WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 00:07.000 --> 00:12.000 In tonight's presentation of Suspense. 00:16.000 --> 00:23.000 Tonight, Auto Light presents a tale about a man who felt he was bigger and more important than anything else in the world. 00:23.000 --> 00:25.000 And lost his life trying to prove it. 00:25.000 --> 00:30.000 The story is called The Storm. Our star Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 00:37.000 --> 00:40.000 Well Harlow, March is here. And like a lion, you know. 00:40.000 --> 00:44.000 And I know the lion, Hap. 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I could see it in Joyce's eyes. 03:01.000 --> 03:05.000 The last year and a half she changed. Why? 03:05.000 --> 03:08.000 Women, most of them down the wind, they're well off. 03:08.000 --> 03:13.000 After all, we've been through getting to be the top dance team in the country. You'd think she'd try to relax and enjoy it. 03:13.000 --> 03:17.000 We were big now, two thousand a week in a percentage. 03:17.000 --> 03:21.000 Nothing but the best places booked when and where we liked. 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 We just finished in Miami. We were going to lie around for a month when the weather turned funny. 03:25.000 --> 03:28.000 Nothing really noticeable, just something in the air. 03:28.000 --> 03:31.000 That's when I got the phone call from Al Morgan. 03:31.000 --> 03:32.000 Mr. Larry Weston. 03:32.000 --> 03:33.000 This is him. 03:33.000 --> 03:39.000 This is a long distance operator, sir. We have a call from Sea Beach. Go ahead, please. 03:39.000 --> 03:40.000 Hello, Larry? 03:40.000 --> 03:41.000 Yeah, who's this? 03:41.000 --> 03:43.000 Al, Al Morgan. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 Oh, sure, Al. Long time no see. 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 Yeah, how's Joyce? 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 Good, good. How's that new hotel of yours? 03:48.000 --> 03:52.000 Ah, nice business, Larry. Yeah, we got a nice business for a new place. 03:52.000 --> 03:56.000 Look, I know I should go through your agent on that. 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 No, no, no. Skip him. What's on your mind? 03:58.000 --> 04:02.000 It's the tag end of the season here at Sea Beach, but we still got a good crowd. 04:02.000 --> 04:05.000 Variety says you and Joyce got a month between dates and... 04:05.000 --> 04:09.000 Well, look, Al, we're not exactly hired up for work. 04:09.000 --> 04:12.000 Oh, I know, Larry. It's just that I'd like to keep this crowd. 04:12.000 --> 04:16.000 You'd hold him here. You and Joyce a real sock finish on the season. 04:16.000 --> 04:20.000 Just for a week, Larry. You know, for an old friend. 04:20.000 --> 04:27.000 Well, we don't work for peanuts anymore, Al. Um, it'll have to be 3,000 and 20%. 04:27.000 --> 04:31.000 Well, that's pretty steep, but I guess I can make it. 04:31.000 --> 04:34.000 Okay, wire the deal to my agent. How's the weather there? 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 The weather? Oh, great. Best on the Gulf Coast. 04:37.000 --> 04:40.000 Kind of funny here in Miami. Something in the air. 04:40.000 --> 04:44.000 Well, that's Miami. When can you start? Today? 04:44.000 --> 04:46.000 Yeah, yeah, I guess so. We'll drive down. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 I sure appreciate this, Larry. Honest. 04:49.000 --> 04:53.000 So long, Al. Just tell your crowd we're on the way. 04:53.000 --> 04:57.000 Thanks. What? 04:57.000 --> 05:00.000 I said thanks for including me in. 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 That's supposed to be some kind of a crack, Joyce. 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 There was a time when you used to at least ask me about a date. 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 Now I'm just part of the act. 05:07.000 --> 05:13.000 Look, will you get off my back? Al Morgan's new place at Sea Beach. Al knew us when. 05:13.000 --> 05:15.000 But you want to do a favor for an old friend? 05:15.000 --> 05:19.000 Sure, I can do a favor for an old friend. And without jacking the price a thousand. 05:19.000 --> 05:22.000 Cut it out, Willie. It's business. We're big business now. 