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nineteen fifty and this one is Voices of the Dead. I don't a fitting
bullet, Hey, the de league pull building got a thing, go bold,
look up on the thigh at the bird, hit the plane, at
Hooper Man than your Duperman. When the planet dripped on home of a race
of Superman expliments, does the whole survivor was an infant boy who had been
shot to Earth in a seal rocket. Today, that boy, grown to
manhood, is known as Superman. Sworn enemy of the forces of evil to
weigh him in his never ending fight for truth and justice, he masquerades as
Clark Kent, crime reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper. His secret is carefully
guarded. No one is aware that Kent is Superman. No one but you.
Jine with us now on ABC, as Superman prevents a brutal murder and
solves a baffling mystery in an exciting transcribed adventure entitled The Voices of the Dead.
In his never ending quest for knowledge, Man has dug deep into the
long buried secrets of the past. On the walls of crumbling caves. He
has found crude picture writing in the dead cities of Persia and Assyria, and
the dark and musty tombs of ancient pharaohs. He has discovered curiously shaped letters
and words back through the centuries. Man has traced the written language. But
what of the spoken tongue? Are the voices of Caesar, Socrates, Alexander,
yes, even Lincoln lost to us forever? Is there no way of
bringing them back from the dim and distant past? Perhaps there is listened to
the voices of the dead. The crack express the golden comets feeding through the
night toward the city of Metropolis. Mark Canton Lois Lane, who boarded the
train of his glass to stop. We're about to enter the banning car careful
platforms really wooing? Oh why not, kid you go? I hope we
time in had the dinner cards. No, we've certainly waited alf a lot
of time an evening sir too. No, we've had dinner, thank you.
We're looking for some I see you looking yell. He is on the
left of the end of the car and it's back too. She could tell
him from his mop of white hair. Who's the woman with him? I
know? Maybe his daughter? Come? No, excuse me, I'm sorry,
I tell pass Clark off called somebody stupid than right? All right,
hard to keep your balance flying around those shirts curtainly, isn't it okay?
Lois? He goes doctor Roblin. Are you dressing me, young man?
Yes? Doctor, I'm Clark Kenneth, I troublous Daily Planet. This is
miss Lane. How you do we understand? You perfected an amazing new electronic
voice machine, and we wondered whether you'd spend a few minutes with us and
tell us about it. I'm shy, young man, but I don't know
what you're talking about, aren't you, doctor Roebling of the Electronic Institute.
No, No, you shouldn't prove made the mistake mistake in identity. If
you don't mind, we'd like to finish odds in there. I'm sorry,
terribly sorry. Let's go, Louis. We're too at the club car.
Got to figure this out. Something rotten in Denmark. Oh you know,
Clarde you could be wrong, or isn't that perfect? It's possible, but
not in this case. He's not doctor Robling. I'll eat my hat,
remember that, I'll remember, and I eat it with mayonnaise or without.
That's not funny. Apartment in car twenty two, the compartment they went into
after they left the dining car. Relaxed, clog jog the ride have done,
they existed house and anyway, even if he is doctor love me.
I don't believe that voice machine story. What don't you believe about it?
I don't believe anybody can build a machine capable of re creating voices of well,
taking the right out of thin air? Where do you think Adams come
from? Well, Adam's don voices old book? Do you mean to sit
there and tell me that with doctor Welding's machine you can hear the voices of
dead people? If it's what I think it is, Well, I don't
believe. Your grandfather wouldn't have believed television. Your great grandfather wouldn't have believed
radio and the telephone. And you're gradic difference why. I don't know why,
but it is. It's just inconceivable that a person can sit down at
a machine. And let's say here, well, George Washington's voice, or
or Thomas Jefferson's voice, or anybody who's when a curtain died? Boy died
when doesn't he doesn't it not the words he spoke when he was alive.
Well, you needn't look. You can hear me talk. Lois right,
because the words that leave my mouth become sound waves that strike your ears and
are translated into what we call speech. You're cant in, no, heays
the same with radio waves. They traveled through the air and are picked up
by a radio receiver which translates them into speech and music or what have you?
Yet that did hasn't explained. Wait a minute, now, if you
were in the next car of this train and I tried to talk to you,
you wouldn't hear me. That's a brilliant complain. But why wouldn't you
hear I give up only because you're receiving equipment. Your ears aren't sensitive enough.
