The CBS radio mystery theater presents Come in
Welcome I'm EG Marshall Have you ever known terror?
Have you ever come up against something that
so threatened you, so horrified you, that it
stopped your heart for a moment? If you never
have, count yourself lucky. But don't count on
your luck too much. After all, who's to say that
terror may never touch you? Consider Helen and
Jim Crane. They never thought it would ever touch
them. Jim, there's blood all over. And the axe.
Did you see the axe? Come on, let's get out of
here. Blizzard, we can't... We can't stay here
either. There must have been a terrible fight
in that kitchen and I'm not waiting for the winner
to come back. You don't suppose... What? The
murderer. The murderer the police are looking
for. The man who slaughtered the Grant family.
He said he was holed up somewhere on the mountain.
This cabin, maybe. You don't think... All I think
is that we'd better get out of here. Our mystery
drama, Blizzard of Terror, was written especially
for the mystery theatre by George Lother and
stars Lois Smith. It is sponsored in part by
Anheuser -Busch Incorporated, Brewer's of Budweiser.
I'll be back shortly with Act One. Dare you join
me now in a blizzard of terror? Not so fast!
Not so quick to answer yes. Are your nerves in
shape for what lies ahead? Have you promised
yourself a good night's sleep? A promise you
want to keep? In simple brief, are you who now
listen to my voice, ready to cope with terror?
Very well. You made the choice, not I. Come along
then. Well, come on. That China will form no
coalition with Russia in the foreseeable future.
That's the world news. Now I have a special bulletin
from the big Indian sheriff's office. to stay
off the roads on Thunder Mountain. Not only because
of the blizzards, but also because the man sought
for the brutal murder of the Grant family is
believed to be hiding out somewhere on the mountain.
Jim, please shut it off! With a kitchen carving
knife, the Grant family... Thank you, Mr. Crane.
You're welcome, Mrs. Crane. We don't need to
be told again and again that we're in a blizzard
on Thunder Mountain. We know we are, thanks to
you. I'm sorry. It's OK, skip it. Maybe it is
my fault. Tim! Oh, that was a close one. You
know, I can't see the road. All I can see is
snow. What's that? What's what? There, just ahead,
back under the trees. A cabin? So? We better
stop. Oh no, no way. Yeah. We're just managing
to make it up this grade now. If we stop, we'll
never get started again. If we keep going, we're
sure to get stuck. Those snowdrifts out there
are getting worse. Yeah, I know. We'd be safer
in that camp. We could freeze to death. Yeah,
please. For once. Listen to reason. Okay, okay.
You win. You always do. What you just said. But
not here! The cabin's over there. If we drive
in there, we will get stuck. You really are going
to have to get new glasses. Can't you see the
road? Oh, oh yeah. Tire tracks. Snowed over,
but tracks. Those tire tracks, they mean somebody's
there. Yes! Look, look! Smoke's coming out of
the chimney. Ah, now. Are you glad we turned
in? I'm swooning with delight. You're angry because
I was right. When are you wrong? When are you
ever wrong? Oh, you are something. You are. You
are really something. Why do we quarrel like
this, flying at each other every time? Well,
maybe if you weren't so darned independent. Forget
it. Forget it. Okay, come on. fireplace here
look there's a pipe in this ashtray the tray
is full of pipe ashes oh here's a coffee cup
half full there's a book open on the table young
psychology of the unconscious whoever owns this
place must be a brain hello to go nosing around
bedroom nobody in it must be the kitchen behind
that door Helen yeah let's just sit down and
just wait for whoever owns this place to come
back huh I just want got no right Helen now the
owner of this place must be the kind of person
who wouldn't like people nosing around oh now
I'm telling me just look at it this isn't just
a cabin it's a it's a kind of lodge Here, that
wall lined with books. There, a hi -fi. Stacks
of records, all classical. And those paintings
on the walls. Helen, please. I want a cup of
coffee, and if this door leads to the kitchen...
