1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,400 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:21,200 Tonight, we bring you transcribed a story of a prodigal son's return. 3 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,840 We call it Life Ends at Midnight. 4 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:30,320 So now, starring Paula Winslow and Stacey Harris, here is tonight's Suspense play, Life 5 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:54,240 Ends at Midnight. 6 00:00:54,240 --> 00:01:11,360 Hiya, Mom. 7 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,440 You still remember my whistle, huh? 8 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:19,600 Never know when I'll turn up, huh? 9 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,320 Stand out here in the hall? 10 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:22,960 No, come in. 11 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:24,560 Come in, Johnny. 12 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,240 Same old crummy joint. 13 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,080 Well, I do my best to keep it clean. 14 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,480 Yeah, yeah, I know. 15 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:34,800 Oh boy, am I tired. 16 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:41,080 I'm up all night in a stinkin' coach full of snoring jerks and squalling babies. 17 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:42,080 Babies are the worst. 18 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,200 All they do is ball and slobber. 19 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:45,800 You left Pittsburgh last night? 20 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:46,800 Yeah, one in the morning. 21 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:48,800 I didn't sleep a wink all night. 22 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,760 Oh boy, look at my collar. 23 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,880 But tomorrow's Monday and you have to be at work in the morning. 24 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,440 What's the matter? 25 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:58,440 You worried? 26 00:01:58,440 --> 00:01:59,440 Well, no, no. 27 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:00,440 I just... 28 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:01,440 Don't just. 29 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,640 Can't a guy come home to see his mother once in six months? 30 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,560 What's a mother for? 31 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,800 You break your back, sit up all night to see your mother for one day and she tells you 32 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,280 you've got to be at work in the morning. 33 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:12,480 How do you like that? 34 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,800 Oh, I'm sorry, dear, but I just worried about... 35 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,600 I know, Ma, I know. 36 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Don't worry so much, huh? 37 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:19,600 It makes me nervous. 38 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,680 Well, here, sit at the table, dear. 39 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:23,680 You must be starved. 40 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,560 Oh, that's like coming home. 41 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,520 Oh, my baby. 42 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,200 I'm so glad to see you. 43 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,400 You did come just to see me, didn't you? 44 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,400 Why, sure, Ma. 45 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:37,400 What do you think? 46 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:38,400 Marilyn Monroe? 47 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,760 Of course you came to see me. 48 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:42,960 It's just that I... 49 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,720 I always worry so about you, I mean. 50 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,720 Oh, forget it, Ma, huh? 51 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,400 Ma, what have you got to eat? 52 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,840 I was just going to pick the chop for my lunch. 53 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,640 Oh, that'll be enough for me. 54 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:55,880 Why don't you lie down and take a nap? 55 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:56,880 I'll call you when it's ready. 56 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:57,880 No, that's okay. 57 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:58,880 I can sleep later. 58 00:02:58,880 --> 00:02:59,880 Come here, sit down, Ma. 59 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,880 Tell me how you're doing. 60 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:08,000 Well, I try not to complain, but things aren't easy, you know. 61 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,760 Prices are high and rent's going up all the time, even on this old flat. 62 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,360 Well, you had some bonds. 63 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:14,360 Papa left you. 64 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:15,360 You had about $2,000 in bonds. 65 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:16,360 They left you... 66 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,800 Well, I'm trying to tell you that things haven't been easy and... 67 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:22,960 Always a poor mouth. 68 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,120 Every time I see you, you cry, poor mouth, Ma. 69 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,280 Well, I'm just saying things aren't easy. 70 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,040 Oh, you think it's a picnic for me? 71 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,360 I got enough trouble and for what? 72 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:33,360 For what? 73 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,480 All year I work like crazy and for what? 74 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,480 A man must work, Johnny. 75 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,120 Oh, a man must work, Johnny. 76 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:48,600 A man must work and live like a person and not be afraid so he can sleep at night without 77 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,120 worrying about... 