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Suspense - "Death Flies Blind" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A wartime passenger flight leaves New York with a U.S.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Navy lieutenant commander, his fiancée, and a small group of
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: fellow travelers, including a prominent American industrialist. Before long, the
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: aircraft's course and a passenger's cargo bring wartime security and
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: international espionage into the cabin. From CBS on May 4, 1943,
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: comes Suspense, Episode 4, Death Flies Blind. Richard Dix and
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Gail Page star with Joseph Kearns as the man in black.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: The script is by mystery novelist John Dixon Carr, produced
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: by William Spear and directed.
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  Speaker 2: By Ted Bliss.
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  Speaker 1: And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Suspense.
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  Speaker 4: This is the Man in Black, here again to introduce
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  Speaker 4: Columbia's program, Suspense. Heading our starring Hollywood cast this evening
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  Speaker 4: is Mr. Richard Dix, who appears as a United States
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  Speaker 4: Naval officer. who found himself in a remarkable predicament on
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  Speaker 4: what should have been an uneventful flight from New York
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  Speaker 4: to Philadelphia. As fellow passengers aboard the airliner, our Miss
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  Speaker 4: Gail Page is a girl named Monica, and Mr. Montague Love,
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  Speaker 4: who plays that aged and domineering millionaire Silas Naylor. A
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  Speaker 4: story by John Dixon Carr called Death Flies Blind is
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  Speaker 4: tonight's tale of suspense. If you have been with us
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  Speaker 4: on these Tuesday nights, You will know that suspense is
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  Speaker 4: compounded of mystery and suspicion, dangerous adventure. In this series,
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  Speaker 4: our tales calculate it to intrigue you, to stir your nerves,
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  Speaker 4: to offer you a precarious situation, and then withhold the
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  Speaker 4: solution until the last possible moment. And so it is
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  Speaker 4: with Death Flies Blind and the performances of Richard Dix,
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  Speaker 4: Gail Page, Montague Love, and our other players, we again
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  Speaker 4: hope to keep you in.
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  Speaker 3: Suspense.
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  Speaker 4: The Guardia Field Municipal Airport of New York. The Guardia Field,
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  Speaker 4: vast behind its white buildings, on a gray spring afternoon
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  Speaker 4: when rain splashes across the runways, dims the sky, and
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  Speaker 4: spatters on the wings of a great silver-painted airliner waiting beyond.
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  Speaker 4: Already as the limousine bus from the New York Terminus
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  Speaker 4: slowly draws up to the waiting shed, you can hear
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  Speaker 4: the loud speaker. The big limousine bus besides its driver
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  Speaker 4: contains only two persons. One is a tall young man
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  Speaker 4: in United States Naval uniform. Stripes of a lieutenant commander
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  Speaker 4: around his sleeve. The other is a tall and dark-haired girl.
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  Speaker 2: Her face a.
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  Speaker 3: Little frightened in the blue.
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  Speaker 5: Flight 72. New York to Los Angeles. Plane ready to
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  Speaker 5: take off at gate number six. Have your tickets ready, please.
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  Speaker 6: Fred, that can't mean us.
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  Speaker 7: Now, take it easy, Monica. We're not too late.
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  Speaker 2: They won't go without us.
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  Speaker 6: No, I mean it says New York to Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Monica.
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  Speaker 6: We're only going to Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 7: You're still right, my dear. I've arranged for a special
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  Speaker 7: stop at Philadelphia. It won't take long, and then they
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  Speaker 7: go on nonstop from there.
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  Speaker 6: Fred, that's just it. Who's going on from there?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you'd be surprised.
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  Speaker 8: The airport bus must hold 20 people, but there's nobody
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  Speaker 8: in it except ourselves and the driver.
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  Speaker 6: Who's going on to Los Angeles or anywhere else?
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  Speaker 7: I was going to tell you about that, Monica.
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  Speaker 3: All right, miss.
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  Speaker 2: All right, sir. Hop under that shed and out the
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  Speaker 2: door on the other side. Oh, got your tickets ready?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I've got them.
