July 16, 2025 • 43 mins
A suspense series featuring mysterious tales with a twist, ranging from psychological thrillers to eerie supernatural encounters. Each episode is crafted for maximum tension.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm e G. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Once again, I invite you to sail with me and
a mysterious voyage into the unknown, unexplored country of the
human mind.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Come in welcome. I'm e G. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Once again, I invite you to sail with me and
a mysterious voyage into the unknown, unexplored country of the
human mind.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
To be fair, it must be said that the mass
murder of millions of human beings was not invented during
our century.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But to be accurate, it should be noted that in
our generation massacres, holocausts, and wholesale slaughter in general has
been developed into what might be.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Considered a fine heart.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Certainly, the atrocities that ancient, un civilized barbarians committed in
paroxysms of superstitious passion has been performed in our day
with an almost impersonal and scientific objectivity.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is this better or worse? Or does it matter?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Trust him? Trust him?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You leave us how Your grandfather is old and sick.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We have no weapons.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
My grandfather will save us.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Look, there are a hundred soldiers coming up this yield.
Can you see them, I see them, I see us too.
Have no fear, Have no fear in in the middle.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We'll all be dead.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You'll save us, believe me.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Why why are you so sure he can save us?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Because he promised.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
He.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Promised. Oh, dear Lord, maybe we better surrender.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No, no, trust my grandfather. He always keeps his promises.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
And what was he waiting for?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
We have faith? Have faith.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Our mystery drama The Golum was written especially for the
mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars Robert Lansing. There
are times in the history of the human race when
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things become unstruck. The glue of morality melts under the
intense heat of hideous pressures, and men are no longer
tied to a rational society. Suddenly the world is ruled
by madmen, and human beings are arbitrarily divided into two groups,
the hunters and the hunted. The year is nineteen forty three.
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We're in the cottage the thick woods that surround the
country town in a vast wilderness somewhere in central Europe.
The man is a forester. He is sitting quietly before
a pleasant fire. His wife is telling a bedtime story
to a sleepy child in a crib.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
And so the king said to each of the suitors
who came to ask for his daughter's hand. All of
you are handsome, and all of you are strong. But
the one who has chosen must also have a good heart.
He must be kind to the poor, and he must
protect the weak.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Sh I think she's a sleep now.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
I can heat up your supper, just to imagine, Tobcheck,
I was able to get beef today.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Think of it, beef.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You're not hungry, tom Check?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
What is the matter?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I know something's wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Eat your supper.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You feel better.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I'll never feel better. I was in town today, yes,
and then the square there were soldiers Germans and Nazis
that they ended up about a hundred people Jews. Yes,
and they were shoving them into trucks.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Why should we care.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Taking them away to kill them?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, it's Warren.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Do you know what I did? No? I did nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I don't understand. What were you supposed to do?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Once I saw a man who was whipping a horse,
an old, sick horse.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Do you know what I did to that man? Please?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
All he was doing was whipping a horse. And today
in the square, I did nothing. All of us we
just stood around. We all did nothing. Most people pretended
that nothing was happening.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Please let me tell you who was there.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm not injured.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Tell you old man with a long white beard. He
was standing next to a young girl. I just don't
want to hear anymore, standing.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Quiet, very quietly, looking straight ahead. And it so happened
that his eyes looked straight into mind.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Please his eyes.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
They asked me for help, but I turned my head away.
I denied him.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
If you've done anything anything, you're told you'd be dead.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Who could that be? Don't are you sure you didn't
do anything? Old you, I did nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'll open it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Who are you? The old man and the young girl?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Please, please, Mary, come in just to get warm at
your fear My grandfather he's so old and he's very sick,
and he needs.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Please a little water, just a little water and a
piece of young girl.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Please.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I want to help. Oh God, bless you. I can't.
I can't.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Please don't ask me to. They'll burn a house down,
they'll kill us. Just let my grandfather get warm for
a moment.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
No, no, no, please don't come in. They'll find out
you were here.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Please don't destroy us, Have mercy on us.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'm sorry, I disturbed, you come, grandfather, there's no one
at home here. Dun't chick?
Speaker 8 (06:31):
What are you scaring?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Did you see the old man's eyes?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Now, du't check.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Those eyes looked into mind. I tell you I won't listen,
And for the second.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Time today I denied him.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Tom Jack, you haven't touched a bite. You worked hard
all day. You must eat.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I think I'll go for a walk.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yes, in this weather, bit's crazy. Now you listen.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I think you've said enough for one day.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Open the name of the here.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Let me do the talking. Please, let me do the
talking over. Yes, yes, I'm coming.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Oh gleaning Lieutenant?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
That is lieutenant's insignia, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
As if you don't know, we're looking for two escaped criminals. Criminals,
an old man with a white beard. I've got about
twentys What.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Crime did they commit? What crime?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You're a funny one.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
This is no time for your jokes, The soldiers say,
here on serious business.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You say you.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Haven't seen No, no, lieutenant, are you should have no
objection if we search the house, or why should we
have tech inside?
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Boys?
Speaker 6 (08:07):
But that staircase leads up to the attic and this trapdoors?
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Who teller?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
You are?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Come?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Check musteatic before?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yes, yes he is, and I'm his wife, Marina.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You've seen no one all day, you know so well?
Those vermins can't go farm. What will you do with
them if you catch them? You mean, when we catch them.
They've given us too much trouble already. We'll just shoot them.
Or excuse me. I had noticed you have a little one, yes,
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asleep there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
In the crib.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Boys, boys move about more quietly. Oh she is a
little princess, isn't she.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yes, she'll be five in November.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You know I have one. She'll be four.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Her name is Alca.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Really, mine is called Hungary. It's the same name. You know.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Boys, there's no one hiding around here.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Form them up outside side him.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Won't you have a glass of wine?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Lieutenant?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh no, not under me? What is your husband's name again,
Tom Chick? And if you can find them for us,
there'll be a handsome reward for your work.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Tomchak doesn't thrilled to be of certain, They say, you
know these forests better than any man living.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
He knows every tree.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I want you to.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Come with me. Do have any objections? I need a guide?
