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The Shadow - "Murder by Rescue" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Bill Johnstone's Lamont Cranston and Agnes Moorhead's Margot Lane return
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  Speaker 1: in an early mutual broadcasting system broadcast from the 1938-39
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  Speaker 1: blue coal season. Originally heard December 11th, 1938, this is
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow, Murder by Rescue, episode number 64. Warren Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: is approaching the day he will inherit a substantial estate
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  Speaker 1: while his uncle, Professor Claude Mitchell, prepares an apparently accidental death.
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  Speaker 1: A phonograph record becomes part of a hypnotic scheme directing
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  Speaker 1: Warren toward a staged roadside rescue involving a life-size doll.
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  Speaker 1: As the plan takes form, Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane
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  Speaker 1: follow the trail to the Mitchell household and the doll maker, Otto.
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow on Mutual. Murder by Rescue. Now, back to
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  Speaker 1: the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow on Mutual What evil lurks in the hearts
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  Speaker 2: of men? The Shadow knows. The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Before the curtain rises on this latest episode of The Shadow,
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  Speaker 3: here is something to remember. Just as this master sleuth
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  Speaker 3: depends on science to aid him in tracking down his foes,
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  Speaker 3: so we depend on science to make our lives safer,
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  Speaker 3: more pleasant. Outstanding among recent scientific inventions is a new
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  Speaker 3: kind of tire with a tread that sweeps wet roads
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  Speaker 3: so dry you can light a match.
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  Speaker 4: On its track.
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  Speaker 3: It's the new Goodrich Safety Silvertown with the Lifesaver Tread.
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  Speaker 3: Because of its amazing road-drying action, this tread gives you
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  Speaker 3: the quickest non-skid stops you've ever had. Provides you with
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  Speaker 3: the greatest skid protection ever offered. For your own safety,
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  Speaker 3: your family's safety, equip your car with Goodrich Safety Silvertown.
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  Speaker 3: The shadow, the serious character who aids those in distress,
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  Speaker 3: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 3: Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
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  Speaker 3: only person who knows to whom the unseen voice belongs.
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  Speaker 3: Today's story, Murder by Rescue.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, this phonograph record does sound like an automobile motor,
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  Speaker 5: but I must have more speed.
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  Speaker 6: Cut it off, Ellen.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Very useful to have some sound such as a bell
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  Speaker 5: or automobile to operate on the mind to help create
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  Speaker 5: the hypnotic state.
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  Speaker 4: Lord, will you take my advice?
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  Speaker 6: My dear wife, who is the expert scientist in this family?
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but when are you going to get busy?
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  Speaker 5: That precious nephew of yours, Warren, will be 21 in
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  Speaker 5: another month. Yes, even though my training has deliberately kept
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  Speaker 5: him almost a child, Warren will soon be of age.
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  Speaker 5: If he lives, Ellen. And if he does, he gets
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  Speaker 5: all his father's estate, and we'll be paupers living on
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  Speaker 5: his charity.
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  Speaker 4: You promised we'd get that money.
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  Speaker 6: We will, my dear. Warren, unfortunately, will meet with a,
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  Speaker 6: shall we say, an accident.
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  Speaker 4: But when?
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  Speaker 6: Where? Soon, my dear.
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  Speaker 4: Claude, are you sure this hypnotizing trick of yours will work?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: I've not been a professor of psychology over 20 years
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  Speaker 5: for nothing. This experiment will be the greatest I've ever done.
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  Speaker 5: You've seen how Warren reacts to our little phonograph record
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  Speaker 5: of the car when we played for him.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but will your experiment show how one can train
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  Speaker 4: the human mind?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, train it to do anything, Ellen. Even die.
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  Speaker 5: My dear, we are trustees of my nephew's estate. We
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  Speaker 5: have the use of the money until he's of age. Now,
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  Speaker 5: if you were gotten rid of in an awkward manner, the.
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  Speaker 6: Police might ask questions. But this way, no one will know.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I suppose you're right.
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  Speaker 6: That must be Warren now. Close up that phonograph, quick.
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  Speaker 6: He mustn't see that record.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Come in.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Mrs. Warren.
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  Speaker 7: Aunt Ellen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how are you, Warren, dear?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, fine, Aunt Ellen.
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  Speaker 4: Going for your walk, my dear? I hope you're dressed
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  Speaker 4: warmly enough.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm fine. Say, Uncle, can I take Jigs along?