78 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,200 Worrying about what, Ma? 79 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:59,520 About a bell ringing at night or a knock on the door in the morning or somebody touching 80 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:00,520 you on the arm. 81 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,520 Oh, shut up, will you, Ma? 82 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,320 Please, just shut up. 83 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,440 I ain't in trouble again, so stop yapping at me. 84 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:09,200 You're always yapping at me, Ma. 85 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:10,200 You haven't. 86 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,960 Oh, you know what the judge said last time, Johnny? 87 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:13,960 He was nice. 88 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:14,960 He gave you another chance. 89 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,960 He saw you were really a good boy and he gave you another chance. 90 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:23,160 He got you a nice job and you promised... 91 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,160 You mustn't... 92 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:25,160 You... 93 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,160 You're all right, Johnny. 94 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:29,720 Sure I'm all right, Ma. 95 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:30,720 Sure I'm all right. 96 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,600 I'm a meatball, a herring on a plate. 97 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,360 All your life you're a tomcat in the garbage. 98 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,680 You find a fish head and say, thank you, mister. 99 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,160 Well, that's not for me. 100 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,680 You get one break and you're out of the garbage can for life. 101 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,240 You're a mister then with a future. 102 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,320 You hold your nose when you walk through the day, coach, to your compartment. 103 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,480 You leave the stinks behind and the porters dust the air in front of you. 104 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:54,480 Well, that's for me, Ma. 105 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:55,480 That's what I want. 106 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,000 That's what I tried to get. 107 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,440 I took another chance. 108 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,440 I tried to run it up. 109 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,880 It was just no dice. 110 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:05,440 Now I gotta make it good. 111 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:10,440 The books at the office will show it and I gotta make it good. 112 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:11,440 How much? 113 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:12,440 Fifteen hundred. 114 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:13,440 Fifteen hundred, Don. 115 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:18,120 Ma, I gotta know where I can get it by midnight tonight. 116 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,120 I gotta know, Ma. 117 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,200 If I miss that 1220 train for Pittsburgh, it's all over. 118 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,280 If I don't show up at the office tomorrow, they'll suspect. 119 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:29,280 Fifteen hundred. 120 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:31,560 By midnight tonight? 121 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:32,560 Where am I gonna get it, Johnny? 122 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:33,560 The bonds, Ma. 123 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,280 You got the bonds that Pa left. 124 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:36,280 The bonds. 125 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:40,000 How do you think I got you out of your last trouble? 126 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,840 Bribes and bail, paying back every penny. 127 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:44,840 Where do you think I got it? 128 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:45,840 Oh, give me that, Ma. 129 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:46,840 You're just holding out. 130 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:47,840 You gotta help me. 131 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:48,840 I'll get ten years. 132 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:51,080 You heard what the judge said the last time? 133 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:52,880 Oh, what can I do? 134 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,640 Ma, ten years in story. 135 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,880 There won't be no reform school this time. 136 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:57,880 Oh, Johnny. 137 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:58,880 Ma, please, huh? 138 00:05:58,880 --> 00:05:59,880 Johnny. 139 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:04,360 Ma, please give me the money. 140 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:05,360 Will you get it for me? 141 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:06,360 Ma, I'll be good. 142 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:07,360 I'll work hard. 143 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,360 I won't give you no more trouble. 144 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,800 Ma, help me, please. 145 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:13,800 I'm so tired. 146 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:14,800 Help me. 147 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:15,800 Maybe I can sleep then, Ma. 148 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:16,800 Please. 149 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:17,800 Ma, please. 150 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:23,160 Where can I get it, Johnny? 151 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:24,440 I have nothing left. 152 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,960 I don't care where you get it, Ma. 153 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,640 Look, it's your fault you gotta help me. 154 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,640 I only wanted to help you and not you. 155 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:33,640 Yes. 156 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:34,640 It's my fault. 157 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:39,920 I always protected you, but I can't protect you anymore. 