1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. John Hodiac in a story taken from life. 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Tonight's presentation of Suspense. 3 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Tonight, Auto Light presents a dramatic report from the roaring twenties about a man whose way of life destroyed him. 4 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:36,000 A factual document we call The Case History of a Gambler, starring Mr. John Hodiac. 5 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Hello, Harlow. 6 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Well, it's Oscar, the loquacious limousine. Why so down in the dumps, Oscar? 7 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,000 My battery went dry and I can't get started. 8 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Well, you ought to have an Auto Light. Stay full, Battery, the famous battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 9 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Only three times, Harlow? 10 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Right, my querulous car. 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I'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest Auto Light battery dealer. 15 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:36,000 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 16 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:46,000 And now, with The Case History of a Gambler and the performance of Mr. John Hodiac, Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in... 17 00:01:46,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Suspense! 18 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:17,000 It's not easy to walk when you're weighted down with a bullet in your body. But keep walking, because six blocks away, less than half a mile, there's a hospital. 19 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Think. Think about something, anything, anything to get your mind off the pain. 20 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Think about the beginning, the beginning of this. 21 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:34,000 When was it? A thousand years ago? A hundred? 22 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:43,000 No. No, it's closer than that. Three years. Three years ago. In the kids dressing room at the arena. 23 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:55,000 It began with a fight. A prize fight. 24 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Look, Matt, when you called me and asked for ten thousand, I sent it over and didn't ask any questions. 25 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Then why start now? 26 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000 I think I got a right to know why you wanted the dough. 27 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 I'll tell you when the fight's over. 28 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Fight? You mean you put my ten grand on a fighter? 29 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Yes. 30 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Give me back my dough. 31 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Now, wait a minute. 32 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Give it back. 33 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 But you don't know what... 34 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 I don't want to know. I want my money. 35 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Relax for a couple of minutes, Frank. 36 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Don't get cute with me, angle boy. Tell me the score or give me ten thousand dollars now. 37 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 You won't wait, huh? 38 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Now! 39 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:29,000 You should know me better than to think I'm going to throw away your ten grand. 40 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 I thought I did. 41 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 I've been booking bets long enough to know that you can't beat the fights. 42 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Well, then why... 43 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 But I know you can beat one fight. 44 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,000 How do you figure? 45 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Because the boy I bet on is my fighter. 46 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 I planned this match a year ago, and when I win, I'm through with prize fighting. 47 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 There's got to be an angle. 48 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 There is. I bought a fighter last year, a kid. 49 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000 So? 50 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 I saw this boy in some amateur bouts, and I bought him and trained him and booked fights for him. 51 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 What's he done since? 52 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Lost 12 fights, four by knockouts, three by TKOs, and five by unanimous decisions. 53 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 And how do you know he can win tonight? 54 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Up to now, I've had him fighting pretty good. Not the way he can. 55 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 I've had him training at a little private camp up in the mountains, going five, six rounds. 56 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 They're the best boys I could find. He's knocked them all out. 57 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:22,000 That's all? You mean you took my ten grand and put it on this wonder boy just because he's been knocking out bums in training camps? 58 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Ha ha. No, you're kidding me, Matt. You got the other boy to take a fall. 59 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 You think I'd stick my neck out and try to fix a fight? 60 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,000 You would if you thought you could do it. 61 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Well, even if I could, there'd be too many people taking a cut of the pie. My pie. 62 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Better to take a piece than try for it all and get none. 63 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Not me, Frank. I'll roll for the bundle. 64 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,000 When you loaned me 10,000, it made an even hundred grand I've spread all over the country. 65 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Why the big deal all of a sudden? 66 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 I want money, real money. I'm tired of nickel and dime operations. 67 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,000 What are you going to do if you win? 68 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,000 When I win, I'm going to open up the biggest, safest gambling casino this side of the Mississippi. 69 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Ha ha! We did it! We did it! 70 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Shut the door, Lou. 71 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Oh, but I... 72 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Shut the door! 73 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Okay, okay. 74 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,000 What round? 