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Lux Radio Theatre - "Crossroads" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Broadcast on March 29, 1943, Lux Radio Theater brought Crossroads
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  Speaker 1: to CBS as its 389th broadcast. Adapted from MGM's 1942 film,
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  Speaker 1: the drama stars Jean-Pierre Aumont as French diplomat David Talbot
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  Speaker 1: and Lana Turner as his wife, Lucienne. The MGM film,
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  Speaker 1: in turn, was based on the 1938 French picture Carrefour.
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  Speaker 1: In Paris of 1935, newly married David receives an unsigned
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  Speaker 1: demand for money from someone who knows him by another name.
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  Speaker 1: An earlier accident has left gaps in his memory, and
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  Speaker 1: the accusation places both his diplomatic career and his marriage
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  Speaker 1: under strain. Ladies and gentlemen, Lux Radio Theater presents Crossroads.
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  Speaker 1: We now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Deluxe Radio Theater brings you Lana Turner and Pierre Aumont
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  Speaker 3: in Crossroads.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.
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  Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Lana Turner was a
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  Speaker 4: high school girl sipping a chocolate soda at a drugstore
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  Speaker 4: counter and perhaps thinking about the latest Clark Gable picture.
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  Speaker 4: when someone, not an astronomer, walked in and discovered a
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  Speaker 4: new star. But there was no mistake because she was
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  Speaker 4: soon to see herself on the screen co-starring.
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  Speaker 2: With Clark Gable.
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  Speaker 4: Three years ago, one of the leading screen actors of
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  Speaker 4: France left the Paris sound stages to command a tank
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  Speaker 4: in the front line.
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  Speaker 2: He won the Croix de Guerre.
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  Speaker 4: When France fell, he made his way to America by
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  Speaker 4: way of Morocco and Lisbon. He began all over again
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  Speaker 4: in a strange land. And today, Pierre Aumont is a
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  Speaker 4: star once more. These two adventure stories join tonight as
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  Speaker 4: Lana Turner and Pierre Aumont co-star in the Lux Radio Theater.
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  Speaker 4: Lana has just finished making Slightly Dangerous over at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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  Speaker 4: And they're expecting great things at the same studio for
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  Speaker 4: Pierre's new picture, Assignment in Brittany. Tonight we're presenting them together.
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  Speaker 4: in another Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screenplay called Crossroads. There's a great thrill
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  Speaker 4: in discovering a new star, and that thrill is one
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  Speaker 4: of the things we try to give you as often
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  Speaker 4: as possible in these dramas which Lux Toilet Soap brings
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  Speaker 4: you each Monday night. When a star clicks, nobody has
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  Speaker 4: any doubt about it. If you'd seen Lana Turner's screen
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  Speaker 4: test or Pierre Romance's, you too would have predicted stardom
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  Speaker 4: for both of them. I suppose I've seen at least 3,000
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  Speaker 4: screen tests during the past 30 years.
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  Speaker 2: About half of them were girls, and most of them
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  Speaker 2: were very beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Almost the first thing a producer or director observes in
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  Speaker 4: a screen test is whether the girl has a good complexion.
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  Speaker 4: If not, she has two strikes against her at the start.
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  Speaker 4: But girls with a luxe complexion always score a hit.
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  Speaker 4: But it's time right now for the first act of Crossroads,
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  Speaker 4: starring Lana Turner as Lucienne and Pierre Aumont as David Talbot.
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  Speaker 5: The time I speak of was before the war, France,
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  Speaker 5: in the year 1935. Or is it only eight years ago?
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  Speaker 5: It seems so much longer. I had been married three
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  Speaker 5: months then, and I thought the Paris had been made
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  Speaker 5: just to mirror my happiness. But it was so gay
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  Speaker 5: and so full of light. There could never be tragedy there.
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  Speaker 5: Or so I thought. Nothing but laughter and dancing and music.
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  Speaker 5: How wrong I was. My name is Lucienne Talbot. My
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  Speaker 5: husband was David Talbot of the Foreign Office. He was
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  Speaker 5: young and brilliant, well on his way to becoming an ambassador.
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  Speaker 5: He used to joke about it as if it didn't matter.
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  Speaker 5: But we both knew how much it meant to him.
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  Speaker 5: And then one evening, just before dinner, the letter came.
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  Speaker 5: The letter that was to change our entire life. I
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  Speaker 5: remember telling him I had a surprise for him in
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  Speaker 5: the dining room.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean, close my eyes?
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  Speaker 5: Well, close them. And no peeking, David.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, what happens now?
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  Speaker 5: Right over here, please.
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  Speaker 2: Now, open. What's that?
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  Speaker 5: What does it look like? I baked it myself, with
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  Speaker 5: a little help from the cook.
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  Speaker 6: A cake?
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  Speaker 2: But what is it for? Oh, darling, it's your birthday,
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  Speaker 2: of course.
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  Speaker 5: With 91 candles.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, of course not. Let's see.
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  Speaker 6: 91 candles, 91 days. Oh, we have been married three months.
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  Speaker 5: And you forgot.
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  Speaker 2: Darling, I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Well, don't speak to me. I despise you.
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  Speaker 2: Darling, would it help if I kissed you?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it might.
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  Speaker 2: Look at me. Did I tell you this morning I'm
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  Speaker 2: a very happy man?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, did I? And did I tell you this evening?
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Well, it must be true.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, David.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, madame.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Albert.
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  Speaker 2: Madame, this package came for you this afternoon. A package?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, let me have it, Albert.
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  Speaker 2: And, monsieur, this letter was delivered at the door just
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  Speaker 2: a few minutes ago. Thank you, Albert.
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  Speaker 5: Darling, it's a bracelet.
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  Speaker 2: With the compliments of a groom.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but you told me you forgot.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, you told me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, David, it's lovely. Did you pick it out yourself?
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  Speaker 5: You know, it makes me feel just like a bride.
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  Speaker 2: Darling, you'll always be a bride.
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  Speaker 5: David.
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  Speaker 7: Hmm?
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  Speaker 2: Wait a moment, dear.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me something. When does a bride become a wife?
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  Speaker 2: David.
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  Speaker 5: David, what's the matter?
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  Speaker 6: This.
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  Speaker 2: This letter.
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  Speaker 5: What is it? Who is it from?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Here, read it.
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  Speaker 5: Dear Jean, oh, well, that's not for you.
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  Speaker 6: It's addressed to me on the envelope.
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  Speaker 2: Go on.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it says, allow an old friend to congratulate you
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  Speaker 5: on your noble career. Accept my good wishes for a
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  Speaker 5: happy life with your bride. You are now able to
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  Speaker 5: pay me that old debt of one million francs. One
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  Speaker 5: million francs?
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  Speaker 2: Read the rest of it.
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  Speaker 5: May I suggest that you deliver the money to the
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  Speaker 5: old deserted farm, Sante Road? Throw it over the wall
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  Speaker 5: at 11 tonight. I'm sure you will understand the reason
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  Speaker 5: why this letter must remain unsigned. But what does it mean, David?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 6: Well, there's only one thing I can do.
