March 31, 2025 • 29 mins
Please enjoy End Of The Road a great episode of the legendary Suspense - - a Old Time Radio OTR classic.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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of the Road, a suspense play produced, edited and directed
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
For friendly ENTERPI.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
For an automobile salesman, I have expensive habits. I mean dames.
It had been dames, dames, dames as long as I
could remember, strictly murdered. Also, it gets you definitely no place.
So this day I was well. I was turning over
a new leaf. Nothing on my mind but business and
slim my hand, the sheet of figures on the desk.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Figuring out how to sell a million Excelsior.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
HS like a billion dollars. And someone tapped on the glass.
I didn't even look up.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Just the busy executive it was again.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Now I looked up.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Am I disturbing you?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well? She disturbing me. I got up in a trance
and followed her across the showroom floor. Seemed as though
I'd never seen anyone walk while I got before in
all my life.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
This is my husband Michigan, when mister Evans a sales manager.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
How do you do sing?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So she had a husband and he was a little
sour puss runt with a limpy.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Leg about twice her age, dress.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Like Doe, the kind of dog that you would buy
Excelsior hs by the dozens. Now, But I wasn't thinking
about that now. I was thinking about her. I was
thinking that the best way to guarantee seeing her again
was to send them up that door in an Excelsior
at eight.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So I faced it on the exiled and smile went
to town.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
This is our customs line, mister Gallan, distinctive in appearance.
You will notice the three tone color effect inside. Now
talphost you a match, and the broad, graceful sweeping lines
A thing of beauty under the hood. That's a question
that I've been waiting for. Why the world famous Excelsior
or motor, mister Gallin, see.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I've never given in an Excelsior. Perhaps mister Evans would
take us so long?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I'll look here again, all right, won't take a minute. Yeah,
try that that rear seat, mister Gallan, find it broad
and luguilia.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, oh missus.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Gawn good care to sit up here in front you
you can see what it'll do. Hey, you see hot handles,
mister Ganlin, it's like a baby carriager. Keep your eyes
on the road and then the corner on two wheels.
Explained about the minimum swathing, one of the stabilizers.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And now I got a couple of gunts for that.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Try in the mirror, I saw he'd close his eyes,
so I turned to her.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And I still didn't know if this dealer was going
to be too easy.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But one look at that look in those eyes, and
I began to have a rough idea.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
What did they call you?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Which day?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Good friends?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Speed? How about you know?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Sill?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Why the speed? Evans?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I like to get places.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I like to go places.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Maybe you're right, Maybe we're both right.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Maybe speed.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Maybe she'd asked for it, I'd I made that of
Celsia turned somersaults.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was. I showed her some driving tricks to make
your hair stand on end, and she loved him.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Every once in a.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
While her eyes met mine, and he clung their just Lung.
We knew both of us what I was selling, and
it wasn't an Excelsia. I can have the car ready
for delivery first thing in the morning, mister Gallan, what
do you say?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Please?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
All right, if you'll just sign the order, I want
it now and I pick It's fine, mister Ganila, that's
just fine. I think you'll find the desk in my
office the most convenient, all right, like the office there.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes, that's like, mister Ganlon.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'll collect all the necessary papers while you're making out
the check. Well, how did you like it? I could
the car put a start? I love it. You are
better drive in for a service check as soon as
you can when tomorrow tomorrow, I suppose you could manage
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to be alone?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yes, I'll be alone.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
She came in next morning.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
She was alone. Well, from that day we went places,
we went there fast.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But this was well, it was different. She was different,
different from.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Anything I'd ever known before. And in less than two
weeks I knew I didn't care about husband's or excelsioris
or even a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
All I cared about was her, and.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It was the same with her most of the time.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That was what was chain me up.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
So it was other.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Times stand up is scared and I was screwy.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well. One day we were down to the beach, as
usually lately, we were arguing about it. Oh, what's the
matter with Reno. We've got to do something about it someday,
haven't we. Yes, well, that's what they got Reno for.
He'll come after me.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I'll let him come. We'll tear up his claim.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Check speed along the beach from.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Thirty three. I'm too old for this stuff. Hey, wait
a minute, anyway, look alone, I lost my royal skate
on any states.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yes, you do, that's all.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Right, Sylvie. Look listen, Sylvie, I got out the horse
playing quitch saal and I want a decision one way
and I'm another.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now, Oh, Darling, now you're angry.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, Miam, it's a screwy deal. You love me. You
want to leave him, but you won't.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
But I will, Darling, I say. You see, there's so
many things that they're all complicated, mixed up. First, there's
my father.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What about him?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, you see, my father and Gannon were mining partners
a little town called see the Arizona. And then then
there was a cave in and my father was killed.
And he was such a wonderful man. We were so
terribly close. It's comfortably sometimes it's almost as though he
were alive. I see him, seeing him dreams. Every so often.
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I hear him speak it was ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh what's all this got to do with you and
ganlon hast?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, okay, that's what you want. Look, look, baby, I
don't know about you, but I'm leaving time tonight. I can't.
