 You're twice as sure with two great names Frigidaire and General Motors Frigidaire presents Herbert Marshall as the man called X Whatever there is mystery, intrigue, romance and all the strange and dangerous places of the world There you will find the man called X All Frigidaire presents Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston the man called X And you Ken this thing has to be stopped Thousands of lives for its take man stop pounding the desk chief and tell me about it I just got in from Calcutta this morning. Remember. Oh good lord. Ken, of course this thing has me so worked up. I uh Look here Take a look at this wall map. You see this town in arizona near the mexican border No guile is what about it? Well somewhere down there a deadly plague is spreading and it could run wild over the whole country smallpox Six deaths down there in the past week and a half other cases being reported almost daily Last year popped up in california a few months ago here in new york now It's down there near new gallus. It's anybody's guess where it'll hit next Any idea where the carriers are coming from four of the six dead men down there appeared in the territory only a couple of weeks ago They carried no american papers or identification and the mexican border only a broad jump away, right? Somebody smuggling aliens across the border and they're smuggling in the smallpox So long chief All right now dr. Clark you were the physician who reported the last case here in new gallus, won't you? Yes, but i don't know anything more about the dead man than you do mr. Thurston Neighbors called me in he was delirious when i got there when he did talk it was spanish and nothing made him much Set just kept repeating over and over el castillo blanco el castillo blanco Apparently it holds no clue. Whatever is to the man's identity or origin in other words I don't know what to do the patient in the examination room. He well listened to all right nurse I'll be right in this won't take long. I'll be here clark Hmm el castillo blanco, I wonder Frank darling. Oh Darling, I missed you so much Oh, oh But you're not dr. Clark No, but don't let that stump you Oh, my apologies. The sun was so bright outside and it's so dark and here for a moment. I was blinded Please forgive me. That was almost the nicest introduction. I've ever had Why should I forgive you? thank you May uh I know the name of the man to whom I've almost introduced myself kin first and Dr. Clark is busy with the patient. I must tell carol mr. Thurston Oh, they're waiting for me outside. Would you be kind enough to deliver a message to dr. Clark for me anything like the one you almost delivered This time it's only an invitation mr. Thurston. I'm having some guests at my ranch over the weekend I wanted him to come down lucky man. I'll tell him Of course any friends of dr. Clark's are more than welcome to Anyone in town could tell them the road to the white castle my house. The end House the la vista senator carol Well, what the devil Try to hold his arm still nerd I am dr. But one second and there it's all over all over. I have no arm left I'll sue you for every cent I have pagan. Oh, hello, mr. Thurston And I'll take you to the superior court to the supreme court even to the justice of the beat Oh, oh, mr. Thurston relax pagan. It wasn't a major operation That's just goes to show you how much you know about it. Do you know what these butchers were doing to me? I would guess All right, go ahead. I was being vaccinated Well, what what else you're doing in the galleries. I'm down here on big business, mr. Thurston. I never mind never mind I'll tell about it later. You had a visitor dr. Clark. Oh, who was it? I miss caro. Estelle. I'm sorry. I missed her I can see why She invited us down to her rancho for the weekend. Oh, I didn't know you and Estelle were acquainted We'll add that to the list. But what list of things you don't seem to know about her. I'm afraid I don't understand What's the name of her hacienda clark? My heads Oh, yeah, the white castle In spanish el castillo blanco No wonder You haven't had more than one wheel on the road since we're left no gullies Why are you so set on driving out to send you way to caros? Oh strictly business But the guest of hers and how much is your chauffeuring going to cost me not one penny outside of gas and oil and Normal depreciation on the car. Maybe a few incidences like that Mr. X what happened? There's your answer pego. Oh for whom was I thought somebody was shooting at us? Somebody hit the gas if we can make that next bend on the road. Oh, there goes a tire You know something mr. Thurston. We didn't make it don't get it Why would anyone want to shoot up my pretty automobile? Somebody didn't want us to get to the rancho I'd still like to know where those shots came from You could hide an elephant in these mountains. Wait a minute pego Well, I'm still senores. You're in trouble. Senor virva, it's you Senor zelsmith commissar will stay senor. Buena senor virva very much. Buena Mr. Thurston meet my good friend senor virva Glad to know you were senor virva. It is my pleasure senor But what has happened to you walking in this lonely country car trouble on our way to the white castle rancho And the rancho is still some miles away What I am against there also Why do you not wait in that shady aurora while I ride for horses for you? If you could have a well-chilled martini to that formula of ever it would be perfect Well, I shall see that one is waiting for you upon your arrival at Hacienda patience amigos I will be back You see mr. Thurston, it pays to know a man like me influential friends all over the world. That's some of them. Oh, that's right Well, but senor virva is different and lovely fellow. He