WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.200 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Miss Dinah Shore in tonight's presentation 00:12.200 --> 00:15.200 of Suspense. 00:15.200 --> 00:25.080 Tonight, Auto Light presents the recreation in song and story of an American legend. 00:25.080 --> 00:31.040 You're about to hear what happened to Frankie and Johnny, our star Miss Dinah Shore. 00:31.040 --> 00:40.160 Hey, Harno, weren't those circus acrobats wonderful? 00:40.160 --> 00:41.160 Yes, sir, Hap. 00:41.160 --> 00:45.280 You know, they remind me of the Auto Light electrical system in every Auto Light equipped 00:45.280 --> 00:51.000 car, working together, just like the coil distributor, generator, starting motor, battery, 00:51.000 --> 00:55.520 spark plugs, and all the other important parts of the complete Auto Light electrical system. 00:55.520 --> 00:57.840 Well, there's one big difference, Harno. 00:57.840 --> 00:59.640 You bet there is, Hap. 00:59.640 --> 01:03.800 Those acrobats perform for only a few minutes at a time, but the electrical system in your 01:03.800 --> 01:08.360 Auto Light equipped car goes to work the second you turn the switch to start your car, and 01:08.360 --> 01:11.720 it keeps right on working every second your car is used. 01:11.720 --> 01:15.880 That's why with Auto Light, you can be sure every unit and every component part of the 01:15.880 --> 01:21.880 electrical system is related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill 01:21.880 --> 01:25.320 to give you the smoothest performance money can buy. 01:25.320 --> 01:29.760 Hey, pays to keep the Auto Light team together, eh, Harno? 01:29.760 --> 01:30.760 It sure does, Hap. 01:30.760 --> 01:35.120 So, friends, if your Auto Light equipped car needs replacement parts, be sure to insist 01:35.120 --> 01:38.200 on Auto Light original factory parts. 01:38.200 --> 01:43.720 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:43.720 --> 01:50.080 And now, with Frankie and Johnny and the performance of Miss Dinah Shore, Auto Light hopes once 01:50.080 --> 01:55.080 again to keep you in suspense. 01:55.080 --> 02:23.840 Bring out your long black coffin, Miss Dinah. 02:23.840 --> 02:34.160 Bring out your funeral clothes. 02:34.160 --> 02:46.000 Johnny's gone and cashed his check to the graveyard, my Johnny goes. 02:46.000 --> 02:50.440 He was my man. 02:50.440 --> 02:53.600 He was my man. 02:53.600 --> 02:57.560 He was my man. 02:57.560 --> 02:59.560 Johnny? 02:59.560 --> 03:03.320 Johnny, honey. 03:03.320 --> 03:17.960 Put away that clarinet and talk to me, Johnny. 03:17.960 --> 03:18.960 What? 03:18.960 --> 03:20.960 You love me, honey? 03:20.960 --> 03:22.960 Sure, sure. 03:22.960 --> 03:24.960 Johnny? 03:24.960 --> 03:26.960 Johnny. 03:26.960 --> 03:32.680 What do you want now? 03:32.680 --> 03:33.680 Talk to me, baby. 03:33.680 --> 03:34.680 That's all I want. 03:34.680 --> 03:35.680 All right, come here. 03:35.680 --> 03:42.680 That's what you want, isn't it? 03:42.680 --> 03:43.680 You're my man, Johnny. 03:43.680 --> 03:44.680 That's right. 03:44.680 --> 03:45.680 I'm your man. 03:45.680 --> 03:46.680 Except sometimes. 03:46.680 --> 03:49.280 What are you talking about? 03:49.280 --> 03:51.120 Except sometimes, Johnny, when you go away. 03:51.120 --> 03:52.520 Where do you go when you go away? 03:52.520 --> 03:53.520 Oh, baby. 03:53.520 --> 03:54.520 Where do you go, Johnny? 03:54.520 --> 03:57.520 The kookaloo is on Basin Street, you know that. 03:57.520 --> 03:58.600 They don't serve nothing there. 03:58.600 --> 04:00.440 I can't make you, Johnny. 