1 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:32,920 Hello, this is Adam Graham. We continue our feature link en course with 2 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:38,439 this program from our archives. A note, as this program was played several 3 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,000 years back. Any of the offers or information may not be valid if it's 4 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:49,880 not currently on our website. Now let's take a lesson. Welcome to the 5 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:55,759 Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, 6 00:00:56,079 --> 00:01:00,880 Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it to me thirteen 7 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:07,560 at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and 8 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:12,599 become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com, Slash Radio Detectives. 9 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,120 Before we do get started, I do want to let you know the 10 00:01:15,159 --> 00:01:19,599 program is broad you in part by the financial support of our listeners, and 11 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:26,359 I want to thank James who became our latest Patreon sponsor at the Shawmus level 12 00:01:26,439 --> 00:01:32,799 of four dollars or more per month. You can become our Patreon supporter at 13 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:38,239 Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now we begin a five week 14 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:45,519 series of episodes featuring the Great Mercedes Mcambridge. Now most of that is going 15 00:01:45,599 --> 00:01:49,000 to be in defense Attorney in the Defense rest, but I decided to go 16 00:01:49,079 --> 00:01:56,879 ahead and start us out with her lead role on an episode of Screen Director's 17 00:01:56,959 --> 00:02:02,439 Playhouse, So this is going to be an hour entertainment. Ms McCambridge had 18 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:10,800 a very great career, included two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in nineteen 19 00:02:10,879 --> 00:02:17,080 forty nine on All the Kings Men in nineteen fifty four on Giant, and 20 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:23,479 she was well respected by her peers, including the great Orson Welles, who 21 00:02:23,759 --> 00:02:30,759 called her the world's greatest living radio actress, which given the fact that Wells 22 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,439 had worked with Agnes Moorehead, who was alive at the time, that was 23 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:39,360 very much high praise. Indeed, she had such a unique voice and a 24 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:47,120 very good acting ability to really get into all of these characters that she played. 25 00:02:47,719 --> 00:02:57,719 A Screen Director's Playhouse was a part of NBC's efforts to rejuvenate its radio 26 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:02,240 brand after Jack He had been taken by CBS, and there had been so 27 00:03:02,439 --> 00:03:07,479 much upheaval in many of the shows that were key in its lineup, and 28 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:12,439 in many ways this show was a lot like Lux Radio Theater or the Screen 29 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:19,919 Guild Theater in adapting movies, though some of what Screen Directors Playhouse did was 30 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,800 a little less recent than what you'd hear on LOX, where a lot of 31 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:28,599 the films were just, you know, a year old. This film here 32 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:38,360 was released in late nineteen forty five and broadcast in nineteen fifty one, and 33 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:45,080 it's something to keep in mind because it does make sense of some parts of 34 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:53,719 the story, particularly one where they reference difficulty finding housing and hotels being for 35 00:03:53,879 --> 00:04:00,000 rich people. Reflected the housing shortage immediately after World War II not so much 36 00:04:00,039 --> 00:04:04,520 a big problem in early nineteen fifty one. And we also get to do 37 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:11,360 something here or hear something here that we have not heard before in the six 38 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,439 and a half years we've been doing the great detectors of old time radios. 39 00:04:15,639 --> 00:04:18,959 We get to hear the voice of Alfred Hitchcock. So now, with everything 40 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:27,079 set up from January the twenty fifth of nineteen fifty one, here is the 41 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:36,040 Screen Director's Playhouse presentation of Spellbound. Screen Director's Playhouse stars Joseph Cotton, Mercedes 42 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:57,240 mc cambridge, production spell Bound director Alfred Hitchcock. This is the Screen Director's 43 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,920 Playhouse, the Thursday night feature on NBC's All Star Festival of Comedy, Music, 44 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,519 Mystery and Drama, brought to you by the makers of Amerson for the 45 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:09,240 fast Relief from the pain of headache, You writers and your Aldia and RCA 46 00:05:09,399 --> 00:05:14,519 Victor world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television, 47 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:39,560 and now our host narrator for tonight, the distinguished director of Spellbound, the 48 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:51,120 master of Suspense, mister Alfred Hitchcock. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 49 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:57,439 This is Alfred Hitchcock. The prime desire of an emotion picture meter is to 50 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,399 entertain his audience. But oly an idea is presented that can proved to be 51 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:08,279 both entertaining and instructive. When we achieve such a wedding of qualities, we 52 00:06:08,399 --> 00:06:12,240 fear we really have something. And this was the case in the story you 53 00:06:12,319 --> 00:06:17,279 are about to hear. Spellbound was the first motion picture to deal with psychoanalysis, 54 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:23,040 the method by which modern science treats the emotional problems of the seine. 55 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,439 The analyst seeks only to induce the patient to talk about his hidden problems, 56 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,480 to open the locked doors of his mind. Once the complexes that are disturbing 57 00:06:33,519 --> 00:06:40,560 the patient are uncovered and interpreted, the illness and confusion of the patient disappear, 58 00:06:41,519 --> 00:06:46,680 and the devils of unreason are driven from the human soul. To portray 59 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,560 the roles of doctor Edwards and doctor Constance Peterson, we are indeed fortunate to 60 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:56,240 have mister Joseph Corton and Miss Mercedes McCambridge. And now the first act of 61 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:01,279 Spellbound, which begins in the office of doctor Constle Peterson, a psychiatrist on 62 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:29,920 the staff of Green Manners in Vermont. Doctor Peterson, I've been watching your 63 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:34,439 work for six months. It's brilliant, but lifeless. There's no intuition in 64 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:40,839 it. Your lack of human and emotional experience is bad for you as a 65 00:07:40,879 --> 00:07:46,720 doctor and fatal for you as a woman. Doctor flor I've heard that argument 66 00:07:46,759 --> 00:07:50,279 from a number of amorous psychiatrists who all wanted to make a better doctor of 67 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:55,240 me. Oh yes, but I've got a much better argument. I'm terribly 68 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,120 fond of you. Why, for one, your beautiful If you please, 69 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,600 I'd prefer it if you removed your arm from round my waist. Constance, 70 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:07,240 you're not a textbook. You're a sweet, posting, adorable woman underneath. 71 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,199 I sense it every time I come here. You sense only your own desires 72 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:16,040 and pulsations. I assure you mine in no way resemble them. And now, 73 00:08:16,079 --> 00:08:18,199 doctor I'm very busy if you'd care to, Why don't you report your 74 00:08:18,199 --> 00:08:22,360 observations of me to our new chief of staff, doctor Edwards. I understand 75 00:08:22,399 --> 00:08:39,320 where to meet him at lunch. Twenty years of loyalty and tireless effort. 