She just won't listen. Just won't ever listen.
Well, what are you standing there for? Now that
you've opened the door, go on in. Oh, good Lord.
What is it? Oh, Jim. Oh Jim. Helen, what is it?
The kitchen, Helen. The kitchen. Here, Helen,
here, here. You better sit down. You look like
you're going to faint. Now, you just sit there.
I'll have a look. Oh, no. Oh, Helen, come on
now. We better get out of here. My God, oh Jim.
Blood, blood. Over and the axe. Did you see the
act? Yes the first thing I saw come on We can't
we can't stay here There must have been some
hell of a fight in that kitchen, and I'm not
waiting for the winner to come back. Oh You don't
suppose What? the murderer That the murderer
they're looking for that man who slaughtered
the Grant family They said he was holed up somewhere
on the mountain. I don't know and we're not gonna
hang around to find out now. Come on Let's get
out of I'm Jim Crane. This is my wife, Helen.
We got caught in a blizzard and we saw your cabin
and we just came in. We were over at Big Mountain
for a skiing weekend and we started back too
late, thanks to my husband. Yeah, I guess it
was my fault. You see, I don't ski. My wife does,
but I don't. Well, I got into this poker game
and I was winning and I couldn't quit. Ahead
you know how it is. You don't have to make any
excuses to me friend Maybe to her but not to
me. Well, I was I was just explaining like ice
in here Better get that fire going again You
didn't bother on our account. I'm not well what
I meant was we were just leaving not in that
blizzard You're not mrs. Crane. It's miss Morgan
if you don't mind. I thought you said she's your
wife Well, she, uh... She keeps her maiden name.
You kidding? No, uh... You marry a doll and give
her your name and she won't use it? What's the
matter, Mrs... Excuse me. Ms. Morgan, you said,
eh? What's the matter? Your husband's name isn't
good enough for you? It isn't that. Then what
is it? I prefer to keep my own name. That's all
a lot of women do these days. Yeah, they call
it women's lib. Women's what? Lib. For liberation.
You know, they keep their names, their independence,
their jobs, everything. Everything, eh? That's
too bad. You were my wife, dawg. You wouldn't
keep your name or your job or anything. And what
do you do besides letting her get away with all
this? Uh, engineer. I'm an engineer. You drive
a train? Oh, no, no, no, no. Not that kind of
engineer. Hydraulic engineer. Water power. Oh.
Cigarette? No, thanks. I don't smoke. You? I
don't smoke either. And I thought you... Huh?
Nothing. You thought I what? Well, I, uh... I
noticed the pipe in the ashtray, so... Oh. Oh,
well, uh... Yes, yes, I, uh... I do smoke a pipe
now and then. Cigarettes, too. You, uh... You
haven't told us your name. Jake Jake what Jake's
enough? We need more wood. I'll get it We can't
well we've got to he doesn't own this place He
doesn't live here and from the looks of him.
Oh good lord. What a bruiser He could be the
murderer the sheriff's looking for the blood
on his clothes. It's all over his body Helen,
we can't be sure it's blood. What else could
it be? And what about the cigarettes? There's
not one cigarette in that ashtray. There's nothing
but pipe ashes. Yeah, that's true. All right.
And he's stupid, totally uninformed. He couldn't
be the man who reads these books, listens to
that music he never heard of women's lib. He
thought you drove a train. Helen. Helen, we can't
leave. We could die out there. We can die in
here. And I have a feeling we will if we don't
get... I'll hold this for a while. Enough wood
in the shed to keep us warm through the night.
To go with a little lady like this to keep you
warm. You wouldn't have to worry too much, would
you? Well, don't look so upset, Jimmy boy, would
you? I wouldn't. But then I'd see to that. Not
a bad idea, come to think of it. How about a
drink, sweetie, or a... Don't you do that either.
I could use a drink, yes. You, Jim? Oh, thanks,
yes. What do you do, Jake? Right now, nothing.
