WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.520 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Robert Young in tonight's presentation 00:11.520 --> 00:14.520 of Suspense. 00:14.520 --> 00:24.800 Tonight, Auto Light presents a story about a man who commits a murder efficiently and 00:24.800 --> 00:28.440 safely, only to find there was a witness. 00:28.440 --> 00:36.600 The story is called, A Murder of Necessity, starring Mr. Robert Young. 00:36.600 --> 00:43.000 Great performance, eh, Harlow? 00:43.000 --> 00:44.520 Ah, it sure is, Hap. 00:44.520 --> 00:48.960 Reminds me of the outstanding performance of that team combination of precision-made 00:48.960 --> 00:53.520 units including the auto light generator, starting motor, coil distributor, and all 00:53.520 --> 00:57.460 the other important parts of the complete auto light electrical system in your auto 00:57.460 --> 00:58.460 light equipped car. 00:58.460 --> 01:01.040 I know, Harlow, but I'm talking about the show. 01:01.040 --> 01:05.280 Ah, and what a show that auto light electrical system puts on, Hap. 01:05.280 --> 01:09.400 It works every time you start and run your car, blow your horn, light your lights, or 01:09.400 --> 01:13.300 use your electric windshield wiper, cigarette lighter, radio, or heater. 01:13.300 --> 01:18.640 And every unit is related by auto light engineering design and manufacturing skill to give you 01:18.640 --> 01:21.080 the smoothest performance money can buy. 01:21.080 --> 01:22.080 Yes. 01:22.080 --> 01:23.840 Well, here's the next act, Harlow. 01:23.840 --> 01:28.760 The next act, friends, is to specify auto light original factory parts when replacements 01:28.760 --> 01:34.000 are needed for your auto light equipped car, because from bumper to tail light, you're 01:34.000 --> 01:37.400 always right with auto light. 01:37.400 --> 01:43.720 And now, with A Murder of Necessity and the performance of Mr. Robert Young, auto light 01:43.720 --> 01:53.920 hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:53.920 --> 01:58.360 I'm walking along a city street with murder in my heart. 01:58.360 --> 02:00.680 Tonight is the night I must kill. 02:00.680 --> 02:04.960 Remember the name Herbie Sax, fat, sweaty Herbie Sax. 02:04.960 --> 02:09.680 He'll be sitting behind his big desk and he'll look up at me and smile and his fat neck will 02:09.680 --> 02:15.420 spill over the expensive collar of the expensive shirt that he'll be wearing. 02:15.420 --> 02:20.240 So far so good, no one around. 02:20.240 --> 02:21.240 So far so good. 02:21.240 --> 02:26.040 Why do I keep saying that? 02:26.040 --> 02:31.280 Some sign painter will have a new job, scrape the name and gold letters off the glass door. 02:31.280 --> 02:36.200 Herbert J. Sax, private investigator, will soon be dead, gentlemen. 02:36.200 --> 02:39.760 Through the panel of the glass door, the fat shadow of the big man sitting happily in his 02:39.760 --> 02:41.760 swivel chair. 02:41.760 --> 02:45.280 Mr. Sax waits within, murderer. 02:45.280 --> 02:46.280 Knock on his door. 02:46.280 --> 02:50.080 Oh, hold it a minute, the camera wants to remain. 02:50.080 --> 02:52.560 Gets up from the chair, Herbie. 02:52.560 --> 02:54.880 Come and open the door, meet your doom. 02:54.880 --> 02:57.360 Start in the other office. 02:57.360 --> 03:00.120 Oh, hello, Mark. 03:00.120 --> 03:02.800 What do you want? 03:02.800 --> 03:03.800 Few moments of your time. 03:03.800 --> 03:04.800 Oh, I'm busy. 03:04.800 --> 03:05.800 Let's make it some... 03:05.800 --> 03:06.800 Herbie. 03:06.800 --> 03:09.480 Go ahead, Herbie. 03:09.480 --> 03:10.480 Sit down. 03:10.480 --> 03:15.440 What do you want? 03:15.440 --> 03:17.680 Herbie, I'm through. 03:17.680 --> 03:19.160 You bled me for the last nickel. 03:19.160 --> 03:20.280 What are you talking about? 03:20.280 --> 03:22.360 I made a mistake a long time ago. 03:22.360 --> 03:24.440 I went hunting and I killed a man. 03:24.440 --> 03:25.440 It was an accident. 