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  Speaker 2: All set, Monica?
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  Speaker 6: The rain is certainly coming down. Do they take off
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  Speaker 6: when it rains like this?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Miss, a little rain don't bother them.
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  Speaker 2: What does bother them is unsettled weather at other places.
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  Speaker 6: You mean it's perfectly safe?
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  Speaker 2: They never take off, Miss, unless it is safe.
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  Speaker 3: You better hurry up now.
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  Speaker 7: There's the plane, Monica. Shall we run for it?
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  Speaker 6: I'd rather not run, if you don't mind.
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  Speaker 7: Aren't getting nervous, are you?
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  Speaker 6: I know it's stupid of me. I've flown before.
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  Speaker 9: It's just.
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  Speaker 6: Well, those few seconds before the takeoff. You're moving and
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  Speaker 6: the motors have been idling.
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  Speaker 8: All of a sudden, they start to roar. The plane races.
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  Speaker 6: Ahead and the roar gets louder and suddenly you think,
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  Speaker 6: am I ever going to get down alive?
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  Speaker 7: Now look here, my dear.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry, Fed.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing to worry about, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Of course not. I'll be good. It's just this dismal
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  Speaker 6: day and a ghostly bus without any passengers.
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  Speaker 9: Fed, look.
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  Speaker 2: Where?
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  Speaker 6: At the planes. They've got all the windows covered inside
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  Speaker 6: with little gray curtains.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that's all right, Monica. It's only a wartime measure.
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  Speaker 2: Wartime measure?
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  Speaker 7: Yes. Just keep those curtains closed for some minutes after
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  Speaker 7: taking off and before landing. So no one can make
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  Speaker 7: maps or take pictures of our airports.
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  Speaker 6: Anything could happen up there, come on.
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  Speaker 7: No. And what's more, if you're worried about your fellow passengers,
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  Speaker 7: look over your shoulder.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there are some people coming through the gate.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, you see the little gray-haired man with the.
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  Speaker 2: Big fell on each side of him?
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  Speaker 7: The secretary dashing around them like a destroyer in a convoy.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I've seen that gray-haired man somewhere before.
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  Speaker 7: You've seen his picture? That's Silas Naylor. The third richest
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  Speaker 7: man in the world. Those two big fellas are his bodyguards.
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  Speaker 6: Does he need a bodyguard?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I.
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  Speaker 7: Not more than most of us, I imagine.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like that.
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  Speaker 7: Nonsense, my dear. Come on now, up the steps to
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  Speaker 7: the plane. Give your name to the air hostess at
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  Speaker 7: the door.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 6: Good afternoon, miss. May I have your name, please? I'm
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  Speaker 6: Monica Vale. You're the air hostess? That's right, Miss Vale.
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  Speaker 6: Take any seat you like. And you, sir?
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  Speaker 7: Onslow, Lieutenant Commander Fred Onslow.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, Commander. We've had instructions about you. Happy to
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  Speaker 6: have you with us, even if it's only as far
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  Speaker 6: as Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: May I take your overcoat or your briefcase?
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  Speaker 2: Only the overcoat, please. I'll keep the briefcase.
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  Speaker 6: Friend, look there.
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  Speaker 7: What is it now?
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  Speaker 6: That man you called Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Naylor's secretary. Light-haired man, rather good-looking. He's sprinting towards his
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  Speaker 8: plane as fast as he can run.
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  Speaker 7: Well, he better be careful on.
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  Speaker 2: That slippery surface.
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  Speaker 6: He certainly has.
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  Speaker 7: Look out, man.
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  Speaker 2: Look out, man. Watch your step. Are you all right?
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  Speaker 7: Here, let me help you up. I'm all right, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Perfectly all right.
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  Speaker 7: Air hostess.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 10: My name is Michael Shepard.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Naylor's secretary, and I think there must be some mistake here.
