December 12, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills,
suspense Tonight the story of a man who makes his
escape from the most dreaded prison in the world. We
call it The Man with a Steel Teeth. So now,
(00:28):
starring John Dayner, here is tonight suspense play The Man
with the Steel Teeth.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It began in the evening of April twenty nine. I
was seated in my box at the Bolsheing Opera in Moscow,
listening to a particularly fine performance of Boris Goodenough when
I felt a slap on my shoulder Falzi by JOm
hm h.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
What do you want by JOm hees Felici?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I do there?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Now? Look here, what's this all about?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You are under arrest?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Arrest? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Bomb?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
There were two other men with him, big men. In
a moment, I found myself escorted down the corridor, down
the grand staircase, and out into the dark street to
a black limousine waiting in front. No one said a
word as we sped through the streets, and men on
either side of me staring straight ahead. Then we rounded
(01:53):
a corner, and in a second I knew our destination.
Lupianka Prison, home of a thousand ugly secrets, the dread
m v D. We swung down a long ramp and
came to a stop at a huge, unguarded bronze door.
Inside I was taken through another door and steered down
along corridor.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It was the cell block Ruth, and I was.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
A prisoner of the Soviet secret Police.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Arthur Lutrell ah rou or night free. Come in a moment,
my breakfast.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Could you just look through.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Some Yes the chest buzz, yeah, yell.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Now just a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But I've been here to days without a words of
why I've been arrested. I want an explanation, but I'm
an accredited correspondent. My papers are in order.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
You know that. What about it? I gave up.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
They had no intention of dealing with me until they
were good and ready. I could see that. I watched
the man behind the desk, Inspector Golovine of the m
v D, a small, round.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Little man and a badly fitted a gray suit.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Gold rimmed spectacles magnified his brown eyes, and when he smiled,
his full lip uncovered the most fantastic set of stainless
steel teeth I ever laid eyes on full uppers and
full lowers.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Then the morning feast was over.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Ah, my dear littrelle, how pleasant to see you again again.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
We've never met you, know it?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I see?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
We shall get on very well.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Why am I.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Here a legitimate question?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You are here to confess?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Confess to? What shall I.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Read it to you?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
You?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You have written my confession?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
No no, no, no, my friend, these are the charges,
only the charges. The confession is up to you. Is
my help, of course you are interested.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Go on.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
From the office of Mexico. I inspected this as first.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
No, this does not cons and you attested too by
the following officers of.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
The People's stations. It does not consent.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Ah subjects considering the activities of one after Henderson the
trial but Dispandan Wna cities in the United States of
America's resident of Moscow two years, he didn't after.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Correct you.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
One that on the morning of August twenty first, nineteen
fifty to the accused was observed by witnesses in an
exchange of objects with ISA region engineer, former member Ukrainian
People's Agriculture Cooperative while standing here in North Aentlins the Waters.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Palace, A little man droned on an unreeling paragraph after
paragraph of Nansen ninety names of people I've met as
a reporter of official functions on the street anyway, names
of people now dead or with an execution. For it
wasn't until this thought came that dawned on me what
my crime might be. And the last paragraph Golovin confirmed.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
The of that sentence that Arthur Henderson Mottrell is accused
of the crime of espionage and the encouragement of sabotage,
that by the use of personal influence, he contributed to
the deviation of twelve individuals since convicted, sentenced, and your
four separate instances executed for crimes of treason.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Against the date.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Well, very clever, nothing clever, my dear friend, merely a
recitation of facts.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Do you or do you not confess to a trumped
up deal like this?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Not on your life and your life, mister trelle the
very firs you are. Oh, you have been asked the question,
my dear boy, do you or do you not confess?
Go to the devil's sure ash.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh, confess, No, confess, confess.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Then they tried psychological persuasion, the method to wear me
down to the point of exhaustion when I and I
would gladly sign anything in exchange for a night's sleep.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
You will confess, you will read from this paper, then
you will sleep. No, you will read the following. The
charges brought against me are true. I am guilty of
sabotag Read it, mister Lutrelle.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I I am guilty here sabotaged and and the use
of personal influence. Go on, go one day you will
sleep and you no, no, it's not true. It's not true.
(08:21):
I'm not talk.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And I awoke to find myself back in my cell,
and I another something was strange, something something different about
my cell and unnatural stillness. It took an effort to
focus on the moment, and then I saw what it was.
