1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,040 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Herbert Marshall in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:13,040 of... 3 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:20,080 South Spence. 4 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:25,440 Tonight Auto Light presents a spy story, the true story of that series of events known 5 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:43,160 as the 39 Steps starring Mr. Herbert Marshall. 6 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:44,160 Oh Harlow. 7 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:45,160 Yes, Hap. 8 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:46,160 What was that all about? 9 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:49,440 I was just demonstrating the Auto Light electrical system, Hap. 10 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:50,440 You were? 11 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:54,360 Sure, it goes to work every time you start your car, sound the horn, play the radio or 12 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,000 turn on your lights or heater. 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,080 The electrical system does all that? 14 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,080 Sure, Hap. 15 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:03,800 The Auto Light coil distributor, generator and all the other units and thousands of component 16 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:04,800 parts. 17 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:10,000 They're all related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill and used as 18 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,640 original factory equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars. 19 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,920 So friends, when your Auto Light equipped car needs replacement parts, insist on Auto 20 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,480 Light original factory parts. 21 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:28,800 Be sure, because from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 22 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:35,120 And now with the 39 Steps and the performance of Mr. Herbert Marshall, Auto Light hopes 23 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:39,600 once again to keep you in South Spence. 24 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,200 Of course, I realize these are trying times and all that. 25 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,240 You have your worries about foreign spies and atomic secrets and the usual international 26 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:50,240 rouse. 27 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,400 But don't get the wind up. 28 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,800 You'll muddle through somehow. 29 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:55,480 Take my word for it. 30 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,400 And I know where I speak. 31 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,400 We had our troubles too in our day, you know. 32 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,680 Jolly serious, they seem at the time, I can tell you. 33 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:09,720 For instance, did you ever hear of the 39 Steps? 34 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:16,640 It was in the spring of 1914. 35 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:21,720 I'd spent the last 10 years on the African felt in the Bolivayo country, made a modest 36 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,480 little pile and come back home to enjoy it. 37 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,440 The only difficulty was I didn't enjoy it. 38 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:32,240 There was something wrong about England and about London for me. 39 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:33,240 And then I realized what it was. 40 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:34,240 It was dull. 41 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:39,920 I had nothing to do and I was plain simply bored. 42 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:44,280 That is, I was until that memorable evening when I returned to my flat near Portland Place. 43 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:48,200 It was the first floor front and I was in the hall fitting my key in the lock when a 44 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,600 little man with a bowler hat stepped out of the shadows from beyond the door to the next 45 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:53,600 flat back. 46 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,640 I saw that he was frightened. 47 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:59,840 He was carrying it off well enough, but he was frightened as I had seen men frightened 48 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:00,840 before. 49 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,840 Frightened of his very life. 50 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:04,640 You're Mr. Richard Hennigh, aren't you? 51 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:05,640 Yes, that's right. 52 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:06,640 Can I speak to you a minute? 53 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:07,640 What about? 54 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:08,640 Inside if you don't mind. 55 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:09,640 Very well, if you wish. 56 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:10,640 Come in. 57 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:11,640 Thanks. 58 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:12,640 Thanks a lot. 59 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:13,640 That door locked? 60 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:14,640 No, but I... 61 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:15,640 I'll do it myself. 62 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:16,640 It's all the same to you. 63 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:24,360 I know you must think I've got a lot of nerve, but there are times when a man just can't 64 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:25,360 be too careful. 65 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:26,360 No, I suppose there are. 66 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,360 Well, won't you come in by the fire? 67 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:29,360 Thanks. 68 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:30,360 Thanks. 69 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,360 I had a hunch you were the kind of guy I could trust. 70 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:33,360 Whiskey and soda? 71 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,240 Yes, I could sure use one. 72 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,000 I guess you're wondering who I am. 73 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 American, aren't you? 74 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 That's right. 75 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Scudder is the name. 76 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Frank P. Scudder. 77 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,800 I have the apartment right over yours. 78 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,040 I've had an eye on you ever since my troubles began. 79 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,040 Really? 80 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:49,040 Here's your drink. 81 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:50,040 Good Lord, man, don't drop it. 82 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,040 Yes, I'm a little shaky. 