Oh you know every likely hiding Oh? He certain would,
and if you can find them for ut, there'll be
a handsome reward for your work.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Tomchak doesn't want to reward.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
That's just the knowledge that he's doing his duty.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You know, Tom Check. My wife is like that too.
I can never get a word in edgewise when she's around.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Well, let us go, you mean no, no, Lieutenant, Yes,
Tom Check, I would suggest we go no further, Fry.
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There's no more than termine is getting too treacherous, is it?
And you've got gullies or vians. Man can fall and
break a leg.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You wouldn't be trying to frighten me with Why would
I want to do that, lieutenant? Or maybe you don't
want to find them. They're nothing to me. Huh, that's
one of your men. I was like, spright hat, sergeant,
get some men over that pass.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, tom Jack, you may have been right. I can't
see a thing out here is a start, all right? Jels, what.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Back, sergeant, Bring everybody close to the park.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We're heading home.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Work well, Tomshack, what chance do they have to survive?
Ourn Well, we'll make sure of that tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Son. You know I'll go ahead. Take one.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You know you're dying for a smoke, Well, keep the back,
don'ty of cigarettes? Yes, plenty of good food, good jobs
for sensible people. Tell me something, tom Jack, Are you
a sensible person?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah? Have a nice What is your tomb chack? What's
the matter? The matter?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
As I struck the match, I could see your face.
You had a funny look, as if you were in pain.
Well I had this aruthortis oh or what so?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Do I butt?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
From the look on your face? Yours must be pretty bad? Yes, Well,
get some sleep. Tomorrow could be another long way, Lieutenant,
Lieutenant doing do we have to keep looking for him?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Do we have to?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
All you do when you find them is shooting? Perhaps
in a day or two there there'll be dead of
cold and hung.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Granny, you're back?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Did they think I have something nice and hot for
you to drink? Take off your cold? Where are you
just standing?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Dish?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I want to make sure. I want to make sure
the Nazis are gone.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Why don't you take off your cold?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I'm going out again right away where I demand to
know where there are two people who need help.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
You just said they didn't find.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
That's right, they didn't. The Nazis didn't find them. But
I found them.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
How could you, Lieutenant? And I would, and stopped a
lot of cigarette. He was facing one way, eye another,
and the flowers the match. I could see there a
tree in the darkness, the face of the old man.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You saw the old man.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
It was only only for a moment, but that moment
was as long as eternity. His eyes burned into mine, pleading,
please listen to once again. I turned my head away,
and a voice whispered in my ear, a voice I
had never heard before, whispered this night, you shall deny
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me three times, Molina. I have denied him three times.
I cannot deny him again.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
Oh how easy it is to believe in brotherly love
when your.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Brother is lovable and respectable and acceptable. But what do
you do about those brothers who are hated and hunted,
who have every man's hand turned against them. Well, that's
when you find out what you really believe, the hard way.
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I shall return shortly with that too. His name is
tom Check, her name is Marina. They live in a
great mountainous forest that covers much of Central Europe. Around
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them swirl distant echoes of the greatest war in history,
and yet their lives seem but little touched.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
True.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Almost every night they hear the drone of liberators, Lancasters
and b seventeens, but their small town is hardly ever
hit and true. There are people who are being ruthlessly exterminated,
but as Marina keeps reminding Tom Check, it's none of
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their affair, and it wasn't until tonight.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Don't what do you saying?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
A voice voice that said please? The voice said, this night,
you shall deny me three times, and I have, I have.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
No, I won't let you.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Something inside me is a craft.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
The old man he bewitched you.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
No, no, you and I we don't believe in that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
All right, all right, you can't help yourself.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
The voice keeps telling me I must go out there.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Let me help you.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You want to help me, I'll get a woke. I'll
tie you to the man you talking able to hold
you here? Let me? No, no, please, dumb jack, and
I gat my way.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
No, I leave this place. I'll save myself and our child.
Dumb Jack, Oh.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Save us, old man, old man, you're here, I know it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Will you trust me? I want to help you?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You have to be here?
Speaker 9 (16:32):
I want to help you.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No, no, no, no, don't go first.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
If you need to cast do it quickly.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Should have come to help you? Why? Because the old
man there is. You can't just let him lie on
the ground like that.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I don't have any more strange to death.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I have to get him too his feet. Come on,
come on, old man isn't come. I must make him walk,
Let him die in peace. No, he's going to live
for how long? Who knows how long anyone will live here?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah, put this blanket around his shoulders and take this
one for yourself. Come on, old man, Well, you must
walks to a hidden place. It's a place I know.
It's a cave.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Oh, bless you. Do you realize how much you're doing
for us.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
It's not very much. I remember once I did more
for a horse.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I never thought i'd be warm again.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You're less than five hundred yards away from this cave.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
We'll smoke from the fire. Will will somebody see you?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
There's nothing to worry about. This cave is my secret
here grandfather. Let him sleep. You get better now. I
saw you earlier today on the square. How did you escape? Well?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
You see, Oh I can tell you. I know what
I can trust you. My grandfather was a chemist in Prague. Yes,
when the Nazis took over, he was afraid that they
would force him to work for him, and so he
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went in where we went into hiding. And it's been
that way, running from place to place.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Almost five years. How did you manage?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
There were all sorts of people. Some were kind enough
to help us, others betrayed.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Us, but you got away well.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
The officer in charge of the convoy, the lieutenant, he
kept looking at my grandfather, right, he must recognized him.
Grandfather was a very famous research chemist. Yes, he'd been
working on a formula that release explosive force is much
much more powerful than dynamite.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I don't understand. I'm not very educated. I'm only a peasant.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I don't really understand it either, and I've been to
the university. But he is afraid that they could torture
him to working for them. So he said to me,
he said, yes, he said, let us try to run
away and then they'll shoot us, and that way it'll
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be over quickly.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But how did you run away?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
After we left the square, they drove us to the
edge of the forest and the truck had a blowout.
And they ordered everyone off of it. Well, grandfather took
my hand and we walked toward the Watts. Do what
you mean, just like that, At any moment we expected
to hear shots and be killed, but nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
How do you account for us?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Well, I suppose they didn't think anyone would dare to escape,
and they were so busy yelling at the driver for
his carelessness, and so we just kept walking.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Baker, Rebaker, here's coming around, Rebeker.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Eh? Is that your name Rebecca? No, my name is
Rachel Whobaker?