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  Speaker 6: The poor pup's been cooped up in his kennel all morning.
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  Speaker 6: May I take him out? I guess so, Warren. He
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  Speaker 6: won't go far. No, just around the estate.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, then I am. That's all right.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'll go get Jigs.
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  Speaker 4: Be careful, Warren, darling. Yes, Aunt Ellen.
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  Speaker 6: Bye.
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  Speaker 2: Bye, Warren.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, Claude, let's get this here.
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  Speaker 4: That young fool annoys me. He'll be better off dead.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll be better off when he is. Oh, Lamont,
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  Speaker 4: this air is wonderful. It's so good to get away
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  Speaker 4: from the city and out in the open air.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, isn't it, Margo? That's why I keep my country
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  Speaker 2: home open all year round.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, who owns this lovely estate we're crossing now?
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  Speaker 2: I believe it belongs to Professor Mitchell and his family.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Lamont, there's a boy coming to cross the lawn.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Well, see, that's a fine-looking dog he has with him.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, puppy.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, fella.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness, don't jump at me. Oh, so your
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  Speaker 4: name is Jigsay? He's a grand dog.
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  Speaker 6: He certainly is. He's clever, too. You see, my uncle's
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  Speaker 6: giving him special training.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, your uncle? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, maybe I'd better introduce myself. I'm Warren Mitchell.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how do you do? This is Miss Lane. My
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  Speaker 2: name's Cranston.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do? Hi.
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  Speaker 6: How do you do? How do you do? Oh, I
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  Speaker 6: beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right, I... I didn't realize you were holding
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  Speaker 2: something when I started to shake hands with you. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a picture.
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  Speaker 6: A miniature of my mother when she was a little girl.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, how lovely. She had beautiful red hair.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, she did. She's dead now.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: I always keep the miniature with me so I can
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  Speaker 6: take it out and look at her.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. I'm afraid we're on your property.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, that's all right. Anyway, it isn't mine.
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  Speaker 8: At least not for another month. You see, my uncle,
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  Speaker 8: Professor Claude Mitchell, he handles my estate.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I see. And next month?
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  Speaker 6: Then I'll be 21 and I'll control my own affairs.
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  Speaker 6: That'll give Uncle Claude more time for psychology.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's what he's a professor of?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, they say he's good at it, too. Oh, you'd
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  Speaker 6: like to see something he taught Jake, too?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 6: All right, look. First I ring this little bell.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, he loved it when.
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  Speaker 2: You rang it.
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  Speaker 4: So he was trying to see.
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  Speaker 2: All right, boy, here's your candy. Oh, I see it.
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  Speaker 2: Every time he hears the bell, he knows that he's
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  Speaker 2: going to get candy. And he barks till he gets it.
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  Speaker 4: Does it work every time?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Watch. Here you are, Jigs. Candy coming up.
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  Speaker 9: Well, your uncle should be congratulated on a successful experiment.
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  Speaker 2: Warren! Warren!
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  Speaker 6: Oh, here's Uncle Claude now.
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  Speaker 4: Warren, what are you doing with that bell?
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  Speaker 6: Why, I was just playing with Jigs, Uncle.
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  Speaker 2: You have Jigs very well conditioned, Professor.
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  Speaker 6: Conditioned? What do you know about conditioning?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I'm not an authority like yourself, Professor, but I...
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  Speaker 9: I know that when you train an animal to react
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  Speaker 9: to sound, the way Jiggs reacts to the bell, it's
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  Speaker 9: called conditioning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Could you do.
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  Speaker 9: Something like that with human beings, Professor?
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  Speaker 6: Why, one doesn't experiment with humans.
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  Speaker 4: Come, Warren.
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  Speaker 6: We'd better get back to the house. All right, Uncle.
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  Speaker 10: Good day, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Good day.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cranston.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 4: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 10: Come on, Jiggs.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, young man. I think you will see me again.
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  Speaker 4: Why, Lamont, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, nothing, Margo. Just a feeling.
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  Speaker 9: A feeling that Professor Mitchell, in spite of his words,
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  Speaker 9: might not stop at experimenting with people's lives.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, why are you parking here at the bend
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  Speaker 4: in the road?
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  Speaker 2: I'm waiting for someone, Margo. Young Warren Mitchell.
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  Speaker 4: Warren Mitchell?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Margo. I've been investigating the boy's habits. And every
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  Speaker 2: night about this time, he takes a walk around his estate.