My sound waves would be in the next car, but you couldn't pick
them up. Now, my dogs, for instance, have far more sensitive
hearing than humans, all of which had up to time. I think then
Robeling evidently has invented a machine so sensitive that it can pick up and reproduce
sound waves. Clear did years ago, maybe even centuries ago. Boys of
Washington thing, farewell, it is true Lincoln at Gettysburg. Sorry, I
still don't believe that that's why that she'd had us fly out to pick up
this train, because it's important that we get to rolling, and we can't
get to him. That he's not on the train. We're not going to
think of it. Maybe he didn't want to talk in front of all those
people in the dining cup. Clock now, why you could you up?
Look, we're coming into Marsden City. As soon as we get rolling again,
I'm going to take another stab at Robling, try to corner him in
his compartment. Let has been it's upper waves at Darling with a shogun of
low head time. He's pretty happy in the dining cars. If you don't
mind, we yell to finish. I didn't you. I'm used to women
blowing in the top. You'll train me. Never, i'd low me and
needs a good race compartment, great Scott, but never there's no one in
there. How do you know conceit? I mean they're just a so now
cut down there, the doors locked but so why having people a right to
leave the compartments that they'd be like it unless they had yours. And they
just don't understand doors. These doors can only be locked on the inside,
except why to conductor and acting that only coming as the conductor? Now,
I'll good, How can you don't make any wild teating worse? Good evening?
Good evening. I want to cut you help me. And it's like
some friends of mine are in this compartment, the doors blocked, and I
can't even get any response. I wondered whether they could have gotten off at
the last stop Wison City, not if the doors locked. I carry the
only g that the lock or unlocked these compartment doors from the outside, That's
what I thought. We tried the buzzer. No, but I rattled the
door and try the buzzer on the lift there. Okay, it needed to
be anyone in there, because it's got to be at the doors locked.
Mister, you know them folks are hard weeks, you know. I'm sure
there's no one in that compart trying knocking. Sometimes the local wakened when the
buzzer walked, came, can you unlock the door? One of our friends
as an elderly gentlem know, we're concerned about it. I don't know unless
it's an emergency. We don't usually a lock these doors. And let's try
knocking once more. What seems like that banging and waked the bed. You
better use the key when I gets sold. Yeah, the first time I've
had to do this in ten years. Anyone mean there clock no, and
look at the window. Great day in the morning. The window pane is
cut out with a glass pot window all the way, he said Walter.
Obviously to avoid being seated. You mean that old man and that woman climbed
out of the window just to get away from I know there was another reason,
and I'm going back to find out what it was. That way the
last stop, Marston City, you go out of a trap and Nandy hell
us. I'll call him if I dig off anything. Hold on the lad
wait leaving Lois Lane and Perfullman conductor puzzles and confused Sparks can't hurry through the
observation platform at the rear of the train in the darkness. He quickly removes
his hornrimmed glasses and with a few moments makes of change. From a mild
mannered crime reporter to the heroic red and blue clad figure of silkworm manner.
Then leaving from the platform, they owned the human being numbers among his other
amazing powers, the power of flight follows the gleaming railroad backs back through the
station at Marston City. At the station, once more in his guise of
Clark, can't he steps up through the ticket window? Could you help me,
sir? Ain't no more trains at me here at night? Mister,
I'm not looking for a train. I like some information. What can I
do for you? The Golden Comets stopped here about ten minutes ago, didn't
it? He pulled it at seven forty pulled out at seven forty four.
You didn't happen to see some people, an elderly man and the woman get
off the train. No, she had four or five pickups and connections from
the six fifty to the west, but nobody got off sept in the stretcher
case, What one of them stretcher cases had an ambulance here to pick him
up? To him off the train through the windows. Say that again,
you're hard of hearing, young pheno. I don't know. I just want
to make sure you say an ambulance was here at the station to pick up
a sick man who was taken off the train through a window. Dead right.
Didn't see him myself, Candor, I had to load the mail.
Where the ambulants come from. We're only one private ambulance out sitting town Legans
r E GA and dead right O the square off at the Marlborough Hotel.
