WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.980 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Joseph Cotton in tonight's presentation 00:12.980 --> 00:17.060 of Suspense. 00:17.060 --> 00:26.860 Tonight, Auto Light presents Carnival, the story about a man whose only emotion became 00:26.860 --> 00:31.600 hate, starring Mr. Joseph Cotton. 00:31.600 --> 00:37.640 Hello, Harlow. 00:37.640 --> 00:40.160 Well hoist my hubcaps, it's Oscar Auto. 00:40.160 --> 00:43.320 See my new ignition engineered Auto Light spark plug? 00:43.320 --> 00:47.160 Why, sure Oscar, and spark plugs are the very heart of a car's ignition system, and they've 00:47.160 --> 00:50.800 got to be right for quick starts, gas economy, and smooth performance. 00:50.800 --> 00:52.280 Well mine are now. 00:52.280 --> 00:57.360 Thanks to my Auto Light spark plug dealer's exclusive plug check indicator. 00:57.360 --> 01:01.200 Yes, the Auto Light plug check indicator tells whether your spark plugs are right for your 01:01.200 --> 01:02.200 style of driving. 01:02.200 --> 01:05.960 And if they need cleaning, your Auto Light spark plug dealer has modern equipment to 01:05.960 --> 01:07.140 do the job. 01:07.140 --> 01:11.440 And if replacements are needed, he will install world famous ignition engineered Auto Light 01:11.440 --> 01:15.360 spark plugs for smoother performance, quick starts, and gas savings. 01:15.360 --> 01:16.360 Right, Harlow. 01:16.360 --> 01:20.120 So friends, see your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer soon. 01:20.120 --> 01:24.680 He services all makes of spark plugs, and you can quickly learn his location by calling 01:24.680 --> 01:28.680 Western Union by number and asking for operator 25. 01:28.680 --> 01:35.020 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:35.020 --> 01:41.140 And now with Carnival and the performance of Mr. Joseph Cotton, Auto Light hopes once 01:41.140 --> 01:58.600 again to keep you in suspense. 01:58.600 --> 02:05.040 Eight feet, nine inches tall, I weigh 343 pounds, married and no children. 02:05.040 --> 02:07.760 I joined the sideshow at the age of 22. 02:07.760 --> 02:11.480 And if you would like a photograph of me, I have them right here for sale. 02:11.480 --> 02:16.040 All right, over here to the next stand, ladies and gentlemen, to the star attraction of the 02:16.040 --> 02:17.040 sideshow. 02:17.040 --> 02:19.320 That's right, that's right, right over here. 02:19.320 --> 02:21.080 Gather around real close. 02:21.080 --> 02:22.080 That's it, right up front. 02:22.080 --> 02:23.960 Yeah, sure, little boy. 02:23.960 --> 02:25.280 You get right up close here. 02:25.280 --> 02:28.720 See something you never saw before. 02:28.720 --> 02:34.920 Ladies and gentlemen, Renee the robot, Renee the magnificent. 02:34.920 --> 02:36.720 Handsome, isn't he? 02:36.720 --> 02:37.720 Beautiful man. 02:37.720 --> 02:39.640 How elegantly he stands. 02:39.640 --> 02:42.680 The elegant clothes, the gloved hand, just so. 02:42.680 --> 02:46.680 The mouth smiling, the noble head poised for all to admire. 02:46.680 --> 02:50.400 Renee the robot, Renee the man without emotion. 02:50.400 --> 02:53.120 Lift your hand, Renee. 02:53.120 --> 02:56.840 Like on pulleys and wheels, ladies and gentlemen, like a mechanical doll. 02:56.840 --> 03:00.200 You and I lift our arms this way, ladies and gentlemen. 03:00.200 --> 03:04.000 But Renee, lift your other arm, Renee. 03:04.000 --> 03:06.160 Bow. 03:06.160 --> 03:09.160 Can't you forget his flesh and blood, doesn't he? 03:09.160 --> 03:12.400 Walk, Renee. 03:12.400 --> 03:15.280 Like a mechanical doll, ladies and gentlemen. 03:15.280 --> 03:19.040 And now with your permission, we'll have Renee do a little dance for us. 03:19.040 --> 03:21.400 Put your drum on, Renee. 03:21.400 --> 03:23.520 Look at him, look at him, ladies and gentlemen. 03:23.520 --> 03:27.240 The way he responds to me, to O'Mara, is if I were pressing a button. 03:27.240 --> 03:29.480 No question, no argument, no emotion. 03:29.480 --> 03:32.400 He hears my voice and responds. 03:32.400 --> 03:34.720 Are you ready, Renee? 03:34.720 --> 03:36.360 Dance. 03:36.360 --> 03:52.160 Wouldn't you like to have a beautiful mechanical doll like Renee to take home, girls? 03:52.160 --> 03:53.160 Of course you would. 03:53.160 --> 03:55.160 And he even talks. 03:55.160 --> 03:58.120 Listen, tell us about yourself, Renee. 