75 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Knock out the fifth. 76 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 A 20 to 1. 77 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:14,000 That's right. Two million bucks. Matt, you just won two million bucks. 78 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Get in touch with the boys, Lou. I want Al to pick up the dough in Frisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Diego. 79 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Tell Willie to cover Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, and El Paso. 80 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 And go to Ciaga. 81 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 63rd Street. Five blocks to go. 82 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Walk. Keep walking. And think. 83 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,000 That was the beginning. What came after the beginning? 84 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 The casino. 85 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 The suburban gambling casino. 86 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 My reward for fixing one fight. 87 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Then came the friends. 88 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Matthew Miller's giving money away. Get some of it. 89 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 But be sure you give it back when you're through. 90 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 And always the gratitude. 91 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Always the benediction. 92 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Much obliged, Matt. I was real short on operating capital. 93 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 That's all right, Charlie. Glad I could help. 94 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 I'll see you on the 15th of next month to get my IOU back. 95 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,000 See that you do, Charlie. You know how I feel about Welsh's. 96 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Yeah, yeah, I know. Well, good night, Matt. Thanks again. 97 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Good night, Charlie. 98 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Well, maybe you know what you're doing, Matt, but sometimes I think you're too loose with your dough. 99 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 You mean Charlie? 100 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 No, him for one, and other guys I've seen you lend money to. 101 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,000 What's wrong with lending now and then? 102 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Oh, nothing. Only any grifter or hood that runs out of money in this town knows they can get to you for a touch. 103 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,000 All right, bookkeeper. How much money have I lost since I started helping the less fortunate of my fraternity? 104 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Well, there was Richie Fowlow from Detroit. He nicked you for 80 grand. 105 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Where's he now? And incidentally, where's anyone who ever Welsh'd on a loan or a gambling debt? 106 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 So they're not around anymore. 107 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Cancels out, doesn't it? 108 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Just because a guy knows better than to try to Welsh on you is no excuse to be Mr. Soft-Touch. 109 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Why not? 110 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,000 It's not businesslike. 111 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 I'm not in the lending business. 112 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Well, the amount of dough you got spread around, you might just as well be. 113 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Now supposing Charlie goes out of here and gets knocked off, where's your dough then? 114 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,000 That's a chance I have to take. 115 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:27,000 You shouldn't have to take chances. Charlie's wife isn't taking a chance. If Charlie gets knocked off tonight, she's rich tomorrow. He's got enough insurance to... 116 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Say that again about Charlie's wife. 117 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Why? What'd I say? 118 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 What happens if Charlie gets knocked off tonight? 119 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Well, I said she'd be rich tomorrow. Why? 120 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 That's what I thought you said. 121 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Hey, Matt, what are you gonna do? 122 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Luke, call my lawyer. 123 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 What are you gonna do? 124 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000 I'm about to become an actuary. 125 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 A what? 126 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:50,000 An actuary. According to Webster, one who is skilled in life assurance. 127 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Oh, Matt, you're out of your mind. You'll never get away with it. If the state would be on your neck so fast, the stock issue would never clear the broker's office. 128 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 Stay down, counselor. You're wearing the nap off my carpeting. 129 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Oh, all right. 130 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:15,320 First of all, is it possible to form a dummy corporation for the purpose of the 131 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:20,320 floating a stock issue? 132 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:21,320 Well, yes, it is. 133 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,320 Answer with a yes or no. Don't embellish your sentences. 134 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:25,320 Oh, sorry. 135 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:33,320 To go on. Since the stock issue will be thrown open to the public, there'll be no necessity for me to control more than 25% of the issue, right? 136 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:34,320 Right. 137 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:39,320 And when I sell a policy to a client, the majority of the first premium will go to me as the selling agent. 138 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:40,320 That's right. 139 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:48,320 Now we come to the important point. Is it perfectly legal for me to be named a beneficiary of any policy I may issue? 140 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:49,320 Well, in the event... 141 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,320 Is it legal, yes or no? 142 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,320 Yes, yes, it's legal. 