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  Speaker 5: David, I'm... I'm frightened. I'm frightened. David took the letter
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  Speaker 5: to the police. If only I could have seen into
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  Speaker 5: the future that night. If only I'd known what it
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  Speaker 5: would mean to us. We could have paid the money
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  Speaker 5: and perhaps never been troubled again. As it turned out,
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  Speaker 5: David went to the deserted farm on Asante Road, but
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  Speaker 5: the police were with him. There they found a man,
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  Speaker 5: a withered, misshapen creature named LeDuc. Within a week, the
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  Speaker 5: man was brought to trial.
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  Speaker 3: Carlos Le Duc, you've been brought to the bar of
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  Speaker 3: justice charged by the state with extortion. You're accused of
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  Speaker 3: writing an anonymous letter to David Talbot in which you
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  Speaker 3: ask repayment.
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  Speaker 2: Of a debt in the amount of one million francs.
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  Speaker 2: Monsieur le President.
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  Speaker 3: The defense will prove that the letter written by my
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  Speaker 3: client was a straightforward request for money owed him and
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  Speaker 3: not an instrument of extortion.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: President, the prosecution will prove that no such debt existed.
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  Speaker 3: A creditor does not request payment by asking that money
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  Speaker 3: be thrown over a wall in the dead of night.
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  Speaker 2: At least my creditors are not so imaginative.
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  Speaker 3: Your creditors might be if you are living under an
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  Speaker 3: assumed name and they were considerate enough to help you
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  Speaker 3: keep your deception a secret.
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  Speaker 2: The court would like to know to whom you refer
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  Speaker 2: as living under an assumed name.
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  Speaker 3: If the court will permit my client to tell his story,
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  Speaker 3: my reference will become clear.
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  Speaker 2: Very well.
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  Speaker 3: Monsieur Le Duc, will you tell the court, please, when
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  Speaker 3: you first met the man called David Talbot? I met
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  Speaker 3: him in 1919, right after the war. In those days,
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  Speaker 3: his name wasn't Talbot. Then he was known as Jean Pelletier.
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  Speaker 2: Jean Pelletier? Yes, monsieur. He was a petty criminal with a.
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  Speaker 3: List of crimes charged against him as long as a
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  Speaker 3: bell broke.
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  Speaker 2: I claim the court's indulgence.
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  Speaker 3: But what has Pelletier's record to do with charges against
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  Speaker 3: this defendant? It seems quite clear that if a previous
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  Speaker 3: relationship existed between the defendant and Monsieur Talbot, whatever his
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  Speaker 3: name may have been, there is a possibility that the
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  Speaker 3: debt actually existed.
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  Speaker 5: Proceed.
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  Speaker 3: There was one great talent that Pelletier had, a talent
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  Speaker 3: for escape. He was never caught by the police. It
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  Speaker 3: was in 1922, three years later, that he came to
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  Speaker 3: owe me a million francs. It was a decent debt.
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  Speaker 3: What were the circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: Of the debt?
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  Speaker 3: I regret I'm not at liberty to give further details.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Monsieur Talbot will explain.
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  Speaker 2: Continue.
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  Speaker 3: Thirteen years passed, and I'd never heard of Jean Pelletier.
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  Speaker 3: Then one day, about three months ago, I saw his
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  Speaker 3: picture in the paper. It announced his marriage to Lucien
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  Speaker 3: de Caudill. I realized that Jean had changed his name.
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  Speaker 3: But whatever his game was, I had no wish to
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  Speaker 3: spoil it.
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  Speaker 2: All I wanted was my million francs.
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  Speaker 5: What had started out to be the trial of an
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  Speaker 5: extortionist suddenly became the trial of my husband. While the
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  Speaker 5: Duke was testifying, David sat staring at him, a puzzled
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  Speaker 5: frown on his face. The expression of a man who
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  Speaker 5: was trying desperately to remember. The spectators in the court
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  Speaker 5: leaned forward to catch a glimpse of him. Oh, they
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  Speaker 5: were so willing to believe the worst. So anxious to
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  Speaker 5: assume that the Duke was speaking the truth. But we
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  Speaker 5: had one friend, Dr. André Tessier. And when he was
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  Speaker 5: called to the stand, I noticed that David seemed to relax.
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  Speaker 2: You're Dr. André Tessier? I am.
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  Speaker 3: According to the court records, you first became acquainted with
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  Speaker 3: David Talbot in 1922.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's so.
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  Speaker 3: When he was brought to my hospital at Avignon. That
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  Speaker 3: was a few days after the wreck of the Paris-Marseille Express.
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  Speaker 3: It was a great disaster when a train hit an
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  Speaker 3: open switch and.
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  Speaker 2: We're familiar with the details, monsieur. Proceed. Well, I examined him,
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  Speaker 2: and I diagnosed his.
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  Speaker 3: Injuries as a sphenoid fracture with an attendant subdural hemorrhage.
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  Speaker 2: One moment, please.
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  Speaker 3: Would the learned doctor be kind enough to explain these
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  Speaker 3: scientific terms?
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  Speaker 2: Just what do they mean?
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  Speaker 3: For your information, monsieur, they mean that his head had
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  Speaker 3: been cracked open like a ripe watermelon.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. You are a psychoanalyst, doctor?
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  Speaker 3: I am a physician, monsieur, specializing in mental diseases and
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  Speaker 3: nervous disorders. My office is at.
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  Speaker 2: 41 Rue Torrance. Continue, doctor, continue.
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  Speaker 3: I will continue. David Talbot was very strong. In a
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  Speaker 3: few days, he recovered consciousness, but I discovered that the
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  Speaker 3: damage to the brain was greater than I thought. There
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  Speaker 3: was complete amnesia. He knew nothing of his life up
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  Speaker 3: to the moment he awoke.
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  Speaker 2: Really, doctor? Yes. And how did you know the patient
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  Speaker 2: brought was David Talbot? He was identified. By whom?
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  Speaker 3: By the captain of a freighter who brought him from Martinique,
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  Speaker 3: Captain Maurice Durand. He died a year later in a
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  Speaker 3: wreck off Madagascar. Then only one man identified the patient, Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: David Talbot had never been in France before. There could be.
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  Speaker 2: No one else. And that man is dead. Hmm. Unfortunate,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it? Go on, Doctor. Under careful and prolonged treatment.
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  Speaker 3: David Talbot became normal in every respect except one.
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  Speaker 2: Memory. He still is cut off.
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  Speaker 3: By a veil of blackness from that period of his.
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  Speaker 2: Life prior to 1922.
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  Speaker 3: Have you any further evidence to contribute, doctor?
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  Speaker 2: No, there is nothing more to tell.
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  Speaker 3: Except that during these years, I became David Talbot's friend
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  Speaker 3: as well as his physician. I know his soul as
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  Speaker 3: well as his brain. And to say that he is
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  Speaker 3: a criminal is rubbish. That is all, doctor.
