August 28, 2025 • 29 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Auto Light, and it's ninety eight thousand dealers, bring you,
mister Richard Widmark. In Tonight's presentation of suspense, Tonight Auto
Life presents the true story of a world of the dead.
It's the documented account of one man left alone on
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a tiny Pacific island, a wasteland of no living thing,
an island made of three square miles of fear. The
story is called how Long is the Night? Our star
rich heard with Mark. Hello, mister Wilcox, Well, frost my
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beard and call me winter.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
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And you know what that means.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
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Speaker 2 (01:00):
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And now Autolite presents transcribed. How Long is the Night?
(01:44):
A true story starring mister Richard with Mark and hoping
once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It was no different than any other night.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It was hot.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
The same warm wind blew up from the south end
of the island along the west beach. A line of
dirty white foam spread out where the breakers came up
on the sand. The moon had already gone down across
the lagoon. There was nothing, no lights, no sounds. It
was the same as the day before, the same smell
hanging over the water in the land, the smell of
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a world gone dead. They came and woke us up
a few minutes before three am. The three of us
got dressed and.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
They gave us breakfast.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
We checked our equipment and we took our positions with
the other men. We wore protective helmets with specially treated
linings over the eyes.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
A pair of heavy duty.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Goggles, jackets, trousers, gloves, all specially treated for protection.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Our boots were spread with linings of lead.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We waited.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
The dawn came up fast. I think it was about
five point thirty. We kept watching the horizon over the east,
a faint outline of an island. The warnings began to
come in over the ear force.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Fama Boy one Famba Boy one, two minutes before actual time,
mock two minutes before actual time. Just all goggles, just
all goggles, stand by.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
The month was May. It was beautiful.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I took one more look before I strapped on the goggles.
The blue water of the Pacific, the green islands near
and in the distance, the islands of Enewe time.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
The month was May.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
A peace of the earth was getting ready to die.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Fama Boy one Fama Boy one, one minute before actual time,
mock one minute before actual time stand by.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
A single bird passed overhead, pointing for the horizon. There
was the faint barking of a dog. Then it was quiet.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
I'm a boy one thirty seconds before actual time mock
thirty seconds before actual time.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
We waited for the split second. We waited for the
sound of.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
It I'm a boy one fifteen seconds before actual time.
Stand by ten seconds, five seconds oh three two one.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
We stood and we watched the huge body of the
ocean heaved and shuddered, the island shook, the sky seemed
to fill to the bursting point.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
We knew what it.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Was like, the most powerful atomic bomb yet conceived.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
The man next to me and stared.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
His mouth was open.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
There was only one thing to say. He said it Warner. Warner. Yeah,
dear God, dear God.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That was the first one. But there were others.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Our job was to photograph the results everything. The tests
ran into weeks months. The islands of Enewetak became a
chain of black ruins, each of them festering with deadly radiation.
After each explosion, we landed on the islands in the
target area. The photograph that remains. We got a first
hand look. It stayed with us.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
On the last day, I.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Had two men working the cameras with me, Joe Harrison,
Bert Picelli, both good men.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I couldn't blame either one of them.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It just happened. Don't take any chances. Be careful, yes, sir, goodbye,
Say see a pearl. Joe Bert, all right, yeah, okay,
all right, let her go. What's with the old man? Nothing?
Joe told me to remind you to be careful, don't
take any chance, and not as long as I'm in
this neighborhood. Had them bombs? Who needs them? Quit morning?
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You got them? You check our gey geccounters this morning, Bert, Yeah,
good shape. Brought the extra camera too, just a case.
I have a look. But ship pulling out over there
kind of lonesome.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
We'll be gone in the morning, your warner, Yeah, what
are they gonna do?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
It's gonna leave anybody around it all after we take off.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I suppose so the marine god, why oh nothing, just wondering.
No water looks bad. I'll hot stuff in it to
bring it to a boil. So what do you think, Warner?
You figure the natives will ever be able to come back?
