 From Hollywood the Hollywood radio theater Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen Tonight's play is based on that bestseller my six conflicts and Stanley Kramer productions has turned it into one of the funniest comedies of the season You know a few years ago criminals were sentenced to prison and confined without any Rehabilitation until one day a new type of doctor began some interesting experiments Starring in the role of the doctor. We have Dana Andrews and co-starring in his his original role Mellard Mitchell Yes, tonight's play is a bestseller and with good reason. I've been especially pleased to receive your letters praising our entertainment this season now my six conflicts starring Dana Andrews as doc and Mellard Mitchell as Connie It was in January that I arrived at state prison to take up my duties as psychologist. I had never been inside the prison before As I stood in the warden's office. I was suddenly aware how uncertain ignorant and scared. I really was now according to your papers Doctor sent you here to touch the men for For work aptitudes. Yes, sir. You mean what kind of a job a guy's good for Well, what else? Well general psychological advice for personality problems Percentile ratings research all I'm required to do is supply you with office space your meals and convicts, right? Yes, sir I've had 40 years of prison work doc. I still don't know what goes on inside the mind of a con But I suppose you've had experience well. No, sir. I've been teaching psychology in a college Of course by some fluke you could get to hear something that might interest me What the cons are up to plans for a break guns money. I'm sorry warden, but whatever is told to me is completely private That's the only way a psychologist can work if they can't learn to trust me None of the cons are gonna trust you with anything more than the time of day But I'm glad to know how you feel I Advise you to stay away from this office You see I'd want to know what you know if you should happen to know anything I understand sir and just be careful doc if you make any mistakes in a prison only God can help you You're on trial here, right? Yes, sir. It's sort of an experiment. Well, I hope you'll be here a long time What I mean is you'd better be a bright psychologist doc or you'll be a dead one It was routine for all new members of the prison staff to fill out a personnel questionnaire to be photographed One of the guards escorted me to the photography room sort of job. You got here doc. I'm a psychologist bugs doctor I didn't know we were getting any apparently no one else did I was quite a shock to the warden to Connie come on get ready I'm all set. So just show the gentleman in Connie works the cameras He's one of the top kick cons. He's in for opening guaranteed burglar proof safes. See you later, doc All you got to do is sit down on that desk tool. Oh, thanks. Turn around and face the light You're squinting something terrible. That's a light in my eyes. Yeah You should have come by train dog. You didn't save no dough with that gelopioids Well, how did you know I drove it steady? Will you doc? Why'd you stay at that hotel Ross and Laura Lake a flea cycles and they're respectable enough for a bug doctor just a minute Who told you that I stayed at all move. I Got to take another one What kind of bugging do you do doc different test? What's in a test if I told you there wouldn't be any good when you take them Hey, you need a bug doctor yourself. You think I'm gonna play patsy to a psycho How do you know so much about me? You tell me your secrets and I'll tell you mine. Okay, go ahead ask me What's behind these tests? What's the angle? Sorry to have missed your doctor. I'm captain haggard a disciplinary officer Glad to know you captain Connie treat me. All right real friendly the Doc's mug is now immortal captain And if you'll come with me, I'll take you to dr. Gordon's office dr. Gordon. Yeah, he's our medical man. This way, dr It was incredible a prisoner knowing who I was how I traveled where I spent the night I looked back at Connie as I walked out Ducked behind his camera This used to be a stock room doctor. I know it's hardly conducive to scientific research, but dr. Gordon How can I I'm sorry, but we're very short on space and no one told me I was coming Yes, I know dr. Gordon something wrong doctor scared disappointed both I guess it's good To be a little scared in a prison of course outside the scare can be bigger. You're scared You can't pay your rent. You're scared. You might lose your practice. There are a thousand fears outside here only one the fear of violence I Like working in a prison life's much simpler I suppose I could get some painters and carpenters to fix this place up. Couldn't I oh sure that's a cinch and I'll need a Staff for psycho galvanic operator statistician couple of sorry, but I haven't any men to spare Well, I can't very well test a thousand men by myself. It would take years. You'll have health You've got a thousand men to pick from a staff of convicts How do I start how do I pick them? Oh, they'll pick you if you're lucky What are my chances dr. Gordon? Do I have any at all? I don't know you yet, so I can't say but I do know you'll meet with lots of resistance You see it's your job to find out what goes on inside their head and in their head is the only Privacy a prisoner had I'm afraid I never thought of that That's not all most of them won't know the difference between the psychologist and the stool