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Suspense - "Portrait Without a Face" (Old Time Radio, 1944) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: March 2nd, 1944, marked a CBS broadcast of Suspense, Episode 2,
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  Speaker 1: Portrait Without a Face. The story takes us to a
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  Speaker 1: French art gallery where Colette, a refugee connected with the resistance,
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  Speaker 1: is drawn to a painting by Paul Deagle, a man
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  Speaker 1: once close to her. As wartime loyalties, political suspicion, and
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  Speaker 1: personal motives gather around the gallery, the portrait may carry
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of the past. Michelle Morgan stars as Colette, with
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  Speaker 1: Philip Dorn as Deagle, and George Koulouris as Charles Gavineau.
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  Speaker 1: The script is by Corporal Louis Pelletier. Roma Wines was
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  Speaker 1: the sponsor. And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Roma Wines presents Suspense!
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  Speaker 4: Salud.
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  Speaker 6: Wine Company of Fresno, California, to introduce this weekly half
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  Speaker 6: hour of Suspense. Tonight from Hollywood, Roma Wines bring you
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  Speaker 6: Miss Michelle Morgan, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Philip Dorn, and Mr.
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  Speaker 6: George Koulouris in a suspense play dealing with a painting
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  Speaker 6: of a beautiful woman and with a lover and a
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  Speaker 6: husband and with an assassination for which only the death
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  Speaker 6: of one of these three could atone. And so with
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  Speaker 6: Portrait Without a Face and with the performances of Michelle
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  Speaker 6: Morgan as Colette, of Philip Dorn as the artist Paul DeGelle,
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  Speaker 6: and of George Koulouris as Charles Gaveau, We.
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  Speaker 5: Again hope to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 6: It was just twilight as she came out of the
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  Speaker 6: cathedral on Fifth Avenue and stood for a moment on
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  Speaker 6: the north steps. She looked across 51st Street at the
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  Speaker 6: discreet gray building with a discreet bronze sign saying, Furnay
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  Speaker 6: Gallery of Modern Art. A richly dressed couple came out
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  Speaker 6: of the gallery, and the doorman called a taxi. Surely
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  Speaker 6: it was safe now. The crowds must be gone. She
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  Speaker 6: hurried across the street.
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  Speaker 4: Good evening. The gallery's still open for a few minutes,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm sorry, miss. It's just closing up now.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you can't be. I've come all the way from Boston,
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  Speaker 4: and I.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm sorry, miss.
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  Speaker 7: We're half an hour past close, and now we open
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  Speaker 7: again at 11 tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: 11? But I can't possibly wait over... Do you think
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  Speaker 4: $ 5 would... No, miss. I could even go as high
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  Speaker 4: as ten.
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  Speaker 6: No, miss.
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  Speaker 4: I could even go as high as... No, miss. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: but there's a picture on exhibit that I must see.
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  Speaker 4: I'd stay only a moment. I must see it, really.
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  Speaker 5: It's called.
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  Speaker 7: I know, miss. It's called Portrait Without a Face. Half
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  Speaker 7: of New York was in to see it today, and
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  Speaker 7: the other half will be in tomorrow. And if you'll
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  Speaker 7: excuse me now.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a moment, please. Have... Have you seen the picture?
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  Speaker 6: Me?
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  Speaker 4: Me?
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  Speaker 5: What did I be doing looking at pictures? Waste of time.
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  Speaker 7: But I can tell you this. Sure got people talking.
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  Speaker 7: One of those critics was in here this morning and you.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on, miss.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe you can't go in after all. You see that
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  Speaker 7: man coming down from Madison Avenue? That's Paul DeGelle, the
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  Speaker 7: artist who painted the picture. Maybe if you would ask him... DeGelle?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: No, thank you. I've changed my mind. I'll come back
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  Speaker 4: some other time. Taxi! Taxi!
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  Speaker 8: Taxi!
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  Speaker 5: Some women like to drive you crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Evening, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: DeGelle.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, John. How are you? Thank you, fine. Is the
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  Speaker 5: exhibit driving people away? That woman seemed to be in
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  Speaker 5: an awful hurry.
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  Speaker 7: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: She was trying to get in, sir.
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  Speaker 7: In fact, she offered me five dollars if I... She
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  Speaker 7: offered me five dollars if I'd let her in, and
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  Speaker 7: then she raised it to ten.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, wait. She offered you money? Did she want to
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  Speaker 5: see portrait without a face? That and nothing else, sir.