Speaker 8 (20:32):
Whoever are you?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I don't understand. He doesn't know anyone named Rebeccaca?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Eh, Grandpa, you are child?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Grandpa? Don't you know who I am?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Of course my child?
Speaker 8 (20:47):
You Rebecca, daughter of my oldest son Ezra.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Grandpa, don't you know who you are?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Child? What are these ques? Questions? I know who I am?
Speaker 8 (21:03):
I am Solomon Ben Isaac, Rabbi of Prague. Where is
the book? The book? The book? Theyre sent to me
by my old friend, the Spanish rabbi.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
A Spanish rabbi.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know him.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Moses Ben my Monodies.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
My Mondes grandfather my Monodies has been dead for more
than seven hundred.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Years and in this book he speaks of a golem
a girl. How it is possible to create a champion,
to make out of clay, a man of irresistible faults
who will come to the rescue of.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Oppressed people.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
How, golemb grandfather, I will create such a champion, and
he will rescue our people. Now, child, you must not
disturb me. I must close my eyes and think.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yes, yes, grandfather, his mind is gone. It's gone.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
What was he talking about, Oh legend?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I mean the evil Hebrew legend about a golem. It
must have been the golm of Prague who saved our
people once during some troubled times. A creature made by
one of our wise men. But I don't understand. You
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don't have to understand the legend thinks he's a thirteenth
century rabbi. He was never interested in history, were they. Well, yes, Grandfather, I.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
Will save us. You see, I'll save all of us,
I promise a child. I have never broken my pomish.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I was scared out of my witside. I thought you'd
be caught and shot. Well you found them.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I suppose let's not talk about it. Yes, I know
who that is. Let him in as if we have
anything to say about it.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Don't despise me, tom Check? Is it so terrible to
want to live? Lieutenant?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Good morning?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
A couple of coffee, Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Duty, tom Check? Ready?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yes, sir, you look as if you didn't even get
to sleep last night.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Or Lieutenant, sometimes he's just restless.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, take these, tom Check. Oh, I was in the package, Lieutenant,
pills pills. I stopped at our dispensary. I got you
some pills for or arthritis. You don't have a yes,
I do.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Oh are you.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Talking about since you have arthritis?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Right?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Well maybe he's had it since last night, eh, tom Check,
We must be off to the hunt.
Speaker 11 (24:35):
Oh, Lieutenant, what do you mean, Maria?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
But tom Check isn't at home. He isn't so you
didn't tell him you want to come?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yes, that's right, I didn't. But I hadn't come here
to see tom Check. No, no, I want to see you.
Come in, thank you. I want to help you.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Help me.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
First off, tom Check told me a lie about what
about having arthritis? Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
But he does?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Oh he does.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
No, No, now it's a minor thing, a silly thing.
But he told me a lie. Why does a man lie.
He lies because he's nervous and frightened. Why should Tom
Check be nervous and frightened because he's doing something wrong,
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something seriously wrong, Like what by hiding fugitives? You see
how simple and logical it is, Tomcheck?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Wouldn't you need to know?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
He couldn't?
Speaker 8 (25:54):
He would?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
He could?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
He is.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
For three days down, he's been leading me all around
the woods. There is no trace of those two, but
it's nothing hidden away. Otherwise how could they have disappeared
so completely?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Oh, Tom Chik would will never.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Marina or his wine.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You love him, and right now you're the only one
who can save him. But you ten quiet? Shall I
tell you how you can save him? And suddenly a word,
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a single word, sears itself into Marina's consciousness.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
The word is betrayal.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
How can something she has yet to find out be
a betrayal of someone or something that is very important
to her husband? And just as he heard a voice
in his heart, she also hears one now, a voice
that says, one of you shall betray me. I will
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return shortly with Act three, there are times when it
seems that the Lord sleeps and the world is abandoned
to the will of the wicked, and during such times,
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perhaps the wisest course, perhaps the only course, is to survive,
to endure, to wait for a long night to end,
and to hope for a new day.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
But meanwhile one must live.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
And right now, a young woman named Marina, whose home
is in Central Europe during the Nazi occupation, is listening
to what she must do if.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
She is to live. Marina, I need those two prisoners.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
But Townjik doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
You mustn't pretend you don't know. Tom Check is guilty.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Lieutenant, Please don't cry. Tom Check being Tom Check would
sooner die than betray them. But no, no, no, we
must not go back to the beginning. We're past all that. Therefore,
you must find out from Tom Check where they are hidden,
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and you will find out in twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Or do you know what I will do. I will
shoot Tom Chick.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
You hear the noise, Rebecca, the noise Grandfather, the noise
of the mob.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
In the streets.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
They're getting ready, ready.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
To kill Grandfather.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Try to rest.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Rest now, the peace people. They must not make the
same mistake as last time. They must not try to
barricade themselves in the synagogue. They should come out here
to this cave an excellent hiding place. And besides, the
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rolem can be more effective out in the open. The call, yes, child,
I can make her golem. But that's what you wish
to say, is that only God can make a living creature.
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And that's true. But the golem is not a living person.
The golem is a force, yes, but now a man
made force.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
A way.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
It is tom Check, the young peasant who.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Is so kind.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
He will try to return. He could he get me
some salt, some clay, and so yes, yes, yes, grandfather,
whatever you like. Now please rest tom tag tomteg my
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poor tom Take. You've fallen asleep over your dinner.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yes, well, I'm so tired.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Ah, it's too much be a tomb take.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I have to go out, please please, all right, I'm sorry.
I must do this now. Don't try to talk me
out of this.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
But I don't want to do that. If what you're
doing is important to you, it must also be important
to me, and so well, I must also be a
part of it. I want to help.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
No, it's too dangerous.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I must be a part of whatever you do, tom Check.