04:00.440 --> 04:02.440 What's there's a back room. 04:02.440 --> 04:04.440 Back room and a place to play my music. 04:04.440 --> 04:06.040 A place to sit and play. 04:06.040 --> 04:07.040 Nobody bothers. 04:07.040 --> 04:08.040 Me and a couple others. 04:08.040 --> 04:10.280 You know that, baby, don't you worry. 04:10.280 --> 04:12.720 You can play your music someplace else and get money for it. 04:12.720 --> 04:13.720 I worry about that. 04:13.720 --> 04:15.320 Get away from here, Frankie. 04:15.320 --> 04:16.320 Take yourself a walk. 04:16.320 --> 04:17.320 The whole town of New Orleans. 04:17.320 --> 04:20.360 So many places to play your music and you sit in a back room. 04:20.360 --> 04:21.360 You go away from me and... 04:21.360 --> 04:23.040 I told you something, baby. 04:23.040 --> 04:28.680 You don't like it, you can take that long walk to Georgia where you come from. 04:28.680 --> 04:29.680 You leaving? 04:29.680 --> 04:30.680 No. 04:30.680 --> 04:37.480 A couple of girls I used to know never bothered me about not going down to kookaloo's. 04:37.480 --> 04:40.480 I won't bother you, Johnny. 04:40.480 --> 04:42.720 Got any money, Frankie? 04:42.720 --> 04:43.720 I got some. 04:43.720 --> 04:46.920 I saw me a suit walking down Basin Street. 04:46.920 --> 04:50.400 I saw me a suit in a store window. 04:50.400 --> 04:51.400 I need me that suit, honey. 04:51.400 --> 04:53.520 I'm sure it looked good in it. 04:53.520 --> 04:54.520 What's it cost, Johnny? 04:54.520 --> 04:56.840 I mean, a cheap suit? 04:56.840 --> 04:57.840 I didn't say that, Johnny. 04:57.840 --> 04:59.840 I just asked how much... 04:59.840 --> 05:00.840 A hundred dollars? 05:00.840 --> 05:02.680 You got a hundred dollars, baby? 05:02.680 --> 05:03.680 I got it. 05:03.680 --> 05:04.680 Well, that's good. 05:04.680 --> 05:05.680 That's fine. 05:05.680 --> 05:06.680 We walked real slow along Basin Street. 05:06.680 --> 05:21.040 The girls all calling by name. 05:21.040 --> 05:30.040 But I walked real close to my Johnny. 05:30.040 --> 05:39.280 I'm sure he's got a good eye. 05:39.280 --> 05:42.480 This one, pay him, Frankie, while I put it on. 05:42.480 --> 05:46.560 Johnny and me, we went walking here. 05:46.560 --> 05:50.880 And Johnny had a brand new suit. 05:50.880 --> 05:59.760 I paid out all of that money just to make my man look cute. 05:59.760 --> 06:03.000 He was my man. 06:03.000 --> 06:04.000 Show me off, Frankie. 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 Sure, honey. 06:05.000 --> 06:08.920 We'll walk down here to Esplanade and down Esplanade where the lights are and everybody 06:08.920 --> 06:09.920 can see you fine. 06:09.920 --> 06:11.640 Hey, the lights are right in there, baby. 06:11.640 --> 06:13.120 We won't have to walk so much. 06:13.120 --> 06:15.520 I kind of like it where the lights are inside, anyhow. 06:15.520 --> 06:18.520 Anywhere you want, Johnny. 06:18.520 --> 06:20.520 Sure. 06:20.520 --> 06:24.520 Hi, Johnny. 06:24.520 --> 06:26.520 Hi. 06:26.520 --> 06:29.520 Hi, Nellie. 06:29.520 --> 06:30.520 You're here, huh? 06:30.520 --> 06:31.520 Yeah. 06:31.520 --> 06:32.520 Frankie bought it for me. 06:32.520 --> 06:33.520 Fits you good, Johnny. 06:33.520 --> 06:34.520 You look real nice. 06:34.520 --> 06:35.520 I need me a beer, Frankie. 06:35.520 --> 06:36.520 Get you one? 06:36.520 --> 06:37.520 Oh, I ain't thirsty, honey. 06:37.520 --> 06:38.520 I'm thirsty. 06:38.520 --> 06:39.520 I'm real thirsty. 06:39.520 --> 06:40.520 All I got's nine dollars. 06:40.520 --> 06:41.520 I ain't that thirsty. 06:41.520 --> 06:42.520 Just give me one of them. 06:42.520 --> 06:43.520 All right. 