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  Speaker 6: Mistake, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: When Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Naylor travels, he's in the habit of booking every seat
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  Speaker 10: in the plane to ensure privacy. Yet we seem to
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  Speaker 10: have two extra passengers.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm afraid that's my fault, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Shepard. Indeed, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Then would you and the young lady be good enough
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  Speaker 10: to take some later planes?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: I'm afraid I can't do that. No, and why not?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe I ought to explain, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Shepard, that Commander Onslow had last-minute orders to join his ship.
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  Speaker 6: He and Miss Vale have priority as far as Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 7: Philadelphia?
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  Speaker 10: Must we stop there?
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  Speaker 6: Only for a few minutes, Mr. Shepard.
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  Speaker 7: This is outrageous.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Naylor is traveling, in a sense, on government business.
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  Speaker 7: Well, so am I, old man. The Navy often does.
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  Speaker 10: That doesn't alter the principle of the thing. I don't
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  Speaker 10: want to seem ungracious, you understand.
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  Speaker 9: Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Naylor is always glad to help our brave soldiers and sailors.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, for the love of my... Now, choir will now
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  Speaker 7: sing hymn number 242. But this time you've gone too far.
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  Speaker 7: I shall appeal to Mr. Naylor himself.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Naylor, Mr. Naylor.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Mr. Shepard, I can hear you. What is it?
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  Speaker 10: This naval officer, sir, and the young lady.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I know, Shepard, I know. Isn't the plane big
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  Speaker 3: enough for all of us?
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  Speaker 7: I was only following your orders, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Naylor.
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  Speaker 2: You asked for privacy. All right, Shepard.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm asking for now is less noise. The lieutenant
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  Speaker 3: commander in the Navy, eh?
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Naylor.
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  Speaker 3: Off on another fishing trip, I suppose.
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  Speaker 2: That's just exactly right, sir. Ever have dyspepsia? No, never. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty thousand a year I pay doctors. And what do
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  Speaker 3: they give me?
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  Speaker 5: The stump.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not surprised you got priority, Commander. But I am
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  Speaker 3: a little surprised about the girl.
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  Speaker 2: She's my fiancée.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Naylor?
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  Speaker 2: Miss Vale.
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  Speaker 3: Meet the rest of my family. These two bruisers here,
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  Speaker 3: including the one with the mouth organ, are my bodyguard.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cohen... I'm pleased to meet you, Commander.
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  Speaker 7: How do you do?
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  Speaker 2: This is Mr. O'Reilly.
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  Speaker 7: Glad to know you, Commander.
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  Speaker 2: How is things going?
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  Speaker 11: Hey, Cone, don't you ever get tired of playing that
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  Speaker 11: mouth organ?
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  Speaker 7: Stand away from the door.
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  Speaker 2: They want to close it.
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  Speaker 6: Will everyone please take your seats and fasten the seatbelts?
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  Speaker 6: Are we ready to take off? Yes, in just a moment.
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  Speaker 5: Shepard.
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  Speaker 2: O'Reilly.
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  Speaker 4: Owen.
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  Speaker 2: Come along to the front of the plane.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: We'll sit in the back here, won't we, Fred?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, of course. I.
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  Speaker 6: Fred, is anything wrong?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, of course not. Why, what could be wrong?
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  Speaker 6: Then you'd better sit down. We're starting to move. That's
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  Speaker 6: good advice, Commander Onslow.
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  Speaker 3: But I must ask you, Miss Vale, not to touch the.
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  Speaker 6: Curtain on the window.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: How soon before we can open the curtain? As soon
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  Speaker 6: as we're well away from New York. You see that
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  Speaker 6: illuminated sign, no smoking, fasten seatbelts?
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: What about it?
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  Speaker 6: When the lights and the sign go out, you can
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  Speaker 6: open the curtains. And smoke as much.
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  Speaker 11: As you like.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you'll excuse me.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly.
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  Speaker 6: You needn't try to fool me, Fred Onslow.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: I saw it. You saw what?
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  Speaker 6: I saw you pick up that scrap of paper one
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  Speaker 6: of those men dropped.
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  Speaker 7: Why, that wasn't anything, Monica.