83 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:58,640 You see, if you'd come along about five minutes later, I'd probably be a dead man. 84 00:03:58,640 --> 00:03:59,640 I see. 85 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:00,640 Well, child. 86 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:01,640 Here's to you. 87 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:02,640 No, child, what's on your mind? 88 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,640 Did you ever hear of a Greek politician named Karylides? 89 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:06,640 No, I can't say that I have. 90 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:07,640 Got it in for you, has he? 91 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:08,640 I don't know. 92 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:09,640 I don't know. 93 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:16,280 He hasn't got it in for me. 94 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:18,760 They've got it in for both of us, Karylides and me. 95 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:19,760 They who's they? 96 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,760 The Schwarzerstein, the Blackstone. 97 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,320 Schwarzerstein, Blackstone. 98 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,400 Sounds like some sort of German sporting society. 99 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:32,400 Well, you're not far off at that, but it's not the kind of sport you're thinking about. 100 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,080 Their sport, Mr. Hannai, is war. 101 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:37,080 Sounds serious. 102 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:38,080 It is serious. 103 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:39,080 It's deadly serious. 104 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,080 Let me start from the beginning. 105 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:45,160 I guess you know that all the countries over here have their spies, including your own. 106 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:46,840 One hears of that sort of thing naturally. 107 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:48,400 Well, it's true. 108 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:49,400 I'm with your people. 109 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,840 The only trouble is I've gotten in a little deeper than I figured out. 110 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:54,840 Sounds like interesting work. 111 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:57,200 It is, if you can stay alive. 112 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,280 And right now, that's my big problem. 113 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:02,480 Because tomorrow morning, it will be announced that this Karylides has been appointed prime 114 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,960 minister of Greece and that he's going to pay an official visit to England. 115 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,200 He'll arrive on the third. 116 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:09,800 On the fourth, he'll be assassinated. 117 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,240 I'm the only man in the world who can prevent it, and they know that. 118 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,440 By they, you mean the German chaps? 119 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:16,440 Yes, that's right. 120 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:17,600 And that's why they're after me. 121 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,000 Well, if you want my advice, I'd say there's nothing to it. 122 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,840 Simply go to the authorities. 123 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:22,840 No good, no good. 124 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:25,720 They'd find out about it, and then they'd just change their plans. 125 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:26,720 You know your business, I suppose. 126 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:31,680 Still, I hardly see how the murder of an obscure Balkan politician can very well involve anyone 127 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:32,680 in war. 128 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:33,680 That will only be the incident. 129 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,640 There's something else, something I can't tell you about yet. 130 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:41,600 I'm not even sure about it myself, but believe me, Mr. Hannai, unless I am alive until the 131 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,280 fifth, your country will be at war. 132 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:47,760 This is all pretty hard for you to swallow, isn't it? 133 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:49,920 Well, you must admit it's rather a tall tale. 134 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:51,920 Well, let me show you something. 135 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,440 Come over here by the window for a minute. 136 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:55,440 Now pull the blinds. 137 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:56,440 Very carefully. 138 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,440 Tell me what you see. 139 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:02,880 A couple of chaps loafing in a doorway. 140 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,200 Doesn't it strike you as pretty late for people to be loafing in doorways? 141 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,040 Waiting for someone, I suppose. 142 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,040 That's right. 143 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:10,040 They're waiting for me. 144 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:11,040 Oh, I see. 145 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,480 I'll even describe them to you. 146 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,560 One is short, heavy set, dark. 147 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,280 The other is tall, young, blonde. 148 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:19,760 Am I right? 149 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,960 Yes, by Jove you are. 150 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,160 They are the Black Storm, Mr. Hannai. 151 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,520 And there's another one who isn't even with them. 152 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:27,760 The head man. 153 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,600 He's older than either of these two. 154 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,160 Chubby, thick glasses, like a professor. 155 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:37,120 One of his eyes looks milky like he was getting a cataract and he's completely bald. 156 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,000 If you ever run across him, Mr. Hannai, watch out. 157 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,760 I don't intend to run across him. 158 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:45,800 Can I stay here in your place for a few days? 159 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,580 Lie low until I can get my plans figured out again. 160 00:06:48,580 --> 00:06:50,080 Just a few days, that's all I ask. 161 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,680 Well, I can't very well turn you out in the street at this time of night after what you've 162 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:54,680 told me, can I? 163 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:55,680 Come along. 