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The Shadow - "The Death House Rescue" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: An unemployed father, desperate to obtain medical care for his
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: young daughter, accepts a driving job that entangles him in
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: a bank robbery and leaves him facing a murder charge.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: That is the case facing Lamont Cranston in the shadows
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: The Death House Rescue, first broadcast on Mutual September 26, 1937,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: the premiere, episode one, of the 1937 dramatic series. Orson
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Welles makes his first appearance as Cranston in The Shadow,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: with Agnes Moorhead as Margot Lane, Edward Hale Bierstadt wrote
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: the script, and Frank Reddick is heard as the opening
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  Speaker 1: and closing voice. As the execution deadline approaches, The Shadow
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: searches for proof that can save Paul Gordon. We now
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: take you back to the original broadcast.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
• 1:23
  Speaker 3: Blue Coal presents The Shadow, a man of mystery who
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: strikes terror in the very souls of sharpsters, lawbreakers, and criminals.
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: All signs point.
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: To a severe winter. Be prepared.
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: If you want to be sure of even, dependable, healthful
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: heat in any kind of weather, insist on blue coal.
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: America's finest anthracite mined from the fields of northern Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 3: The coal that has colored a harmless blue at the mine.
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  Speaker 4: For your protection. You can't turn me to the chair.
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: You can't do it. Let me out of here.
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  Speaker 5: Let me.
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  Speaker 4: Paul Gordon.
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: Listen. I can't see anybody. Who's that?
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  Speaker 4: I am the shadow.
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  Speaker 2: Stop.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't much time. We must hurry, Gordon. You're in
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  Speaker 4: the death house, charged with murder.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm innocent. I'm innocent. But nobody knows it.
• 2:28
  Speaker 4: Take courage, Gordon. The shadow knows.
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. All right, Margot, won't you
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: sit down?
• 2:46
  Speaker 4: I told Adbold to serve our coffee here in the library.
• 2:49
  Speaker 4: I should rather go on the terrace.
• 2:50
  Speaker 6: No, I prefer it here.
• 2:52
  Speaker 4: Then let me see you smile. That frown is most unbecoming.
• 2:56
  Speaker 6: Lamont, give it up.
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: Give what up, my dear? Drinking coffee?
• 3:00
  Speaker 6: I'm serious, Lamont Cranston. When I foolishly let you know that...
• 3:04
  Speaker 6: Do you remember what you said? It will be exactly
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  Speaker 6: five years next week.
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  Speaker 5: But there's still so much to do, Margot. Well, then
• 3:10
  Speaker 5: let somebody else do it.
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  Speaker 6: Don't you realize that you can't keep on like this forever?
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  Speaker 6: Someone's certain to identify you, and when that someone does,
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  Speaker 6: someone else is certain to kill you.
• 3:18
  Speaker 4: Perhaps, but until they do.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, darling, stop frowning.
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  Speaker 6: I don't mean necessarily to give up your work, Lamont,
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  Speaker 6: but this other... Let the shadow just disappear and come
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  Speaker 6: out openly. You're in the organized forces of law and police.
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  Speaker 7: Won't you realize, Margot, that my entire usefulness to the
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  Speaker 7: organized forces of law and police lies in my remaining
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  Speaker 7: outside those forces, in remaining always the shadow? Would they
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  Speaker 7: approve my methods?
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  Speaker 2: Would they believe in my science?
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  Speaker 6: You would make them believe. You could make them approve.
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  Speaker 7: And in doing so, reveal my secrets, my knowledge. Reveal
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  Speaker 7: them and eventually let them fall into the hands of
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  Speaker 7: organized crime.
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  Speaker 2: No, Margot.
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  Speaker 5: No one must ever know. No one but you.
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  Speaker 7: Why do you think I've devoted countless hours to investigating
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  Speaker 7: electrical and chemical phenomena?
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: Why do you think I went to India, to Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: to China?
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  Speaker 7: What do you think I studied in London, Paris.
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  Speaker 5: And Vienna?
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  Speaker 7: Except to learn the old mysteries that modern science has
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  Speaker 7: not yet rediscovered. The natural magic modern psychology is beginning
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  Speaker 7: to understand and... Well, magic that wouldn't seem so natural.
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  Speaker 7: I studied and learned for a purpose, my dear.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Lamont, I realize all that. But now, now
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  Speaker 6: the entire underworld has but one objective. To erase the shadow.