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 That's why Al wants us, and that's why he'll pay us $3,000. 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 That's so hard to take. Sure, it's fine. 05:28.000 --> 05:34.000 But we're all business now. Everything's happened so fast for us, we've lost being man and wife. 05:34.000 --> 05:39.000 I like being man and wife, Larry. Not just a dance partner. 05:39.000 --> 05:44.000 Look, it's the air in Miami. That's what's bothering you. Come on, let's pack. 05:44.000 --> 05:50.000 Music 05:50.000 --> 05:58.000 High over Miami, clouds gather and move. Far to the south, the great cone of wind spins strongly now. 05:58.000 --> 06:02.000 Feeling adolescent strength, it starts moving across the sea. 06:02.000 --> 06:05.000 It feels for direction and curves northward. 06:05.000 --> 06:09.000 The ocean is patterned with great heaping swells racing before it. 06:09.000 --> 06:13.000 On the Gulf Coast beaches, the tide still rises normally. 06:13.000 --> 06:22.000 Then a wave, larger than usual, crashes unevenly across the sand. 06:22.000 --> 06:26.000 Sea Beach looks like quite a layout. A lot of money, a lot of class. 06:26.000 --> 06:32.000 Sure does. Oh, come on, snap out of it, will you? 06:32.000 --> 06:39.000 Hey, there's Al's Hotel. Look at that sign. The westerns, big as you can make them. 06:39.000 --> 06:43.000 Sure. We're big. 06:43.000 --> 06:52.000 Look, don't start anything. We're here for a week and the weather is nice. Try to get along, will you? 06:52.000 --> 06:57.000 Hi, Larry, Joyce. Hey, Al, some place you got. 06:57.000 --> 07:02.000 All right, on the beach. Nothing but the best. How are you, Joyce? It's been a long time. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 Hi, Al, it's really good to see you. 07:04.000 --> 07:10.000 Come on. You got one of the best suites in the place. Hey, boy, get these bags into 215, will you? 07:10.000 --> 07:15.000 Looks like a real nice place, Al. Strictly resort, Larry. Entertainment and the weather. 07:15.000 --> 07:19.000 I got my entertainment and if the weather stays just right, I... 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 Hey, hey, that's some surf. 07:22.000 --> 07:28.000 Yeah, yeah, it started yesterday. Paper says big storm down in the gulf somewhere. They think it's moving this way. 07:28.000 --> 07:33.000 Scared off some of the guests, but when I got up that western sign, it stopped the checkouts cold. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 So where's storm bait, huh? 07:35.000 --> 07:40.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Ah, nothing to worry about, though. Not a cloud in the sky, is it? 07:40.000 --> 07:43.000 If you bleed the papers, you could die from worry. 07:43.000 --> 07:45.000 Mr. Morgan, Mr. Morgan, if you please. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.000 Oh, oh, yeah, P. Day. What can I do for you? 07:47.000 --> 07:51.000 It is the food, Monsieur. Toto, please, I am speaking. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 Oh, Mr. and Mrs. Weston, Monsieur P. Day. 07:53.000 --> 07:54.000 Hi. 07:54.000 --> 08:02.000 The dancing westerns? Oh, an honor. I have never seen you perform, but everyone knows you are magnificent. 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 That's an awfully nice dog. 08:05.000 --> 08:12.000 Merci, Madame. I am sorry Colette and Madame Pompadour are not with me at the moment. They will meet you later, I hope. 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 Something about the food, P. Day? 08:14.000 --> 08:21.000 Oh, this special diet for my dogs, Monsieur. I am afraid I lose the cooperation of the kitchen again. 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 I'll take care of it. 08:23.000 --> 08:26.000 Merci. Now, how well until this evening? 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Viens, Toto. Viens. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Oh, he's cute. 08:30.000 --> 08:34.000 You should see those dogs work. The four of them really put on a show. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 A dog act? 08:36.000 --> 08:37.000 Sure, they're good. 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 Oh, wait a minute, Al. That just doesn't go. 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 What do you mean, Al? 