I suppose so, ten twenty years maybe? What would they
live on?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
I mean the islands we covered already, couldn't even find
one green plant, left.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Everything the roots? How would they live? Take it to
the Chaplin bird. I only work here, dead.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Land, dead water, nothing.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Give it time?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Probably whereof that's the point. Huh. What happens if a dozen.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
That's the last thing I can tell you from memory,
what was said, what was done the rest of us,
just as I put it down in the log. The
last trip Island twenty seven. It's a few minutes past
twelve hundred. We've just landed at transfer point C. Most
of the men have left here already, skeleton crew standing by.
There's one lst left at the landing pier. Harrison, Pacelli
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and I move our camera equipment on board twelve twenty.
We clear the reef and head north for Island twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Weather overcast.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Hey that shit ahead, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Twenty seven?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Huh? Joe, want to take her a couple of points starboard.
We'll put her right up there ahead of the beach.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Okay, top short taking their time command the plane couldn't
have brought us in closer.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
While they still need landing strips. Brought us as far
as it could. Hey, Warner, Yeah, it's number twenty seven.
I thought it was on the fringe of the blast area.
That's the way I get it. Why try you are
Geiger Connor kicking up? Give a listen. Yeah, I bought
that warm goes for a fringe area. Well you got
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fair warning. As soon as we land, keep moving, don't
waste any time. Make it go as fast as you can.
How about your side arms? You can't team all okay,
I'm saying yeah, same here. With any kind of luck,
we'll be back to the basement suffering. All right, Joe, hold
it steady, right, what's the matter? You look worried. I'm
not worried.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
It's just another island.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't feel better when we're leaving. Hey, take it easy,
won't hurt a bit. That's what they told him in Hiroshima.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Thirteen thirty five. We've landed on Island twenty seven. It's
about a mile wide, two and a half three miles long.
It's like a dozen other islands we've covered in the
test area, the same smell of death and dying. As usual,
our lives depend on our Geiger counters. They measure the
radio activity bombarding us as we move through the contaminated area.
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When the clicking sound is slow, the location is fairly safe.
When it speeds up, it means the radiation is getting intense.
As soon as we landed on the beach, my counters
started turning over.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
We keep moving.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
The beach is littered with the remains of birds and fish,
the life scortched out of them. The sand has burned
jet black. There's no breeze. The sky is still overcast.
We stop moving only once to lay out a planet
of operation.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
What do you think?
Speaker 7 (09:50):
How do you want to cover it?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Joe?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
You take the upper end of the island.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Huh, cover everything down to that first inlet there, you see.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
What I mean?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Bert, you cover from the inlet down to here.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Okay, right, I'll work everything from here down to the
lower end.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Now, keep moving, but don't rush it, and try and
keep in sight as much as possible.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
If anything happens.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
If you need help, fire your side arms. Two shots.
Got it, sure, right, Okay, let's move.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Thirteen forty we've started photographing the island.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Each of us carry three cameras.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Thirty five millimeters black and white.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Sixteen millimeter for color, the four but five graphlegs for
the still shots. It's getting warmer. The overcast is starting
to lift. In the sunlight, the island looks even worse.
What's left of it, as far as I can see,
every last bit of vegetation is dead, scorched out. One
hundred yards back, I came across the remains of a
wild pig. Must have been caught in the bomb flash.
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It's impossible to give you a description. Fourteen fifteen. The
sky's clear, no wind. It's quiet except for the ticking
of my geige, Khannie, I keep moving.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Fifteen oh five.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
There's not a breath of wind. Hot, I have to
keep moving.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
There's plenty of photograph, good specimens. I've just taken some
color film and a piece of coral. Looked like portions
of it were melted by the heat of the blast.
