 Autolight and its 98,000 dealers bring you Kathy and Elliot Lewis in tonight's presentation of Suspense Autolight presents the story of a man who had everything to live for and committed murder to prove it to himself Joker Wilde our stars Kathy and Elliot Lewis Why it's Oscar the super smooth and scintillating sedan Super smooth is right. Hello. 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Malloy, I suppose it's your right to think so. Oh, you are rosalie. You're very well Let us concede the point But let us also understand the circumstances under which you've made that statement Now here we are rosalie. Here we are mr. Malloy with the great vast pacific ocean carpet, so to speak under our feet The moon above and rosalie. You must hear me out, mr. Malloy You know my friends all tell me I had the uncanny neck to size of any situation romantic or otherwise Now this situation for example, let's not knock the situation rosalie. I planned it very carefully. This takes planning Waiting to a lonesome girl from a long car Bringing you to a place like this where she can look strange and mysterious on a cliff high above the ocean And what planning does it take to slip your arm about her's you've already done on numerous occasions this evening Is now what you expected when you got in the car First I confess I was very flattered mr. Malloy being who you are Having seen your movies having heard you weekly on the radio Famous comic personality like you what girl wouldn't be flattered writing with harry malloy Come here rosalie Why should I do that? I want to talk to you. I want to tell you something Very well Now what is it? I'm a comedian. You haven't been very funny this evening. I know you see this is an important evening for me It's not a time to be funny You might not believe this but I've been looking for a girl like you some line for a girl exactly like you For the last several nights. I've been riding around the city just looking I saw you and I watched you for a long time Watched me. I was driving along and I saw you come out of that restaurant Park I saw you walk towards the corner. I followed you. Let me tell you this mr. Malloy If I hadn't just missed my bus you never would have gotten me in your car Don't you like me rosalie? Personally, you're a big disappointment When I get home and I'll tell my mother and father. I met harry malloy and he's not funny. He's not at all like you No, you won't tell him that what? nothing It's very chilly mr. Malloy and I've seen enough of the vast pacific from a cliff You may take me home now. Now what you may take me home now, please listen rosalie You say you saw me in pictures. Hey everyone, which one's you like best? Are you taking a poll mr. Malloy? Just tell me which one's you like best Very well The one where you dressed up like a girl of the disguise You were funny I saw it three times You know the thing you do that funny way you work You like that, huh? Oh, it's great. I screamed. I know that I guess everybody does do the bit for you Come on. Get out of the car. That's it now. Give me a coat. Are you sure I'm mean it? All right I tell mom and pop. Yeah There we are. Turn your head rosalie. I'm gonna roll up my pants legs There we are and this one You can look now rosalie Can you whistle sure whistle. Yeah, I know just the tune I'm a funny man that I just killed a girl doesn't change a thing. I create comedy I stand up on a stage or my pictures on the screen or I stand behind a microphone people laugh Had that girl say it uh an uncanny knack. That's it And it's been going on for 22 years. Think about it 22 years making funnies It's quite a nice life big cars three of them big house two of them one and palm springs one in hollywood money lots It's a nice life, but there's one problem No one takes me seriously harry mulloy comic buffoon clown nothing else Even I began to believe it until the other day. I set up a problem for myself harry. I said you make people laugh How about making them cry you create comedy? I said now. Let's see if you can create a tragedy So I planned it and I just did it I pushed the girl named rosalie off a cliff She had a mom and pop They'll cry That's very tragic You know the next couple of days I felt great, you know the feeling you set your mind to do something and you do it And you tell people about it But how are you going to tell anybody you just pushed the girl off a cliff Then something else happened. It was the third day after I did it not a word in the papers about rosalie Her body hadn't been found So for a man like me a performer for 22 years, you can understand the crack I was in not only couldn't I tell anyone what I did No one even knew it was done So that evening I didn't feel so good. I had to