WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:15.000 --> 00:22.200 Tonight, the ironic story of an actor who played his part perhaps too well, thus leaving 00:22.200 --> 00:25.440 himself unable to better his performance. 00:25.440 --> 00:46.080 So now with Hans Conrad as Sam, here is tonight's Suspense play, Rave Notice. 00:46.080 --> 00:51.560 When I'm walking across Times Square like this, I'm just an ordinary man, plain, unnoticeable. 00:51.560 --> 00:55.560 It's as though I were invisible, invisible. 00:55.560 --> 01:02.200 But wait, come here, come with me through this door, through here and into the darkness. 01:02.200 --> 01:08.600 Now I breathe deeply of the thick dark air and I become taller. 01:08.600 --> 01:13.800 My eyes drink in the gloomy shadows, become lustrous, bird-like, noble. 01:13.800 --> 01:19.600 Here in this temple of the passions, I throw off my cloak of invisibility and I reveal 01:19.600 --> 01:27.040 myself, my true self, for this is the theater and I, I am an actor. 01:27.040 --> 01:31.840 Up there on the stage, beyond the empty seats, lit by the single bare bulb, are my fellow 01:31.840 --> 01:32.840 workers. 01:32.840 --> 01:35.160 We are here to make a play. 01:35.160 --> 01:39.240 Friend Norman, sitting alone in the third row, is our director. 01:39.240 --> 01:40.680 This is the fifth day of rehearsal. 01:40.680 --> 01:44.120 It's not a bad little play, but you know Norman. 01:44.120 --> 01:46.520 Norman will manage somehow to spoil it. 01:46.520 --> 01:50.120 Norman will misdirect actors and lose values. 01:50.120 --> 01:51.720 I've known Norman for years. 01:51.720 --> 01:54.440 Oh no, no, no, no, no. 01:54.440 --> 01:56.280 Norman, why not? 01:56.280 --> 01:57.360 Why not? 01:57.360 --> 02:00.560 Because I am the director and I say no. 02:00.560 --> 02:01.320 No? 02:01.320 --> 02:01.960 Very well. 02:01.960 --> 02:03.280 No, no. 02:03.280 --> 02:05.200 Try again. 02:05.200 --> 02:07.840 I wish somebody would tell me what it's all about. 02:07.840 --> 02:10.360 Like, I mean, I wish somebody would give me the words. 02:10.360 --> 02:12.400 Now that is adequate. 02:12.400 --> 02:13.880 Well, thank you very much. 02:13.880 --> 02:14.840 Oh, please. 02:14.840 --> 02:17.320 All right, cat, take five. 02:17.320 --> 02:18.320 Norman. 02:18.320 --> 02:19.520 Oh, that's the bar? 02:19.520 --> 02:20.040 Norman. 02:20.040 --> 02:21.160 Hello there. 02:21.160 --> 02:22.040 How are we coming? 02:22.040 --> 02:24.840 Oh, this is, uh, oh, Sam. 02:24.840 --> 02:25.960 Come over here. 02:25.960 --> 02:27.320 We don't want to talk to you. 02:27.320 --> 02:31.080 Sure, Norman, sure. 02:31.080 --> 02:32.360 What is it? 02:32.360 --> 02:37.080 Now, Sam, I have had to turn over the bell ringer to Luther. 02:37.080 --> 02:38.080 The bell ringer? 02:38.080 --> 02:39.720 Well, that's my part, the bell ringer. 02:39.720 --> 02:40.520 What do you mean, Luther? 02:40.520 --> 02:42.760 No, please, don't make it difficult for me, Sam. 02:42.760 --> 02:45.600 Difficult, I'm not making it difficult, the bell ringer role is mine. 02:45.600 --> 02:47.000 That's all, there's no difficulty involved. 02:47.000 --> 02:47.760 Oh, please. 02:47.760 --> 02:48.560 Oh, you joke. 02:48.560 --> 02:51.560 No, it's not as if I hadn't warned you. 02:51.560 --> 02:52.600 Well, tell me what's wrong. 02:52.600 --> 02:55.760 Tell me where I've stepped off, what irritates you, what doesn't fit, 02:55.760 --> 02:56.400 and I'll fix it. 02:56.400 --> 02:56.760 I'll fix it. 02:56.760 --> 02:57.360 Where shall I start? 02:57.360 --> 02:58.480 That's my role, Norman. 02:58.480 --> 02:59.840 I carry the whole cast with that role. 02:59.840 --> 03:00.640 No, don't start. 03:00.640 --> 03:04.360 Sam, you're just making a fool of yourself. 