158 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:44,280 Well, I'll give you the few dollars I have. 159 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:45,280 Go away. 160 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:47,480 It'll be enough to help you run away. 161 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:48,480 That's all I can do. 162 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:49,480 Oh, sure. 163 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:50,480 Sure, just run away and don't bother me. 164 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:51,480 Oh, please, Johnny. 165 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:52,480 I'm no dope. 166 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:53,480 I know you're holding out on me, Ma. 167 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,840 You're just worrying about your old age. 168 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:58,560 You're making yourself a nice fat cushion that you can... 169 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:59,560 Oh, I'm sorry. 170 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,560 I hope I'm not intruding. 171 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,560 Who's he, Ma? 172 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,800 Oh, Mr. Chalmers. 173 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,400 This is Mr. Chalmers, Johnny. 174 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,960 He has the back bedroom. 175 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:14,640 This is my son, Mr. Chalmers. 176 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,400 Well, how do you do, Mr. Bates? 177 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,680 I feel that I know you very well. 178 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,320 Your mother and I sit here in the kitchen sometimes over a cup of tea and she talks 179 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,560 about you for hours and hours. 180 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,320 He's very proud of you. 181 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:29,320 Yeah. 182 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,440 Mrs. Bates, excuse me. 183 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,520 I'm just going to the corner for my paper. 184 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:40,120 By the way, I think the insurance agent might call again to collect and please tell him 185 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:41,120 to go away. 186 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,840 Will you do that for me, Mrs. Bates? 187 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:44,840 Yes, Mr. Chalmers. 188 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:45,840 Oh, thank you. 189 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,960 Tell him not to come back anymore. 190 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,680 I don't want to pay anymore on the policy. 191 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,440 You remember I told you my nephew was very sick in Spokane? 192 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,440 Yes, Mr. Chalmers. 193 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,880 Well, poor young man died. 194 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:01,880 Yes. 195 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:08,960 I was going to leave him a few dollars when I died, but now, well, I have no one left 196 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:09,960 at all. 197 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,840 A dollar a week. 198 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:15,880 You'll tell that to the insurance agent? 199 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,600 Yes, Mr. Chalmers. 200 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:18,600 Thank you, Mrs. Bates. 201 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,600 Have a good day, Mr. Bates. 202 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:22,600 Bye. 203 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,720 I have $40 in the house for the rent. 204 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:26,720 You can take that. 205 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,800 Drop me a card when you get settled someplace. 206 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:30,800 Let me know where you are. 207 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,880 I'll send you some more as soon as I can get it. 208 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,720 Maybe later I'll be able to straighten it out. 209 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,320 Maybe later I'll be able to speak to your boss. 210 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,800 I'll promise to pay back every cent. 211 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:42,800 But now you must go away. 212 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:43,800 You must. 213 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:44,800 Johnny! 214 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:50,360 Ma, tell me something about Mr. Chalmers. 215 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:51,360 Johnny. 216 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,360 Don't be so nervous, Ma. 217 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,360 We've got plenty of time. 218 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,360 We got till midnight. 219 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:15,320 You are listening to Life Ends at Midnight, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 220 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:27,200 theatre of thrills, Suspense. 221 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,000 Have you heard from your United Community Campaign this year? 222 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,880 If you haven't, you soon will. 223 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,240 CBS Radio urges that you remember. 224 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:38,680 Your one annual check to the United Fund or community chest in your locale supports not 225 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:43,240 one but close to every worthwhile community service in your town. 226 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,680 Your neighbor in difficulty has too much pride to come to you. 227 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:51,760 But you can come to him, impersonally and effectively, through your check to the United 228 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,680 Community Campaigns. 229 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:54,760 Be generous. 230 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,000 The money has a long way to go. 231 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,320 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Stacey Harris and Paula Winslow. 232 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,880 Starring in tonight's production, Life Ends at Midnight. 