03:58.120 --> 03:59.920 I am Renee Orlando. 03:59.920 --> 04:04.400 I was born in Louisiana, a small town near the Gulf. 04:04.400 --> 04:05.880 My father was a fisherman. 04:05.880 --> 04:08.580 I do not remember my mother. 04:08.580 --> 04:11.760 I was 15 years old when we moved to Baton Rouge. 04:11.760 --> 04:14.880 There I discovered my talent. 04:14.880 --> 04:18.220 My talent is to control all emotion. 04:18.220 --> 04:31.800 My talent is to live as a machine, as well-ordered and without emotion as a machine. 04:31.800 --> 04:33.000 They stare at me. 04:33.000 --> 04:39.440 The faces looking up at me, idiot faces, fool's faces who see in me their own reflection, 04:39.440 --> 04:44.360 who stand with open mouths before the image of the robots that they are. 04:44.360 --> 04:45.680 They are the puppets. 04:45.680 --> 04:50.000 They are the mechanical dolls, the effigies without emotion. 04:50.000 --> 04:56.680 And I, the torrents within me, the ecstasies, the floods, the pure singing passions that 04:56.680 --> 04:59.480 wash over me. 04:59.480 --> 05:05.640 And Gabrielle, my wife Gabrielle, she knows, she knows the man who makes a fuss of himself 05:05.640 --> 05:11.480 before an audience is no robot, knows when the day's mockery of carnival is ended. 05:11.480 --> 05:28.120 It is a man who comes to her, a man who loves, hates. 05:28.120 --> 05:30.280 Do my hair, Renée? 05:30.280 --> 05:31.280 Black. 05:31.280 --> 05:36.240 It coils over your shoulders like dark fire and lies against the secret hollows of your 05:36.240 --> 05:37.240 throat. 05:37.240 --> 05:38.240 Black. 05:38.240 --> 05:41.240 Say my name. 05:41.240 --> 05:42.240 Gabrielle. 05:42.240 --> 05:44.880 Again, say it. 05:44.880 --> 05:47.360 Who else knows these secrets? 05:47.360 --> 05:48.360 What? 05:48.360 --> 05:49.360 O'Mara. 05:49.360 --> 05:54.520 How many times, Renée, how many times do I have to tell you O'Mara is nothing? 05:54.520 --> 05:58.760 You walk and O'Mara's eyes follow you, you perform on the trapeze and O'Mara stands 05:58.760 --> 06:02.560 below and watches your flight and his fingers stretch out for you. 06:02.560 --> 06:06.680 Listen, Renée, how many ways must I prove to you I love you? 06:06.680 --> 06:07.680 You're with him often. 06:07.680 --> 06:08.680 Why? 06:08.680 --> 06:11.440 We discuss matters of costumes and new ways of doing a trick. 06:11.440 --> 06:13.440 And me also, you talk of me? 06:13.440 --> 06:14.440 No. 06:14.440 --> 06:15.440 You lie. 06:15.440 --> 06:16.440 You lie, Gabrielle. 06:16.440 --> 06:19.600 He says my name to you and tells you I am a mechanical man, isn't that so? 06:19.600 --> 06:20.600 Renée, you're jealous. 06:20.600 --> 06:22.000 Yes, jealous. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 And happy for it. 06:23.000 --> 06:29.040 I know that I am not a mechanical man but a man of emotion, one who loves and is jealous. 06:29.040 --> 06:32.280 What will make you believe me? 06:32.280 --> 06:33.280 There is a way. 06:33.280 --> 06:34.280 If... 06:34.280 --> 06:36.800 If what? 06:36.800 --> 06:38.800 If there were no O'Mara. 06:38.800 --> 06:39.800 What? 06:39.800 --> 06:42.800 If O'Mara were dead, Gabrielle. 06:42.800 --> 06:49.800 Now, no more words, my darling. 06:49.800 --> 06:52.800 No more. 06:52.800 --> 06:56.280 No more. 06:56.280 --> 06:59.960 No more. 06:59.960 --> 07:04.120 And that is why they call me Renée the Robot. 07:04.120 --> 07:09.200 And if you'd like a token of your visit with me, I have some photographs. 07:09.200 --> 07:10.200 They are for sale. 07:10.200 --> 07:11.200 They are autographed. 07:11.200 --> 07:12.200 Don't be bashful, ladies and gentlemen. 07:12.200 --> 07:13.200 Come on, buy. 07:13.200 --> 07:14.200 Or maybe you still don't believe, don't believe that Renée is a mechanical man. 07:14.200 --> 07:15.200 Oh, a little boy. 07:15.200 --> 07:16.200 A little boy, come here. 07:16.200 --> 07:17.200 Come here. 07:17.200 --> 07:18.200 Come here. 07:18.200 --> 07:19.200 Come here. 07:19.200 --> 07:20.200 Come here. 07:20.200 --> 07:21.200 Come here. 07:21.200 --> 07:22.200 Come here. 07:22.200 --> 07:23.200 Come here. 07:23.200 --> 07:24.200 Come here. 07:24.200 --> 07:25.200 Little boy, come here. 07:25.200 --> 07:26.200 Here. 07:26.200 --> 07:27.200 I'll lift you up on the stand. 07:27.200 --> 07:28.200 Here we are. 07:28.200 --> 07:30.800 Now, slap him, little boy. 07:30.800 --> 07:32.280 Slap the mechanical man's face. 07:32.280 --> 07:33.780 Slap him. 07:33.780 --> 07:37.000 And Renée doesn't move a muscle. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.080 Nor does he even blink. 07:39.080 --> 07:41.120 Buy his pictures, ladies and gentlemen. 07:41.120 --> 07:53.400 Buy from Renée the Robot. 07:53.400 --> 08:02.160 Renée, come in, come in. 08:02.160 --> 08:07.400 I know why you've come to my trailer, Renée, for my compliments on your last performance. 08:07.400 --> 08:08.400 You were brilliant. 08:08.400 --> 08:10.400 Amara, you must listen to me. 08:10.400 --> 08:12.520 Oh, not for compliments, then for what? 08:12.520 --> 08:15.680 It's what happened in there in the tent, in the sideshow. 08:15.680 --> 08:18.280 Oh, then you resent the little boy who slapped you. 08:18.280 --> 08:20.160 I thought it was quite a nice touch, Renée. 08:20.160 --> 08:21.920 You're going too far, Amara. 08:21.920 --> 08:23.440 Tonight was the last indignity. 08:23.440 --> 08:24.440 You're quitting? 08:24.440 --> 08:25.440 It must stop. 08:25.440 --> 08:28.080 Then you've come to say goodbye. 08:28.080 --> 08:29.080 Yes. 08:29.080 --> 08:30.600 How many times have you said goodbye? 08:30.600 --> 08:31.600 Twenty times? 08:31.600 --> 08:32.600 A hundred and fifty times? 08:32.600 --> 08:33.600 This time, this time I actually... 08:33.600 --> 08:34.600 A thousand times? 08:34.600 --> 08:38.760 How many times in fifteen years, Renée? 08:38.760 --> 08:39.880 You can't leave. 08:39.880 --> 08:40.880 I won't permit it. 08:40.880 --> 08:43.360 All right, I gave you that much, Amara. 08:43.360 --> 08:46.760 Fifteen years, that long of dancing with toy drums. 08:46.760 --> 08:49.560 It's done now, over-finished. 08:49.560 --> 08:51.120 For a mechanical man? 08:51.120 --> 08:53.320 Oh, but I always forget. 08:53.320 --> 08:54.600 You're not a mechanical man. 08:54.600 --> 08:57.560 You're a person of passion, you always tell me. 08:57.560 --> 08:58.560 You've got feelings. 08:58.560 --> 08:59.560 Yes. 08:59.560 --> 09:00.560 Yes, this is true. 09:00.560 --> 09:02.960 I always forget. 09:02.960 --> 09:07.040 Fifteen years a man can forget in that length of time. 09:07.040 --> 09:10.080 You... what was that girl's name? 09:10.080 --> 09:11.080 No, no. 09:11.080 --> 09:12.360 You know the one I mean. 09:12.360 --> 09:14.280 I told you, Amara, I warned you. 09:14.280 --> 09:17.280 What was her name? 09:17.280 --> 09:20.560 Her name was Celia. 09:20.560 --> 09:21.720 Yes? 09:21.720 --> 09:23.000 I killed her. 09:23.000 --> 09:26.080 You strangled her, Renée, with her hair. 09:26.080 --> 09:30.880 Her name was Celia Barton, and I killed her. 09:30.880 --> 09:31.880 Of course. 09:31.880 --> 09:35.160 And you saw it, and you told no one. 09:35.160 --> 09:38.240 I'll never tell anyone, you're my major attraction, Renée. 09:38.240 --> 09:40.240 Why should I tell anyone? 09:40.240 --> 09:43.760 You're not going to leave, are you? 09:43.760 --> 09:44.760 No. 09:44.760 --> 09:45.760 You'll stay. 09:45.760 --> 09:48.760 And so will Gabrielle. 09:48.760 --> 09:49.880 Yeah. 09:49.880 --> 09:55.840 That puzzles me, a man like you and a woman like Gabrielle. 09:55.840 --> 09:56.840 So different. 09:56.840 --> 09:57.840 What do you do? 09:57.840 --> 09:59.800 What do you talk about? 09:59.800 --> 10:00.800 We're not different. 10:00.800 --> 10:04.040 A robot, cold without heart and no soul. 10:04.040 --> 10:05.920 Like Gabrielle, a flame. 10:05.920 --> 10:07.200 You're wrong, Amara. 10:07.200 --> 10:08.560 You have no understanding. 10:08.560 --> 10:10.960 You do not know what's inside of me. 10:10.960 --> 10:12.760 Cold without heart and no soul. 10:12.760 --> 10:14.800 I know what's inside of you, Renée. 10:14.800 --> 10:16.560 Pulleys and strings and wheels. 10:16.560 --> 10:18.560 Someday, someday, Amara, you'll... 10:18.560 --> 10:19.560 Kill me? 10:19.560 --> 10:20.560 Yes. 10:20.560 --> 10:21.560 Yes, I'll kill you, Amara. 10:21.560 --> 10:22.560 I'll kill you. 10:22.560 --> 10:23.560 Renée! 10:23.560 --> 10:24.560 Bow! 10:24.560 --> 10:25.560 Turn around. 10:25.560 --> 10:26.560 Get out. 10:26.560 --> 10:49.840 There is a reason why I did that for Amara, bowed for him, left him 15 years and listened 10:49.840 --> 10:53.800 to his voice that long, performed for him. 10:53.800 --> 10:55.840 Habit becomes strong. 10:55.840 --> 10:58.240 Because all of it had become habit. 