1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. William Powell in tonight's presentation of... 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Suspense! 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Tonight, Auto Light presents a story based on fact. 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,000 The dramatic report of a man's desperate race for freedom, 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 with names and places changed in order to protect the lives of three people. 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:36,000 The story is called, The Man Who Cried Wolf, our star Mr. William Powell. 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Okay, Mr. Wilcox, you're all set. 8 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Thanks, Sam. My complete Auto Light electrical system is tuned to a tee, eh? 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Yes, sir. The coil, distributor, starting motor, generator, spark plugs, battery, and all the other parts are working together like a perfect team. 10 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 And that means smooth and economical performance. 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 You know, that electrical system has a big job. 12 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:07,000 It goes to work the instant you press the starter button, and continues to function every second your car is in motion. 13 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:14,000 In addition, it works for you every time you blow your horn, turn on your lights, radio, heater, and electric windshield wiper. 14 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Yep, and that's why it pays to keep the electrical system really running right. 15 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:29,000 You bet. So friends, have your car's electrical system periodically and expertly checked at your car dealer's or authorized Auto Light service station. 16 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:37,000 You can locate your nearest Auto Light service station through the classified section of the phone book under Automobile Electrical Service, 17 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:43,000 or by calling Western Union by number and asking for operator 25. 18 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:48,000 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 19 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 In Auto Light, William Powell is appearing by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:59,000 producers of the Technicolor picture, The Naked Spur, starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, and Robert Ryan. 21 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:10,000 And now, Auto Light presents The Man Who Cried Wolf, starring Mr. William Powell, hoping once again to keep you in suspense. 22 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:25,000 If you knew who I am, if one day you would pass me on the street and stop and point your finger at me and say, 23 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:30,000 this story happened to you, then I would be a dead man. 24 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:38,000 And therefore, I cannot tell you too much about myself, neither what I look like nor where I am. 25 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 A few things you may know which will alter nothing. 26 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:47,000 I am Russian. I was once a member of the Communist Party. 27 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,000 And until recently, I was attached to the Russian Embassy in Mexico City, a cipher clerk. 28 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Three years of it, attached to the embassy in a strange new land. 29 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Here, a thing needs emphasis. The people, the Mexican people, they worked, they sang, they laughed, 30 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:16,000 they had families, cried, played, hoped, loved, like Russian people, but with a difference. 31 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:23,000 They did these things when and how and where they wanted to, not by directives. 32 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:31,000 The word is freedom. It took me three years to know its meaning. 33 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,000 For this, I was almost murdered. 34 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:42,000 To you, my name is Meroz Leco. 35 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:48,000 It started at nine o'clock in the morning, when I was walking toward the cipher room in the embassy. 36 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Comrade Leco, if you please, comrade. 37 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Can you spare me a moment? 38 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Of course. 39 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 In here, please, my office. 40 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Sit down, sit down. 41 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Thank you. 42 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,000 And how is your wife, Lilia, and the little one, his name? 43 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Ivan. 44 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Ivan. He must be, let me see, three months. 45 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Three months. Amazing. 46 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,000 I believe Ivan recognizes me, comrade Zappekin. 47 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,000 I have heard of other children his age who travel in airplanes. 48 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Bottles and equipment to make formula, these things are provided. 49 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 I don't... 50 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Of course you do. Travel in airplanes. Ivan will do it. Therefore you, therefore your wife. 51 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,000 I have been recalled. 52 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:40,000 I have suggested it to the ambassador, the ambassador to Moscow, approved. Moscow to the ambassador, etc. 53 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,000 But why? 54 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Because I suggested it to the ambassador. 55 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,000 I see. 56 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Of course you do. However, you should know this. 57 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000 I have written a letter which will proceed you by diplomatic pouch. 58 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 As your superior, my impressions of you. The gist of it you must know. 59 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 No, no, I don't. 60 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 You will be missed here in Mexico, I've told them that. 61 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Thank you. 62 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:09,000 By many friends, Mexicans, Americans whom you have met through your Mexican friends. 63 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Then I am being recalled as a poor security risk. 64 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Exactly. Now, your key to the cypher room. 65 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Comrade... 66 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 The key. 67 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Oh yes, I have it here. To detach it will... 68 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Ah. Zappekin speaking. Yes, comrade. Oh yes, one moment. 