Fifteen twenty. I heard the prearranged signal, and I hustled
down to the beach. Harrison and Picelli were coming toward me,
waving their arms.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, what's the matter, talk to you? Nothing serious. Wart
a hold of stuff, though, what's the matter? Oh we're
short on film. Have you got any despair?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
No, I'm in the same spot. More stuff than shoot?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Can we figured?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I guess, Uh, you didn't leave any supplies in the boat.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Did you, Joe, No, already checked it. I want to
get some to eat, getting a little hungry. I guess
we should have brought along some rations.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Huh didn't figure to take this long?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
All right, the two of you better take the boat
and hustle back to the transfer point.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Pick up some food, some more film, okay, any special?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
You want a couple extra rolls of sixteen color? If
they got it, better make it fast if we're going
to finish up.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Today, right, come on, Joe?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Oh hey, you sure you know the way back to
our transfer point? I think so.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
If we go due south Donland twenty down the east
side the second.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Inlet, you got it, meet you right here about seventeen
hundred and seventeen thirty.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Yeah, hey, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
If we're a little late, we'll make it.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
I watched the two of them climbing the boat, start
up the engines, and head south for the transfer point.
The boat gets small in the distance. In a few minutes,
it's out of sight. Fifteen forty I'm alone on the island.
I'm alone fifteen forty five. I found out a couple
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of minutes ago that there's something else alive on this
island besides me. I spotted it moving in a charred
tangle of brush, about fifty ydds inland from the beach.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I took a look.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
It was a small bird, dark color, apparently he'd been
exposed in one of the test blasts. One whole side
of him was a bright red burn. He had one
leg and one wing. He floundered helpless on the ground.
The one wing kept flapping. The first impulse was.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
To pick him up. I reached over and held.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
My Geiger counter directly above him. Wasn't anything else I
could do.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I killed him.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Sixteen thirty.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I've just shot the last of the film, and I'm
back at irondezvous point.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
On the beach.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Harrison and Pacelli haven't shown yet. I keep watching the
horizon in the south. No sign of 'em yet. Seventeen hundred,
seventeen thirty, still no sign. Eighteen thirty it's practically dark,
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just a glimmer of light.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Over in the west.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Eighteen forty five it's dark, pitting, no light, no sound,
only the Geiget County. I keep looking out in the
darkness across the water. No sign of the books. I
can feel the panic.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
It's starting it.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Where are they?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
When are they coming back for me? Are they coming
back at all?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
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Speaker 2 (15:25):
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Long Is the Night? A true story well calculated to
keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
It's been over five hours, maybe more.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
My watch stopped half an hour ago to radiation. I
think I haven't drunk any of the water for my
canteen yet. I've decided to go slower, and I.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Haven't got any idea how long I'll be here. I
keep walking.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
There's not much feeling left in my legs. If I
could only sit down just for a minute, but I can't.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I got to keep walking.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
The Geiger counters. The only thing that keeps me away
that in the motion of walking. The moon's been up
for about two hours now. It throws enough light to
give me some idea where I'm going. I don't know
how long it's going to last. As a high bank
of clouds drifting toward it.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
If I only had a light, if the boat had
only come back.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
For me, what could have happened? Why would they do
something like this to me?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I keep walking?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh lord, Hey, we get out of here.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Hey, really, it can't be that, Dann is impossible. There's
nothing alive. We we we've been over the whole island.
It's it's burned out.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's dead.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I heard it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I know I did. It couldn't have been the wind.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
There is need breeze.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Still, it's hiding in the brush, something alive, animal, a man.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Wait, what is it?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Why not? Mhm mm hmmmmmm.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's gone.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
It's gone somewhere back in the Russia. Because I scared
it off of the gunshots. I start walking again and trembling,
and my legs works off with.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
My mouth, my throat, they're dry.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I debate a few minutes before I reach for my canteen.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Oh, it couldn't be.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
It couldn't.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
There's no mistake, reaction the same. It's no use my
drinking water radioactor. Still no idea what time it is?