03:04.360 --> 03:05.840 Why are you doing this to me? 03:05.840 --> 03:09.160 Because you are not right for it. 03:09.160 --> 03:09.920 Not right? 03:09.920 --> 03:10.680 No. 03:10.680 --> 03:12.880 You fat pig, what do you know? 03:12.880 --> 03:13.800 No, easy. 03:13.800 --> 03:15.520 What do you know, what do you know about acting? 03:15.520 --> 03:17.280 Look at you, Sam, take easy there. 03:17.280 --> 03:20.240 Fat, fat belly, fat head, fat face. 03:20.240 --> 03:20.920 That's enough. 03:20.920 --> 03:21.920 You know nothing. 03:21.920 --> 03:24.280 I know you, I know actors. 03:24.280 --> 03:27.080 You know actor, you stink. 03:27.080 --> 03:29.520 I'll kill you for saying that, I'll kill you. 03:29.520 --> 03:31.800 Witness says he threatens me again. 03:31.800 --> 03:32.320 Yes? 03:32.320 --> 03:33.720 Well, listen well. 03:33.720 --> 03:36.680 Norman, I'm going to kill you. 03:36.680 --> 03:40.560 Norman, I'm going to kill you. 03:40.560 --> 03:42.840 You see, you can't even deliver that line. 03:42.840 --> 03:44.120 Oh, you stink. 04:02.320 --> 04:03.640 Yes, sir? 04:03.640 --> 04:04.840 I want to buy a gun. 04:04.840 --> 04:06.080 Oh, yes, sir. 04:06.080 --> 04:08.920 And what sort of gun do you wish to buy, sir? 04:08.920 --> 04:11.720 One that will shoot through fat. 04:11.720 --> 04:13.160 Sir? 04:13.160 --> 04:16.640 Pardon me, I was thinking, what kind of gun? 04:16.640 --> 04:20.160 Well, what was it you wished to use the gun for, sir? 04:20.160 --> 04:21.240 I want to kill a rat. 04:21.240 --> 04:24.640 Oh, well, a.22 would be about your best bet. 04:24.640 --> 04:26.680 Now then, let me see here. 04:26.680 --> 04:29.120 Here's a nice little item here. 04:29.120 --> 04:30.680 That looks pretty small. 04:30.680 --> 04:33.320 This is an awful big rat, a fat rat. 04:33.320 --> 04:37.880 Oh, well, I think a shotgun, a.410. 04:37.880 --> 04:39.480 Yes. 04:39.480 --> 04:40.640 You think that'll do it? 04:40.640 --> 04:44.240 Oh, mister, this is a truly beautiful weapon. 04:44.240 --> 04:45.720 Yeah. 04:45.720 --> 04:46.360 Bullets. 04:46.360 --> 04:47.200 You have bullets? 04:47.200 --> 04:48.200 Oh, bullets. 04:48.200 --> 04:49.840 Shells you're using this weapon. 04:49.840 --> 04:51.120 Very well, I want one. 04:51.120 --> 04:52.200 One box? 04:52.200 --> 04:54.040 No, one bullet. 04:54.040 --> 04:55.360 One? 04:55.360 --> 04:56.880 Yeah. 04:56.880 --> 04:58.520 This rat, I'm not going to miss. 05:04.520 --> 05:05.840 It's time now. 05:05.840 --> 05:08.000 He'll come out the stage door and he'll walk this way 05:08.000 --> 05:11.200 because he's going to Sardis for a drink. 05:11.200 --> 05:13.280 I slide it out from under my coat. 05:13.280 --> 05:16.720 I smile and I say, goodbye, Norman. 05:16.720 --> 05:18.640 And I pull the trigger. 05:18.640 --> 05:20.480 Heart or belly? 05:20.480 --> 05:21.480 Heart or belly? 05:21.480 --> 05:22.040 Belly. 05:22.040 --> 05:27.000 Belly, yes, his cultivated paunch fatted with actors' hearts. 05:27.000 --> 05:28.760 Am I invisible now? 05:28.760 --> 05:30.720 Mustn't be noticed until the moment. 05:30.720 --> 05:33.440 Perhaps standing a little too tall. 05:33.440 --> 05:35.240 Sag. 05:35.240 --> 05:36.800 That's perfect. 05:36.800 --> 05:40.200 The actor plays himself as a non-actor. 05:40.200 --> 05:43.000 You should see this, Norman. 05:43.000 --> 05:46.200 Now, goodbye, Norman. 05:46.200 --> 05:47.200 Sam, no! 05:47.200 --> 05:48.200 Yes! 05:48.200 --> 05:49.200 Please! 05:49.200 --> 05:50.200 Please! 05:50.200 --> 05:52.200 Please! 05:52.200 --> 05:53.680 I am shot. 05:53.680 --> 05:55.160 Norman? 05:55.160 --> 05:56.640 Norman, you're dying. 05:56.640 --> 05:59.120 Please, someone call an ambulance. 05:59.120 --> 06:00.120 Please. 06:00.120 --> 06:02.600 Is this how you play your death scene? 