69 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Comrade Leco, if you please wait for me in the corridor. 70 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Of course. 71 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Yes, comrade. Yes, ambassador. I have told him. 72 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,000 There is no melodrama attached to it. 73 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Merely a simple truth. 74 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 To be sent back to Moscow is a bad security risk. 75 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Prison, work camp in Siberia, death. 76 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Therefore, do a thing. 77 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Pursue a plan. Ensure my living. 78 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Do not wait for Zappekin. 79 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Back to the cypher room. Use the key. 80 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Steel. Certain papers. Documents. 81 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 For the occasion of remaining alive. 82 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 You have this one. And this. 83 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Secret documents to buy my own security. 84 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Papers dogged for the purpose. 85 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Stay alive. 86 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 And these. This. 87 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Comrade Leco. 88 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 And put them into my coat pocket. Inside. 89 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Comrade. 90 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,000 A moment, comrade. 91 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Open. 92 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 I told you to wait. 93 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 But I had duties here in the cypher room, comrade. 94 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 You are relieved of them. I told you this. 95 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 No. Merely that I am returning to Moscow. 96 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Tomorrow. 97 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Yes. 98 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,000 The key, comrade. 99 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Of course. 100 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Here. 101 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 You will go immediately to your house. You will inform your wife. 102 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 You will pack. You will get your child ready. 103 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 And you will be delivered to Moscow. 104 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Under escort, comrade. 105 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Now. Good day. 106 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Lilia. 107 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Lilia. 108 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 You, Mero? Is it you? 109 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 I was but in the kitchen doing the things of the morning. 110 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 And Mero. 111 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,000 What? 112 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 It is morning and you are not at the embassy. 113 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 You are here. Why? 114 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 The child, Lilia. Where? 115 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 He has been fed. He is bathed and he sleeps now. 116 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Lilia. 117 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000 There is cold in your hands. 118 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Close. I will warn you. 119 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Lilia. 120 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Why? 121 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Say to me why you are of illness. 122 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Yes, that is it. 123 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,000 An old illness. 124 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Then we will call a doctor. We will... 125 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,000 No, Lilia. 126 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,000 But this chill in you that I cannot warm. 127 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Fear. 128 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Fear of death. 129 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,000 To run in streets blazing the sun and still to be cold. 130 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 What cure for that, Lilia? 131 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,000 Death. 132 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,000 To begin tomorrow. For you. 133 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 For me. 134 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 And for the child. 135 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 I do not know what there will be for the child. 136 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Your lips for death. 137 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 I am being recalled, Lilia. 138 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Why? 139 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Why? You have worked hard for him. 140 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 And I have talked to people here. 141 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,000 And I have sat in sunlight and laughed with them. 142 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:37,000 And somewhere in darkness it was observed and reported. 143 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,000 There is until tomorrow. 144 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,000 And there is time for flight. 145 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,000 I will make ready the child. 146 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 No. 147 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,000 If we run, they will find a quicker way to kill us. 148 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 I have a plan, Lilia. 149 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,000 For a year now I have had this plan. 150 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 And it will keep you from death? 151 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Listen to me. 152 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,000 I have stolen certain papers from the cipher room. 153 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Documents of theirs that can buy back our life. 154 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,000 I have them here in my coat. 155 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000 From whom will they buy our life, Meroes? 156 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Who will now want... 157 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Will you listen to me? 158 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 You are to take them. 159 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Here, take them. 160 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Yes, Meroes. 161 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 You put them in a briefcase. 