Thanks, thanks a lot. I'm sorry, mister, but we don't give
out of the information about patients were carrying our ambulances. That stops private and
confidential, like it is with doctor. But don't you see, it's important
that I locate doctor Roebling. Who doctor Robling, the elderly man you met
at the train. Oh that wasn't his name, mister, Oh what name
did he use? Oh that won't work there. Who are you anyway?
My name is Can't I'm with a Metropolis Daily Planet. Yeah, there are
my credentials, buy a card, police card. I wish I could help
him, mister Ken, But like I said, in our business, we
don't talk. All we know is we gotta call to meet the train to
pick up a stretcher case. You gotta name, didn't you? Yeah,
we got a name, but believe me, it's nothing like robing or rolling,
or whether it was you saying, oh, where did you take him?
Oh? We don't give that out either. Maybe he doesn't want to
be disturbed. Maybe he's too sick to be bothered by reporters. Who knows
buzz of a woman with him? Look, mister canned, I I'm just
a guy who works for all. Why should I stick my neck out?
I see? Well, let's put it this way. Well, twenty dollars.
Get me the answers to a couple of questions. Whoa what depends on
the questions. Okay, let's try a few. Did you take doctor Roebling
or the sick man, whatever name you got to a hospital? No,
but don't ask me where we could him there? Enough? Question number two?
Did the woman go with him? No, only dropped her off,
Flaire, you said a couple of questions the couples too. I'll add ten
for the third. Where did you drop her off at the marble tell across
the square? All right, now, twenty more. That will make it
an even fifty for the name she gave you. No deal, I promise
I won't reveal the source. Still, no deal. Okay, here's your
thirty. Thank you, Uh, you going over to the hotel. That's
right. Well, the night clerk's name is Joe Hummels. You tell him.
Barney over to Regan said to help you out. They don't get many
check ins after eight o'clock. He ought to remember, Oh, why are
you telling me this after refusing to give me her name for an extra twenty
dollars. Oh, guy's gotta have some ethics. I can see your point.
Thanks. Crossing the square, class can't enters the almost deserted lobby of
the Marlborough Hotel. A few moments of conversation with the night clerk and he
has the information he wants. Stepping into an elevator, he gets off at
the ninth floor. See nine eleven. That's to the left. Bom Moving
silently along the carpeted corridor, he stopped before the door of room nine eleven.
His hand is raised and he is about to knock, when suddenly his
eyes White Man the Color dreams from his safe quite Scott, what has can't
making use of Superman's X ray vision seen behind the door of nine eleven.
We'll be back in a moment to find out. But first, here is
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back to the adventures of Superman and Art two of the Voices of the Dead.
What started as a routine assignment to interview doctor Walter Robling, a famous
electronic scientist, has turned into a strange and baffling mystery tracing the woman who
was with doctor Robling aboard a Micropolis bound claim to room nine eleven at the
Marlborough Hotel in Marsden City, bart Kent. Was about to knock at the
door when suddenly he blank, Great Scott bow boy, what do you want?
I have a telegram for you? Miss Oh? Just a minute?
Why claw? Yes? Is that all you got to say? In miss
lane? Is that all I've got to say? I left you want to
train and headed for Metropolis? How did you get off the trainer? What
are you doing here in someone else's hotel room? Well, I might ask
you exactly the same questions. Why don't you come in? No? And
you'd better get out of that room before Missus Smith returns and catches you red
handed. Oh so you know that Missus smiths too? Well? How cold
isn't it? Why I'm through in here anyway? So we'll just close the
door, walk up and return the key to the desk. How did you
get the key? Ask boy to the desk? Coming alois? Don't get
smart? Maybe if you didn't try to get so smart, things like this
wouldn't happen. And maybe if you hadn't rushed off like a madman without any
explanation whatsoever, you wouldn't have had to jump off a moving train. I
assume that's what you did and walk back to Marsden. Think how did you
get back? And how did you get off the train? And why?
I'll answer the last question. First, I found a telegram in that compartment.
