WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:22.460 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:22.460 --> 00:28.260 Tonight we bring you a story of Christmas shopping and a present that went astray. 00:28.260 --> 00:31.000 We call it, A Present for Benny. 00:31.000 --> 01:00.100 So now, starring Jack Crouchon, here is tonight's Suspense play, A Present for Benny. 01:00.100 --> 01:01.100 Honey lamb. 01:01.100 --> 01:02.100 Huh? 01:02.100 --> 01:06.860 They got a gorgeous ermine on sale at Halgrams. 01:06.860 --> 01:07.860 Just gorgeous, look. 01:07.860 --> 01:08.860 Later, later. 01:08.860 --> 01:11.460 Give me the rest of the mail. 01:11.460 --> 01:12.460 And not the bills. 01:12.460 --> 01:15.460 Sure, baby doll. 01:15.460 --> 01:20.620 Oh honey pot, it's gorgeous. 01:20.620 --> 01:23.580 Like the stuff you got in that big job last month. 01:23.580 --> 01:27.100 I got a, you know, a... 01:27.100 --> 01:30.740 Something wrong, lover? 01:30.740 --> 01:31.740 Shut up. 01:31.740 --> 01:33.540 Hey, you call me, boss? 01:33.540 --> 01:34.540 Who call you? 01:34.540 --> 01:36.020 You want to get thrown out the window? 01:36.020 --> 01:38.900 He's all upset, Swiftie, on a kind of a letter. 01:38.900 --> 01:39.900 Sure, I'm upset. 01:39.900 --> 01:43.620 Yeah, you listen to this. 01:43.620 --> 01:48.540 Dear Ricky, I'm sending you this letter like kind of an X-mas greeting. 01:48.540 --> 01:52.980 I got a holiday feeling in me, so I'm going to give you the new straight. 01:52.980 --> 01:58.140 Three of my boys is the ones who hijacked that load of fur from you last month. 01:58.140 --> 02:02.900 Because you were a dirty no good fink, I'm stating to you that there ain't no room for 02:02.900 --> 02:04.420 the two of us in this town. 02:04.420 --> 02:07.420 So me and the boys is moving you out. 02:07.420 --> 02:11.180 You were a big chiseler, and if you don't drop dead when you read this, me and the boys 02:11.180 --> 02:14.700 will pump you full of lead next time we see you. 02:14.700 --> 02:17.780 Yours truly, and a merry X-mas. 02:17.780 --> 02:20.060 Machine gun Benny. 02:20.060 --> 02:21.660 He's a dirty rat. 02:21.660 --> 02:25.220 Baby, honey, you could give it to me for Christmas. 02:25.220 --> 02:27.620 It's only two Gs, and it's just gorgeous. 02:27.620 --> 02:29.820 Look, will you shut your trap? 02:29.820 --> 02:30.820 I got enough trouble. 02:30.820 --> 02:33.900 Boss, boss, what are you going to do? 02:33.900 --> 02:34.900 What do you think? 02:34.900 --> 02:37.420 What do you think? 02:37.420 --> 02:38.420 Go call the boys. 02:38.420 --> 02:39.420 Sure. 02:39.420 --> 02:42.300 No, wait a minute. 02:42.300 --> 02:44.100 We got to do this careful. 02:44.100 --> 02:47.700 We don't want no open war, you know what I mean? 02:47.700 --> 02:49.980 Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean, boss. 02:49.980 --> 02:53.700 Just a couple of us, see. 02:53.700 --> 02:55.700 Two good heads, and you and me. 02:55.700 --> 02:57.140 Yeah, that's the best. 02:57.140 --> 03:00.820 Yeah, yeah, sure, that's the best. 03:00.820 --> 03:07.700 Artie the Grunt, yeah, yeah, Artie, and no-nose-fibers, that's it, just done. 03:07.700 --> 03:09.780 Artie the Grunt and no-nose-fibers. 03:09.780 --> 03:10.780 Okay, Rick. 03:10.780 --> 03:14.780 That small time thing, sure there's room for only one of us, and he's going to find out 03:14.780 --> 03:15.780 which one it is. 03:15.780 --> 03:19.020 You tell him, honey lamb. 03:19.020 --> 03:21.100 Didn't I tell you to make me a drink? 03:21.100 --> 03:22.100 No. 03:22.100 --> 03:23.740 You calling me a liar? 03:23.740 --> 03:26.300 Honey lamb, I ain't calling you a liar. 03:26.300 --> 03:28.660 You never told me to make you a drink, did you, Swifty? 03:28.660 --> 03:30.420 I told you to make me a drink a minute ago. 03:30.420 --> 03:31.900 I got ears, you never told me. 03:31.900 --> 03:34.020 I'm telling you again, go make me a drink. 03:34.020 --> 03:39.220 Okay, okay, big thing, big, giving orders like a general or something. 03:39.220 --> 03:43.220 And don't get so smart. 03:43.220 --> 03:44.220 Dumb dame. 03:44.220 --> 03:45.220 Okay, Swifty. 03:45.220 --> 04:02.020 You get the boys over here, we got to have us a conference. 04:02.020 --> 04:06.540 All right now, the way I see it, it's machine gun Benny on me, see? 04:06.540 --> 04:07.940 And it's going to be me. 04:07.940 --> 04:08.940 Yeah, right. 