03:25.440 --> 03:29.560 But instead of turning myself in and getting off on a charge of manslaughter, I listened 03:29.560 --> 03:32.320 to the advice of a man named Herbie Sax. 03:32.320 --> 03:33.400 Go home, Mark. 03:33.400 --> 03:35.040 Nobody saw you shoot him, you said. 03:35.040 --> 03:37.400 Nobody did except you, Herbie. 03:37.400 --> 03:38.720 I'll be silenced, said Herbie. 03:38.720 --> 03:39.720 Now look, Mark. 03:39.720 --> 03:43.320 I've had to pay for your silence, haven't I, Herbie? 03:43.320 --> 03:44.320 Through the nose. 03:44.320 --> 03:47.560 Who do you think you are coming here like this? 03:47.560 --> 03:48.560 Why, for two cents? 03:48.560 --> 03:52.640 For two cents, you'd sell your mother, your grandmother and your wife Gretchen, a nice 03:52.640 --> 03:54.120 girl who doesn't deserve you. 03:54.120 --> 03:55.640 I'm warning you, Mark. 03:55.640 --> 03:58.400 You're through warning people, Herbie. 03:58.400 --> 04:02.760 I wonder how many others will breathe easier when once they learn you're no longer exercising 04:02.760 --> 04:03.760 the big stick. 04:03.760 --> 04:06.840 What are you going to do? 04:06.840 --> 04:07.840 This. 04:07.840 --> 04:18.800 Now the sign painter can scrape the gold letters off the glass door. 04:18.800 --> 04:24.080 Herbert J. Sax sits dead in his swivel chair, the blood running a crazy pattern down the 04:24.080 --> 04:32.840 front of his expensive shirt, his mouth silent, no words, no accusations, no talk of any kind, 04:32.840 --> 04:33.840 no talk. 04:33.840 --> 04:34.840 Wait. 04:34.840 --> 04:35.840 Wait. 04:35.840 --> 04:40.120 Herbie was talking to somebody when I knocked on the door. 04:40.120 --> 04:41.120 Nobody here. 04:41.120 --> 04:43.880 Who was he talking to? 04:43.880 --> 04:49.560 Must have been talking to somebody on the telephone. 04:49.560 --> 04:53.880 He didn't hang it up. 04:53.880 --> 04:56.840 Hello? 04:56.840 --> 04:59.600 Hello? 04:59.600 --> 05:06.080 Who's there? 05:06.080 --> 05:19.640 Please don't. 05:19.640 --> 05:23.120 The phone in Herbie's desk drawer had been off the hook. 05:23.120 --> 05:25.520 Herbie had been talking to someone on the phone. 05:25.520 --> 05:27.360 Who would it have been? 05:27.360 --> 05:32.640 Somebody I knew, somebody I didn't know, somebody like Herbie who would make me suffer some 05:32.640 --> 05:34.040 more. 05:34.040 --> 05:35.520 I had to find out. 05:35.520 --> 05:36.520 But how? 05:36.520 --> 05:37.520 How? 05:37.520 --> 05:39.520 I got an idea. 05:39.520 --> 05:41.320 The phone pad. 05:41.320 --> 05:44.920 Today March 24th and under the date three names. 05:44.920 --> 05:50.600 L. Collins, the name Janice and a phone number and an art lefoune. 05:50.600 --> 05:52.880 Could it have been one of them? 05:52.880 --> 05:55.960 On the phone you heard what? 05:55.960 --> 05:57.800 Was it a radio? 05:57.800 --> 05:59.440 Was it a record? 05:59.440 --> 06:00.920 That's all you have to go on. 06:00.920 --> 06:03.140 But it'll have to be enough. 06:03.140 --> 06:11.960 Even now whoever it was may be calling the police. 06:11.960 --> 06:14.080 Down in the corner drug store I look up L. Collins. 06:14.080 --> 06:15.080 There's only one. 06:15.080 --> 06:17.720 Strange for a name like Collins but only one. 06:17.720 --> 06:20.360 Lucius Collins who lives on North Woodburn Drive. 06:20.360 --> 06:34.920 The taxi gets me there in 20 minutes. 06:34.920 --> 06:36.480 Mrs. Lucius Collins? 06:36.480 --> 06:37.480 Yes. 06:37.480 --> 06:39.760 Is your husband at home? 06:39.760 --> 06:40.760 Yes. 06:40.760 --> 06:41.760 You want to see him? 06:41.760 --> 06:43.560 If it's possible. 06:43.560 --> 06:47.360 Come in. 06:47.360 --> 06:50.600 Follow me. 06:50.600 --> 06:51.920 What did you say your name was? 06:51.920 --> 06:54.720 I didn't say but it's Paul. 06:54.720 --> 06:55.720 Paul Drake. 06:55.720 --> 07:01.320 Lucius, is it Mr. Drake who wants to see you? 07:01.320 --> 07:02.320 Drake? 07:02.320 --> 07:03.320 Yes Mr. Collins. 07:03.320 --> 07:04.480 A mutual friend asked me to call. 07:04.480 --> 07:06.640 I'd like to speak to you alone if I may. 07:06.640 --> 07:09.920 I'll close the door. 07:09.920 --> 07:10.920 Mr. Collins. 