76 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:46,320 It's hard to imagine Green Manners without you, doctor Murchison. This institution could 77 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:50,799 never have a finer chief of staff. Thank your constance that the old must 78 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,080 make way for the news. When are you leaving in a few weeks? 79 00:08:54,759 --> 00:08:58,159 Oh, here we are. Good afternoon, gentlemen, That afternoon, Doctor 80 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:03,279 Edwards, the doctor Constance Peterson, How do you do be seated? Thank 81 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,480 you doctor. I've heard a great deal about you, doctor Peterson, and 82 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,600 naturally I have about you. You're younger than I thought you would be. 83 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,840 My age hasn't caught up with them. He yet, I gather it won't. 84 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,320 I've read your Labyrinth of the Guilt Complex. It's an excellent work. 85 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,320 I'm very grateful doctor Murchison has been kind enough to show me over the ground. 86 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,639 Green Manners is a remarkable institution. Must be quite beautiful this summer. 87 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,159 Yes, it offers various open air diversions for our patients. Did doctor Murchison 88 00:09:33,159 --> 00:09:37,080 show you the elm growth? Yes, that's where we hope to have our 89 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,559 new swimming pool, that is, with your permission. You have it, 90 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,799 A great believer in swimming pool splendid. There's a perfect spot for it among 91 00:09:43,799 --> 00:09:48,639 the elms. Not an oblong pool, but an irregular one, something like 92 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:54,840 this. Look, I'll draw the outline with my four stop it. I 93 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:58,600 don't understand. Don't ever do that again. Well they did misdraw these lads. 94 00:09:58,639 --> 00:10:01,360 Wa get this tablecloth off, immediately replace it with another, right now. 95 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:11,519 Hurry, hurry water, if I know, give me. Reminds me 96 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,799 of my professor and psychiatry, doctor Bruloph. He could never stand a sauce 97 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,159 bottle on the table or even a salt shaker. Ah, this thing called 98 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:41,080 human behavior, Doctor Edwards, you sent me a note to come to your 99 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,039 office immediately. Yes, yes, I've been listening to mister Goms and I 100 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,720 thought you might help out as your patient. Mister shouldn't have disturbed you, 101 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,360 all right, I'm very interested in this case. I knew you would be. 102 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,799 He fits perfectly into your chapters on the guilt complex. But I have 103 00:10:52,919 --> 00:10:58,120 no guilt complex. I know and I know I killed my father. No, 104 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:03,320 No, you didn't your father. It's a misconception that has taken hold 105 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,759 of you. I'm sorry, doctor, you were talking to him. No, 106 00:11:05,759 --> 00:11:09,039 no, no, no, go on, mister Garm's. People often 107 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,159 feel guilty over something that they never did. It usually goes back to their 108 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:18,399 childhood, and then they grow up with a guilt complex over a sin that 109 00:11:18,639 --> 00:11:24,440 was only a child's bad dream. But I'm thinking, isn't true? Then 110 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:33,399 no, And in the course of analyzing yourself you will see that good day, 111 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,840 Doctor, I think we'd better put him under drugs for a few days. 112 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:43,559 He looks agitated his conviction. He's curious. You've encountered such cases very 113 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:46,399 often, doctor Edward. You describe them perfectly in your book. Yes, 114 00:11:48,279 --> 00:11:52,120 I did you mind doing me a favor? I have a headache. I'd 115 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:56,639 like to take the afternoon off with you, please please, I need a 116 00:11:56,639 --> 00:12:00,879 little fresh air. And you look as though my do you little bit of 117 00:12:00,919 --> 00:12:05,679 good. Come on, let's go. We'll look at some sane trees, 118 00:12:05,879 --> 00:12:31,480 normal grass, and clouds without complexes. I think the greatest harm done the 119 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,120 human race has been done by the poets. Poets are dull boys, most 120 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:39,000 of them, but not are not especially fiendish. They keep filling people's heads 121 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,519 with delusions about love, writing about it as if it were a symphony orchestra 122 00:12:43,759 --> 00:12:50,879 or a flight of angels, which it isn't. Duck under it, of 123 00:12:50,919 --> 00:12:54,879 course it isn't. People fall in lovers. They put it because they respond 124 00:12:54,879 --> 00:13:01,039 to certain hair coloring or vocal toms or mannerisms that remind them of their parents, 125 00:13:01,639 --> 00:13:03,519 sometimes no reason at all. But that's not the point. The point 126 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,879 is that people read about love is one thing, and they experience it is 127 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:13,639 another. They expect kisses to be like lyrical poems, and embraces to be 128 00:13:13,799 --> 00:13:18,200 like Shakespearean dramas, and they find out differently than they get sick and have 129 00:13:18,279 --> 00:13:24,480 to be analyzed. Yes, very often, professor, you are suffering from 130 00:13:24,519 --> 00:13:28,960 mogo on the go go, I beg your person, I don't mind me. 131 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,919 I only say that to my best friends. Thank you, sir. 132 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:37,200 Let's se down here. It seems to be the most likely spot to relax, 133 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:41,559 and you'd have a picnic here before. Yes, I've picnicked here alone. 134 00:13:41,919 --> 00:13:45,679 That doesn't sound like very much fun. I haven't gone in for fun 135 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:52,120 as you can look at those mountains, just look at me. Did you 136 00:13:52,159 --> 00:14:16,759 ever see anything so beautiful that's perfect? Perfect conson? Oh it's you, 137 00:14:16,879 --> 00:14:20,639 doctor Murchison. Thanks for giving my patient, mister Garms, I said it 138 00:14:20,799 --> 00:14:24,600 this afternoon. I'm very sorry that I wasn't there, just so long as 139 00:14:24,639 --> 00:14:28,200 you and doctor Edwards had a good time. I see doctor Edwards is a 140 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:33,720 night owl too. There's a light shining from under his door. Good night, 141 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:46,279 good night doctor. Yes, I saw your light, Doctor Edwards, 142 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:52,600 and I I didn't realize it was quite so late. What I was going 143 00:14:52,639 --> 00:14:56,240 to say was that I was going to read you a new book. I'd 144 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,720 like to discuss it with you. I never have discussed an author's work with 145 00:14:58,759 --> 00:15:01,919 him. For of course, at school we had several little eary professors, 146 00:15:01,919 --> 00:15:09,080 but then that was quite differently. I sound rather nervous. No, no, 147 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,279 not at all. I thought I wanted to discuss your book with you. 148 00:15:13,759 --> 00:15:16,679 I'm amazed at the subterfuge. I don't want to discuss it at all. 149 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:22,840 I understand quite remarkable to discover that one isn't what one thought one was. 150 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,799 I mean, I've always been entirely aware of what was in my life, 151 00:15:28,159 --> 00:15:33,279 and you're not. Now, this is quite ridiculous. It was stupid 152 00:15:33,279 --> 00:15:35,759 of me to come in here like a distracted job. You're very lovely. 