I can't take this any longer. I'm going back now.
Quit my job and drama three bucks out of the
bank and pack a bag. I'm leaving tonight with you
without speed.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You can't go without Well, that's up to you, baby,
I'm a I don't know. Oh, we'll worry about that later.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
All right? All right, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I was to meet at the usual place at eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I was on time, but even before I got there,
I realized she'd never show up. I waited an hour,
and then I crossed the streets to the apartment where
they lived, the seventh floor, seven oh seven. She must
have been hanging around the door because it opened almost
at once. She came out in the hall closer behind her.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
She was scared to death.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You've got to get away right away. Listen to me, speed.
I lied to you this afternoon, No kid, I mean
about my thought. He wasn't just killed in a cave
and he was murdered, Danlon murdered him.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So you married Gamon and kind.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Of show your appreciation.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yes, I mean, let you don't make sense, baby, Come on,
we're going in. So we're going to settle this once
and for all.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
In the living room, Damon was lying on the couch
with his shoes off, his feet props up in a chair.
Opposite was a.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Young punk in a tan overcoat that looked like he
took the wrong kind of nose drops When he needed courage.
He let it be know him fairly obvious that he
had a gun in his pocket. Gamlon didn't even get up. Well,
miss servants, this is an unexpected player. I'm afraid it's
no pleasure either way. I've come to tell you that
your wife is leaving with me. Oh he sure, what
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about it? Sylville, You don't seem to have entirely convinced.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That mister Evans listen.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I don't know exactly what goes on, but I do
know that she's headed straight for a crack up.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
When that you're at the bottom of it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So she's leaving.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Tonight's gone, Sylvia, get your things, Hi.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Miss Evans. I'm not sure you'll fully appreciate the penalties
of stealing a man's eye. There's divorce course to handle that.
Besides other ways. If you're big enough. Since you've brought
up the question of superior force, all right, take him okay,
put him up high, funny place. Gun schools with guns
you have sometimes they come in handy, mister Evans.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Come on and stop walking any particular direction.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, outside, all right, all right, you win, mister Ganlan,
take him out and kick him down the stairs. See
kicking the funk was plenty of shaking, and he had
the gun jammed right in my back. It's not smart
if your guy knows a little judo. I made a
quick half turn in the mid but not soon enough,
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and I've broken it on again. The gun scooted across
the floor somewhere, and I was just thinking, it's lucky
to samboo the fancy apartment. I'm kind of going up again.
I will to see Sylvie with a gun in her hands,
sucking gammon like a tigris. He was calling behind the furniture,
and she was moving around trying to get a clear
shot at him. And it took me one good lead
to get over there and put the bowl of water
flies on the table.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Through the flies and the flow through the one. Sylvia
opened her eyes, lets.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Around, Oh speed, Why did you do it?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Ye're lucky baby.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
When you get better at it, they're liable to call it.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Murder laws Suspense.
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Ford as Speed Evans with Kathy Lewis as Sylvia Ganlan
in the End of the Road, A tale well calculated
to keep you in suspend after the gunplay, I thought
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it would be easy, but when I tried to get
her out of the car, she caught like a wildcat,
and I had to clip her again. It was about
all the way across town until we got the ball
in along Highway ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
She knew she'd break her neck if she tried to jump,
and then all of a sudden, she she.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Just went to sleep. I looked over at her sleeping
man in a corner, rolled up like a kitten and
as innocent as a baby, and I knew I was
for it, and it killed me. I just have to
do the best I could.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
We passed beggar Steel.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Now he's ended up over at the hatchby Monds. Before
she woke up, it was morning.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Oh oh, hello, darling.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Feeling any better?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Baby?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yes, I had such a wonderful dream. I was a
little girl again, and I was with my father and
a and he was rolling across a a lake.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
And then then what.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Speed?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I lied to you about gown? He didn't kill my father.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I was wicked to.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Say that, wasn't I.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uh yeah, just a little mixed up, that's all.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Speed.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, where are we going?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
We're going to your hometown, baby, Phoebe Arizona. Oh you
like the idea?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh I suppose so? Why?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh baby, I'm no psychiatrist, but something happened back there
when you were a kid, something to do with a
death of your father. Had you on the mare ground
ever since, so much of it. About nine hours ago
you tried to kill a man.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I said, I was sorry about that. Speed.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Sure, sure, But if you and I are gonna make
a go of this. I think we gotta do something more. Besides,
you're saying we feel sorry, don't you.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You make it sound as though you thought I was
gonna go around killing people for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
All I say is that you're not well.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You're not gonna be very happy until we know the
facts about this thing, whatever they are. Till you faced
the facts, and from then on we can forget it.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Speed.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, I'm terribly hungry, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
M Yeah, you know I could do with a little something.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Loo. Look, there's a place up ahead.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Mm okay, boss just pulled in.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That's when regular stops.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, speed.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Kiss me.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I said, Oh, that's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Let's go with a lot of tea. Those big buses
that hold a lot of people. Baby, come here, it's
all right, it's all right.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
She's my wife. Wasn't going on.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I never seen it before in my wife.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's no way to see you and your wife all
right up. You must know she's that's crazy. She's not
my wife, but she's hopelessly insane.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
But I don't care.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
About Five minutes later she snapped out of it. You'd
think nothing at all that happened, but I wasn't taking
any more chances. I took her a side rose whoever
I could ficking. The copsoud be on my tail any minute.
