WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:16.960 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:16.960 --> 00:22.300 Tonight the terrifying story of a young couple and a mad woman and what happened to them. 00:22.300 --> 00:28.680 So now, starring Harry Bartel and Virginia Gregg, here is tonight's suspense play, On 00:28.680 --> 00:33.240 a Country Road. 00:33.240 --> 00:55.240 Relax, David, there's no hurry to get home. 00:55.240 --> 00:57.160 Who can relax in this mess of traffic? 00:57.160 --> 00:59.120 Must be a wreck or something up ahead. 00:59.120 --> 01:01.840 If this keeps up, we'll get caught in the rain. 01:01.840 --> 01:04.560 Yeah, looks like a big storm building up too. 01:04.560 --> 01:06.600 Hey, you remember that shortcut? 01:06.600 --> 01:07.600 Which one? 01:07.600 --> 01:12.040 The little tarred road that goes across through Santa Mariches and comes out on the other highway. 01:12.040 --> 01:14.480 The one we took last summer? 01:14.480 --> 01:15.480 Yeah. 01:15.480 --> 01:17.200 I'll turn out there and duck this pile up. 01:17.200 --> 01:19.720 I'd like to get as far as possible before that storm. 01:19.720 --> 01:22.720 Why don't you put out your hand? 01:22.720 --> 01:24.440 Oh, don't get angry, Dave. 01:24.440 --> 01:26.720 Well, he cut right in front of me to turn into that gas station. 01:26.720 --> 01:27.720 Maybe he needed gas. 01:27.720 --> 01:28.720 Stupid thing to do. 01:28.720 --> 01:29.720 Do we have plenty? 01:29.720 --> 01:30.720 No. 01:30.720 --> 01:33.720 I'll have to stop and get some. 01:33.720 --> 01:34.720 Turn on the radio, will you? 01:34.720 --> 01:35.720 See if you can get the news. 01:35.720 --> 01:42.720 Police this afternoon issued two warnings to all residents of Long Island to be on the 01:42.720 --> 01:46.720 lookout for Nellie Gohler, a middle-aged woman described as dangerous and insane. 01:46.720 --> 01:47.720 What? 01:47.720 --> 01:51.720 She escaped this morning from Restview Mental Hospital after fatally butchering a doctor, 01:51.720 --> 01:53.720 a nurse, and a ward attendant with a meat cleaver. 01:53.720 --> 01:54.720 Oh. 01:54.720 --> 01:58.720 This is the same Nellie Gohler who a year ago murdered three persons on a Brooklyn street, 01:58.720 --> 02:01.720 also using a meat cleaver as a weapon at that time. 02:01.720 --> 02:06.720 This station will broadcast a full description of our regular newscast, which follows in just 02:06.720 --> 02:07.720 a few moments. 02:07.720 --> 02:08.720 My mother-in-law? 02:08.720 --> 02:09.720 Dave, what are you doing? 02:09.720 --> 02:10.720 No, I'm good. 02:10.720 --> 02:13.720 At least we aren't the only crazy people on Long Island. 02:13.720 --> 02:14.720 Why'd you change it? 02:14.720 --> 02:17.720 I didn't want to listen to it anymore. 02:17.720 --> 02:21.720 Why don't they put her to sleep instead of just locking her up where she can escape and 02:21.720 --> 02:22.720 kill more people? 02:22.720 --> 02:23.720 Who? 02:23.720 --> 02:26.720 The woman they were talking about on the radio. 02:26.720 --> 02:27.720 She can't help what she does. 02:27.720 --> 02:28.720 She's sick. 02:28.720 --> 02:30.720 What good is that to the people who get chopped up with a meat cleaver? 02:30.720 --> 02:31.720 I don't know. 02:31.720 --> 02:35.720 The laws were made before the doctors knew very much about the human mind. 02:35.720 --> 02:37.720 Still don't know much. 02:37.720 --> 02:39.720 I see what it is. 02:39.720 --> 02:41.720 There's a roadblock up ahead. 02:41.720 --> 02:42.720 What's happened? 02:42.720 --> 02:43.720 I don't know. 02:43.720 --> 02:44.720 There are cops all over the road. 02:44.720 --> 02:45.720 I bet they're looking for that crazy woman. 02:45.720 --> 02:46.720 I guess so. 02:46.720 --> 02:47.720 Hold it a minute. 02:47.720 --> 02:48.720 Hey, what's up, officer? 02:48.720 --> 02:53.720 Just a checkup. 02:53.720 --> 02:55.720 Anything in the backseat? 02:55.720 --> 02:57.720 Just a blanket and some fishing tackle. 02:57.720 --> 02:58.720 We went surf fishing. 02:58.720 --> 02:59.720 Yes, ma'am. 02:59.720 --> 03:00.720 Seen any hitchhikers? 03:00.720 --> 03:01.720 No, just traffic. 03:01.720 --> 03:02.720 Okay. 03:02.720 --> 03:03.720 Move right along, please. 