10:58.240 --> 11:03.160 Amara, the carnival, the moving from here to another village to yet another and another 11:03.160 --> 11:05.000 and perform, perform. 11:05.000 --> 11:09.160 And the nights of the mist like tonight walk through it. 11:09.160 --> 11:15.280 The wet desert, pale reflections of light, the pockets of wind that swirled up the confetti 11:15.280 --> 11:17.240 had drifted away. 11:17.240 --> 11:22.480 Empty rides, the carnival that had run down. 11:22.480 --> 11:27.640 And shadows on peeling paint and shadows on shadows. 11:27.640 --> 11:35.360 And Gabrielle in our trailer waiting, waiting for me. 11:35.360 --> 11:39.040 Renée. 11:39.040 --> 11:41.520 I saw what he did to you today. 11:41.520 --> 11:43.000 That child slapping you. 11:43.000 --> 11:44.000 It amuses him. 11:44.000 --> 11:46.120 Everything I do amuses him. 11:46.120 --> 11:48.120 The boy slapped you here? 11:48.120 --> 11:49.120 Yes. 11:49.120 --> 11:50.120 There. 11:50.120 --> 11:52.120 The shame is gone. 11:52.120 --> 11:53.120 Oh. 11:53.120 --> 11:55.120 Now only your lips are gone. 11:55.120 --> 11:56.400 The shame is still there. 11:56.400 --> 11:57.920 Why do you permit it, Renée? 11:57.920 --> 11:58.920 No more. 11:58.920 --> 11:59.920 Yes, no more. 11:59.920 --> 12:01.720 We'll go away from this place, from Amara. 12:01.720 --> 12:02.720 He'd find us. 12:02.720 --> 12:03.880 Far from here, Renée, to a place where you... 12:03.880 --> 12:05.160 I said it, he'd find us. 12:05.160 --> 12:06.160 Well, let him. 12:06.160 --> 12:07.160 What difference does it make? 12:07.160 --> 12:08.160 You don't understand. 12:08.160 --> 12:09.160 Understand what? 12:09.160 --> 12:11.800 Understand how he makes a fool of you 10 times a day? 12:11.800 --> 12:12.800 Understand how he... 12:12.800 --> 12:13.800 Gabrielle. 12:13.800 --> 12:14.800 Gabrielle, my darling. 12:14.800 --> 12:15.800 What? 12:15.800 --> 12:16.800 What is it? 12:16.800 --> 12:17.800 Amara, he... 12:17.800 --> 12:18.800 Yes? 12:18.800 --> 12:23.200 Kill him. 12:23.200 --> 12:25.720 Kill him for me, Gabrielle. 12:25.720 --> 12:26.720 You kill him. 12:26.720 --> 12:27.720 What? 12:27.720 --> 12:28.720 Kill him, kill him. 12:28.720 --> 12:29.720 Don't you see it's the only way? 12:29.720 --> 12:30.720 Kill him? 12:30.720 --> 12:31.720 I... 12:31.720 --> 12:33.080 Gabrielle, listen to me, believe me. 12:33.080 --> 12:34.760 It's the only way we can be happy. 12:34.760 --> 12:35.760 Amara has to die. 12:35.760 --> 12:37.760 He must die, Gabrielle. 12:37.760 --> 12:40.360 And then we can be together. 12:40.360 --> 12:42.000 Always, always together. 12:42.000 --> 12:43.080 But, kill him. 12:43.080 --> 12:45.320 You must do this for me. 12:45.320 --> 12:48.280 Just now I tried and I cannot. 12:48.280 --> 12:51.400 You hate him and you want us to be together and you can't kill him. 12:51.400 --> 12:52.400 Why? 12:52.400 --> 12:53.400 Because... 12:53.400 --> 12:57.120 Because 15 years on the platform performing for him, moving according to his demand and 12:57.120 --> 12:58.920 now just talking to him. 12:58.920 --> 13:00.600 He speaks my name and I perform. 13:00.600 --> 13:04.160 I could not get close enough to kill him. 13:04.160 --> 13:06.760 I can only perform. 13:06.760 --> 13:07.760 Then you are... 13:07.760 --> 13:10.600 You are the mechanical man. 13:10.600 --> 13:13.560 Everything Amara says about you, it's true. 13:13.560 --> 13:15.720 He loves you. 13:15.720 --> 13:17.000 Dance with him. 13:17.000 --> 13:18.000 Drink with him. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 Poison him. 13:19.000 --> 13:20.000 Kill him. 13:20.000 --> 13:21.000 Renée, the robot. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.440 Does a robot hate? 13:23.440 --> 13:25.040 Does a robot know jealousy? 13:25.040 --> 13:28.400 Does he love? 13:28.400 --> 13:30.400 Am I a robot? 13:30.400 --> 13:31.400 Gabrielle. 13:31.400 --> 13:33.400 Oh, I love you. 13:33.400 --> 13:34.400 Love you. 13:34.400 --> 13:35.400 Kill him. 13:35.400 --> 13:36.400 Yes. 13:36.400 --> 13:52.080 Yes. 13:52.080 --> 13:56.600 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Joseph Cotton in Carnival. 