164 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,640 I have an extra room, fortunately. 165 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,320 Nothing posh, but comfortable enough. 166 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:00,320 Thank you. 167 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:01,320 Thank you. 168 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:02,320 There you are. 169 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:03,320 Still to you? 170 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:04,960 Oh, it looks like heaven to me. 171 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:05,960 Righto. 172 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,000 Ready to turn in then, are you? 173 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Yes. 174 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,960 Listen, I'm very sorry to trouble you. 175 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:12,920 That's quite all right. 176 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:14,800 You don't mind if I lock the door, do you? 177 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:16,720 From my side. 178 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,040 You still think maybe I'm crazy, huh? 179 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:20,560 Maybe those two guys outside are my keepers. 180 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:21,560 Oh, I wouldn't say that. 181 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:22,920 Now go ahead, lock the door. 182 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:24,640 In fact, it'll make me feel better. 183 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:25,760 Right you are. 184 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:26,760 And Mr. Hannai. 185 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:27,760 Yeah? 186 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,160 I'll be grateful to you until the day I die. 187 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:37,720 It was a queer sort of yarn. 188 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,680 I didn't quite know what to make of it. 189 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,040 As a matter of fact, I was more than half inclined to think the poor fellow was a bit 190 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:44,040 balmy. 191 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,760 But I wasn't so sure after I got my London Times at the front door next morning, I had 192 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,160 a look at the foreign page. 193 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:56,000 Because there was a story about this Greek chap, Karolides, just as he told me. 194 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,960 New prime minister planning a trip to England and all the rest. 195 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:02,200 I went to Scudder's door and knocked. 196 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:06,840 There was no answer, so I ventured to unlock the door and poke my head in. 197 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,280 The shade was flapping at a wide open window, which was natural enough for Americans or 198 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:11,280 fiends for fresh air. 199 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:16,120 But there was something else that was not at all natural. 200 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:21,200 Poor Scudder lay sprawled on his side across the bed, his face white as a sheet, his mouth 201 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,800 working as he tried to speak to me. 202 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,800 Am I... the steps? 203 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,440 Scudder, what's the matter? 204 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:37,720 The steps, low tide, the fifth, the thirty-nine steps. 205 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:44,080 And then he rolled over in his face, quite dead, and I saw the knife was buried in his 206 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,080 back to the hilt. 207 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:52,680 When I got myself in hand, I began to think. 208 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:54,640 It wasn't very pleasant thinking. 209 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,560 Here I had hold of some sort of information that a man had just been killed for. 210 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:03,680 And if I went to the police, the odds were good they'd hang me for his murder. 211 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:06,760 Got to make a run for it, I thought, until I can think things through. 212 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:07,760 Head for open country. 213 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:09,920 Scotland would be best. 214 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,200 And then I thought of something else. 215 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:16,120 I crossed the room and looked carefully out of the window to the street below. 216 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,020 There they were, sure enough, the same two lads. 217 00:09:20,020 --> 00:09:24,360 Not waiting for Scudder now, waiting for me. 218 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,520 And this Scotland seemed a very long way off. 219 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:31,200 And all at once I heard the sound that was my inspiration, the milkman rattling his cans 220 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,280 on the stairs outside my flat. 221 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,560 I ran to the door and opened it. 222 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:37,560 I see my good man. 223 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:38,560 Hey, morning, Governor. 224 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:39,560 What's up? 225 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:40,560 I'd like to have a word with you. 226 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:41,560 What about? 227 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:42,640 I'm late enough as it is. 228 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,800 About making a sovereign for yourself. 229 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:45,800 Step inside, will you? 230 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,880 Oh, well, I'm not one to turn down good coin in the room. 231 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:49,880 What's the game? 232 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,680 I want the loan of your cap and jacket and your milk cans for just five minutes. 233 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:54,680 It's for a bet. 234 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:55,680 Well, I don't know. 235 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:58,360 I'll tell you what, if you could make it two quid. 236 00:09:58,360 --> 00:09:59,360 Here you are. 237 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:00,360 Righto. 238 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:02,320 I never saw him a man to spoil a bit of sport. 239 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,320 Thanks. 240 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,480 Now, all you have to do is to stay here until I get back. 241 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:06,480 Right you are. 242 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,360 Governor, pull the cap down a bit more. 243 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:09,360 There you are. 244 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:10,920 As proper a milkman as ever, I see. 245 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:11,920 Fine. 246 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,720 Now give me the cans. 247 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:15,720 And just wait here, understand? 