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Oh ma roma wines those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine For friendly entertaining for delightful dining Yes, right now a glassful would be very pleasant as roma wines bring you William Bendix in a remarkable tale of suspense They say they got 58 million jobs in this country 58 million jobs and I had to pick this one Well, that's the way it goes Some guys it got some special ability that other guys don't have they just get picked out of the crowd I guess in spite of themselves Well this day I'm walking along Central Avenue not paying much attention to anything in particular Then I see this sign help one of it says Jobs and it's got a list of different kinds of jobs like chauffeur house painter salesman And there's nothing so funny about that Then I see what kind of dough they're paying Brother what kind of dough they're paying? I'm thinking maybe this inflation ain't such a bad idea after all and I walk in Well, there's quite a bunch of guys in there naturally sitting around on benches and I sit down and every so often a Door opens and a tough little gray haired guy. Okay, you're next comes out Picks out a guy and the guy goes in a sort of office with him and that's the last we ever see of it So this keeps happening for a while and I'm thinking this guy must really be handing out the jobs And then the door opens again and the guy is looking at me. Okay you me. Yes you Sit down What's your name? Walter's first name. Uh, what's the matter? Don't you know it? Muscles What muscles then you look don't try to clown with me pal What's your name? Listen for your information. My first name is Sylvester Only I don't like the name sylvester. So most people don't call me sylvester On account of it's better for them that way. So they call me muscles Now you catch on Yeah Live here in town no way from Brooklyn I should have known it what you like you come again skip it skip it got any friends in town No, and I can see why Look pop are you talking to me about a job or a poke in the nose? What? Look, you wouldn't try to get tough with me. Would you get big baboon? What? Is that gun loaded? Yeah Now you want to make something of it? No, I don't and how do you like that? But if you'll put that heater down for a minute pop, I will bend you around like a pretzel Yeah, I think you're gonna be all right, son Now hold it now hold it hold it don't get sore I was just trying something out on you. That's all Take awful chances pop guns. Don't worry you much do they guns I spent the last four years playing with firearms for uncle whiskers Guns to me. I like the measles. I don't worry about them. I just got a healthy respect for him I like to keep my distance. That's all especially when the other guys got him and I don't Yeah, I think you're gonna be all right For what? Huh? Oh, yes. Yes. What kind of a job did you want? Well, I don't know I've been a cabbie. I drove a truck. I was a salesman for a while for who Lionel strong for it No ladies lingerie mail order house Well, you'll make a lot more on this job than you would as any salesman Now listen say this after me. What? This is john three faces for midnight Come again. Come on. Come on say it. It's part of the job Listen if this job means I got to play left in for the nut house. It's out. Don't worry pal. Don't worry. You're gonna like this job Come on. I'll just say it. This is john three faces for midnight Well, what can I lose? This is john three faces for midnight again This is john three faces for midnight Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna be all right. What is that good? Listen to this. What's that? Addictograph it plays records. Yeah. Oh, well, that's more like it. Have you got cruel to listen? Yeah This is john Three faces for midnight. Well, we're ready tomorrow night regular time. I'll call There you get it. They sound just like a couple of mugs to me, especially that guy john I guess nobody ever does why recognize their own voice when they hear it That guy john sounds enough like you to be your twin brother. I guess a guy can't help what he said You mean I sound like that. I mean you're hired What a price to pay for a job. Look, uh, go through that back door there to the back and wait for me I got a couple things to do and then we'll get busy. Okay, but this better be on the level Because so far it sure stinks Like oh, oh, pardon me. Yeah You uh, you all alone in here. I was Well, I didn't mean to interrupt or anything only he sent me in here. Oh, it's quite all right Make yourself quite at home Well, thanks only I hope you won't mind if I return to the pursuit of my magazine Huh? Oh, oh, you were reading. I like to read myself sometimes. I'm sure Uh, you uh, you're working for this guy. I'm afraid that's confidential Ah, so he gave you that too, huh? Why yes, uh, are you working for it? Well, I don't know if you could call it working. Well, didn't he tell you anything? Yeah All about how I sounded like a guy named john and and what did I think about guns guns? Yeah Oh, what are you supposed to do? Well, I don't know exactly That sounds just as crazy as what I'm supposed to do. Well, you see, I'm a photographer Oh, you take pictures Uh, I'm just an amateur really but I get some very good pictures I showed him some a 16 millimeter. What's that movies with this camera here? See Oh Oh, well, well if this is some kind of gig for the movies then it makes sense They say in that racket everybody's crazy. Well, I don't know I figured he wanted me to take some pictures of some kind of an affair, you know a