My cell door was open, just a crack, but it
(08:56):
was open. It had always been closed in double line
each time I was returned from questioning, but now it
was open. Reason told me it was another way of
torturing me. It was a trap, but I had to try. Cautiously.
I stepped out into the broad corner door, and I
moved past the line of cells. If I could reach the.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
Bronze doors, the bronze doors outside escape, and then I
was standing before the open door of the office.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It was empty, no golovine. Nobody.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
In the corner behind the desk stood the coat rack.
On it hung an overcoat and a black hat. I
took them and put them on and walked out to
the bronze doors. I was outside except for a black
limousine that stood across the parking area. The place was deserted,
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and nobody. First thought was the embassy. If I could
get to the embassy, I'm safe. I looked again at
the limousine, an official car of the MVD. Trying to
be as casual as possible, I went.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Over and looked in the ignition. Keys were there.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I got in quickly and stepped on the starter. I
drove carefully, alive to the fact of the city had
a thousand eyes. It was early morning. A few cars
were on the streets. Then suddenly the welcome sight of
(10:36):
the embassy came into view. It loomed large and took shape.
As I approached. There was a car parked in front
of the main embassy entrance. I pulled up behind it.
I was about to set the handbrake when I saw
something that turned my blood to water. Not forty feet
(10:57):
from me, leaning against the stone post of the entrance gate.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Was a man in an overcoat.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He was absorbed with a small hand mirror in which
he was examining his teeth, probing here and there with
his forefinger. It was Expector Golovine.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You are listening to the Man with a Steel Teeth,
Tonight's presentation in Radio's Outstanding Theater of Prill's Suspense.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
Tonight's performance of Suspense is the final broadcast at this time.
Beginning next Tuesday Night, be sure to listen for Suspense
at a new hour with new mysteries well calculated to
keep you in suspense. Remember, beginning next week on most
of these same stations, Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills comes
to you Tuesday Evenings Suspense Tuesday Nights at the Stars
(12:07):
address from now.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
On, and now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage,
John Dayner starring into Night's production of The Man with
the Steel Teeth a tail well calculated to keep you
in suspense.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I pulled back out into the street. In the rearview mirror,
I saw Golovin go to his car and start after me.
I was in a panic. At the corner, I turned
left and headed toward Red Square. Then began a dodging
game that took us through the west section of Moscow
and into the industrial suburbs. Time after time, I was
(12:48):
sure I had lost Golovin, but you would seemingly materialize
out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And fasten himself to me.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But on and on and on until we neared the
bridge the right and picked up speed, and in a
while found myself in open country with Gulavin nowhere in sight.
I had lost him, for he had lost me, and
what differences it make? I had no chance of ever
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getting back to the embassy. Now the MVD would be
there waiting for me with a color guard, So I
just drove on on the strength of an MVD identity
card I found in the pocket of my overcoat. I
obtained gasoline to the small town and I continued on westward.
(13:35):
I drove steadily the rest of that night and all
the next day. Late the following night, I reached the
outskirts of Warsaw, and the time had come to abandoned.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The MV DeTar. It had served its purpose.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But by now the entire Secret police undoubtedly was alerted
to watch for me.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
So I left it at the side of the road
and started walking.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
In half an hour, I was at my destination, to
the apartment of an old friend.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I was on the ragged edge. I needed rest. But
you hello, Maria.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Chicagle. Good, Yes, it's coming.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I am very tired.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Done here, my done, Oh he will and chief. Oh,
it's such a surprise to see you, my Chicago. What
has happened to you?
Speaker 11 (14:47):
Not in Moscow?
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Thirty You're not in Moscow? You're years? Why a five years?
Speaker 11 (14:54):
Chicago, Chicagle, Chicago, already? That is good.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Morning?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Oh Chicago, finally you wake up. But it is not morning.
It is two o'clock in the afternoon. How do you
feel an hour? You keep good? You're going to stay awake. Now,
I give you a cup of cloth an angel, Oh
(15:42):
never mind danger talking here.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Oh, first cup of coffee I've had in two months.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Now you must tell me, Chicago, what has happened? Where
do you come from?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Where do you go? Go? Cat eye Joe?
Speaker 11 (16:00):
Old?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Where your questions? Where do you come from? Where do
you go?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Michaelled Cotton Eyed Joe's an American folk song, said Maria,
And I'll tell you I have missed.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
You Chicago, and when you came in last night, I
was very happy.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You're still as beautiful as ever, Maria.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
But I am wrong to talk this way to you.
