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Okay big fella take them and get going through that door Nothing personal constable, but I'm glad to so long You know if they'd needed just one more guy on the county farm to fill out that labor gang they're getting up You'd be a mighty overworked young fella about now too bad. I missed it, huh? As I say this is your lucky day kiddo, but I got a little advice for you Don't walk into any more bars in this town and start trouble. We don't like that sort of thing I don't like your town constable. What do you think of that? Well, I think you're kind of a smart alecky young fella And I think you should get out and leave it alone if that's what you feel and don't get fussy with me I like the town and I'm the law What kind of work you do I'm a riveter construction jobs Now that's what you ought to do instead of getting into trouble work at your riveting But I told you this when they brought me in here and I'm gonna say it once more before I go Oh, it's that that bird I hit he didn't have any reason to get huffy with me I wasn't doing anything to him. I was just in there having a beer by myself He got nasty. I hit him and I wind up in jail doesn't seem like justice to me. Did he hit you? No, but he tried to law says you assaulted him big fella. Well, you see you learn something here at that Where you from Illinois? Maybe you ought to go back there son. I wouldn't stick around here if I was you You don't seem to get along with us here I get along. Okay. All I need is a fair shake Maybe so maybe so but I've hauled a lot of people in here in my day And you know what I called you when I first saw you when I didn't even know why you were brought in I Called you a brawler son. I called you a gas house playboy Always got to get yourself in fights. I'm all right. I don't look for trouble. I just like to hold my own That's up to you of course. Hey What is it son $2.90 missing out of my bill for oh, I I took it For two meals you had here breakfast and lunch in this county. Don't pay board for prisoners who can afford it. Well, thanks Better run along now and stay out of trouble All my boys know you and our policy is to keep an eye on fellas like you so watch your step I will I couldn't afford another day in your jail That's pretty good son, that's pretty good That's about the way this whole thing began I mean me getting out of jail after a night and morning of cooling off I've been in jail before and I guess I deserved it, but this time I didn't I've been watching my step for a long time now And they didn't have any call to book me in When I walked outside that afternoon I began looking around for this guy I didn't know his name or anything, but I sort of remembered what he looked like Seemed as though it'd be a good idea to hit him once more before I left town I'd have been much better off. I'd gotten out of there on the next bus Hmm me sorry, I don't know your name, but you're the one who was in the bar last night. Aren't you I guess I was why Is it all right now? Well, I'm out if that's what you mean My name is Mary Jane Mary Jane Kennedy I knew they put you in jail, and I don't think it was a bit right, but I'm glad you're out now I was going to come in and ask about you just now, but I didn't even know who to ask for a Jim Walters They call me Walt. Well Jim, I mean Walt that was a pretty decent thing you did last night I'm awfully. Sorry. You got into trouble over me. Huh? Well. I'd like to do something. I Mean it was very nice of you and I Where are you going now no place well come on let's talk Sure, why not now for a couple of seconds there? I forgot all about this fellow I was looking for because this little girl was real cute So I went along with it But I also thought maybe I'll find the guy this way So this is your place, huh? Yeah, excuse me sure Pretty nice. Oh, not so nice pretty awful as a matter of fact I'm going to move as soon as I get a chance. Yeah What's so awful? That's what's wrong a fun park. I think it looks kind of pretty myself The Ferris wheel and the roller coaster and all sure do you don't have to live with it every day and every night You did you'd soon get over that? It's a horrible place ugly and cheap noisy Just horrible. Oh, that's too bad But I work near here. This is the only place I could get so I have to live in the area until I can afford something better Oh noisy Why do you work Mary at Allied aircraft? I'm a secretary. That's pretty nice Say, yeah Wouldn't happen to have a little drink around here. Would you drink? Yeah, you know bourbon maybe a glass of beer. I Wasn't thinking of anything like that walled No What were you thinking of that? Well, I just wanted to talk to you quietly for a minute. Thank you for your help last night. Oh That's it, huh? Yes, that's it beats me just beats me Maybe this is just a crazy town. I don't know. I don't understand you look sugar You can play it any way you want to but it was you who met me outside the jailhouse You were waiting for me and you brought me over here now. I saw you maybe I saw you I don't know once before in my life and that beer joint last night. Maybe you say you were there I guess I might have seen you Now here. I am at your place. I asked you for a drink. You start getting coy Mary you can thank me all night