143 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,320 Then why are you fighting me? What can the state possibly do to me? 144 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,320 Now, since that question can't be answered by a yes or no, have I your permission to elaborate? 145 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:01,320 Sure, go ahead. 146 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:09,320 All right. Now, what guarantee have you that these men to whom you lend money will continue to pay the premiums after they have repaid the loan? 147 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:14,320 Why none, of course. I don't care if they keep up the policy or not. All I'm interested in is protection for myself. 148 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:21,320 And with that protection, if I can make an extra dollar by issuing the policy, I don't see how that can be construed as fraud or any other illegal practice. 149 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,320 You know what happens with the company in the long run? 150 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:27,320 Frankly, I don't care. By that time, I expect to have gotten what I wanted out of it. 151 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,320 The stockholders would cause you trouble if they got together. 152 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:34,320 If, Chris, people don't help each other. They're too busy helping themselves. 153 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:35,320 Yeah, like you. 154 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,320 Maybe. The difference is most of them don't know what they want. 155 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:40,320 Do you, Matt? 156 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:45,320 Of course I do. That's why I don't need any help. I'm just going to do it all by myself. 157 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:48,320 Any more question? 158 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,320 Oh, no, I suppose not. 159 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,320 Then how about a drink? 160 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:53,320 I can use one. 161 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:54,320 Lou? 162 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:55,320 Coming right up. 163 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,320 Don't pout, Chris. Losing this decision to me won't hurt your reputation. 164 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,320 It's not me I'm thinking about. It's you. 165 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,320 Me? 166 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:11,320 You're reaching. One of these days, you'll reach out too far, and it'll be a long, long fall to the bottom. 167 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,320 It'll break every bone in your body. 168 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:18,320 Dramatic, but unnecessary. No matter what happens, people will gamble. 169 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:24,320 And the only safe place in the state is right here. This casino is my bumper, and it can cushion any fall I may take. 170 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,320 Here they are. Help yourself. 171 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,320 Well, Chris, let's drink to our new venture. 172 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,320 A toast, if I may. 173 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,320 You may. 174 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,320 To Matt. May the long fall never come. 175 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,320 Amen. 176 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:58,320 64th Street. Four blocks from the hospital. Why am I trying? Why do I want to live? There must be a reason. A reason. 177 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:07,320 Ellen. I want to live for Ellen. I want to kiss her and be kissed. I want to give her all the things I promised her. 178 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:14,320 So I'll keep walking. Keep walking. Walking. Walking. 179 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,320 You look tired, Matt. Anything wrong? 180 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:29,320 No, no. I'm just trying to get Chris back in line. Sometimes I wonder if he's really on my side. 181 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,320 You don't mean it, do you? 182 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:40,320 He's a fine lawyer, Ellen. I have to admit he's gotten me out of a couple of tight spots, but I wonder sometimes if he's interested in me or the retainer I pay him. 183 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:45,320 Matt, what's wrong? Chris is your friend. You don't think about friends that way. 184 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:54,320 I know, but tonight was different. Tonight I felt that Chris wasn't on my side. Forget it. 185 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,320 I'm here with you and that's all I care about right now. 186 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,320 Matt. When are you going to quit? 187 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,320 Quit? Quit what? 188 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:09,320 All this figuring and scheming and gambling. What do you know? 189 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,320 No, I don't know. Tell me. 190 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:20,320 Matt, you've got enough money to have a safe, wonderful life away from here. Away from all the hoodlums and sharpies and thieves and murderers. 191 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,320 Why don't we just pack up and go? 192 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:29,320 I'm so afraid. I love you too much to worry about you from day to day. 193 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:33,320 You know, you can't live the kind of life you're living without making enemies. 194 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,320 One of these days somebody's going to hate you enough to... 195 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,320 Oh, Matt. 196 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,320 Don't you understand that it's because of you that I don't quit? 197 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:43,320 Because of me? 198 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:48,320 Yes. I promised myself I'd give you the city for a wedding present and I'm not going to Welsh on a promise. 199 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,320 But I don't want the city. I want you. 200 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:58,320 I want to forget that there are fighters and cards and dice and roulette and all the other things you can't depend on. 201 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,320 But I can depend on them. I can depend on them because I know the weaknesses of people. 202 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:09,320 Mass man is the biggest sucker in the world and the only way to punish him for it is to take his money and that's what I'm doing. 