1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:22,460 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:22,460 --> 00:00:28,260 Tonight we bring you a story of Christmas shopping and a present that went astray. 3 00:00:28,260 --> 00:00:31,000 We call it, A Present for Benny. 4 00:00:31,000 --> 00:01:00,100 So now, starring Jack Crouchon, here is tonight's Suspense play, A Present for Benny. 5 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:01,100 Honey lamb. 6 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:02,100 Huh? 7 00:01:02,100 --> 00:01:06,860 They got a gorgeous ermine on sale at Halgrams. 8 00:01:06,860 --> 00:01:07,860 Just gorgeous, look. 9 00:01:07,860 --> 00:01:08,860 Later, later. 10 00:01:08,860 --> 00:01:11,460 Give me the rest of the mail. 11 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:12,460 And not the bills. 12 00:01:12,460 --> 00:01:15,460 Sure, baby doll. 13 00:01:15,460 --> 00:01:20,620 Oh honey pot, it's gorgeous. 14 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:23,580 Like the stuff you got in that big job last month. 15 00:01:23,580 --> 00:01:27,100 I got a, you know, a... 16 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:30,740 Something wrong, lover? 17 00:01:30,740 --> 00:01:31,740 Shut up. 18 00:01:31,740 --> 00:01:33,540 Hey, you call me, boss? 19 00:01:33,540 --> 00:01:34,540 Who call you? 20 00:01:34,540 --> 00:01:36,020 You want to get thrown out the window? 21 00:01:36,020 --> 00:01:38,900 He's all upset, Swiftie, on a kind of a letter. 22 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:39,900 Sure, I'm upset. 23 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:43,620 Yeah, you listen to this. 24 00:01:43,620 --> 00:01:48,540 Dear Ricky, I'm sending you this letter like kind of an X-mas greeting. 25 00:01:48,540 --> 00:01:52,980 I got a holiday feeling in me, so I'm going to give you the new straight. 26 00:01:52,980 --> 00:01:58,140 Three of my boys is the ones who hijacked that load of fur from you last month. 27 00:01:58,140 --> 00:02:02,900 Because you were a dirty no good fink, I'm stating to you that there ain't no room for 28 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:04,420 the two of us in this town. 29 00:02:04,420 --> 00:02:07,420 So me and the boys is moving you out. 30 00:02:07,420 --> 00:02:11,180 You were a big chiseler, and if you don't drop dead when you read this, me and the boys 31 00:02:11,180 --> 00:02:14,700 will pump you full of lead next time we see you. 32 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:17,780 Yours truly, and a merry X-mas. 33 00:02:17,780 --> 00:02:20,060 Machine gun Benny. 34 00:02:20,060 --> 00:02:21,660 He's a dirty rat. 35 00:02:21,660 --> 00:02:25,220 Baby, honey, you could give it to me for Christmas. 36 00:02:25,220 --> 00:02:27,620 It's only two Gs, and it's just gorgeous. 37 00:02:27,620 --> 00:02:29,820 Look, will you shut your trap? 38 00:02:29,820 --> 00:02:30,820 I got enough trouble. 39 00:02:30,820 --> 00:02:33,900 Boss, boss, what are you going to do? 40 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:34,900 What do you think? 41 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:37,420 What do you think? 42 00:02:37,420 --> 00:02:38,420 Go call the boys. 43 00:02:38,420 --> 00:02:39,420 Sure. 44 00:02:39,420 --> 00:02:42,300 No, wait a minute. 45 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:44,100 We got to do this careful. 46 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:47,700 We don't want no open war, you know what I mean? 47 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:49,980 Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean, boss. 48 00:02:49,980 --> 00:02:53,700 Just a couple of us, see. 49 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:55,700 Two good heads, and you and me. 50 00:02:55,700 --> 00:02:57,140 Yeah, that's the best. 51 00:02:57,140 --> 00:03:00,820 Yeah, yeah, sure, that's the best. 52 00:03:00,820 --> 00:03:07,700 Artie the Grunt, yeah, yeah, Artie, and no-nose-fibers, that's it, just done. 53 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:09,780 Artie the Grunt and no-nose-fibers. 54 00:03:09,780 --> 00:03:10,780 Okay, Rick. 55 00:03:10,780 --> 00:03:14,780 That small time thing, sure there's room for only one of us, and he's going to find out 56 00:03:14,780 --> 00:03:15,780 which one it is. 57 00:03:15,780 --> 00:03:19,020 You tell him, honey lamb. 58 00:03:19,020 --> 00:03:21,100 Didn't I tell you to make me a drink? 59 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:22,100 No. 60 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:23,740 You calling me a liar? 61 00:03:23,740 --> 00:03:26,300 Honey lamb, I ain't calling you a liar. 62 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:28,660 You never told me to make you a drink, did you, Swifty? 63 00:03:28,660 --> 00:03:30,420 I told you to make me a drink a minute ago. 64 00:03:30,420 --> 00:03:31,900 I got ears, you never told me. 65 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:34,020 I'm telling you again, go make me a drink. 66 00:03:34,020 --> 00:03:39,220 Okay, okay, big thing, big, giving orders like a general or something. 67 00:03:39,220 --> 00:03:43,220 And don't get so smart. 68 00:03:43,220 --> 00:03:44,220 Dumb dame. 69 00:03:44,220 --> 00:03:45,220 Okay, Swifty. 70 00:03:45,220 --> 00:04:02,020 You get the boys over here, we got to have us a conference. 