 That's the theme from the Sears Radio Theater. Tonight, a program of adventure with Richard Widmark as your host. Here's a preview. I smuggle armaments all over the China Sea. It's very good business. I pick them up cheap in Vietnam. The whole country is knee-deep in guns the American Army threw away. I run them to Sumatra, Malaysia, Celebi'smen, and now you name it. The Sears Radio Theater will begin after this message from your local station. Lucky. Yeah, I was lucky. It happened in my own living room, and Rusty knew how to do CPR. What's that? Well, let's see. CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and Rusty learned it at school. They teach him how to do chest compression and mouth-to-mouth breathing for people who've had heart attacks or electric shocks. You mean your kids saved your life? Well, he kept me going until the ambulance arrived. I probably wouldn't be here now if Rusty hadn't known CPR. 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They work in the South China Seas now, and instead of wooden sailing ships and the Cutlass, they use fast motor launches equipped with very modern weapons. They prey on fishing boats, freighters, trawlers, anything that happens to be passing by, and just might have a worthwhile cargo onboard. Like this typical little fishing trawler that's on its way south of those waters now, with an American couple onboard sampling the local color. Nice people, with good and valid reasons to be there. Two innocents in a world that isn't really theirs, who don't know that just over the horizon, there's another vessel lying in wait for you. A fast vessel, a deadly vessel, a vessel armed to the teeth. Another thing they don't know, on board their little fishing boat is another cargo. A cargo that no one is supposed to know anything about. The stage is set. The predators wait, ready to pounce on that fishing boat with its two American innocents aboard. And that's only the beginning of our story. 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Your last masterly phrase was, the romance of Somerset Mom and Sir Thomas Raffles. That was about Singapore and Bangkok. And I made a note. You wanted to talk about Angkor Wat. What did I want to say about Angkor Wat? We can't even go there. Yes, that was it. Are we ready? Pencil poised. Unhappily Southeast Asia's most important tourist attraction, the spectacular ruins of Angkor Wat are in Cambodia, now in the grip of the bloody Khmer Rouge. Darling, you cannot say bloody in a respectable Sunday newspaper. The bloodthirsty Khmer Rouge. Okay. The whole of Cambodia is very definitely off limits. Now, make that not a safe place to be. But now, for four peaceful and idyllic days... How many elves and idyllic? I don't know. Make a stab at it. Let the editor worry about it. For four peaceful and idyllic days, we are sailing the serene blue waters of the Gulf of Thailand, dotted with lush green islands of incomparable beauty, overgrown with jungle palm trees leaning out over water that laps gently at their shores. Well, good morning, Mr. Bennett. And to you, Mrs. Mallory. Mr. Mallory? Hi. Where were we? The water was gently lapping. Ah. The islands are rugged and mostly uninhabited, and each one of them is perhaps the nearest thing to paradise Earth has ever seen. No. Each one of them is a paradise on Earth. Bulloney. Thank you, Mr. Bennett. The lies you people tell to make a buck. I don't quite know what you mean by that, Bennett. I mean, just look at them. If you have any appreciation of geographical splendor at all. Can I hear the Khmer Rouge, Mr. Mallory? Naturally, they're in Cambodia. Cambodia happens to lie at least 140 miles to starboard, port, on our left. 160 miles to starboard, actually. Well, then... In early a year now, the Khmer Rouge government has been claiming jurisdiction over 200 miles of territorial waters. I know that, too, and nobody has recognized that claim. Nobody. Except the Khmer Rouge themselves. Well, I'm sure we need not expect trouble from the Cambodian Navy. What Navy? Only if God is a handful of gunboats. Well, there you are, hoisted on your own petar. Plus, an awful lot of pirates. Oh, pirates? What balderdash? Who ever heard of pirates in the 20th century? Mallory and my business, we get to hear a lot of things. They don't really come under the heading of general knowledge. Like last year alone, there were 180-something hijackings in the South China Seas. Buccaneers, privateers, I don't care what you call them. More than half of them, the Khmer Rouge, sort of officially sanctioned piracy, helps to maintain that tough image they like to present. In my business, there are real menace, believe me. In your business? I don't think you ever told us what your business might be, Mr. Bennett. I'm a gun-runner. You're a what? I smuggle armaments all over the China Sea. It's very good business. I pick them up cheap in Vietnam. The whole country is knee-deep in guns the American Army threw away. Now, we have a sales pitch. Slightly used guns for sale. Excellent condition. Only dropped once. I run them to Sumatra, Malaysia, Salabizmen and now, you name it. You see those crates in the stern? They're mine. 12 tons of automatic rifles and M-79 grenade launchers. Gonna bring me a whole lot of money. That doesn't sound to me like a very worthy occupation, Mr. Bennett. Oh, I don't know about that. No worse than yours. And what the hell is that supposed to mean? I write travel articles for one of the most respected newspapers in America. Yeah, I heard. Lush Green Islands. Geographical splendor of the gentle surf. You write enough of that kind of junk. 