06:43.520 --> 06:44.520 Here. 06:44.520 --> 06:45.520 All right, come on. 06:45.520 --> 06:46.520 I'll sit you down near the piano. 06:46.520 --> 07:03.520 You wait here, Frankie. 07:03.520 --> 07:06.520 I'll bring me back my beer and sit with you. 07:06.520 --> 07:09.520 Hiya, Frankie. 07:09.520 --> 07:13.520 Want me to play you a song? 07:13.520 --> 07:15.520 Just do what you're doing, Tiso. 07:15.520 --> 07:16.520 I like it. 07:16.520 --> 07:18.520 Dreamy like, huh? 07:18.520 --> 07:19.520 Yeah. 07:19.520 --> 07:22.520 I feel dreamy. 07:22.520 --> 07:29.520 Hey, how are you and Johnny getting along, Frankie? 07:29.520 --> 07:31.520 Like that music you're playing? 07:31.520 --> 07:32.520 I'm glad. 07:32.520 --> 07:34.520 I'm mighty glad. 07:34.520 --> 07:36.520 I... 07:36.520 --> 07:39.520 Ever get homesick, Frankie? 07:39.520 --> 07:41.520 Oh, first I did. 07:41.520 --> 07:43.520 I never think about home no more. 07:43.520 --> 07:45.520 Georgia's a real nice place. 07:45.520 --> 07:47.520 A girl can do real nice there. 07:47.520 --> 07:49.520 I'm doing nice. 07:49.520 --> 07:50.520 I got Johnny. 07:50.520 --> 07:51.520 Yeah? 07:51.520 --> 07:53.520 Sure, I got Johnny. 07:53.520 --> 07:56.520 He comes back to the table from the bar you asked him. 07:56.520 --> 07:59.520 I'll do that when he comes back. 07:59.520 --> 08:05.520 He ain't at the bar, Frankie. 08:05.520 --> 08:06.520 Bartender. 08:06.520 --> 08:07.520 Yeah, what you want, man? 08:07.520 --> 08:08.520 Where's Johnny? 08:08.520 --> 08:09.520 Your name, Frankie, ma'am? 08:09.520 --> 08:10.520 Yeah. 08:10.520 --> 08:11.520 Where's Johnny? 08:11.520 --> 08:13.520 He told me to tell you something. 08:13.520 --> 08:14.520 He said he had to leave. 08:14.520 --> 08:16.520 He said don't wait up for him. 08:16.520 --> 08:17.520 He said not to worry. 08:17.520 --> 08:18.520 Where'd he go? 08:18.520 --> 08:19.520 I don't know. 08:19.520 --> 08:29.520 I just don't know. 08:29.520 --> 08:31.520 I ran to the street in a hurry. 08:31.520 --> 08:33.520 My Johnny was nowhere around. 08:33.520 --> 08:37.520 A gal who leaned in a doorway, made a soft laughing sound. 08:37.520 --> 08:41.520 You're looking for your man? 08:41.520 --> 08:44.520 Your Johnny's gone. 08:44.520 --> 08:50.520 Walk up and down on the table. 08:50.520 --> 08:54.520 Knock on a mid-lock door. 08:54.520 --> 09:05.520 Keep on asking for my loving Johnny in the weeping corridor. 09:05.520 --> 09:08.520 Guys tried to sell me some nighttime. 09:08.520 --> 09:10.520 Tried to kiss away tears and hit. 09:10.520 --> 09:12.520 Come along, pretty Frankie. 09:12.520 --> 09:14.520 I'll love you for years and years. 09:14.520 --> 09:15.520 Forget your man. 09:15.520 --> 09:17.520 Forget your man. 09:17.520 --> 09:22.520 But I just walked toward North Rampart, searched the dark night in between. 09:22.520 --> 09:26.520 Keep on looking for loving Johnny. 09:26.520 --> 09:31.520 Right down to Old Darfee. 09:31.520 --> 09:40.520 He was my man. 09:40.520 --> 09:42.520 Evening, Frankie. 09:42.520 --> 09:44.520 Oh, hello, Miss Willie. 09:44.520 --> 09:45.520 Pretty evening, ain't it? 09:45.520 --> 09:46.520 Haven't noticed. 09:46.520 --> 09:48.520 It's a real pretty evening, Frankie. 09:48.520 --> 09:50.520 You out strolling all alone? 09:50.520 --> 09:52.520 I guess I am. 09:52.520 --> 09:53.520 Come on inside. 09:53.520 --> 09:54.520 We'll have us a chat. 09:54.520 --> 09:56.520 No, I'm going to walk some more. 09:56.520 --> 09:58.520 We'll have us some beer. 09:58.520 --> 09:59.520 No thanks, Miss Willie. 09:59.520 --> 10:01.520 We'll have us some whiskey, Frankie. 