wouldn't hurt even a fly. I figured that he did. Yeah He wasn't carrying that high-powered rifle just to hunt down flies Section of the rancho. I think is the most beautiful kent Do you were still yes, especially not sunset? That's why I have that small cabin down there Come to when I wish quiet and solitude Too few places like that on the face of the earth today, aren't there astound? Yes, I know But here the snow capped peaks above the brilliant colors of the canyon below like a sword wound Cut deep into the breast of the earth a wound dividing two nations On this side is arizona on the other mexico. Mm-hmm That canyon is called acaya de las perdidas the street of the lost ones Many have tried to cross from one side to the other The rock walls are a thousand feet straight up and down Nobody's ever come out alive. I can believe that And the two white sandstone boots on either side of the canyon like two white castle towers That explains how your rancho got his name. Oh, yes Our nature's made this country strong hard ruthless Kent somebody's ideas about that cabin are different from yours. Come on Let's have that gun. What let's have it Before you hurt somebody sure any minute now grab it up girl. I have it ken good Okay, mr. I was a big idea that Funnily enough my question you're getting no answers from me. I think we shall flat but uh Okay came a scale We saw that peon sneaking around up here and I pumped some lead in the air to stop them I cornered him outside the cabin when he wouldn't talk about what he was doing Well, I was gonna scare him a little that's all yeah, you're pretty handy with guns flat ever do any hunting Stay between here and no galleys Sometimes have any luck your last time out the spot of the couple of rattlesnakes But I missed Not too bad. Yeah Maybe I'll have better luck next time Nice people to have around here Who is this guy flat? He is what you might call a gang boss for senor virva handles the oil drilling operation Well, he was building for more than oil here Where is the peon? I'd like to have a talk to that man. He ran away while you were fighting You know who he is. Oh, no one just a man who upstairs the beef force. Uh-huh Oh, well, I'll talk to him in the morning. No ken I want you to leave this rancho tonight Oh, why too dangerous for you here the shooting on the road plat who's a killer. There's no telling what else may happen to you Would you let a guess why I'm so unpopular? I don't have to guess ken There are people everywhere even down here To whom the most dangerous man in the world The man called x Mr. Thurston, I don't understand it ever since we got here. You've been avoiding me like like the small parts If the habit I should have acquired earlier in life A fine attitude to take after all you've gone through for me. Come on. We're going in here But that's the ice house where they keep their meat. Yeah There's an exit and pay on the works in here I'm going to talk to him Mr. Thurston, why did you let that door slam shut now now? Now it's only cold here. It's pitch black Wait till I unlimber this flashlight Wow Look at all the dead cows hanging here. Hmm. I'll take that one medium rare with french fries Mr. Thurston I got to find the door what happened to the door easy pager But mr. Thurston the cow hanging there That's no cow. It's the mexican pay off Well, this time somebody didn't miss I'm the frigid airs man called x starring verbert marshal Estelle caros guests are all assembled in the living room of irasie and uh, and dr. Clark is sweet Along the man's been dead person The cold in the ice house ruined any chance of determining the advance of rigor mortis No, that means no checkable alibis and you can't tell a killer without his alibi Surely senior thurston You're not suggesting it one of us. That's your idea. I'm not mine. I don't like your attack thurston. No man likes death dr. Clark Well, there's some bullets or smallpox smallpox Frank didn't you say you had something to tell ken about that? Yes, estelle Just before I left no gollies thurston I learned that a smallpox epidemic has been raging in masagua for the past six days Masagua, yes, it's a little mexican town just across the border My uncle ahmed has a third cousin twice removed who lives there. I might have known Well, thanks for your hospitality, estelle. Thanks for my Ken you're not leaving That was your advice remember i'm taking it Well, I didn't think it was like you to quit in the middle of a game. Well, sometimes it's smart to quit when you're winners If you don't believe me ask the payon I don't want to cash in my chips for the bullet in my head. Yes chief What have you got for me everything i okay shoot Mexican headquarters in masagua. How did you know maybe i'm psychic What about plat? You must be psychic too an old friend of verva's hang on chief be right back Well, verva come all the way to nogales just to make a phone call Uh Why not first then why not use the telephone it works better than here against the wall of this booth or does it And that depends upon what one wishes to hear. Well, have you heard enough? I think so At least I have heard enough to offer you some good advice. That's the habit people are getting into what's yours simply this In the event you're thinking of visiting masagua remember There are other things and foreign soils that can be just as deadly a small part Better than going to jail for setting fake oil stocks. That's precisely point Anyway, why do you want me to fly to masagua with you? So you can ask your uncle akhmed's third cousin twice removed if he can sneak you into the united states But why should I do that? I just came from there besides they have small parks in masagua Yeah, that's why they're going there to see that they keep it. You