Two three in the morning.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Hunger pains are getting to my stomach.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I got a bad headache.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Worst thing is my mouth and my throat.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I was thirsty. The muscles in my legs are getting numbered.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I can always sit down just for a minute. Now,
I gotta keep walking, gotta stay awake, keep walking. I'm
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somewhere inland now, north end of the island. A while
back there, I thought of starvation sets in. I could
always find something to eat along the beach, a dead birder,
dead fish. That illusion didn't last very long. They'd all
be the same radioactive.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Get out of here, get get away.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And I grabbed a gun flat in my hand. It
sounded closer.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I brought the gun back and I threw.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It with all my mic and I missed.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I turned my right. It seems like hours running. I
was running.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I stopped only once, about twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Ago, so it was so dry I couldn't get my breath.
I reached for my I reached from my Geiger counter
a minute ago. Maybe it happened when I was trying
to get away.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It doesn't make much difference anyway. Anyway, it's done. The
counters smashed. I'm here, finally, I'm at the beach.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You know, just in time too. The moon's gone down.
It's dark again, pitch dark. I don't care. There's nothing, there's.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
No water, no food. The gun's gone, Geiger Counter's smashed.
It's gone, it's gone.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Everything.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Huh followed me back still still alerts.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Right up there in the brush, right at the edge
of the brush.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's waiting for me.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
It's waiting for me.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But Jelly Arison, why don't you dumb what happened? Why
don't you comb for me? It's still dark?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
How long as the night? How long?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
What time? What times?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Four o'clock?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Five time?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It's just no use.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Prayer, Yeah, say a prayer? Which one my father who
are in heaven? Hey, overbore s pray for spray.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I don't know how long it's been.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I'm not sure. The edge of the sky looks.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Gray, maybe getting light.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
I've gone down to the very rim of the beach.
I'm facing inland, my back to the water. I haven't
heard the sound lately, last half hour anyway, and I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Care over there.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Over in the east, it's great. Oh sky, it's getting light.
It's getting light.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Warner, Hey, all.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Right, Shelley and Harrison had come for me. I wasn't
thirsty anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I wasn't hungry.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I was alive.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It was more than enough. Hey you all right?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'm all right.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
A lousy boat conk out on its Warner, half a
mile from transfer point I had it picked.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It was dark.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
I wouldn't stand a chance of finding the island at night. Hey,
what's the matter. You sure you're all right?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You got your side arms with you? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Why up there, straight ahead of your patch of brush?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
I want to take a look.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Why. What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'll give it a looker what you're all about? I
wish I could tell you. What do you mean? You
want to come here?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Give a look?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Come on? Yeah, I would you find nothing?
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Just this wild pig here, wild pigy islands are full
of them.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Like you're still alive, see barely alive.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Look at the flashburns of skin.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's pretty horrible, wild pig. Yeah, you want.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
To take care of it, Joe, Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Rest in peace?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Huh Warner, you're sure everything's all right.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Spend a long night, Bert, let's go home.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Anything we can do for you know, anything you want?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, I want to sit down.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I just want to sit down.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Suspense a true story presented by Autolite. Tonight star mister
Richard Withmark will return in just a moment. This is
Harlow Wilcox speaking for Autolite, world's largest independent manufacturer of
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And now i'd like to present our producer, Director Elliot Lewis.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Thank you, Harlow Dick. I'm very happy to announce that
a poll of the regular radio performers who support our
guest stars each week on Suspense has named you as
the winner of the first annual Golden Mike Award as
Best Actor of the Year nineteen hundred and fifty one
on our Theater of Thrill series. And here's something for
the mantle over the Woodmark Fireplace, our Golden Mike Trophy.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Well Eliot, this is one of the nicest things that
ever happened to me in radio, and I I just
can't tell you how.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Grateful I am.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
But I think a great deal of the success of
all your fine suspense shows.
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She'd go to the players who took.
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Part in this poll.
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Anyway, thanks a lot.
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Next week the winner of the Suspense Golden Mike Award
for Best Actress, Miss Ann Baxter, who, with song and story,
will tell of the death of Barbara Allen. The dramatization
will be heard on Suspense. Suspense was transcribed and directed
by Elliot Lewis, with music written by Lucian Morrowick and
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conducted by lud Gluskin. How Long Is the Night was
written for Suspense by James Mosher from a true report
by Werner Tobe Junior. Featured in the cast were Jack Prussian,
Joseph Kerns, and Herb Butterfield. Richard Widmark's next starring release
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Life presents the true story of a world of the dead.