03:03.720 --> 03:04.720 Are you looking for the crazy woman? 03:04.720 --> 03:05.720 Move it along. 03:05.720 --> 03:06.720 Let's go. 03:06.720 --> 03:07.720 He's busy. 03:07.720 --> 03:12.720 All residents of Motor Sun Long Island are warned to be on the alert for the escaped 03:12.720 --> 03:14.720 insane woman who is somewhere on the island. 03:14.720 --> 03:15.720 What are you doing? 03:15.720 --> 03:19.720 She is described as tall, broad-shouldered, gray-haired, and rather heavy. 03:19.720 --> 03:22.720 She may still be armed with a meat cleaver. 03:22.720 --> 03:26.720 One hundred men are searching the area, and they are prepared to shoot on sight. 03:26.720 --> 03:28.720 Here's another bulletin on the case which just came in. 03:28.720 --> 03:33.720 Just a few minutes ago, the decapitated bodies of an elderly man and woman were found by police 03:33.720 --> 03:35.720 near center morages on Long Island. 03:35.720 --> 03:36.720 Where is that shortcut? 03:36.720 --> 03:37.720 We haven't found her yet. 03:37.720 --> 03:38.720 This will get us out of the traffic. 03:38.720 --> 03:43.720 Motorists are cautioned to stay off the lonely roads and not to pick up any heavy equipment 03:43.720 --> 03:46.720 All residents are asked to be on the lookout for this woman. 03:46.720 --> 03:47.720 Here's her description again. 03:47.720 --> 03:51.720 She is tall, gray-haired, with broad shoulders and long arms. 03:51.720 --> 03:52.720 We haven't found her yet. 03:52.720 --> 03:53.720 No. 03:53.720 --> 03:54.720 Turn that off, will you, Dorothy? 03:54.720 --> 03:55.720 I thought you wanted to hear it. 03:55.720 --> 03:56.720 Once and not for all. 03:56.720 --> 03:58.720 Shortcut will save us a lot of time. 03:58.720 --> 03:59.720 We turned off the highway. 03:59.720 --> 04:00.720 Well, sure. 04:00.720 --> 04:01.720 I told you when I did it. 04:01.720 --> 04:02.720 We've come over a mile already. 04:02.720 --> 04:03.720 We'll save a lot of time. 04:03.720 --> 04:06.720 Didn't you hear what the radio said about staying off lonely roads? 04:06.720 --> 04:08.720 We just have to go across to the other highway. 04:08.720 --> 04:09.720 It won't take long. 04:09.720 --> 04:13.720 Are you sure? 04:13.720 --> 04:14.720 Of course. 04:14.720 --> 04:17.720 We go past Santa Moriches and then take the left road and come out right by the highway bridge. 04:17.720 --> 04:18.720 Santa Moriches? 04:18.720 --> 04:20.720 It's where she just killed those two people. 04:20.720 --> 04:22.720 Oh, you're acting like a child. 04:22.720 --> 04:24.720 What can happen to us while we're driving? 04:24.720 --> 04:26.720 Besides, the whole island's full of men looking for this lunatic. 04:26.720 --> 04:27.720 They'll catch her. 04:27.720 --> 04:28.720 Oh. 04:28.720 --> 04:30.720 It's just the storm, honey. 04:30.720 --> 04:31.720 You're jumping. 04:31.720 --> 04:33.720 Oh, I guess I'm silly. 04:33.720 --> 04:34.720 David. 04:34.720 --> 04:35.720 What? 04:35.720 --> 04:36.720 The gas gauge says empty. 04:36.720 --> 04:39.720 There's still a couple of gallons left when it points to empty. 04:39.720 --> 04:40.720 How long is it set empty? 04:40.720 --> 04:41.720 I don't know. 04:41.720 --> 04:44.720 I'll get gas when we get across to the other highway. 04:44.720 --> 04:47.720 David, I'm scared. 04:47.720 --> 04:48.720 Relax, honey. 04:48.720 --> 04:50.720 I wish we'd stayed on the highway. 04:50.720 --> 04:52.720 If I'd known you'd act like this, I would have. 04:52.720 --> 04:53.720 It's not my fault. 04:53.720 --> 04:54.720 Well, it's not mine either. 04:54.720 --> 04:56.720 I'm having trouble enough just trying to see through the storm. 04:56.720 --> 04:58.720 David, what are we fighting about? 04:58.720 --> 04:59.720 I don't know. 04:59.720 --> 05:01.720 Driving through these burned out woods in this kind of weather 05:01.720 --> 05:03.720 is enough to give anyone the willings. 05:03.720 --> 05:05.720 God, they are so fast. 05:05.720 --> 05:09.720 Now, if you see ahead, even in the headlights. 05:09.720 --> 05:10.720 There's something up there. 05:10.720 --> 05:11.720 Don't stop, David. 05:11.720 --> 05:12.720 It's only a sign. 05:12.720 --> 05:14.720 A crazy woman could be around here. 05:14.720 --> 05:15.720 Look, I'm not picking up anyone. 