pigeon They have only one solution for stool pigeons. We have stabbings here about once a month and nobody ever finds the knives So take it easy doctor. Just don't try to rush I spent the next few days turning the storeroom into something resembling an office and for the time being I forgot about Connie the convict who knew so much about me But I soon discovered that only one other man among the prisoners was more respected a real tough character named punch Pinero One day while the men were in the prison yard I've been waiting for you Connie. I've been waiting here for me that nut specialist has been here for six days Why my my zoo of Pinero can count I thought that you want me to sign it that it was your job to finagle his racket All right, so how do we finagle it if we don't plan a man in his office give the dark time He'll do a bonehead in the war and he'll give me a it's save us all a lot of trouble Economy of effort mr. Pinero. That's me and I say no more waiting. You don't Jimmy in I will I have here a document Yeah, the test that mr. Squirrel guy is hoping to give us I borrowed a copy Yeah, what's it say the state test of metal my maturity Study of my boy. You want to know anything else just to check with your uncle Connie You don't have to escort me to lunch every day I can walk across a prison yard well if I were you I'd wait a little while longer before I tried it alone Remember dr. Britt the dentist sure he's been here three years. He still walks with a guard. I guess nothing safe here I got two crates of printed matter yesterday the test. I'm going to give them one of the crates was open sure the boys did that Well, I could at least have nailed it up again. Then how could they let you know that they know what you're planning? By the way, have you got any assistance yet? No, and tomorrow I test my first group of prisoners 20 of them. Well, good luck doc meanwhile Let's get some left the following day was a big event my first official contact with the prisoners It lasted about five minutes They started by hooting at me and they ended with bedlam. I finally went to the door and called for the guards Didn't that test doc? Oh not today. Take them back. They're done like I said doc half a dozen guards And you'd have had no trouble. I was so sure I was so sure I could handle them. Okay, you guys now March Move What do you want? I'm counting doc remember I took your picture Well, I just thought you might like one for your sweetheart. Maybe doc here Some picture. Yeah, I guess you move your head, huh? Oh, uh, here's my pass. You got to sign my pass Uh, how did it go? Okay uh-huh Hello Oh, yes warden Well, I guess I just wasn't ready for them No, I'd rather not have the guards present Well because it would make the men self-conscious and spoil the tests No, sir. I I don't know how but I'll work it out somehow. Yes Doc it ain't that the boy's got anything against you personally It's just a question of the war What war the war doc between you and me. I'm not fighting anyone Sure, you are every prisons of battlefield. I know I've been in leavenham. It's us against you It's a war between the inns and the out. You're on one side or the other, but I'm not on either side I'm a scientist then go back to your college boys doc. We don't need no head shrinkers here Now I'm going to tell you something They ganged up on me. I know that but I'm going to stick it out See you can pass that word around on your grapevine here. Here's your pass Okay, doc. Okay A couple of days later just as captain Haggerty was passing the photograph room He heard a crash that stopped him in his tracks All right, Connie. What happened this time? Oh captain Haggerty, sir a terrible accident. Oh, I'm just but a thing Our 300 camera is smashed I just don't know how it could have slipped out of my hand every time you want to work transfer You have another accident. You cost this state of fortune. Why can't you just come right out and ask for a transfer? But captain, that'd be disloyal to you. All right, Connie. You ask for it. I'm sending you to the bugs doctor Oh, no captain not that and I hope he finds you perfect material for the garbage detail News for you doc you just got yourself a new chief of staff me really what's happened to the war between us I changed my mind. I was impressed with your character. Come on. Give it to me straight Well, you see doc, maybe I got the wrong slant I've been lying to my trade from crooks and I figured if I'm ever going to change Well, you're a student of the mind doc. You know what makes it tick I don't believe a word of that But if you're going to work with me the first thing you'll have to do is take some tests here Take a look at this paper. Oh swell. This shouldn't be too Well It's it says this is the the odors classification test. That's right. Why Were you expecting the state test for mental maturity? The you stole some copies of it, didn't you? No doc you got possibilities But I ain't taking your test. I ain't putting nothing down on paper Most of the trouble in the world today is because somebody puts something down and right But if you don't take them, are you going to give them to the others other you mean You mean I'll be giving these tests to the boys Well, I can't do it all by myself. Okay doc letter rip And so Connie a safecracker became the first of my six convicts A man with a grudge against the respectables of our society his eye his IQ was High as the average college senior I sensed that he was really here to test