 Lux presents Hollywood Lieber Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre starring Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas and Joyce McKenzie in Panic in the Streets Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeland Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen You know a chief source of civic pride is the Federal Public Health Service in our American cities Combined with the police forces and local governments, they wage a relentless battle against disease In tonight's play, Panic in the Streets, we combine the vigilance of these men with a thrilling manhunt A search for the murderers of a man who has brought a plague to one of our waterfront cities A plague that if not immediately controlled would bring terror and disaster to the entire country As our players from the original 20th Century Foxcast, we have two of their most luminous stars Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas and as their co-star charming and talented Joyce McKenzie You know so often we find that health and beauty go hand in hand such as daily complexion care with gentle Lux Toilet soap Well, lovely ladies find themselves glowing with a fresh natural beauty when they are loyal to their Lux soap facials Now the curtain rises on Panic in the Streets Starring Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reid, Paul Douglas as Captain Warren and Joyce McKenzie as Nancy It's late at night, the deserted waterfront of a large southern city He went down there blacky, down there next to the warehouse What's the rush you think, Wayne? Blacky, he didn't mean nothing, honest to you He didn't mean nothing They were his cars full, he takes 190 bucks from me Yeah, then he says he don't want to play no more Well, Blacky don't like that, see You told us he was your cousin, Paul What kind of a guy is this? I don't know, Blacky He just got into the country today Besides, he's sick You could see how sick he was Not too sick to win my 190 Blacky, there he is He just stuck behind him truck, sir I want my money, Paulie All right Come on, let's get it Oh, now look, Paul I thought I told you I was going to take the whole day off Cleaver, who's Cleaver? Oh, yeah, yeah What do you mean there's something funny about it? Yeah Well, all right, I'll come down And look, you better hold everybody there That had any contact with the body just in case No, no, I'm glad you called Okay Serious? Oh, it's always serious When they can't diagnose something It's a police case, Nancy, homicide Cleaner, bring back my uniform Go ahead and change I'll bring it in You and your father, what's the rush? And what are you using for money? Oh, Clint The first day I've had off in six weeks Wasn't even going to shave Just slop around, relax Did you give Tommy a quarter for the movies? Uh, yeah, yeah, I did Clint, look He may be an only child But I'm not going to have him acting like one I gave you the answer to that one two years ago Yeah? Yeah Well, since you're being so free with your money What about this bill? What bill's that? Oh, from Whitfields, huh? 42 bucks Uh-huh, the same one, Clint It's getting embarrassing, really What, for 42 dollars? Now listen, honey, one of these days We'll walk into that store and we'll pay cash One of what days? Well, one of these days When one of those oil companies Decides that they can't lay a pipeline in Arabia Without the services of Dr. Clinton Reid All right The man with the high Ford And the disposition of an old... Oh, Clint I don't mean that I like high Fords Yeah, I'll bet you do Well, they're taking a lot of guys from the public health service I know they have, honey Oh, you do Well, I've got to get out of here And try and get home early Yeah, sure, sure And, uh, look, honey Why don't you let Tommy keep that quarter, huh? You just handle your business And I'll take care of mine Okay Tommy It's long, Tommy And don't sit through it more than twice, you hear? Okay Yes, but I wasn't fast enough Skip it You don't get to make up your minds yet When did they bring the body here to the morgue, Cleaver? Oh, about two hours ago I did do autopsy right away How many men might have handled it? You and how many others? I guess about a dozen, doc They're down the hall now, waiting Good Who are they? A couple of assistants, the boys from the ambulance, police What about it, doc? The microscope doesn't lie, Cleaver Those slides show practically pure culture Oh, he's small And keep away from the body Can you have it cremated? I suppose so I don't want any supposing I want him cremated right away Okay And when everything is touched in, buried or sterilized Everything, you understand? Sure, doc, sure And get those slides into a sterilizer right away Will you, Paul? Right Oh, they sent over the serum and the streptomycin Just before you got here Good We'll all take a shot and get to work And the men down the hall Two CCs Right Thanks for calling us, Cleaver You did just the right thing You sure never know, do you? No, you don't Uh, what do we say to those guys out there? Well, uh, just that the dead man Had some communicable disease That we're giving him shots just to play it safe I better warn you, some of them won't like the idea Well, maybe they'd like ten days in quarantine Better But whatever you say, Cleaver Not a word about what it really is Okay, doc No, take Cleaver first I'm