Speaker 1: And now mystery thither.
Speaker 2: Spear's great drama, Come in, Welcome, I'm e. G.
Speaker 3: Marshall.
Speaker 4: To be or not to be? That is not the
question in the tale we're about to unfold. But there
will be parallels to Shakespeare's Great Drama, which even the
people involved recognize. Murder most foul, a spirit doomed to
walk the earth, a murderer.
Speaker 3: Who Well, Douglas, wake up.
Speaker 5: You're here.
Speaker 4: We are concerned with the Cardwell family, Douglas the young man,
Edmund his father, and Gertrude his mother.
Speaker 1: Douglas, Douglas, are you awake, Douglas, wake up?
Speaker 3: Douglas, wake up? Would you please wake up? For what's
the Oh?
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 3: Mother? Is something wrong? You'll have to get up later.
Speaker 1: Well, call doctor Peterson. Of course he'll be here in
a few minutes.
Speaker 6: He's he's arranging for the ambulance and.
Speaker 3: All that ambulance. But are you sick or something? Mother?
Speaker 1: I'm perfectly all right. It's her father, Pop.
Speaker 3: What's wrong with him?
Speaker 7: I've told your father, I've told him over and over
again that if he kept on with this kind of
life he's been leading, he'd has to pay the price
sooner or later. Well, now he's paid for it. What
do you mean, Douglas, your father is dead.
Speaker 4: Our mystery drama That Hamlet Was a Good Boy was
written as especially for the out of Field and Farrington
and stars Will McKenzie and Jennifer Harmon. A boy has
lost his father, well, not a boy really, Douglas Cardwell
is a young man out of college and already experimenting
with adult life and its potentialities. But when a boy
or a man at no matter what.
Speaker 5: Age, loses his father.
Speaker 4: This loss, the funeral is over, marking the death as
utterly final, and Douglas and his mother are returning to
the home, now tenanted by two instead of three people,
at least in the natural course of things, tenanted only
by two.
Speaker 8: Drapes backglass and opened some windows. I I never could
understand why a house has to be darkened.
Speaker 3: And all that hot ar the drapes. Oh, for heaven's sake,
you've got to stop this mooning about.
Speaker 8: Your father's been dead for three days now and I
haven't heard a half dozen words out of you.
Speaker 3: I was very fond of my father. I miss him.
I'm sorry if you think I'm overdoing it, but I
miss him.
Speaker 1: Please open the drapes.
Speaker 3: My father was a good man.
Speaker 1: I'd better set you straight about your father.
Speaker 3: I'm already straight about him. I don't need to be set.
Speaker 8: He always showed you his best side. I know he'd
never let you see the side of a maya to
live with.
Speaker 3: I've always known what was going on.
Speaker 1: Oh have you indeed? Did you know that your father
was a drunkard?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Come on, mother, He took a drink now and then.
But my father was a good man.
Speaker 1: Your father was a ne'er do well.
Speaker 3: We live in the finest house in Branbury, the very finest.
Speaker 6: Right ahs, which her father inherited from his father.
Speaker 3: He owned the glass which employs almost half the people
in this town.
Speaker 8: Right managed, mismanaged would be more accurate.
Speaker 1: Do you know that?
Speaker 3: But how can you call him a ne'er do well?
Speaker 8: I'll tell you how he could have been a millionaire
several times over, just by scribbling his name at the
bottom of an agreement.
Speaker 3: He could have.
Speaker 1: But would he do it?
Speaker 3: No? No, not your father.
Speaker 6: He knew I wanted him to, and that's why he wouldn't.
Speaker 3: You're talking about his refusal to sell the glass works, aren't.
Speaker 8: You Amalgamated Glass offered him three million, three million dollars
and five percent of their stock. What kind of a
business man turns down an offer like that.
Speaker 3: They wanted to close the Branberry Glass plant. You know
that half the people in this town would have been
thrown out of work.
Speaker 8: Well, thank goodness, my brother will have better.
Speaker 3: Sense, Uncle Stanley. What's he got to do with.
Speaker 8: Your uncle Stanley will be taking over the management of
Bramburry Glass.
Speaker 3: Now, Douglas, uncle Stanley will, yes, character is my father
planned to put me in charge when he retired. He
didn't know, of course he was going to die.
Speaker 1: Your father left his entire estate for me, that includes
the factory, you know, and.
Speaker 3: You intend to make Uncle Stanley the manager.
Speaker 1: Will dog this.
Speaker 8: I I don't want to hurt you, but well, I'm
sorry to say that I see some of your father's
unfortunate characteristics in you.
Speaker 1: You've just said, You've just.
Speaker 6: Finished saying that your father was right not to sell
the plant.
Speaker 3: Would have turned Branbury into a ghost town.
Speaker 8: Well, he called Brambury's near enough a ghost town in
any case, And the people who live in it are
not children. Let them take care of themselves. They're not
our responsibility.
