 You Finding life rather dull Dreaming again of exotic places Wishing you were somewhere else We offer you escape Escape with us now to the barren wastes of northern Mexico and the story of a fortune in cash to be had for the asking as Anthony Ellis tells it in his exciting story this side of nowhere You want to know where you can pick up a quarter of a million dollars Well, I know a place the monies and hundred dollar bills The last time I saw it. It was all in one place and the people who had it with the friendliest people in the world That is if you Don't mind their particular kind of friendship There hadn't been much business in Missouri too much competition and the yokels were spoiled taking rides and the new stuff flying around My old Stenson didn't look like much and I couldn't rest doing tricks in it With me when the customer paid three bucks for a ride. That's what I got a ride So there wasn't much business in Missouri. I've been luckier in Kansas though Hit a couple of towns where a plane is still a fancy contraption As I head at West I was a couple of bucks ahead About 50 miles east of Wichita. I put down in a grass field outside willing And I figured a day or so here would get me enough to buy a new tire Oh, hello there, is this your field? Hey, that was pretty coming down out of the sky like that I've seen you from a long way. You like planes, huh? Sure. Is this your field? Yep Down spurs bogey stream. Well, look, I'd like to make a deal with you. That's all I'll be here for a couple of days Let me keep the plane here, and I'll give you five bucks five Well, and a free ride. Mr. You got a deal. My name is Bill may do shake I put up my posters in town and waited and by six o'clock that night. I made 36 bucks It looked as if the town of willing would keep me around for maybe three or four days. I Put the stents in the bed and Bill may do his barn and then started out to find a place for myself The old man walked along with me Say have you got any suggestions where I can put up while I'm here see that flying red horse sign up there? Yeah, yeah, right across the street is may do his willing hotel nice and quiet $2 a night breakfast 50 cents. Oh yours, huh? fancy, but it's restful Got a city woman staying there down from Kansas City now taking the rest. Oh, that sounds fine Hey, we're having steak for dinner. I'll get the wife to put on an extra one for you With the steak inside I felt pretty good About an hour after dinner. I got a look at the hotel's other guest she was tall with a big city bright crisp figure and special-looking too She didn't seem to notice me as she went over to the desk and started to write a letter. I Got quiet and long about nine o'clock. I was ready to hit the hay Yeah You're the man with the plane aren't you? Yes, that's right. Name's Gannett. Mr. May do told me about you No, I'm Phyllis Naylor. Well, it's nice to meet you I wonder if you do me a favor. Well, sure I wanted to go to Wichita tomorrow, but the bus service is so bad I'd have to wait until afternoon. Oh, you want me to fly you? Yes That's about 50 miles. I uh, I'd lose business here. I'll pay you $50 50. I Wouldn't lose that much. Let's make it 25. If that's what you want. Can we leave early anytime seven, okay? I'll meet you down here at seven all right So long Mr. Naylor, I put your suitcase on the plane. Oh, no, thanks. Mr. May do I can manage We'll miss you come visit us again sometime. Yes, I will. Well, let's go Okay, it's all right with me. No, I'd rather he didn't Well, it's your ticket anything you say. I'll take you up when I come back Bill a couple of hours I'll wait for you. I'll sell me up some business. Ah, so long Have You've done much flying Quite a bit. Oh Do any yourself? Yes Well, well, well, would you like to move up here beside me and take over? Oh, no, thanks. Oh Mr. Gannett, yeah, how much would you want to fly me to Mexico? Are you kidding? No, don't you think it might be nice? Oh sure, but not in this great Short hops for me try the airline in Wichita. I can pay now bet you can but not me the old windmill wouldn't take it Five thousand dollars five I could buy a ticket, but I prefer you to take me. Oh Why Maybe because I like you I'm glad Look, are you in trouble? Of course not. Then why don't you use a scheduled line? That's not your business? I've got the cash. Will you do it? No, you better try somebody else We're not going to land Wichita. That's what you think I've got a gun. Mr. Gannett. Don't turn around Here Hey, look, I'll be a good girl. Well, yeah, we've only got enough gas to get to Wichita. You're lying the gauge says full Well, it's it's broken. I'll take a chance. We can't make it in one hop. I'll have to come down sometime That's all right You don't want to get me in trouble. Do you know? I Told you I like you Just as long as you take me where I want to go head south Go on Okay, where do you want to go? Torion That's over a