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  Speaker 5: The attorneys had not finished. They called another physician to
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  Speaker 5: the stand, a man who claimed that no case of
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  Speaker 5: amnesia could ever be proved genuine. The court listened and believed.
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  Speaker 5: Once again, I saw the doubt across their faces. The
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  Speaker 5: newspapers had the story now.
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  Speaker 8: Monsieur Talbot has been mentioned as our next ambassador to Brazil.
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  Speaker 8: The people of France are entitled to know the background
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  Speaker 8: and character of their servant who aspires to a high place.
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  Speaker 8: Perhaps we shall learn something from Monsieur Talbot himself when
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  Speaker 8: he takes the stand this afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: David on the stand, his face was drawn in pain,
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  Speaker 5: his nerves drawn taut by the ordeal. But outwardly, he
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  Speaker 5: seemed quite calm and confident.
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  Speaker 3: Monsieur Talbot, you have just told the court that the
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  Speaker 3: first time you ever saw the prisoner, Le Duc, was.
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  Speaker 2: At the preliminary hearing. Yes, Monsieur le Président. Then what
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  Speaker 2: is your explanation of the death to which the prisoner refers?
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  Speaker 2: I have none.
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  Speaker 6: It's a fantastic piece of fixum.
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  Speaker 2: Monsieur Talbot.
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  Speaker 3: Can you tell us where you were on the night
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  Speaker 3: of March the 27th, 1922?
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  Speaker 2: Of course. I was on the Marseille-Paris Express. And how
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  Speaker 2: long had you been in Marseille before boarding the train?
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  Speaker 2: Two days.
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  Speaker 6: I arrived from Martinique on the 25th.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know? How do I know? You heard Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Tessier testify that the captain of the freighter identified me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but I also heard Dr. Tessier testify that there
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  Speaker 2: is a.
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  Speaker 3: Veil between you and all that happened prior to March
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  Speaker 3: the 27th, 1922.
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  Speaker 2: That is correct. Then how, may I ask, can you
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  Speaker 2: possibly remember having been in Marseille? Well, I... I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: I was told. Oh, you were told.
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  Speaker 3: Then you will be kind enough to explain to the
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  Speaker 3: court that you can remember nothing prior to the accident.
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  Speaker 3: How can you remember that you do not owe one
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  Speaker 3: million francs to my client, Carlos Le Duc?
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  Speaker 2: What is the point of the defense counsel's statement?
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  Speaker 3: Only this, that we will prove that Jean Pelletier was
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  Speaker 3: also on that train, that David Talbot perished in the wreck,
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  Speaker 3: and that the man.
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  Speaker 2: Brought to Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Teche was not David Talbot, but Jean Pelletier.
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  Speaker 2: Silence!
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  Speaker 8: Silence!
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  Speaker 2: Silence! Monsieur Talbot, have you made any.
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  Speaker 3: Effort to trace your origin or to forge a link
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  Speaker 3: with your past? Monsieur le Président, I have made every effort.
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  Speaker 3: But I was aboard Captain Duran's ship. I've been well established.
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  Speaker 3: He said I came aboard at Fort de France, Martinique.
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  Speaker 3: Three years ago, I went back there. I... I found
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  Speaker 3: nothing on the island that I could recognize. You found
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  Speaker 3: no relatives or friends who knew you before your accident?
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  Speaker 2: None.
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  Speaker 6: The name of Talbot was unknown in marketing.
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  Speaker 2: It must be very disturbing to know nothing of your past. Well,
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  Speaker 2: not really.
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  Speaker 6: Not when one's present is so very full.
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  Speaker 2: I assume you refer to your position in the Foreign Office.
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  Speaker 2: And to my wife, indeed.
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  Speaker 3: Monsieur the President, may the State examine Monsieur Talbot, please?
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  Speaker 5: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Monsieur Talbot, what are your duties at the Foreign Office?
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  Speaker 6: The gathering and correlation of information from our agents abroad.
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  Speaker 2: Are government funds allocated for that purpose? Yes. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know where those funds are kept? In my office, largely.
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  Speaker 3: Now, would you be betraying a government confidence in telling
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  Speaker 3: the court the extent of those funds?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it varies from 500,000 to as much as 5
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  Speaker 6: million francs.
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  Speaker 2: These funds are in your hands? Yes. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: it is a position of great trust. I suppose so, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, monsieur. Monsieur le president, all this is quite
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  Speaker 2: beside the point.
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  Speaker 3: The mere fact that the witness occupies a position of
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  Speaker 3: trust is no proof of his integrity. Many criminals have
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  Speaker 3: occupied positions of trust for years before committing their embezzlements.
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  Speaker 2: Monsieur, I protest this.
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  Speaker 6: I've been summoned to this court as a witness for
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  Speaker 6: the state. The defendant's attorney is treating me as if
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  Speaker 6: I were the prisoner. I demand that he confine his
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  Speaker 6: examination to the real issue, or that I be formally indicted.
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  Speaker 6: and given an opportunity to defend myself.
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  Speaker 3: Your point is well made, monsieur. The court will give
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  Speaker 3: it all due consideration.
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  Speaker 2: Next witness, please. Madame Lucienne Talbot.
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  Speaker 3: Madame Talbot, do you swear to speak without hate and
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  Speaker 3: without fear, to give the whole truth and nothing but
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  Speaker 3: the truth?
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  Speaker 5: I do.
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  Speaker 2: Madame Talbot, when did you first meet your husband?
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  Speaker 5: Three years ago, at the home of the foreign minister,
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  Speaker 5: Monsieur Duval.
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  Speaker 3: At that time, were you aware that Monsieur Talbot was
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  Speaker 3: a victim of amnesia?
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  Speaker 5: Of course. It was no secret.
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  Speaker 3: And you have never had any reason to doubt your
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  Speaker 3: husband's identity?
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  Speaker 5: Why should I doubt his identity?
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  Speaker 6: He is my husband.
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  Speaker 5: I am proud to be his wife.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Madame, tell me, have you any positive proof that your husband.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Actually is David Talbot?
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: Positive proof?
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: No, I haven't.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: And the reason for your confidence is based on nothing
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: more than the faith of a woman in love.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Do you know a better reason, monsieur? I.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: That will be all, madame. Thank you.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: The trial dragged through another day. The following morning, a
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: woman was brought to the court. As she passed, she
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: didn't even glance at David, but the jurors turned and
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: stared at her. She was tall and well-dressed and very beautiful.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: We discovered later that her name was Michelle Alain.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: And what is your occupation, mademoiselle?
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: I'm a singer at the Sirène Club.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Mademoiselle Elaine, do you know or did you know a
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: man by the name of Jean Pelletier?
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Where did you meet him? At the races. What was
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: he doing?
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: Gambling on the races.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: What else? You were in love with him?
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Mademoiselle, when did you last see Jean Pelletier?
