1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:25,879 Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents, Come in welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall, 2 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:33,399 Lord Byron, if I recall correctly first said sweet is revenge, 3 00:00:33,719 --> 00:00:38,439 but revenge is mine, said the Lord. According to the Bible, 4 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,960 the truth would seem to be that sweet indeed is revenge, 5 00:00:43,679 --> 00:00:47,920 while the moment lasts. But the victim of revenge will 6 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,960 himself be avenged one way or another by a power 7 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:56,799 not of this world, surely the power of God. In 8 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:02,240 any case, had Arnold Montressor not revenge on fortune, Notubillini, 9 00:01:02,759 --> 00:01:06,400 and enjoyed to the full that moment of sweetness, he 10 00:01:06,439 --> 00:01:10,239 would never have experienced a shock and terror that surged 11 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:15,840 through him. When Inspector Murdau said, Arno, I arrested you 12 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:22,120 for the murder of Fortunato Bellini. Me, you arrest me 13 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:26,599 for murder playing the innocent? Would do you no good? Arno, 14 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,879 I've got you dead to rights. I have found the 15 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:40,000 body impossible. You couldn't, I mean, see you, you just slipped. 16 00:01:41,159 --> 00:01:44,120 How would you know it was impossible if you didn't 17 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:48,480 know where the body was. But that was your second slip, Arno, 18 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,280 a slip you wouldn't have made if you hadn't made 19 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:59,359 the first first. Yes, you committed the perfect crime, my friend, 20 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:07,840 perfect except for one single, simple little mistake. What was taken? 21 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:22,879 What mystage? Our mystery drama. The Task of a Monteado 22 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,879 was especially adapted from the Edgar Allan Poe classic for 23 00:02:27,039 --> 00:02:31,080 the mystery theater by George Loather and stars Richard Kylie. 24 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,520 Is sponsored in part by imported Vigna Rose Wine and 25 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,960 Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with at one. 26 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:57,280 We were talking about revenge. I believe, yes, revenge an emotion, 27 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,680 a passion that came to burn fiercely in the breast 28 00:03:01,719 --> 00:03:06,560 of a certain winegrower named Arnauld Montressor, a consuming fire 29 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:11,719 he at last managed to quench with oddly enough, a casque, 30 00:03:12,039 --> 00:03:16,280 a barrow of a Monteado sherry. It all began, this 31 00:03:16,479 --> 00:03:22,960 strange and terrifying tale at the famous Montressor vineyards in Tuscany, Italy. There, 32 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,080 on a certain day in the office of Arnaud Montressor, 33 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,360 for Hunardo Bellini sealed his doom. 34 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,199 Speaker 2: But I must have the nineteen twenty three Vintigiano. No 35 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:35,879 other than Montiado will do. 36 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,479 Speaker 1: You must manage to find more on me. I would 37 00:03:39,479 --> 00:03:42,199 if I could perform miracles but I can't. I did 38 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:44,919 in touch with every wine grow, every merchant in Spain, 39 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:48,719 a scourt all of Montia where a Monthiodo was made. 40 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,319 I can't find even a bottle of the twenty three vintage, 41 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,159 And you ask for barrels where a bottle is only 42 00:03:54,199 --> 00:03:57,919 a drop to me? You know that, eh, You wouldn't 43 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:59,759 be trying to raise the price on me. 44 00:04:00,599 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 2: What, considering the money you owe me, the loans I've made. 45 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,199 Speaker 1: You, I wouldn't be surprised if you want your mind 46 00:04:08,199 --> 00:04:11,280 for tomorrow. How could I possibly make enough money to 47 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,479 pay you back by raising the price of the amontiado 48 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:14,000 you drink. 49 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,519 Speaker 2: You don't drink that much, which is why I have 50 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:17,920 my suspicions about you. 51 00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: Know what? 52 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 2: Are you the catacombs beneath your vineyard? You'd took me 53 00:04:22,959 --> 00:04:23,399 down to. 54 00:04:23,399 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: The third level not so long ago and showed. 55 00:04:26,399 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 2: Me why why there must have been at least a 56 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,279 half dozen casts of a monthiado. 57 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: More than a year ago, there was a half dozen. 58 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,399 There were only four. You'll drunk them all. If there 59 00:04:39,439 --> 00:04:41,879 is one bottle, one drop of nineteen twenty three a 60 00:04:41,959 --> 00:04:45,319 month Oddo left in Spain, in the world, I can't 61 00:04:45,319 --> 00:04:48,560 find it for you. Now, this discussion isn't an end. 62 00:04:48,519 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 2: And not altogether. I have another matter to take up 63 00:04:54,199 --> 00:04:58,040 with you. Money you owe me, Well. 64 00:04:57,879 --> 00:05:00,759 Speaker 1: What about it. I've been paying the intro and I 65 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:01,879 need the principle. 66 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 2: Business has been bad and I'm in need of money. 67 00:05:05,639 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: I'm afraid, Arnold, I must ask you to repay me. 68 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,360 Repay you not so. I don't think you realize what 69 00:05:12,399 --> 00:05:20,920 you're asking. I'm in no position at this time. Come in, Oh, Margherita, 70 00:05:20,959 --> 00:05:21,399 my dearest. 71 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 3: I'm sorry to interrupt you, darling, and you signor Billini. 72 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:32,639 Speaker 2: You do disturb me, Signor montre sir always, but not. 73 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: In the way you mean. Well, what is it, Margherita. 74 00:05:37,399 --> 00:05:40,439 Speaker 4: Tonio is waiting to see you. It's urgent, he says. 75 00:05:40,759 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: What's the trouble. 76 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 4: Something about the dampness in the third level of the catacombs. 