04:08.940 --> 04:09.940 Sure, boy. 04:09.940 --> 04:10.940 He wants trouble, he found the right party. 04:10.940 --> 04:14.900 You want, you want we should go over and rub them out, boss? 04:14.900 --> 04:16.740 What's the matter with you, no nose? 04:16.740 --> 04:18.740 He may be stupid, but he ain't dumb. 04:18.740 --> 04:20.420 Yeah, that's what he figures. 04:20.420 --> 04:23.460 We'll go gunning on him, that's what he figures, see? 04:23.460 --> 04:27.460 So we ain't gonna, we're gonna play it smart. 04:27.460 --> 04:28.460 Artie. 04:28.460 --> 04:29.460 Hmm? 04:29.460 --> 04:32.460 You got any ideas? 04:32.460 --> 04:33.460 No nose? 04:33.460 --> 04:37.020 Well, cheap boys, you don't want to use no choppers. 04:37.020 --> 04:41.060 Gee, how about a good old ride? 04:41.060 --> 04:42.300 Dope. 04:42.300 --> 04:44.300 How you gonna get at him for a ride? 04:44.300 --> 04:45.300 What a dope. 04:45.300 --> 04:46.300 Honey love. 04:46.300 --> 04:47.300 What, what? 04:47.300 --> 04:48.300 Look, don't bother me, will you? 04:48.300 --> 04:50.540 I got just a present I'm gonna buy you. 04:50.540 --> 04:51.700 Good, good, that's good. 04:51.700 --> 04:52.700 Now shut up, boss. 04:52.700 --> 04:56.260 I got a thought, maybe we could send this bum a bomb, maybe, huh? 04:56.260 --> 05:00.220 You can't send no bomb through the mail, you know that, it's against the law. 05:00.220 --> 05:02.500 Ain't you guys got any? 05:02.500 --> 05:05.260 Whoa, wait a minute. 05:05.260 --> 05:06.380 Yeah? 05:06.380 --> 05:07.380 I got something. 05:07.380 --> 05:08.380 What boss? 05:08.380 --> 05:11.660 How's about we could send him a little present, huh? 05:11.660 --> 05:14.700 What do you want you should send him a present for? 05:14.700 --> 05:19.140 A Xmas present, see all wrapped up with paper, ribbon and everything, nice box about, oh 05:19.140 --> 05:23.780 about this big and this wide, and when he opens it, boom. 05:23.780 --> 05:26.020 But boss, you just said we couldn't send him- 05:26.020 --> 05:33.020 Not through the mail, from the store, from, hey, Mil, Mil, what's the name of that store 05:33.020 --> 05:34.500 you always buying at? 05:34.500 --> 05:35.500 Halgram. 05:35.500 --> 05:38.260 Hey, you gonna buy me that almond? 05:38.260 --> 05:40.820 Go make me a drink, make for the boys too. 05:40.820 --> 05:43.260 Oh gee whiz, okay. 05:43.260 --> 05:46.420 Halgrams, yeah, that's a place, real high class. 05:46.420 --> 05:50.140 Yeah, I like that, I like that. 05:50.140 --> 05:52.980 Merry Christmas Benny, boom. 05:52.980 --> 05:54.780 Yeah, yeah. 05:54.780 --> 05:57.660 Boss, you figure he'll fall for this, you figure? 05:57.660 --> 06:01.420 Sure he would, we get the store to deliver it, how's he gonna suspect? 06:01.420 --> 06:03.900 Well, how are we gonna get him to deliver it, boss? 06:03.900 --> 06:06.660 We don't worry about now, it gets delivered. 06:06.660 --> 06:07.660 Artie. 06:07.660 --> 06:08.660 Mm-hmm? 06:08.660 --> 06:10.180 You got to make us for a bomb. 06:10.180 --> 06:13.220 The old-fashioned kind, you know, all out of broken glass and nails. 06:13.220 --> 06:14.220 What'd he say? 06:14.220 --> 06:16.820 Yeah, yeah, he says he can make it. 06:16.820 --> 06:19.580 Oh, okay, now you take care of that and I want it day after tomorrow. 06:19.580 --> 06:20.580 All right. 06:20.580 --> 06:22.980 And you make it a ticker, see, but don't set nothing till we're ready. 06:22.980 --> 06:23.980 Yeah, yeah. 06:23.980 --> 06:26.020 Rick, I got to hand it to you, you're a genius. 06:26.020 --> 06:27.020 Yeah. 06:27.020 --> 06:29.020 You are a genius, boys, ain't he a genius? 06:29.020 --> 06:32.500 Yeah, he's got the Christmas spirit too. 06:32.500 --> 06:34.820 It's better to give than to receive. 06:34.820 --> 06:37.020 Okay, okay, now shut up. 06:37.020 --> 06:40.100 We got to figure out a plan for the store to deliver it. 06:40.100 --> 06:43.100 Yeah, we got to figure. 06:43.100 --> 07:02.700 Honey lamb, ain't you coming to bed? 07:02.700 --> 07:04.340 No, I ain't coming to bed. 07:04.340 --> 07:07.820 But it's two o'clock a.m., I'm tired. 07:07.820 --> 07:08.820 Go make some coffee. 07:08.820 --> 07:09.820 Honey. 07:09.820 --> 07:10.820 I'm too hungry. 07:10.820 --> 07:15.260 Why don't you finish thinking tomorrow so I can get some sleep? 07:15.260 --> 07:18.180 Don't you never think about nothing else but sleeping. 