So he didn't cross the state lines till after midnight.
Now it was next morning when I kicked it out
of gear to see the eyes on hers. There was
only one hotel were registered in Johnny Rooms.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
All the time I was watching it like a hawk.
I didn't need to nod agree with are?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
She?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
She seemed glad. Now we've been Roma's about five minutes
when the phone range Hello, mister Evans.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, after a moment, mister Evans, mister Evans, this is
San Francisco Operator twenty three.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
We've got a long distance call for you, San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yes, sir, we've been trying to reach you all night.
Shall I put your party on now?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Go ahead, Hello Evans, Yeah, this is gone. You must
have a private eye on your payroll too, huh.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I know you're an.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Injudgent man Evans, whatever else you may be, I know
where you'd go.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But I want to tell you something.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
You're getting in deep water, deeper than you know anything about,
and you hope I'll drowned. Huh, all right, maybe I will,
but I'm still waiting in I'm coming down the ribbons in.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
The meantime, keep quiet and keep her quiet, and keep.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Your nose out of things.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What's that supposed to be a threat.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'm not threatening you. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
All your home.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Good dandling, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, he called and give us his blessing.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
He's coming down too, isn't he.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Maybe I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Speed, You just can't know how glad I am.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, that's gonna be real cozy, just three of us.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You've been cruel to me, Speed me, I've forgiven you though.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You know that well, you sure, baby, I just.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Didn't understand it first. But but I understand now why
you brought me here. I mean, you're going to find
proof that Dan killed my father.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh, work on that.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I can tell you exactly how it happened.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You said yesterday you were lying.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Uh, don't try to confuse me.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Speed.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Do you wanna know it, don't you?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Let's have it.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Oh. My father and Gan were tunneling a new shaft
in the side of the mountain. They were working alone
that day. They'd started dynamo charge inside the shaft with
wires out to the ignition box. Box worked with a plunger,
but when my father pushed it down, the dynamite didn't
go off. He went back inside to find the trouble.
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While he was in there, again pushed down the plunger again.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
My father was born brown the.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Pet just like that.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Huh, don't you believe me?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Hm? Like I say, I'll work on it.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
They'll hang him, won't They hang who? Ganlon? They'll hang
him when you find proof.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
If he's guilty, they'll hang him.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
He'll prove it, Doling. Promise me you will so so
they can arrest him when he arrives you. He'll do
it for your baby, I know, kiss.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Me, darling. How is that?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
No, that's wonderful. That's all I care about it. Then,
seeing ganlm hanged.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
She went to sleep in just as peaceful as you please,
dreaming of Gallon with a rope around his neck. And
I found the thing they called the city hall has
to see records on home. Instead, I let hims and
odds summon. Then it came out that half the time
was burned down.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
A few years back. The records went up with it.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
They finally suggested, I see, you know the time I
named Constant had been her.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Father's mind for me at one time or another, And
I did. He was already waiting for me. He seemed
to know.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
He seemed to know what I was after. He was
all primed with the.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Answers, Should I know Sylvia?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
She beat this prettiest little kid I ever see all
my life?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And of course you knew her father?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Should I knew? I guess Sylvia must have been pretty
fond of him. Sure she was crazy about it?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Or wasn't she maybe?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But if she was, she was the only one in
this town wasn't glad to see him though, Look, you
don't have to be cagy with me. I'm trying to
help Sylvia, all right.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know about this best thing you ca can do?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What get out of tub before you make plan to trouble?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
That was less.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
The next stop was the office of the weekly paper
owned published printed in the peddle by one guy, a
guy named McLean. He seemed to know all about my
business too, had the files all laid out for me.
Why don't you lay off at Evans? It's ten years old?
Getn't buried?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Mind?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
If I look at your files.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, sure, sure, go ahead, you can see what it says,
my disassed premature explosion.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Accidental death.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Any chance it wasn't accidental? What do you mean, any
chance that Gallon did it? Not a chance? He seemed
pretty sure. Did you ever notice that gipp the leg
of his Yeah, well that's how he got it. He
was in the mind when it happened. I was getting
no place fast, only a suspicion, and not a very
comfortable one. And I hadn't the faintest idea where to
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go from here. And I thought of the doctor.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I had to be.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
A doctor signed a death certific Well, I found out
who he was, dug him up, and he looked like
there was better at a bunch. He was half wacky
from the effects of age and misspent life, nothing less
but his dignity and the collection of voudo. Grassy insisted
I'm talking about until I wanted to smack him. Yes,
this was myb before my eyes went back on nade it.
I was just see on the wall or only a
few Yeah, yeah, and take a look at.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Some of these, all you people covering up for a doctor.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I beg your pardon. You heard me, young man? You
realize that what you've just said constitutes the most serious
slur on my professional reputation. Look, I'm trying to help
a girl that I'm in love with Cat. Anybody understand that.
