Speaker 1: What a week from tonight, October fifth, you bet your
Speaker 1: Life starring Groucho Marx will be heard at this time
Speaker 1: over most of these same CBS stations, We offer you Escape,
Speaker 1: starring Van Heflin. Escape designed to free you from the
Speaker 1: four walls of the day for a half hour of
Speaker 1: high adventure.
Speaker 2: You are trapped in the dank darkness of a ruined
Speaker 2: plantation house. Somewhere in the pitch black room is a
Speaker 2: homicidal maniac armed with a knife, groping for you, trying
Speaker 2: to prevent your escape.
Speaker 1: Tonight, with Van Heflin as John Wolfog, we escape to
Speaker 1: a deserted sandpit off the coast of Georgia, where terror
Speaker 1: stalks under the Spanish As Joseph Perkinsheimer tells it in
Speaker 1: Wild Oranges.
Speaker 3: What could have appeared more innocent of danger than that
Speaker 3: bare and low lying shore of southern Georgia. What could
Speaker 3: have seemed less laden with terror than that lovely little cove,
Speaker 3: so tranquil and well sheltered, so warmly bathed in late
Speaker 3: afternoon sun. As we dropped the anchor of our catch
Speaker 3: and prepared our mooring. And yet there was something. First.
Speaker 3: It was an aroma a grove of wild orange trees
Speaker 3: in late bloom grew defiantly amid the tangled undergrowth of
Speaker 3: the shore. The scent was strong and exotic and heavy,
Speaker 3: and as I smelled it, I felt a vague uneasiness.
Speaker 3: Then as I watched the shore and holbered my sailor
Speaker 3: and furled the sails, the mirror of the cover was
Speaker 3: shattered by a movement. At first I thought it was
Speaker 3: a fish leaping and playing in the water. Came round
Speaker 3: a spit of land from an inner bay, and then
Speaker 3: Halvard was beside me. That's queer, sir.
Speaker 2: I would have bet there was nobody within miles of here.
Speaker 2: But that's someone swimming. Yes, that's a girl, I sir.
Speaker 2: She'll be surprised when she discovers us no time.
Speaker 3: And embarrassed. She swims well, doesn't she? Yes, she had
Speaker 3: been wal born in the water. Oh she's seen us, yes, yes, now,
Speaker 3: and now she's running away. That's brentwood Win, an Olympic
Speaker 3: grays eh. Yes. I don't know what she's doing here
Speaker 3: where she comes from. Perhaps there, sir, where through the trees.
Speaker 3: There's a house there. You can hardly see it. I
Speaker 3: spotted it a moment ago, So there is, but it's
Speaker 3: a ruin, it's rotting away. No one could live lived,
Speaker 3: and that since the Civil War there may be others
Speaker 3: back this, I know, but this is a deserted coast.
Speaker 3: It's marked as a swamp on the chart. I don't know, sir, huh.
Speaker 3: This is strange. It's very strange. Yes, it was strange
Speaker 3: and strangers. Still was this vague uneasiness that I felt
Speaker 3: as twilight fell. The aroma of the wild oranges was overwhelming,
Speaker 3: and suddenly, without knowing why, I slipped on my jacket
Speaker 3: and went to the side and dropped into the tender.
Speaker 3: Holbert stood by the cast off. He asked no questions,
Speaker 3: and I said nothing. What could I say? I didn't
Speaker 3: know myself why I was going. I pulled the tender
Speaker 3: upon the soft sand of the beach and walked up
Speaker 3: a dim path through the orange grove around the side
Speaker 3: of the house, where a smaller portico held off the weeds.
Speaker 3: A single doorway was framed in the pale light of
Speaker 3: the inner lamp. As I approached, I saw a shadow
Speaker 3: flit across it so swiftly, so furtively, that it was
Speaker 3: gone before I realized it had been a man, And
Speaker 3: then I saw her sitting on the portico, rocking softly
Speaker 3: in her chair.