71 00:04:02,020 --> 00:04:06,540 All right now, the way I see it, it's machine gun Benny on me, see? 72 00:04:06,540 --> 00:04:07,940 And it's going to be me. 73 00:04:07,940 --> 00:04:08,940 Yeah, right. 74 00:04:08,940 --> 00:04:09,940 Sure, boy. 75 00:04:09,940 --> 00:04:10,940 He wants trouble, he found the right party. 76 00:04:10,940 --> 00:04:14,900 You want, you want we should go over and rub them out, boss? 77 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:16,740 What's the matter with you, no nose? 78 00:04:16,740 --> 00:04:18,740 He may be stupid, but he ain't dumb. 79 00:04:18,740 --> 00:04:20,420 Yeah, that's what he figures. 80 00:04:20,420 --> 00:04:23,460 We'll go gunning on him, that's what he figures, see? 81 00:04:23,460 --> 00:04:27,460 So we ain't gonna, we're gonna play it smart. 82 00:04:27,460 --> 00:04:28,460 Artie. 83 00:04:28,460 --> 00:04:29,460 Hmm? 84 00:04:29,460 --> 00:04:32,460 You got any ideas? 85 00:04:32,460 --> 00:04:33,460 No nose? 86 00:04:33,460 --> 00:04:37,020 Well, cheap boys, you don't want to use no choppers. 87 00:04:37,020 --> 00:04:41,060 Gee, how about a good old ride? 88 00:04:41,060 --> 00:04:42,300 Dope. 89 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:44,300 How you gonna get at him for a ride? 90 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:45,300 What a dope. 91 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:46,300 Honey love. 92 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:47,300 What, what? 93 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:48,300 Look, don't bother me, will you? 94 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:50,540 I got just a present I'm gonna buy you. 95 00:04:50,540 --> 00:04:51,700 Good, good, that's good. 96 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:52,700 Now shut up, boss. 97 00:04:52,700 --> 00:04:56,260 I got a thought, maybe we could send this bum a bomb, maybe, huh? 98 00:04:56,260 --> 00:05:00,220 You can't send no bomb through the mail, you know that, it's against the law. 99 00:05:00,220 --> 00:05:02,500 Ain't you guys got any? 100 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:05,260 Whoa, wait a minute. 101 00:05:05,260 --> 00:05:06,380 Yeah? 102 00:05:06,380 --> 00:05:07,380 I got something. 103 00:05:07,380 --> 00:05:08,380 What boss? 104 00:05:08,380 --> 00:05:11,660 How's about we could send him a little present, huh? 105 00:05:11,660 --> 00:05:14,700 What do you want you should send him a present for? 106 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:19,140 A Xmas present, see all wrapped up with paper, ribbon and everything, nice box about, oh 107 00:05:19,140 --> 00:05:23,780 about this big and this wide, and when he opens it, boom. 108 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:26,020 But boss, you just said we couldn't send him- 109 00:05:26,020 --> 00:05:33,020 Not through the mail, from the store, from, hey, Mil, Mil, what's the name of that store 110 00:05:33,020 --> 00:05:34,500 you always buying at? 111 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:35,500 Halgram. 112 00:05:35,500 --> 00:05:38,260 Hey, you gonna buy me that almond? 113 00:05:38,260 --> 00:05:40,820 Go make me a drink, make for the boys too. 114 00:05:40,820 --> 00:05:43,260 Oh gee whiz, okay. 115 00:05:43,260 --> 00:05:46,420 Halgrams, yeah, that's a place, real high class. 116 00:05:46,420 --> 00:05:50,140 Yeah, I like that, I like that. 117 00:05:50,140 --> 00:05:52,980 Merry Christmas Benny, boom. 118 00:05:52,980 --> 00:05:54,780 Yeah, yeah. 119 00:05:54,780 --> 00:05:57,660 Boss, you figure he'll fall for this, you figure? 120 00:05:57,660 --> 00:06:01,420 Sure he would, we get the store to deliver it, how's he gonna suspect? 121 00:06:01,420 --> 00:06:03,900 Well, how are we gonna get him to deliver it, boss? 122 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:06,660 We don't worry about now, it gets delivered. 123 00:06:06,660 --> 00:06:07,660 Artie. 124 00:06:07,660 --> 00:06:08,660 Mm-hmm? 125 00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:10,180 You got to make us for a bomb. 126 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:13,220 The old-fashioned kind, you know, all out of broken glass and nails. 127 00:06:13,220 --> 00:06:14,220 What'd he say? 128 00:06:14,220 --> 00:06:16,820 Yeah, yeah, he says he can make it. 129 00:06:16,820 --> 00:06:19,580 Oh, okay, now you take care of that and I want it day after tomorrow. 130 00:06:19,580 --> 00:06:20,580 All right. 131 00:06:20,580 --> 00:06:22,980 And you make it a ticker, see, but don't set nothing till we're ready. 132 00:06:22,980 --> 00:06:23,980 Yeah, yeah. 133 00:06:23,980 --> 00:06:26,020 Rick, I got to hand it to you, you're a genius. 134 00:06:26,020 --> 00:06:27,020 Yeah. 135 00:06:27,020 --> 00:06:29,020 You are a genius, boys, ain't he a genius? 136 00:06:29,020 --> 00:06:32,500 Yeah, he's got the Christmas spirit too. 137 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:34,820 It's better to give than to receive. 138 00:06:34,820 --> 00:06:37,020 Okay, okay, now shut up. 139 00:06:37,020 --> 00:06:40,100 We got to figure out a plan for the store to deliver it. 140 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:43,100 Yeah, we got to figure. 141 00:06:43,100 --> 00:07:02,700 Honey lamb, ain't you coming to bed? 142 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:04,340 No, I ain't coming to bed. 143 00:07:04,340 --> 00:07:07,820 But it's two o'clock a.m., I'm tired. 