1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,600 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Richard Widmark in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:21,000 of Suspense. 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Tonight Auto Light presents a dramatization of Walter Van Tilbert Clark's study in panic, 4 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:32,000 The Track of the Cat, starring Mr. Richard Widmark. 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Hello, Mr. Wilcox. 6 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Well, gas me up if it isn't Sam, my Auto Light spark plug man. 7 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:43,000 How's it going, Sam? 8 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Great. 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 You mean my exclusive Auto Light plug check indicator. 10 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,560 Ah, that super sleuth is really doing a job, eh, Sam? 11 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:51,560 You bet. 12 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:56,240 It quickly and accurately shows my customers if their car's spark plugs need cleaning, 13 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,300 or if they're worn out or wrong for their style of driving. 14 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:01,000 And if they need cleaning, Sam? 15 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,600 Why, then I do the job fast and fine with my modern equipment. 16 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,240 And if those spark plugs are worn out or wrong? 17 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,240 Oh, you know the answer, Mr. Wilcox. 18 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:11,640 I sure do, Sam. 19 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:16,200 You install ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs for smoother performance, quick 20 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,280 starts and gas savings. 21 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:23,520 So friends, take a tip from me and visit your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer. 22 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:29,680 You can learn his location by calling Western Union by number and asking for operator 25. 23 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:34,280 She will quickly tell you the location of your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer. 24 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:40,520 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 25 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:46,720 And now, with the track of the cat and the performance of Mr. Richard Widmark, Auto Light 26 00:01:46,720 --> 00:02:05,640 hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 27 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:06,640 Gotta get this fire going. 28 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:07,640 I got it. 29 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:08,640 It's my last chance. 30 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:12,960 I'm freezed to death out here tonight if I don't. 31 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:14,960 That or be cat meat. 32 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:15,960 Snow. 33 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:17,840 Nothing but snow. 34 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:22,440 And that black murdering devil waiting out there in the dark for me. 35 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,560 That big black cat waiting for his chance. 36 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,840 There she goes. 37 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,400 That'll hold Mr. Cat for a while. 38 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,120 Cats are afraid of fire. 39 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:34,860 Even big black ones. 40 00:02:34,860 --> 00:02:38,080 Even a big black panther big as a horse won't fool around a fire. 41 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,080 No, Sam. 42 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,720 What am I talking about? 43 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,360 Where are you gonna find a black panther on a range in Nevada? 44 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,400 Some lion, that's all he is. 45 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,960 Big maybe, but just a plain mountain cat and that's all. 46 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,000 Nothing but superstition all that other talk. 47 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Crazy Indian superstition. 48 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Fire sure makes a man feel good. 49 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:03,760 Good and kind of drowsy. 50 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:04,760 No sleep though. 51 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,760 He mustn't go to sleep. 52 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,000 That's all that cat's waiting for out there in the trees. 53 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Me to go to sleep and the fire go out. 54 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Gotta keep awake. 55 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Gotta take a nap. 56 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,160 Gotta do something to keep awake. 57 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,440 Think about tracking the cat. 58 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,640 How I got started. 59 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:25,960 Two days, two nights. 60 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,800 Almost three nights ago. 61 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,960 Five o'clock in the morning. 62 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,000 Asleep in a bunkhouse with a storm beginning outside with me not hearing it. 63 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,920 Not hearing anything because I was asleep. 64 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:38,920 So sound asleep. 65 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:44,320 Kurt. 66 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:49,120 Kurt. 67 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:55,560 Wake up. 68 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:56,560 Wake up Kurt. 69 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:57,560 Arthur. 70 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:58,560 What's the matter? 71 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,080 What's the matter with you? 72 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:02,640 Cows are balling up in the canyon. 73 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:03,640 Something's happening. 74 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:04,640 Oh for Pete's sake. 75 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,920 You have to wake me up every time you have one of your crazy dreams. 76 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:08,920 Go back to bed. 77 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:09,920 It's no dream Kurt. 78 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:11,480 Oh you too Hal. 79 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,240 You only hear it when the wind's right. 