Speaker 4: What do you want?
Speaker 3: H oh nothing? I came ashore. I ha ha, I
Speaker 3: thought no one was living here.
Speaker 4: You're from the white boat that's sailed in its sunset.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I'm returning immediately.
Speaker 4: It was like magic. Suddenly, without a sound, you were
Speaker 4: anchored in the baby.
Speaker 3: I've robbed you too. I I uh picked a couple
Speaker 3: of your oranges.
Speaker 4: You won't like them. They've run wild. We can't sell.
Speaker 3: They have a distinct flavor. I should be very glad
Speaker 3: to have some of em on the boat. All you want, well,
Speaker 3: my man will get them and pay you.
Speaker 4: Please, don't Nicholas attends to that. Won't you sit down?
Speaker 4: My father was here when you came up, but he
Speaker 4: went in strangers, disturbing.
Speaker 3: I should be getting back. I'm sorry to have disturbed
Speaker 3: you and your father.
Speaker 4: No, it's nothing.
Speaker 3: Well, good night, then good night. And that was all
Speaker 3: a fragment of commonplace conversation. But it was enough. Now.
Speaker 3: The uneasiness I felt the strangeness of this place took
Speaker 3: shape for me. I saw it in her lovely, fragile face.
Speaker 3: I heard it in her voice. There'd been a hidden
Speaker 3: tearor a terrible controlled fright that approached hysteria. But when
Speaker 3: I got back to the boat, Halvard made it even worse. Fine, anythink, sir,
Speaker 3: are there people living there? Well, there'll be water. Then
Speaker 3: maybe we can stay here for a couple of days.
Speaker 3: What do you mean this is good anchorage. I'd like
Speaker 3: to unship a propeller, and there's some scraping to do. Yes,
Speaker 3: I suppose you're right. We need a couple of days
Speaker 3: of work before we head into the open and see. Yes, oh,
Speaker 3: we'll do it here. And so we stayed. In the
Speaker 3: light of morning. The strange dread I had felt seemed foolish,
Speaker 3: and especially when I went ashore and found the girl
Speaker 3: looking young and fresh and fragile. She was fishing off
Speaker 3: a little pier in the inner bay. She had a
Speaker 3: pathetic little roden reel, and so I got our tackle
Speaker 3: from the boat and landed a big rock fish for her.
Speaker 3: And for several dinners we were carrying the fish to
Speaker 3: the house and we came on a pale, thin ghost
Speaker 3: of a man. He's sitting on the portico. He started
Speaker 3: a swift retreat, but it was too late.
Speaker 4: Father, Wait, this is my father litch feel stew Oh.
Speaker 3: How do you do sir meyly? You know my stranger's father.
Speaker 4: You know I wouldn't bring anyone to the house. It
Speaker 4: would hurt us. And see we're fetching you a splendid
Speaker 4: rock fish.
Speaker 3: Yes, just so we are alone here. The man is away,
Speaker 3: my daughter and I fish eh inceptible.
Speaker 4: If you're carried in for me. Nicholas would do it,
Speaker 4: but he's away and father isn't strong. This way we
Speaker 4: have no eyes. H mus put it in water in
Speaker 4: here right there. Thank you. You've been very nice. Now
Speaker 4: I suppose you'll go on across the world or not.
Speaker 3: Tonight we're staying here making repairs.
Speaker 4: Where do you come from?
Speaker 3: Where are you going or from Cape Cod? I'm going
Speaker 3: to South America, South America.
Speaker 4: I traveled on maps. I was born here in this house.
Speaker 4: I've never been fifty miles away.
Speaker 3: It seemed like a girl who's been everywhere, everywhere in
Speaker 3: the world. You've had the best education everything.
Speaker 4: My father has many books in there.
Speaker 3: That's all you're uh. You know your eyes are remarkable, magnetic.
Speaker 3: I uh, whether there's something else in your eyes and
Speaker 3: in your voice? What is it? Fear?