248 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:16,720 Right. 249 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:17,720 Only five minutes now. 250 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:18,720 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 251 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:19,720 I'll be right back. 252 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:20,720 And mind you, don't jostle that milk about. 253 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:21,720 Oh, stop worrying and shut up. 254 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:22,720 Well, all right. 255 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:23,720 There's no need to get shirty. 256 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:30,240 I opened the door and stepped out briskly onto the street. 257 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,720 The two lads across the way looked at me sharply. 258 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,320 But I kept on until I'd rounded the corner. 259 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,560 It was only then I heard them coming after me. 260 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:41,620 I tossed the milk cans over a wall and began to run. 261 00:10:41,620 --> 00:10:59,080 But I ran as I've never run before or since. 262 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,600 I had caught the Northern Express from St. Pancras Station by a matter of inches. 263 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:07,840 And for the moment I felt safe, I had a third class compartment of myself except for an 264 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,800 old codger who dozed most of the time. 265 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,920 And during the rest of this sleepless, sleepless night, I tried to get my thoughts together 266 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,560 and hit them on some plan of action. 267 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:20,880 As it happened, the matter was taken quite out of my hands. 268 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,400 For at Newcastle, my traveling companion had bought a morning paper. 269 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:33,920 You see here in the paper that our foreign office is meeting with the French, making 270 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:35,800 an agreement in case of war. 271 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:36,800 Really? 272 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:42,680 And mapping out a plan of mutual defense, a disposition of our fleet, all that sort 273 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:43,680 of thing. 274 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:45,680 Very wise, I should say. 275 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:49,120 Here's a jolly bit. 276 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:50,120 Another murder. 277 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:51,120 Murder? 278 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:57,040 Some fellow named Hannai did in another chap with a knife. 279 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:58,400 They found him? 280 00:11:58,400 --> 00:11:59,400 Not yet. 281 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,560 A Portland-based murderer, they call him. 282 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:12,280 Give the description, tall, fair, about 30, small mustache. 283 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:13,280 Silly business. 284 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:17,080 Could be most anybody. 285 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,360 Could be you for that matter. 286 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,360 You answer fairly well to that. 287 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,680 Yes, I suppose I do. 288 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:26,240 Thought to be traveling north, it says. 289 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,480 You see, that could be you too. 290 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:34,600 These must be stupid fellows to think that they can nab him with that sort of flimsy 291 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:35,600 stuff. 292 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:36,600 Yes. 293 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,600 Could be notoriously stupid, of course. 294 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:40,600 Hello. 295 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,800 Wonder what they're stopping for. 296 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:47,440 Oh, let a train go by, a goods train, possibly. 297 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,520 Shade rules all hashed up lately. 298 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,520 Don't run things the way they used to. 299 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:53,520 I say guard. 300 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:54,520 Yes, sir? 301 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:55,520 Step in here a moment, will you? 302 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:56,520 What's the delay? 303 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:57,520 A lot of constabulary getting on, sir. 304 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,720 Looking for the murderer. 305 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,720 The Portland police, will you? 306 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:04,720 That's right. 307 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,720 They got a tippies on this train. 308 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:07,720 Have they really? 309 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:08,720 I say, what a luck. 310 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:09,720 Well, I think I'll step down for a bit of air. 311 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:10,720 You can't leave the train now, sir. 312 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:11,720 Why not? 313 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:12,720 Police orders, sir. 314 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:13,720 Sorry. 315 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:14,720 Here, hold on. 316 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:15,720 Take your hands off me. 317 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:16,720 Here, help me. 318 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:17,720 Hold him. 319 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:18,720 The Portland police murderer. 320 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:19,720 The Portland police murderer. 321 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:36,160 When I topped the rise of the moor, I saw they had men fanning out in every direction. 322 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:38,720 You would soon have me hopelessly surrounded. 323 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,680 There was only one chance. 324 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:42,720 A country house a few hundred yards away. 325 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:46,720 Nothing for it but to throw myself on the mercy of the owner. 326 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:47,720 Yes? 327 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,160 I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm in a bit of trouble. 328 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:53,160 Could I come in? 329 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,720 Well, I'm just leaving, going out for a walk. 330 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:57,480 Are those police after you? 331 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,200 Yes, I was on the London train. 