07:10.920 --> 07:13.840 Oh sit down Mr. Drake. 07:13.840 --> 07:15.960 Thank you. 07:15.960 --> 07:18.240 You said a mutual friend sent you? 07:18.240 --> 07:19.240 Who? 07:19.240 --> 07:21.040 Herbie Sachs sent me Mr. Collins. 07:21.040 --> 07:23.240 What does he want? 07:23.240 --> 07:25.560 He's not satisfied with the present set up. 07:25.560 --> 07:28.160 Mr. Drake I'm paying him all I can now. 07:28.160 --> 07:29.160 I can't pay anymore. 07:29.160 --> 07:31.000 If I did my wife might find out. 07:31.000 --> 07:33.240 Then how would I explain it? 07:33.240 --> 07:35.440 Doesn't Mr. Sachs understand that? 07:35.440 --> 07:37.240 He's not satisfied Mr. Collins. 07:37.240 --> 07:38.240 That's all I can tell you. 07:38.240 --> 07:40.320 But what am I going to do? 07:40.320 --> 07:43.920 Well Herbie just gave me a general picture of your situation. 07:43.920 --> 07:46.360 Perhaps if you filled me in on the details. 07:46.360 --> 07:48.640 There are no details Mr. Drake. 07:48.640 --> 07:49.760 I made a mistake once. 07:49.760 --> 07:50.760 I met a girl. 07:50.760 --> 07:52.640 We grew fond of each other. 07:52.640 --> 07:55.120 Naturally my wife suspected something was wrong. 07:55.120 --> 07:57.680 She went to Mr. Sachs and had him trail me. 07:57.680 --> 08:00.320 He found out about us, the girl and me. 08:00.320 --> 08:02.080 He didn't tell my wife. 08:02.080 --> 08:04.120 He said he wouldn't tell her if I paid him. 08:04.120 --> 08:06.000 And so I did. 08:06.000 --> 08:10.600 The girl went away but I still paid Mr. Sachs. 08:10.600 --> 08:11.600 I understand Mr. Collins. 08:11.600 --> 08:12.600 You do. 08:12.600 --> 08:14.800 You really do. 08:14.800 --> 08:18.320 Have you been home all evening Mr. Collins? 08:18.320 --> 08:23.240 Well he is. 08:23.240 --> 08:25.880 I guess I'll just tell Herbie what you told me. 08:25.880 --> 08:26.880 You can't increase it. 08:26.880 --> 08:28.920 You can't do it. 08:28.920 --> 08:31.640 That radio over there looks like an old one. 08:31.640 --> 08:33.200 Oh it is. 08:33.200 --> 08:34.200 We've had that for years. 08:34.200 --> 08:35.200 It's broken. 08:35.200 --> 08:37.200 I haven't bothered to have it fixed. 08:37.200 --> 08:38.200 You got a phonograph? 08:38.200 --> 08:39.200 Yes, an old one. 08:39.200 --> 08:41.640 The kind of wine is not much good. 08:41.640 --> 08:44.040 It's up in the attic stored away. 08:44.040 --> 08:46.040 Well thanks Mr. Collins. 08:46.040 --> 08:47.040 Thanks? 08:47.040 --> 08:50.760 I mean for seeing me or letting me talk to you. 08:50.760 --> 08:53.600 Well I don't understand. 08:53.600 --> 08:56.320 A man like you working for Herbie Sachs? 08:56.320 --> 08:57.320 I know Mr. Collins. 08:57.320 --> 09:03.880 I don't seem like the kind that would. 09:03.880 --> 09:04.880 That poor little man. 09:04.880 --> 09:07.880 If only I could have told him, whispered to him, yelled to him. 09:07.880 --> 09:10.240 Mr. Collins your unhappiness is over. 09:10.240 --> 09:13.040 The man who held you in the arms of terror is no more. 09:13.040 --> 09:14.040 He's dead. 09:14.040 --> 09:17.760 He's up in his office spilling blood all over his nice clean carpet. 09:17.760 --> 09:22.200 You're a free man, free to pick up the pieces of your life and start again. 09:22.200 --> 09:24.560 But tomorrow you'll know. 09:24.560 --> 09:26.320 It'll be in all the papers. 09:26.320 --> 09:31.320 That'll be soon enough. 09:31.320 --> 09:36.920 The first name on the list I check off. 09:36.920 --> 09:40.120 Lucius Collins is a man with problems of his own. 09:40.120 --> 09:44.840 He didn't play his broken radio or the old phonograph stored away up in his attic. 09:44.840 --> 09:48.760 So I call the phone number next to the name on the pad that reads Janice. 09:48.760 --> 09:55.280 Just picked it up and walked away with it. 09:55.280 --> 09:57.720 Leon Sparatek speaking. 09:57.720 --> 09:58.720 Is Janice there? 09:58.720 --> 10:01.720 Yeah but she's awful busy waiting on tables. 10:01.720 --> 10:04.720 Can I give her a message? 10:04.720 --> 10:05.720 No. 10:05.720 --> 10:06.720 I'll call later. 