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 Well, I mean Al didn't tell me he was running a circus. That's all. 08:44.000 --> 08:47.000 Look, Larry, P. Day's got a good actor. He wouldn't be here. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 That's swell, but we don't work with dog acts. 08:49.000 --> 08:50.000 Larry. 08:50.000 --> 08:54.000 It's simple, Joyce. If Al can hold his crowd with a dog act, fine. He doesn't need us. 08:54.000 --> 08:57.000 But he's got a contractor. What can I do? 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 Larry, you're not serious. 08:59.000 --> 09:02.000 Can you get the boy to put the bags back in the car out? Come on, Joyce. Let's go. 09:02.000 --> 09:07.000 No, no, wait, wait, wait. I've already got your name up out there. 09:07.000 --> 09:11.000 Okay, Larry, I'll buy a few days' contract. 09:11.000 --> 09:14.000 Fine, fine. Now you understand, don't you, Al? I mean... 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 Well, a dog act. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 Yeah, yeah, sure. I understand. 09:18.000 --> 09:21.000 Swell, swell. Then we'd better get ourselves on P. Day. 09:21.000 --> 09:22.000 You go ahead. 09:22.000 --> 09:25.000 Okay. 09:25.000 --> 09:30.000 Look, Al, that was Larry talking, not me. 09:30.000 --> 09:34.000 Yeah, I know, honey. He's changed, hasn't he? 09:34.000 --> 09:40.000 Yeah. We're a big team now. I guess that's it. He's got to prove it all the time. 09:40.000 --> 09:43.000 I don't know exactly what to do. 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 He's really a nice guy, Joyce. It'll wear off. 09:46.000 --> 09:50.000 Thanks, Al. I hope you're right. 09:50.000 --> 10:05.000 Over the Gulf Coast shore, the sun shines warm on the slow, continuous beat of the heavy storm surf. 10:05.000 --> 10:08.000 The sky remains clear until late afternoon. 10:08.000 --> 10:14.000 Then, a slight yellowish haze, the first land warning, creeps into the darkening blue. 10:14.000 --> 10:18.000 The barometer is measured, and from Florida to Texas, 10:18.000 --> 10:23.000 red and black hurricane flags unfold in an oddly soft breeze. 10:23.000 --> 10:26.000 Precautionary. Nothing definite yet. 10:26.000 --> 10:29.000 The sunset is brilliant red. 10:29.000 --> 10:32.000 And later, there's a halo around the moon. 10:41.000 --> 10:45.000 Thank you. Thank you very much. 10:45.000 --> 10:49.000 Thank you very much, but that was our last encore, I'm afraid. 10:49.000 --> 10:53.000 Regardless of what the newspapers and radios have been saying about the weather, 10:53.000 --> 10:57.000 we'll be here tomorrow night with a very special performance. 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 Yeah, I could... 11:05.000 --> 11:10.000 Sure. You're a little sloppy tonight, honey. You could stand some rehearsing. 11:10.000 --> 11:15.000 Oh, swell you two. You were great. And look around, not an empty seat in the place. 11:15.000 --> 11:16.000 Thank you. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 Yeah, yeah, it was a good crowd. Only Joyce wasn't there. 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 Al, what's the real dope on this storm? 11:21.000 --> 11:26.000 Well, who knows? The hurricane flags are up, but none of the natives around here are getting excited. 11:26.000 --> 11:29.000 Few places boarded up, and nobody's leaving. Business as usual. 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 Hey, you know, it might be fun. 11:31.000 --> 11:32.000 What? 11:32.000 --> 11:35.000 Well, to see if we can hold a crowd here in a hurricane. 11:35.000 --> 11:36.000 You're kidding. 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 Us against a hurricane. I bet we could. 11:39.000 --> 11:42.000 It'd be a good act, Larry, but I hope you don't get the chance. 11:42.000 --> 11:44.000 Oh, Mr. Weston, Mr. Weston. 11:44.000 --> 11:47.000 Mr. Weston, I do hope you don't think I'm forward, 11:47.000 --> 11:51.000 but I did so admire you and your wife out there on the floor. 11:51.000 --> 11:54.000 I've seen a lot of dancing, but honestly... 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 Well, thank you. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 I know you dance for a living, but could you... 11:58.000 --> 12:01.000 Would you please show me that backstair? 