Speaker 1: Truth or Consequences.
Speaker 2: The program to which you customarily listened at this time
Speaker 2: is leaving the air for the summer, but will greet
Speaker 2: you again at the same time on September ninth, Remember
Speaker 2: Truth or Consequences. September ninth, at the usual hour, Author's
Speaker 2: Playhouse presenting Frederick Engelheart's fantastic drama of a submarine That's brave,
Speaker 2: commander and crew and the mythological manner the Kraken. The
Speaker 2: National Broadcasting Company takes pleasure in presenting a special nine
Speaker 2: week summer series of Author's playhouse radio adaptations of the
Speaker 2: best in the field of short stories, selections from the
Speaker 2: works of contemporary writers as well as the acknowledged masters
Speaker 2: of the past. The nine dramas to be presented in
Speaker 2: this series have been chosen as outstanding from the weekly
Speaker 2: Author's Playhouse productions heard regularly over the National Broadcasting Company during.
Speaker 1: The past three years. The theme of tonight's presentation is Courage,
Speaker 1: the story of a.
Speaker 2: Submarine commander and his crew carrying on in the face
Speaker 2: of unknown peril, an unbelievable horror which rose from the
Speaker 2: past and held them in its grip. Author's Playhouse presents
Speaker 2: Frederick engelhartz the Kraken.
Speaker 3: Eighty destroyers, Sir, three points off the starven bar pressed dive,
Speaker 3: mister palmerin prepare for crash dive, crish dive.
Speaker 4: It is same.
Speaker 5: Blood the power tanks, mister Pomeran, Blood the coward tanks,
Speaker 5: blood the four tanks. And you say, bob plains hard dive, mister.
Speaker 3: Pomelan, bow planes hard dive, bow planes are diving.
Speaker 5: Is say all a hendful of, mister Pomelin, All ahead.
Speaker 4: Pull all a headful.
Speaker 3: It is same. Hen pizza on the torpedo room builders,
Speaker 3: pump the torpedo room buildings, hump the torpedo room bulges.
Speaker 6: It is same.
Speaker 3: Twenty pizza stern planes, deaden stern plains, steady stern plane.
Speaker 5: It is, sir, what ify there goes the night?
Speaker 3: He as can, mister palmerloyan fifty fez. Sure that one
Speaker 3: was closer by the sound, Sir, sixty feet. Sure they've
Speaker 3: lost us, mister seventy fizza still farther away, eighty pizza
Speaker 3: eighty feet.
Speaker 7: They're miles away now.
Speaker 3: Sir, one hundred feet. That's deep enough, mister Palmeroyd all
Speaker 3: not is a hit normal, All loads ahead, normal, All
Speaker 3: molders are head normally.
Speaker 4: It is same.
Speaker 3: Flood the stern tanks, Flood the stern tanks, Flood the
Speaker 3: stern tanks.
Speaker 5: It is saved, zero bubble, zero bubble, zero bubble.
Speaker 2: It is same.
Speaker 5: Release more oil, mister palme Royd. Release more oil, Release
Speaker 5: more oil.
Speaker 1: It is same.
Speaker 3: Can you hear them on the phones, mister Pomeroy, yes, sir,
Speaker 3: very slightly. They're going away, sir.
Speaker 5: We fool them again. What a miserable bunch of sailors.
Speaker 3: They are, little oil on the surfaces, and off they
Speaker 3: go with another cop can bull story.
Speaker 5: You'd think they find out sometime that it's nothing but
Speaker 5: a trigger, not the ideas.
Speaker 3: The steaming factors rat right now at forced Draft to
Speaker 3: boast how they destroyed another of His Modesty's sub mercers.
Speaker 7: I can barely hear their screws now, says Captain Camel.
Speaker 3: Sir, the thiefs are completely undamaged, no leech and no
Speaker 3: plate strained.
Speaker 5: Good, not that I expected anything of the spot.
Speaker 3: Gentlemen made trouble, always aborted us by as why the
Speaker 3: birth as the Italian depth bombs give us sinful waste
Speaker 3: spending all that money for ashken's just to kill a
Speaker 3: few fish.
Speaker 5: Lord what I don't know.
Speaker 6: Something kicking us like a Harry collect We'll say hell
Speaker 6: man medal patients. Mister Parian station your mental feet, it
Speaker 6: is too. The girl and mind the mite tanks. Girl
Speaker 6: say by the blow tags, and young stain by the
Speaker 6: b tanks.
Speaker 1: It is too. We're not going up, Captain.