Well, I mean when you do something. Let's see,
we got scotch, bourbon, vodka. What does it be?
Helen? Scotch. Huh? I said scotch. No, please.
Excuse me, please. Jimmy boy? The same, please.
One thing you gotta say for men, they got better
manners than women. Well, come on, come on, pull
up to the fire here. Let's all get cozy. That
okay with you, Helen? It'll certainly be warmer
by the fire. That isn't what I said. I know what
you said. What'd I say? Here you are. Thank you.
Showing better manners. Good. Thanks. That's
better. Easy chair, warm fire, drink. That's
much better. Nice place you've got here. Sorry.
You must do a lot of reading, all those books.
At least some, yes. I see you like classical
music too. hmm who your favorite composers I
mean oh Beethoven maybe yes yes I like Beethoven
oh me too I'm especially fond of his 10th Symphony
oh yes yes I I'd go for that too well I don't
know about you too but I'm getting hungry to
use some supper how about it yeah I could eat
you sweetie I suppose. Yes, yes. Good. But first,
we'll have to clean up the kitchen. It's a real
bloody mess out there, and I mean bloody. What
do you mean you mean bloody? Just said there's
blood all over. All over me, too. See? Oh. Yes,
yes. How, uh... What happened? I didn't want
to kill him. I had to. I surprised him out there
in the kitchen, and he came for me. There was
an axe and it was the handiest thing in there.
It was that. I sank it into a skull, deep. I
couldn't help thinking of the Grant family. The...
Grant? Yes, you haven't heard about that. Whole
family down in the valley, slaughtered. Blot
over. I got there in the kitchen. We better get
to it you mean me a lot to clean up I can't do
it by myself Jim will help you know you I'd rather
not I didn't ask you whether you'd rather or
wouldn't I'm telling you I'll give you two minutes
to get out in this kitchen with me and get to
work There is no Beethoven 10th. Oh, Jim, what
have we got ourselves into? Helen, get a shoe
room. Go on now. You better go on out into that
kitchen. I'm scared. I just can't be in that
kitchen. Not alone with him. You saw the way
he looks at me, the things he says. Don't worry.
I'll protect you. You? Well, how about a dull
face? Are you coming? Yes. Yes. I'm coming. Helen
and Jim feel the first stirrings of terror. But
worse, much worse, lies ahead for them. I'll
be back shortly with Act Two. Suppose now that
you, not Jim and Helen Crane, but you had sought
shelter from the blizzard in that forsaken mountain
cabin. You had met this strange and quite obviously
murderous man who calls himself Jake. Suppose
you, not Helen, are helping him against your
will to clean up the shambles in the kitchen.
The bloody shambles. That's it, I guess. The
axe needs to be washed. There's blood all over
it. Well, go on, wash it. I can't touch it. And
not as liberated. Wasn't that the word, as you
thought? I don't see what that's got to do with
it. I kind of got the impression you felt you
could do anything a man could do. All right,
I'll wash the axe. You start making supper. Well,
what are you standing there for? Get busy. I
don't know where anything is. Lots of canned
stuff in that closet, and there's a can over
on the wall. Thinking of how to use it? I'll
try. Spunky, aren't you? Spunky. You know there
was a killer in this kitchen this afternoon,
and I was the one who used this axe. You know
that, but you've got the nerve to stand up to
me. Maybe too much nerve His beans and spaghetti
stew and that's about it what you want you decide
I Figured you're good at deciding things And
that's what's wrong between you and your hubby.
How do you know there's something wrong? No sweat
five minutes with the two of you and anybody
could see you're too pushy and him he's He's
too much the other way Yep, like I said, you're
too spunky Somebody ought to take a little of
it out of you Get your hands off me. Oh, come
on now. Let me go. Oh, stop it What's going on?
Oh What's going on? Well, you might say I was
Starting to do what you should do. Jimmy boy.