13:56.600 --> 14:11.800 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:11.800 --> 14:16.440 Say Harlow, Auto Light spark plugs aren't just made, are they? 14:16.440 --> 14:21.360 No sir Oscar, Auto Light spark plugs are ignition engineered and that means they're designed 14:21.360 --> 14:26.040 by the same skilled Auto Light engineers who designed the coil, distributor and all the 14:26.040 --> 14:31.120 other important parts of complete ignition systems used as original equipment on many 14:31.120 --> 14:34.400 leading makes of our finest cars, trucks and tractors. 14:34.400 --> 14:35.640 And we love them. 14:35.640 --> 14:39.960 Auto Light makes a complete line of spark plugs including the famous Auto Light resistor 14:39.960 --> 14:44.840 spark plug that gives double life, greater gas savings and quicker starts. 14:44.840 --> 14:49.680 Auto Light also makes a special transport spark plug for heavy duty use in tractors 14:49.680 --> 14:54.960 and trucks and a complete line of spark plugs for marine and all other types of internal 14:54.960 --> 14:55.960 combustion engines. 14:55.960 --> 15:00.280 And you get them at your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer. 15:00.280 --> 15:04.200 So friends, see your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer soon. 15:04.200 --> 15:09.440 Have him compare your spark plugs with the exclusive Auto Light plug check indicator 15:09.440 --> 15:14.120 so you can be sure your spark plugs are right for your style of driving. 15:14.120 --> 15:20.080 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 15:20.080 --> 15:26.480 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Joseph Cotton in Elliot Lewis's 15:26.480 --> 15:34.640 production of Carnival, a dramatic report well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:34.640 --> 15:48.560 Get your tickets here for the spectacular attractions that you will see inside. 15:48.560 --> 15:54.440 Rollo the Giant stands eight feet nine inches tall, his little finger as big around as your 15:54.440 --> 15:55.440 wrist. 15:55.440 --> 15:59.720 Rene the Robot, the man who walks and talks and thinks like a machine. 15:59.720 --> 16:04.520 Rene the Mechanical Man, yes, you'll see them all and many more inside. 16:04.520 --> 16:11.640 One ticket takes you all the way through, so step right up. 16:11.640 --> 16:17.680 It was sunlight when we listened to him, when Gabrielle and I listened to Omara. 16:17.680 --> 16:20.600 Late of the day, he was going to die. 16:20.600 --> 16:26.880 The carnival stood red and gold and green and bronze against the heat-shivering sky. 16:26.880 --> 16:31.600 And through the dull glinting dust, the crowd funneled to the stand of that, to this novelty, 16:31.600 --> 16:34.000 to that attraction that kept on all day. 16:34.000 --> 16:36.080 The procession of seekers. 16:36.080 --> 16:40.240 And later when the sun went down, thirst misdescended. 16:40.240 --> 16:46.000 And later when it was night and it was shadows again. 16:46.000 --> 16:51.600 And then it became a certain time, a time of importance, the hour interval before my 16:51.600 --> 16:53.680 last performance. 16:53.680 --> 17:00.280 The hour when Omara would die and Gabrielle would kill him. 17:00.280 --> 17:01.280 I'm frightened, Rene. 17:01.280 --> 17:05.200 Yes, but you must wipe the fright from your face when you are with him. 17:05.200 --> 17:08.880 Be gay, Gabrielle, frivolous for a while, then warm. 17:08.880 --> 17:09.880 I know. 17:09.880 --> 17:13.880 Here, here near the cage, let there's no one will see us. 17:13.880 --> 17:16.080 You will be warm for Omara, Gabrielle. 17:16.080 --> 17:18.920 You will wait on him and be beautiful for him. 17:18.920 --> 17:21.720 He will drink a toast to your beauty with this. 17:21.720 --> 17:23.680 Where did you get it? 17:23.680 --> 17:24.680 I got it. 17:24.680 --> 17:27.520 A few drops from this bottle into his glass. 17:27.520 --> 17:28.520 Take it. 17:28.520 --> 17:29.520 Take it, Gabrielle. 17:29.520 --> 17:30.520 All right. 17:30.520 --> 17:37.680 And when Omara dies, Rene the robot will die with him. 17:37.680 --> 17:38.680 Yes. 17:38.680 --> 17:40.560 My last performance is at 11. 17:40.560 --> 17:43.440 My last performance will not happen, will it? 17:43.440 --> 17:44.440 No. 17:44.440 --> 17:48.200 Because in a few minutes you will meet Omara in our trailer. 17:48.200 --> 17:50.200 He will be there, won't he? 17:50.200 --> 17:51.200 You asked him there. 17:51.200 --> 17:52.200 Yes, yes. 17:52.200 --> 17:53.200 Rene. 17:53.200 --> 17:54.200 What? 17:54.200 --> 17:55.200 What is it? 17:55.200 --> 17:56.200 Rene, nothing. 