153 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,519 Well, please don't talk that way. You think I came in to hear 154 00:15:39,559 --> 00:15:46,200 that. I know why you came in. Why because something has happened to 155 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:54,440 us. But it doesn't happen like that in one day. Happens in a 156 00:15:54,519 --> 00:15:58,919 moment. Sometimes. I felt it this afternoon. It was like lightning strike 157 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:07,600 strikes rarely. I don't understand how it happened. Mm hmm, Oh my 158 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:15,919 god, darling, it's not you. It's it's something about your robe. 159 00:16:17,159 --> 00:16:18,559 Forgive me. Something struck me. I've been having a rather bad town with 160 00:16:18,559 --> 00:16:25,080 my nerves. Later in your Robi, I mean the doc lines. I'll 161 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:36,080 be all right, Tello, Yes, Doctor Edwards, Yes, what where 162 00:16:36,159 --> 00:16:40,320 is he? I'll be there right away. Mister Garms has running monkey tried 163 00:16:40,320 --> 00:17:02,720 to murder a nurse and then cut his own throat. He's in surgery Post 164 00:17:02,759 --> 00:17:04,319 one hundred and forty. How is he? How is he? Pulse is 165 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:10,279 going down the step aside? Doctor Murchison's why the lights out in the corridors 166 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:12,279 dark? That's why mister Gorms did it, because the lights are out and 167 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:15,079 put them on and the door has unlocked them. You can't keep people in 168 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,440 cells. Get away from your fools babbling about guilt complexes. What do you 169 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,000 know about them? He did it? He told me he killed his father 170 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:29,440 and put on the lights quick. It's dark dark out. Yes, he's 171 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:38,880 in completely collapsed. Yeah, curious constance didn't look like a hot case which 172 00:17:38,880 --> 00:18:11,039 shot of some sort, probably brought on by oh by wonder. When we 173 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,359 ask you to try anison for the relief of pain due to a headache, 174 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,480 neurytis or neuralgia, we're not asking you to try a new or unproved method. 175 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,359 For There are many people listening in now who have been introduced to anison 176 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:27,680 tablets by their own dentist or physician. You who have received anison this way 177 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:34,440 know the effective, incredibly fast relief these tablets bring. Anison is like a 178 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:41,839 doctor's prescription. That is, anison contains not just one but a combination of 179 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:48,000 medically proven active ingredients and easy to take tablet form. People by the thousands 180 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:52,039 are using modern anison to day instead of other ways. Doesn't their experience seem 181 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:57,240 worth following? Try anison the next time you suffer pains from headache, neurytis, 182 00:18:57,319 --> 00:19:03,319 or neuralgia. You'll be delighted with the results. Ask your druggist for 183 00:19:03,559 --> 00:19:26,839 anison today. Anison is spelled A N A C I M Now the second 184 00:19:26,839 --> 00:19:32,319 act of the screen director's playhouse presentation of Spellbound, starring Joseph Cotton and Mercedes 185 00:19:32,480 --> 00:20:00,400 Cambridge. The answer to Constance's wonderment came to her as she sat at doctor 186 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:06,799 Edwards's bedside. The autograph signature of doctor Edwards on the title page of his 187 00:20:06,839 --> 00:20:10,799 book did not match that of the note he had written to her earlier in 188 00:20:10,839 --> 00:20:15,839 the day asking her to come to his office. Clearly, the man before 189 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:21,640 her was not doctor Edwards. Who are you? What do you mean? 190 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,799 You're not doctor Edwards. I can prove it. There's no good denying it. 191 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,960 Who are you? Yes? I I remember now Edwards is dead. 192 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,680 I killed him and took his place, and I'm someone else. I don't 193 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:41,640 know who I killed him? Edwards? Can you kill him? Oh? 194 00:20:41,759 --> 00:20:45,519 I have no memory. It's like looking into a mirror and saying nothing but 195 00:20:45,599 --> 00:20:48,920 the mirror. Yet the image is there. I know it, I know 196 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,920 it's there. I exist, I'm there. How can a man lose his 197 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,319 name, his memory, and everything he's ever known and still talk like this? 198 00:20:56,559 --> 00:21:02,640 If if he were quite sane. You are you afraid of me? 199 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,240 You're ill? The loss of memory. Isn't a difficult party. Yes, 200 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:11,880 I know, I am easier a trick of the mind for remaining saying. 201 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:17,559 You remain saying by forgetting something too too horrible to remember. You put me 202 00:21:17,799 --> 00:21:22,759 horrible thing behind the closed door. We have to open the door, and 203 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,160 I know what's behind the door. Murder. No, no, no, 204 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:33,079 that's a delusion you've acquired out of your illness. Will you answer me truthfully? 205 00:21:33,519 --> 00:21:37,519 And will you trust me? I trust you, but it's no use. 206 00:21:37,599 --> 00:21:40,720 I can't think. I don't know who I am. I don't know. 207 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:42,359 I don't know. Did you have your first doubt that you might not 208 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:48,960 be Idles? I don't remember. Oh, yes, yes, when I 209 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:52,039 was. When I was in the hotel room, backing to come here, 210 00:21:52,039 --> 00:21:56,559 I found a cigarette case in my coat and frightened me. But it had 211 00:21:56,559 --> 00:22:00,279 the initials JB on it. When I saw them at the hotel room. 212 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:07,720 That made my headache. Probably your insue jab j B is Now you must 213 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:11,880 sleep. I think when you wake up you'll be able to tell me more. 214 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:21,400 How come in in the morning. Good night, though you see good 215 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:37,000 night, Constance dearest. I cannot involve you in my troubles for many reasons, 216 00:22:37,039 --> 00:22:44,440 the most important being and I love you. When the police stepped in 217 00:22:44,519 --> 00:22:48,880 and tell them I am at the Empire State Hotel in New York, I 218 00:22:48,039 --> 00:23:06,759 prefer to wait alone for the end. Goodbye, JB. He's not in 219 00:23:06,759 --> 00:23:08,559 his room. He's escape. He's sure if it's five am, you'll wake 220 00:23:08,599 --> 00:23:12,839 the patience. Sorry, doctor Peterson. Seems to me somebody might have known 221 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:17,359 what the real Edwards looked like. You never saw him, doctor Murchison, 222 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,200 No, I never met him. Well, it's my contention that he killed 223 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,160 the real doctor Edwards. It can be no question of it. He killed 224 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,160 doctor Edwards and then took his place in order to conceal his crime. Doctor 225 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:32,319 Peterson, didn't he tell you anything about himself. You were with him for 226 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:37,359 quite some time after his collapse in the operating room. No, he was 227 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,440 unable to speak coherently. You don't seem very surprised to learn that this man 228 00:23:41,559 --> 00:23:45,119 was a fake and maybe Gilly of murders. I thought his collapse was due 229 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,359 to mental strain. That's a funny diagnosis, or a fellow who's supposed to 230 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,559 have just come from a vacation. I made no medical diagnosis. I was 231 00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:55,279 shocked to see him collapse, and I didn't think beyond that. You have 232 00:23:55,319 --> 00:23:57,480 no idea where he might have gone. No, well, I better get 233 00:23:57,519 --> 00:24:03,759 back to my office and spread the alt h m hm. I found this 234 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:07,759 letter under your bedroom door. I didn't call it to the attention of the 235 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:12,079 sheriff. I or perhaps it might be something personal. Thank you, doctor 236 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:29,440 Madison. Good night. Kay Constance dearest. I cannot involve you in my 237 00:24:29,519 --> 00:24:42,599 troubles for many reasons, the most important being that I love operator the airport. 