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  Speaker 6: May I see the paper?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 9: Why not?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because I'd rather you didn't see it, that's all.
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: There is something wrong, isn't there?
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  Speaker 7: Look, Monica, let me repeat over and over.
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: What could be wrong?
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  Speaker 7: If there's Silas Naylor, an internationally famous figure, with a
• 10:02
  Speaker 7: group of trusted attendants, here's an ACA plane as safe
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  Speaker 7: and dependable as the old gray mare.
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  Speaker 2: All the same, I.
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  Speaker 6: All the same what?
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  Speaker 7: I wish I hadn't brought you along. I wish there
• 10:13
  Speaker 7: was some kind of an emergency cord, like a train.
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  Speaker 12: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes.
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  Speaker 4: The great silver plane throbbed against dead quiet. It was
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: warm and stuffy in the cabin despite the hissing ventilator.
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  Speaker 4: Dim white reading lamps shined down on a double row
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  Speaker 4: of cushioned chairs along one side and a single row
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  Speaker 4: of cushioned chairs along the other. Ahead above the closed
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  Speaker 4: door to the pilot's control cabin, the red glowing sign
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  Speaker 4: still warned against opening those curtains. Aft in the plane
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  Speaker 4: sits Commander Onslow, his eyes fixed on the clock under
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  Speaker 4: that illuminated sign. Monica.
• 11:06
  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: What?
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: It's not exactly all right.
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  Speaker 6: Fred, why do you say that?
• 11:12
  Speaker 7: Because we should have been in Philadelphia five minutes ago.
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  Speaker 7: At least we should have been circling over the field.
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  Speaker 6: And we're not?
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  Speaker 2: No.
• 11:20
  Speaker 7: We're still 10 or 12,000 feet up if the pressure
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  Speaker 7: on my eardrums count for anything.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: And traveling like a bat out of Hades.
• 11:27
  Speaker 6: Weather's delaying us, I guess, huh?
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: Maybe it is.
• 11:30
  Speaker 6: Awfully bumpy, isn't it?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, a little.
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  Speaker 6: Makes you gasp for breath and your stomach's... That was
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  Speaker 6: a bad one.
• 11:38
  Speaker 7: Not getting airsick, are you?
• 11:40
  Speaker 6: I don't think so. Wish I had some of that
• 11:43
  Speaker 6: chewing gum they give you.
• 11:44
  Speaker 7: Ring for the air hostess. She'll bring you some.
• 11:47
  Speaker 6: I did ring the bell, Fred, and there's no answer.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, she's busy in.
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  Speaker 2: The pantry back there, that's all. She didn't hear you.
• 11:52
  Speaker 7: Here, I'll get you some gum.
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  Speaker 9: No, no, wait.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go. Sure you're all right?
• 11:57
  Speaker 6: I want to powder my nose anyway. Besides, you're going
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: to have company. Our Mr. Shepard is weaving along this
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  Speaker 6: aisle as though he didn't like air pockets either.
• 12:05
  Speaker 7: Well, thank the Lord, one of that party's awake up there.
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: I thought they were all dead. Don't say that. Say what?
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  Speaker 11: Dead.
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  Speaker 6: A spooky plane with everything so quiet and dead itself.
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  Speaker 8: Remember how the pilot walked through a while ago and
• 12:18
  Speaker 8: looked around and walked right back to the control cabin again?
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't notice him.
• 12:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's what I mean. It was like a ghost.
• 12:27
  Speaker 6: I'll be right back.
• 12:29
  Speaker 7: Say, Commander Onslow. Yes, Mr.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: Shepard?
• 12:32
  Speaker 7: Mind if I sit down? Not at all.
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 12:36
  Speaker 10: Fact is, Commander, I want to apologize.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's all right. Forget it.
• 12:39
  Speaker 10: I'm not such an ill-mannered guy, as I must have sounded.
• 12:43
  Speaker 10: It's no joke, you know, taking care of the chief.