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: On the night of March 27th, 1922. Where? At the
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: railway station at Marseille.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: What was he doing?
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: He was boarding the Marseille-Paris Express.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: And you never saw him again?
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: No. Will Monsieur Talbot step forward, please? This way, Monsieur.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Just stand right here.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Mademoiselle, who is this man? Come, please, come.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: He calls himself David Talbot, but who is he?
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: He.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: he is.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Well, the truth, please. He is Jean Pelletier, the man
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you loved, isn't he? Yes.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Yes, he is.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: I've never seen this woman in my life.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: The court will decide that. Be seated, monsieur.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Mademoiselle, can you tell us anything about Pelletier that might
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: identify him? A scar, a birthmark, some individual habit?
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: No, no, nothing.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Nothing peculiar about his hands? Why, no. Oh, yes.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: Yes, there was something. He always wrote with his left hand.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Monsieur Talbot, with which hand do you write? I write
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: with my left. Just a moment, please.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: There is a mistake.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I must speak. Dr.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Tessier, you have not been called. What sort of evidence
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: is this? A left hand. Of course David writes with
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: his left hand. When he was brought to me, his
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: right hand was crushed, paralyzed. I taught him to write
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: with his left hand. Your information will be weighed along
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: with the other evidence. Please sit down.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: That afternoon, a note was given to the prosecuting attorney.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: He glanced at it quickly and then... brought it over
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: to where we sat when David had read the note
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: he looked up in a puzzled way and then handed
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: it to me it said I have vital information bearing
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: directly upon this case I ask permission to present the
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: evidence documentary evidence pertaining to it the note was signed
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Henri Saru your name?
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Henri Saru. Occupation?
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: Wine salesman. Give the testimony, please. Well, I've just recently
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: arrived from Africa. On reading the papers about this case,
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: I ran across the name of Jean Pelletier, and immediately
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: I felt it was my duty to testify. You see,
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: for many years I've represented my firm in North Africa.
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: Four years ago, I became ill and was brought to
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: the hospital in Sidi Bel Abis. In the bed next
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: to me lay a man dying of fever. I felt
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: sorry for the poor fellow.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I talked with him.
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: I gained his confidence He told me his name and
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: the story of his life. It was a pathetic story, monsieur.
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: Bad friends, a woman, thievery, the usual rode down. Two
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: nights later, he died.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: But you referred to documentary evidence. I did.
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: I have his papers here, which the dying man gave me.
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: His name was Jean Peltier.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: The trial was over, and the man with Duke sentenced
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: to a year in prison... A week later, we gave
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: a party, David and I, to celebrate the end of
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: our troubles.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: Darling.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Te amo, my querida.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, David. But what does it mean?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Why, that's Portuguese.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: It means you are lovely, you are beautiful, you give
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: me vertigo and I adore you.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: That's a rough persuasion, of course.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, well, not so very rough.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Pardon, monsieur. A gentleman has arrived.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: Oh, why, it's Monsieur Saru. Oh, how nice.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: Madame, I'm very happy to see you, monsieur.
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: Oh, you're having guests. Please forgive my bad manners in
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: calling in such an awkward moment.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, at least have a glass of champagne. Well, I.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, please do.
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: I can't impose on you like that.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's no imposition.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: Albert, another glass, please.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: We tried to look you up, but you're not in
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: the phone book.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I wish you would bond me, madame. Paris is the
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: wrong city in which to be alone. I'm sure of that.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: To your very good health, Monsieur Sarouf. Thank you.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: We are very deeply indebted to you. I wish there
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: were some way we could express our gratitude.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, really, monsieur. Madame, to your happiness. Madame, Monsieur Martin
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: has arrived.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Oh, you'll excuse me.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: I went to the door to greet our guest. As
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: we stood there talking, I glanced back at David. I
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: knew immediately that something was very wrong. David looked as
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: if he had just received a blow. Henri Saru was smiling.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: I could not hear what was said. I learned that
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: long afterwards.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I am sorry, monsieur, but what was it you said?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I said that I admired your nerve. But you called
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: me Jean. And why not?
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: That's your name.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Jean Portieres.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: After a brief intermission, we'll hear Lana Turner and Pierre
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Aumont in Act Two of Crossroads. And now, greetings to
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: our young friend Sally. May I ask what that paper
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: is in your hand, Sally?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Kennedy, I have written a poem.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Well, well, Sally, that isn't like you.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Must be because spring is right around the corner. Okay,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: go ahead, but be quick.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: But first, have you heard this one? She's always in
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: a lather. That's why her skin's so nice.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Sally.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: It's a luxe soap lather.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: You see, Mr.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Kennedy. Sally, either you read that poem right now or else.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Well, it's called To the Ladies and it goes like this.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: If you'd be pleased with your reflection in the mirror,
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: lady mind, just be sure that your complexion is a
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: luxe one, smooth and fine.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: That's no poem. That's a jingle.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: There's another verse, though. If you want to be attractive,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: rouse the love light in his eyes. Use a lather
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: that is active. Give your skin a care that's wise.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: That's all, Mr. Kennedy. And now you can give a
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: little prose talk on why Luxe Toilet Soap cares wise.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Well, then, here's why, very briefly.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Luxe Toilet Soap, you see, is made of only the
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: finest ingredients.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Its lather is luxurious, creamy.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: That's why it's right for delicate skin, why it cleanses thoroughly,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: but very gently, too. Nine out of ten screen stars
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: use Luxe Toilet Soap daily. So why don't you try
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: this gentle care for 30 days?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Use it as screen stars do.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Smooth lots of the creamy Luxe soap lather well into
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: your skin. Rinse with warm, then cold water, and dry
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: with a soft towel. Do that several times a day,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: always at bedtime, and see what a difference it makes
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: in your skin. It'll feel softer and smoother. Look lovelier, too.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Get some fine white Luxe toilet soap tomorrow. Now, our producer, Mr.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: DeMille.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Act II of Crossroads. Starring Lana Turner as Lucienne, and
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Pierre Aumont as David Talbot.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: There are many things I can tell now that I
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: didn't know at the time. When everything was over and
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: I could bring myself to think of it again, I
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: pieced the story together, bit by bit, incident by incident.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: When Saru came to our house that night, I didn't
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: know why, but I remember the look on David's face.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: I remember that they left the drawing room together. They
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: went to the library on the floor above.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: We can talk here, Monsieur Farouk.
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: Splendid, Jean.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Why do you insist on calling me Jean? What's your game?
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: It's no game.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Why have you come here? What is it you want?
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: I want one million francs.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Really? Why should I give you one million francs?
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: Because you're a man with such a delicate past that
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: to talk about it would cause you great embarrassment. You know,
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: that was a wonderful moment in court when the defense
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: attorney asked.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: You, Monsieur Talbot, where were you.
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: On the night of March 27th, 1922? What would you
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: have answered if he'd said, where were you that morning?
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: That would be a difficult question, even for a man
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: with a memory.