gonna call the mayor Let's hope he can see me right away This is Dr. Reed of the United States Public Health Service Doctor, I believe you know our city health commissioner I'm glad you could get here, Dr. Mackey Not at all, Reed Not at all This police commissioner, Quinn Captain Warnall, the harm inside the town Mr. Wynant, my assistant There should have been more of us, doctor But twenty minutes isn't much notice Notice of what, Mr. Mayor? This is all very mysterious Dr. Reed phoned me from the city morgue He has something to tell us about mnemonic plague Plague? What plague? Mnemonic plague, Mr. Quinn A pulmonary form of bubonic plague The black death of the Middle Ages Its death incidence is practically 100% Who do you say it was? I'm Dr. Reed of the United States Public Health Service And one of our jobs is to keep plague out of this country You see, gentlemen, bubonic plague Is spread by the rat flea Which is why we watch all ships and ports Mnemonic, on the other hand Can be spread like a common cold On the breath, the sneezes Or sputum of its victims I don't know why we were called into this Because this morning, Mr. Winant, right here in your city Your police found the body of a man Infected with this disease Well, then, our reports show the man Died with two bullet wounds That's right, sir, heart and lungs Regardless of what the police surgeon said He would have died within 12 hours Bullet wounds or not But what he did die of was two 38 caliber slugs He had mnemonic plague But he died of... As you know, Henry, I've not been to the morgue But I see no reason why my department Can't make a thorough analysis There's a very good reason why you can, sir I had the body destroyed, cremated Had it destroyed? It was a prime source of contamination Now, we've inoculated everybody Who might have had contact with the body Except one man The man or man who committed the murder Now, the killer wasn't within 10 feet of him I can prove it Was he shot on that riverbank, Captain? Of course not He was dumped off the Canal Street pier There was a time between 05 and 530 a.m. How did he get to the Canal Street pier? How do I know? Somebody must have... Exactly The point is that whoever dumped him there Might very well be walking around with incipient plague Oh, now wait a minute Sorry, Dan But we've got to work on this opposition That the doctor is right But after all, we don't know the identity of the dead man We have no possible idea of motivation You still don't know who he is? That's right, Doctor We still don't know Everything in his clothes that could identify him What about fingerprints? Not on file in our records, sir We sent them on to the FBI, but we've had no answer yet He was maybe 40, 42 years old, 5'9", and weighed 151 pounds Well, but surely there's something There was a label in his suit It came from Haifa, that's Palestine or Arabia His shoes were bought in Buenos Aires Maybe he was a sailor, we don't know yet Some of the boys who saw him said he looked kind of, well Like an Armenian or maybe a Czech These things take a little time, Doctor Only we don't have time Also, we don't have the body Now look, if the killer is incubating, pneumonic plague He could start spreading it within 48 hours 48 hours? Yes, Captain Warren, we have 48 hours Shortly after that, you'll have the makings of an epidemic Ah, Commissioner What's the use of kidding ourselves? We can't turn up an unknown killer in two days Warren's absolutely right If you want to believe the doctor here I'm sorry, Doctor, but frankly, I honestly don't But if you want to believe him, there's only one way to handle this Give the story to the newspapers, get it on the radio And have everybody who was in contact with the dead man leave town No, you can't give it to the press Now, I might be an alarmist, I may be entirely wrong I don't know But I've seen this disease work And I'm telling you that if it ever gets loose The result will be more horrible than any of you can imagine And the key to the whole thing lies right here now In the next 48 hours You can take me to my ward or whatever you like Well, what can we do? Find the man who killed Warren, put your best men on it Yes, sir And you can work with the doctor personally If that's an order, sure It's an order And I know you can count on our health department Of course, all the assistance possible All right, Tom, make your arrangements with the doctor here Take any emergency action you feel necessary I think the only way to... Hope I wasn't too rough just now On me? No No, no, no, I meant the rest of them Still have a feeling they don't believe me But I know how serious this can be Yeah, yeah, yeah Now, if I were you, I'd start worrying about what you're going to do When we don't turn up with your boy Well, if that's your attitude We're not going to get very far Mr. Reed, I was assigned to this I'll do the best I can But let's not get the idea that I'm a sailor in your navy And if you think that you... Hello, Warren I've been looking for you You found me, Neff, and you're interrupting me I heard you just had a meeting Little pictures Well, maybe my paper's interested What's the score? Some complaints about your newspaper We figure we ought to fumigate it Oh, no, no, you know you can't hide anything When it breaks, I'll spell your name wrong Yeah, that's what I told him We just ought to