12:01.000 --> 12:02.000 Well, I have to ask my wife. 12:02.000 --> 12:05.000 Oh, please, Miss Weston, I'll die happy. 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 Of course. Go right ahead. 12:07.000 --> 12:10.000 Well, there isn't much for a girl to learn, really. 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 Quite so. 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 Um, have a drink, Joyce? 12:14.000 --> 12:17.000 No, I don't think so, thanks. 12:17.000 --> 12:20.000 I know he was kidding, but for a minute, 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 I thought Larry meant that about the hurricane. 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 Tell him, good boy, huh? 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 Low-racing clouds rush tirelessly by. 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 More rain, more gusts of wind. 12:30.000 --> 12:37.000 The clouds grow heavier in the haze-filled sky. 12:37.000 --> 12:40.000 Oh, come on, Joyce, come on. Pick it up. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 All right, Larry, all right. 12:42.000 --> 12:45.000 Now, stop it, stop it, stop it. 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 Look, it's 4 p.m. already. 12:47.000 --> 12:51.000 At 8 o'clock, we have an appointment downstairs doing a show. 12:51.000 --> 12:54.000 The rehearsal is for your benefit. What's the matter with you? 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 Oh, the fun's gone out of it, Larry. 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 Look, we've got to talk this out. 12:58.000 --> 13:00.000 Here it comes again. Listen, Joyce. 13:00.000 --> 13:03.000 I've got to say it, Larry. I've got to tell you what I feel. 13:03.000 --> 13:04.000 It's about the dog act. 13:04.000 --> 13:08.000 It's not the dog act. It's you. It's all you. 13:08.000 --> 13:12.000 You say we, us, but you really mean you. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 I used to feel close when we danced, 13:15.000 --> 13:19.000 but you're such a big, important showstopper all by yourself. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 There's no room for me anymore. 13:21.000 --> 13:24.000 If you're all through, we'll continue with the rehearsal. 13:24.000 --> 13:26.000 Please, Larry, listen to me. 13:26.000 --> 13:31.000 I love you, but I don't know you anymore. 13:31.000 --> 13:34.000 The way you push people around, nothing means anything to you. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 Nothing's important except... 13:36.000 --> 13:39.000 except that big sign, the Western. 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 Well, sure it's important. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 The weather turns bad, people get scared, 13:43.000 --> 13:46.000 Al puts that sign up, and they stay. 13:46.000 --> 13:48.000 Now, can it, Joyce? Can it before I get to that? 13:48.000 --> 13:50.000 You don't really need a wife anymore, do you, Larry? 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 All you need is someone to dance with. 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 That's what you really feel, isn't it? 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 All right, yes. 13:56.000 --> 13:59.000 I took you, I can take anybody. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 That dumb little blonde last night, 14:01.000 --> 14:04.000 as soon as we got out on the floor, I knew... 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 Joyce, where do you think you're going? 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 I don't know, Larry. I just don't know. 14:18.000 --> 14:19.000 Yeah. 14:19.000 --> 14:20.000 Uh, Larry? 14:20.000 --> 14:21.000 Yeah. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 I just heard it on the radio. 14:22.000 --> 14:25.000 They think the center of this storm may hit somewhere near Sea Beach. 14:25.000 --> 14:26.000 Oh? 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 Yeah, could be a hundred miles either way. 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 Some of the guests are kind of nervous. 14:31.000 --> 14:34.000 Hey, could you and Joyce come down and help me keep their minds off it? 14:34.000 --> 14:37.000 Sure, Al, sure, sure. What's a little hurricane? 