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- 0:28Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
- 0:33is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it
- 0:36to me Box thirteen at Great Detectors dot net and you can follow us on
- 0:43Twitter at Radio Detectives. Well, this is our eight hundred episode special and
- 0:50we're going to bring you another one hour episode of suspense. And this is
- 0:55from a story originally written by Cornell Woolwich. It was was adapted as a
- 1:00movie and there was a Lucks Radio Theater version of the movie. But myself,
- 1:06I like this version much better. I think it's a very emotionally resident
- 1:11and a powerful story, A definitely a great mystery with lots of detection.
- 1:17We would probably put it today the way it was performed here on the radio,
- 1:22into the category of romantic suspense, but I think it's pretty exciting and
- 1:26challenging for anybody. So let's go ahead and take a lesson to this episode
- 1:32from May the fifteenth, nineteen forty eight. It was the very last of
- 1:38Suspense Is one hour episodes, So let's go ahead and enjoy Deadline at Dawn.
- 2:01Suspense Radio's outstanding theater of frills brings you an hour, a full sixty
- 2:14minutes of suspense to night. Our stars, Miss Helen Walker and mister John
- 2:20Beale. Our Story Deadline at Dawn by William Irish, a suspense play produced
- 2:25and directed by Anton M. Leader. If you've ever been alone in a
- 2:35strange, big city, you know the haunting loneliness of it, and you
- 2:38know how the sight of a familiar face, the sound of a familiar voice
- 2:42can lift your spirit high. Even a stranger who comes from your hometown becomes
- 2:46a long lost friend because he brings with him a breath of home, a
- 2:51flood of memories. That was the emotion that drew Brickie Coleman and Quinn Williams
- 2:54together. But their meeting wasn't the joyful, happy kind. It was the
- 3:00beginning of longing and fear and danger. And now, with the performances of
- 3:06Helen Walker as Brickie Coleman and John Beale as Quinn Williams, and with William
- 3:10Irish's great story Deadline at Dawn, we again hope to keep you in suspend.
- 3:38Until I met him, men were just pink dance tickets. To me.
- 3:43They were just two and a half cents worth of commission on the dime.
- 3:46Here's a feat that kept crowding mine. All over the map, all
- 3:50over the floor, all over the night. There were blank faces that could
- 3:54steer me anyway they wanted until they're five minutes were up. Because I was
- 4:00a New York taxi dancer until I met him, a girl from a small
- 4:04town, caught and held fast in the big city, with all her dreams
- 4:10forgotten and all her hopes gone, and not caring anymore, not caring at
- 4:16all until I met him. They always dimmed the lights for the last dance,
- 4:24just to make the customers feel sentimental about it all. At one in
- 4:29the morning, I was through again for the day. I put on my
- 4:32coat, go out the side door, walked past the sad sacks that thought
- 4:36they were wolves and loitered on the sidewalk, and then I begin the twenty
- 4:42blocks to home. Home was a filthy old brownstone down near the river,
- 4:48the long Smelace, an old army caught That was home. But at least
- 4:56it was a place where I could get out of my shoes and make some
- 4:59calls sleep to forget. I'd get home about one thirty. You left your
- 5:08door open, so I left my door open. It did you think that
- 5:14was an invitation to walk in. You better close it now. Hey,
- 5:16listen here, please, all right, you're a burglary. You won't find
- 5:27anything. The rats got here first. I am a burgley. Oh then
- 5:31you're a very smart one. What are you looking for? Coffee grounds?
- 5:35I wasn't looking for anything. Then, why don't you go? Please find
- 5:39a nice, rich old lady to rob. I need a place to stay
- 5:43for a while. I thought maybe you would let me. What stay here?
- 5:49I don't hand out favors. You're nothing to me, I know,
- 5:53just a hunch I head where you were looking at me. I thought I
- 5:58could come here for help. The way I was looking, I've never seen
- 6:02you before in my life. Well, you were looking straight at me at
- 6:06the dance hall about an hour ago. You mean you were at the Cinderella
- 6:10Ballroom tonight. Don't you remember me? No, that's funny, not funny
- 6:16at all. You all look the same to me, namely horrible. I
- 6:21guess it's my mistake. I was sure you seem so so nice, did
- 6:30I? Yeah, that's because I was thinking of home. I always do
- 6:33that on the job. Makes the night go faster. I guess I know
- 6:38what you mean. What'd you do? Follow me? No? The man
- 6:43at the door gave me your address for a dollar. Oh he did,
- 6:46did he? I wanted to get off the streets this time of night.
- 6:49The cops are curious. I thought I saw one of them following me,
- 6:53so I beat it down this hall to hide. That's when I found your
- 6:56door open, and take a good place for hiding. Nobody ever comes here
- 7:00but the landlady once a month. Please let me stay awhile? Please?
- 7:05What's your name? Quinn Williams? Quinn? Ye never heard that name before.
- 7:11It used to be my mother's before she got married. I see,
- 7:15what do you say? You want some coffee? Quinn? Thanks? Thanks?
- 7:23I get this straight. One cup of coffee and nothing more. No
- 7:27sugar goes with it. You give me one blink too many coffee? I
- 7:30understand a man can tell by looking at a girl whether she means one thing
- 7:35or another. Be surprised how many of them are to have an oppetition?
- 7:40I know. Give me a match for the oven. Here you are.
- 7:49I got the oven lit and reached down some cups and sauces and watched him.
- 7:55Not that I was worried. I wouldn't have closed the door if I
- 7:58hadn't thought I could handle him. It was only that he was so young
- 8:03and his face was so tight and strained. He'd been beat by the city.
- 8:11Must have been like taking candy away from a baby. And he trusted
- 8:15me because I'd smiled at him while I was dancing, and he thought that
- 8:20smile was for him. I wish it was all of a sudden because he
- 8:24was different. Coffee won't be long. I' sorry, I'm in no hurry.
- 8:33Pretty young for a burg Roger, doesn't take much training. Where'd you
- 8:37come from? And how did it happen? Oh? Come from a little
- 8:43town. It's nothing much, but I like him. I hick myself here
- 8:48from my place is Glenn Falls. I will what's yours? What's the matter?
- 8:54Nothing? Oh? I thought I said something wrong. Oh no,
- 8:58you said something right. It's crazy, a crazy coincidence. But I come
- 9:01from Glen Falls too, honest. That's that's amazing. You know it is?
- 9:07What street did you live on? And there's name Pine Street? The
- 9:09second house down between Pine and Oh when we're neighbors? What? I live
- 9:13just across the street from you? How is it we never met? I
- 9:18don't know. I came here five years ago. Oh, I've been here
- 9:20a year. You must have come to New York before we moved in.
