1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:22,200 Tonight, the ironic story of an actor who played his part perhaps too well, thus leaving 3 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,440 himself unable to better his performance. 4 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:46,080 So now with Hans Conrad as Sam, here is tonight's Suspense play, Rave Notice. 5 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:51,560 When I'm walking across Times Square like this, I'm just an ordinary man, plain, unnoticeable. 6 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,560 It's as though I were invisible, invisible. 7 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:02,200 But wait, come here, come with me through this door, through here and into the darkness. 8 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:08,600 Now I breathe deeply of the thick dark air and I become taller. 9 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:13,800 My eyes drink in the gloomy shadows, become lustrous, bird-like, noble. 10 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:19,600 Here in this temple of the passions, I throw off my cloak of invisibility and I reveal 11 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:27,040 myself, my true self, for this is the theater and I, I am an actor. 12 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,840 Up there on the stage, beyond the empty seats, lit by the single bare bulb, are my fellow 13 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:32,840 workers. 14 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,160 We are here to make a play. 15 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:39,240 Friend Norman, sitting alone in the third row, is our director. 16 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:40,680 This is the fifth day of rehearsal. 17 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,120 It's not a bad little play, but you know Norman. 18 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,520 Norman will manage somehow to spoil it. 19 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,120 Norman will misdirect actors and lose values. 20 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:51,720 I've known Norman for years. 21 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,440 Oh no, no, no, no, no. 22 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,280 Norman, why not? 23 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:57,360 Why not? 24 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,560 Because I am the director and I say no. 25 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:01,320 No? 26 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:01,960 Very well. 27 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:03,280 No, no. 28 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,200 Try again. 29 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,840 I wish somebody would tell me what it's all about. 30 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,360 Like, I mean, I wish somebody would give me the words. 31 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,400 Now that is adequate. 32 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:13,880 Well, thank you very much. 33 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:14,840 Oh, please. 34 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,320 All right, cat, take five. 35 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:18,320 Norman. 36 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:19,520 Oh, that's the bar? 37 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:20,040 Norman. 38 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:21,160 Hello there. 39 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:22,040 How are we coming? 40 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,840 Oh, this is, uh, oh, Sam. 41 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:25,960 Come over here. 42 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,320 We don't want to talk to you. 43 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,080 Sure, Norman, sure. 44 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:32,360 What is it? 45 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:37,080 Now, Sam, I have had to turn over the bell ringer to Luther. 46 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:38,080 The bell ringer? 47 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,720 Well, that's my part, the bell ringer. 48 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:40,520 What do you mean, Luther? 49 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,760 No, please, don't make it difficult for me, Sam. 50 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,600 Difficult, I'm not making it difficult, the bell ringer role is mine. 51 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,000 That's all, there's no difficulty involved. 52 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:47,760 Oh, please. 53 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:48,560 Oh, you joke. 54 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,560 No, it's not as if I hadn't warned you. 55 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:52,600 Well, tell me what's wrong. 56 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,760 Tell me where I've stepped off, what irritates you, what doesn't fit, 57 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,400 and I'll fix it. 58 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:56,760 I'll fix it. 59 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:57,360 Where shall I start? 60 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:58,480 That's my role, Norman. 61 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:59,840 I carry the whole cast with that role. 62 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:00,640 No, don't start. 63 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:04,360 Sam, you're just making a fool of yourself. 64 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:05,840 Why are you doing this to me? 65 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,160 Because you are not right for it. 66 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:09,920 Not right? 67 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:10,680 No. 68 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,880 You fat pig, what do you know? 69 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:13,800 No, easy. 70 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,520 What do you know, what do you know about acting? 71 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,280 Look at you, Sam, take easy there. 72 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,240 Fat, fat belly, fat head, fat face. 73 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:20,920 That's enough. 74 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:21,920 You know nothing. 75 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:24,280 I know you, I know actors. 76 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,080 You know actor, you stink. 77 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,520 I'll kill you for saying that, I'll kill you. 78 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,800 Witness says he threatens me again. 