It's the documented account of one man left alone on
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a tiny Pacific island, a wasteland of no living thing,
an island made of three square miles of fear. The
story is called how Long is the Night? Our star
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A true story starring mister Richard with Mark and hoping
once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It was no different than any other night.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It was hot.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
The same warm wind blew up from the south end
of the island along the west beach. A line of
dirty white foam spread out where the breakers came up
on the sand. The moon had already gone down across
the lagoon. There was nothing, no lights, no sounds. It
was the same as the day before, the same smell
hanging over the water in the land, the smell of
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a world gone dead. They came and woke us up
a few minutes before three am. The three of us
got dressed and.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
They gave us breakfast.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
We checked our equipment and we took our positions with
the other men. We wore protective helmets with specially treated
linings over the eyes.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
A pair of heavy duty.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Goggles, jackets, trousers, gloves, all specially treated for protection.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Our boots were spread with linings of lead.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We waited.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
The dawn came up fast. I think it was about
five point thirty. We kept watching the horizon over the east,
a faint outline of an island. The warnings began to
come in over the ear force.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Fama Boy one Famba Boy one, two minutes before actual time,
mock two minutes before actual time. Just all goggles, just
all goggles, stand by.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
The month was May. It was beautiful.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I took one more look before I strapped on the goggles.
The blue water of the Pacific, the green islands near
and in the distance, the islands of Enewe time.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
The month was May.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
A peace of the earth was getting ready to die.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Fama Boy one Fama Boy one, one minute before actual time,
mock one minute before actual time stand by.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
A single bird passed overhead, pointing for the horizon. There
was the faint barking of a dog. Then it was quiet.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
I'm a boy one thirty seconds before actual time mock
thirty seconds before actual time.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
We waited for the split second. We waited for the
sound of.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
It I'm a boy one fifteen seconds before actual time.
Stand by ten seconds, five seconds oh three two one.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
We stood and we watched the huge body of the
ocean heaved and shuddered, the island shook, the sky seemed
to fill to the bursting point.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
We knew what it.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Was like, the most powerful atomic bomb yet conceived.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
The man next to me and stared.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
His mouth was open.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
There was only one thing to say. He said it Warner. Warner. Yeah,
dear God, dear God.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That was the first one. But there were others.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Our job was to photograph the results everything. The tests
ran into weeks months. The islands of Enewetak became a
chain of black ruins, each of them festering with deadly radiation.
After each explosion, we landed on the islands in the
target area. The photograph that remains. We got a first
hand look. It stayed with us.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
On the last day, I.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Had two men working the cameras with me, Joe Harrison,
Bert Picelli, both good men.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I couldn't blame either one of them.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It just happened. Don't take any chances. Be careful, yes, sir, goodbye,
Say see a pearl. Joe Bert, all right, yeah, okay,
all right, let her go. What's with the old man? Nothing?
Joe told me to remind you to be careful, don't
take any chance, and not as long as I'm in
this neighborhood. Had them bombs? Who needs them? Quit morning?
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You got them? You check our gey geccounters this morning, Bert, Yeah,
good shape. Brought the extra camera too, just a case.
I have a look. But ship pulling out over there
kind of lonesome.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
We'll be gone in the morning, your warner, Yeah, what
are they gonna do?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
It's gonna leave anybody around it all after we take off.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I suppose so the marine god, why oh nothing, just wondering.
No water looks bad. I'll hot stuff in it to
bring it to a boil. So what do you think, Warner?
You figure the natives will ever be able to come back?