- 9:24Sure, Wait a minute, Have you got a brother with a lot of
- 9:28freckles? Yeah, Journey, he's just a kid about eight. My sister
- 9:30has been writing to me about a new boyfriend, a boy named Williams.
- 9:33How perfect he is except for the freckles, And of course they're we are
- 9:35off. That's Journey. Ah, so you're the boy next door. Were
- 9:45we we'd probably have known each other very well. If you'd stayed home.
- 9:52I know I wish you had stay I do too. What's your name?
- 10:00Ruth Coleman. Everybody at home calls me Brickie. They started it because because
- 10:05of your hair, that's right. Do you have a feel that you want
- 10:09to go back every day? Zebus les New York every morning at six I
- 10:16know I've inquired. I've got the fair sewed up in my mattress. Have
- 10:22you go because my mother thinks I'm dancing in a Broadway show. Because I'd
- 10:28be too ashamed because it's so hard to go back. Yeah, would you
- 10:33want to go, Brickie? This morning? At six o'clock? You ought
- 10:37to go back? Hard? Going back alone? If someone could come with
- 10:41me. Would you come home to Quinny. You want to escape from the
- 10:48city, don't you just like me? You want to go back. We'll
- 10:52then come with me. If it's the fair you're worried about. I've got
- 10:54enough for both of us, including a good dinner in Chicago, anything for
- 10:58the boy next door, Quinn makes Brickie. It's too late. The police
- 11:01will be looking for me around eight o'clock this morning. Oh yeah, I
- 11:07forgot. How long have you been at very glad? About three hours?
- 11:16Three hours? And did it tonight for the first time, so you see
- 11:20breaking it's a little too late for me to go back. I've missed a
- 11:24bus three hours. Hop is ready, clean, good cream and sugar?
- 11:33No thanks, Black? Was it easy? Very easy? Why you do
- 11:48it? You'll do anything when you've gone for four days without eating. Oh
- 11:54but it's funny. After I'd done it, I went straight to the best
- 11:58restaurant in town. I looked at the menu and got ready to order everything
- 12:01on it. Two helpings of everything. Right. I couldn't eat it,
- 12:07so I got up and walked out. That's when I began to think cops
- 12:11were trailing me. I'm not used to being a robber. So you still
- 12:18got it all with you, twenty five hundred dollars in cash. Divide it
- 12:24up into small rolls in all my pockets. You want to see it,
- 12:28No neither do I. But it's there. I can feel it against my
- 12:35skin all over my body. Where did you get it? Quinn? I
- 12:41was working for an electrician about four months ago. One day I got a
- 12:43call to go to a big house on seventy first Street and put a fixture
- 12:48in the bathroom wall. I had to cut a big hole in the wall
- 12:50to do it. While I was doing that, I ran into woodin a
- 12:54wooden box in the wall. I did my work just beside it, and
- 13:00that box. That box was the back of a safe OH put into the
- 13:05wall of a study in the next room. The front of the safe was
- 13:09good, heavy steel. When they built it, nobody thought it could be
- 13:11broken into from the other side through the bathroom, and nobody ever would have
- 13:16either until an electrician ran into it one day by a mistake. But all
- 13:20this happened four months ago. You see, I'd brought more tools with me
- 13:26than I needed that day, and I left some of them in my bag
- 13:28downstairs on a little table near the front door. And when I got back
- 13:31to the shop, I found a key in the bag. I must have
- 13:35brushed it in while I was putting the tools back after finishing the job.
- 13:39It turned out to be a key to the front door. You didn't return
- 13:43it. I didn't. No, I meant to, but right then I
- 13:48forgot all about it. And when I did remember that I had the key,
- 13:52I was out of work, hungry and wanting money badly, so I
- 13:58went back there. It's an unbox. I opened that hole again, pulled
- 14:03the back of the safe out. I didn't bother with any of the papers
- 14:07or securities. I just took the cache. The house was empty. The
- 14:11man who lives there society fell up, by the name of Graves, was
- 14:15probably out on the town. So I just walked out the front door.
- 14:22Seems like ten years ago. It was only three hours. So this Graves
- 14:28man will see the hole in the morning when he goes in to take a
- 14:31shower. Then you'll call the police. It will be a quick trial.
- 14:35I'm a short one, but the sentence won't be so short. The boy
- 14:41next door, the boy you wave too when you come in or out of
- 14:45your gate. The grinning boy next door, friendly as a pun, Go
- 14:50back, Brickie. It's where you belong. It's the only kind of life
- 14:52for you. Come with me, Quinn. I've told you I can't.
- 14:56They've got a long arm. They'll find me, and I'd rather have him.
- 15:00I'm me here in the city. Have you still got the key,
- 15:03the key you went in with? Yeah? Why well if you can get
- 15:09back in before he comes home, just in and out long enough to put
- 15:13the money back. They won't come all the way to Iowa for you,
- 15:16just for chopping a hole in the wall if nothing's been taken. Don't you
- 15:20want to go home? At six o'clock this morning? If he's out on
- 15:24the town, he won't be home yet. At least that's what we'll pray
- 15:26for. We'll go together now. I'll wait outside for you, and then
- 15:31we'll go down of the term and buy our tickets and wait for the bus.
- 15:35We'll wait for dawn together, Quinn, you mean you do this for
- 15:39me? For the boy next door? Anytime anything. There was no time
- 15:48to lose. Graves might be coming home any minute. I ripped the money
- 15:52out of my mattress and we ran out of the cold, empty streets,
- 15:54just as a cab crows By. We piled into it and told him to
- 15:58take us to seventy first Street, and to take us fast. Everybody's always
- 16:04in a hurry. What's your hurry? The night's young, Yeah, have
- 16:08a mind the conversation, Joe drive. The customers always right. I just
- 16:18remember what. I can't pay for this cab unless I use some of our
- 16:22capital. I don't care what you use, Pal, just so it's money.
- 16:26Don't worry about it. You'll get paid. I'll pay him. We
- 16:30don't want to use any of our capital, not a single penny. It's
- 16:33all got to go back breaking when we get out of this, when we
- 16:36get back home, Oh, thank you. Then i'll find a way to
- 16:40thank you. Seventy free Street, any special number, No, Just let
- 16:45us out here on the corner. That's ninety cents, and I can break
- 16:55a fifty if I have to. Here's ninety cents, and here's a time
- 17:00have fun. Well, here we are. Where's the house across the street?