144 00:07:07,820 --> 00:07:08,820 Go make some coffee. 145 00:07:08,820 --> 00:07:09,820 Honey. 146 00:07:09,820 --> 00:07:10,820 I'm too hungry. 147 00:07:10,820 --> 00:07:15,260 Why don't you finish thinking tomorrow so I can get some sleep? 148 00:07:15,260 --> 00:07:18,180 Don't you never think about nothing else but sleeping. 149 00:07:18,180 --> 00:07:19,180 Sure. 150 00:07:19,180 --> 00:07:23,460 I've been thinking all day about that ermine and halgrams I was telling you. 151 00:07:23,460 --> 00:07:26,340 Baby, oh, baby. 152 00:07:26,340 --> 00:07:27,340 I love you, baby, I love you. 153 00:07:27,340 --> 00:07:28,340 I love you too, honey lamb. 154 00:07:28,340 --> 00:07:29,340 So why don't we just go to bed. 155 00:07:29,340 --> 00:07:30,340 Hey, hey, snap out of it, boys. 156 00:07:30,340 --> 00:07:31,340 Come on, wake up, quick. 157 00:07:31,340 --> 00:07:32,340 Hey, wake up. 158 00:07:32,340 --> 00:07:33,340 Hey, wake up. 159 00:07:33,340 --> 00:07:34,340 Hey, wake up. 160 00:07:34,340 --> 00:07:35,340 Hey, wake up. 161 00:07:35,340 --> 00:07:36,340 Hey, wake up. 162 00:07:36,340 --> 00:07:37,340 Hey, wake up. 163 00:07:37,340 --> 00:07:38,340 Hey, wake up. 164 00:07:38,340 --> 00:07:39,340 Hey, wake up. 165 00:07:39,340 --> 00:07:40,340 Hey, wake up. 166 00:07:40,340 --> 00:07:41,340 Wake up. 167 00:07:41,340 --> 00:07:42,340 Hey, wake up. 168 00:07:42,340 --> 00:07:43,340 Baby, wake up. 169 00:07:43,340 --> 00:07:44,340 Oh, baby, stop. 170 00:07:44,340 --> 00:07:45,340 Oh, baby. 171 00:07:45,340 --> 00:07:46,340 Oh, baby. 172 00:07:46,340 --> 00:07:47,340 Get your clothes off and make some coffee. 173 00:07:47,340 --> 00:07:50,700 Now, listen, boys, here's how we do it. 174 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:54,360 Hey, gorgeous, honey. 175 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,940 Oh, just simply gorgeous. 176 00:07:57,940 --> 00:08:02,940 Hey, gorgeous, honey. 177 00:08:02,940 --> 00:08:07,940 Oh, just simply gorgeous. 178 00:08:07,940 --> 00:08:09,940 Feel the pelt, sir. Notice the sheen. 179 00:08:09,940 --> 00:08:11,940 I felt that I seen it too Jesus too much. 180 00:08:11,940 --> 00:08:13,940 I'll give you fifteen hundred. 181 00:08:13,940 --> 00:08:15,940 Oh, I'm sorry, sir. It's been marked down from thirty-two. 182 00:08:15,940 --> 00:08:18,940 We positively cannot sell it for under two thousand. 183 00:08:18,940 --> 00:08:20,940 Now, we have a nice mink for fifteen hundred. 184 00:08:20,940 --> 00:08:23,940 Oh, Ricky, honey, don't be chintzy. It's Christmas. 185 00:08:23,940 --> 00:08:26,940 Will you shut your mouth and go buy your old lady something? 186 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:28,940 I'll see you at the house. 187 00:08:28,940 --> 00:08:31,940 Ain't you gonna buy it? It's so gorgeous. 188 00:08:31,940 --> 00:08:34,940 For fifteen hundred I'll buy it. For two I ain't interested. Now, beat it. 189 00:08:34,940 --> 00:08:37,940 Oh, gee. Okay. 190 00:08:37,940 --> 00:08:40,940 But don't go buying me no lousy mink. 191 00:08:40,940 --> 00:08:42,940 You know it gives me the hives. 192 00:08:42,940 --> 00:08:44,940 Ha, ha, ha. 193 00:08:44,940 --> 00:08:46,940 Ain't she a living doll? 194 00:08:46,940 --> 00:08:48,940 Okay, wrap it up. 195 00:08:48,940 --> 00:08:50,940 You'll take the ermine, sir? 196 00:08:50,940 --> 00:08:52,940 Sure I'm taking. I want to surprise her. 197 00:08:52,940 --> 00:08:55,940 Here. One. Two, gee. 198 00:08:55,940 --> 00:08:57,940 Oh, yes, sir. Thank you, sir. 199 00:08:57,940 --> 00:09:00,940 Would you like it wrapped as a gift for the lady? 200 00:09:00,940 --> 00:09:04,940 Yeah, I want it in a box with lots of ribbon and exmus junk all over, you know. 201 00:09:04,940 --> 00:09:08,940 And I want you to give me another box the same size, see, ribbons and everything. 202 00:09:08,940 --> 00:09:11,940 It's gonna be kind of an exmus joke on a pal. 203 00:09:11,940 --> 00:09:14,940 You get what I mean? A happy box, you know. 204 00:09:14,940 --> 00:09:16,940 Oh, and give me a couple of cards to write on. 205 00:09:16,940 --> 00:09:18,940 Yes, sir. Will you have them sent? 206 00:09:18,940 --> 00:09:20,940 No, I'll take them both with me. 207 00:09:20,940 --> 00:09:22,940 Well, it'll just take a few minutes, sir. 208 00:09:22,940 --> 00:09:24,940 So I'll wait. 209 00:09:24,940 --> 00:09:26,940 Okay. 210 00:09:33,940 --> 00:09:36,940 Hey, Artie, when you got the timer set for it to go off? 211 00:09:36,940 --> 00:09:39,940 Well, t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t... 212 00:09:39,940 --> 00:09:41,940 What'd he say? 213 00:09:41,940 --> 00:09:43,940 He says he got it set for 23 hours. 214 00:09:43,940 --> 00:09:46,940 It'll go off at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. 215 00:09:46,940 --> 00:09:49,940 What happens if, er, he opens it before? 216 00:09:49,940 --> 00:09:51,940 He's gonna be... 217 00:09:51,940 --> 00:09:52,940 What'd he say? 218 00:09:52,940 --> 00:09:54,940 He said it'll go off anywhere. 219 00:09:54,940 --> 00:09:57,940 Oh, that's good. Nice work, Artie, nice work. 220 00:09:57,940 --> 00:09:59,940 Hey, I bet you he opens it. 221 00:09:59,940 --> 00:10:01,940 Don't worry, I bet he ain't got no patience. 222 00:10:01,940 --> 00:10:04,940 For instance, he gets a big tree beginning of December. 