wedding or something What am I supposed to do give the bride away? Oh, you two get acquainted. Oh, we were making a start. Good. Good Okay. Now look I got all your instructions written down here everything you're supposed to do You take a train to woodbridge and Walk not take a cab Walk to a certain house. There's a map here. You can't miss it. Well, aren't you coming? Yeah. Yeah, sure. Sure. I'll be there But I've got to go separately. There's a reason for that So beat it now your train leaves in a half an hour. You can read over your instructions on the way Okay, I'm playing along as though this was on the level But it better be it's on the level. All right, but uh, listen Yeah Don't you do anything that's not in those instructions? See Oh, I should I'm just telling you Because I wouldn't want to see anything happen to you Either of you that should have been the tip off right there, especially for a smart guy like me But if you must know by this time I am thinking about this name Who is a slick chick but real refined too. You know what I mean And I'm thinking this is probably the big break for her if it is on the level So I ought to help her through with it. And so I do By the time we get out to this wood bridge, we're getting along pretty good except for one thing And we start up from the railroad station like it says on the map the guy gave us looking for this certain house Only he gets wilder and wilder where we're going right into the woods must be a couple of miles And then all of a sudden there's a house Well, that should have been a tip off too. You don't suppose that's it according to this map. It's gotta be Helen yes, sir. If you call me that once more I'll bend what did you say? I said I will bend every effort for you, but please don't call me that Well, I just can't call you muscles. It's not refined Well, then this must be the place But it certainly is a funny place to have any kind of an effect don't look like it's been lived in for 20 years Listen Yeah, it's gonna be a storm. Well, we better just go on inside. That's what it says to do The door don't sound like it's ever been opened Gee it's spooky in here. Yeah, and I can't find a light anywhere. Maybe that nice mister Oh, so that's to well, I don't even know his name. Do you know and I wish I didn't know him Close the door It's all right. It's all right. It's me Oh, that's the idea now we can have some light. Well, it's nice on the inside. Isn't it really refined? Yeah, yeah used to be an old hideout now come on in the front room here and I'll give you the pitch Well, don't think we're in any hurry to know because we are see All right now listen In about an hour. There's going to be a guy come out here to take a bribe He's quite a big guy in this town and he's taking a big bribe 200,000 dollars 200 grand. Yes He's going to take the money from another guy that he's never seen before A guy named john You're gonna be john Oh, so i'm gonna be john. That's right The guy you heard on the record in my office the guy you sound like The other guy you heard is the guy that's taking the money Oh, yeah, well you can count me out this whole thing Smells and if I had a known that you were getting a young girl. Wait a minute. Wait a minute There are only two people in this world who know about this me and who are you? Just call me tim Me and grover t. Wyatt You know who he is You don't mean governor Wyatt Yes, why he's nice. I voted for him. Why he's one of the best-looking men For his age. I mean Wyatt's a swell guy clean as a whistle for 20 years But uh, he made one little mistake back there and a certain guy is caught onto it Well, all I can say is that if this thing doesn't come off if he doesn't hear from me by three o'clock this afternoon Well, governor, Wyatt's a dead pigeon Well, I don't care if he's a dead horse 200 grand is plenty of lettuce and that means plenty of trouble and what about this john that i'm supposed to be He knows about it, too. He's been our contact man on the phone with the scripture Well, I don't like it and Helen here. What are you squawking about? There's nothing gonna happen to you There's a bonus of five a piece in there for both of you. Oh, so we stick our necks out for a lousy five bucks 500 bucks That's what I said a lousy five 500 that's what I said Wow Say, where is this bum that's been given trouble to the governor? I will bend him around like a pretzel. We don't need any of that We're just gonna get him good this time and that's the end of him and you want me to take pictures of the uh The transaction now you're getting smart. Yes. Yes from the landing up there. That's why we've got so much light in here Will it uh, will it be okay? Oh, it'll be quite all right. I'm sure yeah, but but but there's just one thing What so this guy shows up and he thinks i'm john because he's never seen john But what if john shows up? Well now this uh john was sort of a double crosser He won't show up. How do you know? He had a little accident this morning He's dead Suspense roma wines are bringing you william bendix in three faces at midnight roma wines presentation tonight in radios outstanding theater of thrills suspense Between the acts of suspense. This is ken niles for roma wines Are you enjoying today's biggest value in an entertainment beverage? 