162 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 And then you take the boy and dress him. 163 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 And go to the plazas of Calo. 164 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,000 And the bench there near the Greek fountain. 165 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000 And you are there so the child will have son, if anyone asks. 166 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,000 And you will keep the briefcase hidden until I come to you. 167 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 You understand, Lilia? 168 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Yes. 169 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,000 And then quickly get ready. 170 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Yes, sir. 171 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Go, Lilia, quick. 172 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Oh, Senor Carradonis. 173 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 You give me surprise, Senor Leco. 174 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 It was not you I expected to see this hour. 175 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 But I am glad to see you. 176 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Please come in. 177 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 The day has a beauty. 178 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 And in the streets there is fiesta. 179 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,000 And I thought to me, the Senora Leco would care for fiesta. 180 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,000 She and the Pequeño. 181 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Ay, the Senora and the Pequeño. 182 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Muy buenos días to you both. 183 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Senor Carradonis. 184 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 You'd better take the child and go, Lilia. 185 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,000 There's not much time. 186 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Yes, Meroes. 187 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 But Senora, I have come for you and the little one to the fiesta. 188 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Lilia. 189 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 I'm sorry, Senor Carradonis. 190 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Perhaps another time. 191 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Come to us soon, Meroes. 192 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Another time, Senora, when I will not disturb, I too will go. 193 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 No, no, wait. 194 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Yes? 195 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Three years we've known each other now. 196 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Neighbors. 197 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000 You've done kindnesses for us. 198 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Are you also my friend, Carradonis? 199 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 This is a question of ridiculous. 200 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 That I am your friend? 201 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 I, who have held the Pequeño Ivan in my hands? 202 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Who have maybe shit for him? 203 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Listen to me. 204 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Just listen. 205 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 I've come across certain documents. 206 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:02,000 They prove a conspiracy exists between members of your government and mine. 207 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,000 These papers can buy back my life. 208 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000 I have only until tomorrow to sell. 209 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Oh, I have read of such grotesque things. 210 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Where do I buy back my life, Cardosus, and Lilia's and Ivan's? 211 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 You were a lawyer and a Mexican. 212 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Where do I trade? 213 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Ah, it is to ponder. 214 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,000 A moment. 215 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 If I were not a poor lawyer. 216 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,000 If I were an editor perhaps of a great newspaper 217 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 and there was a week's headlines to be had for so little price. 218 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Oh, pardon, how frightful I am. 219 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000 I did not mean the editor. 220 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Newspaper. 221 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Yes, yes, of course. 222 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Oh, Bill, gracias, Cardosus. 223 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Ten thousand thanks for our lives. 224 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Yes? 225 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,000 What do you wish of me? 226 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Ahem. 227 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 I am Maros Leco. 228 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 I, uh... 229 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Code clerk of the Russian embassy. 230 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:15,000 I remember you well, Senor Leco, from another time. 231 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,000 I have a story for you with documents. 232 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Top secret. 233 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,000 So? 234 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 The documents prove that there's a conspiracy 235 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,000 between certain members of your government with mine. 236 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 I've stolen them from my embassy. 237 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,000 They're yours if you want. 238 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 And the price, Senor? 239 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 I told you. 240 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:40,000 My life, my wife's, my three-month-old child, our lives. 241 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Very cheap, Senor. 242 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Bargain rates. 243 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,000 You have the courage to steal secret papers of the Soviet. 244 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,000 You, a Russian citizen, and this is what you want, not money? 245 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 I have been recalled to the Soviet. 246 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 There'll be a plane for us tomorrow morning. 247 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 An escort. 248 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,000 And after that... 249 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Where are the papers? 250 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 My wife has them. 251 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,000 She's waiting for me on a bench in the plaza sopalo. 