WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.200 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Kathy and Elliot Lewis in tonight's presentation 00:11.200 --> 00:15.200 of Suspense. 00:15.200 --> 00:23.960 Tonight, Auto Light presents the story of a man who had everything to live for and committed 00:23.960 --> 00:26.360 murder to prove it to himself. 00:26.360 --> 00:31.560 Joker Wild, our stars Kathy and Elliot Lewis. 00:31.560 --> 00:37.800 Hey Harlow! 00:37.800 --> 00:41.920 Why it's Oscar, the super smooth and scintillating sedan. 00:41.920 --> 00:47.000 Super smooth is right Harlow, I'm equipped with an auto light electrical system. 00:47.000 --> 00:52.060 Ah, there's none better Oscar, and it's because your auto light electrical system is designed 00:52.060 --> 00:58.120 to operate as a team with all units and component parts related by auto light engineering design 00:58.120 --> 01:03.040 and manufacturing skill to give you the smoothest performance money can buy. 01:03.040 --> 01:06.880 I know how important the electrical system is Harlow. 01:06.880 --> 01:12.400 Sure you do Oscar, and you know too how important it is to have only auto light original service 01:12.400 --> 01:17.480 parts used when replacements are needed, because only these parts are designed by auto light 01:17.480 --> 01:23.440 engineers who design complete electrical systems used as original equipment on many leading 01:23.440 --> 01:26.480 makes of our finest cars, trucks and tractors. 01:26.480 --> 01:32.240 So friends, always insist on auto light original service parts for your auto light equipped 01:32.240 --> 01:33.240 car. 01:33.240 --> 01:35.160 It pays in performance. 01:35.160 --> 01:40.600 And remember from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 01:40.600 --> 01:48.080 Now auto light presents Joker Wilde starring Cathy and Elliot Lewis, hoping once again 01:48.080 --> 01:58.600 to keep you in suspense. 01:58.600 --> 02:01.960 Well if you think I'm pretty Mr. Malloy, I suppose it's your right to think so. 02:01.960 --> 02:03.840 Oh you are Rosalie, you're very... 02:03.840 --> 02:06.480 Very well, let us concede the point. 02:06.480 --> 02:10.560 But let us also understand the circumstances under which you've made that statement. 02:10.560 --> 02:11.560 Now here we are. 02:11.560 --> 02:12.560 Rosalie. 02:12.560 --> 02:17.040 Here we are Mr. Malloy with the great vast Pacific Ocean, a carpet so to speak under 02:17.040 --> 02:18.040 our feet. 02:18.040 --> 02:20.040 And the moon above and the sun. 02:20.040 --> 02:21.040 Rosalie. 02:21.040 --> 02:22.040 You must hear me out Mr. Malloy. 02:22.040 --> 02:27.080 You know my friends all tell me I have the uncanny knack to size up any situation, romantic 02:27.080 --> 02:29.000 or otherwise. 02:29.000 --> 02:30.720 Now this situation for example... 02:30.720 --> 02:34.180 Let's not knock the situation Rosalie, I planned it very carefully. 02:34.180 --> 02:35.840 This takes planning? 02:35.840 --> 02:38.560 Waiting to a lonesome girl from a long car? 02:38.560 --> 02:42.040 Bringing her to a place like this where she can look strange and mysterious on a cliff 02:42.040 --> 02:44.120 high above the ocean? 02:44.120 --> 02:47.840 And what planning does it take to slip your arm about her as you've already done on numerous 02:47.840 --> 02:48.840 occasions this evening? 02:48.840 --> 02:51.120 Isn't that what you expected when you got in the car? 02:51.120 --> 02:56.720 At first I confess I was very flattered Mr. Malloy, being who you are. 02:56.720 --> 03:01.500 Having seen your movies, having heard you weekly on the radio, a famous comic personality 03:01.500 --> 03:02.500 like you. 03:02.500 --> 03:04.680 What girl wouldn't be flattered riding with Harry Malloy? 03:04.680 --> 03:05.680 Come here Rosalie. 03:05.680 --> 03:07.020 Why should I do that? 03:07.020 --> 03:08.240 I want to talk to you. 03:08.240 --> 03:09.840 I want to tell you something. 03:09.840 --> 03:11.320 Very well. 03:11.320 --> 03:13.720 Now what is it? 03:13.720 --> 03:14.720 I'm a comedian. 03:14.720 --> 03:16.040 You haven't been very funny this evening. 03:16.040 --> 03:20.720 I know, you see this is an important evening for me, it's not a time to be funny. 03:20.720 --> 03:23.560 You might not believe this but I've been looking for a girl like you. 03:23.560 --> 03:24.560 Some line. 03:24.560 --> 03:26.040 For a girl exactly like you. 03:26.040 --> 03:29.880 For the last several nights I've been riding around the city just looking. 03:29.880 --> 03:32.320 I saw you and I watched you for a long time. 03:32.320 --> 03:33.320 Watched me? 03:33.320 --> 03:35.800 I was driving along and I saw you come out of that restaurant. 