80 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:15,240 Listen. 81 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,840 Well how long's that been going on? 82 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:19,240 Why didn't you let me know sooner? 83 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:20,440 We've just been awake a few minutes. 84 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:21,440 We wanted to be sure. 85 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:22,440 A few minutes. 86 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,400 And that going on all the time? 87 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,640 Fine couple of brothers I got to help me run a ranch. 88 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:32,040 One good for nothing but dreaming and the other good for nothing but thinking about 89 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:33,040 that galley. 90 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,360 Let's leave her out of it huh? 91 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:35,840 How can I leave her out of it? 92 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:38,200 You practically moved her into the house didn't you? 93 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:39,480 Quit ragging the kid Kurt. 94 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:40,720 She's just here for a visit. 95 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:41,720 You know that. 96 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:42,720 Yeah. 97 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:43,880 Well get your clothes on. 98 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,240 What are you standing there for? 99 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,600 You think that cat's going to wait for us? 100 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:49,040 You figure it is a cat? 101 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,720 What else could it be running cattle like that? 102 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:56,800 Or maybe you think it's that black panther Joe Sam talks about huh? 103 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:01,720 I swear Arthur sometimes I think you're as crazy as that crazy old Indian. 104 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:02,720 Could be. 105 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,680 Could be that me and Joe Sam are just the ones that ain't crazy. 106 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,580 Indian lover and cat lover. 107 00:05:08,580 --> 00:05:12,520 But don't think you ain't going to go out there with me because you are. 108 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:13,680 Any way you want it Kurt. 109 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:14,680 I'll go with you Kurt. 110 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:15,680 Oh no. 111 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,360 No you got to stick around and take care of that gal. 112 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,320 Yeah listen to that. 113 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:21,760 I woke the old lady up. 114 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,080 She's come down to the kitchen. 115 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,840 I suppose now she's going to give me some kind of argument. 116 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:27,720 Why you always got to pick on everybody Kurt? 117 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:28,720 First Gwen now Molly. 118 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:29,720 What's the matter Hal? 119 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,600 You worried about me and that gal Gwen of yours? 120 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:38,600 Come on let's go. 121 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,320 Up kind of early ain't you Ma? 122 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:41,320 Hi Ma. 123 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,720 I figured you'd be wanting breakfast. 124 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:44,720 Just coffee. 125 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,920 Some cat's running the cattle up in the canyon. 126 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:47,920 I heard. 127 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:48,920 You going up there? 128 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,340 Well you don't think I'm going to sit around here in my hands while some thieving mountain 129 00:05:53,340 --> 00:05:56,040 cat kills off our best steers do you? 130 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,640 Well sit down all of you. 131 00:05:57,640 --> 00:05:58,640 Here's your coffee. 132 00:05:58,640 --> 00:05:59,640 Thank you Ma. 133 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:00,640 Kurt. 134 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:01,640 What? 135 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,040 I don't want for you to go. 136 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:08,480 I suppose what I got to say don't carry much weight around here but I don't want for you 137 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:09,480 to go. 138 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,720 Well I'm going and so's your dreamer boy Arthur. 139 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,520 Been starting a blizzard out Kurt and a bad one. 140 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,840 I've been out in a little snow before ain't I? 141 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:19,600 Well it ain't the same. 142 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,400 It's the first snow of the year. 143 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,800 No I thought so. 144 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,240 You've been talking to that crazy old Indian too haven't you? 145 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:28,600 I ain't either. 146 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,240 But nobody hardly talked to him today the shape he's in. 147 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,160 All spooked up again huh? 148 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,360 Black panthers first snow. 149 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,440 And you believe in it. 150 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:38,440 Where is he Ma? 151 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:42,560 Oh I told him to fetch some wood to get him inside. 152 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,600 Wonder he ain't froze to death out there half the night and nothing but his shirt and jeans 153 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,920 and them little thin moccasins. 154 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:49,920 Maybe I better go get him. 155 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,300 Will you sit down and drink your coffee? 156 00:06:52,300 --> 00:06:55,120 We got to be leaving here in a co... 157 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,760 Well if it ain't our little lady visitor. 158 00:06:58,760 --> 00:06:59,760 Good morning. 159 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:00,760 Hello honey. 