fumigate you You boys worry me when you take off on your own No sense in our both-warrior Goodbye, Neff No, just a second I said goodbye Well, that's right, you did Thanks Thanks a lot Where are you going, Mr. Reed? I don't know, depends on you Listen, doc, I got a job to do Just a routine sort of a job Like rounding up every suspect in town I'm supposed to be pretty good at it So why don't I call you if I need you? You mean you'd like to get rid of me, Captain? No Okay, then I'll go with you All right, come on Why do you can't say you're not getting action, doc? See that mob? We got half but two bit criminals in town out there I wish you sounded more confident of getting information We'll get plenty of information About pickpockets, sneak thieves, and white feeders But about your murderer? Not a chance All right, Scott, come on in, come on in Dr. Reed, Lieutenant Scott How are you? Good evening, sir Captain, that reporter on that He's looking for us Well, get rid of him Yes, sir Well, is that all you got to tell me? No, sir We checked Mobile and Champa No record of the dead man Nothing on fire with the FBI The lab found traces of fishing is closed Also rust resistant paint and salt The fish traces could be shrimp Well, it's obvious he came off of boats Unless he walked through a fish market Bought four pounds of shrimp And brushed against the freshly painted fire escape Scott, I suppose these are all the photographs we got Yeah, that's awesome Okay Oh, Captain, the boys are sort of wondering Why they have to take these shots They've been wondering, have they? Whether they think they are in a summer camp Because the commissioner says so, that's why That's what I told him Yes, sir Roll up your sleeve What do you mean? What do you think you're going to do? Roll up your sleeve Well, why should I take one of those things? Because the commissioner says so And I told the commissioner Roll it up Anything funny, Scott? Oh, no, sir, no, sir What's the matter? You guys ain't got enough work to do? Oh, yeah Well, are you satisfied? No, I'm not Those suspects you're bringing in There's not a chance of getting anywhere What are you doing it for? I'm doing it because the commissioner told me to And I'm doing it this way Because it's the only way you left me But why I'm doing it, I don't know Now, look, how can I make you believe That what we're doing Believe? Why shouldn't I believe you, Doc? You're a smart fellow, a college man You probably wouldn't make something out of nothing Just to be important You know, my mother always told me That if you looked deep enough in anybody You'd find some good But I don't know Well, apologies to your mother That's the second mistake she made I should have seen that one coming Come on, I'll buy you a cup of coffee I want to buy you a cup I'm busy Come on, let's see if you can drag that load Across the street Look, Captain, do you have a family? Are you married? No My wife died eight years ago I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be personal The doc I got said she hadn't around you But she didn't It was a brain tumor You don't think much of me as a doctor either, do you? Keep asking questions, Doc You finally get answers Now Mind if I ask why? Government jobs, civil service 30 years of pension What do you make? I think it runs about the same as a police, Captain Now, look, Warren The reason I asked if you had a family Well, I thought if you had some children You might realize the seriousness of this I haven't got any kids Well, thousands of people do And think what could happen to them I'll think anything you like, but I'll still say I'm doing everything I can Look, the man who was killed came off a boat Probably he was smuggled into the country We've checked every boat We're combing the waterfront And we're hauling in every man that could possibly Know anything about it Well, from what I've seen They're not too anxious to talk to Well, maybe they ain't Maybe they want to talk to the mothers Maybe they want to talk to you What can I do about it? Offer a reward, promise immunity for information And get a couple more experts from Washington To help me out Well, you could use them You'll never see the day All right, do you mind if I do something on my own? Yes, I do Well, what am I supposed to do? Just sit here and watch Listen, Doc, I'm taking a chance You may be right You can take a chance I know what I'm doing And let me do it As a matter of fact, you'd help us both out of you Went home and went to bed Okay I'm not going to argue with you anymore And I'm not going to wait until the facts Penetrate that thick skull of yours There just isn't that much time There's for the coffee Now, Mr. William Keely, our producer Act two of Panic in the Street Starring Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Read Paul Douglas as Captain Warren And Joyce McKenzie as Nancy Twenty hours ago, a man was murdered A man carrying germs Even more deadly than the bullets that killed him In every corner of the city, the search goes on Who was it? Who killed him? In the senior part of town, not far from the docks There's a shabby store It's lined with washing machines, a laundry service It's long past closing time But in the back of the store I got here, Blackie I'm all packed just like you told me What are you nervous for? Where's Poli? I told you to come back here with