03:35.800 --> 03:39.640 You parked, I saw you walk towards that corner, I followed you. 03:39.640 --> 03:43.080 Let me tell you this Mr. Malloy, if I hadn't just missed my bus you never would have gotten 03:43.080 --> 03:45.000 me in your car. 03:45.000 --> 03:47.040 Don't you like me Rosalie? 03:47.040 --> 03:49.120 Personally you're a big disappointment. 03:49.120 --> 03:52.360 When I get home tonight I'll tell my mother and father I met Harry Malloy and he's not 03:52.360 --> 03:53.360 funny. 03:53.360 --> 03:54.360 He's not at all like you. 03:54.360 --> 03:55.360 No. 03:55.360 --> 03:57.160 No you won't tell him that. 03:57.160 --> 03:58.160 What? 03:58.160 --> 03:59.160 Nothing. 03:59.160 --> 04:04.720 It's very chilly Mr. Malloy and I've seen enough of the vast Pacific from a cliff. 04:04.720 --> 04:05.720 You may take me home now. 04:05.720 --> 04:06.720 No way. 04:06.720 --> 04:07.720 You may take me home now please. 04:07.720 --> 04:10.640 Listen Rosalie, you say you saw me in pictures. 04:10.640 --> 04:11.640 Yeah every one. 04:11.640 --> 04:12.640 Which one do you like best? 04:12.640 --> 04:14.080 Are you taking a poll Mr. Malloy? 04:14.080 --> 04:16.480 Just tell me which one do you like best? 04:16.480 --> 04:22.760 Harry well, the one where you dressed up like a girl in the disguise. 04:22.760 --> 04:23.760 You were funny. 04:23.760 --> 04:25.760 I saw it three times. 04:25.760 --> 04:29.920 You know that thing you do that funny way you walk. 04:29.920 --> 04:30.920 You like that huh? 04:30.920 --> 04:32.280 Always a scream. 04:32.280 --> 04:34.320 I screamed I know that, I guess everybody does. 04:34.320 --> 04:40.040 I'll do the bit for you, come on get out of the car. 04:40.040 --> 04:41.040 That's it now give me a coat. 04:41.040 --> 04:42.040 You mean it? 04:42.040 --> 04:43.040 Sure I mean it. 04:43.040 --> 04:44.040 All right. 04:44.040 --> 04:45.760 What did I tell mom and pop? 04:45.760 --> 04:48.720 Yeah there we are. 04:48.720 --> 04:51.760 Turn your head Rosalie, I'm gonna roll up my pants legs. 04:51.760 --> 04:55.240 There we are. 04:55.240 --> 04:57.700 And this one. 04:57.700 --> 04:59.200 You can look now Rosalie. 04:59.200 --> 05:01.720 Can you whistle? 05:01.720 --> 05:02.720 Sure. 05:02.720 --> 05:03.720 Whistle. 05:03.720 --> 05:04.720 What's the tune? 05:04.720 --> 05:05.720 I'm funny huh? 05:05.720 --> 05:06.720 I'm a funny man. 05:06.720 --> 05:07.720 You're a scream. 05:07.720 --> 05:36.600 Hey mom,elimizión, web lunat. 05:36.600 --> 05:52.900 The fact that I just killed a girl doesn't change a thing. 05:52.900 --> 05:53.900 I create comedy. 05:53.900 --> 05:58.040 I stand up on a stage or my picture's on the screen or I stand behind a microphone. 05:58.040 --> 05:59.040 People laugh. 05:59.040 --> 06:02.800 Had that girl say it, an uncanny knack. 06:02.800 --> 06:03.800 That's it. 06:03.800 --> 06:05.620 And it's been going on for 22 years. 06:05.620 --> 06:06.620 Think about it. 06:06.620 --> 06:08.360 22 years making funnies. 06:08.360 --> 06:10.160 It's quite a nice life. 06:10.160 --> 06:14.720 Big cars, three of them, big house, two of them, one in Palm Springs, one in Hollywood. 06:14.720 --> 06:15.720 Money, lots. 06:15.720 --> 06:19.460 It's a nice life, but there's one problem. 06:19.460 --> 06:21.360 No one takes me seriously. 06:21.360 --> 06:26.680 Harry Molloy, comic, buffoon, clown, nothing else. 06:26.680 --> 06:28.520 Even I began to believe it. 06:28.520 --> 06:30.640 Until the other day I set up a problem for myself. 06:30.640 --> 06:33.320 Harry, I said, you make people laugh. 06:33.320 --> 06:35.040 How about making them cry? 06:35.040 --> 06:36.280 To create comedy, I said. 06:36.280 --> 06:39.200 Now let's see if you can create a tragedy. 06:39.200 --> 06:41.480 So I planned it and I just did it. 06:41.480 --> 06:44.620 I pushed the girl named Rosalie off a cliff. 06:44.620 --> 06:46.560 She had a mom and pop. 06:46.560 --> 06:48.720 They'll cry. 06:48.720 --> 06:56.000 That's very tragic. 06:56.000 --> 06:57.720 You know, the next couple of days I felt great. 06:57.720 --> 06:58.720 You know the feeling. 06:58.720 --> 07:01.280 You set your mind to do something and you do it. 07:01.280 --> 07:03.720 And you tell people about it. 07:03.720 --> 07:07.880 But how are you going to tell anybody you just pushed the girl off a cliff? 07:07.880 --> 07:08.880 Then something else happened. 07:08.880 --> 07:10.480 It was the third day after I did it. 07:10.480 --> 07:13.080 Not a word in the papers about Rosalie. 07:13.080 --> 07:14.960 Her body hadn't been found. 07:14.960 --> 07:18.740 So for a man like me, a performer for 22 years, you can understand the crack I was in. 07:18.740 --> 07:24.140 Not only couldn't I tell anyone what I did, no one even knew it was done. 07:24.140 --> 07:26.000 So that evening I didn't feel so good. 07:26.000 --> 07:27.880 I had to talk to someone. 