thousand miles. We'll never make that. I think we can Where do you think you'll have to stop to refuel I guess we can make dollars if we don't blow up all right Please remember mr. Gannett. I'm quite serious. I can easily shoot you and fly myself I'd rather not Yeah I'll remember An hour later. We were flying over Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I turned around just once to look at it She hadn't been bluffing the gun lay in her hand steady and pointed at me. I Began to think about Dallas We'd have to come down there. It wouldn't be hard to get the gun away from her then but There was something else 5,000 bucks I Thought of what I could do with it and the more I thought the more I wondered if I was a sucker Why fly with a gun in your back when you can make a deal just for the asking? She was in trouble. That was her business. I didn't know anything about it and I didn't want to I Reach for the map What are you doing? Don't get nervous honey. I just want to take a look at the map. Oh Torion Yeah And I'd say that's about 300 miles below the border southwest. I know that's bad country in between if we had to come down I know that too Are you kidding about that five grand? No All right put away your gun What happens when we land at Dallas gas up check the motor and go on if you try any trick Why should I? Good-looking like you 5,000 bucks And I sit next to you. Yeah, sure come on. There we go Your first name's dick, isn't it? You've been reading hotel registers. Yes You won't be sorry about this I'll bet I won't I was proud of the old windmill and never thought she could make it But by five o'clock that afternoon we landed at a town a little north of Laredo We talked about how we were gonna get across the border She still hadn't told me anything, but I knew that she wanted to get into Mexico with no questions asked So we decided to steer clear of Laredo and border guards and hang around until it got dark and then take a chance Took some extra gas aboard and went over the motor Then there was nothing to do but wait for the night We went to a cafe to eat That's the American idea of Mexican food unless it burns your tongue off. It's not the real thing You done much night flying? Oh plenty used to be with a commercial outfit. No, they fired me for fighting with a passenger That was before the war Flew B-24s out of England and came back Now I'm too old for jets and too independent for commercial jobs. So just a sky bum What's so funny? Oh you you sound so tough. I Wonder what about you? I Think you'd make love like a high school boy You want to find out? No How soon do you think we can take off a terri on? No, about an hour or so. What about our lights when we cross the border? We won't have any good anyone ever tell you that You're good to look at Yes, but you can tell me again. I like your eyes They're soft sometimes Sometimes mean it's exciting Got patrol. Hey, you're not listening to me That's the first time I've seen that what you look scared when the cop came in Come on. It's time to go We took off soon after dark I took her up to about 8,000 feet and we crossed the border next stop Tarion Burrito was nearly 200 miles behind us when the Stinson guy just quit cold We went down nice and easy. I couldn't see anything below all I knew was that we weren't going to make to early on Villas didn't scream. She just watched me Then before we hit grabbed a suitcase up and held it in a lap. I remember thinking then it was a funny thing to do And that was all for a while I Escape under the direction of Norman McDonald returns in just a moment You may hail from Harvard with a PhD or you may come from ps 00 with an e-minus average It makes no difference You're always welcome at our miss Brooks class on CBS Sunday nights for our miss Brooks is played by Hollywood's Eve Arden The star whom the nation's radio editors just voted woman of the year Now in her third successful season as the romantic school teacher of Madison High Eve Arden will have you out ringing the bells for class every Sunday once you've heard her join her tonight class meets on most of the same CBS stations and now back to escape I woke up for A moment everything was a surprise. I was alive It was getting light A lock of the girls hair was falling over her eye. I reached out for it Pelted Was wet bloody She was alive, but I couldn't tell how much I looked at my watch It was 430 As the gray light came through the broken window. I saw something else Her suitcase it had broken open and spilled out four or five neat green packages Thing was full packages of new hundred dollar bills Must have been a quarter of a million dollars Phyllis Phyllis Phyllis you okay? Come on. Come on. Come on. I can you sit up. Oh, you all right? Oh My head hurts. I'll take it easy for a while. Hey now. Give me your gun. No. Come on. Come on I want to have a look outside All right I'll be right back We'd come down in a kind