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Ray, of course he'll have 30 men on board armed with a teeth, automatic rifles, more grenades then you can take a stick at anti-tank guns. You'd be surprised what an anti-tank gun can do with a wooden hull of a sailing boat. How much cash do you have on board? Oh, about $500 of medical money. Well, I bet about $2,000. It's not enough, is it? No. No, it is not enough. And he would have seen right now that we are throwing your guns overboard. He would not like that. It means I have to fight. I suggest you take the other two passengers Yeah. Mr. Bennett, if I do not see you again... You bet. You're a good guy. Mr. Bennett, what's happening? Why are they throwing all these crates over? What's that boat out there? I really hate to have to tell you this, but on one of your lush green islands out there in this paradise on Earth, there lives a pirate named Kot Kim. Now, what's fun of time? Once upon a time, there was this pirate, you see? Please, Harry. We're being chased, Susan, by a notorious and murderous pirate named Kot Kim. He calls himself a general because he used to be a mess sergeant in the Cambodian army before he went over to the Khmer Rouge. He runs a gang of Laskar's, Dyaks, Sumatran's, Ebon's, 30, 40 of them. But Frank here might call a motley crew of cutthroats. He's probably heard about my cargo. There aren't too many secrets in these waters. But the skipper decided to throw it all overboard, and that was a mistake. He's a nice guy, but he's not too bright, you know what I mean? I can never figure out how nice guys are never smart. Any minute now, Kot Kim will be coming alongside and Captain Saro Tami has decided he's going to try and fight him off. Another mistake. I did tell you, didn't I? He's not too bright. So, right now, the three of us are going below to sweat this out the best way we can. Yeah. Maybe we better hurry. Keep away from that porthole, Susan, for one thing. Let me look. I learned how to dodge bullets a long time ago. Once you know how, it's real easy. Just keep your eye on the ball and then duck when it gets real close. Susan, darling, I don't... I don't really know what to say to you. Frank, I'm scared. I'm scared too. There go the grappling irons and the boarding nets. Hey, hey, this is a real classic operation. You know that? Susan, my love, if anything happens to you, I don't know about... Mr. Bennett! I'd like to hire you better. What is it, honey? What's going to happen to us now? I wish I knew the answer to that to really do. All I can tell you is that General Kot Kim, he's really something else. He's got about as many nice qualities as a frog has feathers. It's going to be rough, my friend. What was that, Bennett? Oh, there'll be a lot of that for quite a while now. Was it what it sounded like? Yeah. They don't get to walk the plank anymore. They just get to be tossed overboard and save a lot of trouble. I mean, in the old days, they had to find the plank first. Like, hey, Rufus, you happen to have a plank lying around and borrow, and then it had to be lashed on with ropes and all that business with shoving a point of a cutlass into the small of the victim's back. I mean, it took time and trouble. They do it the easy way now. Just throw the poor prune overboard. You really are a tough guy, aren't you, Bennett? No, I keep telling you, I'm just a very pragmatic sort of fellow. Harry, will they meet us alone? I'm afraid I have to say I doubt that very much. See what I mean? Master Bennett, you come now! That's what I figured. You know, cut him, him like, and make him longer talk you. Sit tight, boys and girls. I'll go and have a chat with my good friend the general. I'll be back, I hope. You're a good friend. Right now, honey, I certainly don't want him for an enemy. I'll see you. Frank, what's going to happen to us? I don't know. Should we perhaps pray? Yeah. 