Don't you understand? I too, must tell Na.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Right, I love you so much.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
That old man he must be terribly it is. Well,
he needs good nursing here. Now you know I could
do that, would you?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Where is he? Tomb check.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Marina?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
You cause he looks so beautiful right now. It must
make it because you feel beautiful.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Where are they hidden way?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Marina? Once I tell you I, well, you become a
part of it too.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Where toumb check?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You know the cave?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
The cave if you forgotten, we found out that day
when we went walking we went inside it.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes, yes, I remember.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
The old man is terribly he said, he needs you Marina.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Now first first time, let's go to town to town
with his uncle. I'll take the child to my brother's house.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Of course you'd be safe, and I'll stop for some medicine.
And Tom Chick, yes, I love you.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I know, Oh, Tom Chick, You'll never know how much.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
How is he now?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Quiet?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
He talks to himself. Oh I'm frightened now.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Most people talk to himself.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
No, no, he talks to himself in Hebrew. Well, he
has never learned Hebrew.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
He doesn't know it. Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
And from what I can understand, it's a kind of
medieval Hebrew that hasn't been spoken in hundreds of years. Now,
how would he know it?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Understand? What is that?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I I don't know how to explain.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
All over the floor, all the way back in the cave.
Where's he done?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Well, he took the clay that you brought him in hand.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Well he's he's making. It's in the form of a man.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yes, he's been making.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
A golem. Whatever it is, it's it's like a giant.
Where did he get the clay?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
He made it from the that that you brought.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I didn't bring all that much.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yes, it's it's frightening it. It seems to be growing.
I can't believe my eyes. But there it is, grandfather,
Please tell us be quiet?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
But grandfather, what is that?
Speaker 12 (33:55):
I am a vote to write down certain words, certain
awful words, And in this place there must be silence.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
The silence. Oh, they're dead. But you promised, you promise,
and I shall keep my promise. Marina, you have my words.
You'll even be rewarded.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Well, there they're hiding in a cave, a cave.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
You must do better than that, my dear.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
You pick up the pathway. He just passed our house,
and you follow it north for two miles. Now you
come to a deep ravine in front of you. Is
is what looks like a wall of solid rock, But
it isn't. No, because when you climb to the top
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of it, he will see the entrance to the cave.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Thank you, sergeant placed around herrest. But you said you
said you'd be rewarded at this point, I don't know how.
If you're lying, a firing square will give you thirty
leaden blets. If you're truthful, there there are thirty silver chrona.
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It's quiet, so quiet.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Too quiet. It appears to be in a trance. I
wish I knew what to do.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
No, don't be discouraged. Marina one now she was starting
to be a nurse, but her parents lost their money.
She'll help her, bless her.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Yes, she's really a wonderful person. She worries a lot,
but the end you can depend on her.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Maybe maybe what.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Maybe you and your wife should just Yes, it's it's
not your fight.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yes, yes, Rachel, it's my fight. It always was my fight.
Will you fight with me?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yes you do. Children, chill girl, Thank the Lord he
looks better.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
Children.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
They have come for us, They have come with grandfather.
Just listen outside a ol fight put down.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
They're canning up the rocks.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
They know where we are, they know we're here.
Speaker 8 (36:51):
I'm checked. M h, I'm checked.
Speaker 12 (36:54):
We know you're there.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Of all, check, I'm sorry. I'm I'm sorry for you.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
When I can hold him off and then with a
rifle can knock them down one at a time, we'll
hold out till darkenment.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
We'll try to run check.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
It's no good, and I'm so tired.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Courage checked, save.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Yourself, don't check your sense of a person.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
That comes a time, that comes a time when you
when what when? When he no longer hears our peers,
and he says, my children.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
Is your will do with it whatever you will destroy
yourselves and your own madness.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
I abandon you, Rachel, Rachel, you mustn't say that.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Grandfather, Grandfather, let us save town. Let's give ourselves up.
Speaker 13 (37:41):
Grandfather, grandfather, beho my children, the whole thing, that thing
he made is movie.
Speaker 12 (37:52):
They are people shall be saved, the murderers till perish.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Father, What have you done?
Speaker 12 (38:02):
We have been sent a champion.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
It's a giant, a champion.
Speaker 12 (38:07):
Sas smite the man killers of the eros.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
And then hone.
Speaker 12 (38:12):
I have written the awful, never to be forgotten words.
I have breathed the force of life into the champion
Clay giant is moving. Clay no longer but fire and Steve.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Look at it, you look through me.
Speaker 12 (38:33):
It has acquired the force and power of a million sons.
He shall burn away the evil that surrounds us. They
charge you, Champion Avenger, protect us, paulmn.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Go forth, go far? Came there?
Speaker 6 (39:02):
I come alive?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Tell him?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
No?
Speaker 5 (39:21):
It?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Hm?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
It just?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
It destroyed them all to the last man.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
What what was it? You saw?
Speaker 8 (39:45):
A columb.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
When did it go?
Speaker 3 (39:50):
It vanished.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
As if in to thin it air.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
The pious old folk still believe, and they assure you
that the girl will reappear one day when someone shall
awaken him to save the people.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
What is that you're saying?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Oh, I remember reading the story.
Speaker 12 (40:19):
Of the Gold Nature very Rachel, Grandfather, Eh, my head, Hi?
Have I had the strangest dream I dreamed? I was
living hundreds of years ago, and and I was, who
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is this man?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Where have I seen you before? Come?
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Grandfather? We must be on our way.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
We're where where hi?
Speaker 5 (40:59):
I am?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I'm so tired of running?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
We will join the partisans. It's time we stopped running
and started fighting.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Is there.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Was there a golum? The question is what is a golum?
A thing of irresistible force?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Well, so is a bomb.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
A British or American bomber flying overhead may have dropped one.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
On the other hand, the.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Old gentleman was a scientific genius. He could have made one,
or it could have been what you heard, a golum.
I'll be back shortly. There is a legend that a
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medieval Hebrew scholar created a creature of great strength and
power to rescue his beleaguered people from the madness of
a mob, a creature called a golam. It is significant
that the word golam means unfinished, and this is fitting
because to save the world we can only depend on
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a certain amount of help to be given us. The
rest of the effort must be our own. Our cast
included Robert Lansing, Mildred Clinton, Patricia Elliott, Ralph Bell, and
Robert Dryden.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Thissus A. G.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre until next time.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Pleasant Dreams
Speaker 6 (43:25):
By F.