79 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:32,320 Yes? 80 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:33,720 Well, listen well. 81 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,680 Norman, I'm going to kill you. 82 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,560 Norman, I'm going to kill you. 83 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:42,840 You see, you can't even deliver that line. 84 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,120 Oh, you stink. 85 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:03,640 Yes, sir? 86 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:04,840 I want to buy a gun. 87 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:06,080 Oh, yes, sir. 88 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,920 And what sort of gun do you wish to buy, sir? 89 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,720 One that will shoot through fat. 90 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,160 Sir? 91 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,640 Pardon me, I was thinking, what kind of gun? 92 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,160 Well, what was it you wished to use the gun for, sir? 93 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,240 I want to kill a rat. 94 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,640 Oh, well, a.22 would be about your best bet. 95 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,680 Now then, let me see here. 96 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,120 Here's a nice little item here. 97 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:30,680 That looks pretty small. 98 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,320 This is an awful big rat, a fat rat. 99 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:37,880 Oh, well, I think a shotgun, a.410. 100 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:39,480 Yes. 101 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:40,640 You think that'll do it? 102 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,240 Oh, mister, this is a truly beautiful weapon. 103 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:45,720 Yeah. 104 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:46,360 Bullets. 105 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:47,200 You have bullets? 106 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:48,200 Oh, bullets. 107 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:49,840 Shells you're using this weapon. 108 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:51,120 Very well, I want one. 109 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,200 One box? 110 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,040 No, one bullet. 111 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:55,360 One? 112 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:56,880 Yeah. 113 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:58,520 This rat, I'm not going to miss. 114 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:05,840 It's time now. 115 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:08,000 He'll come out the stage door and he'll walk this way 116 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,200 because he's going to Sardis for a drink. 117 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,280 I slide it out from under my coat. 118 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:16,720 I smile and I say, goodbye, Norman. 119 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:18,640 And I pull the trigger. 120 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,480 Heart or belly? 121 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:21,480 Heart or belly? 122 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:22,040 Belly. 123 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:27,000 Belly, yes, his cultivated paunch fatted with actors' hearts. 124 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,760 Am I invisible now? 125 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,720 Mustn't be noticed until the moment. 126 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,440 Perhaps standing a little too tall. 127 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,240 Sag. 128 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:36,800 That's perfect. 129 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,200 The actor plays himself as a non-actor. 130 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,000 You should see this, Norman. 131 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,200 Now, goodbye, Norman. 132 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:47,200 Sam, no! 133 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:48,200 Yes! 134 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:49,200 Please! 135 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:50,200 Please! 136 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,200 Please! 137 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:53,680 I am shot. 138 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,160 Norman? 139 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:56,640 Norman, you're dying. 140 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,120 Please, someone call an ambulance. 141 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:00,120 Please. 142 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,600 Is this how you play your death scene? 143 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:03,600 Please, Sam. 144 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,080 Norman, you're dying. 145 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,080 Please, play it. 146 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,480 With a shotgun, he did it right in the middle of 45th Street. 147 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:24,480 Wow. 148 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:25,760 It brought him in an hour ago. 149 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:26,760 Give you any trouble? 150 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,840 Well, like a lamb. 151 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:31,360 Hello. 152 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,040 Just thought you'd like to know that guy, he's still kicking. 153 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,040 Alive? 154 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:37,040 He's alive? 155 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:38,040 Yep. 156 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,080 So, you're not a murderer. 157 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:41,080 Not yet. 158 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:42,080 Oh. 159 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,080 Hey, I brought your lawyer. 160 00:06:58,080 --> 00:06:59,080 What's that? 161 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:00,080 I'm your lawyer. 162 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,080 Oh, how do you do? 163 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:03,080 Sit down, won't you? 164 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:04,080 Thank you. 165 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,080 They say he's still not dead. 166 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,480 No, but he's sinking. 167 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,080 When he dies, I become a murderer. 