Speaker 3: My father felt they were his.
Speaker 8: You see what I mean, You're just like him, Thank you,
a dreamer. Oh and his choice up friends, good heavens,
the people he called friends.
Speaker 3: There were several hundred people outside the church today, just
standing there. They couldn't get inside because there wasn't room,
but they wanted to pay their respects. I don't think
so badly, Douglas.
Speaker 8: While we're on the subject of friends and the choosing
of them. Where was that girlfriend of yours today? That
little lump and that little blonde.
Speaker 3: What's her name, Phyllis Downs? You know her name?
Speaker 1: I didn't see at the funeral today.
Speaker 3: He was outside with the others. I expect she knew
you'd only snub her if she tried to come inside.
Speaker 9: Yes, I was there, Doug, outside and you know, I
was sort of glad I was out there instead of
in the church.
Speaker 3: I was risitting right there watching the people.
Speaker 10: They loved your father. You could see it in their.
Speaker 3: Faces, you know, a crazy thing. I had this strange
feeling all day, well ever since he died, actually, but
especially today. That pop was there. I just you know,
he might as well have been sitting right there in
the pew beside me? Is that completely nutty?
Speaker 10: Who are we to say so?
Speaker 3: I never really believed in stuff like that.
Speaker 10: Well, I don't think there's any way to.
Speaker 3: Believe or say she's going to make all such.
Speaker 10: Things flatly, Doug. The fact is we.
Speaker 3: Don't know that's true.
Speaker 10: You really miss him, don't you, Doug?
Speaker 3: I can't except for you. The world has come to
an end.
Speaker 10: Well, at least there will always be me.
Speaker 3: Think the lord. They're going to sell the glass works.
I think what mother says. She's going to make Uncle
Stanley the manager now that Pop's gone.
Speaker 10: Uncle Stanley? But can she do that?
Speaker 3: She says, my father left his entire estate to her.
Wouldn't well do everything sure of herself?
Speaker 10: And they'll sell the plant.
Speaker 3: The buyers will close it down. That's the only reason
anybody ever want wanted to buy bran Bray glass.
Speaker 10: They might as well close the town down too.
Speaker 3: It's about what it amounts to.
Speaker 10: He'd have given us his blessing, wouldn't he.
Speaker 3: Of course I talked to him about us.
Speaker 9: But your mother won't. She'll do everything she can to
keep us from marrying.
Speaker 3: What can she do? I'm a big boy. I want
to marry you, and I intend to. She has nothing
to say about it.
Speaker 9: I'm not so sure of that. Control of the money
as well as the factory. She can put some pressure
on you.
Speaker 11: So it's settled.
Speaker 5: We sell.
Speaker 1: You're quite sure you'll be able to find a buyer.
Speaker 11: Oh, no problem there.
Speaker 12: I don't know how the price will hold up. That's
the only thing.
Speaker 1: Why shouldn't it hold up.
Speaker 11: We're coming to them now, they're not coming to us.
Speaker 1: Well, I still don't price.
Speaker 12: Whatever, we'll still be good enough to make us very
wealthy people. I'll get on the phone first thing in
the morning.
Speaker 3: Here, uncle Stanley, unless I miss my game?
Speaker 11: What what is it?
Speaker 1: I thought I heard somebody on the porch.
Speaker 12: A little early for Doug to be coming home from
a dates.
Speaker 8: He hasn't been feeling himself here. There it is, Douglas.
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't expect to find you here, Uncle Stanley.
Speaker 8: Your home early, Douglas. Did you quarrel with your little friend?
Speaker 10: What's her name?
Speaker 3: No, Phillis and I didn't quarrel. I'm going up to
my room.
Speaker 1: Mother, Florida. I think would be something I believe you
ought to know.
Speaker 3: I'll take it standing up. If you don't mind your.
Speaker 8: Uncle STALLI and I have definitely decided that the best
thing to do is.
Speaker 1: To sell the factory.
Speaker 11: I see best for whom, best for everybody. Boy, it'll
make us all rich.
Speaker 3: What about the rest of the people in Branbury.
Speaker 1: We'll move out of here, Douglas. Somewhere in Florida, I
think would be nice.
Speaker 3: I'll fight it. I'll take it to court. Douglas, that's
not what my father planned for the Branburry Glass Company.
I don't intend to.
Speaker 1: Stay, Bobus.
Speaker 6: That's quite enough of that kind of talk.
Speaker 3: I'm saying. There was a saint the way you go
on about him close enough.
Speaker 1: Oh, Douglas, don't be silly.
Speaker 8: If there ever was an unsaintly man, it was surely
your father. He was a drunkard, a procrastinator, and a
woman chased her.
Speaker 3: That's a lie.
Speaker 10: Douglas.
Speaker 3: Understand what I'm saying. I'll do everything I can to
keep you from selling the plants.