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  Speaker 6: And to me that means.
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  Speaker 7: Until they know what the shadow is and who he is.
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  Speaker 4: What can they do?
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  Speaker 7: Stop and think how many criminals are either dead or
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  Speaker 7: in prison because of our activities. Why, even now, tonight,
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  Speaker 7: as we sit quietly here, somewhere, an innocent human being
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  Speaker 7: may be in desperate trouble. Somewhere, perhaps, there is a
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  Speaker 7: problem that can never be solved, except by the shadows.
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  Speaker 2: What did the doctor say, Grace?
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  Speaker 6: It was good news and bad, too, I'm afraid, dear.
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  Speaker 2: Well, whatever it was, dear, tell me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, he said the baby could be perfectly well again
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  Speaker 6: within a year.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank God for that.
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  Speaker 2: Poor kid. She's had a tough time. Well, what else?
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  Speaker 6: Well, this part isn't so good, Paul. She'll need treatments
• 5:42
  Speaker 6: during all that time. Paul, treatments cost money.
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: I know. Well, we'll have to manage somehow. You didn't
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: do a very good job marrying me, dear.
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  Speaker 5: Darling, if I could only get a job.
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  Speaker 2: I've got my health and I've got brains. But no
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: one seems to want them. Oh, they will, dear.
• 6:00
  Speaker 6: They've got to.
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: You're right about that.
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  Speaker 7: We're just about down to rock bottom.
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  Speaker 8: I've raised every cent I can on the house and car.
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  Speaker 2: There isn't anything left.
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  Speaker 5: You and I are still left, Paul.
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  Speaker 6: And we've got to take care of Sally. She's our daughter, Paul,
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  Speaker 6: and she's got to have her chance.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to have it. Somehow. Tomorrow I'll start out
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  Speaker 2: and take anything I can get.
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  Speaker 6: Darling, perhaps tomorrow things will break for us.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: If only they don't break the wrong way.
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  Speaker 9: No more beds.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Over here. Excuse me, but... Are you the boss here?
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  Speaker 8: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking for a job. Nothing doing, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do anything.
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  Speaker 2: Wait on table, wash dishes, anything at all.
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  Speaker 8: I don't need any more help.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how about delivering things? I've got a car. Nope,
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  Speaker 2: I don't deliver nothing. I don't need you. I see.
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks. Hey. Hey, you. What? You calling for me?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sit down.
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  Speaker 7: Have a beer.
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  Speaker 2: No, thanks. I don't drink. Anyhow, sit down.
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  Speaker 4: I meet a friend of mine named Lefty. My name's Red.
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  Speaker 2: Look at my hair and you'll know why.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm glad to meet you both.
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  Speaker 2: Gordon's my name. Paul Gordon. Well, do you want to
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  Speaker 2: talk to me about something?
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  Speaker 3: We might.
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  Speaker 2: Might be able to help you out.
• 7:28
  Speaker 7: Sounds like you're looking for a job.
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: You bet I am. I need one. You know anybody
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: that could use me? Maybe. We don't know you yet.
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  Speaker 2: As far as that goes, I don't know you either. See, Red,
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  Speaker 2: the guy's smart.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe too smart.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look here, Mr. Gordon.
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  Speaker 7: We need a car, and we need somebody to drive
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  Speaker 7: it for us.
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  Speaker 5: You understand?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've got a car, and I can drive. Is
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: it a good car? Has it got speed? I guarantee you,
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  Speaker 2: up to 80. That's not bad.
• 7:53
  Speaker 5: That's not bad.
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  Speaker 2: Now, listen, kid.
• 7:55
  Speaker 7: How about meeting us tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock?
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  Speaker 2: All right. Where? Well, let's see. We're going to... I
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: got it. Right in front of the uptown bank.
• 8:05
  Speaker 7: We got to go there first to cash a check. Well,
• 8:08
  Speaker 7: how about $ 5 a day?
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  Speaker 2: That's so.
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  Speaker 7: But you remember, be there at 9 o'clock or you don't.
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: Get no job. Don't worry, I'll be there. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: there at 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: You can't keep this car in front of the bank
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  Speaker 1: all day.
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  Speaker 2: Can't you see that sign? No parking. I'm not parking, officer.
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: I'm waiting for a couple of men. I'm working for them. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's that?