238 00:24:42,680 --> 00:25:07,240 Please, Constance, Why are you here? Really signing your name John 239 00:25:07,319 --> 00:25:11,559 Brown on the register? Not much imagination for an alias. You shouldn't have 240 00:25:11,599 --> 00:25:14,559 come here to New York. You don't owe me anything. I'm going to 241 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,960 do what I want to do. I'm going to take care of you and 242 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:22,200 cure we and I'm going to stay with you until that happens. You can't 243 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,880 you can't help hide a criminal. I won't let you be stupid about it. 244 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,079 I couldn't bear it away from you. I had to come, and 245 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:33,440 I'll rent a room on this floor, and I'm here as your doctor only 246 00:25:34,960 --> 00:26:03,880 has nothing to do with love, nothing at all. Try remembering. Let 247 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,680 your mind go back to your childhood. Was it happy. Whom did you 248 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,240 know in your child? I'm wanted, but I can't see by what. 249 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:15,599 It's no use. You lived somewhere, You had a mother, you will 250 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,039 loved, you had friends. I can't remember anything except that I love you. 251 00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:23,039 If we can unlock one tiny memory, it will give us the key 252 00:26:23,079 --> 00:26:26,559 to all the others. The only thing that comes to the mind that I 253 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,079 keep thinking of over and over is the logic of the situation. What like 254 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,759 you that it was I who was with Edwards? Look what it says on 255 00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:40,519 the paper. No trace of doctor Edwards has been found since he left the 256 00:26:40,559 --> 00:26:45,720 Cumberland resort and the company of his supposed patient. Do you remember, though? 257 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,000 Then? Why do you believe that you were with him? Because wherever 258 00:26:48,039 --> 00:26:52,799 we went I came back with his identity. I wouldn't have come back as 259 00:26:52,839 --> 00:26:55,799 doctor Edwards if I hadn't known he was dead. And how would I have 260 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,359 known that that he was dead if I hadn't been with him when he died? 261 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,359 Were you? I don't remember it? Logically I know that I must 262 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:10,079 have been, and logically I also know why the body hasn't been found because 263 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:15,480 it was hidden. I mean, don't you see you're imagining all of this. 264 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:21,319 You call yourself names, You insist without proof that you're a murderer or 265 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:22,839 you know that that is, don't you, whoever you are. That's a 266 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,960 guilt complex that speaks for you. It's a guilt fantasy that goes way back 267 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,799 to your child. No, I think you're quite mad. You're you're much 268 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,400 crazier than I to do all this for a creature without a name, to 269 00:27:34,519 --> 00:27:38,759 run off with a pair of emissions like that. Oh, I know it's 270 00:27:38,759 --> 00:27:49,119 the Bill Hoff I ordered the later editions of the paper. That's the matter. 271 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,799 We have to live here? Why story in the paper police hunt. 272 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:59,480 Doctor Constance Peterson believed aiding Madman wanted in Edward's mystery. My picture's right below 273 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:00,599 at the room. Well recognize it. We've got to go quickly. We 274 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:23,200 can't that. Where we can go Rochester, Rochester, New York. By 275 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,880 the way, why are we going to Rochester. We're going to visit doctor 276 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,559 Brulos. Oh. Oh, the fellow doesn't like sauce bottle. He was 277 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:34,720 my analyst. He psychoanalyzed me really well, what was wrong with you? 278 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:41,160 All analysts have to be psychoanalyzed by other analysts before they start practicing Oh, 279 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,720 that's to make sure they are not crazy. Apparently the mind is never too 280 00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:48,359 ill to make jokes about psychoanalysis. I'm sorry, I'm a pig. No, 281 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:55,640 I don't really. I keep forgetting your patient, and I hold you 282 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,799 like this. I feel entirely well, darling. Will you love me just 283 00:28:59,839 --> 00:29:03,319 as much when I'm normal? Oh, I'll be insane about you. I 284 00:29:03,359 --> 00:29:07,640 am normal. You're alone here in this compartment. There's nothing wrong with me 285 00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:15,559 that a nice long kiss wouldn't kill. I've never treated a guilty complex like 286 00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:19,160 this before. No, look, let's stop and pick up where we left 287 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,119 off. Pick up what Try to recall the first moment you thought you were 288 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,680 edwards, Darling, I have a confession tonight. I'm listening as a doctor. 289 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,359 You irritate me. I said, here swooning with love, and then 290 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,720 suddenly you ask me a question and I don't like you anymore. You have 291 00:29:33,799 --> 00:29:37,440 to sit there smiling at me like some smuggling No at all, schoolty, 292 00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:41,359 I can't help smiling. That's what happens in analysis. As the doctor begins 293 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:47,079 to uncover the truth in a patient, said patient develops a fine hearty hatred 294 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,839 or said doctor, Oh, you're going to hate me a great deal before 295 00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:53,279 with you, and you're going to like that as a scientist. Yes, 296 00:29:53,519 --> 00:29:56,519 well I should happen to biff you want. You'll consider it a sort of 297 00:29:56,559 --> 00:30:02,680 diploma. Yes, but don't gift too high, darling, Darling, I 298 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:07,599 love you come close to me. No, not not really. I think 299 00:30:07,599 --> 00:30:10,599 we should go on with our investigations. We have some new facts to work 300 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,200 over. What fact you're a doctor? You were in an accent? Do 301 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,319 you know? I was in an accent arm and forearmor burned? And you 302 00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:18,480 were in Rome. I was never in Rome in my life. You were 303 00:30:18,519 --> 00:30:21,640 either there or going there because in a moment of stress you mentioned Rome. 304 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,799 Now think of Rome? Maybe Rome it? When did you go to Rome? 305 00:30:25,799 --> 00:30:30,680 What did you do in Rome? Sing? Think train, the railroad, 306 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,960 ties rushing by, I think, think, Yes, I remember something. 307 00:30:34,039 --> 00:30:38,279 Fighter planes spotted US, times, got medical cover, Rome, headed 308 00:30:38,359 --> 00:30:44,799 north, they hit us, caught fire, a uniform burned, bailed out. 309 00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:48,599 All right. I don't know what that black South you left the eye, 310 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,640 Yes, probably deserted. I hated I hated killing. 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We 336 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:14,360 continue with the third actors fell Bound, starring Joseph Cotton and Mercedes mc cambridge 337 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:49,719 and guest narrator Alfred Hitchcock. The succeeding six hours on the Train for Constance 338 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:54,519 in JB or John Brown or whatever an amnesia victim could name himself was a 339 00:34:54,559 --> 00:35:00,760 series of questions and evasive hanss relentlessly. Some fought to eat the depths of 340 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:06,119 his memory, but it was a losing battle. It was like a pygmy 341 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,320 facing a giant, and JB was a giant. They reached the home of 342 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:17,639 doctor Bruloh in Rochester. I worked with doctor Bruloph as his assistant for almost 343 00:35:17,679 --> 00:35:21,920 a year. Right here in this house he got me the post of green 344 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:27,199 Mannis you like Alix? That one psychoanalyst and my hairs? Enough? What 345 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,280 are you going to tell him that we're on a honeymoon? Doctor? You 346 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:36,480 think of the most wonderful prescriptions? Alex, who is it? Please? 