Speaker 5: Something's holding us down.
Speaker 1: But what is it?
Speaker 5: I don't know, mister Powaray puller head boot blooded.
Speaker 4: Fuller head cloth, fooders full of head, boot flouted, it is.
Speaker 5: Said up ship.
Speaker 6: Mister Pomeroy, up said after if it did soon, ain't
Speaker 6: you fizz.
Speaker 5: We're loose from it now, sir, whatever it is, eighty.
Speaker 1: S seventy feet.
Speaker 6: Sixty three.
Speaker 5: Fifty three ortyv thirty three twenty feet ten feet.
Speaker 3: All clear on the surface service battle stations, mister Pomroy
Speaker 3: service padel stations, surface paneled stations in his Now we'll
Speaker 3: see what was playing with his Cavanough Marto machine gun
Speaker 3: on the chariot bridge. I'll go first, mister palm Roy.
Speaker 3: I couldn't see a thing through the scope. There's no
Speaker 3: way of telling what we'll find when we open the
Speaker 3: heads right sir.
Speaker 8: Nothing, not a thing in sight anywhere.
Speaker 1: But what could have tossed us around like that? Sir?
Speaker 1: Could it have been a volcanic eruption?
Speaker 8: No, nothing like that. We'd have felt the heat, mister Palmroy.
Speaker 3: Did you notice that after the motors were termed full,
Speaker 3: we hung for a moment and then jumped toward the surface.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I did a faseous sleeper, frightened rabbit.
Speaker 8: Something.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine what, but something had hold of us,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to find out.
Speaker 1: What it is.
Speaker 8: Give the order to switch to diesels, mister Pomeroy.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, diesel mottos.
Speaker 5: It is, sir.
Speaker 8: They were going almost due not when we came up.
Speaker 1: We'll backtrack a little. That will raise something.
Speaker 3: We've gone more than a mile, sir, Yes, and I'm
Speaker 3: slowing down, mister Pomeroy. Order false speed ahead, yes, sir,
Speaker 3: Full speed ahead, old speed ahead.
Speaker 4: It is so.
Speaker 1: Cruise are turning full speecher, but we're losing weight.
Speaker 3: This is it, mister Pomroy. Whatever it is, we'll give
Speaker 3: it a battle. That's something we can fight.
Speaker 1: Give the orders to stop chip, yes, sir, stop ship Steven.
Speaker 8: You meant at the gun look alive, be ready for anything.
Speaker 1: Captain. Look crawling across the deck.
Speaker 8: It's the tentacle of an octopus.
Speaker 1: An octopus. That things is bigger arms and oak read
Speaker 1: chemical screes.
Speaker 4: Is the dragon? That what it is is the dragon.
Speaker 3: Dragon? All right, swing that gun around, plain it on
Speaker 3: those arms with the clearer ship rap it fire.
Speaker 8: If you value your lives, turn off the machine gun. Tabanaugh.
Speaker 1: Aim in the surface of the water.
Speaker 5: Let's have one of those arms.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, look, I've ben seer.
Speaker 3: Watch the mob.
Speaker 1: It's pulling us under my main strings. We're going down
Speaker 1: by the head.
Speaker 3: Could have some time, mister hamerd yes, sir, prepaired the time. Hello,
Speaker 3: dext Man, my eyes, sir below next, mister bum Nothing
Speaker 3: else we can do, mister p We stay in the surface.
Speaker 3: We'll sink the gun cruiser. They're gone beyond the knee hope.
Speaker 3: We can't fight that monster, not now. Anyway, while it's
Speaker 3: clinging to the.
Speaker 5: Vessel, perhaps it will ship forward, sir in front of
Speaker 5: the tube.
Speaker 3: Are you crazy, mister don't Peter exploding on robbery bow
Speaker 3: would be worse than the depth bombs of the artist.
Speaker 5: Blood the forward.
Speaker 3: Thanks, yes, sir, Blood the forward tanks the foretas it is, sir,
Speaker 3: if we can shape.
Speaker 5: That depon off shades of the good Bishop Pontipedia.
Speaker 3: He wasn't far ang when he described a crackn as
Speaker 3: being a quarter of a mile across.
Speaker 7: You believe those.
Speaker 5: Medieval superstitions, Captain Campbell. I believe my own eyes, mister,
Speaker 5: to recognize that monster.
Speaker 4: There was a cuddle.
Speaker 3: This seven o'part, the grandfather of them all must be
Speaker 3: hundreds of years old, maybe a thousand.