05:15.720 --> 05:16.720 I just want to know where I am. 05:16.720 --> 05:17.720 Well, don't get out of the car. 05:17.720 --> 05:18.720 I'm not getting out of the car. 05:18.720 --> 05:20.720 Now, calm down, will you? 05:20.720 --> 05:22.720 I see the mortgages that way. 05:22.720 --> 05:24.720 We'll take this road. 05:24.720 --> 05:25.720 The mortgages. 05:25.720 --> 05:28.720 This must be the road that she killed those people. 05:31.720 --> 05:32.720 Dorothy, please. 05:32.720 --> 05:35.720 I'm sorry, I'm jumping. 05:35.720 --> 05:37.720 Turn on the radio. 05:39.720 --> 05:41.720 We haven't passed the house yet. 05:41.720 --> 05:43.720 Miles of woods on both sides. 05:43.720 --> 05:45.720 Look, it's so dark, we wouldn't have been able to see anything 05:45.720 --> 05:47.720 if it was there. 05:47.720 --> 05:49.720 This rain season is getting worse. 05:49.720 --> 05:50.720 Those strangers and motorists in the area 05:50.720 --> 05:52.720 are warned not to open their car doors. 05:52.720 --> 05:53.720 David. 05:53.720 --> 05:54.720 Now, stop that, Dorothy. 05:54.720 --> 05:57.720 That's why the police had a roadblock by this road. 05:57.720 --> 05:59.720 The crazy woman might be anywhere in these woods. 05:59.720 --> 06:01.720 But not necessarily where we are. 06:01.720 --> 06:03.720 But not necessarily where we are. 06:09.720 --> 06:10.720 David, what's the matter? 06:10.720 --> 06:12.720 Oh, fine. 06:12.720 --> 06:14.720 What a place to run out of gas. 06:14.720 --> 06:15.720 No. 06:15.720 --> 06:16.720 You mean we're stuck here? 06:16.720 --> 06:18.720 I don't know. 06:26.720 --> 06:28.720 Well, we're here for the time being anyway. 06:28.720 --> 06:30.720 The crazy woman is in the woods. 06:30.720 --> 06:31.720 She'll kill us. 06:31.720 --> 06:32.720 She's nowhere near us. 06:32.720 --> 06:33.720 Now, will you calm down? 06:33.720 --> 06:34.720 David. 06:34.720 --> 06:35.720 Quick. 06:35.720 --> 06:36.720 What? 06:36.720 --> 06:37.720 Turn off your headlights. 06:37.720 --> 06:38.720 Why? Did you see something? 06:38.720 --> 06:39.720 David, I don't know. 06:39.720 --> 06:40.720 I don't know. 06:40.720 --> 06:42.720 I'm scared. 06:42.720 --> 06:45.720 I should have got scared. 06:45.720 --> 06:47.720 Don't put the headlights on, please. 06:47.720 --> 06:48.720 Why? 06:48.720 --> 06:49.720 She'll see us if you do. 06:49.720 --> 06:51.720 Oh, for Pete's sake. 06:51.720 --> 06:52.720 I'm putting them on. 06:52.720 --> 06:53.720 David, please. 06:53.720 --> 06:54.720 Please turn them off. 06:54.720 --> 06:55.720 Listen, Dorothy. 06:55.720 --> 06:58.720 I don't want this silly thing to get to you now. 06:58.720 --> 06:59.720 Just look at the headlights. 06:59.720 --> 07:03.720 Poking into darkness at nothing but wet bushes and trees. 07:03.720 --> 07:06.720 And rain falling, please, David. 07:06.720 --> 07:08.720 All right. 07:08.720 --> 07:09.720 There. 07:09.720 --> 07:10.720 They're off. 07:10.720 --> 07:12.720 Do you feel any better sitting in the dark? 07:12.720 --> 07:15.720 If only this pandering lightning would stop. 07:15.720 --> 07:18.720 The rain. 07:18.720 --> 07:19.720 Look, Dorothy. 07:19.720 --> 07:21.720 There's no sense in sitting here all night. 07:21.720 --> 07:23.720 It's only a few minutes past 10. 07:23.720 --> 07:24.720 I'll walk up the road a bit. 07:24.720 --> 07:25.720 There might be a house or something. 07:25.720 --> 07:27.720 You're not going to leave me here. 07:27.720 --> 07:28.720 I won't let you go. 07:28.720 --> 07:30.720 But Dorothy, we can't sit here in the middle of nowhere 07:30.720 --> 07:31.720 for the rest of the night. 07:31.720 --> 07:33.720 We're safer here than out there. 07:33.720 --> 07:36.720 David, she's probably hiding in the woods 07:36.720 --> 07:38.720 just waiting for a chance to kill us. 07:38.720 --> 07:39.720 Oh, come on. 07:39.720 --> 07:41.720 Why should she be right where we've run out of gas? 07:41.720 --> 07:43.720 Why can't she be here? 07:43.720 --> 07:46.720 Oh, please stay in the car. 07:46.720 --> 07:47.720 Well, it's silly, but all right. 07:47.720 --> 07:48.720 Quick. 07:48.720 --> 07:49.720 What? 07:49.720 --> 07:50.720 Lock the doors from the inside. 