- 17:19Up a little you wait here, don't come any closer than this.
- 17:25I'll be back in no time. Don't be frightened, Brinkie, don't take
- 17:27any chances. Quinn. If you see any lights. If it looks as
- 17:30if he's gotten back already, don't go all the way in. Just drop
- 17:33the money inside the door, all right, Bricky, goodbye? Then goodbye,
- 17:37Quinn, hurry back. I waited for him there in the chilly night,
- 17:48on the dark empty street. Why I knew better. New Yorker taught
- 17:53me one thing, and that was never to be a sucker for a man.
- 17:57But then there was no man. This was the boy who lived across
- 18:03from the on Anderson Street in Glen Falls, Iowa. The boy had come
- 18:07here to do big things, to lick the town, and instead he'd been
- 18:11licked. Instead. He was hiding in the dog sneaking along the streets helpless,
- 18:19the boy next door. Then I suddenly crouched back into our doorway.
- 18:23A patrolman was coming on his tour of duty. He stopped near me,
- 18:27not ten yards away, but his back was to me, and his hand
- 18:33was opening a call box, Russian reporting in how's a rummy game? Gone?
- 18:44Another thing? Quiet at church? He finished his call, closed the
- 18:49box and went on down the street. Then he turned a corner and disappeared,
- 18:56and I breathed again. He'd been right, though it was quiet as
- 19:03a church and that was wrong because Quinn should have been back long ago.
- 19:14Ricky, what's the matter? Ricky? Tell me, Quinn? What is
- 19:17it? What is it? What are you frightened about? What happened in
- 19:18there? He's been killed, He's dead, he's lying in there, dead
- 19:22man who lives there? Yeah, mister great, why is it you?
- 19:27Quinn? Did you do it the first time you were in there? And
- 19:33I I swear I didn't, Ricky, I only took the money. He
- 19:37wasn't even there. He must have come back since I knew you didn't,
- 19:40Quinn. I knew even though I asked, go down to the terminal,
- 19:45get your ticket and climb on that bus and forget we ever met. Go
- 19:48on, Ricky, beat it before they find out, not without you.
- 19:52But don't you see now it's murder. They'll charge me with They'll find the
- 19:55bathroom, fix your tampered with the traces the electrician, then to me,
- 19:57and they'll they'll naturally think, don't you see it's too light, Breakie.
- 20:00It's never too late, don't you know that, Not until the last second
- 20:06of the last minute of the last star. What do you mean. We'll
- 20:08go back in there and see if we can figure it out. It's our
- 20:11only hope. We're fighting for our lives, Quinn, for our lives,
- 20:14and we have until six o'clock this morning to win our fight. All right,
- 20:18Champ, come on, And so very slowly we went together into the
- 20:26place where death was. The door closed on our backs, and we felt
- 20:32our way down a long and narrow hallway. He's upstairs. I don't want
- 20:37any lights on down here. You just hang on to my sleeve. I'll
- 20:40lead the way, all right. We went forward in a sort of swimming
- 20:45darkness that was almost liquid. It was so dense. I could feel the
- 20:48muscles in his arms shivering. But he was brave, not afraid. He
- 20:55was going into it, not running away from it. To the step.
- 20:57Here, a stair creaked under our weight. I wondered if there were anyone
- 21:03else in the house, anyone still alive, suppose someone had slept through the
- 21:08murder, would be awakened any moment by us. Okay, we were on
- 21:15the second floor. Now. I smell the aroma of leather and would work.
- 21:22I smell the last lingering trace of a cigar. I smelled powder,
- 21:27a harsh, deadly powder, and then I thought I saw, I thought,
- 21:33I smell something sweet, something very sweet. Here, Brickie. All
- 21:38right. They say you can't smell a recent death, but I could smell
- 21:45a stillness and a presence in it was more than just emptiness. Yet your
- 21:52eyes ready, Here go the light. The dead man lay in the middle
- 21:57of the study. His face was all out of focus. The lines that
- 22:02have been laugh lines were creases now. The mouth that had been either strong
- 22:07or weep was just a gap now, a place where the face was open.
- 22:11The eyes that had been either kindly or cruel were just glossy, lifeless
- 22:15insects. Now this was the dead man, and we'd come for his secret.
- 22:23This is it, Bricky, Yes, this is it? And now
- 22:30what do we do? Shouldn't we close? They seem to be watching.
- 22:37No, don't touch him. I don't know how to anyway. He's he's
- 22:44done a tuxedo. It couldn't have been home very long. Can you tell
- 22:49what it was done with? No, I'll have to done. Botanist,
- 22:52Jackie, all right, go ahead, there it is. Must have been
- 23:03a gun, Yeah, a bullet. It's round and frazzled. A knife
- 23:06would have made a slit. And we can be sure no one else was
- 23:07in the house, or they would have heard it go off, and the
- 23:10killer must have taken the gun away. There's no sign on one lying around,
- 23:11so he didn't do it himself. It can't be suicide. Right now,
- 23:18we'd better look in his pocket. Yes, I'll do it. You
- 23:22look the things over as I hand them to you, all right, Quinn.
- 23:25I'll start up here in the breast pocket. That's the highest pocket in
- 23:27anybody's suit. His handkerchief. Look, Quinn, the bullet went through this
- 23:36the way it folded, it just made one little hole. When you open
- 23:41it up, it makes three separate holes, like when you cut papers and
- 23:45make them into patterns. One on the left side's empty, the right hand
- 23:49pocket empty. Two Try inside the jacket, Ye, take out everything,
- 23:56no matter what it is. Right, cigarette case silver, Tiffany's three cigarettes
- 24:03in it, the wallet, two fives in a single. Two ticket stubs
- 24:10from tonight's show at the Blaskos see one hundred and twelve, one hundred and
- 24:14fourteen, So we know where he was from eight thirty to eleven. Anything
- 24:18else, business cards, Stafford Holmes, Inglesby, whoever they are. Oh
- 24:23on a snapshot girl in riding tags. Let's see that, yeah, it's
- 24:29the same ones in the silver frame over there on the desk to Stephen with
- 24:33love from Barbara. Then she didn't do it. If she had, she
- 24:37wouldn't be there on his desk anymore. Just the silver frame maybe, but
- 24:38not her anymore. That's common sense, all right, Let's go on.
- 24:42I had to lift him a little. Go ahead, left ray air in
- 24:49the trousers. Nothing right ray air, spare handkerchieon left side, nothing right
- 25:03side match folder, loose change, latch key. That's it. Not much
- 25:15help. Do we know what we're doing, Ricky? I don't know.