• 12:46
  Speaker 10: I've got to go ahead like a cyclone so that
• 12:49
  Speaker 10: everything will be quiet when he gets there. And it's
• 12:52
  Speaker 10: a great responsibility, too.
• 12:53
  Speaker 7: I can imagine. I go on these long trips.
• 12:57
  Speaker 10: There's the chief half asleep and O'Reilly reading detective magazines
• 13:02
  Speaker 10: and Cohen with his mouth organ.
• 13:03
  Speaker 7: Doesn't that mouth organ bother the old boy?
• 13:05
  Speaker 10: No, he likes it. Especially when Cohen plays the old
• 13:09
  Speaker 10: square dancers. Chief's a great.
• 13:12
  Speaker 7: Man in his way. I was just wondering about that.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: Wondering what? Is it true... Stop me if I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: out of turn.
• 13:20
  Speaker 7: Go ahead.
• 13:20
  Speaker 10: We can trust the Navy.
• 13:22
  Speaker 7: Is it true he's offered to design and build, at
• 13:24
  Speaker 7: his own expense, a fleet of underwater cargo boats.
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: Submersible freighters, up to 5,000 or.
• 13:30
  Speaker 7: 6,000 tons, that'll do away with the submarine menace altogether?
• 13:34
  Speaker 10: Where did you hear that?
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, just a rumor. Is it true?
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: It's true enough.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: You see, Mr.
• 13:43
  Speaker 7: Shepard, I'm one of the few people who believe that
• 13:45
  Speaker 7: that plan is practical. There must be a lot of
• 13:48
  Speaker 7: people who would like to see Mr.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: Naylor put out of the way.
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  Speaker 7: There are, Commander.
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  Speaker 10: Only they can't get at him.
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: You're quite sure of that?
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  Speaker 11: Dead sure.
• 13:58
  Speaker 10: Hitler himself isn't better guarded. Why, you could no more
• 14:02
  Speaker 10: shoot or stab or poison the chief than you could.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: What was that? What happened?
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: Monica! Monica!
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: Is anything wrong back there?
• 14:11
  Speaker 7: It's all right, sir. It's only a noise in the pantry.
• 14:13
  Speaker 7: We'll see to it. Monica.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Monica, pull yourself together. What's wrong?
• 14:16
  Speaker 6: It's that air hostess, Miss Lee.
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: Well, what about her?
• 14:18
  Speaker 6: She's lying back in the pantry among the broken dishes
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: with her head all over blood. Somebody beat her over
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: the head and left her there to die.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: Somebody?
• 14:25
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: But nobody's gone back to the pantry. Nobody's gone past
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: us except.
• 14:29
  Speaker 6: Except the pilot or co-pilot of this plane, remember?
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, Mr. Shepard. I'm going to open the curtains
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: on that window.
• 14:34
  Speaker 10: Do you think it's wise, Commander?
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: We were told not to. Well, we were told a
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: lot of things. I'll just take the responsibility of.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: Good Lord.
• 14:43
  Speaker 7: There, there, Monica.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Naylor, Mr. Naylor. Yes, son, what's up?
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: Draw the curtain on your window and take a look down.
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: If O'Reilly and Cohen have got guns, they better keep
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: them handy.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: Is that so now?
• 14:51
  Speaker 11: Why?
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: Because we're not flying west. We're over the Atlantic Ocean
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: now and headed straight out to sea.
• 15:07
  Speaker 9: Gray water, thin clouds.
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: We must be miles and miles away from land.
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: We are miles away from land. Does anybody here know
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: anything about first aid? I do, Commander.
• 15:30
  Speaker 10: I studied medicine in the old days.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Then you better go back and look after the hostess.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: You'll join Mr.
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: Kneeler.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Steady, Michael.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I'm all right.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: There's this horrible blind feeling.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Air pocket, look out.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Here, Commander.
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: We're over the ocean.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: What the devil's going on here, eh? You were being kidnapped, Mr.
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: Naylor.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: That's my guess. Kidnapped, did you say?
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: Ah, come off it, Commander. We ain't as dumb as that.
