 Present Hollywood. Here's our Luxe toilet salt. Bring to you the Luxe Radio Theater. Starring Jim Peters and Jeffrey Hunter in Lower of the Wilderness. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. The nice, exciting drama takes place in the oaky-fun-noaky swamps of Georgia. A background of mystery and wild beauty. It's certainly the last place one would expect to find romance. But perhaps love can always find a way, even into the unknown slump country. It's the lure of the wilderness. Starring in their original roles in this exceptional drama from 20th Century Fox, will be lovely Gene Peters and that rising new star, Jeffrey Hunter. Last week I visited Leverbrothers Company and saw some magnificent new color photographs of our Luxe girls, their breathtaking. The complexions of these Hollywood stars look more beautiful than ever. Because you can actually see the radiant, fresh appeal that Luxe facials have brought to their skin. Our screen stars have used Luxe soap for years because they know that if the complexion care, you can depend on it. Now, you're the wilderness. Starring Gene Peters as Laurie Hopper and Jeffrey Hunter as Ben Tyler. In southeastern Georgia lies a vast and primitive wilderness. The Yokey-Pinoky Swamp. By 1910, only a few white men had penetrated this swamp land and returned to Telibath. In the spring of that year, two trappers tried it again. When they failed to come back, searching parties scourged the fringe looking for them. Among the searches are Doc Tyler and his stuff. That there's the marker, Ben, that old cypress stump. If them trappers went past that marker, it's just too bad. This is as far as I look for anybody. Ain't no law says a man's got to get lost in there, Pa. I ain't never met the man who's come back out. But we know it ain't old swamp. There's got to be lots of solid ground or else... Oh, look! Who's there? Ain't nothing but a law. No, no, canoe, Pa. That's a canoe. Turn over. Get that fool's door down. It's down. It's down. All right. There's a canoe. Yonder floating in them bushes. That's a man's hat. Pull over, Pa. We'll get it. That settles it, Ben. Them two trappers. They've been gator hats. No question about it. Don't see something. You don't feel like this for nothing. Sure, he sees something. He shallers the fuller-gators. Look at the shore there. Mule-tailed air. Sure. We'll pick up that hat and get back home. I get it. Calis! Calis, come back here! Get back here! He's pure gator bait, Ben. There's one gator ain't gonna eat him. Calis! Keep on pulling, Pa. He's taking that deal. Let him chase. We ain't setting foot in there. I gotta get him, Pa. He'll get lost. He'll find his way back. If he don't, our brother's with Calis and you. I gotta get him. Calis! You ain't leaving his boat. You seen what happened to them trappers? Now pick up your pole. We're going back. Who that's here with him? What else can I tell you? I guess that's it, Mr. McGowan. Coffee, bacon, shells for your rifle. Came to go hunting, huh? Where you going, Ben? In the swamp. I'll find my dog. Boy, that's pure crazy. You ain't going past the marker. If I got to. Well, I seen never that swamp yesterday. Dog to no dog. Pa, no, Ben. About going back. No, and without you here, I'd get my mouth shut. You and your brother both. No sense, Ryland. If you want to go on a swamp, that's your business. Don't ring around, Mr. McGowan. Rick and Key has been up the house lately. I'll stop off and say goodbye. If he ain't just cold out, crazy about that house. Aw, he ain't going in that swamp. He'll look around something, everybody. He ain't going in. Once he does, he ain't coming back. Your daughter gonna let him go? I reckon except when the two of them got it the same. Yeah. I reckon it is. Oh, I figure I'll be back tomorrow, Noreen. Well, maybe not for a week. Anyway, there's the creek and there's my canoe and I'm going. You can't go, Ben. You'll get lost. Oh, now you're gonna be like all the rest. Everybody's sticking their noses in. I'll get back. I'll find my dog and I'll get back. Ben, listen to me, please. Just like a woman trying to hog time. Drifting your neck for a hound. What kind of a husband such a man be? Well, I ain't no husband yet. Like I said, Noreen, I'll be back within a week. If you do come back, you can come looking for me. You don't want a girl, Ben Tyler. Just a hound. He's coming closer. Come, come. Dog will bring him right to us. That's not a snake. You're a gator. You're some person. You're boring your foes. You'll have a gun. If you see this, you'll... Stop worrying, honey. Nobody's found it yet, have they? Nobody even dreams or in here. Time's going down, Noreen. It'll be dark