168 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:13,080 Yes. 169 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:14,080 They'll electrocute me. 170 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:15,080 Yes. 171 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,080 I must have been crazy. 172 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:18,080 I thought of that. 173 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:19,840 What do you mean? 174 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,120 Temporary insanity. 175 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:22,880 I thought we might plead that. 176 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:24,920 Well, why don't we? 177 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:29,400 Because you threatened him before witnesses, at least twice, went to a store, chose a gun 178 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,360 with great care, waited for him to appear. 179 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,800 You did all this, and then you shot him. 180 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,520 That's right, I did. 181 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,920 That's premeditated murder. 182 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:39,920 First degree murder. 183 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,400 So, the temporary insanity thing is out. 184 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:43,400 Way out. 185 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:50,760 The only other thing I can think of is if we could prove you were insane all along. 186 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:51,760 What would happen? 187 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,400 I mean, if I were. 188 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:58,360 Oh, they'd get the psychiatrists in, examine you, send you off to be cured. 189 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,600 Of course. 190 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,120 You seem very calm. 191 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,120 I'm an actor. 192 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:14,760 He's gone, and I sit here, seeming calm. 193 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:18,520 From time to time, the guard passes, looks at me curiously. 194 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,280 I know what's on his mind. 195 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,080 There sits a cold-blooded murderer. 196 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:23,080 I know. 197 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:28,720 All my life, I've studied the human beings, memorized their gestures, tones, expressions, 198 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:30,920 emotions. 199 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:35,200 I've learned to probe every moment of my own experience from earliest childhood, searched 200 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:40,320 out every reaction, emotion, learned to feel the parallel emotions of others. 201 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:41,880 The Stanislavski method of acting. 202 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:42,880 Oh, I have it. 203 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:43,880 I know it. 204 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,760 Of course, if we could prove you were insane all along. 205 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,280 But I'm not. 206 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,440 The insane man moves without motive. 207 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:51,440 I had a motive. 208 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:52,440 I know you. 209 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:53,440 I know actors. 210 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:54,440 You're no actor. 211 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:55,440 But I am. 212 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:56,440 No actor. 213 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:57,440 No actor. 214 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:58,440 No actor. 215 00:08:58,440 --> 00:08:59,440 No actor. 216 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:00,440 No actor. 217 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:01,440 No actor. 218 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:02,440 Insane. 219 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:03,440 No. 220 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,440 I know a joke. 221 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,200 A wonderful joke. 222 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:14,960 I'm gonna beat Norman even in his grave. 223 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,680 I'm gonna have myself exonerated of his murder. 224 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:19,200 Yes, free to the charges. 225 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,960 It's so simple I can hear it. 226 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,040 Not guilty by a reason of insanity. 227 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,560 I'm going to play the greatest role of my life. 228 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:32,160 Play it without makeup, without lights, without script or cue. 229 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,720 I'm going to play a part strangely foreign to my nature. 230 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:57,600 I'm going to play a homicidal maniac. 231 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:02,800 You are listening to Rave Nautis, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater 232 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:13,760 of thrills, Suspense. 233 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:19,160 Radio's only adult Western drama, Gunsmoke, now comes to you twice every Saturday on CBS 234 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:20,160 Radio. 235 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:24,720 There's a thrilling daytime edition and the nighttime show as well, bringing you the Old 236 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:29,480 West as it really was, dangerous, deadly and full of action. 237 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,920 Meet Marshall Matt Dillon and all the other citizens of Dodge City who coped with lawless 238 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:38,360 frontier elements just as their real life counterparts did decades ago when the West 239 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:39,800 was young. 240 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:46,040 On most of these stations Saturday, daytime and night, enjoy Gunsmoke. 241 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:51,920 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Hans Conrad as Sam, in tonight's production 242 00:10:51,920 --> 00:11:03,320 of Rave Nautis, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 243 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,160 I'm going to play a homicidal maniac. 