1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,200 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Miss Dinah Shore in tonight's presentation 2 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,200 of Suspense. 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:25,080 Tonight, Auto Light presents the recreation in song and story of an American legend. 4 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:31,040 You're about to hear what happened to Frankie and Johnny, our star Miss Dinah Shore. 5 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:40,160 Hey, Harno, weren't those circus acrobats wonderful? 6 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:41,160 Yes, sir, Hap. 7 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:45,280 You know, they remind me of the Auto Light electrical system in every Auto Light equipped 8 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:51,000 car, working together, just like the coil distributor, generator, starting motor, battery, 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,520 spark plugs, and all the other important parts of the complete Auto Light electrical system. 10 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,840 Well, there's one big difference, Harno. 11 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,640 You bet there is, Hap. 12 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,800 Those acrobats perform for only a few minutes at a time, but the electrical system in your 13 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:08,360 Auto Light equipped car goes to work the second you turn the switch to start your car, and 14 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,720 it keeps right on working every second your car is used. 15 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,880 That's why with Auto Light, you can be sure every unit and every component part of the 16 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:21,880 electrical system is related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill 17 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,320 to give you the smoothest performance money can buy. 18 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:29,760 Hey, pays to keep the Auto Light team together, eh, Harno? 19 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:30,760 It sure does, Hap. 20 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,120 So, friends, if your Auto Light equipped car needs replacement parts, be sure to insist 21 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,200 on Auto Light original factory parts. 22 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:43,720 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 23 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:50,080 And now, with Frankie and Johnny and the performance of Miss Dinah Shore, Auto Light hopes once 24 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:55,080 again to keep you in suspense. 25 00:01:55,080 --> 00:02:23,840 Bring out your long black coffin, Miss Dinah. 26 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:34,160 Bring out your funeral clothes. 27 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:46,000 Johnny's gone and cashed his check to the graveyard, my Johnny goes. 28 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,440 He was my man. 29 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,600 He was my man. 30 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,560 He was my man. 31 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,560 Johnny? 32 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,320 Johnny, honey. 33 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:17,960 Put away that clarinet and talk to me, Johnny. 34 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:18,960 What? 35 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:20,960 You love me, honey? 36 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:22,960 Sure, sure. 37 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:24,960 Johnny? 38 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:26,960 Johnny. 39 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:32,680 What do you want now? 40 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:33,680 Talk to me, baby. 41 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:34,680 That's all I want. 42 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:35,680 All right, come here. 43 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:42,680 That's what you want, isn't it? 44 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:43,680 You're my man, Johnny. 45 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:44,680 That's right. 46 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:45,680 I'm your man. 47 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:46,680 Except sometimes. 48 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,280 What are you talking about? 49 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:51,120 Except sometimes, Johnny, when you go away. 50 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:52,520 Where do you go when you go away? 51 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:53,520 Oh, baby. 52 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:54,520 Where do you go, Johnny? 53 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,520 The kookaloo is on Basin Street, you know that. 54 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:58,600 They don't serve nothing there. 55 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,440 I can't make you, Johnny. 56 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,440 What's there's a back room. 57 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:04,440 Back room and a place to play my music. 58 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,040 A place to sit and play. 59 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:07,040 Nobody bothers. 60 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:08,040 Me and a couple others. 61 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,280 You know that, baby, don't you worry. 62 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,720 You can play your music someplace else and get money for it. 63 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:13,720 I worry about that. 64 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,320 Get away from here, Frankie. 65 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:16,320 Take yourself a walk. 66 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:17,320 The whole town of New Orleans. 67 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,360 So many places to play your music and you sit in a back room. 68 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:21,360 You go away from me and... 69 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,040 I told you something, baby. 70 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:28,680 You don't like it, you can take that long walk to Georgia where you come from. 71 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:29,680 You leaving? 72 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:30,680 No. 73 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:37,480 A couple of girls I used to know never bothered me about not going down to kookaloo's. 74 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,480 I won't bother you, Johnny. 75 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,720 Got any money, Frankie? 76 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:43,720 I got some. 77 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,920 I saw me a suit walking down Basin Street. 