252 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 The boy's with her. 253 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,000 I'll go to her. 254 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Tell her that you'll take them. 255 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Oh, you... 256 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,000 You people. 257 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Intrigue, drama, the promises of violence and of revelations 258 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 and the easy words on your mouths. 259 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Life. 260 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Death. 261 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,000 It's like the last time you came to see me, huh, Senor Leco? 262 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 What? 263 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Not a year ago, Senor Leco, you were here. 264 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 You then had another thing to sell. 265 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Listen to me. 266 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,000 The thing of Dr. Diego. 267 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Remember, professor of electronics in the University of Mexico? 268 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 He, too, was in conspiracy, you told me then. 269 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 And it was false. 270 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 A savage lie. 271 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 You and your government wished only to relieve us of his brains. 272 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:55,000 To get him out of your evil way, to destroy him and slowly us. 273 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 It was a lie, I admit it. 274 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 I had orders to do that. 275 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 But this... 276 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 But this? 277 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:07,000 This is of a fable, Senor, of the boy who cried wolf once too often. 278 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 And now it is a man who has cried wolf. 279 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Please, you have to believe. 280 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Not I, Senor, I have more wisdom of you now. 281 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Run, run into the streets, cry wolf to the masks of Fiesta. 282 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Perhaps one of them will believe, but not I. 283 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Go, cry wolf. 284 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Then tell me, Lilia, the boy. 285 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Adios, Senor. 286 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. William Powell in The Man Who Cried Wolf. 287 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 288 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Say, Sam, did you know that 41 years ago, Auto Light designed the first two-unit, 289 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,000 six-volt automotive electrical system used as original equipment? 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Insist on Auto Light original service parts for your Auto Light-equipped car. 301 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Right, Sam, because then you're sure of getting the best. 302 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Friends, you'll find it pays to keep the Auto Light electrical system of your car a family system. 303 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Insist on Auto Light original service parts. 304 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:18,000 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 305 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:23,000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. William Powell, 306 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,000 in Elliot Lewis's production of The Man Who Cried Wolf, 307 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:32,000 a story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 308 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Music 309 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:52,000 These are the things which happen to a man who might be killed. 310 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Walk a street, glance backward, stop. 311 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 That man in back of you, why did he stop, too? 312 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:05,000 So turn a corner, and there's a place, a building, a place you've been looking for, 313 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 the Department of Justice. 314 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 And go into it. 315 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Find a man, a small man, a neat and dapper and meticulous and methodical and shattering man. 316 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Leco, Maros Leco, the name I know. I am sure of it. 317 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Pardon me. 318 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Please, senor. 319 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Si? 320 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 I have documents. 321 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Forgive me. You have a story, but no documents. 322 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,000 You say your wife has documents, but you do not. 323 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Pardon me. 324 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Leco, Leco, Maros Leco. Ah, ah, si. Maros Leco. 325 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,000 The Department of Justice has a dossier on you. I was sure of it. 326 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:57,000 In March 1952, you reported that a certain Dr. Diego of the university 327 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000 erroneously reported, I must say. 328 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000 It was a lie, then. I was under orders to report. 329 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 And today, no lies, senor? 330 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:09,000 What I have been telling you is the truth. My life is in danger. 331 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,000 And you wish protection? 332 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Yes. For me, for my wife, for my child. 333 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Senor. 334 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Yes. 335 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,000 You are a Russian national of the embassy. 336 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Has your embassy been informed of these things that are about to happen to your life? 337 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Don't you understand? Those are the people who want to kill me. 338 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:34,000 I understand only that once you endeavor to involve my government in an unpleasantness with your lies. 339 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:49,000 However, the Russian embassy, please. 340 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Leave him. Get away from him. Flight from a cone phone call to death. 341 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Mine. 342 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,000 And for a woman who sits in the plaza near a fountain and waits. 