me a symbol of the world he distrusted And to break I Well a couple of months went by but I was still afraid to attempt another group test even with Connie's help But if I didn't do something soon my trial period would be up and I'd be out I decided on a roundabout way of showing the prisoners that I wasn't afraid of them I made up my mind to cross the prison yard alone I'm getting fed up with you. Connie. It's coming out of my ears every time I ask you What gives with the stooley bugs doc you clam up. It's too complex for you mr. Panero too complex This is me say punch Panero take it easy punch. He's coming Doc buggy play Where's copac gone like copac's got something to say to the doc Yeah, maybe I got something to say to the doc myself So you see I work in the tailor shop now doc But if you get me a transfer, I'd like to wake with you. Nobody works for a doc. What's your name? Steve copac. I said nobody works with the doc Oh, look I got less than a year to go. Please I got lots of problems punch. Yeah You see doc I'm punch Panero on a whole world nose and these are all my boys Well, I give them a break sometimes so It's okay for copac doc. It's okay, but don't crowd me no more. I don't like guys mooching in on me It goes for you too, Connie Okay, all right knock it off Anybody else do a copac stay here from me Well, what's the matter with you Connie a mistake doc a mistake Copac was a submissive personality with an average IQ He'd been serving a 10-year term for embezzlement, but he was frightened of the world outside The world he would soon re-enter don't you see doc in life. I'm a big failure So I become a crook. I seal Simone in the very next day. I get caught I'm a big failure as a crook too But I get out in December What have I got outside? What about Doc look Panero Hi, honey, hot-headed, huh? Well, it ain't friday the 13th Something I can do for you Panero Maybe What's the book honey? It's a study out of morphology out of mental defective Oh, I don't say well Panero Well, uh, doc all year I've been working on a machine shop threatened pipe getting getting me little pinkies old dating See so So I asked for a weak transfer and captain Haggerty. He obliges me you want to work here with me Yeah, with you doc only I don't figure on working I just want to sit on some feathers like Connie here Reading them 10 book books that's some go. Huh, Connie You're a little on in microcephalic side. Hey doc Why do you call me knock it off? Knock it Doc is punch coming in Well, sure if his IQ is high enough then I'm resigning. Oh, that's okay With me, but Connie I'll I'll need you to give him the oldest test. Oh, that's different. I ain't taking no tests He's given well, I'm afraid that's the way it'll have to be you hate what the man said punch You weren't honest and you saw enough a lot of hoods in your day only this time. I'll be softening you. Yeah I'll be seeing you Connie Why did you have to put me on the spot? I'm saving your head a doc Punch wants him because he don't know what's going on So he figures if you can't beat another mob moj with it and take over hey doc Hey doc, I got a right to change my mind ain't I? Thanks, Panero Yeah If you want to run out Connie and leave me to be the doc's chief assistant all by my sweet self Why that'll be just ducky Well, Connie I better hang around and protect him from his baser instincts Come on, mr. Panero. I'll show you the setup Connie go pack and now panero a week later I was ready once again to attempt a group test of the prisoners just before they came in My three assistants stood around Kind of nervous, huh, doc? No, no, I'm okay Now you're all going to act as as proctors understand. What's practice doc? Well sort of keeping the men in line copack. Uh, this I'm gonna like But you're not to help them with the answers and you're not to show any expression of approval or disapproval How do you want us to look impersonal scientific, huh? By the way, uh, Connie looks at me sometimes. Oh, like this That's perfect now ask the gods to send in our pigeon If you just be quiet, I'll tell you what this is all about Look, doc, you're laying an egg. You don't know one of you. You let me take over Okay punch go on go ahead And this is a scientific test see Walk on my say so The doc will give out what the instructions in a scientific and personal way see So you will kindly shut your big yaps and you'll keep them shut Now There ain't everything you don't understand and if the doc don't make it clear to you I will Now gentlemen, you will please remove your little caps I say please remove your caps. Okay, okay That's better That's fine Okay duck Proceed with the analyzer A few moments will bring you the second act of my six convicts Make a friend and you make an ally There's a thought for you to keep in mind as many another american has Perhaps one of our greatest ambassadors was the humorous artemus ward Who did a great deal to cement the friendship between america and england? In 1866 artemus ward arrived in london for a series of lecture tours, although he wasn't in the best of health After his first lecture an english newspaper wrote There is certainly this foundation for a cordial understanding between the two countries calling themselves anglo-saxon That the englishman puzzled by yankee politics thoroughly relishes yankee jokes when two persons laugh together They cannot hate each other much so long as the laughter continues As artemus ward continued his tour in his own humorous way He criticized both