244 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:07,160 How? 245 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:08,160 How? 246 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,520 What is the most terrible thing I ever did? 247 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:12,520 Thing closest to murder. 248 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,120 I must recreate that mood. 249 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:19,640 Mood, murder, killing, blood. 250 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,160 I killed a cat once. 251 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,640 I was six years old. 252 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:23,640 I had a stick. 253 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:24,640 It was in an alley. 254 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:25,640 This cat, I poked it. 255 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:26,640 Just for laughs. 256 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:27,640 He didn't run. 257 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,440 That's all I wanted to make him do, just make him run. 258 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,080 No, he scratched me and I hit him. 259 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:33,080 I hit him with the stick. 260 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,320 He started squalling and oh, I thought I'm going to get into trouble. 261 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:37,320 Stop that noise. 262 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:38,320 Stop that noise. 263 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:39,320 I hit him again. 264 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:40,320 Make him stop. 265 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:41,320 And again to make him stop. 266 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:42,320 And it was blood. 267 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:43,320 Red blood, gray cement. 268 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,840 And struck and struck and struck out the screen. 269 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:47,840 Struck out the lights. 270 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,560 Struck out the awful gaze of those great yellow eyes. 271 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:51,560 Strike out the light. 272 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:53,640 Strike out the spirit, the spark. 273 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:54,640 I kill. 274 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,200 A murderer I am. 275 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,080 I kill for the thrill of the silence of the cat. 276 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:04,280 I am a murderer. 277 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,340 A murderer am I. 278 00:12:06,340 --> 00:12:08,120 I kill without reason. 279 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,640 I said, that's the character. 280 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,520 All I need for turning it on is the memory. 281 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:15,520 Those key points. 282 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:16,520 Gray cement, cat's eyes. 283 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,520 My feelings as a six year old. 284 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,480 There'll be refinements of course. 285 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:22,480 I'll refine it. 286 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,560 Oh Norman, if you're only here to see this scene. 287 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:27,920 Dim the house lights. 288 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:28,920 Raise the curtain. 289 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,760 And now to get my audience in. 290 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:31,760 Hey. 291 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:32,760 Hey you. 292 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:33,760 Hey. 293 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:34,760 Who may I ask? 294 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:35,760 Are you? 295 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:36,760 Huh? 296 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:37,760 Who are you? 297 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:38,760 Who are you? 298 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:39,760 I'm the one who's asking. 299 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:40,760 Who are you? 300 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:41,760 I'm the one who's asking. 301 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:42,760 Who are you? 302 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:43,760 I'm the one who's asking. 303 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:44,760 Who are you? 304 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:45,760 I'm the one who's asking. 305 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:46,760 Who are you? 306 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:47,760 I'm the one who's asking. 307 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:48,760 Who are you? 308 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:49,760 Who are you? 309 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:50,760 Who are you? 310 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:51,760 Who are you? 311 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:52,760 Oh come on now Mac, calm down. 312 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:53,760 No, no, I asked a civil question. 313 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:54,760 I expect a civil answer. 314 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:55,760 Who are you? 315 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:56,760 Who are you? 316 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:57,760 Who are you? 317 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:58,760 You were so nice and quiet for a while there. 318 00:12:58,760 --> 00:12:59,760 Yeah. 319 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:00,760 No, just answer my question. 320 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:01,760 That's all I ask. 321 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:02,760 There's not much reward for a hero to be asking. 322 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:03,760 No, is there? 323 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:04,760 Don't you know who we are? 324 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:05,760 I think he's putting on an act. 325 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:06,760 Now don't turn your head away. 326 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:07,760 We know you hear us. 327 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:08,760 Ah, leave him be. 328 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:09,760 You think he's kidding? 329 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:10,760 What does it matter? 330 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:11,760 Yeah. 331 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:12,760 You think he's kidding? 