Speaker 4: Fear. Why, no, of course not. What should I be
Speaker 4: afraid of?
Speaker 3: All? I don't know, but I I saw it in
Speaker 3: your father's face too.
Speaker 5: It's only your imagination, yes, no doubt. Well good bye then,
Speaker 5: and thank you for the fishing. Strange how this girl
Speaker 5: would have upset me? So I tried to resist, but
Speaker 5: that evening I found myself going back to her, tying
Speaker 5: the tender into the little pier.
Speaker 3: I watched her as she came to meet me.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you came. Let's stay here by the seats,
Speaker 4: so lovely in the moonlight.
Speaker 3: All right, Oh, it is nice, isn't.
Speaker 4: Nicholas is back, Nicholas, he's a man. I lied to
Speaker 4: you to day about fear. I suppose I am afraid.
Speaker 4: I suppose my father's passed some of his fear on me.
Speaker 3: Why is he afraid?
Speaker 4: It's a long story going back to the First War.
Speaker 4: He was a young man then, and and he didn't
Speaker 4: go to war. It wasn't that he was a coward exactly.
Speaker 4: He just couldn't adjust to it mentally. People laughed at
Speaker 4: him and threatened him, and that's when a sort of
Speaker 4: sort of perpetual fear started. He ran away, met my
Speaker 4: mother married and they came here. None ofs has ever
Speaker 4: left this lonely place, never will. Perhaps your mother she's dead.
Speaker 4: Loneliness killed her. Perhaps it's no wonder that I sound
Speaker 4: timid and afraid.
Speaker 3: Perhaps I am, might you lonely to.
Speaker 4: I don't know anything else? But what about you? Who
Speaker 4: are you that you goes sailing about the war, a
Speaker 4: sailor for company.
Speaker 3: No, I'm nobody. My name is John Wilfulker, and you.
Speaker 4: Do nothing but sail about the world.
Speaker 3: Nothing, that's why. Oh well, let's say that I I
Speaker 3: don't like modern society. I would say that I I
Speaker 3: don't like entanglements.
Speaker 4: I see.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, I didn't mean to apologize.
Speaker 4: I envy you your freedom. I said, you're a great deal.
Speaker 4: And watch the ships far out there on their water roads.
Speaker 4: You are enviable sailing where you like, safe and free,
Speaker 4: so free.
Speaker 3: There's something more than you've told me. There's more behind
Speaker 3: this fear in your voice. But look, perhaps I can help. No, no, please,
Speaker 3: what's that? It's Nicholas going on the conk. I got
Speaker 3: to go in.
Speaker 4: Don't come you you'll.
Speaker 3: Be going soon tomorrow, perhaps.
Speaker 4: Goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 3: Now I knew the terror that I had only sensed
Speaker 3: was real. This girl was possessed by fear. This house
Speaker 3: held some terrible secret. What could it be? Next morning,
Speaker 3: Halford went in to fill a cask for water. He
Speaker 3: came back without the cask, and he was livid with rage.
Speaker 3: There's an idiot in matt house, sir, Next time, I'll
Speaker 3: take the pistol. You mean, where's the cast? It's broken?
Speaker 3: So how how did you?
Speaker 2: I was filling it at the system and this idiot,
Speaker 2: a huge, hulking brute, came out of the house.
Speaker 3: He told me to get away.
Speaker 2: Well, I tried to explain we had permission, but he
Speaker 2: came at me with a knife, gibbering.
Speaker 3: He put his foot on the cask and crushed it. Well,
Speaker 3: I'll see about this. He careful, sir. The man's not
Speaker 3: quite right. He's dangerous, bloody dangerous. I went ashore and
Speaker 3: around at the back door of the house. Milly wasn't
Speaker 3: inside when I knocked. A lumbering giant with pig like
Speaker 3: eyes came to the door. Are you a Nicholas? What
Speaker 3: do you want? Will I take it to the man
Speaker 3: who broke my water cask? It was full of our wall.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to argue with you. I came a
Speaker 3: short and when structure to keep your hands off of
Speaker 3: my property and my sailor and let our water be.