Everything was finished two years ago, and so it must remain.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I still think we were fools.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Forget forget now, Eve in a lot of troubler, Yeah,
a lot. You talk in your seat?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
What did I say? Oh?
Speaker 7 (16:42):
I could not understand everything, but you keep on killing. Yeah,
that that is the name. You must face him to
kid him so much?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Well, he gave him a lot of trouble.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Oh what do you look like?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, he's a small man, quite small.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
M hm, maybe a little fat?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah h m?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Does he Does he wear glasses?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I really talked to him a sleep, didn't I?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
No, no, But but there is such a man outside
in the streets who looks.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Like that with a go.
Speaker 12 (17:29):
Look he's still there, but be careful. Don't let him
see you across the streets.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
You see. Oh, he has been there all day, he
was there this morning.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
He's an inspector for the m v D. I better
get to Berlin. Yes, bashev, Maria, can you help me?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I know so can he be trusted. You know my brother,
but he's with the communists.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Oh I tell you. You decide that when you meet him, and.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Remember to use the pistol only as a last resort.
So go over your cards again and we shall see
if you know them. He personal identification, kind, gasoline ration,
kind id badge. Whoere I work inspectful for state State
Fisheries travel permit and they work record? Good God, now
(18:42):
we go, Maria. I don't know how not they were
fome you. You saved my life, Maria, I'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Come, Come, come now, let's go.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Goodbye, my beautiful Chicago.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Bronislav led me down the stairs, not the back door,
to the alley where his car was parked. There was
no sign of Golovine, a relief, to be sure, but
still a surprise, since both of us half expected to
see him. Maria's brother had done a first class job.
Arranging my escape from Warsaw to Berlin was a cruise,
clear sailing all the way, and it.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Was a lovely summer night. When we arrived in Berlin,
we drove us near to the line, dividing the sectors
as we could.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I got out there was a handshake between between us
and Bronislav was gone. I started walking to the end
of the street, the end of south. He had influence
ten yards away around the corner, and good evening, Lottrelle.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Golovin.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The little man blocked my path so I couldn't get by.
His hands were thrust deep in his pockets, a frightening
smile in his face.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
So now it is the end of the road for us,
No latrell. For a while I thought this moment would
never come to pass, But now it is all over.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
As he spoke, he withdrew a small pistol from his pocket,
balanced it casually in his hand, and continued talking.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
This was the end for me, to think, Littrell, I
allowed you to escape so that you.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Could shoot me at the end of the road.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Quite the saddest, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
I allowed it so that I could make my own
way here.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Look, don't play games, Golovin games, No games.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
This entire thing was planned for my escape, your escape mine.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
By following you, I could give the impression that I.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Was only doing my duty by pursuing an escaped prisoner.
A prisoner who buy charms, you understand.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Led me to hear.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You still do not believe me to you and I
just don't get it.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Not so littrel.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
In my country it is bad alive. Soon my colleagues
would have seen the things I could no longer hide,
and then would come to purge, the purge of me.
I had to leave before that could happen.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So now, and I find it kind of hard to swallow.
I'll tell you that. Here, take my gun.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Take it.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Now you believe.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
So come, my dear boy, we cannot stand here.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Let us go across the road. You see, I need
you to vouch for my story when I am questioned.
One thing. Golodin, Yeah, uh, what you've done.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
If you had found that your colleagues were closing in.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
On you, I would have seized you immediately and taken
you back to Lubyanka. You were never exactly what you
would call safe, mister Lottrell. You were my insurance.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yeh uhh. This is the American Secretary, it is my territory.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Now then Louis must see the military police. And I
gave myself up.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, yeah, I guess they would like to have a
talk with you.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
So now, my dear boy, wait, wait.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Wait an wait, but why did you do that? A
lot of reasons you figure him out.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
My knuckles hurt me, they were bleeding. Bolovin sat on
a plave and looking stupidly. I turned to go, and
as I did, he took his hand from his mouth,
his full lips hung sick, revealing his steel teeth.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Went grotesquely out of shape. I shuddered and went to
find the military Police.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Suspense, in which mister John Zayner starred in his own story,
The Man.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
With the Steel Teeth.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Next Tuesday, the story of three women.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And their vigil of death. We call it Waiting.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That's next week on.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. Music was
composed by Leith Stevens and Lucian Morwick, conducted by Lud Gluskin.