Here eat it missus Carr Smith's compartment E golden comment on route Metropolis Hanbulance
will be waiting Marsin City with full instructions. You are registered Hotel Marlborough,
room nine one one, wait there for my call Jack? Does that answer
one question? How did you get off the train? Talk the conductor into
stopping her way station and made a call from my general store and got a
taxi to drive me back to Martin City for ten dollars. When I reached
the hotel, I walked up to the desk, asked for the key to
nine eleven and got it. Who took an awful chance? Well, nothing
ventured, nothing gained. What did you find in the room something that might
be interesting? Oh? What? Missus Nith evidently got her call from Jack.
Now she wrote an address down on a piece of paper but she was
probably an awful hurry and forgot it. What is it two eighteen vander Vistree.
I'll check it. Oh, no, you won't. You're not chucking
out on me again. Car can If there's a story here, and it
looks like there is, I'm in on it. Okay, let's go.
Linking her arm in kemp Lois Lane starts down the corridor toward the bank of
elevators. Meanwhile, in the second floor room of a dilapidated boarding house at
two eighteen Vandivere Street, a strange scene is taking place. The elderly,
white haired man can't identify it as Doctor water Robling is bound to a chair
in the center of the room. Facing him as a man with small,
close set eyes and a sallow, unhealthy complexion, and standing beside him is
the woman, the mysterious Missus Smith, who is doctor Robling's companion on the
train. The sallow complected man as a sheaf of papers in one hand and
a fountain pen in the other. Are you going to sign these papers,
Uncle Walter? Or do I have to try a little persuasion? The voice
machine cannot be used for private prophet belongs to the public. To older people.
Don't give me that holieth the bow stuff. It belongs to me.
I'm your nephew, your only living relative. You're an old man. You're
going to die still. Now find these papers before I lose my temper.
Take it. Shut up one of what I'm doing. Even your way,
who has no blood days with me, revotes against your knees. Understand you
won't fish it out. I got anything more to say, Uncle Walter.
You didn't have to hit him. I know what I have to do.
I'll kill him unless he comes across. I'll get that voice machine one way
or the other. Did you hear that, Uncle Walter, Yes, Jake,
I heard it all right. Then fine, put the signature on these
papers and we'll leave you alone. We won't bother you again. I'm not
concerned about myself, as you said the moment ago, I am an old
man. I haven't longed to live. It's you, Jake, but about
me. You're my dead brother's son. I held you in my arms as
an infant, you said at my knee as a child, and I read
you stories. I watched you grown mature. Cut out the sob stuff and
no, without sense of feeling, you stand there and threatened to kill me.
It's more than just a threat. You'll sign or you'll never leave this
room alive. I'm sin Go ahead, cook, Come on, it's only
to save you through yourself, only to keep you from becoming the murderer.
Hey, our driver, keep the change r my neighborhood. I must say
sorry, I didn't take it. Now that's too eighteen The Gray House,
New Cork. I think we should have had that taxi weight chapters all.
We won't find a thing him. We're just in the end with Scott.
What's the matter? Come on quickly, you'll better than our doctor, Robin.
Oh, yes, thank you, much better. Now can you tell
us what happened? It's a loom story. What did the monster? Is
it? My nephew? You post me to sign over all rights to my
voice machine. He's on his way to Metropolous now with his wife, Cora.
Where is the voice machine in the basement of my home and Metropolous?
How would your nephew and his wife be traveling? They have a color,
you know the color the making pocket. I lead to blue and then Doug,
I don't suppose you know the license numbers. I'll go into town and
send a cab back here. You and doctor Roebling drive to the airport and
take the first plane out to Metropolis. Now, don't leave him, not
even for a minute. I'll need you at his house in metropolit Why can't
you get the play with us. I've got to find that lucid at you.
You've got to get there always. But you don't have to do any
more. Relaxed tomorrow, we've got nothing to worry about. You're on in.
We'll have money the first we won't be able to burn it in the
day. We're just beginning to live. You know what we're gonna do.
First, there's a wold that isn't get out of the world. Hello,
you kill white? Who are you? Don't do me? Thanks for the
recognition. I'll take those assignment papers in your jacket pocket palace. You don't
mind. This is what you'll take mine with a pretty automatic. It is
a loaded Try again, but be careful. When the bullets bounced back stop
it that you can't hurt you. I'm hurt him. I'll kill him that
enough target back this first tile, take the gun down. Now the assignment
pay you'll ever get them all, won't I oh you don't hurt it.