160 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:01,760 Morning Gwen. 161 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:04,280 Come sit down have some hot coffee child. 162 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:05,280 Thank you. 163 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:07,200 No need for you to got up this early you know. 164 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,760 Maybe she got up special just to see us off. 165 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,160 See who off? 166 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:12,160 Where? 167 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,240 Oh mountain cats after the cattle. 168 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,440 Kurt's bound there going up there to get him. 169 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,280 Oh Hal in this storm? 170 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,320 Don't worry about your precious Hal. 171 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,360 I'm leaving him here to take care of you. 172 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:23,680 I said I'd go didn't I? 173 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:29,440 Besides if it is that spook panther of Joe Sam's I'll need Arthur here to make big medicine. 174 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:34,400 He's almost as good at that Indian medicine as Joe Sam himself ain't you Art? 175 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:39,360 You never will learn not to write a good thing too hard will you Kurt? 176 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,480 I guess I'm a little confused. 177 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:43,480 Spook panthers? 178 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:44,480 Indian medicine? 179 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:45,480 It's nothing honey. 180 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,280 It's just Kurt's little joke. 181 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Yeah. 182 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:49,280 Here's Joe Sam. 183 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,440 Close the door after him Hal. 184 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,040 That's right. 185 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:58,280 Now go on just dump it in the wood box Joe Sam. 186 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,440 That's right. 187 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:01,960 Now drink this hot coffee. 188 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:06,200 For land's sake you're shaking like a leaf. 189 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,200 Joe Sam here coffee. 190 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,160 Yeah he don't want no coffee. 191 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:11,160 He don't even hear you. 192 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,640 He just wants to sit there and go off into one of them prances of his. 193 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:19,440 Hey Joe Sam you seeing that spook panther now Joe Sam? 194 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,640 Leave him alone Kurt. 195 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:26,360 I do wish somebody would tell me what this is all about unless it's a family secret. 196 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,760 Well there you hear that Joe Sam? 197 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:33,320 Go ahead tell the little lady about that big old black spook. 198 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:38,160 It looks like I'll have to do the honors myself. 199 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,680 You see it's this way little lady. 200 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:45,800 According to Joe Sam there's a black panther roams this part of the country. 201 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,320 Comes with the first snow every year and he's big. 202 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,800 Big as a horse and eyes like coals of fire. 203 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,760 And you can see right through him. 204 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,880 And you can shoot right through him too. 205 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:04,360 And still he'll keep coming until he gets you because he can't never die he's a spook. 206 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:10,520 Kind of frightening. 207 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,560 For old women and for dreamers maybe. 208 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:14,800 Now come on dreamer boy let's go. 209 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,880 I suppose you're going to wear that old cow hide parka too. 210 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,920 Maybe you should look even more like a medicine man. 211 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:21,320 Keeps me warm. 212 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:26,320 Oh be careful please and don't stay out there beyond nightfall. 213 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:27,320 Yeah sure sure. 214 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:28,320 Way well Ma. 215 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:29,320 Arthur. 216 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,520 Well come to life did he? 217 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,320 Arthur no go. 218 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,440 It's all right Joe Sam. 219 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:42,160 No Arthur not please no go. 220 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,120 I got to Joe Sam we both do. 221 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,520 Will you come on and stop pylavering with that old fool. 222 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,160 All right Kurt all right. 223 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,280 You go Arthur. 224 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:53,280 Got to. 225 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:55,480 But don't you worry. 226 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,520 Then you go. 227 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,640 But you'll not come back. 228 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:16,640 You'll not ever ever come back. 229 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:25,320 Auto light is bringing you Mr. Richard Widmark in the track of the cat. 230 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:40,320 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 231 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:44,960 Sam my auto light spark plug man why do you recommend ignition engineered auto light spark 232 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:45,960 plugs. 233 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,240 It's not easy Mr. Wilcox it's because. 234 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:53,000 Because they're designed by the same skilled auto light engineers who design the coil distributor 235 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,800 and all the other important parts of complete ignition systems used as original equipment 236 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,240 on many leading makes of our finest cars trucks and tractors. 