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Yeah, where are you gonna be right here in this closet? Now go to it and make it good Excuse me. Is this mr. Hampton? No, this is john I guess i lost my way Witz way is the road Three faces for midnight Okay, i knew you're wise anyway come on in You alone What do you think i'm asking 200 grand i gotta answer questions two nuts. Okay, okay You got it. Yeah in this briefcase 200 g notes. I don't like that. We're supposed to be smaller We're supposed Well, that's how you're getting it. You want to count it one four. It better be right. Yeah, look at over. I don't want no kickbacks Okay 200 grand. Yeah, but you'll never get to spend it. Oh a plant, huh? Yeah with pictures. Do you like it? Well, that's too bad Tim too bad for you boy What did you do that for drop that gun drop it? I got it No stand stand back from the muscles Please stand back Tim. No damn damn no Muscles dead Yeah, both of them So bastard What are we gonna do? Well I got what you might call a rough idea What come on? We're gonna get to We have to walk the two miles to the stations with the pouring rain But even all that cold water don't seem to make my brains work any better We don't get back to town until about 4 30 and I still don't have it figured out Helen Well, I guess you can't blame her. She just don't seem to have much experience in these things So we're standing there in the morning arguing But silvestre, why don't we just go to the police or somebody and tell them look sugar There's three guys been knocked off today. We were there when it happened to two of them And how do we know that that guy tim told us was on the level well, maybe the police would tell us Yeah with a rubber hose and here's another thing We're carrying around a briefcase full of 200 grand of somebody else's dough and that ain't hey and it ain't good Oh my goodness. What's so bad keep it until some Helen look I'm not really a tough guy see All I know is what I see in the movies But I know that when you're walking around with that much hot money You're up to wake up someday and find you've been living on borrowed time Didn't you see what happened to that guy in that movie the the killers? Oh, yeah, it wasn't that good poor Bert Lancaster I felt so sorry for well Well, I don't want to wind up no Bert Lancaster even to make you feel sorry for me So the first thing we got to do is ditch this dough ditch Really silvestre. I mean before they find those two stiffs out there And then start trying to find a funny looking guy in a cute looking dame with a sack full of dough We got to find the parties that belong to it before they find us Now you catch on but we can't give it back to the man that belongs to he's yeah Said there was nobody in on the deal for him and the governor the governor Well, that's what we'll do silly. Just call the governor. Oh, yeah How do you do that? You just look them up in the classified heads. Oh, I don't know ask information Somebody must know his number after all these are very important men Well, it might be worth a try Oh, of course it is there's probably a phone booth right here in the drunks do it Yeah, but calling the governor just like that. I don't know you extra extra governor commit suicide Paper butt painted. I got enough to worry me without the governor Helen the governor. He's dead Well, of course Now I remember what that guy said about the governor being a dead pigeon if he didn't get word by three o'clock But it's too late now for that to do anybody much good us or him either There was just one more chance that employment agency The rain had almost stopped now and we went over to central avenue to look for it Of course, this is the place. I'd recognize it anytime. Where's the sign with the jobs on it? I don't know. Maybe they take it down when it rains to keep the letters from running. Uh, maybe the joint looks closed to me It is closed. Hey anybody in there Hey open up Come on. Come on open up. What do you want? We want to see the boss. I'm in charge here What do you want? Well, we uh We were sort of looking for a couple of jobs. I don't have no jobs I'm just trying to rent this place. It's vacant vacant. Isn't this an employment agency? Not since this morning You want to rent it? Look, uh, this is kind of important to us. The guy that had it before He was a sort of tough-looking little gray haired guy, huh? Yeah. Yeah, that's a guy Guy with a name of a whiting George whiting. Oh, no, his name was tim. Look lady if you know so much what he asked me for That's it's all right. He probably had two names You wouldn't know his home address, would you? I don't know a thing about the man fella You've got to see him so bad. The only thing I could advise you to do is Stick around on a off chance. He might come back, but he can't he's dead. He's why skip it. We'll we we got the wrong guy That last crack didn't help none because I knew that guy would remember us sure And now I saw the whole thing that employment racket was just a phony setup to catch a couple of patsies Us I headed us back to the choo-choo station on the way. I slipped the g-note out of the briefcase It was time to do something fast leave town Oh, but I don't want to leave town. It's nice here. Yeah, they got nice comfortable slabs in the morgue too Come on. We're gonna check this briefcase. But why are we gonna check it for if we're gonna leave town If it's too heavy mr. Walters, I'll carry look sugar for the last time I hope Three guys are dead the governor of estate almost as important as brooklyn has just knocked himself off All on account of what's in this bag We are ditching this bag sugar and we are lambing I'll explain what that means later Uh, check this will you bud? When do you want it sometime next week? I'm going out of town Okay, two bits now and two bits more for every day. You leave it. You pay the rest later. There you are 25 out