07:18.180 --> 07:19.180 Sure. 07:19.180 --> 07:23.460 I've been thinking all day about that ermine and halgrams I was telling you. 07:23.460 --> 07:26.340 Baby, oh, baby. 07:26.340 --> 07:27.340 I love you, baby, I love you. 07:27.340 --> 07:28.340 I love you too, honey lamb. 07:28.340 --> 07:29.340 So why don't we just go to bed. 07:29.340 --> 07:30.340 Hey, hey, snap out of it, boys. 07:30.340 --> 07:31.340 Come on, wake up, quick. 07:31.340 --> 07:32.340 Hey, wake up. 07:32.340 --> 07:33.340 Hey, wake up. 07:33.340 --> 07:34.340 Hey, wake up. 07:34.340 --> 07:35.340 Hey, wake up. 07:35.340 --> 07:36.340 Hey, wake up. 07:36.340 --> 07:37.340 Hey, wake up. 07:37.340 --> 07:38.340 Hey, wake up. 07:38.340 --> 07:39.340 Hey, wake up. 07:39.340 --> 07:40.340 Hey, wake up. 07:40.340 --> 07:41.340 Wake up. 07:41.340 --> 07:42.340 Hey, wake up. 07:42.340 --> 07:43.340 Baby, wake up. 07:43.340 --> 07:44.340 Oh, baby, stop. 07:44.340 --> 07:45.340 Oh, baby. 07:45.340 --> 07:46.340 Oh, baby. 07:46.340 --> 07:47.340 Get your clothes off and make some coffee. 07:47.340 --> 07:50.700 Now, listen, boys, here's how we do it. 07:50.700 --> 07:54.360 Hey, gorgeous, honey. 07:54.360 --> 07:57.940 Oh, just simply gorgeous. 07:57.940 --> 08:02.940 Hey, gorgeous, honey. 08:02.940 --> 08:07.940 Oh, just simply gorgeous. 08:07.940 --> 08:09.940 Feel the pelt, sir. Notice the sheen. 08:09.940 --> 08:11.940 I felt that I seen it too Jesus too much. 08:11.940 --> 08:13.940 I'll give you fifteen hundred. 08:13.940 --> 08:15.940 Oh, I'm sorry, sir. It's been marked down from thirty-two. 08:15.940 --> 08:18.940 We positively cannot sell it for under two thousand. 08:18.940 --> 08:20.940 Now, we have a nice mink for fifteen hundred. 08:20.940 --> 08:23.940 Oh, Ricky, honey, don't be chintzy. It's Christmas. 08:23.940 --> 08:26.940 Will you shut your mouth and go buy your old lady something? 08:26.940 --> 08:28.940 I'll see you at the house. 08:28.940 --> 08:31.940 Ain't you gonna buy it? It's so gorgeous. 08:31.940 --> 08:34.940 For fifteen hundred I'll buy it. For two I ain't interested. Now, beat it. 08:34.940 --> 08:37.940 Oh, gee. Okay. 08:37.940 --> 08:40.940 But don't go buying me no lousy mink. 08:40.940 --> 08:42.940 You know it gives me the hives. 08:42.940 --> 08:44.940 Ha, ha, ha. 08:44.940 --> 08:46.940 Ain't she a living doll? 08:46.940 --> 08:48.940 Okay, wrap it up. 08:48.940 --> 08:50.940 You'll take the ermine, sir? 08:50.940 --> 08:52.940 Sure I'm taking. I want to surprise her. 08:52.940 --> 08:55.940 Here. One. Two, gee. 08:55.940 --> 08:57.940 Oh, yes, sir. Thank you, sir. 08:57.940 --> 09:00.940 Would you like it wrapped as a gift for the lady? 09:00.940 --> 09:04.940 Yeah, I want it in a box with lots of ribbon and exmus junk all over, you know. 09:04.940 --> 09:08.940 And I want you to give me another box the same size, see, ribbons and everything. 09:08.940 --> 09:11.940 It's gonna be kind of an exmus joke on a pal. 09:11.940 --> 09:14.940 You get what I mean? A happy box, you know. 09:14.940 --> 09:16.940 Oh, and give me a couple of cards to write on. 09:16.940 --> 09:18.940 Yes, sir. Will you have them sent? 09:18.940 --> 09:20.940 No, I'll take them both with me. 09:20.940 --> 09:22.940 Well, it'll just take a few minutes, sir. 09:22.940 --> 09:24.940 So I'll wait. 09:24.940 --> 09:26.940 Okay. 09:33.940 --> 09:36.940 Hey, Artie, when you got the timer set for it to go off? 09:36.940 --> 09:39.940 Well, t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t... 09:39.940 --> 09:41.940 What'd he say? 09:41.940 --> 09:43.940 He says he got it set for 23 hours. 09:43.940 --> 09:46.940 It'll go off at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. 09:46.940 --> 09:49.940 What happens if, er, he opens it before? 09:49.940 --> 09:51.940 He's gonna be... 09:51.940 --> 09:52.940 What'd he say? 09:52.940 --> 09:54.940 He said it'll go off anywhere. 09:54.940 --> 09:57.940 Oh, that's good. Nice work, Artie, nice work. 09:57.940 --> 09:59.940 Hey, I bet you he opens it. 09:59.940 --> 10:01.940 Don't worry, I bet he ain't got no patience. 10:01.940 --> 10:04.940 For instance, he gets a big tree beginning of December. 10:04.940 --> 10:08.940 All the trimmings, his pals around him, a couple of cases of old stag. 10:08.940 --> 10:11.940 Christmas presents mean something to a guy like that. 10:11.940 --> 10:13.940 It is going to this year, that is for sure. 10:13.940 --> 10:15.940 Okay, here you go. 10:15.940 --> 10:18.940 All right, now, you carry, Swifty, and I'll take the airmen home. 10:18.940 --> 10:20.940 Sure, boss. 10:20.940 --> 10:22.940 Now, you know what you gotta do. 10:22.940 --> 10:24.940 I am to take the bomb back to the store. 