347 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:45,000 Oh, my old friend, come in, Please Alex, this is one 348 00:35:45,079 --> 00:35:51,480 moment. Please this company here, Lieutenant detective Coolie, how do you do 349 00:35:52,639 --> 00:35:57,199 The lieutenant is persecuting me. I just told them I know nothing about doctor 350 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,360 Edwards, but yesterday you had some theory. I already have explained that if 351 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:06,840 Edwards took along with him on vacation a paranoid patient, he was a bigger 352 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,119 fool than I ever knew he was. It is the same as playing with 353 00:36:09,159 --> 00:36:13,960 a loaded gun. Good Night. Now it is late and my friends are 354 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,840 here. Sorry to have bothered you, doctor. Good night, ma'am. 355 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:22,280 Good night, sir, good night. What do you suppose they are snooping 356 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:27,039 around me for the next thing? Don't give me a third degree, Alex. 357 00:36:27,039 --> 00:36:29,599 I'm so glad to see you. I was going to write you, 358 00:36:29,639 --> 00:36:35,360 but it all happened, so suddenly I got married. Who's married, Alex? 359 00:36:36,559 --> 00:36:42,440 My husband John Brown. Well, I'm glad to meet you officially. 360 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:50,360 So you're married. I congratulate you and wish you have babies and not phobias. 361 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,239 But the truth is, Alex, we have no hotel room. All 362 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:59,719 the hotels were so crowded. What do you want for the hotel? That's 363 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:04,360 for me, billionaires. You'll stay right here, cook my coffee in the 364 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,960 morning, and the house is yours. Oh, how wonderful of you. 365 00:37:07,039 --> 00:37:12,920 M h your old room is upstairs. Good night, and happy dreams, 366 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:38,360 which we will analyze at breakfast. Do you know this room has changed? 367 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:44,320 Oh, but it isn't really, it's I whom changed. It's called transfer 368 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:49,599 of effects. What is the fact that everything seems so wonderful in this room? 369 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,639 That's what's called, is it? Darling? Did the policeman disturb you? 370 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:59,360 Oh? No, one ignores such trifles on a honeymoon. I take 371 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:04,159 it. This is your first timeymoon, Yes, I mean it would be 372 00:38:04,199 --> 00:38:08,920 if it were darling. For what it's worth, I can't remember ever having 373 00:38:09,039 --> 00:38:14,840 kissed any other woman before. I have nothing to remember of that nature. 374 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:19,199 I M you're very sweet, of course, I'm no child. Far from 375 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:22,880 it. I'm well aware that we're all bundles of inhibitions. D I'm stopping. 376 00:38:23,039 --> 00:38:28,920 No, please, don't don't do that. It isn't ethical. I'm 377 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,280 here, is your doctor. You may stop worrying, doctor. I'm going 378 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,880 to sleep on the couch. No. No, the doctor occupies the couch 379 00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:39,440 fully dressed, and the patient always sleeps in the bed. Now, I'll 380 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,599 leave you for a bit so that you can get undressed and get under those 381 00:38:42,599 --> 00:38:49,480 covers, covers, covers. What is it you remember something this room reminds 382 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,079 you. No, No, you're resisting a memory. What's in your mind? 383 00:38:52,119 --> 00:38:53,639 Start that again? Don't stand there with that wise a ca a. 384 00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:57,400 Look, I'm sick of your double looking at the bed. What frightens you 385 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,880 though? It's white ring. Yes, when I made fork marks on the 386 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:06,000 table, they had you John. And then that night that you kissed me, 387 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,760 you pushed me away because of my robe, because white it had dark 388 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:12,480 lines. Try to think. Why does the color white frighten you? Think 389 00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:15,760 of white white? Yes, it frightens me. I can't look. No, 390 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,719 I stand still and look at the white spread. I'll look at it 391 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,719 and no, no, no, no, no. What is that in 392 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:27,000 your head? I don't know. I don't know. It's a straight edged 393 00:39:27,079 --> 00:39:30,239 razor. Where did you get there? I don't know. I tell you, 394 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:50,559 I must have picked it up somewhere. Give it to me, this 395 00:39:51,199 --> 00:39:58,239 razor. Why am I clutching miss racer? Ah, it was you. 396 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,039 I just have me a glass of milk and some crackers. Frae time me 397 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:07,400 please, I'll get another glass. I was a young man. I was 398 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:12,320 always saying, if I would only get along by myself instead of work, 399 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,360 stopping, try to go away, go away, stop in my head to 400 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:21,239 you? You know why? And now nothing except living. Here's your glass 401 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:42,360 of milk, milk, white, white, kill kill. Alex? Are 402 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:49,760 you all right morning? Yes? I'm all right, thank you. I 403 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,880 fell asleep in my chair. What time is it? Seven o'clock? Alex? 404 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:57,639 My husband is he must have gone out very early this morning. You 405 00:40:57,679 --> 00:41:04,199 didn't happen to see he didn't go out asleep on the couch Constance. I 406 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,480 know who he is. I should have known. I couldn't fool you this 407 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:13,280 razor. I found it in his hand last night. It's a schizophrenia capable 408 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,559 of committing murder. I'm going to call the police. No, Alex, 409 00:41:15,599 --> 00:41:20,800 please let me tell you about him. What is there for you to say? 410 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,840 My dear? We both know that the mind of a woman in love 411 00:41:24,199 --> 00:41:28,360 is operating on the lowest level of the intellect. Yes, you're right. 412 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:31,599 No, I'm not an analyst here, I'm not even a doctor, and 413 00:41:31,639 --> 00:41:36,320 I'm not going to talk to you is one. But believe me, Alex, 414 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:40,679 not what I say, but what I feel. The mind isn't everything. 415 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,920 The heart sees deeper sometimes, and the shock of a police investigation might 416 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:51,280 ruin his chances for recovery. And Alex, I can't save him. If 417 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,519 he killed doctor Edwards, how can you help him? But he didn't, 418 00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:58,480 he didn't. But if it turns out he did, which I am good 419 00:41:58,519 --> 00:42:01,679 and certain it well, but it both Alex, you yourself taught me what 420 00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:06,840 Freud says. A man cannot do anything in amnesia that his real character would 421 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,239 not have done. And how do you know what his real character is? 422 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:14,800 I know, I do know. I couldn't feel this way toward the man 423 00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,920 who was bad and admitted murder. I couldn't feel this pain for someone who 424 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,159 was evil. Ayre, you are twenty times crazier than he. What do 425 00:42:22,199 --> 00:42:27,639 you want me to do? Give me time to treat him and cure him 426 00:42:27,639 --> 00:42:30,159 before the police find him. This could take a year, No, Alex, 427 00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:34,079 no, oh, write a half a year. We should sit and 428 00:42:34,159 --> 00:42:36,760 hide for a half a year, waiting to find out if he's going to 429 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,800 cut your throat, my throat and set the house a final No, Alex, 430 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:45,199 please just a few days before you turn him over. Let me try 431 00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:49,159 for just a few days more. And if I can't do anything, if 432 00:42:49,199 --> 00:42:53,440 we both can, then you can call the police. You're not hiding a 433 00:42:53,480 --> 00:43:02,000 criminal. There's no evidence against him. Please all right, Oh, make 434 00:43:02,039 --> 00:43:21,320 me coffee. I will pretend to myself I'm acting sensible for a few days. 435 00:43:22,119 --> 00:43:27,000 You don't remember your father or mother, no wife or sweet all. 436 00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,760 Don't fight me. I'm going to help you if I can. I'm going 437 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:37,159 to be your father image trust me. Lean on you, all right? 