Well, don't try that again You do and you won't
do any more than you're doing right now. Oh,
no. Oh, no Oh, Jim. Jim, please. It's all right
now. No harm done. I'm not hurt or anything.
What's the big deal, Jimmy boy? Little kiss between
friends. What's she get psyched up about? Come
on, chum. That you and me have a friendly drink
while Ellen gets supper ready. No, I don't want
to. Come on. You know how to use that can opener,
sweetie? I'll manage. That's my girl. Yeah, Scotch,
right? Yeah. Oh, I see you tried to use a phone.
Don't look so surprised. You put it back the
wrong way around. The phone's dead. I could have
told you that. The wires are down, I guess. No.
I cut the wires. You cut? I see. You had a drink,
Jimmy boy. Cheers. Oh, and by the way, in case
you've got any other ideas about getting help,
those guns over the fireplace aren't loaded.
And neither is that revolver on your mantle.
Jake. Yeah? I'll, uh... I'll make a deal with
you. What gives you the idea that you're in any
position to make a deal? I'm not, I'm not, but...
you've got aces back to back, I know that, but
I'm still in the game, Jake. You're a good poker
player. You're bluffing, but I'd never be able
to tell it in your face. Are you gonna listen
all ears? Let us go Helen and me let us go and
We won't say a thing not a thing to anybody about
what? What you know I don't know look I don't
want to spell it out. You've got no choice I
Hold aces back -to -back like you said All right
We My wife and I, we have a pretty good idea
who you are. You know that, or I wouldn't be
telling you. So, uh, what you're thinking, once
these two leave here, they'll contact the sheriff
and give them a lead on me. Well, all I want
to say is just give us a break, and we won't.
We won't say a word to anybody. Thanks. I appreciate
that. And in return, you'll just let us go. Who's
holding it? Well, you know what? I mean we can't
go now not with that blizzard out there. I mean
Tomorrow or the next day whenever the plow comes
through and clears the road up. I Mean I want
you to let us live what for? Answer me that Jimmy
boy What for well, that's a crazy question. Yeah,
let me tell you something Tell me You in love
with your wife You can't answer that, huh? She
in love with you. Can't answer that either, huh?
Can you? How long you been married? You can answer
that. Three years. What happened, Jimmy? What
happened between the times three years ago you
two couldn't wait to get married? How bad are
now when you can't wait to get divorced? You
are thinking about divorce, aren't you? Well,
we are. We don't get along, that's for sure,
but... But what? You're at each other's throats
day in and day out, right? Nothing but fights,
arguments, frustrations on both sides. From the
minute you get up till you go to bed, right?
Am I right? Yeah, you're right. And you wanna
live? For what? Well, you keep hoping things
will change. They won't. Unless you make them
change. Very few ever do. They keep hoping right
into their grave, hoping. Like the Grants. Why,
uh... Why did you kill the Grants? They killed
themselves. They were dead long before they were
put out of their misery. Like you and her. I'll
make a deal with you, Jimmy. I'm listening. You
give me a good reason why you should go on living
That's the deal we want to know you just don't
want to die Now I wasn't a bad meal sweetie,
you're real talented with a can opener Thank
you Storms getting worse Yeah, we're really snowed
in now drifts above the windowsills Better build
this fire up and then I guess we'll get the sack
And where do you want to sleep, sweetie? Come
on now you shouldn't have any trouble making
up your mind. Oh, I haven't I'll sleep with my
husband as usual As usual? What kind of a crack
is that? Now, now, cool it, Jimmy Boy. I won't
have my wife insulted. I don't care how big you
are, Jake, or how tough or cold blooded. I won't
have you insult... Oh, Jim, now stop it. This
is no time for gallantry. You're no match for
him. He'd kill you. Besides, you took me the
wrong way. All I meant was... Well, come on now,
be honest. How long has it been since you two
did sleep together as husband and wife? That's
no business of yours. Long time, huh? Well, the
minute I laid eyes on you, the way you acted
toward each other, looked at each other, the
way you talked, anybody could see you hated each
other. We don't hate each other. You love each
other? You see, that's what I mean. You too.