203 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:10,320 But for how long? 204 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,320 Come with me and I'll show you. 205 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,320 What do you see? 206 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:21,320 The city. 207 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,320 That's right. The city. 208 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:41,320 I'm going to take suckers money until I have enough to buy it. 209 00:13:41,320 --> 00:14:01,320 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. John Hodiac in the Case History of a Gambler. Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, South Spence. 210 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:10,320 Friends, now my starts are quick and sure. I get going right with my staple battery made by Auto Light. 211 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:21,320 Well said, my orating auto. 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How long can it take a man to walk six blocks? 224 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,320 How heavy can an ounce of lead be? 225 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,320 Two more blocks to the hospital. 226 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,320 And when I get there, what then? 227 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,320 Is all this worth a gamble? 228 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,320 A gamble. 229 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,320 Matthew Miller, the gambler. 230 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:55,320 The man who lived for the gamble. 231 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:56,320 The good loser. 232 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,320 The gracious winner. 233 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,320 The man who hated a Welsh. 234 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:03,320 A good gambler. 235 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:04,320 A gambler. 236 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,320 Gambler. 237 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:11,320 I think I'll stretch my legs for a second. 238 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,320 What do you know? It's daylight again. 239 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,320 Must be Monday. 240 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,320 We'll send out for some more food. 241 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,320 Not for me. How about you guys? 242 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,320 I've had it. Two days of poker is just about my limit. 243 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,320 Let's make this the last hand, huh? 244 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:27,320 Right for me. 245 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,320 Okay. 246 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,320 Handy up. 247 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:36,320 Jacks are better to open. Any limit on this last hand, Matt? 248 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:37,320 No. Why? 249 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,320 You've been hit pretty hard this session. 250 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,320 Afraid of your money? 251 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,320 I know you're better than that. 252 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,320 We think the same about bad losers, don't we, Matt? 253 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,320 So I've noticed. 254 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,320 Open for 5,000. 255 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:56,320 As my mother would say, a stranger from every village is better than a good loser. 256 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,320 As my mother would say, a stranger from every village. 257 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,320 My mother. 258 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:03,320 Matt. 259 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,320 5 and up 10. 260 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:08,320 Me? I'm up. 261 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,320 Call you, Matt. 262 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:11,320 Cards? 263 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:12,320 2. 264 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,320 Never keep a kicker. 265 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,320 I'll take 1. 266 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,320 Check. 267 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,320 And? 268 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,320 Up 25. 269 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,320 Call. 270 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,320 King's Fool. 271 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,320 No kicker. 272 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,320 I guess my flush isn't good enough. 273 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:34,320 Guess not. 274 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:35,320 What's the damage? 275 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:41,320 Including the 66,000 on this hand, it comes to 483,000. 276 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,320 That's a little more than you lost to me last month, isn't it? 277 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:45,320 Uh-huh. 278 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,320 I'll have Lou drop the dough off tomorrow, okay? 279 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:48,320 Fine. 280 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:49,320 How do you want it? A check or cash? 281 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,320 Cash. 282 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,320 Checks don't feel like money. 283 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,320 All right, I'll send Lou over with cash. 284 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,320 It'll be on your desk at exactly noon tomorrow. 285 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,320 In bills of small denomination. 286 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,320 I like the bulge it makes in my tailored suit. 287 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:05,320 Anybody else know about this game? 288 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:06,320 No. 289 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:07,320 Of course not. 290 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:08,320 Thanks, son. 291 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,320 Chris, Lou, what are you... 292 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:11,320 Matt, we're in. 293 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,320 Oh, I didn't know you had company. 294 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,320 It's a friendly little game. I think you know most of the boys. 295 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,320 Oh, uh, Matt, Matt, we gotta talk private. 296 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:19,320 What's the matter? 297 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:20,320 Get rid of the boys so we can talk. 298 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:21,320 Sure. 299 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,320 Sure, we just finished anyway. 