77 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,480 He says, it's getting worse and changing the temperature. 78 00:05:47,639 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: Ah, yes, the dampness is increasing down there. I'll talk 79 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:51,879 to him in a few minutes. 80 00:05:52,079 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 4: Very well, Darling, good to see you, Signor Billini. 81 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 2: It's more than good to see you, Senor. 82 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: It is a feast to my eyes. 83 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 4: I can't help noticing. Good day. 84 00:06:08,759 --> 00:06:12,079 Speaker 2: She seemed defended with me, your wife. 85 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: You never took your eyes off her. Oh can you 86 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:19,680 blame me so young soul? About the money I owe you? 87 00:06:19,759 --> 00:06:23,639 Fortunate one week, I'll know one week. 88 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 2: You know our agreement, the loans payable on demand, or. 89 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:29,079 Speaker 1: You can sell me off. But there was never any 90 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,040 thought of that. There is now I'm afraid which you 91 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,079 wouldn't you cry? Must I need the money. You've got 92 00:06:36,079 --> 00:06:39,279 to give me more time. I do anything you ask, 93 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:45,879 anything within reason? Within reason? You say, yes, what is it? 94 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 2: Well? You know how I feel about your lovely wife. 95 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,759 Just looking at her makes me feel young again. 96 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: What are you saying? The thought has crossed my mind 97 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,279 more than once. I know that. 98 00:07:01,879 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 2: What a pleasure it would be if she would come 99 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,879 to dinner with me one night. Yes, it is delighted 100 00:07:08,879 --> 00:07:14,319 to and that we that you her alone. 101 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:17,319 Speaker 1: If you mean what I think. 102 00:07:17,199 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 2: You mean, get out very well and all out. I said, 103 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:31,720 I'm going, but remember you have one week from today. 104 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: What a filthy upset? 105 00:07:37,439 --> 00:07:43,199 Speaker 4: Yes, come in, I just saw Senor Billini leave. If 106 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,720 you can see Tonio now, oh no, what is it not? 107 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,600 Something's happened to upset you? I can see it in 108 00:07:50,639 --> 00:07:51,160 your face. 109 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: What is it? Oh, Blini is given me a week 110 00:07:56,199 --> 00:07:58,360 to repay the money I owe Emory sell me out. 111 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,879 But that's not all. What got me angered was yes, 112 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,480 he said, he said he'd be willing to give me 113 00:08:08,519 --> 00:08:14,519 an extension if if you'd have dinner with him. 114 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:19,519 Speaker 4: What you mean is if I is oh, of. 115 00:08:19,839 --> 00:08:20,199 Speaker 1: All, but. 116 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:29,399 Speaker 4: The thought of it, that's fact repulsed. But arno, darling, 117 00:08:29,399 --> 00:08:30,199 what are you going to do? 118 00:08:30,839 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 3: Can he take the vineyard if you don't pay him 119 00:08:32,879 --> 00:08:33,919 in a week, the vineyard of. 120 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:37,279 Speaker 1: The wine stocks, and the gadagombs below the house, everything, 121 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:40,840 But we'll be ruined, Yes, ruined. 122 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,879 Speaker 4: Oh my dearest, there must be something we can do, 123 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:47,960 something if you. 124 00:08:48,039 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 1: Think of something, margueritea let me know. I would. The 125 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,559 maid said you were here to see me. 126 00:08:58,639 --> 00:09:03,799 Speaker 2: I didn't believe it, Bastle, What a pleasure, signor a montress, 127 00:09:03,919 --> 00:09:08,840 or what a very real pleasure to discover I was wrong? 128 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 3: Why would you think my paying you a visit, signor 129 00:09:12,759 --> 00:09:15,240 Billini an impossibility to. 130 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:20,279 Speaker 2: Be altogether honest with you? Signor him? Magilite? 131 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:23,919 Speaker 4: If I may say, of course you may fortune not 132 00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:24,559 to er. 133 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,559 Speaker 2: I'd always thought you didn't exactly care too. 134 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,519 Speaker 4: Much for me to be altogether honest with you. I don't. 135 00:09:34,759 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: Then why are you here? 136 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 3: If you force Arnor to repay what he owes you 137 00:09:39,759 --> 00:09:43,240 in one week, he'll be ruined. Hears you offered to 138 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:47,559 give him an extension of time. If if I would 139 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:48,559 have dinner. 140 00:09:48,279 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 4: With you, Yes, I've thought about it. Suppose suppose I 141 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,399 came to lunch. Say Anna and I don't see much 142 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,960 of each other during the day, and I'm often out shopping, 143 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,039 so there'd be no need to explain where. 144 00:10:02,799 --> 00:10:04,159 Speaker 1: I'd been, white beautiful. 145 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:10,879 Speaker 4: If you cancel Arno's debt altogether, cancel it totally. 146 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,039 Speaker 1: Oh my dear, you are. 147 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 2: As clever as you are desirable that I'm afraid you 148 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:18,399 take me. 149 00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:18,919 Speaker 1: For a fool. 150 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 2: Why forgive the debt altogether and enjoy your company only 151 00:10:23,279 --> 00:10:27,159 once when by giving extensions of time I can enjoy 152 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:28,360 it many times over. 153 00:10:29,639 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: What you'd take me for an extension wouldn't help very much, 154 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:38,240 but it would help when he needs help. It's either 155 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:39,600 that Margarite. 