Poli I know you did, Blackie I went right over and told him, but he didn't want to go Why don't he want to go? I don't know, Blackie He just don't want to go He don't want to go Sure, I knew it, Fitch All day now I got a hunch about Poli Blackie, please, I tell you the cops are picking everybody up Everybody Why? Why are they picking everybody up? Blackie, you know the guy last night Poli's cousin, Kochaki, is dead So they turned the whole town upside down for a crumb? Every cop in town huffing and puffing to find out who he is? Why are they doing it? Blackie, I don't know He brought something in, see off the vote Drugs may be a jewelry He brought in something and they're looking for it Only they ain't found it, you know why? Because friend Poli's got it Poli? Poli's a nice guy, he wouldn't do nothing He's trying to put something over on me, Fitch I'm his friend and that's how he repays me You'll find Poli, I want to see him Well, good evening Haven't had a chance to call you till now, are you alright? Sure, I'm fine Well, can I put on a pot of coffee? No, no, you better not, honey, I'll tell you all about it later Oh, did anybody call me? A Captain Warren from the police? No, no messages, Clint Where are you? Well, it's a seamen's hiring hall A place where they hire sailors Oh, looking for a new job, huh? Yeah, I'm deserting you Shipping out on the first boat Well, as long as you're back by morning I'll do my best, honey Could I have your attention, please? Could I have your attention for just a minute, please? The man in charge here just gave me permission to talk to you I'm a government doctor I have some photographs here of a man And it's extremely important that I find out who this man is I think he's a sailor So would you please take a careful look at these photographs? I'll pay $50 to anybody who can tell me anything at all about this man Anything I'm not from the police, so you can't get into any trouble Now, if you just step up here, please That's it, thank you Thanks very much Any information at all, please Even if you just think you've seen him Any information at all Well, look, let me leave one of these pictures here I'll be at that lunch counter next door I'll stay there till 7 o'clock You can ask me any questions you want too And you can give me the information if you want to do that And please try to remember Is that a clock right, mister? It's right 10 minutes to search Nice Charge me rent if you want to Here, drop this in the jukebox, will you? Excuse me You the man who was looking for someone? That's right Someone looking for $50 Well He said for you to come with me Will you? He said, who's he? Well, you coming? Yeah Yeah, sure I'm coming It's cold down here with the water, huh? Yeah, it is Uh, which boat did you say? The shrimp boat The second one, right over there What was it you wanted to find out? This picture I want to know if your friend has ever seen this man Did he do something wrong? No, he did nothing wrong This is it You can come aboard Who are you, cop? I'm with the public health service I'm a doctor Get in here A doctor? That's right, I'm a doctor This picture I want to know who this man is What ship he was smuggled off, did you bring him in? Get out, blow If you did bring him in, there's a good chance you're going to die in about three days Oh, you're trying to kid I'm not trying to kid anybody You're a sailor, did you ever hear of plague? Plague This man died of it yesterday morning Sure, I did He's making it up, I never seen this guy, mister I ain't been out of port in ten days Okay Then you've got nothing to worry about Sorry, I bothered you No, wait Let him go Come on, let him go You told me yourself the man was sick when you brought him in Stupid fool, a teacher Charlie, please, he's a doctor Gotta know what he's doing This is fifty dollars, this here in this case is anti-plague serum Charlie I roll up your sleeve and start talking I got him off a freighter out in the Gulf, I don't know his name And I don't know nothing about him I swung the whole deal with one of the croak What ship? I couldn't see Doc, please give him the shot What's the name of that ship? I said I don't know Now look, this is the only hypodermic needle I've got And it breaks very easily Now start talking or you're going to get into trouble Denial queen Afraid of Denial queen Alright, now hold still Give me your arm and hold still Warren Yeah, this is Warren, that you read Yeah Where are you? The government ward goes guard pier I've got a lead, Warren The ship a few miles out of sea Well Alright, maybe you've got a better lead I've got nothing They're warming up a plane We'll wait here 20 minutes Can you make it out here? I can make it Thanks Captain's coming out, commissioner He just got back from the ship I thought I'd better come down, Tom Any luck? Well, our dead man came off that ship Alright, sir Well, who was he? What's his name? We don't know Half the crew can't even speak English Two men stowed aboard an Oran They hid in the chain locker They got their food from a Chinese cabin boy Then about a week ago one of them died And they tossed him overboard Didn't anyone ever talk to them? They must have said something Well, according to the cabin boy All they did was complain about the food They wanted the cook to make shish kebab He remembered that much Because he thought it was a big