300 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,320 So long, fellas. Thanks for the game. 301 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:26,320 So long, Matt. 302 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,320 Remember, small bills. 303 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:29,320 See you, Matt. 304 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:30,320 Yeah, see you. 305 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,320 Okay, what's on your mind? 306 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,320 The casino was raided Saturday night. 307 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,320 Saturday? This is Monday. Where have you guys been? 308 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,320 I got picked up when the joint was raided. 309 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:39,320 Well, I was out of town for the weekend. 310 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,320 I got Lou out on a habeas corpus as soon as I returned this morning. 311 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,320 How did the cops find out about the location? 312 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:44,320 What happened to the alarm system? 313 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,320 The grapevine has it that somebody in the organization 314 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:47,320 tipped off the police. 315 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,320 There's more than one man in this town that doesn't like you, Matt. 316 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:51,320 What about the books? 317 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:52,320 The cops got them, too. 318 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,320 They were in the joint so fast I didn't have a chance to dump them. 319 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,320 Well, guess they got me nailed. 320 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:01,320 Okay, I'm getting out. 321 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,320 Chris, dump my insurance stock on the market. 322 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:05,320 I can get enough out of... 323 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:05,320 No, Matt. 324 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,320 What do you mean, no? I'm telling you to get rid of my stock... 325 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:08,320 Matt! 326 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,320 There is no insurance company. 327 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:11,320 Are you crazy? 328 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,320 The company is in receivership, and the state is conducting an investigation. 329 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:15,320 But how? Why? 330 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,320 Well, one of the stockholders thought enough of his investment 331 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:20,320 to go around gathering up enough proxies to vote you out of control 332 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:21,320 and to have the books checked. 333 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:22,320 So what? 334 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:23,320 So this. 335 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:25,320 Every dime in the company is frozen, 336 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,320 and I doubt that you'll ever get to see any of it again. 337 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:28,320 What about the courts? 338 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,320 Well, intent of the fraud is pretty tough to prove in a court. 339 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,320 I think I can beat the rap on that count. 340 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,320 But that's all I can promise you. 341 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,320 Oh, I'm sorry, Matt, but... 342 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,320 If you say I told you so, I'll kill you right now. 343 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:40,320 No, Matt, no. 344 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:42,320 That's not what I was gonna say at all. 345 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,320 I'm your friend. 346 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,320 Even though I haven't very much to give, I regret... 347 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,320 I don't want your money, Chris. 348 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:49,320 I don't need it. 349 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,320 You see, I half expected this to happen, I guess. 350 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,320 So I planned for it. 351 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,320 I have a key ring in my office. 352 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,320 On this key ring, I have ten keys, 353 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,320 and these keys open ten safety deposit boxes 354 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,320 with about 100 grand in... 355 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:04,320 Lou? 356 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,320 What are you looking at me like that for? 357 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,320 Come on, speak up. 358 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,320 Matt, I... 359 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:17,320 Well, yeah, they got the key ring, too. 360 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,320 Chris, you once told me I'd reach out too far. 361 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,320 Well, I did. 362 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:44,320 It looks as if the fall broke every bone in my body. 363 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:49,320 Hiya, Matt. 364 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,320 Decided to come yourself instead of sending Lou, huh? 365 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,320 Come on in. 366 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,320 You can lay the door right here. 367 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,320 This is a pretty big desk. 368 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,320 I don't have the dough, Gus. 369 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,320 Don't play games with me. 370 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,320 I don't have any sense of humor when somebody owes me money. 371 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,320 This isn't a game. I'm broke. 372 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,320 How broke? 373 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,320 I'm not going to be able to pay you what I owe you right now. 374 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,320 You're going to have to wait a little while. 375 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:13,320 What do you mean, I'm going to have to wait? 376 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,320 Just what I said, I haven't got the money right now. 377 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:17,320 Better get it. 378 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:18,320 Where? 379 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,320 That's your problem. 