10:01.520 --> 10:03.520 I gotta walk some more. 10:03.520 --> 10:05.520 Who you looking for? 10:05.520 --> 10:07.520 It don't matter. 10:07.520 --> 10:11.520 I got something to tell you, Frankie. 10:11.520 --> 10:12.520 What? 10:12.520 --> 10:17.520 I sit here all day long, all night long. 10:17.520 --> 10:18.520 I never sleep. 10:18.520 --> 10:21.520 I see all sorts of things. 10:21.520 --> 10:22.520 People. 10:22.520 --> 10:24.520 Things going on. 10:24.520 --> 10:27.520 You see Johnny come by here, Miss Willie? 10:27.520 --> 10:29.520 He waiting for you? 10:29.520 --> 10:31.520 Have you seen him? 10:31.520 --> 10:33.520 Oh, he sure a good looking boy. 10:33.520 --> 10:35.520 Black hair plastered down like that. 10:35.520 --> 10:36.520 My, my. 10:36.520 --> 10:37.520 The way he walks. 10:37.520 --> 10:39.520 Yeah, you notice the way he walks. 10:39.520 --> 10:44.520 People step back and let him come past the way he walks, my Johnny. 10:44.520 --> 10:46.520 What's your interest in him, Frankie? 10:46.520 --> 10:48.520 He's my man. 10:48.520 --> 10:49.520 Uh-huh. 10:49.520 --> 10:52.520 You see him come by here lately? 10:52.520 --> 10:54.520 I seen a gal come by here lately. 10:54.520 --> 10:56.520 Well, I gotta go look for Johnny. 10:56.520 --> 11:00.520 Oh, this gal wasn't alone. 11:00.520 --> 11:02.520 Ain't a night for a gal to be alone. 11:02.520 --> 11:04.520 Real pretty gal. 11:04.520 --> 11:06.520 Who was she with, Miss Willie? 11:06.520 --> 11:08.520 Had gold hair and red lips. 11:08.520 --> 11:10.520 And her name was Nellie Bly. 11:10.520 --> 11:13.520 Nellie Bly? 11:13.520 --> 11:16.520 He said hello to a gal named Nellie in a place we were in. 11:16.520 --> 11:19.520 He was with her, Frankie. 11:19.520 --> 11:20.520 Where'd they go? 11:20.520 --> 11:22.520 To show off his new suit, I guess. 11:22.520 --> 11:23.520 Where did they go? 11:23.520 --> 11:24.520 Up the street. 11:24.520 --> 11:26.520 Down that way, Frankie. 11:26.520 --> 11:28.520 Down to Jelly Cakes, please. 11:28.520 --> 11:31.520 I leaned out the window and I think I saw them go into Jelly Cakes. 11:31.520 --> 11:34.520 I ain't sure now, but I think they did. 11:34.520 --> 11:36.520 Where are you going, Frankie? 11:36.520 --> 11:38.520 Jelly Cakes the other way. 11:38.520 --> 11:40.520 I'm gonna find me a pawn shop. 11:40.520 --> 11:42.520 Why, Frankie? 11:42.520 --> 11:44.520 Gotta buy me something. 11:44.520 --> 11:46.520 What? 11:46.520 --> 11:48.520 Gotta buy me a gun. 11:48.520 --> 11:51.520 What are you gonna do with a gun, Frankie? 11:51.520 --> 11:53.520 I'm gonna kill Johnny. 11:53.520 --> 11:57.520 I'm gonna kill him, cause he's doing me wrong. 12:11.520 --> 12:16.520 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Dinah Shore in Frankie and Johnny. 12:16.520 --> 12:23.520 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:30.520 --> 12:32.520 Hey, Harlow. 12:32.520 --> 12:34.520 Takes a lot of experience to be an acrobat. 12:34.520 --> 12:36.520 And a lot of skill, too, Hap. 12:36.520 --> 12:40.520 That's why Auto Light Electrical Systems are such successful performers. 12:40.520 --> 12:45.520 They've long been used as original equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors. 12:45.520 --> 12:51.520 And every unit and component part is related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill 12:51.520 --> 12:54.520 to give the finest performance money can buy. 12:54.520 --> 12:56.520 And acrobats need to rest hard. 12:56.520 --> 12:59.520 Ah, but not the Auto Light Electrical System. 12:59.520 --> 13:03.520 It goes to work the second you turn the switch to start your car and run your engine. 