07:50.720 --> 07:51.720 Why? What is it? 07:51.720 --> 07:53.720 She can't get in here. 07:53.720 --> 07:54.720 She's nowhere near us. 07:54.720 --> 07:55.720 Don't be mad at me, David. 07:55.720 --> 07:56.720 I'm so scared. 07:56.720 --> 08:00.720 I know I'm acting very silly, but I can't help it. 08:00.720 --> 08:02.720 I'm sorry. 08:02.720 --> 08:03.720 Come here. 08:03.720 --> 08:06.720 Let me put my arms around you. 08:06.720 --> 08:07.720 There. 08:07.720 --> 08:09.720 Oh, David. 08:09.720 --> 08:10.720 Come on, sweetie. 08:10.720 --> 08:12.720 Put your head on my shoulder. 08:12.720 --> 08:15.720 Please, don't. 08:15.720 --> 08:17.720 Please forgive me, David. 08:17.720 --> 08:19.720 Go ahead and cry. 08:19.720 --> 08:21.720 It'll make you feel better. 08:21.720 --> 08:23.720 Isn't there some popular music? 08:23.720 --> 08:25.720 I don't know. I'll see. 08:25.720 --> 08:28.720 ...who are pressing their search for the escaped insane woman 08:28.720 --> 08:32.720 who has killed five persons since fleeing from a Long Island mental hospital. 08:32.720 --> 08:35.720 Rain and darkness are hampering their search. 08:35.720 --> 08:36.720 In making her escape this morning, 08:36.720 --> 08:40.720 the mad woman killed a doctor, a nurse, and an attendant. 08:42.720 --> 08:44.720 You'll leave it off for a while. 08:44.720 --> 08:46.720 It's so quiet and lonely here. 08:46.720 --> 08:49.720 I wish it were morning. 08:49.720 --> 08:52.720 Look, Dorothy, suppose I run up the road. 08:52.720 --> 08:53.720 There might be a house. 08:53.720 --> 08:56.720 No, David, no. Please. 08:56.720 --> 08:57.720 David. 08:57.720 --> 08:58.720 What? 08:58.720 --> 09:00.720 Listen, do you hear that? 09:00.720 --> 09:01.720 I don't hear anything. 09:01.720 --> 09:03.720 Listen, there it is. 09:03.720 --> 09:05.720 I don't... 09:06.720 --> 09:08.720 Oh, it's a dog. 09:08.720 --> 09:09.720 A little dog bark. 09:09.720 --> 09:10.720 David. 09:10.720 --> 09:12.720 I guess it's only a lost dog. 09:12.720 --> 09:13.720 Maybe there's a house nearby. 09:13.720 --> 09:15.720 Or the crazy woman. 09:15.720 --> 09:16.720 David! 09:16.720 --> 09:18.720 There's something at the back of the car. 09:18.720 --> 09:19.720 The door! She'll kill us! 09:19.720 --> 09:20.720 Is the door locked on your side? 09:20.720 --> 09:21.720 Yes. Yes. 09:21.720 --> 09:22.720 What if she breaks the window? 09:22.720 --> 09:24.720 She's got a cleaver. 09:25.720 --> 09:27.720 That flash of lightning, I saw somebody. 09:27.720 --> 09:28.720 Isn't the crazy woman? Can you see her? 09:28.720 --> 09:29.720 Is she still there? 09:29.720 --> 09:30.720 Too dark to see. 09:30.720 --> 09:31.720 She'll kill us! 09:31.720 --> 09:33.720 Now calm down. Calm down, please. 09:33.720 --> 09:34.720 What's she doing? 09:34.720 --> 09:35.720 I don't know. 09:37.720 --> 09:38.720 She's at the window. Right next to me. 09:38.720 --> 09:39.720 Get away from that window! 09:39.720 --> 09:40.720 David! 09:40.720 --> 09:41.720 She's trying to get in the car. 09:41.720 --> 09:43.720 That face in her hair. 09:43.720 --> 09:44.720 Go away! 09:44.720 --> 09:45.720 Let me in! 09:45.720 --> 09:47.720 I'm not crazy! 09:47.720 --> 09:49.720 The crazy woman is after me! 09:49.720 --> 09:50.720 David, don't let her in. 09:50.720 --> 09:51.720 Go away! 09:51.720 --> 09:53.720 We've got a gun. We'll shoot. 09:53.720 --> 09:54.720 It worked. 09:54.720 --> 09:55.720 It worked. She's staring at me. 09:55.720 --> 09:56.720 I'm warning you. 09:56.720 --> 09:57.720 I'll shoot. 09:57.720 --> 09:59.720 Please don't leave me out here. Please! 09:59.720 --> 10:01.720 That woman will kill me! 10:01.720 --> 10:02.720 Please! 10:02.720 --> 10:03.720 David, take your pipe. 10:03.720 --> 10:06.720 Hold it like a gun. It'll look like a gun to you. 10:07.720 --> 10:08.720 Now look. 10:08.720 --> 10:09.720 I've got a gun. 10:09.720 --> 10:10.720 I'm going to shoot. 10:11.720 --> 10:12.720 She's backing away. 10:12.720 --> 10:14.720 Keep going before I start shooting. 10:15.720 --> 10:16.720 Oh, David. 10:17.720 --> 10:18.720 Oh, she's gone. 10:18.720 --> 10:20.720 Oh, she disappeared. 