10:24.940 --> 10:26.940 There, I'm to find a guy who'll let you sell the airmen. 10:26.940 --> 10:28.940 Yeah, Mr. Minchi. 10:26.940 --> 10:28.940 Minchi? 10:28.940 --> 10:30.940 Yeah. 10:28.940 --> 10:31.940 Then I give him the bomb and I tell him that he's to send it on to Benny. 10:31.940 --> 10:33.940 And you tell him it's the gag that I was talking about, 10:33.940 --> 10:35.940 and you give him a C-note for doing you the favor. 10:35.940 --> 10:37.940 I got it. 10:35.940 --> 10:37.940 Okay. 10:37.940 --> 10:39.940 Artie, when you get through cleaning up, 10:39.940 --> 10:41.940 come over to my place, we'll play some poker tonight, okay? 10:41.940 --> 10:43.940 Yeah, sure. 10:41.940 --> 10:43.940 All right, see you, Artie. 10:47.940 --> 10:49.940 He's a good boy, that Artie. 10:49.940 --> 10:51.940 I'm gonna get him one of them new 45s rexpers. 10:51.940 --> 10:53.940 Hey, that'd be nice, boss. 10:53.940 --> 10:55.940 Me, I like a 38 better. 10:55.940 --> 10:58.940 Don't make as big a hole, but it don't weigh you down so much. 10:58.940 --> 11:00.940 You know what I mean? 10:58.940 --> 11:00.940 Yeah, I know what you mean. 11:05.940 --> 11:07.940 Here, will you hold my box a minute? I want to get a cigarette. 11:07.940 --> 11:09.940 Sure, boss. 11:09.940 --> 11:14.940 Boss, look out! It's Benny! Get down! 11:30.940 --> 11:33.940 You are listening to A Present for Benny, 11:33.940 --> 11:37.940 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 11:37.940 --> 11:39.940 Suspense. 11:47.940 --> 11:49.940 Let's look ahead to 1966, 11:49.940 --> 11:51.940 and there you are in your beautiful new home. 11:51.940 --> 11:53.940 You've got automatic gadgets everywhere. 11:53.940 --> 11:55.940 There's a sparkling new dream car in your garage. 11:55.940 --> 11:57.940 The youngsters are in a fine college. 11:57.940 --> 11:59.940 All's right with the world. 11:59.940 --> 12:01.940 Is this just an idle dream? 12:01.940 --> 12:04.940 No, this is a real future that you can start building right now. 12:04.940 --> 12:07.940 A secure, carefree, prosperous future 12:07.940 --> 12:09.940 built with the United States' savings bonds. 12:09.940 --> 12:13.940 In ten years, you will get back $4 for every $3 you've invested. 12:13.940 --> 12:16.940 Join the payroll savings plan where you work, 12:16.940 --> 12:18.940 or buy bonds where you bank. 12:18.940 --> 12:24.940 Start in 1956 to make 1966 the beginning of the golden years. 12:26.940 --> 12:29.940 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage 12:29.940 --> 12:32.940 Jack Crouchon, starring in tonight's production 12:32.940 --> 12:34.940 A Present for Benny. 12:34.940 --> 12:37.940 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 12:38.940 --> 12:40.940 Suspense. 12:52.940 --> 12:54.940 Boss, that was close. 12:54.940 --> 12:56.940 Oh, that's no good, dirty no good. 12:56.940 --> 12:58.940 Benny, he was not kidding about his getting there. 12:58.940 --> 13:01.940 And me, I wasn't kidding about getting him. 13:01.940 --> 13:03.940 I'll wait five minutes, 13:03.940 --> 13:06.940 and you take the bomb down the store like I said. 13:06.940 --> 13:08.940 Uh, boss? 13:08.940 --> 13:09.940 Huh? 13:09.940 --> 13:11.940 Which one have you got? 13:11.940 --> 13:13.940 You got the bomb or Milt's Omen? 13:13.940 --> 13:15.940 Oh, should I know? 13:15.940 --> 13:17.940 You were holding them when we hit the dirt. 13:17.940 --> 13:20.940 I just picked one up, we come back in here. 13:23.940 --> 13:25.940 They sure do look alike. 13:25.940 --> 13:28.940 Listen, you stupid dope, you got it mixed up the packages? 13:28.940 --> 13:30.940 Boss, what with that chopper going, I... 13:30.940 --> 13:32.940 I just didn't notice. 13:32.940 --> 13:34.940 Oh, I ought to give you such a hit. 13:34.940 --> 13:36.940 What are we gonna do now? 13:36.940 --> 13:39.940 You got me, boss. I guess they weigh about the same. 13:39.940 --> 13:41.940 We cannot tell that way. 13:41.940 --> 13:44.940 Boss, maybe we should have put different colored ribbons on them. 13:44.940 --> 13:46.940 Uh, so as we could tell. 13:46.940 --> 13:48.940 Yeah, now you're getting smart. 13:48.940 --> 13:50.940 Now he thinks of it. 13:50.940 --> 13:52.940 Oh, come on. 13:53.940 --> 13:55.940 We're going back up to Artie's? 13:55.940 --> 13:57.940 Yeah, he'll open them up, find them on with the bomb, 13:57.940 --> 13:59.940 and then we'll wrap them up again. 