14:37.000 --> 14:41.000 Um, is that blonde I danced with last night around? 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, I saw her in the bar. 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 Have her meet me on the floor. 14:45.000 --> 14:48.000 The sky-filling haze thickens. 14:48.000 --> 14:52.000 The barometer drops suddenly, and it can almost be felt. 14:52.000 --> 14:57.000 Then, seaward, on the edge of the horizon, a low gray curve appears. 14:57.000 --> 15:00.000 It climbs slowly, grows darker. 15:00.000 --> 15:05.000 Then stands there, congealing its power into an ugly, bluish-black mass. 15:05.000 --> 15:11.000 Then, steadied and deliberate, the great windmills of the storm. 15:11.000 --> 15:18.000 Then, steadied and deliberate, the great wind monster moves toward the land. 15:18.000 --> 15:41.000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Frank Lovejoy with Joan Banks in The Storm, 15:41.000 --> 15:48.000 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 15:56.000 --> 16:04.000 Say, Hap, do you know who developed the first two-unit, six-volt electrical system used as original equipment? 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 Never gave it much thought, Harlow. 16:06.000 --> 16:13.000 Well, you should, Hap, because that development was the forerunner of the precision-made electrical system in modern cars. 16:13.000 --> 16:18.000 Now, I'll tell you, Auto Light engineers designed that system 41 years ago. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 I guess that was quite a feat, eh, Harlow? 16:20.000 --> 16:25.000 It sure was, Hap, and so are today's complete Auto Light electrical systems. 16:25.000 --> 16:32.000 They're installed as original equipment on many of our finest makes of cars, trucks, tractors, and boats. 16:32.000 --> 16:36.000 Those Auto Light electrical systems must really have it, Harlow. 16:36.000 --> 16:43.000 Yes, sir. Every unit is perfectly related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill 16:43.000 --> 16:47.000 to give the smoothest performance money can buy. 16:47.000 --> 16:52.000 So, friends, be sure you get the best for your Auto Light-equipped car. 16:52.000 --> 16:56.000 Insist on Auto Light original service parts. 16:56.000 --> 17:02.000 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 17:02.000 --> 17:07.000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Frank Lovejoy 17:07.000 --> 17:16.000 in Elliot Lewis's production of The Storm, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 17:16.000 --> 17:38.000 The sky darkens, lowering ominously, and from horizon to shore, the sea boils white with rage. 17:38.000 --> 17:41.000 The rain is continuous now, falling harder and harder. 17:41.000 --> 17:51.000 Then from the approaching edge of fury, the first flicking fingers gouge through the rain and touch land. 17:51.000 --> 17:52.000 Over here, Larry. 17:52.000 --> 17:53.000 Hello. 17:53.000 --> 17:56.000 Oh, hi. Hi. What did you say your name was, honey? 17:56.000 --> 18:00.000 Betty Ann. Betty Ann White. Do you want to see her with me? 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 I couldn't round up much of an orchestra. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 That's okay. The piano's enough. 18:04.000 --> 18:05.000 Where's George? 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 He's around. Look, Betty Ann. 18:07.000 --> 18:08.000 I'll go find her. 18:08.000 --> 18:12.000 What was the biggest thrill of my life, to dance with you last night, Mr. West? 18:12.000 --> 18:15.000 Oh, it's really tormenting, isn't it? 18:15.000 --> 18:16.000 You scared? 18:16.000 --> 18:17.000 Me? 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 My, no. I've been through storms before. 18:19.000 --> 18:22.000 Come on. You know, you danced pretty good last night. 18:22.000 --> 18:23.000 Huh? 18:23.000 --> 18:25.000 How would you like to entertain the folks? 18:25.000 --> 18:29.000 Huh? You mean you and me? In front of those people? 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 Sure, sure. You like to dance? 18:31.000 --> 18:34.000 I'd be some way, sir. That scares me. I just couldn't. 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 Why, sure you can. Come on. I'll make you look great. 