223 00:10:04,940 --> 00:10:08,940 All the trimmings, his pals around him, a couple of cases of old stag. 224 00:10:08,940 --> 00:10:11,940 Christmas presents mean something to a guy like that. 225 00:10:11,940 --> 00:10:13,940 It is going to this year, that is for sure. 226 00:10:13,940 --> 00:10:15,940 Okay, here you go. 227 00:10:15,940 --> 00:10:18,940 All right, now, you carry, Swifty, and I'll take the airmen home. 228 00:10:18,940 --> 00:10:20,940 Sure, boss. 229 00:10:20,940 --> 00:10:22,940 Now, you know what you gotta do. 230 00:10:22,940 --> 00:10:24,940 I am to take the bomb back to the store. 231 00:10:24,940 --> 00:10:26,940 There, I'm to find a guy who'll let you sell the airmen. 232 00:10:26,940 --> 00:10:28,940 Yeah, Mr. Minchi. 233 00:10:26,940 --> 00:10:28,940 Minchi? 234 00:10:28,940 --> 00:10:30,940 Yeah. 235 00:10:28,940 --> 00:10:31,940 Then I give him the bomb and I tell him that he's to send it on to Benny. 236 00:10:31,940 --> 00:10:33,940 And you tell him it's the gag that I was talking about, 237 00:10:33,940 --> 00:10:35,940 and you give him a C-note for doing you the favor. 238 00:10:35,940 --> 00:10:37,940 I got it. 239 00:10:35,940 --> 00:10:37,940 Okay. 240 00:10:37,940 --> 00:10:39,940 Artie, when you get through cleaning up, 241 00:10:39,940 --> 00:10:41,940 come over to my place, we'll play some poker tonight, okay? 242 00:10:41,940 --> 00:10:43,940 Yeah, sure. 243 00:10:41,940 --> 00:10:43,940 All right, see you, Artie. 244 00:10:47,940 --> 00:10:49,940 He's a good boy, that Artie. 245 00:10:49,940 --> 00:10:51,940 I'm gonna get him one of them new 45s rexpers. 246 00:10:51,940 --> 00:10:53,940 Hey, that'd be nice, boss. 247 00:10:53,940 --> 00:10:55,940 Me, I like a 38 better. 248 00:10:55,940 --> 00:10:58,940 Don't make as big a hole, but it don't weigh you down so much. 249 00:10:58,940 --> 00:11:00,940 You know what I mean? 250 00:10:58,940 --> 00:11:00,940 Yeah, I know what you mean. 251 00:11:05,940 --> 00:11:07,940 Here, will you hold my box a minute? I want to get a cigarette. 252 00:11:07,940 --> 00:11:09,940 Sure, boss. 253 00:11:09,940 --> 00:11:14,940 Boss, look out! It's Benny! Get down! 254 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:33,940 You are listening to A Present for Benny, 255 00:11:33,940 --> 00:11:37,940 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 256 00:11:37,940 --> 00:11:39,940 Suspense. 257 00:11:47,940 --> 00:11:49,940 Let's look ahead to 1966, 258 00:11:49,940 --> 00:11:51,940 and there you are in your beautiful new home. 259 00:11:51,940 --> 00:11:53,940 You've got automatic gadgets everywhere. 260 00:11:53,940 --> 00:11:55,940 There's a sparkling new dream car in your garage. 261 00:11:55,940 --> 00:11:57,940 The youngsters are in a fine college. 262 00:11:57,940 --> 00:11:59,940 All's right with the world. 263 00:11:59,940 --> 00:12:01,940 Is this just an idle dream? 264 00:12:01,940 --> 00:12:04,940 No, this is a real future that you can start building right now. 265 00:12:04,940 --> 00:12:07,940 A secure, carefree, prosperous future 266 00:12:07,940 --> 00:12:09,940 built with the United States' savings bonds. 267 00:12:09,940 --> 00:12:13,940 In ten years, you will get back $4 for every $3 you've invested. 268 00:12:13,940 --> 00:12:16,940 Join the payroll savings plan where you work, 269 00:12:16,940 --> 00:12:18,940 or buy bonds where you bank. 270 00:12:18,940 --> 00:12:24,940 Start in 1956 to make 1966 the beginning of the golden years. 271 00:12:26,940 --> 00:12:29,940 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage 272 00:12:29,940 --> 00:12:32,940 Jack Crouchon, starring in tonight's production 273 00:12:32,940 --> 00:12:34,940 A Present for Benny. 274 00:12:34,940 --> 00:12:37,940 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 275 00:12:38,940 --> 00:12:40,940 Suspense. 276 00:12:52,940 --> 00:12:54,940 Boss, that was close. 277 00:12:54,940 --> 00:12:56,940 Oh, that's no good, dirty no good. 278 00:12:56,940 --> 00:12:58,940 Benny, he was not kidding about his getting there. 279 00:12:58,940 --> 00:13:01,940 And me, I wasn't kidding about getting him. 280 00:13:01,940 --> 00:13:03,940 I'll wait five minutes, 281 00:13:03,940 --> 00:13:06,940 and you take the bomb down the store like I said. 282 00:13:06,940 --> 00:13:08,940 Uh, boss? 283 00:13:08,940 --> 00:13:09,940 Huh? 284 00:13:09,940 --> 00:13:11,940 Which one have you got? 285 00:13:11,940 --> 00:13:13,940 You got the bomb or Milt's Omen? 286 00:13:13,940 --> 00:13:15,940 Oh, should I know? 287 00:13:15,940 --> 00:13:17,940 You were holding them when we hit the dirt. 288 00:13:17,940 --> 00:13:20,940 I just picked one up, we come back in here. 289 00:13:23,940 --> 00:13:25,940 They sure do look alike. 290 00:13:25,940 --> 00:13:28,940 Listen, you stupid dope, you got it mixed up the packages? 291 00:13:28,940 --> 00:13:30,940 Boss, what with that chopper going, I... 292 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:32,940 I just didn't notice. 293 00:13:32,940 --> 00:13:34,940 Oh, I ought to give you such a hit. 294 00:13:34,940 --> 00:13:36,940 What are we gonna do now? 295 00:13:36,940 --> 00:13:39,940 You got me, boss. I guess they weigh about the same. 296 00:13:39,940 --> 00:13:41,940 We cannot tell that way. 297 00:13:41,940 --> 00:13:44,940 Boss, maybe we should have put different colored ribbons on them. 298 00:13:44,940 --> 00:13:46,940 Uh, so as we could tell. 299 00:13:46,940 --> 00:13:48,940 Yeah, now you're getting smart. 300 00:13:48,940 --> 00:13:50,940 Now he thinks of it. 301 00:13:50,940 --> 00:13:52,940 Oh, come on. 302 00:13:53,940 --> 00:13:55,940 We're going back up to Artie's? 303 00:13:55,940 --> 00:13:57,940 Yeah, he'll open them up, find them on with the bomb, 304 00:13:57,940 --> 00:13:59,940 and then we'll wrap them up again. 