I'm e G. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Once again, I invite you to sail with me and
a mysterious voyage into the unknown, unexplored country of the
human mind.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Come in welcome. I'm e G. Marshall.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Once again, I invite you to sail with me and
a mysterious voyage into the unknown, unexplored country of the
human mind.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
To be fair, it must be said that the mass
murder of millions of human beings was not invented during
our century.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But to be accurate, it should be noted that in
our generation massacres, holocausts, and wholesale slaughter in general has
been developed into what might be.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Considered a fine heart.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Certainly, the atrocities that ancient, un civilized barbarians committed in
paroxysms of superstitious passion has been performed in our day
with an almost impersonal and scientific objectivity.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is this better or worse? Or does it matter?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Trust him? Trust him?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
You leave us how Your grandfather is old and sick.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
We have no weapons.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
My grandfather will save us.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Look, there are a hundred soldiers coming up this yield.
Can you see them, I see them, I see us too.
Have no fear, Have no fear in in the middle.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We'll all be dead.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You'll save us, believe me.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Why why are you so sure he can save us?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Because he promised.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
He.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Promised. Oh, dear Lord, maybe we better surrender.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
No, no, trust my grandfather. He always keeps his promises.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
And what was he waiting for?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
We have faith? Have faith.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Our mystery drama The Golum was written especially for the
mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars Robert Lansing. There
are times in the history of the human race when
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things become unstruck. The glue of morality melts under the
intense heat of hideous pressures, and men are no longer
tied to a rational society. Suddenly the world is ruled
by madmen, and human beings are arbitrarily divided into two groups,
the hunters and the hunted. The year is nineteen forty three.
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We're in the cottage the thick woods that surround the
country town in a vast wilderness somewhere in central Europe.
The man is a forester. He is sitting quietly before
a pleasant fire. His wife is telling a bedtime story
to a sleepy child in a crib.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
And so the king said to each of the suitors
who came to ask for his daughter's hand. All of
you are handsome, and all of you are strong. But
the one who has chosen must also have a good heart.
He must be kind to the poor, and he must
protect the weak.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Sh I think she's a sleep now.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
I can heat up your supper, just to imagine, Tobcheck,
I was able to get beef today.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Think of it, beef.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You're not hungry, tom Check?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
What is the matter?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I know something's wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Eat your supper.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You feel better.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I'll never feel better. I was in town today, yes,
and then the square there were soldiers Germans and Nazis
that they ended up about a hundred people Jews. Yes,
and they were shoving them into trucks.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Why should we care.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Taking them away to kill them?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, it's Warren.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Do you know what I did? No? I did nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I don't understand. What were you supposed to do?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Once I saw a man who was whipping a horse,
an old, sick horse.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Do you know what I did to that man? Please?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
All he was doing was whipping a horse. And today
in the square, I did nothing. All of us we
just stood around. We all did nothing. Most people pretended
that nothing was happening.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Please let me tell you who was there.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm not injured.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Tell you old man with a long white beard. He
was standing next to a young girl. I just don't
want to hear anymore, standing.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Quiet, very quietly, looking straight ahead. And it so happened
that his eyes looked straight into mind.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Please his eyes.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
They asked me for help, but I turned my head away.
I denied him.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
If you've done anything anything, you're told you'd be dead.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Who could that be? Don't are you sure you didn't
do anything? Old you, I did nothing.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'll open it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Who are you? The old man and the young girl?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Please, please, Mary, come in just to get warm at
your fear My grandfather he's so old and he's very sick,
and he needs.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Please a little water, just a little water and a
piece of young girl.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Please.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I want to help. Oh God, bless you. I can't.
I can't.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Please don't ask me to. They'll burn a house down,
they'll kill us. Just let my grandfather get warm for
a moment.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
No, no, no, please don't come in. They'll find out
you were here.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Please don't destroy us, Have mercy on us.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'm sorry, I disturbed, you come, grandfather, there's no one
at home here. Dun't chick?
Speaker 8 (06:31):
What are you scaring?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Did you see the old man's eyes?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Now, du't check.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Those eyes looked into mind. I tell you I won't listen,
And for the second.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Time today I denied him.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Tom Jack, you haven't touched a bite. You worked hard
all day. You must eat.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I think I'll go for a walk.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yes, in this weather, bit's crazy. Now you listen.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I think you've said enough for one day.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Open the name of the here.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Let me do the talking. Please, let me do the
talking over. Yes, yes, I'm coming.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Oh gleaning Lieutenant?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
That is lieutenant's insignia, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
As if you don't know, we're looking for two escaped criminals. Criminals,
an old man with a white beard. I've got about
twentys What.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Crime did they commit? What crime?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You're a funny one.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
This is no time for your jokes, The soldiers say,
here on serious business.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You say you.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Haven't seen No, no, lieutenant, are you should have no
objection if we search the house, or why should we
have tech inside?
Speaker 8 (08:04):
Boys?
Speaker 6 (08:07):
But that staircase leads up to the attic and this trapdoors?
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Who teller?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
You are?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Come?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Check musteatic before?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yes, yes he is, and I'm his wife, Marina.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You've seen no one all day, you know so well?
Those vermins can't go farm. What will you do with
them if you catch them? You mean, when we catch them.
They've given us too much trouble already. We'll just shoot them.
Or excuse me. I had noticed you have a little one, yes,
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asleep there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
In the crib.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Boys, boys move about more quietly. Oh she is a
little princess, isn't she.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yes, she'll be five in November.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You know I have one. She'll be four.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Her name is Alca.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Really, mine is called Hungary. It's the same name. You know.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Boys, there's no one hiding around here.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Form them up outside side him.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Won't you have a glass of wine?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Lieutenant?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh no, not under me? What is your husband's name again,
Tom Chick? And if you can find them for us,
there'll be a handsome reward for your work.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Tomchak doesn't thrilled to be of certain, They say, you
know these forests better than any man living.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
He knows every tree.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I want you to.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Come with me. Do have any objections? I need a guide?
Oh you know every likely hiding Oh? He certain would,
and if you can find them for ut, there'll be
a handsome reward for your work.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Tomchak doesn't want to reward.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
That's just the knowledge that he's doing his duty.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You know, Tom Check. My wife is like that too.