- 25:22Quinn a man who's a cigarette smoker, and we found that case in his
- 25:29pocket. Would he go in for cigars too? Maybe some people smoke boards,
- 25:33but but would he smoke two cigars alone by himself? Look, Quinn,
- 25:37two butts in this tray, yeah, and the trays between two chairs
- 25:41facing each other, one cigar and one not of the tray, the other
- 25:45one around on the other side from it. Two people, Quinn, two
- 25:49men, and they were having an argument. One of them was worked up
- 25:52about something. You see, this butt is smooth at the mouth end.
- 25:55And look at this one chow to ribbons, choot to a fringe. That
- 25:59tells it just which who was common, who was steamed up? And who
- 26:02was the other man with Graves? Oh, Quinn, wait a minute,
- 26:07here's something. What must have fallen out of his pocket? He was probably
- 26:10sitting on it. Fine, another book of matches and it just did another
- 26:15one. Graves had some on him. So this is the other man.
- 26:18And did he leave his name on it? No? But he was excited.
- 26:22Look how many matches he used up just on that one cigar. A
- 26:23folder could have been half used up before he began. Maybe take this What
- 26:27does it tell you? Tells me to cheo Dawson's gum? Not that cover
- 26:33inside? I don't know what are you driving here? Yeah? Take my
- 26:38matches. I'll tear one off. Let's strike it all right, okay,
- 26:45blow it out. You see what you did? No? You tore the
- 26:51match from the right hand side, didn't you. Yeah, that's what everybody
- 26:55does. They start on the outside on the right and work their way over
- 26:57to the left. But this fold was worked in reverse. Now do you
- 27:02see the man sitting in this chair facing Graves was left handed. I see
- 27:07we're making progress, are we, Quinn? Well, of course we are.
- 27:12We know this man was rattled about something that he whittled away fifteen matches
- 27:15to one cigar and then mangled it to ribbons between his teeth. That he
- 27:19was probably on bad terms with Graves, and that he's left handed. Fine,
- 27:23only you've missed something. Boy. The matches belonged to a woman.
- 27:29A woman. A woman chopped that cigar to pieces. Smell the folder.
- 27:34What do you get? Soft of the way matches? Always give that a
- 27:37minute to clear away. That's the stronger of the two. Are tops the
- 27:40other? Now, okay, fume, isn't it. Yeah? It's been
- 27:48carried around all day in a handbag, a handbag that stinks up the fume.
- 27:52I noticed it in the dark when we were coming in. There's been
- 27:55a woman in this room tonight. Well, that gives us two of them,
- 27:57a man and a woman, and they weren't here together. There are
- 28:02only two chairs, one for Graves and the other one for each of his
- 28:04business. Who was the last to go the man of the woman, I
- 28:07don't know, but we're started. Look where we've dug up in half an
- 28:11hour, two unidentified people in the biggest city in the world. You're right,
- 28:18it's no use. Oh even so, we can't give up. It's
- 28:22no use. And what's more, I'm yellow, Bricky. Let's give it
- 28:27up. You're not yellow, Quinn, or I wouldn't be up here in
- 28:30this room with you. I'd better tell you this well I can, Bricky
- 28:34what I love you. It's three o'clock, Quinn, and we have till
- 28:45six three hours. Bricky, save it, Quinn. Save it for the
- 28:52bus when we're on our way home. All right. I don't know what
- 28:59to do next to you? No, I don't. What's that? In
- 29:15tonight's full Hour of Suspense, Helen Walker and John Beale co star in Deadline
- 29:21at Dawn by William Irish, Tonight's study in suspense, Just a Moment,
- 29:33We will return with Act two of Suspense. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting
- 29:38System and now back to our Hollywood sound stage and Act two of Deadline at
- 29:45Dawn, co starring Miss Helen Walker as Brickie Coleman and mister John Beale as
- 29:49Quinn Williams in radio's outstanding theater of thrills Suspense, All the emotions of a
- 30:07lifetime have been crowded into one night for a Brickie Coleman and Quinn Williams and
- 30:12Dawn is a fast approaching deadline which they must meet. The bus which will
- 30:17take them to home in safety, seems remote and unattainable as they stand now
- 30:22over the body of a dead man in the quiet apartment, knowing that they
- 30:26must find his murderer or stand incriminated for the crime themselves, And suddenly a
- 30:33terrifying sound comes to them. What is it, Bricky? What is this?
- 30:38Sounds like a burglar or the front door bill. Mammy, Wait a
- 30:41minute, there's a box over there against the wall. Follow the cord.
- 30:45It's in his desk, in the drawer. What shall we do, well,
- 30:52answer, I'll be careful. You'll have the police here. You'll know
- 30:55us. Not his voice. I'll talk lore, I'll pretend i'm him.
- 30:57Say a prayer, Brickie, Hello, darling, this is Barbara. I
- 31:07had to speak to you. We've never potted angry like this before. I
- 31:11know. Maybe if we hadn't gone there to that Parricae place, it wouldn't
- 31:15have happened. No, who was she, the tall red head and the
- 31:19light green dress. I don't know you told me that before? Then?
- 31:26Why did you slip a note into your hand? I saw a dot you
- 31:29know? Did you? And then you couldn't wait to see me to my
- 31:32door and get me off your hands? What happens, Steve? Did this
- 31:36woman come by to see you afterwards? Is that why you wanted to get
- 31:40rid of me? No, Barbara, Steve, you sounds so far away?
- 31:47Is it the telephone or is it you? Poor connection? Sounds so
- 31:52cagy is if someone were there? Now? Can't you talk louder? I'm
- 31:57sorry? What's going on there? Isn't it? It's just catching on.
- 32:02I'm take your hand away from the mouthpiece and turn it my way, Sugar.
- 32:07Come on, I'm getting tired of waiting. How much long are you
- 32:10going to stand there talking? I'm sorry, Stephen, forgive me. I
- 32:19didn't know. You can hang up now. I feel like a heel.