england and america and the cordial understanding grew between the two countries Although his health grew worse Artemus ward refused to abandon his tour and he didn't stop until he collapsed in the middle of a lecture Within a few days. He was dead at the age of 33 In announcing his death the london observer said Artemus ward never used his great powers of humor for that biting purpose which is implied in the word sarcasm He's been a man not only of humor, but of good humor There is no man among us who does not feel that he is the better for having known him Since his landing in this country. He was taken by the hand in the feeling of brotherhood between our two countries So it was that artemus ward proved to all america that by helping others you help your country Now our producer mr. Irving Cummings At act two of my six convicts starring Dana Andrews's doc and malod Mitchell as Connie with Sheldon Lennon as punch Thanks to punch and Connie the group test was quite successful Out of it came proper work assignments for more than a dozen men and another assistant for me a young fellow named scott Oh, it's perfectly true doctor. I'm here on a phony wrap the result of gallantry stimulated by family tradition and uh Too much whiskey I uh, I protected a young lady who insisted on running over a policeman You got to see him pitch doc. He beat the sheriff's all-stars last year a no hit game I see you are an artist too. This is yours. Isn't it scott? Just a modest bit of doodling, sir Well, uh, put in for a work transfer. I'll speak to captain Haggerty. You're taking a kid in with us, huh? He has a very high IQ punch anybody takes a rep for a dame. He ain't got no IQ Hey, look punch. It's you scottie drew your picture. Let me see that drawing Yeah, it sure is you mr. Panera. Look at this a rod in each hand scaring a bunch of little kids such a lie I don't frighten kids. I like them all my life. I like kids Yeah, what about all those kids whose papa's you knocked off? Hey punch cut it out cut it out All the time the needles I said let him go What's the matter with you? I got only one thing to tell you doc Don't ever touch me again and cut out this brawling and that goes for you too, Connie Like I said, don't ever touch me again Things stayed fairly quiet for the next couple of weeks I was able to leave the men alone now knowing that a reasonable amount of effort would be expended with Well reasonable result Hey, Connie, you've got this book you give me to read. I just read here why I'm here in a camp It's my boys Was all their fault my boys are all delayed morons Make it out of here. I'm gonna give the whole mob the IQ Where in Italy you're gonna be deported No cussing punch remember the doc says swearing is a symptom of certain types of schizo schizo, uh, you know Cyclismatic bookmaking company james t county speaking What odds are we given on a ball game 10 to 1? We weren't even money to share is get a goose egg and five to three. We out hit them. Okay. Okay Hey punch put down Driscoll 10 bucks on a game Well with a quiet little place The library what do you want here dorsen? I'm planning on joining the staff See the harvard tie you hang trouble on this joint now personally Good morning pathological bookmaking corpse all the phone Hey punch Paki wants to know what odds on how many shares gets spiked Well, I tell you paki. It's even money to knock it off dementia dans coming He's got Randall with him This is why my phone's been busy all morning a wrong number doc. We have more wrong numbers all day with Well, man, I I've been getting us a new assistant. You all know randall here I get him a desk will you punch Well, what do you want? My name is dorsen, sir I had two years in college and I thought I could be useful too like randall Well randall makes my fifth assistant and I hardly think Oh college man, huh All right connie line up the test for dorsen if that's the way you want it doc any reason why I shouldn't no If that's the way you want it Randall had a sort of hopeless look on his face that won my sympathy from the beginning As for dorsen. He was a psychopathic killer Unlike punch who was violent in order to gain power Dawson had killed for the sake of killing The time came when the six were reduced to five Copac having served his term was now a free man again But saying goodbye wasn't easy But I got no place to go For 10 years. This has been my home that cheer up copac. If you need anything you just tell them punch punnaros sent you The whole world knows me Sure punch sure now come on. You got a bus to catch so long copac so long dawson Thanks You're all my friends my only friend What am I gonna do without you? Oh, there'll be others copac. I've been in here for 10 years doc Randall ain't you gonna say goodbye? Randall, huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Goodbye copac so long ran I'll do my best doc. I promise and it won't be as tough as you think Remember you just as good as the next man. Good luck copac Goodbye boys My only friend I was watching Randall as copac walked out his face had suddenly turned white and started shaking screaming I want to get out of here. I want to get out. I want to get out. Let him go dawson I get easy Randall. I gotta get out. I gotta get out. I gotta get out There are other ways of stopping hysterics. Yeah, doc. Uh, that's it's all right Randall. You'll be all right Hey, honey, call dr. Gordon tell him we're on our way What about him doc? How's Randall doing dr. Gordon says there's nothing