I suppose so, ten twenty years maybe? What would they
live on?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
I mean the islands we covered already, couldn't even find
one green plant, left.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Everything the roots? How would they live? Take it to
the Chaplin bird. I only work here, dead.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Land, dead water, nothing.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Give it time?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Probably whereof that's the point. Huh. What happens if a dozen.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
That's the last thing I can tell you from memory,
what was said, what was done the rest of us,
just as I put it down in the log. The
last trip Island twenty seven. It's a few minutes past
twelve hundred. We've just landed at transfer point C. Most
of the men have left here already, skeleton crew standing by.
There's one lst left at the landing pier. Harrison, Pacelli
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and I move our camera equipment on board twelve twenty.
We clear the reef and head north for Island twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Weather overcast.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Hey that shit ahead, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Twenty seven?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Huh? Joe, want to take her a couple of points starboard.
We'll put her right up there ahead of the beach.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Okay, top short taking their time command the plane couldn't
have brought us in closer.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
While they still need landing strips. Brought us as far
as it could. Hey, Warner, Yeah, it's number twenty seven.
I thought it was on the fringe of the blast area.
That's the way I get it. Why try you are
Geiger Connor kicking up? Give a listen. Yeah, I bought
that warm goes for a fringe area. Well you got
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fair warning. As soon as we land, keep moving, don't
waste any time. Make it go as fast as you can.
How about your side arms? You can't team all okay,
I'm saying yeah, same here. With any kind of luck,
we'll be back to the basement suffering. All right, Joe, hold
it steady, right, what's the matter? You look worried. I'm
not worried.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
It's just another island.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't feel better when we're leaving. Hey, take it easy,
won't hurt a bit. That's what they told him in Hiroshima.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Thirteen thirty five. We've landed on Island twenty seven. It's
about a mile wide, two and a half three miles long.
It's like a dozen other islands we've covered in the
test area, the same smell of death and dying. As usual,
our lives depend on our Geiger counters. They measure the
radio activity bombarding us as we move through the contaminated area.
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When the clicking sound is slow, the location is fairly safe.
When it speeds up, it means the radiation is getting intense.
As soon as we landed on the beach, my counters
started turning over.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
We keep moving.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
The beach is littered with the remains of birds and fish,
the life scortched out of them. The sand has burned
jet black. There's no breeze. The sky is still overcast.
We stop moving only once to lay out a planet
of operation.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
What do you think?
Speaker 7 (09:50):
How do you want to cover it?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Joe?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
You take the upper end of the island.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Huh, cover everything down to that first inlet there, you see.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
What I mean?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Bert, you cover from the inlet down to here.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Okay, right, I'll work everything from here down to the
lower end.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Now, keep moving, but don't rush it, and try and
keep in sight as much as possible.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
If anything happens.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
If you need help, fire your side arms. Two shots.
Got it, sure, right, Okay, let's move.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Thirteen forty we've started photographing the island.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Each of us carry three cameras.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Thirty five millimeters black and white.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Sixteen millimeter for color, the four but five graphlegs for
the still shots. It's getting warmer. The overcast is starting
to lift. In the sunlight, the island looks even worse.
What's left of it, as far as I can see,
every last bit of vegetation is dead, scorched out. One
hundred yards back, I came across the remains of a
wild pig. Must have been caught in the bomb flash.
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It's impossible to give you a description. Fourteen fifteen. The
sky's clear, no wind. It's quiet except for the ticking
of my geige, Khannie, I keep moving.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Fifteen oh five.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
There's not a breath of wind. Hot, I have to
keep moving.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
There's plenty of photograph, good specimens. I've just taken some
color film and a piece of coral. Looked like portions
of it were melted by the heat of the blast.