78 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,400 I saw me a suit in a store window. 79 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:51,400 I need me that suit, honey. 80 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,520 I'm sure it looked good in it. 81 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:54,520 What's it cost, Johnny? 82 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,840 I mean, a cheap suit? 83 00:04:56,840 --> 00:04:57,840 I didn't say that, Johnny. 84 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:59,840 I just asked how much... 85 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:00,840 A hundred dollars? 86 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:02,680 You got a hundred dollars, baby? 87 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:03,680 I got it. 88 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:04,680 Well, that's good. 89 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:05,680 That's fine. 90 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:06,680 We walked real slow along Basin Street. 91 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:21,040 The girls all calling by name. 92 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:30,040 But I walked real close to my Johnny. 93 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:39,280 I'm sure he's got a good eye. 94 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:42,480 This one, pay him, Frankie, while I put it on. 95 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,560 Johnny and me, we went walking here. 96 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,880 And Johnny had a brand new suit. 97 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:59,760 I paid out all of that money just to make my man look cute. 98 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,000 He was my man. 99 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Show me off, Frankie. 100 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Sure, honey. 101 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,920 We'll walk down here to Esplanade and down Esplanade where the lights are and everybody 102 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:09,920 can see you fine. 103 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:11,640 Hey, the lights are right in there, baby. 104 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,120 We won't have to walk so much. 105 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,520 I kind of like it where the lights are inside, anyhow. 106 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,520 Anywhere you want, Johnny. 107 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,520 Sure. 108 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:24,520 Hi, Johnny. 109 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,520 Hi. 110 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,520 Hi, Nellie. 111 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:30,520 You're here, huh? 112 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:31,520 Yeah. 113 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:32,520 Frankie bought it for me. 114 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:33,520 Fits you good, Johnny. 115 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:34,520 You look real nice. 116 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:35,520 I need me a beer, Frankie. 117 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:36,520 Get you one? 118 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:37,520 Oh, I ain't thirsty, honey. 119 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:38,520 I'm thirsty. 120 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:39,520 I'm real thirsty. 121 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:40,520 All I got's nine dollars. 122 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:41,520 I ain't that thirsty. 123 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:42,520 Just give me one of them. 124 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:43,520 All right. 125 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:44,520 Here. 126 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:45,520 All right, come on. 127 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:46,520 I'll sit you down near the piano. 128 00:06:46,520 --> 00:07:03,520 You wait here, Frankie. 129 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,520 I'll bring me back my beer and sit with you. 130 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,520 Hiya, Frankie. 131 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,520 Want me to play you a song? 132 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,520 Just do what you're doing, Tiso. 133 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:16,520 I like it. 134 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:18,520 Dreamy like, huh? 135 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:19,520 Yeah. 136 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,520 I feel dreamy. 137 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:29,520 Hey, how are you and Johnny getting along, Frankie? 138 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,520 Like that music you're playing? 139 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:32,520 I'm glad. 140 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,520 I'm mighty glad. 141 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,520 I... 142 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,520 Ever get homesick, Frankie? 143 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:41,520 Oh, first I did. 144 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,520 I never think about home no more. 145 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:45,520 Georgia's a real nice place. 146 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:47,520 A girl can do real nice there. 147 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,520 I'm doing nice. 148 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:50,520 I got Johnny. 149 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:51,520 Yeah? 150 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,520 Sure, I got Johnny. 151 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,520 He comes back to the table from the bar you asked him. 152 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,520 I'll do that when he comes back. 153 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:05,520 He ain't at the bar, Frankie. 154 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:06,520 Bartender. 155 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:07,520 Yeah, what you want, man? 156 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:08,520 Where's Johnny? 157 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:09,520 Your name, Frankie, ma'am? 158 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:10,520 Yeah. 159 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:11,520 Where's Johnny? 160 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,520 He told me to tell you something. 161 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:14,520 He said he had to leave. 162 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:16,520 He said don't wait up for him. 163 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:17,520 He said not to worry. 164 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:18,520 Where'd he go? 165 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:19,520 I don't know. 166 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:29,520 I just don't know. 167 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,520 I ran to the street in a hurry. 