would like company, no Yeah, only I didn't realize it until just now Sit down won't you You are a stranger here in masagua temporarily Oh Then you do not intend to rename Not if I can help it, but maybe I'll have to you will know how it is sometimes. I am not so certain that I do, senior You are american, no, uh-huh Your country is not far away And yet you remain here in Mexico where you say you do not wish to be That makes sense to you Perhaps not but I enjoy stories Tell me more. Okay, um I know one about a man who wanted to get back to the house where he was born But for certain reasons its doors were barred against him And the walls were too high to climb See senor What is the end of the story? Oh, that's all I know I never did hear the rest of it. What a pity For that story could have had a happy ending Oh See senor for if that man had money $1,500 america money Maybe he could have found people to remove those walls for him. Maybe But what if he didn't know where to find them? Perhaps that could be arranged senor No spotlights on these transactions senor. That's american for its dark here. Oh, see Ah, but we have arrived win senor. It's here either. Now what? Just please. You would not listen to me in our gullies, eh? Perhaps this would teach you a mean what I say Mr. X Wake up, Mr. X Please wake up. Don't stay subconscious. Wake up What uh, what's going pigger? Oh glad to see me, Mr. Thasen For once, yes Oh, where are we in the old building? Where's senor virva left you? There were so he was the one You darn well that girl was leading me into a trap, but I didn't expect her to close so soon How'd you get here? I saw you, uh, and the girl leave the tavern. So I followed. I thought maybe she might have a friend for me And when you went to the building, I waited and uh Verva and the girl came out. I went in And here you were Well, how'd you make off with uncle Ahmed's kinfolk? Oh, mr. Thasen there the souls of the earth For $2,000 I can get you sneaked into the united states. Is the extra 500 your commission, huh? When do I leave? One bunch left tonight, but too early you missed. Oh, no, I didn't come along But mr. Thasen you can't catch up with them now. I'm not going to I go to meet him at the other side Hello, I still Oh ken It's you surprised that you've returned to my rancher No Only that you found me out here at my little cabin. How did you know? Well, no one at the Hacienda and moonlit nights are made for quiet and solitude So you remember I knew you'd be back But tell me ken why? Don't you know I should like to think it was because of me Was it ken That's why I came back I still there was a rifle shot not from any ordinary rifle What do you mean the spotted plague is paying a return visitor stale To the white castle come on. You know we can see all right from here. But what is that? Ken look Yeah, there's something stretching all the way across the canyon. What is it? That's a bridge A bridge of rope and slats How is that possible? The shortly herb of the lifeline being fired across the canyon The kind they use in the coast guard And there's the man who fired it Putting it back to this side with the bridge attached And those men on the other side are waiting to cross without benefit of quota or medical examination That's 1500 bucks ahead Ken he's starting to fasten down the bridge now. Yeah Okay, plat is quitting time That's right plat if you're having company tonight May I join the little party? You just dealt yourself into a game. You can't win first and better look around before you call plat Up in the hills and the hills. What are you talking? Those lights moving down this way The border patrol border patrol. I made arrangements and no gullies. Dr. Clark's leading him down to us You all lick the prep. Oh, no, you haven't won yet. That's why let's go to still the joker not tonight Ken I was afraid he was going to kill you. Were you? Oh, you were afraid he wasn't What are you saying? You were the brains behind plat I've suspected that ever since the ambush on the road. No, Ken only you and claud knew I was going to your Hacienda, but it was Clark or verba if there was a killer. I'd never have left must I go alive And you were the only one who knew I wanted to question the parent You smuggled him across the border and couldn't risk that talk So you killed him you have no proof of that When they try to pin a murder rap on plat he'll talk Anything to say I still before they get here you're a clever man ken my congratulations, but you've forgotten one thing the bridge Bridge to mexico to freedom Adios ken come back will you the bridges and fasten down yet? Mr. Rex the bridge the girl They're gone. Yeah Yes, the kaya delas adidas The street of the last ones She was hitting there all the time Tony she didn't know it She worshipped the gods of power and ruthlessness Traded her soul to them That's why she ended down there For all those who put gold above human rights and welfare All of them are lost ones To their star herbert marshal Thanks for being with us Next week a story called the least of these I read it. It's pretty exciting. I think you'll like it Of course leon belasco will be on hand this pig on zelschmidt. So join us. Won't you when next I return? As the man called it. Good night. Rex is directed by jack john stone with music composed and conducted by johnny green Tonight's story was written by sydney marshal And so until next week same time same station This is wendell niles speaking for frigid air made only by general voters All characters and Any resemblance to actual persons or incidents is purely coincidental Remember every thursday for the best in entertainment tune in and stay tuned in to cbs the biggest show in town This is cbs the columbia broadcasting station