237 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:02,240 Eh Sam? 238 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:03,240 That's right. 239 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,560 Those auto light spark plugs are designed to work as a team with the complete ignition 240 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:08,160 system. 241 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,840 Take the new auto light resistor spark plug for instance. 242 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:15,280 Ah it gives smoother performance greater gas savings and quicker starts and it's only one 243 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,840 of a complete line of ignition engineered auto light spark plugs designed for every 244 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:20,840 use. 245 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,800 So see your nearest auto light spark plug dealer soon. 246 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:28,720 Right your auto light spark plug dealers exclusive plug check indicator will quickly show you 247 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,260 if your spark plugs are right for your style of driving. 248 00:11:32,260 --> 00:11:38,360 And remember from bumper to tail light you're always right with auto light. 249 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:44,640 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Richard Widmark in Elliot 250 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,160 Lewis' production of The Track of the Cat. 251 00:11:48,160 --> 00:12:08,060 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 252 00:12:08,060 --> 00:12:12,760 Even after we was saddled up and heading out across a range I was still laughing to myself 253 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:18,720 at what the old man had said to Arthur about not coming back and how solemn he said it. 254 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,440 I tried to get a look at Arthur to see how he was taking it but you never could tell 255 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:24,400 with that one. 256 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,120 Well we hit the draw that leads into the canyon about daylight. 257 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:32,680 It's a real box canyon with a steep slope to the north and a sheer drop off the east 258 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:34,280 face. 259 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,200 We couldn't hear the cattle now but we could see their tracks in the snow where they was 260 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,560 heading up the canyon. 261 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:42,960 And then I saw what I'd been looking for. 262 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,120 Hey look look at that you see them tracks? 263 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,160 Cat all right big one. 264 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,400 Yeah pretty near as big as a horse at that. 265 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:56,080 But you won't see through the cat that made them tracks he's real enough. 266 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:57,960 Come on most like he's still up there. 267 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,280 Not what he was them fool horses. 268 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,280 Look up ahead. 269 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,920 To steer. 270 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,480 He dead with his neck broke by the looks. 271 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:10,000 That's what ails the horses. 272 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 They don't like the blood. 273 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,080 Look up there you're right. 274 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,480 Two more that's three of my best steers. 275 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,880 Oh he's been up here killing for fun. 276 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,640 Don't look like he's up here now though. 277 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,400 There goes the track up in North Slope. 278 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,240 Yeah he's gone all right but he ain't been gone long. 279 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,840 Tracks as fresh and clear as print on a page. 280 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:30,240 I'm going after him. 281 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,720 You'll need snowshoes. 282 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,960 You'll need grub. 283 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:35,240 I'll go back after it if you like. 284 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,800 I'll go myself if it's all the same. 285 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,760 You stay here and hold the trail. 286 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:40,760 Either way. 287 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:42,560 No not either way that way. 288 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:45,800 Unless you're worrying about what Joe Sam said. 289 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:46,800 I'm not worrying. 290 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,480 And don't go dreaming off because I want you to be here when I get back. 291 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:51,480 I'll be here. 292 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:53,160 All right then keep your eyes open. 293 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:54,160 Sure. 294 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:55,160 And Kurt. 295 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:56,160 Yeah. 296 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,640 If I were you I'd leave Hal's girl alone. 297 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:06,560 A smart one. 298 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:08,600 A real smart one. 299 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,520 He was reading my mind. 300 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,920 He knew I wanted to get that gal off by herself. 301 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:17,840 And with Ma taking care of her housework and Hal out doing the chores he knew I'd have 302 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:18,840 my chance. 303 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,200 And that's just how it happened too. 304 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,560 Because a little while later I was sitting in the kitchen at the ranch. 305 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:27,400 Nobody there but old Joe Sam. 306 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,800 Of course he didn't marry. 307 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:34,080 And little Gwen sitting right across the table from me. 308 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,080 But how did such a story ever get started? 309 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:39,080 With the panther. 