305 00:13:59,940 --> 00:14:01,940 Oh, sure, Rick. Sure. 306 00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:03,940 That's Benny. 307 00:14:03,940 --> 00:14:05,940 You know, I should have rubbed him out a long time ago. 308 00:14:05,940 --> 00:14:07,940 You know, boss, I sure wish I could be there 309 00:14:07,940 --> 00:14:09,940 and see his face when he opens up the bomb. 310 00:14:09,940 --> 00:14:10,940 Yeah. 311 00:14:10,940 --> 00:14:12,940 You know, it's too bad he will not get time to read the card 312 00:14:12,940 --> 00:14:14,940 if the hole is his problem. 313 00:14:14,940 --> 00:14:16,940 Artie, open up, it's Rick. 314 00:14:19,940 --> 00:14:21,940 You guys have trouble? 315 00:14:21,940 --> 00:14:23,940 Yeah, we had some trouble. 316 00:14:23,940 --> 00:14:26,940 Benny and some of his boys as we was walking out. 317 00:14:26,940 --> 00:14:27,940 They missed. 318 00:14:27,940 --> 00:14:29,940 We ain't going to. 319 00:14:29,940 --> 00:14:31,940 Jerky here got the packages mixed up, though. 320 00:14:31,940 --> 00:14:33,940 You gotta open up and see which is which. 321 00:14:33,940 --> 00:14:35,940 Hmm? 322 00:14:35,940 --> 00:14:37,940 Well, come on, come on. 323 00:14:37,940 --> 00:14:39,940 So open it up so it don't blow up. 324 00:14:41,940 --> 00:14:43,940 I can't. 325 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:45,940 What do you mean you can't? What are you nuts? 326 00:14:45,940 --> 00:14:47,940 How am I gonna know which one you send that rat? 327 00:14:47,940 --> 00:14:50,940 Boss, maybe we could have thrown the bomb in the river. 328 00:14:50,940 --> 00:14:52,940 Then it would be okay. 329 00:14:52,940 --> 00:14:54,940 Oh, sure, oh, boy, what a schnook. 330 00:14:54,940 --> 00:14:56,940 We throw the ermine in the river, too. 331 00:14:56,940 --> 00:14:58,940 And then we can see which is the bomb. 332 00:14:58,940 --> 00:15:00,940 Uh, I forgot that. 333 00:15:00,940 --> 00:15:02,940 On the count of you, I'm gonna be out two Gs, 334 00:15:02,940 --> 00:15:04,940 and you know what, it comes out of your cutter. 335 00:15:04,940 --> 00:15:08,940 The next job we do, we gotta send both boxes to Benny now. 336 00:15:08,940 --> 00:15:10,940 Boss, maybe the ermine won't blow up when he does, 337 00:15:10,940 --> 00:15:13,940 and then we can take it back from his tomato after he is buried. 338 00:15:15,940 --> 00:15:17,940 Swifty, do me a favor. 339 00:15:17,940 --> 00:15:21,940 Stop making me feel so good before I kick your brains in. 340 00:15:21,940 --> 00:15:24,940 Now, look, you take them boxes back to the store, 341 00:15:24,940 --> 00:15:26,940 and send them out right away, you hear? 342 00:15:26,940 --> 00:15:29,940 I don't want no innocent people hurt when it goes off. 343 00:15:29,940 --> 00:15:31,940 Just leave it to me, boss. 344 00:15:31,940 --> 00:15:33,940 What did he say? 345 00:15:33,940 --> 00:15:35,940 He says you really got a heart, boss. 346 00:15:35,940 --> 00:15:38,940 Oh, and don't either of you say nothing about the ermine or mills. 347 00:15:38,940 --> 00:15:40,940 See, I'll have to get her another one. 348 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:41,940 Oh, I won't say nothing. 349 00:15:41,940 --> 00:15:42,940 Me neither, me neither. 350 00:15:42,940 --> 00:15:44,940 Okay, Swifty, now get going. 351 00:15:44,940 --> 00:15:54,940 I'll see you both back at my place. 352 00:15:58,940 --> 00:15:59,940 Is that you, honey baby? 353 00:15:59,940 --> 00:16:00,940 Yeah. 354 00:16:00,940 --> 00:16:02,940 Oh, me and Nono's just having a game of G, 355 00:16:02,940 --> 00:16:04,940 and I couldn't wait for you to get back G, I love you. 356 00:16:04,940 --> 00:16:05,940 Did you get it? 357 00:16:05,940 --> 00:16:06,940 What? 358 00:16:06,940 --> 00:16:07,940 The ermine. 359 00:16:07,940 --> 00:16:09,940 No, go make me a drink. 360 00:16:09,940 --> 00:16:11,940 Oh, baby lamb. 361 00:16:11,940 --> 00:16:13,940 You didn't really? 362 00:16:13,940 --> 00:16:14,940 Oh, you're kidding. 363 00:16:14,940 --> 00:16:16,940 You're going to make it a surprise. 364 00:16:16,940 --> 00:16:18,940 It ain't going to be no surprise on account of I didn't get it, 365 00:16:18,940 --> 00:16:20,940 now go make me a drink. 366 00:16:20,940 --> 00:16:21,940 Hey, Nono's. 367 00:16:21,940 --> 00:16:22,940 Yeah, boss. 368 00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:25,940 Gee, I bought you a pretty... 369 00:16:25,940 --> 00:16:28,940 Oh, well, you're sure going to look like something in it. 370 00:16:28,940 --> 00:16:29,940 Oh, wait till you see... 371 00:16:29,940 --> 00:16:30,940 Okay, okay. 372 00:16:30,940 --> 00:16:32,940 Guess what I got to guess. 373 00:16:32,940 --> 00:16:33,940 Look, I don't feel like no games. 374 00:16:33,940 --> 00:16:34,940 It's been a tough day. 375 00:16:34,940 --> 00:16:35,940 I'm tired. 376 00:16:35,940 --> 00:16:36,940 Do me a favour, make me a drink, 377 00:16:36,940 --> 00:16:38,940 then go to a movie or something, will you? 378 00:16:38,940 --> 00:16:39,940 Gee. 379 00:16:39,940 --> 00:16:40,940 Yeah, Rick? 380 00:16:40,940 --> 00:16:41,940 Where was I? 381 00:16:41,940 --> 00:16:42,940 Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. 