Speaker 3: I told you that I I I wouldn't discuss the water.
Speaker 3: I don't have to justify myself to you. Just remember,
Speaker 3: keep your hands off. Get me started? What do you
Speaker 3: mean started? I don't care what you don't get me
Speaker 3: started mine? Now, I won't. You don't get me shouted.
Speaker 3: Put down that knife, go away, don't get me started, now,
Speaker 3: go away, hand back, don't get me started for nothing.
Speaker 3: Nicholas and I had a little misunderstanding. That's all you
Speaker 3: tell this manly tell him to go, and don't get
Speaker 3: me started.
Speaker 4: Put down that knife, please, please go.
Speaker 3: I have never seen such terror in a woman's eyes.
Speaker 3: I felt completely helpless as I turned and went on
Speaker 3: back to the boat, but mingled with her terear. I
Speaker 3: had seen something else in Milly's eyes. There was a plea,
Speaker 3: and I knew there'd be another meeting between me and Nicholas.
Speaker 3: That night, a storm broke, a ranging wind and rain
Speaker 3: to match my tortured mood. I hardly slept. Milly's face
Speaker 3: was always before my eyes, and by morning, I knew
Speaker 3: that I must do something. I rode the tender and
Speaker 3: through a drizzling rain. I went up through the orange
Speaker 3: grove and stopped in some bushes by the house. Some
Speaker 3: one was coming out of house, and so I crouched
Speaker 3: down out of sight. It was Milly. I rose and
Speaker 3: I called to her, Milly.
Speaker 4: Oh, oh, it's you. I was just coming out to look.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid you'd gone. See is like a pack of wine.
Speaker 3: I won't go alone now, not without you, I went,
Speaker 3: Are you saying it's madness? No, No, I got to
Speaker 3: talk to you. There's a lot. There's a lot that
Speaker 3: needs explaining, things that I have a right to know.
Speaker 4: No, not here, come.
Speaker 3: She led me into one of the smaller ruined buildings.
Speaker 3: We crouched far back in the dripping shadows of a corner. No, Millie,
Speaker 3: for the first time in twelve years, I'm living again, Darling.
Speaker 3: I'm in love with you. I know nothing of it.
Speaker 3: It's it's quickly learned, Millie. Don't you feel anything anything
Speaker 3: for me at all?
Speaker 4: I don't know. Perhaps if things were different someplace else,
Speaker 4: I might Carevling.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to take you away someplace else. I'm
Speaker 3: going to make things different. I'm going to give you
Speaker 3: a chance.
Speaker 4: It's too late. I came too late.
Speaker 3: Why Millie, what is this? What is this fear Nicholas? Oh,
Speaker 3: that's foolish. She's nothing to be afraid of. Has he
Speaker 3: been bothering you?
Speaker 4: He says he's crazy about me. He says I must
Speaker 4: marry him.
Speaker 3: Where is he now? John?
Speaker 4: You mustn't something frightful?
Speaker 3: What happened, John, I'm frightful, just unfortunate for Nicholas.
Speaker 4: So you didn't understand he's he's not human. There's something
Speaker 4: about him.
Speaker 3: A boy.
Speaker 4: And tell me he gave me in April, we were
Speaker 4: glad to get him servants impossible to get back here
Speaker 4: in the wilderness, and he'd work for the smallest wages.
Speaker 4: Only only a few days ago I found out why
Speaker 4: he was glad to be here. I was beIN in
Speaker 4: his room and I found this.
Speaker 3: Let me see that wanted for murder, Isaac Nicholas, a
Speaker 3: homicidal mania.
Speaker 4: He knows I found it. He knows, and he's been furious.
