 Tired of the everyday routine? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you escape Escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure Tonight we escape to a sunken city Which lies with its fabulous treasure chests at the bottom of the sea And to the lust for gold of a crew of men who were willing to die or to kill As Gildow tells it in his exciting tale Port Royal the story suggested by Lieutenant Harry Riesberg book. I dive for treasure Can't you get anything else on that radio? I haven't liked that particular number like it somewhere's else. I just might do that Oh, I crystal I didn't mean it. I guess I'm just jumping and I hear come I have a drink of that stuff No, thanks. Pardon me lady. Astor built. We're just fresh out of Napoleon brandy Huh, aren't we just look you got no beef coming when I had it you got at the works And when you didn't have it you took it from me. Huck the diamond soul of me Oh, you'll get them back something's got to turn up. It should be you dead Look, baby. Don't do me no favors the doors not locked you know I know I think I'm going to walk through it right now. Oh, no, wait a minute It's a break for you Danny. Now you can keep the room single rate. Where you going? I think Vinnie can still find me a place in the line over the flamingo. You wouldn't just watch me All right, go on kick a guy when he's down walk all over him I should have known you was that kind of broad you did go the tramp He's like the rest of the crumb bums when you're up your Danny Quinn everybody's friend when the horses don't run your way You're nobody let it go Hadn't always been like it was that night And it would be different again How soon I wasn't sure when a fist landed on my door Fist that was made from the hand that it jimmied some of the best windows in New York. Hey Danny. It's car. It ain't locked What's on your mind? Hey plenty Where's the bro? She took a powder permanent looks like well, you're better off. Maybe hey look I picked up something pretty good tonight. I think I'm not in the market on our look Danny This don't mean to think to you till I get through talking. I listen to me. Will you now? It could be worse than he was to a couple of million bucks. Look Carl get off it Whatever it is get off of it All right Now you probably never heard of a guy named Fletcher Travis because you never get past the page with the race result See what I mean me I'm different. I case this town through the papers I keep myself up on what's going on in town and who's in town and how I can get to it And now look this Travis made himself a lot of dough breaking in the sunken boat. You understand He's what you call a deep-sea dive. Yeah. All right. You was a sailor once you ought to know Let me see that thing. Yeah, yeah, sure So I read up what he was up to and then it's afternoon. I went to the place where he's given a talk See, there's a sunken city down at Jamaica the island not the track and they call it port royal It's warehouses down there with gold by the ton Travis was already with a boat to go down after it leave in the morrow You believe all that for sure. I do Anyway, he holds up this chart and says this is the past key to get him in it's something like that So I tell him back to the hotel. I make his room number and go in while he's eating his dinner Well, he's got a lot of books there history books. It's all through Danny. I mean give me a place for them old pirate So, uh, anyways the earthquake or something spilled into the water, you understand what I mean all in one piece intact That stuff is there now. We got this chart. That's the key. What do we do frame it? Look, you were in the merchant marine wasn't you so you had it up Now I got a first shop staked out that'll get us the first money And we buy a boat get ourselves a diver of our own and we go after this whole ourselves You know you got something Carl. Hey behind you in the dresser top drawer. See if my seamen's papers are there. Okay, Danny, okay? Where are they? I don't see them right in the back You little jerk There's a difference between being a gambler and a second story man I know what to do with that old chart if there was anything to it or what I would do would be legal Now Carl I wake up by himself and read the stories about his job in the late finals They printed enough to make me pretty sure that the dope on this sunken city Port Royal was on the level Millions so after the police cleared out of his hotel. I went calling on Fletcher Travis Who is it? My name is Danny Quinn and I got something that belongs to you Danny Quinn. Yeah, that's right. I was with some friends slumming in the Bowery I read about you in the papers and when I heard this guy talking about you and a chartie just stolen it Well, there it is. Well Come in I can hardly believe it with this chart. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I heard from this guy Sounded pretty important. I caught up with the guy on the way out and roughed them up a little Well, I I don't know how to thank you this chart. I'm gonna wait a minute. Look, it's easy to thank me I want to cut in on this deal. I want to go with you on the trip. You go with us. Well, sure. It's in the cards I told you I read about you in the papers. I was interested then now this happens like fate I run into the chance to get this chart back to you Look, I'm important to you very important. Well, hey realize what I owe you but a salvage I got the answer to that one too. I was in the Merchant Marine. I'm a real deepwater sailor. I can't swim now Could you made it without me Travis? No, I guess I couldn't I was quite a feeling heading out into the big Atlantic swell Ringing sang the deck beneath me took an angle to port and it rose and fell for a first second My imagination took a turn I got a I got a picture of Danny Quinn standing on another deck Wearing earrings with a cutlass or two and a brace of pistols in his belt Danny Quinn sailing out after a pirate treasure I thought it would be a good idea if we all got together tonight gentlemen since according to Captain Mattson's estimate will be over port Royal early tomorrow morning You're still holding to that captain a barometer hasn't lied to me yet. Mr. Travis Tells me this weather is holding that means we should drop anchor an hour or maybe two after dawn Good. Good. Then it's time to look at the chart that Danny recovered for us There the city of Port Royal submerged after a geodetic survey made by the British Navy 1826 Now look here See the sudden jump in fathoms along this line right right here Yeah, I see a shallow here and deeper here That's right It's a fault line that buckled when the city was destroyed by earthquake This section sank in this section lifted I see here point of reef rock or coral that shows a wash during low water Yeah I've oriented this chart with the old map support royal before its destruction And that point of reef is no more than 90 feet from the edge of the warehouse section That's right right out here Are you sure that Well sure as I can be What made me pick that night to go to the Bowery You couldn't ask for a better landmark Well, no it's more than a landmark captain's a mooring We get a bowhawk on the reef point back off 90 feet Drop a stern hook and we're anchored right over the front doors of those treasure houses 30 fathoms down When you've gambled for a living as many years as I have you develop a set of nerves and do pretty much what you tell them But when I realized what that old chart meant and how close we were to all that loot My poker face flew right out the porthole They made jokes about Fort Knox and the Vanderbilt We slapped backs had a round or two and then we hit our bunks But I'll lay a tender one that all of us did our dreaming wide awake I know I didn't Millions of dollars 30 fathoms under our keel We were like men in a daze when we said about our work the next morning But it went the way it should The point of reef was there low water The ship was secured to it backed off and anchored The lifting gear was rigged in the main mist The pump and compressor were checked a dozen times Travis got into his heavy canvas suit The helmet went over his head Little afternoon he begun his first dive I was on the intercom on deck It's my depth now Hold on, I'll get it You want this depth captain? You're a 25 fathoms Travis Good, safe to get out of this speed No faster This speed is okay captain, no faster All right How is it Travis? Good You make me nervous when you aren't talking Keep saying things, will you? What do you see? Now He wants his depth 28 Travis Slow my descent Slow it Slow his descent Buildings, the warehouses Buildings, roofs, windows There's a street, must be a street in front of us He's hit it, storehouses He needs slack He wants a loading platform The loading platform, you jerk We were too busy on deck for a while To really digest what was happening Even after the loading platform broke through the surface And we saw the single rotting chest on it It was too much like a scene in a B movie to believe Then we pried it open Lying in rows were small leather bags Covered with a slimy coral crust We took one out It crumbled and from it maybe 50 metal coins Spilled onto the deck They were dirty brown But when they were scratched Bright clean gold showed through By the time Travis was aboard And out of his suit The first shock of success had passed And we were calm enough to have a drink Well, Mr. Travis, sit down and rest You were the hero of the day I get you here, but you lord on the gold Here's your drink, Travis, you've earned it Thanks, sir I can use it Well, what do you think of your first day Of salvage operation? Brother, I've won some pots in my day But when those coins rolled out That topped everything I think we're off to a good start How many more chests are down there? Oh, I don't know yet I only moved 10 or 15 feet into the building I saw three or four more What do you think they bring back in the States? Well, if they're all like this one 35, $40,000 a piece Yeah, we've hit it all right How many trips down can you make? This weather, two in the morning Two in the afternoon That gives me about 12 minutes On the bottom each descent 35 or 40,000 a dive Hey, that's gonna add up Don't spend it yet, Danny Let me turn into more than just going down Coming up Things can happen down there This is the first time I've worked buildings And I know that sunken hulls can lie there For a couple of three centuries without moving Even in the current But let a diver put his foot in the wrong plank And something on the other end The ship gives way You never know So let's count what we got today And see if our luck holds tomorrow Our luck did hold Not only the next morning and afternoon But the day after and the two days after that One chest per dive, four dives per day An average of $140,000 worth of looted day Came off the bottom We had $560,000 in the hole When the thought