332 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:00,520 They stopped it down there. 333 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:01,520 I'm suspected of something. 334 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,520 I can assure you I didn't do. 335 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:04,520 London train. 336 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:05,520 Come in quickly. 337 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:06,520 Thank you. 338 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:07,520 They're coming up to the door. 339 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:08,520 Just nip into this wardrobe closet until they're gone. 340 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:09,520 Thank you. 341 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:10,520 Thank you very much. 342 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:11,520 I'll just close the door after you. 343 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:12,520 You'll be all right. 344 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:13,520 I'll be all right. 345 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:14,520 Thank you. 346 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:21,520 I'll just close the door after you. 347 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:30,520 You'll be all right there for a bit. 348 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,520 Sorry to intrude, Professor, but we're looking for a fugitive from justice. 349 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:34,520 You haven't seen any strange men about, have you? 350 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:35,520 Oh, I can't say that I have. 351 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:36,520 Don't like to be alarming, sir, but the man's a murderer and he's dangerous. 352 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:37,520 Sure you'll find no murderers here. 353 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:38,520 You're welcome to search the ground. 354 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:39,520 Very good, sir. 355 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:44,520 You may come out now. 356 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,520 Oh, thank you. 357 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,960 I must say you did that beautifully and I can't tell you how grateful I am. 358 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:56,480 And I'm grateful to you, Mr. Hunnigh. 359 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:57,480 You know who I am? 360 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:58,480 Indeed I do. 361 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,800 And I would have turned you away if you hadn't been so persistent. 362 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,480 Stute of me not to guess immediately, but in my wildest dreams I wouldn't have hoped 363 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,040 to catch you on my own doorstep. 364 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:10,040 Who are you? 365 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:11,040 You don't know? 366 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,960 I suppose that's because in your wildest nightmares you wouldn't dream of walking right into my 367 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:16,960 house. 368 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:21,720 Or maybe it's this hat I'm wearing and the light's not too bright. 369 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,720 One moment. 370 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:29,520 There now, Mr. Hunnigh. 371 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,520 Can you guess? 372 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:38,800 I've never seen him before, but Scudder had described him to a T. 373 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:45,040 The head man of the Blackstone, chubby, thick, thick glasses, like a professor, completely 374 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,840 bald, one of his eyes milky. 375 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:55,160 And I remembered Scudder saying, if you run across him, Mr. Hunnigh, watch out. 376 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,040 Well, here I'd run across him sure enough. 377 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,240 And while I was gathering my wits, I sensed something. 378 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,040 There was someone behind me. 379 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,300 I moved, but not in time. 380 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:09,720 Something came down with a sickening crash on the back of my head and I felt myself falling 381 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:28,200 through black and bottomless infinity. 382 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:35,280 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Herbert Marshall in The 39 Steps, tonight's production in radio's 383 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:49,920 outstanding theater of thrills, South Spence. 384 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,440 Well, Hap, how's the team? 385 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,800 You mean our basketball team, Harlan? 386 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:54,800 No, no, no. 387 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,800 I mean the Auto Light team in your Auto Light equipped car. 388 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:02,800 That team of Auto Light electrical system units, including the coil, distributor, generator, 389 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,400 motor, and all their thousands of component parts. 390 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:11,280 Why they're all related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill to give your 391 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,440 car the smoothest performance money can buy. 392 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,680 That Auto Light electrical system does a big job, eh, Harlan? 393 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,880 You said it, Hap, and it's vitally important to the smooth and efficient operation of your 394 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,720 Auto Light equipped car. 395 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:28,000 Then I'm off to treat my car to a checkup at an Auto Light service station. 396 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Right, Hap. 397 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,800 In the meantime, visit your car dealer or nearest authorized Auto Light service station. 398 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:38,100 You'll find the authorized Auto Light service station nearest you listed in the classified 399 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:40,440 section of your telephone directory. 400 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:45,420 Or call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 401 00:17:45,420 --> 00:17:51,800 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 402 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:57,800 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Herbert Marshall in Elliot 403 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:17,240 Lewis's production of The 39 Steps, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 404 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:22,160 I came to my senses with a raging headache and found that I was locked in a sort of storage 405 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:26,480 room with a heavy bolted door and barred windows. 