Speaker 4: And then you came and he ran and hid in
Speaker 4: the pines. But he told me if I spoke about him,
Speaker 4: it would happened to me, and if I left with you,
Speaker 4: it would happened to father. Now he thinks I'm in
Speaker 4: love with you. He told me to send your ways,
Speaker 4: that you must leave to.
Speaker 3: Day, Elly, Milly, I should have realized I'm.
Speaker 4: Not to stay away for longer than now. I must go.
Speaker 3: Look, Millie, it'll take us a couple of hours to
Speaker 3: get our boat ready. I'm gonna come for you tonight
Speaker 3: at eight. Now you tell him that you saw me
Speaker 3: and I promised to go at quietly, say that you
Speaker 3: were upset, that you will give him his answer tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Then at eight you bring your father and walk out
Speaker 3: to the wharf. Now that's all, But do it without
Speaker 3: hesitation or preparation.
Speaker 4: Don't let him hurt it.
Speaker 3: Please, don't not now he's finished, But do just as
Speaker 3: I say. It won't be long, hardly three hours, and
Speaker 3: then you're gonna be free. Now that I knew now
Speaker 3: that there was to be action, I felt better, not
Speaker 3: that I minimize the risk. Halvard and I got the
Speaker 3: catch ready for sailing. At eight o'clock. Halvard and I
Speaker 3: tied up to the little pier. The storm had led
Speaker 3: up a little, but it was still I got up
Speaker 3: on the dock and I waited family. Ten minutes passed
Speaker 3: and then twenty. Something was wrong. I I told Halbert
Speaker 3: to wait there with a tender and then I walked
Speaker 3: slowly up to the house. There was dark. I went
Speaker 3: up to the sideport to go to the heavy door.
Speaker 3: There was a a tiny crack of light showing under it.
Speaker 3: I I pushed it open. The light came from a
Speaker 3: parlor to the right. I looked in. On the floor
Speaker 3: lay a body, her father. He was dead. He was crushed,
Speaker 3: his arm twisted grotesquely under him. There was there was
Speaker 3: no sound in the house. Slowly I through the downstairs
Speaker 3: rooms nothing. Then back in the hall, I heard a
Speaker 3: slight creak upstairs. Someone had moved. Was it Melly alive
Speaker 3: or was it Nicholas slang in wait? I groped slowly
Speaker 3: up the stairs. I didn't dare to use my flashlight
Speaker 3: would have made me a target for his knife. The
Speaker 3: upstairs hall was pitch black. Still, there was no sound.
Speaker 3: I inched my way along the wall slowly, and then
Speaker 3: I stumbled on the loose board. The pistol flew out
Speaker 3: of my hand, but the stumble saved my life. At
Speaker 3: the same instant I felt Nicholas lunch. Heard the knife
Speaker 3: sing past my ear and thudd into the wall. I
Speaker 3: called this great bolt, smashing on my shoulder. My gun
Speaker 3: was somewhere on the dark floor. His knife was embedded
Speaker 3: in the wall. Now we were grappling, hand and rolling
Speaker 3: on the floor, peeking, tearing, couching, crushing my strengthen went
Speaker 3: against the massive bulk of a maniacical killer. How many
Speaker 3: minutes did that unusual and unequal struggle last, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It seemed an hour. Several times, as if by common consent,
Speaker 3: we rested for a minute at a time. Once we
Speaker 3: rolled apart, and the panting their breast, hand aching in
Speaker 3: my throat. And then I heard him groping along the wall,
Speaker 3: searching for the knife or gun. I threw myself at
Speaker 3: him again. He was too big, he was too furious.
Speaker 3: I felt my strength ebbing away. His fingers were closing
Speaker 3: over my throat with one last every day I tried
Speaker 3: to throw him.
Speaker 6: After rolling over, I staggered to my feet.
Speaker 3: I was dazed. I looked up. We had fallen through
Speaker 3: the banister down the stairwell. Nicholas had had landed on
Speaker 3: the bottom. He lay there on the stairs, sprawled his
Speaker 3: head at uh grotesque angle. He wasn't dead, He's only stunned.