382 00:16:42,940 --> 00:16:44,940 Look, you better call the rest of the boys 383 00:16:44,940 --> 00:16:46,940 and tell them that Benny's our gunner for us. 384 00:16:46,940 --> 00:16:48,940 Tell them to stay here out until they hear from EC 385 00:16:48,940 --> 00:16:50,940 and I don't want no trouble with the DA. 386 00:16:50,940 --> 00:16:51,940 He's up for re-election. 387 00:16:51,940 --> 00:16:54,940 You got Benny's presence and off okay, huh? 388 00:16:54,940 --> 00:16:55,940 Yeah. 389 00:16:55,940 --> 00:16:57,940 Boy, when he croaks, he'll die laughing 390 00:16:57,940 --> 00:16:59,940 if he opens the other box first. 391 00:16:59,940 --> 00:17:00,940 The other box? 392 00:17:00,940 --> 00:17:02,940 Yeah, I'll tell you about it when Mill's gone out. 393 00:17:02,940 --> 00:17:03,940 Oh. 394 00:17:05,940 --> 00:17:06,940 Yeah? 395 00:17:06,940 --> 00:17:07,940 Boss, this is Swifty. 396 00:17:07,940 --> 00:17:08,940 Yeah? 397 00:17:08,940 --> 00:17:10,940 You've got nothing to worry about. 398 00:17:10,940 --> 00:17:12,940 Everything is taken care of. 399 00:17:12,940 --> 00:17:14,940 The stuff goes off the first thing in the morning. 400 00:17:14,940 --> 00:17:15,940 Okay, come on back. 401 00:17:15,940 --> 00:17:16,940 Sure, Rick. 402 00:17:16,940 --> 00:17:18,940 I just thought that you should like to know. 403 00:17:18,940 --> 00:17:19,940 So long. 404 00:17:31,940 --> 00:17:33,940 Oh, Artie. 405 00:17:33,940 --> 00:17:34,940 What do you call these? 406 00:17:34,940 --> 00:17:36,940 Boil it, boil it. 407 00:17:36,940 --> 00:17:38,940 I asked for three minutes boiled. 408 00:17:38,940 --> 00:17:39,940 These ain't even born yet. 409 00:17:39,940 --> 00:17:41,940 Well, cook this, Jerry. 410 00:17:41,940 --> 00:17:43,940 Ain't you never gonna learn how to boil an egg? 411 00:17:43,940 --> 00:17:45,940 I'll fix you some more. 412 00:17:45,940 --> 00:17:46,940 I ain't hungry. 413 00:17:46,940 --> 00:17:48,940 Forget it. 414 00:17:48,940 --> 00:17:50,940 Artie, what time is it? 415 00:17:50,940 --> 00:17:51,940 Look, huh? 416 00:17:51,940 --> 00:17:52,940 No, it ain't, Artie. 417 00:17:52,940 --> 00:17:54,940 It's 1.30, boss. 418 00:17:54,940 --> 00:17:57,940 Benny should have got the bomb by now. 419 00:17:57,940 --> 00:17:58,940 Of course you want. 420 00:17:58,940 --> 00:18:00,940 I should call him and kind of ask after his help. 421 00:18:00,940 --> 00:18:01,940 No, no. 422 00:18:01,940 --> 00:18:04,940 If he ain't got it yet, he might get suspicious. 423 00:18:04,940 --> 00:18:06,940 Oh, boy, his waiting. 424 00:18:06,940 --> 00:18:08,940 You know, it's making a nervous wretch out of me. 425 00:18:08,940 --> 00:18:09,940 Just take it easy. 426 00:18:09,940 --> 00:18:10,940 It'll go off. 427 00:18:10,940 --> 00:18:11,940 If you don't want eggs, honey, 428 00:18:11,940 --> 00:18:13,940 how about some nice hot coffee, lover? 429 00:18:13,940 --> 00:18:14,940 Okay, okay. 430 00:18:14,940 --> 00:18:17,940 You'll feel better when you see what I've got for you. 431 00:18:17,940 --> 00:18:19,940 They're sending it today. 432 00:18:19,940 --> 00:18:21,940 Yeah, okay. 433 00:18:23,940 --> 00:18:25,940 Should I open the boss? 434 00:18:25,940 --> 00:18:26,940 Yeah, I'll cover you. 435 00:18:26,940 --> 00:18:29,940 Oh, you're so nervous all of a sudden this morning, honey. 436 00:18:29,940 --> 00:18:30,940 All right, all right. 437 00:18:30,940 --> 00:18:32,940 I'm nervous. 438 00:18:32,940 --> 00:18:33,940 So who is it? 439 00:18:33,940 --> 00:18:35,940 No nose. 440 00:18:35,940 --> 00:18:38,940 Let him in. 441 00:18:41,940 --> 00:18:43,940 What do you say, boss? 442 00:18:43,940 --> 00:18:45,940 What's in the package? 443 00:18:45,940 --> 00:18:46,940 Oh, this? 444 00:18:46,940 --> 00:18:49,940 Well, it just come up from Holgram's. 445 00:18:49,940 --> 00:18:51,940 Elevator was bringing it up. 446 00:18:51,940 --> 00:18:53,940 Oh, now don't you spoil it, honey lamb. 447 00:18:53,940 --> 00:18:55,940 That's my present to you. 448 00:18:55,940 --> 00:18:58,940 You can take the wrapping paper off, but you can't open the box. 449 00:18:58,940 --> 00:19:06,940 We got to put it under the tree when we get the tree. 450 00:19:06,940 --> 00:19:07,940 Hey, boss. 451 00:19:07,940 --> 00:19:08,940 Yeah? 452 00:19:08,940 --> 00:19:11,940 That box looks awful familiar. 453 00:19:11,940 --> 00:19:13,940 Yeah. 454 00:19:13,940 --> 00:19:15,940 Mill, you sure you bought this yesterday? 455 00:19:15,940 --> 00:19:16,940 Sure, I'm sure. 456 00:19:16,940 --> 00:19:20,940 Looks just like the ones we sent to Benny, don't it? 457 00:19:20,940 --> 00:19:24,940 Same size, same ribbon, same everything. 458 00:19:24,940 --> 00:19:25,940 Kind of makes you wonder. 459 00:19:25,940 --> 00:19:26,940 Don't be silly. 460 00:19:26,940 --> 00:19:29,940 They got millions of boxes like this. 461 00:19:29,940 --> 00:19:33,940 Oh, it happens there's something very special in there for my sweetie lamb. 462 00:19:33,940 --> 00:19:34,940 What's in it? 463 00:19:34,940 --> 00:19:35,940 Go ahead and open it. 464 00:19:35,940 --> 00:19:36,940 Go ahead. 465 00:19:36,940 --> 00:19:38,940 No, no, I'll wait. 466 00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:39,940 I ain't like Benny. 467 00:19:39,940 --> 00:19:40,940 I can wait. 468 00:19:40,940 --> 00:19:41,940 Oh, honey, you open it. 469 00:19:41,940 --> 00:19:42,940 It's okay. 470 00:19:42,940 --> 00:19:44,940 I'll get you something else to open on Christmas. 471 00:19:44,940 --> 00:19:46,940 Sure, why not, boss? 472 00:19:46,940 --> 00:19:47,940 You need something to make you feel good. 473 00:19:47,940 --> 00:19:49,940 I feel good now. 474 00:19:49,940 --> 00:19:50,940 I don't want to feel no better. 