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes, I forgot. You've lost your memory, haven't you?
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: Please forgive me. Well, I haven't lost mine. I remember
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: where I was that morning. I was in Marseille, and
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: with my good friend Jean Pelletier. It was a cold
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: morning that March 27th. I remember the old messenger wore
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: earmuffs as he stepped out of the bank, carrying.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Rather a large briefcase.
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: He climbed into the taxi and ordered the taxi driver
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: to take him to the Crady-Leone Bank.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: What are you trying to tell me?
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: I also remember that the taxi driver turned up a
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: crooked little street where, for no reason at all, the
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: motor stopped. Suddenly, the old messenger had visitors. The doors
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: on either side of him opened and two men stepped in.
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: They ordered him to hand over the briefcase. But the
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: old man was brave. He decided to fight. So one
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: of the men drew his gun and shot the old
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: man squarely between the eyes, and he fell to the
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: floor of the taxi. Oh, he was very, very dead.
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: But then, of course, you don't remember. By the time
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: the crowd had gathered, the two men had gone, and
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: so had the briefcase, which contained two million francs. And
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: the taxi driver, a man by the name of, uh,
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: what was it?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Leduc. Leduc, you mean?
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: And when the police questioned him, he... But he suddenly
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: had a slight attack of amnesia?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: He couldn't remember that one of the men was myself.
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: And the other, the man with the gun, was you.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: You are lying.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: This is blackmail.
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: It's natural you should take that attitude. But it doesn't
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: frighten me.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Le Duc wasn't frightened either.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: He's now in prison.
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: Le Duc is a bungler. I should never have entrusted him.
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: Or Michelle, with such delicate business. I realized that during
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: the trial. That's why I came to your rescue, my friend.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: At least Le Duc had the decency to accuse me
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: of being a petty criminal. Now it seems I am
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: also a murderer.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: You still don't remember, Jean?
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: Oh, really? Now, try hard.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Don't you even remember the.
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: Burn on the back of your left hand from the
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: flashback of the gun?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: It was rather deep.
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: Deep enough, I imagine, to leave a scar. May I
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: see the back of your left hand?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Get out. Oh, come now.
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: Don't cover your hand.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: We're friends.
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: At least, we were friends, weren't we? Remember, we were
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: supposed to meet you in Rotterdam about three weeks after
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: you killed the old man. But you never got there, Jean.
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: You skipped, didn't you? And with our share, one million francs.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: I said get out.
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: All right, my friend, I'll get out. It'll give you
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: time to think things over. But please don't think too long,
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: because I may grow impatient. If I do, you will
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: hear from me. In some way or other.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Good night, John. Hello. Get me the prefecture of police. Yes.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I want.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: No. Wait.
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: Wait.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Never mind. I'm sorry.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: It's a mistake.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: When I went to the library, I saw David sitting
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: at the desk by the telephone. He was staring down
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: the scar on the back of his left hand. It
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: was a week later that I had a visitor. David
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: was working late at the office, and now they announced
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: that a lady had come to see me. When I
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: went downstairs, I recognized her at once. It was Michelle Alleyne,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: the woman who testified at the trial.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: How do you do, Madame Talbot? I hope you remember me.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Yes, I remember you.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: May I sit down?
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, please do.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: I suppose you're wondering why I came.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Well, I am rather surprised.
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: Well, you see, I felt it only fair to you
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: and to myself to justify what I did at the trial.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: You said my husband was John Peltier. Yes.
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: I wonder if I can make you understand, madame. It
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: must have happened to you, too. You're walking along the street, perhaps,
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: or sitting in the park. Suddenly, a face appears. For
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: a moment, you think it's someone you know. You almost
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: call out. And then, well, all at once the impression
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: is gone.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: Well, that's what happened in the court. It's been on
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: my conscience ever since. My only excuse is that he
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: was so much like Jean Pelletier. Here, madame, I have
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: Jean's picture in this locket. I've kept it for years. Look, madame.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: Well, that's... Well, that's almost it. You see? You see how.
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: Closely your husband resembles him?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: They are very much alike.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: Oh, the bottle, please, madame.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: Here, thank you. Well, I'll go now, but I felt
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: I owed you a personal apology.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: For your very kind.
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry your husband wasn't at home, but perhaps we'll
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: meet again sometime. I'm at the siren club. Maybe you'll
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: drop by some evening.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: Why, thank you. Please come. I should like to show
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: him the picture, too. Will you have some more coffee, darling?
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: I think there's still some left.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: Thanks. I think I'll take a little cognac.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Cognac?
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: But, David, you never drink cognac.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: I just feel I'd like it tonight, that's all.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, busy day, darling?
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, very.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: Well, come and sit down next to me and I'll
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: tell you. Come and sit down next to me and
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: tell me all about it. Did we have our usual
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: cabinet crisis? David?
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, what's wrong, David? Is there something worrying you?
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, no, I was just thinking. What were you saying, dear?
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, I just asked if we had our usual cabinet
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: crisis today.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: No, no, we have them only on Fridays now.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, I forgot. You know, darling, sometimes I sit here
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: at home feeling sort of useless and unnecessary. Then I
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: think of you and how important your work is, and
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: I think, well, I'm his wife, and if he's important,
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: so am I. And then my ego's all fixed up.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: You are very nice, including your ego.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: Well, just the front door, darling.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see what it is. Shall I?
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Well, Albert will answer it.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: No, it's all right.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: I don't mind.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, dear.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: He was gone for just a moment. When he came
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: back to the room, he was putting something in his pocket.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: It looked like a clipping from the newspaper.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Darling, I must leave at once. Something had just come
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: up at the office. I won't be very late. At
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: least I'll be back as soon as I can.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Don't wait up for me.
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: You have the damn job. Make yourself comfortable.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: I want to see Saru. Do you?
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: Must have been getting his messages.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: I received one tonight.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, yes, the newspaper clipping.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: He told me.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: The Times of March 27, 1922. Bank robbers slay messenger.
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: Escape with two million francs. He has a sense of humor,
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: hasn't he?
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I find it a bit morbid.
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: Did your wife tell you about the picture in my locket?
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: Yes, I thought she would. Look, Jean, do you remember
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: when this was taken?
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: No. No, I do not.
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, but it is you, isn't it? A little younger,
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: of course. A bit more handsome, though.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Where is Saru?
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: What do you want him for?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I want to talk to him.
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: You can talk to me.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: Every shred of decency I have tells me I shouldn't
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: do this. But I'll give you a check for 50,000 francs.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: 50,000?
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, Sherry. Besides, checks make Sherry nervous.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I can give him cash.
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: Oh, but not that kind of cash, Jean. Not 50,000 francs.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: No.
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: Let's understand each other. At the moment, you have a
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: certain nuisance value. That's worth just so much to me.
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: But don't make the mistake of assuming I believe this
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: filthy story.
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: Why, you fake. For 13 years, you've lived a lie, Jean.