Featured in the cast for Maria Palmer, Edgar Barrier, Jack
Prushan and Robert Boone. Crime photographer Clicks Against Criminals Fridays
(24:14):
on the CBS Radio Network
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills,
suspense Tonight the story of a man who makes his
escape from the most dreaded prison in the world. We
call it The Man with a Steel Teeth. So now,
(00:28):
starring John Dayner, here is tonight suspense play The Man
with the Steel Teeth.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It began in the evening of April twenty nine. I
was seated in my box at the Bolsheing Opera in Moscow,
listening to a particularly fine performance of Boris Goodenough when
I felt a slap on my shoulder Falzi by JOm
hm h.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
What do you want by JOm hees Felici?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I do there?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Now? Look here, what's this all about?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You are under arrest?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Arrest? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Bomb?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
There were two other men with him, big men. In
a moment, I found myself escorted down the corridor, down
the grand staircase, and out into the dark street to
a black limousine waiting in front. No one said a
word as we sped through the streets, and men on
either side of me staring straight ahead. Then we rounded
(01:53):
a corner, and in a second I knew our destination.
Lupianka Prison, home of a thousand ugly secrets, the dread
m v D. We swung down a long ramp and
came to a stop at a huge, unguarded bronze door.
Inside I was taken through another door and steered down
along corridor.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It was the cell block Ruth, and I was.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
A prisoner of the Soviet secret Police.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Arthur Lutrell ah rou or night free. Come in a moment,
my breakfast.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Could you just look through.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Some Yes the chest buzz, yeah, yell.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Now just a minute.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But I've been here to days without a words of
why I've been arrested. I want an explanation, but I'm
an accredited correspondent. My papers are in order.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
You know that. What about it? I gave up.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
They had no intention of dealing with me until they
were good and ready. I could see that. I watched
the man behind the desk, Inspector Golovine of the m
v D, a small, round.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Little man and a badly fitted a gray suit.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Gold rimmed spectacles magnified his brown eyes, and when he smiled,
his full lip uncovered the most fantastic set of stainless
steel teeth I ever laid eyes on full uppers and
full lowers.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Then the morning feast was over.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Ah, my dear littrelle, how pleasant to see you again again.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
We've never met you, know it?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I see?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
We shall get on very well.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Why am I.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Here a legitimate question?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You are here to confess?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Confess to? What shall I.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Read it to you?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
You?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You have written my confession?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
No no, no, no, my friend, these are the charges,
only the charges. The confession is up to you. Is
my help, of course you are interested.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Go on.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
From the office of Mexico. I inspected this as first.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
No, this does not cons and you attested too by
the following officers of.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
The People's stations. It does not consent.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Ah subjects considering the activities of one after Henderson the
trial but Dispandan Wna cities in the United States of
America's resident of Moscow two years, he didn't after.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Correct you.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
One that on the morning of August twenty first, nineteen
fifty to the accused was observed by witnesses in an
exchange of objects with ISA region engineer, former member Ukrainian
People's Agriculture Cooperative while standing here in North Aentlins the Waters.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Palace, A little man droned on an unreeling paragraph after
paragraph of Nansen ninety names of people I've met as
a reporter of official functions on the street anyway, names
of people now dead or with an execution. For it
wasn't until this thought came that dawned on me what
my crime might be. And the last paragraph Golovin confirmed.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
The of that sentence that Arthur Henderson Mottrell is accused
of the crime of espionage and the encouragement of sabotage,
that by the use of personal influence, he contributed to
the deviation of twelve individuals since convicted, sentenced, and your
four separate instances executed for crimes of treason.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Against the date.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Well, very clever, nothing clever, my dear friend, merely a
recitation of facts.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Do you or do you not confess to a trumped
up deal like this?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Not on your life and your life, mister trelle the
very firs you are. Oh, you have been asked the question,
my dear boy, do you or do you not confess?
Go to the devil's sure ash.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh, confess, No, confess, confess.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Then they tried psychological persuasion, the method to wear me
down to the point of exhaustion when I and I
would gladly sign anything in exchange for a night's sleep.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
You will confess, you will read from this paper, then
you will sleep. No, you will read the following. The
charges brought against me are true. I am guilty of
sabotag Read it, mister Lutrelle.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I I am guilty here sabotaged and and the use
of personal influence. Go on, go one day you will
sleep and you no, no, it's not true. It's not true.
(08:21):
I'm not talk.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
And I awoke to find myself back in my cell,
and I another something was strange, something something different about
my cell and unnatural stillness. It took an effort to
focus on the moment, and then I saw what it was.