343 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:06,000 And for a child whose fingers play with drifting golden feathers of sunlight. 344 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:11,000 And try not to run through a long corridor of marble and columns. 345 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Quick blur faces and voices and their feet murmuring through the tongues of terror. 346 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,000 And great doors of metal and glass open onto a pavilion of steps. 347 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Closer now to the images of Fiesta. To the masks of Fiesta. 348 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:33,000 To the women and the music and the spinning scarlets and golds and green of Fiesta. 349 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,000 And across the street is a lifetime away. 350 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000 And a cry of laughter and small fright. 351 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,000 You made a child, a young boy, sprawl against confetted pavement. 352 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,000 And take the precious time to help him to his feet and say you're sorry. 353 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,000 But a few steps to another building. To a shuttered door and beat on it. 354 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:58,000 To come here as help there and refuge in Senor Cardozes. The office of Senor Cardozes. 355 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Cardozes! Cardozes! 356 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Senor Leco. 357 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Let me in. 358 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Vengo, senor amigo, come in. 359 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 Always I close my office for Fiesta. 360 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,000 He wouldn't listen to me, Cardozes. He wouldn't believe me. 361 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,000 Huh? Oh, the man of the newspaper. 362 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Someone has to believe me, Cardozes. Someone has to see those documents. 363 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Perhaps... 364 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,000 What? 365 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:29,000 A friend to me in the secret police. I could say to him of you and perhaps he... 366 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 Maybe... 367 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,000 You have no wish of secret police, Senor Leco. 368 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,000 Get to him. Tell him. 369 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:49,000 I have got to phone to him. He's a friend from student days. He will meet us. 370 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 To your health, Meros. 371 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Drink, drink, amigo. 372 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Where is your friend? 373 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,000 He will meet us here in good time. Drink. 374 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Meros. 375 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Yes? 376 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Are you not worried about your wife, about the Pequeño? 377 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 They will be all right. 378 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Yes, I'm sure of it. 379 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 That man who came through the door. 380 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Pepe, aqui. 381 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Siéntate, Pepe. Amigo Pepe, amigo Meros. 382 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Buenos dias. 383 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000 How do you do? 384 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 You are in trouble, senor? 385 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Yes. 386 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 What trouble? 387 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Pepe, may I call you that? 388 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Si. 389 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,000 I have stolen some documents from the Russian embassy. 390 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Where are they, senor? 391 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,000 My wife has them. 392 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 And where is your wife? 393 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:49,000 She's waiting for me. When you hear my story, if you believe me... 394 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,000 No one believes in Pepe. 395 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 The story, senor? 396 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Tomorrow, I'm to be sent back to Russia. I have stolen documents to prevent this. 397 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,000 That is the part that is difficult for authorities to understand, Pepe. 398 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,000 My friend Meros talks of documents and has no documents. 399 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Si, this I notice. 400 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,000 To give them to my wife and separate from her is part of a plan. 401 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,000 By this time, surely the theft of the documents has been discovered. 402 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:20,000 By this time, the embassy looks for me. If they catch me, they cannot harm me. 403 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Si, the blackmail of the documents. 404 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Do you believe my story? 405 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Senor, I wish to tell you something. 406 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Do you believe me? 407 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:32,000 To us of the police, the names of all members of your embassy is known. 408 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Yours. I will not conceal from you the fact that I know of the tricks you played with us last year. 409 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000 The matter of the professor at the university. 410 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 It's the truth. What I tell you is the truth. 411 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Believe him, Pepe. 412 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Why should I believe you, senor? 413 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Because it is the truth. 414 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Si, I saw his wife, Lilia, leave. 415 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 I will take you to her. 416 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 I do not wish to be made a fool of. 417 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 I will give you the papers. 418 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Believe him, Pepe. 419 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,000 I have a car outside. We will go to your wife. 420 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Turn here. 421 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 My wife waits for me at the plaza of Zogalo. 422 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 And she will wait? 423 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,000 With my son. 424 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Yes, Pepe. Three months. 