- 32:27We'll stop it. We don't have time, Paracay. That's a nightclub,
- 32:30isn't it. Yes, I'm fifty four street. A woman slipped him a
- 32:34note, quinn, Oh woman, could be Do you think he tore it
- 32:36up? Or maybe not? Maybe he wanted to have a good look at
- 32:37it when he got home alone. Let's look again. Well, I went
- 32:40through those pockets pretty carefully. I'm sure it's not that you might have missed
- 32:44something, Quinn, turning him over again. All right, nothing, nothing
- 32:55at all. Shall we go through the desk. Wait a minute, boy,
- 33:00run your eyes over him again. I don't see a thing. He's
- 33:06very well dressed. And yet isn't that a hole in the heel of his
- 33:10sock? They're just showing over the shoe. That's funny. Take his shoe
- 33:19off, Quinn. Okay, the note. Of course, he didn't want
- 33:27Baba to see it, so he hid it here until he could be alone
- 33:30alone to go on, mister Graves, I'd like to speak to you in
- 33:38private after you've taken the young lady home. And I don't mean some other
- 33:44time, I mean tonight. I wouldn't want to be disappointed. And so
- 33:51it isn't sign a woman of the matches. Sounds like a shakedown, I
- 33:55mean blackmail. That's right. He'd have to pay attention to a note like
- 33:58this. And we're going night clubbing, my boy. We'll visit the paraquet.
- 34:01It'll be closing by now. She must have been seen there, a
- 34:04tall redhead in a light green dress. We'll check with the people who work
- 34:07there. They'll still be around waiters, checkroom girl, washroom attendant. We'll
- 34:09find her. Oh, we will trace her. If I have to go
- 34:13over the hair brushes in the dressing room one by one for stray red hair.
- 34:16M kill the lights. I'll be right with you. Hey, don't
- 34:17forget the switch, the one over the sink in the bathroom. Come on,
- 34:22Quinn times running out in a minute? Is anything wrong? I don't
- 34:30know. Look what I found, right? It's a check, yeah,
- 34:37made out to Stephen Graves for twelve thousand dollars, signed by Arthur Holme.
- 34:43And look I stamped returned, No fun? Who did you find it in
- 34:46the dry bottom of the tub? How did ever get there? Just one
- 34:51way? When I came here tonight the first time I did it. Why
- 34:55don't you see when I pulled the cash box out and opened it, the
- 34:59check must have slipped into the tub without my noticing it. And unless fellow
- 35:02Holmes game, our jittery cigar smoker, maybe to ask Graves not to prosecute
- 35:07on a bad check, to stall for time. Graves went to find the
- 35:13check, and he couldn't because it was on the other side of the wall
- 35:16in his bathtub, and Holmes thought he was trying to put something over on
- 35:20him, and you think Holmes shot him, killed him for twelve thousand dollars.
- 35:27It's been done before. And what about our redhead Brickie. It's the
- 35:30man, it's got to be. I think it's the woman. We'll have
- 35:35to split up. No, let's do it together the way we start.
- 35:37It's too late. We can't follow them one at a time. Our deadlines
- 35:40at don Quinn, and we've got less than three hours. Bus to glen
- 35:44Falls, the last bus. Remember that it's the last bus for you and
- 35:51for me too. Then we will be saying goodbye Bricky, Yes, Quinn,
- 35:58goodbye till on. We went down into the empty streets without talking to
- 36:10other, each of each other again, and I went one way and Quinn
- 36:14went the other. In ten minutes we were blocks apart, maybe miles,
- 36:19but it seemed to me that I was still at his side, still with
- 36:22him. As he finally found an all night drug store and went back into
- 36:25a booth. I knew he'd dial all the alpha holmes is in the book
- 36:30and talked to a lot of angry, sleepy people, and then he'd find
- 36:35the right one. The alpha homes we wanted. What would Quinn do then
- 36:40what would he say? What would happen? Hello? Yeah, is this
- 36:55mister Arthur Holmes? Welmas Holmes. You don't know me that wants to speak
- 37:01to mister Holmes. The name isn't known to you, mister Holmes. But
- 37:06what makes you think this is mister Holmes? And are you aware that it's
- 37:08almost four o'clock in the morning. What do you want? I have a
- 37:13check here that belongs to mister Holmes. Will you let me talk to him?
- 37:17You're speaking to him. It's made out to Stephen Graves and I have
- 37:22it right here in my hand. Where did you find it? I found
- 37:24it on the seat of a taxi. It must have slipped out of someone's
- 37:27wallet. Who was with you when you found it? No one? Just
- 37:30me by myself. Whom did you show it to afterwards? No one?
- 37:36Who's with you now? No one, I swear. And you called because
- 37:39you thought I might want it back. That's right, I'm sorry he tied
- 37:45it up. Nickel? Please shall I hang up? Mister Holmes? Put
- 37:50in another nickel? Tell me what's your name? Quinn Williams? Tell me
- 37:58something about yourself you do Are you a married man? No? I'm single.
- 38:04I live by myself, not even a roommate, nobody, strictly lone
- 38:07wolf. I'd like to see that check Quinn. Maybe I can do something
- 38:10for you fair enough as a little bar called Owens down on fifty first.
- 38:15You know it, I know where it is. Can you take me about
- 38:17fifteen minutes to get dressed and get down there? He is? Fifteen minutes?
- 38:21Good for you? Just fine, mister Holmes. I'll see you there.
- 38:25You're a cagey boy, mister Holmes. But you swallowed yeah over here
- 38:43in the boot. Good evening, mister Holmes, Good evening. Sit down,
- 38:49watch you, yeah, I will. You're right on time? Sure,
- 38:55so are you? As a drink for you? I had water?
- 38:59Here is why i'd be allowed to stay in here. It's past closing time.
- 39:02Thanks. What's the matter, son? Nothing, it'd just be funny.
- 39:10That's all funny and kind of corny. If you'd slipped a little something
- 39:15into this take mine then I haven't put it to my mouth yet. I
- 39:22think I will bottoms up, bottoms up my cars around the corner. Would
- 39:34you rather talk about it there? Yeah? I would. I think we
- 39:37ought to be alone. It's easy, son, we can be alone.
- 39:54That's enough. Driving pull up. I just thought we'd coast a bit.
- 39:59If we can't say, talking at the curve at this hour, we'll have
- 40:00a cop done on us, sticking his nose into the car. And what's
- 40:05wrong with that? I don't know, do you? I was asking you,
- 40:10however, if you want to pull up the East River, a mighty
- 40:22mysterious place at this time of day. You're pretty close to the edge,
- 40:25ain't you. The wheels are blocked. You're not nervous, are you?
- 40:31No? I'm not now about that check. I didn't find that check in
- 40:37a cab, mister Holmes. I found it in stephen graves house, where
- 40:44he's lying right now on the floor dead. Stephen dead, and your cigar
- 40:50is still in the room with him, chewed to a pop a corona like
- 40:53the one you're smoking right now. You should have taken it with you,
- 40:57mister Holmes, after you'd killed him. You seem to know a good deal
- 41:02about this, a little, just enough to know who the killer is.