My cell door was open, just a crack, but it
(08:56):
was open. It had always been closed in double line
each time I was returned from questioning, but now it
was open. Reason told me it was another way of
torturing me. It was a trap, but I had to try. Cautiously.
I stepped out into the broad corner door, and I
moved past the line of cells. If I could reach the.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
Bronze doors, the bronze doors outside escape, and then I
was standing before the open door of the office.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It was empty, no golovine. Nobody.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
In the corner behind the desk stood the coat rack.
On it hung an overcoat and a black hat. I
took them and put them on and walked out to
the bronze doors. I was outside except for a black
limousine that stood across the parking area. The place was deserted,
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and nobody. First thought was the embassy. If I could
get to the embassy, I'm safe. I looked again at
the limousine, an official car of the MVD. Trying to
be as casual as possible, I went.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Over and looked in the ignition. Keys were there.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I got in quickly and stepped on the starter. I
drove carefully, alive to the fact of the city had
a thousand eyes. It was early morning. A few cars
were on the streets. Then suddenly the welcome sight of
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the embassy came into view. It loomed large and took shape.
As I approached. There was a car parked in front
of the main embassy entrance. I pulled up behind it.
I was about to set the handbrake when I saw
something that turned my blood to water. Not forty feet
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from me, leaning against the stone post of the entrance gate.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Was a man in an overcoat.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He was absorbed with a small hand mirror in which
he was examining his teeth, probing here and there with
his forefinger. It was Expector Golovine.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You are listening to the Man with a Steel Teeth,
Tonight's presentation in Radio's Outstanding Theater of Prill's Suspense.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
Tonight's performance of Suspense is the final broadcast at this time.
Beginning next Tuesday Night, be sure to listen for Suspense
at a new hour with new mysteries well calculated to
keep you in suspense. Remember, beginning next week on most
of these same stations, Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills comes
to you Tuesday Evenings Suspense Tuesday Nights at the Stars
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address from now.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
On, and now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage,
John Dayner starring into Night's production of The Man with
the Steel Teeth a tail well calculated to keep you
in suspense.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I pulled back out into the street. In the rearview mirror,
I saw Golovin go to his car and start after me.
I was in a panic. At the corner, I turned
left and headed toward Red Square. Then began a dodging
game that took us through the west section of Moscow
and into the industrial suburbs. Time after time, I was
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sure I had lost Golovin, but you would seemingly materialize
out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And fasten himself to me.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But on and on and on until we neared the
bridge the right and picked up speed, and in a
while found myself in open country with Gulavin nowhere in sight.
I had lost him, for he had lost me, and
what differences it make? I had no chance of ever
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getting back to the embassy. Now the MVD would be
there waiting for me with a color guard, So I
just drove on on the strength of an MVD identity
card I found in the pocket of my overcoat. I
obtained gasoline to the small town and I continued on westward.
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I drove steadily the rest of that night and all
the next day. Late the following night, I reached the
outskirts of Warsaw, and the time had come to abandoned.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
The MV DeTar. It had served its purpose.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But by now the entire Secret police undoubtedly was alerted
to watch for me.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
So I left it at the side of the road
and started walking.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
In half an hour, I was at my destination, to
the apartment of an old friend.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I was on the ragged edge. I needed rest. But
you hello, Maria.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Chicagle. Good, Yes, it's coming.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I am very tired.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Done here, my done, Oh he will and chief. Oh,
it's such a surprise to see you, my Chicago. What
has happened to you?
Speaker 11 (14:47):
Not in Moscow?
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Thirty You're not in Moscow? You're years? Why a five years?
Speaker 11 (14:54):
Chicago, Chicagle, Chicago, already? That is good.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Morning?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Oh Chicago, finally you wake up. But it is not morning.
It is two o'clock in the afternoon. How do you
feel an hour? You keep good? You're going to stay awake. Now,
I give you a cup of cloth an angel, Oh
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never mind danger talking here.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Oh, first cup of coffee I've had in two months.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Now you must tell me, Chicago, what has happened? Where
do you come from?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Where do you go? Go? Cat eye Joe?
Speaker 11 (16:00):
Old?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Where your questions? Where do you come from? Where do
you go?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Michaelled Cotton Eyed Joe's an American folk song, said Maria,
And I'll tell you I have missed.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
You Chicago, and when you came in last night, I
was very happy.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You're still as beautiful as ever, Maria.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
But I am wrong to talk this way to you.