07:27.880 --> 07:31.840 I always talked to Liz. 07:31.840 --> 07:34.840 Harry, lover, come in. 07:34.840 --> 07:38.840 Come in, come in, wherever you are. 07:38.840 --> 07:41.840 Betty, Bats, look what we got. 07:41.840 --> 07:44.840 Look what we've got. 07:44.840 --> 07:47.320 Kiss me, lover. 07:47.320 --> 07:48.320 We're playing a game, Harry. 07:48.320 --> 07:49.320 Come on. 07:49.320 --> 07:50.760 Me and you, Harry, we'll kill him. 07:50.760 --> 07:51.760 Let go, Bats. 07:51.760 --> 07:52.760 I want to say hello to Freddie. 07:52.760 --> 07:53.760 Just wave. 07:53.760 --> 07:54.760 He'll understand. 07:54.760 --> 07:55.760 Shut it out. 07:55.760 --> 07:56.760 Liz, I want to talk to you. 07:56.760 --> 07:57.760 We're playing a game, Harry. 07:57.760 --> 07:58.760 It's important. 07:58.760 --> 07:59.760 I got something on my mind. 07:59.760 --> 08:00.760 Try it on all of us. 08:00.760 --> 08:01.760 We'll laugh, darling. 08:01.760 --> 08:02.760 We'll have a good time. 08:02.760 --> 08:04.200 Hey Harry, I'm striped in certain seasons. 08:04.200 --> 08:05.880 I got two legs and I hibernate. 08:05.880 --> 08:06.880 Now what am I? 08:06.880 --> 08:07.880 Later, Freddie, I want to talk to Liz. 08:07.880 --> 08:08.880 It's the game. 08:08.880 --> 08:09.880 What am I? 08:09.880 --> 08:10.880 He's a bear in a pinstripe suit. 08:10.880 --> 08:11.880 Don't tell him. 08:11.880 --> 08:12.880 Liz. 08:12.880 --> 08:13.880 You look worried, lover. 08:13.880 --> 08:14.880 What's the matter? 08:14.880 --> 08:15.880 Let's go in the kitchen. 08:15.880 --> 08:16.880 For a drink of water, Harry? 08:16.880 --> 08:19.280 I haven't had an invitation like that since I was 14. 08:19.280 --> 08:20.880 How about that kiss, Harry? 08:20.880 --> 08:21.880 Ask me into the kitchen. 08:21.880 --> 08:24.440 Why, I haven't heard that since I was 12. 08:24.440 --> 08:25.440 Let me know what happens, Liz. 08:25.440 --> 08:26.440 I can't remember. 08:26.440 --> 08:27.440 Please, Liz. 08:27.440 --> 08:28.440 Sure. 08:28.440 --> 08:29.440 Close the door. 08:29.440 --> 08:35.200 What's the matter, honey? 08:35.200 --> 08:36.560 I want you to tell me something. 08:36.560 --> 08:39.440 All right, lover, you name it, you've got it. 08:39.440 --> 08:41.440 What kind of a man am I? 08:41.440 --> 08:43.800 That's the game Freddie and Vance are playing. 08:43.800 --> 08:45.080 I want you to tell me. 08:45.080 --> 08:49.360 You're foursquare, kind, courteous, loyal, obedient and trustworthy. 08:49.360 --> 08:52.400 You're a lot of laughs and I love you. 08:52.400 --> 08:53.400 You really love me, Liz? 08:53.400 --> 08:54.400 No, not really. 08:54.400 --> 08:56.400 But I'm a lot of laughs. 08:56.400 --> 09:00.120 For 10 years since I've known you, up until just now, honey. 09:00.120 --> 09:02.640 Just now, you're dull. 09:02.640 --> 09:05.040 All of a sudden, I'm not a big yack and all of a sudden, I'm dull. 09:05.040 --> 09:07.040 Is that the way it is? 09:07.040 --> 09:08.320 That's right. 09:08.320 --> 09:10.600 I'm going to tell you something, Liz. 09:10.600 --> 09:11.680 You don't know me. 09:11.680 --> 09:13.400 You don't know the kind of man I am. 09:13.400 --> 09:15.080 All right, I'll play. 09:15.080 --> 09:16.360 What kind of man are you? 09:16.360 --> 09:18.760 I got things going for me nobody knows about. 09:18.760 --> 09:20.880 All right already, and... 09:20.880 --> 09:21.880 Inside it eats, Liz. 09:21.880 --> 09:24.520 I got more to me than making people laugh. 09:24.520 --> 09:26.600 Oh, yeah, gee, huh? 09:26.600 --> 09:27.600 That's an old bitch. 09:27.600 --> 09:28.600 You stay here in the kitchen and sing. 09:28.600 --> 09:29.600 I'm going to go in and play with... 09:29.600 --> 09:30.600 No, listen to me. 09:30.600 --> 09:31.600 Lover. 09:31.600 --> 09:35.040 Please, Liz, listen to me. 09:35.040 --> 09:36.760 Make it brief, Harry. 09:36.760 --> 09:39.440 Three days ago, I did something. 09:39.440 --> 09:40.440 Something naughty? 09:40.440 --> 09:41.640 Now listen, I've got to tell you about it. 09:41.640 --> 09:44.120 I got to tell somebody about it or it's no good. 09:44.120 --> 09:45.120 You flipped? 09:45.120 --> 09:47.040 I'm not just a clown, Liz. 09:47.040 --> 09:48.040 That's what I'm trying to tell you. 09:48.040 --> 09:50.480 I did something important, something big. 09:50.480 --> 09:52.680 This is the last bite I'll give you, Harry. 09:52.680 --> 09:55.080 What did you do? 09:55.080 --> 09:57.080 I made somebody cry. 09:57.080 --> 09:58.080 Harry. 09:58.080 --> 09:59.080 What? 09:59.080 --> 10:00.080 These are the jokes, huh? 10:00.080 --> 10:01.080 These are the jokes? 10:01.080 --> 10:02.080 I did it! 10:02.080 --> 10:03.080 I did it! 10:03.080 --> 10:04.080 Guess what I am? 10:04.080 --> 10:06.680 I'm a fuzzy bear in a pinstripe suit. 10:06.680 --> 10:07.680 See, Harry? 