talk to someone. I always talked to lis Come in wherever you are Kiss me lover We're playing a game harry come on. I mean you harry will kill him let go peps I want to say hello to freddy. Just wave. He'll understand Cut it out Liz I want to talk to you. We're playing a game harry. It's important. I got something on my mind Trying to play honor bright. Hey harry. I'm striped in certain seasons. I got too late and I hibernate. Now what am I? Later freddy. I want to talk to liz. It's the game. I don't know what am I? He's a bear in a pinstriped suit. Don't tell him. Liz. You look worried lover. What's the matter? Let's go in the kitchen for a drink of water harry. I haven't had an invitation like that since I was 14 How about that kids harry asked me into the kitchen. Why I haven't heard that since I was 12 Let me know what happens. Liz. I can't remember. Please Liz. Sure Close the door. What's the matter honey? I want you to tell me something. All right lover. You name it. You've got it. What kind of a man am I? That's the game freddy and dancer playing. I mean it. I want you to tell me You're four square kind courteous loyal obedient and trustworthy You're a lot of laughs and I love you. You really love me. Liz No, not really. But I'm a lot of laughs For 10 years since I've known you up until just now Just now you're dull all of a sudden. I'm not a big yuck and all of a sudden. I'm dull. Is that the way it is? That's right I'm gonna tell you something. Liz You don't know me. You don't know the kind of man I am All right. I'll play what kind of man. Are you I got things going for me? Nobody knows about All right already inside it eats less. I got more to me than making people laugh That's an old bitch. You stay here in the kitchen and sing. I'm gonna go in and play. No, listen to me lover Please listen to me Make it brief harry three days ago. I did something Something not listen. I've got to tell you about it. I got to tell somebody about it. It's no good You flipped. I'm not just a clown. Liz. That's what I'm trying to tell you I did something important something big. This is the last bite. I'll give you harry. What did you do? I made somebody cry Harry What these are the jokes, huh? These are the jokes Guess what I am. I'm a fuzzy bear in a pinch sky suit. See harry Freddy knows what he is. So I'm gonna tell you what you are A comedian. You're a funny fellow When you're not funny harry. You're dead Let's have laughs, huh? That was Sunday evening Monday morning a very large thing happened in my life. It was served to me for breakfast with my eggs The morning newspaper had it headlined Girl washed up on beach at Malibu girl identified as rosalie barton missing from home for four nights Identification by her mother and father street address given The part that would never get in the papers, of course was why it happened, which was me harry maloy creator of tragedy I had to go see for myself Rosalie barton lived in a cheap little california bungalow one floor one palm tree or geranium bed that needed watering one thing was funny though Have you ever noticed the audience a tragedy gets especially when it's for free? Well a barton house didn't have it They should have been all over the lawn onto the pavement neighbors kids the people who hop in their cars and come from All over the city to looking in on tears But no nobody around Apart my car a couple of blocks away and walk to the house up the path onto the porch near the window I looked under the drawn window blind to see what I was looking for hysterical parents bewildered grief-stricken But I only saw a room no people And I saw this near the window a high boy And on it a picture of the dead girl looking at me and smiling at me I looked too. I couldn't see anything They're still at the funeral parlor her mother and father They must be very upset, huh? No, they're taking a real good. I live right next door and I came over to see him last night and they're taking it real wonderful Didn't even cry Oh Hey, yeah Not you harry maloy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do you mean a parents didn't cry? Well, aren't you? We're sure you are didn't they love their own daughter. Why didn't they cry? Well, if they did nobody's son Hey, what are you doing here mr. Maloy? Well, it happened. I was just driving by. It's just driving by No, seriously. I'd read about what happened. This is seriously you seriously. Well, yeah I'm trying to tell you. Hey, johnsy. Look who's here harry maloy. Hey, no wait This is my neighbor john jonesy harry maloy Hi harry, how are you? Hey, you're gonna be here a minute. I want to get my wife get your wife What do you need your wife for? He kills me. Wait a second. Hey reba reba. Come here a minute Johnsy