10:22.720 --> 10:23.720 We can't get out now. 10:24.720 --> 10:26.720 All we can do is sit here all night and wait for help. 10:26.720 --> 10:27.720 Did you see her? 10:27.720 --> 10:28.720 Where'd she go? 10:28.720 --> 10:29.720 I don't know. 10:29.720 --> 10:31.720 She's out there though. 10:31.720 --> 10:33.720 Probably planning on how to get in this car. 10:34.720 --> 10:35.720 David. 10:35.720 --> 10:38.720 David, what are we going to do? She's the one. I know it. 10:38.720 --> 10:39.720 She didn't have a cleaver. 10:40.720 --> 10:41.720 She must have dropped it when she ran into the car. 10:41.720 --> 10:43.720 Her face was all twisted. Her hair was hanging down. 10:43.720 --> 10:45.720 She must be back there looking for that cleaver now. 10:45.720 --> 10:46.720 She'll kill us. 10:46.720 --> 10:47.720 Oh, she'll kill us. 10:47.720 --> 10:48.720 Dorothy, stop it. 10:48.720 --> 10:49.720 She'll kill us. 10:50.720 --> 10:51.720 Oh, David. 10:52.720 --> 10:53.720 David. 11:08.720 --> 11:11.720 You are listening to On a Country Road. 11:11.720 --> 11:16.720 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 11:16.720 --> 11:17.720 Suspense. 11:25.720 --> 11:30.720 During World War II, the skies of Europe were broad highways of terror for bombardment. 11:30.720 --> 11:35.720 Your opportunity to guard our skies against surprises comes in parcels of time, 11:35.720 --> 11:40.720 amounting to no more than two hours a week, volunteer hours spent as ground observers. 11:40.720 --> 11:44.720 Two hours a week. If enough of us give the time, means security. 11:44.720 --> 11:49.720 Ask at your local Civil Defense office. Earn your silver wings with the ground observers. 11:50.720 --> 11:55.720 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Virginia Gregg and Harry Bartel, 11:55.720 --> 11:59.720 starring in tonight's production of On a Country Road, 11:59.720 --> 12:16.720 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:21.720 --> 12:23.720 The window, David. She broke the window. 12:23.720 --> 12:24.720 Get away from here. Stay out of the car. 12:24.720 --> 12:27.720 I'm coming in. I can't stand it out here. 12:27.720 --> 12:28.720 Stay out of the car. I warn you, I've got a gun. 12:28.720 --> 12:29.720 You wouldn't shoot me. 12:29.720 --> 12:32.720 Go away. You're crazy. We know all about you. 12:32.720 --> 12:36.720 No, I'm not the crazy woman. Believe me. Let me in. 12:36.720 --> 12:38.720 You do it, David. She's trying to trick us. 12:38.720 --> 12:42.720 Listen to me, please. I've been running in this awful storm. 12:42.720 --> 12:45.720 My car is stuck in the ditch back there. 12:45.720 --> 12:46.720 How far back? 12:46.720 --> 12:50.720 I don't know. It seems like miles. 12:50.720 --> 12:55.720 I heard about the crazy woman on the radio. I was afraid to stay in the car alone. 12:55.720 --> 12:56.720 Let me in. 12:56.720 --> 12:58.720 No, David. 12:58.720 --> 12:59.720 Go back to your own car. 12:59.720 --> 13:04.720 No. It's so dark and so lonely in this storm. 13:04.720 --> 13:07.720 I locked the doors, but I was afraid. 13:07.720 --> 13:10.720 I could see things and hear things in the darkness. 13:10.720 --> 13:15.720 I couldn't stand it anymore. I got up and ran. 13:15.720 --> 13:17.720 It's the rain. That's why I look like this. 13:17.720 --> 13:22.720 I'm not the crazy woman. Let me in, please. Let me in. 13:22.720 --> 13:25.720 Maybe she isn't the crazy woman. Maybe she's just scared and exhausted. 13:25.720 --> 13:28.720 No, David. She's the one. 13:28.720 --> 13:32.720 The crazy woman had a cleaver. I'm not armed. 13:32.720 --> 13:35.720 The three of us will be safer together. 13:35.720 --> 13:37.720 I don't know. She makes sense to me, Dorothy. 13:37.720 --> 13:40.720 We would be safer with one more person. 13:40.720 --> 13:41.720 David, I don't know. 13:41.720 --> 13:46.720 Let me in, please. I'm wet to the skin. 13:46.720 --> 13:48.720 I'm going to unlock the door, Dorothy. 13:48.720 --> 13:49.720 David, I... 13:49.720 --> 13:50.720 All right. Come on. Get in. 13:50.720 --> 13:55.720 But you make one move and I'll shoot you. 13:55.720 --> 13:59.720 Oh, it's good to sit down. 13:59.720 --> 14:03.720 There's a blanket on the floor back there. 