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On the captured fishing boat, Susan and Frank Mallory are just beginning to realize the perils they face in the presence of Scott Kim and his pirate crew. Perry Bennett, on the other hand, seems relatively undisturbed. Mr. Bennett, what a great pleasure to see you again. Do please sit down. Fit well? Oh, you really think so? I've been losing weight lately and it worries me. I'm down to 250 pounds. Well, that's a nice round figure. How kind of you to say so, but I'm very angrily with you, Mr. Bennett. I wanted your cargo so badly and you threw it overboard. I'm wondering if I should do the same to you. Now, wait a minute, General, to hold it right there. I had $50,000 invested in that merchandise. Losing it wasn't my idea at all. Ah, then it was Captain Sarotani who ordered this terrible thing? Oh, no. It wasn't Sarotani either. As a matter of honest fact, I don't know who it was. I said to the skipper the moment we saw your boat and that's really a very beautiful boat. I said, Sarotani, that's our old friend General Cut Kim and why don't we give him all this merchandise, just to show our solidarity with the Khmer Rouge and Mr. Bennett, he said, what a splendid idea. Let's do that. I always thought very highly, he said, oh, General Cut Kim, but then a couple of last cars and the crew or maybe they were Dyaks who knows, they started throwing our crates overboard and I honestly don't know which ones they were probably among all those poor children who walked the plank already and we tried to stop them. Sarotani and I, but they had rifles so there really wasn't much we could do to stop them. Well, what a fascinating story. I still think I have to feed you to the lobsters. That is not really a very good idea, General. Oh, and why not? The fact that you tried so hard to get my guns indicates to me that you may be running short of the weapons you need. And that's so, General, there's only one man and these waters can resupply you and that's me. You just can't afford to knock me off. Hmm, a persuasive argument by no means decisive but persuasive, yes. Who are the two other passengers on board at the ship? His name is Frank Mallory, a famous travel writer. The girl is his wife, husband wife team. It's kind of mandatory in their business. Middle America and all that jazz. She's a very pretty little lady, isn't she? Uh, does his paper have money? Lots of money? Uh, his paper has lots of money. Seven bodies thrown overboard. I counted. Yes, but we're still alive, Susan. And while there's life, there's hope. Frank, you really know how to coin a phrase. Well, everybody okay? So far, yes. What's happening, Mr. Bennett? Uh, here. Where do you keep the liquor in, Mr. Cabin? I really need a long slug of good bourbon. We don't drink, Mr. Bennett. Well, that figures, I guess. Right, I'll tell you what's happening. The general has decided to take you both to his lush green island hideout where the water's gently lapped, et cetera, et cetera. He's got a sort of beat-up camp there, just a mess of wooden huts. Not your tourist paradise at all, Mallory. And somehow or other, don't ask me how. He figures that he can get in touch with your paper and hit them for a ransom. Uh, will they pay it? Well, uh, of course they'll pay it. But that isn't the point. The point is I think... I think your writing is as bad as I think it is. They just may not bother. They happen to believe, and I agree with them, that I am very good at what I do. Oh, so that's okay, then. I was worried there for a little while. But, Harry, how long will that take? Yeah. You hit the nail right on the head there, honey. Though maybe obscurely and with commendable discretion. Well, he'll have to send a radio message. He can't do that from his island. And Plum Pan has been out of touch with the rest of the world for a long time. So, he'll have to send it to Bangkok, say, two, three days. Then how long will your publisher hang over the price? Two weeks? A few days to get the cash to him? Maybe you should be out of there in a month or so. A month? As prisoners of that monster? Oh, Harry, please help us. Honey, don't throw those baby blue eyes at me like that. It won't work. Harry, as a fellow American... Don't mind. Don't give me that jazz. You want a shoulder to cry on you as your wife. She's a lot tougher than you are. And that's what she's there for. If it's not too much trouble for you, as a man who knows this, this seemy side of life... Oh, Frank, no. You might at least tell us what to do. I'll tell you what not to do. If you value your life, Mallory, go along with anything the general wants. He'll want your money. Hand it over without protest. He'll want your cameras. Give them to him. He'll want your fancy gold watch. And that, too, when he asks for it. Now, if you'll forgive me, Captain Sarotani, much to my surprise, is still alive. And he dumped $50,000 of mine overboard. I figure the least that little prank owes me is a drink. Prank? I don't think I know the word. Any prank knows what a prank is. Yeah. And the general just might want your wife, too, Frank. He thinks she's real cute. And she is. You know that? I don't see you. Eight of them. Darling, I don't know. I really don't know what I can say. A writer. And a damn good one. And you never know what to say, do you? Darling, perhaps it's not as bad as it seems to be. We're still alive. And while there's life, so help me, Frank. If you say that again, I'll kill you. He likes me. Do you understand what that means? To me, fella, go on a dispeller boat. Got no fellowship. No further time, run, run, me get gun machine. Did you understand any of that? I understand a