soon. Where's your knife? I got it. When it's dark, you've got to stop and make camp. You build a fire and you'll go to sleep. We ain't got time, honey. We got lots of time. He's moving, Pa. He's opening his eyes. He wants a coffee on the fire. He gets old silly, young fella. I clubbed you when you were sleeping. We carried you back here. I can't move. You ain't paralyzed. I think you used to be less troubled with your tie down. That shack. You live over there? Maybe we do. It was coffee and bacon in your rucksack. Ain't nothing taste better than coffee and bacon for breakfast. Been eight years since I smelled coffee cooking. What's your name? Ben Tyler. You in here looking for us? I'm in the swamp looking for that dog. You expect us to believe that. Can't you see his mind? Let me take him and I'll go. I think you think you can find your way out of here. That's Mark. Trail Mark. I can find him. Ain't there enough? Maybe you can show me. You can just take me to the mouth of the creek and I can... What you looking at? You. I know you. What you? You're Jim Hopper and she must be your daughter. She's Laurie. Kill him. Kill him. No, Laurie. Then I'll kill him. You ain't gonna touch him. He'll go back and tell him. He can't go back. Can't find his way out of here. He put that knife away. I swear I didn't come looking for you. Can't you see, Laurie? No chance to take a human life if he can help it. But can't he get you and bring him back in after you? I can't tell nobody. I give you my word. Well, it's that word. Your word. Well, you can't keep me here. You can kill me if you want to, but don't try to keep me here because I'll find my way out by myself if I have to. That's a money-brave talk, son. I wouldn't try it if I had you. I was in here three years before I found my way out. Oh, still. Cut that cord and we'll eat some breakfast. Thank you. You've got so many questions in your head you don't know which to ask first. Don't talk to him, Pa. Don't tell him anything. No, I'm in talking. He's been looking at us, Laurie. You and me. The way we dressed. It was a boy and an hour. It seemed funny to a fellow who used to have an a gun. And I shall give out after the first year. And how did you know? We learned how. Things Indians learned how. We had to learn so that we could live. And extracts full of skins. Well, these parts things even been touched for crappin'. Yes, I know now what really happened to them two lost trappers. Yeah, they was caught in my feet. We've seen them things we've seen you. All we've done was give them a good Christian burial. Why bother telling? I suppose you didn't kill Bill Longen eight years ago. Yeah, I killed Bill Longen in self-defense. Sam Black with self-defense, too? Longen killed Sam Black. Bill and Dave and Harry Longen. Everybody knows you did it. You killed them both. You mean that's what the Longen said? Why wouldn't they say so? They caught you changing cattle brands. Well, that's a lie. If it ain't the truth, then why did you run away? What chance did I have? You think I'd have got a fair trial? You think I'd have got any kind of a trial? A living is just the same as being dead. All right, I know what you mean. Good comin' home. The roof, oh yeah. Baird to sleep in. Sittin' on the porch after supper. With a seizure. Well, the idea is to be sittin' on a porch after supper with a seizure. Harry, you never had no chance to know what it means to live like folks. You're too young when you come in here. Oh, young fella, I never had no chance eight years ago. I'd go back now if I could get a fair trial. You'd be willing to stand a trial? Oh, no. No. If I got a fair one, I had a good lawyer to help me. You didn't before. Why do you think you'd get it now? I remember things just changed. You think I could, Ben? I've... I don't know. Look, I ain't askin' you to say whether you think I'm guilty or innocent. Well, I'm askin' you, would you be willing to help me? And I ain't sayin' I believe your choice. But I would be willing to go out and try to get a lawyer for you. Laurie, where are you goin'? I just need to show you something. Put it down, Laurie. I want him to see this goin' out. I want him to see what I can do with it. And I can come a lot closer to your close enough. What are you tryin' to prove? Just one thing. Don't talk no more about him goin' back, cause he ain't goin' back. Laurie, I got to learn to trust somebody sometimes. Why? Because sometimes you gotta go back. I can't understand you, Miss. You're not willing to try for your own poor safety? I ain't expectin' you to understand anything. But why? Cause you never had a run in the middle of the night. See your Mars face with a lint mob comin' after