168 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,520 My Johnny was nowhere around. 169 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:37,520 A gal who leaned in a doorway, made a soft laughing sound. 170 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,520 You're looking for your man? 171 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,520 Your Johnny's gone. 172 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:50,520 Walk up and down on the table. 173 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,520 Knock on a mid-lock door. 174 00:08:54,520 --> 00:09:05,520 Keep on asking for my loving Johnny in the weeping corridor. 175 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,520 Guys tried to sell me some nighttime. 176 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:10,520 Tried to kiss away tears and hit. 177 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,520 Come along, pretty Frankie. 178 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,520 I'll love you for years and years. 179 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:15,520 Forget your man. 180 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,520 Forget your man. 181 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:22,520 But I just walked toward North Rampart, searched the dark night in between. 182 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,520 Keep on looking for loving Johnny. 183 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:31,520 Right down to Old Darfee. 184 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:40,520 He was my man. 185 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,520 Evening, Frankie. 186 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,520 Oh, hello, Miss Willie. 187 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:45,520 Pretty evening, ain't it? 188 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:46,520 Haven't noticed. 189 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:48,520 It's a real pretty evening, Frankie. 190 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,520 You out strolling all alone? 191 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:52,520 I guess I am. 192 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:53,520 Come on inside. 193 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:54,520 We'll have us a chat. 194 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:56,520 No, I'm going to walk some more. 195 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:58,520 We'll have us some beer. 196 00:09:58,520 --> 00:09:59,520 No thanks, Miss Willie. 197 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,520 We'll have us some whiskey, Frankie. 198 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,520 I gotta walk some more. 199 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,520 Who you looking for? 200 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,520 It don't matter. 201 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:11,520 I got something to tell you, Frankie. 202 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:12,520 What? 203 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,520 I sit here all day long, all night long. 204 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:18,520 I never sleep. 205 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,520 I see all sorts of things. 206 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:22,520 People. 207 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,520 Things going on. 208 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:27,520 You see Johnny come by here, Miss Willie? 209 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,520 He waiting for you? 210 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,520 Have you seen him? 211 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:33,520 Oh, he sure a good looking boy. 212 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:35,520 Black hair plastered down like that. 213 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:36,520 My, my. 214 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:37,520 The way he walks. 215 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,520 Yeah, you notice the way he walks. 216 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:44,520 People step back and let him come past the way he walks, my Johnny. 217 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,520 What's your interest in him, Frankie? 218 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,520 He's my man. 219 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:49,520 Uh-huh. 220 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,520 You see him come by here lately? 221 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,520 I seen a gal come by here lately. 222 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:56,520 Well, I gotta go look for Johnny. 223 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:00,520 Oh, this gal wasn't alone. 224 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,520 Ain't a night for a gal to be alone. 225 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:04,520 Real pretty gal. 226 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:06,520 Who was she with, Miss Willie? 227 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:08,520 Had gold hair and red lips. 228 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,520 And her name was Nellie Bly. 229 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,520 Nellie Bly? 230 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,520 He said hello to a gal named Nellie in a place we were in. 231 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,520 He was with her, Frankie. 232 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:20,520 Where'd they go? 233 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,520 To show off his new suit, I guess. 234 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:23,520 Where did they go? 235 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:24,520 Up the street. 236 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:26,520 Down that way, Frankie. 237 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,520 Down to Jelly Cakes, please. 238 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,520 I leaned out the window and I think I saw them go into Jelly Cakes. 239 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,520 I ain't sure now, but I think they did. 240 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,520 Where are you going, Frankie? 241 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,520 Jelly Cakes the other way. 242 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,520 I'm gonna find me a pawn shop. 243 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,520 Why, Frankie? 244 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,520 Gotta buy me something. 245 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,520 What? 246 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,520 Gotta buy me a gun. 247 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,520 What are you gonna do with a gun, Frankie? 248 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,520 I'm gonna kill Johnny. 249 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,520 I'm gonna kill him, cause he's doing me wrong. 250 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:16,520 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Dinah Shore in Frankie and Johnny. 