wrong connie organically, but Randall still can't talk, huh? It's called hysterical mutism. He's lost his power of speech. That's how come you're gonna try that hypnotism stuff, huh? All right, connie who told you told me what doc? I'm doing a hypnosis on him first thing in the morning hospital, huh? No in my living quarters What are you gonna do to Randall doc try to get him to talk, of course You do something like that and a fella's gonna say what's on his mind, huh without knowing it. That's right Uh-uh doc, why not? It's too dangerous. You may hear something. You wouldn't want to hear Get back to work connie. I'll be at the hospital Punch scotty. I want to wait with you. Get Randall to talk yet. Kamara morning. Where next door in the doc's room If that jerk Dawson finds out that Randall's gonna talk, I got an idea We're gonna need help punch from the plumbing repair department Tell him doc sink won't wake his wash basin and to bring a mic along The rest I'll handle myself Randall was an easy subject under hypnosis He was free of the hysteria which had caused him to lose the use of his vocal cords I asked him several basic questions among them who I had been sent to prison I needed money for my wife. She was sick bad When they wouldn't give me a mortgage on the farm. I I hit the man and grabbed the cash box I almost killed him What were you thinking about when copac said goodbye to us yesterday? My wife I love her. I've got to see her. I'll kill myself without my wife. Well, doesn't she come visiting days? She lives in canada She don't even have enough money to take care of herself and the kid There's no way out Randall not until your time's up You know that don't you? Doc Doc, I gotta tell you something I gotta tell you You're the patsy doc the frontman me and Dawson. We're gonna break out doc. I've got to My wife. I gotta see my wife A break When I I don't know. I don't know when you and Dawson. Who else? No No, I I don't want to know anything more about it Close your eyes Randall Go to sleep when you wake up. You'll forget that you told me anything understand Forget You'll feel fine. You'll forget everything except that you're able to talk again Now go to sleep Randall I knew now what Connie had tried to tell me his warning about hypnosis I was going to be the shield when I made the break standing between them and the machine guns But there wasn't anything I could do about it if I ratted The men would find out and my work would be over for good All I could do was to watch my step and hope I had some friends When Randall awakened I took him to the hospital for a day's rest Then I went back to my room and there a few minutes later. I made a strange discovery Hey Connie come in here with you. I hear you got the kid to talk again. You've done a great job doc Thanks, I'm going out for a while Well, I'm gone My room could do with a little rearranging those files should be closer to my desk I want the bookcase moved against the wall. I'll be back later. Why sure Punch scud come on. You'll hate what a man said I was going most of the afternoon and when I came back to the office, no one was there. No one except Connie I've been waiting for you doc. I got something to give you here A roll of film. That's right. It's from a recording machine It's all there doc the whole show by electrical transcription Every word that Randall told you about him and Dawson breaking out. Thanks Connie Who knows about this only me and scott and monzer Pinero What makes you trust me now When you were here before you found something a few drops of water under my washbowl At first I thought it was leaking Then I found a wire It led to a microphone. Yeah, we borrowed it from a friend in a plumbing department. What's the plumbing department doing with a microphone Doc you asked so many questions Anyways, when you left I knew you found it and when you asked me to rearrange your room Well, I wanted you to know you're a good student doc. I'm proud of you I still don't know why you trust me. It's simple when you left here You took a walk to the library then you drove in the town to get some gas You stopped off at the five and diamond bought some blades and shaving cream and then you went Oh, what's that got to do with it? Simple you never once talked to the warden at a hangar. You had a sterling silver reason to stool and you didn't I'll bet you even know how much money. I've gotten a bank checking account or savings Can anything be done? I mean without stuelling not a thing. I'm sorry doc Okay I appreciate it anyway Well, you can show your appreciation by not asking any questions if we're a little later work day after tomorrow And by giving me and punching scott four passes Four passes for three of you made out to the bearer and good for the yards and the shops What do you want them for? We trust you doc. You trust us We'll continue shortly with act three of my six conflicts Now for station identification Curtin rises on act three of my six convicts starring Dana Andrews's doc And malod Mitchell as Connie with Sheldon leet Leonard as punch The four passes Connie requested had nothing to do with Dawson's plan for prison break It was months before I learned that they had used the passes to smuggle Randall's wife into the prison and out again How they arranged it, I'll never know but it was an operation worthy of the fbi dick tracy and the joint chief of staff Hello boys. Well Randall You're feeling pretty chipper again, huh? What did it oh nothing special doc? It it