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  Speaker 5: Sounds like shots.
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  Speaker 2: In the bank.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, there.
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  Speaker 2: Stop. There he is.
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  Speaker 4: You got him, Rusty.
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  Speaker 2: Here he is with the car. Come on. You've got
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  Speaker 2: that much for him. Step on it, fella. Hey, but
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: you can't do that.
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  Speaker 7: Get gone.
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  Speaker 9: I will shoot.
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  Speaker 3: Let him have it, Red.
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  Speaker 9: Hold him off.
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  Speaker 2: I'll hold him.
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  Speaker 10: We should never have shot that cop.
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  Speaker 2: Can't you get no more speed out of this cop, fella?
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  Speaker 11: She's doing all she can.
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  Speaker 5: Shoot if that tire's red. I missed.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: Him.
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  Speaker 6: Try the windshield.
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  Speaker 2: Say, let me out of this. Take the car. You
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  Speaker 2: don't think I'm in with you?
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  Speaker 11: That's just what we're figuring on.
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  Speaker 2: Now, here comes the curve. After you make that stop.
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  Speaker 2: Get ready, Red. I'm ready.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just leaving the evidence.
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  Speaker 2: Put it under the seat cushion.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, goodbye, Gordon.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, hey, wait, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Don't leave me like this. They'll think I did it. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: come on back, will you? Come back! Up with your hands.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, get them up. All right, officer. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: got a gun. I wasn't in this. They made me
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  Speaker 2: drive the car.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, keep your hands up just the same.
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: Go through the car, Charlie. Okay, Sarge.
• 9:45
  Speaker 11: Now, fella, you might as well come clean on this.
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: I haven't done anything. I tell you, I'm innocent.
• 9:49
  Speaker 11: Hey, Sarge, I got it. Under the rear seat cushion,
• 9:52
  Speaker 11: a bag full of bills and a gun. That's the
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  Speaker 11: gun that bumped off my buddy Louie. And you say
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  Speaker 11: you're innocent.
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, I am.
• 10:00
  Speaker 11: Well, it'll take more than saying so to keep you
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  Speaker 11: out of the electric chair.
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  Speaker 2: Order in the court. Order in the court. Paul Gordon.
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  Speaker 2: The jury have.
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  Speaker 10: Found you guilty of robbery under arms and of statutory murder.
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  Speaker 10: You have been shown to have had both motive and opportunity.
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  Speaker 10: The prosecution has piled up a mass of incontrovertible evidence, and.
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  Speaker 12: I myself have no doubt of your guilt. Therefore, in
• 10:38
  Speaker 12: accordance with the law, I direct that.
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  Speaker 10: You be taken from here to the.
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  Speaker 2: Place from whence you came, and that there you be
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  Speaker 2: put to death.
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  Speaker 12: In the manner stated by the law. And may God
• 10:51
  Speaker 12: have mercy on your soul.
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: Hey, who's that? Where's that lad?
• 10:59
  Speaker 9: Who lad?
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: Bring that person before the corpse.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: Well, I.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know where he is, Your Honor.
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: The lad came from over there.
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  Speaker 9: In that corner.
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, Your Honor, but... There's no one in that corner.
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: Only a shadow.
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: Go to sleep, dear.
• 11:22
  Speaker 13: Mother will be right here in the next room.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, God.
• 11:37
  Speaker 6: Please help me.
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: Help me.
• 11:40
  Speaker 6: I don't know what to do. Yes?
• 11:45
  Speaker 5: Who is it?
• 11:46
  Speaker 6: My name is Margo Lane. I have a message for you, Mrs.
• 11:49
  Speaker 7: Gordon. You're not a reporter, are you?
• 11:51
  Speaker 6: No, I'm a friend. I've come to help. Oh, then
• 11:54
  Speaker 6: please come in. What is it you want, Miss Lane?
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: Mrs.
• 11:58
  Speaker 6: Gordon, your husband has a friend who's going to help him.
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: Here's $ 1, 000 in cash. That's for you and Sally. $ 1, 000?
• 12:09
  Speaker 6: Who was it sent this to me? Well, that I
• 12:12
  Speaker 6: can't tell you. But the message with it is not
• 12:14
  Speaker 6: to lose hope. Oh, but there is hope for Paul, then.
• 12:18
  Speaker 6: The man who sent this to you never fails. Who
• 12:20
  Speaker 6: is he? Well, that I can't tell you.