10:06.720 --> 10:07.720 Okay. 10:07.720 --> 10:14.720 I found Leon's bar downtown on Main. 10:14.720 --> 10:18.120 It was a cheap place but it was full of people. 10:18.120 --> 10:19.880 Then I saw the girl waiting on the tables. 10:19.880 --> 10:25.240 She was pretty but a prettiness that was cheap like the bar. 10:25.240 --> 10:29.440 I walked over to an empty booth in the corner and sat down. 10:29.440 --> 10:30.440 I waited. 10:30.440 --> 10:33.600 Then she saw me and came over and stood beside me. 10:33.600 --> 10:36.560 What do you have? 10:36.560 --> 10:37.560 Whiskey and water. 10:37.560 --> 10:38.560 Right. 10:38.560 --> 10:39.560 Janice. 10:39.560 --> 10:42.560 Come here a minute. 10:42.560 --> 10:44.040 Yeah? 10:44.040 --> 10:45.560 What is it? 10:45.560 --> 10:47.200 I want to talk to you. 10:47.200 --> 10:48.960 Look I'm awful busy right now. 10:48.960 --> 10:51.120 Herbie sent me. 10:51.120 --> 10:54.800 I didn't get your name. 10:54.800 --> 10:55.800 Drake. 10:55.800 --> 10:57.280 Paul Drake. 10:57.280 --> 10:58.640 Herbie sent you? 10:58.640 --> 11:00.360 Yes Herbie sent me. 11:00.360 --> 11:02.120 For what? 11:02.120 --> 11:03.400 What does Herbie usually want? 11:03.400 --> 11:05.000 What kind of a hold up is this? 11:05.000 --> 11:06.600 Twice in one week. 11:06.600 --> 11:08.720 Herbie's an ugly man isn't he Janice? 11:08.720 --> 11:11.400 You're a funny guy. 11:11.400 --> 11:13.720 I'd almost get the impression you didn't like him. 11:13.720 --> 11:17.440 Well it isn't necessary for an employee to like his employer is it? 11:17.440 --> 11:18.440 No. 11:18.440 --> 11:20.520 What are you? 11:20.520 --> 11:22.160 His collection agency? 11:22.160 --> 11:23.440 In a sense. 11:23.440 --> 11:25.800 I'm also an advisor of his. 11:25.800 --> 11:27.320 What do you mean? 11:27.320 --> 11:29.680 Sometimes I advise him about his clients. 11:29.680 --> 11:32.480 Perhaps I could advise him about you. 11:32.480 --> 11:34.200 What would you advise him? 11:34.200 --> 11:37.520 I think you're a pretty girl, a very pretty girl Janice. 11:37.520 --> 11:39.560 I'd advise him of that. 11:39.560 --> 11:41.360 You shouldn't say things like that. 11:41.360 --> 11:42.360 Why not? 11:42.360 --> 11:44.360 Because they're not true. 11:44.360 --> 11:45.600 Yes they are. 11:45.600 --> 11:48.000 What do you want from me mister? 11:48.000 --> 11:50.840 I'd like to take you home tonight to where you live. 11:50.840 --> 11:52.640 That's all I want. 11:52.640 --> 11:54.280 That's a lot. 11:54.280 --> 11:56.480 I think you're pretty Janice. 11:56.480 --> 11:57.480 I told you. 11:57.480 --> 12:00.400 I get off in an hour. 12:00.400 --> 12:02.400 You can take me home. 12:02.400 --> 12:07.480 In an hour. 12:07.480 --> 12:09.440 She got up from the table and walked across the room. 12:09.440 --> 12:11.760 There was something strange about this girl. 12:11.760 --> 12:13.080 Something I didn't understand. 12:13.080 --> 12:16.040 But something I had to find out. 12:16.040 --> 12:20.640 She stopped at the jukebox in the corner of the bar next to the phone booth and dropped 12:20.640 --> 12:23.160 a dime into the machine. 12:23.160 --> 12:45.600 That's when I heard this song again. 12:45.600 --> 12:50.920 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Robert Young in, a murder of necessity. 12:50.920 --> 13:05.920 It's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:05.920 --> 13:08.960 Well Harlow, I'll admit it's the best system going. 13:08.960 --> 13:11.480 And it's always going when your car is, Hap. 13:11.480 --> 13:15.520 The auto light electrical system that works every second your engine runs. 13:15.520 --> 13:19.400 As well as when you blow your horn, light your lights, or use your electric windshield 13:19.400 --> 13:21.640 wiper, cigarette lighter, radio, or heater. 13:21.640 --> 13:25.000 And the auto light electrical system is used by the finest, Harlow. 13:25.000 --> 13:29.720 Yes sir, Hap, as original equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, 13:29.720 --> 13:30.720 and tractors. 