13:03.520 --> 13:07.520 Use your light's horn, radio, heater, or electric windshield wiper. 13:07.520 --> 13:09.520 And an acrobat has to be in perfect shape. 13:09.520 --> 13:11.520 Same with the Electrical System, Hap. 13:11.520 --> 13:18.520 So, friends, treat your car to a periodic checkup at your car dealer's or authorized Auto Light service station. 13:18.520 --> 13:23.520 Make sure the electrical system is always in top shape for top performance. 13:23.520 --> 13:27.520 You can quickly locate your nearest authorized Auto Light service station 13:27.520 --> 13:34.520 in the classified section of your telephone book, or by calling Western Union by number and asking for Operator 25. 13:34.520 --> 13:40.520 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 13:40.520 --> 13:46.520 Now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Dinah Shore, 13:46.520 --> 13:50.520 in Elliot Lewis's production of Frankie and Johnny, 13:50.520 --> 13:55.520 a true story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:55.520 --> 14:11.520 Music 14:11.520 --> 14:27.520 Hey, boys, come on there. Come on, boys, come on. 14:27.520 --> 14:33.520 Ah, you like that, boy. 14:33.520 --> 14:35.520 I got another one here for you. 14:35.520 --> 14:38.520 But first, boys and me are going to take five. 14:38.520 --> 14:42.520 Be with you soon. 14:42.520 --> 14:43.520 Jellycake? 14:43.520 --> 14:45.520 Ah, hiya, Miss Frankie. 14:45.520 --> 14:47.520 Can I talk to you a minute, Jellycake, please? 14:47.520 --> 14:48.520 You. 14:48.520 --> 14:51.520 Be big. Please sit down. 14:51.520 --> 14:53.520 Can I get you something to drink? 14:53.520 --> 14:55.520 Has Johnny been in here? 14:55.520 --> 14:57.520 He's been here. 14:57.520 --> 14:58.520 With a girl? 14:58.520 --> 15:00.520 He was calling her Nellie. 15:00.520 --> 15:02.520 What did they do here? 15:02.520 --> 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. 15:07.520 --> 15:09.520 But mostly they just sat. 15:09.520 --> 15:11.520 He kiss her? 15:11.520 --> 15:13.520 You wouldn't ask me things like that, Miss Frankie. 15:13.520 --> 15:15.520 I want to know what he did. 15:15.520 --> 15:17.520 He had a little fight while he was in here. 15:17.520 --> 15:20.520 It wasn't much of a fight. Just hit a man, that's all. 15:20.520 --> 15:23.520 Johnny never hit a man on account of me. 15:23.520 --> 15:24.520 Oh, it wasn't that, Miss Frankie. 15:24.520 --> 15:28.520 Some man walked up and spilled a little gin on Johnny's new suit. 15:28.520 --> 15:31.520 It was an accident. Man didn't mean nothing, but Johnny hit him. 15:31.520 --> 15:33.520 Said the man that drew in this suit. 15:33.520 --> 15:37.520 Johnny might have killed that man except for the lady, the one he called Nellie. 15:37.520 --> 15:38.520 She fixed it. 15:38.520 --> 15:40.520 Fixed it? How? 15:40.520 --> 15:42.520 Took Johnny out of here for a little while. 15:42.520 --> 15:44.520 Then they come back. 15:44.520 --> 15:46.520 Johnny was smiling. 15:46.520 --> 15:49.520 Johnny was smiling and leaning close to the one he called Nellie. 15:49.520 --> 15:50.520 Telling her things. 15:50.520 --> 15:52.520 Then she'd be smiling too. 15:52.520 --> 15:55.520 Man a hit up against Johnny's new yellow suit. 15:55.520 --> 15:58.520 Yellow suit? I didn't buy him a yellow suit. 15:58.520 --> 16:01.520 That's the kind of suit he's wearing when he come back in here, Miss Frankie. 16:01.520 --> 16:03.520 Soft kind of yellow. 16:03.520 --> 16:05.520 Not the kind that screams at you. 16:05.520 --> 16:07.520 Whispery kind of yellow. 16:07.520 --> 16:09.520 The one I bought him cost a hundred dollars. 