233 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:26,480 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 234 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:31,480 Yes, I do think I'll have another cup, if you don't mind, Mrs. Bates. 235 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,720 Mr. Chalmers, suppose you look at it this way. 236 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,960 You've been paying one buck a week for how many years now? 237 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,240 Oh, I'd say 20 years would be a conservative estimate. 238 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,240 All right, 20 years. 239 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,280 That's, well, let's see, 50 bucks a year. 240 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,760 That's 1,000 bucks you've paid in, right? 241 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,240 Yes, 1,000 bucks. 242 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,640 Oh, this coffee cake, Mrs. Bates, it's excellent. 243 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,280 Oh, do you like it? 244 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:57,280 I made it yesterday. 245 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,200 Hey, look, forget about the coffee cake. 246 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,440 Let's figure percentages here. 247 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,080 How many more years do you figure to live? 248 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,080 Oh, John. 249 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,840 It's all right, Mrs. Bates. 250 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,000 After all, I am an old man. 251 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:14,240 My age won't rather, well, it comes to terms with death. 252 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:20,520 My policy is for $2,500, and in the days that are left to me, I certainly will not be required 253 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,400 to pay in as much as I've already paid. 254 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:23,880 Well, that's the exact point. 255 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,920 Now, but say you live another couple of years. 256 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:32,200 You only pay a hundred or so more, and you can leave $2,500 to somebody. 257 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:39,520 Yes, I should like to think of when I'm gone, I've left something behind for someone. 258 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:46,800 It's nice to live on in somebody's memory for a little while after we're dead. 259 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,960 First, Mr. Bates, I have no one in this world. 260 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:57,400 Secondly, I must be very, very frank and tell you that I can no longer afford to pay even 261 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,480 a dollar a week. 262 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,600 You see, I live on a few... 263 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,760 Mr. Chalmers, that's a problem of the most minor importance. 264 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,480 For anybody to invest in you now, a buck a week would be gilded edged. 265 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,320 Well, I mean, for instance, take my mother here. 266 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,360 Now, suppose you made her the beneficiary. 267 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,480 Suppose she continued to pay the buck a week. 268 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,240 Who could lose on such a deal? 269 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,240 Who could lose? 270 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:22,240 Nobody. 271 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:27,600 You get your dearest wish to leave something behind, and my mother in later years says, 272 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:32,320 well, Mr. Chalmers, oh, yes, I'll always remember him for this. 273 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,120 Hey, you get the point? 274 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:36,120 Oh, no, Mr. Chalmers, no. 275 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:37,120 You listen... 276 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,120 Let Mr. Chalmers decide, Ma. 277 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:40,840 Well, how about it, Mr. Chalmers? 278 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,320 That makes good sense, doesn't it? 279 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,640 And it makes everybody happy. 280 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:45,640 We're practically strangers. 281 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:46,640 We're just... 282 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,640 What do you mean, strangers? 283 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:51,760 Who's a stranger in this world, Mr. Chalmers? 284 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:56,880 We're all just little people trying to make each other happy, huh? 285 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,120 Isn't every man entitled to at least live in somebody's memory? 286 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,680 Oh, yes, but he doesn't have to do that. 287 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:04,040 I'll think about him anyway. 288 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:05,440 I promise I will. 289 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,440 Well, so let him say, Ma. 290 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,000 Well, what do you say, Mr. Chalmers? 291 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,440 It must be the insurance agent. 292 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:22,840 I'll tell him that I'm keeping the policy and changing the beneficiary. 293 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,440 Could you let me have the dollar, Mr. Bates? 294 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,960 I'll do it. 295 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,520 I'll do it. 296 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,040 I'll do it. 297 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,040 I'll do it. 298 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,040 I'll do it. 299 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:41,040 Come on, hurry it up, will you? 300 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:42,880 The old man's coming home in a minute or two. 301 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,600 He takes his nap about this time. 302 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:45,840 I want this to be ready for him. 303 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:46,840 Relax, honey. 