Speaker 12: You'll come to agree with us, I'm sure once you've
taken time to think it over rationally.
Speaker 1: Oh, now, think how nice.
Speaker 3: Don't I'm not going to Florida. I'm staying in Branbury.
Maybe I can help pick up the pieces after they
close the plant down. Anyway, Phyllis and I are going
to be married.
Speaker 8: Oh, you are not going to marry that, that cheap
little tramp.
Speaker 3: You presume too much on the fact that you're my mother.
Speaker 5: Don't.
Speaker 3: I'm going up to bed.
Speaker 1: You are not going to marry sorry her.
Speaker 3: You have nothing to say about it, mother.
Speaker 5: Doug Douglas and you would hear me. Don't don't be frightened,
my son. There's nothing to be afraid of.
Speaker 3: Who who's that?
Speaker 5: No, don't don't let it upset you, my son. It's
perfectly all right.
Speaker 3: Pop Is that.
Speaker 5: Yes? Yes, it's me. I know. Don't don't turn your
light on just yet. I still have to materialize. There's
no point in your watching a thing like that. Materializing
is no dog, No, it's not a joke. It's just wait,
wait just a minute. Eh, okay, okay, Doug you can
you can turn your lamp on now, pop Hello, son,
You know this materializing is kind of tricky for a beginner.
Speaker 3: Is it? Is it really you? Popo?
Speaker 5: Is it it's me? All right?
Speaker 3: What? Ghost?
Speaker 5: Well? Yes? Never really, yes, you could say that it's
it's a word. We don't particularly favor.
Speaker 3: But yes, all day I had a feeling, I had
this crazy feeling that.
Speaker 5: I was with you right, Well I was. You know
that that was quite a funeral.
Speaker 12: The people outside, everything that was very moving, very I
never realized that all those people were so fond.
Speaker 5: Well, well, I'm I'm I'm not here to talk about that.
Speaker 3: Why did you come back? Pop? People don't usually do they?
Speaker 5: No, Well, former people. The thing is, Doug, Well, I've
been made a Class.
Speaker 3: D spirit, a Class D spirit.
Speaker 5: It's all very fair, all according to the regulations. See,
a Class D spirit has to walk the earth. That's
the way it's always been.
Speaker 3: What is a Class D spirit?
Speaker 5: Well, we're people of a former people whose murders have
yet to be avenged. Did you ever see Shakespeare's Hamlet?
Or you must have? Yes, not that Hamlet? That Hamlet
not very bright maybe, but a good boy. His father
got murdered, and he couldn't rest a minute until the
murder was avenged and his father could get out of
class dump.
Speaker 3: You died of a heart attack, doctor Peterson said, So
he signed a certificate that.
Speaker 5: Way, don't you believe it? So then your uncle Stanley
smothered me with a pillow murder most foul.
Speaker 4: Since the art of story telling us one, there have
been tales of men and women murdered and unavenged. But
who is to say with certainty that these lost souls
walk only within the confines of fiction. The murder which
goes unavenged is the murder which never comes to light.
To shed some light on this one, I'll be back Shorter.
Peterson's too. Douglas Cardwell's father, dead now these three days,
has just come to his son in the still of
the night and spoken to him of murder. Although doctor
Peterson signed a certificate saying that Edmund Cardwell's death was
brought about by coronary arrest, Edmund himself claims that the
cause was a pillow held over his face.
Speaker 3: And I fear in law Stanley, you can't mean that, pop,
Uncle Stanley. There was never any trouble between you and
Uncle Stanley, was there. I mean, why should he want
to kill you?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know myself exactly why he would want
to do such a thing, But since I know he
did it, then it follows he had a motive, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and I think I know what it was.
Speaker 5: You do well, then maybe you better tell me.
Speaker 3: Well, mother's putting Uncle Stanley in charge at the plant.
Speaker 5: Oh, lord lord, I was afraid, but.
Speaker 3: You were just they're planning to sell out, they told
me tonight, just before I came up to bed.
Speaker 5: Well, there's all the motive you need, son, I have
to tell you something about your mother and me.
Speaker 3: No need, Pop. Do you think I wouldn't notice when
you and mother started using separate bedrooms? Well what was
I supposed to think that meant?
Speaker 5: But you were just a child, then, Doug.
Speaker 3: Almost twelve? Kids aren't stupid?
Speaker 11: Pop?
Speaker 5: No, apparently. Well I'm sorry. Terrible thing to do, shameful
to do a thing like that to a boy. Well,
and maybe it won't surprise you too much when I
tell you I have reason to suspect your mother being well,
an accomplice to my murder.
Speaker 1: Mother.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on, she's.
Speaker 5: Been after me for years to sell that factory. Well,
it would have been a profitable thing to do, if
you didn't take into consideration the harm it would have done.
Speaker 3: Still to say that she had a hand.