10:07.680 --> 10:11.920 Freddie knows what he is, so I'm going to tell you what you are. 10:11.920 --> 10:12.920 A comedian. 10:12.920 --> 10:15.520 You're a funny fellow. 10:15.520 --> 10:18.440 When you're not funny, Harry, you're dead. 10:18.440 --> 10:19.440 Let's have laughs, huh? 10:19.440 --> 10:29.960 That was Sunday evening. 10:29.960 --> 10:32.160 Monday morning, a very large thing happened in my life. 10:32.160 --> 10:34.320 It was served to me for breakfast with my eggs. 10:34.320 --> 10:39.880 The morning newspaper had it headlined, girl washed up on beach at Malibu. 10:39.880 --> 10:44.320 Girl identified as Rosalie Barton missing from home for four nights. 10:44.320 --> 10:45.720 Identification by her mother and father. 10:45.720 --> 10:48.080 Street address given. 10:48.080 --> 10:51.840 The part that would never get in the papers, of course, was why it happened, which was 10:51.840 --> 10:56.440 me, Harry Malloy, creator of tragedy. 10:56.440 --> 11:03.800 I had to go see for myself. 11:03.800 --> 11:06.680 Rosalie Barton lived in a cheap little California bungalow. 11:06.680 --> 11:09.960 One floor, one palm tree, a geranium bed that needed watering. 11:09.960 --> 11:11.920 One thing was funny, though. 11:11.920 --> 11:15.760 Have you ever noticed the audience a tragedy gets, especially when it's for free? 11:15.760 --> 11:18.120 Well, a Barton house didn't have it. 11:18.120 --> 11:21.720 They should have been all over the lawn, onto the pavement, neighbors, kids, the people 11:21.720 --> 11:25.800 who hop in their cars and come from all over the city to look me in on tears. 11:25.800 --> 11:28.160 But no, nobody around. 11:28.160 --> 11:32.560 I parked my car a couple of blocks away and walked to the house, up the path, onto the 11:32.560 --> 11:35.600 porch, near the window. 11:35.600 --> 11:38.760 I looked under the drawn window blind to see what I was looking for. 11:38.760 --> 11:41.600 Hysterical parents, bewildered, grief stricken. 11:41.600 --> 11:44.320 But I only saw a room. 11:44.320 --> 11:45.320 No people. 11:45.320 --> 11:47.520 And I saw this. 11:47.520 --> 11:49.680 Near the window, a high boy. 11:49.680 --> 11:56.080 And on it, a picture of the dead girl, looking at me and smiling at me. 11:56.080 --> 11:57.080 I looked too. 11:57.080 --> 11:58.080 I couldn't see anything. 11:58.080 --> 11:59.080 Huh? 11:59.080 --> 12:01.160 They're still at the funeral parlor, her mother and father. 12:01.160 --> 12:02.840 They must be very upset, huh? 12:02.840 --> 12:04.200 No, they're taking it real good. 12:04.200 --> 12:07.880 I live right next door and I came over to see them last night and they're taking it real 12:07.880 --> 12:08.880 wonderful. 12:08.880 --> 12:09.880 Didn't even cry. 12:09.880 --> 12:10.880 Oh. 12:10.880 --> 12:11.880 Hey. 12:11.880 --> 12:12.880 Yeah? 12:12.880 --> 12:14.880 Aren't you Harry Malloy? 12:14.880 --> 12:15.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 12:15.880 --> 12:17.560 What do you mean her parents didn't cry? 12:17.560 --> 12:19.560 Well, aren't you? 12:19.560 --> 12:20.840 Sure you are. 12:20.840 --> 12:21.960 Didn't they love their own daughter? 12:21.960 --> 12:22.960 Why didn't they cry? 12:22.960 --> 12:24.440 Well, if they did, nobody's son. 12:24.440 --> 12:27.040 Hey, what are you doing here, Mr. Malloy? 12:27.040 --> 12:28.280 Well, what happened? 12:28.280 --> 12:30.200 I was just driving by. 12:30.200 --> 12:31.200 Just driving by? 12:31.200 --> 12:32.200 No, seriously. 12:32.200 --> 12:34.200 I'd read about what happened. 12:34.200 --> 12:35.360 Seriously? 12:35.360 --> 12:36.360 You seriously? 12:36.360 --> 12:37.360 Well, yeah. 12:37.360 --> 12:38.360 I'm trying to tell you that I'm... 12:38.360 --> 12:40.400 Hey, Jonesy, look who's here. 12:40.400 --> 12:41.400 Harry Malloy. 12:41.400 --> 12:43.080 Hey, no, wait. 12:43.080 --> 12:44.440 This is my neighbor, Jonesy. 12:44.440 --> 12:45.440 Harry Malloy. 12:45.440 --> 12:46.440 Hi, Harry. 12:46.440 --> 12:47.440 How are you? 12:47.440 --> 12:48.440 Hey, you gonna be here a minute? 12:48.440 --> 12:49.440 I want to get my wife. 12:49.440 --> 12:50.440 Get your wife? 12:50.440 --> 12:51.440 What do you need your wife for? 12:51.440 --> 12:52.440 He kills me. 12:52.440 --> 12:53.440 Wait a second. 12:53.440 --> 12:54.440 Hey, Reba. 12:54.440 --> 12:55.440 Reba, come here a minute. 12:55.440 --> 12:56.440 Jonesy never does a thing without Reba. 12:56.440 --> 12:57.440 You like Reba. 12:57.440 --> 12:58.440 She's a great giggly. 12:58.440 --> 12:59.440 Yeah, well, I gotta go. 12:59.440 --> 13:00.440 Come on, stick around, Mr. Malloy, that the whole neighborhood feels bad about what happened 13:00.440 --> 13:01.440 to Rose. 13:01.440 --> 13:02.440 Oh, stick around. 