13:59.940 --> 14:01.940 Oh, sure, Rick. Sure. 14:01.940 --> 14:03.940 That's Benny. 14:03.940 --> 14:05.940 You know, I should have rubbed him out a long time ago. 14:05.940 --> 14:07.940 You know, boss, I sure wish I could be there 14:07.940 --> 14:09.940 and see his face when he opens up the bomb. 14:09.940 --> 14:10.940 Yeah. 14:10.940 --> 14:12.940 You know, it's too bad he will not get time to read the card 14:12.940 --> 14:14.940 if the hole is his problem. 14:14.940 --> 14:16.940 Artie, open up, it's Rick. 14:19.940 --> 14:21.940 You guys have trouble? 14:21.940 --> 14:23.940 Yeah, we had some trouble. 14:23.940 --> 14:26.940 Benny and some of his boys as we was walking out. 14:26.940 --> 14:27.940 They missed. 14:27.940 --> 14:29.940 We ain't going to. 14:29.940 --> 14:31.940 Jerky here got the packages mixed up, though. 14:31.940 --> 14:33.940 You gotta open up and see which is which. 14:33.940 --> 14:35.940 Hmm? 14:35.940 --> 14:37.940 Well, come on, come on. 14:37.940 --> 14:39.940 So open it up so it don't blow up. 14:41.940 --> 14:43.940 I can't. 14:43.940 --> 14:45.940 What do you mean you can't? What are you nuts? 14:45.940 --> 14:47.940 How am I gonna know which one you send that rat? 14:47.940 --> 14:50.940 Boss, maybe we could have thrown the bomb in the river. 14:50.940 --> 14:52.940 Then it would be okay. 14:52.940 --> 14:54.940 Oh, sure, oh, boy, what a schnook. 14:54.940 --> 14:56.940 We throw the ermine in the river, too. 14:56.940 --> 14:58.940 And then we can see which is the bomb. 14:58.940 --> 15:00.940 Uh, I forgot that. 15:00.940 --> 15:02.940 On the count of you, I'm gonna be out two Gs, 15:02.940 --> 15:04.940 and you know what, it comes out of your cutter. 15:04.940 --> 15:08.940 The next job we do, we gotta send both boxes to Benny now. 15:08.940 --> 15:10.940 Boss, maybe the ermine won't blow up when he does, 15:10.940 --> 15:13.940 and then we can take it back from his tomato after he is buried. 15:15.940 --> 15:17.940 Swifty, do me a favor. 15:17.940 --> 15:21.940 Stop making me feel so good before I kick your brains in. 15:21.940 --> 15:24.940 Now, look, you take them boxes back to the store, 15:24.940 --> 15:26.940 and send them out right away, you hear? 15:26.940 --> 15:29.940 I don't want no innocent people hurt when it goes off. 15:29.940 --> 15:31.940 Just leave it to me, boss. 15:31.940 --> 15:33.940 What did he say? 15:33.940 --> 15:35.940 He says you really got a heart, boss. 15:35.940 --> 15:38.940 Oh, and don't either of you say nothing about the ermine or mills. 15:38.940 --> 15:40.940 See, I'll have to get her another one. 15:40.940 --> 15:41.940 Oh, I won't say nothing. 15:41.940 --> 15:42.940 Me neither, me neither. 15:42.940 --> 15:44.940 Okay, Swifty, now get going. 15:44.940 --> 15:54.940 I'll see you both back at my place. 15:58.940 --> 15:59.940 Is that you, honey baby? 15:59.940 --> 16:00.940 Yeah. 16:00.940 --> 16:02.940 Oh, me and Nono's just having a game of G, 16:02.940 --> 16:04.940 and I couldn't wait for you to get back G, I love you. 16:04.940 --> 16:05.940 Did you get it? 16:05.940 --> 16:06.940 What? 16:06.940 --> 16:07.940 The ermine. 16:07.940 --> 16:09.940 No, go make me a drink. 16:09.940 --> 16:11.940 Oh, baby lamb. 16:11.940 --> 16:13.940 You didn't really? 16:13.940 --> 16:14.940 Oh, you're kidding. 16:14.940 --> 16:16.940 You're going to make it a surprise. 16:16.940 --> 16:18.940 It ain't going to be no surprise on account of I didn't get it, 16:18.940 --> 16:20.940 now go make me a drink. 16:20.940 --> 16:21.940 Hey, Nono's. 16:21.940 --> 16:22.940 Yeah, boss. 16:22.940 --> 16:25.940 Gee, I bought you a pretty... 16:25.940 --> 16:28.940 Oh, well, you're sure going to look like something in it. 16:28.940 --> 16:29.940 Oh, wait till you see... 16:29.940 --> 16:30.940 Okay, okay. 16:30.940 --> 16:32.940 Guess what I got to guess. 16:32.940 --> 16:33.940 Look, I don't feel like no games. 16:33.940 --> 16:34.940 It's been a tough day. 16:34.940 --> 16:35.940 I'm tired. 16:35.940 --> 16:36.940 Do me a favour, make me a drink, 16:36.940 --> 16:38.940 then go to a movie or something, will you? 16:38.940 --> 16:39.940 Gee. 16:39.940 --> 16:40.940 Yeah, Rick? 16:40.940 --> 16:41.940 Where was I? 16:41.940 --> 16:42.940 Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. 