machine gun when I see it. So let's go. Uh, John C. Please, Mr. Mallory, Mrs. Mallory, over the gang. I am not a digging new prisoner. I have enough headings. I do not need more. Like I said, general, you never know when you might need me. Why you make my life so complicated. I just didn't want to be left behind on that damn boat. Almost no one left to handle her except poor old sorrow Tony. Poor little prunks and drowning as sorrows and the worst whiskey I've ever drank in my life. May I add my thanks to, Mr. Bennett? I realize that you're volunteering to share our dangers and my two am deeply grateful. What dangers? I keep telling everybody the general just can't afford to kill me. I might be very valuable to him one day. At least I'm trying hard to persuade myself that maybe that's the way it lies. I could be... Why should he want to do a thing like that? There were men still left alive on that boat. Yeah. Sorrow Tony was one of them. Sorrow Tony fought him. Don't ever try and apply good old American philosophies to people like the Khmer Rouge, Frank. They just don't think the way we do. We're a new country. Got Kim Dinah minded that boat because of one of the oldest emotions in history that maybe we don't understand too good. Hatred. Just pure hatred. Poor old sorrow Tony. He was a real nice little guy. I only spoke to him once. He said in that funny little way he had of talking. I promise you, Mises. He called me Mises. We'll have a happy voyage on my ship. Oh, God. And what happens now, Harry? Why is it every time you want to put me down, Frank, you call me Mr. Bennett? And when you're good and scared, it's Harry. What happens now, Mr. Bennett? Now we're headed for wherever the general wants to take us for whatever he wants to do with us. We have to roll with it, Frank. Just roll with it. Do you roll around enough? We might just get out of this alive. Don't make a book on it, but we might. 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Why don't we go to my own hut? Hang in there, folks. I'll be back. We've got this place fixed up real good. Any fool can be uncomfortable, Mr. Bennett. A tot of rum? That sounds like a hell of a good idea, General. The proposition in mind, I think. Sure enough. Your health, Mr. Bennett. And, uh, long life. Well, under the circumstances, that might just be a very propitious thing to drink to, so I'll drink to it. We have something in common, you and I. You know that? Oh, and what might that be, Mr. Bennett? We both live right on the edge of rapid extinction. How about that? How much ransom were you going to ask for, Frank Mallory? I thought a million dollars would be nice. They won't pay it. They'll just write them off. Half a million? No. A quarter? No. But surely, 100,000? Keep moving down. You'll get there. But whatever it is, it'll take an awful long time. They'll haggle over the price for six months, at the very least. That doesn't seem very long. After all, it's not only Mr. Mallory, is it? Really, his wife is a very attractive young woman. You don't know our American women, General. In a week, Susan Mallory would get into your hair so deep you'd go bald trying to get rid of her. Let me throw a more sensible alternative at you, and could I have another ton of rum, please? Of course. I will give you $50,000 worth of guns and ammunition, quality merchandise for the pair of them, and it won't take more than two days. A whole bunch of automatic rifles and stuff tucked away in Bangkok is waiting for someone like you to put them to good use. Now, doesn't that sound like a good idea? If you were to double that offer, perhaps? Oh, no, no, I can't afford to do that. The Mallory's don't really mean that much to me. But I go in a very fat bonus. You know about the Queen of the Orient? I don't believe I do, Mr. Bennett. I didn't think so. It's a very hush-hush operation. She's a trawler out of Bangkok smuggling half a million bucks in American cigarettes to Sarawak on her way south right now. Her speed is about ten knots. A few guns on board, but not too many. I need to know her schedule, her route. Do we have a deal? Hello, baby, hello, baby. $75,000 worth of automatic rifles with the ammunition and the two hostages will be released into your custody. We have a deal. And a dingy to take us across the bay to Thailand. Agreed. The Queen of the Orient will be passing the island of Banh Hoi at 10 o'clock tonight. Now, that's only 52 miles from here. She'll be a sitting duck for you. Now, you see what a nice guy I am? When can we leave? We? Well, I'm not leaving the island without them. Oh, but that is absurd. If I let you all go, I'll never see any of you again. You must know, General, my business is founded on trust. I couldn't operate it otherwise. I can't afford to double-cross you. I make my living in these waters. Yes, that is true, of course. Why don't we have another drink and talk about that? Ah, I always knew you were a good guy at heart. Harry Bennett knew that our boat was going to be dynamited. Is that why he left it so unexpectedly? No. It was to help