Speaker 3: I leaned against the wall, looking at him stupidly. There
Speaker 3: was it was something that I must remember. What was it?
Speaker 3: Then then she came down the steps, and I remember, really.
Speaker 4: I had to walk right past him. There was no
Speaker 4: other way, right past his head in my skirts. I
Speaker 4: think we better go away.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes, we'll we'll leave it once.
Speaker 4: I must tell you about my father. You know, in Virginia,
Speaker 4: the woman tied an apron on the door because he
Speaker 4: wouldn't go to war, and that preyed on his mind.
Speaker 4: He was afraid of the slightest Yes, yes I know,
Speaker 4: but we must say. He goes upset him, so he
Speaker 4: had no strength.
Speaker 3: To hear her talk like this, like a sick child.
Speaker 3: Was almost more than I could bear. Then I heard something.
Speaker 3: Nicholas had got up. He stood up and stared at
Speaker 3: us for a moment, and then he started slowly up
Speaker 3: the stairs. He was going after that knife, the least
Speaker 3: little thing upset Nelly, Milly. Look, we've got to go.
Speaker 4: I was to meet a man. We were going away
Speaker 4: someplace where it would be peaceful. But Nicholas suspected. You see,
Speaker 4: He asked why father had put on his heavy winter clothes.
Speaker 4: And then when I tried to go out, he pushed me,
Speaker 4: and do you know what father did? Then he came
Speaker 4: up and said, don't do that. Take your hands off
Speaker 4: my daughter. His lips shook a little, but he said
Speaker 4: it that's the important thing.
Speaker 3: Yes, of course, your father was a brave man. After over, Please,
Speaker 3: now come you you were supposed to meet a man.
Speaker 3: That man's waiting for you. There's no time to lose.
Speaker 4: Father said, take your hands off my daughter. Nicholas killed him,
Speaker 4: of course, but it was a brave thing to do.
Speaker 3: Now come, I couldn't wait any longer. I could hear
Speaker 3: Nicholas coming back. I picked her up and carried her
Speaker 3: out into the night, down the path to the pier.
Speaker 3: Behind me, I could hear Nicholas crashing through the brush
Speaker 3: like a giant animal in pursuit. Are you all right, sir?
Speaker 3: Yes'm about done in that. I'm all right here. Help
Speaker 3: me help me get her into the boat, yes, sir.
Speaker 3: He oh, there's someone coming, Sis, Nicholas. He's got a knife. Good.
Speaker 3: I wanted to get back at him. You get in,
Speaker 3: Sarah'll take care of him. How about I how would
Speaker 3: be much help anyway, Albert went to intercept Nicholas on
Speaker 3: the path. I heard them meet and struggle for a moment,
Speaker 3: and then a figure came walking slowly, stooped onto the pier.
Speaker 3: I got ready to shove the boat out into the water.
Speaker 3: And then it's all right, sir, it's me hoard. Where's Nicholas?
Speaker 3: I stopped him. It was all bumped out. Are you hurt?
Speaker 2: It's just a scratch, sir. I missed his hand at
Speaker 2: first in the dark. It's nothing good. Well, let's get
Speaker 2: away from here. Then I held Milly in my arms.
Speaker 3: As Halbard wrote in the catch erradically, I suppose, because
Speaker 3: of the storm, be ready to cast off in two minutes.
Speaker 3: The last obstacle would be the narrow passage out of
Speaker 3: the cove. In this storm, it would be very dangerous.
Speaker 3: I started to take Milly into the cabin. Nicholas in
Speaker 3: the door, and none sense. Nicholas is dead. You're on
Speaker 3: my boat. You're safe, Mill safe with John Wolf and
Speaker 3: I am John Wolfer. You didn't come, Yes, I came, Ellie,
Speaker 3: you're safe, Please come? Did rather stay up here? All right?