Take this one for instance, and notice the contrasts the
light and shadow. Yeah, I don't suppose you understand the
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meaning of the term traumatric experience. I thought not very
psychicist structure of the personality is a very delicate mechanism,
for instance, in the case of Sylvia, and now take
her to her competent men the field of mister Evans
kind of longer handled such keys. That's not what I
came to you four and you know it well, Fred,
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I can help you return some time ago.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You see.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Now look at some of the easy It is over,
of course, but this too, some very good ones.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
My blug doc, I don't want to look at pictures.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
All I want. Oh I found one you like? Eh,
I knew you had. There was a date on it,
July fourteenth, nineteen thirty five. I mean anything to you?
Is it this night to incrustacean? If so, it's or
just some rocks and a hole in the mountain to me?
But that date is the date that Sylvia's father would
killed me to get you and all you don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I'm afraid you're telling to die.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I mean, back to me, I said, but the pot
I got it still enough to show who killed him.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I started back to the hotel, but I didn't feel
so good.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I didn't feel good at all, and I asked at
the desk if Gammon had arrived. That he hadn't. So
I wide on up to Sylvia's room. She was sitting
at the dressing table making up her face.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
She looked up at me in the mirror.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I can tell by your eyes?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You know, yes, baby, I know.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Now hang him, won't they gem?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
No? Baby, he's in the clear.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
But he isn't.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
He can't be.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
He murdered my father, I know he did.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You're lying to me.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Speed.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You take it easy, baby, It's it's gonna be all right.
Just just let's get it over.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
With and then we can forget it right over with.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Well, acting so funny.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Do take to look at this this picture?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh that's me, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
When I was a little girl.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I'm mostly far away, but I still know it's me.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
The smoke, don't you remember?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Please? Speed, My head's hurting.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Don't try to remember.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
You're tormenting me. You're trying to hurt me.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That smoke is the explosion, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You pushed the plunger. I don't remember while your father
was inside the shaft. Remember, yes, yes, I killed him, all.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Right, baby, That's all there is to what.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
You can forget. I hated him.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
So I lived for It's all I ever dreamed of.
She is face bloody and fatter, she is body mangled
and dirty. I hated him. I hate you. I hate
old man. If I could kill.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Every man in the world, where did you get that gun, baby,
out of your overcoat?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah? Better put it down.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I tried to kill Danlan because he knew.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Now you know, put it down.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It's too late. Speed goodbye, darling.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Listen, it's all over now. You were only a kid
that I know how he treated you.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
The whole town covered up for you. They're still covering.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
When the door flew open, I ducked, and then the
shots came. When I looked her hand down and was
lying on the open door of the gun still in
his hand, he walked right into it and he.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Must have got in one shot though.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That was enough.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
She was still breathing when I got to her. But
that was about all.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Oh, it's.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It's all right now.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It was my dog. Sure, sure, baby, everything's gonna be alright.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Excuss me.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh yeah, how was that?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Mm? That's wonderful. But I wasn't so lucky this time?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Was I not?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Not too lucky? I didn't miss no, baby, you didn't miss.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Anytime you want to buy an Excelsior A, just come
on in and see old Speed Evans. No, I won't
tell you my troubles. Dames.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's my trouble, and it's.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Been dames, dames, dames as long as I can remember.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's too bad, though we'd have probably had a couple
of kids by now.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
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Glenn Ford, Glenn, you get a magnificent job. Believe me.
I want a recording of your performance from my own
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Speaker 2 (27:00):
Record Well thngs.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Ken, you're a record fan too, oh, missus Ford and
I can't.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Resist a brisk disc. A brisk disc.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, you know, a torrid wax hot platter. Oh no,
I guess it they speaking of platters. Glen, isn't missus
f like you serve you a nice sizzling platter garnished
with a thick, juicy steak some night.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Soon She's better? Can? Well?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Good?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Because I have a little gift for you that'll make
any steak taste.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Better or suspense me no further?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Can?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
What's the secret your gifts? Glen?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
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Speaker 2 (27:52):
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Speaker 2 (28:21):
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Speaker 1 (28:25):
Glenford appeared through the courtesy of Columbia Pictures and is
soon to be seen starring in the Columbia Picture Frames.
Tonight Suspense Play was adapted by Irving Moore and Robert
Richards from a story by Irving Moore. Next Thursday, same
time you will hear Agnes moorehead as star of suspense
when he's been directed by William Spear for the Roma
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Speaker 2 (28:45):
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Speaker 3 (29:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
For friendly ENTERPI.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
For an automobile salesman, I have expensive habits. I mean dames.
It had been dames, dames, dames as long as I
could remember, strictly murdered. Also, it gets you definitely no place.
So this day I was well. I was turning over
a new leaf. Nothing on my mind but business and
slim my hand, the sheet of figures on the desk.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Figuring out how to sell a million Excelsior.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
HS like a billion dollars. And someone tapped on the glass.