I can never get a word in edgewise when she's around.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Well, let us go, you mean no, no, Lieutenant, Yes,
Tom Check, I would suggest we go no further, Fry.
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There's no more than termine is getting too treacherous, is it?
And you've got gullies or vians. Man can fall and
break a leg.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You wouldn't be trying to frighten me with Why would
I want to do that, lieutenant? Or maybe you don't
want to find them. They're nothing to me. Huh, that's
one of your men. I was like, spright hat, sergeant,
get some men over that pass.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, tom Jack, you may have been right. I can't
see a thing out here is a start, all right? Jels, what.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Back, sergeant, Bring everybody close to the park.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
We're heading home.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Work well, Tomshack, what chance do they have to survive?
Ourn Well, we'll make sure of that tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Son. You know I'll go ahead. Take one.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You know you're dying for a smoke, Well, keep the back,
don'ty of cigarettes? Yes, plenty of good food, good jobs
for sensible people. Tell me something, tom Jack, Are you
a sensible person?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah? Have a nice What is your tomb chack? What's
the matter? The matter?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
As I struck the match, I could see your face.
You had a funny look, as if you were in pain.
Well I had this aruthortis oh or what so?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Do I butt?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
From the look on your face? Yours must be pretty bad? Yes, Well,
get some sleep. Tomorrow could be another long way, Lieutenant,
Lieutenant doing do we have to keep looking for him?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Do we have to?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
All you do when you find them is shooting? Perhaps
in a day or two there there'll be dead of
cold and hung.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Granny, you're back?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Did they think I have something nice and hot for
you to drink? Take off your cold? Where are you
just standing?
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Dish?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I want to make sure. I want to make sure
the Nazis are gone.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Why don't you take off your cold?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I'm going out again right away where I demand to
know where there are two people who need help.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
You just said they didn't find.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
That's right, they didn't. The Nazis didn't find them. But
I found them.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
How could you, Lieutenant? And I would, and stopped a
lot of cigarette. He was facing one way, eye another,
and the flowers the match. I could see there a
tree in the darkness, the face of the old man.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You saw the old man.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
It was only only for a moment, but that moment
was as long as eternity. His eyes burned into mine, pleading,
please listen to once again. I turned my head away,
and a voice whispered in my ear, a voice I
had never heard before, whispered this night, you shall deny
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me three times, Molina. I have denied him three times.
I cannot deny him again.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
Oh how easy it is to believe in brotherly love
when your.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Brother is lovable and respectable and acceptable. But what do
you do about those brothers who are hated and hunted,
who have every man's hand turned against them. Well, that's
when you find out what you really believe, the hard way.
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I shall return shortly with that too. His name is
tom Check, her name is Marina. They live in a
great mountainous forest that covers much of Central Europe. Around
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them swirl distant echoes of the greatest war in history,
and yet their lives seem but little touched.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
True.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Almost every night they hear the drone of liberators, Lancasters
and b seventeens, but their small town is hardly ever
hit and true. There are people who are being ruthlessly exterminated,
but as Marina keeps reminding Tom Check, it's none of
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their affair, and it wasn't until tonight.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Don't what do you saying?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
A voice voice that said please? The voice said, this night,
you shall deny me three times, and I have, I have.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
No, I won't let you.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Something inside me is a craft.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
The old man he bewitched you.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
No, no, you and I we don't believe in that.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
All right, all right, you can't help yourself.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
The voice keeps telling me I must go out there.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Let me help you.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You want to help me, I'll get a woke. I'll
tie you to the man you talking able to hold
you here? Let me? No, no, please, dumb jack, and
I gat my way.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
No, I leave this place. I'll save myself and our child.
Dumb Jack, Oh.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Save us, old man, old man, you're here, I know it.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Will you trust me? I want to help you?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You have to be here?
Speaker 9 (16:32):
I want to help you.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No, no, no, no, don't go first.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
If you need to cast do it quickly.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Should have come to help you? Why? Because the old
man there is. You can't just let him lie on
the ground like that.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I don't have any more strange to death.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I have to get him too his feet. Come on,
come on, old man isn't come. I must make him walk,
Let him die in peace. No, he's going to live
for how long? Who knows how long anyone will live here?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah, put this blanket around his shoulders and take this
one for yourself. Come on, old man, Well, you must
walks to a hidden place. It's a place I know.
It's a cave.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Oh, bless you. Do you realize how much you're doing
for us.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
It's not very much. I remember once I did more
for a horse.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I never thought i'd be warm again.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You're less than five hundred yards away from this cave.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
We'll smoke from the fire. Will will somebody see you?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
There's nothing to worry about. This cave is my secret
here grandfather. Let him sleep. You get better now. I
saw you earlier today on the square. How did you escape? Well?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
You see, Oh I can tell you. I know what
I can trust you. My grandfather was a chemist in Prague. Yes,
when the Nazis took over, he was afraid that they
would force him to work for him, and so he
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went in where we went into hiding. And it's been
that way, running from place to place.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Almost five years. How did you manage?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
There were all sorts of people. Some were kind enough
to help us, others betrayed.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Us, but you got away well.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
The officer in charge of the convoy, the lieutenant, he
kept looking at my grandfather, right, he must recognized him.
Grandfather was a very famous research chemist. Yes, he'd been
working on a formula that release explosive force is much
much more powerful than dynamite.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I don't understand. I'm not very educated. I'm only a peasant.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I don't really understand it either, and I've been to
the university. But he is afraid that they could torture
him to working for them. So he said to me,
he said, yes, he said, let us try to run
away and then they'll shoot us, and that way it'll
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be over quickly.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But how did you run away?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
After we left the square, they drove us to the
edge of the forest and the truck had a blowout.
And they ordered everyone off of it. Well, grandfather took
my hand and we walked toward the Watts. Do what
you mean, just like that, At any moment we expected
to hear shots and be killed, but nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
How do you account for us?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Well, I suppose they didn't think anyone would dare to escape,
and they were so busy yelling at the driver for
his carelessness, and so we just kept walking.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Baker, Rebaker, here's coming around, Rebeker.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Eh? Is that your name Rebecca? No, my name is
Rachel Whobaker?
