21:23.720 picking their way through the ankle-deep muck. 21:23.720 --> 21:25.720 It was time for us to move. 21:25.720 --> 21:29.720 Moish and I put on a couple of my best suits while the radio blared on and on. 21:29.720 --> 21:33.720 The bridge to the Ohio Street Bridge is now 32 feet and falling. 21:33.720 --> 21:37.720 The Army engineers report that the flood crest is well past Frickburg 21:37.720 --> 21:41.720 and is expected to reach Toobinville tonight and Cincinnati tomorrow. 21:41.720 --> 21:43.720 Oh, sweetheart, we're in business. 21:43.720 --> 21:44.720 Toobinville and Cincinnati. 21:44.720 --> 21:48.720 The cops over in Ohio will be so busy they'll never see the old points flash. 21:48.720 --> 21:50.720 That mud's gonna ruin your pretty pants. 21:50.720 --> 21:52.720 So turn up the cups and let's go. 21:52.720 --> 21:57.720 Hey, hey, they turned my old school house into a morgue. 21:57.720 --> 21:59.720 Listen. 21:59.720 --> 22:03.720 The correction, that's Mrs. Margaret Bragg. 22:03.720 --> 22:04.720 Moish. 22:04.720 --> 22:05.720 What? 22:05.720 --> 22:07.720 Margaret Bragg. 22:07.720 --> 22:09.720 It's my ma. 22:15.720 --> 22:17.720 Maybe it was a mistake. 22:17.720 --> 22:20.720 Wouldn't be the first time they'd made mistakes like that. 22:20.720 --> 22:24.720 Maybe it was a trick. Maybe the warden put out that flash to trap me. 22:24.720 --> 22:26.720 Maybe it was on the level. 22:26.720 --> 22:29.720 I had to know. I had to be sure. 22:29.720 --> 22:31.720 So Moish and I sloughed through mud up to our ankles, 22:31.720 --> 22:34.720 but not out of the Youngstown road. 22:34.720 --> 22:36.720 I was headed for this schoolhouse. 22:36.720 --> 22:40.720 Moish, well, he's a good kid. He came along. 22:42.720 --> 22:47.720 They were stretched out in the assembly hall, row on row of them on cots covered with sheets. 22:47.720 --> 22:50.720 In the assembly hall were us kids used to pledge allegiance to the flag 22:50.720 --> 22:56.720 and sing America the beautiful. 22:56.720 --> 22:59.720 Hey, uh, I beg pardon. 22:59.720 --> 23:01.720 Yes, may I help you? 23:01.720 --> 23:03.720 Yeah, Mrs. Margaret Bragg. 23:03.720 --> 23:06.720 I heard on the radio you had Mrs. Margaret Bragg here. 23:06.720 --> 23:11.720 Just a moment, please. I'll see if she's listed. 23:11.720 --> 23:18.720 Yes, down that aisle to the right, four or five cots down, you'll find the name on the tank. 23:18.720 --> 23:20.720 Thanks. 23:23.720 --> 23:24.720 Bragg. 23:24.720 --> 23:25.720 Yeah? 23:25.720 --> 23:27.720 Even if they got her here, maybe it's a trap. 23:27.720 --> 23:29.720 I've got to be sure. I've got to see her. 23:29.720 --> 23:30.720 Yeah, I know. 23:30.720 --> 23:31.720 If you want to get out, get, it's okay with me. 23:31.720 --> 23:33.720 No, no, I'm sticking, but keep your eyes open. 23:33.720 --> 23:35.720 Yeah, yeah, sure. 23:37.720 --> 23:38.720 What's that tag say? 23:38.720 --> 23:41.720 Campanelli, Luigi. 23:41.720 --> 23:44.720 I don't know. 23:46.720 --> 23:48.720 These new ones are unidentified. 23:52.720 --> 23:55.720 LaRoy, Sarah, Jean. 23:55.720 --> 23:58.720 I went to school with her father. 24:03.720 --> 24:05.720 Here, pal. 24:05.720 --> 24:07.720 Bragg. 24:07.720 --> 24:09.720 Mrs. Margaret. 24:09.720 --> 24:11.720 Turn down this sheet, will you, Moish? 24:11.720 --> 24:13.720 Yeah, sure. 24:21.720 --> 24:23.720 All right, Bragg, put your hands up. 24:23.720 --> 24:24.720 Bragg, it's lefty to head guard. 24:24.720 --> 24:26.720 Doc, down behind this cot. 24:26.720 --> 24:28.720 Come on, Bragg. 24:28.720 --> 24:30.720 Give yourself up. 24:30.720 --> 24:32.720 Let's not make any more trouble for these people. 24:32.720 --> 24:33.720 They've had enough of it. 24:33.720 --> 24:37.720 I didn't get this far to give myself up in no lousy morgue. 24:37.720 --> 24:39.720 Moish, make your way behind these cots to that door by the stage. 