310 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,240 Joe Sam says he's seen it. 311 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:46,480 Joe Sam says this old spooked panther up and killed his wife and all his kids about 80 312 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:47,480 years ago. 313 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:48,480 80 years? 314 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:49,480 Sure. 315 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,520 Joe Sam's well over a hundred or so he claims. 316 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,000 Ain't that right you crazy old fool? 317 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Kurt. 318 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,680 You shouldn't talk to him like that. 319 00:14:58,680 --> 00:14:59,680 Yeah he don't hear it. 320 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,120 He don't hear nothing when he gets like this. 321 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,280 But don't you worry little lady. 322 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,120 I'm gonna bring you back a panther skin all the same. 323 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:14,480 May not be black and may not be big as a horse. 324 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:21,200 But it'll make a real nice present from your brother-in-law to the bride and the groom. 325 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,880 Providing of course that it works out that way. 326 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,640 Providing what works out that way? 327 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:30,120 Providing I am your brother-in-law and Hal is the groom. 328 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,160 I don't like that kind of talk Kurt. 329 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,440 Talk never did a gal no damage did it? 330 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,760 That time to go. 331 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,640 How about a little kiss to keep me warm out there huh? 332 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:42,640 Kurt. 333 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:43,640 Kurt no don't. 334 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:44,640 Ah come on honey. 335 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:45,640 What's the matter with him? 336 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:46,640 Shut up you. 337 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:47,640 I told you to shut up. 338 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,640 You you get an old man like that. 339 00:15:49,640 --> 00:16:04,080 Ah he's crazy somebody had to snap him out of it. 340 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,800 Tell him off. 341 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,720 Maybe I get that kiss when I bring you back your panther huh? 342 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:20,280 I don't care if I never set eyes on you again the rest of my life. 343 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,480 Only it wasn't me she wasn't gonna see again for the rest of her life. 344 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:29,120 Because when I got back to the canyon I found my brother Arthur laying in the snow. 345 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:34,800 And three deep gashes in his back like the stabs of a knife and his neck was broke. 346 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:45,040 And all around him was the track of the cat. 347 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,600 I lashed him across the saddle as gentle as I could and I hit the horse in the rump to 348 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,640 send him back home. 349 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:52,920 Then I set out to track the cat. 350 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:59,800 It was easy at first with the bare paw snow shoes the trail good and clear and the weather 351 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:00,800 lifted. 352 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,320 Then in the late afternoon I saw him. 353 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:09,640 The other side of a ravine dark and bulky like a shadow against the snow. 354 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,240 I had him full in my sights. 355 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,080 I fired and I missed. 356 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,520 He was up the rocks in ten foot leaps and over the ridge before I could shoot again. 357 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:19,640 Then I remembered something. 358 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,080 I checked Arthur's gun. 359 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,120 It had an empty shell in it. 360 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:27,400 He'd fired it something too and missed. 361 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,400 Now we both had. 362 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,440 And then the storm come up again. 363 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,000 And after a while I couldn't see fifty yards ahead of me. 364 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,760 And that was the first time I heard that other voice. 365 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:41,760 Kurt. 366 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:42,760 Kurt. 367 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:43,760 Who? 368 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:44,760 Who's there? 369 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:45,760 Who is it? 370 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:46,760 Nobody Kurt. 371 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:47,760 Just you. 372 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:48,760 Well who are you? 373 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:55,360 I'm the caution in you Kurt. 374 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:58,320 Maybe you never knew you had it before. 375 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,160 I'm the coward in you. 376 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:01,360 I ain't afraid. 377 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:05,040 I ain't afraid of men or cat or spook. 378 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,040 Maybe. 379 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,800 But it's getting dark Kurt. 380 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:11,600 Night falls coming Kurt. 381 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:12,600 Yeah. 382 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,200 Yeah that's so it is. 383 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,840 You better find a place to hold up for the night Kurt. 384 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:23,760 A good safe place while you can still see. 385 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:24,760 Well yeah. 386 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:28,840 Yeah maybe I had that. 387 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,080 Because a man can't see in the dark Kurt. 388 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:33,080 Who said he could? 