304 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,120 I can't finish this job today. 305 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:49,120 Why not? 306 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:50,120 What are you giving me? 307 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,720 It'll take a joint and another length of pipe. 308 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:53,040 Oh, come on, fix it up. 309 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:54,840 You can fix it up for now, can't you? 310 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:56,840 The room's pretty small. 311 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:58,640 Why do you want the heater so close to the bed? 312 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:00,000 Look, it's like I told you. 313 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 He's got rheumatism. 314 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,440 He needs plenty of heat. 315 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,320 Well, I'd run a rubber extension, but with gas, I don't like it. 316 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,560 All right, so with gas, you don't like it. 317 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:10,800 But with gas, we got to run the heater. 318 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:12,640 Now, the old man's got rheumatics. 319 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,240 He needs plenty of heat. 320 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,080 Look, what are you doing now? 321 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:18,080 Tightening this joint. 322 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:19,480 Oh, it's tight enough for now, huh? 323 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,480 Okay, you're the boss. 324 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:22,480 Here. 325 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:23,680 Here's your three bucks. 326 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,200 You can bring the pipe back next time. 327 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,320 There won't be any next time, Sonny. 328 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:31,040 You can get somebody else to do your dirty work after this. 329 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,040 So long, Skippy. 330 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:35,040 Skippy. 331 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:38,040 Come on, Skippy. 332 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:47,040 We got some work to do. 333 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:54,040 Oh, hi, Pop. 334 00:14:54,040 --> 00:15:03,040 Well, this is a pleasant surprise. 335 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,040 Yeah. 336 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,040 Yeah, this used to be my room. 337 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,760 Steam don't come up here so good, so I talked the old lady into fixing this heater up for 338 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:10,760 you. 339 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:12,520 Well, that is very thoughtful of you, Johnny. 340 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:13,520 It's okay. 341 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,280 I stuffed up the cracks in the window, too. 342 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,280 This cold weather gets plenty drafty in this room. 343 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,560 You thought of everything, didn't you? 344 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:20,560 Huh? 345 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,680 Oh, yeah, I thought it would work out just fine. 346 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:27,200 Well, it'll do the job, I think. 347 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,720 Oh, dear, dear, dear. 348 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,280 I'm going to take a little nap before dinner. 349 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:34,920 Oh, do you think the heater... 350 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:36,320 No, no, you can just leave it on. 351 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,520 I'll look in after a bit, see if it's okay. 352 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,840 Well, you didn't go to all that trouble. 353 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:43,840 It's no trouble, Mr. John. 354 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,440 There's no trouble at all. 355 00:15:45,440 --> 00:16:14,200 When I do a thing, I like to do it right. 356 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:33,200 Missed you. 357 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:56,880 Where are we going, Johnny? 358 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:57,880 Nowhere in particular, Ma. 359 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,000 I just thought we'd stroll around the old neighborhood like old times. 360 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Well, that's a nice idea, but oh, my feet hurt. 361 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,480 All right, Ma, we'll turn into the candy store in the corner. 362 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:07,640 I'll buy you a dish of ice cream. 363 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,440 Oh, so close to dinnertime, dear. 364 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:11,360 What's the trouble with you, Ma? You're in a rut. 365 00:17:11,360 --> 00:17:12,520 Come on. 366 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:18,840 Howdy, Mrs. Bates. 367 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,000 Howdy, Johnny. When did you get back? 368 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,080 He came in on the train from Pittsburgh this morning just to see me. 369 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:26,960 I thought I'd give the old girl a break. 370 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:28,480 Oh, Johnny. 371 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,920 Now, what can I mix up for you folks? 372 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,040 Mom will take a dish of vanilla ice cream and I'll have some coffee black, please. 373 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:35,240 Coming right up. 374 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:36,760 Hey, evening, Nick. 375 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:38,120 Hello, Mike. 376 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:39,200 Take it. 377 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,160 Do you folks know Officer Flanagan? 378 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:44,160 Mrs. Bates from down the block and her son, John. 379 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,600 Pleased to meet you, Officer. 380 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:46,320 Nice business. 