156 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 2: Ruin for you as well as him lunch. Then say 157 00:10:46,279 --> 00:10:51,960 tomorrow one. 158 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:54,879 Speaker 4: Tomorrow, that one. 159 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: I said, where have you been all afternoon? Ah? 160 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 4: No, dearest, I told you shopping. 161 00:11:04,399 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: What did you buy. 162 00:11:06,879 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 4: Nothing. 163 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,799 Speaker 3: I couldn't find what I wanted. A bag, a new 164 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:12,960 bag to go with those shoes I bought last week, 165 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:18,000 and I thought I might find a hat to go. 166 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:24,399 Speaker 1: With you with Billini. Isabella told me Isabella his daughter, 167 00:11:25,759 --> 00:11:28,759 you know, his daughter, the one he sent to visit 168 00:11:28,759 --> 00:11:32,159 our aunt for the afternoon. No, no, the aunt wasn't 169 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,120 at home, and she came back to find you with 170 00:11:36,159 --> 00:11:41,919 her father in her father's bet. I did it for 171 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,840 you me, shame me. 172 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 4: No one need ever know. 173 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: I know me. I know I got to die. I 174 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:53,799 have died. 175 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:59,639 Speaker 4: I know, Darling, Darling, listen to me, Please listen. I 176 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:01,720 love you, only you. 177 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:03,919 Speaker 1: I don't want to please. Oh please. 178 00:12:05,159 --> 00:12:07,559 Speaker 3: Since the day of our marriage, I have watched you 179 00:12:07,639 --> 00:12:10,720 work yourself to the bone to keep the Montressor vineyards going, 180 00:12:11,159 --> 00:12:13,960 to hold on to the heritage, your heritage of more 181 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,240 than a century. I have so admired you for what 182 00:12:17,279 --> 00:12:19,519 you do, so loved you for the. 183 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:20,879 Speaker 4: Man, the husband you are. 184 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,879 Speaker 3: I couldn't bear to see you ruined, and so I 185 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,080 helped you in the only way I knew, the only 186 00:12:29,159 --> 00:12:30,360 way I could. 187 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:33,399 Speaker 4: Bellini is going to extend the loans. 188 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: Another devil with the vons and body and his extensions. 189 00:12:38,759 --> 00:12:40,440 You stand there and tell me you couldn't bear to 190 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,879 see me ruined and are the same way. Admit you 191 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,000 ruined me. No, no, roll me as a man, ruin 192 00:12:47,039 --> 00:12:50,279 me as a respective member of the community. You think 193 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,679 everyone will know about this with this Isabella and her tongue. 194 00:12:54,879 --> 00:12:58,399 I can hear them laughing behind my back, all of them. 195 00:12:58,639 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 4: Fuffy hanno. 196 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,159 Speaker 3: I beg you don't talk this way, Isabella won't talk. 197 00:13:03,399 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 5: No one will ever know. 198 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:07,799 Speaker 1: I can never look at you again without knowing what 199 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,879 you did. I could never hold you in my arms, 200 00:13:12,399 --> 00:13:16,720 never sleep with you again without knowing us. I know 201 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,320 you can kill your hopes. You've done to me? Tell 202 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,000 you you. 203 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 3: I do, I know you. 204 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 2: O. 205 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: Margerita stead Yes, and you should be what you've done? 206 00:13:55,240 --> 00:14:04,000 I careful, sweet, beautiful and desiral. What're about to do? 207 00:14:05,759 --> 00:14:11,759 It's about to do? Yes? Yes, somebody must be hidden 208 00:14:12,759 --> 00:14:34,799 hidden how doctor? Yes, that's it. The catacombs life. It's alive. 209 00:14:35,519 --> 00:14:41,759 Speaker 4: Oh oh my my throw I just work fast fast, 210 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,399 I know, I know what. 211 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,879 Speaker 5: I can see, only your head and shoulders. 212 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: Where am I? It doesn't matter where you are? What 213 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:58,799 are you doing? Walling you up? Walling you know? The 214 00:14:58,919 --> 00:15:01,559 catacombs as well as I do. We are. The walls 215 00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:04,559 have caved in in places, and our openings that can 216 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,840 be walled up. No one the wiser to what lies 217 00:15:07,919 --> 00:15:14,519 behind them. Oh no, no, no, not a stone. Two 218 00:15:14,639 --> 00:15:19,159 more on me, two more. I love you. I did 219 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:23,399 what I did because I love you, and I love you. 220 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,039 Then why are you doing this? 221 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:29,679 Speaker 4: Pull the stones away, tear them down. 222 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:36,559 Speaker 1: Oh I cannot. I will not your mine. But you 223 00:15:36,679 --> 00:15:42,279 became his. You love me and you loved him. No, 224 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:47,440 give yourself to him for your sake. You didn't want him. 225 00:15:47,919 --> 00:15:52,039 How can you say, because it could be true? How 226 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,840 do I know it isn't? How will I ever know? 227 00:15:55,799 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 3: Oh? 228 00:15:56,159 --> 00:16:03,559 Speaker 1: My god, I can't believe it. Well, I just said high, 229 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,600 I don't believe. But my mind is stained with a thought. 230 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:17,080 My heart is shutter by it. You must die, darling, must. 231 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:24,399 Speaker 4: If killing me, revenging yourself on me will help you, 232 00:16:25,879 --> 00:16:26,159 I know. 233 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:33,039 Speaker 1: Put in the last stone. There is nothing left for 234 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:39,279 me now, nothing of me but my love for you. Stone. 