06:02.600 --> 06:03.600 Please, Sam. 06:03.600 --> 06:05.080 Norman, you're dying. 06:05.080 --> 06:07.080 Please, play it. 06:21.080 --> 06:23.480 With a shotgun, he did it right in the middle of 45th Street. 06:23.480 --> 06:24.480 Wow. 06:24.480 --> 06:25.760 It brought him in an hour ago. 06:25.760 --> 06:26.760 Give you any trouble? 06:26.760 --> 06:29.840 Well, like a lamb. 06:29.840 --> 06:31.360 Hello. 06:31.360 --> 06:35.040 Just thought you'd like to know that guy, he's still kicking. 06:35.040 --> 06:36.040 Alive? 06:36.040 --> 06:37.040 He's alive? 06:37.040 --> 06:38.040 Yep. 06:38.040 --> 06:40.080 So, you're not a murderer. 06:40.080 --> 06:41.080 Not yet. 06:41.080 --> 06:42.080 Oh. 06:56.080 --> 06:58.080 Hey, I brought your lawyer. 06:58.080 --> 06:59.080 What's that? 06:59.080 --> 07:00.080 I'm your lawyer. 07:00.080 --> 07:02.080 Oh, how do you do? 07:02.080 --> 07:03.080 Sit down, won't you? 07:03.080 --> 07:04.080 Thank you. 07:04.080 --> 07:07.080 They say he's still not dead. 07:07.080 --> 07:09.480 No, but he's sinking. 07:09.480 --> 07:12.080 When he dies, I become a murderer. 07:12.080 --> 07:13.080 Yes. 07:13.080 --> 07:14.080 They'll electrocute me. 07:14.080 --> 07:15.080 Yes. 07:15.080 --> 07:17.080 I must have been crazy. 07:17.080 --> 07:18.080 I thought of that. 07:18.080 --> 07:19.840 What do you mean? 07:19.840 --> 07:21.120 Temporary insanity. 07:21.120 --> 07:22.880 I thought we might plead that. 07:22.880 --> 07:24.920 Well, why don't we? 07:24.920 --> 07:29.400 Because you threatened him before witnesses, at least twice, went to a store, chose a gun 07:29.400 --> 07:32.360 with great care, waited for him to appear. 07:32.360 --> 07:34.800 You did all this, and then you shot him. 07:34.800 --> 07:36.520 That's right, I did. 07:36.520 --> 07:38.920 That's premeditated murder. 07:38.920 --> 07:39.920 First degree murder. 07:39.920 --> 07:42.400 So, the temporary insanity thing is out. 07:42.400 --> 07:43.400 Way out. 07:43.400 --> 07:50.760 The only other thing I can think of is if we could prove you were insane all along. 07:50.760 --> 07:51.760 What would happen? 07:51.760 --> 07:53.400 I mean, if I were. 07:53.400 --> 07:58.360 Oh, they'd get the psychiatrists in, examine you, send you off to be cured. 07:58.360 --> 08:00.600 Of course. 08:00.600 --> 08:03.120 You seem very calm. 08:03.120 --> 08:06.120 I'm an actor. 08:06.120 --> 08:14.760 He's gone, and I sit here, seeming calm. 08:14.760 --> 08:18.520 From time to time, the guard passes, looks at me curiously. 08:18.520 --> 08:20.280 I know what's on his mind. 08:20.280 --> 08:22.080 There sits a cold-blooded murderer. 08:22.080 --> 08:23.080 I know. 08:23.080 --> 08:28.720 All my life, I've studied the human beings, memorized their gestures, tones, expressions, 08:28.720 --> 08:30.920 emotions. 08:30.920 --> 08:35.200 I've learned to probe every moment of my own experience from earliest childhood, searched 08:35.200 --> 08:40.320 out every reaction, emotion, learned to feel the parallel emotions of others. 08:40.320 --> 08:41.880 The Stanislavski method of acting. 08:41.880 --> 08:42.880 Oh, I have it. 08:42.880 --> 08:43.880 I know it. 08:43.880 --> 08:46.760 Of course, if we could prove you were insane all along. 08:46.760 --> 08:48.280 But I'm not. 08:48.280 --> 08:50.440 The insane man moves without motive. 08:50.440 --> 08:51.440 I had a motive. 08:51.440 --> 08:52.440 I know you. 08:52.440 --> 08:53.440 I know actors. 08:53.440 --> 08:54.440 You're no actor. 08:54.440 --> 08:55.440 But I am. 08:55.440 --> 08:56.440 No actor. 08:56.440 --> 08:57.440 No actor. 08:57.440 --> 08:58.440 No actor. 08:58.440 --> 08:59.440 No actor. 08:59.440 --> 09:00.440 No actor. 09:00.440 --> 09:01.440 No actor. 09:01.440 --> 09:02.440 Insane. 