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  Speaker 5: She was pretty insistent about it, too. She must have
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  Speaker 5: known about your work in France, Mr. DeGelle. Had quite
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  Speaker 5: a foreign accent. Foreign accent, you said. John, is Mr. Furnier? Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 5: he is. He's in the back.
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  Speaker 4: There's some men with him.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 5: I want to see those men. I want to see
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  Speaker 5: them immediately.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Give me Paul.
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  Speaker 5: Gentlemen. The woman we were looking for was here tonight. Really?
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  Speaker 4: Paul.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm sure of it. I missed her only by
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  Speaker 5: a moment. With every brush stroke I made on this canvas,
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  Speaker 5: I knew I was bringing her into our hands. I
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  Speaker 5: knew she would have to see that portrait. She had
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  Speaker 5: to know how much I knew. I know, gentlemen, she
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  Speaker 5: will be back. Paul? Yes, Henry? Henry? Will you still
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  Speaker 5: have the courage to finish the job when the time comes?
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  Speaker 5: When the time comes, I'll kill with as little conscience
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  Speaker 5: as I would shoot down the Nazis who have taken France.
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  Speaker 5: That portrait is without a face, gentlemen, because I couldn't
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  Speaker 5: see her face. But she will return and supply that feature.
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  Speaker 5: Then we will know her for what she is. She
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  Speaker 5: will be back. I'll stake my life on her.
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  Speaker 6: Morgan and Philip Dorn with George Koulouris. You have heard
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  Speaker 6: them in the prologue of Louis Pelletier's story, Portrait Without
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  Speaker 6: a Face, which is tonight's adventure in suspense.
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  Speaker 5: And now it is with pleasure.
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  Speaker 6: that we bring back to our soundstage Michelle Morgan, Philip Dorn,
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  Speaker 6: and George Koulouris in Portrait Without a Face, a tale
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  Speaker 6: well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 8: Where have you been, Colette?
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  Speaker 4: For a walk, Charles, along Fifth Avenue. I needed a
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  Speaker 4: breath of air.
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  Speaker 6: You're lying.
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  Speaker 5: You were at the Ferney Gallery.
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  Speaker 4: Then I'm lying. I was at the Ferney Gallery.
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  Speaker 5: You fool. I told you that they'd kill you once
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  Speaker 5: they're sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you told me, Charles. I'm going to bed.
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  Speaker 5: Did you see the picture?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to bed, Charles.
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  Speaker 5: Answer my question.
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  Speaker 4: No, I didn't see it.
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  Speaker 5: What, the gallery was closed?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: That's good. Good. Well, drink?
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  Speaker 4: No, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Don't mind if I do.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't minded what you do since the second week
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  Speaker 4: of our marriage, Charles.
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  Speaker 5: Really? Oh, that distresses me. Oh, Colette.
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Before you go to bed, there's something here I want
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  Speaker 5: you to read.
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  Speaker 4: What is it, Charles?
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  Speaker 10: This art magazine, my dear, that just came on the
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  Speaker 10: newsstands today contains a charming series of reviews of the
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  Speaker 10: exhibit at the Ferney Gallery. René Lautrec, the French critic,
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  Speaker 10: has done a little piece on the picture that you
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  Speaker 10: are so anxious to see.
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  Speaker 5: He heads his review, The Murderers. Read it.
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  Speaker 4: Please, Charles.
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  Speaker 8: Read it.
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  Speaker 5: It will satisfy your curiosity once and for all. Begin here.
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  Speaker 5: This portrait.
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  Speaker 4: This portrait without a face is no ordinary canvas. This
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  Speaker 4: is a portrait of a crime. A crime etched on
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  Speaker 4: the mind of a man who must have been there
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  Speaker 4: to see it happen. One cannot describe the portrait in words.
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  Speaker 4: Only in action. This way. The artist is sitting in
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  Speaker 4: a darkened room, resting from the noise of a party
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  Speaker 4: upstairs in the big house.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, the reception for General Vauban, Paris, 1939.
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  Speaker 2: Go on.
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  Speaker 4: The artist.
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  Speaker 4: The artist is resting in the darkened room. Suddenly, they
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  Speaker 4: are two shots. The sliding doors to the library open.