Speaker 5: She was at home that night. Now I came in late,
We had a quarrel. I went on up to bed.
Somebody had to let your uncle Stanley into the house, right,
she must have. She must have stayed down there waiting
for him while he was upstairs holding that pillow over
my face. I'm sorry, Doug, sorry, but I don't see
how he could have done it otherwise.
Speaker 3: It's a terrible thing to have to believe about your
own mother.
Speaker 5: Terrible. I'm very sorry.
Speaker 3: That's she has been saying some nasty things about you.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you one thing she was right about. I
was a procrastinator to well to have done, I would
agree now. I've been meaning ever since the day you
turned twenty one, to have my will changed in your favor.
But somehow, well, I just put it off from day
to day until well, it's just too late.
Speaker 3: Now it's going to be pretty hard on the ton
of Brander if they sell the plant. You know, whoever
buys it, we'll close it down.
Speaker 5: Well, now, don't don't give up, son, I'm not in
very good shape for a fight, but we're not through yet.
Speaker 3: All the same, what is it you want me to do?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm hanged if I know right this minute, Son,
we always want to think of something though, that the
two of us together. Right now, I'm just about tuck
it out. Now, Let's think about it until tomorrow night,
and I'll appear to you again at midnight. Wherever you
are at midnight, I'll be there.
Speaker 3: Okay. Why is it always midnight? Pop? I mean white
a ghosts always walk at midnight.
Speaker 5: Oh well, it's it's tradition traditional. Yes, as far as
I can tell. As far as I can tell, it's
no easier at midnight than any other time.
Speaker 8: Dougless, you've hardly touched your breakfast, did it.
Speaker 3: It's right, you're fine, mother, I'm not hungry, that's all.
Speaker 6: Well, you have to eat.
Speaker 1: You can't go.
Speaker 3: Why strange thing has happened?
Speaker 5: Mother?
Speaker 1: Strange?
Speaker 3: I saw my father last night. You were He came
to me in my room. Have you lost your mind?
I don't think so.
Speaker 1: You dreamed it?
Speaker 3: Now, Mother, I was awake. It was no dream. He
he sat on the edge of the bed and we
talked almost the way we used to talk, only not
about the same kind of thing or heath?
Speaker 1: And what did you talk about? This dream that wasn't
a dream?
Speaker 5: Murder?
Speaker 3: We talked about murder, about murder. He told me he'd
been murdered. Uncle Stanley held a pillow over his face
and smothered him. Oh, for Heaven's sake, dog, that has
told me, and I believed him.
Speaker 6: You believed him. You actually think your uncle Stanley would?
Speaker 1: Oh, oh my poor Douglas. It's I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6: It's just been too much for you, hasn't it.
Speaker 1: I didn't read much.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I am not out of my mind. I
know what I saw and I know what I heard.
That hasn't all of it either. I'm afraid it's quite
enough for me. He thinks you were involved. He thinks
you helped Uncle Stanley kill him. Of your business, all.
Speaker 8: Right, Douglas, I've heard all of this kind of talk
I intend to listen to.
Speaker 1: I'll call doctor Peterson. Is is he If he can recommend a.
Speaker 3: Good psychiatrist, you can call if you like, mother. But
I'm not going to see a psychiatrist. I don't need one.
Where are you going out? There are some people I
want to see what people? If you want me to
come right out with it, that is none of your business, Douglas.
You can't bully me where you've always bullied my.
Speaker 12: Father, My boy, I want you to know how deeply
grieve was there his death, and I want to offer
my most heartfelt condolences.
Speaker 3: Thank you, mister Conrad. You'd been my father's lawyer for
a good many years, hadn't you.
Speaker 12: His legal advisor?
Speaker 11: In one of his closest friends twenty years more?
Speaker 3: I say, mister Conrad, did he? Did he ever mention?
I don't want to sound greedy at a time like this,
but was there ever any talk of changing the will
in my favor?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, indeed there was. Unfortunately it was never done,
but it had been his intention for some time. I
see would be costly, health we always thought there was
plenty of time.
Speaker 3: The thing is my mother, with the help of my
uncle Stanley, they're talking about selling the glassworks.
Speaker 11: Oh dear, your father wouldn't have wanted that.
Speaker 3: Neither do I. Is there any way we can stop them?
Speaker 12: I suppose you could delay it by taking it to court.
It would be costly, and I don't believe you'd stand
much chance of winning.
Speaker 3: You advise against it, then I believe I would.
Speaker 11: Have to advise against it. Yes, yes, he.
Speaker 3: Was a ghost. You can believe it or not, but
I swear he was there sitting on the bed right
beside me.
Speaker 10: You actually saw a ghost?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, he didn't seem like a ghost. He
was just my father. Oh he was a ghost, all right.
At first I could sort of half see through him.
Speaker 10: That's spooky, all right.
Speaker 3: Didn't bother me too much, really, And he got himself
solidified after a while.