251 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:23,520 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 252 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,520 Hey, Harlow. 253 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:34,520 Takes a lot of experience to be an acrobat. 254 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,520 And a lot of skill, too, Hap. 255 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:40,520 That's why Auto Light Electrical Systems are such successful performers. 256 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:45,520 They've long been used as original equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors. 257 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:51,520 And every unit and component part is related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill 258 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,520 to give the finest performance money can buy. 259 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,520 And acrobats need to rest hard. 260 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,520 Ah, but not the Auto Light Electrical System. 261 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,520 It goes to work the second you turn the switch to start your car and run your engine. 262 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,520 Use your light's horn, radio, heater, or electric windshield wiper. 263 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,520 And an acrobat has to be in perfect shape. 264 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,520 Same with the Electrical System, Hap. 265 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:18,520 So, friends, treat your car to a periodic checkup at your car dealer's or authorized Auto Light service station. 266 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:23,520 Make sure the electrical system is always in top shape for top performance. 267 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,520 You can quickly locate your nearest authorized Auto Light service station 268 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:34,520 in the classified section of your telephone book, or by calling Western Union by number and asking for Operator 25. 269 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:40,520 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 270 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:46,520 Now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Dinah Shore, 271 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:50,520 in Elliot Lewis's production of Frankie and Johnny, 272 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:55,520 a true story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 273 00:13:55,520 --> 00:14:11,520 Music 274 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:27,520 Hey, boys, come on there. Come on, boys, come on. 275 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:33,520 Ah, you like that, boy. 276 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:35,520 I got another one here for you. 277 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,520 But first, boys and me are going to take five. 278 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:42,520 Be with you soon. 279 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:43,520 Jellycake? 280 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:45,520 Ah, hiya, Miss Frankie. 281 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:47,520 Can I talk to you a minute, Jellycake, please? 282 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:48,520 You. 283 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,520 Be big. Please sit down. 284 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,520 Can I get you something to drink? 285 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,520 Has Johnny been in here? 286 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:57,520 He's been here. 287 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:58,520 With a girl? 288 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,520 He was calling her Nellie. 289 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:02,520 What did they do here? 290 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:07,520 They were sitting over there. They got up and danced for a while, a couple of times when we played them soft. 291 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,520 But mostly they just sat. 292 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,520 He kiss her? 293 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:13,520 You wouldn't ask me things like that, Miss Frankie. 294 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,520 I want to know what he did. 295 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:17,520 He had a little fight while he was in here. 296 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,520 It wasn't much of a fight. Just hit a man, that's all. 297 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,520 Johnny never hit a man on account of me. 298 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:24,520 Oh, it wasn't that, Miss Frankie. 299 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,520 Some man walked up and spilled a little gin on Johnny's new suit. 300 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,520 It was an accident. Man didn't mean nothing, but Johnny hit him. 301 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:33,520 Said the man that drew in this suit. 302 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,520 Johnny might have killed that man except for the lady, the one he called Nellie. 303 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:38,520 She fixed it. 304 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:40,520 Fixed it? How? 305 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:42,520 Took Johnny out of here for a little while. 306 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,520 Then they come back. 307 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,520 Johnny was smiling. 308 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,520 Johnny was smiling and leaning close to the one he called Nellie. 309 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:50,520 Telling her things. 310 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,520 Then she'd be smiling too. 311 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,520 Man a hit up against Johnny's new yellow suit. 312 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,520 Yellow suit? I didn't buy him a yellow suit. 313 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,520 That's the kind of suit he's wearing when he come back in here, Miss Frankie. 314 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,520 Soft kind of yellow. 315 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:05,520 Not the kind that screams at you. 316 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,520 Whispery kind of yellow. 317 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:09,520 The one I bought him cost a hundred dollars. 318 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,520 Oh, you couldn't buy that yellow suit for no hundred dollars. 319 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,520 This was five pearl buttons on the coat. 320 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,520 And the vest was silk. 321 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,520 And there was a big gold chain across the front. 322 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:24,520 Ah, that Johnny lighted up the place with a soft, pretty light. 323 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,520 I'd have bought him a suit like that. 324 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,520 If he'd have asked me to, I'd have bought him anything he wanted. 