14:03.720 --> 14:05.720 Try to dry yourself off with it. 14:05.720 --> 14:08.720 The darkness and the rain. 14:08.720 --> 14:11.720 It was enough to drive me out of my mind. 14:11.720 --> 14:13.720 I ran and ran. 14:13.720 --> 14:19.720 All I could hear was feet chasing after me, hunting me. 14:19.720 --> 14:21.720 You, um... 14:21.720 --> 14:22.720 You live near here? 14:22.720 --> 14:25.720 Farther out, near Restview. 14:25.720 --> 14:27.720 I used to live in Brooklyn. 14:27.720 --> 14:28.720 We had to use the mental hospital. 14:28.720 --> 14:32.720 I know. I'm used to the crazy people. 14:32.720 --> 14:37.720 But not at night in a lonely place like this. 14:37.720 --> 14:40.720 Not the kind of kill people. 14:40.720 --> 14:43.720 You live at Restview? 14:43.720 --> 14:45.720 No. Just near there. 14:45.720 --> 14:48.720 David, we can't sit here not knowing. 14:48.720 --> 14:49.720 If we can get to a phone. 14:49.720 --> 14:51.720 A phone? Why? 14:51.720 --> 14:53.720 Call the police. Get some help. 14:53.720 --> 14:55.720 No. No, don't do that. 14:55.720 --> 14:58.720 Why not? Why don't you want the police? 14:58.720 --> 15:01.720 I do. But you'll be killed. 15:01.720 --> 15:02.720 What do you mean? 15:02.720 --> 15:06.720 The woman. She'll kill him if he goes away from this car. 15:06.720 --> 15:08.720 David, it's that dog again. Do you hear it? 15:08.720 --> 15:09.720 Somebody's out there. 15:09.720 --> 15:13.720 There might be a house nearby. Maybe it's barking to be let in. 15:13.720 --> 15:16.720 It senses somebody. There's somebody out there. 15:16.720 --> 15:18.720 The crazy woman's creeping around out there. 15:18.720 --> 15:21.720 Quick. Let's get away before we're caught. 15:21.720 --> 15:22.720 Look out, David. 15:22.720 --> 15:24.720 Go away. What are you trying to do? 15:24.720 --> 15:26.720 Start the car. Quick. We'll get away. 15:26.720 --> 15:27.720 We're out of gas. 15:27.720 --> 15:28.720 Out of gas? 15:28.720 --> 15:31.720 You don't think we parked here for the fun of it, do you? 15:31.720 --> 15:35.720 David. It stopped barking. 15:35.720 --> 15:36.720 What does it mean? 15:36.720 --> 15:40.720 David, David, we're so helpless. 15:40.720 --> 15:42.720 She can kill us easily. 15:42.720 --> 15:45.720 You can't just sit there. We've got to get away. 15:45.720 --> 15:48.720 I'm not a magician, lady. I can't make gasoline out of rain. 15:48.720 --> 15:51.720 We can't stay here the whole night. You'll hear me. 15:51.720 --> 15:53.720 Let go of me. There's nothing I can do. 15:53.720 --> 15:56.720 Try something, anything. Don't just sit there. 15:56.720 --> 15:58.720 You're scaring me, David. Stop her. 15:58.720 --> 16:00.720 Now, you cut it out. You'll have us all in hysterics. 16:00.720 --> 16:04.720 All right. All right. I'm sorry. 16:06.720 --> 16:09.720 I've got an idea. Give me your gun. 16:10.720 --> 16:11.720 Why? 16:11.720 --> 16:14.720 Why? I'll tell you I want it. Give it to me. 16:14.720 --> 16:15.720 David, what's the matter with her? 16:15.720 --> 16:17.720 Listen to me. I'm all right. 16:17.720 --> 16:21.720 But I can't sit here all night. I go crazy. 16:21.720 --> 16:23.720 Give me the gun and I'll go. 16:23.720 --> 16:27.720 I won't be afraid of the dark and the noises and the feet following me. 16:27.720 --> 16:29.720 I'll go, I promise you. But give me the gun. 16:29.720 --> 16:30.720 No, sit down. 16:30.720 --> 16:33.720 Please, I'll go. I promise. I can't stand sitting in the dark like this. 16:33.720 --> 16:34.720 Can't you stop her, David? 16:34.720 --> 16:36.720 I told you to shut up. 16:36.720 --> 16:39.720 If you don't, I'll make you get out of the car. 16:39.720 --> 16:41.720 You wouldn't. 16:41.720 --> 16:45.720 You're not unarmed, not into the woods again. 16:45.720 --> 16:48.720 You're nice people, aren't you? 16:48.720 --> 16:50.720 Or do you want me to leave so you can shoot me, assassin? 16:50.720 --> 16:51.720 Stop it. 16:51.720 --> 16:53.720 We're not going to shoot you. We don't have a gun. It's only a pipe. 16:53.720 --> 16:55.720 Dorothy! 16:55.720 --> 16:57.720 A pipe? 16:57.720 --> 16:58.720 David. 16:58.720 --> 16:59.720 A smoking pipe? 16:59.720 --> 17:01.720 Oh, David, I'm sorry. 17:01.720 --> 17:03.720 Then you're not armed. 17:03.720 --> 17:04.720 I'm sorry, David. 17:04.720 --> 17:05.720 It's all right. 