235 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:50,600 Put it in place. Yes, yes, I love you. I 236 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:58,080 love you. I love you. I will always love you. 237 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:09,519 His heart, his soul smashed to bits, Arnold Montressor sends 238 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:12,920 his wife to her death, walling her up on the 239 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:18,240 first and uppermost level of the catacombs. Oscar Wilde, our 240 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:22,640 old friend said, each man kills the thing he loves 241 00:17:23,759 --> 00:17:27,000 all my life. I've never been able to understand what 242 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:31,960 he meant by that. Perhaps I do now, Perhaps you 243 00:17:32,079 --> 00:17:47,599 do too. I'll return shortly for Act two. Murder will out, 244 00:17:48,279 --> 00:17:51,319 it has been said. And yet it's hard to see 245 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,000 how the murder of Marguerite to montresor by her husband Arnault, 246 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,960 will ever be discovered, For he has carefully walled her 247 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,440 up on the top level of the catacombs, beneath his vineyard. 248 00:18:03,559 --> 00:18:09,079 It's possible, indeed altogether likely, that had he been content 249 00:18:09,279 --> 00:18:13,160 with that, he would never have been found out. But 250 00:18:13,319 --> 00:18:17,920 a consuming passion to revenge himself on Fortunatobelini has taken 251 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,920 possession of him now, a passion that is to drive 252 00:18:21,079 --> 00:18:26,519 him into making one single, simple little mistake. Come in, Isabella, 253 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:30,880 Come in, what an unexpected pleasure. Sit down. I have 254 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,359 a glass of why this locker room and Christie is 255 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:38,359 particularly good. Thank you. Well, Now why have you come 256 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:38,759 to see me? 257 00:18:39,599 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 5: I'm not sure, but guilt, I suppose shame? 258 00:18:45,839 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 1: What do you mean? 259 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 5: The story is all over town that you and Marguerite 260 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,000 to have split up, that she's left you. 261 00:18:52,839 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 4: Is it true? 262 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 1: Not entirely. I've let people believe that because I don't 263 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:03,200 care what they think. But you, I can tell the truth. 264 00:19:04,759 --> 00:19:06,839 I threw her out yet, and. 265 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 5: You can tell me the truth because I'm responsible. I'm 266 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,359 the one who came running to tell you about her 267 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:13,279 being with my father? 268 00:19:14,039 --> 00:19:16,559 Speaker 1: Is that why you feel guilty? Ashamed? 269 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,079 Speaker 5: If I had minded my own business, none of this 270 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:23,440 would have happened. You and Marguerita would still be happily together. 271 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,799 Speaker 1: A false happiness built on unfaithfulness. 272 00:19:26,279 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 4: Perhaps, But I had no right to do what I did. 273 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 5: It was just that I was so surprised, so shocked 274 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,039 at finding her with my father together. 275 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:37,839 Speaker 4: I lost my head. 276 00:19:39,039 --> 00:19:41,759 Speaker 5: I must apologize, beg forgiveness. 277 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,519 Speaker 1: I don't know where Margherita is, and I don't want 278 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:49,640 to know. Have you told your father about finding him 279 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:50,720 and Marguerita together? 280 00:19:51,079 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 6: No? 281 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 5: I wouldn't, dare. I think he would kill me, and 282 00:19:55,279 --> 00:19:56,599 you must never tell him either. 283 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:02,559 Speaker 1: Don't worry. I don't intend through another glass. Thank you. 284 00:20:02,759 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 5: No, I'll go now. 285 00:20:04,759 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 1: We'll let me see you to the door. Carnival Week 286 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,559 begins tonight. I suppose you're looking forward to it? 287 00:20:13,319 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 5: You know better than that, Signor Montressor. I know everyone 288 00:20:17,599 --> 00:20:19,279 knows that I never go to the carnival. 289 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:21,599 Speaker 1: Oh why not? Come on? 290 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 6: Now? 291 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 5: You know I can never find anyone to take me. 292 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,359 That's why there isn't a boy in town who'd want 293 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,279 to be seen with anyone as plain and unattractive. 294 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 1: As me, plain unattractive. Will you shock me? I've always 295 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:44,160 thought of you as well, anything but unattractile. Come on 296 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:49,480 now one minute, but gus understand me. I mean, well, 297 00:20:49,519 --> 00:20:51,359 I'm almost old enough to be your father, and I 298 00:20:51,759 --> 00:20:56,680 wouldn't want you to think. All I'm saying is if 299 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,559 you would be willing to go to the carnival tonight 300 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:03,480 with me? You for why not? I'm alone? You're alone. 301 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:07,839 We could at least be alone together. Yes, and you'd 302 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:09,720 have the fun of going to the carnival at last. 303 00:21:09,839 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know, I do. 304 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,319 Speaker 1: I'll call for you at ten. I won't take no 305 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,839 for an answer. Oh, Signor mont and another thing called me. 306 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,559 Arno see you at ten. Yes, I'll be looking forward 307 00:21:22,599 --> 00:21:27,039 to it. Oh and so will I? So will i, Arno, 308 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:37,240 Inspector Madero, the police. Yes, signor what do you want 309 00:21:37,319 --> 00:21:42,000 with me? A matter of routine, Senor, nothing more. It's 310 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:46,000 about your wife, yes, what about her? It's come to 311 00:21:46,079 --> 00:21:48,839 our attention at headquarter. Is that your wife is no 312 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,720 longer living with you? Correct? Would you mind telling me 313 00:21:52,839 --> 00:21:59,119 why we've separated? For what reason? If you'd rather not tell, 314 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:04,319 Hoddan happy to tell. We simply couldn't get along anymore. 