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: The pilot and the co-pilot of this plane are fakes.
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: They've replaced the real officer. On a dark day like this,
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: with their raincoat collars turned up, they could have gotten
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: away with it.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: And hijacked us straight off the airfield. Is that it? Yes,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid so. The hostess must have spotted one of
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: them and knocked her out. Now, what about the airport?
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't they know a plane was missing?
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: Oh, not until we failed to show up at Philadelphia.
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: The pilot would report by aerial radio telephone about 15
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: minutes out of New York.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: But after that, silence.
• 16:21
  Speaker 11: Excuse me, Commander. You say these two fake pilots are
• 16:24
  Speaker 11: still aboard? In that compartment there with the closed doors?
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right.
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: Well, what are we waiting for, Corn?
• 16:30
  Speaker 11: Do we get to work on them?
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: You said it, Barney.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute, both of you.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: You wouldn't be trying to stop us, would you, Commander?
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: The one thing we don't want is a gunfight 12,000
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: feet up.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Can any of you fly a plane?
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: No, not one of us. Now, neither can I.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: So if anything happens to those two pilots, how are
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: we going to get down?
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: I see, young fellow. Well, what are you going to do?
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: First of all.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: We'll try wrapping on the door. Have your gun ready.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: You can count on.
• 16:58
  Speaker 11: That, sir.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: Fred, Fred, listen to me.
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: Be quiet, Monica.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: Has this anything to do with the scrap of paper
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: you picked up off the floor?
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: What scrap of paper?
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Never mind, sir. Why, this door, it's unlocked.
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: Unlocked?
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Now, don't take any fool chances, young fella. The way
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I always did when I was your age. Stand to
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: one side when you open that door. But Conan will
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: rightly take care of it.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Good Lord! Well, the control cabin is empty. There's nobody
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: at the controls.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: You mean we're... We're flying without a pilot?
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: See that stick move back and forth? As though a
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: ghost had hold of it? Those crooks do.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: They set the automatic controls.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: It's a gyroscope attachment that keeps her steady. And then
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: they must have bailed out.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: And what's going to happen to us?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: You see, Monica, the fact is.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: Go on, Fred.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Tell me the truth. I'll know if you don't.
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: Well, we'll go on until our gas runs out or
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: until a storm hits us. Then we'll dive into the sea.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: It's as good a way of killing Mr.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Naylor as any.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: I see, son.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Have we got any chance at all?
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Frankly, I don't know. Wait till I get a look
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: inside of that control cabin.
• 18:21
  Speaker 11: Holy mother of that star.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Cohen, stop it.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Stop it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mr.
• 18:31
  Speaker 11: Naylor?
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Stop playing that infernal mouth organ. If you must play it,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: play something cheerful. Yeah, sure, Mr.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Naylor, sure.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: How long do you think it'll be before we.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Quiet, Cohen.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Here's the commander back again.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Well, then, fella... The radio telephone's out of order. We
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: can't signal.
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: Fred, what about those patrol ships? You said they're 200
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: miles out to watch for unidentified aircraft.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Won't they see us?
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: They've seen us already, I expect.
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: They'll send for an army fighter plane to investigate, but
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: what can it do?
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, shoot us down maybe, huh? That's fine.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: If only somebody could fly the plane.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Well, nobody can, Skipper, so think of something else.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: See, Mr.
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: Kneeler, I was wrong.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Wrong, son?
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: About what? One of your party, and I can.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Guess which one, dropped a torn piece of paper. There
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: was a line of writing on it, probably the end
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: of some instructions.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Those instructions ended, You should land just as your fuel
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: fails at 7 o'clock a.m.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: You should land just as your fuel fails at.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock a.m.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: But that might not have anything to.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Do with the sun.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: What made you suspicious of it?
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Because it was written in German.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: In German?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Quiet, Cohenite!
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Can't hear myself think.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, Mr.
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: Naylor.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: I thought the fake pilots were kidnapping you, maybe abroad.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: There's not enough fuel for that, is there?