16:09.520 --> 16:12.520 Oh, you couldn't buy that yellow suit for no hundred dollars. 16:12.520 --> 16:15.520 This was five pearl buttons on the coat. 16:15.520 --> 16:17.520 And the vest was silk. 16:17.520 --> 16:20.520 And there was a big gold chain across the front. 16:20.520 --> 16:24.520 Ah, that Johnny lighted up the place with a soft, pretty light. 16:24.520 --> 16:26.520 I'd have bought him a suit like that. 16:26.520 --> 16:30.520 If he'd have asked me to, I'd have bought him anything he wanted. 16:30.520 --> 16:32.520 He never asked you for no diamonds, did he? 16:32.520 --> 16:33.520 Diamonds? 16:33.520 --> 16:35.520 Like the one he's wearing on his little finger. 16:35.520 --> 16:39.520 Miss Frankie, that was the biggest diamond in the whole world. 16:39.520 --> 16:41.520 The brightest one too. 16:41.520 --> 16:44.520 That Johnny ain't never gonna need a light to find his way around. 16:44.520 --> 16:47.520 Not with that diamond on his little finger. 16:47.520 --> 16:49.520 I guess Nellie bought him that too. 16:49.520 --> 16:52.520 And the pattern of his shoes and the cane. 16:52.520 --> 16:54.520 I guess she likes him real well. 16:54.520 --> 16:56.520 I guess Danny got himself a woman. 16:56.520 --> 16:58.520 Where'd they go, Jelly Cake? 16:58.520 --> 17:00.520 Out of here some time ago. 17:00.520 --> 17:02.520 Must have been an hour. 17:02.520 --> 17:03.520 Where? 17:03.520 --> 17:05.520 Well, he gave me a dollar to play him a tune. 17:05.520 --> 17:09.520 Called me a tune, said play it before I take my lovely Nellie home. 17:09.520 --> 17:11.520 You know where she lives? 17:11.520 --> 17:14.520 Where Earthline crosses Charteris, Miss Frankie. 17:14.520 --> 17:16.520 Third house down, left side. 17:16.520 --> 17:18.520 Thanks, Jelly Cake. 17:18.520 --> 17:19.520 What you gonna do? 17:19.520 --> 17:22.520 You know what I'm gonna do. 17:22.520 --> 17:25.520 You gonna kill him? 17:25.520 --> 17:28.520 Well, good night, Miss Frankie. 17:28.520 --> 17:43.520 Come on, Jelly Cake. 17:43.520 --> 18:07.520 Cap! 18:07.520 --> 18:10.520 That man took all of my money. 18:10.520 --> 18:12.520 That man took all of my love. 18:12.520 --> 18:15.520 He left me so sad and so lonely. 18:15.520 --> 18:18.520 My heart's a broken winged dove. 18:18.520 --> 18:21.520 He is my man. 18:21.520 --> 18:24.520 But he's doing me wrong. 18:24.520 --> 18:27.520 Got a big rock on his finger. 18:27.520 --> 18:29.520 And a yellow suit on his back. 18:29.520 --> 18:32.520 Making love to that Nellie Bly. 18:32.520 --> 18:34.520 So drive her over all this heck. 18:34.520 --> 18:36.520 Gonna kill that man. 18:36.520 --> 18:38.520 What'd you say, lady? 18:38.520 --> 18:41.520 Gonna kill that man. 18:41.520 --> 18:42.520 Turn here. 18:42.520 --> 18:48.520 Three houses down and stop. 18:48.520 --> 18:51.520 I guess you wanna go someplace after you leave here, lady. 18:51.520 --> 18:52.520 You want me to wait? 18:52.520 --> 19:10.520 You can wait. 19:10.520 --> 19:12.520 What do you want? 19:12.520 --> 19:13.520 Where's Johnny? 19:13.520 --> 19:15.520 I know what you're talking about, lady. 19:15.520 --> 19:16.520 Nellie Bly live here? 19:16.520 --> 19:17.520 She's gone, lady. 19:17.520 --> 19:18.520 She ain't never coming back. 19:18.520 --> 19:21.520 A man with her wearing a yellow suit and a gold chain and a diamond ring? 19:21.520 --> 19:23.520 Name's Johnny, huh? 19:23.520 --> 19:25.520 Gent, real gent. 19:25.520 --> 19:26.520 He's gone too. 19:26.520 --> 19:27.520 He's gone with Nellie Bly. 19:27.520 --> 19:29.520 They talk about where they were going? 19:29.520 --> 19:32.520 They talked about Memphis and St. Louis. 