438 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,440 Go on, go on, I'm leaning. Maybe you've got something you want 439 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:46,159 to tell me. A single thought a few words in the corner of your 440 00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:52,960 head. Go talk to me. Whatever comes to your head, Just say 441 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:59,119 what it is. Nothing, nothing. I don't believe in dreams. That 442 00:43:59,199 --> 00:44:02,880 Freud's stuff is a lot of poy. I explain to you about dreams, 443 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:07,239 so you don't think it's a lot of hooey. The secrets of who you 444 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:13,199 are and what made you run away from yourself, all these secrets are buried 445 00:44:13,199 --> 00:44:16,360 in your brain, but you don't want to look at him. The human 446 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:21,920 being very often does not want to know the truth about himself because he thinks 447 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:27,719 it will make him sick. He she makes himself sick at trying to forget 448 00:44:28,599 --> 00:44:31,239 you follow me. I'm not interested. All I've heard around here is dreams, 449 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:34,840 dreams, dreams. I'm sick of them. There's nothing in them. 450 00:44:35,039 --> 00:44:39,760 But there is. I tell you, I tell you what you're trying to 451 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:44,360 hide, what they tell it to you, and I'll tell it to you. 452 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:49,280 In pieces of a puzzle that don't fit. The problem of the analyst 453 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,800 is to examine this puzzle, put the pieces together in the right place, 454 00:44:53,440 --> 00:45:01,280 and the more cockied the details, the better for the scientific side. I 455 00:45:02,199 --> 00:45:06,239 can't make out just what sort of a place it was, but I was 456 00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,800 sitting and playing cards with a man. Yes, yes, it was a 457 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:13,119 gambling house, but there weren't any walls, just a lot of curtains with 458 00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,599 eyes painted on them. A man was walking around with a large pair of 459 00:45:16,639 --> 00:45:22,239 scissors cutting cutting all the draperies in half. And then a girl came in 460 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,760 with hardly anything on and started walking around the gambling room, kissing everybody. 461 00:45:27,159 --> 00:45:30,360 She came to my table first. Did you recognize this kissing bog? Well, 462 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:37,159 I am afraid she looked a little like Constance aw. Oh. Well, 463 00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,119 I I was sitting there playing cards with a man who had a beard. 464 00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:44,440 I was dealing to him and I turned up the seven of clubs. 465 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:50,000 He said, that makes twenty one. I win. But when he turned 466 00:45:50,039 --> 00:45:52,599 the cards, who were blank? And just then the propriety came in and 467 00:45:52,639 --> 00:45:55,599 accused him of cheating. The propriety yell, this is my place, and 468 00:45:55,639 --> 00:46:00,719 if I get you cheating again, I'll fix you. Is at the end 469 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:06,599 of the dream. Oh. Then someone was leaning over the sloping roof of 470 00:46:06,679 --> 00:46:09,440 a high building. Was the man with the beard. I yelled to him 471 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:14,760 to watch out, and then he went over slowly with his feet in the 472 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:19,320 air. Then I saw the pride again, the man in the mask. 473 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,440 He was hiding, hiding behind a tall chimney, and he had a small 474 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,880 wheel in his hand. I saw him drop the wheel on the roof. 475 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:35,239 And then then I suddenly found myself in a weird, deserted desert. Constance 476 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,159 was sitting there. I ran to her, but she disappeared. Then I 477 00:46:38,159 --> 00:46:40,920 heard something beating over my head. It was a great pair of wings. 478 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:45,119 The wings chased me and almost caught up with me. And when I came 479 00:46:45,199 --> 00:46:50,559 to the bottom of the hill, I must have escaped. I don't remember 480 00:46:50,559 --> 00:46:58,639 anymore. So something, something is happening. What is it? Oh, 481 00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,519 pull down the shades the snow. The light frightened him. No, no, 482 00:47:02,599 --> 00:47:06,559 it was the snow. Look outside, Look outside, Alex, what 483 00:47:06,599 --> 00:47:09,159 do you see? Well, there are two children pulling a sled in the 484 00:47:09,199 --> 00:47:14,119 snow. Except the runners of sleds on snow, dark lines on. You 485 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,360 must please pull down the sled marks on the snow. The reason for the 486 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:21,880 sudden disturbance. And sometime I don't know follow the pattern. First was the 487 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,719 shock at the side of fork. Lines drawn on a white tablecloth, then 488 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:28,039 my white book. It had dark lines and a couple of nights ago the 489 00:47:28,079 --> 00:47:34,920 fight couples. Please pull the lines down, please. Doctor Edwards was fond 490 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:38,440 of spooks. He mentioned his tennis and skiing in his book. Yes, 491 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:44,719 skiing, ski tracks in snow. That's what those dark lines symbolized for him, 492 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:46,519 and his horror of the means, of course that they were immediately connected 493 00:47:46,519 --> 00:47:51,559 with the cause of his anesia. Yes, and murderer ski. Where did 494 00:47:51,679 --> 00:47:53,639 Edwards go for his ski? We must find out? Can you tell us 495 00:47:53,679 --> 00:47:59,800 where? Try? He has told you already in his dream. The slope 496 00:48:00,199 --> 00:48:04,639 roof that means only a mountain side. They were skiing, and the father 497 00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,360 image, the bearded man, is Doctor Edwards. It's very simple. Edwards 498 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:12,480 plunged over a precipice while skiing, then a shadow chases him up and down 499 00:48:12,519 --> 00:48:15,199 a hill. That could mean he was escaping from a valley, a valley. 500 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:21,159 A skiing resorts are often called valley's like Sudden valley, and he was 501 00:48:21,199 --> 00:48:24,360 being pursued by a winged figure, a witch or a harpie. No, 502 00:48:25,039 --> 00:48:30,679 the figure was you. If you grew wings, you would be an angel. 503 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,880 The dream was trying to tell him the name of the resort, an 504 00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,440 angel, angel valley do you remember Angel Valley? Oh no, it wasn't 505 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:45,599 the Angel Valley. I remember it was a place called Gabriel Valley. What 506 00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:50,599 else do you remember now? Who was the masked figure in your dream? 507 00:48:50,639 --> 00:48:52,480 It was an accident? Do you remember that? A skiing accident? Doctor 508 00:48:52,559 --> 00:48:55,079 Edwards went over a snow per? Oh no, it was snow accident. 