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  Speaker 4: Standing in the door wears the silhouette of a woman
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  Speaker 4: in evening dress. Charles, I can't... Give it to me.
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  Speaker 10: The woman's back is towards the artist. He doesn't see
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  Speaker 10: her face. At the woman's feet is a hand outstretched,
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  Speaker 10: the hand of a dead man. Who is the man, Colette?
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  Speaker 8: Vauban.
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  Speaker 10: All this happens in an instant. The picture is photographed
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  Speaker 10: on the brain of the artist. A woman in evening
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  Speaker 10: dress standing in a doorway, her back turned.
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  Speaker 2: That is.
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  Speaker 5: Portrait without a face.
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  Speaker 10: Colette, it's time to move boldly. Paul DeGelle will have
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  Speaker 10: to be put out of the way now. He knows
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  Speaker 10: enough to be dangerous. I suppose it's somewhat of a
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  Speaker 10: pity to eliminate such a promising young artist. He might
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  Speaker 10: have gone places.
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  Speaker 5: However.
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  Speaker 10: Tomorrow morning, you will telephone Paul Desgelles at his apartment.
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  Speaker 10: You will tell him you saw his name in the
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  Speaker 10: art magazine. You will ask him where he's been all
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  Speaker 10: these years. You will say that you must see him.
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  Speaker 10: Your voice, and it will tremble just a little, will
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  Speaker 10: convey a message he's been waiting to hear all these years.
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  Speaker 5: You love him. After all these years, you still love him. Hello? Yes.
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  Speaker 5: This is Paul Dijel. Colette.
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  Speaker 4: Colette.
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  Speaker 5: Darling, where are you? Where are you?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Naturally, every day. Every moment. Of course. Anywhere you say.
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  Speaker 4: Then the Carlton?
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  Speaker 5: The Carlton. What time? One or two?
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  Speaker 4: Two. Then at two o'clock, dear. Till then... Yes, till then.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so happy, Colette.
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  Speaker 4: Goodbye, Paul.
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  Speaker 10: That was very convincing, my dear. So much sentiment in
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  Speaker 10: your voice. See that it doesn't affect your actions. It's
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  Speaker 10: your life or his, Colette.
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  Speaker 4: So you've told me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, remember it. Stand up. Let me have a look
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  Speaker 5: at you.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you're crying, Colette. How touching. The lovers parted. The
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  Speaker 5: lovers reunited. April in Paris. Chestnuts in blossom. Charles! Wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: he love to know you married me?
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  Speaker 4: Me, of all people.
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  Speaker 10: And how I'd love to see you two meet. Colette,
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  Speaker 10: what will you say to him? What can you say, Colette?
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  Speaker 4: What can I say, Paul?
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  Speaker 5: Nothing for a moment. Just let me look at you. Monsieur,
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  Speaker 5: order now. No, no, not yet. Not just yet. Yes, wait.
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  Speaker 5: Bring us two sherries, will you? Yes, thank you, monsieur.
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  Speaker 4: I'm changed, Paul. You can see that.
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  Speaker 5: A little. A deepness around the eyes, perhaps. You've been unhappy, Colette.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I wrote to you almost every day for a year.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't answer, Paul.
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  Speaker 5: Colette, why did you run away?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you mustn't ask me.
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  Speaker 5: Was there anyone?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 4: No one in my heart. No one ever to fill
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  Speaker 4: your place.
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  Speaker 5: I thought when you didn't come back that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, darling. You were right to think anything of me.
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  Speaker 5: I thought of Charles Gaveau. I remembered how insane he
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  Speaker 5: was about you.
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  Speaker 4: Please, Paul, don't talk about Charles.
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  Speaker 5: I thought if you ever married Gaveau, then... I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: There's so much I don't know about your life. Four years.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I knew everything about you.
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  Speaker 5: Press notices. I wanted to be a success for you, Colette.
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  Speaker 4: I followed everything you did. The prison camp. I remember that.
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  Speaker 4: When you escaped to this country, your first exhibit here.
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  Speaker 4: I have all the clippings. Oh, I was so happy
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  Speaker 4: for you, Paul. I was so glad they believed in
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  Speaker 4: you as I did.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, they have been good to me in this country.
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  Speaker 5: Very good to me. More than I deserve.
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  Speaker 4: No, not more. Only you're just you. I know. I've
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  Speaker 4: read the reviews of the exhibit at the Ferney Gallery.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, they seem to like that.