of basin and all around were ridges and low peaks It was rough country. All right from what I could see mean I Had an idea water was going to be a problem Far as you could see there was nothing but cactus and yucca trees. I started back for the plane and that's When I saw him Sitting under a bush his hat on his knees He was round and his face was the color of sand and as a smile where lots of flashing white and gold teeth I guess he was mostly Indian They had the happiest voice I'd ever heard You've had a terrible accident, sir. I'm so glad you're alive. How long have you been here since earlier? How much earlier? Oh much earlier, sir. Well, why didn't you try and get us out? If you were that one must await a reasonable time to allow the spirit to depart Oh Well, I'm glad to see you. My name is Gannett. Yeah, Gannett. Mm-hmm. You're American. Yeah Oh good. I love the Americans They're so rich. I am a stevan. I will help you There is another in the machine with you. Yeah girl. She's hurt. We take her to my village There she will be taken care of I'm so happy that you are alive, senior. Where are we? From my village. No, I mean how far from Torreón Torreón It is many days from here. Oh What's the name of your village? It means heaven, senior. You will like it. My people will be so happy to see you. Come We must help your friend When we got back to the plane, Phyllis was on her feet and I noticed that the suitcase was closed again She had a cut on her head, but otherwise she was okay She let me carry the case and we followed a stay bun for about a mile to a little canyon and there we saw Cielo a dozen adobe hot sprawl over the canyon floor Let me take your suitcase, senior. I will put it where it will be safe. No, thanks. I'll take care of it as you wish Won't you step in here? I'll bring you food and water. Thank you. Oh, it is a pleasure. I love Americans You are our guest. We are happy to see you. How do you feel? Oh much better. Thank you I'm not so sure about that guy. I've heard about these Indians They're not usually very fond of Americans or any strangers for that matter. Do you think you'll help us get to Torio? I don't know the way he talks. It must be about a hundred miles from here. Oh, this and honey It's none of my business, but That suitcase of yours. What about it? There's no sense kidding. I know what's in it. Oh It's a good idea not to let these people know they steal not the way we do but because they feel it's right Americans are rich and anything they've got must be valuable. They see another thing wrong in it We've got a gun. As soon as not have to use it. You want to tell me about the suitcase? No Okay We let it go at that The stable brought us food and afterwards we met the rest of the village They were very polite too polite I Couldn't figure it out. Maybe I don't trust people, but nobody nobody can be that happy to see a stranger Now they gave us a hut for the night and after the dogs had quieted down it Got very quiet You asleep? No How's the head? Fine. Thanks I'm sorry about this. It's alright We're gonna have to get out as soon as we can these people. Do you think they'll make trouble? I don't know I just too happy. There's something wrong the way our fat friend looks at you Maybe you think I'm pretty. Yeah, maybe What are you gonna do about it? Look in the morning. We're going back to the plane. There's a chance. I can do something to fix it up just a chance. Oh Yeah Well You were telling me something back at the cafe in Laredo About me Yeah, I was wasn't I I Guess you're not very scared about all this. Are you I don't want to think about it. You ought to be thinking about it Deak Look, we're in a tight spot. I don't care, but I do maybe If we ever got out of here that Alright high school boy Good night The next morning a stay bond went with me back to the plane was still there. That is most of it Of course, they'd taken everything moveable from inside stripped the rubber tires off stolen the prop Now I know why I hadn't trusted them What about it a stay bond it? Senior nice hospitality. I wanted to patch her up Senior some dirty thieves must have come out of the night and done this thing say that again Surely you you would not suspect my people. Oh, no No, not your people. I'm so happy then Well, we'll have to run a couple of your mules Maybe you'll guide us to a town that's got a bus or a railroad or something. You have money to pay for these things. I uh Little yeah, we talk about it. Maybe tomorrow now we go back to the village We didn't talk about it tomorrow or the next day or the next it's stable and always made some excuse We weren't prisoners, but wherever we went. There was always one of them watching just watching and smiling But there was something about those smiles It was on the fifth day that things really went wrong the villagers had left our hut alone And I guess we got a little careless about the suitcase Phyllis