Speaker 8 (20:32):
Whoever are you?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
I don't understand. He doesn't know anyone named Rebeccaca?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Eh, Grandpa, you are child?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Grandpa? Don't you know who I am?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Of course my child?
Speaker 8 (20:47):
You Rebecca, daughter of my oldest son Ezra.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Grandpa, don't you know who you are?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Child? What are these ques? Questions? I know who I am?
Speaker 8 (21:03):
I am Solomon Ben Isaac, Rabbi of Prague. Where is
the book? The book? The book? Theyre sent to me
by my old friend, the Spanish rabbi.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
A Spanish rabbi.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know him.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Moses Ben my Monodies.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
My Mondes grandfather my Monodies has been dead for more
than seven hundred.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Years and in this book he speaks of a golem
a girl. How it is possible to create a champion,
to make out of clay, a man of irresistible faults
who will come to the rescue of.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Oppressed people.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
How, golemb grandfather, I will create such a champion, and
he will rescue our people. Now, child, you must not
disturb me. I must close my eyes and think.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yes, yes, grandfather, his mind is gone. It's gone.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
What was he talking about, Oh legend?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I mean the evil Hebrew legend about a golem. It
must have been the golm of Prague who saved our
people once during some troubled times. A creature made by
one of our wise men. But I don't understand. You
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don't have to understand the legend thinks he's a thirteenth
century rabbi. He was never interested in history, were they. Well, yes, Grandfather, I.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
Will save us. You see, I'll save all of us,
I promise a child. I have never broken my pomish.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I was scared out of my witside. I thought you'd
be caught and shot. Well you found them.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I suppose let's not talk about it. Yes, I know
who that is. Let him in as if we have
anything to say about it.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Don't despise me, tom Check? Is it so terrible to
want to live? Lieutenant?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Good morning?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
A couple of coffee, Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Duty, tom Check? Ready?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yes, sir, you look as if you didn't even get
to sleep last night.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Or Lieutenant, sometimes he's just restless.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, take these, tom Check. Oh, I was in the package, Lieutenant,
pills pills. I stopped at our dispensary. I got you
some pills for or arthritis. You don't have a yes,
I do.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Oh are you.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Talking about since you have arthritis?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Right?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Well maybe he's had it since last night, eh, tom Check,
We must be off to the hunt.
Speaker 11 (24:35):
Oh, Lieutenant, what do you mean, Maria?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
But tom Check isn't at home. He isn't so you
didn't tell him you want to come?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yes, that's right, I didn't. But I hadn't come here
to see tom Check. No, no, I want to see you.
Come in, thank you. I want to help you.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Help me.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
First off, tom Check told me a lie about what
about having arthritis? Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
But he does?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Oh he does.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
No, No, now it's a minor thing, a silly thing.
But he told me a lie. Why does a man lie.
He lies because he's nervous and frightened. Why should Tom
Check be nervous and frightened because he's doing something wrong,
(25:41):
something seriously wrong, Like what by hiding fugitives? You see
how simple and logical it is, Tomcheck?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Wouldn't you need to know?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
He couldn't?
Speaker 8 (25:54):
He would?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
He could?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
He is.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
For three days down, he's been leading me all around
the woods. There is no trace of those two, but
it's nothing hidden away. Otherwise how could they have disappeared
so completely?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Oh, Tom Chik would will never.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Marina or his wine.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You love him, and right now you're the only one
who can save him. But you ten quiet? Shall I
tell you how you can save him? And suddenly a word,
(26:34):
a single word, sears itself into Marina's consciousness.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
The word is betrayal.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
How can something she has yet to find out be
a betrayal of someone or something that is very important
to her husband? And just as he heard a voice
in his heart, she also hears one now, a voice
that says, one of you shall betray me. I will
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return shortly with Act three, there are times when it
seems that the Lord sleeps and the world is abandoned
to the will of the wicked, and during such times,
(27:27):
perhaps the wisest course, perhaps the only course, is to survive,
to endure, to wait for a long night to end,
and to hope for a new day.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
But meanwhile one must live.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
And right now, a young woman named Marina, whose home
is in Central Europe during the Nazi occupation, is listening
to what she must do if.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
She is to live. Marina, I need those two prisoners.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
But Townjik doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
You mustn't pretend you don't know. Tom Check is guilty.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Lieutenant, Please don't cry. Tom Check being Tom Check would
sooner die than betray them. But no, no, no, we
must not go back to the beginning. We're past all that. Therefore,
you must find out from Tom Check where they are hidden,
(28:24):
and you will find out in twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Or do you know what I will do. I will
shoot Tom Chick.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
You hear the noise, Rebecca, the noise Grandfather, the noise
of the mob.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
In the streets.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
They're getting ready, ready.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
To kill Grandfather.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Try to rest.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Rest now, the peace people. They must not make the
same mistake as last time. They must not try to
barricade themselves in the synagogue. They should come out here
to this cave an excellent hiding place. And besides, the
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rolem can be more effective out in the open. The call, yes, child,
I can make her golem. But that's what you wish
to say, is that only God can make a living creature.
(29:37):
And that's true. But the golem is not a living person.
The golem is a force, yes, but now a man
made force.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
A way.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
It is tom Check, the young peasant who.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Is so kind.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
He will try to return. He could he get me
some salt, some clay, and so yes, yes, yes, grandfather,
whatever you like. Now please rest tom tag tomteg my
(30:28):
poor tom Take. You've fallen asleep over your dinner.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yes, well, I'm so tired.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Ah, it's too much be a tomb take.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I have to go out, please please, all right, I'm sorry.
I must do this now. Don't try to talk me
out of this.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
But I don't want to do that. If what you're
doing is important to you, it must also be important
to me, and so well, I must also be a
part of it. I want to help.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
No, it's too dangerous.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I must be a part of whatever you do, tom Check.
Don't you understand? I too, must tell Na.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Right, I love you so much.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
That old man he must be terribly it is. Well,
he needs good nursing here. Now you know I could
do that, would you?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Where is he? Tomb check.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Marina?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
You cause he looks so beautiful right now. It must
make it because you feel beautiful.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Where are they hidden way?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Marina? Once I tell you I, well, you become a
part of it too.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Where toumb check?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You know the cave?