19:32.520 --> 19:35.520 About riding the river boat come morning. 19:35.520 --> 19:37.520 That Johnny's a real sport. 19:37.520 --> 19:40.520 Lady, five dollar bill right here. 19:40.520 --> 19:41.520 Where my hand at? 19:41.520 --> 19:43.520 I only got two dollars. 19:43.520 --> 19:48.520 Right here where my hand at. 19:48.520 --> 19:50.520 Thank you kindly. 19:50.520 --> 19:52.520 What'd he buy for five dollars, mister? 19:52.520 --> 19:54.520 What, I'm going to sell you for two? 19:54.520 --> 19:57.520 Johnny sent me to his place to pick up something. 19:57.520 --> 19:58.520 You're lying, Johnny. 19:58.520 --> 20:00.520 He ain't got nothing except what's on his back. 20:00.520 --> 20:02.520 Got a clarinet? 20:02.520 --> 20:04.520 That's what he told me to get, that's all. 20:04.520 --> 20:06.520 What'd you want, Jennifer? 20:06.520 --> 20:08.520 I got something to give him too. 20:08.520 --> 20:09.520 What's that? 20:09.520 --> 20:11.520 A gun. 20:16.520 --> 20:17.520 You find him, lady? 20:17.520 --> 20:19.520 I know where he is, I know for sure where he is. 20:19.520 --> 20:20.520 Is that where we're going? 20:20.520 --> 20:21.520 To Coocaloos. 20:21.520 --> 20:22.520 On Basis Street? 20:22.520 --> 20:23.520 That's right. 20:23.520 --> 20:25.520 Well, I know where that is. 20:25.520 --> 20:27.520 Won't take long. 20:32.520 --> 20:33.520 Cabbie? 20:33.520 --> 20:34.520 Yeah, lady? 20:34.520 --> 20:36.520 I got no more money. 20:36.520 --> 20:37.520 Oh? 20:37.520 --> 20:39.520 I can't pay you for this ride, Cabbie. 20:39.520 --> 20:42.520 You weren't kidding, were you, about what you said before? 20:42.520 --> 20:43.520 About what? 20:43.520 --> 20:45.520 About killing a man. 20:45.520 --> 20:47.520 I wasn't kidding. 20:47.520 --> 20:49.520 I'm going to kill him. 20:49.520 --> 20:52.520 This ride won't cost you nothing. 20:52.520 --> 20:54.520 I wish I had me a gal like you. 20:54.520 --> 20:56.520 Love me so much she'd kill. 20:56.520 --> 21:04.520 I wouldn't do a gal like that no wrong. 21:26.520 --> 21:28.520 Where you going, Frankie? 21:28.520 --> 21:30.520 Get out of my way, Nellie Blythe. 21:30.520 --> 21:31.520 You can't go in that back room. 21:31.520 --> 21:34.520 Johnny won't even let me go in there, so he ain't going to let you. 21:34.520 --> 21:36.520 I got no argument with you, so get out of my way. 21:36.520 --> 21:39.520 You got an argument with my sweet man, you got an argument with me. 21:39.520 --> 21:41.520 You want to go to Memphis, Nellie? 21:41.520 --> 21:42.520 I'm going. 21:42.520 --> 21:44.520 You want to go to St. Louis? 21:44.520 --> 21:45.520 I'm going there too. 21:45.520 --> 21:48.520 Maybe you're going, and I ain't going to stop you. 21:48.520 --> 21:52.520 But you're going to find another sweet man to go with, not Johnny. 21:52.520 --> 21:56.520 Honey, he don't love you no more. He's tired of you. 21:56.520 --> 21:57.520 He told me. 21:57.520 --> 21:59.520 He told me lots of things. 21:59.520 --> 22:02.520 He told me about my gold hair and my red lips. 22:02.520 --> 22:04.520 He told me... 22:04.520 --> 22:08.520 You ain't going with Johnny. 22:08.520 --> 22:10.520 No. 22:10.520 --> 22:13.520 No, I guess I ain't. 22:13.520 --> 22:15.520 Get out of here, Nellie. 22:15.520 --> 22:18.520 The way you hold that gun, I guess I better. 22:18.520 --> 22:20.520 Get on the bike. 22:20.520 --> 22:22.520 I guess I better. 22:22.520 --> 22:24.520 Get on that river boat and never come back. 22:24.520 --> 22:26.520 I ain't never coming back, Frankie. 22:26.520 --> 22:28.520 Honest. 22:28.520 --> 22:30.520 I'm ashamed to kill him, Frankie. 