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: You fooled your wife, your friends, and even your country.
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: You must have known that someday we'd meet again. What
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: makes you think you can fool me?
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: I see I've made a mistake coming here.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Good night. Now, wait.
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: You're forgetting something, Jean. Saru got you into that courtroom. Well,
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: he can put you back into it again. But before
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: he does, you'd better provide for those you'll leave behind.
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: It's not going to help your case when the court
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: hears you've let your own mother live like a pauper.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I have no mother.
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: Oh, no?
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Well, then go down to the slums. Go to 19
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: Rue Blanchot and.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: See a ghost. Yes?
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: What is it, please? Madame.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Oh. May I come in, please?
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm an old woman. I receive no visitors. The
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: hour is late.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Madame, I'm in trouble. I need your help. Yes, I see.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: Come in.
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: Won't you sit down, monsieur?
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: Madame, I have a strange question to ask.
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: Yes, monsieur?
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Do you know me?
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: Yes, I know you. From the trial, of course. I
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: followed it very closely. I saw your picture in the paper.
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: I was so relieved when it was over.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Why were you relieved? You were in trouble. Ah. Madame Pelletier,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: do you have a son?
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: When he was little, oh, he was a gay one.
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: Always busy as a bumblebee. They grow up so soon.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Have you a picture of him? No. No, I.
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: I have never had a picture of him.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: Would you say there was any resemblance between your son
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: and me?
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: Some might think so, yes. But to a mother.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I couldn't be your son.
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: My son is dead. Everyone knows my son is dead.
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: Why don't they leave the dead alone?
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I.
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: I'm an old woman and I need peace.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: It's late, monsieur. I must ask you to leave. Oh,
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: your shoes, they're wet.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: It's nothing.
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: But it's a bad night. You should wear your rubbers.
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: You'll take cold.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: Madame, I hesitate to mention this, but if you have
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: any need of money.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. No, please. Good night. Good night, madame. Wait.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Just let me look at you. Just for one more moment. Madame.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: Have no fear.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Good night. And may heaven keep.
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: You, my son.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Madame! Madame, open the door! Open the door!
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: David, is that you?
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: Yes. Are you still awake, darling? I thought you'd be
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: asleep for hours.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, I couldn't sleep. I was so worried about you.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Worried? Why, dear?
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Well, I didn't think you'd be gone so long. I
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: called the office, David.
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry, but you know what happened. I never
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: got to the office. As I was going into the building,
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: I met one of our men. He'd just returned from Brazil.
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: So we went around to the club and got talking,
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: and I had no idea it was so late.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, David.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, darling, I love you so much. Don't ever leave me.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Go on, Lucienne. What else has you worried?
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Well, there are so many things, aren't there? You're his
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: friend and his doctor. That's why I've come to you.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I'm your friend, too. Now, what else?
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Well, this morning, after David left for the office, it
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: all came back to me again. Maybe Saru's visit that
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: night meant nothing. Maybe Madame Alain really meant to apologize
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: for what she did in court. But David, he's... He's
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: so different. He's so changed on me.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: There's nothing to be afraid of. Your nerves have had
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: a shock, Lucien. You went through the trial so beautifully.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Never once did you let anyone see those little pangs
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: of doubt that must have stabbed at your heart.
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: It was a strange idea, but that's all past now.
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: There's no doubt any longer, is there?
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: Andre, it's so strange.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: What is?
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: I love him very much, Andre. There's nothing that can
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: happen to that love. Nothing. And it would make no difference,
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: even if... even if I knew who he was, Jean Peltier.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Lucien! Lucien!
• 39:20
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• 39:23
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• 39:27
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• 39:35
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• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Aumont will return in Act 3 of Crossroads. Why, Sally,
• 39:56
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• 39:57
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• 40:00
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• 40:02
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• 40:04
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• 40:08
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• 40:12
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• 40:15
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• 40:19
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• 40:23
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• 40:25
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• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Exactly what kinds are they, Sally?
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: Well, there are surely poppies, doubles and singles in scar
• 40:31
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• 40:36
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• 40:43
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• 40:46
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• 40:48
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• 40:52
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• 41:09
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• 41:12
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• 41:15
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• 41:19
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• 41:21
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• 41:28
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• 41:34
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• 41:36
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• 41:39
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• 41:42
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• 41:48
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• 41:50
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• 42:01
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• 42:05
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• 42:08
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• 42:10
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• 42:14
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• 42:19
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• 42:23
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• 42:26
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• 42:28
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• 42:29
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• 42:31
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• 42:35
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• 42:38
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• 42:42
  Speaker 4: Lana Turner and Pierre Aumont.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: What I had told Dr. Tessier was true. It made
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: no difference what David had done.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: I loved him.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: I loved him as David Talbot or as Jean Pelletier.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: And I would have given anything to help him, no
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: matter what it meant. Well, he must have known how
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: I felt. That's why he decided that he must run away.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Lucienne.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Lucienne, where are you?
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: In here, darling.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Lucienne.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: Oh, David, aren't you ready yet? We're going to be
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: late at the devalves.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, I know. Here, look, darling.
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: I have a surprise for you.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: See?
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: See? A passport?
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: We are catching the morning plane at Le Bourget.
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: Well, is it Brazil?
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: No.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: Have you been appointed?
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: Well, it isn't exactly official, but I think that privately
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: you may address me as Monsieur l'Ambassador.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, won't it be wonderful? Darling, just think, two whole
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: weeks alone on shipboard. Oh, can't we go somewhere and celebrate?
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: Do we have to go to that party?
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: You must, dear.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: I start to tell you, I just called Martin at
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: the office. He's asked me to help him, and, well,
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: he's done it for me so often that I couldn't
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: refuse him.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: Well, what can I tell Madame de Val?
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: It's so late. That's all right.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: You run along, and I'll join you there later.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: About 11? All right.
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: And afterwards, we'll do every night spot in the town,
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: from Syros to Maxim.
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: Look, darling, don't say anything about Brazil to Duval. We
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: must be very surprised when he tells us.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, David, I'll swoon.
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: Good.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Now you run along. Oh, I hate to go without you.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Do you? I shall miss you, too.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: But it's only until 11.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Good night, dear.
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: Good night, David. I'll be waiting.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Hello?
• 44:43
  Speaker 9: Hello, Jean?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Who is this? This is Saru.
• 44:47
  Speaker 9: Now listen carefully, Jean, and please don't interrupt. I just
• 44:50
  Speaker 9: want you to know that you are not catching.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: That plane tomorrow.
• 44:53
  Speaker 9: If you try, I shall have the police at Le
• 44:55
  Speaker 9: Bourget to help change your plan. Listen. Don't interrupt. I
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: want to see you tonight, Jean. Come to the club
• 45:01
  Speaker 9: Sirène at 10 o'clock with one million francs. And if
• 45:04
  Speaker 9: you don't, I'm afraid you'll find yourself behind bars in
• 45:06
  Speaker 9: the morning. I warned you I might draw impatience. Good night, Jean.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 45:15
  Speaker 10: Hello.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Sit down, Jean.