17:56.200 --> 17:57.200 I will do it. 17:57.200 --> 17:58.200 Now go to him. 17:58.200 --> 17:59.200 Kill him. 17:59.200 --> 18:19.120 You cage the leopard, wait with me. 18:19.120 --> 18:22.160 You behind your bars, I behind mine. 18:22.160 --> 18:23.160 Wait. 18:23.160 --> 18:24.160 Walk with me. 18:24.160 --> 18:25.160 Wait with me. 18:25.160 --> 18:27.360 Oh, leopard, forgive me. 18:27.360 --> 18:29.400 I am more fortunate than you. 18:29.400 --> 18:32.840 Time passes and the minutes go and my prison will dissolve. 18:32.840 --> 18:37.120 A man will die and with his dying I will be free. 18:37.120 --> 18:38.560 And time passes, leopard. 18:38.560 --> 18:41.840 A man is dying and I am coming alive. 18:41.840 --> 18:47.280 The things I feel now, you would understand if those bars were being torn aside for you. 18:47.280 --> 18:49.280 A crouch. 18:49.280 --> 18:52.280 A little longer. 18:52.280 --> 18:53.680 Little longer. 18:53.680 --> 18:58.440 And then exhilaration, the joy, the leap. 18:58.440 --> 19:03.680 Omara is dead. 19:03.680 --> 19:11.480 Rene, where have you been Rene? 19:11.480 --> 19:12.480 Omara. 19:12.480 --> 19:13.480 I have been looking for you. 19:13.480 --> 19:14.960 There are people in there in the tent. 19:14.960 --> 19:15.960 They are waiting for you. 19:15.960 --> 19:16.960 Omara. 19:16.960 --> 19:17.960 For Rene the robot. 19:17.960 --> 19:18.960 Come on. 19:18.960 --> 19:29.720 Bow Rene. 19:29.720 --> 19:33.320 Makes you forget his flesh and blood doesn't he ladies and gentlemen? 19:33.320 --> 19:34.320 Walk Rene. 19:34.320 --> 19:36.960 Like a mechanical doll. 19:36.960 --> 19:39.920 Like a puppet on strings. 19:39.920 --> 19:41.920 And now a divertissement. 19:41.920 --> 19:46.000 Ladies and gentlemen, I have here in my hand a bottle. 19:46.000 --> 19:47.000 A small bottle. 19:47.000 --> 19:48.000 A brown bottle. 19:48.000 --> 19:51.960 You sir in the audience, would you mind holding it for me? 19:51.960 --> 19:52.960 Oh sure. 19:52.960 --> 19:53.960 Give it to me. 19:53.960 --> 19:54.960 Now hold it up. 19:54.960 --> 19:55.960 Let everybody see it. 19:55.960 --> 19:58.160 A small brown bottle ladies and gentlemen. 19:58.160 --> 20:00.320 Sir, what does it say on the label? 20:00.320 --> 20:01.320 Says poison. 20:01.320 --> 20:02.320 Poison. 20:02.320 --> 20:03.320 That's right. 20:03.320 --> 20:04.320 Unscrew the cap. 20:04.320 --> 20:06.320 There is nothing to be afraid of. 20:06.320 --> 20:07.320 Thank you. 20:07.320 --> 20:08.320 You crazy. 20:08.320 --> 20:12.440 You don't respond when I tell you to do something, do you sir? 20:12.440 --> 20:13.440 Drink it. 20:13.440 --> 20:14.440 You crazy. 20:14.440 --> 20:16.160 Then you believe it's poison, do you not? 20:16.160 --> 20:18.960 If it says poison, I'm not taking any chances. 20:18.960 --> 20:21.360 Here's your bottle back mister. 20:21.360 --> 20:22.360 No, no. 20:22.360 --> 20:23.360 Hand it to that girl. 20:23.360 --> 20:25.480 That lovely girl there who just laughed. 20:25.480 --> 20:26.480 Take it from me miss. 20:26.480 --> 20:27.480 All right. 20:27.480 --> 20:29.680 If I asked you to drink it, would you drink it? 20:29.680 --> 20:30.680 No. 20:30.680 --> 20:31.680 And why not? 20:31.680 --> 20:32.680 Because it's poison. 20:32.680 --> 20:33.680 Poison. 20:33.680 --> 20:37.440 A young woman gave me this bottle a little while ago. 20:37.440 --> 20:38.440 Her name is Gabrielle. 20:38.440 --> 20:41.880 Oh but this is of no interest to you ladies and gentlemen. 20:41.880 --> 20:44.600 What's of interest to you is Rene the robot. 20:44.600 --> 20:47.160 Rene I have the bottle back please. 20:47.160 --> 20:49.640 Thank you. 20:49.640 --> 20:52.200 Would you drink from this bottle Rene? 20:52.200 --> 20:54.520 Yes, I would. 20:54.520 --> 20:56.840 Even though you know it's poison? 20:56.840 --> 20:58.480 Yes. 20:58.480 --> 20:59.960 Because I tell you to. 20:59.960 --> 21:03.160 Yes, because you tell me to. 21:03.160 --> 21:04.160 Drink. 21:04.160 --> 21:11.000 You see, you see ladies and gentlemen. 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 He drank it. 21:12.000 --> 21:13.000 Drained it. 21:13.000 --> 21:14.960 But Rene it wasn't poison. 21:14.960 --> 21:18.240 Once the bottle held poison but that's another story. 21:18.240 --> 21:20.880 It was only colored water that Rene drank. 