09:02.440 --> 09:03.440 No. 09:03.440 --> 09:06.440 I know a joke. 09:06.440 --> 09:09.200 A wonderful joke. 09:09.200 --> 09:14.960 I'm gonna beat Norman even in his grave. 09:14.960 --> 09:17.680 I'm gonna have myself exonerated of his murder. 09:17.680 --> 09:19.200 Yes, free to the charges. 09:19.200 --> 09:21.960 It's so simple I can hear it. 09:21.960 --> 09:25.040 Not guilty by a reason of insanity. 09:25.040 --> 09:28.560 I'm going to play the greatest role of my life. 09:28.560 --> 09:32.160 Play it without makeup, without lights, without script or cue. 09:32.160 --> 09:35.720 I'm going to play a part strangely foreign to my nature. 09:35.720 --> 09:57.600 I'm going to play a homicidal maniac. 09:57.600 --> 10:02.800 You are listening to Rave Nautis, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater 10:02.800 --> 10:13.760 of thrills, Suspense. 10:13.760 --> 10:19.160 Radio's only adult Western drama, Gunsmoke, now comes to you twice every Saturday on CBS 10:19.160 --> 10:20.160 Radio. 10:20.160 --> 10:24.720 There's a thrilling daytime edition and the nighttime show as well, bringing you the Old 10:24.720 --> 10:29.480 West as it really was, dangerous, deadly and full of action. 10:29.480 --> 10:33.920 Meet Marshall Matt Dillon and all the other citizens of Dodge City who coped with lawless 10:33.920 --> 10:38.360 frontier elements just as their real life counterparts did decades ago when the West 10:38.360 --> 10:39.800 was young. 10:39.800 --> 10:46.040 On most of these stations Saturday, daytime and night, enjoy Gunsmoke. 10:46.040 --> 10:51.920 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Hans Conrad as Sam, in tonight's production 10:51.920 --> 11:03.320 of Rave Nautis, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11:03.320 --> 11:06.160 I'm going to play a homicidal maniac. 11:06.160 --> 11:07.160 How? 11:07.160 --> 11:08.160 How? 11:08.160 --> 11:11.520 What is the most terrible thing I ever did? 11:11.520 --> 11:12.520 Thing closest to murder. 11:12.520 --> 11:15.120 I must recreate that mood. 11:15.120 --> 11:19.640 Mood, murder, killing, blood. 11:19.640 --> 11:21.160 I killed a cat once. 11:21.160 --> 11:22.640 I was six years old. 11:22.640 --> 11:23.640 I had a stick. 11:23.640 --> 11:24.640 It was in an alley. 11:24.640 --> 11:25.640 This cat, I poked it. 11:25.640 --> 11:26.640 Just for laughs. 11:26.640 --> 11:27.640 He didn't run. 11:27.640 --> 11:30.440 That's all I wanted to make him do, just make him run. 11:30.440 --> 11:32.080 No, he scratched me and I hit him. 11:32.080 --> 11:33.080 I hit him with the stick. 11:33.080 --> 11:36.320 He started squalling and oh, I thought I'm going to get into trouble. 11:36.320 --> 11:37.320 Stop that noise. 11:37.320 --> 11:38.320 Stop that noise. 11:38.320 --> 11:39.320 I hit him again. 11:39.320 --> 11:40.320 Make him stop. 11:40.320 --> 11:41.320 And again to make him stop. 11:41.320 --> 11:42.320 And it was blood. 11:42.320 --> 11:43.320 Red blood, gray cement. 11:43.320 --> 11:46.840 And struck and struck and struck out the screen. 11:46.840 --> 11:47.840 Struck out the lights. 11:47.840 --> 11:50.560 Struck out the awful gaze of those great yellow eyes. 11:50.560 --> 11:51.560 Strike out the light. 11:51.560 --> 11:53.640 Strike out the spirit, the spark. 11:53.640 --> 11:54.640 I kill. 11:54.640 --> 11:56.200 A murderer I am. 11:56.200 --> 12:00.080 I kill for the thrill of the silence of the cat. 12:00.080 --> 12:04.280 I am a murderer. 12:04.280 --> 12:06.340 A murderer am I. 12:06.340 --> 12:08.120 I kill without reason. 12:08.120 --> 12:12.640 I said, that's the character. 12:12.640 --> 12:14.520 All I need for turning it on is the memory. 12:14.520 --> 12:15.520 Those key points. 12:15.520 --> 12:16.520 Gray cement, cat's eyes. 12:16.520 --> 12:19.520 My feelings as a six year old. 12:19.520 --> 12:21.480 There'll be refinements of course. 