joke Shish kebab Yeah, it's lamb on a skewer Armenian, I guess, Greek maybe I kind of liked him myself Commissioner up till now Where's Dr. Reed? We found rats on the ship And two of the crew sick with fevers So he scared the captain in the turning back They're in quarantine now And I told them I'd meet them All we gotta do is cover every restaurant In town that serves shish kebab Well, it's the first break we've had Good work, Tom Yeah, only it was Reed who got the lead I just went along for the ride Sir, you like a table, mister? You serve Greek food, huh? Anything you like, gentlemen We're from the public health service Public health? Well, I run a clean place I passed inspection last month No, no, no, it's all right We're just trying to identify a man, that's all Here's his picture, you know him? Has he ever been in here? No, no You won't get into any trouble We just want some information He was sick, see, contagious We want to find out who he was And where he went But I don't know Maybe my wife knows I go inside and ask her Yeah Okay, thanks You know this is hopeless, don't you, Doc? This is the 11th joint we've been in Any suggestions? Yes, we run the whole story in the newspapers This picture, everything I'll block every road, leave in town Cover the bus stations, the railroad No, huh? You're getting it, Warren Slowly They sure make them stubborn Where you come from But they're from the board of health They say he was sick, Rita Contagious Oh, you know I don't feel good You know I'm sick So you come in and bother me But he was here That fellow poldi brought him in Rita, poldi is here now He's in the restaurant now Alone? Alone, no That man they call Blackie and the Fitch You want us to get in trouble? Rita, the law Kochak he called him Poldi called him Kochak Oh, you please stop it I got a headache fit to kill me I'm sick Rita, maybe you should go home Oh, stop fussing Go on and tell them the mind What's your wife say? Well, I'm sorry She doesn't know anything either You leave the picture Maybe sometime he comes in here, huh? I don't think you'll be around For quite a while Okay, doc Let's try market speed What's the matter, poldi? We invite you in here And you don't need a thing I told you, Blackie I don't feel good I'm cold, honest in my head You felt good enough To make me chase you all over town You sure you're sick, poldi? Maybe just worried, huh? Look, poldi, your cousin Kochak Who was he? Who was Kochak? He was not that honest Nothing, huh? Just enough to have every cop in town looking for us Every guy there grabbing Whether he's got a record or not Why do you suppose they're doing that, poldi? And what about the stuff he brought? He didn't bring none, then How should I know, Blackie? All you tell me is lies, poldi I treat you like a friend, you tell me lies I ain't lying, honest You haven't shared a like we said Only poldi's just half a poldi No, no, it ain't true Leave me alone, just leave me alone Sonam, bitch Let him go But he's getting away again, Blackie Is he? Where's poldi gonna go where we can't find him? Tell me that Where's he gonna go? Captain Warren Acknowledge, please This is Warren, what is it? Commissioner Quinn, sir He's anxious to know If you found anything in the restaurant Yeah, a lot of greasy menus We got about a dozen more joints to check Tell the boss I'll call him later Yes, sir I have a message for Dr. Reed Do you know where we could reach him? He's right here, Reed This is Reed Your office reports the city hospital has just received a call for the ambulance Fever case, emergency A woman Where, what address? 124 Nichols Avenue Any reply, doctor? Yes, tell Gaffney at my office to get over there right away I'll meet him there Thanks a lot Over Okay, with you, Warren A lot I got to say about this case Then let's get going Hello, doc She's dead No sign of the husband yet I call the patrol car, they're getting him now Where'd Gaffney go? He's upstairs, talking to an oculation Hey, doc No chance of a mistake No You couldn't miss it What about a death certificate? It's gotta be filed and at the news paper The doc's gonna put down a tentative diagnosis of pneumonia with complications that'll do for now What's happening? What do you do here? It's the husband, captain Why not? My wife, where is she? Where's my wife? She's in the bedroom, but we can't let her go in there Who are you? What did you do to her? Your wife is dead No No, you're lying Rita Easy, Mr. Easy, she's dead But the doctor, he telephones me He says not to worry, she's going to be alright I'm sorry Remember us, Mephires? We showed you a picture of a man a few hours ago We asked if you knew him Maybe now you'll tell us who he was But I don't know Stop lying to us He had the sickness that killed your wife Now who was he? He's seeking his kill my wife? Yes, now who was he? Who was he? Kochak His name was Kochak I don't know him Paulie brings him to the restaurant the other night Paulie? Who's Paulie? She waited on him My wife, she brings him there Who's Paulie? Paulie, where does Paulie live? I don't know, the glory hotel I think, the glory hotel There's nothing you can do for him, but Gaffney can't do Scott! Yes Paulie and I want a dozen men right away Code 6, Gloria Hotel In a few moments we'll bring you Act 3 of Panic in the Street The curtain rises on Act 3 of Panic in the Street Starring Richard