Speaker 10: Humped into a fish punch and is.
Speaker 3: Hard for a beginner, he said.
Speaker 9: The poor dear and murdered too. You set your father
mentioned Hamlet, a.
Speaker 3: Class D spirit, Pop says, has to walk the earth
until he's avenged. Hamlet's father was class D.
Speaker 9: In Hamlet, he got killed and his girl friend went
off her rocker and jumped into a fish.
Speaker 10: Pond or something. I don't find that too attractive.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think he meant us to follow Shakespeare's
script altogether. Would you like some dessert? Ore?
Speaker 10: Is no hurry?
Speaker 3: Well, the only thing is I guess that would be
home by midnight. Why he promised he'd show up again
at midnight to night, we're going to see if we
can figure out what to do.
Speaker 10: What does it have to be there in your room?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 3: He did say wherever I was.
Speaker 9: Why Who couldn't we go to my apartment? If he's
going to show up wherever you are, why not my apartment.
Speaker 3: I guess that would be all right if you're sure
you won't be afraid.
Speaker 6: Of that, sweet old man.
Speaker 10: Don't be silly.
Speaker 9: Oh all right, Oh, answer it, Stanley, answer.
Speaker 1: It, will you?
Speaker 3: Hello?
Speaker 8: Oh Stanley, where in the world have you been. I've
been trying this whole live long evening to read you.
Speaker 5: I had a very.
Speaker 12: Busy day, Gertrude, A very tiring day, and I don't.
Speaker 11: Want to be yelled at.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, all right, but where were you?
Speaker 11: I was having dinner with a prospect.
Speaker 1: A prospect.
Speaker 8: You mean you've had this whole day to work on
it and you still haven't settled anything.
Speaker 12: I think I made a deal two minutes to twelve
to your approval, of course, consolidated bottlings, Willie.
Speaker 6: I don't want to hear about it this way, not
on the phone.
Speaker 1: I want you to come over here right away, Gertrude.
Speaker 11: I'm tired and I'm not feeling well. I've had a hard.
Speaker 6: Day at once, Stanley.
Speaker 3: What time is it now, doug two minutes to twelve,
if my watch is right. You're not frightened, are you, Phyllis?
Speaker 10: Of course not well, maybe a little nervous.
Speaker 3: You needn't be. He's really just the same.
Speaker 10: Except Dick Phyllis, what time is it now?
Speaker 3: Twenty seconds later? He may be late.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Punctuality was never one of my father's virtues, but surely now.
Speaker 5: That he's Dug Doug.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, Pop, I'm here.
Speaker 5: Well you're not. You don't seem to be alone.
Speaker 3: Oh it's all right, Pop. You remember phyllis phyllis downs?
Speaker 5: Oh yes, yes, of course. Just a minute now, Oh
there is anything new? You know? The materializing seems to
get easier as you go along with phyllis phyllis. How
nice to see you again.
Speaker 9: It's good to see you too, mister Cardwell, only will
give me a minute to get.
Speaker 3: Used to it.
Speaker 5: I expect it is unnerving. It is nothing to be
afraid of, though, I'm not afraid, of course. You're not well, Doug.
Anything new?
Speaker 3: Well? Uncle Stanley was supposed to be out taking bids
for the plant today.
Speaker 5: Well you won't have any trouble. Plenty of people eager
to buy Brianberry glass. Doug, you told your mother.
Speaker 3: I suppose I didn't you? Yes, shouldn't I have?
Speaker 5: It doesn't really matter?
Speaker 3: Have you thought of anything?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to say, I haven't. No, I don't want
to get you into a bad situation down here. And
yet if I'm to be reclassified, I have to be avenged. Well, Doug,
I just don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, I suppose I'll do whatever I have to. There
must be some better way than the way Hamlet did it.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, All I said was that Hamlet was
a good boy. I didn't ask you to do any
of the thing as he troop. If I don't want
you to make the kind of mess he made of things,
certainly I don't want you to.
Speaker 8: All.
Speaker 9: I just thought of something in Hamlet they did a play,
remember A bunch of strolling players came along and Hamlet
made up a scene for them to act out to
catch the conscience of the king.
Speaker 10: Right, why couldn't we.
Speaker 5: Do that the whole troop of actors.
Speaker 10: I have a whole movie camera.
Speaker 9: Got it as a present last Christmas, and it's absolutely marvelous.
What phyllis It takes pictures indoors with just ordinary room lighting, and.
Speaker 10: I've got to is just lied.
Speaker 5: Yes, but we'd still need actors, No, we wouldn't.
Speaker 10: Don't you see?
Speaker 9: You could play yourself and Doug could play uncle Stanley,
and we'd reenact the crime.
Speaker 5: I don't know about that, Phillis. I only tried acting
once in my high school senior class play. And well,
to tell you the truth, I was terrified.