Fifteen twenty. I heard the prearranged signal, and I hustled
down to the beach. Harrison and Picelli were coming toward me,
waving their arms.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, what's the matter, talk to you? Nothing serious. Wart
a hold of stuff, though, what's the matter? Oh we're
short on film. Have you got any despair?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
No, I'm in the same spot. More stuff than shoot?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Can we figured?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I guess, Uh, you didn't leave any supplies in the boat.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Did you, Joe, No, already checked it. I want to
get some to eat, getting a little hungry. I guess
we should have brought along some rations.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Huh didn't figure to take this long?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
All right, the two of you better take the boat
and hustle back to the transfer point.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Pick up some food, some more film, okay, any special?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
You want a couple extra rolls of sixteen color? If
they got it, better make it fast if we're going
to finish up.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Today, right, come on, Joe?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Oh hey, you sure you know the way back to
our transfer point? I think so.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
If we go due south Donland twenty down the east
side the second.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Inlet, you got it, meet you right here about seventeen
hundred and seventeen thirty.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Yeah, hey, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
If we're a little late, we'll make it.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
I watched the two of them climbing the boat, start
up the engines, and head south for the transfer point.
The boat gets small in the distance. In a few minutes,
it's out of sight. Fifteen forty I'm alone on the island.
I'm alone fifteen forty five. I found out a couple
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of minutes ago that there's something else alive on this
island besides me. I spotted it moving in a charred
tangle of brush, about fifty ydds inland from the beach.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I took a look.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
It was a small bird, dark color, apparently he'd been
exposed in one of the test blasts. One whole side
of him was a bright red burn. He had one
leg and one wing. He floundered helpless on the ground.
The one wing kept flapping. The first impulse was.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
To pick him up. I reached over and held.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
My Geiger counter directly above him. Wasn't anything else I
could do.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I killed him.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Sixteen thirty.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I've just shot the last of the film, and I'm
back at irondezvous point.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
On the beach.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Harrison and Pacelli haven't shown yet. I keep watching the
horizon in the south. No sign of 'em yet. Seventeen hundred,
seventeen thirty, still no sign. Eighteen thirty it's practically dark,
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just a glimmer of light.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Over in the west.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Eighteen forty five it's dark, pitting, no light, no sound,
only the Geiget County. I keep looking out in the
darkness across the water. No sign of the books. I
can feel the panic.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
It's starting it.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Where are they?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
When are they coming back for me? Are they coming
back at all?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
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Long Is the Night? A true story well calculated to
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Speaker 3 (16:55):
It's been over five hours, maybe more.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
My watch stopped half an hour ago to radiation. I
think I haven't drunk any of the water for my
canteen yet. I've decided to go slower, and I.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Haven't got any idea how long I'll be here. I
keep walking.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
There's not much feeling left in my legs. If I
could only sit down just for a minute, but I can't.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I got to keep walking.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
The Geiger counters. The only thing that keeps me away
that in the motion of walking. The moon's been up
for about two hours now. It throws enough light to
give me some idea where I'm going. I don't know
how long it's going to last. As a high bank
of clouds drifting toward it.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
If I only had a light, if the boat had
only come back.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
For me, what could have happened? Why would they do
something like this to me?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I keep walking?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh lord, Hey, we get out of here.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Hey, really, it can't be that, Dann is impossible. There's
nothing alive. We we we've been over the whole island.
It's it's burned out.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It's dead.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I heard it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I know I did. It couldn't have been the wind.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
There is need breeze.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Still, it's hiding in the brush, something alive, animal, a man.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Wait, what is it?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Why not? Mhm mm hmmmmmm.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's gone.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
It's gone somewhere back in the Russia. Because I scared
it off of the gunshots. I start walking again and trembling,
and my legs works off with.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
My mouth, my throat, they're dry.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
I debate a few minutes before I reach for my canteen.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Oh, it couldn't be.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
It couldn't.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
There's no mistake, reaction the same. It's no use my
drinking water radioactor. Still no idea what time it is?
Two three in the morning.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Hunger pains are getting to my stomach.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I got a bad headache.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Worst thing is my mouth and my throat.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I was thirsty. The muscles in my legs are getting numbered.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I can always sit down just for a minute. Now,
I gotta keep walking, gotta stay awake, keep walking. I'm
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somewhere inland now, north end of the island. A while
back there, I thought of starvation sets in. I could
always find something to eat along the beach, a dead birder,
dead fish. That illusion didn't last very long. They'd all
be the same radioactive.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Get out of here, get get away.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
And I grabbed a gun flat in my hand. It
sounded closer.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I brought the gun back and I threw.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It with all my mic and I missed.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I turned my right. It seems like hours running. I
was running.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I stopped only once, about twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Ago, so it was so dry I couldn't get my breath.