Widmark as Dr. Knitten Reed Paul Douglas as Captain Warren And Joyce McKenzie as Nancy It's a few minutes later The Gloria Hotel But the man named Paulie is not to be found And now in the lobby Well, there's no point in us waiting back If he shows up, I've got a half a dozen men who can Captain Warren, still a Dr. Reed, huh? Well, I'm ready for your statement, doctor What statement is that, Mr. Neff? Oh, stop it, will you? You think I've been walking around with my head in a bag A murdered hoodlum, a ship in quarantine Now a dead woman on Nichols Avenue An idiot could figure it out You qualify, what do you figure? Well, I figured the guy had smallpox Or cholera or something And I want to know why you haven't It isn't smallpox and it isn't cholera It's plague, eumonic plague Plague? That's why we can't let you have the story You can't let me have it, right? With the chance of an epidemic? That's right, you can't print it The public's got a right to know what's going on And no two-bit civil servant is going to... Regardless of your opinion, I've got to do what I think is best Did you do what you thought was best for that woman who just died? If the doctor'd known what was going on Couldn't he have saved her, couldn't he? I don't know You don't know Because you don't know, you don't want anybody else to know All right, drop it Neff, if your editor's got a story, let him go ahead and print it The editor doesn't have it But he's going to get it right now No, he doesn't have it, huh? What do you know? Scott? Yes This man's under arrest What do you think you're trying to pull? In communication, Scottie speaks to nobody What's the charge, big shot? Lightering, public nuisance, anything you can spell Come on, let's go, Mr. Neff Warren, you're crazy I can have your badge for this You know I can If I'd have been busted by every newspaper man That tried to get my bars, I'd be mopping floors in the hall Of justice years ago Now out Thanks, Warren Wait for me in the car Officer Yes, sir That, uh, reported Can he really make trouble? Trouble? His newspaper wanted to put the pressure on Warren He'd be lucky if he could get a job mopping floors He's the right guy, Doc I hope he knows what he's doing Yeah, so do I Is that you? In the garage, honey Oh, don't Don't come any closer just to stay where you are Contagion case, huh? Yep, just changed clothes Another uniform to be decontaminated You didn't catch it yourself, did you? You look a little beat Yeah, I look so good normally Clint, did you just drop something? It feels bill, I didn't pay it You can pay it tomorrow No, I can't pay it tomorrow And I can't pay it the next day I spent the money Now look, when I get the dough, I'll pay it Just, just, just stop pestering me about Clint, I, I didn't say anything What happened? I'm sorry, honey, I'm awful sorry I, uh, I gave 50 bucks to somebody No, no, I don't mean about the money Well, anyway, I, I spent it on something for the department Look, uh, be a good kid and make me some coffee Well, yeah, I gotta go right out again Go right out? Yeah But you don't need more than coffee Just coffee, Nancy But Clint, if you haven't had any... Coffee! I'll put it right on I'll wait on the porch Tommy okay? He's fine, Clint Did you get any sleep last night? I don't know, I guess I must have It's plague, Nancy, he money plague Plague? Yep Here? It's still carrying, it's still wandering around Oh, Clint, why don't you lie down? Just for an hour or so No, I can't, Gaffney's waiting for me He hasn't slept either Gaffney's younger than you are Honey, Methuselah's younger than I am tonight Clint, what is it? What's wrong? Oh, I'm just out of gas, Nancy I'm tired and fed up I, I'll go make the coffee Okay You know, today I took a perfectly nice guy A cop Not the smartest guy in the world, but who is? What do I do? I, I, I push him around Make a lot of smart cracks about him Tell him off all day long And he winds up proving he's four times the man I'll ever be I don't believe it Why do I do that, huh? I do the same thing to you, too, don't I? Yes Yes, you do Every once in a while you get a guilty feeling that that you've been missing out, that you owe something to me or older Tommy or somebody or other and then you take it out on whoever happens to be around Mostly I'm around So? So, stop feeling sorry for yourself because you're a pretty lucky guy Lucky? Holy smoke You're doing exactly the sort of work you planned on doing when you went to medical school How many people can say that? I don't know All I do know is that I've got exactly $38 in the savings account And if there's a plague here you're the most important man in town and not only to me Yes, ma'am And, and Clint, not only that I, I just... Oh, I love you, Clint I love you Hello? Yes Yes, he's here, Captain One Right away? Yes I'll tell him What's up, Art? I don't know, but it ain't good Did you find Paulie? No, no, no, the mayor called Get hold of you, he says Come over here to the park Wait under the statue Well, am I a bookie? Ah, somebody's coming Oh, yeah, that's him The other guy with him's a secretary Sorry, I had to call you here but my office and my home are crawling with reporters Now I find you've arrested one What's the matter with you, Captain? You lost your mind? Now, just what imbecility... He did it on my authority, Mr. Mayor Your authority? Yes, sir You're an