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: But, Miss Lane, you know him.
• 12:25
  Speaker 6: Sometimes I wonder whether I do. I love him. But
• 12:30
  Speaker 6: I wonder whether I know him.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 12:33
  Speaker 6: It's hard to tell whether I really know the man.
• 12:37
  Speaker 6: Or only his shadow.
• 12:39
  Speaker 11: Oh.
• 12:45
  Speaker 4: Well, Lefty, tonight the fall guy goes to the chair.
• 12:48
  Speaker 11: That's what he gets for being a sucker.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's not a clue that even points our way.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: Not even a print.
• 12:53
  Speaker 7: We had gloves on all the time. You had yours
• 12:55
  Speaker 7: up for a minute when you were sitting next to him.
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I didn't touch the wheel. Then we ain't
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: left a clue.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: You think so.
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: Who said that, you, Lefty? No, I thought it was you.
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: It was I.
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: You cannot see me.
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: Who are you? And where are you? I am here
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: in the room. In the shadow.
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: You have pinned your crime on an innocent man.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: He shall not suffer, but you will. I don't know
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: who you are or where you are, but you're bluffing anyway.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: You got no evidence. We didn't leave a clue.
• 13:25
  Speaker 7: You did leave a clue. A clue that will send
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  Speaker 7: you to the chair.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Where was it? Where was it?
• 13:32
  Speaker 7: You're lying. Wouldn't you like to believe that? Keep thinking
• 13:39
  Speaker 7: about it. Keep thinking about it. clue that you forgot.
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: Margot Lane. Paul Gordon is in the death house and
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: is to die in the chair tonight. I am going
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: to him now. We can still save him. Stand by
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: for orders.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: In a few moments, we will return to the shadows.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: But before we do, let me stress this one fact.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: For home heating, anthracite is best. And America's finest anthracite
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: is blue coal. Anthracite is the healthful fuel. It gives steady,
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: uniform heat that helps prevent colds and cuts down doctor's bills.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: For with anthracite, there is no quick chilling of the house,
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: such as you get with fuels of the on and
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: off type, or with quick burning fuels that flare up
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: and burn out. Bear in mind that heating plants in
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: this part of the country were especially designed to burn anthracite.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: So before that coal snap catches you unaware, call your.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: Local blue coal dealer.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: You'll find his name listed in the where to buy
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: it section of your classified directory under the word blue coal.
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  Speaker 3: Call him tomorrow and order a supply of America's finest anthracite.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: What?
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: Have you.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Have you got any word from the governor?
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Gordon.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: The governor refuses to take any action. Thank you. I've
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: got to go.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: Tonight?
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: At 11 o'clock.
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: What.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: What time is it now? Almost 10. Is there anything
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: I can do for you? No.
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: Thank you, Gordon.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Very well.
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: These guards will move you to another cell.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: I'll be back in a little while.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Ready, Gordon?
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, Scott.
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: We're just going to move you to another cell.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: What does it matter?
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: The one you're going to is nearer.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Nearer to the chair, is that.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: It?
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Let's go. All right, Gordon.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Walk to the left.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: He'll be right here behind you.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Unlock the door into this. Preparation chamber, Pete.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Okay. Just a second.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Go on through, Gordon. Watch him, Pete. Now shut the door.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: What's the use of all this trouble? What chance have
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I got now? I'm afraid you haven't got much, brother.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that. What do you mean?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Holy smokes. Look behind you. Where? There. Too bad.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: I hated to do that, but there wasn't any other way,
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: and he'll only.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Be out for a while.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Now, Gordon, listen to me.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: There.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Where are you?
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I can't see you anymore.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Where have you gone?
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Back into the shadow.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Now, Gordon... We haven't much time.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: Listen to me.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: No crime is perfect. There's always somewhere a loose end.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: The only reason that all crimes aren't solved is because
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: there's some one fact that someone knows and doesn't tell.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: And sometimes they don't tell because they don't know that
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: they know.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Believe me then.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Because you couldn't prove what you said.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: We are going.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: After the proof now.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: You and I.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: How? I'm going to think with your mind. I don't
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: know what you mean. Don't try to understand. Just do
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: as I tell you.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I want you to concentrate, Gordon.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: Fix your mind on everything that happened that day. Make
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: mental pictures. I'll see what you see.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I'll try.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: No.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: No.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: No, Gordon.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Stop thinking about your wife and baby.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: How did you know I was thinking about that?