17:05.720 --> 17:08.720 Why did you tell me you had a gun? 17:08.720 --> 17:11.720 Why does it make a difference to you whether I'm armed or not? 17:11.720 --> 17:13.720 I don't know you. 17:13.720 --> 17:15.720 Maybe you two are more dangerous than the crazy woman. 17:15.720 --> 17:17.720 I'll tell you what I think. 17:17.720 --> 17:20.720 I think you're the crazy woman, the way you grabbed David when you wanted him to start your car. 17:20.720 --> 17:22.720 Now, Dorothy, stop it. Don't excite her. 17:22.720 --> 17:24.720 Don't excite me? Why? 17:24.720 --> 17:28.720 Maybe you think I'm dangerous, an old woman you took into your car. 17:28.720 --> 17:29.720 Two of you and you're afraid of me. 17:29.720 --> 17:32.720 We're not afraid of you. Now, sit back in the seat and don't try anything. 17:32.720 --> 17:33.720 I'm watching you all the time. 17:33.720 --> 17:37.720 David, the storm is stopping. 17:37.720 --> 17:38.720 Maybe now's the time. 17:38.720 --> 17:40.720 The time for what? 17:40.720 --> 17:43.720 What are you going to do? You two are up to something. 17:43.720 --> 17:44.720 Oh, shut up. 17:44.720 --> 17:47.720 My wife meant now is the time to go for help. 17:47.720 --> 17:51.720 I did not. I meant now is the time for us to escape. 17:51.720 --> 17:53.720 David, can't you see it? 17:53.720 --> 17:55.720 She's the one. She'll kill us. 17:55.720 --> 17:56.720 You little... 17:56.720 --> 17:57.720 Stop it. Sit back in that seat. 17:57.720 --> 17:58.720 You haven't got a gun. 17:58.720 --> 17:59.720 No, but I have got a knife. 17:59.720 --> 18:00.720 David. 18:00.720 --> 18:03.720 It's my jackknife, but it's sharp and it's strong. Now, don't try any tricks. 18:03.720 --> 18:06.720 All right. Threaten me. Watch me. 18:06.720 --> 18:10.720 While that woman is out there, all you can do is sit and wait for her to make the next move. 18:10.720 --> 18:13.720 She can kill us like that old man and woman. 18:13.720 --> 18:15.720 Must have been on the same road. 18:15.720 --> 18:18.720 They were in their car too. They must have let her in. 18:18.720 --> 18:21.720 We'll leave then. The three of us. We'll walk. 18:21.720 --> 18:23.720 We'll stay close together and we'll be quiet. 18:23.720 --> 18:24.720 Anyone hiding in the woods won't hear us. 18:24.720 --> 18:26.720 Don't let her out of the car, David. We'll be killed. 18:26.720 --> 18:29.720 How would we find our way? It's too dark. 18:29.720 --> 18:30.720 We'll find our way. 18:30.720 --> 18:33.720 Look out there. The road's full of shadows. 18:33.720 --> 18:35.720 Get her out of the car, David. She wants to kill us. 18:35.720 --> 18:36.720 Kill? 18:36.720 --> 18:39.720 Look, if you want to go, why don't you leave? You don't need us. 18:39.720 --> 18:41.720 We're willing to stay here until help comes. 18:41.720 --> 18:45.720 I'd be helpless alone. If I had a gun or something. 18:45.720 --> 18:46.720 What? 18:46.720 --> 18:47.720 Your knife. 18:47.720 --> 18:50.720 Nobody'll come. Where are the police? I can't stand this. 18:50.720 --> 18:54.720 Nobody'll come. There's no one in these woods. They're burned out and deserted. 18:54.720 --> 18:55.720 Honey, please. 18:55.720 --> 19:00.720 It was your idea to use this road. You wouldn't listen to me and stop again. 19:00.720 --> 19:02.720 I couldn't help it. I got lost. 19:02.720 --> 19:05.720 You should do something, not just sit there waiting and waiting. 19:05.720 --> 19:08.720 Do something before we're murdered. Are you so helpless? 19:08.720 --> 19:12.720 All right. All right, I'm going to do something. I'll go for help. 19:12.720 --> 19:14.720 That's it. Get help. 19:14.720 --> 19:15.720 David, in her hand. 19:15.720 --> 19:16.720 What? 19:16.720 --> 19:17.720 I saw it in the moonlight. It's glittering. 19:17.720 --> 19:18.720 What is it? 19:18.720 --> 19:19.720 Your wife is hysterical. 19:19.720 --> 19:23.720 She's holding a long piece of broken glass. Long and pointed. 19:23.720 --> 19:28.720 See? She doesn't answer. She's just watching us. 19:28.720 --> 19:30.720 What's she waiting for? 19:30.720 --> 19:33.720 From the broken window. That's where she got it. 19:33.720 --> 19:36.720 So what if I have it? I'm not going to sit here defenseless. 