Speaker 9: All you'd have to do is just lie there on
the bed, mister Cardwell, while Uncle Stanley held the pillow
over your face.
Speaker 10: You wouldn't have to act.
Speaker 3: It would work very well in Hamlet, sure.
Speaker 10: Caught the cop.
Speaker 9: If we can scare Uncle Stanley badly enough, who knows
what might happen.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I don't think you can take pictures
of spirits. I mean I don't think spirits show up
on film.
Speaker 9: Oh, mister Cardwell, please, that's just superstitious nonsense.
Speaker 5: Probably like seeing a ghost. Well, we can try. Goodness knows.
I have nothing better to suggest.
Speaker 4: Perhaps it has been said that nature imitates art, which
I suppose could be made to read reality imitates fiction.
But is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark a wise choice of models?
As I recall, there was nobody left except the ghost
of the murdered king. Perhaps, however, reality need not slavishly
follow the pattern of fiction. In the case at hand,
some of the misery will be edited out we'll see Spector.
Speaker 3: Duickly with Act three, the.
Speaker 4: Late Edmund Cardwell has been designated a Class D spirit,
which means that he must walk the earth until his
murder is avenged. He has appeared as a rather lifelike
specter to his son Douglas, and now also to Phyllis Downes,
who is engaged to marry Douglas. The three of them
in trying to determine how best this vengeance may willis
I'm afraid had hit upon a device.
Speaker 3: Used by Hamlet in Shakespeare's drama.
Speaker 4: The Play's the thing they've decided wherein they'll catch the
conscience of Uncle Stanley. At this moment, they're examining the
bedroom of Phyllis's apartment, which she has proposed as the
setting for their filmed drama.
Speaker 5: Now, no, phil Well, I'm afraid it just won't do.
It isn't the least like my own bedroom where where
the crime was committed.
Speaker 10: Well, then we'll have to make the film.
Speaker 3: In your room with mother in the house.
Speaker 10: I don't care what.
Speaker 3: No, my mother.
Speaker 9: We can wait until she's gone to bed. After all,
it's going to be a silent film. And if my
mother wakes up, if she wakes up, your father simply disappears.
Speaker 10: He can't do that. We hide the camera before we
let her in, and she finds the two of us
alone in your father's room. That's all they'll be defined.
Speaker 3: You know what she's going to think, so.
Speaker 10: I don't care what she thinks to you. Are you
afraid of her, Doug?
Speaker 5: Of course he is, my dear. Everybody's afraid of Gertrude.
Speaker 1: Where else? It's about time, Stanley. What took you so long?
Speaker 11: Gertrude? Can we just get this over with.
Speaker 12: I've had a stomach ache all day, and I don't
think I've.
Speaker 11: Ever been a tired before in my whole life.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk in this house, stan.
Speaker 3: But but I.
Speaker 11: Came all the way over here because.
Speaker 8: I'll explain it to you later somewhere else.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid of being overheard.
Speaker 3: If we talk here over heard he's Doughaugh, No, he isn't.
He's out with that that.
Speaker 11: Girl who's going to overhear us?
Speaker 8: Do the Douglas soltend if you must know? Edmund, he's
still in his house, Stanley.
Speaker 1: I can feel it.
Speaker 12: He's still here, Gertrude. Edmund's dead. We buried him a
few days ago.
Speaker 1: He's here all the same, he's come back. Stanley.
Speaker 12: Oh, if I didn't feel so lousy, that would almost
be funny.
Speaker 8: You, of all people, Maybe you won't think it so
funny when I tell you that Douglas saw him last
night and.
Speaker 1: Talked to him.
Speaker 11: I don't believe it.
Speaker 1: Douglas says he did.
Speaker 8: He also says that Edmond is accusing you of smothering
him with a pill. Doug said that he did, But.
Speaker 3: But how would he know.
Speaker 8: He wouldn't unless Edmund told him.
Speaker 6: Now, do you understand why I want to get out
of this place?
Speaker 3: The lights are still on in the living room. Stay
in the shadow of these bushes, stills.
Speaker 10: What time does your mother usually.
Speaker 3: Go to bed? Earlier than this is a rule? It's
almost one.
Speaker 10: Yes, its father's going to materialize in his room after
we get there. Is that the plan?
Speaker 3: Or before he thought it'd be easier than.
Speaker 10: Oh wait a minute, the light just went out.
Speaker 3: We'll still have to give her some time, Honey, she
didn't turn on her bedroom light first.
Speaker 10: She usually somebody's coming out the front door. I think
it's yes, it's mother.
Speaker 3: There's somebody with her uncle Stanley. It looks like don't
like him at least he's fat, pretty portly. Yes, it's
feeling round to the garage. It looks like beautiful.
Speaker 10: If they drive away somewhere in the car, it'll be
a cinch to get inside.