18:43.000 --> 18:57.000 The first winds churn up the beaches, whirl inland, shudder against walls and wind past, trees groan, the lighter branches crack and fly off, a board rattles on a flimsy wooden shack, tears loose and hurtles through the air. 18:57.000 --> 19:01.000 Come on, listen up, honey. They're all watching. 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 I-I-I'm sorry. 19:03.000 --> 19:07.000 Relax. There's nothing to it. Now, spin toward the window. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 I think I got it now. You mean that thing? 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 Spin, honey. Spin. 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 I'm sorry. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 Betty! Betty! 19:16.000 --> 19:17.000 What happened? 19:17.000 --> 19:18.000 What happened? 19:18.000 --> 19:19.000 I mean, how did she? 19:19.000 --> 19:20.000 Barry, what happened? 19:20.000 --> 19:24.000 Oh, no. That was crazy. The window just shattered the glass. Hit her all over. I think she... 19:24.000 --> 19:29.000 Please, folks! She's going to be all right. If I go into the lobby or the bar, everything's going to be all right. 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 Al, she's not gonna be all right. 19:32.000 --> 19:35.000 I know, I know. I'll get some of the boys to move her. Come on. 19:35.000 --> 19:40.000 Now, listen. Keep it quiet. The cops were by. They're warning everybody. The storm shifted. It's headed straight for C.B. 19:40.000 --> 19:41.000 Where's Joyce? 19:41.000 --> 19:44.000 I'm not sure. One of the bellboys saw her earlier. Said she looked pretty upset. 19:44.000 --> 19:46.000 I know, yeah. We had an argument. Where is she? 19:46.000 --> 19:47.000 Well, we checked all over. 19:47.000 --> 19:50.000 Joyce! Joyce! At Larry, we looked every place. 19:50.000 --> 19:51.000 You mean you let her go out? 19:51.000 --> 19:54.000 If she took the car, the cops will stop her to get her off the street. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 She didn't take the car. I got the keys in my pocket. 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 Oh, no, wait, Larry. It's a hurricane. 19:58.000 --> 19:59.000 You can't go out there. 19:59.000 --> 20:01.000 I'm out, Al. Let me go. 20:01.000 --> 20:02.000 Larry! 20:02.000 --> 20:03.000 I gotta find Joyce. 20:07.000 --> 20:12.000 Joyce! Joyce! Joyce! 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 It's wind. I can't see. 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 Light off, will you? 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 Light off, will you? 20:20.000 --> 20:24.000 That's it. Now we can get somewhere. 20:28.000 --> 20:35.000 The preliminary winds passed. A pause. And then, bruising, tearing, whining, the thing steps to the land. 20:35.000 --> 20:42.000 The sea drags up with it, roaring in twisted, foaming agony, and falls like cannon shot on all it can reach. 20:42.000 --> 20:47.000 The rain no longer falls but hammers sideways with a force of bullets. 20:47.000 --> 20:50.000 The palm trees bend almost sweep the ground. 20:50.000 --> 20:54.000 More stubborn fronts offer resistance, then suddenly wrench from their roots. 20:54.000 --> 21:02.000 The works of man tremble, shudder, and mighty man himself, caught in the open, is forced to return to all fours. 21:02.000 --> 21:07.000 Joyce! Joyce! Joyce, where are you? 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 Hey! Hey, you! 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 Joyce! 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 This way, mister! This way! 21:12.000 --> 21:13.000 I can't! 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 Roll! 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 Can't make your hands and knees! 21:16.000 --> 21:17.000 Roll! 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Hey! Enough! 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 Now, reach me your hand! 21:24.000 --> 21:25.000 I can't! 21:25.000 --> 21:26.000 Roll! 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 Can't make your hands and knees! 21:28.000 --> 21:29.000 Roll! 21:29.000 --> 21:32.000 Hey, enough! Now, reach me your hand! 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 Hey, that's it! 