509 00:48:55,199 --> 00:49:01,760 I can't stand it anymore. I've had enough of it. We've got to 510 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:07,400 call the police. No, we've got to go to Gabriel Valley. You've 511 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:29,159 got to go with me. Oh all right, get your skis on, 512 00:49:30,039 --> 00:49:34,800 we're going down that slope. I can't Why not? I know about the 513 00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,119 razor and brew off, but nothing happens. Well, let me give myself 514 00:49:38,199 --> 00:49:44,559 up. I've committed one murder. I can commit another. Guilt. Guilt 515 00:49:45,679 --> 00:49:50,320 you've lived with it for a long time. Yes, since childhood. Ever 516 00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,400 since your childhood, you've tried to run away from something. You've always felt 517 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:58,599 guilty about anything around you. What was it in you? It must have 518 00:49:58,639 --> 00:50:01,559 been terrible for you to prefer to thin that you murdered Edwards rather than remember 519 00:50:01,559 --> 00:50:07,039 what happened long ago. I'm not going down that slope. You said you 520 00:50:07,079 --> 00:50:14,480 loved me. Look at me in Why am I fighting for you? Because 521 00:50:14,519 --> 00:50:19,440 I love you? Because I need nothing? But what good will that We're 522 00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,119 going down this slope as you did with Edwards, and you'll see your innocence. 523 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:27,159 You'll see what really happened, because it will happen again. Yes, 524 00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:31,679 what if I killed him? Isn't it true that if the episode is repeated, 525 00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:37,000 I'm likely to do the same thing I did before? Now do you 526 00:50:37,079 --> 00:50:40,760 know I won't kill again because I'm convinced you didn't kill in the first place, 527 00:50:43,639 --> 00:50:47,320 Constant, you'll believe in me enough to take such a chance with your 528 00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:54,360 life, of course I do. You're ready to go down the ski room. 529 00:50:54,480 --> 00:51:00,079 We're going to find out what happened to doctor Edwards. I'm ready follow 530 00:51:00,159 --> 00:51:15,159 me, white white with dark lines. You know about the raising and Bruno. 531 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:20,119 I've committed one murder. White white with dark lines. Ski tracks, 532 00:51:20,159 --> 00:51:23,880 Doctor Edwards, ski tracks ahead of me. Get close. I've got to 533 00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:28,800 be near you, Doctor edkill Doctor Edwards here on the ski run. I'm 534 00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:30,800 likely to do it again. Closer, I've got to get called. No, 535 00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:37,360 I won't kill again. Soon, Priscip is ahead, pres head stop 536 00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:58,280 doctor Edwards. Fall Oh, Constance, Constance, I remember doctor Edwards went 537 00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,320 over the precipice, and where were you? I never was close to him. 538 00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:07,719 I know Edwards was at least twenty five feet ahead of me as you 539 00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:15,320 were when he went over. Come on, now, we're going to the 540 00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:35,719 police. Oh, my darling, Constance, I remember my name. It's 541 00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:40,840 John Valentine. But I'm very pleased to meet you. I ran into doctor 542 00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:45,880 Edwards when I was in Cumberland Mountains trying to recover from some kind of nerve 543 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:50,440 shock. I got an army plane crashed. He was on vacation, but 544 00:52:50,559 --> 00:52:52,840 I ought him to help me and invited me to go skiing with him. 545 00:52:53,039 --> 00:52:58,280 We went through New York and a vaguely remember going to lunch somewhere. I'm 546 00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:05,039 still a little vague about the lunch par And then we arrived here the accident 547 00:53:05,159 --> 00:53:10,320 happened. Tell me it's vital that you remember your youth the incident. I 548 00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:17,239 believe I can tell you that my brother Tom was five and I was seven. 549 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:22,079 We lived in a house which had a long banister alongside the steps outside 550 00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:28,360 about the house, and immediately below the banister was an iron spiked rarely. 551 00:53:29,559 --> 00:53:35,159 Tom now always used that banister for sliding One day. He went first, 552 00:53:35,199 --> 00:53:39,679 and I followed behind him and reached the bottom. He didn't get out of 553 00:53:39,679 --> 00:53:47,760 my path rapidly or nothing. I couldn't stop. Tom was impaled. I 554 00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:57,360 realized now it was an accident. I didn't kill my brother, and the 555 00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,719 ghost of the past has gone. I got it. That was the memory 556 00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:05,639 you were afraid of. That's why you took on the role of doctor Edwards, 557 00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:09,000 to prove to yourself that he wasn't dead and therefore you hadn't killed him. 558 00:54:09,159 --> 00:54:15,719 It was your childhood guilt complex, Professor. I never quite realized in 559 00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:21,760 my mn easy estate, how very lovely you are. Hello, doctor Peterson, 560 00:54:22,559 --> 00:54:25,760 Hello Lieutenant Cooley. Did you find the body of doctor Edwards. Yes, 561 00:54:27,559 --> 00:54:30,360 in almost the exact spots you told the mountain place it would be. 562 00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,079 Oh, thank goodness, it's all cleared up. Well, not quite. 563 00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:39,639 I'm afraid the bullet was found in the body. That's impossible. I'm afraid, 564 00:54:39,679 --> 00:54:57,280 mister whatever your name is, that you're charged with murder. It's too 565 00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:01,239 bad, Constance, your mister Ballentine was elected of murder. But you have 566 00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:08,880 a great career ahead of you if you forgain. Thank you that Doctor Murchison, 567 00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:13,800 at least one good thing came out of all this. You're back at 568 00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:17,239 Green Manners. Who knows what would have happened to the place under doctor Edwards. 569 00:55:17,679 --> 00:55:22,880 I knew Edward's only slightly. I never really liked him, but he 570 00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,400 was a good man in a way. I suppose. Well, good night, 571 00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:34,880 Constance. I hope you'll feel rested in the morning. I knew Edwards 572 00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:54,199 only slightly. I knew I knew knew doctor Murchison. I want to talk 573 00:55:54,239 --> 00:56:00,719 to you. Sit down. What's your problem? It's a dream, one 574 00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:05,239 of my patients reported, May I ask who the patient is. The patient 575 00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:13,119 is mister Ballentine, charming loyalty. What did he dream? He dreamed that 576 00:56:13,159 --> 00:56:16,400 he was in a gambling house, was full of odd people playing with blank 577 00:56:16,519 --> 00:56:21,960 cards. Blank cards. Obviously, the patient was trying to deny it was 578 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,480 a gambling house. One of the people in the place went around cutting drapes 579 00:56:24,519 --> 00:56:29,239 in half. Another was a scantily dressed girl who was kissing every but with 580 00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:32,599 a little effort, one could almost imagine them inmates of Green Manners. That's 581 00:56:32,599 --> 00:56:38,440 what I had in mind, doctor. The patient was playing cards now no 582 00:56:38,599 --> 00:56:45,280 longer blank, a game of twenty one with a bearded man who was evidently 583 00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:50,400 doctor Edwards. Yes, one usually dreams of one's analysta's authority with appeared. 584 00:56:51,079 --> 00:56:53,760 Has he dealt doctor Edwards as seven of clubs? And Edwards said, that 585 00:56:54,039 --> 00:56:58,360 makes it twenty one. I would say that the patient was trying to mention 586 00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,039 a low care. The seven of clubs might mean a club, yes, 587 00:57:01,039 --> 00:57:04,079 with the word twenty one in it. There is such a place in New 588 00:57:04,119 --> 00:57:06,719 York. It's called the twenty one Club. I've heard of this. And 589 00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,199 the patient dreamed that the proprietor of the place came in and began accusing doctor 590 00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:12,960 Edwards a cheating. He ordered Edwards out of the place and said, I 591 00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,239 won't allow you to play here. This is my place. I'm going to 592 00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:19,679 fix you. The dream gives the locale a double identity, the twenty one 593 00:57:19,719 --> 00:57:23,599 Club and Green Manners, but the proprietor seems to belong more to the latter. 