Speaker 3: Mother doesn't like to drive at night, but Uncle Stanley
sometimes parks his car back by the garage. Come over
here behind the bushes so the lights won't catch you
as they back out.
Speaker 10: It's going to work, Doug. I have a feeling we're
going to do it, and it's going to work. Your
uncle Stanley pop.
Speaker 5: Right here, Doug. They went out somewhere, she and Stanley.
Speaker 3: Yes, we saw them go. Okay to turn the light on.
Speaker 9: Sure, all right, let's get started.
Speaker 5: Well, now what do I have to do.
Speaker 10: Just lie down on the bed and close your eyes.
Speaker 4: Doug.
Speaker 9: You wrap a blanket or something around your middle so
you'll look thick like your uncle Stanley.
Speaker 10: Now we'll have a run through first. One should do that.
Speaker 5: Who ever heard of anybody re enacting his own murder?
A man shouldn't be asked to die more than what?
Speaker 11: Oh he was the hold?
Speaker 6: Oh Stanley, you know I hate saloons.
Speaker 12: Come on, Gertrude, there's nothing else open this time of night.
Speaker 11: Now, would you like to hear what I did today?
Speaker 5: Or wouldn't you?
Speaker 1: All right, yes, of course I want to hear.
Speaker 11: Well, it's not quite as good as we'd hoped.
Speaker 12: Everyone knows Edmund's dead, Juicee, and they know he was
to hold out.
Speaker 11: They know you and I are ready to sell.
Speaker 3: So so the price has gone down.
Speaker 1: I might have known you bungled.
Speaker 3: It, Gertrude.
Speaker 11: These people are not stupid.
Speaker 1: I had a million's better.
Speaker 11: Your glass is a small plant.
Speaker 12: It's a nuisance to the big companies, that's all. The
best offer I got was from Consolidated Bottling, one million
dollars and three percent of their common stock.
Speaker 11: Take it or leave it now?
Speaker 1: I happen to know that Amalgamated once off.
Speaker 11: I said, take it or leave it?
Speaker 8: Oh, all right, right, A million's better than nothing, but
considerably so can I go home.
Speaker 1: And get some Well what still has to be done?
Speaker 12: Consolidated as a board meeting schedule for ten thirty tomorrow morning.
Speaker 11: Good too that if the deal gets past.
Speaker 12: The board, it'll go to the legal department.
Speaker 11: Then they'll draw up the papers.
Speaker 5: Who's luck.
Speaker 11: I might have something for you to sign tomorrow night.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 10: I guess that wraps it up pretty good too. I
think that last take was very effective. Actually gave me the.
Speaker 5: Shipper, gave me worse than man.
Speaker 3: I just hope it does some good, that's all it will.
Speaker 10: It has to we best shot it still can.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't much want to see my mother just now. Now.
Speaker 10: I'll have them develop and print this film tomorrow morning.
Will you see if you can arrange for us to
show it to them tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: Doc, I'll try to get them together. I think it'd
be just as well not to tell them why. I
don't believe they'd be very interested right now in watching
home movies.
Speaker 9: They'll be interested alright once they see that first shot.
Speaker 3: Hello, this is Doug Phyllis. I just had a talk
with me. Does he know from the drug store?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: Is it all set up.
Speaker 10: For us to show the film tonight?
Speaker 3: Uncle Stanley's going to be at the house tonight at
eight o'clock. He hopes to have the papers for mother
to sign by then. It looks like tonight or never.
Speaker 10: You didn't say anything to your mother about the film.
Speaker 3: No, we'll just show up with it at the house
and make them watch it. It's the only way I
can think of. Does he know my father? I'm not sure.
I suspect he's pretty much in touch with what's going on, though.
Speaker 5: Now I'm right here with your son.
Speaker 3: Is here in the phone booth the pilm Pop.
Speaker 5: Ask her if I showed up all right on the film.
Speaker 3: Doug Phyllis pops here with me in the phone booth.
He wants to know if he showed up all right
on the film perfectly, just as well as you did.
Speaker 5: Hmmm, funny somewhere I got the idea, Yeah, you couldn't
take pictures of class dse spirits.
Speaker 2: Doug ask him if.
Speaker 10: He's going to be there tonight when we show the film.
Speaker 3: Pop. She wants to know.
Speaker 5: I know, I know, I heard. I'll be there in
spirit at least. I'm not sure that I'm up to
facing your mother in the flesh.
Speaker 8: You're terminist, late Stanley. Oh, come on in, did you
bring the papers?
Speaker 12: They're all ready to hear your signature. I may go
down to Florida myself when this is all over, or
someplace at least for a few weeks, and either.
Speaker 1: Well, don't be a need to hold either of some Bramburry.
Let me have the papers.
Speaker 11: I got them right here in lantashe case. They had
the whole legal department working on this thing.
Speaker 8: Somebody outside I didn't hear any Oh hello, mother, uncle Stanley.