13:02.440 --> 13:03.440 You want funnies now? 13:03.440 --> 13:04.440 A young girl, someone you knew murdered and all you do is laugh. 13:04.440 --> 13:05.440 Something's wrong with you. 13:05.440 --> 13:06.440 I'm sorry. 13:06.440 --> 13:07.440 I'm sorry. 13:07.440 --> 13:08.440 I'm sorry. 13:08.440 --> 13:09.440 I'm sorry. 13:09.440 --> 13:10.440 I'm sorry. 13:10.440 --> 13:14.440 I'm sorry. 13:14.440 --> 13:17.440 Hey, here's Reba. 13:17.440 --> 13:18.440 Hi, Harry. 13:18.440 --> 13:20.440 What are you laughing about? 13:20.440 --> 13:22.040 I haven't said anything. 13:22.040 --> 13:23.040 Some giggler, huh, Harry? 13:23.040 --> 13:24.040 All right, calm down now. 13:24.040 --> 13:27.040 I want to tell you something. 13:27.040 --> 13:28.040 Reba? 13:28.040 --> 13:29.040 Reba. 13:29.040 --> 13:30.040 Seriously. 13:30.040 --> 13:33.280 I want to tell you all why I'm here. 13:33.280 --> 13:37.240 I read in the newspaper about a girl's being killed, and I was driving by... 13:37.240 --> 13:38.240 He was driving by. 13:38.240 --> 13:39.240 Get this. 13:39.240 --> 13:40.240 Go on, Harry. 13:40.240 --> 13:41.240 Go on. 13:41.240 --> 13:44.240 Just like a similar situation happened to me once before. 13:44.240 --> 13:46.640 No, seriously. 13:46.640 --> 13:47.640 Ran out of gas, huh? 13:47.640 --> 13:49.640 Had a flat tire, Harry? 13:49.640 --> 13:50.640 What? 13:50.640 --> 13:52.680 Go on, tell us what you're doing here. 13:52.680 --> 13:54.720 You get this, Johnson. 13:54.720 --> 13:56.720 Go on, Harry. 13:56.720 --> 14:02.200 Well, I stopped by because I saw a fellow looked hungry, so I pulled over and I said, 14:02.200 --> 14:03.200 oh, hey, you look hungry. 14:03.200 --> 14:06.560 He said, no, I'm not hungry, but I would like 10 cents for a cup of coffee, so I offered 14:06.560 --> 14:07.560 him a dime. 14:07.560 --> 14:08.560 Yeah, honest, I did. 14:08.560 --> 14:10.520 But he just shook his head. 14:10.520 --> 14:11.520 He wouldn't take it. 14:11.520 --> 14:12.520 I said, what's the matter, Misty? 14:12.520 --> 14:14.000 He asked me for a dime for a cup of coffee, didn't he? 14:14.000 --> 14:17.280 He said, if you don't mind, Mr. Malloy, I'd like 10 pennies. 14:17.280 --> 14:18.280 I said, why? 14:18.280 --> 14:20.320 He said, I like drip coffee. 14:20.320 --> 14:25.560 So I gave him six pennies. 14:25.560 --> 14:27.560 Let him drink it without cream. 14:27.560 --> 14:32.320 You're the funniest man in the world, Mr. Malloy. 14:32.320 --> 14:33.320 You killed me. 14:33.320 --> 14:34.320 You killed me. 14:34.320 --> 14:51.360 Auto Light is bringing you Kathy and Elliot Lewis in Joker Wild. 14:51.360 --> 14:58.200 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:58.200 --> 15:09.920 Hey, Oscar, sound your horn. 15:09.920 --> 15:13.840 Play your radio. 15:13.840 --> 15:14.840 Start your engine. 15:14.840 --> 15:17.960 Hey, what's all that for, hello? 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17:25.360 --> 17:27.360 When did you ever have to ask? 17:27.360 --> 17:28.360 Had lunch? 17:28.360 --> 17:29.360 No. 17:29.360 --> 17:32.360 Come on, I'll pour you something. 17:32.360 --> 17:33.360 All right. 17:33.360 --> 17:34.360 Harry? 17:34.360 --> 17:35.360 What? 17:35.360 --> 17:37.720 What was wrong with you last night? 17:37.720 --> 17:40.480 I tried to tell you, you wouldn't listen. 17:40.480 --> 17:43.240 Ah, lover, was I mean? 17:43.240 --> 17:44.240 Yes. 17:44.240 --> 17:45.240 Yes, you were. 17:45.240 --> 17:47.640 That's my Harry. 17:47.640 --> 17:48.640 Drink your drink. 17:48.640 --> 17:49.640 Yeah. 17:49.640 --> 17:53.360 It's just Harry, nothing at all. 17:53.360 --> 17:58.120 What is it, Harry? 17:58.120 --> 18:03.840 You have this morning's paper, Liz? 18:03.840 --> 18:05.280 This morning's paper. 18:05.280 --> 18:08.160 Here, read this. 18:08.160 --> 18:09.160 About the drowned girl? 18:09.160 --> 18:10.880 I read it this morning over coffee. 18:10.880 --> 18:11.880 What about it? 18:11.880 --> 18:14.040 What kind of a man do you think could have done this? 18:14.040 --> 18:15.040 Done what? 18:15.040 --> 18:16.040 Murdered her. 18:16.040 --> 18:17.040 Pushed her into the ocean. 18:17.040 --> 18:18.040 Give me the paper. 18:18.040 --> 18:22.400 What does it say she was murdered? 18:22.400 --> 18:23.400 Here, was pushed. 18:23.400 --> 18:24.400 Or fell. 18:24.400 --> 18:26.520 You want a new kick, Harry? 18:26.520 --> 18:27.520 What's the matter with you? 18:27.520 --> 18:28.520 Liz, do me a favor, will you? 18:28.520 --> 18:29.520 Sure. 18:29.520 --> 18:30.520 Do it my way, will you? 18:30.520 --> 18:34.800 Let's just play she was pushed into the ocean. 