13:30.720 --> 13:35.920 And in the auto light electrical system, every unit and component part is related by auto 13:35.920 --> 13:40.880 light engineering design and manufacturing skill to give you the smoothest performance 13:40.880 --> 13:42.280 money can buy. 13:42.280 --> 13:44.880 That's why it pays to keep your car running right. 13:44.880 --> 13:45.920 Right you are, Hap. 13:45.920 --> 13:50.640 So friends, make it a point to see your car dealer or authorized auto light service station 13:50.640 --> 13:51.640 soon. 13:51.640 --> 13:55.640 You can easily locate your nearest authorized auto light service station in the classified 13:55.640 --> 14:00.840 section of your telephone directory under automobile electrical service. 14:00.840 --> 14:05.480 Or you can call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 14:05.480 --> 14:07.840 She will gladly tell you his location. 14:07.840 --> 14:13.440 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 14:13.440 --> 14:20.040 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Mr. Robert Young, in Elliot Lewis's 14:20.040 --> 14:48.600 production of A Murder of Necessity, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:48.600 --> 14:53.120 Oh, nice music. 14:53.120 --> 14:54.120 Like it? 14:54.120 --> 14:55.120 My favorite record. 14:55.120 --> 14:56.120 I play it all the time. 14:56.120 --> 14:57.120 You do? 14:57.120 --> 14:58.120 Well, should we go? 14:58.120 --> 14:59.120 I'll call a cab. 14:59.120 --> 15:00.120 You don't have to. 15:00.120 --> 15:01.120 Why not? 15:01.120 --> 15:02.120 Ride home in style. 15:02.120 --> 15:03.120 It's only a couple of blocks from here. 15:03.120 --> 15:04.120 We can walk. 15:04.120 --> 15:05.120 Wouldn't you like to walk? 15:05.120 --> 15:06.120 All right. 15:06.120 --> 15:23.480 Beautiful night, not a cloud in the sky. 15:23.480 --> 15:26.160 I love fresh air. 15:26.160 --> 15:28.640 What's your last name, Janice? 15:28.640 --> 15:30.760 I've got a lot of them. 15:30.760 --> 15:32.360 Call me Janice Gibson. 15:32.360 --> 15:34.640 All right, Janice Gibson. 15:34.640 --> 15:37.160 What kind of a girl are you, Janice? 15:37.160 --> 15:40.640 If you work for Herbie Sachs, you know all about me. 15:40.640 --> 15:42.160 Not the details, pretty girl. 15:42.160 --> 15:44.240 Why do you keep saying pretty girl? 15:44.240 --> 15:45.760 Because it's a statement of fact. 15:45.760 --> 15:48.640 You are pretty, Janice. 15:48.640 --> 15:52.920 I'm the kind of girl that you read about in the confession magazines. 15:52.920 --> 15:54.360 Only they make those stories up. 15:54.360 --> 15:56.720 They're fiction. 15:56.720 --> 15:57.720 My story's not fiction. 15:57.720 --> 15:59.720 It's a real one. 15:59.720 --> 16:01.880 I believe you. 16:01.880 --> 16:09.240 Long time ago, a girl with big ideas came out of the sticks, landed in the big city. 16:09.240 --> 16:11.760 And she met a man named Herbie Sachs. 16:11.760 --> 16:14.880 She met him after she'd gone off the deep end. 16:14.880 --> 16:17.680 She wanted thrills. 16:17.680 --> 16:22.680 Those thrills ended her up in a straitjacket in a sanitarium. 16:22.680 --> 16:27.000 They were the kind of thrills you don't write the family back home about. 16:27.000 --> 16:30.840 But how does Herbie figure? 16:30.840 --> 16:34.720 Herbie is a man with many ways and means. 16:34.720 --> 16:39.840 When the girl ended up in an attic, Herbie was the big brother. 16:39.840 --> 16:44.960 He had a soft shoulder and he stretched out a helping hand. 16:44.960 --> 16:49.200 After I was cured, he told me I had to pay him for his silence. 16:49.200 --> 16:53.480 The silence that would keep the family back home from finding out about the thrilling 16:53.480 --> 16:57.920 things that had happened to the girl from the sticks. 16:57.920 --> 16:58.920 Are you? 16:58.920 --> 16:59.920 Yes. 16:59.920 --> 17:02.720 I'm well over them. 17:02.720 --> 17:03.720 That's good. 17:03.720 --> 17:09.560 Why do you work for a man like him? 17:09.560 --> 17:12.360 Check it off the living. 17:12.360 --> 17:14.760 Were you at the bar all night tonight? 