21:20.880 --> 21:24.800 And now with your permission we will have Rene do a little dance for us. 21:24.800 --> 21:27.800 Put on your drum Rene. 21:27.800 --> 21:33.640 You dance very well tonight Rene. 21:33.640 --> 21:35.520 Oh beautifully. 21:35.520 --> 21:38.640 Dance Rene, dance and listen. 21:38.640 --> 21:40.680 I went to Gabrielle. 21:40.680 --> 21:41.680 Spoke love to her. 21:41.680 --> 21:43.400 I was right about her. 21:43.400 --> 21:44.880 She is a flame. 21:44.880 --> 21:45.880 Unforgettable. 21:45.880 --> 21:47.760 Love and wine. 21:47.760 --> 21:50.240 When she handed me the glass her hand shook. 21:50.240 --> 21:53.200 Dance Rene, the people love you. 21:53.200 --> 21:56.360 Her hand shook and then she dropped it. 21:56.360 --> 21:59.360 She dropped the glass. 21:59.360 --> 22:06.840 Wouldn't you like a beautiful mechanical doll like this to take home girls? 22:06.840 --> 22:20.520 Gabrielle, he's alive. 22:20.520 --> 22:21.960 Hold me, just hold me. 22:21.960 --> 22:22.960 What happened? 22:22.960 --> 22:23.960 Why is he alive? 22:23.960 --> 22:24.960 Love me Rene, tell me it's all right. 22:24.960 --> 22:25.960 Mara's alive, why? 22:25.960 --> 22:27.320 I tried to do what you told me. 22:27.320 --> 22:28.960 I permitted him to hold me in his arms. 22:28.960 --> 22:30.440 I permitted him to kiss me. 22:30.440 --> 22:31.440 I laughed. 22:31.440 --> 22:32.440 I was gay. 22:32.440 --> 22:34.400 Then from the bottle. 22:34.400 --> 22:37.680 From the bottle Rene, the poison. 22:37.680 --> 22:39.480 I poured him a drink. 22:39.480 --> 22:41.360 Your hand shook and you dropped it. 22:41.360 --> 22:42.800 Yes, how could you know? 22:42.800 --> 22:44.520 How could I know? 22:44.520 --> 22:46.560 Your hand shook and you dropped it. 22:46.560 --> 22:47.560 Why? 22:47.560 --> 22:48.560 You kissed him. 22:48.560 --> 22:49.920 It was so pleasant that you... 22:49.920 --> 22:51.920 No, no, I love you Rene. 22:51.920 --> 22:54.200 Even now that I know everything about you, I love you. 22:54.200 --> 22:55.820 What do you know? 22:55.820 --> 22:57.440 Why you wanted Amara dead. 22:57.440 --> 22:58.440 What did he tell you? 22:58.440 --> 23:00.360 About a girl, a girl named Celia. 23:00.360 --> 23:01.600 A girl you killed. 23:01.600 --> 23:02.600 How you killed her. 23:02.600 --> 23:03.600 She was beautiful. 23:03.600 --> 23:04.600 Like me? 23:04.600 --> 23:05.600 Like you. 23:05.600 --> 23:11.280 So many things I understand now Rene. 23:11.280 --> 23:13.400 Why you are what you are, why you do what you... 23:13.400 --> 23:15.080 What am I? 23:15.080 --> 23:17.400 To me, my love. 23:17.400 --> 23:19.960 To the world what Amara has made of you, a robot. 23:19.960 --> 23:22.400 You could have ended it for me Gabriella. 23:22.400 --> 23:24.720 I cannot, ever Rene, I cannot kill. 23:24.720 --> 23:28.720 More and more and more what Amara does to me, a word from Amara, a movement of Amara's 23:28.720 --> 23:31.880 mouth, a gesture from him and a response. 23:31.880 --> 23:32.880 Rene. 23:32.880 --> 23:37.880 You told him everything, gave him the bottle of poison, confessed you could not kill him. 23:37.880 --> 23:38.880 Why? 23:38.880 --> 23:39.880 Wait. 23:39.880 --> 23:44.440 No, with you I was alive a little bit. 23:44.440 --> 23:46.320 I could be jealous. 23:46.320 --> 23:48.320 Now I'm lost. 23:48.320 --> 23:50.840 No, wait. 23:50.840 --> 23:53.840 My hair Rene. 23:53.840 --> 23:56.840 Touch it. 23:56.840 --> 23:59.840 See, you're not lost. 23:59.840 --> 24:09.040 You're here with me, with Gabriella, with Gabriella. 24:09.040 --> 24:10.040 You should have killed him. 24:10.040 --> 24:11.040 I couldn't. 24:11.040 --> 24:12.040 Because you love him. 24:12.040 --> 24:15.560 You and Amara, the puppet of both of you, a mechanical doll. 24:15.560 --> 24:16.560 No, no, listen. 24:16.560 --> 24:18.880 A mechanical doll to play with like a toy. 24:18.880 --> 24:19.880 That other one too. 24:19.880 --> 24:22.640 Celia too, like her, you. 24:22.640 --> 24:24.000 I'm Gabriella, I love you. 24:24.000 --> 24:25.000 Like her? 24:25.000 --> 24:26.000 Rene, no, don't. 24:26.000 --> 24:27.000 Like her. 24:27.000 --> 24:28.000 Like her. 24:28.000 --> 24:31.000 Like her. 24:31.000 --> 24:46.480 She lay there, Gabriella, her hair a veil across her mouth against her throat where 24:46.480 --> 24:49.200 I had twisted it. 24:49.200 --> 24:54.480 I brushed it aside, leaned over, whispered a name on her lips. 24:54.480 --> 24:56.440 She didn't answer me. 24:56.440 --> 25:00.360 She lay still, Gabriella lay still. 