- 41:07I feel a little sorry for you. I didn't know you were as young
- 41:14as you are. Over the phone. What about what I got to do
- 41:21with it? You're having a lot of trouble with your eyes aren't you.
- 41:24Lights on the dashboard have got rings around them, haven't they like big soap
- 41:29bubbles? What are you talking about? Say you talked too much. You've
- 41:35talked yourself into the grave. I would have believed you about finding that check
- 41:39in a taxi. You would have gone to sleep in the card. When
- 41:43you woke up, you wouldn't have the check on you anymore, but you'd
- 41:46have had a ten down a bill in your pocket. Too, sugarcoat the
- 41:50experience head weighs too much? Doesn't it too heavy for your neck? My
- 41:55head? You should have stuck to your own drink. Son, You were
- 42:00suspicious, but not suspicious enough. You took the wrong glass. Me.
- 42:07I'm a chess player. You know what chess is. It's figuring out your
- 42:13opponent's moved before he makes it a funny thing. Wear my head. I
- 42:21a solid rock. You're going to sleep here in the car, Then you're
- 42:27going into the river without a mark on you. But I'll take the check
- 42:30before I dump you. It's probably in your shoe. It's about where your
- 42:35type of youngster would think was a clever hiding place for it. Just clear
- 42:39my head, kicking trying to kick out the glass you haven't the strength of
- 42:51a kick left in you. No, it's all over. That's water in
- 42:58front of us, that even black line you see right over the hubcat.
- 43:05I can't even move, can't you. That's right. Make a lazy pass
- 43:10with your hand, like your brushing away flies. That's about all you're able
- 43:15to do. In a minute. You won't even be able to do that.
- 43:22There, go your eyes down, down. You won't get he won't
- 43:31get away with this. Mister Ricky knows there are two of us, not
- 43:38just one. And so I walked away from Quinn and I was alone again.
- 43:54I'd met him only a few hours before, and with him, i'd
- 43:58met my past, my home, and everything I loved and wanted. And
- 44:05now I was alone again, somewhere in this sleeping city. Quinn was after
- 44:09his man, and I was after my woman, my redhead, my long
- 44:16stemmed American beauty. The nightclub Parriquet was dead, dead, but not quite
- 44:23cold, just in the process of giving up the ghost. Every other minute,
- 44:30a solitary figure would come out and walk away, someone who earned a
- 44:34living inside. This was the five o'clock in the afternoon of the nightclub workers,
- 44:39whose clock goes in the opposite direction to that of the rest of the
- 44:42world. And what did I have to go on? A redhead blackmailer who
- 44:49had quickly scribbled a note to a man. And that kind of woman doesn't
- 44:52ordinarily carry around pencil and paper in her purse. She sends messages with her
- 44:58eyes and her hips. If she wants a pencil, she's got to borrow
- 45:02it from the help. Excuse me, huh, what's the matter? You
- 45:08work here, don't you. I'm in a check room till something better turns
- 45:12up. Why well, I wondered. Did my friend in a light green
- 45:15dress, a redhead? Did she borrow a pencil from you? Tonight?
- 45:17It works the other way around, Honey. The men take out their pencils
- 45:21and give me names and addresses and telephone numbers. I got a fist,
- 45:23didn't a woman. It's no dice, honey. I don't even see any
- 45:27women in my scall. Oh, another long day. My feet swell up
- 45:36all the time. You want to drying up some salts water as hot as
- 45:38you can stand. Excuse me, Wow, my name's Jerry, but don't
- 45:44let the name stand in your way. I'm looking for my friend. A
- 45:46redhead in a light green dress. Did she borrow a pencil from you tonight,
- 45:51not at my end of the bar, how about it, Frank ye
- 45:52sure, Joan Bessett about midnight. She's always borrowing something and forgetting to give
- 45:59it back. How that girl think it? That's the way Joanie is?
- 46:01Do you do you know where I can find her? Try to concorde.
- 46:07That was the last address, which she's probably moved by now, thanks fellas.
- 46:12Oh, can't I do anything for you another time? Jerry? Okay,
- 46:15that's a promise another time? What can I do for you? Be
- 46:30friendly? Pops say hello? You know that's better? What do you want
- 46:34a room? Pull up brows? My girlfriend got I want to r up
- 46:37and tell us something, you know, Joanie Joan Bassett, Yeah, Joan
- 46:42Bassett. Only we don't have to be so formal. She's didn't fur ownin
- 46:45Wait a minute out train skip that she don't have to put on no airs
- 46:47with me? Who's she kidding? I know she's two weeks behind no rant.
- 46:51All right? If you know that? Well, going up? What
- 47:12do you want you? I want to talk to you? Yeah, I'm
- 47:16just stand out there a minute and tell me what about we got a friend
- 47:20in common? You and I it's possible. Go on. This friend's name
- 47:24is Stephen Graves. Suppose you come in a minute. I'll hear what's on
- 47:30your mind. Sure, I thought that might do it. Do you have
- 47:37to lock the door? Yeah? I think I do. Whatever you think
- 47:39best, begin with your name. You can put me down as Caroline Miller.
- 47:45All right, Carolin Miller. Now about Stephen Graves. What makes you
- 47:50think I know him? Stop being polite? You know him? He mentioned
- 47:52me to you. No, he wasn't doing any mentioning of anybody. He
- 47:58wasn't doing anything. Been over to see him lately, very lately. I
- 48:04just came from there. Now, how did you find him? I found
- 48:08him dead. See that tap in the kitchen is loose again. Excuse me
- 48:17a minute. While I t I'd known we weren't alone the moment I came
- 48:24into that room, and I knew that faucet in the kitchen was a signal
- 48:28for a quick conference. It was my chance. Maybe I had a minute,
- 48:31maybe only thirty seconds. There was only time for one thing. The
- 48:35open handbag on the dresser. Nothing there XTI powder, usual junk, and
- 48:42then an unpaid hotel bill for seventeen dollars and eighty nine cents from this place
- 48:45the conquered, no good, worthless, and my time was up. Yet
- 48:50something screamed at me to hold on to it, to slip it inside my
- 48:52stocking, high up, and to get back into my chair. Wow that's
- 49:00done. Now. Where were we with Stephen Graves? Oh? Yeah,
- 49:06you go up there alone? Or do you have somebody with you alone?
- 49:09I don't take my grandmother with me when I'm visiting. I see somebody stopping
- 49:14at the door and tell you that I found out. Cops and people hanging
- 49:16around, lots of excite. No one knows it. I found him alone.