us, Frank. I'm sure of it. Well, I wish I could be. I don't like the way that so-called general was looking you over, like a cannibal choosing the cut he wants. Well, it looks like all your troubles might be over. Oh? I made a deal with the general. He's trading you off for some merchandise, giving us a dingy to take us to Bangkok where my warehouse is hidden. You think he can help me sail it, Frank? A lot of very nasty reefs to look out for, surface coral, stuff like that. Oh, Harry, I don't know how we can ever think... When do we leave? Right now. It's such a relief. I've been so terribly scared. Ah, well, there's something I maybe ought to tell you. The dingy is ready, Mr. Bennett. I'm sure the two of you can handle it. I could send a man with you if necessary. I'd rather not. I'm a little short-handed just now. It will be okay. Well, Susan can help out. She's quite handy in a boat. Yes. Well, um... Oh, you didn't tell them, Mr. Bennett. You stay behind, Mrs. Mallory. Your husband leaves with Mr. Bennett. I took him to my good faith. You are a token for his. When he returns with the guns. Within 48 hours, honey, don't you worry about it. You will be released, too. Oh, so that's it. Well, let me tell you something. I am not leaving this island without my wife. Do you think I'm crazy? Frank, you have to play this the way I see it, or none of us will get out of here alive. How very true. No way. Frank, if I have to knock you out cold and carry you down to the boat, that's what I'm going to do. I will not leave this island without Susan. That's all there is to it. Nothing I can do to convince you? You really think that I've... Oh, what an impetuous man you are, Mr. Bennett. Okay. Frank, up you go. He carries a lot of weight around with him, doesn't he? Harry, you can't leave me along with this monster. You can't. Don't worry, honey. Everything is going to be fine. I'll see you. Regrettably, I too must leave you, Mrs. Valerie. But I will be back. And that's really commendable. Nice thought. We're not leaving her behind, so get up off the ground and we'll do what we have to do to get her ready. We're not... we're not leaving... when I say that again. We're all leaving together. I don't understand. Understanding is not a thing you're very good at, Frank. You've got to admit that. Now, listen. The dinghy the general was kind enough to give us, you and me. It's down in the surf there. You think you can walk that far? Because to tell you the truth, Frank, there's just so much of you to lug around tonight. You're the one that doesn't understand. Now, how many times do I have to tell you I simply will not... I shut up and listen to me. We sail around the headland in the dinghy. We pull in the shore and land again. Then we go grab her. We go grab her? 30 or 40 armed savages won't stop her? Right. They'll be leaving any minute now. Now, you can't be sure of that. Oh, I can. Come on. The general is chasing a non-existent trawler loaded down with non-existent cigarettes. You're very greedy, these pirates. You won't be able to resist it. You know, as they're armed, so he'll take almost every man he's got. They'll leave just a couple of guards to watch Susan. You know, she can't get off the island. Okay. Into the dinghy. Grab the tiller. What? The tiller is that wooden handle there, Frank. Okay? The expression of your anticipatory pleasure is gratifying, dear lady, but I fear I must keep you waiting just a few hours longer. I have work to do. There will be two men guarding you and there is no way off the island, so why don't you just wait patiently for my return? Take your hands off me, you savage. I never understand why American women worry so much about losing their virtue. It's not a matter of losing it, general. It's who we lose it to. I'll bring you back some American cigarettes, and I'm sure we'll quickly become very close friends. Give her a little freeway, Frank. There goes cut Kim's launch now. Okay. Let's drop the anchor. When we get back ashore, I go for the guards. You smash your way into that hut. Grab Susan, bring her back here to the boat fast. Get it? Got it. Good. Damn sail up, quick. Right. I bet you took care of those guards. Guards are out cold. That's going to be his cooks and bottle washers. I didn't figure on them. Straight out to sea. Mr. Mallory, run. Run with the wind. How bad's he hurt, Susan? Bad. You really think? I think I've never been shot at before. You're going to make it okay, Harry. You better believe it. What did you say you were, Harry? Pragmatic? I mean, you die on us now. After all you've done, I... I swear, I'll never speak to you again. 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Happy St. Patrick's Day, Chicago, from Schlitz, bottled by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, Milwaukee. Next Monday, Sears Radio Theater There will be a story of the... We've found that smelly steer out there. Only he ain't worth $15. Saving a man's life is like putting a brand on him. He's your doggy like it or not. Be sure to tune in next Monday to the Sears Radio Theater.