You don't hate, you don't love. You don't nothing.
And you ask me, that's a nutty way to live. So
how about it, sweetie? How about what? There's
a nice big double bed in that bedroom, and it's
gonna be a cold night. And me, I sure appreciate
it. I warn you, Jake. Oh, Jim! I'll sleep out
here on the couch. Come here, sweetie. But, oh...
Let old Jake see if he can change your mind.
Oh, God, hey, hey, now! Get your hands off her!
Oh, you dirty... I guess I will hold you for
a while, Jimmy boy. Now you, dog. Oh, no. You
can kill me if you want to. You could torture
me for hours, but I would never, never... Never.
Suit yourself. Now I think about it What would
I want with you? Oh When Jimmy boy comes to tell
him not to get any ideas in the night about escaping
or overpowering me He hasn't a chance Jim Jim
I'll be okay. He sure packs a mean wallop standing
up to him. Some things a man will take and some
things he won't. A man handling his wife is one
of them. Jim, can we get out? Do you think? Would
there be any way? No, no. We're slowed in. Even
if we could get to the car, we wouldn't be able
to drive at a foot in those drifts. What about
telephoning for help? No, the phone's dead. He
cut the wires. Oh. But don't you worry. Don't
you worry, Helen. There's one thing he overlooked.
What? That revolver on the mantelpiece. This.
It's loaded? Not yet, but it's gonna be. He made
a big point about those guns over the mantel
and this revolver having no bullets in them.
I knew that without being told. Those guns were
the first thing I went for when you two were
in the kitchen. But if they're unloaded... Well,
I nosed around. I couldn't find any ammunition
for the guns on the wall, but... I found these
in that drawer. Do they fit? Looks as if they
ought to. We'll soon find out. What do we do
now? We'll wait till morning. But we're safe
now, Helen. Safe. Thanks to you, darling. You
know, you haven't called me that in I don't know
when. Oh, I... Jim, there's something I forgot
to mention. I kind of figure you must have found
the bullets for that revolver in the desk drawer.
You did, didn't you? What of it? Don't bother
loading that gun. It doesn't work. The trigger's
broken. Nice. Helpless once again, Jim and Helen
can only stare at each other as fear touches
them with icy fingers. I'll be back shortly with
act three. Terrorers' icy fingers grip Helen
and Jim Crane as they face all but certain death
at the hands of Jake. Curious, though, isn't
it? Even strange that their fear, shared in common,
brings them closer to each other than ever before
in the three years of their marriage. Strange.
Curious. Jim? Oh. I didn't know you were awake.
I've hardly slept. I'm sorry. I've done the best
I could with this fire through the night to keep
the room warm. I know. I know. I watched you
get up out of that chair again and again. Thank
you, Jim. What? You did it mostly for me. For
my comfort. Thank you. Nonsense. I need a little
warmth, too, if you know. You don't... get much
do you from me could be I don't rate much I think
you do why do you withhold it I only just found
out found out it wasn't the cold that kept me
awake through the night it was thinking about
Jake and us. Well, we'll manage our way out of
this. I don't know how, but we will. I wasn't
thinking about that. I was thinking about something
he said last night. He said, we don't hate each
other, we don't love, we don't nothing. And then
he said, you ask me, that's a nutty way to live.
Well, it is, isn't it? If what he said was true
about us, but it isn't. It is. Not for me. I
did a lot of thinking too. I, uh... I love you,
Helen. I always have. It's just that... Yes?
I don't know. It seems I can't reach you anymore.
Something happened to us a long way, and I can't
figure out what it is. I think I can. Tell me.
I don't know. I think maybe it's just the times
we live in. I mean, well, take women's lib. I
don't see anything wrong with women's lib. The
fact is, I'm all for it if it doesn't go too
far. It did with me, I think. Oh, I don't know.