just came over me all of a sudden doc You see last night. I thought and thought and thought and you you went over your your entire situation, huh? Oh, that's just what I did doc and you got you got an insight into your problem and made an adjustment to reality That's it an insight. Well, you see men That's what psychology does for you. It helps people to acquire insight Uh, you're so on a nose doc doc. You're wonderful. I ask you how does he do it? What a fool I must have seemed to them what I needed was a little insight of my own Some way for instance of figuring out when Dawson was going to make his break But week after week went by and nothing happened when everything's got a special in monotonous We could always depend on Connie to give us something to talk about It started with the warden requesting a special favor The warden, huh? What kind of a special favor doc? Is he going to make me his chief deputy? Something even better than that a safe scud jammed in a bank in town Now tomorrow is the 4th of july they can't get an expert until the day after but they have to meet the payrolls today They want me to open a safe But doc in broad daylight without I got to listen for the cops. I ain't got no experience that way The warden's waiting Connie. What do I tell him? Okay, I do it on one condition I want 10 bucks a suit of clothes and a straw hat and the rest of the day off in town under guard, of course Otherwise, I don't perform. Well, you know the warden won't go for that Oh, look doc, I ain't never told this to no one but I got a 20 year old kid He don't know me from adam, but I kept a line on him. He's in the marine recruiting office And I'd sure like to see him. I didn't even know you'd been married. That ain't the precise point Well, you will you put it to the warden doc, I just want to see if the kid looks like me. That's all okay I'll see what I can do Well, you've got yourself a deal you're to report to the company while you was gone doc Is she gonna say hello to copack copack? Hello doc I'm back doc. It didn't work Oh, I failed with you. Oh, no, it's not you doc. It's the world outside Too big for one man And after all this time, I still got no friends like connie and punch and you So don't feel bad doc I broke parole to get sent back here broke parole. Yeah, it's like I told you I'm a big failure in life But I'm a big success as a prisoner I never want to leave here doc Okay friend your old desk is waiting for you Connie you report to the warden right away. Oh brother the big city Connie didn't show up that night nor had he returned the next morning when we came back to the office after the 4th of july ceremonies Ah liberty freedom. Well, who do they think they're kidding? I don't get it. It's the country's birthday party punch Like the first time in your life when you felt you were a man. I was a man when I was six months old Hey, what's the matter doc? You're worried about Connie, huh? I told you wasn't coming back It was a dream boys and dream when I left here I was riding in the front seat of the warden's car puffing a big chariot and waking a siren for all it was waiting Get out of the way for james t. Connie. All right. All right. So what happens come on Well, we get to the bank see the joint joints crammed with legit characters wearing vests and pinched noses Tearing my eyes away from a blonde stack of wheat cakes and figuring I got to make a deal with the suckers before and not afterwards. I says for the big cheese Uh, get me a chair will you punch a more out? Yeah, she'll give a chair Well, thanks. I says look cousin I get out in about three years now How about me coming back and collecting about a hundred bucks for this job a kind of honorarium When he says no, I says okay cousin have it your way So I handed my straw hat and begins the modus operandi. Don't use no torch no soup and get my clothes all dirty Besides it's a kick a baby could open it What happens is that a screw slips on a time lock when they close it up the night before This they don't know But all I got to do is kill a little time and wait until I hear her clicks But I pretend that my fingers are a little out of practice and I need some help So I says only the blonde has got long enough finger nail Oh, yeah, well, she don't mind too much and it ain't inconvenience in me none So the two of us snuggle up to it until I hear a click Then I tell the boys to go in and get their mazula be good I got a fixed time lock so is that they can lock it up again that night. Do you know something? I had a feeling that those fellas were going to be just an even exact precise hundred bucks short that night How do we do it it's a hundred bucks. I believe the blonde dame. No me neither. That's exactly what I figured Well doesn't matter connie that's the adhesive tape on your forehead. How did you collect that item? Yeah, well, it's like this After a little while I figured I need some solid food. I didn't care what it cost I had oysters fried raw and stewed rare primes ribs an inch stick without a plank for a house on a site And four different kinds of cake not forgetting the wine and other such liquid And then come to piece of resistance I call the waitress over and I rise as politely I gives her all the dough I have left which takes care of the tab and a large honorarium Then I says baby. Will you return a favor? She says well, and I says will you give me a kiss? now She ain't the given kind So I establishes my identity explaining that the oil is full of septics who