- 49:21I had a key to the house that he'd given me. I went
- 49:23up and there he was dead. What'd you do? Holler bloody murder and
- 49:28bring everyone down the place. I got out of there fast and quiet.
- 49:30I don't want to be mixed up in it, smart girl, And all
- 49:36this happened just a little while ago. Yeah, nobody knows yet, but
- 49:38you me and you did you come here alone? All alone? Everything I
- 49:45do I do alone. I guess I've hit the jackpot. Yeah you're sure,
- 49:51head baby, You've hit it hard. Make it tight grip so she
- 49:55can't make any noise. Don't worry about that. Well, miss Carol and
- 50:00Meller, you're in trouble now, you tell me so. Stephen Graves is
- 50:02dead and you felt a little nosy about it. Huh. You're wanted the
- 50:06details, all right? You can have him. You seemed to have known
- 50:09him pretty well. Maybe he told you did he did? He tell you
- 50:13about his kid brother who married a tavern hostess back in Boston. They tell
- 50:16you what that did, the fine old family name. When this girl again
- 50:19asking for money, when she came to New York and again asking Stephen for
- 50:22money, he'd tell you that he paid and paid, and finally decided to
- 50:25stop paying. So this girl and a friend had to pay him a little
- 50:29visit tonight. I'd try to persuade him. Did you tell you that?
- 50:34I tell you what happened when he couldn't be persuaded. Yeah, No,
- 50:39he didn't tell you that because he wasn't talking by then. Then he was
- 50:45dead. That's enough. You want to spend the night at it? All?
- 50:47Right? Well, what's the plane now? Don't you figure we are
- 50:52not here in the room that's begging for it. You don't understand, I
- 50:55don't mean chop chop, that kind of stuff. I mean, four flank
- 50:59step. I ought to be enough. Three of us get to drink in
- 51:01a piece. She goes over to the window, trying to open it for
- 51:04a little air and jams, so she's well, there's always a follow up.
- 51:08It's a little messy. Let me take care. Yeah, like it
- 51:10took care of the other. And I told you just to throw a scare
- 51:14into him. Say come across a well, sound scarier through at him,
- 51:17Griffin. Yeah, I scared him right out of his skin, right out
- 51:21of his heart. I don't want you to be so impulsive this time.
- 51:22Well, the less blow stuffer in the closet backs up against the dead wall,
- 51:27so she'll never bear. It'll be days before they get around the bust
- 51:30in the door down. Yeah, we'll be far away by there, Yeah,
- 51:32far away. Okay, I can pack in ten minutes. Less,
- 51:35I'll give you a hand. Wait a minute, I'm missing that hotel bill.
- 51:39It must have fallen, so we're not don't worry about that. He
- 51:42can make up a no one for you down at the desk. Shall we
- 51:45get her out of the way fast? Yeah, Han, Carol and Miller
- 51:51in the closet take a comfortable griff. Sure, we want to be extra
- 51:57nice to her because there's a little fresh air. Yeah, I only be
- 52:00a minute with it down. Put her down quick. I ought to have
- 52:05my head examine. Mean you slept on something? Yeah, forgot, We
- 52:08both clean forgot? What was it? Kept her off to me? She
- 52:12didn't pull my name and address out of my hat. Yeah, gag off
- 52:15her. You try to scream and I'll dent you. I won't scream,
- 52:21no talk. How'd you know I knew him? How'd you know where to
- 52:24find me? Left you heaven and I'm gonna keep letting you heaven to answer.
- 52:30You dropped your hotel bill over there? I found it lying in the
- 52:35room with him. I ought to slap you down to the sociothy you left
- 52:38your calun contest, which you know she's lying. I swear I thought my
- 52:40hand bag after I got bad? Did you take it out to shaw man?
- 52:44Sw me? Did you sure while you were waiting downstairs? It was
- 52:47part of the build up to shaw them? How bad? I needed money?
- 52:50But I know I put it back again, thank you. Oh,
- 52:53I'm almost positive it fell out. It was for seventeen dollars and eighty nine
- 52:59cents. It had passed. You stamped on it in purple ink. It
- 53:04even had your room number on it. How what did you do with it?
- 53:06Did you bring it with you? I left it where it was.
- 53:09I was afraid to touch anything. We'll have to go back and get it,
- 53:15all right, we will, We'll take her with us. It looked
- 53:20like she did it to him. What do you want to do in the
- 53:22first place, Griff, We do it over there. If my double head
- 53:27had a figure out, it's the only way robot this detour by finishing her
- 53:31off where she started from. All right, come on, Carol and Miller,
- 53:37they are going for a little ride. And so I went back into
- 53:51stephen Graves House for the second time that night. They pushed me ahead of
- 53:55them in the darkness, whispering to each other not to use any lights.
- 54:00It just as Quinn and I had done a few hours before, or was
- 54:05it a few years before. Then we were in the study and the lights
- 54:09were snapped on, and the dead man was still on the floor, and
- 54:15nobody stepped forward to say, Ricky, is that you No, he wasn't
- 54:22there, Quinn wasn't there waiting to help me, to save me. And
- 54:29let's do what we have to do and get out. First, No,
- 54:31not yet, something else first? Well you where is it? Where's that
- 54:40hotel bill? Where you say your thought? Over there by him? Is
- 54:45where I said? And you believed me? And you did? You lied?
- 54:53I lied? Where is it? Where you got it? That's that's
- 54:59your a little problem. Let me have the gun here he's Griff, Get
- 55:05away from him, move over, stand still, caroling, minute and want
- 55:09to come real clothes. I want them to worry about whether it's so.