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 There you are! 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 You must be crazy, mister! 21:42.000 --> 21:43.000 How'd you get out there? 21:43.000 --> 21:44.000 I'm looking for my wife. 21:44.000 --> 21:47.000 You can't find her now. You're lucky you're still alive. 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 She's out there. I've got to find her. 21:49.000 --> 21:53.000 Listen, I'm trying to help you. Somebody's taking her, taking care of her someplace, too. 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 She's gonna be all right now. 21:55.000 --> 21:56.000 Come on back inside. 21:56.000 --> 21:57.000 No! You don't understand. 21:57.000 --> 22:01.000 There's only one thing you understand, mister. That's a hurricane. It cuts everything aside. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 Listen to me. I've got to find my wife. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 You gotta wait till the comm sets in. 22:05.000 --> 22:06.000 Comm? 22:06.000 --> 22:11.000 At a hurricane's eye. You can get to the police station, then. They'll know where to find your wife. 22:11.000 --> 22:17.000 One hour, two. The wind screams at a ninety, a hundred, a hundred and thirty miles an hour. 22:17.000 --> 22:20.000 The light grows black, fingered with a weird electric blue. 22:20.000 --> 22:26.000 Rooftops, flash in the streets. Broken power lines, spit ten thousand volt electrocutions. 22:26.000 --> 22:31.000 Man sits in his trembling shelter, torrented by the wind. 22:31.000 --> 22:15.580 The wind is so strong, it's like a 22:15.580 --> 22:22.580 A hurricane is coming. 22:22.580 --> 22:28.580 One hour, two. The wind screams at a ninety, a hundred, a hundred and thirty miles an hour. 22:28.580 --> 22:31.580 The light grows black, fingered with a weird electric blue. 22:31.580 --> 22:37.580 Rooftops, flash in the streets. Broken power lines, spit ten thousand volt electrocutions. 22:37.580 --> 22:43.580 Man sits in his trembling shelter, torters on the edge of security with hollow fear in his eyes. 22:43.580 --> 22:47.580 Then suddenly, without warning, the comm. 22:54.580 --> 22:59.580 A weird, uneasy silence, surrounded by the force of hell. 23:03.580 --> 23:06.580 Middle of the block there. That's the police station. 23:06.580 --> 23:07.580 How long does the comm last? 23:07.580 --> 23:10.580 Hard to tell. Hour, fifteen minutes. 23:10.580 --> 23:13.580 Come on. 23:23.580 --> 23:24.580 First, give me first aid. 23:24.580 --> 23:26.580 Now, listen, I gotta find my wife. 23:26.580 --> 23:27.580 What's her name? 23:27.580 --> 23:29.580 Weston, Joyce Weston. 23:29.580 --> 23:36.580 Mrs. Joyce Weston? Mrs. Joyce Weston? Mrs. Weston? 23:36.580 --> 23:38.580 Sorry, buddy. 23:38.580 --> 23:40.580 It's Larry, Joyce. 23:40.580 --> 23:42.580 What about the fire station? 23:42.580 --> 23:44.580 Could be. Red Cross is set up there. 23:44.580 --> 23:45.580 Where is it? 23:45.580 --> 23:47.580 Next block over Jackson Street. 23:47.580 --> 23:50.580 Hey, buddy, you better stay here. 24:03.580 --> 24:05.580 Her name is Weston, Joyce Weston. 24:05.580 --> 24:08.580 I'm busy with the injured, mister. You'll have to look yourself. 24:08.580 --> 24:11.580 Joyce. Joyce. 24:11.580 --> 24:14.580 Monsieur. Monsieur. Monsieur. 24:14.580 --> 24:15.580 Mr. Bidet. 24:15.580 --> 24:18.580 My dogs, monsieur. Have you seen my dogs? 24:18.580 --> 24:20.580 Look, I'm trying to find Joyce, my wife. 24:20.580 --> 24:22.580 But my dogs, they broke away. I went after them. 24:22.580 --> 24:24.580 Hey, will you listen to me? 24:24.580 --> 24:25.580 My dogs. 24:25.580 --> 24:28.580 Joyce. Joyce. 24:28.580 --> 24:29.580 Larry. 24:29.580 --> 24:30.580 You all right? 24:30.580 --> 24:32.580 I'm fine, Larry. I'm fine. 24:32.580 --> 24:33.580 Come on. 24:33.580 --> 24:34.580 Wait, I've got to help you. 24:34.580 --> 24:35.580 It'll keep. Come on. 24:35.580 --> 24:38.580 Larry, wait a minute. The storm isn't over. This is just the crowd. 24:38.580 --> 24:40.580 Yeah, I know. 24:42.580 --> 24:44.580 Why did you run out? Teach me a lesson. 24:44.580 --> 24:45.580 What? 24:45.580 --> 24:48.580 It was pretty small time, Joyce. You left me in a pretty bad hole. 24:48.580 --> 24:49.580 Wait a minute. Where are we going? 