17:14.760 --> 17:15.760 Ever since eight o'clock. 17:15.760 --> 17:16.760 Why? 17:16.760 --> 17:17.760 Nothing. 17:17.760 --> 17:22.360 I guess I'm making conversation because I don't want to talk to you anymore. 17:22.360 --> 17:24.960 Look, mister, you can walk on the other side of the street. 17:24.960 --> 17:26.960 I didn't mean it that way, Janice. 17:26.960 --> 17:33.120 Believe me, what I meant was I didn't want to talk because I suddenly feel like kissing 17:33.120 --> 17:34.120 you. 17:34.120 --> 17:37.440 This is where I live. 17:37.440 --> 17:38.440 The bug house. 17:38.440 --> 17:41.520 Want to come up and meet the fleas? 17:41.520 --> 17:42.520 Courtesy of Herbie Sacks. 17:42.520 --> 17:43.760 Janice, don't be bitter. 17:43.760 --> 17:45.160 I got one room and a hot plate. 17:45.160 --> 17:46.160 What am I supposed to do? 17:46.160 --> 17:48.560 Dance or dance because I can't afford anything better? 17:48.560 --> 17:51.560 Look, I'll talk to Herbie. 17:51.560 --> 17:54.040 I'm his advisor, remember? 17:54.040 --> 17:57.760 Maybe I'll advise him to change his mind. 17:57.760 --> 17:59.680 If you thought you could... 17:59.680 --> 18:01.240 I'll try. 18:01.240 --> 18:03.000 That much I promise. 18:03.000 --> 18:09.120 I'll advise him that you ought to have a nice apartment to live in and a stove. 18:09.120 --> 18:10.640 Paul? 18:10.640 --> 18:12.120 Yes? 18:12.120 --> 18:13.120 You want to come upstairs? 18:13.120 --> 18:15.120 I'll make you some coffee. 18:15.120 --> 18:20.360 I have something to take care of and it's late to... maybe after... 18:20.360 --> 18:21.360 You won't come back. 18:21.360 --> 18:24.280 Once you leave, I won't see you anymore. 18:24.280 --> 18:26.640 You're that kind of guy. 18:26.640 --> 18:27.720 I'll come back. 18:27.720 --> 18:29.440 I won't see you again. 18:29.440 --> 18:32.800 I know I won't. 18:32.800 --> 18:35.800 Kiss me, Paul. 18:35.800 --> 18:36.800 Hard. 18:36.800 --> 18:46.720 Like you were going away for a long time. 18:46.720 --> 18:48.080 Come upstairs. 18:48.080 --> 18:51.080 Let me make you some coffee. 18:51.080 --> 18:52.080 I'll be back. 18:52.080 --> 18:53.080 Paul. 18:53.080 --> 18:58.920 Janice, someday if you ever find out that this is all over, go back home to where there 18:58.920 --> 19:02.520 aren't thrilling things for a girl like you to do. 19:02.520 --> 19:03.520 I don't know. 19:03.520 --> 19:06.160 They'll never know. 19:06.160 --> 19:09.920 Home is a long and far away memory. 19:09.920 --> 19:12.120 I don't know. 19:12.120 --> 19:13.720 Promise me. 19:13.720 --> 19:15.880 On the kiss. 19:15.880 --> 19:18.240 Maybe. 19:18.240 --> 19:19.240 Maybe Paul. 19:19.240 --> 19:20.240 Maybe. 19:20.240 --> 19:29.440 I took her in my arms and kissed her again. 19:29.440 --> 19:33.520 Then she turned and disappeared through the door into the cheap boarding house. 19:33.520 --> 19:37.960 And the black night closed in on me again and the fear and fright returned. 19:37.960 --> 19:41.680 Under the street light up at the corner, I checked the last name on the phone pad. 19:41.680 --> 19:43.680 Art LaFoone. 19:43.680 --> 19:47.080 He's not at his place of business on Houston Avenue, the watchman tells me. 19:47.080 --> 19:51.040 Mr. LaFoone is never at his place of business at 2.30 in the morning, he says with raised 19:51.040 --> 19:52.040 eyebrows. 19:52.040 --> 19:56.840 Even though it is a novelty business, novel things are always happening. 19:56.840 --> 19:59.960 So I wait until 8 o'clock the following morning. 19:59.960 --> 20:02.520 Near his novelty business, I find a very shabby hotel. 20:02.520 --> 20:07.680 And for $2, the night clerk tells me that I can have a bed with a clean sheet and a 20:07.680 --> 20:13.480 loud knock on my door when it's 7 o'clock. 20:13.480 --> 20:21.200 By five minutes after 8, I'm standing in front of Mr. LaFoone's novelty business on the third 20:21.200 --> 20:22.600 floor. 20:22.600 --> 20:27.120 My hand closed tightly around a piece of blue steel that means death for Mr. LaFoone. 20:27.120 --> 20:28.120 Yeah, all right, Mitch. 