315 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,640 We were incompatible, constant quarreling. It became too much, so 316 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:15,160 we decided to split up and she went elsewhere. Yes where, 317 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:21,680 I don't know, You don't know. I don't to tell 318 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,920 you the truth. I don't care. You have no idea 319 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,960 where she might have gone? Back to her parents, perhaps relatives, 320 00:22:30,319 --> 00:22:34,400 parents of murders, for relatives. Why are you asking all 321 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:42,640 these questions? There is some talk of murder murder, No, 322 00:22:42,799 --> 00:22:45,640 you mean she's met with foul plag and murdered. No, no, no, 323 00:22:45,799 --> 00:22:50,319 no no. The talk about town is that you know 324 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:54,319 how gossip spread, Senior. And of course there's nothing to 325 00:22:54,519 --> 00:22:57,400 this still and all the police must check it out. 326 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:06,400 The talk is that you murdered her. Yes, it is silly, 327 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:13,759 of course, it's ridiculous, utterly and completely ridiculous. Well, now 328 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,839 if you'll excuse me, Inspector. I have much to do. 329 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:21,160 And the relatives were your wife you said she has relative? 330 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:26,839 Oh yes, yes, a sister in Rome and another in Florence. 331 00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:29,240 And I appreciate it if you'd give me their names 332 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,359 and addresses. Certainly, only well if you ask me, Inspector Madera. 333 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,480 The police are making a mountain out of a mole hill. 334 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:47,960 A matter of routine, your routine, nothing more. Enjoying yourself, Isabella, 335 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,720 Oh no, I am, I am. You have no idea. 336 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:53,480 Thank you for bringing me. 337 00:23:54,079 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 5: It's so wonderful to speak, thousands and thousands of nights, 338 00:23:59,319 --> 00:23:59,960 all kinds. 339 00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 4: Of color, and the music and the people in the costume. 340 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: And hi area, I know the fireworks. Let's get closer 341 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,599 what we can. But pushing us card is going to 342 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,200 be okay, well, but you just stop blocking my way. 343 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,079 Speaker 6: I are now, it's we But you. 344 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:21,279 Speaker 4: Know what, because you went messing up the hart chested Yes, yes, 345 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:21,920 how are you. 346 00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:23,519 Speaker 1: Well enough for tomato? 347 00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:27,839 Speaker 2: You fine, fine, except I've been a little troubled and 348 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,440 a little puzzled not hearing from you. 349 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,519 Speaker 1: Especially after I gave you a three months extension on 350 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,480 the loan. Well, I've been very busy for tomorrow, very 351 00:24:35,559 --> 00:24:38,200 busy harvest time. You know, I just haven't had a 352 00:24:38,279 --> 00:24:39,079 moment to myself. 353 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,319 Speaker 2: Yes, but still in all, well, never mind, this is 354 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:47,680 a nightful fumlent pleasure which reminds me. Have you managed 355 00:24:47,759 --> 00:24:50,680 to find some twenty three of antiagro for me? 356 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,519 Speaker 1: Well? The truth is fortunate that I don't want to 357 00:24:55,519 --> 00:24:58,359 get your hopes raised. You have out some don't know, 358 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,200 not yet, not yet, but I I may now, I 359 00:25:01,319 --> 00:25:04,039 say I may have located a barrel of it in Manti, 360 00:25:04,279 --> 00:25:08,640 a old task. Oh, it's had it overhect. 361 00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 2: My agent is checking. I'll let you know as soon 362 00:25:10,759 --> 00:25:13,200 as you do. Don't waste a minute. We'll get it 363 00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:15,119 over from space as you can. 364 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,519 Speaker 1: I'll do my best. Well, so you need have you? 365 00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:28,279 It's a subside, isn't it certain? 366 00:25:28,279 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 6: Please? 367 00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 1: Sior Montresor, Oh, Inspector Mardiro, Well, meto, And isn't this 368 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,319 Celina Uni with you? Yes, it's Abello. This is Inspector 369 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,799 Marduro the police. How do you do enjoying the carnival? 370 00:25:43,839 --> 00:25:44,079 Speaker 6: Io? 371 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 3: Oh? 372 00:25:44,519 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oh, honor. By the way, she didn't go 373 00:25:51,519 --> 00:25:56,079 to her relatives, but you're what she didn't go to 374 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:01,240 her sister in Rome or Florence. We checked, they haven't 375 00:26:01,279 --> 00:26:06,440 seen her. Oh well, they must have gone elsewhere. Then. 376 00:26:06,799 --> 00:26:12,519 Of course the question is where. You have no idea, 377 00:26:12,599 --> 00:26:18,359 as you said, your yeah, but I'll just have to 378 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,079 keep looking till I find her. 379 00:26:31,799 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 4: OHNO, take me home now. 380 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:39,799 Speaker 5: I shouldn't have come to your house in the first place. 381 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 1: Or to stop. A glass of wine is a villa? No, I. 382 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 5: I can't seem to get up from the chair. What's 383 00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:51,000 happened to me? 384 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 1: I've drugged you, That's what's happened me to make killing you, 385 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:04,440 murdering you easier. Murder you, stupid, ugly little fool. You 386 00:27:04,599 --> 00:27:07,359 really believe me when I said I found you not unattractive, 387 00:27:08,319 --> 00:27:10,599 that I'd be delighted to escort you to the carnival. 388 00:27:11,599 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 5: I know what are you saying. 389 00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:15,519 Speaker 1: I'm saying that I'm going to do the same with 390 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,680 you that I did with Marguerita. Wore you up in 391 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:19,759 the catacombs below. 392 00:27:20,839 --> 00:27:23,319 Speaker 4: You'd kill her then walk her up. 393 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,799 Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, she was alive when I did it, 394 00:27:26,759 --> 00:27:28,640 at least she was when I put the last stone 395 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,039 in place, But she didn't last long after that. I'm 396 00:27:32,079 --> 00:27:35,160 sure it couldn't have been more than an hour or 397 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:40,759 so before she suffocated to death. Suffocate. I've got to 398 00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:41,519 get out of here. 399 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 5: I can't move. 400 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,599 Speaker 1: No, you can't, so you might as well stop trying. 