406 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:31,200 Coming to the window, I saw that it was nearly dusk and that there was a powerful touring 407 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,920 car sitting in the drive. 408 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,120 I surmised that they were only waiting for doubt to dispose of me permanently. 409 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:42,240 But while I was taking mournful stock of my seemingly hopeless surroundings, I heard 410 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,640 something that made my heart leap. 411 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:45,640 Someone at the door. 412 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:57,520 I hit him on the back of the neck as hard as I could. 413 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:02,320 Seconds later, I was at the wheel of the touring car and speeding out into open country. 414 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:09,320 I drove... 415 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:13,080 All night I drove on the white roads of Ribbon-le-Maur, circling, doubling, climbing. 416 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:18,360 At dawn I drove off the road into a narrow veil among tall, fair trees and I stayed there, 417 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:28,360 hidden among the trees, till nearly dusk. 418 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:31,880 I drove all the next night until I reached a fishing village called Rough. 419 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:39,200 There I came to a kind of pass where the chimney of a solitary house sent up a plume of smoke. 420 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,360 In the distance the sea. 421 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:46,160 The road swung over a bridge and leaning on the parapet was a young man. 422 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,600 I grew up beside him. 423 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,360 Good evening, is that place an inn? 424 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:52,080 At your service, sir. 425 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,080 I'm the landlord. 426 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,000 You are the young to be an innkeeper? 427 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,840 Well, it wasn't my choice of a profession. 428 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,400 You see, I wanted to write books. 429 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,200 Well, an innkeeper should make a good storyteller. 430 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:06,840 Aye, maybe in the old days when you had pilgrims and ballad singers and highwaymen. 431 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,400 But there's even more adventure out on these roads today. 432 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,680 If you have eyes to see it. 433 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,200 Maybe you're rubbing shoulders with it right now. 434 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:16,200 You think so? 435 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:17,600 Put me up for the night. 436 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,400 Give me a hot supper and I'll tell you a true tale. 437 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:29,800 And a month from now you can make it into a novel. 438 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,800 Well I pitched him a lovely yarn. 439 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,880 I altered details but I put in some of the truth. 440 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:39,760 Told him I was a mining magnate from Kimberley who had crossed a gang of cutthroats. 441 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:44,440 I told him they chased me across the ocean, killed my best friend in Portland Place and 442 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,200 now they were on my tracks. 443 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:50,800 And on top of that, the police thought I had done the killing. 444 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,720 He believed every word. 445 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,520 He was young but he was the man I needed. 446 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,360 He told me I could stay as long as I liked and nobody would know. 447 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:03,000 And the only pay he wanted was more stories about my adventures. 448 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,880 So two present days went by. 449 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:11,080 I stayed in my room, ate in my room and I began to breathe easier. 450 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:15,920 No sign of the black stone and no more alarming news in the papers about the Portland Place 451 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:16,920 murder. 452 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,920 Then one night. 453 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,680 Twenty three pages of newsprint and not a story in all of it. 454 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:24,680 Oh? 455 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,560 Politics is all assassins. 456 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,080 Shot some Greek chap in London, Carol Idyes. 457 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,080 Carol Idyes? 458 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,520 Just as Cutter said. 459 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:34,520 You know him? 460 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,000 Oh no, I've heard about him. 461 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,200 Look here, defense packs. 462 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,720 Meetings between us and the French. 463 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,960 Just gives those silly Frenchmen an excuse for a trip. 464 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,920 Did you see their picture in the London paper I brought back this afternoon? 465 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,360 I didn't notice it, no. 466 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:51,960 Oh, I have it over here on the desk. 467 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,160 The picture of them going into the final meeting. 468 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,920 I never saw such an idiotic looking crew in my life. 469 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:58,920 Here. 470 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:03,640 That one with his little mustache looking like he smells something bad. 471 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,800 And that young slim one there rolling his eyes for the ladies, I'll bet. 472 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,640 And look at that chubby chap with the thick glasses. 473 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,640 He looks blind in one eye. 474 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:13,640 What? 475 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,800 Whatever's the matter, sir? 476 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:24,800 You looked like you'd just caught sight of Beelzebub. 477 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:25,800 I had. 478 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,200 I'd seen Satan himself. 479 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:32,000 The head man of the German black stone was looking placidly out at me from that newspaper 480 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,920 picture. 481 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,840 He'd been there with the French delegation. 