first nibbled at me I tried to blame it on the idea That I didn't trust Captain Mattson But that wasn't it Travis had planted it himself When he reminded me that you never knew What to expect 30 fathoms below The rest of it was based on the fact that Any hunk of dough looks three times smaller But it's split three ways In just a moment, we will return you To the second act of escape But first, this Saturday night CBS's gangbusters program Brings you the case of the Boyle Booster Not Rooster, Booster The case of the Boyle Booster And since gangbusters does only Authentic police cases Who are we to question the title? Somebody did ask a question And it's a case straight out of the New York City police files And a house gets lost among other things Gangbusters is heard every Saturday On most of these same CBS stations So be listening for the case of the Boyle Booster This Saturday And now we return you to Escape Unlike that day after day Those chests coming up until There was enough treasure aboard that schooner To drive any man half out of his head We were isolated out there The island Jamaica was just a blur off our bow The only ships we saw were cruise liners Way out on the horizon The more I thought about it, the stronger my hunch got The way my luck was running, I could work it out So there wouldn't have to be a three-way split of those chests Travis was easy, he just stayed down there Captain Mattson and McGraw the mate Well, they took a little more thought With that fortunate stake What else was there to think about? Danny Hey, Danny, you're deaf? Hey, Danny Oh, yeah, skipper, what a dream You and your dreamin', Danny, sometimes it's not so good To spend so much time in the future Come on, give us a hand, another chest is coming up Another chest, you know this thing can go too far? $40,000 Gentlemen I think tomorrow's the last one Yes, I was going to ask how long my food stores are running Well, I've had to move as far into that building as I want to move That roof I've been working under is heavy with coral growth And it's not held by nails anymore, they're gone It's held by balance, and I don't want to upset it I don't blame you, Travis Tell me, what do you say we got in the hold now? Well, over $900,000 There haven't been many salvage operations that have topped that Over $300,000 apiece, huh? Yeah, those are good wages Why bother with another dive? Hey, skipper, don't get so rich that you turn up your nose at a few hundred grand Travis wants to give it another try, more power to him That's up to him Well, to be honest with you, I've had enough of it I'm going to be dreaming about those sagging walls And that blue light for weeks to come And I hate to push my luck too far Well, I'll make one more descent in the morning And then I think we should start back I think so too Danny? Well, you're the boss, Travis, that's good enough for me That was after evening chow I stretched out in my cabin, but I didn't sleep I lay awake planning I was still awake when the mate came off watch Hey, Danny, wake up, wake up Come on, come on, it's midnight Oh, oh, thanks, my girl, you can turn in Yeah, yeah Keys are on the table There were three keys on that ring we anchor watches carried every night One to the gear locker in case we needed tools One to the lamp locker in case we needed a light A third had been added when the treasure started to pile up It opened the gunlocker Outside on the deck I leaned my elbows on the rail Watched the phosphorescence rippling back from the side of the boat And lined up the next detail The gunlocker had been equipped to take care of any possible attack So it was an arsenal What I needed was a Thompson submachine gun But I wasn't about to overplay my hand By taking it out of the locker Somebody would have noticed that I just slipped in and unlocked the case So I could get it when the time came I didn't think anybody'd notice that And I was right He wants his depth, Skipper Nineteen, Travis Hey, look, the speed of my descent Tell him to slow me down or increase my air pressure Check You said slow him down or give him some more air pressure, Skipper You're slowing down, Travis Thanks Yeah, I guess so Yeah, I can see what you mean Take the lesson when I make the next one Oh, yeah, my air is adequate now I had a crazy flash shot that Travis knew what it was up to and had something up his sleeve I got rid of it He couldn't have known He had, he wouldn't have gone down Hardly heard him talking With him submerged, it was time for me to get into action It was five steps to the door that would take me to the gun locker To the Thompson I'd force Mattson Rest it up Fellers into their cabins Then the chess would go into the lifeboats Then the stern anchor line we'd cut The ship pulled into that reef point it was moored to And the coral would rip the bottom out of it The only thing left would be the lifeboat full of loot with me in it I didn't see how any court any place could prove it wasn't an accident I took the intercom set off my head Mattson and the maid had their heads together near the winch I end to get a drink of water Don't do it, Danny Stay where you are Hey, hey, hey, what's... What the devil's the matter with you? What's a gun for? I haven't done anything A gun is so you won't do anything McGraw I said cut the winch Time to move, get below and open the valves I'll take care of Danny Oh, no, you won't, Danny You're coming out, Danny What's the game? The partnership was too big, Danny