Speaker 5: Poor Hans was right. It is the crack, but the
Speaker 5: cracking hasn't been reported in two hundred years.
Speaker 3: Be reasonable, sir, This is bad enough as it is reported. No,
Speaker 3: but how do you know the monster hasn't been sighted?
Speaker 3: How many of these Mediterranean fishing smacks could meet this
Speaker 3: beast and return home.
Speaker 5: To tell about it?
Speaker 3: We've been saved so far are the fact that we're
Speaker 3: covered with steel plates.
Speaker 5: Isn't there something we can do, Captain Campbell?
Speaker 3: Nothing, mister Pomeroy, it's too as I had to go
Speaker 3: on deck while the crack and still has hold of
Speaker 3: the thesis. The only thing we can do is wait
Speaker 3: until it finally gets tired of wrapping itself around us.
Speaker 5: And swims away.
Speaker 7: What do you think happened to the gun crew?
Speaker 5: And I prefer not to think.
Speaker 3: It's been thirty minutes since we cut the motors and
Speaker 3: let that devil tour us.
Speaker 7: What's our courser?
Speaker 5: Nor nor east speed?
Speaker 1: Three knots?
Speaker 5: This keeps up until midnight, we'll reach the coast of Sicily.
Speaker 3: The kraken probably has its home in a cave somewhere
Speaker 3: along the shore.
Speaker 5: Bigger Barton, Captain Cattle, what's up, Kavanaugh?
Speaker 4: There's stripping on the bottom and stepped both teal shows on.
Speaker 5: Our screws are gone and the water's coming in through
Speaker 5: the pipe. Watch, thank of Kavanaugh. What does the phenamater show?
Speaker 5: Mister Pomeroy, not quite eight paom sir? No all, thanks,
Speaker 5: mister Captain Cameron. We're in a tunnel of some kinda kay.
Speaker 5: I've presumed as much, mister Palmery, but you'll have to risk.
Speaker 3: Hitting the room for having our heels straight off. Give
Speaker 3: me all theer mister, yes, sir, oh thanks all tanks.
Speaker 5: You did say.
Speaker 1: What's our course now, sir?
Speaker 5: No course at all. We were twisting and turning and
Speaker 5: he was jumping all over the compass. Do you know
Speaker 5: where we are, sir, somewhere in the south coast of Sicily,
Speaker 5: and we can go for.
Speaker 3: Help by radio only if we can't work out to
Speaker 3: dismiss ourselves. I don't fancy losing my ship to the itees.
Speaker 3: I believe we've stopped, Sir, we have give me that
Speaker 3: audioform receiver.
Speaker 5: Winkle aye, sair here it is it? Eh? I don't
Speaker 5: hear the kracken's tail swishing. Perhaps it's left.
Speaker 3: Sure, possibly see if you can't spot anything through the scope,
Speaker 3: mister Pomroy, Yes, sir, darks pitcher, let's see a thing.
Speaker 3: It's a subterranean cave, all right. I want a diver
Speaker 3: to go out. Who'll volunteer? I we are, sir, Thank you, Kavanaugh,
Speaker 3: But to Pomery, break out a suit and ring cabanov Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: and see that they are locked. Precail here, sir, equip
Speaker 3: with them, settle and torch in the lamp hees, sir,
Speaker 3: listen closely, Kavanaugh. I don't want you to take any
Speaker 3: unecessary chances. Stick close to the airlock until you're sure
Speaker 3: that monster isn't around. There's much water here, so you
Speaker 3: can bloat of the surface with a periscope as a guide.
Speaker 5: There's a potable radio in the suit. Keep in communication
Speaker 5: with us and Kavanaugh.
Speaker 9: Good luck, thumbs up, thumbs up with dear, sir, can
Speaker 9: you hear of mister Pomroy, Yes, sir, he's outside now.
Speaker 4: I'm going out now, Sir, to look over the damage
Speaker 4: to the screws.
Speaker 5: He says he's going after Tell him to be honest
Speaker 5: toes every second. Mister the crackman is only playing doggo.
Speaker 5: He won't have a chance, yes, Sir Kavanaugh. Captain Campbell says,
Speaker 5: be on the alert every moment.
Speaker 4: I'm under the stern.
Speaker 7: Now her he's under the stern.
Speaker 4: Both the screws are gone and the rudder's on howsir.
Speaker 5: He says, both screws are gone and the rudders unhoused.
Speaker 4: I'm going up to the surface now he's going up
Speaker 4: to the surface.