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  Speaker 4: Paul, I want to see that exhibit.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, Colette. Anytime.
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  Speaker 4: No, not anytime. I want you to show it to
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  Speaker 4: me tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Tonight?
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  Speaker 4: Please, Paul. After... After the crowds have gone from the gallery,
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  Speaker 4: my first look at your work in so many years,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to share it with anyone. I just
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  Speaker 4: want there to be... You and I.
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  Speaker 5: Well, then that's how you shall have it. Darling, of course,
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  Speaker 5: I want you to see it. I want you to
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  Speaker 5: see every piece in the exhibit. There is one that
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  Speaker 5: has attracted considerable attention. Portrait without a face.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes. I read about that one.
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  Speaker 5: There was much of my life in that painting, Colette.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly much of the past four years.
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  Speaker 4: But your work on it, it has been so worthwhile.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, not entirely. Not just yet. Colette, do you
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  Speaker 5: remember the death of General Vauban?
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  Speaker 4: Vauban? That was some time in 1940.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't it? 1939, the year you left Paris.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: As you recall, Vauban was our greatest advocate of air power.
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  Speaker 5: There were people in Paris who hated Vauban and wanted
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  Speaker 5: him out of the way. Your friend Charles Cavour and
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  Speaker 5: his newspapers were the General's bitterest enemies. And do you
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  Speaker 5: know a curious thing, Colette?
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  Speaker 4: What, Paul?
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  Speaker 5: Some of the best people in France were duped by
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  Speaker 5: Cavour's newspapers into believing that Vauban was an arch-criminal.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, I remember.
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  Speaker 5: Briefly, some deluded woman fancied herself a modern Joan of
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  Speaker 5: Arc and killed Vauban, thinking she was saving her country.
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  Speaker 4: A woman? But... They say the crime was never solved.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't, but it will be, I think, very soon. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure that... Forgive me, darling. I hadn't meant to
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  Speaker 5: burden you with this.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it is yourself you must not burden, Paul. You
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  Speaker 4: have given this matter much of your life. Much of
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  Speaker 4: your thought, haven't you?
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  Speaker 5: All of my thought, Colette. Well, I wasn't thinking of you.
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  Speaker 4: Or painting.
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  Speaker 5: Painting? When I was painting, I thought of you most.
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  Speaker 5: I think that in every picture there was something of you.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes the light on your hair. Sometimes the way you
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  Speaker 5: hold your hand.
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  Speaker 4: Even in portrait without a face? Is there something of
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  Speaker 4: me in that one?
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  Speaker 5: In that one? Two cherries, monsieur. Oh, yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Yes, Colette. I think that even in that
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  Speaker 5: one there is something of you. And it's very strange
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  Speaker 5: because you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, anyway, tonight... Tonight you will see for yourself. To you, darling.
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  Speaker 4: To our reunion, Paul.
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  Speaker 5: To our reunion. That's what she said, gentlemen. To our reunion.
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  Speaker 5: You are sure, Paul, that she does not suspect? Positive.
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  Speaker 5: She is utterly convinced that I am as blindly infatuated
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  Speaker 5: with her as ever. She is convinced that in my
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  Speaker 5: blindness I shall step out upon the stage she has
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  Speaker 5: set for me. We shall see who has set the stage.
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  Speaker 5: We shall see who portrays the victim. It will take courage, Paul. Perhaps.
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  Speaker 7: There are not many who have your kind of courage.
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  Speaker 5: No. There are not many who have my kind of hate...
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  Speaker 5: or who have waited so long to spend it. But
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  Speaker 5: have no fear, gentlemen. You will see that I do
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  Speaker 5: not fail. You will be with me tonight. All of you.
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  Speaker 4: With you?
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  Speaker 5: I do not understand. I should have said... you will
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: be present... in the wings just off the stage. It's
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  Speaker 5: just ten now. In less than an hour, my guest
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: will arrive. Before long... We will come into this room
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  Speaker 5: to see the portrait. The room will be quite dark.
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  Speaker 5: You will be in the background. There will be no way.
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: To.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: You don't have much time.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: Are you ready?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Wait, which purse are you carrying?
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: That black one on the table.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Hand it to me. Good. Just the right size. Oh,
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: don't look so wide-eyed and innocent. You've seen a pistol
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: loaded before?