332 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:13,760 What does it matter? 333 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:14,760 Yeah. 334 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:19,760 Well that was very weak. 335 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,760 You can be better than that. 336 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,760 You're supposed to be a murderer, a homicidal maniac. 337 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:26,760 So what's the emotion? 338 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:27,760 Guilt. 339 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:28,760 Guilt. 340 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:29,760 You've got to be guilty. 341 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:30,760 Guilty, guilty, guilty. 342 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:31,760 Smear yourself with the stuff. 343 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:32,760 Guilty. 344 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:33,760 Bloody hands. 345 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:34,760 Guilty and you want to be punished. 346 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:35,760 Yes, punish yourself. 347 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:36,760 That'll do it. 348 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:37,760 It'll hurt. 349 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:38,760 So what? 350 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:39,760 Not like it hurts when you stay shaved your head. 351 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:40,760 It hurts. 352 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:41,760 It hurts. 353 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:42,760 It hurts. 354 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:43,760 It hurts. 355 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,760 It hurts when you stay shaved your head, slit your trousers and strapped you to your 356 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:47,760 seat. 357 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:48,760 Oh, that seat. 358 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,760 Ten thousand volts coursing through this poor player's frail body. 359 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:52,760 Murderer. 360 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:53,760 Guilty. 361 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:54,760 Should be punished. 362 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:55,760 One, two, three, curtain going up. 363 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:56,760 Guilty! 364 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:57,760 Guilty! 365 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:58,760 That blood on my hands. 366 00:13:58,760 --> 00:13:59,760 Blood and filth and disease. 367 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:00,760 I smashed him on the gray cement and smashed him. 368 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:01,760 Murderer! 369 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:02,760 Murderer! 370 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:03,760 Murderer! 371 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:04,760 Murderer! 372 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:05,760 Murderer! 373 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:06,760 Murderer! 374 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:07,760 Murderer! 375 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:08,760 Murderer! 376 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:09,760 Murderer! 377 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:10,760 Murderer! 378 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:11,760 Murderer! 379 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:12,760 Murderer! 380 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:13,760 Murderer! 381 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:14,760 Murderer! 382 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:15,760 Murderer! 383 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:16,760 I murdered him. 384 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:17,760 I'm a murderer. 385 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:18,760 I confess it. 386 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:19,760 I confess it! 387 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:20,760 Hey! 388 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:27,760 Oh, well, sir, sir, I want to confess to purge myself of this guilt. 389 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:28,760 Take it easy. 390 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:29,760 Oh, I'm guilty! 391 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:30,760 You hear? 392 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:31,760 I smashed him. 393 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:32,760 I smashed him. 394 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,760 Well, you're getting so worked up about the guy ain't even dead yet. 395 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:36,760 Not dead. 396 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:37,760 He is dead. 397 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,760 Why, he's been dead these past 36 years. 398 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:42,760 What is this, yes? 399 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:44,760 Hey, what are you doing? 400 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:46,760 If you want to punish me, I'll punish myself! 401 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:48,760 Hey! 402 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:50,760 I am guilty and I shall be smashed! 403 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:51,760 Your hands! 404 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:52,760 As he was smashed! 405 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:54,760 You're gonna bust your head in the wall there! 406 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,760 No, I shall be smashed! It is written! 407 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:00,760 You know the writing in blood that lies across the counterfeiting in the bed under the window 408 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,760 where the little boys are supposed to be far away in slumberland? 409 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:05,760 Shut! Get the doctor! 410 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,760 Good, good, he's getting the doctor! 411 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,760 My hand, my hand is killing me! 412 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,760 I think I broke something then! 413 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,760 I don't mind the bloody scraped knuckles or even breaking the nails, but not the bones! 414 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,760 I want to be sure I can use the darn thing when I get out of here! 415 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,760 But when? 416 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:22,760 If I ever get out of here... 417 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,760 Two cats dead! 418 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,760 Murdered by my stick! 