Speaker 3: Cautionally the game, mister Pomeroy. This is the path that's
Speaker 3: liable to be dangerous. Yes, Sir Kavanaugh. The Captain orders
Speaker 3: you to be extremely careful when you hit the surface.
Speaker 4: I will, sir.
Speaker 3: Ask him to tell us what he can see as
Speaker 3: soon as he comes out on top. Tell him to
Speaker 3: use his light. Yes, Sir Cavanaugh, when you get on top,
Speaker 3: use your light. Describe to us everything you can see.
Speaker 4: Eyes. I'm on the surface now. It's a cave, all right, So.
Speaker 7: He says he can see it's a cave.
Speaker 4: There's plenty of room on all sides, and.
Speaker 5: Over plenty of space on all sides, and overhead.
Speaker 4: My life won't reach.
Speaker 5: The Hey, Cava, what's wrong, good lord.
Speaker 4: Captain, it's got me, he told me high.
Speaker 10: He's got him, and it's lifting him right down at
Speaker 10: the watch. Tell him to use his torch on it, Cavanah,
Speaker 10: use your torch on it, Burnet. I dropped it, Sir,
Speaker 10: I dropped the torch, dropped it, Sir. It's swallowing me. Hold, Lieutenant,
Speaker 10: is it.
Speaker 5: It's eating him?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 1: Oh? Wait and die?
Speaker 7: Doctor became.
Speaker 5: He may still be alive, yes, sir, Cavanan cavalon, and.
Speaker 4: So he answered, I'm still alive. I'm in the things.
Speaker 7: Tom He's down in a crack and stomach. Sir.
Speaker 5: Ask him what it's like, mister, Yes, sir, what's it like? Kavanaugh?
Speaker 7: So I can hear him.
Speaker 11: Yes, it's like a cave, a big cave, and the
Speaker 11: worlds are yellowish white, and they keep moving back and forth.
Speaker 4: They're covered with long white things like fleck snakes. And
Speaker 4: then that's what I'm hanging on with.
Speaker 3: Telling to use his knife and try to cut his
Speaker 3: way out. Yes, sir, Cavanaugh, use your knife and try
Speaker 3: to cut your way out.
Speaker 4: And I have tried serve, but the worlds are so
Speaker 4: thicke it's no use, sir.
Speaker 5: What's the matter, Cavanaugh?
Speaker 4: Every one of these white things is filled with some
Speaker 4: kind of juice and it burns. Some of it just
Speaker 4: fell in the hand, and there's a big pool of
Speaker 4: it at the bottom. I can't hang on much longer.
Speaker 5: That liquid will be mainly hydrochloric acid.
Speaker 3: Creature that size, without teeth would necessarily secrete.
Speaker 5: Powerful to jesty juice. Kavanaugh's doomed, but he's lucky. He
Speaker 5: still has his knife. Orter him to use it, mister Pomeroy.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir Kavanaugh, can you still hear me any answer?
Speaker 3: There's nothing we can, no way that we are, anybody
Speaker 3: else can help you. But you can die like a
Speaker 3: human being. You've got your knife.
Speaker 4: I can't do it, sir. It's a gainer religion.
Speaker 7: He won't do it, sir. He says it's against his religion.
Speaker 5: Tell him it's an order, mister Pomeroy, Yes, sir, Kavana.
Speaker 3: Captain Campbell's order is that you kill yourself now with
Speaker 3: your knife.
Speaker 7: He's praying, sir, Yes, it's all over.
Speaker 3: Let the men have some air from the tanks, mister Pomeroy,
Speaker 3: not too much, Yes, and try to raise our base
Speaker 3: at mott.
Speaker 5: We still aren't giving up.
Speaker 1: No, lock it up.
Speaker 7: Let a night. He wasship hereby, and she's channing our signals.
Speaker 5: Shall I try to raise the iteas maybe they can
Speaker 5: get this out of here.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of knowing we were
Speaker 3: caught like rats in a trap by a bloody fish.
Speaker 3: Put a man on the audiophone here, sir, the kraken
Speaker 3: will leave this then sometime when it does, we'll surface
Speaker 3: and look for a way out.
Speaker 1: M h.
Speaker 3: I believe it's leaving, probably hungry, sir, and after two
Speaker 3: days it should be give me the pood here the answer.
Speaker 3: It's going out, all right. I can barely hear it.