I told you you'd dream too much What? You and McGraw? Make it easy, Danny Come on out or you'll go down with the ship anyway Come on, maybe we'd deal you in All right, Skipper I'll play along with you That's right, Danny, use your head Sure That's what I'm doing That's what I'm doing Use my head Use my head Use my head Use my head Where are you McGraw? Listen to me I want you to know that this was none of my idea The captain made the plan to force me into it Now he's gone outside in with you and Travis Sure Sure Fortune-like, this has driven guys crazy before But let you and me hang on to our senses All the valves are open below decks The ship's going down Let's get the treasure and the life over We got time All right, McGraw Have you hear you toss your gun on the deck And I know you're leveling with me Sure, Danny There it is I'm in the main passageway Come on I swear on telling you the truth, Danny You forced me into this But you and Travis Danny, now don't I got plans of my own for this stuff, McGraw You aren't in them Nobody is Danny, you're going in Maybe he was right Maybe that treasure was driving me crazy It was like I was rushing downhill and couldn't stop Just like I didn't see if I was able to stop the time Before I started After McGraw was gone I went over to the main hold and tore the canvas off the hatch Maybe to hear the water rushing through the valves He'd open and was telling me I'd have to hurry If I wanted to get those chests I went over to the lifeboat, hanging in his davits No No No No That's when my luck, my plans, my dreams Everything was blasted The lifeboat It was ripped and useless I'd gone crazy with that submachine gun It was peppered with bullet holes One blasted Cut out one of the lines And it crashed in the deck and smashed the bow It wouldn't have stayed a blown empty $900,000 of board and there was no way to save it The schooner had already started a list I had to think of saving themself Travis Travis, are you all right? I'm all right There's been trouble up here Yes I know Matt and McGraw tried to pirate the treasure But they used to stop them But they've scuttled the ship Stugging water? Yeah How fast can you come up? You've been down there a little over 20 minutes Raise me at regular speed then Never mind turning my lines Get the winch moving and then get below See what can be done about stopping the water Okay Travis I'll be glad to get you up here We're in a mess, believe me I did what he told me, I went below But it didn't take long to see There was nothing to do down there The way the water was pouring in I spent my time working out a story for Travis It would save my hide and give me another chance at that treasure It took 30 minutes to get him aboard and out of his suit By that time, the schooner was starting to settle by the stern There's no time to talk about it now, Danny I can see you have plenty of trouble Well, there wasn't much I could do, but kill him Naturally, Danny All those chests going back to the bottom How can you tell about guys like Matt and McGraw? I don't know, Danny Treasure hunting does strange things to people We're coming back after it, aren't we? I can raise some more dough We aren't giving up, are we? I'm coming back, Danny But you aren't What's that supposed to mean? You left the intercom system open I heard what you told McGraw before you killed him about your plans That's too bad, Travis Oh, no Don't try it, Danny Guns won't help you now The lifeboat's gone You're the sailor who can't swim, remember? You'd never make it by yourself, but I can get you a shore And once I do, I've got to turn you in So You've got a choice Come with me Or stay with the ship Your choice, Danny Don't be too slow in deciding I went with him Hanging onto what was left of the lifeboat We watched the rest of it from 50 yards away Looked like the schooner just got tired of fighting the water She lifted her bow like Like for a last look around And rolled over and went out of sight $900,000 But that wasn't the only fortune that was sinking Danny Quinn's was on the way down, too I was fresh out of luck Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robeson Tonight we have presented Port Royal by Gildowd Suggested by Lieutenant Harry Rhysburg's book I Dive for Treasure Featured in the cast were Charles McGraw as Danny Quinn John Daner as Fletcher Travis And Bill Conrad as Captain Metzen Also heard were D Tatum, Paul Freese And Ted D'Corsia Special music was arranged and conducted by Del Castiglio Next week You are imprisoned in a lonely lighthouse Off the steaming jungle coastline Of French Guiana Your comrades A maniac and a coward Your captors An army of gigantic hunger-maddened rats Next week in response to many hundreds of requests We will again present one of the most unforgettable And terrifying of all escape stories Pre-Skeleton Key Goodbye then until this same time Next week, when once again we offer you Escape Through field workers stationed with our troops In this country and across the world The American Red Cross helps the lonely soldier The marine anxious about his sick wife at home The sailor with a dying mother Three thousand miles away Last year, more than three quarters Of a million men in service Were helped in family, welfare And recreational problems by American Red Cross workers Give to the Red Cross workers Give to the Red Cross generously this month This is CBS where you meet Gene Autry every Saturday night The Columbia Broadcasting System