I didn't even look up.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Just the busy executive it was again.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Now I looked up.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Am I disturbing you?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well? She disturbing me. I got up in a trance
and followed her across the showroom floor. Seemed as though
I'd never seen anyone walk while I got before in
all my life.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
This is my husband Michigan, when mister Evans a sales manager.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
How do you do sing?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So she had a husband and he was a little
sour puss runt with a limpy.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Leg about twice her age, dress.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Like Doe, the kind of dog that you would buy
Excelsior hs by the dozens. Now, But I wasn't thinking
about that now. I was thinking about her. I was
thinking that the best way to guarantee seeing her again
was to send them up that door in an Excelsior
at eight.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So I faced it on the exiled and smile went
to town.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
This is our customs line, mister Gallan, distinctive in appearance.
You will notice the three tone color effect inside. Now
talphost you a match, and the broad, graceful sweeping lines
A thing of beauty under the hood. That's a question
that I've been waiting for. Why the world famous Excelsior
or motor, mister Gallin, see.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I've never given in an Excelsior. Perhaps mister Evans would
take us so long?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I'll look here again, all right, won't take a minute. Yeah,
try that that rear seat, mister Gallan, find it broad
and luguilia.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, oh missus.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Gawn good care to sit up here in front you
you can see what it'll do. Hey, you see hot handles,
mister Ganlin, it's like a baby carriager. Keep your eyes
on the road and then the corner on two wheels.
Explained about the minimum swathing, one of the stabilizers.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And now I got a couple of gunts for that.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Try in the mirror, I saw he'd close his eyes,
so I turned to her.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And I still didn't know if this dealer was going
to be too easy.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But one look at that look in those eyes, and
I began to have a rough idea.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
What did they call you?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Which day?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Good friends?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Speed? How about you know?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Sill?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Why the speed? Evans?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I like to get places.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I like to go places.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Maybe you're right, Maybe we're both right.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Maybe speed.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Maybe she'd asked for it, I'd I made that of
Celsia turned somersaults.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was. I showed her some driving tricks to make
your hair stand on end, and she loved him.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Every once in a.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
While her eyes met mine, and he clung their just Lung.
We knew both of us what I was selling, and
it wasn't an Excelsia. I can have the car ready
for delivery first thing in the morning, mister Gallan, what
do you say?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Please?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
All right, if you'll just sign the order, I want
it now and I pick It's fine, mister Ganila, that's
just fine. I think you'll find the desk in my
office the most convenient, all right, like the office there.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes, that's like, mister Ganlon.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'll collect all the necessary papers while you're making out
the check. Well, how did you like it? I could
the car put a start? I love it. You are
better drive in for a service check as soon as
you can when tomorrow tomorrow, I suppose you could manage
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to be alone?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yes, I'll be alone.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
She came in next morning.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
She was alone. Well, from that day we went places,
we went there fast.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But this was well, it was different. She was different,
different from.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Anything I'd ever known before. And in less than two
weeks I knew I didn't care about husband's or excelsioris
or even a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
All I cared about was her, and.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
It was the same with her most of the time.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That was what was chain me up.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
So it was other.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Times stand up is scared and I was screwy.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well. One day we were down to the beach, as
usually lately, we were arguing about it. Oh, what's the
matter with Reno. We've got to do something about it someday,
haven't we. Yes, well, that's what they got Reno for.
He'll come after me.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I'll let him come. We'll tear up his claim.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Check speed along the beach from.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Thirty three. I'm too old for this stuff. Hey, wait
a minute, anyway, look alone, I lost my royal skate
on any states.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yes, you do, that's all.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Right, Sylvie. Look listen, Sylvie, I got out the horse
playing quitch saal and I want a decision one way
and I'm another.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now, Oh, Darling, now you're angry.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, Miam, it's a screwy deal. You love me. You
want to leave him, but you won't.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
But I will, Darling, I say. You see, there's so
many things that they're all complicated, mixed up. First, there's
my father.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What about him?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, you see, my father and Gannon were mining partners
a little town called see the Arizona. And then then
there was a cave in and my father was killed.
And he was such a wonderful man. We were so
terribly close. It's comfortably sometimes it's almost as though he
were alive. I see him, seeing him dreams. Every so often.
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I hear him speak it was ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh what's all this got to do with you and
ganlon hast?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, okay, that's what you want. Look, look, baby, I
don't know about you, but I'm leaving time tonight. I can't.
I can't take this any longer. I'm going back now.
Quit my job and drama three bucks out of the
bank and pack a bag. I'm leaving tonight with you
without speed.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You can't go without Well, that's up to you, baby,
I'm a I don't know. Oh, we'll worry about that later.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
All right? All right, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I was to meet at the usual place at eight o'clock.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I was on time, but even before I got there,
I realized she'd never show up. I waited an hour,
and then I crossed the streets to the apartment where
they lived, the seventh floor, seven oh seven. She must
have been hanging around the door because it opened almost
at once. She came out in the hall closer behind her.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
She was scared to death.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You've got to get away right away. Listen to me, speed.