- 55:15Sign yes, Griff, I'll stand still, good girl, Carol, good
- 55:24girl. It didn't hurt. It didn't hurt at all. And I opened
- 55:34my eyes to find out why. Griff stood in the middle of the room,
- 55:37his face contorted, an arm squeezing hard around his neck, and behind
- 55:40his face was another face, a face I knew Quinn's face, the boy
- 55:45next door, fighting for me, fighting to save me. Then Quinn went
- 55:49down, all lopsided, and Quinn was on top, punching at him again
- 55:52and again, and John was racing across the room with an end I and
- 55:54raising her hand. I never played football as a little girl, but on
- 55:58this night I decided it was time to try. Ricky Ricky Darling Quinn Are
- 56:21you all right? Somebody's bringing church bells in my head. Oh you knocked
- 56:27yourself out with a flying tackle, Quinn, Quinn, what happened? I
- 56:30think? Oh? Yeah, they're both asleep, Ricky, as sounds can
- 56:37be. All right. See you've wrapped them up nicely. I had to
- 56:43tear up a few good sheets to do it. But I don't think mister
- 56:45Graves would have minded. I'd given up, Quinn. I thought i'd beat
- 56:50you back here, and I'd given up, Ricky. I saw them coming
- 56:58in with you outside on the street. I was watching from one of the
- 57:00front windows, and something about the way you were walking between them sort of
- 57:04stiff told me they had a gun on you. So I backed up into
- 57:07the bathroom and laid low. Yeah, the ones, Queenn, they did
- 57:10it, and we can go now. It's a quarter to six. We
- 57:15can catch that bus for home. There's one more thing to be done,
- 57:17Ricky. I'll only take a minute, and then you and I aren't going
- 57:24to have any more to worry about. It. Is this a police I
- 57:31want to report a murder Queen Stephen Graves in his home on East seventy first
- 57:37Street. There are two people tied up in the same room with the body,
- 57:40and they're the killers. You'll find a special delivery letter in the desk
- 57:44from Graves's younger brother, and that'll tell you the reason for the killing.
- 57:49What. No, this isn't any rib I wish you was me, just
- 57:57a guy who happened to be passing by. We can take their car.
- 58:00He left his keys in it. Come on, Quinn, hurry will make
- 58:17it. Don't you worry, Brickie. I'm not worried. I know we
- 58:21will. What happened to you tonight? Did you find Holmes? Yeah,
- 58:27and he tried to kill me. Quinn. It was your name that saved
- 58:30me, Brickie, and call out your name and told him you were in
- 58:35on this with me, and he changed his mind in a hurry, and
- 58:38we saved each other. That's right. What about the check? Cut at
- 58:44it figure? Holmes was caught short when he wrote that check, and Graves
- 58:47got sold and the bank returned it. They talked it over tonight and it
- 58:51ended up with Graves giving him another day to raise the money. The reason
- 58:54Holmes was legitty was that the check seemed to have disappeared. You didn't know
- 58:59what Graves might be pulling, and of course, Graves wasn't pulling anything.
- 59:01That Jack lying in the bottom of his bathtub. You told Holmes how it
- 59:06got there. Yeah, and look what I've got two hundred dollars, Quinn.
- 59:15Oh, I didn't steal it. After he decided he wouldn't kill me.
- 59:19Holmes and I ain't got very chummy, he said. We both made
- 59:22a mistake in the same night, knee breaking into a safe and him with
- 59:27his bad check. He slipped me appeal earlier in the evening, and now
- 59:30he was walking me around and sober me up. That's when he gave me
- 59:35the money, a nest egg for me. He said I could send it
- 59:38back to him a little at a time. Later on, we'll send it
- 59:42back. Quinn. We've Bricky. We're in this together, aren't we.
- 59:47Yes, Bricky, we are. Look, Quinn, we made it.
- 59:52We're in time. The bus is still there. Come on, Bricky,
- 59:55let's go on home. Thank you Helen Walker and John Beale for your truly
- 1:00:25wonderful performances as Bricky and Quinn, And to Lillian Bayer, Frye Billsbury,
- 1:00:31Edith Tackner, Buddy Gray and Bill Johnstone, thanks for your splendid support with
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- 1:01:02be seen in Paramount's Abigail Dear Heart. Deadline of Dawn by William Irish was
- 1:01:07adapted for radio by Irving Ravitch and was produced and directed by Anton M.
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- 1:01:39Well. I love the story the way it was acted. Certainly it was
- 1:01:46the type of thing that with people moving to the cities, could spake too,
- 1:01:52perhaps that longing for home, for the for the quiet peace of the
- 1:02:02towns where people came from. So I think this would resonate with a lot
- 1:02:06of audiences, and certainly if you're from a small town, I can't help
- 1:02:10but think that this has some residence. I know it does for me because
- 1:02:15I always have this sort of feeling when I hear of somebody being from or
- 1:02:21in a Galluspell up in a northwest Montana. It's it's a special sort of
- 1:02:27feeling of home, you know. And it captured that managed to keep a
- 1:02:31good solid story going along with this sort of emotional romantic angle that was offered
- 1:02:42here. As they've hinted at the end, it didn't come quite out and
- 1:02:46say that they suspense would revert back to the one half hour format, which
- 1:02:52it held for all but really half a season of its run. But these
- 1:02:57I love these one hour stories that are incredibly involved, and I think we've
- 1:03:00got more than a few left with some very interesting stars. This one,
- 1:03:07in terms of its star power, is usually is a little less than the
- 1:03:12one hour suspense. Usually they tried to go all out with the guest star,
- 1:03:15but this was actually a couple of interesting actors. John Bill, who
- 1:03:22they mentioned here, was a long time character actor whose last movie credit will
- 1:03:34be in the nineteen ninety three film The firm had more than forty five years
- 1:03:38of acting ahead of him. Helen Walker meanwhile a somewhat of a tragic story
- 1:03:44as the top build actress. In this one, she had picked up three
- 1:03:49soldiers, gotten into a car accident where one of the soldiers died and the
- 1:03:53other two said she'd been drinking and speeding, and this led to actually a
- 1:03:58manslaughter try for her. But with what had happened, it really soured the
- 1:04:03public on her, and according to IMDb, although she was acquitted of criminal
- 1:04:10charges, many fans turned against her. Major studios were hesitant to hire her.
- 1:04:15She tried to adapt by portraying ruthless and manipulative women in dark murder mysteries,
- 1:04:20in which she again showed great talent. She performed with great applaum and
- 1:04:24nightmare Alley the gritty urban police drama called North Signe seven seven an impact,
- 1:04:30an unconventional murder drama that featured a fatal automobile accident. Her character helped cause,
- 1:04:36but she could not overcome the stigma of the veteran's death. I don't
- 1:04:44know. It may have been that all of her roles reminded people of it.
- 1:04:46That I think could have been a problem. But really she was very
- 1:04:54talented and tragically her career cut short by the whole thing, and she up
- 1:05:00dying much earlier in nineteen sixty eight than Bale, even though she was eleven
- 1:05:05years younger than Bill, So you kind of had two careers headed in different
- 1:05:10directions, all right. Well, though, that will actually do it for
- 1:05:16today. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. We will be back on Monday
- 1:05:24with the adventures of Frank Race in the meantimes. Andrew Commas to box thirteen
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- 1:05:31call us to a eight not nine one four seven eighth three from Boise,
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