482 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,520 He'd attended those secret meetings. 483 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,040 And now the plans for the defense of England and France, for the disposition of the British 484 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:45,520 fleet were in his hands on their way to Germany. 485 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,440 That was what Scuddle hadn't been able to tell me. 486 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,480 But he'd said something just before he died. 487 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,560 Low tide, the fifth. 488 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,040 Did he mean they were sailing at low tide on the fifth? 489 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,120 But from what point? 490 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:00,120 Sailing in what? 491 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:03,040 I excused myself and went into the bar at the inn. 492 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:07,720 It was crowded with fishermen playing darts, drinking, arguing about the day's catch. 493 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,400 Here you are, sir. 494 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:10,720 A pint of half and half. 495 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:11,720 Oh, thank you. 496 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:12,720 Oh, here. 497 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,720 Give me another drink. 498 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,920 Are you not taking a wee bit too much there, Ralph? 499 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,520 Oh, had a rotten day. 500 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:18,520 Rotten luck. 501 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:19,520 Eight blessed hours. 502 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,680 I was anchored off the 39 steps. 503 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,880 Didn't haul in more than two dozen for the whole day. 504 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:26,880 39 steps. 505 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:27,880 39 steps. 506 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:28,880 That's the way. 507 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,880 That was what Scuddle said. 508 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,840 The steps at low tide. 509 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:35,840 Boutender. 510 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:36,840 Aye, sir. 511 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:37,840 Will I fill her up again? 512 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:38,840 If you don't mind. 513 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,400 I thought I'd do some fishing tomorrow. 514 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,160 How do I get to the 39 steps? 515 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,600 Oh, you'll find a sort of a track out over the headland. 516 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:48,600 That takes you there. 517 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,000 Are there really 39 of them? 518 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,240 Well, you know, sir, I've never counted them. 519 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,480 I've been down them two or three times, too, going to the cave. 520 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,040 Just have a look around, you can. 521 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,000 Oh, that cave gives me the creeps. 522 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,880 Here, sir, where are you going? 523 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,880 You owe me three and five. 524 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,880 Oh, sorry. 525 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:15,320 What's your big hurry, my boy? 526 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:16,320 Sorry, officer. 527 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,320 Haven't seen you around rough before. 528 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,200 Here, let me take a look. 529 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:21,200 Some other time. 530 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,160 You look a lot like that fellow there after. 531 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,400 Portland place murderer, they call him. 532 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,400 You just come along with me. 533 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,400 Wait, you won't get away. 534 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,400 It's the murderer. 535 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:32,400 It's the murderer. 536 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:39,600 It was old when heavier than I, so I out distanced him easily enough. 537 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,600 But it was only a question of time. 538 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,960 I had to work fast, find the steps, find where they led. 539 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,440 I ran all the way to the edge of the headland overlooking the sea. 540 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,560 The sky was overcast and it was dark as my pocket. 541 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:57,000 I stumbled along, barking my shins on rock and scratching my face and hands in the gorse. 542 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:03,440 Then I found them, narrow steps carved in the face of the cliff, leading down. 543 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,360 I felt my way along the rock wall going down step by step. 544 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:10,320 They led into the cliff itself. 545 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,440 I counted them as I went. 546 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:13,440 Thirty-five. 547 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:14,440 Thirty-six. 548 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:15,440 Thirty-seven. 549 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:16,440 Thirty-eight. 550 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:17,440 Thirty-nine. 551 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:18,440 Thirty-nine. 552 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:19,440 Thirty-nine. 553 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,440 Thirty-nine. 554 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:21,440 Thirty-nine. 555 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:22,440 Thirty-nine. 556 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:23,440 Thirty-nine. 557 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:24,440 Thirty-nine. 558 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:25,440 Thirty-nine. 559 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:26,440 Thirty-nine. 560 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,440 Thirty-nine. 561 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,440 Thirty-nine. 562 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:29,440 Thirty-nine. 563 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:30,440 Thirty-nine. 564 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,440 Thirty-nine. 565 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:32,440 Thirty-nine. 566 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,360 The steps ended on what seemed to be a wide shelf of rock. 567 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:39,720 I strained my eyes in the blackness of the cave and gradually made out the dull sheen 568 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:40,900 of water. 