401 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,839 You haven't a chance, Isabella, not a chance. Why are 402 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:58,359 you doing this to me? Revenge? Revenge for what your 403 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,119 father did to me, Revenge for what Margherita did to me, 404 00:28:03,759 --> 00:28:06,759 Revenge for what you did to me. I you're right, 405 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,039 you see. If you hadn't come running to me, falling 406 00:28:10,079 --> 00:28:12,000 over yourself, to tell me what you'd seen, I'd never 407 00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:19,200 have known Margherita, Why beloved Marguerita, I'd never have known 408 00:28:19,279 --> 00:28:23,559 she'd been unfaithful. But you had to tell me, you 409 00:28:23,799 --> 00:28:25,839 and your wagging, gossiping tongue. 410 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 5: I didn't think I'll pick you up in my arms and. 411 00:28:31,039 --> 00:28:34,319 Speaker 1: To carry you down to the kettons of a second 412 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,640 level below. No wall you up as I walled up, Margherita. 413 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:43,400 Please think what it will be like. Slowly, one stone 414 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,319 after another goes in the place a growing coffin lid 415 00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:51,480 for a stone coffin. Think of the agony that lies ahead. 416 00:28:51,519 --> 00:28:54,720 When the last stone is placed and mortyd in fight fight, 417 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,920 the air is cut off and slowly in agony and horror. 418 00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:06,400 You suffocate smother today tell me now, little gossip. I 419 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:12,240 want you to say that nothing holding in my arms, 420 00:29:13,079 --> 00:29:17,319 looking into your eyes, I was filled with fright, with terror. 421 00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:23,880 You have nothing to say. You must have something. Surely 422 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,559 there's some words you can speak, some sound you can 423 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:43,799 make it that it again again, consumed by revenge, Arnaud 424 00:29:43,839 --> 00:29:47,400 Montressor bears the numbed body of Isabella away to the 425 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,519 catacombs below, as the terror in her heart pours from 426 00:29:51,599 --> 00:29:56,839 her throat. And if I'm not mistaken, Fortunato Bellini will 427 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:01,559 be next in line for Arnault's vengeance. We'll see when 428 00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:16,440 I returned shortly for Act three. Our theme, as I 429 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:21,480 have said, is revenge. But in the cask of a Monteao, 430 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,640 we are also dealing with a perfect crime. What more 431 00:30:25,799 --> 00:30:29,680 perfect place for concealing a body, concealing it for even 432 00:30:29,839 --> 00:30:34,079 centuries than in the wall of a catacomb, an ancient 433 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:38,720 burial ground beneath the earth itself, a house of bones 434 00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:43,759 and skulls and skeletons. Arnold Montresor has done this with 435 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:49,119 his unfaithful wife Margarita, and now with Isabella, daughter of Fortunato, 436 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:54,440 who seduced Margarita but as with all perfect crimes, the 437 00:30:54,599 --> 00:30:57,680 criminal inevitably goes one step too. 438 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 2: Fared words, Nick, I know what could have happened to 439 00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:05,960 Isabella after she left you, Walter motto, my good friend. 440 00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:09,319 I wish I could tell you, though, Really I do 441 00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:14,240 think you're worrying unnecessarily. What do you mean unnecessarily? You 442 00:31:14,359 --> 00:31:16,599 say you brought her on last night at twelve thirty. 443 00:31:17,359 --> 00:31:20,400 Then when I returned from the carnival at three this morning, she. 444 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:21,839 Speaker 1: Was not in the house. 445 00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 2: And here it is two in the afternoon the next day. 446 00:31:25,079 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: Where is she? If you asked me, she may have 447 00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:32,279 met with some friends and stayed with them. And I 448 00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:35,880 don't think so. It isn't like her, not like her 449 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,559 at all. I must go to the police. I should 450 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,839 have gone to them before this. Wait a little while 451 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,799 yet you'll show up. And by the way, I think 452 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,319 I may have a surprise for you tonight, and a 453 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:51,200 pleasant surprise. 454 00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:55,759 Speaker 2: And what do you mean, you'll see the amontiado? You 455 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,039 have found me some amontiado? Or didn't say that that's 456 00:31:59,119 --> 00:31:59,759 what you mean? 457 00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:02,799 Speaker 1: Yeah? Did you find it? How much? I mean? You're 458 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,480 running ahead of yourself and me I said nothing about 459 00:32:05,559 --> 00:32:06,359 finding any of your month. 460 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 2: You are who knew how much it means to me, 461 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,039 the craving I have for that nineteen twenty. 462 00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 1: Three Vin time I cried, And believe me when I 463 00:32:15,799 --> 00:32:18,039 tell you I've moved heaven and earth to find them 464 00:32:18,079 --> 00:32:21,000 for you, and you have. I don't say that, and 465 00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:25,079 I'm not going to say another word until well until 466 00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:26,039 I'm sure I have the. 467 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,839 Speaker 2: Surprise for ahead, and when we'll let be, perhaps. 