16:42.940 --> 16:44.940 Look, you better call the rest of the boys 16:44.940 --> 16:46.940 and tell them that Benny's our gunner for us. 16:46.940 --> 16:48.940 Tell them to stay here out until they hear from EC 16:48.940 --> 16:50.940 and I don't want no trouble with the DA. 16:50.940 --> 16:51.940 He's up for re-election. 16:51.940 --> 16:54.940 You got Benny's presence and off okay, huh? 16:54.940 --> 16:55.940 Yeah. 16:55.940 --> 16:57.940 Boy, when he croaks, he'll die laughing 16:57.940 --> 16:59.940 if he opens the other box first. 16:59.940 --> 17:00.940 The other box? 17:00.940 --> 17:02.940 Yeah, I'll tell you about it when Mill's gone out. 17:02.940 --> 17:03.940 Oh. 17:05.940 --> 17:06.940 Yeah? 17:06.940 --> 17:07.940 Boss, this is Swifty. 17:07.940 --> 17:08.940 Yeah? 17:08.940 --> 17:10.940 You've got nothing to worry about. 17:10.940 --> 17:12.940 Everything is taken care of. 17:12.940 --> 17:14.940 The stuff goes off the first thing in the morning. 17:14.940 --> 17:15.940 Okay, come on back. 17:15.940 --> 17:16.940 Sure, Rick. 17:16.940 --> 17:18.940 I just thought that you should like to know. 17:18.940 --> 17:19.940 So long. 17:31.940 --> 17:33.940 Oh, Artie. 17:33.940 --> 17:34.940 What do you call these? 17:34.940 --> 17:36.940 Boil it, boil it. 17:36.940 --> 17:38.940 I asked for three minutes boiled. 17:38.940 --> 17:39.940 These ain't even born yet. 17:39.940 --> 17:41.940 Well, cook this, Jerry. 17:41.940 --> 17:43.940 Ain't you never gonna learn how to boil an egg? 17:43.940 --> 17:45.940 I'll fix you some more. 17:45.940 --> 17:46.940 I ain't hungry. 17:46.940 --> 17:48.940 Forget it. 17:48.940 --> 17:50.940 Artie, what time is it? 17:50.940 --> 17:51.940 Look, huh? 17:51.940 --> 17:52.940 No, it ain't, Artie. 17:52.940 --> 17:54.940 It's 1.30, boss. 17:54.940 --> 17:57.940 Benny should have got the bomb by now. 17:57.940 --> 17:58.940 Of course you want. 17:58.940 --> 18:00.940 I should call him and kind of ask after his help. 18:00.940 --> 18:01.940 No, no. 18:01.940 --> 18:04.940 If he ain't got it yet, he might get suspicious. 18:04.940 --> 18:06.940 Oh, boy, his waiting. 18:06.940 --> 18:08.940 You know, it's making a nervous wretch out of me. 18:08.940 --> 18:09.940 Just take it easy. 18:09.940 --> 18:10.940 It'll go off. 18:10.940 --> 18:11.940 If you don't want eggs, honey, 18:11.940 --> 18:13.940 how about some nice hot coffee, lover? 18:13.940 --> 18:14.940 Okay, okay. 18:14.940 --> 18:17.940 You'll feel better when you see what I've got for you. 18:17.940 --> 18:19.940 They're sending it today. 18:19.940 --> 18:21.940 Yeah, okay. 18:23.940 --> 18:25.940 Should I open the boss? 18:25.940 --> 18:26.940 Yeah, I'll cover you. 18:26.940 --> 18:29.940 Oh, you're so nervous all of a sudden this morning, honey. 18:29.940 --> 18:30.940 All right, all right. 18:30.940 --> 18:32.940 I'm nervous. 18:32.940 --> 18:33.940 So who is it? 18:33.940 --> 18:35.940 No nose. 18:35.940 --> 18:38.940 Let him in. 18:41.940 --> 18:43.940 What do you say, boss? 18:43.940 --> 18:45.940 What's in the package? 18:45.940 --> 18:46.940 Oh, this? 18:46.940 --> 18:49.940 Well, it just come up from Holgram's. 18:49.940 --> 18:51.940 Elevator was bringing it up. 18:51.940 --> 18:53.940 Oh, now don't you spoil it, honey lamb. 18:53.940 --> 18:55.940 That's my present to you. 18:55.940 --> 18:58.940 You can take the wrapping paper off, but you can't open the box. 18:58.940 --> 19:06.940 We got to put it under the tree when we get the tree. 19:06.940 --> 19:07.940 Hey, boss. 19:07.940 --> 19:08.940 Yeah? 19:08.940 --> 19:11.940 That box looks awful familiar. 19:11.940 --> 19:13.940 Yeah. 19:13.940 --> 19:15.940 Mill, you sure you bought this yesterday? 19:15.940 --> 19:16.940 Sure, I'm sure. 19:16.940 --> 19:20.940 Looks just like the ones we sent to Benny, don't it? 19:20.940 --> 19:24.940 Same size, same ribbon, same everything. 19:24.940 --> 19:25.940 Kind of makes you wonder. 19:25.940 --> 19:26.940 Don't be silly. 19:26.940 --> 19:29.940 They got millions of boxes like this. 19:29.940 --> 19:33.940 Oh, it happens there's something very special in there for my sweetie lamb. 19:33.940 --> 19:34.940 What's in it? 19:34.940 --> 19:35.940 Go ahead and open it. 19:35.940 --> 19:36.940 Go ahead. 19:36.940 --> 19:38.940 No, no, I'll wait. 19:38.940 --> 19:39.940 I ain't like Benny. 19:39.940 --> 19:40.940 I can wait. 19:40.940 --> 19:41.940 Oh, honey, you open it. 19:41.940 --> 19:42.940 It's okay. 19:42.940 --> 19:44.940 I'll get you something else to open on Christmas. 