569 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:45,360 Below me was an underground lake that seemed to rise and fall with the movement of the 570 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:46,860 sea. 571 00:25:46,860 --> 00:25:50,560 I was too intent on seeing if there was a boat of any kind in that strange underground 572 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:55,120 harbor so I didn't hear footsteps behind me until I was pinned in the beam of a torchlight. 573 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:56,120 Is that the water? 574 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:57,120 Mr. Tanai. 575 00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:58,120 Who? 576 00:25:58,120 --> 00:25:59,120 What have you found? 577 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:00,120 I heard the excitement. 578 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:01,120 They're looking for you. 579 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:03,120 I brought you a gun. 580 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:06,120 Tell me, can boats sail into this lake? 581 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:07,120 Boats? 582 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,120 Aye, a rowboat maybe. 583 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:12,120 The water is deep, but there's no headroom. 584 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:14,120 It's nearly low tide now, isn't it? 585 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:16,120 Almost to the minute. 586 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:17,120 Submarine! 587 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:19,120 A submarine doesn't need headroom. 588 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:20,120 Give me your light. 589 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,120 Now, look, look. 590 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:25,120 Isn't that an underground stream coming in from the left? 591 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:26,120 What's that? 592 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:29,120 Something coming down the stream. 593 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:31,120 A dory, three men in it. 594 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:32,120 There they are. 595 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:34,120 The spy is going to be done. 596 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:35,120 Now run and get help. 597 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:36,120 Quickly. 598 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:37,120 Right you are, sir. 599 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:40,120 Who's there? 600 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:44,120 Who is that? 601 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:48,120 I have a gun this time, Professor. 602 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:50,120 Mr. Tanai, quickly. 603 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:51,120 No, keep rowing. 604 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:55,120 Surrender, Professor, or I shoot. 605 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:16,120 Seven weeks later, as all the world knows, we were at war. 606 00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:20,120 But German had been so certain of success that his plans were by then 607 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:22,120 too far in motion to be halted. 608 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:27,120 For myself, I served as an officer of infantry throughout the show. 609 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:30,120 But I like to think I did my best bit, 610 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:50,120 for ever I went into uniform. 611 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:52,120 Southspence. 612 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,120 Presented by Auto Light. 613 00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:57,120 Tonight's star, Mr. Herbert Marshall. 614 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,120 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, 615 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:04,120 world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 616 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:08,120 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 617 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:11,120 That's why during the early months of 52, 618 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:16,120 the Auto Light family will join in saluting the leading car manufacturers 619 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:19,120 who install Auto Light products as original equipment. 620 00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:23,120 Our Auto Light family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women 621 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:27,120 in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to coast 622 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:30,120 and in still other Auto Light plants in many foreign countries. 623 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:33,120 Our family also includes more than 18,000 people 624 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,120 who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light, 625 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:41,120 as well as 96,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United States 626 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,120 and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 627 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,120 Our Auto Light family will salute Crosley Motors 628 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,120 on the next Auto Light Suspense television program. 629 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:55,120 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of Suspense on television 630 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,120 so that you'll be sure to see this program. 631 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,120 And remember, be with us next week 632 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,120 for another thrilling Auto Light Suspense program on radio. 633 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:09,120 The Next Day 634 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:13,120 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Mr. Joseph Carton 635 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,120 in a story about three people adrift in mid-Atlantic, 636 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,120 each wanting the other dead. 637 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,120 A tale we call A Watery Grave. 638 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,120 In weeks to come, we shall also present Frank Lovejoy and Robert Young, 639 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:30,120 all on Suspense. 640 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,120 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis 641 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,120 with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 642 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,120 The 39 Steps was adapted for Suspense by Sylvia Richards 643 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,120 from the book by John Buchan, 644 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,120 featured in the cast were Tudor Owen, Joseph Kearns, Ben Wright, 645 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:50,120 William Johnstone, Charles Davis, Byron Cain, and Raymond Lawrence. 646 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,120 Herbert Marshall may be heard each week in his own radio program, 647 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,120 The Man Called X. 648 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:16,120 This is the CBS Radio Network.