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: I saw it. In your mind.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: I see in my mind the pictures you create in yours.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Like television?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Or like mental telepathy or mind reading.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Hypnotism, whatever you choose.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: There's no time to talk.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Stop talking.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Think.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: I will.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I will. I'm thinking now.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: The picture is getting clearer.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: That's better.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Go on.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: The restaurant.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: The bar.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Gordon, stop thinking about the electric chair. It blurs the picture.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I'll try. I'll try.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Gordon.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: That's better.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: The car.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: In front of the bank.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Yes. I see it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: The policeman.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: The crowd. Yes.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: The small man with red hair. He was the one
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: you called Red.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Yes. I see him. Crooked nose.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Short.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Glasses. I know that man.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: He's Red Sloan.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: It's hard to see.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Think for your life.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Try hard.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, you started the car. The other lefty was in
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: front with you.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Lefty.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Lefty. See him for me, Gordon.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Ah, yes.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: A scar on his left cheek. Why didn't you mention
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: that in court? I.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I forgot.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Never mind. Concentrate.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: Lefty couldn't keep you covered with a gun and look
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: back at the same time.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: What did he do? He.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Reached up....
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: And twisted the.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Rear view mirror.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Now we've got it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: That's the loose end. That's where his thumbprint will be. Gordon,
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: now I can save you.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: You've told the truth. You didn't know you knew. Come on, Ben.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I'll do.
• 21:06
  Speaker 13: And another one over here.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: Ray, you're a fool for coming in here again.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: This is the place we picked up that kid that's
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: burning tonight. What do you want to come in here for?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: This is as good a place as any, ain't it?
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: Hey, telephone for you, Lefty.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Telephone?
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Maybe you never heard of it, but it's a great invention.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: But nobody knows I'm here.
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: Well, somebody knows because they're waiting on the phone for you.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: It's over there on the wall. Okay. Don't be too long, Lefty.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know about that.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: Hello?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Say, what are you laughing at? Who is this?
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: Lefty, did you ever hear of the shadow?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Say, what is this?
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: Too bad about young Gordon, isn't.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: It, Lefty? What do you know about that?
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: The shadow knows.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Who are you? What do you want?
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I want justice. Justice for Paul Gordon, Lefty. And I'm
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: going to get it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: But you ain't got no evidence.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: No.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Perhaps there are some fingerprints, Lefty.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: We had gloves on.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: There couldn't be no fingerprints.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Did you have gloves on all the time?
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: You're left-handed.
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: Now, listen carefully, Lefty. When you were sitting in the
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: front seat of Gordon's car, your gun was in your
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: left hand.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Remember? Say, you ain't nobody. I... It's just... Say... How
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: do you know?
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: What did you do with your right hand? My right hand?
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: You took off your right glove, didn't you?
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't. I didn't.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, gosh, I'm going nuts.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: And you couldn't see the car that was chasing you
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: because the angle of the rearview mirror was adjusted for
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: the driver and you weren't driving, so... Do you remember...
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: What you did?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: No, no, I didn't. I didn't take it off.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: Are you sure you didn't reach up with your bare
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: right hand and turn that rearview mirror? Are you sure, Lefty?
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: No, no, I didn't.
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: I didn't.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe I did that.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: If the police find that fingerprint, you'll burn, Lefty. Just
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: the way young Gordon's going to burn.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Tonight. Goodbye, Lefty. Hey, wait a minute.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: He hung up.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: No.
• 23:31
  Speaker 13: No.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I won't burn. Hey, Red.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Red!
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: It's certainly gab long enough to say who was the guy.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Don't mind that.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Where's that car of Gordon's now?
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: In his garage.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I guess I heard his wife... Listen. What? I got
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: a hunch.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: There's some fingerprints of mine on that car.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Red, we got a white Morpher there. Or maybe we'll
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: burn in that chair, too. Come on. Let's go.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: But, Commissioner.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Miss Lane, but I don't see what we
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: can do.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: But I tell you, Paul Gordon is innocent. The men
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: who committed the crime are free.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Where did you get this information?