381 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:48,120 Oh, much the same. 382 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:49,920 Vagrancy, petty larceny. 383 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:51,720 What's a while of murder? 384 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:52,480 Murder? 385 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,160 That's what they start out to do, 386 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,320 but it's harder to pull off a murder than most people think. 387 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:58,160 Yeah. 388 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,080 Case just last week over in the next precinct. 389 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:05,640 Husband disconnected a gas heater in the wife's room while she was asleep. 390 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,640 That's what we were pretty sure he did, anyway. 391 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,440 He took out a lot of insurance on her a few days before. 392 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,760 Oh, you couldn't prove anything, huh? 393 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,240 He didn't have to. 394 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:19,480 They always bungled somewhere. 395 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,200 Amateurs. 396 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,400 The gas petered out and he forgot to put a quarter in the meter. 397 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,560 It's seven o'clock. 398 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,280 Well, it's time to call in. 399 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,560 I'll see you later, Nick. 400 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:31,560 OK, Mike. 401 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:34,800 Ma. 402 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:35,640 Yes, Johnny? 403 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,880 When did you put a quarter in the meter at home? 404 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,360 Oh, well, I don't remember. 405 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:41,880 Oh, goodness, I better get some change. 406 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:43,320 No, never mind, Ma. Come on. 407 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,160 We're getting out of here. 408 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:46,440 What, Johnny? What's the matter? 409 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,640 Nothing. Come on, will you? 410 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,960 Why did you ask about the gas meter? 411 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,800 Why do you think? 412 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,640 You didn't... 413 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,320 That isn't why you put the heater in, Mr. Chum. 414 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,080 What do you think? 415 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,080 I don't think anything. 416 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,400 I just pray that quarter ran out before... 417 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:04,920 Well, you save your prayers and get a move on, 418 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,400 because if that didn't work, I'll just try another way. 419 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,280 Either way, that old cluck is dead before midnight, 420 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,320 before I have to go back. 421 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:15,320 If he isn't, I'll have to spend 10 years in Stur, 422 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,320 and he's going to be dead before midnight, see? 423 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:18,480 And if you try to make any trouble, 424 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:32,480 you'll be dead right along with him. 425 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:34,160 Will you stop sniveling? 426 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:35,320 Now, we're going in there now. 427 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:36,760 If it took you, scream your head off, 428 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,040 or I'll give you a reason to scream. 429 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,880 Now, go on. 430 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:42,920 The gas. I can smell it. 431 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:47,920 Come on. 432 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,920 Well, good evening, Johnny, Mrs. Bates. 433 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:53,800 I was just on my way out. 434 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,080 Oh, Mr. Chalice. 435 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:57,600 Oh, you're all right. You're all right. 436 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,400 Of course he's all right, Ma. 437 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,600 What's eating you? 438 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,440 Well, I have a slight headache. 439 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,320 With a brisk walk in the open air, 440 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,360 a cure of that, I'm quite sure. 441 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:09,400 Hey. Hey, look at this. 442 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,000 Oh, what is it, Johnny? 443 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,560 Well, the holes on the heater here, they come unhitched. 444 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,080 No wonder you've got a headache. 445 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:20,200 You know, I thought I smelled gas. 446 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,880 Pop, you know, it's lucky for you, Ma. 447 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,880 I forgot to put a quarter in the meter. 448 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:28,080 Providence works in strange ways, doesn't it, Johnny? 449 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,200 Well, I must be getting home, Mrs. Bates. 450 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:31,720 I'll be coming home rather late, 451 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,680 so I'll just let myself in. 452 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:34,800 Oh, holly. 453 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,760 Well, I thought I'd stop in the neighborhood picture house 454 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,760 after dinner. That'll be around 9 o'clock. 455 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:45,000 So I imagine I won't be home before 11. 