don't believe nothing without evidence And it wasn't the kiss that counted. It was the lipstick that counted Oh, well the evidence where's the evidence? Come on out. Okay doc. You may now remove that hunk of adhesive tape Hey Got my stomach last night. I fought like the devil to keep them from washing this off And now your septical cons. Let's get on to to wake on those correlations. Say connie What about your son? What son the boy you were telling me about My duck. I ain't got no family honestly. Are you feeling okay? No hallucinations No connie just an occasional delusion of grandeur. Well when you look in your room, you're gonna find something to fix it You see, I know the boys don't feel so comfortable. You wearing that same suit all the time It's all paid for too. Well, thanks connie, but I can't accept that that's against the rules I know doc you keep the rules. I break them. Hey doc Can I see over here for a minute? It's important It was dorsen. He was standing near the door. You're just taking something out of a filing case a gun This is a break doc. You give me a way and I use the gun dorsen dorsen think it won't work it'll work let him alone door shut up And don't any of you others butt in you're coming around. No, no, I told you long ago. I changed my mind suit yourself Start walking doc. You could have put the finger on a dentist that junk gets kicks out of pulling teeth I've got nothing against doc. He's just handy. Let's go doc We got to save the doc. We got it. Well, how how are we gonna? We ain't stories. We can't call a warden I should have warned him. I should have warned him. The question is how are we gonna get him off the hook without ratting What's dorsen's plan randall? Well, he's picking up johnson and two others in the yard They all got guns then to the autogave the ambulance will be there the drive is in with him and they use doc to get through We got maybe three minutes. Listen you mugs. This is how we'll do it me and punch That's only the chow whistle. Come on. I'll give you the layout on the way over With dorsen's gun in my back We were walking toward the autogave when connie stepped out from the toolhouse And back of him were copac punch scott and randall and the prison dentist dr. brit We swap your dorsen the tooth pull up a duck get out of our way. Come on boys make the swap sure. What's the difference? We'll take them poof a beating stand where you are happening in the god Okay, march them all to solitary captain. We had nothing to do with this honest That was the truth captain always shut up just a minute captain These are my men they were they were trying to help me That's right. I had nothing against you personally. Thanks dorsen. What's the matter yours? Panero connie scott randall and copac copac doc ways copac copac's dead. It was right in the line of fire Can I take my men now captain? Okay. Take your men That winter my work at state prison was finished. My successor was a man named hughes Poor dr. Hughes such confidence so many wonderful ideas for rehabilitation But just as inexperienced with convicts as I had been plus the added liability of a moustache Oh, I'm extremely grateful doctor for your concern But I can assure you that my social work has taught me how to handle Unfortunates, well, I'd like you to meet some unfortunate My staff doctor Then one this is dr. Hughes. Dr. This is mr. Pasquale Panero James t connie mr. Clam randall and mr. Blivin scott All right Now men I will do my best to follow in the steps of the good doctor And there will of course be some changes Maybe difficult for you at first, but I think that is a moustache symptom of a malfunctioning ego or a superego You are a jake connie because everybody knows that it is a neurotic compulsion Now now look I happened to wear a moustache the other hand gentlemen it could be a fetish or a fixation on a pre natal experience Yeah, maybe his mother had a moustache Now according to lumbroso I wasn't lumbago was our startleys As you see dr. Hughes my men are students fearless and outspoken Yes, yes, I see You know it could be that a fellow's girl might like him with a moustache, you know You mean that redhead you got stashed away in town How did you know I'll explain later Randall take dr. Hughes to dr. Gordon, please. I'll be up a little later dr I've yeah Yes Yes, thank you I'm hoping you're all going to stay on here with dr. Hughes I'd love to doc, but haggity wants me back taken of pitches. I forgot to tell you me I I put him for the library. I'm gonna work in the hospital staff Randall to doc I wish you'd stay on this fellow's going to need a lot of help you can say that again Yeah, sure is too bad. Well, I've got to finish pack Get off my foot bunch. Oh, what's the matter with you? I don't even touch you Yeah, I'm full of it. Why don't somebody go in and say goodbye to the doc and get it over with Scott You'll go on in and say goodbye Okay What are you so sore about One by one they came in to say goodbye first scott then randall You know I have to tell you something doc. I was in on the break with darson I mean I planned it with him and then I backed out. I'm glad you did randall Well, it was partly because of you and because of something else that happened. You see my wife was I'd like to tell you about it, but I can't well getting insights your help didn't it Yeah Great thing psychology So long doc. I'm going to see your wife. I'll give her your love. Oh, thanks doc You can count on my plugging along with the new guy. I know