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Suspense.
Tonight, Auto Light presents the true story of a reign of terror.
The dramatic report of the final moments of a beast, a man without conscience, a professional
killer.
The last days of John Dillinger, our star Mr. Van Heflin.
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hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
No, no, no more, no more, the name of that.
Hold him, Harvey.
Sure.
Please, please, stop.
Yeah, let him go.
Sure.
How you feel, Ernie?
How you feel, copper?
Come on, come on, tell me so I know.
Oh, no, you oughtn't to laugh at him, Harvey.
He's hurt.
Hey, Ernie, you hurt?
You hurt, Ernie?
How's it feel to be in the cell of your own jailhouse, Ernie?
Look, Dylan.
No, no, no, you look.
On your feet and take a look, Ernie.
Up, up, Ernie, or up.
Don't hit me anymore.
Take a look.
You see the pretty pistol, Ernie?
It's wood.
Yeah.
Yeah, I whittled it, Ernie.
Right after I whittled that boat for your kid, I made me this gun.
I put some shoe polish on it.
Bang.
Yeah, yeah, he's nice.
Sure.
Now we got a real gun, Ernie, yours.
And we're going to get out of here.
Out of the jail, everybody's screaming that nobody's going to break out of.
Come on, let's go, Ernie.
Go.
Let me tell you something, copper.
From now on, from the second I do this, from just then on, just listen to what I say.
I'll repeat it.
Just listen to it and do it.
I said, let's go.
That means we're getting out.
I said, keep your mouth shut.
It means you say just one word and you're dead.
And the last part of it is, when I'm ready to kill you, I'll let you watch.
That's fair enough.
Now, let's go.
Please, please.
Shut up.
Find a road that don't look too traveled, Herb.
Turn into it.
Don't kill me, Johnny.
No.
Don't kill me, Johnny.
Don't kill me.
Johnny, don't kill me, Johnny.
Here.
Looks okay.
Well, now, why are you crying, Ernie?
Real good hostage like you.
You told us where everybody was, where the arsenal was, where the keys to the warden's
car was.
Well, you're a nice boy.
Don't kill me, Johnny.
Okay, Herb.
Out, Ernie.
Don't kill me, Johnny.
Out, Ernie.
Don't kill me, Johnny.
Jaguar,alanx.
Now, get up.
You want a cigarette?
Like?
Good-bye, Ernie.
Let him walk back, Hep.
Don't kill me.
Johnny, don't kill me.
Don't kill me.
I like you.
I know, I can tell.
It's one of the reasons I like you.
Come on, Johnny, let's scram from this joint.
Let's get going.
Give her a piece of apple pie, huh?
All right.
Want some more coffee?
No, thank you, ma'am.
Don't rush Johnny and me, mister.
Hi.
Pretty girl like you slinging in a road diner like this.
Don't do that, Johnny.
What?
The truck drivers and the tourists say...
They say just what you said.
Don't become you.
What does become me, Molly?
Me?
Listen.
You walked in here half an hour ago,
and I said to myself, it's John Dillinger.
The fellow whose picture I see in the papers
with that smile on his face.
Same smile as you got now.
And you know what about that smile, Johnny?
It means you've been there and you've seen it.
Whatever there was to see.
And nobody's gonna fool you.
Johnny, what's down the end of the road?
You want to see?
The way you'll show me.
I'm coming back for you, Molly.
Yeah, I know.
First I gotta see some people up the road,
couple hundred miles up the road.
People expecting me.
And you're coming back?
Yeah.
Hey, Johnny.
Johnny, why don't you join the dance?
You be on yourself, baby.
Ha-ha, the time we've been together, Johnny.
I've been jumping for joy.
You're dancing on a grave.
Herbie's grave.
Yeah, well, Herbie shouldn't have tried a bank job all alone.
You should have come up there to Wisconsin with you and your friends,
had a party, had fun.
Yeah, I should have had a party.