20:28.120 --> 20:29.120 There's a shipment I'll get out to you on Friday. 20:29.120 --> 20:30.120 Okay, okay. 20:30.120 --> 20:31.120 I promise you, Mitch. 20:31.120 --> 20:32.120 And when LaFoone makes a promise, he keeps his word. 20:32.120 --> 20:33.120 Okay, kid, I'll see you. 20:33.120 --> 20:34.120 Ah, hello, brother. 20:34.120 --> 20:35.120 Mr. LaFoone? 20:35.120 --> 20:36.120 That's it, brother, LaFoone. 20:36.120 --> 20:37.120 Anything that's novel, I know, say LaFoone. 20:37.120 --> 20:38.120 Yeah, let me show you something. 20:38.120 --> 20:44.120 These small telescopes we just got in, I made some a couple of years ago, but those were 20:44.120 --> 20:45.120 tame. 20:45.120 --> 20:46.120 Here, take a look at this one. 20:46.120 --> 20:47.120 Look, go ahead, just squint your eye. 20:47.120 --> 20:48.120 You got to focus. 20:48.120 --> 20:49.120 Herbie sent me. 20:49.120 --> 20:50.120 Yeah, I was... 20:50.120 --> 20:51.120 What was that, brother? 20:51.120 --> 20:52.120 Herbie Sachs. 20:52.120 --> 20:53.120 Yeah? 20:53.120 --> 20:54.120 You mentioned her name, Herbie Sachs. 20:54.120 --> 20:55.120 What am I supposed to do? 20:55.120 --> 20:56.120 You know Herbie. 20:56.120 --> 20:57.120 Who are you anyway? 20:57.120 --> 20:58.120 I work for Herbie Sachs. 20:58.120 --> 20:59.120 Herbie Sachs? 20:59.120 --> 21:03.620 Yeah, I'm a 21:03.620 --> 21:08.620 man of my word. 21:08.620 --> 21:10.620 You made another statement. 21:10.620 --> 21:11.620 Tell me how to react, brother. 21:11.620 --> 21:12.620 Hey! 21:12.620 --> 21:16.120 Look, Mr. Novelty, man, I don't know how to convince you, but I'll get rough if I have 21:16.120 --> 21:17.120 to. 21:17.120 --> 21:19.640 Okay, okay, take it easy, brother, take it easy. 21:19.640 --> 21:21.040 That's an expensive shirt. 21:21.040 --> 21:23.640 That's why I'm here. 21:23.640 --> 21:26.000 Herbie doesn't like you buying such expensive shirts. 21:26.000 --> 21:27.560 Who are you? 21:27.560 --> 21:29.960 I'm recently hired to make collections. 21:29.960 --> 21:31.760 I've come to collect. 21:31.760 --> 21:33.000 You know what? 21:33.000 --> 21:34.240 I think you're lying. 21:34.240 --> 21:35.400 You don't work for Herbie Sachs. 21:35.400 --> 21:36.840 You don't work for him at all. 21:36.840 --> 21:38.720 I told you I was just recently hired. 21:38.720 --> 21:40.360 And why didn't he tell me you'd be around, brother? 21:40.360 --> 21:42.040 I talked to him on the phone last night. 21:42.040 --> 21:43.800 Why didn't he tell me, huh? 21:43.800 --> 21:46.680 You talked to Herbie on the phone last night? 21:46.680 --> 21:49.160 Yeah, brother, I talked to him. 21:49.160 --> 21:50.800 What happened when you talked to Herbie? 21:50.800 --> 21:53.000 What do you mean, what happened? 21:53.000 --> 21:55.480 Who are you, brother? 21:55.480 --> 21:56.680 Nobody you'd be interested in. 21:56.680 --> 21:57.680 Yeah? 21:57.680 --> 22:00.280 Well, maybe the cops would be interested. 22:00.280 --> 22:01.280 Put it down. 22:01.280 --> 22:02.280 Get your hands off of me! 22:02.280 --> 22:05.280 I'm not going to let you get away with this. 22:05.280 --> 22:07.600 Later, Mr. LaFoone. 22:07.600 --> 22:10.120 Later we'll take care of some unfinished business. 22:10.120 --> 22:19.680 When it's dark and no one will see me. 22:19.680 --> 22:20.680 I got out of the building. 22:20.680 --> 22:23.200 I had to before someone saw me. 22:23.200 --> 22:25.400 Saw my face and would recognize it again. 22:25.400 --> 22:29.120 But tonight when it's dark, I'll wait for you and follow you, Mr. LaFoone. 22:29.120 --> 22:31.160 It was you on the phone. 22:31.160 --> 22:33.720 Now I know. 22:33.720 --> 22:34.720 Buy a paper and go home. 22:34.720 --> 22:35.720 Lay low. 22:35.720 --> 22:39.400 When I get home, I open the paper and there it is. 22:39.400 --> 22:45.360 On page two, an account of the death of Herbert J. Sacks, the private investigator. 22:45.360 --> 22:49.400 Shot through the chest twice by an unknown assailant. 22:49.400 --> 22:55.080 How soon would it be before Mr. LaFoone would tell the police the name of the unknown assailant? 