12:21.480 --> 12:22.480 I'll refine it. 12:22.480 --> 12:26.560 Oh Norman, if you're only here to see this scene. 12:26.560 --> 12:27.920 Dim the house lights. 12:27.920 --> 12:28.920 Raise the curtain. 12:28.920 --> 12:30.760 And now to get my audience in. 12:30.760 --> 12:31.760 Hey. 12:31.760 --> 12:32.760 Hey you. 12:32.760 --> 12:33.760 Hey. 12:33.760 --> 12:34.760 Who may I ask? 12:34.760 --> 12:35.760 Are you? 12:35.760 --> 12:36.760 Huh? 12:36.760 --> 12:37.760 Who are you? 12:37.760 --> 12:38.760 Who are you? 12:38.760 --> 12:39.760 I'm the one who's asking. 12:39.760 --> 12:40.760 Who are you? 12:40.760 --> 12:41.760 I'm the one who's asking. 12:41.760 --> 12:42.760 Who are you? 12:42.760 --> 12:43.760 I'm the one who's asking. 12:43.760 --> 12:44.760 Who are you? 12:44.760 --> 12:45.760 I'm the one who's asking. 12:45.760 --> 12:46.760 Who are you? 12:46.760 --> 12:47.760 I'm the one who's asking. 12:47.760 --> 12:48.760 Who are you? 12:48.760 --> 12:49.760 Who are you? 12:49.760 --> 12:50.760 Who are you? 12:50.760 --> 12:51.760 Who are you? 12:51.760 --> 12:52.760 Oh come on now Mac, calm down. 12:52.760 --> 12:53.760 No, no, I asked a civil question. 12:53.760 --> 12:54.760 I expect a civil answer. 12:54.760 --> 12:55.760 Who are you? 12:55.760 --> 12:56.760 Who are you? 12:56.760 --> 12:57.760 Who are you? 12:57.760 --> 12:58.760 You were so nice and quiet for a while there. 12:58.760 --> 12:59.760 Yeah. 12:59.760 --> 13:00.760 No, just answer my question. 13:00.760 --> 13:01.760 That's all I ask. 13:01.760 --> 13:02.760 There's not much reward for a hero to be asking. 13:02.760 --> 13:03.760 No, is there? 13:03.760 --> 13:04.760 Don't you know who we are? 13:04.760 --> 13:05.760 I think he's putting on an act. 13:05.760 --> 13:06.760 Now don't turn your head away. 13:06.760 --> 13:07.760 We know you hear us. 13:07.760 --> 13:08.760 Ah, leave him be. 13:08.760 --> 13:09.760 You think he's kidding? 13:09.760 --> 13:10.760 What does it matter? 13:10.760 --> 13:11.760 Yeah. 13:11.760 --> 13:12.760 You think he's kidding? 13:12.760 --> 13:13.760 What does it matter? 13:13.760 --> 13:14.760 Yeah. 13:14.760 --> 13:19.760 Well that was very weak. 13:19.760 --> 13:22.760 You can be better than that. 13:22.760 --> 13:25.760 You're supposed to be a murderer, a homicidal maniac. 13:25.760 --> 13:26.760 So what's the emotion? 13:26.760 --> 13:27.760 Guilt. 13:27.760 --> 13:28.760 Guilt. 13:28.760 --> 13:29.760 You've got to be guilty. 13:29.760 --> 13:30.760 Guilty, guilty, guilty. 13:30.760 --> 13:31.760 Smear yourself with the stuff. 13:31.760 --> 13:32.760 Guilty. 13:32.760 --> 13:33.760 Bloody hands. 13:33.760 --> 13:34.760 Guilty and you want to be punished. 13:34.760 --> 13:35.760 Yes, punish yourself. 13:35.760 --> 13:36.760 That'll do it. 13:36.760 --> 13:37.760 It'll hurt. 13:37.760 --> 13:38.760 So what? 13:38.760 --> 13:39.760 Not like it hurts when you stay shaved your head. 13:39.760 --> 13:40.760 It hurts. 13:40.760 --> 13:41.760 It hurts. 13:41.760 --> 13:42.760 It hurts. 13:42.760 --> 13:43.760 It hurts. 13:43.760 --> 13:46.760 It hurts when you stay shaved your head, slit your trousers and strapped you to your 13:46.760 --> 13:47.760 seat. 13:47.760 --> 13:48.760 Oh, that seat. 13:48.760 --> 13:51.760 Ten thousand volts coursing through this poor player's frail body. 13:51.760 --> 13:52.760 Murderer. 13:52.760 --> 13:53.760 Guilty. 13:53.760 --> 13:54.760 Should be punished. 13:54.760 --> 13:55.760 One, two, three, curtain going up. 13:55.760 --> 13:56.760 Guilty! 13:56.760 --> 13:57.760 Guilty! 13:57.760 --> 13:58.760 That blood on my hands. 13:58.760 --> 13:59.760 Blood and filth and disease. 13:59.760 --> 14:00.760 I smashed him on the gray cement and smashed him. 14:00.760 --> 14:01.760 Murderer! 