Should have had fun.
You miss Annie, huh?
Also for Annie, Johnny?
You know, if Annie Stager's here, you know what?
Yeah, I wouldn't.
I'm in Chicago.
Real soon I'll drop in on her.
When?
One more day here, then we move out.
Oh, you're kidding?
Party's only four days old.
We're just beginning.
Ah, well, you're gonna have it better, Johnny.
Look, who's gonna think to look for you in a crummy roadhouse
in the Wisconsin woods?
We could stay here for weeks.
You could sing for Annie.
No, no, I like Annie with Chicago around her.
Don't push it, Johnny.
Every cop in Illinois is watering at the mouth for a chance.
You gotta like him for my face.
Huh?
My face, you like it?
Oh, sure, Johnny.
Oh, sure.
You like my face, Annie likes my face.
That Molly in the cops, they like my face.
What are you planning?
Well, there's a doc in Chicago, a plastic surgeon.
For five grand, he'll make me a new face.
Then I don't run, I don't hide.
Then I have me a party in Chicago like you never dreamed.
Like you never...
Where's Dillinger?
Where's John Dillinger?
I gotta see John Dillinger.
Who's...?
I'm Dillinger.
You gotta get out of here, Mr. Dillinger.
Why?
Cops.
The back roads is full of them.
Cars with cops in them.
And plainclothes guys.
And they're heading here.
I ran all the way through the woods.
You gotta get out of here, Mr. Dillinger.
How close are they, kid?
Up at Point Racine.
They gotta take the dirt roads detour before they...
That's where I cut across the hill and through the woods.
I ran all the way.
How did you know I was here, kid?
Everybody around here knows you're here, Mr. Dillinger.
The big party you're having.
This road house open in the middle of winter.
And somebody wants a pigeon on you.
Call the cops.
But not you.
No, no, no, not me.
That's one of the cars, Mr. Dillinger.
I just bet it's one of them.
Kid.
Yes, sir?
You're a good boy and I'm gonna make you one of my gang.
You like that?
Sure, sure.
And I'm gonna give you my gun.
Here, kid, you take it.
What's your name?
Paul.
Paul Harvey.
Well, I tell you what, Paul.
You go out there and if that's really the cops like the way you said,
I want you to stall them.
How'll I do that, Mr. Dillinger?
You'll think of something, Paul,
because you're the kind of a guy I got around me.
Guys who think of something when the chips are down.
Guys like you.
Go on, Paul.
Do what Johnny Dillinger told you.
You won't get Johnny Dillinger!
Quick, out the back window, baby, and bring your gun.
Cover me.
Yeah, yeah, jump.
Paul!
Paul, there are two!
Hit the ground.
You see him?
Yeah, now I see him.
We'll do it, baby.
I want him closer.
You two men, get up.
Get up and put up there.
See you around, baby face.
I'd like to have fun at my party.
You like it, huh, Johnny?
You like what I've done to your face?
Here, let me wipe off the mirror.
You like it, huh?
You're a butcher, Doc.
You're a drunken son of a Chicago butcher.
You're a slaughterhouse man.
You just told your tongue, Johnny.
Bang, PK.
Now, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
I want to tell you something.
Five thousand, Doc.
That's what you agreed on.
That's what you get.
Now, you listen to me.
You died there on my operating table.
You died for sure.
You died on my operating table.
You died for sure.
You died stone dead.
What are you talking about?
My sister and that slob that gave you too much ether.
And you were dead.
And I thought fast, and I grabbed a hemostat
and pulled your tongue over your teeth.
Then I gave you artificial respiration.
You were stone dead, Johnny.
And I brought you back to life.
You're a drunken butcher, Doc.
Go on, give him the five grand, PK.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot, Johnny.
Now, Johnny.
Yeah?
Your fingertips.
Hmm.
And new face don't do you any good
without you got new fingerprints.
That's right, Doc.
You're thinking, Doc.
Yeah.