19:36.720 --> 19:37.720 She's going to attack us. 19:37.720 --> 19:40.720 Don't be silly. It was all right for you to have a knife. 19:40.720 --> 19:42.720 Why can't I be armed for whatever may come? 19:42.720 --> 19:43.720 Give me that broken glass. 19:43.720 --> 19:46.720 Give it to you? Do you think I'm crazy? 19:46.720 --> 19:47.720 Give it to me. 19:47.720 --> 19:49.720 You couldn't protect us from anything. 19:49.720 --> 19:52.720 David, what are you doing? Why are you climbing over the seat? 19:52.720 --> 19:56.720 Now, I warn you, I'm through letting my wife be terrified. Give me that glass. 19:56.720 --> 19:57.720 Stay away from me. 19:57.720 --> 20:00.720 Once I left the car, you were going to butcher my wife with that broken glass. 20:00.720 --> 20:01.720 No, no. 20:01.720 --> 20:02.720 David. 20:02.720 --> 20:04.720 Give me that glass. 20:04.720 --> 20:06.720 You're crazy. 20:06.720 --> 20:10.720 Leave me alone. Hold her. Hold her. Don't let her free. 20:10.720 --> 20:11.720 She got my arm. 20:11.720 --> 20:13.720 You'll kill me. 20:13.720 --> 20:14.720 Drop that glass. 20:14.720 --> 20:16.720 She dropped it. She dropped it, David. 20:16.720 --> 20:20.720 Have you both gone crazy trying to kill me? 20:20.720 --> 20:21.720 Like you were going to murder us. 20:21.720 --> 20:22.720 I wasn't. 20:22.720 --> 20:24.720 Don't let her get free. 20:24.720 --> 20:28.720 David, if you have a knife, then I'll have glass. 20:28.720 --> 20:29.720 Hold it, David. Hold it. 20:29.720 --> 20:31.720 I can't take much longer. 20:31.720 --> 20:36.720 I'm not crazy. Please believe me. Just give me that knife. That's all. 20:36.720 --> 20:39.720 You got my throat. You're joking. 20:39.720 --> 20:40.720 Your knife. 20:40.720 --> 20:42.720 David, use your knife. 20:47.720 --> 20:50.720 You killed her. 20:50.720 --> 20:55.720 David, you killed the craziest woman. 21:03.720 --> 21:05.720 I couldn't help it. 21:05.720 --> 21:07.720 She was choking. 21:07.720 --> 21:09.720 You covered her with blood. 21:11.720 --> 21:13.720 She was going to kill us. 21:13.720 --> 21:14.720 David. 21:19.720 --> 21:21.720 Look, lights. 21:21.720 --> 21:23.720 The car's coming. The help's coming. 21:23.720 --> 21:25.720 Everything will be all right, honey. 21:35.720 --> 21:37.720 Hey there. You in the car. 21:37.720 --> 21:38.720 Why are you parked here? 21:38.720 --> 21:41.720 It's the police. It's the police at last. 21:41.720 --> 21:44.720 We ran out of gas. 21:44.720 --> 21:46.720 The crazy woman. 21:46.720 --> 21:47.720 Couldn't have picked a better spot. 21:47.720 --> 21:49.720 What with that woman running around loose? 21:49.720 --> 21:51.720 Officer. 21:51.720 --> 21:52.720 We wanted to tell you. 21:52.720 --> 21:53.720 The bomber up the road called us. 21:53.720 --> 21:55.720 Said his dog's been barking at something. 21:55.720 --> 21:56.720 We caught her. 21:56.720 --> 21:57.720 Who would you catch? 21:57.720 --> 21:58.720 The crazy woman. 21:58.720 --> 22:01.720 She's in the back seat. Dead. 22:01.720 --> 22:02.720 What? 22:05.720 --> 22:06.720 No. 22:06.720 --> 22:09.720 No, she's alive. 22:09.720 --> 22:10.720 Badly hurt, though. 22:10.720 --> 22:13.720 She was trying to kill us. We fought. 22:13.720 --> 22:15.720 We'll get her to a hospital. You come with me. 22:15.720 --> 22:16.720 Lucky it didn't kill her. 22:16.720 --> 22:18.720 We captured that crazy woman half hour ago. 22:18.720 --> 22:20.720 I don't know who this lady is. 22:20.720 --> 22:42.720 Come on. Give me your hand with her. 22:44.720 --> 22:46.720 Suspense. 22:46.720 --> 22:53.720 In which Harry Bartel starred as David and Virginia Greig as Dorothy with Helen Klebe as the woman. 22:53.720 --> 23:00.720 Next week, the story of a young girl who was able to win her way with all men, save one. 23:00.720 --> 23:04.720 We call it simply Pretty Girl. 23:04.720 --> 23:28.720 That's next week on Suspense. 23:28.720 --> 23:36.720 Suspense is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 23:36.720 --> 23:47.720 On a country road was specially written for Suspense by Walter Bazar, also appearing in tonight's cast for Tom McKee and Jack Carroll. 23:47.720 --> 24:07.720 Gun smoke is heard twice every Saturday on the CBS Radio Network.