of Hey, what is this a gag? What's the matter now a thousand bucks? Oh, oh, uh, yeah, I must have made a mistake. You sure muster Yeah Uh, I I don't seem to have nothing smaller. Are you sure ain't gonna change this. Okay. Okay. Give me the bag come on Hey, hey wait. Hey gerry stop that guy Hey you wait a minute now look officer. I I just come on the man wants to see you Now what's the matter sam? That guy must be nuts. He just walked off and left a thousand dollar bill Oh, did I thanks a gino? Let me see that's mine. Yeah, ask him Why did you get this bud? Well officer, I I I I I I just made a little killing at the track. Uh, which track why the Uh Look, I just wanted to check my bag officer. What's in that bag? Not the nothing officer. Just some purely personal stuff Let me see. Say wait a minute. What is your mind? Come on. Give me that bag Well, well, well, what's in it gerry? Why there's nothing in this bag at all nothing at all Just a little movie camera. You see I told you and about a million bucks. Come on Come on, so best come clean. I told you and then please please don't call me that We ain't started to call you nothing yet So best sir, why'd you kill him? They kill him for the dough, didn't you? Where'd you hear about it? How'd you know he had the dough? This is your gun, isn't it? No, no, no I told you they knocked off each other. I was just sure with the same gun one guy shoots the other one And then hands him the gun and Only the guns got your prints all over it. I took it away from the guy You were robbing the house, weren't you? They came to make their deal and you knocked him off Listen, the governor himself knew about it. Sure, we'll get the governor to come right down and make a statement You trying to be funny Sylvester you were robbing the house you swiped the camera you put it in the bag and then they came in You saw all that dough and you knocked him off Listen, Sylvester, you don't want to get that sweet little girl friend of yours in the jam, do you? Helen? What have you done to her? Yes Come on. Come on come clean and we'll let it go. But I tell you I don't... Come on, Sylvester We'll send her to the hot seat with you. You wouldn't you couldn't? No, that's what you think You killed him, didn't you? You killed him. I Oh Okay, okay, I killed him now. Are you happy? That's a boy. That's a boy Sylvester, uh get this here. Now will you stop calling me that? Okay, Sylvester you killed him What was the girl doing there? She had nothing to do with it. She was just taking the pictures What pictures? The pictures The pictures There's your answer you big dopes go look at the pictures Now he's right Mac those pictures show the whole thing Pete shot Tim O'Mara and then this guy got the gun away from him and O'Mara shot Pete just like he said Yeah, now you catch her. You sure? No argument Mac. It's all right there in the film. Well, you're a lucky boy Sylvester Yeah, sure. I get all the breaks now go on go on beat it before we think of something else. Okay, you've had your fun Didn't you like it? Sylvester, but if you'll take off that gun and that badge for a minute I will bend you around like a pretzel. You mean right here Sylvester. Yeah, right here After I served my 90 days I went and got my name changed by a judge from Sylvester to Muscles It's legal now Mr. Muscles walters It may sound funny to you, but I like it. Oh, yeah, and Helen got her name changed too She's Mrs. Muscles walters And now this is Ken Niles returning for a curtain call with the rugged star of tonight's suspense play William Bendix Bill are those bulges and your coat really mussels or did your tailor install them? Well, they ain't mothballs jump. You want to see me tear up a phone book? Uh, you're safe. I don't happen to have one on me Well, I will demonstrate with my script Only 30 pages. Now give me yours too, Ken. Uh, well, I fold them once and then twice and Then I stack up the pieces and See. Oh, fine. There went both scripts. Now, what do we read from? Well, gee, Ken, I never But you don't need a script to tell folks how good roma wines are, do you? Ah, you're right bill and to start with here's a gift basket of roma california wines with compliments from roma The greatest name in wine. That's what I call a magnanimous gesture Now, let me hear you tell about this roma sherry without a script. Certainly bill Roma sherry is the perfect first call for dinner the ideal wine for entertaining any time Roma sherry is the favorite of millions because golden amber fragrant roma sherry is so good So many tasty ways you'll enjoy roma sherry before dinner bill and when guests drop in Delight them with a warmth and graciousness the tempting nut-like taste of roma sherry. This guy knows his wine Yes, because I know that in all roma wines you enjoy an important difference and extra goodness in fuller bouquet Richer body and better taste. That's why more americans enjoy roma than any other wine He'd done it. Thanks ken and good night William bendix appears through the courtesy of procter and gamble makers of drift And can soon be seen in the paramount picture blaze of noon Tonight suspense play was written by john eugene hasty and robert richards Next thursday same time you will hear mr. eddie bracken as star of suspense Produced and directed by william spear for the roma wine company of fresno california In the coming week suspense will present such stars as howard de silva Kirk douglas james stewart Nancy kelly and others make it a point to listen each thursday to suspense radio's Ending theater of thrills This is cbs the kanan beer broadcasting system