14:01.760 --> 14:02.760 Murderer! 14:02.760 --> 14:03.760 Murderer! 14:03.760 --> 14:04.760 Murderer! 14:04.760 --> 14:05.760 Murderer! 14:05.760 --> 14:06.760 Murderer! 14:06.760 --> 14:07.760 Murderer! 14:07.760 --> 14:08.760 Murderer! 14:08.760 --> 14:09.760 Murderer! 14:09.760 --> 14:10.760 Murderer! 14:10.760 --> 14:11.760 Murderer! 14:11.760 --> 14:12.760 Murderer! 14:12.760 --> 14:13.760 Murderer! 14:13.760 --> 14:14.760 Murderer! 14:14.760 --> 14:15.760 Murderer! 14:15.760 --> 14:16.760 I murdered him. 14:16.760 --> 14:17.760 I'm a murderer. 14:17.760 --> 14:18.760 I confess it. 14:18.760 --> 14:19.760 I confess it! 14:19.760 --> 14:20.760 Hey! 14:20.760 --> 14:27.760 Oh, well, sir, sir, I want to confess to purge myself of this guilt. 14:27.760 --> 14:28.760 Take it easy. 14:28.760 --> 14:29.760 Oh, I'm guilty! 14:29.760 --> 14:30.760 You hear? 14:30.760 --> 14:31.760 I smashed him. 14:31.760 --> 14:32.760 I smashed him. 14:32.760 --> 14:35.760 Well, you're getting so worked up about the guy ain't even dead yet. 14:35.760 --> 14:36.760 Not dead. 14:36.760 --> 14:37.760 He is dead. 14:37.760 --> 14:40.760 Why, he's been dead these past 36 years. 14:40.760 --> 14:42.760 What is this, yes? 14:42.760 --> 14:44.760 Hey, what are you doing? 14:44.760 --> 14:46.760 If you want to punish me, I'll punish myself! 14:46.760 --> 14:48.760 Hey! 14:48.760 --> 14:50.760 I am guilty and I shall be smashed! 14:50.760 --> 14:51.760 Your hands! 14:51.760 --> 14:52.760 As he was smashed! 14:52.760 --> 14:54.760 You're gonna bust your head in the wall there! 14:54.760 --> 14:56.760 No, I shall be smashed! It is written! 14:56.760 --> 15:00.760 You know the writing in blood that lies across the counterfeiting in the bed under the window 15:00.760 --> 15:03.760 where the little boys are supposed to be far away in slumberland? 15:03.760 --> 15:05.760 Shut! Get the doctor! 15:05.760 --> 15:07.760 Good, good, he's getting the doctor! 15:07.760 --> 15:09.760 My hand, my hand is killing me! 15:09.760 --> 15:11.760 I think I broke something then! 15:11.760 --> 15:15.760 I don't mind the bloody scraped knuckles or even breaking the nails, but not the bones! 15:15.760 --> 15:18.760 I want to be sure I can use the darn thing when I get out of here! 15:18.760 --> 15:20.760 But when? 15:20.760 --> 15:22.760 If I ever get out of here... 15:22.760 --> 15:24.760 Two cats dead! 15:24.760 --> 15:26.760 Murdered by my stick! 15:26.760 --> 15:28.760 Four cats dead! 15:28.760 --> 15:30.760 Murdered by my stick! 15:30.760 --> 15:35.760 Four cats dead! Murdered by my stick! 15:44.760 --> 15:46.760 How long has he been doing this? 15:46.760 --> 15:48.760 About fifteen minutes, Doc. It's just before I send Shultz out to you. 15:48.760 --> 15:49.760 I see. 15:49.760 --> 15:51.760 All right, now you can stop that! 15:51.760 --> 15:55.760 But I don't stop. I don't look. I keep right at it. 15:55.760 --> 15:58.760 Keep in the heart. Murderer. Guilty. 15:58.760 --> 15:59.760 Stop it! 15:59.760 --> 16:01.760 It hurts, but I'm paying the price! 16:01.760 --> 16:04.760 Stop! I'm paying my way out of being electrocuted! 16:04.760 --> 16:05.760 I'm going to be free! 16:05.760 --> 16:06.760 All right, grab him! 16:06.760 --> 16:07.760 Come on! 16:07.760 --> 16:09.760 No, please! Please! 16:09.760 --> 16:13.760 I want to pay! I'm the guilty one and I want to pay the sentence of the court! 16:13.760 --> 16:14.760 Hold it! 16:14.760 --> 16:16.760 Let me go! Let me go! I will pay! 16:16.760 --> 16:18.760 Hold on! 16:18.760 --> 16:21.760 Hypodermic needle. Injection. 16:21.760 --> 16:24.760 That'll knock me out. I can't act if I'm unconscious. 16:24.760 --> 16:27.760 I can't play my pod! 16:27.760 --> 16:29.760 My guilty, guilty pod! 16:29.760 --> 16:35.760 I've got to hurt myself. I've got to hurt my self. 16:42.760 --> 16:44.760 So quiet here. 16:44.760 --> 16:49.760 So white. Such sweet stillness and peace. 