Speaker 5: Blow all, thanks, mister pomme roy easy, yes, sir, blow all,
Speaker 5: thanks all. Thanks? It is, sir, easy, does it? We
Speaker 5: haven't fought a goose here. Our death sir, we're not
Speaker 5: o good. Follow me, mister Pomeroy, and we'll take a
Speaker 5: quick look. See.
Speaker 12: Yes, Sir, may take that monster as much as the
Speaker 12: full date feeds. Will probably have plenty of time to
Speaker 12: get ready for it when it comes back. This search like,
Speaker 12: mister palm Roy. Nothing, there sallid rock on top. They're
Speaker 12: opening on that Saturday. That's what I was afraid of,
Speaker 12: mister Palmroy. The tunnel mouth is underwater, so we'll probably
Speaker 12: have the devil's own time finding it.
Speaker 1: What do you think this cave is, sir, an ancient volcano?
Speaker 5: Not exactly.
Speaker 8: Notice the poles in that rock over there.
Speaker 12: Yes, sir, Stratum was forced up at some time, and
Speaker 12: the sim's been cut out by the sea. You can
Speaker 12: see the mark ocean. Then the lamb dropped and carried
Speaker 12: the tunnel below sea level. Organize a gunproof and the
Speaker 12: men who have left, mister Palmroy.
Speaker 3: You you think we'll get out, sir, we'll get out.
Speaker 3: Never doubt that for a moment, mister. The first thing
Speaker 3: we've got to do is to kill that monster when
Speaker 3: it comes back. We can't do anything while they're still danger.
Speaker 3: It may turn up at any minute.
Speaker 5: Russell says he can hear it from the audiophone.
Speaker 12: Captain, twenty two hours since it left. That's about what
Speaker 12: I thought it would be. It's coming back.
Speaker 3: Then, while those eight shells into as fast as you
Speaker 3: can lose. As soon as it gets in sight, I'll
Speaker 3: turn the search slide off and I'll fire a player
Speaker 3: so it can't spot us too easily.
Speaker 1: We're ready share.
Speaker 5: Let it come.
Speaker 1: I can hear it, sir, can't be very far away.
Speaker 8: Now there it is, that's the.
Speaker 3: Light, mister POMERI, yes, sure, then I'm letting the player go.
Speaker 8: Make every shot.
Speaker 3: Phone in blast its head. It's the point, as taught
Speaker 3: the man, rapidfire our shame, no and then no off
Speaker 3: under what aim for the body.
Speaker 1: Who Captain is calling the whole travel a king's dropping
Speaker 1: all the stun seas firing then see fie The smash
Speaker 1: of stone wiped them.
Speaker 8: Out, smashed the pieces like an egg shell.
Speaker 3: We'll go below, mister Pomeroy, see if we can salvage
Speaker 3: a couple of divers suits you and know all that
Speaker 3: little left of our compliment.
Speaker 8: But we can still get out of here.
Speaker 4: Hello, Captain Campbell, can you hear me?
Speaker 8: Thank me?
Speaker 12: Mister, let me give my receiver a little monjuice tight again,
Speaker 12: can you hear me?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 8: Okay, now, how's your reception?
Speaker 4: Lucky we had these diving rings. We wouldn't do much
Speaker 4: good with nothing more than a long These.
Speaker 12: May turn out to be no better. So these you've
Speaker 12: got a chance. Here's what will do, mister Palmroy. The
Speaker 12: Krackan isn't dead, although it's lost all its tentacles.
Speaker 8: It's my idea. It twill head for the open sea.
Speaker 5: And we follow it through the tunnel, sir, Not follow, mister.
Speaker 12: You forget that tunnel is at least a quarter of
Speaker 12: a mile long, and only Father Neptune himself knows what
Speaker 12: kind of a bottom it has. The crack and told
Speaker 12: us in here, and I intend that it shall tow
Speaker 12: us out. But how sir, with this harpoon, it always
Speaker 12: the big enough target that I shouldn't miss. When I
Speaker 12: harpoon it, it will probably dive into the tunnel. You
Speaker 12: grab the line and go overside, and I'll be right
Speaker 12: behind you. Inflate your suit so that you float clear
Speaker 12: of the bottom. To be a terrible passed to mister Palmmeroy.
Speaker 12: But if you let go of that line, you're lost.
Speaker 1: I understand, sir.
Speaker 12: When we're clear of the tunnel, cast off and load
Speaker 12: of the surface tied is flowing down, it was to shore.
Speaker 8: Here it comes, mister get ready, I hit him, grab
Speaker 8: the line and hang on. Thumbs up, mister Parmaro.