25:00.360 --> 25:05.480 I lifted her, held her in my arms. 25:05.480 --> 25:13.680 A pale light from outside touched her cheek, held, and through the window outside was mist 25:13.680 --> 25:18.280 and the carnival and the seekers still there for the last show. 25:18.280 --> 25:26.760 Here and there the carnival lights die one by one and the light on Gabriella's cheek 25:26.760 --> 25:28.760 dies too. 25:28.760 --> 25:30.760 No, Gabriella. 25:30.760 --> 25:33.480 She's dead, Rene. 25:33.480 --> 25:34.480 You killed her. 25:34.480 --> 25:35.480 Put her down. 25:35.480 --> 25:36.480 No, Amara. 25:36.480 --> 25:37.480 Put her down. 25:37.480 --> 25:38.480 Rene, walk. 25:38.480 --> 25:51.720 Turn left, Rene, to the tent. 25:51.720 --> 25:54.120 They're waiting for you. 25:54.120 --> 25:57.720 You'll strangle tonight, Rene. 25:57.720 --> 25:59.920 Again, strangle. 25:59.920 --> 26:02.920 Rene, walk. 26:02.920 --> 26:03.920 Rene. 26:03.920 --> 26:04.920 Rene. 26:04.920 --> 26:05.920 Rene. 26:05.920 --> 26:06.920 Rene. 26:06.920 --> 26:08.920 Rene. 26:08.920 --> 26:23.400 I weigh 343 pounds, married and no children. 26:23.400 --> 26:26.040 I joined the sideshow at the age of 22. 26:26.040 --> 26:28.080 I am Rene Orlando. 26:28.080 --> 26:31.880 I was born in Louisiana, a small town near the Gulf. 26:31.880 --> 26:33.920 My father was a fisherman. 26:33.920 --> 26:36.480 I do not remember my mother. 26:36.480 --> 26:40.520 I was 15 years old when we moved to Baton Rouge. 26:40.520 --> 26:43.280 There I discovered my talent. 26:43.280 --> 26:46.240 My talent is killing. 26:46.240 --> 26:50.840 Long ago, I killed Celia. 26:50.840 --> 26:56.040 Tonight I killed Gabrielle and Amara. 26:56.040 --> 27:24.800 Now I will dance for you. 27:24.800 --> 27:27.280 Suspense. 27:27.280 --> 27:28.640 Presented by Auto Light. 27:28.640 --> 27:31.360 Tonight's star, Mr. Joseph Cotton. 27:31.360 --> 27:35.800 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer of 27:35.800 --> 27:38.200 automotive electrical equipment. 27:38.200 --> 27:41.600 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:41.600 --> 27:46.300 That's why during the early months of 1952, the Auto Light family will join together in 27:46.300 --> 27:51.940 saluting the leading car manufacturers who install Auto Light products as original equipment. 27:51.940 --> 27:56.480 Our Auto Light family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light 27:56.480 --> 28:01.640 plants from coast to coast and in still other Auto Light plants in many foreign countries. 28:01.640 --> 28:05.900 Our family also includes more than 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their 28:05.900 --> 28:11.440 savings in Auto Light, as well as 96,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers throughout 28:11.440 --> 28:12.920 the world. 28:12.920 --> 28:17.280 Our Auto Light family will salute Willis Overland on the next Auto Light suspense television 28:17.280 --> 28:18.280 program. 28:18.280 --> 28:22.600 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of Suspense on Television so 28:22.600 --> 28:25.200 that you will be sure to see this program. 28:25.200 --> 28:31.240 And remember, be with us next week for another thrilling Auto Light suspense program on radio. 28:31.240 --> 28:36.360 Next week our star will be Mr. J. Carroll Nash as a man who searched for and found buried 28:36.360 --> 28:42.400 treasure and a curse, a tale we call The Treasure Chest of Don José. 28:42.400 --> 28:47.040 In weeks to come we shall also present Mr. James Mason, Miss Barbara Stanwyck and Mr. 28:47.040 --> 28:48.560 Richard Widmark. 28:48.560 --> 28:54.200 All on Suspense. 28:54.200 --> 28:58.080 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawekin 28:58.080 --> 29:00.080 conducted by Lud Gluskin. 29:00.080 --> 29:03.840 Carnival was written for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 29:03.840 --> 29:08.440 In tonight's story Mary Jane Croft is heard as Gabrielle and Joseph Kearns as Omara, featured 29:08.440 --> 29:12.640 in the cast were Dick Ryan, Charles Calvert and Sylvia Sims. 29:12.640 --> 29:18.480 Joseph Kearns, Joseph Cotton is currently starring in the MGM production Man with a Cloak. 29:18.480 --> 29:24.440 And remember next week on Suspense, Mr. J. Carroll Nash in The Treasure Chest of Don 29:24.440 --> 29:25.440 José. 29:25.440 --> 29:43.040 This is the CBS Radio Network.