you. There's no way to escape except into the swamp. I can still hear them laughin' hootin' how they'd string up Paul. They came huntin' us for days. That's hidein' in the mud. More takin' sickin'. Paul willin' to give himself up, even get lynched to save us. We know she was dying and she noted it. A look in her face, no one we was lost in the swamp here. Watchin' her die that way. What did we ever do to you ones on the outside to get this? Well, all I know is that folks think you're old days. Well, that's what we want. And they're gonna keep on thinkin' it. Nobody's gonna tell them different. Well, if we get them out, they're asleep and the shack goes up. There'll be a mood that we'll find a way. I wouldn't if I was you, son. I told you before you had to kill me to keep me here. I'm gettin' advicein'. Take the dog and get it if you want her. Only Laura ain't she ain't so forgiven. You seen her huntin' today? Oh, yes. She walks like a shudder in the swamp. You'd never know when she caught up with you. And if you're here, why not make the best of it? It's quite nice. Well, down with the fire. Get yourself some rest. Are you sleepin', Laurie? I ain't goin' no place. It's hard to convince. Hey, Laurie, I don't know how to tell you this. Well, things is different now. Oh. Well, when we was alone here. And there's one thing but, you know, the difference. What do you mean? And the way Ben was lookin' at you out there after supper. He looked at me before then. But you don't understand. I'm your father. He ain't. You're a girl. And he's a man. Well, what you so fussed up about? Well, it's hard to explain. I mean, with him, gonna be here with us. He... I'm thirsty. I'm gonna get a drink of water. There's water in the gourd. No, I want some fresh. I'll go down to the spring. Good night, Paul. Good night, Laurie. Ben. Uh-huh. Ben, wake up. Mr. Harper. What's the matter? Now that the spring is caught in the mountains. I've been beat. Paul! Come back as quickly as I could. Well, thanks, Laurie. Get the knife, please. Oh, wait. Maybe if I... Get away from me. Cut both ways, Laurie. Cut the point. I will, Paul. I will. If you don't die, you can't die. Why can't you hear me? You've done all you could for him. That mouth is awful bad. If you want, I've got to say a prayer. You'd be alive if you stayed where you belong. Maybe so. This is for Jim Harper. It ain't for me to judge whether he was guilty or wasn't it? You know better about that than any of us. Only, I got a feeling that he suffered a mortal heart for no fair reason. If you know how to take care of that, Lord. And was he guilty? Please forgive him. Amen. Laurie. Get away from me. I hate you. I hate all of you. All right. Don't you, Paul, got to have a decent burial, so let's get it finished. Then you're going to show me the way out of here. He won't be too soon for me. Well, me neither. Go fetch his body. You don't need to fetch nothing. He all right. He ain't no ghost. Jim Harper. I'm still alive. I'm living this. Let the Lord wield it, Laurie. You know what I've got to leave? Can't die before you get back out in the world. It's all right, honey. It's going to be all right. You can take it, Ben. How many miles have we come? My canoe, 10, maybe 11. My foot, maybe five miles more. I've never seen so many creeks. Swap all around. Maybe now you know why you've never got out less than I showed you. Now look there below us. What is my canoe? Only don't walk a straight line for it. You go around that stand of cypress. That state ahead is all quicksand. It'll be swallowed up before you notice. Now listen close. Pull your canoe around that bend. Water broadens out and you'll see the river. All the river and you'll get home. Thank you. Well, now if you know, you think you can remember all the markers to get back in? I think so. You get lost and we ain't around. Oh, I'm sure. I got it all fixed in my mind. See, there's the banyan tree marker and the limestone bar. And then there's that gumbo limb that stands atop the mound of shells with the root pointing like an arm. And you won't have no trouble. And remember, man, you can't talk to a nun back here. Not even your own Paul. He's a good man, but people are just people. I'll talk to no one. Only the lawyer. What about the skins you gave him, Paul? The fur. Well, I'll sell them like I said. Mr. McGowan owns the store in Fargo. He'll give me a fair price. When you get the money, well, half of yours. Because you're partners. Use my share to hire a lawyer. The best one you can find. I'll get him, Mr. Humpf. The answer to this is all over why you and me is going to be trapping partners. There's a heap of money in this swamp, all right? You