18:34.800 --> 18:38.360 What kind of a man do you think could have done anything like that? 18:38.360 --> 18:39.360 A nut. 18:39.360 --> 18:40.360 Uh-uh. 18:40.360 --> 18:41.560 Look, I don't get this. 18:41.560 --> 18:42.840 What's it to me about this girl? 18:42.840 --> 18:43.840 What's it to you? 18:43.840 --> 18:46.440 What kind of a man did it? 18:46.440 --> 18:48.000 A man of cold intelligence. 18:48.000 --> 18:49.000 A crazy man. 18:49.000 --> 18:50.400 A creative man. 18:50.400 --> 18:52.960 One who wanted to express himself in a profound... 18:52.960 --> 18:53.960 Profound. 18:53.960 --> 18:54.960 Oh, brother, a nut. 18:54.960 --> 18:55.960 You listen to me. 18:55.960 --> 18:57.840 I'll tell you what kind of man murdered that girl. 18:57.840 --> 18:58.840 I know. 18:58.840 --> 18:59.840 Now, you just listen. 18:59.840 --> 19:00.840 It was getting funny, lover. 19:00.840 --> 19:01.840 I'll just answer the phone. 19:01.840 --> 19:02.840 I'll be right back. 19:02.840 --> 19:03.840 Hello? 19:03.840 --> 19:04.840 Hi. 19:04.840 --> 19:05.840 There's nothing. 19:05.840 --> 19:06.840 Nothing at all. 19:06.840 --> 19:07.840 Harry's here. 19:07.840 --> 19:08.840 Oh, huh? 19:08.840 --> 19:09.840 How was it? 19:09.840 --> 19:14.840 Yeah, I thought so. 19:14.840 --> 19:19.840 I have to see it myself. 19:19.840 --> 19:20.840 What? 19:20.840 --> 19:21.840 What? 19:21.840 --> 19:22.840 I can't hear you, darling. 19:22.840 --> 19:23.840 Hang on a minute. 19:23.840 --> 19:24.840 Harry, do your London Bridges later, huh? 19:24.840 --> 19:25.840 Yeah. 19:25.840 --> 19:26.840 Where were we? 19:26.840 --> 19:27.840 Oh, yeah. 19:27.840 --> 19:28.840 Yeah? 19:28.840 --> 19:29.840 Just like that, huh? 19:29.840 --> 19:30.840 That's life. 19:30.840 --> 19:31.840 Sure, darling. 19:31.840 --> 19:32.840 Of course. 19:32.840 --> 19:33.840 What? 19:33.840 --> 19:34.840 Oh. 19:34.840 --> 19:35.840 What? 19:35.840 --> 19:36.840 I guess so. 19:36.840 --> 19:39.840 I guess it could be arranged. 19:39.840 --> 19:42.840 Of course I can keep my mouth shut. 19:42.840 --> 19:43.840 You know... 19:43.840 --> 19:44.840 Wait a minute. 19:44.840 --> 19:45.840 We're Harry. 19:45.840 --> 19:46.840 Harry, I'm trying to talk to you. 19:46.840 --> 19:47.840 Harry! 19:47.840 --> 19:48.840 Harry's split. 19:48.840 --> 19:49.840 I call you back. 19:49.840 --> 19:50.840 Try it with your head, Harry. 19:50.840 --> 20:01.840 You need a cold shower or whatever boys do when they act like this. 20:01.840 --> 20:03.840 What's the matter, lover? 20:03.840 --> 20:04.840 All right, all right. 20:04.840 --> 20:05.840 All right what? 20:05.840 --> 20:06.840 I'm getting out of here. 20:06.840 --> 20:07.840 You won't listen to me. 20:07.840 --> 20:10.840 I'll find somebody who'll listen. 20:10.840 --> 20:11.840 Tell me, baby. 20:11.840 --> 20:14.840 I'll listen to you. 20:14.840 --> 20:15.840 It's about that girl. 20:15.840 --> 20:17.840 What girl, baby? 20:17.840 --> 20:19.840 The girl named Rosalie, the one in the paper. 20:19.840 --> 20:20.840 The murdered girl. 20:20.840 --> 20:21.840 Oh, baby. 20:21.840 --> 20:22.840 Answer me one thing. 20:22.840 --> 20:23.840 All right. 20:23.840 --> 20:26.840 Do you think I could have killed her? 20:26.840 --> 20:27.840 You? 20:27.840 --> 20:29.840 Well, answer me. 20:29.840 --> 20:30.840 You? 20:30.840 --> 20:31.840 Answer me. 20:31.840 --> 20:32.840 Shut up. 20:32.840 --> 20:35.840 Shut up. 20:35.840 --> 20:36.840 Liz. 20:36.840 --> 20:39.840 Liz, please. 20:39.840 --> 20:40.840 You. 20:40.840 --> 20:43.840 You haven't answered me, Liz. 20:43.840 --> 20:48.840 I'll tell you, lover, if you want to know. 20:48.840 --> 20:50.600 You're the seven wonders of the world. 20:50.600 --> 20:52.840 Life hits you in the face, you run to the joke file. 20:52.840 --> 20:55.680 A gag for each and every situation. 20:55.680 --> 20:56.680 That's all I am, huh? 20:56.680 --> 20:57.680 I'm not finished. 20:57.680 --> 20:58.680 Go on. 20:58.680 --> 21:00.040 Face it, lover. 21:00.040 --> 21:02.440 Nobody takes you seriously. 21:02.440 --> 21:07.760 That's why everybody likes you, because you're no problem. 21:07.760 --> 21:13.160 This business with banging the piano, that's the joke file I haven't been in with you before. 21:13.160 --> 21:14.160 Just one thing. 21:14.160 --> 21:15.160 Mm-hmm. 21:15.160 --> 21:18.360 Just don't get worrisome around me, Harry. 21:18.360 --> 21:19.800 You won't be welcome around here. 21:19.800 --> 21:20.800 And that's it? 21:20.800 --> 21:21.800 Yep. 21:21.800 --> 21:22.800 All right. 21:22.800 --> 21:23.800 Why do you hear him? 21:23.800 --> 21:38.800 I'm borrowing your carving knife for a minute, Liz. 21:38.800 --> 21:39.800 What for? 21:39.800 --> 21:42.600 You see, Liz, there's no use trying to tell you something. 21:42.600 --> 21:44.360 I got to prove it to you. 21:44.360 --> 21:45.760 This is going to be great. 