I got it all ready.
Right over here.
Come on, Johnny.
Here.
Take a look.
A bowl of acid, Johnny.
All you gotta do is...
Well, let's get it over with.
Sure, sure, sure, Johnny.
Just roll back your sleeve.
That's it.
Now, give me your hand.
No, no, no, don't hold back, Johnny.
Just give me your hand.
That's it.
And relax your fingers and...
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suspense.
Look at you.
Honey.
Look at you.
Honey.
Hands bandaged, your face.
Get away from me.
All right.
All right, I will.
John?
John.
Why?
You broke Crown Point weeks ago.
How come you're just showing up?
I gotta explain it to you, Annie.
Or else out.
You heard Annie...
What? You read the papers.
What happened in Wisconsin?
Four days.
Babyface came around, told me all about it.
And this crazy operation, how long?
A week, two?
Where have you been all this time?
Yeah, like I'm a child.
That's right.
Where have you been all this time?
Well, I'm here now, so what?
Another woman?
Oh.
You can tell me, Johnny.
Now look.
You can tell me anything, Johnny.
You know you can.
You always said you could tell me.
Something happens when I'm around you.
What?
Tell me what.
I don't know.
Tell me what, Johnny.
The reason I waited so long to come to you,
why I can't stay away.
Leave me, Johnny.
Everything gets all right.
It gets warm and nothing's exciting.
Hungry, Johnny?
Funny, up in Wisconsin,
I was running away, you know, with Babyface
after he let that FBI guy have it.
I put my coffee in.
And I was running.
Running, and you know what went through my mind?
Kind of real crazy.
This oil cloth on the table, the patterns in it,
the blocks and how you look at me one way
and then they look like they're coming out from the table.
Such a nice piece of pie.
And they keep staring and they change.
Johnny?
You know what I mean?
Johnny.
Yeah?
Don't worry about anything.
Okay.
Everything's gonna be all right.
Sure.
And later you can cry.
I like to see you laugh, Johnny.
Oh, you make me laugh.
Am I funny?
You think I'm funny?
You're just like a kid.
Molly.
You glad you quit that job and come up here to Chicago?
Huh?
Mm-hmm.
Why you always sit on the floor like that, huh?
Listen to her.
Huh?
Cross me.
I swear you, you're just like a kid.
Bright eyes.
Bright eyes, Johnny?
Yeah.
Oh, Johnny, being here in Chicago
and knowing what it's like where the road's going.
Johnny.
Yeah?
A man like you.
You're like a giant, aren't you, Johnny?
Not afraid of anything.
Where's Molly?
They're looking for you to kid you,
and you're not afraid of anything.
John DeWinger.
Come over here.
Johnny.
How many men?
Huh?
How many men dead because of you?
Uh, 13.
So?
The sheriff and the deputies and the cops and the FBI
and everybody looking for you to kid you.
And you're not afraid.
Sure, yeah.
Sure, Johnny.
Yeah?
You're Molly?
Yes, what's your name?
I'm Anna Sage.
Johnny?
Yeah, Johnny.
Until you blew in.
Until a month ago when he brought you here.
Ask me inside, Molly,
so as we can have a heart-to-heart, compared note.
Sheriff.
All right.
Come in.
I was just having a bottle of beer.
You want one?
Sure, honey.
Because I can cry in it how pretty you are.
You like Chicago?
Crazy boy.
Your beer.
Dull, a real dull.
Johnny's a picker, he is.
And he gave you Chicago.
Drink your drink, say your say, and then get out.
I broke up something coming here right at this time,
didn't I, Molly?
Yeah, something real nice.
And you can't wait till Johnny again?
No.
Johnny told me about you.
Oh?
I'm sorry for you.
Tell me all the ways you're sorry for me.
Only one.
But you haven't got with Johnny.
And you have.
Crazy for it.
From the time he walked in the diner where I worked, I was alive.
Advice from an older woman, honey, make it a memory.