could leave your dog with us. We'd take good care of him. Are you afraid I wouldn't come back otherwise? No, I'll come back. Nothing will stop me. Bye, Ben. Bye, Mr. Humpf. Goodbye, Miss Naughty. Bye, Ben. Before we continue, I'd like to say the following morning. Ben's crossed the river and once again is at the shore near the village. For a moment, he hesitates. Will he see Noreen first or his father? And then, he turns his steps towards his father's house. We have come back. Didn't nothing happen, either, Pa. Didn't it? I slept for three days and three nights searching for you. I'm sorry, Pa. I found careless, and look. Look at the skins I got. Black pants are pawing at fox and otter and muskrat. The whole treasure of them in the swamp, we could make a support. You ain't gonna set foot in that swamp again. I know my way in there now. I wouldn't get lost. You heard me, Ben. You ain't going back. I ain't a child, Pa. You can't stop me from going back. I'll show you who can. You want more? Is that enough? Oh, I ain't gonna lift my hand against my old paw. But you're not gonna stop me from going. Then you ain't gonna live under my roof. That's up to you, Pa. Get out. Come here and get out. I told you I'd get back in the arena. I went by your paw's door first. I thought maybe you'd be there. Well, I should've been by him, Ben. Oh, is that good? Oh, they're just things. This one's for you. Ben. It's cologne. Pa said you like it fine. I'm taking what you got for me. See, it's not here on the porch where everybody'll see you. I can't see nothing they don't already know about it. Ain't you gonna tell me about the swamp? Wasn't you scared in there? Nope. Oh, it took a while to get used to the idea how easy it was for us to move around in there. But we even went as far as the... Whee? Who's Whee? Well... Careless me and the dogs. Who else could it be? Well, I don't know. And I don't you go getting any foolish ideas about it, honey. Well, I just peed and I wasn't doubting it. Ben, I didn't think and maybe ought to talk to Pa about figuring out for the wedding. Oh, sure. You know that when I get back from this next trip in the swamp. Next trip? Oh, no. No, you can't go in again. I couldn't stand it again. You wandering around that sinkhole never knowing what's happening to you. It's not fair to me, Ben. Oh, ain't nothing gonna happen, honey. How do you know you're lucky this time? Everybody knows it's set in you. Nobody around here knows nothing about that old swamp. No? Well, what if you know about it? Nothing much, except that I... I know how to move around there. I'm going back for all the skins and I'm gonna come out rich. You go back to that swamp, Ben, and we're through for good. That's just what you told me the last time. He didn't mean it there neither. Well, I mean it this time. Ben, please. Now, you listen to me. I split with my Pa on account of it. I ain't gonna let no girl boss me. I'm not trying to boss you. All right, Ben, just calm your fears. I'll be back in time to take you to the county dance. If you go back, you needn't bother. I'll be going to the dance with Jack Doran. Doran? Well, I might be sorry for the like of pleasure you have from it. You watch yourself, Ben. You're heading to be taken down. You hear me, Ben? I tell you again that I'll be back in time to take you to the dance. Back from the swamp, huh? You seen him, McGowan? Sure, I seen him. He just left here. You know, sir, me and Harry here, we've been thinking about, Ben. That all you longed and boys gotta do. Ben, come in here, and he's throwing McGowan that bundle of skins. Real pretty skin. Yeah, got a pile of money for him, too. And it seems the money's set on getting a lot more. A claim is, um... he's been in any trouble with the law. Well, I'm Sheriff, and I ain't here to do it. Why? Well, before he left here, he asked me who was the best lawyer in the county. Now, I figure there's something wrong when a man asks about a lawyer. Who'd you tell him? Well, Judge Sloan, of course. Yeah, take a look at these skins, Sheriff. What about it? Ben was gone for three days, huh? Well... three days. And the ship's health's been drying for at least two weeks. Go on, feel it. Sure feels more than three days old to me. Seems like you longed and boys are right for a change. You see, Ben, before I find him, tell him I'd like to talk to him. No, you won't be seeing him that for a while, these ways. Why not? Because he's on his way back. Back to the swamp. You got back soon, Ben. Oh, Miss Lori. Where'd you come from? I've been following you for a mile or more. Where's your pa? Huntin'. We wasn't expecting you so soon. Oh, that's because I didn't see about a lawyer. Why