380 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,320 All I know is you're half an hour overdue, 381 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:22,320 and I don't like to be kept waiting. 382 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:23,320 But I've got to have a little time. 383 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:24,320 All right. 384 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,320 I'll give you until midnight tonight. 385 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,320 If I don't have it by then, I'll send one of my boys to see you. 386 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,320 What are you trying to do, frighten me? 387 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:32,320 No. 388 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,320 Just letting you know where I stand. 389 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,320 Like you once told me, 390 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,320 if you can't pay, don't play. 391 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,320 Well, I'm telling you that now. 392 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,320 You shouldn't play without dough to back you up. 393 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,320 But this is different. I had the money when I started to play. 394 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,320 And I won it all. 395 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,320 I don't think you like to lose, Matt. 396 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,320 Why, you two-bit pitch-pinny. 397 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:54,320 Hold it! 398 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,320 I don't like to see blood on my carpet. 399 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,320 You're going to be sorry you pulled that gun on me. 400 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,320 By the time I get through with you, 401 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,320 you'll be back peddling punch boards for a nickel a crack. 402 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,320 As long as you don't forget you got till midnight to pay me the 483 grand. 403 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,320 After that, you can start breaking me. 404 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,320 But I got a hunch you're not going to do very much breaking in this town. 405 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,320 You stepped on too many hands on your way up. 406 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:23,320 And there are a lot of guys really eager to give you a push on the way down. 407 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,320 Now get out of here. 408 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,320 I'm tired. So tired. 409 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,320 66th Street. 410 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,320 One more block. 411 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,320 I know I'm going to make it. 412 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:40,320 Because of Ellen. 413 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,320 Ellen would want me to. 414 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,320 Ellen would help me. 415 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,320 But she isn't here now. 416 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,320 And I don't want to be alone. 417 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,320 I won't be alone. 418 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,320 Ellen will be there. 419 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,320 She's always there. 420 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,320 And I don't want to keep her waiting. 421 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:57,320 I must hurry. 422 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,320 Walk. Walk. 423 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,320 Walk. Walk. 424 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,320 It's midnight. 425 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,320 Yes, I know. 426 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,320 What are you going to do? 427 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,320 What is there to do? 428 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,320 Wait for Gus, I suppose. 429 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,320 I'm afraid I have to welsh in another promise. 430 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,320 What promise? 431 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,320 The one I made to myself to give you the city. 432 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,320 Oh, Matt, darling, I don't care. 433 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,320 I told you once before I didn't want anything but you. 434 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,320 And now I... 435 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,320 Oh, Matt. 436 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,320 I wish I was somewhere starting all over again. 437 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,320 Do you really mean that, Matt? 438 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:43,320 Of course I do. 439 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,320 Here. 440 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:50,320 Here. 441 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:51,320 What's this? 442 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,320 I had them appraised today. 443 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,320 They're worth almost $175,000. 444 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,320 With these we can go to Mexico, South America, 445 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,320 where they never even heard of you or Gus 446 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,320 or any of the whole rotten mess in this town. 447 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,320 You mean you want me to run away? 448 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,320 To class myself with all the cheap welshers I hate? 449 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,320 Do you know what you're asking? 450 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,320 Yes, I know what I'm asking. 451 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,320 Matt, I love you. 452 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,320 I want you alive with me. 453 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,320 I've been afraid all this time and I'm tired of being afraid. 454 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,320 Oh, please, Matt, before it's too late. 455 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,320 Ellen. 456 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,320 Where do we go? 457 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:27,320 Mexico or South America? 458 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,320 South America. It's further. 459 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:30,320 South America it is. 460 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:31,320 I'll go down and get your car. 461 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:32,320 But then I... 462 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:33,320 Don't worry. 