475 00:19:50,940 --> 00:19:53,940 Oh, and I thought you'd like it so much. 476 00:19:53,940 --> 00:19:55,940 You'd go with me and maybe buy a chinchilla. 477 00:19:55,940 --> 00:19:57,940 They got on sale at Hargund. 478 00:19:57,940 --> 00:20:00,940 It's only 1,500, just what you wanted to pay for the oimen. 479 00:20:00,940 --> 00:20:02,940 I like chinchilla. 480 00:20:02,940 --> 00:20:04,940 Come on, boss, open it up. 481 00:20:04,940 --> 00:20:05,940 Open, open, open. 482 00:20:05,940 --> 00:20:10,940 All right, all right, I'll open it. 483 00:20:10,940 --> 00:20:11,940 Hey, Swifty, go get it. 484 00:20:11,940 --> 00:20:12,940 Sure, boy. 485 00:20:12,940 --> 00:20:15,940 Oh, I can't wait for the lid to come off. 486 00:20:15,940 --> 00:20:16,940 Yeah? 487 00:20:16,940 --> 00:20:19,940 Oh, yeah. 488 00:20:19,940 --> 00:20:21,940 Yeah? 489 00:20:21,940 --> 00:20:22,940 Yeah, well, wait a minute. 490 00:20:22,940 --> 00:20:23,940 Wait a minute. 491 00:20:23,940 --> 00:20:25,940 Boss? 492 00:20:25,940 --> 00:20:27,940 It's that guy at the store, Hargund. 493 00:20:27,940 --> 00:20:28,940 Oh, Minchi? 494 00:20:28,940 --> 00:20:29,940 Yeah. 495 00:20:29,940 --> 00:20:31,940 You want me to open it for you, honey? 496 00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:35,940 No. 497 00:20:35,940 --> 00:20:36,940 Yeah. 498 00:20:36,940 --> 00:20:37,940 Mr. McQueen? 499 00:20:37,940 --> 00:20:38,940 Yeah. 500 00:20:38,940 --> 00:20:40,940 This is Mr. Minchi in the Fair Department at Hargund. 501 00:20:40,940 --> 00:20:41,940 So? 502 00:20:41,940 --> 00:20:45,940 Mr. McQueen, I'm terribly sorry, but I think there's been a mistake. 503 00:20:45,940 --> 00:20:46,940 What kind of mistake? 504 00:20:46,940 --> 00:20:47,940 What do you mean? 505 00:20:47,940 --> 00:20:50,940 A little confusion, but I'm sure it can be easily rectified. 506 00:20:50,940 --> 00:20:53,940 Your wife bought something for you yesterday, which was to be delivered this morning. 507 00:20:53,940 --> 00:20:55,940 Yeah, yeah, it's already come. 508 00:20:55,940 --> 00:21:01,940 Yes, well, there seems to have been an error made in the shipping department, a matter of mislaid address slips. 509 00:21:01,940 --> 00:21:04,940 Now, I wonder if you'd mind opening the package which you just received. 510 00:21:04,940 --> 00:21:10,940 Or perhaps since it's a Christmas parcel and a surprise for you, no doubt your wife would rather do it. 511 00:21:10,940 --> 00:21:12,940 Why? What's wrong with it? 512 00:21:12,940 --> 00:21:19,940 Well, you see, those two boxes which your man brought in yesterday afternoon haven't gone out yet. 513 00:21:19,940 --> 00:21:23,940 They were to be sent to Mr. Benjamin Mollisk, I believe it is. 514 00:21:23,940 --> 00:21:24,940 Yeah? 515 00:21:24,940 --> 00:21:30,940 I think the gift which you have is one of those, and, well, yours is his, that is, if you follow me. 516 00:21:30,940 --> 00:21:32,940 Now, if you'd open it, I'm sure... 517 00:21:38,940 --> 00:21:39,940 Boss, there's something wrong. 518 00:21:39,940 --> 00:21:41,940 Hey, you're pale. 519 00:21:41,940 --> 00:21:42,940 You're sick? 520 00:21:42,940 --> 00:21:44,940 What's the time? 521 00:21:44,940 --> 00:21:46,940 It's a quarter to two. 522 00:21:46,940 --> 00:21:48,940 Ain't you gonna open your presents? 523 00:21:48,940 --> 00:21:50,940 Don't nobody touch that box, it's loaded. 524 00:21:52,940 --> 00:21:53,940 The bomb? 525 00:21:53,940 --> 00:21:55,940 Yeah, the bomb. 526 00:21:55,940 --> 00:21:58,940 Well, of course it could have been... 527 00:21:58,940 --> 00:22:02,940 You shut up, Swifty. I've got enough trouble without her here on that. 528 00:22:02,940 --> 00:22:04,940 Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, I'll get you in here. 529 00:22:04,940 --> 00:22:05,940 Are you talking about me? 530 00:22:05,940 --> 00:22:10,940 Oh, get that thing out of here. Get it down in the store. I've got to send a special messenger. 531 00:22:10,940 --> 00:22:13,940 Let him send all three boxes to that punk Benny. Well, what do I care? 532 00:22:13,940 --> 00:22:16,940 Maybe I should send him a Cadillac to go with it. 533 00:22:16,940 --> 00:22:19,940 You know what I think? I think it'll be cheaper to kill myself. 534 00:22:37,940 --> 00:22:39,940 Hey, what's the time? 535 00:22:39,940 --> 00:22:40,940 Ten to four, baby. 536 00:22:40,940 --> 00:22:42,940 Where's that Swifty? 537 00:22:42,940 --> 00:22:43,940 Don't worry, he'll be here. 538 00:22:43,940 --> 00:22:46,940 Maybe Benny got him. 539 00:22:46,940 --> 00:22:49,940 Yeah, maybe I should have sent you and Artie with him. 540 00:22:49,940 --> 00:22:52,940 Get it, Artie. No nose in the meal, cover your... 541 00:22:58,940 --> 00:23:01,940 It's me, Artie. Swifty, open up. 542 00:23:05,940 --> 00:23:08,940 Boss, I've got it all straightened out. Everything is OK. 543 00:23:08,940 --> 00:23:11,940 Boy, something's up with those guys down at the store. 544 00:23:11,940 --> 00:23:13,940 What's that? 545 00:23:13,940 --> 00:23:16,940 This? Oh, this is your present the mill got for you. 546 00:23:16,940 --> 00:23:19,940 I told you, they have got it all straightened out OK now. 547 00:23:19,940 --> 00:23:23,940 You know, it's Christmas rush, everybody's Meshuggah, you know? 548 00:23:23,940 --> 00:23:26,940 So now they have found the right slips, wrapped up the boxes again, 549 00:23:26,940 --> 00:23:30,940 and Benny's presents have been delivered right now, and this one, this is yours. 