21:45.760 --> 21:46.960 It could be at that. 21:46.960 --> 21:48.280 What's it going to be, Harry? 21:48.280 --> 21:50.640 I'm going to kill you. 21:50.640 --> 21:51.640 That's my Harry. 21:51.640 --> 21:52.640 Yeah. 21:52.640 --> 21:54.200 That's my bit, lover. 21:54.200 --> 21:55.840 Yell, scream, run around. 21:55.840 --> 21:57.080 Let's just work it out together. 21:57.080 --> 21:58.080 Ready? 21:58.080 --> 21:59.080 Come on, kill her. 21:59.080 --> 22:00.080 Yeah. 22:00.080 --> 22:01.080 Well? 22:01.080 --> 22:03.040 I'm going to kill you. 22:03.040 --> 22:04.040 You said that, Harry. 22:04.040 --> 22:05.040 What's the matter? 22:05.040 --> 22:06.040 You running out of material? 22:06.040 --> 22:07.040 I'm not kidding. 22:07.040 --> 22:08.040 I'm supposed to act scared. 22:08.040 --> 22:09.040 All right, Harry. 22:09.040 --> 22:10.040 Ah! 22:10.040 --> 22:11.040 You just wait. 22:11.040 --> 22:12.640 I don't know what you're doing, Harry. 22:12.640 --> 22:13.640 You better have a finish. 22:13.640 --> 22:14.640 Start running. 22:14.640 --> 22:15.640 All right. 22:15.640 --> 22:16.640 Swell. 22:16.640 --> 22:17.640 Swell. 22:17.640 --> 22:18.640 Now I need a new lamp. 22:18.640 --> 22:19.640 No, you won't be. 22:19.640 --> 22:20.640 There. 22:20.640 --> 22:23.640 That's the finish? 22:23.640 --> 22:27.640 You fall flat on your face? 22:27.640 --> 22:29.960 Oh, Harry, how corny can you get? 22:29.960 --> 22:31.920 You stopped doing that bit when you left Vaudeville. 22:31.920 --> 22:32.920 My nose. 22:32.920 --> 22:33.920 It's bleeding, lover. 22:33.920 --> 22:36.920 Move your head a little this way so you don't get it all over the rug, huh? 22:36.920 --> 22:37.920 No. 22:37.920 --> 22:38.920 Come on, sit up. 22:38.920 --> 22:39.920 Sit up. 22:39.920 --> 22:40.920 That's it. 22:40.920 --> 22:41.920 Give me your knife. 22:41.920 --> 22:42.920 Hold your head back. 22:42.920 --> 22:43.920 Don't be a baby. 22:43.920 --> 22:44.920 Hold your head back. 22:44.920 --> 22:45.920 Bleed bad. 22:45.920 --> 22:46.920 I'll get a towel and some ice cubes. 22:46.920 --> 22:47.920 Hold your head back now, Harry. 22:47.920 --> 22:50.920 Here. 22:50.920 --> 22:54.920 How do you feel? 22:54.920 --> 22:55.920 Hurts. 22:55.920 --> 22:58.920 Put this ice in the back of your neck. 22:58.920 --> 22:59.920 Stop it now. 22:59.920 --> 23:00.920 Feels good. 23:00.920 --> 23:01.920 Sure does. 23:01.920 --> 23:02.920 Liz. 23:02.920 --> 23:03.920 Mm-hmm. 23:03.920 --> 23:04.920 That girl Rosalie. 23:04.920 --> 23:08.280 Oh, look, Harry, I don't know what this new character is, but why don't you go home until 23:08.280 --> 23:09.640 you get funny again? 23:09.640 --> 23:10.640 I killed her. 23:10.640 --> 23:11.640 Sure, sure. 23:11.640 --> 23:12.640 I did, Liz. 23:12.640 --> 23:14.120 I picked her up, drove her out to the ocean, pushed her off a cliff. 23:14.120 --> 23:15.120 How's her nose? 23:15.120 --> 23:16.120 It stopped bleeding. 23:16.120 --> 23:17.120 Why don't you go home? 23:17.120 --> 23:18.120 I'm not kidding, Liz. 23:18.120 --> 23:19.120 I murdered that girl. 23:19.120 --> 23:20.120 Oh, God. 23:20.120 --> 23:23.120 You still don't believe me, do you? 23:23.120 --> 23:24.120 No. 23:24.120 --> 23:25.120 I tried to kill you, too. 23:25.120 --> 23:26.120 You work it out. 23:26.120 --> 23:27.120 We'll practice sometime. 23:27.120 --> 23:28.120 Liz? 23:28.120 --> 23:29.120 Mm-hmm. 23:29.120 --> 23:30.120 Liz? 23:30.120 --> 23:31.120 Don't you say, Liz. 23:31.120 --> 23:32.120 I'm not kidding. 23:32.120 --> 23:35.120 If I never was kidding, I've got to kill you to make you believe me. 23:35.120 --> 23:36.120 Kill you, Liz. 23:36.120 --> 23:51.120 It was a minor, 49er, and her name was Clementine. 23:51.120 --> 23:54.120 Hiya, Harry. 23:54.120 --> 24:00.120 How's the old kid? 24:00.120 --> 24:01.120 Kiss me. 24:01.120 --> 24:03.520 Where is Liz? 24:03.520 --> 24:04.520 I'm forced to ask. 24:04.520 --> 24:05.520 In there. 24:05.520 --> 24:06.520 Right over there on the floor. 24:06.520 --> 24:07.520 On the floor? 24:07.520 --> 24:08.520 Hiya, Liz. 24:08.520 --> 24:09.520 Hey, what's this, a new game, Harry? 24:09.520 --> 24:10.520 She's dead. 24:10.520 --> 24:11.520 Oh, we're supposed to ask questions. 24:11.520 --> 24:12.520 You answer yes or no. 24:12.520 --> 24:13.520 We're supposed to tell you who did it. 24:13.520 --> 24:14.520 Such an old game. 24:14.520 --> 24:15.520 What's the... 24:15.520 --> 24:16.520 I did it. 24:16.520 --> 24:17.520 I strangled her. 24:17.520 --> 24:18.520 Hey, kid, you're taking all the fun out of it. 24:18.520 --> 24:19.520 Freddie. 24:19.520 --> 24:20.520 Huh? 24:20.520 --> 24:21.520 Look. 24:21.520 --> 24:22.520 Look at what? 24:22.520 --> 24:23.520 That's Rote. 24:23.520 --> 24:24.520 I strangled her. 24:24.520 --> 24:25.520 Oh. 24:25.520 --> 24:26.520 I don't believe it, Harry. 