24:49.580 --> 24:51.580 Back to the hotel. They're waiting for us. 24:51.580 --> 24:53.580 You're crazy. 24:53.580 --> 24:57.580 And I was crazy to kid myself that you actually came looking for me. 24:57.580 --> 24:59.580 Look, Joyce, I'm not going to beg. I don't have to. 24:59.580 --> 25:01.580 Oh, you're so big. 25:01.580 --> 25:04.580 The Hurricane Supper, Larry Weston. 25:04.580 --> 25:07.580 And you believe it, don't you? You really believe it. 25:07.580 --> 25:10.580 Don't get me sore. They're waiting for us at the hotel now. 25:10.580 --> 25:12.580 No, not us, Larry. 25:12.580 --> 25:15.580 They're waiting for you, the Hurricane Supper. 25:15.580 --> 25:16.580 Joyce. 25:16.580 --> 25:17.580 I'm going back to the fire station. 25:17.580 --> 25:19.580 Come on, Larry. 25:19.580 --> 25:22.580 You don't need it, but life will look. 25:22.580 --> 25:24.580 Okay. 25:24.580 --> 25:26.580 Don't say I didn't give you the chance. 25:26.580 --> 25:31.580 Your small time, I made you and the whole life. 25:31.580 --> 25:34.580 I know how to beat me, make it the Hurricane. 25:34.580 --> 25:58.580 I'm big. I'm big. I'm big. 25:58.580 --> 26:01.580 The second wind struck, completing the infinite anger, 26:01.580 --> 26:04.580 then passed on over the lowlands to the hills, 26:04.580 --> 26:08.580 finally tearing its shrieking self apart. 26:08.580 --> 26:13.580 The sun shines once more on a whipped and torn earth. 26:13.580 --> 26:15.580 It is over. 26:15.580 --> 26:19.580 And those who lived through it stir humbly. 26:19.580 --> 26:45.580 Suspense, presented by Auto Light, tonight's star, Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 26:45.580 --> 26:49.580 This is Harlow Wilcox again speaking for Auto Light, 26:49.580 --> 26:54.580 world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 26:54.580 --> 26:58.580 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 26:58.580 --> 27:01.580 That's why during these early months of 53, 27:01.580 --> 27:05.580 the Auto Light family joins in saluting the leading car manufacturers 27:05.580 --> 27:09.580 who use Auto Light products as original equipment. 27:09.580 --> 27:13.580 Our Auto Light family is made up of the nearly 30,000 men and women 27:13.580 --> 27:16.580 in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to coast 27:16.580 --> 27:20.580 and in still other Auto Light plants in many foreign countries 27:20.580 --> 27:25.580 and the more than 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light, 27:25.580 --> 27:30.580 as well as 98,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United States 27:30.580 --> 27:34.580 and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 27:34.580 --> 27:39.580 Our Auto Light family will salute the Kaiser Fraser Sales Corporation 27:39.580 --> 27:42.580 on the next Auto Light Suspense television program. 27:42.580 --> 27:46.580 If you live in a television area, check the day and time of Suspense on television 27:46.580 --> 27:49.580 so that you will be sure to see this program. 27:49.580 --> 27:57.580 Music 27:57.580 --> 28:02.580 Next week, a story based on fact and written by a master of suspense, 28:02.580 --> 28:08.580 an adaptation of the 19th century born murder case called The Dead Alive. 28:08.580 --> 28:13.580 Author, Wilkie Collins. Our star, Mr. Herbert Marshall. 28:13.580 --> 28:19.580 That's next week on Suspense. 28:19.580 --> 28:22.580 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis. 28:22.580 --> 28:26.580 The music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lutte Gluskin. 28:26.580 --> 28:28.580 Portions of the program were transcribed. 28:28.580 --> 28:32.580 The Storm was written for Suspense by Richard Chandley. 28:32.580 --> 28:35.580 In tonight's story, Joan Banks was heard as Joyce. 28:35.580 --> 28:38.580 Featured in the cast were Sharon Douglas, Joseph Kearns, 28:38.580 --> 28:41.580 Ralph Sedan, Jerry Hausner, and Jim Nusser. 28:41.580 --> 28:44.580 Your narrator, Larry Thor. 28:44.580 --> 28:47.580 Frank Lovejoy appeared through the courtesy of Warner Brothers 28:47.580 --> 28:53.580 and can soon be seen in House of Wax in three dimension and Warner color. 28:53.580 --> 29:02.580 And remember next week, Mr. Herbert Marshall in The Dead Alive. 29:02.580 --> 29:05.580 This is the CBS Radio Network.