468 00:32:32,599 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: Tonight, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps never. I'll send a message to you. Oh, 469 00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:46,279 I keep moving all of those gaps in before sundown 470 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:51,400 you are yours. I'll work with you or inspector. I'm 471 00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:53,759 very busy, as you can see, only a few minutes 472 00:32:53,839 --> 00:32:58,839 no more. Well what as your Belini? You know him? 473 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,000 I think it is very old friends. He has reported 474 00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:08,000 his daughter missing Isabella. You took her to the carnival 475 00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:13,160 last night? Is that right? Yes, that's right. Why why 476 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,000 I've felt sorry for her? I begun to learn a 477 00:33:17,079 --> 00:33:20,920 dislike to be lonely, and I've just felt sorry for her. 478 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,400 A girl her age should have some fun out of life. 479 00:33:23,759 --> 00:33:28,559 Lord knows, there's little enough true true about your wife. 480 00:33:29,039 --> 00:33:32,440 Would you have any news for any news? Have you 481 00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:39,279 heard from her? Letter? Message of some kind I know. Well, 482 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,759 if you do, be sure to let me know. I will. 483 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,680 Now I must get back to my work. Oh you 484 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,720 way up, and let's talk one thing more than your Yes. Yes, 485 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,079 I understand that the vineyard is built on catacombs, early 486 00:33:54,279 --> 00:33:58,240 Christian catacombs beneath us here well, yes, where my house 487 00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:00,720 stands over there used to be a monstry, of course, 488 00:34:00,759 --> 00:34:05,160 at the centuries ago. An interesting, very interesting. You know 489 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,760 I have never been inside a catacom. Is that song? 490 00:34:09,079 --> 00:34:12,480 No lot, those bast no those basset. Even when I 491 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:16,719 was in Rome, I was wondering if you'd mind if 492 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,960 I went down into yours. Well, no, not at all. 493 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,400 I'll take you down myself. Sometimes. 494 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,480 Speaker 2: Excuse me, senor excuse me. I'm wondering if you might 495 00:34:31,519 --> 00:34:32,239 have seen a girl. 496 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: She's eighteen. 497 00:34:33,559 --> 00:34:38,039 Speaker 2: Her name is Isabella Bellini and the excuse me, signorina, 498 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,400 excuse me do you happen. 499 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 1: To know Isabelle? And also they're looking all over for you. Oh, 500 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:47,039 she hasn't come home. No one has seen her. Everyone 501 00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:51,000 I've asked, is what are you talking about? Isabella? Would 502 00:34:51,079 --> 00:34:53,559 I be out here on the second night of Carnival 503 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:56,199 if I hadn't you get my message? Or what message? 504 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,559 What her? What? I had to come in to town 505 00:34:58,679 --> 00:35:00,400 late this afternoon to pick up the ask of a 506 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,639 Montrealdo Manteado had a cask of a Montiado. Yes, that's 507 00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:07,679 the surprise. My agent at Montia several weeks ago he'd 508 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,760 be found a whole cast nineteen twenty three, Bill Hall. Anyway, 509 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,960 it arrived today and when I came to town to 510 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,760 get it, I ran into Isabella a cask or I 511 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,960 took her to my house, did on her feet from 512 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,280 lack of sleep in my house. 513 00:35:21,159 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 2: With the closest so and then she's saved good good 514 00:35:24,119 --> 00:35:25,199 helm to why. 515 00:35:25,199 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 1: At my place? Till of course, come on along a 516 00:35:28,039 --> 00:35:30,199 lucky night for you, my friend. Have you found your 517 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:43,639 daughter and your favorite wine? Good Lord Arnold? 518 00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,639 Speaker 2: How far down into your infernal catecolt? 519 00:35:47,679 --> 00:35:51,679 Speaker 1: Because we go to the third level, the lowest, this 520 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,440 is the second one. More, Why did you have to 521 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,280 k careful? Lots of the walls are broken down. They 522 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,119 care not that up unbroken stone me. 523 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,400 Speaker 2: Now that I've turned my ankle, you'll tell me. 524 00:36:05,599 --> 00:36:07,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, why did you have to bring. 525 00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:11,159 Speaker 2: The cask a whole cask down to the lowest level. 526 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,079 Speaker 1: Of the dampness, very damp, dampest part of the catacombs. 527 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,159 The walls here are sweating with condensation. Yes, but why 528 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,559 did you have to not to bring I'm afraid all 529 00:36:21,599 --> 00:36:23,800 you know about wine, Fortunato, is how to drink it 530 00:36:24,519 --> 00:36:28,039 when the place is damp. It's cool the damper the cooler, 531 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,079 and casks of wine must be stored in. Oh, here 532 00:36:31,119 --> 00:36:35,760 we are precede the old. The torch try to give 533 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:36,599 light ahead of. 534 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:42,559 Speaker 2: All places to still wine bones, skulls kills more a 535 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,760 grave than a wine cellar. 536 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:50,079 Speaker 1: Grave, Yes, the grave of people buried here centuries ago. 537 00:36:51,639 --> 00:37:08,719 Now you are still your grave, fool. So you're coming 538 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,360 to your senses fortunate? Oh good, because I want you 539 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,559 to see you. I want your deceiver every month of 540 00:37:15,639 --> 00:37:21,760 horror that lies before you. Ahead, Well, what's happened? 541 00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:22,119 Speaker 6: Not? 542 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,079 Speaker 1: You are I hicked up a rock? And not you're 543 00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:27,760 out of it? But why what's this? Man? 544 00:37:28,639 --> 00:37:28,960 Speaker 6: Mam? 545 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:33,280 Speaker 1: Well my legs, I can't moaned the Regardia Monaco to 546 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,039 bolsom the wall. Why are you doing to me? 547 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 3: Wowing you up? 548 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,559 Speaker 1: My friend Mars, I walled up Margharita, walled up Isabella, 549 00:37:42,079 --> 00:37:45,119 so you can die in agony of horror, die of suffocation. 