389 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,880 But there's something out here that can. 390 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,560 That can see in the dark real good. 391 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,560 That hunts in the dark. 392 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,560 The cat. 393 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,800 It was getting dark for sure. 394 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,920 Almost a darker night when I finally found what I was looking for. 395 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,840 A little cave halfway up the other side of the ravine. 396 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:59,800 I worked my way up to it when all at once I thought of something. 397 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:03,360 The cat had holed up from the storm just the same as me. 398 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,240 Suppose he'd holed up here. 399 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:10,560 For a long time I just stood there listening. 400 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:15,320 But there was nothing but the wind and the whistle of the snow. 401 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:22,520 And then real slow with my knees shaking a little I crept up to it. 402 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,000 My finger on the trigger of the gun. 403 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,000 And I lit a match. 404 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,740 The cave was empty. 405 00:19:31,740 --> 00:19:33,120 And it was dry. 406 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:34,680 I crawled in. 407 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,960 I ate some of the bread and jerky beef I'd brought along. 408 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,160 Made a cigarette and smoked it. 409 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:41,160 Then lay back. 410 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,160 Let the tiredness go out of my bones. 411 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,160 It was warm. 412 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:48,160 Cozy. 413 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,240 I felt good. 414 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:51,240 Real good. 415 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:52,240 And warm. 416 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:53,240 And drowsy. 417 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:54,240 Kurt. 418 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:55,240 Hello Kurt. 419 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:56,240 You in there Kurt? 420 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:57,240 Art. 421 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,360 Art where are you? 422 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:00,360 Right here. 423 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:03,360 I'm in the cave. 424 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:14,080 You can look right through the wall and see me if you try. 425 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:19,080 Yeah but what's the matter with you? 426 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,480 Your eyes and the snow all on your face. 427 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:24,480 I'm dead. 428 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:25,840 Don't you remember Kurt? 429 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:26,840 Yes. 430 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:28,640 And I've come to help you Kurt. 431 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:29,640 Yeah Art. 432 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:30,640 Help me. 433 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:31,640 Help me. 434 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:32,640 Listen. 435 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:33,640 The cat. 436 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:34,640 The cat. 437 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,360 It's sniffing out there. 438 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:38,880 It's right outside the wall. 439 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:39,880 Look. 440 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:41,440 Look close and you can see him. 441 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:42,440 Can you see him now? 442 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:43,440 Yeah. 443 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:44,440 Yeah black. 444 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,080 It's black and big as a horse. 445 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:48,880 Eyes like coals of fire. 446 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,680 But he can't get through the wall Art. 447 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,440 You don't know how to get through that wall. 448 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:53,800 That's why Joe Sam's here. 449 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:54,800 Joe Sam? 450 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:55,800 See him? 451 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:56,800 See him out there on the slope? 452 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:57,800 You see him laughing? 453 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:58,800 Art you tell him. 454 00:20:58,800 --> 00:20:59,800 You tell the cat about the wall. 455 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:00,800 Don't let him Art. 456 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:01,800 Don't let him. 457 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:02,800 See him Art. 458 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:03,800 Don't let him. 459 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:04,800 Too late Kurt. 460 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:05,800 Art help me. 461 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:06,800 Help me. 462 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,960 Too late now Kurt. 463 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,960 Too late. 464 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,960 Art. 465 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:24,960 Art. 466 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,880 I was lying there in the cave. 467 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,160 And it was dark. 468 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,040 So it was a dream. 469 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,040 Sure. 470 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,120 Sure it was a dream. 471 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:38,600 But was it all a dream? 472 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:46,920 I listened and then I heard something that could be. 473 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,160 All right suppose he was out there. 474 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:53,000 I couldn't stay holed up there forever by a stinking mountain cat. 475 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,880 I reached over for my rifle and then I bent my knees up and I kicked out with all my might 476 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:04,280 and the wall went flying out into the ravine and I was crouching there with the rifle. 