19:44.940 --> 19:46.940 Sure, why not, boss? 19:46.940 --> 19:47.940 You need something to make you feel good. 19:47.940 --> 19:49.940 I feel good now. 19:49.940 --> 19:50.940 I don't want to feel no better. 19:50.940 --> 19:53.940 Oh, and I thought you'd like it so much. 19:53.940 --> 19:55.940 You'd go with me and maybe buy a chinchilla. 19:55.940 --> 19:57.940 They got on sale at Hargund. 19:57.940 --> 20:00.940 It's only 1,500, just what you wanted to pay for the oimen. 20:00.940 --> 20:02.940 I like chinchilla. 20:02.940 --> 20:04.940 Come on, boss, open it up. 20:04.940 --> 20:05.940 Open, open, open. 20:05.940 --> 20:10.940 All right, all right, I'll open it. 20:10.940 --> 20:11.940 Hey, Swifty, go get it. 20:11.940 --> 20:12.940 Sure, boy. 20:12.940 --> 20:15.940 Oh, I can't wait for the lid to come off. 20:15.940 --> 20:16.940 Yeah? 20:16.940 --> 20:19.940 Oh, yeah. 20:19.940 --> 20:21.940 Yeah? 20:21.940 --> 20:22.940 Yeah, well, wait a minute. 20:22.940 --> 20:23.940 Wait a minute. 20:23.940 --> 20:25.940 Boss? 20:25.940 --> 20:27.940 It's that guy at the store, Hargund. 20:27.940 --> 20:28.940 Oh, Minchi? 20:28.940 --> 20:29.940 Yeah. 20:29.940 --> 20:31.940 You want me to open it for you, honey? 20:31.940 --> 20:35.940 No. 20:35.940 --> 20:36.940 Yeah. 20:36.940 --> 20:37.940 Mr. McQueen? 20:37.940 --> 20:38.940 Yeah. 20:38.940 --> 20:40.940 This is Mr. Minchi in the Fair Department at Hargund. 20:40.940 --> 20:41.940 So? 20:41.940 --> 20:45.940 Mr. McQueen, I'm terribly sorry, but I think there's been a mistake. 20:45.940 --> 20:46.940 What kind of mistake? 20:46.940 --> 20:47.940 What do you mean? 20:47.940 --> 20:50.940 A little confusion, but I'm sure it can be easily rectified. 20:50.940 --> 20:53.940 Your wife bought something for you yesterday, which was to be delivered this morning. 20:53.940 --> 20:55.940 Yeah, yeah, it's already come. 20:55.940 --> 21:01.940 Yes, well, there seems to have been an error made in the shipping department, a matter of mislaid address slips. 21:01.940 --> 21:04.940 Now, I wonder if you'd mind opening the package which you just received. 21:04.940 --> 21:10.940 Or perhaps since it's a Christmas parcel and a surprise for you, no doubt your wife would rather do it. 21:10.940 --> 21:12.940 Why? What's wrong with it? 21:12.940 --> 21:19.940 Well, you see, those two boxes which your man brought in yesterday afternoon haven't gone out yet. 21:19.940 --> 21:23.940 They were to be sent to Mr. Benjamin Mollisk, I believe it is. 21:23.940 --> 21:24.940 Yeah? 21:24.940 --> 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. 21:30.940 --> 21:32.940 Now, if you'd open it, I'm sure... 21:38.940 --> 21:39.940 Boss, there's something wrong. 21:39.940 --> 21:41.940 Hey, you're pale. 21:41.940 --> 21:42.940 You're sick? 21:42.940 --> 21:44.940 What's the time? 21:44.940 --> 21:46.940 It's a quarter to two. 21:46.940 --> 21:48.940 Ain't you gonna open your presents? 21:48.940 --> 21:50.940 Don't nobody touch that box, it's loaded. 21:52.940 --> 21:53.940 The bomb? 21:53.940 --> 21:55.940 Yeah, the bomb. 21:55.940 --> 21:58.940 Well, of course it could have been... 21:58.940 --> 22:02.940 You shut up, Swifty. I've got enough trouble without her here on that. 22:02.940 --> 22:04.940 Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, I'll get you in here. 22:04.940 --> 22:05.940 Are you talking about me? 22:05.940 --> 22:10.940 Oh, get that thing out of here. Get it down in the store. I've got to send a special messenger. 22:10.940 --> 22:13.940 Let him send all three boxes to that punk Benny. Well, what do I care? 22:13.940 --> 22:16.940 Maybe I should send him a Cadillac to go with it. 22:16.940 --> 22:19.940 You know what I think? I think it'll be cheaper to kill myself. 22:37.940 --> 22:39.940 Hey, what's the time? 22:39.940 --> 22:40.940 Ten to four, baby. 22:40.940 --> 22:42.940 Where's that Swifty? 22:42.940 --> 22:43.940 Don't worry, he'll be here. 22:43.940 --> 22:46.940 Maybe Benny got him. 22:46.940 --> 22:49.940 Yeah, maybe I should have sent you and Artie with him. 22:49.940 --> 22:52.940 Get it, Artie. No nose in the meal, cover your... 22:58.940 --> 23:01.940 It's me, Artie. Swifty, open up. 23:05.940 --> 23:08.940 Boss, I've got it all straightened out. Everything is OK. 23:08.940 --> 23:11.940 Boy, something's up with those guys down at the store. 