Speaker 3: You've both met pillows, haven't you.
Speaker 1: We've met.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have something to show you, mother, Oh, both
of you.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid it'll have to wait. Douglas. We're very busy
right now, not too busy for this.
Speaker 3: I hope it's a.
Speaker 10: Short piece of film. It doesn't run more than a
few minutes.
Speaker 1: Run What is it? You got, Douglas?
Speaker 3: A screen and this is a projector won't take us
a second? Set it up?
Speaker 12: Gertrude, Why don't you just sign these papers and let
me get out of here. I don't feel well enough
to watch any home movies today.
Speaker 3: You'll be interested in this, Uncle Stanley, you especially this
wall will do?
Speaker 10: Is it all right if I take this picture down?
Speaker 1: No, it is not, young lady, and we don't have
time for any of this nonsense.
Speaker 3: I want you to take it down for this here.
Speaker 1: Let me help you, Douglas.
Speaker 3: Oh you'll find this fascinating, mother, I guarantee it.
Speaker 13: Okay, All set here, you can turn the lights out, Doug, Douglas.
Speaker 3: I don't want to.
Speaker 6: Oh lord, Dougle said to her father, how did you
get there's more?
Speaker 3: Mother, wait until you've seen it all.
Speaker 11: It's me somehow they got you have pictures of it.
Speaker 3: You'll notice that's a pillow Uncle Stanley has in his hands. Mother,
Where did you get this? This filthy thing?
Speaker 5: Shut it off.
Speaker 11: I don't want to.
Speaker 3: I can't old.
Speaker 10: Shut that dreadful thing.
Speaker 3: You haven't seen the best part.
Speaker 6: There you see the pillow, my father's face.
Speaker 3: Hold you, okay, shut it off, Phyllis, stay here here,
let me get to a mother. There's no pulse. I'm
afraid you killed him.
Speaker 1: You killed my brother.
Speaker 3: Oh, Doug, heart attack. I imagine Stanley's.
Speaker 13: Feed to me.
Speaker 3: I won't have this.
Speaker 1: You understand, spee to me.
Speaker 3: It's no good mother, good, cool, good true. Can you
hear me?
Speaker 5: Papers out of Stanley dogs your father?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 10: Is he going to Willie? Oh? No, no, no, no,
m go away, go away.
Speaker 5: You're dead, edma and just about out of class d.
There's one thing, though, Gertrude. Away will Gertrude, But first
take those papers out of Stanley's out the shay case,
and you know the papers I mean, I'll tear them up.
Speaker 1: I will not. The factory is mine now and I
have every right to tell.
Speaker 5: The true over to him. Yet haunt you for the
rest of your life, because I will.
Speaker 6: If you're alive, you'd never get away with this.
Speaker 5: Yes, but as you say, Gerdrude, I'm dead. Tear them up, Gertrude.
Thank you. Now you are to put Doug in charge
of bran Bury Glass. In fact, I think it would
be a good thing if you needed the factory over
to him. Yes, yes, I think that would be best you.
You may keep the house if you like. The liquid
assets I think ought to be divided equally between the
two of you, you see Doug's Yeah, but he and
fill us our planning to be married.
Speaker 1: I won't do it according to your will.
Speaker 5: Oh I just made a new will, Gertrude. Weren't you listening?
Or of course I could stay and haunt.
Speaker 1: You all right? Go away? Oh poor standing?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I am sorry about that in a way.
At least though he won't be in class D he
died of natural death. I'll be going out, Doug.
Speaker 11: I will remind you long life and happiness.
Speaker 3: We we won't be seeing you again.
Speaker 5: No, not as long as your mother keeps her promise.
It's better that way. Really remember me, though, I hope
you'll remember me.
Speaker 3: I won't forget him tell us, and I will be
around to remind you if you ever should.
Speaker 4: And those thorns avenged and free at last to take
his final rest, the mother Well, the ghost of Hamlet's father,
said to Hamlet, tain't not thy mind, nor let thy
soul contrive against.
Speaker 12: Thy mother aught.
Speaker 4: Leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in
her bosom lodge, do prick and sting her. I'll return
in the flesh, of course, in a few minutes.
Speaker 3: Little town.
Speaker 4: The Branburg Glass Factory was never sold, and Doug Cardwell,
since taking over its management, has made a very good.
Speaker 5: Thing of it.
Speaker 4: Branbury is still a thriving little town with no more
than the usual concern over unemployment. Doug and Phyllis live
in the old house now, and Doug's mother wears a
lovely father invention.
Speaker 3: His father has never had occasion to return.
Speaker 4: Our cast included Will Mackenzie, Jennifer Harmon, Grace, Matthews, Joe
Silver and Leon. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 3: This is E. G.
Speaker 4: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure.
Speaker 5: In the macabrere.
Speaker 11: Until next time, pleasant dreams, F.