456 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,480 Oh, Mr. Chalmers, there's something I... 457 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,280 Yes, Mrs. Bates, what is it? 458 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,440 Uh, Johnny's a good boy at heart, you know, 459 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,600 but he's been in some trouble lately. 460 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:55,600 Ma... 461 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,080 Is there anything I can do to help Johnny? 462 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,160 Yeah. Yeah, there's plenty, 463 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,160 but I'll tell you about it when you get back, Mr. Chalmers. 464 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,160 You'd better run along now. 465 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,520 You don't want to be late for that picture. 466 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,400 Oh, oh, yes, of course. 467 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:06,840 Well, good night, Mrs. Bates. 468 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:07,840 Oh, Mr. Chalmers... 469 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:08,840 Good night, Mrs. Chalmers. 470 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:11,560 Oh, yeah. Good night. 471 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:12,560 Oh, Johnny, I... 472 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,560 Ow! 473 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,560 You were going to tell him, weren't you? 474 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,240 You'd like to send me to the chair, wouldn't you? 475 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,680 Johnny, I... 476 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:22,680 I'm your mother. 477 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,560 I'd have messed up your sad monkey face for good. 478 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,520 It's all your fault I balled this thing up in the first place. 479 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,880 Why didn't you remember to put a quarter on that gas meter? 480 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:32,880 Why didn't you? 481 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:34,880 I'm glad I forgot. 482 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:35,880 He wouldn't be alive. 483 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,520 I shouldn't have messed around with gas, 484 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,480 trying to spare your feelings, making it look like an accident. 485 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,320 That's the thanks I get for it. 486 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:43,920 You want to blab the whole thing, 487 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:45,320 turn me in, my own mother. 488 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:46,920 Oh, no, Johnny, no, it's not true. 489 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,520 All right, let's put it this way, huh? 490 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,120 Now, look, it's either you or him. 491 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:53,520 If it's you, I don't care whether they get me or not. 492 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:54,920 Are you listening to me? 493 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:56,920 Yes, I... 494 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:57,920 I'm listening. 495 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,920 All right, now, listen. 496 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:02,720 It's like I said, I got very little time to get this thing done. 497 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,720 I ought to have done it neat and clean in the first place, 498 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,120 just push him over on the bed, 499 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:09,320 hold a pillow over his face for a few minutes, and the job's done. 500 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,720 Nobody will ask any questions, a guy that old. 501 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,120 Oh, Johnny, for the last time, I'm begging you. 502 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:16,720 All right, just make sure it's the last time. 503 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,520 Now, remember, Ma, it's you or him, like I said. 504 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:20,920 What are you going to do? 505 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,720 I'll be waiting in his room when he gets home. 506 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,720 You wait up for him, tell him I've left to catch a train. 507 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,920 That's in case he suspects anything. 508 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,920 When he comes in his room, I'll take care of the rest of it. 509 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,720 How do you know I won't warn him? 510 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,320 Because it's him or you, like I told you. 511 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,720 Now, I don't think you'll warn Mr Chalmers, Ma. 512 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,720 And don't try to stall him when he comes in. 513 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,320 Now, don't, you hear? 514 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,720 He's got to be dead by midnight or else. 515 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:01,120 Evening, Mr Chalmers. 516 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:02,720 Good evening, Joe. 517 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,120 Well, I'll have the late edition of the Daily News, as usual. 518 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:07,920 Saved one off for you, Mr Chalmers. 519 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,720 Thank you. Good night, Joe. 520 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,720 Oh, uh, Joe. 521 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,720 Yeah? 522 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,920 You give me the change of a dollar? 523 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,720 Sure, Mr Chalmers. 524 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,720 There. 525 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,720 Thank you, thank you. 526 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,720 Just happen to think of something I need change for. 527 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:38,720 Hmm. Little good deed for a friend of mine. 528 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,720 Oh, Mr Chalmers. 529 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,720 Well, I didn't think you'd be up so late, Mrs Bates. 530 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,720 Well, I waited up especially. 531 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,720 I wanted to talk to you about Johnny. 