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  Speaker 4: You want to see him, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and talk to him without his uncle around.
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  Speaker 4: He's such an odd boy. He seems so young for
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  Speaker 4: his age, but very nice. Look, Lamont, there's someone coming now,
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  Speaker 4: walking along the side of the road.
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  Speaker 2: That might be Warren. I'll sound my horn.
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  Speaker 4: Hello there. It is Warren Mitchell.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. It's Lamont Cranston, Warren.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: Warren, Miss Lane. Hop in, Warren. We'll give you a
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  Speaker 2: lift home.
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  Speaker 4: Get in front with us, Warren. There's room enough. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I thank you. You drive, Warren?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I used to, Miss Lane, but.
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  Speaker 2: But what, Warren?
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's funny, but I must be munched now since
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  Speaker 8: I've ever ridden in a car. Uncle, well, he gets
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  Speaker 8: strange ideas sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I see. Warren, how long have you lived with
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  Speaker 2: your uncle?
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  Speaker 4: All my life.
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  Speaker 6: That is, since my mother died. We lived here even then.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I remember. You showed us that miniature of her.
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  Speaker 2: May I see that picture again, Warren?
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, sir. Uncle Claude sent it for a new frame.
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  Speaker 4: Warren, are you tired?
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 4: It's just that.
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  Speaker 2: the motor.
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  Speaker 7: Warren.
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  Speaker 2: Warren.
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  Speaker 4: That's more.
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  Speaker 2: Leave him alone.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, his eyes are open. He's like, like a sleepwalker.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't sleep, Margo. It's a hypnotic spell.
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  Speaker 4: Hypnotic? But how? He was here in the car with us.
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  Speaker 4: No one hypnotized him.
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  Speaker 2: Nevertheless, he is hypnotized. I don't know what did it,
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  Speaker 2: but I intend to find out.
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  Speaker 6: At the bend of the road, long ago, my mother...
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  Speaker 6: What did you say, Warren?
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  Speaker 2: Quiet, Margot. He can't hear you. Listen.
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  Speaker 6: My mother... A little girl with bright red hair.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, what did he do?
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  Speaker 2: He's repeating a story, Margot. About when his mother was
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  Speaker 2: a little girl. At the dangerous bend of the road,
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  Speaker 2: a car... Margot, that's the curb we were just parked on.
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  Speaker 7: A car came fast. Mother ran in front of it.
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  Speaker 7: But Grandfather, he jumped, saved her. I... Must be brave
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  Speaker 7: like grandfather. Save little girl with red hair.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the boy's house, Lamont. What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 2: We'll stop the car. See if we can wake him
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  Speaker 2: out of this.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 6: Warren, are you all right? Why, yes. I must have
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  Speaker 6: fallen asleep. I remember getting into the car, but that's all.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 6: That was a silly thing to do. I apologize.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right, Warren. Good night.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, and... Thanks for the lift. Don't mention it.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 4: Good night. Mark, what a strange boy.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't Warren's fault, Margo. Can't you see it?
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  Speaker 9: He was hypnotized by the car motor.
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  Speaker 4: By the motor?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: That's why he came right out of it when I
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  Speaker 9: turned off the engine. Somebody has trained Warren to.
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  Speaker 2: React like that to the sound of a car.
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  Speaker 4: Trained?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Margo.
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  Speaker 9: The way Professor Mitchell trained the dog Jiggs to react
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  Speaker 9: to the sound of a bell. Margo, there's some reason
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  Speaker 9: for hypnotizing Warren like this. A reason that may interest
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  Speaker 9: the shadow.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, coming, coming.
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  Speaker 6: Just a minute, please.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it is you, Professor. Yes. Come in, Professor Mitchell.
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  Speaker 6: Are you alone?
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  Speaker 12: I am alone, always here, Professor. Nobody wants to buy
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  Speaker 12: dolls from Otto anymore. I make many, many dolls. Little ones,
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  Speaker 12: big ones, some as big as a man. Like that
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  Speaker 12: one in the corner. I cannot tell them. I do
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  Speaker 12: not hear it. There's no one about here, Professor. A
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  Speaker 12: car followed me from my estate, at least. I think
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  Speaker 12: it was following me, but.
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  Speaker 6: I got rid of it. What's that? It's the doorbell.
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  Speaker 6: Don't answer it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, but I must, Herr Professor.