not? Because all I got for the skins was $112. If we're going to get Judge Sloan for you, pa, he's the best lawyer there is, and we need $500. Where do you think you're going to get that much money? Artist skin? One artist worth ten or the other. And who's going to get this money, Ben? The lawyer or you? Oh, now look, I'm getting tired of you suspicioning me. I didn't go see the lawyer because I didn't want to take no chance of his turning me down, not having the money. Now, are you going to take me to your pa? They're going to me. Nobody wants to hold you. Just want to get them skins for your pa's sake. I got to get back in two weeks. Why? Well, dance. I don't want to miss it. I don't see as a dance to be much to miss. It is to me. Pa's told me about dancing. Just a lot of folks getting all prettied up to stomp around. Well, you sure could dance. I'm dressing up. Here. Here, I'll bring you some. So you look decent when you and your pa come out of here. Well, take it. You sure make me feel like a jackass for doing it. Well, ain't you even going to look and see what's there? Ribbons and fumes and a dress. They ain't all these events. There's stuff there that goes under the dress. I went all the way to LaBelle so folks wouldn't wonder about it. Nothing to say, I reckon. What more could I do? Ben? Where? I know a place that's seaman with art. It's down to the mangrove. Well, first I got to see your pa. Follow me. They're just beautiful, Ben. Thank you. A box full of seagorns. Really? And you ain't seagorns. I couldn't figure what else you'd rather have. Can you tell me about the lawyer, pa? Sure, Laura. Here, here. And he done right. Been done right to come back to us first. He wants us. Well, you know, I can tote back. We'll know that, can you? In two weeks' time, Mr. Harper? Maybe even less. We'll travel him. He and Laura he'll teach you how. Only there's one thing that's got to come first. How's that, Mr. Harper? My seagar. A light for my first seagar in eight long years. Where's your pa? In the shaft. He went to bed. He said to say good night. He's working too hard. He ain't hardly cured yet from that snake bite. When you came back, he said, Artis, in two weeks, he said. Pa's done his part. And prime skins every one. You wore out, too? A little. I like to sit up at night, um, like this close by the fire. Swamp's full of magic at night. More meanness than magic, if you ask me. No, it's real pretty when you get to know it. Look up in that tree in the branches. What are they, flowers? Swamp orchids. Of course, there's roses, it's pretty. Only, I don't let them like town flowers. I'm going back tomorrow, Laura. I know. I hear you're talking to Pa. You ever yearn to go back? Sometimes I do. But I don't think there'll ever be a time when I won't want to come back to the farm to see it, hear it, then tell me some more about that dance. The dance? Well, it's, uh, the colors and music and folk and all the tunes that play that make you want to dance with a pretty girl in your arms. You got a girl? Oh, sure. Pretty? Oh, sure, she's pretty. Ain't none pretty. We're engaged to be married, but... Oh, I don't know whether she's going to the dance with me or not. Why? Why wouldn't she? Well, she's Irish and she's stubborn. You didn't want me to come back in here, but I told her I had to. And why you had to? Maybe you told her that, too. Oh, you still don't trust me, do you? You don't, you damn it. It's just so awful hard to forget. Supposing she won't go to the dance with you, will you still go? I don't think I'm likely to. I don't know where I had to fell if I was a girl who wasn't already there. Why? I ain't the blindest fool. You. You're crazy. Supposing folks just to find out who I was before you got things fixed up for Paul. But the dancers had my bell. See, folks come from all over. Wouldn't nobody know you? I'd be real proud to take you, Lauren. You look real pretty all dressed up. You mean I ain't so pretty now? Oh, no, I didn't mean that at all. Would you come, Lauren? Leave the swamps across the river. I ain't left since Paul took us in. No, no, I couldn't. But someday when we get out, there'll be other dancers. Yeah, sure. You'll be leaving early, huh, Ben? Daybreak. And the next night, you'll be dancing in the bell. You take care, Ben. You find us that lawyer. I will. Good night. Good night, Laurie. Here you done real good, Ben. Ten times better than last time. You sure you done it all by yourself? The only way I could. Or maybe did you find them two trappers alive? Well, them trappers is dead for sure. For sure? How you know? Well, everybody knows me and Paul found a canoe turned over, along and back with a hat. You long