532 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:03,720 Mrs Bates, your eyes, they're all discolored. 533 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,720 Yes, the light burned out in the bathroom, 534 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,720 and when I went to replace it, in the dark, that is, 535 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,720 I bumped into the door. 536 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,720 Oh. Well, I would have thought that Johnny would have done that for you. 537 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,720 Oh, no, no, Johnny didn't. 538 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,720 I mean, Johnny's left already. 539 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,720 He had to catch the 1220 for Pittsburgh, you know. 540 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,720 Well, but it's only a little after 11 now. 541 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,720 Well, perhaps he had some things to do on the way, I mean. 542 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,720 Oh, of course. Well, I'm afraid I must be getting on to bed. 543 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,720 Oh, no, no, not yet. 544 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,720 I mean, won't you sit down for a minute and have a cup of tea with me? 545 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,720 Well, I'd like to, but tea keeps me awake, Mrs Bates. 546 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,720 So I'll be getting along to my room now if you don't mind. 547 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,720 No, no, don't go into that room, Mr Chalmers. 548 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,720 Mrs Bates, what the hell was the trouble? What's the trouble? What is it? 549 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:58,720 My son, Johnny, there's something I must tell you. 550 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,720 Forgive me, Mrs Bates, but I'm an old man and I need my rest. 551 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,720 I've got to have my rest now. If I could possibly wait until morning... 552 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,720 No, no, no, it can't wait until morning. 553 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,720 It's got to be told before midnight. 554 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,720 What was that? 555 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,720 It was like someone moving about in the back of the house. 556 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,720 One of the shutters is loose, the wind. 557 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,720 Oh, you were saying, Mrs Bates? 558 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:34,720 Nothing. I can't tell you after all. I'm afraid. I'm afraid to tell it. 559 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,720 There, there now, Mrs Bates, perhaps in the morning. 560 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,720 You try to get some rest, huh? 561 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,720 You going in there now? 562 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:48,720 Well, I think that'll be the best thing to do all the way around, don't you, Mrs Bates? 563 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:49,720 Good night. 564 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:50,720 No, no, wait. 565 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,720 Mrs Bates, I... 566 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,720 What is it, Mrs Bates? 567 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,720 That smell. Gas. 568 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,720 Johnny. 569 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,720 Johnny! 570 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:18,720 Johnny! 571 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:26,720 Oh, why don't you lie down for a few minutes, Mrs Bates? 572 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:34,720 Listen, it's striking 12. Dead before midnight. 573 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:40,720 All right, poor lad. If only I hadn't remembered to go back for that change. 574 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:48,720 You did it. You put the quarter in the meter. That's what turned on the gas that killed him. 575 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:54,720 You mentioned the gas having gone off and forgetting to put a quarter in the meter. 576 00:26:54,720 --> 00:27:00,720 So on the way to the picture house, I just went around to the back entry and dropped the coin. 577 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:10,720 He kept saying that he was so tired, so sleepy. He must have fallen asleep while he was waiting. 578 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:16,720 Suppose I should have remembered about the connection being loose and the heater in my room, 579 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,720 but I wanted to surprise you with my good deed, you see. 580 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:27,720 I didn't mean to do anything wrong, Mrs Bates. Honestly, I didn't. 581 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,720 You didn't do anything wrong, Mr Chalmers. 582 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:55,720 No, you didn't do anything wrong. 583 00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:04,720 Suspense, in which Paula Winslow and Stacey Harris starred in tonight's presentation of Life Ends at Midnight. 584 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:11,720 Next week, the story of a prescription filled in error. We call it To None, A Deadly Drug. 585 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:25,720 That's next week on Suspense. 586 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:31,720 Suspense is produced and transcribed by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's script was written by Robert Tolman. 587 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,720 The music was composed by Renny Garaghan and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 588 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:41,720 Featured in the cast were Victor Rotman, Jim Nusser, Bob Easton, and Dick Ryan. 589 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:47,720 The stamp of realism is indelibly imprinted on CBS Radio's thrilling productions of the 21st Precinct. 590 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:54,720 Hear another hard-hitting true-to-life story of big city police at work again this Friday night on most of these stations. 591 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,720 Join Everett Sloan as Captain Cannelly in the station house. 592 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:03,720 Follow the finest out into the city as they probe another human conflict jam-packed with danger and action. 593 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,720 Remember, it's now Friday evenings at the Star's Address.