I reached for my I reached from my Geiger counter
a minute ago. Maybe it happened when I was trying
to get away.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
It doesn't make much difference anyway. Anyway, it's done. The
counters smashed. I'm here, finally, I'm at the beach.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You know, just in time too. The moon's gone down.
It's dark again, pitch dark. I don't care. There's nothing, there's.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
No water, no food. The gun's gone, Geiger Counter's smashed.
It's gone, it's gone.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Everything.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Huh followed me back still still alerts.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Right up there in the brush, right at the edge
of the brush.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's waiting for me.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
It's waiting for me.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But Jelly Arison, why don't you dumb what happened? Why
don't you comb for me? It's still dark?
Speaker 5 (22:59):
How long as the night? How long?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
What time? What times?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Four o'clock?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Five time?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It's just no use.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Prayer, Yeah, say a prayer? Which one my father who
are in heaven? Hey, overbore s pray for spray.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I don't know how long it's been.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I'm not sure. The edge of the sky looks.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Gray, maybe getting light.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
I've gone down to the very rim of the beach.
I'm facing inland, my back to the water. I haven't
heard the sound lately, last half hour anyway, and I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Care over there.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Over in the east, it's great. Oh sky, it's getting light.
It's getting light.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Warner, Hey, all.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Right, Shelley and Harrison had come for me. I wasn't
thirsty anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I wasn't hungry.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I was alive.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
It was more than enough. Hey you all right?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'm all right.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
A lousy boat conk out on its Warner, half a
mile from transfer point I had it picked.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It was dark.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
I wouldn't stand a chance of finding the island at night. Hey,
what's the matter. You sure you're all right?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You got your side arms with you? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Why up there, straight ahead of your patch of brush?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
I want to take a look.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Why. What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'll give it a looker what you're all about? I
wish I could tell you. What do you mean? You
want to come here?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Give a look?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Come on? Yeah, I would you find nothing?
Speaker 8 (25:12):
Just this wild pig here, wild pigy islands are full
of them.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Like you're still alive, see barely alive.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Look at the flashburns of skin.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's pretty horrible, wild pig. Yeah, you want.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
To take care of it, Joe, Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Rest in peace?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Huh Warner, you're sure everything's all right.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Spend a long night, Bert, let's go home.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Anything we can do for you know, anything you want?
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, I want to sit down.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I just want to sit down.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
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Speaker 7 (27:33):
Thank you, Harlow Dick. I'm very happy to announce that
a poll of the regular radio performers who support our
guest stars each week on Suspense has named you as
the winner of the first annual Golden Mike Award as
Best Actor of the Year nineteen hundred and fifty one
on our Theater of Thrill series. And here's something for
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Speaker 4 (27:54):
Well Eliot, this is one of the nicest things that
ever happened to me in radio, and I I just
can't tell you how.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Grateful I am.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
But I think a great deal of the success of
all your fine suspense shows.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
She'd go to the players who took.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Part in this poll.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Anyway, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Next week the winner of the Suspense Golden Mike Award
for Best Actress, Miss Ann Baxter, who, with song and story,
will tell of the death of Barbara Allen. The dramatization
will be heard on Suspense. Suspense was transcribed and directed
by Elliot Lewis, with music written by Lucian Morrowick and
(28:32):
conducted by lud Gluskin. How Long Is the Night was
written for Suspense by James Mosher from a true report
by Werner Tobe Junior. Featured in the cast were Jack Prussian,
Joseph Kerns, and Herb Butterfield. Richard Widmark's next starring release
for twentieth Century Fox will be My pal Gus.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
You can buy Aura light resistor or standard type spark plugs,
Autolite state batteries, and Auto light electrical parts at your neighborhood.
Autolight dealers switch to Auto light, good night.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
This is the CBS Radio network.
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