I lied to you this afternoon, No kid, I mean
about my thought. He wasn't just killed in a cave
and he was murdered, Danlon murdered him.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So you married Gamon and kind.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Of show your appreciation.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yes, I mean, let you don't make sense, baby, Come on,
we're going in. So we're going to settle this once
and for all.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
In the living room, Damon was lying on the couch
with his shoes off, his feet props up in a chair.
Opposite was a.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Young punk in a tan overcoat that looked like he
took the wrong kind of nose drops When he needed courage.
He let it be know him fairly obvious that he
had a gun in his pocket. Gamlon didn't even get up. Well,
miss servants, this is an unexpected player. I'm afraid it's
no pleasure either way. I've come to tell you that
your wife is leaving with me. Oh he sure, what
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about it? Sylville, You don't seem to have entirely convinced.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That mister Evans listen.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I don't know exactly what goes on, but I do
know that she's headed straight for a crack up.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
When that you're at the bottom of it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So she's leaving.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Tonight's gone, Sylvia, get your things, Hi.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Miss Evans. I'm not sure you'll fully appreciate the penalties
of stealing a man's eye. There's divorce course to handle that.
Besides other ways. If you're big enough. Since you've brought
up the question of superior force, all right, take him okay,
put him up high, funny place. Gun schools with guns
you have sometimes they come in handy, mister Evans.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Come on and stop walking any particular direction.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, outside, all right, all right, you win, mister Ganlan,
take him out and kick him down the stairs. See
kicking the funk was plenty of shaking, and he had
the gun jammed right in my back. It's not smart
if your guy knows a little judo. I made a
quick half turn in the mid but not soon enough,
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and I've broken it on again. The gun scooted across
the floor somewhere, and I was just thinking, it's lucky
to samboo the fancy apartment. I'm kind of going up again.
I will to see Sylvie with a gun in her hands,
sucking gammon like a tigris. He was calling behind the furniture,
and she was moving around trying to get a clear
shot at him. And it took me one good lead
to get over there and put the bowl of water
flies on the table.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Through the flies and the flow through the one. Sylvia
opened her eyes, lets.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Around, Oh speed, Why did you do it?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Ye're lucky baby.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
When you get better at it, they're liable to call it.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Murder laws Suspense.
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M A Roma, the greatest name in Why and now
Roba Wines bring back to a Hollywood sound stage. Glenn
Ford as Speed Evans with Kathy Lewis as Sylvia Ganlan
in the End of the Road, A tale well calculated
to keep you in suspend after the gunplay, I thought
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it would be easy, but when I tried to get
her out of the car, she caught like a wildcat,
and I had to clip her again. It was about
all the way across town until we got the ball
in along Highway ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
She knew she'd break her neck if she tried to jump,
and then all of a sudden, she she.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Just went to sleep. I looked over at her sleeping
man in a corner, rolled up like a kitten and
as innocent as a baby, and I knew I was
for it, and it killed me. I just have to
do the best I could.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
We passed beggar Steel.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Now he's ended up over at the hatchby Monds. Before
she woke up, it was morning.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Oh oh, hello, darling.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Feeling any better?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Baby?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yes, I had such a wonderful dream. I was a
little girl again, and I was with my father and
a and he was rolling across a a lake.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
And then then what.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Speed?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I lied to you about gown? He didn't kill my father.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I was wicked to.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Say that, wasn't I.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Uh yeah, just a little mixed up, that's all.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Speed.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, where are we going?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
We're going to your hometown, baby, Phoebe Arizona. Oh you
like the idea?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh I suppose so? Why?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh baby, I'm no psychiatrist, but something happened back there
when you were a kid, something to do with a
death of your father. Had you on the mare ground
ever since, so much of it. About nine hours ago
you tried to kill a man.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I said, I was sorry about that. Speed.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Sure, sure, But if you and I are gonna make
a go of this. I think we gotta do something more. Besides,
you're saying we feel sorry, don't you.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You make it sound as though you thought I was
gonna go around killing people for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
All I say is that you're not well.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You're not gonna be very happy until we know the
facts about this thing, whatever they are. Till you faced
the facts, and from then on we can forget it.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Speed.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, I'm terribly hungry, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
M Yeah, you know I could do with a little something.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Loo. Look, there's a place up ahead.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Mm okay, boss just pulled in.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That's when regular stops.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, speed.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Kiss me.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I said, Oh, that's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Let's go with a lot of tea. Those big buses
that hold a lot of people. Baby, come here, it's
all right, it's all right.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
She's my wife. Wasn't going on.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I never seen it before in my wife.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
That's no way to see you and your wife all
right up. You must know she's that's crazy. She's not
my wife, but she's hopelessly insane.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
But I don't care.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
About Five minutes later she snapped out of it. You'd
think nothing at all that happened, but I wasn't taking
any more chances. I took her a side rose whoever
I could ficking. The copsoud be on my tail any minute.
So he didn't cross the state lines till after midnight.