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Charles, couldn't we?
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Perhaps it would be best for me to have a
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: look in on you and DeGelle this evening.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, please, Charles.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: How do I know that you'll do what you're told?
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: You said it was his life or mine.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: But you're a sentimental fool. You might.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I'll do what I'm told.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Very well.
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: Remember, I'll be waiting across the street on the cathedral steps.
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: I'll give you till 11 o'clock. If you're not out
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: at 11... I'll be out.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Yes, you'd better be. Ready to fire. Here's your purse.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: The pistol, you see?
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: On top.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Watch out when you pay the cab fare.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, Charles.
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: I'll be waiting for you on the cathedral steps. And
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: you have till 11 o'clock.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Do you remember this picture, Colette?
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, Paul, of course. That was the summer we were
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: at Nice.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Lovely summer. wasn't it?
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, so lovely.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: You see the fishing boat, Les Rondelles? Remember her?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, too well. She made me seasick once. But it
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: was a beautiful summer, Paul. Wonderful summer.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Yes. Yes, it was. Well, that's all of the Paris pictures.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Now, uh.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Now I guess you would like to see the... The portrait.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Yes. Now, I'd like to see it.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: It's in the next room. They have given it in
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: a room by itself.
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Take my hand, Colette. I've kept the lights out in there.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: I want you to sit on the bench. Then I'll
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: turn the lights on. And you will see the picture
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: as I saw it. I mean, in my mind's eye.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, Paul.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: This way. Now, careful. Two steps down. You are trembling, Quillette.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: I've always been afraid of the dark.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Here's the bench. Sit here. No, no, no, no. Sit here.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: You are in front of the picture now. I'm going
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: to turn on the light.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Hurry, Paul. I don't like this.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: I just want to give you the full effect of it.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Are you watching? Straight ahead.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, Paul.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: So, may I present then my portrait without a face.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, Paul!
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Oh!
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Oh, Paul.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I thought you would find it effective. Now we'll put
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: aside pretense. You know who that woman is. It's Colette.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Standing in the doorway of General Vauban's library. The hand
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: of the dead man at her feet is the hand
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: of General Vauban, my friend. That blood on the floor
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: is the blood of Vauban. The blood that is touching
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: the evening slipper of Colette.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Stop it, Paul. Stop it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: I've waited a long time for you, Colette. Four years.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I said then that I would make someone pay for
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: the murder of General Vauban. We have a committee, Colette.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: We formed it back there in Paris in the dark days,
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: just before the war broke out. The committee knows everything
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: about the people who planned the death of Vauban. The
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: committee knows who did the murder itself. Settling with that
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: person has been my special assignment.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I have been your special assignment. Your special prize. Is
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: that what you mean?
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: That's what I mean.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I don't care, really. Not now.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: You cared enough to want to fight back. You came
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: here armed. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Don't open
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: your purse. I took the trouble to remove the pistol
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: while you were taking off your coat. No, no, not
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: this one in my right hand. That's mine. This one.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: This pistol here. It is yours, isn't it?
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: French make. Did Charles give it to you? Charles? Yes, Charles.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: I knew you married Charles. I found it out just
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: before I lost track of you two years ago. I
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: knew you married Charles, and I knew why.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: And you told me this afternoon.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, I made you believe that I didn't know about Charles.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: I want you to come up here to the gallery.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: I knew you had to come here to find out
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: how much I knew.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Charles was right. He said it was your life or mine.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: He's very clever, Charles. Do you remember when you first
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: met him? And I warned you away?