463 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:34,320 I'll be safe. 464 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,320 Nobody knows where I am. 465 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,320 I want you to wait here for about eight minutes, 466 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,320 then leave and meet me in the garage. 467 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,320 Then we're off to the west coast of South America. 468 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,320 Oh, Matt, I'm so happy. 469 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:46,320 Yes. 470 00:24:46,320 --> 00:25:10,320 I think I'm going to like South America. 471 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:26,320 That's what happens to welshers. 472 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,320 68th Street. Hospital. 473 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,320 I've made it. 474 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,320 It's cold now. So cold. 475 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,320 A few more steps. Got to hurry. 476 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,320 Ellen has been waiting so long for me. 477 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,320 Don't want to keep her waiting. 478 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,320 When I get there, she'll take me in her arms. 479 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,320 I'll feel the strength of her love. 480 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,320 Chris will be there too. 481 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,320 And Lou. 482 00:25:53,320 --> 00:26:09,320 I want to tell him that I didn't break every bone in my body. 483 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:10,320 Nurse. 484 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:11,320 Yes. 485 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,320 My... 486 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,320 My name is Matthew Miller. 487 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,320 And I guess... 488 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:27,320 Didn't make it after all. 489 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,320 Suspense. 490 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,320 Presented by Auto Light. 491 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,320 Tonight's star, Mr. John Hodiac. 492 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,320 And here once again is our personable young star, John Hodiac. 493 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:02,320 Thanks, Harlow. 494 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,320 John, it's always a treat having you on Suspense, 495 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,320 and tonight was no exception. 496 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,320 We all enjoyed your performance as Matt very much. 497 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,320 That's very nice, Harlow. 498 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,320 And if I may, I'd like to urge everybody in our audience 499 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,320 to be sure and hear next week's unusual show, 500 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,320 The Night Before Christmas. 501 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,320 A great suspense story starring Miss Greer Garson. 502 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,320 That's my good advice for tonight. 503 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,320 And I'll join you, John, with good advice for motorists everywhere. 504 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,320 I know, Harlow. 505 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,320 You're always right with Auto Light. 506 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:30,320 Correct. 507 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,320 You're always right because Auto Light is the world's largest 508 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,320 independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 509 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:41,320 Auto Light makes over 400 products for cars, trucks, tractors, planes, and boats. 510 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,320 These include Auto Light batteries, such as the famous Auto Light Stay Full. 511 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:50,320 Electrical systems used as original factory equipment on many leading makes of cars. 512 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,320 A complete line of ignition-engineered Auto Light spark plugs, 513 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,320 both standard and resistor types. 514 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,320 All are backed by constant Auto Light research 515 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:03,320 and are precision-built to highest standards of quality and performance. 516 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:08,320 No wonder from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 517 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:16,320 Music 518 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:22,320 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Miss Greer Garson in a special Christmas program, 519 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:27,320 the unusual dramatization of Twas the Night Before Christmas. 520 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:32,320 In weeks to come, we shall also present Mr. Herbert Marshall, Mr. Jeff Chandler, 521 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,320 and the First Lady of Suspense, Miss Agnes Moorhead. 522 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:40,320 All on Suspense. 523 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:45,320 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, 524 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:49,320 with music composed by Lucian Morawek from a New York theme by Fred Steiner, 525 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,320 and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 526 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:56,320 The case history of a gambler was written for Suspense by Ross Murray. 527 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:01,320 Featured in tonight's cast was Lillian Bief, Bill Boucher, Joseph Kearns, Lou Merrill, 528 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:06,320 Herb Bygren, Martha Wentworth, Charles Calvert, and Clayton Post. 529 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,320 John Hodiac can be seen in the soon to be released The Sellout. 530 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:15,320 And remember next week on Suspense, Miss Greer Garson in a special Christmas broadcast, 531 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,320 Twas the Night Before Christmas. 532 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:23,320 For the location of your nearest Auto Light battery or spark plug dealer, 533 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:28,320 or your nearest authorized Auto Light service station, phone Western Union by number 534 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:33,320 and ask for operator 25. 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