Now it was next morning when I kicked it out
of gear to see the eyes on hers. There was
only one hotel were registered in Johnny Rooms.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
All the time I was watching it like a hawk.
I didn't need to nod agree with are?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
She?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
She seemed glad. Now we've been Roma's about five minutes
when the phone range Hello, mister Evans.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, after a moment, mister Evans, mister Evans, this is
San Francisco Operator twenty three.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
We've got a long distance call for you, San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yes, sir, we've been trying to reach you all night.
Shall I put your party on now?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Go ahead, Hello Evans, Yeah, this is gone. You must
have a private eye on your payroll too, huh.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I know you're an.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Injudgent man Evans, whatever else you may be, I know
where you'd go.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But I want to tell you something.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
You're getting in deep water, deeper than you know anything about,
and you hope I'll drowned. Huh, all right, maybe I will,
but I'm still waiting in I'm coming down the ribbons in.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
The meantime, keep quiet and keep her quiet, and keep.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Your nose out of things.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What's that supposed to be a threat.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'm not threatening you. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
All your home.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Good dandling, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, he called and give us his blessing.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
He's coming down too, isn't he.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Maybe I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Speed, You just can't know how glad I am.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, that's gonna be real cozy, just three of us.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You've been cruel to me, Speed me, I've forgiven you though.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
You know that well, you sure, baby, I just.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Didn't understand it first. But but I understand now why
you brought me here. I mean, you're going to find
proof that Dan killed my father.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Oh, work on that.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I can tell you exactly how it happened.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You said yesterday you were lying.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Uh, don't try to confuse me.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Speed.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Do you wanna know it, don't you?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Let's have it.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Oh. My father and Gan were tunneling a new shaft
in the side of the mountain. They were working alone
that day. They'd started dynamo charge inside the shaft with
wires out to the ignition box. Box worked with a plunger,
but when my father pushed it down, the dynamite didn't
go off. He went back inside to find the trouble.
(18:09):
While he was in there, again pushed down the plunger again.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
My father was born brown the.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Pet just like that.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Huh, don't you believe me?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Hm? Like I say, I'll work on it.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
They'll hang him, won't They hang who? Ganlon? They'll hang
him when you find proof.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
If he's guilty, they'll hang him.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
He'll prove it, Doling. Promise me you will so so
they can arrest him when he arrives you. He'll do
it for your baby, I know, kiss.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Me, darling. How is that?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
No, that's wonderful. That's all I care about it. Then,
seeing ganlm hanged.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
She went to sleep in just as peaceful as you please,
dreaming of Gallon with a rope around his neck. And
I found the thing they called the city hall has
to see records on home. Instead, I let hims and
odds summon. Then it came out that half the time
was burned down.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
A few years back. The records went up with it.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
They finally suggested, I see, you know the time I
named Constant had been her.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Father's mind for me at one time or another, And
I did. He was already waiting for me. He seemed
to know.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
He seemed to know what I was after. He was
all primed with the.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Answers, Should I know Sylvia?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
She beat this prettiest little kid I ever see all
my life?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And of course you knew her father?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Should I knew? I guess Sylvia must have been pretty
fond of him. Sure she was crazy about it?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Or wasn't she maybe?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But if she was, she was the only one in
this town wasn't glad to see him though, Look, you
don't have to be cagy with me. I'm trying to
help Sylvia, all right.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know about this best thing you ca can do?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What get out of tub before you make plan to trouble?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
That was less.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
The next stop was the office of the weekly paper
owned published printed in the peddle by one guy, a
guy named McLean. He seemed to know all about my
business too, had the files all laid out for me.
Why don't you lay off at Evans? It's ten years old?
Getn't buried?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Mind?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
If I look at your files.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, sure, sure, go ahead, you can see what it says,
my disassed premature explosion.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Accidental death.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Any chance it wasn't accidental? What do you mean, any
chance that Gallon did it? Not a chance? He seemed
pretty sure. Did you ever notice that gipp the leg
of his Yeah, well that's how he got it. He
was in the mind when it happened. I was getting
no place fast, only a suspicion, and not a very
comfortable one. And I hadn't the faintest idea where to
(20:47):
go from here. And I thought of the doctor.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I had to be.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
A doctor signed a death certific Well, I found out
who he was, dug him up, and he looked like
there was better at a bunch. He was half wacky
from the effects of age and misspent life, nothing less
but his dignity and the collection of voudo. Grassy insisted
I'm talking about until I wanted to smack him. Yes,
this was myb before my eyes went back on nade it.
I was just see on the wall or only a
few Yeah, yeah, and take a look at.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Some of these, all you people covering up for a doctor.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I beg your pardon. You heard me, young man? You
realize that what you've just said constitutes the most serious
slur on my professional reputation. Look, I'm trying to help
a girl that I'm in love with Cat. Anybody understand that.