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  Speaker 2: It perhaps is another customer. Step in the back of
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  Speaker 2: the shop, please.
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  Speaker 6: Hurry up, Otto.
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  Speaker 2: Ja, ja, ja. Ja.
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  Speaker 6: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: No one here?
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  Speaker 8: Ja.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, boy, sick. Go away, boy, wherever you are. If
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  Speaker 6: I catch you, I'll tell your parents. Who was it, Otto?
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  Speaker 12: Oh, just boys playing jokes.
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  Speaker 6: Always turning my bell. This one, he runs fast. I
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  Speaker 6: didn't see him. Yes, where's the bell? It's a doll.
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  Speaker 12: Right here, under the counter. You see, it's not quite finished.
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  Speaker 12: You promised I would have it tonight. Oh, you will
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  Speaker 12: have it later. I will bring it out of your house.
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  Speaker 6: Let me see it. Here, under the light.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Is it not just like the picture of the little girl?
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's close enough. Same color red hair. Well, I
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  Speaker 6: hope your little girl likes the doll. My little girl?
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  Speaker 6: This doll is for a boy. A boy who has
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  Speaker 6: grown too big.
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  Speaker 4: What did you say?
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  Speaker 6: Just make sure I get it tonight. Another word to anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, Herr Professor.
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  Speaker 6: Not one word.
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  Speaker 12: I'll pay you when you bring the doll.
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  Speaker 6: Herr Professor. Herr Paparian.
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  Speaker 2: Quite right, Otto.
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  Speaker 4: Herr Paparian.
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  Speaker 6: Who spoke? Where are you? I can't see anyone.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot see me because my mind wills that you
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  Speaker 2: do not. I am in the shadows, Otto. Listen to me.
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  Speaker 2: You copied this doll from a picture, didn't you? A miniature.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't you? Yeah, but I meant no harm. A picture
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  Speaker 2: of a little girl with bright red hair. Yeah, the professor.
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  Speaker 12: He ordered it special.
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  Speaker 2: Why, Otto? Why? I don't know. And tonight you deliver it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Very well, Otto. Deliver it. In that way, we may
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  Speaker 2: be able to discover just what Professor Mitchell is going
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  Speaker 2: to use it for. The professor has been very clever,
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  Speaker 2: and I have an idea that he's planning a ghastly crime.
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  Speaker 2: But he did not figure on the shadow.
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  Speaker 6: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: Before we bring you Act II of The Shadow's Adventure, attention, motorist.
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  Speaker 3: Do you realize the main cause of the thousands of
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  Speaker 3: auto accidents that happen every year?
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows. Carelessness and carelessness alone is the answer.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone knows the automobile is a wonderful invention. But it
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  Speaker 2: has no power to think for itself. It's up to you,
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  Speaker 2: the man behind the wheel, to do all the thinking
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  Speaker 2: for your car... And yourself. Drive carefully.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, motorist.
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  Speaker 3: And it pays to do plenty of thinking about tires, too.
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  Speaker 3: You certainly owe it to yourself and family to give
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: them the amazing skid protection of the new Goodrich Safety Silvertown.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: For here, at last, is a tire that acts on
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: wet roads like a whole battery of windshield wipers. It
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  Speaker 3: makes a dry track for the rubber to grip. But, motorist,
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  Speaker 3: do you realize just how dry that track really is? Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's so dry that you could actually light a match
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  Speaker 3: on it. And that's pretty dry, isn't it? Believe me,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: it's plenty of proof that this new Goodrich Silvertown with
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Lifesaver Tread will give you the quickest non-skid stops you've
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: ever had. Furthermore, don't forget this. Whether roads are wet
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: or dry, Silvertowns at all times give you that other
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  Speaker 3: great life-saving tire feature, the famous Golden Ply Blowout Protection.
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  Speaker 2: Play safe.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Get these life-saving Silvertowns for your car. There is no
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  Speaker 3: extra cost.
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  Speaker 2: Margot, don't step into the moonlight.
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  Speaker 4: Are you afraid Professor Mitchell may be watching from his window, Lamont?
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  Speaker 4: The whole house is dark, so it can't be much
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  Speaker 4: after 11. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Margot.
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  Speaker 9: That first floor window is where young Warren sleeps. I'm
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  Speaker 9: going in to speak to the boy. Find out what's
• 16:38
  Speaker 9: going on here.
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  Speaker 4: But Lamont, suppose the professor catches me peeking into his house.