419 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,760 Four cats dead! 420 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,760 Murdered by my stick! 421 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:35,760 Four cats dead! Murdered by my stick! 422 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:46,760 How long has he been doing this? 423 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:48,760 About fifteen minutes, Doc. It's just before I send Shultz out to you. 424 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:49,760 I see. 425 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:51,760 All right, now you can stop that! 426 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,760 But I don't stop. I don't look. I keep right at it. 427 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,760 Keep in the heart. Murderer. Guilty. 428 00:15:58,760 --> 00:15:59,760 Stop it! 429 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:01,760 It hurts, but I'm paying the price! 430 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,760 Stop! I'm paying my way out of being electrocuted! 431 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:05,760 I'm going to be free! 432 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:06,760 All right, grab him! 433 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:07,760 Come on! 434 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:09,760 No, please! Please! 435 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,760 I want to pay! I'm the guilty one and I want to pay the sentence of the court! 436 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:14,760 Hold it! 437 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:16,760 Let me go! Let me go! I will pay! 438 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:18,760 Hold on! 439 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,760 Hypodermic needle. Injection. 440 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,760 That'll knock me out. I can't act if I'm unconscious. 441 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,760 I can't play my pod! 442 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,760 My guilty, guilty pod! 443 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:35,760 I've got to hurt myself. I've got to hurt my self. 444 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:44,760 So quiet here. 445 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:49,760 So white. Such sweet stillness and peace. 446 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:53,760 Gone in the darkness of the sail, steel and concrete. 447 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:58,760 This white ceiling there. And they're watching me very carefully. 448 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,760 The taller one, he's new. 449 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:03,760 The other gave me the hypodermy. 450 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,760 Yes. 451 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,760 Hypodermy. 452 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,760 How long have I been out? 453 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,760 Did I say anything while I was out? 454 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,760 Perhaps if I keep still, they'll let me know. 455 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,760 You say he showed definite suicidal tendencies? 456 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,760 Suicidal, immediate or simply self-destructive. 457 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,760 While he was unconscious, I listened to him. 458 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,760 He spoke, seemed under the delusion that he's invisible. 459 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:28,760 Invisible? Well, that's a new one. 460 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,760 Look, he's opening his eyes. 461 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,760 Hello. Awake? 462 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,760 Who are you? 463 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:38,760 You remember me, don't you? 464 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:40,760 No. 465 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,760 I gave you something to quiet you a little while ago. 466 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,760 A little while ago? 467 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,760 When you were trying to injure yourself, so we'd think you insane. 468 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,760 You've decided to give that up, haven't you? 469 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,760 I have to carry out sentence, you know. 470 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,760 How will you carry out sentence? 471 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:58,760 Be smashed. 472 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:00,760 I'm to be smashed as I have smashed the cat. 473 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,760 Is that the law? 474 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:04,760 Yes. Yes, I smashed him with a stick. 475 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,760 Stick? You mean shotgun, don't you? 476 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,760 Oh, why would I say shotgun if I meant stick? I said stick. 477 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,760 But you shot the man with a shotgun. 478 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:13,760 You're out of your mind. 479 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,760 After you smashed him with the stick, what happened? 480 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,760 What? What came after he was dead? 481 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,760 I was frightened. I went home. Mama was there. 482 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,760 She said, how did you get blood on your hands? 483 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,760 I said a dog licked my hand and he had blood on his teeth. 484 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,760 I understand you're an actor. 485 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:31,760 We are all actors. 486 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,760 We try to act innocent when we are guilty. 487 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,760 Doctor, come outside a moment, will you? 488 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,760 I've got them. I've got them. 489 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,760 Just keep playing it cold and clear. 490 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,760 What are they talking about out there? I wish I knew. 491 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,760 It doesn't matter. I've got them. I know that. 492 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:51,760 I've got them. I've got them. 493 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,760 Well, I guess you'll be leaving us soon. 494 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,760 Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 495 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:04,760 Your understanding, Doctor, I am guilty and must carry out sentence. You know that. 496 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,760 What the Doctor means is that you're going to a place where they'll help you get well. 497 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:10,760 Get well? 498 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,760 Of course. 