advisor here, Dr. Reed You can oblige me by confining your authority to your own duties We got a line on one of the dead man's friends, Mayor A fellow named Paulie Have you made an arrest yet? No, sir I'm sorry, Captain, but we can't wait any longer May I ask what that means? It means that I'm giving the facts to Neff as soon as I leave here Believe me, our only chance now for full cooperation is to inform the public Inform the public and the men we're looking for will leave the city Now, I've told you once and I'll tell you again Anybody leaving here with plague endangers the entire country The entire country hasn't got it, we have This problem lies right here in our own community What community? Anybody that leaves here can be in any city in the country within ten hours and whatever disease he has goes right with him I know that Then think of it when you're talking about communities We're all in a community, the same one In any event, there are about four more hours before the morning edition hits the streets Then I'm wasting my time here Do what you can, Tom I couldn't hold Neff, Doctor Strangely enough, I agree with you but I couldn't hold him Mayor, I beg your pardon Well, why not? Why don't I take off now, sir? Go ahead, but I want to be on the radio in the morning at nine o'clock I'm taking the kids upriver to their grandmothers Uh-oh I'll be back by eight thirty, but I've got to do it Well, here we go He'll be back in the morning and he'll stay Yeah, yeah, sure, he will Kids are kids Nevertheless, here we go Spoldy, see? Just Blackie and me We come to see how you feel Blackie We're to come sooner if we know you're here at your old lady's place You don't feel so good, huh, Poli? The nurse? Where's the nurse? What nurse do you mean, Poli? The old lady told me a nurse from the social service, Blackie Ah, don't worry about that nurse, Poli I sent your kid brother for my doctor He's going to get you well I ain't going to get well I'm going to die No, no, no, Poli You won't die, we're going to help you So, now maybe you tell me, huh What did Poli bring in, huh? What did Kochak bring in off that ship, Poli? I don't know I don't know Must be lying around some place and with a fortune, huh, the way the cops are looking for My mother Tell my mother She went to church to pray for you But we won't leave you, Poli We're your friends, so talk Talk Cut it out, Poli I've been real patient, haven't I? So where's the stump? Where is it? Blackie, Blackie, please, he's too sick But that can be here soon, Poli The best I care for my friend So you just tell me where... Blackie, Blackie, the nurse Are you members of the family? No, we're his friends Well, clear out of here This man's got to be taken to a hospital He ain't gone I've just reported the case An ambulance is on the way over Then send her back, because he ain't gone I brought the doctor, Blackie Good morning, my goodness, three fights upstairs Well, a nurse, how is he, miss? He's a very sick man I phoned for an ambulance He's gonna stay here Tell her to get out, Doc But if the nurse said... Now, Vince, you don't want your brother in that charity ward Do you have some infirm work done on him? Doc, please He's got a touch of malarial fever Doctor, his respiration He can hardly breathe But there's no need for excitement, nurse Yes, sir, I understand, but... And if you take the patient without permission... You, you're his brother Yes, ma'am I can't force treatment on you But if you take my advice, you'll get him to a hospital Just as fast as you can I'd better find my mother That's right, son, you run along and look for your mother This man's in bad shape, Blackie I'll just fix him up so he can talk some sense He's gotta talk, give him a shot or something It's going to take more than a shot He'll be better off in a hospital Now, there's a little private place I have access to, it's rather expensive Never mind that How do we get him out of here? Now, I mean first Well, if you and your friend here could lift that mattress And get him down to my car Your car? Okay The back way, Fitz, the fire escape Nurse, wait a minute, please Would you just come out of that tenement? Well? I'm Dr. Reed, government health service Oh, I beg your pardon The city hospital just notified my office That they were sending an ambulance to this address It is a fever case? Yes, doctor, the third floor, the name's Poldy Poldy? And if you ask me, there's something that... Doctor! Doctor, look, the fire escape They're taking him down the fire escape Wait for the ambulance, nurse, don't leave here Oh, really, doctor? I think this is something for the police So do I, they're on the way right now Out of the way, mister, we've got a sick man I'm a doctor, I want to take a look at him We've got our own doctor, get out of the way Stay where you are, I want to see it Get out of the way! Lucky, look, police! You want to see him, do you? All right! What happened? Poldy's dead, there are two other men who are after them now They took off from the tenement, headed for the waterfront Scott just radiated over in the coffee warehouse I've got Reed with me Now, commissioner, this is signal 50 Coffee warehouse, signal 50 For the roof Okay, start at opposite ends of the building Cover every skylight, every window, every door Yes, sir I have those men shot, they're no good to us dead What are we supposed