325 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,520 He never asked you for no diamonds, did he? 326 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:33,520 Diamonds? 327 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:35,520 Like the one he's wearing on his little finger. 328 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,520 Miss Frankie, that was the biggest diamond in the whole world. 329 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:41,520 The brightest one too. 330 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,520 That Johnny ain't never gonna need a light to find his way around. 331 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,520 Not with that diamond on his little finger. 332 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,520 I guess Nellie bought him that too. 333 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,520 And the pattern of his shoes and the cane. 334 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,520 I guess she likes him real well. 335 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,520 I guess Danny got himself a woman. 336 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:58,520 Where'd they go, Jelly Cake? 337 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,520 Out of here some time ago. 338 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,520 Must have been an hour. 339 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:03,520 Where? 340 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,520 Well, he gave me a dollar to play him a tune. 341 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:09,520 Called me a tune, said play it before I take my lovely Nellie home. 342 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,520 You know where she lives? 343 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,520 Where Earthline crosses Charteris, Miss Frankie. 344 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:16,520 Third house down, left side. 345 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,520 Thanks, Jelly Cake. 346 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:19,520 What you gonna do? 347 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,520 You know what I'm gonna do. 348 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,520 You gonna kill him? 349 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,520 Well, good night, Miss Frankie. 350 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:43,520 Come on, Jelly Cake. 351 00:17:43,520 --> 00:18:07,520 Cap! 352 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,520 That man took all of my money. 353 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,520 That man took all of my love. 354 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,520 He left me so sad and so lonely. 355 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,520 My heart's a broken winged dove. 356 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,520 He is my man. 357 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:24,520 But he's doing me wrong. 358 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,520 Got a big rock on his finger. 359 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,520 And a yellow suit on his back. 360 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,520 Making love to that Nellie Bly. 361 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:34,520 So drive her over all this heck. 362 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,520 Gonna kill that man. 363 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,520 What'd you say, lady? 364 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,520 Gonna kill that man. 365 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:42,520 Turn here. 366 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:48,520 Three houses down and stop. 367 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,520 I guess you wanna go someplace after you leave here, lady. 368 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:52,520 You want me to wait? 369 00:18:52,520 --> 00:19:10,520 You can wait. 370 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:12,520 What do you want? 371 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:13,520 Where's Johnny? 372 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,520 I know what you're talking about, lady. 373 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:16,520 Nellie Bly live here? 374 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:17,520 She's gone, lady. 375 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:18,520 She ain't never coming back. 376 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,520 A man with her wearing a yellow suit and a gold chain and a diamond ring? 377 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:23,520 Name's Johnny, huh? 378 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:25,520 Gent, real gent. 379 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:26,520 He's gone too. 380 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:27,520 He's gone with Nellie Bly. 381 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,520 They talk about where they were going? 382 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,520 They talked about Memphis and St. Louis. 383 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,520 About riding the river boat come morning. 384 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,520 That Johnny's a real sport. 385 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,520 Lady, five dollar bill right here. 386 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:41,520 Where my hand at? 387 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,520 I only got two dollars. 388 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:48,520 Right here where my hand at. 389 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:50,520 Thank you kindly. 390 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,520 What'd he buy for five dollars, mister? 391 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,520 What, I'm going to sell you for two? 392 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,520 Johnny sent me to his place to pick up something. 393 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:58,520 You're lying, Johnny. 394 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:00,520 He ain't got nothing except what's on his back. 395 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,520 Got a clarinet? 396 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,520 That's what he told me to get, that's all. 397 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,520 What'd you want, Jennifer? 398 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,520 I got something to give him too. 399 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:09,520 What's that? 400 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:11,520 A gun. 401 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:17,520 You find him, lady? 402 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,520 I know where he is, I know for sure where he is. 403 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:20,520 Is that where we're going? 404 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:21,520 To Coocaloos. 405 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:22,520 On Basis Street? 406 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:23,520 That's right. 407 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,520 Well, I know where that is. 408 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:27,520 Won't take long. 409 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:33,520 Cabbie? 