499 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,760 We'll have the affidavits drawn up outside. We'll get a court order committing him. 500 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:17,760 Right. 501 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,760 Seems you were right all along. 502 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,760 You know, I wasn't sure until you told me about the man who was shot, about his recovering. 503 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,760 Oh, yes. The guards told this man he'd recovered, but he didn't comprehend, of course. 504 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,760 He went right on screaming and punishing himself. 505 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,760 I see. Well, let's go. 506 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:33,760 What would they have given him, where he's staying? 507 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:44,760 Depends. If the injured party recudes press charges, he'd be out of here in an hour. A free man. 508 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:49,760 Recovered? But they didn't tell me he'd recovered. 509 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:54,760 How could he have recovered? I shot him in his fat pawn. 510 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,760 When did they tell me? It was while I was screaming, maybe. 511 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,760 I was really into the plot then. I was deep in it. I couldn't have heard them. 512 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:11,760 I couldn't have heard. And now, now he will walk out of here, and I'll go off to an insane asylum, married to a role that I loathe, that I hate. 513 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:20,760 No! No! Doctor! Doctor, come back! Come back! It was all a joke, doctor! A game! Come back! Come back! Please, doctor! 514 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:21,760 What is it? 515 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:27,760 Oh, listen, doctor. I have a confession to make. I'm not insane. Please believe me. Believe me. 516 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,760 Of course you're not. Just a little confused, that's all. 517 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:36,760 No, no, no, no, no. You're wrong. Don't you see? Doctor, it was just a gag. Just a gag! 518 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:41,760 Yes, of course it was. Now, you're going to a place where you can rest, and everything's going to be all right. 519 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,760 No, no, no. Believe me. I am sane. 520 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:45,760 Why shout? 521 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:49,760 I'm not shouting! I only want to impress on you, doctor. 522 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,760 But you were shouting rather loudly. 523 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:57,760 Now, look. My lawyer said that if I could prove insanity, I wouldn't go to the chair. 524 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,760 Chair? I thought you were to be... you said, smack. 525 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:03,760 Forget that. That was part of the method. 526 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:04,760 Method? 527 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,760 Stanislavsky method. It's a system of acting. 528 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,760 What do you think, doctor? 529 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,760 Hmm. I don't know. 530 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:12,760 The man seems to be telling the truth. 531 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:13,760 Think so? 532 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,760 I could fool you all over again if you feel it's necessary to prove my point. 533 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,760 No, I don't believe you'll be able to fool me again. 534 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,760 Doctor? 535 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:29,760 Sane. I say the man is in full control of his faculties, is aware of his crime, committed out of what society calls sober motive. 536 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,760 You, sir, do you agree with the doctor? 537 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:38,760 Agree? That's what I've been telling you. 538 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,760 And I say, sane, that makes it unanimous. 539 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:54,760 Well, unanimous. Gentlemen, never in the history of the theatre has such a performance been rendered, nor under such adverse conditions. 540 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:56,760 Just one more question. 541 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:58,760 Of course, doctor. 542 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,760 Why did you kill him? 543 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:06,760 Kill him? But I did not. I shot him, that's all. 544 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,760 Shot? You mean shot, don't you? 545 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,760 Don't you? 546 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,760 No. 547 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,760 He... 548 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,760 Norman... 549 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,760 He is dead? 550 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:28,760 And you are sane, and you are going to repay society with your life. 551 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,760 Norman is dead? 552 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:41,760 Tragedy! Villainy! Ring down the curtain! Ring down the curtain! 553 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:08,760 Suspense, in which Hans Conrad starred as Sam. 554 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:19,760 Next week, the story of several hours spent by two people in a deserted bus shelter, and the slow realization by one that the other is quite mad. 555 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,760 We call it The Shelter. 556 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:32,760 That's next week on Suspense. 557 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:39,760 Suspense is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald, with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 558 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:52,760 Rave notice was specially written for Suspense by James Poe. Featured in the cast were Lawrence Dobkin, Edgar Barrier, Parley Bear, Jack Prusian, James Nusser, Howard McNeer, and John Stephenson. 559 00:23:52,760 --> 00:24:11,760 This is the CBS Radio Network.