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Well, if there's enough fuel for Los Angeles, then there's
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: enough for Europe.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Well, that won't work. They bailed out and left us
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: to crash.
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: Excuse me, sir, but it's getting black as pitch out there.
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: I think there's a storm coming up. What happens when
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: that hits us?
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Plenty, O'Reilly. Plenty.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I was afraid of that.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: If only somebody could fly this plane, I could navigate it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: Navigate it?
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: You have to learn aerial navigation in my business. You
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: have enough figuring. I might even set a new course
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: and try the automatic controls on it. No, I don't
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: dare handle the ship.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: I know a way out of this.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Well, then speak up, miss.
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: Is a 90-mile wind going to hit us any minute?
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: The air hostess, of course.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Miss Lee, what about her?
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: I remember reading somewhere that most air hostesses get flying
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: instructions when.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: They've been with a company for, well, a given length
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: of time.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: You know, Miss Dale, that's true. There was a girl
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: who'd been to her airways who told me the same thing.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: And if this one can even make a try at
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: landing a plane, we may get back.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: To New York yet.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: I thought you said she'd been knocked out.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Well, she is, and badly hurt, but there's just a
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: chance that maybe she's... There's.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Shepard, coming back from the pantry.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: Anybody got a drink?
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: It wasn't very pleasant back there.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: How is she? You know, we were just wondering whether
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Miss Lee might be in any shape to pilot the plane.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: Pilot the plane?
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: Why in blazes should she pilot the plane?
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: There's no time to explain now, Shepard. But we're bound
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: for Davy Jones unless something's done.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Could she do it?
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: No.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Not even if we, uh, revived her?
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: Not if all the doctors on Earth stood at her side.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Why, but I.
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: I don't think you understand, sir. Miss Lee has just died.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Thin singing of wind above the clouds. Then storm with
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: a white eye of lightning at the windows. Losing height,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: gaining it again. Blown off her blind course, flung partway
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: back again. Always racing forward on a.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Flight to nowhere. Late afternoon, evening, night.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: The steady throbbing of motors like a pulse beat inside
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: the head. Towards morning, the storm dies away. In that
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: dim cabin, there is exhaustion of nerves. The hands of
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: the clock stand at a quarter of two in the morning.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Monica. Monica. Wake up. It's Fred. Keep your voice down.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: Have I been asleep?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, for a couple of hours.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: They say condemned criminals sleep on the night before their execution.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Where are the others?
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: I was, uh, boy, back home, uh, counting down.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: My father used to say to me, uh, Barney O'Reilly,
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: says he.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Did you ever see a banshee?
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: A banshee, says he, is the old woman that lets
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: you know.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: When you're gonna die.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Wipe down, you two!
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Uh, no, I, I'm sorry, Mr. Miller.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Uh, no, uh, no offense, James.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Can't a man play a quiet game of solitaire without
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: somebody gapping all the time? Like nine on red dead.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Listen, Monica. And listen carefully. My first idea was right
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: after all.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: What are you talking about?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: There's somebody aboard this ship who can fly a plane.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Shh.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: There is. I proved it by the automatic controls.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: Proved it how?
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: If those controls had stayed as they originally were, the
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: side winds would have blown us clear off our course.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: But we're still on our course.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: That shows that somebody's been sneaking in there and setting
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: us right again when we do stray.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: And you mean.
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: I mean that we're headed for somewhere. We're being taken somewhere.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: But we may outwit this gentleman yet.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Outwit who?
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Is somebody still talking back there?
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Mr.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Naylor.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: Monica's just waked up. None of us can feel very
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: much like sleeping anyway.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: You're right, son. I admit it. Come up here and
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: join me, will you?
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: With pleasure.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: It's the silver that's twice in.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: This card game.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: But I still can't make it come out. Oh, what's
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: the use pretending anyway? We know we're in for it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: It's this... Waiting to catch it. Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that goes for all of us, Mr. Naylor.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: What I'm dreading is.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Is the minute when those motors choke and go dead.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: And we start whirling down.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Down.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Down.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: What does it sound like, Commander, when... when motors conk out?