to do? Play tag with them? These are armed hoodlums, they killed one then already I know, I know, now keep your shirt on, will you? I got you off the roof tonight Yeah, but where are we? I don't even know where we are We're under the war I can't see where I'm going Just keep crawling We've got maybe a hundred feet more to go There's a robot over there, I've seen it from the roof What a good battle it does There's a ship at the next snack It's commended to shove off You move men, listen to me Get down You should have shot Blackie, now they know we're under here Keep going, you hear me? Poldy had plague Blackie, I can't go anywhere Blackie Blackie, he had plague I touched him, Blackie, I touched him You're only sad Out of here, the robot, I saw it Stay where you are There it is, get in the boat Get in it, shut up Blackie, what are you going to do? That guy, I'm waiting for him behind the pylon If he's with you, tell him to stand up Come on, get out of that pot Yeah, yeah, we know, we know, now take it easy, Doc You got a lump in your head, get him Yeah, we got the fat boy, the other guy shot him It's all right, it's all right He's got a little bit at least long enough to talk What about the other one? He jumped in the drink and started swimming There's fifty cops looking for him right now Now come on, take it easy, we're here I'll give you a hand You've got to find him, Warren He's a carrier, if he gets away, we might Swim him toward that dock Turn back around Just put it down, he ain't going no place What if he reaches the dock? Captain, that man's still on Look at him, will you? He's reached the dock, all right? He's climbing up the rope to that ship Yeah, there's just one hitch He's got to get past that rat guard That metal shield around the rope Tell him what it's for, Doc To keep rats off ships Rats All sorts of rats You're right, Captain He can't pass it He's letting go He's falling Okay, Scott Take a couple of men and fish him out of the war Yes, sir Come on, Doc I'll drive you home Okay Oh yeah, and I almost forgot to tell you They found a case of perfume under the sink In Paulie's tenement It was smuggled, no custom stamps Perfume, is it worth anything? Two, three hundred bucks You want a bottle? It's right there in the back seat, huh? No, thanks, not to take Car 17, car 17 Thirty-seven, twenty-third Back to the old grind again A dog, Barker They got a lot to worry about Sending a squad car out there What are you getting so tough about? I don't know Well, so long, Doc Keep me on mind, won't you? Yeah, right, Captain So hot, so hot Oh, hello, Mr. Green How are you? Oh, fine, fine You know, Dr. Tommy tells me You haven't been around in a couple of days It's none of my business But you ought to spend some time with that boy He's a great kid Yeah, well, uh, I, uh I've been kind of busy Your own son comes first, you know Nice seeing you, Doc Thanks The name of the issue of most reassuring bulletin All contact has been found and inoculated The danger is over Hi, honey There's no cause for a lot Sounds like Mac has got things under control He's a good man Turn it off Well, anything new around here? Not a thing Oh, some mail for you What's that? Well, it's, uh, just a bill from the cleaners Uniforms with dirty What are you smiling about? What's a big joke? You come here What a mushy day In just a moment, we want you to meet our stars in person And Mr. Keely will tell you all about next week's show Now here's Mr. Keely with our stars And now you can all sit back and relax And join me in well-earned applause For Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, and Joyce McKenzie Well, Dick, you've made quite a change in characters Since your last appearance on our stage Well, I guess so, Bill For a while there, I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life as a villain Or a moron Well, you certainly have been the hero lately, Dick Particularly in halls of Montezuma Where you played Marine Lieutenant You know, I started out as sort of a comedy villain But I'm a hero now, too Playing policeman yet, too Joyce, you know, you seem to have changed, too You started out to be a pretty girl And you've gone right on getting prettier Oh, it's nice of you to say so, Bill And that would be credit to Lux Tonic, too It's always been my favorite complexion, Keely Say, Dad, don't you continue on the police force In your next picture for 20th Century Fox, $14 Yes, I do And if they think tonight's play was exciting Wait till they see me spend 14 hours Trying to talk a guy out of jumping off a building Yeah, there you go again Always bragging about the police force Why don't you join the Marines and live dangerously For the same reason they put me on the police force Flat feet And furthermore, too Ah, no, no, hold it, boys You know, I think 20th Century Fox Is going to have to cast you, too In the same branch of the government The internal revenue department In the meantime, what about your cast for next week And what's the play to be? Well, Joyce, next week We'll take you back to the days of our western frontier By presenting She wore a yellow ribbon And as the stars of this historic RKO drama We'll have the man recently voted The most popular actor of the year John Wayne And co-starring will be glamorous Mala Powers That'll be great entertainment, Bill Good night Good night And come back soon