and I had been up to a ridge four miles away to take a look at the country and our chances for hiking out When we got back, it was almost dark The suitcase what it's gone. Well, I'll be stolen it You think it's funny What's that for? Don't you see how funny it is a quarter of a million bucks stolen by Indians? Where are they gonna spend it on what? Got to get it back You help me. I'll share it with you You will yes Listen, you might as well know Remember the bank hold up in Chicago last year. Yeah Million bucks and securities that suitcases part of it a friend of mine left it with me He got out of the country now. He's in Torion. Yes, I Was to hang around in small towns until things got quieter When you came along it gave me a chance. I Was to meet him in Torion. I Don't care about him now It's you and me No, we've got to get away from here and go to Mexico City here anywhere. How far do you think we'd get in this country? We'll take their mules Now we can try Stay buns the boy to find You and me Yes Yes, don't you know that by now? Okay What can I say? No one known has been in your house. It is unthinkable. Look, you know what this is It is a gun, sir. Yeah, only the rich can afford such things I'm telling you to round up that suitcase or else now tell your friends. I mean it now go ahead El americano dice que tenemos que devolver la maleta Si no se van ajar mucho y nos juzgará a todos incluyendo a los niños Well They say they are very much afraid Get me the suitcase we've brought you here when you might have died in the desert Surely you would not harm us. That's a lot of double-talk. You brought us here to steal us blind Say you have made a terrible accusation We're very unhappy Perhaps you would care to search the village You get that soup What's the use There wasn't any use I couldn't shoot them down in cold blood I knew I'd never find the suitcase. I also knew that we had to get out of there We'd lost the money, but at least for the moment we still had our lives. I Asked that stay bond for mules And you're a terrible thing has happened last night the mules straight away We have none left. It is a great loss. Oh, I could call him a liar He was too, but I couldn't find the mules That decided it I'm afraid of them. Yeah, I don't like the way a stay bond's been looking at that ring of yours We're gonna have to make it out on foot. Well anything's better than staying here. I only had that map Now well, I don't think they'll try to stop us. We'll start tonight when it gets cool You better get some sleep That evening I heard the villagers moving around outside the hut I kept our gun ready, but nothing happened and then about midnight We took a couple of skins of waters and tortillas and walked out of El Cielo Nobody said goodbye Nobody tried to stop us But as I look back I saw in the moonlight a group of people huddled together Watching us We walked for three days desert heat night cold Then the water was gone How you doing? I Try not to think about it Here we can we rest a minute. Hey, but I'm not Not yet try to get to the hills. It's only a few miles It'll be Holly I'll save you breath Don't move don't move it's a healer monster All right now fellas don't move Just don't move now blow his head off I keep still That's it keep She lived on for about two hours Then died raving cursing me the money in herself a Week later I was picked up. I was six months ago The Mexican police tried to find my plane, but I couldn't tell them where it was they'd never even heard of El Cielo so Somewhere in Coahuila, Mexico. There's a village Maybe if you go down there you'll find a suitcase with a quarter of a million bucks Or maybe you'll just find kids cutting paper dolls out of $100 bills Just crash your plane this side of Torreón and then look for a round smiling Indian and his Happy friends Under the direction of Norman McDonald escape has brought you this side of nowhere by Anthony Ellis William Conrad was starred as Deke and Virginia Greg is Phyllis with Don Diamond as Esteban in the supporting cast were Luke Krugman and Ralph Moody The special music for escape was composed and conducted by Ivan Dittmars Next week escape with us to a small freighter in the China seas and a sinister traveler who brought destruction to crew and ship alike as Ellis St. Joseph tells it in his most unusual play a passenger to valley Later this afternoon Georgia Gibbs and Nancy Reed will join Frank Sinatra on his hour-long CBS program You'll also meet Arthur Godfrey with the latest addition of his Sunday afternoon digest and JC Flippen with Another entertaining session of earn your vacation Make believe town will bring you a Hollywood adventure entitled no job for a lady So stay tuned now for make believe town which follows over most of these same CBS stations This is Roy Rowan speaking This is CBS where you spend an hour with Frank Sinatra every Sunday afternoon on the Columbia broadcasting system