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: I've never heard it, Mr. Naylor, but I imagine it
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: sounds like.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Listen.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I imagine it sounds like that.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: We're losing height. I can feel it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Well, Corn, I guess this is the payoff.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you said it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: Look here, Mr.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: Naylor, we can't be out of fuel.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Because it's too early. Look at the clock.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: It's only five minutes to two o'clock.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I beg your pardon, old man. It's five minutes to
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: seven o'clock. Seven o'clock?
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Are you crazy?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: No. Haven't you forgotten the cross-ocean changes in time?
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: By George the Commander's right. European time is five hours
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: ahead of our time. You don't believe me, just notice
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: that it's getting daylight outside. I was thinking of that message.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: You should land just as your fuel fails at 7
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: o'clock a.m.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: Stand perfectly still, all of you. Hey, what's got into
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: little Art Ponderoy? I'll show you what's got into me,
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: my friend.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, I rather thought you would.
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: I shall go into that control cabin. Follow me if
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: you like. I shall sit down at the controls. And
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: I shall bring this plane safely.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: To the ground.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Safely to the ground?
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: Where?
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: In Germany, of course.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Germany?
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: Don't pull a gun, Cohen. If you plug in, we're
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: all done for.
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: That is good advice, Mr.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Cohen.
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: I might add that we're getting closer to the ground
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: every minute.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Ah, for the love of.
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: Do I take control?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, go ahead. But, uh, we're following you.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: Follow by all means.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: Let's get comfortable here. I take up my position, so...
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: There's fog below.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Can you see?
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Well enough, Miss Dale. Well enough.
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: We must go down rather quickly. And I can't help
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: if it's somewhat rough.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: On your ears.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: You young swine, what's the idea?
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: The idea, dear patron, is to bring you and your
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: plans for a submarine freighter to a country which will
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: appreciate them.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Then those two fake pilots?
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: They were colleagues of mine. Unfortunately, if they had remained,
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: your pug uglies would have started a gunfight. And none
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: of us might have got here.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: So they left by parachute. And I brought you safely
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: without blood or toil into the boundaries of the Third Reich.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: You're going down too fast, man.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Now take it easy.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: I am perfectly in command, thank you.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Look out!
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: The trees!
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: They're coming straight up at us! Oh... Are you all right, Monica?
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: Are you all right?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: Only a bit shaken up.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: We're all okay here, Skipper. Shall I give this guy
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: the works now before they come to get us?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: No, don't shoot. Let him alone.
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: That also is good advice. And now, my friends, my
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: mission is ended. I stand up on the pilot's chair.
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: I throw open this glass hatch.
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: And to all Germany, to all the world, I cry.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: This is the stolen plane. It's on the ground on
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: field number 21.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: I'll hit it. Well, strike me blind if it ain't
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: another one.
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's first Rudolph Bess and now this bloke.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: What do you suppose they want over here?
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: English.
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: Why are you speaking English?
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Why, Cocky? It's an even habit we've got in this country.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: This isn't England.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, it is.
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: Better climb out of here and with your hands up.
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: But it can't be. I followed the course laid down
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: on those instruments. Unfortunately, old man, I altered our course
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: last night.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Keep back, Shepard, or you may get a bullet in
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: the head yet.
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: Your instructions were all right, but they didn't tell you
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: about the five hours difference in time. When we got
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: to the right navigation point, I let.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: The fuel out of the tanks. It made you think
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: we were landing in Germany.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: You know, there's nothing like having a good Nazi for
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: a taxi.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Driver, is there?
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: And so ends Death Flies Blind, starring Richard Dix with
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Gail Page and Montague Love. Tonight's tale of.
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: Suspense.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: This is your narrator, the man in black, who conveys
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: to you Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: suspense with us again next Tuesday, same.
• 28:48
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• 28:49
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• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Markham, antique dealer.
• 28:57
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• 29:01
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• 29:05
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• 29:07
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• 29:18
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• 29:21
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• 29:34
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• 29:56
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