410 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:34,520 Yeah, lady? 411 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,520 I got no more money. 412 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:37,520 Oh? 413 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,520 I can't pay you for this ride, Cabbie. 414 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,520 You weren't kidding, were you, about what you said before? 415 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:43,520 About what? 416 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,520 About killing a man. 417 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:47,520 I wasn't kidding. 418 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,520 I'm going to kill him. 419 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,520 This ride won't cost you nothing. 420 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:54,520 I wish I had me a gal like you. 421 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,520 Love me so much she'd kill. 422 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:04,520 I wouldn't do a gal like that no wrong. 423 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,520 Where you going, Frankie? 424 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,520 Get out of my way, Nellie Blythe. 425 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:31,520 You can't go in that back room. 426 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,520 Johnny won't even let me go in there, so he ain't going to let you. 427 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,520 I got no argument with you, so get out of my way. 428 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,520 You got an argument with my sweet man, you got an argument with me. 429 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,520 You want to go to Memphis, Nellie? 430 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:42,520 I'm going. 431 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,520 You want to go to St. Louis? 432 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:45,520 I'm going there too. 433 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,520 Maybe you're going, and I ain't going to stop you. 434 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:52,520 But you're going to find another sweet man to go with, not Johnny. 435 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,520 Honey, he don't love you no more. He's tired of you. 436 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:57,520 He told me. 437 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,520 He told me lots of things. 438 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,520 He told me about my gold hair and my red lips. 439 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,520 He told me... 440 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,520 You ain't going with Johnny. 441 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,520 No. 442 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,520 No, I guess I ain't. 443 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,520 Get out of here, Nellie. 444 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,520 The way you hold that gun, I guess I better. 445 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,520 Get on the bike. 446 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,520 I guess I better. 447 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,520 Get on that river boat and never come back. 448 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,520 I ain't never coming back, Frankie. 449 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,520 Honest. 450 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,520 I'm ashamed to kill him, Frankie. 451 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,520 He ain't much of a guy, but Johnny plays a lot of clarinet. 452 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,520 Get out, you son. 453 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,520 I'm sorry, Frankie. 454 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,520 I'm sorry. 455 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,520 I'm sorry. 456 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,520 I'm sorry. 457 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,520 I'm sorry. 458 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,520 I'm sorry. 459 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,520 I'm sorry. 460 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,520 I'm sorry. 461 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,520 I'm sorry. 462 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,520 I'm sorry. 463 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,520 You oughtn't to kill him, Frankie. 464 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,520 When you leave here, mister, close the door. 465 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,520 Johnny? 466 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:25,520 Goodbye, Johnny. 467 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,520 Johnny. 468 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,520 Johnny. 469 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:37,520 Roll them over easy, boy. 470 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:42,520 Roll them over easy, boy. 471 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:50,520 Roll them over easy, boy. 472 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:55,520 Roll them over slow. 473 00:23:55,520 --> 00:24:00,520 How do you feel, Johnny? 474 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:11,520 I guess you don't hurt no more, Johnny. 475 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:16,520 What happened to him? 476 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,520 He got shot. He died. 477 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,520 You do it, Frankie. 478 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,520 I gotta take you to the jailhouse, Frankie. 479 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:48,520 We better go. 480 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:53,520 I brought you a chair to stand on, Frankie, in case you want to look out the jail window. 481 00:24:53,520 --> 00:25:03,520 You want to look? You want to look, Frankie? 482 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:18,520 What do you see? 483 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:23,520 I see a long black coffin. 484 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:31,520 There's people in funeral clothes. 485 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:40,520 Johnny's gone and cashed us checks. 486 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:47,520 To the graveyard, my Johnny goes. 487 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:56,520 There goes that rubber-tied carriage. 488 00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:03,520 There goes that rubber-tied hack. 489 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:11,520 Twelve men going to the graveyard. 490 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:17,520 And eleven coming back. 491 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:24,520 Johnny was my man. 492 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:43,520 But he done me wrong. 493 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:51,520 Suspense. A true story presented by Auto Light. 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