I do. I wanted to be... I still want to be my
own person, myself, me. the last thing I wanted
was to be dependent on anyone and I guess especially
on you but last night oh Jim I was scared and
when you fought for me when you well you just
went for him like a raging animal Jim and you
did it for me I know you wouldn't have done it
for yourself or maybe for anyone, but you did
it for me. Oh, Jim, I needed you. I really did
need you. Well, maybe the truth is... The simple
truth is that we need each other. I don't mean
just you and me, but everybody. I mean, we're
all in the same boat, aren't we? Same world.
We are dependent on each other, so... Why do
we fight it? I'm not fighting it anymore. I made
up my mind of that during the night. Jim. Hmm?
I love you. You are a wonderful husband, only
I just never gave you the chance to be. Oh, Ellie,
sweetheart. Oh, I do love you. Oh, Jim, I do.
Oh, I do. Oh, dearest. Well, well, well, look
what's going on here. When did you two scrappers
become lovebirds? Never mind, never mind. That
fire needs building up. Get some wood, Jim. It's
stuck back in the shed. Okay. So, you think you've
fallen in love with your husband all over again,
eh? You were listening. You overheard. For the
last myself's sake. I don't see anything funny
about it. You wouldn't. You believe it. So is
he. In fact, there's the two of you in the same
boat. And no, you better row together or else.
Or else what? You'll find out, sweetie. What
will you take to let us go? Kind of putting the
cot before the horse, aren't you? Go where? The
blizzard has stopped. But those drifts out there
must be six, eight feet high. They must plow
that road. They have to keep it open. A plow
is sure to come through, if not today, tomorrow.
Could be. Well, then. Well, then what? Don't
kill us. Let us go. Why should I? I'll give you
anything you want. I'll do anything you want.
How do you know what I want? What makes you so
sure you can supply it? You've made that plain
enough. Jake, I beg you, let us live, at least.
Let Jim live. And I'll do anything, anything.
Oh, Jim! What happened? Oh, I was bringing an
armful of wood and I stepped on a log. Oh, I
twisted my ankle. Here, let me give you a hand.
Just lean on me. Take it easy. Jim, Jim, dear.
Easy now, easy. There, sit right there. Let me
get that shoe off. Let him get it off himself.
He's no cripple. You get out in the kitchen and
scare up some breakfast. You heard me. See if
you can stand on it. Stand? Try it. I can't.
I'm helpless. Yeah. Real helpless. Hey, you make
a good cup of coffee, though. Thank you. I'll
get another cold compress for your ankle, Jim.
He's all right. I said... I said he's okay. Let
him worry about his ankle. You and me have some
unfinished business. What is this? Helen, what
is this? It's the only way. What only way? What
are you talking about? Jim, I made a deal with
him. A deal? I said I'd do anything if he'd let
us go. Are you out of your mind? He's going to
kill us. Now you know that. You're crazy. He'll
get what he wants and then he'll kill us. No.
Yes. No, because I'm going to kill him with this
kitchen knife. All I want is to get close enough
to him. No, no, you can't do that. It isn't in
you to do that. It's got to be. There isn't any
other way. What's keeping you? I'm coming. Leave
the knife, doll. These petitions are all... Finn
you ought to know that by now put the knife down
I said stay where you are Helen she made a deal
and she's gone through with it over my dead body
no you fool over your live body over my life
said he'd spare you spare me he said us she lied
she made the bargain to save you Helen Helen
you you would love you I love you, Jim. I told
you that. I love you. And I love you, Helen,
a lot too much to let you go through with anything
like this. But you figure you can do about it,
huh? You can't even stand, not on that bad ankle
you can. Oh, yes, I can. Jim, my boy, not you.
No, no. No, no. I can't. I can't go through with
it. Oh, yes, you can. Leave? Leave her alone,
leave her alone! Oh, please, I can't. Stop it,
you hear me? Stop it! Jim! You... How did you...?