425 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,000 Senor? 426 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Yes. 427 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Your wife is Russian also? 428 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Yes. 429 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 And a member of the party? 430 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Yes. 431 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:39,000 How can you be sure she did not return to the embassy, deliver back the papers, and when you arrive at the plaza, a trap? 432 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Oh. 433 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,000 For me? 434 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Very. 435 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,000 The plaza, senor. Where is your wife? 436 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Oh, slowly. Ah, yes. Yes, there she is. At the fountain where I told her to be. With the child. 437 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Let's see. 438 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Do not look at me so, Cardozes. The police motions to stop the car. So I must stop. 439 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:19,000 The procession. We can't get to the other side, anyhow. We have to wait. 440 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Idiots. 441 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:40,000 A parade. Such a solemn parade. How ridiculous. And they bow their heads. 442 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,000 You're communists. Both of you. Spies. 443 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,000 You tricked me. You won't get away. 444 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,000 I'll show you. Hold him. These people. 445 00:24:52,000 --> 00:25:01,000 People, listen to me. You are fools. Listen. You are being exploited by your ignorance. 446 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Meros, they'll kill all of us. Meros. 447 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Exhausted. 448 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 I know. 449 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:16,000 Look to us. We, the people of the world. All of these people are here to keep the floor. 450 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:33,000 And that's the way it ended. The crowd ended it. The crowd I enraged with lies. 451 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:40,000 The old lies. Communist lies. The lies I had once lived. The envelopes. They turned over the car. 452 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:46,000 And the last thing I saw. Cardozes and Pepe. Communists who tricked me. 453 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:51,000 The terror on their faces. The last thing I saw. 454 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Meros. Meros. 455 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Oh, Lilia. 456 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Are you all right? 457 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 Yes. And Ivan? 458 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 At home. 459 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Home? Where? 460 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,000 At another place. Meros, you are released. I will take you there. 461 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 And the papers? The documents? 462 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,000 The police. 463 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,000 They believe you? 464 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Yes. Oh, yes. We are free, Meros. Not to return to Russia. 465 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:32,000 A new homeland. That is freedom. And no fear. Freedom. 466 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Where we are now, we are not known. And it is freedom where we are. 467 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:53,000 And there are hopes. And there is love. And I am alive. 468 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:59,000 But if one day you would pass me on the street and stop and point your finger at me and say, 469 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:19,000 this story happened to you, then I would be a dead man. 470 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Suspense. Presented by Autolite. Tonight's star, Mr. William Powell. 471 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,000 This is Harlow Wilcox again speaking for Autolite, 472 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:37,000 world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 473 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Autolite is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 474 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:46,000 That's why during these early months of 53, the Autolite family joins together 475 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:52,000 in saluting the leading car manufacturers who install Autolite products as original equipment. 476 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:59,000 Our Autolite family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Autolite plants 477 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:04,000 from coast to coast and in still other Autolite plants in many foreign countries. 478 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:10,000 Our family also includes more than 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Autolite, 479 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:17,000 as well as 98,000 Autolite distributors and dealers in the United States and thousands more in Canada 480 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000 and throughout the world. 481 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Our Autolite family will salute the National Safety Council and its accident prevention work 482 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,000 on the next Autolite Suspense television program. 483 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,000 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of suspense 484 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:41,000 so that you'll be sure to see this program. 485 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Next week, a true story, the tragic history of the most famous of all early California bandits. 486 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:54,000 The story is called, The Love and Death of Joaquin Murrieta, our star, Mr. Victor Mature. 487 00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:00,000 That's next week on Suspense. 488 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:05,000 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick 489 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,000 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 490 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:12,000 The Man Who Cried Wolf was written for suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin 491 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000 from research gathered by Larry Thorpe. 492 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 In tonight's story, Lillian Byup was heard as Lillia, 493 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:23,000 featured in the cast were Joseph Kearns, Jack Crouchon, Steve Roberts, Byron Cain and John Danaer. 494 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:31,000 Remember next week, Mr. Victor Mature as Joaquin Murrieta. 495 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:54,000 This is the CBS Radio Network.