Speaker 3: All right? You sit here beside halford. I'm going up
Speaker 3: front to take soundings, and this wens you won't be
Speaker 3: able to hear me if I came no, but you're
Speaker 3: gonna hear me. Remember, we only have three quick clearance.
Speaker 3: Now you will have to hold it steady through that passage, Yes, sir, halford.
Speaker 3: Now this is no time to be brave. How do
Speaker 3: you feel?
Speaker 2: I feel all right, sir, I've taken nifs before.
Speaker 3: All right, that's a scratch, all right, fine, No, no,
Speaker 3: we'll fix it just as soon as we get outside.
Speaker 3: Why no, let's gold pull up your anchor and turn
Speaker 3: over the engine. Yes. The boat headed into the tearing
Speaker 3: wind of the storm, straight toward the narrow inlet. A
Speaker 3: foot too far on either side and we'd hit in
Speaker 3: the sea. That would mean death for all of us.
Speaker 3: I stood far up on about taking soundings, feeling out
Speaker 3: the passage. Howling wind carried the call back to Halvard four.
Speaker 3: Now the boat veered again. I realized that he must
Speaker 3: have lost an o'ful out of blood. How there had
Speaker 3: slowly haltingly It came around three and a half. Sad enough,
Speaker 3: but it was anything but steady. The boat wavered and
Speaker 3: swung as if an inexperienced hand was at the veil,
Speaker 3: and the moment we might hit bred up Bader. We
Speaker 3: were in the passage old beady Harbor, three and a half.
Speaker 3: We're through, Goodbye, goodbye, good boy. How would I call?
Speaker 3: But when I went back, it wasn't Halbert at the wheel.
Speaker 3: It was Milly. Milly, her hands steady, her eyes washed
Speaker 3: clear of any madness, Milly with a little tight smile
Speaker 3: on her face, but no fear. And Halbard lay rolling
Speaker 3: with the swells in the bottom of the cockpit.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid, John, he was wounded, worse than you thought.
Speaker 3: Oh Howard, good Heavens.
Speaker 4: Told me to take the wheel, said it was life
Speaker 4: or death. Then he slid down. When when was this
Speaker 4: back there in the passage, just when you said three
Speaker 4: and a half. I'm afraid.
Speaker 3: I wasn't very good, but.
Speaker 4: I held on.
Speaker 3: Oh, Milly, you were wonderful.
Speaker 4: No, not yet.
Speaker 7: But I'll learn, John, I'll learn.
Speaker 1: Escape was produced and directed by Gordon T. Hughes, with
Speaker 1: Van Heflin starring as John Wolfog. Tonight we have presented
Speaker 1: Wild Oranges by Joseph Hergusheimer, adapted for radio by John
Speaker 1: Duncle featured in the cast were Betty Lugerson, Bill Conrad,
Speaker 1: Edmund MacDonald, Wilms Herbert. Special music was conceived and conducted
Speaker 1: by Del Castillio.
Speaker 2: Next week, you are following a man whom you must
Speaker 2: kill to the bleak wastes of the tiny island at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the world, and you know that one
Speaker 2: of you can never escape.
Speaker 1: Next week we escape with John Russell's grim story of
Speaker 1: revenge The Primitive Good Night. Then until next week, when
Speaker 1: once again we offer you Escape. Van Heflin is currently
Speaker 1: starring with Jennifer Jones, James Mason, and Louis Jordan in
Speaker 1: Metro Golden Mayor's Madame Bovary. Starting one week from next Saturday,
Speaker 1: October eighth, Escape will take a regular place in the
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Speaker 1: October eighth.
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Speaker 1: with The Bing Crosby Show and Burns and Allen on
Speaker 1: most of these same CBS stations. You now for the
Speaker 1: Bing Crosby Show, which follows immediately over most of these
Speaker 1: same stations. Paul Masterson speaking Listen CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting
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