I don't know. I don't know, Helen. I somehow
grabbed the poker and made it across the floor
and hit him with it. I don't know how I did it.
Oh, I've got to sit down and get off this. Oh,
here, here. Oh, lean on me. All right, now. Easy,
easy. Look at him, how unsafe he's breathing.
I... I may have killed him. He's breathing. His
head bleeding. Where you hit him. I'll get something
to tie him up with. See if there's some rope
around. And snap it up. He's coming to us. It's
the phone! He said he cut the wire. He's the
sheriff in Big Indian. Who? Professor Moran?
No, there is a man here. I'm afraid he's hurt.
Me? My name's Helen Crane. My husband and I got
caught in last night's blizzard and we managed
to get to this cabin and we found, well... There
was blood all over the kitchen. Helen, look out.
Jake, it's all right. All right. The poker. Helen,
the poker. Hit him again. No. No, you've got
it all wrong. All wrong. Helen, hit him. Give
me that phone. Hello. Hello, Ed. Yes, it's Jake.
No, it's okay. Everything's okay. No. No, no.
I'm not worried at all. I knew you'd check as
soon as they got the service back on. Right.
Oh, oh man Bobcat Yeah, Bobcat Surprised him
in the kitchen Killed him the wood axe handiest
thing Yeah, I guess so prowling for food sure.
Oh Well a nice young couple No, no, I'm I'm very
much alive I'll explain when I see you The plow
when good No, no, no, we're okay, honey would
plenty of food Thanks Ed so long You Professor
Moran. Yes. Why I Don't get it. We thought you
were the killer. They're looking for yes. I know
Why didn't you tell us who you were? What why
didn't you explain about the blood in the kitchen
more important? Why did you act the way you did
you? Acted the part of the killer yes Why did
I act part? Well you were guinea pigs. I'm afraid
Guinea pigs yes, I'm head of the Department of
Psychology at City University I Sized you two
up the minute. I saw you your marriage was headed
for the rocks and like most couples you didn't
know it Like any other young marriage in this
day and age, you'd lost contact with each other.
We're going separate ways. Well, I set out to
bring you back together, and as I said before,
people in the same boat have to pull together.
All I did was put you both in the same boat by
making you face a common danger. A danger that
never existed. Well, I'm hanged. You carried
things pretty far. Professor Moran? Too far,
my dear, much too far. You'll find aspirin in
the medicine cabinet. Bring me a couple, would
you? On second thought, bring the bottle. And
so terror turns to surprise and relief. Pretty
shrewd fellow, Professor Moran, wouldn't you
say? I mean... Realizing that Jim and Helen were
headed for divorce, that took keen insight into
human nature. But then, he was after all, a trained
psychologist. I'll be back in just a moment.
Marriage is two people in the same boat. A cliché,
of course. But the very core of every cliché
is truth. All is not gold at glitters, a stitch
in time saves nine, and so on. I couldn't help
thinking that all humanity is in the same boat.
And what an infinitely better and happier world
it would be if we all learned to pull together.
Our cast included Lois Smith, Larry Haynes, and
Leon Janney. The entire production was under
the direction of Hyman Brown. And now, a preview
of our next tale. I don't want your wife on board.
This voyage has begun. The course is set and
it will not be changed. May I remind you, Captain,
that this is my ship. Now this is my ship, Mr.
Ames. My ship. From port to port. Your ship in
the harbor. Mine on the sea. My ship. Here I
give the orders. Here I expect to be obeyed.
In the name of all that's reasonable, man, in
view of our business, can't you see this is no
place for a woman? There's only one place for
Annabella. My wife remains at my side. But on
a slave ship. By my side, do you hear? By my
side. Now, we'll hear no more of this. For by
the living God, owner or not, I'll clap you an
iron. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in
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you to return to our Mystery Theater for another
adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant
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