550 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,679 Of ah, no, let me go, it's only leave me. 551 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,679 I beg you, and beg of your tongue, rock on 552 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,519 your mouth. It'll do you no good anything. I'll do 553 00:37:55,639 --> 00:37:58,639 anything new way. I'll give you anything new way. You're 554 00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:02,400 doing that already giving exactly. But I wish revenge the 555 00:38:02,639 --> 00:38:03,320 for tomato. 556 00:38:04,039 --> 00:38:12,400 Speaker 7: Revenge's like to free yourself while I put a stone 557 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:18,440 in place, like I think of. 558 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 1: What's to come when the last stone this one goes 559 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:26,199 in place, and darkness, darkness, the blackness of the grave, 560 00:38:27,199 --> 00:38:30,719 gray made of walls covered with wet slides, gray for 561 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:39,800 the living. For you die slowly, slowly di suffocation. See 562 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:46,159 now as I put it in place, guys can't tear 563 00:38:46,159 --> 00:38:50,360 themselves coming. Let me look into the yes and enjoy 564 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,199 when you place the hideous, weird and ghostly horror your 565 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,239 so in a place that goes you could place the 566 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:10,039 last inspector Maturo to what do I owe the pleasure 567 00:39:10,079 --> 00:39:14,280 of this visit? Why? In a way signor montresor it's 568 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:19,719 at your invitation. I invited you several weeks ago. You 569 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,159 recall I mentioned that I'd never been down in the 570 00:39:22,199 --> 00:39:24,480 catacombs and you said you would take me on a 571 00:39:24,599 --> 00:39:29,360 tour sometime. Oh that, yes, well, I'm delighted to do so, 572 00:39:29,519 --> 00:39:32,559 but not today. I am the time. I'm afraid the 573 00:39:32,679 --> 00:39:37,639 tour of the catacombs must be made today. It's impossible, Inspector, 574 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,000 I assure you if I had the time to take 575 00:39:40,039 --> 00:39:41,880 you on a tour, I'm sorry. I should have made 576 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:46,599 myself clear. I'm talking about me taking you on a tour, 577 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:54,119 you taking me. Yes, I've already seen them. Your overseer 578 00:39:54,119 --> 00:39:58,719 has showed me around this morning after I showed him 579 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,119 the search warrant. What are you trying to tell me 580 00:40:03,599 --> 00:40:06,239 that you're under arrest for the murder of Senior for 581 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:11,880 Gunato Vedini, his daughter Zavella, and your wife Margherita. You're 582 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,960 out of your mind. No, but I think you were 583 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:21,199 out of yours. I must congratulate you in your You 584 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:26,519 came close, very close to committing the perfect crime. That 585 00:40:26,639 --> 00:40:33,400 you overlooked one single factor, one very small thing. What 586 00:40:34,519 --> 00:40:48,880 and we'll go down and I'll show you all. No, yes, 587 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:57,679 Fortru Motto's body exposed of you the wolf horn. How 588 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,039 did you find him? We didn't? But who got to 589 00:41:01,119 --> 00:41:05,199 all on it? No one? It collapsed of its own weights. 590 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,679 You season, you are the one mistake you made. The 591 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:13,360 one thing you forgot was the dampness on this third level, 592 00:41:14,199 --> 00:41:24,960 the excessive moisture, the wetness the cement. The cement wouldn't dry, 593 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:36,440 It didn't dry. So, as always with a perfect crime, 594 00:41:37,159 --> 00:41:43,000 there is some slight imperfection. Indeed, so very slight is 595 00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:47,159 not to be noticed by the murderer, to his deep regret. 596 00:41:48,440 --> 00:42:02,840 I'll be back shortly. During the rehearsal of our adaptation 597 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,519 of The Cask of a Monteato, a friend of mine 598 00:42:05,639 --> 00:42:09,039 visiting the studio said, you know, EGI, this isn't the 599 00:42:09,119 --> 00:42:12,760 Poe story exactly as he wrote it. I agreed that 600 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,719 it wasn't, and explained that there's such a vast difference 601 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:20,360 between story writing and playwriting that no adaptation can follow 602 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:25,599 any story exactly. However, I also explained that our respect 603 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,400 and admiration for Edgar Allan Poe impelled us to retain 604 00:42:29,559 --> 00:42:33,239 all of the original story where possible, and above all, 605 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:38,519 it's chilling horror. We have reason to think mister Poe 606 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:44,719 is pleased, and that you are too. Our cast included 607 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:49,400 Richard Kylie, Francis Sternhagen, ROBERTA. Maxwell, Leon Johnny and Robert Dryden. 608 00:42:50,119 --> 00:42:53,239 The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. 609 00:42:56,519 --> 00:43:00,400 And now a preview of our next tale. Well this 610 00:43:00,599 --> 00:43:01,440 may give you a lift. 611 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:09,199 Speaker 3: The Morning Paper page one shooting victim succumbs Joseph Wilson, 612 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,119 aged thirty seven, died at Mercy Hospital last night as 613 00:43:13,159 --> 00:43:16,360 the result of a mysterious bullet wound inflicted while he 614 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:21,159 was driving along the Old high Road. Wilson, a plumber 615 00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:25,119 by trade, leaves a wife, Helen, and two children, ages 616 00:43:25,199 --> 00:43:25,960 eight and three. 617 00:43:26,639 --> 00:43:28,559 Speaker 1: Let me see that, well, you have the right. 618 00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:32,039 Speaker 5: Not many men get to see their own obituaries. 619 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,440 Speaker 1: Should gets a man of funny feeling. 620 00:43:34,559 --> 00:43:34,840 Speaker 3: How that. 621 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:43,239 Speaker 6: The victim's will said he will be buried in Clemdon Cemetery. 622 00:43:45,159 --> 00:43:47,440 That policeman sure did it up thoroughly, didn't he. 623 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:49,920 Speaker 3: Well they could scarcely release a story that you died 624 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,840 without being nice enough to bury you. Radio Mystery Theater 625 00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,480 were sponsored in part by Signoff the Sinus Medicines. 626 00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:57,920 Speaker 4: This is E. G. 627 00:43:58,119 --> 00:44:01,320 Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for 628 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,679 another adventure in the macabre.