Take this one for instance, and notice the contrasts the
light and shadow. Yeah, I don't suppose you understand the
(21:40):
meaning of the term traumatric experience. I thought not very
psychicist structure of the personality is a very delicate mechanism,
for instance, in the case of Sylvia, and now take
her to her competent men the field of mister Evans
kind of longer handled such keys. That's not what I
came to you four and you know it well, Fred,
(22:02):
I can help you return some time ago.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
You see.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Now look at some of the easy It is over,
of course, but this too, some very good ones.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
My blug doc, I don't want to look at pictures.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
All I want. Oh I found one you like? Eh,
I knew you had. There was a date on it,
July fourteenth, nineteen thirty five. I mean anything to you?
Is it this night to incrustacean? If so, it's or
just some rocks and a hole in the mountain to me?
But that date is the date that Sylvia's father would
killed me to get you and all you don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I'm afraid you're telling to die.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I mean, back to me, I said, but the pot
I got it still enough to show who killed him.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I started back to the hotel, but I didn't feel
so good.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I didn't feel good at all, and I asked at
the desk if Gammon had arrived. That he hadn't. So
I wide on up to Sylvia's room. She was sitting
at the dressing table making up her face.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
She looked up at me in the mirror.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I can tell by your eyes?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You know, yes, baby, I know.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Now hang him, won't they gem?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
No? Baby, he's in the clear.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
But he isn't.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
He can't be.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
He murdered my father, I know he did.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You're lying to me.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Speed.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You take it easy, baby, It's it's gonna be all right.
Just just let's get it over.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
With and then we can forget it right over with.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Well, acting so funny.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Do take to look at this this picture?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh that's me, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
When I was a little girl.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I'm mostly far away, but I still know it's me.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
The smoke, don't you remember?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Please? Speed, My head's hurting.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Don't try to remember.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
You're tormenting me. You're trying to hurt me.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That smoke is the explosion, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You pushed the plunger. I don't remember while your father
was inside the shaft. Remember, yes, yes, I killed him, all.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Right, baby, That's all there is to what.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
You can forget. I hated him.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
So I lived for It's all I ever dreamed of.
She is face bloody and fatter, she is body mangled
and dirty. I hated him. I hate you. I hate
old man. If I could kill.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Every man in the world, where did you get that gun, baby,
out of your overcoat?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah? Better put it down.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I tried to kill Danlan because he knew.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Now you know, put it down.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It's too late. Speed goodbye, darling.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Listen, it's all over now. You were only a kid
that I know how he treated you.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
The whole town covered up for you. They're still covering.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
When the door flew open, I ducked, and then the
shots came. When I looked her hand down and was
lying on the open door of the gun still in
his hand, he walked right into it and he.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Must have got in one shot though.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That was enough.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
She was still breathing when I got to her. But
that was about all.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Oh, it's.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It's all right now.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It was my dog. Sure, sure, baby, everything's gonna be alright.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Excuss me.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh yeah, how was that?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Mm? That's wonderful. But I wasn't so lucky this time?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Was I not?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Not too lucky? I didn't miss no, baby, you didn't miss.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Anytime you want to buy an Excelsior A, just come
on in and see old Speed Evans. No, I won't
tell you my troubles. Dames.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's my trouble, and it's.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Been dames, dames, dames as long as I can remember.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's too bad, though we'd have probably had a couple
of kids by now.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Suspend brings it by Roma Wines R O M, a
Roma American favorite wines. This is Ken Niles returning to
our suspense microphone with a brilliant start of tonight's play.
Glenn Ford, Glenn, you get a magnificent job. Believe me.
I want a recording of your performance from my own
personal library of suspense.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Record Well thngs.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Ken, you're a record fan too, oh, missus Ford and
I can't.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Resist a brisk disc. A brisk disc.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, you know, a torrid wax hot platter. Oh no,
I guess it they speaking of platters. Glen, isn't missus
f like you serve you a nice sizzling platter garnished
with a thick, juicy steak some night.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Soon She's better? Can? Well?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Good?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Because I have a little gift for you that'll make
any steak taste.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Better or suspense me no further?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Can?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
What's the secret your gifts? Glen?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Is the basket of Roma California Wines, presented by Roma,
America's greatest vintner. In that basket is a bottle of
red robust Roma Burgundy, the perfect taste companion for tender steaks,
a brace of broiled chops, or any red meat. Better
tasting Roma Burgundy brings out all the natural hidden flavors
in hearty foods, adds pleasure to every bite. Roma Burgundy.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Eh. I remember that?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Can remember too that all Roma wines taste better because
Roma starts with choicest grapes, guide them unhurriedly to tempting
taste perfection with skill and resources unmatched in America. Then
Roma places this luscious grape treasure with Roma wines of
years before to await selection from the world's greatest wine
(28:14):
reserves for your pleasures. That's why more Americans enjoy Roma
than any other wine.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Well, I can think of a better endorsement. Thank you
and good night.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Glenford appeared through the courtesy of Columbia Pictures and is
soon to be seen starring in the Columbia Picture Frames.
Tonight Suspense Play was adapted by Irving Moore and Robert
Richards from a story by Irving Moore. Next Thursday, same
time you will hear Agnes moorehead as star of suspense
when he's been directed by William Spear for the Roma
Wine Company of Presno, California.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcast consistem
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah.
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