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, that I can't tell you.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Miss Lane, Paul Gordon was convicted of murder by due
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: processes of law.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Tonight he pays for.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: His crime in the electric chair. If the police listen
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: to every crank who came in here claiming new evidence.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: But they.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Can't send an innocent man to the chair.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: They can't do it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: No, but they can send a guilty man.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: And according to the evidence, Paul Gordon is guilty.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Commissioner, suppose that afterwards, when it's too late, they discover
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: that Paul Gordon wasn't guilty after all. And suppose I
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: testify that the police refuse to listen.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Well, what do you want me to do?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: If it's within reason, I'll do that.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: I want you to send some men to that garage.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: I want you to catch the guilty men and see
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: that justice is done.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: What a night. I'm frightened.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Brace up, Gordon.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: It won't be long. Get your chin up, buddy. My
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: chin next.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: So long, fella.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Good luck.
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: Goodbye, kid.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Where is he? He promised to save me. Who, son?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It was a voice.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Just a voice.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: He.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: He said he'd stand by.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Now, steady, old man.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Don't lose your nerve, Gordon. Open it up, men.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: No.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I won't go in there. I didn't do it. I
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: didn't kill him. I didn't, I tell you.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: He said he'd stand by.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: Gordon, wait.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Only a few minutes more. Just a few minutes. Don't
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: take me in there yet.
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: Now, wait.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Please, please.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: He said, please wait.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Easy, Gordon.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Everybody go in that door. I'm gone. It'll
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: be too late then. Take him in, men. No, no, no, no. Wait.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: Oh, where are you?
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: Where is that voice? Where did he go? Please come back.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: Warden.
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: Warden.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, men.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Well, what is it?
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: Warden, wait.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: The governor's on the phone. He says stop. Hold up everything.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: What did the governor say?
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: He wants to talk to you on the phone, warden.
• 26:03
  Speaker 11: He says, don't electrocute this man. They've got the other
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: two guys in Gordon's garage trying to rub out some fingerprints.
• 26:09
  Speaker 11: One of them was shot and died. But before he died,
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: he spilled it all. This fellow didn't do it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: It was a framer.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank God he got me in time. Gordon.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Gordon.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Did you hear that? Yes.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, I heard it. That voice said he would.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: I'm free.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: You're not going to electrocute me, Warden.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: You're not. No.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: No, Gordon.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: The governor saved you. Governor?
• 26:36
  Speaker 13: No.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: It wasn't the governor.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: It was somebody else.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Or something else.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: What do you mean, Gordon?
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Who saved you? I don't know. It was a voice.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Just a voice. I never really saw him. He was
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: only a shadow.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Before another adventure with the shadow draws to a close,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: John Barclay, Blue Coal's heating expert, would like to say
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: a few words.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Barclay.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Good evening, friends.
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: If you're interested in having a more comfortable home this winter,
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: be sure to call your local Blue Coal dealer.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: For he's more.
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: Than a fuel dealer. He's an authority on modern home heating.
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: You see, for more than six years, I've trained servicemen
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: for these blue coal dealers. These men, known as John
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: Barclay Servicemen, have added thousands of families like yours to
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: enjoy a greater degree of comfort and to save heating dollars, too.
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: I'm going to read part of a letter typical of
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: many received from satisfied customers using blue coal and John
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: Barclay Service.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: I quote in part.
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: The.
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: Service rendered by your John Barclay servicemen has been invaluable
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: to me. We were burning a ton of coal a
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: week and having great difficulty in keeping our fire going
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: throughout the night. Your servicemen made me many helpful suggestions
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: regarding the proper way to regulate the furnace and recommended
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: the use of blue coal. We not only reduced the
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: amount of fuel consumed to one half, but actually got
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: more heat.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Think of that, friends.
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: In this case, a family cut their fuel bill in
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: half simply by following the advice of a John Barclay
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: serviceman whose services were given without charge. Now, you don't
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: have to buy blue coal to benefit from John Barclay's service.
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: No matter what kind of fuel you're using or from
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: whom you've been buying, if you have any heating problems,
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: consult the blue coal dealer. You'll be very glad to
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: place this John Barclay serviceman at your disposal to solve
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: your problems.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I thank you. The story you have.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Just heard is copyrighted by The Shadow Magazine. Real names
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: are never used in these shadow stories.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: The weed of crime bears bitter.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Not pay.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: The shadow knows.
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: The shadow leaves the air with the death house rescue.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: This is Victor Sterling. Until next time, good night. Follow
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the shadow for more classic broadcasts.