been seem mighty hard to convince. Us longers just don't figure it likely for one man to get all them out of skins by itself. Maybe I was lucky. Yeah. You going to the dance? I am too. With no reason? No reason going with Jack Durant. He just told me. Maybe we'll see you there. Yeah. He'll see you full of liquor, Ben. Maybe you'll tell us how you got them out of skin. You do that, Harry, and maybe I will. What can make of it? I don't know. One thing's certain. Them two trappers are dead. Then if someone give him those skins... Yeah. There'd only be one man. What are you thinking? Just what you're thinking. Come on. You ain't doing much dancing, are you? You're doing enough for the both of us. I danced with you, Ben. Only I had promised everyone to Jack. You ain't fooling me none, Ben. You're mad, and I'm enjoying it. Thank you to enjoy it back on the dancing platform. I've been thinking, Ben. Maybe if I tried real hard, I might be able to talk Jack out of just wonder. Aren't you going to kiss him? No. No thanks. Who are you staring at? Who's that over there by the road? Ben, who is she? You better get back to the dance before Jack starts looking for you. Laurie. Oh, Laurie, you came. Bob brought me to the edge of the swamp. He's waiting to take me back. He was hoping that he had some word, Ben, about that lawyer. Oh, I'm going to see the lawyer tomorrow. McGowan says there's over $500 worth of skin, but he can't give me the money till the bank opens. You mean we've got enough? Oh, more than enough. Maybe in a few days it'll be all fixed up for you and your party come out. I can't hardly believe it. Ben, are you sure it's all right for me to be here? Half the people here don't hardly know each other. They come from all over the county. Oh, you're awful pretty, Laurie. Pretty and any girl here. The dress, it fits me fine, Ben. You want to dance? I've been watching them. I think maybe I better watch a little more before I try. Sure, Laurie, you come with me. Ben, just for a minute, honey. It's all right, Laurie. I'll be right back. I just wanted to ask you something. Well? I didn't see you come to the dance with that girl. You and Jack were too busy to notice. You might have seen more in your face. Who is this? The girl I met around here. What's her name? Well, you wouldn't know. It's the new family that just moved here. A mighty pretty dress you've got on. I was wondering who you bought it for. What are you talking about? You bought that dress before you went back in the swamp. You bought it here in LaBelle. You saw it, saw you buying it. Don't look like that, honey. I'm willing to forget. What's there to forget? Lots of things. Lots of things that I'm beginning to suspicion. What are you thinking about, Ben? I'm thinking that I'm tired of being cussed out in suspicion. Well, I must say that's a nice way to talk to me. I don't reckon Jack Doran would talk like that to you. No, he wouldn't. He's got better manners. Why don't you get on back to him so I can be with my girl? Oh, now that's enough of that, Noreen. Is it? Yeah, I said that's enough. Oh, Noreen's having her fun. I don't hardly blame Doran for swinging on me the way she carried on. You all right? Oh, it wasn't much of a fight. Oh, ain't nothing going to happen either. You don't have to go now. I won't go back there. Well, then we go for a ride. But look, Pa, he's waiting for us. We'll get to him. It's early. Let me take you by to see the old harbour place. Your pa's old place. I couldn't. Well, you're going to be living again in Thule, too. Oh, sure. I know it needs fixing up. But please, let me show you, Noreen. I got horses in the rig. It ain't no ride at all. No. No, I got to get back to Paul. It's just one thing I want to tell you. I know now why I told Noreen I didn't want to marry her. Why? Because I don't love her. I guess I never did love her, but I... I never know for sure till tonight. It's you, Noreen. And I think you feel about it just the same, Smith. Dan. Well, good evening, Miss Hawson. Well, what a man won't do just to get at a girl. She knows. About your pa? Of course I know. Oh, I swear I didn't tell her. She must have heard. Ain't that just like a man now trying to get out of it? Of course he told me that she'd tell the girl he's going to marry her. I didn't, Noreen. I didn't. She must have heard me when I said the harbour place just now. Goodbye, Dan. Lori! You're of the wilderness, starring Jean Peters as Lori and Jeffrey Hunter as Ben. Lori's disappeared, but Ben knows that by now she's safely back in the swamp with her father. It's morning. And Ben's in the village, in McGowan's store, to get the money for the lawyer. But in the store, a dozen