never does the thing without reba. You'll like reba's. Yeah, great giggly. Yeah. Well, I gotta go come on Stick around mr. Maloy to the whole neighborhood feels bad about what happened to rosie. Oh stick around You want funnies now a young girl someone you knew murdered in order to his laugh It's a funny face you make. Hey, here's reba. Hi harry What are you laughing about? I haven't said anything Some giggler, huh harry. All right calm down now. I want to tell you something Reba rebar seriously I want to tell you all why i'm here I read in the newspaper about a girl's being killed And I was driving by he was driving by get this go on harry. I was driving by Just like a similar situation happened to me once before No, seriously ran out of gas, huh had a flat tire harry. What? Go on. Tell us what you're doing here. You get this johnson Go on harry well I stopped by because I saw a fellow looked hungry. So I pull over and I said oh, hey, you look hungry He said no, I'm not hungry, but I would like 10 cents for a cup of coffee. So I offered him a dime Yeah, honestly did but he just shook his head. He wouldn't take it I said what's the matter misty asked me for a dime for a cup of coffee, didn't you? He said if you don't mind mr. Maloy, I'd like 10 pennies. I said why He said I like drip coffee So I gave him six pennies let him drink it without cream You're the funniest man in the world mr. Maloy. You kill me you kill me Autolight is bringing you kathy and elliot lewis in joker wild tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense Hey, uh oscar sound your horn Play radio Start your engine All those operations depend on the sure smooth performance of your auto light electrical system oscar And so do the lights heater electric windshield wiper and lighter They sure do oscar and what's more your auto light electrical system works every second your engine runs That's why auto light electrical systems designed to give the smoothest performance money can buy Are used as original equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars trucks and tractors Right you are oscar and friends Treat the electrical system of your car to a periodic checkup at your car dealers or authorized auto light service station To quickly locate your nearest authorized auto light service station Look in the classified section of your phone book or call western union by number and ask for operator 25 And remember from bumper to tail light. You're always right with auto light And now auto light brings back to our hollywood soundstage kathy and elliot lewis in elliot lewis's production of joker wild A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense I told them jokes and they laughed no tears no tragedy just funny stories. I was a murderer and they were laughing It was a good performance not exactly the one I counted on but a good performance I left them laughing and begging for more But still there was the need The need to tell somebody make somebody believe me I've done the biggest thing in my life and a good performer deserves appreciation an audience The size of the house didn't matter Go back to liz Try again Hi lover, can I come in? When did you ever have to ask? Had lunch no come on. I'll pour you something all right What? What was wrong with you last night? I tried to tell you you wouldn't listen Was I mean? Yes Yes, you were That's my harry drink your drink. Yeah This does harry nothing at all. Huh? What is it harry? You had this morning's paper liz This morning's paper Here read this About the drown girl. I read it this morning over coffee. What about it? What kind of a man do you think could have done this? Done what murdered her pushed her into the ocean Give me the paper What does it say she was murdered here was push or fell You want a new kick harry? What's the matter with you? Liz do me a favor. Will you do it my way? Will you let's just play she was pushed into the ocean What kind of a man do you think could have done anything like that? a nut Look, I don't get this. What's it to me about this girl? What's it to you? I'll tell you. What kind of a man did it? A man of cold intelligence a crazy man a creative man one who wanted to express himself in a profound Oh brother a nut you listen to me. I'll tell you what kind of man murdered that girl. I know now you just listen It was getting funny lover. I'll just answer the phone. I'll be right back Hello, there's nothing nothing at all harry's here Of course, I can keep my mouth shut you know wait a minute. Oh harry Now you're trying to talk harry Try it with your head harry. You need a cold shower or whatever boys do in the act like this What's the matter lover? All right. All right. All right. What? I'm getting out of here. You won't