Speaker 1: Lift.
Speaker 13: Senate Alastair Montgomery, Commander of His Majesty's Sir, Cadmus, we'll
Speaker 13: take the stand at your service, sir. It was your
Speaker 13: ship which picked up Captain Donald Campbell, late commander of
Speaker 13: His Majesty's submarine thesis.
Speaker 1: They're very anxious to add anything.
Speaker 13: We can to Captain Campbell's report that his ship was
Speaker 13: destroyed by Italian depth bombs.
Speaker 1: It was quite mysterious, sir.
Speaker 14: We were on patrol in the general area fifteen degrees
Speaker 14: west and thirty six degrees north when we spotted an
Speaker 14: object floating in the sea. We approached it with proper
Speaker 14: caution and discovered it to be Captain Campbell. He was
Speaker 14: in his inflated diving room and he was unconscious.
Speaker 1: Yet you were able to identify him immediately.
Speaker 14: Yes, sir, He and I were together on the wharf's
Speaker 14: bite before he added the sub service. We made him
Speaker 14: as comfortable as possible in my quarters. But it was
Speaker 14: twenty four hours before he recovered consciousness, and then.
Speaker 1: He was raving Poper his ravings about.
Speaker 14: He kept insisting, Sir, that his vessel had been attacked
Speaker 14: by the Kraken, a huge monster.
Speaker 13: Sir, Yes, I I am well acquainted with the mythological
Speaker 13: aspects of the Krakean go on, Lieutenant Well.
Speaker 1: After a few hours, Sir Campbell seemed to come to
Speaker 1: his senses.
Speaker 14: He then dictated to me the report which this board
Speaker 14: already has in his possession.
Speaker 1: You're sure you wrote this report word for word, as
Speaker 1: Captain Campbell dictated it, Yes, sir.
Speaker 14: It was simply that the Thesis had been attacked and
Speaker 14: sunk by Italian destroyers. That Captain Campbell and his second
Speaker 14: in command, Lieutenant Iron Pomeroy, were the only survivors, that
Speaker 14: for two days they attempted to communicate with the Letter
Speaker 14: or another of His Majesty's ships, and that finally, in
Speaker 14: diving suits, they attempted to leave the Thesis and reached
Speaker 14: the surface.
Speaker 1: You found no trace of Lieutenant Pomeroy, Nosa, continued Lieutenant.
Speaker 7: Yes, Sir.
Speaker 14: Captain Campbell asked to be alone for a few minutes,
Speaker 14: so I left him. Less than half an hour later,
Speaker 14: I heard a shot. He was seated at my desk
Speaker 14: and had taken my pistol out of the drawer. He
Speaker 14: was shot through the temple. And this note that you
Speaker 14: mentioned in my report, it was very strange, sir. It
Speaker 14: made me realize that poor Campbell never had actually recovered
Speaker 14: his sanity.
Speaker 1: Please repeat what was in the note, Lieutenant, Yes, sir.
Speaker 14: The note read, ammander loses his ship to a fish
Speaker 14: and then survives the loss of his vessel and its
Speaker 14: entire crew. Not a nice story to return to the
Speaker 14: world with. Those were the exact words, sirs. There's no
Speaker 14: doubt Captain Campbell was stark manned. We buried him at sea,
Speaker 14: to the sea which took his mind.
Speaker 5: We gave his body.
Speaker 2: You have just heard The Kraken, a short story by
Speaker 2: Frederick Engelhardt, which appeared originally in Unknown Magazine, Especially adapted
Speaker 2: for Author's Playhouse by Jack Mitchell and directed by mister
Speaker 2: homer Heck. Captain Campbell was played by mister William Everett,
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Pomeroy by.
Speaker 1: Mister Charles Irving.
Speaker 2: Others in the cast were mister Sid Breese, mister Charles Eggleston,
Speaker 2: mister Leo Curley, mister Wallace Owen and mister McKay Morris.
Speaker 2: The original musical score was written and conducted by doctor
Speaker 2: Roy Shield. This has been the first in a new
Speaker 2: nine week summer series of Author's Playhouse productions, radio adaptations
Speaker 2: of the best in the field of short stories, selections
Speaker 2: from the works of contemporary writers as well as the
Speaker 2: acknowledged masters of the past. These nine dramas represent outstanding
Speaker 2: productions presented on the weekly Author's Playhouse, heard regularly over
Speaker 2: NBC during the past three years. Next week, Author's Playhouse
Speaker 2: will bring you Cowords, hilarious story, he woke.
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