• 45:29
  Speaker 9: You're late.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: I got here as soon as I could.
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: Did you bring the money? I.
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: I've been trying to get it. A man can't just
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: go to his friends and ask them for a million francs.
• 45:38
  Speaker 9: Then you didn't bring the money.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: No.
• 45:40
  Speaker 9: You have a very devoted wife. She has jewels.
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: How simple. Can I go to my wife and say, darling,
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: I am a murderer. Please let me have a million francs.
• 45:48
  Speaker 9: I can. I can say just that. Madame, your husband's
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: a murderer. Just a small loan, would you mind? Oh,
• 45:55
  Speaker 9: come now, please. There's no sense wasting any more time.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: Saru, I want to get you the money. I'd do
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: anything to have this nightmare off my neck. Believe me,
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: it hasn't been easy for me, sitting up there in
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: my office, handling large sums for the government.
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
• 46:11
  Speaker 9: Michel, he handles large sums of money for the government.
• 46:15
  Speaker 9: Go on, Jean.
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: That money isn't mine. That's a trust from the Republic.
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: Oh, please, no vulgar appeals to our patriotism.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: No, this is business.
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: Don't you see that they'd know in a minute the
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: safe is in my office.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: I'm the only one who has a key.
• 46:27
  Speaker 9: Jean, you've forgotten a lot of things you used to
• 46:29
  Speaker 9: know very well.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean.
• 46:31
  Speaker 9: Oh, come now. A man goes to his own office
• 46:33
  Speaker 9: where he has a perfect right to be. While he's
• 46:35
  Speaker 9: opening the safe, he's attacked, bound, and gagged. The next morning,
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: he's found by the charwoman. The safe has been rifled,
• 46:41
  Speaker 9: but you are completely innocent. You go back to your
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: own life, your career, your wife, Brazil.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: What? What guarantee have I that this is the end?
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: We'll disappear.
• 46:50
  Speaker 9: You'll never hear of us again. What about the picture,
• 46:53
  Speaker 9: the locket?
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: You can have that just as soon as we get
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: the money.
• 46:57
  Speaker 9: Shall we leave now for your office?
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I'm ready.
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: Eleven o'clock came, and David had still not arrived at
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: the devours. At twelve, I left the house. I called
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: a cab and drove to his office. Just as the
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: car pulled up to the curb, I saw David entering
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: the building. There were two people with him, Saru and
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: Michelle Allen. I paid the driver and waited for a
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: moment undecided. Then I went into the building. The night
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: watchman was there, but he recognized me and led me
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: up the stairs to David's office. When I got there,
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: it was pitch black, but I saw a light flash
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: near the safe. There they were, the three of them.
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: The safe open, money on the floor. I stood there
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: hardly breathing, and then, without even knowing what I did,
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: I cried out to him.
• 47:51
  Speaker 10: David!
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Wait, it's Michelle. Hold the light. It's a woman.
• 47:55
  Speaker 7: David.
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: No, David, don't do it.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Don't.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: Please don't, David.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: There's nothing else to do. Oh, but there is. There
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: must be.
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: You're frightened now. I know you are, but I'll be
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: with you. We'll face it together.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: But can't you see? There's no other way.
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: Well, I won't let you do it. I'll tell the police. Oh, no.
• 48:10
  Speaker 9: I'll leave here with the money, or I'll call the police.
• 48:13
  Speaker 9: You can be the judge, Madame.
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: Lucienne, why do you suppose I'm doing this? Would you
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: prefer to see me on the guillotine?
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: Well, what do you want me to do?
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: Help us tie him up. Then you'll find him robbed, gagged,
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: tied in a chair. The perfect alibi. You give us
• 48:27
  Speaker 9: a chance to get out of here and you can
• 48:28
  Speaker 9: scream as loud as you like.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: But remember, you... Wait.
• 48:34
  Speaker 9: Did you hear something?
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: No.
• 48:35
  Speaker 7: I did. Saru, there's someone in the outer office. I
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: saw a shadow.
• 48:39
  Speaker 9: Get the money out this way.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: The police, Michel, quick.
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: Don't move.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Don't move or we'll shoot.
• 48:45
  Speaker 9: The back way, hurry.
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: The shot had gone wild, but Saru stood frozen in
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: his tracks. The building was surrounded and there was no escape.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: They took us to the office of the commissaire of police.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: Madame Talbot, I hesitate to enter your name in the
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: police book. All France knows your family.
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: Monsieur, my wife has nothing to do with this. She
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: came to my office tonight quite by accident.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: So you have said, monsieur. Now, Michelle Alain, that is
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: your true name, mademoiselle?
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Tell me, do you recognize these two men and this lady?
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Come now, come.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: You were a witness at the Leduc trial where Henri
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: Saru presented the evidence which proved that this gentleman was
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: not a criminal named Jean Pelletier.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Wait, please.
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: There's no sense going on with this.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: I am, Jean Pelletier.
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: David.
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: What's that? On March 27, 1922, I was involved in
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: the robbery of a bank messenger.
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, don't listen to him.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: I was also involved in his murder.
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: It isn't true. David, you don't know what you're saying.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: I do, Lucienne.
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: Monsieur, you must ignore my husband's statement. It was brought
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: out at the trial that he has amnesia. He can't
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: remember anything that happened before waking up in that hospital.
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: And this murder... This murder was the morning before the
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: Paris-Marseille train was wrecked.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Is this true, monsieur? Yes. Then how do you know
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: you were involved in this robbery and murder?
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: I was told.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: By whom?
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: By my accomplice in the crime.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: Henri Sarouk. No, wait.
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: I can't go on knowing that I helped to murder
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: a man, Sarouk. I can't live with it any longer.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Ever since you.
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: Told me, I've been tortured by the force.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: No, listen to me. Sarouk, I beg you. And you too, Michel.
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: Let's confess everything and throw ourselves on the mercy of
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: the state.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: What?
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Mademoiselle Alain was connected with the crime? Yes.
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: At that time, monsieur, she and I were... Well, we
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: were more than just friends, as you can see from
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: this locket. May I have it, please, ma'am? It was
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: she who drove me to the station after the murder.
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: No, I never saw this man. Not until the day
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: I testified in court.
• 50:44
  Speaker 9: Shut up.
• 50:44
  Speaker 7: Henri, this is murder.
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: Do you want to go to the guillotine?
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: We have nothing to do with murder. I'll do the talking.
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: You've talked too much already. That's why we're here. The
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: perfect blackmail crime. It couldn't fail, you said.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Shut up, you fool. I won't shut up.
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: Well, he's not Jean Pelletier. Pelletier was killed in the
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: wreck of the Paris-Marseille Express.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: David. Go on.
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: Saru and Edith went to the hospital after the wreck.