Get out of Chicago.
Leave Johnny.
For you?
Leave a man like that to something?
Leave him, keep away from him. Did you hear me?
I just broke my beer bottle, Annie.
The way I once saw a man doing a bar I worked in in Des Moines.
He broke this beer bottle,
and he held it close to this woman's face.
Stay away from me.
He held it real close, right under her eye.
At first he made a little scar.
Just a small scar.
Don't. Don't.
Like that.
You.
You get out of here.
And you leave Johnny and me alone.
As one day the mood strikes, I'll tell Johnny to kill you.
Get out, Annie.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kyle A. speaking.
You want John Dillinger?
Who is this?
Anna Sage. You want Johnny?
You giving him to us, Annie, for the $5,000?
Not for the money. I don't care about the money.
I don't want Johnny anymore, that's all.
Sure, Annie. Now where are we?
I'll set him up for you. I'll call you later, where and when.
Oh, listen, Annie.
Stay by your phone, and I'll make you a hero.
Johnny.
What?
Mind if I take a sip of your beer first?
Don't do that.
What am I doing?
Acting girlish. Sweet. Just don't do it, Annie.
Hand me the beer and she...
Here.
Thanks.
Oh, I never knew Chicago was so hot.
Why don't we go out, Johnny?
Cooked up in here, sweating out the heat, clawing at each other like we do.
Why don't we go out?
You crazy.
Well, we're crazy to stay in here.
We go to a movie, a nice air-conditioned movie, cool off for a while.
I go out of here and somebody...
Who's going to know you're sitting in a dark movie theater?
What you had done to your face and some dark glasses.
Nobody's going to recognize you.
Right here in the paper.
The Biograph Theater, picture with Clark Gable and Myrna Loa.
You like Clark Gable, don't you, Johnny?
A Disney cartoon.
Yeah.
For a while you could enjoy yourself and get out of the heat.
Johnny.
What?
You ask Molly to come along if you want.
Annie.
I mean it. I mean it.
Go call up Molly and ask her to meet us here.
And then the three of us will go to a movie.
Yeah, Molly told me you was around.
Is that how you got that little cut under your eye, honey?
Yeah.
No sense anybody being mad at anybody.
No. No, there ain't.
I'm glad you figured that out.
Why don't the three of us get together for a movie tonight?
Sure. Sure, I'll call Molly.
Why don't you sit and watch the cartoon, Annie?
Where you going?
Get some candy.
You want some candy, Molly?
No. I got a figure to worry about.
Excuse me then.
Hello?
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Collie speaking.
Anna Sage, Mr. Collie.
Oh, yes?
We're at the Bygraph Theater.
Dillinger?
Yes, sir.
We ought to be leaving here in 20 minutes or so.
Cartoon in the newsroom.
Right.
Johnny's not wearing a coat.
Blue sports shirt.
Dark glasses and a straw hat.
Thanks, Anna.
That fellow, Hitler, he's a comah, huh?
Oh, it's hot.
Even with the air conditioning, it's so hot.
Let's get out and get some beer.
Want to go with us and get some beer, Annie?
No, I'm going home.
We were just talking about...
Do what you want.
I'm going home.
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?
Oh, boy.
He hates you, like...
You feel it, Molly?
What?
The heat.
You feel it?
Yeah.
Well, we'll go to some place and get a...
You two go on, I'll join you.
Johnny?
Johnny Dillinger?
Huh?
FBI, Johnny.
Don't go for your...
You're not going to...
Johnny!
Did you hear him?
He called for me.
I kind of thought he would.
Hey!
Hey, look, it's Dillinger!
It's John Dillinger!
Hey, look!
Look!
It's John Dillinger!
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Next week on Suspense.
Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick
and conducted by Lud Gluskin.
The Last Days of John Dillinger was adapted for suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin.
In tonight's story, Kathy Lewis was heard as Anna and Michael Ann Barrett as Molly,
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