you was wasting what we did Scott's going to stay on too. Thank you randall. Okay punch. Go on in Well punch. Good luck. Yeah Yeah Hey, look I I changed my mind about that new squirrel with a mustache Somebody's got to line them and well them them other jakes. They're all running out. Thanks punch. Yeah Hey, look sometime you come to idly a doc. I'll set you up right there big castle Lots of dames and all legit doc. I'm I'm true at the hood. See I got plenty of dough I don't need nothing no more. I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, you come to idly a You just ask for punch panero. Everybody in the world knows punch panero I remember that last walk out across the yard to where my car was parked I remember trying to figure out why conne had avoided saying goodbye And how grateful I was that at least some of my men had learned to be loyal not to a gang or a leader But to a job and in a small way to society Yes, I had hope for the future. Hey doc. Hi you doc connie. What are you doing out here seeing you off? I fixed it with the warden. Well, I was kind of wondering there ain't no justice doc Took me all this time to get you nicely broke in and you take a power on me And now I got to start all over again with that mustache cup from the harvards Then you're going to stay on with him. Who else can do it? Well drive slow doc. I don't want you to get no ticket. You've got the wrong car connie Me and the boys oh now wait a minute New car I told you before it's against the rules. I can't accept this connie But he's legit bill of sale and everything the warden checked it all over. I'm not taking it Then you're gonna have to walk doc. We had to turn in your old car and I got no idea where it is right now So if I were you I just So long doc I'll keep my eye on you and if anybody don't ever treat you right white In the years that followed I heard from them all now and then They drop me a line or send a message and they always ask the same question Fine my friends, but how's the world treating you? All of you in a minute our stars will return Make a friend and you make an ally. There's a thought for you to keep in mind as many another american has Ever heard of billy brown? Well for over a year now young billy a high school senior of yorktown heights new york Has broadcast a 15 minute program over the voice of america Every friday in answer to some letter from a pen pal He talks about such varied subjects as sports stamps religious freedom and american jazz The program is repeated in urdu a language spoken in india and pakistan and beam to asia In one month billy answered 227 letters from 35 countries when one pen pal asked about student government in american high schools billy tape recorded a five minute student meeting in his school For a while it looked as if billy's program might be discontinued But it had become so successful that the local rotary clubs set up a special committee to raise funds for its continuation And for the purchase of postage and stationary so billy could continue to correspond personally with his overseas pen pals Recently pakistan's ambassador to the us and his family Visited billy at his home for a weekend and later the envoy invited the brown family to washington Where billy received a reward for his as the citation read Contribution to the growing spirit of brotherhood between the youth of america and the youth of pakistan Although billy brown plans to enter law school He hopes to continue with his radio program for like so many other americans He's discovered that by helping others you help your country Now here's mr. Cummings with our stars and here they are coming forward for a curtain call dana andrews and mallard mitchell Well, we're delighted. You boys got off with such light sentences. Yes, that prison work is a little too confining We all agreed on that data mallard mean. I welcome you to the radio theater. Thanks serving. I've enjoyed it immensely Don't miss stanley cramers new production of four postage Starring rex harrison and lily palmer. It's a honey I saw you at the preview mallard and I agree. It's a wonderful comedy. Yes indeed and dana I've heard raves about your exciting new columbia picture assignment paris. Well, thanks Irving It's very exciting because it's mounted on today's headlines the efforts of a newspaper man to free an american held on false charges for the Communist that's as timely as our play for next week dana Because it's the story of the fight against communists on the home front And the tragedy and anguish suffered by a family when one son is discovered to be under the investigation by the fbi It's paramount stirring drama of my son john and as our stars John london Faye beta and in his original role academy award winner dean jagger That'll be a great show. Good night. Good night. Good night and thanks for a wonderful This is Irving Cummings saying good night to you from hollywood As tonight were sheldon Leonard as punch peter leads as randall Marvin brian as scott jack crucian as pulpac Herb butterfield as dr. Gordon james nussar as dawson bill john stone as the warden and robert griffin danris and chester stratton Our play was adapted by s.h. Barnett and our music was directed by rudie schrager Irving Cummings our orchestra is under the direction of rudie schrager This is ken carpon inviting you to join us next week at this same time for another presentation of the hollywood radio theater There is a presentation of the united states armed forces radio service