Everything was finished two years ago, and so it must remain.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I still think we were fools.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Forget forget now, Eve in a lot of troubler, Yeah,
a lot. You talk in your seat?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
What did I say? Oh?
Speaker 7 (16:42):
I could not understand everything, but you keep on killing. Yeah,
that that is the name. You must face him to
kid him so much?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Well, he gave him a lot of trouble.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Oh what do you look like?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, he's a small man, quite small.
Speaker 7 (17:04):
M hm, maybe a little fat?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah h m?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Does he Does he wear glasses?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I really talked to him a sleep, didn't I?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
No, no, But but there is such a man outside
in the streets who looks.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Like that with a go.
Speaker 12 (17:29):
Look he's still there, but be careful. Don't let him
see you across the streets.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
You see. Oh, he has been there all day, he
was there this morning.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
He's an inspector for the m v D. I better
get to Berlin. Yes, bashev, Maria, can you help me?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I know so can he be trusted. You know my brother,
but he's with the communists.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Oh I tell you. You decide that when you meet him, and.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Remember to use the pistol only as a last resort.
So go over your cards again and we shall see
if you know them. He personal identification, kind, gasoline ration,
kind id badge. Whoere I work inspectful for state State
Fisheries travel permit and they work record? Good God, now
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we go, Maria. I don't know how not they were
fome you. You saved my life, Maria, I'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Come, Come, come now, let's go.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Goodbye, my beautiful Chicago.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Bronislav led me down the stairs, not the back door,
to the alley where his car was parked. There was
no sign of Golovine, a relief, to be sure, but
still a surprise, since both of us half expected to
see him. Maria's brother had done a first class job.
Arranging my escape from Warsaw to Berlin was a cruise,
clear sailing all the way, and it.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Was a lovely summer night. When we arrived in Berlin,
we drove us near to the line, dividing the sectors
as we could.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I got out there was a handshake between between us
and Bronislav was gone. I started walking to the end
of the street, the end of south. He had influence
ten yards away around the corner, and good evening, Lottrelle.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Golovin.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The little man blocked my path so I couldn't get by.
His hands were thrust deep in his pockets, a frightening
smile in his face.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
So now it is the end of the road for us,
No latrell. For a while I thought this moment would
never come to pass, But now it is all over.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
As he spoke, he withdrew a small pistol from his pocket,
balanced it casually in his hand, and continued talking.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
This was the end for me, to think, Littrell, I
allowed you to escape so that you.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Could shoot me at the end of the road.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Quite the saddest, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
I allowed it so that I could make my own
way here.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Look, don't play games, Golovin games, No games.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
This entire thing was planned for my escape, your escape mine.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
By following you, I could give the impression that I.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Was only doing my duty by pursuing an escaped prisoner.
A prisoner who buy charms, you understand.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Led me to hear.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
You still do not believe me to you and I
just don't get it.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Not so littrel.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
In my country it is bad alive. Soon my colleagues
would have seen the things I could no longer hide,
and then would come to purge, the purge of me.
I had to leave before that could happen.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
So now, and I find it kind of hard to swallow.
I'll tell you that. Here, take my gun.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Take it.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Now you believe.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
So come, my dear boy, we cannot stand here.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Let us go across the road. You see, I need
you to vouch for my story when I am questioned.
One thing. Golodin, Yeah, uh, what you've done.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
If you had found that your colleagues were closing in.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
On you, I would have seized you immediately and taken
you back to Lubyanka. You were never exactly what you
would call safe, mister Lottrell. You were my insurance.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yeh uhh. This is the American Secretary, it is my territory.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Now then Louis must see the military police. And I
gave myself up.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, yeah, I guess they would like to have a
talk with you.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
So now, my dear boy, wait, wait.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Wait an wait, but why did you do that? A
lot of reasons you figure him out.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
My knuckles hurt me, they were bleeding. Bolovin sat on
a plave and looking stupidly. I turned to go, and
as I did, he took his hand from his mouth,
his full lips hung sick, revealing his steel teeth.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Went grotesquely out of shape. I shuddered and went to
find the military Police.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Suspense, in which mister John Zayner starred in his own story,
The Man.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
With the Steel Teeth.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Next Tuesday, the story of three women.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And their vigil of death. We call it Waiting.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That's next week on.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. Music was
composed by Leith Stevens and Lucian Morwick, conducted by Lud Gluskin.
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Prushan and Robert Boone. Crime photographer Clicks Against Criminals Fridays
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