24:39.720 --> 24:40.720 I'll cover you. 24:40.720 --> 24:42.720 Okay. 24:46.720 --> 24:47.720 Okay, Bragg, I got the door open. 24:47.720 --> 24:49.720 Good boy. 24:49.720 --> 24:50.720 Come on, kid. 24:50.720 --> 24:51.720 Where's the sleek? 24:51.720 --> 24:52.720 Just a balcony above the swimming pool. 24:52.720 --> 24:54.720 This way. 24:57.720 --> 24:58.720 Come on, we gotta make it across that catwalk 24:58.720 --> 24:59.720 by the high diving board. 24:59.720 --> 25:00.720 Go ahead, I'll follow you. 25:00.720 --> 25:07.720 All right. 25:07.720 --> 25:08.720 Okay, Moish, come on. 25:08.720 --> 25:09.720 We can get out through here. 25:09.720 --> 25:12.720 Right. 25:12.720 --> 25:13.720 Stand where you are, Moish. 25:13.720 --> 25:15.720 Not until you're lefty. 25:15.720 --> 25:17.720 Hey, Moish! 25:21.720 --> 25:22.720 You're next, Bragg. 25:22.720 --> 25:31.720 Why, you dirty... 25:31.720 --> 25:35.720 You ready to come now, Bragg? 25:35.720 --> 25:37.720 Yeah. 25:37.720 --> 25:49.720 Yeah, I'm ready. 25:49.720 --> 25:54.720 Hold out your hands. 25:54.720 --> 25:58.720 Okay, let's go. 25:58.720 --> 25:59.720 Lefty. 25:59.720 --> 26:01.720 Yeah? 26:01.720 --> 26:06.720 Can I say goodbye to Ma before I go? 26:06.720 --> 26:09.720 Yeah, I suppose so. 26:09.720 --> 26:10.720 How did it happen, Lefty? 26:10.720 --> 26:12.720 How did she drown? 26:12.720 --> 26:13.720 Didn't you read her tag? 26:13.720 --> 26:14.720 No. 26:14.720 --> 26:16.720 Seems the rescue boat she was in was capsized 26:16.720 --> 26:19.720 by an unidentified launch at the corner of Ohio 26:19.720 --> 26:21.720 and Liberty Streets last night. 26:21.720 --> 26:22.720 You're lying. 26:22.720 --> 26:23.720 That's what the tag says. 26:23.720 --> 26:25.720 Sort of a hit and run pilot. 26:25.720 --> 26:26.720 You're lying. 26:26.720 --> 26:27.720 I was running that launch. 26:27.720 --> 26:29.720 Oh, you were. 26:29.720 --> 26:31.720 Well, like you said last night, Bragg, 26:31.720 --> 26:35.720 what difference does it make if you kill two instead of one? 26:35.720 --> 27:01.720 It's the same hot seat, ain't it? 27:01.720 --> 27:05.720 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 27:05.720 --> 27:08.720 Tonight's star, Mr. Jeff Chandler. 27:08.720 --> 27:10.720 Well, Jeff, thanks for an exciting story 27:10.720 --> 27:12.720 and a wonderful performance. 27:12.720 --> 27:14.720 Well, thanks to you, Harlow, and to Auto Light 27:14.720 --> 27:16.720 for inviting me to appear on Suspense. 27:16.720 --> 27:18.720 I hope you'll ask me again soon. 27:18.720 --> 27:21.720 You can be sure we will, Jeff Chandler. 27:21.720 --> 27:24.720 Just as sure as Auto Light is the world's largest 27:24.720 --> 27:28.720 independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 27:28.720 --> 27:31.720 Yes, in 28 plants from coast to coast, 27:31.720 --> 27:34.720 Auto Light makes over 400 products 27:34.720 --> 27:37.720 for cars, trucks, tractors, planes, and boats, 27:37.720 --> 27:40.720 including complete electrical systems, 27:40.720 --> 27:42.720 ignition-engineered Auto Light standard 27:42.720 --> 27:44.720 and resistor-type spark plugs, 27:44.720 --> 27:48.720 and the famous Auto Light stay-full battery. 27:48.720 --> 27:51.720 Yes, you can be sure from bumper to tail light 27:51.720 --> 27:54.720 you're always right with Auto Light. 27:54.720 --> 28:09.720 Next week on Suspense, another story based on actual events, 28:09.720 --> 28:11.720 a dramatic report on mediums 28:11.720 --> 28:14.720 and the terrible harm it is in their power to commit. 28:14.720 --> 28:17.720 Starring the First Lady of Suspense, 28:17.720 --> 28:22.720 Miss Agnes Moorhead in The Evil of Adelaide Winters. 28:22.720 --> 28:24.720 In weeks to come, we shall also present 28:24.720 --> 28:52.720 Mr. Charles Lawton and Mr. Tony Curtis.