16:49.760 --> 16:53.760 Gone in the darkness of the sail, steel and concrete. 16:53.760 --> 16:58.760 This white ceiling there. And they're watching me very carefully. 16:58.760 --> 17:01.760 The taller one, he's new. 17:01.760 --> 17:03.760 The other gave me the hypodermy. 17:03.760 --> 17:05.760 Yes. 17:05.760 --> 17:07.760 Hypodermy. 17:07.760 --> 17:09.760 How long have I been out? 17:09.760 --> 17:11.760 Did I say anything while I was out? 17:11.760 --> 17:14.760 Perhaps if I keep still, they'll let me know. 17:14.760 --> 17:17.760 You say he showed definite suicidal tendencies? 17:17.760 --> 17:20.760 Suicidal, immediate or simply self-destructive. 17:20.760 --> 17:23.760 While he was unconscious, I listened to him. 17:23.760 --> 17:26.760 He spoke, seemed under the delusion that he's invisible. 17:26.760 --> 17:28.760 Invisible? Well, that's a new one. 17:28.760 --> 17:30.760 Look, he's opening his eyes. 17:30.760 --> 17:33.760 Hello. Awake? 17:33.760 --> 17:36.760 Who are you? 17:36.760 --> 17:38.760 You remember me, don't you? 17:38.760 --> 17:40.760 No. 17:40.760 --> 17:43.760 I gave you something to quiet you a little while ago. 17:43.760 --> 17:45.760 A little while ago? 17:45.760 --> 17:48.760 When you were trying to injure yourself, so we'd think you insane. 17:48.760 --> 17:51.760 You've decided to give that up, haven't you? 17:51.760 --> 17:54.760 I have to carry out sentence, you know. 17:54.760 --> 17:56.760 How will you carry out sentence? 17:56.760 --> 17:58.760 Be smashed. 17:58.760 --> 18:00.760 I'm to be smashed as I have smashed the cat. 18:00.760 --> 18:02.760 Is that the law? 18:02.760 --> 18:04.760 Yes. Yes, I smashed him with a stick. 18:04.760 --> 18:06.760 Stick? You mean shotgun, don't you? 18:06.760 --> 18:09.760 Oh, why would I say shotgun if I meant stick? I said stick. 18:09.760 --> 18:11.760 But you shot the man with a shotgun. 18:11.760 --> 18:13.760 You're out of your mind. 18:13.760 --> 18:16.760 After you smashed him with the stick, what happened? 18:16.760 --> 18:19.760 What? What came after he was dead? 18:19.760 --> 18:22.760 I was frightened. I went home. Mama was there. 18:22.760 --> 18:24.760 She said, how did you get blood on your hands? 18:24.760 --> 18:27.760 I said a dog licked my hand and he had blood on his teeth. 18:27.760 --> 18:29.760 I understand you're an actor. 18:29.760 --> 18:31.760 We are all actors. 18:31.760 --> 18:34.760 We try to act innocent when we are guilty. 18:34.760 --> 18:38.760 Doctor, come outside a moment, will you? 18:38.760 --> 18:41.760 I've got them. I've got them. 18:41.760 --> 18:44.760 Just keep playing it cold and clear. 18:44.760 --> 18:47.760 What are they talking about out there? I wish I knew. 18:47.760 --> 18:49.760 It doesn't matter. I've got them. I know that. 18:49.760 --> 18:51.760 I've got them. I've got them. 18:51.760 --> 18:54.760 Well, I guess you'll be leaving us soon. 18:54.760 --> 18:58.760 Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 18:58.760 --> 19:04.760 Your understanding, Doctor, I am guilty and must carry out sentence. You know that. 19:04.760 --> 19:08.760 What the Doctor means is that you're going to a place where they'll help you get well. 19:08.760 --> 19:10.760 Get well? 19:10.760 --> 19:12.760 Of course. 19:12.760 --> 19:16.760 We'll have the affidavits drawn up outside. We'll get a court order committing him. 19:16.760 --> 19:17.760 Right. 19:17.760 --> 19:19.760 Seems you were right all along. 19:19.760 --> 19:22.760 You know, I wasn't sure until you told me about the man who was shot, about his recovering. 19:22.760 --> 19:26.760 Oh, yes. The guards told this man he'd recovered, but he didn't comprehend, of course. 