477 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,680 And there was nothing. 478 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,560 No cat. 479 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:09,560 No tracks. 480 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:10,560 Nothing. 481 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,560 Better head for home boy. 482 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:12,560 You've got daylight now. 483 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:13,560 Head while the heading's good. 484 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:14,560 I can't do that. 485 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:15,560 I swore I'd get that cat. 486 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:16,560 You've got a long way to go Kurt. 487 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:17,560 I swore. 488 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:18,560 For Art. 489 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:19,560 And I swore. 490 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:20,560 For Art. 491 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:21,560 And I swore. 492 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:22,560 For Art. 493 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:23,560 For Art. 494 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:24,560 For Art. 495 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:25,560 For Art. 496 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:26,560 For Art. 497 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:27,560 For Art. 498 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:28,560 And I promised Gwen. 499 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:29,560 What'll I tell Gwen? 500 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:35,560 You have enough on your hands just getting back before it's dark again. 501 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,160 Well I sure hate to give it up though. 502 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,160 What's the matter with you? 503 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,160 Don't you know yet? 504 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:42,160 Know what? 505 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,160 You're not hunting that cat anymore. 506 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:44,160 That cat's hunting you. 507 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:56,400 I laced on the bear paws and I started down the ravine. 508 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,120 It was still snowing but I could see pretty good now. 509 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:01,600 And I'd taken my directions the night before. 510 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,000 Down the ravine, up the other side, half a day north along the ridge. 511 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,720 Then down the other side. 512 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,040 And keep going until you see the ranch. 513 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,360 I was making pretty fair time. 514 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:14,000 I figured it was just about midday when I seen the sun break through a hole in the clouds 515 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,440 way off to my right. 516 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,680 And then I stopped. 517 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,400 Cause there was something wrong. 518 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,080 Awful wrong. 519 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,040 What's it doing up there Kurt? 520 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,920 What's the sun doing up there? 521 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:30,920 I don't know. 522 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:31,920 It can't be. 523 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,920 You're supposed to be going north. 524 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:35,920 Sure. 525 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:36,920 Sure I am. 526 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,360 Half a day north along the ridge then down the other side. 527 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:40,360 Sure. 528 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:45,400 The sun's on your left when you travel north Kurt. 529 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:46,800 And it's on my right. 530 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:47,800 A whole half a day. 531 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,360 I've been going the wrong direction a whole half a day. 532 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:54,880 You're going to be caught out after dark again Kurt. 533 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,640 You're going to be caught out after dark. 534 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,360 That's all he's waiting for Kurt. 535 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:01,360 Waiting for the dark. 536 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:02,360 I can't. 537 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:03,920 I can't get caught out. 538 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:04,920 I gotta make it. 539 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:05,920 Never. 540 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:06,920 You'll never make it. 541 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:07,920 What'll I do? 542 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:08,920 What am I gonna do? 543 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:09,920 Run. 544 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:10,920 Keep running. 545 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:11,920 I can't. 546 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:12,920 I can't run much more. 547 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:13,920 Think of something. 548 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:14,920 Think. 549 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:15,920 I can't think. 550 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:16,920 Think. 551 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:17,920 A fire. 552 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:18,920 A fire. 553 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,520 You have only had a fire. 554 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:22,520 That's it. 555 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:23,520 A fire. 556 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:24,520 That's it. 557 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:25,520 That's it. 558 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:26,520 A fire. 559 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:27,520 That'll hold Mr. Blackcatch. 560 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,880 Afraid of fire ain't you, you murdering devil. 561 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:30,880 That'll hold you. 562 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:31,880 A fire. 563 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,880 A great big roaring fire. 564 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,960 It's all right now. 565 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,320 It's gonna be all right. 