angry men have gathered. Here's your money, Ben. Same as I promised you. But was I you? I let it sit here for a spell. Well, I'm Miss McGowan. I like you, Ben. But don't make no trouble, Noreen. You won't get none. What do you want? We want you to lead us to the swamp and show us where Jim Harp is. Who told you I know anything about Jim Harp? You'll know how we know. Reckon the whole county knows was Harper's daughter with you last night in the bell. Where's the sheriff? I'll talk to the sheriff. We sent word from Ben. Seems like he's tired up on official business somewhere as near Brunswick. Yeah. That'll make sense now, don't it, Ben? How you come back here with skins that's been dried for weeks, Ben. Jim Harp is wanted for two murders. You know that as well as we do. It's your duty to show us where he is. But we don't aim to waste the morning, Ben. We'll make you tell. Maybe you longed as ought to tell what you know too. And what do you figure to mean by that? What are you talking about, Ben? Ask Harry and Dave to tell you. Ask them to tell you the truth about their brother and Sam Black getting killed eight years ago. I ain't gonna listen to the lies that Harper filled you with. There wasn't a murder he could give himself up. What are we waiting for? Ben wouldn't talk. Let us get him down to the cliff. Hold his head under water for a spell and talk plenty. You take your hands over him. We'll wait for the shearers. And get Harp for more time to escape. Ben, please take us to Harbour before you go. You won't get nothing out of me. Nothing. Take hold of him, boys. Get him down to the cliff. Get out of yourself, Noreen. I didn't know they'd do this. He knows Ben. He'll never kill. And they'll kill him. If anything happens to Ben, it is your fault. Where are you going? To get his car. He's swallowing up the creek yet. He's got nothing to do. All right, boys. Push him down under the... I don't know. I guess I am. Now you're coming with me. Ain't nobody going to stop us. I was aiming to stop Harp. I was going to tell you... You don't have to tell me nothing, son. Come on now. We're going home. Listen, Harp. I've lived with Jim Harp. All he's asking for is a fair trial. You got no count to worry, boy. The sheriff's on his way. Even them longans got better sense than to start more trouble till he gets here. What'll we do, Harp? We'll go to the courthouse tomorrow and get things arranged. Judge Sloan and everything else. Then you can go back to the swamp and bring him out. Him and the girls. There he is. Bam, shut up. We've got to get this canoe out of sight. Guess what way he's going. Dave, you thinking about the news? I mean that way. Follow them here. I told you before. It don't matter. Ain't nobody leaving the swamp except me and you. Now where is he? He's pulling short. He's getting out. And I'll get rid of him now. Put that rifle down. I ain't going in there. I ain't going in the swamp. We won't have to go in there. If Ben's walking in this way, then he's got to walk out this way. We'll wait where we are and get them all. And make sure ain't nobody left that can put a rope around our neck. You've got to listen to me. The letters from the lawyer and the sheriff. They guarantee your protection in a fair trial. Now if only you... And seal them or you'll get dropped in your tracks. Oh, Jim. Laurie, it's got an hour. They've done you. Don't move. All I'm asking is you to calm and read the letters and see if they ain't true. Now drop them on the ground. No, there's an official letter from the sheriff with his signature on the seal. Oh, Laurie, please. I'm speaking the truth. I know what you're thinking. How are you going to believe anything I say after what happened? But I've never told Laurie never. But please, give your father a chance to clear his self. Have he? He's a lawyer. Hey, look who you... You believe him? I got to believe him. I don't want to go deeper into that swamp, Laurie. I just can't bring myself to do it. We've been in here too long. All right, Paul. Be careful. Be waiting for it, Tim. Just to make sure no harm will come to you. Yeah. That's what he says in the letter. Somebody be, Laurie. They're going home. You're much farther now. I'll put my canoe up. Paul, wait. Something's littering in the sun. Something's moving down there. Get out. You're crazy. You're moving out here. I got my knife on you. Don't worry. It's right. We're fools that trust anybody. There's some good people out in the world, but they ain't. We can't stay here talking them long until it's coming at it. You know who it is, eh? That's true. You brought them here. Well, there couldn't be nobody else. They must have followed me. You mean you