19:26.760 --> 19:29.760 He went right on screaming and punishing himself. 19:29.760 --> 19:31.760 I see. Well, let's go. 19:31.760 --> 19:33.760 What would they have given him, where he's staying? 19:33.760 --> 19:44.760 Depends. If the injured party recudes press charges, he'd be out of here in an hour. A free man. 19:44.760 --> 19:49.760 Recovered? But they didn't tell me he'd recovered. 19:49.760 --> 19:54.760 How could he have recovered? I shot him in his fat pawn. 19:54.760 --> 19:58.760 When did they tell me? It was while I was screaming, maybe. 19:58.760 --> 20:02.760 I was really into the plot then. I was deep in it. I couldn't have heard them. 20:02.760 --> 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. 20:11.760 --> 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! 20:20.760 --> 20:21.760 What is it? 20:21.760 --> 20:27.760 Oh, listen, doctor. I have a confession to make. I'm not insane. Please believe me. Believe me. 20:27.760 --> 20:30.760 Of course you're not. Just a little confused, that's all. 20:30.760 --> 20:36.760 No, no, no, no, no. You're wrong. Don't you see? Doctor, it was just a gag. Just a gag! 20:36.760 --> 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. 20:41.760 --> 20:44.760 No, no, no. Believe me. I am sane. 20:44.760 --> 20:45.760 Why shout? 20:45.760 --> 20:49.760 I'm not shouting! I only want to impress on you, doctor. 20:49.760 --> 20:52.760 But you were shouting rather loudly. 20:52.760 --> 20:57.760 Now, look. My lawyer said that if I could prove insanity, I wouldn't go to the chair. 20:57.760 --> 21:01.760 Chair? I thought you were to be... you said, smack. 21:01.760 --> 21:03.760 Forget that. That was part of the method. 21:03.760 --> 21:04.760 Method? 21:04.760 --> 21:06.760 Stanislavsky method. It's a system of acting. 21:06.760 --> 21:08.760 What do you think, doctor? 21:08.760 --> 21:10.760 Hmm. I don't know. 21:10.760 --> 21:12.760 The man seems to be telling the truth. 21:12.760 --> 21:13.760 Think so? 21:13.760 --> 21:16.760 I could fool you all over again if you feel it's necessary to prove my point. 21:16.760 --> 21:19.760 No, I don't believe you'll be able to fool me again. 21:19.760 --> 21:21.760 Doctor? 21:21.760 --> 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. 21:29.760 --> 21:33.760 You, sir, do you agree with the doctor? 21:33.760 --> 21:38.760 Agree? That's what I've been telling you. 21:38.760 --> 21:42.760 And I say, sane, that makes it unanimous. 21:42.760 --> 21:54.760 Well, unanimous. Gentlemen, never in the history of the theatre has such a performance been rendered, nor under such adverse conditions. 21:54.760 --> 21:56.760 Just one more question. 21:56.760 --> 21:58.760 Of course, doctor. 21:58.760 --> 22:00.760 Why did you kill him? 22:00.760 --> 22:06.760 Kill him? But I did not. I shot him, that's all. 22:06.760 --> 22:10.760 Shot? You mean shot, don't you? 22:10.760 --> 22:12.760 Don't you? 22:12.760 --> 22:14.760 No. 22:14.760 --> 22:16.760 He... 22:16.760 --> 22:18.760 Norman... 22:18.760 --> 22:20.760 He is dead? 22:20.760 --> 22:28.760 And you are sane, and you are going to repay society with your life. 22:28.760 --> 22:30.760 Norman is dead? 22:30.760 --> 22:41.760 Tragedy! Villainy! Ring down the curtain! Ring down the curtain! 23:00.760 --> 23:08.760 Suspense, in which Hans Conrad starred as Sam. 23:08.760 --> 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. 23:19.760 --> 23:22.760 We call it The Shelter. 23:22.760 --> 23:32.760 That's next week on Suspense. 23:32.760 --> 23:39.760 Suspense is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald, with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 23:39.760 --> 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. 23:52.760 --> 24:11.760 This is the CBS Radio Network.