Take the papers out of his pocket. The mind at last give me if
it wouldn't mean dragging your unod's good neighb my mother. I turned you over
to the police and seat to it us. They got a couple of years
behind bar stuff. They can over those paper I'll give you nothing except a
little warning get out of Metropolis and stay out. I don't know how to
thank you, mister Kens for recovering those assignment papers. How did you possibly
accomplish it? Yes, you can't. How well, frankly, I don't
look at me like that, Lord Luca Man. Yes, he stopped their
car on the road of Metropolis. Well you let your nephew go, doctor
Robling, out of consideration for you, I'm deeply grateful. Now, how
about bringing me up to date on how this all got started? Well clad,
doctor Rulding told me the hostoy that's not asking to tell, right,
I'll give you a highlight. His nephew's wife, and incidentally, their name
is Reggling too and not Smith met the doctor in Chicago and condemned. Then
he had to travel the Metropolis incognito because some one was to the voice machine.
Oh so that's why you denied your identity in the dining car. Yes,
it must have seemed very foolish to you. Not so much foolish or
strange. Go ahead, loss The rect is simple. When mister Roblin got
the doctor into the compartment, she gave them what he thought was one of
his stomach pills. Well, it was obviously something else, because he remembers
nothing at all until he woke up down to a chair in the Marsden City
rooming house. And miss Lane told you, I suppose how they got you
off the train and into an ambulance. Yes, it was all evidently carefully
planned. If not for you, mister Kent and Miss Lyne, twenty years
of work would have gone for nothing. Well, I don't know about mister
Kent, doctor Roblin, but there's one reward that I'm going to ask for
which within my power, you should have it. I'd like to see your
voice machine, and I'd like to hear it, because well, thank me,
and he don't be hurried. I just don't believe that you can bring
back the voices of the dead. Come are you sure? You? Oh?
Someone the dog? Will you excuse me? Please excuse me? You
do you do it kind, I will know in a few minutes. You
got the bomb and you don't hold baby niece. Come on, what are
you joking? I'm stopping shop. Who yet Keven the beatement because the slash
your voice machine? How I got the basement door behind the stews run and
so I'm a player at you? What that dog? Oh, don't come
near me. But if you have this crowbar, do I thank you my
defense, this machine. Drop that crowbar. I'll drop it on your head.
Un I don't even going to kill you with my co a brieve man,
mister King was too late? Your voice machinist rule? Can it be
rebelled? I'm not in my lifetime. Oh, someone else left to carry
on? What a shame. The place of progress, miss lane is often
outrageously high and maddens average sometimes makes it tirer. I'll drop you off at
your apartment. Loss always let me I had an exciting night, and let
me out. And the pardoning one too puzzling, meaning what well when you
ran down those tests of the day, Yes, I followed you, Clark,
and I staid at the head of the test without the robling. Well
anyone could tell that as yet he was doing the stick, and yet you
walk right toward him without any flinching, as though nothing could possibly happen to
you. Not much good, Oh no, not much at all. That
the splits go. And you know what, Well, I couldn't see your
face, but from the back as he walked across that faceman, getting closer
and closer to that lunatic with a crowbar in his hand, well you look
like Superman. I did. I know it's silly, and I know I
shouldn't be telling you it because it's just kind of give you a swelled Hey,
not at all. I'm used to it by now. You're used to
what being mistaken for Superman? React if you promised to keep it quiet,
I'll tell you a little secret. What come of my best friends can't tell
us apart? I'm going the voices of the dead um the Adventures of Superman,
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The Adventures of Superman the American Broadcasting Company Welcome Back. The end with the
Voice machine was, shall we say, a bit disappointing, and the plot
reason why the nephew comes back to destroy it and an insane fit of rage
is basically so that we don't actually have to deal with producing what this machine
promises. James Lawnson his review, praised the episode, but he said it
felt a bit rushed, and I think that that that's the case. This
was originally a longer serialized story and done twice on the Superman radio program,
and I think the fact that you do just have it in a half hour
format makes actually having some resolution or point to the machine more portant. If
you're listening to the Void to the Doctor Roebling's voice Machine Cereal, then you
have all the adventure and the running about, and therefore it really just doesn't
matter what happens with the machine in this episode. You only have the half
an hour, so to have the machine just end up being senselessly destroyed,
that really does the tract from the story. Plus it the talk about scientific
progress seems a little bit silly in a lot of the fact that apparently he
didn't save any plans and that's why the machine can never be rebuilt. So
this was not one of my favorite of these half hour stories. Now I
do have something else to cover, and I wanted to be sure and watch
the second Superman Cereal with Kirk Allen Adam Man versus Superman, and I'll go
ahead and share my thoughts on that it was at one point very similar to
the previous Superman Cereal as well as the nineteen forty nine Batman Cereal, where
you have a villain with a secret headquarters and a bunch of henchmen in suit
who go out to do their bidding as they come up with more and more
crazy plans. I wonder if every cereal was like this, because the only
ones I've actually seen are the Batman and the two Superman cereals, and they
had the same production team, so this may have just been a pet formula.