22:30.520 --> 22:33.520 He ain't much of a guy, but Johnny plays a lot of clarinet. 22:33.520 --> 22:35.520 Get out, you son. 22:39.520 --> 22:41.520 I'm sorry, Frankie. 22:41.520 --> 22:43.520 I'm sorry. 22:43.520 --> 22:45.520 I'm sorry. 22:45.520 --> 22:47.520 I'm sorry. 22:47.520 --> 22:49.520 I'm sorry. 22:49.520 --> 22:51.520 I'm sorry. 22:51.520 --> 22:53.520 I'm sorry. 22:53.520 --> 22:55.520 I'm sorry. 22:55.520 --> 22:57.520 I'm sorry. 22:57.520 --> 22:59.520 I'm sorry. 23:05.520 --> 23:07.520 You oughtn't to kill him, Frankie. 23:07.520 --> 23:10.520 When you leave here, mister, close the door. 23:18.520 --> 23:20.520 Johnny? 23:20.520 --> 23:25.520 Goodbye, Johnny. 23:25.520 --> 23:28.520 Johnny. 23:28.520 --> 23:32.520 Johnny. 23:32.520 --> 23:37.520 Roll them over easy, boy. 23:37.520 --> 23:42.520 Roll them over easy, boy. 23:42.520 --> 23:50.520 Roll them over easy, boy. 23:50.520 --> 23:55.520 Roll them over slow. 23:55.520 --> 24:00.520 How do you feel, Johnny? 24:00.520 --> 24:11.520 I guess you don't hurt no more, Johnny. 24:11.520 --> 24:16.520 What happened to him? 24:16.520 --> 24:19.520 He got shot. He died. 24:19.520 --> 24:23.520 You do it, Frankie. 24:23.520 --> 24:27.520 I gotta take you to the jailhouse, Frankie. 24:27.520 --> 24:48.520 We better go. 24:48.520 --> 24:53.520 I brought you a chair to stand on, Frankie, in case you want to look out the jail window. 24:53.520 --> 25:03.520 You want to look? You want to look, Frankie? 25:03.520 --> 25:18.520 What do you see? 25:18.520 --> 25:23.520 I see a long black coffin. 25:23.520 --> 25:31.520 There's people in funeral clothes. 25:31.520 --> 25:40.520 Johnny's gone and cashed us checks. 25:40.520 --> 25:47.520 To the graveyard, my Johnny goes. 25:47.520 --> 25:56.520 There goes that rubber-tied carriage. 25:56.520 --> 26:03.520 There goes that rubber-tied hack. 26:03.520 --> 26:11.520 Twelve men going to the graveyard. 26:11.520 --> 26:17.520 And eleven coming back. 26:17.520 --> 26:24.520 Johnny was my man. 26:24.520 --> 26:43.520 But he done me wrong. 26:43.520 --> 26:51.520 Suspense. A true story presented by Auto Light. Tonight's star, Miss Dinah Shore. 26:51.520 --> 26:59.520 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 26:59.520 --> 27:03.520 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:03.520 --> 27:13.520 They are members of the Auto Light family, as are the 98,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United States, and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 27:13.520 --> 27:29.520 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to coast, and in still other Auto Light plants in many foreign countries, as well as the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 27:29.520 --> 27:37.520 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the highest standards of quality and performance. 27:37.520 --> 27:49.520 So remember, from bumper to taillight, you're always right with Auto Light. 27:49.520 --> 27:58.520 Next week, a man leaves his home, drives to work, talks to his friends, excuses himself for a moment, and is never seen again. 27:58.520 --> 28:03.520 The story is called The Missing Person, the star Mr. McDonald Carrey. 28:03.520 --> 28:10.520 The program will be presented next week on Suspense. 28:10.520 --> 28:18.520 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Ludd Luskin. 28:18.520 --> 28:24.520 Tonight's Frankie and Johnny was written for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 28:24.520 --> 28:37.520 In tonight's story, Lamont Johnson was heard as Johnny. 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