594 00:57:23,679 --> 00:57:30,679 In fact, I would say that this angry proprietor who threatened doctor Edwards 595 00:57:30,519 --> 00:57:37,599 as myself. It seemed that way to me. I presume you only arrived 596 00:57:37,639 --> 00:57:45,440 at this solution tonight and have confided your findings. Nobody not yet was there 597 00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:51,840 any more to the dream. Yes. The patient dreamed that he and doctor 598 00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:55,199 Edwards were on a high sloping roof, and that he saw doctor Edwards plunge 599 00:57:55,239 --> 00:58:00,559 over to his death. He also saw the angry propriet hiding behind a chimney, 600 00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:05,639 holding a sore wheel in his hand. He dropped the wheel, the 601 00:58:05,639 --> 00:58:10,320 symbolism of the wild escapes. It was a revolver. The proprietor who threatened 602 00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:15,840 doctor Edwards's life dropped a revolver in the snow in Gabriel Valley after shooting doctor 603 00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,079 Edwards in the back. The weapon is still there at the foot of the 604 00:58:19,119 --> 00:58:22,159 tree, with the murderer's fingerprints on it. I cannot agree with this part 605 00:58:22,159 --> 00:58:23,840 of your interpretation. For the good reasons. The weapon is now in my 606 00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:31,039 hand. I imagined that something of this thought would happen after I made the 607 00:58:31,119 --> 00:58:37,440 slip about knowing doctor Edwards that started your d iill young mind going. You 608 00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:40,840 were having a breakdown and in a state of panic. You heard that Edwards 609 00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:45,159 was to take your place here. You sought him out in his favorite restaurant 610 00:58:45,199 --> 00:58:50,239 where he was lunching with John Vallentine. You accused him of stealing your job. 611 00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,840 You threatened a kill him. He calmed you down and told you that 612 00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,000 he was off on a skiing vacation, and you followed him there and you 613 00:58:55,079 --> 00:59:00,880 shot him from behind a tree. That ever occur to you that the punishment 614 00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:05,400 for two murders is the same as one. That you're not going to commit 615 00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:10,239 a second murder. I haven't planned too. If you are here, you 616 00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:15,320 are not leaving. My gun is trained at your heart. A man of 617 00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:19,639 your intelligence does not commit a stupid murder. Doctor, you are thinking that 618 00:59:19,679 --> 00:59:22,519 you are not mentally responsible for that other crime in the snow. They will 619 00:59:22,519 --> 00:59:28,199 find extenuating circumstances in the state of your health. They will not execute you 620 00:59:28,239 --> 00:59:32,119 for the death of doctor Edwards. You can still live, relight research even 621 00:59:32,159 --> 00:59:37,320 if you are put away. I'm leaving, doctor Murchison, stay right where 622 00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:42,119 you are, rout shooting. I don't think so. You're thinking right now 623 00:59:42,119 --> 00:59:45,199 that if you shoot, it is cold, deliberate murder. You will be 624 00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:50,119 tries as sane murderer, convicted as a sane man, and you will be 625 00:59:50,159 --> 00:59:55,119 killed in the electric chair for your crime. I'm going to telephone the police. 626 00:59:55,559 --> 01:00:16,599 Doctor murcheson a How does it feel to be a great animals starling and 627 01:00:16,679 --> 01:00:24,719 a great detective. Wonderful, very wonderful. You know, with a little 628 01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:49,360 orange blossom in your hair, you'll look wonderful. Him White a long time 629 01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:53,280 ago, William Shakespeare route. The fault is not in our stars, but 630 01:00:53,440 --> 01:01:09,800 in ourselves. How very wise he was. Our stars will return in just 631 01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:15,079 a moment with screen director Alfred Hitchcock. Next Thursday, the Screen Director's Playhouse 632 01:01:15,079 --> 01:01:20,199 will present Take a Letter, Darling. It will start two of your favorites, 633 01:01:20,639 --> 01:01:24,679 roslind Russell and Fred McMurray with screen director Mitchell Lison. Now Here again 634 01:01:24,719 --> 01:01:38,679 are our stars Joseph Cotton and Mercedes McCambridge, and mister Alfred Hitchcock. Thank 635 01:01:38,719 --> 01:01:45,880 you Joseph Cotton and Mercedes McCambridge for a splendid performance on our Screen Director's Playhouse. 636 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:49,880 It is our aim to always present the best and will certainly you both 637 01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,440 fall into that category. Thank you hitch for those beautiful words. What else 638 01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:55,920 does an actor have to look forward to other than praise? Mind? If 639 01:01:55,960 --> 01:02:01,599 I answer that job surely a paycheck. Seriously, though, it's been a 640 01:02:01,599 --> 01:02:05,920 great privilege to work with you, mister Hitchcock, and for join myself, 641 01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,159 I'd like to say, invite us back soon. Good night, good night, 642 01:02:08,239 --> 01:02:13,000 hitch We'll be seeing you, Joe Cotton and Messages mc cambridge, good 643 01:02:13,079 --> 01:02:52,119 Night, Everybody. Spellbound is from the David O sales Nick motion picture production 644 01:02:52,159 --> 01:02:57,400 of the same name. Watch for the next sales Nick release, Gypsy Blood, 645 01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:01,559 starring Jennifer Jones and producing technical Joseph Cotton. May soon be seen in 646 01:03:01,599 --> 01:03:07,880 Paramount's production September Affair. Mercedes McCambridge may soon be seen in Metro Golden Mayer's 647 01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:15,800 production Inside Straight. Alfred Hitchcock has just completed Strangers on a Train for Warner 648 01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:20,679 Brothers. The night's cast included Herbert Butterfield, Bill Tracy, Jim Knusser, 649 01:03:21,079 --> 01:03:25,760 Howard mcneer, and John Blythorm. Doctor Samuel Hoffman interpreted the Thereman music. 650 01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:31,079 In tonight's musical score, portions were transcribed. The night's production of Spellbound was 651 01:03:31,119 --> 01:03:37,280 adapted for radio by Jack Rubin. Screen Director's Playhouse is produced by Howard Wiley 652 01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:42,840 and directed by Bill carn This is Jimmy Wallington speaking and inviting you to listen 653 01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:46,599 next Thursday when we present Rosalind Russell and Fred McMurray in Take a Letter Darling 654 01:03:46,920 --> 01:04:04,960 with screen director Mitchell License Listen again next week the Screen Director's Playhouse, the 655 01:04:05,039 --> 01:04:10,320 Thursday night feature on NBC's All Star Festival of Comedy, Music, Mystery and 656 01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:14,920 Drama. Listen tomorrow evening to the One and Only Duffy's Tavern, the Friday 657 01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:18,960 night feature of the All Star Festival. This Saturday, Arturo Toscanini returns with 658 01:04:19,039 --> 01:04:32,719 The Symphony on NBC. This is Andrew J. Graham, author of the 659 01:04:32,719 --> 01:04:36,559 web surface series Oh and a Man of His Wife. You're listening to the 660 01:04:36,599 --> 01:04:50,199 great Detectives of Old Time Radio. Welcome back. Obviously, this was a 661 01:04:50,239 --> 01:04:57,239 film that took soccer analysis very seriously. You could almost say that it was 662 01:04:57,320 --> 01:05:02,480 too seriously, but it definitely plays a big role in the solution, in 663 01:05:02,519 --> 01:05:09,519 the way the mystery is solved. The actual film ending was a bit darker 664 01:05:10,039 --> 01:05:16,599 with the killer actually committing suicide and what was actually a very dark and scary 665 01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:24,199 scene in the way that is portrayed. Overall, I think that Mercedes mc 666 01:05:24,239 --> 01:05:31,079 cambridge and Joseph Coughton both did a fine job. They were definitely the equals 667 01:05:31,079 --> 01:05:38,760 of the original Stars and over Radio. I think even excel At Caughton, 668 01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:44,559 an OFT associate of Orson Wells as well well, I hope you enjoyed this 669 01:05:44,719 --> 01:05:50,159 first look at Mercedes mc Cambridge. We will be back with more next week 670 01:05:50,239 --> 01:05:56,360 when we get into the defense rest and defense Attorney. In the meanwhile, 671 01:05:56,440 --> 01:06:01,039 I do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow 672 01:06:01,119 --> 01:06:05,920 us on Twitter at A Radio Detectives, and become one of our friends on 673 01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:13,440 Facebook, Facebook dot com, Slash Radiodetectives From Boiseida, Ho, this is 674 01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:15,920 your host, Adam Grahamson and Off