But this one featured Luthor at this point, not going by Lex Luthor,
just Luthor as the villain, with a Lile talbot playing the role.
And it was something to say because they really went full bore science fiction.
Luthor's men had coins that they could they could be teleported in and out of
trouble, and so they rarely ended up being caught. Now, unlike the
Spider Lady, Luthor did not seem to have one single plan. He just
kind of drifted from plan to plan to plan. Like at the beginning he
tried to extort one hundred million dollars from Metropolis, and then he went onto
transporting Superman's atoms into deep space. He'd get Superman to stand in this machine
and it would separate his atoms throughout the universe, and Luthor does eventually succeed
at this, but Superman Man is able to get back by even though he'd
been invisible and insubstantial. He can control electric typewriters, so when Lois tries
to use one, he takes possession of the electric typewriter to give her a
note. And in fact Superman is standing there in this insubstantial form, and
Luthor, he doesn't seem to run out of devices. He's got earthquake machines
and rocket ships, and he launches a missile at Metropolis to destroy it,
and Superman at one point ends up riding on the back of the missile like
Slim Pickens in Doctor Strangelove. I'm not quite that excited. He's still smiling,
Kirk Allan, Superman just smiles all the way through. And then we
find out that when all else fails for Luthor, he's got a rocket ship
and he's got flying saucers, and he's got a plan to evacuate the Earth
and whip out at least the city of Metropolis, leading to the slightly overstated
final title Superman Saves the Universe. But Luthor is just a lot of fun
as a villain. He's just a perfect B movie villain. And then there's
Lois and Jimmy watching this film. Based on what we see here, it's
a miracle that Lois and Jimmy survive to adulthood, not to mention living long
enough to actually meet Superman, who has to save them multiple times. In
the radio program and TV shows, Lois and Jimmy get into trouble a lot.
In the serials, it's just absurd. One cliffhanger involves Jimmy getting his
footstock on a railroad track as a train is approaching. And of course there
is some really absurd movie serial magic that comes in, like when the villains
kidnap Jimmy and have him drive into the middle of a bombing range and just
at that time and a bomber happens to be offline over at. Jimmy mostly
gets into trouble because of carelessness and clumsiness. Lois Lane is different. She
gets into trouble more for a lack of basic survival instincts. My favorite instance
of that is when she is out working for a TV station covering flood and
she thinks that the cameraman wanting to leave the side of the flood in response
to the advice of the policeman is just being a whimp, and so she
refuses to take down the camera until a flood comes and Superman has to save
her and It's hilarious how many times these things happen. Probably my biggest disappointment
with the Cereal is the fact that you don't really have the Atomman from the
radio show in there, you know, the not the nuclear powered Nazi.
The Atomman is just Luthor wearing a ridiculous mask. And so there's a lot
of unintentional comedy in this. But I think it's really is good fun.
They're on the serious side. I think they did actually have some really good,
ambitious ideas for the science fiction element that kind of press the boundaries of
what Superman was doing at that point. Consider the top of villains Superman was
facing on the radio or even in the comics, most didn't challenge them at
the level that Luthor does in this film. I found myself wishing a couple
of times that they had just been able to produce this with some greater effects,
but still even using your imagination. It's it's fun. It's by no
means great cinema up but I enjoyed it all. Right. Well, that's
it for now. Next week our final episode with Bud Coller. If you
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