brought them in. They hate me the same as they do you. Oh, look, I wouldn't do a thing like that. I swear I wouldn't. All right. Then sell yourself to them. Stand up and sell yourself. You want me to get killed? I want to find out if anyone from the outside can tell the honest truth. What do you say to them? Go on. They ain't going to shoot you. You're in cahoots with them. I said show yourself or I'll stick this knife in your back and clean up to the hills. All right. All right. I'll show myself. Ben. Oh, I'm all right. I missed again. Who says they missed the other time? Oh. My leg. You can't stay here, Laurie. They'll be coming after us, like Ben said. I won't leave you behind. You hurt me. You've got to leave. We'll make them tell us that they won't get him. What do you say, Laurie? Who do you follow? Where? Back away. Same as we say. Back to hard ground. They're still coming, Laurie. Well, they're slow now. They can't figure where we're at. That dead limb over there. Can you reach it? This? Hold it up. Move it in the back. Close those fingers tight. When they shoot this time, make out like you were here. Then follow me again. All right. Now. Where are we going? Little mud. Come in this way. They're coming. Over that place. Paul warned you about it. There's no getting out of that quicksand once they're in it. I've seen it swallow up deer and pants. It's just like they were. Stay, stay! Jim Harper and Laurie. It was I, you, I joined the folks down at the river waiting to give them proper welcome. What about them longed-in boys? Dave ain't never coming back. Slump got him. Quicksand. Harry, he's in jail in LaBelle where me and the deputy just took him. Ben had pulled him out and got his confession. All these years that, he blamed Jim for what them longed-in sons. Now let's get down to the story. What you say to you folks except... Thanks. Yes, thanks. The doc's waiting for you, Jim. We'll take you over to my place. Don't have to go to jail now? We try? Well, you're sort of under arrest, Jim. But the folks here put up your bail. And we're fixing up your house. Everything's going to be like it used to be. Your leg, Jim. We'll give you a hand over the wagon. You didn't know where... Wait just a minute. It's kind of like the look for the spell. People in this village, it's like coming back to life, huh? Your dog, Ben. Get him. Come on, you fool dog. Get in the wagon. What's this year's dog ain't done? Oh, it ain't all over yet, Pa. Me and Laurie were... we were fixing on getting married. Who says we are? I say we are. Well, I'm obliged, Ben. That's all I wanted to know. Jeffrey Hunter, please step forward for a curtain call. I believe this is your first appearance in the Lux Radio Fist. Yes, Mr. Cummings, and it was certainly a pleasant experience. Jeffrey hasn't spent much time in Hollywood, you know. We made Lord of the Wilderness in Georgia, and then Jeff left for England. Yes. There was a co-star with Mike Orrani and Wendy Hillerin, CS Forester's sailor of the King for 20th Century Fox. I was there for four months. Let's be repatriated to Hollywood. Those glamorous premieres and beautiful Lux girls. And baseball. Honestly, Jean, you're baseball crazy. Yes, but it all goes together. Hollywood stars attend premieres and they're practically all Lux girls. I know, I certainly am. And they play baseball. Okay, we'll all go to a game. Okay, pick me up on South Street. South Street, I see. Which way does that run? Well, it's running all over the country. Because pick up on South Street by latest pictures of 20th Century Fox with Richard Widmike. What do you want to do for baseball and to plug in your own pictures? All right. Well, let's talk about the pictures you're going to do on Lux Radio Theatre next week, Irving. Well, next Monday, 19, we'll begin our new summer theater. And what will be different about summer theater? Well, Jeff, so many times stars have told me that there are certain roles they'd like to play. There are stories in magazines they've liked, novels or plays that haven't been made into motion pictures. And so on the Lux Summer Theater, we thought it would be a good time to present some of your favorite stars in some of these roles they'd like to play. Oh, I think that's a wonderful idea, Irving. Who's going to start off the season? One of our most popular stars, Gene, and a very versatile actor, William Holden. And he has chosen the delightful comedy role of Van Don in Maxwell Anderson's prize-winning play, High Tall. For a roping night on the Lux Summer Theater, be sure to listen. And that sounds fine. Best wishes and good night, Irving. Mind you, Irving. Good night. Good night, and see you at the ball game.