22:55.080 --> 22:56.880 Long enough. 22:56.880 --> 23:01.280 Because LaFoone was the kind of man who would wait for the killer to get in touch with him. 23:01.280 --> 23:05.520 LaFoone was the kind of man who could be bribed. 23:05.520 --> 23:10.520 Then one I tried to sweep. 23:10.520 --> 23:13.520 Hello. 23:13.520 --> 23:22.480 Mark, this is Gretchen Sacks, Herbie's wife. 23:22.480 --> 23:23.480 Yeah. 23:23.480 --> 23:24.480 Hello, Gretchen. 23:24.480 --> 23:29.240 Did you read about Herbie in the papers this morning? 23:29.240 --> 23:30.240 Yeah, I read Gretchen. 23:30.240 --> 23:33.240 I want to talk to you, Mark. 23:33.240 --> 23:34.240 Talk? 23:34.240 --> 23:35.240 It's important. 23:35.240 --> 23:39.840 Can you come out to the house? 23:39.840 --> 23:41.840 Have the police been out to the house yet? 23:41.840 --> 23:42.840 No. 23:42.840 --> 23:48.840 I was down for a few minutes at the morgue to identify the body. 23:48.840 --> 23:49.840 That's all? 23:49.840 --> 23:50.840 That's all. 23:50.840 --> 23:54.880 It's important that I talk to you. 23:54.880 --> 23:58.720 I was on the other end of the phone, Mark. 23:58.720 --> 24:01.840 Why didn't you answer me when I picked up the receiver? 24:01.840 --> 24:05.860 I had to take time to think things through. 24:05.860 --> 24:06.860 Have you thought them through? 24:06.860 --> 24:07.860 Yes. 24:07.860 --> 24:11.860 Will you come out to the house and talk to me? 24:11.860 --> 24:12.860 Yes, Gretchen. 24:12.860 --> 24:17.160 I'll be out in a little while. 24:17.160 --> 24:23.720 I'll wait for you. 24:23.720 --> 24:26.000 It was Herbie's own wife, Gretchen, on the phone. 24:26.000 --> 24:27.680 Sweet and lovable Gretchen. 24:27.680 --> 24:31.800 And now the wife of the man I murdered waits to talk with me. 24:31.800 --> 24:32.800 What about? 24:32.800 --> 24:33.800 The weather? 24:33.800 --> 24:34.800 No. 24:34.800 --> 24:38.120 No, she waits to talk business. 24:38.120 --> 24:44.280 Before the police arrive, she waits to take up where the fat man left off. 24:44.280 --> 24:47.600 The murder of necessity. 24:47.600 --> 24:51.600 Ring the doorbell, murderer. 24:51.600 --> 24:56.560 Hello, Mark. 24:56.560 --> 24:57.560 Come in. 24:57.560 --> 24:58.560 Mark! 24:58.560 --> 24:59.560 Oh, Mark. 24:59.560 --> 25:00.560 You fool. 25:00.560 --> 25:01.560 You fool. 25:01.560 --> 25:02.560 I'm sorry, Gretchen. 25:02.560 --> 25:03.560 I... 25:03.560 --> 25:04.560 I... 25:04.560 --> 25:05.560 I... 25:05.560 --> 25:06.560 I... 25:06.560 --> 25:07.560 I... 25:07.560 --> 25:08.560 I... 25:08.560 --> 25:09.560 I... 25:09.560 --> 25:10.560 I... 25:10.560 --> 25:11.560 I... 25:11.560 --> 25:12.560 I... 25:12.560 --> 25:13.560 I... 25:13.560 --> 25:14.560 I... 25:14.560 --> 25:15.560 I... 25:15.560 --> 25:16.560 I... 25:16.560 --> 25:17.560 I... 25:17.560 --> 25:18.560 Me. 25:18.560 --> 25:19.560 Me. 25:19.560 --> 25:20.560 Any, man. 25:20.560 --> 25:21.560 I... 25:21.560 --> 25:22.560 I... 25:22.560 --> 25:23.560 I... 25:23.560 --> 25:24.560 I... 25:24.560 --> 25:26.120 The truth is I'm going to lose him. 25:26.120 --> 25:27.200 I can't go on, Mark. 25:27.200 --> 25:33.520 You're the 25:33.520 --> 25:36.240 trickiest woman ever, dear Mark. 25:36.240 --> 25:37.240 Miss Gretchen. 25:37.240 --> 25:38.360 Yes, I'm the skillful help. 25:38.360 --> 25:39.360 Thank you. 25:39.360 --> 25:40.360 Merry Christmas. 25:40.360 --> 25:41.380 Wakeup. 25:41.380 --> 25:42.680 Lord, my lovely bugs. 25:42.680 --> 25:43.680 Because... 25:43.680 --> 25:45.680 No, no. 25:45.680 --> 25:49.680 When he got home, Mark, 25:49.680 --> 25:54.680 I was going to kill him. 25:54.680 --> 26:09.680 Gretchen. 26:09.680 --> 26:11.680 Operator. 26:11.680 --> 26:13.680 Operator. 26:13.680 --> 26:17.680 Get me police headquarters. 26:17.680 --> 26:22.680 I just committed a murder. 26:22.680 --> 26:25.680 That wasn't necessary. 26:25.680 --> 26:34.680 At all. 26:34.680 --> 26:39.680 Suspended. 26:39.680 --> 26:59.680 Presented by Auto Light. 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