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  Speaker 2: He won't see the shadow, Margot. Warren will probably be asleep.
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  Speaker 2: If he is, I'll imitate the professor to learn what's happening.
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  Speaker 6: Imitate the professor?
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  Speaker 2: Why not? Warren's uncle has victimized him by hypnotism created
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: by the use of a phonograph of him. The basis
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: of a shadow secret is also hypnotism. You wait here, Margo.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I think the shadow can beat Professor Mitchell at his
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: own game.
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  Speaker 11: Warren.
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  Speaker 2: Warren.
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  Speaker 7: Warren.
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  Speaker 2: Save the little girl. Warren, listen to me. Listen. You
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: must do as I say.
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  Speaker 6: Save the little girl.
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  Speaker 2: Warren, listen to me. Do exactly as I say. Warren,
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  Speaker 2: I want to save you. Save the little girl.
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  Speaker 6: It's no use.
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  Speaker 2: Mind is completely controlled by Professor Mitchell. This tragic experiment
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: must run its course. Lord, I know I heard a voice.
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  Speaker 6: Quiet, Ellen. Warren must have been talking in his sleep.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: She's in a hypnotic sleep right now. Put on the
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: phonograph record. I want to rehearse the accident again. The
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: accident that will make us wealthy. Don't start the record
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: until I signal to you. All right. Now, Warren. Warren,
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: listen to me. Listen to me.
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  Speaker 5: When the clock strikes twelve, you will dress and go
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  Speaker 5: to the bend in the road where your grandfather saved
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: your mother when she was a little girl. A car
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: comes down the road. A little girl with red hair.
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  Speaker 5: Your mother suddenly runs out in front of the moving car.
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  Speaker 5: Then you jump to save the little girl with bright
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: red hair. Save the little girl, Warren.
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  Speaker 6: You must... Save the little girl with red hair. You
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: must be brave, Warren, at the bend of the road.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: The bend of the road. Save the little girl. There
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: is a car coming... Listen. Ready, Ellen. Listen, Warren. Car coming.
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  Speaker 6: Car coming. Closer. Closer. What do you see now? A
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: little girl.
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  Speaker 4: My mother.
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  Speaker 2: In front of us.
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  Speaker 6: You jumped to save her. You jumped, Warren. I.
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  Speaker 4: I jumped. I.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: I.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: What?
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing, Warren.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Nothing.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: You were having a nightmare.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: It was just a dream, Warren.
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  Speaker 6: You must go back to sleep. To sleep at once.
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: To sleep.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: To sleep.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: Sleep.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Sleep.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Well, then, you see, with my hypnotic power plus the
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: sound of a car, it will work perfectly. But Warren
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: screamed and woke up. I shan't mind his screaming when
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: the time comes. And he won't wake up.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: We're not just standing in the road. What are we
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: doing here?
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, Margo. I couldn't wake Warren from his
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: hypnotic spell. But the professor's experiment... It's on its course.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: But Lamont is a professor and his wife are planning
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: to make a way with that young boy. We should
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: do something.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Listen, Margot. I overheard the professor's plans in Warren Mitchell's room.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: But we must wait. We must break this hold the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: professor has on him once and for all.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: There's a car coming.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: There's very little traffic, yes, old lady.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: It's coming very fast.
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  Speaker 11: Lamont!
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  Speaker 4: Margot, stay here!
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Stay here!
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: That car hit her! Oh, Lamont! It didn't stop!
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Yes. Interesting, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, how can you? That child is lying to the roadside.
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: Hers are dead.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Now help me find her.
• 20:38
  Speaker 12: Look closely, Margo.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Well? You see any red-haired child there?
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Why... Why, no. What became of her?
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Don't be alarmed, Margo. The car carried the child away.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: I don't understand.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Tell me, Margo. What did the child look like?
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: A little girl with red hair. In an old-fashioned dress.
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: Like the one in the miniature young Warren Mitchell showed us?
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: The picture of his mother?
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's true.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Margot, what did you see the child do?
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Why, just as the car reached us, he came out
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: of the darkness and ran in front of us.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: And if you'd been alone, you would have plunged in
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: front of the car to save her, wouldn't you?
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Well, yes, Lamont.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I tried to, but you stopped me.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: And you would have died trying to save a red-headed doll.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: A doll?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Precisely, Margot.