23:11.940 --> 23:13.940 What's that? 23:13.940 --> 23:16.940 This? Oh, this is your present the mill got for you. 23:16.940 --> 23:19.940 I told you, they have got it all straightened out OK now. 23:19.940 --> 23:23.940 You know, it's Christmas rush, everybody's Meshuggah, you know? 23:23.940 --> 23:26.940 So now they have found the right slips, wrapped up the boxes again, 23:26.940 --> 23:30.940 and Benny's presents have been delivered right now, and this one, this is yours. 23:30.940 --> 23:32.940 You're sure this time I should? 23:32.940 --> 23:34.940 Boss, would I make a lie out of myself? 23:34.940 --> 23:37.940 This box you can open, I guarantee it. 23:37.940 --> 23:39.940 Yeah, because you might not like the color I got you. 23:39.940 --> 23:43.940 So I wish you would open it, and if it ain't right, we can take it back this afternoon, 23:43.940 --> 23:47.940 and you can change it and maybe take a look at the chinchillas I was telling you about. 23:47.940 --> 23:52.940 Yeah, this time I'm going to wait. When Benny blows up, I open it. 23:52.940 --> 23:54.940 What's the time? 23:54.940 --> 23:56.940 That's two minutes to four. 23:56.940 --> 23:58.940 You sure? Is your watch right? 23:58.940 --> 24:02.940 Well, boss, I just call a tomato on a telephone and it gives you the time. 24:02.940 --> 24:06.940 Honeypot, you're too nervous. This ain't like you. Here, I'll open it for you. 24:06.940 --> 24:07.940 Hey, Mill, you quit that. 24:07.940 --> 24:09.940 Oh, boss. 24:09.940 --> 24:11.940 Gosh, take it easy, boss. You're all right. 24:11.940 --> 24:14.940 Oh, I bet you're just going to love it. I just bet. 24:14.940 --> 24:18.940 It's about Benny. He opened it. What do you bet? 24:18.940 --> 24:20.940 Wham, right through the wall. 24:22.940 --> 24:23.940 Yeah? 24:23.940 --> 24:25.940 Rick, this is Machine Gun Benny. 24:25.940 --> 24:26.940 Benny. 24:26.940 --> 24:31.940 Listen, pal, I feel like a dirty rat. That's what I feel like, a dirty rat. 24:31.940 --> 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. 24:41.940 --> 24:42.940 Yeah. 24:42.940 --> 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. 24:51.940 --> 24:53.940 Hey, what do you say we bury the hatchet, eh? 24:53.940 --> 24:54.940 Yeah. 24:54.940 --> 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? 25:02.940 --> 25:03.940 Yeah. 25:03.940 --> 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? 25:09.940 --> 25:16.940 You're a great guy, Rick. The greatest. So long, pal. Merry Xmas. 25:16.940 --> 25:26.940 So long. 25:26.940 --> 25:28.940 Benny, huh? 25:28.940 --> 25:30.940 Yeah. 25:30.940 --> 25:33.940 This one's the bomb? 25:33.940 --> 25:36.940 Yeah. 25:36.940 --> 25:39.940 Too bad. 25:39.940 --> 25:41.940 What's the time? 25:41.940 --> 25:44.940 It's three minutes after four. 25:44.940 --> 25:47.940 Three after? 25:47.940 --> 25:52.940 Artie, the time has come and gone. How come it didn't go off? 25:52.940 --> 25:55.940 Look a moment of a little Christmas. 25:55.940 --> 25:58.940 What'd he say? 25:58.940 --> 26:03.940 He says he did not want to blow nobody up so near to Christmas. 26:03.940 --> 26:05.940 Then what's in the box? 26:05.940 --> 26:06.940 I'll go show him. 26:06.940 --> 26:07.940 Huh? 26:07.940 --> 26:19.940 He's gonna show it. 26:37.940 --> 26:50.940 Suspense. 26:50.940 --> 26:57.940 In which Jack Crouchon starred in tonight's presentation of A Present for Benny. 26:57.940 --> 27:05.940 Next week, a charming fantasy about a small boy who discovered a new world and lived forever after in its enchantment. 27:05.940 --> 27:26.940 We call it The Cave. That's next week on Suspense. 27:26.940 --> 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. 27:36.940 --> 27:43.940 Featured in the cast were Stacey Harris, Eve McVeigh, Benny Rubin, Junius Matthews, and Joseph Kearns. 27:43.940 --> 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. 27:51.940 --> 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. 28:00.940 --> 28:07.940 The winner will read his letter in person when America Sings with Bing, Christmas Eve on CBS Radio. 28:07.940 --> 28:16.940 All youngsters 12 years of age and under are eligible. That address once again, Bing Crosby, CBS Radio, Hollywood 28 California. 28:16.940 --> 28:21.940 Be sure the young letter writer puts his name and address on the letter. 28:21.940 --> 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. 28:41.940 --> 28:46.940 The thrill to Gunsmoke every Saturday and Sunday on the CBS Radio Network. 29:11.940 --> 29:38.940 The Jack Carson Show