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: They found Peltier among the dead. While they were there,
• 51:08
  Speaker 7: they also learned that one of the survivors, Monsieur Talbot,
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: was suffering from amnesia.
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: And you waited all of these years to blackmail me?
• 51:15
  Speaker 7: He waited until you had something to lose.
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: He planned everything, even that picture in the locket.
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: It's a fake, a superimposure.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Well, Monsieur Talbot, I think we've heard all we need
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: to hear.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Henri Saru, Michelle Alleyne... I hereby order you to stand
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: trial and decree that you be remanded to prison until
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: such time as you are tried by the state.
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: But it was his idea, I tell you.
• 51:38
  Speaker 10: Saru!
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Come along, you hysterical fool. Hysterical? Just wait till you
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: hear me at the trial.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: Well, Monsieur Talbot, you certainly took a desperate chance.
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: Oh, not really, Monsieur. I knew I wasn't felt yet.
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: David, I don't understand. Was it you who called the police?
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: Of course, darling.
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: What if you knew you weren't Pelletier?
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: I didn't know it until tonight. When you left me
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: at home, I felt it was the end of the world.
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: After Saru called, I stood looking at our passport pictures, remembering.
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: And then, then something reminded me of this picture in
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: the locket. But they weren't the same?
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Well, for all practical purposes, yes.
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: But do you remember once, just after we were married,
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: André Pelletier was at the house. We were talking about
• 52:24
  Speaker 6: why I combed my hair on the right side.
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, I remember. Tessier said when you came to the hospital,
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: it was combed on the left. But your head had
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: been cut right along the part. And to cover the scar,
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: you had to change the part to the right side.
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: Now look, darling.
• 52:39
  Speaker 6: This picture in the locket is supposed to have been
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: taken before the accident.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Look at it carefully, dear. What's wrong with it?
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, of course. The parts on the right side.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: Well, then you knew that this picture must have been
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: taken after the accident. Oh, darling, you're wonderful.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: When you phoned me tonight and told me to send
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: the police, I thought you'd got out of your mind.
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, setting the trap was easy enough. The problem was
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: how to get Saru into it.
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: Well, how did you do it, David?
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: By two simple little words. Government funds. He took the
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: bait at one gulp. Oh, my David.
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: If you handle the Brazilian embassy as well as you've
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: handled this, I'll be very.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Proud of you. In here, madame.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: Let me go.
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: Let me go.
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: What's the meaning of this?
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's you, monsieur. Good evening, madame.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: We've had this woman investigated. She is an actress permanently
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: out of work. Friend of Saru's, of course.
• 53:35
  Speaker 7: Why have they brought me here? Monsieur, tell them they
• 53:37
  Speaker 7: shouldn't disturb an old woman in the middle of the night.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Madame?
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid you are a dead pigeon.
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: I don't understand. All I ask is my solitude.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: That's what you're going to get, madame. Ten years of it.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Take her out.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: Come along, madame.
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: Let me go.
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: Let me go.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Lucienne. Oh, David.
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: Did I tell you today that I love you?
• 54:00
  Speaker 7: Oh, David.
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: Remember where we are.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: But darling, how can I? I have amnesia.
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: The curtain falls on Crossroads, and we are very glad
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: that the paths of Lana Turner and Pierre Armand crossed
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: at this microphone tonight.
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr. DeMille. Well, how do you like the
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: Luxe Radio.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: Theater, Pierre?
• 54:37
  Speaker 6: Wonderful, Lana.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: Now I'll go home and see what my father says.
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, is he your severest critic?
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: Well, you see, my father was a picture producer when
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: we lived in France, and I think he was listening tonight.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, well, you're the first producer's son I know.
• 54:52
  Speaker 7: Who took a bath to me.
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: Now, he's on the right end of the business. Let
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: me know what your father thinks about production, Pierre. I will, sir.
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: And I'd like to thank you now for the welcome
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: you have given me here. You really were very, very
• 55:05
  Speaker 6: kind to me.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, that is nothing.
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: Nothing unusual, Pierre.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: You don't think Lana Turner is unusual? How did I
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: get into this? I think she's beautiful.
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: She's more than that.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: She's magnifique. Well, you got me there.
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're just saying that because I use Lux soap.
• 55:33
  Speaker 5: I wonder if every girl knows that Lux soap is
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: a grand way to care for her complexion.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: You're living proof of that, Lana. Now I must tell
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: our audience that Pierre Aumont will not be with us
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: in Hollywood very much longer. After he finishes his next picture,
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: he leaves Hollywood to join his countrymen at the front.
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: Those comrades of his and ours who are fighting for
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: the cause of the United Nations.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: We wish you all the luck in the world here.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, everyone. What is your play next week, Mr. Denise? Well,
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: I have a telegram here that tells the whole story.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: It reads, Accept with.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: Pleasure invitation for Clambake and Corn Roast in Lux Radio
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: Theater next Monday night. In view of mileage rationing, please
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: send Camel to pick us up on road to Paramount.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: And it's signed, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. And the play,
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen, well, what else could it be but
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: the road to Morocco? Bing Crosby and Bob Hope will
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: bring us their greatest co-starring screen success next week. And
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: with them, we'll present Ginny Sims.
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: Well, I know what I'll be doing next Monday. The
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: same thing as this whole audience.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Good night. Good night. Good night.
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: Good night, darling.
• 57:19
  Speaker 10: Au revoir, Pierre.
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: Our sponsors, the makers of Luxe Toilet Soap, join me
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: in inviting you to be with us again next Monday
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: night when the Lux Radio Theater presents Bing Crosby and.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Bob Hope and Ginny Sims in The Road to Morocco.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: This is Cecil B.
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: Heard in tonight's play were Bradley Page as Saru, Paula
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: Winslow as Michelle, and Norman Field, Regina Wallace, Victor Rodman,
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: Cliff Clark, Leo Cleary, Charlie Lung, Fred McKay, and Ferdinand Meunier.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: Our Lux Radio Theater production of Crossroads has come to
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: you with.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: The good wishes of the makers of Lux Toilet.
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: Soap, the beauty care that nine out of ten Hollywood
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: stars use to help keep their complexions beautifully clear and smooth.
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. And this is
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: your announcer, John M. Kennedy, reminding you to tune in
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: next Monday night to hear Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: Ginny Sims in The Road to Morocco.
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: Why should food rationing and shortages worry me? I know
• 58:39
  Speaker 5: how to get vitamins and minerals for my family. I
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: just buy VIMS and add them to my rationed meals.
• 58:45
  Speaker 11: A great idea, for VIMS give you all the essential
• 58:48
  Speaker 11: vitamins and all minerals commonly lacking. They're pleasant to take, too.
• 58:52
  Speaker 11: Children love them. Ask for VIMS at your druggist. V-I
• 58:57
  Speaker 11: for vitamins. Double M-S for minerals.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: VIMS. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: The curtain falls on Lux Radio Theater's Crossroads. Follow Lux
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Radio Theater for more classic broadcasts.