Speaker 4 (31:47):
The cave if you forgotten, we found out that day
when we went walking we went inside it.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes, yes, I remember.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
The old man is terribly he said, he needs you Marina.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Now first first time, let's go to town to town
with his uncle. I'll take the child to my brother's house.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Of course you'd be safe, and I'll stop for some medicine.
And Tom Chick, yes, I love you.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I know, Oh, Tom Chick, You'll never know how much.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
How is he now?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Quiet?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
He talks to himself. Oh I'm frightened now.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Most people talk to himself.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
No, no, he talks to himself in Hebrew. Well, he
has never learned Hebrew.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
He doesn't know it. Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
And from what I can understand, it's a kind of
medieval Hebrew that hasn't been spoken in hundreds of years. Now,
how would he know it?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Understand? What is that?
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I I don't know how to explain.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
All over the floor, all the way back in the cave.
Where's he done?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Well, he took the clay that you brought him in hand.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Well he's he's making. It's in the form of a man.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yes, he's been making.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
A golem. Whatever it is, it's it's like a giant.
Where did he get the clay?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
He made it from the that that you brought.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I didn't bring all that much.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yes, it's it's frightening it. It seems to be growing.
I can't believe my eyes. But there it is, grandfather,
Please tell us be quiet?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
But grandfather, what is that?
Speaker 12 (33:55):
I am a vote to write down certain words, certain
awful words, And in this place there must be silence.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
The silence. Oh, they're dead. But you promised, you promise,
and I shall keep my promise. Marina, you have my words.
You'll even be rewarded.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Well, there they're hiding in a cave, a cave.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
You must do better than that, my dear.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
You pick up the pathway. He just passed our house,
and you follow it north for two miles. Now you
come to a deep ravine in front of you. Is
is what looks like a wall of solid rock, But
it isn't. No, because when you climb to the top
(35:05):
of it, he will see the entrance to the cave.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Thank you, sergeant placed around herrest. But you said you
said you'd be rewarded at this point, I don't know how.
If you're lying, a firing square will give you thirty
leaden blets. If you're truthful, there there are thirty silver chrona.
(35:36):
It's quiet, so quiet.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Too quiet. It appears to be in a trance. I
wish I knew what to do.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
No, don't be discouraged. Marina one now she was starting
to be a nurse, but her parents lost their money.
She'll help her, bless her.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Yes, she's really a wonderful person. She worries a lot,
but the end you can depend on her.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Maybe maybe what.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Maybe you and your wife should just Yes, it's it's
not your fight.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yes, yes, Rachel, it's my fight. It always was my fight.
Will you fight with me?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yes you do. Children, chill girl, Thank the Lord he
looks better.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
Children.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
They have come for us, They have come with grandfather.
Just listen outside a ol fight put down.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
They're canning up the rocks.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
They know where we are, they know we're here.
Speaker 8 (36:51):
I'm checked. M h, I'm checked.
Speaker 12 (36:54):
We know you're there.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Of all, check, I'm sorry. I'm I'm sorry for you.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
When I can hold him off and then with a
rifle can knock them down one at a time, we'll
hold out till darkenment.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
We'll try to run check.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
It's no good, and I'm so tired.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Courage checked, save.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Yourself, don't check your sense of a person.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
That comes a time, that comes a time when you
when what when? When he no longer hears our peers,
and he says, my children.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
Is your will do with it whatever you will destroy
yourselves and your own madness.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
I abandon you, Rachel, Rachel, you mustn't say that.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Grandfather, Grandfather, let us save town. Let's give ourselves up.
Speaker 13 (37:41):
Grandfather, grandfather, beho my children, the whole thing, that thing
he made is movie.
Speaker 12 (37:52):
They are people shall be saved, the murderers till perish.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Father, What have you done?
Speaker 12 (38:02):
We have been sent a champion.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
It's a giant, a champion.
Speaker 12 (38:07):
Sas smite the man killers of the eros.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
And then hone.
Speaker 12 (38:12):
I have written the awful, never to be forgotten words.
I have breathed the force of life into the champion
Clay giant is moving. Clay no longer but fire and Steve.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Look at it, you look through me.
Speaker 12 (38:33):
It has acquired the force and power of a million sons.
He shall burn away the evil that surrounds us. They
charge you, Champion Avenger, protect us, paulmn.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Go forth, go far? Came there?
Speaker 6 (39:02):
I come alive?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Tell him?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
No?
Speaker 5 (39:21):
It?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Hm?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
It just?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
It destroyed them all to the last man.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
What what was it? You saw?
Speaker 8 (39:45):
A columb.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
When did it go?
Speaker 3 (39:50):
It vanished.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
As if in to thin it air.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
The pious old folk still believe, and they assure you
that the girl will reappear one day when someone shall
awaken him to save the people.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
What is that you're saying?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Oh, I remember reading the story.
Speaker 12 (40:19):
Of the Gold Nature very Rachel, Grandfather, Eh, my head, Hi?
Have I had the strangest dream I dreamed? I was
living hundreds of years ago, and and I was, who
(40:44):
is this man?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Where have I seen you before? Come?
Speaker 3 (40:50):
Grandfather? We must be on our way.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
We're where where hi?
Speaker 5 (40:59):
I am?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I'm so tired of running?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
We will join the partisans. It's time we stopped running
and started fighting.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Is there.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Was there a golum? The question is what is a golum?
A thing of irresistible force?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Well, so is a bomb.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
A British or American bomber flying overhead may have dropped one.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
On the other hand, the.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Old gentleman was a scientific genius. He could have made one,
or it could have been what you heard, a golum.
I'll be back shortly. There is a legend that a
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medieval Hebrew scholar created a creature of great strength and
power to rescue his beleaguered people from the madness of
a mob, a creature called a golam. It is significant
that the word golam means unfinished, and this is fitting
because to save the world we can only depend on
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a certain amount of help to be given us. The
rest of the effort must be our own. Our cast
included Robert Lansing, Mildred Clinton, Patricia Elliott, Ralph Bell, and
Robert Dryden.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Thissus A. G.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre until next time.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Pleasant Dreams
Speaker 6 (43:25):
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