566 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,400 I got branches cut enough to last all night. 567 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,400 Nothing to do now but take it easy and feed the fire. 568 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:53,000 He's out there in the tree somewhere but he won't come near this fire. 569 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,000 No sir, he won't. 570 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:00,200 I'll just keep smoking, keep yourself awake, keep your eye on that fire. 571 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,040 Just watch the fire. 572 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,040 Just keep watching that fire. 573 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,240 Too late, Kurt. 574 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,240 Too late. 575 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:12,240 What? 576 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:13,240 Oh sir. 577 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:14,240 The fire's gone out. 578 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:15,240 Gone out? 579 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,240 I gotta fix it quick. 580 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,240 Too late, Kurt. 581 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:18,240 He's here. 582 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,240 The cat. 583 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:20,240 The cat? 584 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,480 Crouching there to make you spring, you see him behind that tree, big as a horse and black 585 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,480 as night and eyes like gold. 586 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:27,480 Help me, Arthur. 587 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:28,480 Help me! 588 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:29,480 Shoot. 589 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,920 Shoot while you still got the chance right between those burning eyes. 590 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:33,920 Shoot. 591 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:34,920 I'll shoot. 592 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:35,920 Too late, Kurt. 593 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:41,280 You shot right through him but he's coming at you. 594 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:42,280 Throw the gun away. 595 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,280 It's no good now, Kurt. 596 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:44,280 Run. 597 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:45,280 Your only chance. 598 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:46,280 Run. 599 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,280 Faster. 600 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,280 Don't fall. 601 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:49,280 He's right behind you, Kurt. 602 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:50,280 Faster. 603 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:51,280 Faster. 604 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:52,280 Look out. 605 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:53,280 You're falling. 606 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:54,280 You're falling, Kurt. 607 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,280 You're falling. 608 00:25:55,280 --> 00:26:14,760 We buried my brother Arthur the night before. 609 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:19,040 And the next day we went to look for Kurt, Joe Sam and me. 610 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:24,760 We found him where he'd fallen over the cliff of the canyon, all stiff and twisted in the 611 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:25,760 snow. 612 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:30,320 Later, we went up to see what happened. 613 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:35,400 You could tell he'd been running when he fell, running away from something and afraid for 614 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,040 his life. 615 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,760 Only there was nothing there. 616 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,760 No tracks except just his. 617 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:44,760 Nothing. 618 00:26:44,760 --> 00:27:12,520 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 619 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,560 Tonight's star, Mr. Richard Widmark. 620 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:21,760 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer of 621 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,000 automotive electrical equipment. 622 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,800 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 623 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:32,960 That's why during the early months of 1952, the Auto Light family joins in saluting the 624 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:38,280 leading car manufacturers who install Auto Light products as original equipment. 625 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:43,120 Our Auto Light family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light 626 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:48,560 plants from coast to coast and in still other Auto Light plants in many foreign countries. 627 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,780 Our family also includes 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stop it, a dramatic report 637 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,360 we call A Killing in Las Vegas. 638 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:52,040 In weeks to come, we shall also present Herbert Marshall and Frank Lovejoy all on Suspense. 639 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:56,160 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick 640 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,320 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 641 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:03,160 The track of the cat was adapted for Suspense by Sylvia Richards from the book by Walter 642 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,360 Van Tilburg Clark. 643 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:09,960 Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, Lee Millar, Martha Wentworth, Sharon Douglas, 644 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:10,960 and Parley Bear. 645 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:15,320 Tonight's appearance of Richard Widmark was made possible through the courtesy of 20th 646 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,120 Century Fox Studios. 647 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:24,080 Mr. Widmark may currently be seen in the Technicolor production, Red Skies of Montana. 648 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:32,520 And remember, next week on Suspense, Miss Linda Darnell in A Killing in Las Vegas. 649 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:55,160 This is the CBS Radio Network.