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: A doll made to look like the child Warren Mitchell
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: had always heard about. Just as the car reached this
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: bend on the road, the doll swung in front of
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: the car like a child running across the road.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: I don't understand.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: The doll is hung like a puppet from a rod
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: fastened to the top of the car.
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: The professor's wife pulled a rope attached to the rod
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: and the doll swung in front of the car.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Then this was a trick to kill young Mitchell?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Of course. Young Warren walks here often.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: So when he's found dead here tomorrow morning, he'll blame
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: the hit-and-run driver.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: And Professor Mitchell and his wife will be rich forever.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's heaven the plot says.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Warren isn't safe yet, Margo.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: What we saw was just a rehearsal. That car will return.
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: We'll pass this spot again when the professor is sure
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: that Warren is here.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: You mean Warren is coming here?
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, Margo.
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: He'll rise from bed in a hypnotic state, dress and
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: start for a walk just as the clock strikes midnight.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Listen, it's midnight now.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: Ten, eleven, twelve.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: I must go when the clock strikes twelve. Walk to
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: the bend in the road. The bend where grandfather saved mother.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: I must go. I must be as brave as grandfather.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: The little girl. The little red-haired girl. At the bend
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: of the road, the car will come.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Be brave. Lamont, will Warren come here?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sure he will.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: What shall we do? Keep the boy from leaping in
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: front of the car as I tried to do?
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: No, Margot.
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: We must let Warren see the doll and try to
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: rescue it. I would have kept Warren from coming, but
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: this is the only way Warren can break the spell
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: his uncle has.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Cast on him. Here, take these.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: What are they, handcuffs?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Not exactly. They're made to fit around a man's ankles.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: When Warren comes here in a hypnotic state, you must
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: put these on him.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: But Lamar, that'll wake him.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Now be careful. Remember, he's in a trance. When he
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: sees what he thinks is a red-haired child about to
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: be killed, he'll fight a leap. But with his ankles bound,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: he can't move.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: I might stumble. Can't you put them on?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: No, Margot, I've got work to do myself. Look here.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: A dummy. Exactly like a man. Where did it come from?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: As soon as I learned the professor's exact plan... I
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: drove down to the doll maker and got it from him.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: The shadow will throw it in front of the moving car.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Professor Mitchell will think it's Warren's body.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I hope your plan works, Lamont.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: The time is short. Get back, Lamont.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Move it up.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Warren's coming.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Listen.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Stand in the road and wait.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Wait for the car. The car. Now, Marco.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Put the anchors on him.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: The red-haired child.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I never noticed when I put the anchors on.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Good. Your work is done. Now hide. I'll speak to
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: them as the shadow.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: The car.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: The car is coming.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Coming nearer.
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: Nearer.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Be brave.
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: Save the car.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Look out. What? What happened? I tried to jump, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: I fell.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: What's this chain on my ankle? Quiet, Warren. Silence and watch.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Who are you?
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: Silence.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Silence.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: Ellen, let's scream. Did you hear Warren scream when we
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: hit him? You fool.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: Pull yourself together.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Let's get out and make sure he's gone.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: We hit him squarely. He must be done for.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Make sure. Turn him over on his face.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: Ellen, this isn't Warren.
• 25:11
  Speaker 12: What?
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: It's a dummy. We've been tricked.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, Professor Mitchell. Face your nephew. He's alive and well.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: What?
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Uncle, what is it?
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: I thought I saw a little girl like that picture
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: I have of my mother in front of your car.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: But it's just a doll.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Warren, this fiendish mechanism makes the doll look like a
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: real child running into danger. They hypnotized you. Taught you
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: to obey the sound of the car. They meant to
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: run you down and kill you when you leaped to
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: save the child. They wanted to get your money. Warren,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: you must stop them.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: No, no, let them go, please. Their hypnotic hold on
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: me is broken. They'll never be able to harm me.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Look, Warren.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: The car's out of control.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: But it headed for the bank. Look out! They plunged
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: right over the bank.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Wait, Warren. He refuses to go there. They must be dead.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Dead?
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: They were desperate with fear, blinded by the knowledge of
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: their guilt. Fate took matters into her own hands and
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: proved again that the guilty shall be punished.
• 26:11
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• 27:45
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• 28:42
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• 28:46
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• 28:50
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• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Let no man tempt you into crime. For crime is
• 29:32
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• 29:43
  Speaker 2: lest the serpent of crime ensnare you in his fall. Remember,
• 29:53
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