550 00:23:30,940 --> 00:23:32,940 You're sure this time I should? 551 00:23:32,940 --> 00:23:34,940 Boss, would I make a lie out of myself? 552 00:23:34,940 --> 00:23:37,940 This box you can open, I guarantee it. 553 00:23:37,940 --> 00:23:39,940 Yeah, because you might not like the color I got you. 554 00:23:39,940 --> 00:23:43,940 So I wish you would open it, and if it ain't right, we can take it back this afternoon, 555 00:23:43,940 --> 00:23:47,940 and you can change it and maybe take a look at the chinchillas I was telling you about. 556 00:23:47,940 --> 00:23:52,940 Yeah, this time I'm going to wait. When Benny blows up, I open it. 557 00:23:52,940 --> 00:23:54,940 What's the time? 558 00:23:54,940 --> 00:23:56,940 That's two minutes to four. 559 00:23:56,940 --> 00:23:58,940 You sure? Is your watch right? 560 00:23:58,940 --> 00:24:02,940 Well, boss, I just call a tomato on a telephone and it gives you the time. 561 00:24:02,940 --> 00:24:06,940 Honeypot, you're too nervous. This ain't like you. Here, I'll open it for you. 562 00:24:06,940 --> 00:24:07,940 Hey, Mill, you quit that. 563 00:24:07,940 --> 00:24:09,940 Oh, boss. 564 00:24:09,940 --> 00:24:11,940 Gosh, take it easy, boss. You're all right. 565 00:24:11,940 --> 00:24:14,940 Oh, I bet you're just going to love it. I just bet. 566 00:24:14,940 --> 00:24:18,940 It's about Benny. He opened it. What do you bet? 567 00:24:18,940 --> 00:24:20,940 Wham, right through the wall. 568 00:24:22,940 --> 00:24:23,940 Yeah? 569 00:24:23,940 --> 00:24:25,940 Rick, this is Machine Gun Benny. 570 00:24:25,940 --> 00:24:26,940 Benny. 571 00:24:26,940 --> 00:24:31,940 Listen, pal, I feel like a dirty rat. That's what I feel like, a dirty rat. 572 00:24:31,940 --> 00:24:41,940 When I think what I tried to do to you yesterday and all the time you was making neverminds with the presents, which I and my girl are right now wearing, I tell you, I could eat mud. 573 00:24:41,940 --> 00:24:42,940 Yeah. 574 00:24:42,940 --> 00:24:51,940 She says she never seen such a omen. And the robot's the greatest. Oh, pal, I am a heel. But it ain't too late to change. 575 00:24:51,940 --> 00:24:53,940 Hey, what do you say we bury the hatchet, eh? 576 00:24:53,940 --> 00:24:54,940 Yeah. 577 00:24:54,940 --> 00:25:02,940 I'll split with you on our furs I hijack from you. And we're partners, you and me. Run the town together. What do you say, eh? 578 00:25:02,940 --> 00:25:03,940 Yeah. 579 00:25:03,940 --> 00:25:09,940 All right? So you and Mill and your boys come on over and partake of some Xmas cheer. You hear me, boy? 580 00:25:09,940 --> 00:25:16,940 You're a great guy, Rick. The greatest. So long, pal. Merry Xmas. 581 00:25:16,940 --> 00:25:26,940 So long. 582 00:25:26,940 --> 00:25:28,940 Benny, huh? 583 00:25:28,940 --> 00:25:30,940 Yeah. 584 00:25:30,940 --> 00:25:33,940 This one's the bomb? 585 00:25:33,940 --> 00:25:36,940 Yeah. 586 00:25:36,940 --> 00:25:39,940 Too bad. 587 00:25:39,940 --> 00:25:41,940 What's the time? 588 00:25:41,940 --> 00:25:44,940 It's three minutes after four. 589 00:25:44,940 --> 00:25:47,940 Three after? 590 00:25:47,940 --> 00:25:52,940 Artie, the time has come and gone. How come it didn't go off? 591 00:25:52,940 --> 00:25:55,940 Look a moment of a little Christmas. 592 00:25:55,940 --> 00:25:58,940 What'd he say? 593 00:25:58,940 --> 00:26:03,940 He says he did not want to blow nobody up so near to Christmas. 594 00:26:03,940 --> 00:26:05,940 Then what's in the box? 595 00:26:05,940 --> 00:26:06,940 I'll go show him. 596 00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:07,940 Huh? 597 00:26:07,940 --> 00:26:19,940 He's gonna show it. 598 00:26:37,940 --> 00:26:50,940 Suspense. 599 00:26:50,940 --> 00:26:57,940 In which Jack Crouchon starred in tonight's presentation of A Present for Benny. 600 00:26:57,940 --> 00:27:05,940 Next week, a charming fantasy about a small boy who discovered a new world and lived forever after in its enchantment. 601 00:27:05,940 --> 00:27:26,940 We call it The Cave. That's next week on Suspense. 602 00:27:26,940 --> 00:27:36,940 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis, who also wrote tonight's script. The music was composed by Rene Garagang and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 603 00:27:36,940 --> 00:27:43,940 Featured in the cast were Stacey Harris, Eve McVeigh, Benny Rubin, Junius Matthews, and Joseph Kearns. 604 00:27:43,940 --> 00:27:51,940 Time's growing short for the youngsters to write to Bing Crosby. The deadline for postmarked letters is Thursday, December 15th, midnight. 605 00:27:51,940 --> 00:28:00,940 All your youngster has to do is write a letter to Bing telling what Christmas means to me. Then mail it to Bing Crosby, CBS Radio, Hollywood 28 California. 606 00:28:00,940 --> 00:28:07,940 The winner will read his letter in person when America Sings with Bing, Christmas Eve on CBS Radio. 607 00:28:07,940 --> 00:28:16,940 All youngsters 12 years of age and under are eligible. That address once again, Bing Crosby, CBS Radio, Hollywood 28 California. 608 00:28:16,940 --> 00:28:21,940 Be sure the young letter writer puts his name and address on the letter. 609 00:28:21,940 --> 00:28:41,940 Stay tuned now for five minutes of CBS Radio news to be followed on most of these same stations by The Jack Carson Show. 610 00:28:41,940 --> 00:28:46,940 The thrill to Gunsmoke every Saturday and Sunday on the CBS Radio Network. 611 00:29:11,940 --> 00:29:38,940 The Jack Carson Show