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I remember.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: You were impressed by Charles and his politically wise friends.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: But you didn't know that Charles had sold out his country.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I didn't know.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: You were duped into believing that Vauban was a traitor.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Charles dominated your mind. He controlled you as an hypnotist.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: They needed someone to murder Vauban, so you were chosen.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: You were to be the savior of France. You accepted
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: in the role and you believed it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, up to the very last, up to the last moment.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Then I didn't see how I could go through with it.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: I couldn't bear the thought of killing a man.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: You're lying, Colette.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: No, Paul, no, listen to me. I stood there looking
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: at Vauban, the pistol in my hand. He looked up.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: He started walking toward me, telling me to give him
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: the pistol. I felt dizzy. Oh, I wanted to run
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: away too.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: But I.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I raised the pistol. There were two shots. And he
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: fell at my feet. I dropped the gun.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Then you opened the library door to escape.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Yes. I ran out on the terrace and through the garden.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I ran blindly and fell. Then I felt a strong
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: pair of arms lift me up. Charles was there.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: You told him you had killed Faubin.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, I begged him to take me away. I needed
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: someone desperately. He promised me to take me out of
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: France and let me forget. Oh, Paul. Paul, turn out
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: the light on that horrible picture, please.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: The light stays on, Colette. I want you to keep
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: looking at the picture. That picture was painted for a purpose.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: And now the purpose is going to be fulfilled.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Paul, will you believe that I didn't want to kill Bobet?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Four years I've waited, Colette. Now it works out according
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: to plan.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: I didn't want to kill a man. I didn't want
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: to go away with Charles, but I was in too deep. Paul. Paul,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: listen to me. I've loved you always.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: Always.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: You must know that.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: After tonight? After you're coming here to kill me?
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Open my gun, Paul. Open it up. You'll see that
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: it's empty. I took the shells out on my way here.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Why don't you do it, Paul? It's true. I knew
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I couldn't go through with it. Not this time. Not
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: with you.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: Paul. Paul.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: It's too late, Colette.
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: Paul.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Keep sitting on that bench, Colette. Keep looking at the picture.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Don't move.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I won't. I won't, but you must believe me.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Paul.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Paul, wait.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Just look at the picture, Colette.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: The picture.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: Listen.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Please listen. I'm telling the truth, Paul. My gun wasn't loaded. Listen.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Paul.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Paul.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: For you, Deshell.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: And you, mister.
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: Oh, heavens.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: He's all right.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Paul, are you all right? Yes, yes. I'm all right, gentlemen. Gentlemen,
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: may I present the late Monsieur Charles Gaveau. Four years.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Four years of painting and planning and waiting. Paul.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Take me out of here.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, darling. Colette, I'm sorry I had to do this
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: to you. It was the only way to find him.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: I knew he was here to kill again. Both of us.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Charles?
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Charles killed Vaubin. I picked up the pistol you dropped
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: that night, Colette. It had never been fired. Charles was
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: never certain you would have the nerve to go through
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: with it. At the last moment, he took a hand himself.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: The shots that killed Vaubin... were fired from the terrace.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: In your terror, you believe that you did it. Charles
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: let you believe it all these years.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, Paul.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I knew he would follow you here tonight. I left
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: the door open for him. He came downstairs when we
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: entered his room. He could hear us talking. I wanted
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: him to hear. I needed time, time, Colette. Colette, I'm sorry.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: That was the only way to meet him face to face.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, Paul. Don't ever leave me. Never, never leave me.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Never, Colette. We are together now. For always. But before
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: we go, there's one thing left. You see this knife?
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: For us, that is the end of portrait without a face.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: And so closes Portrait Without a Face, starring Michelle Morgan,
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Philip Dorn, and George Koulouris.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: Tonight's tale of suspense.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Miss Morgan is currently being seen in Warner Brothers' Passage
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: to Marseille.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Dorn appeared through the courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of Madame Curie.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: You know, if we could bring to this microphone a
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: man typical of all Roma wine dealers, this is what
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: he might tell you.
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: I sell a lot of the good Roma wines. They are,
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: you know, America's largest selling wines. My Roma wine customers,
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: I've noticed, are sociable people who enjoy entertaining friends. Talking
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: with me, they give a lot of credit for the
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: success of their entertaining to the enjoyable Roma wines they serve.
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: They're thrifty people, too, these buyers of Roma wines. What
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: else could offer so much enjoyment for so little cost?
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: Only pennies a glass by actual check.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Now, that doesn't leave much for me to add, except this, perhaps.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: If you are not already one of the millions enjoying
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Roma wines regularly, make your own taste test of any
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: of Roma wine's many different taste-delighting.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: California wine types.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Such as the delicious tangy Roma Sherry or the hearty
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Roma Burgundy or the sweeter, heavier Roma Port. And discover
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: for yourself why Roma wines are winning international praise. Voiced
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: in this phrase, Roma wines are truly magnificent. Let me
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: repeat the name.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: R-O-M-A. Roma wine.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: Suspense is produced and directed by William Speer. Don't forget then,
• 29:40
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• 29:50
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• 30:05
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• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Our time this evening with suspense Portrait Without a Face
• 30:21
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