24:26.520 --> 24:27.520 I don't believe it. 24:27.520 --> 24:28.520 I don't believe it. 24:28.520 --> 24:29.520 I don't believe it. 24:29.520 --> 24:30.520 I don't believe it. 24:30.520 --> 24:31.520 I don't believe it. 24:31.520 --> 24:32.520 I don't believe it. 24:32.520 --> 24:33.520 I don't believe it. 24:33.520 --> 24:35.520 I don't believe it. 24:35.520 --> 24:36.520 I don't believe it. 24:36.520 --> 24:37.520 Oh, not you. 24:37.520 --> 24:39.860 Liz wouldn't believe I could do a thing like this either. 24:39.860 --> 24:40.860 Look what happened to her. 24:40.860 --> 24:41.860 I can't believe it. 24:41.860 --> 24:44.380 I can't believe it. 24:44.380 --> 24:45.840 You will. 24:45.840 --> 24:52.640 Stick around for police, Freddie. 24:52.640 --> 24:56.520 Number, please. 24:56.520 --> 24:59.520 Get me the police. 24:59.520 --> 25:06.960 12th precinct, Sergeant Thor speaking. 25:06.960 --> 25:08.280 This is Harry Malloy, Sergeant. 25:08.280 --> 25:09.280 I just... 25:09.280 --> 25:10.280 Harry Malloy? 25:10.280 --> 25:11.280 The comic? 25:11.280 --> 25:12.280 That's right. 25:12.280 --> 25:13.280 I'm at five minutes... 25:13.280 --> 25:14.280 Harry. 25:14.280 --> 25:15.280 Hi, Harry. 25:15.280 --> 25:16.280 What's on your mind? 25:16.280 --> 25:17.280 I just murdered a woman. 25:17.280 --> 25:18.280 What? 25:18.280 --> 25:19.280 I just strangled a woman. 25:19.280 --> 25:20.280 Several days ago, I threw a girl off the cliff. 25:20.280 --> 25:22.280 And tonight's your night for strangling a... 25:22.280 --> 25:23.840 Have a nice party, Harry. 25:23.840 --> 25:24.840 No, listen. 25:24.840 --> 25:25.840 I'm not kidding. 25:25.840 --> 25:26.840 I killed a girl. 25:26.840 --> 25:27.840 I killed two girls. 25:27.840 --> 25:28.840 Sure, sure. 25:28.840 --> 25:29.840 You can't believe me. 25:29.840 --> 25:30.840 I'm a murderer. 25:30.840 --> 25:44.040 Give me the phone, Harry. 25:44.040 --> 25:46.640 Give me the police, operator. 25:46.640 --> 25:47.880 Police? 25:47.880 --> 25:51.800 I want to report a murder. 25:51.800 --> 25:54.600 Five nine five East Channel Drive. 25:54.600 --> 25:56.160 My name? 25:56.160 --> 25:58.200 Fred Goodwin. 25:58.200 --> 25:59.200 Thank you very much. 25:59.200 --> 26:03.920 It'll be right over, Harry. 26:03.920 --> 26:06.080 Harry, why? 26:06.080 --> 26:08.720 I'm quite a guy, huh? 26:08.720 --> 26:09.720 Answer me. 26:09.720 --> 26:12.600 You're quite a guy. 26:12.600 --> 26:14.240 Harry. 26:14.240 --> 26:19.640 Listen to her, Freddie. 26:19.640 --> 26:22.080 She's crying. 26:22.080 --> 26:23.080 See what I can do? 26:23.080 --> 26:30.440 Suspense. 26:30.440 --> 26:45.840 Presented by Auto Light. 26:45.840 --> 26:49.280 Tonight's stars, Cathy and Elliot Lewis. 26:49.280 --> 26:51.960 This is Harlow Wilcock speaking for Auto Light. 26:51.960 --> 27:00.120 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:00.120 --> 27:05.040 They are members of the Auto Light family, as well as are the 98,000 Auto Light distributors 27:05.040 --> 27:10.600 and dealers in the United States and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 27:10.600 --> 27:15.640 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants 27:15.640 --> 27:20.760 from coast to coast and Auto Light plants in many foreign countries, as well as the 27:20.760 --> 27:25.960 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 27:25.960 --> 27:31.080 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the highest 27:31.080 --> 27:33.600 standards of quality and performance. 27:33.600 --> 27:46.880 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 27:46.880 --> 27:53.480 Next week, the true story about the solution to a murder, the documented report of a policeman's 27:53.480 --> 27:57.360 patience, intelligence, and bravery. 27:57.360 --> 28:03.840 The man with two faces, our star, Mr. Lloyd Nolan. 28:03.840 --> 28:18.000 Next week on Suspense. 28:18.000 --> 28:22.720 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick 28:22.720 --> 28:24.560 and conducted by Lud Luskin. 28:24.560 --> 28:30.240 Joker Wild was written for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 28:30.240 --> 28:35.840 In tonight's story, Charlotte Lawrence was heard as Babs and Joseph Kearns as Freddie. 28:35.840 --> 28:40.960 Featured in the cast were Lillian Bief, Gene Wood, Hi Aberback, Larry Thor, and Byron 28:40.960 --> 28:46.920 Cain. 28:46.920 --> 28:51.800 Auto Light takes this opportunity to pay special tribute to the automotive wholesalers of the 28:51.800 --> 29:00.520 nation who this week will be attending the Automotive Service Industries Show in Atlantic 29:00.520 --> 29:03.560 City. 29:03.560 --> 29:23.560 This is the CBS Radio Network.