listen to me. I'll find somebody who'll listen Tell me baby. I'll listen to you It's about that girl What girl baby? The girl named rosalie the one in the paper the murdered girl. Oh, baby answer me one thing. All right Do you think I could have killed her? You Well answer me You Answer me Shut up Shut up Liz please You haven't answered me liz. Oh I'll tell you lover if you want to know You're the seven wonders of the world life hits you in the face You run to the joke file a gag for each and every situation. That's all I am, huh? I'm not finished go on Face it lover. Nobody takes you seriously. That's why everybody likes you because you're no problem This business with banging the piano is that's the joke file. I haven't been in with you before Just one thing. Just don't get worrisome around me harry You won't be welcome around here and that's it Wait here, ma'am You're carving knife for a minute liz. Well for you see liz. There's no use trying to tell you something I gotta prove it to you This is going to be great. It could be at that. What's it going to be harry? I'm gonna kill you That's my harry. Yeah, what's my bit lover? Yell scream run around. Let's just work it out together ready. Come on killer Yeah Well I'm gonna kill you. You said that harry. What's the matter? You're running out of material. I'm not kidding I'm supposed to act scared. All right harry Ah, you're just waiting. I don't know what you're doing harry. You better have a finish start running. All right Well swell now. I need a new lamp. No, you won't be there Oh harry. How corny can you get you stop doing that bit when you left vaudeville my nose? It's bleeding lover move your head a little this way so you don't get it all over the rug Come on sit up and sit up. That's it. Give me your knife. Hold your head back. I'll be a baby Hold your head back bleed bad. I'll get a towel some ice cubes. Hold your head back now harry Here how do you feel hurt? Decisive back your neck stop me man Feels good sure it does Liz That girl rosary. Oh look harry. I don't know what this new character is But why don't you go home until you get funny again? I killed her sure sure? I did les I picked her up drove her out to the ocean pushed her off a cliff How's the nose? Stop bleeding. Why don't you go home? I'm not kidding. Liz. I murdered that girl You still don't believe me, do you? No, I tried to kill you too. You'll work it out. We'll practice sometime Liz Don't you see Liz? I'm not kidding. I never was kidding. I've got the key to make you believe me Kill you Liz Kiss me Where's Liz? I'm forced to ask in there Right over there on the floor on the floor Hey, Liz Hey, what's this a new game harry? She's dead. Oh, we're supposed to ask questions. You answer yes or no We're supposed to tell you who did it. That's an old game. What's it? I did it I strangled her Hey kid you're taking all the fun out of it ready huh look Look what? That's right I strangled her Oh I don't believe it harry Oh, not you. Liz wouldn't believe I could do a thing like this either. Look what happened to her. I can't believe it I can't believe it. You will Stick around for police friendy Get me the police off precinct sergeant Thor speaking this harry maloy sergeant. I just harry maloy comic. That's right. I'm at five harry. Hi harry What's on your mind? I just murdered a woman What I just strangled a woman several days ago. I threw a girl off the cliff And tonight's your night for strangling her. I have a nice party harry. No, listen. I'm not kidding. I killed a girl I killed two girls sure sure. I'm a murderer. Don't you believe me? I'm a murderer I phone harry Give me the police operator police I want to report a murder 595 east channel drive My name Fred Goodwin And thank you very much I'll be right over harry Harry why? I'm quite a guy, huh? Answer me You're quite a guy Harry Listen to her freddy. 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You're always right with autolight Next week the true story about the solution to a murder The documented report of a policeman's patience intelligence and bravery The man with two faces Our star mr. Lloyd nolin That's next week on suspense Suspense is produced and directed by elliott louis with music composed by lucian morrowick and conducted by lud gluskin Joker wild was written for suspense By morten fine and david freedkin In tonight's story charlotte laurence was heard as babs and joseph curds as freddy Featured in the cast for lily and bayef gene wood high everback larry thor and byron cayne Autolight takes this opportunity to pay special tribute to the automotive wholesalers of the nation Who this week will be attending the automotive service industry show in atlantic city This is the cbs radio network You