long, but I never did anything for you in my life. You're very funny wall Yeah, it's a real scream. All right Suppose we look up a drink around here and then Well, we sit down over there where we can look surprised at each other a little better, huh? I don't have anything to drink here. I don't want anything Well, that's pretty definite Walt last night you hit Tim you hit him good and hard and you got in trouble for it Why'd you hit him Tim? That's the name of the guy. Yes, Tim Bennett. Why'd you hit him? Well, because he got awful frisky with me and I don't let anybody get away with that kind of thing If he hadn't combined started shooting off his face everything would have been all right as it was he made me hit him And then I had to spend the night in jail because he felt frisky. I Don't understand this I've made a mistake. Well, I don't understand it either Don't look at me that way. I haven't done anything to you. Didn't you know I was with Tim Bennett last night. Were you? Yes, of course, I was with him and it was pretty nasty about Owen and me just when he was going to hit me you hit him Well that clears that much up So I did do something for you that but you didn't hit him on account of me. Did you sure I did baby sure Oh, no, you didn't you hit him for some other reason. No, no, baby. Now. Let's have a drink. I'll get out of here I met you today because I thought you helped me last night. You didn't help me or nothing but a brawler. All right, I Hit him because he walked by and said something that doesn't mean we can't be friends my mistake, mr Just go and forget it. Okay We both messed this one up didn't we Mary well Can you tell me something what where can I find it Tim Bennett? Yeah works at the fun park He owns part of it. Well, where do I find them over there? I don't know. Maybe at the Ferris wheel sometimes the fun house Who's all around why well, I still remember I spent the night in the pokey on account of him I think he's kind of a big talker needs a little working over before I leave town Before I leave town, I think I'll look him up and smack him once again Maybe that was the wrong thing to say but I had it on my mind and I let it out It's just the way I am get everything squared away and ship shape before I move on to the next town You know no loose ends tidy things up Besides I've always been a sucker for What do I find Tim Bennett Tim Bennett friend he owns part of this junkie. He works here. Where do I find him? I want to talk to you Rather fun house Pally. Thanks Don't I know you why should you? Because I hear you had a little trouble in a beer joint with Tim last night, and I guess you know me You say the fun house. Yeah right across the way, and I have fun. Don't worry. I will Where do I find Tim Tim Bennett? Yeah back there? Inside you mean inside. That's right When we be out. I don't know. He's working on the giant On the what the giant of Thermopylae he guards the back exit. He was a Greek Is that him back there? No, you can't see him from here. What's the gimmick? Well, you seem like a bright guy, so I'll tell you see the civilians go in through here They walk all the way through the fun house to the back and they think that's where they're gonna come out But they can't because the giant is standing there guarding the door So they have to come back through the whole place and come out the front here same way they went in No, it's not fancy. We think it is. How big is this giant? Oh nine feet tall, maybe Isn't that cute? Yeah, every once in a while. He don't work so good Tim is the only one knows how to fix him Delivers go bad and everything happened this morning. Tim's been back there ever since wait Got her going in too. Well, you're a real panic. I want to see Bennett Well, you'll have to go through the house. Okay, and you have to get a ticket Well, I wouldn't want to miss it here sure That way. Thank you. Oh You can lay off the air jet when I go in huh laugh get her I don't like them. I mean fun houses. They give me the willies But I had myself a nice little idea If Bennett was in there working on that big giant, I'd find him and it'd be just him and me inside No local cop around to toss me in the pokey I still owed him something for the night before and I could pay him back and sort of have a little extra fun in The fun house where nobody bothers Took me ten minutes to scram through the barrels and the room of mirrors and the slides and whatnot before I got to the giant It was nine feet tall easy And it had this ridiculous motion when I was standing up it blocked the door all right, but then it would laugh And as it did then it would bend forward like it was staring at something on the floor then after a couple of seconds It would straighten up again with all its gears clanking By the time I got to Bennett he'd gotten it fixed good seemed to be working just fine Sort of automatically I looked at the floor where the giant was looking And all at once I didn't want to see Tim Bennett anymore because he was lying there right at my feet And there were four holes in his shirt front four holes made by a knife and Tim Bennett was as dead as you can get I Turned around I wanted to get out of there, and then it occurred to me that the way out was through the front And me and my big mouth everybody in the world almost knew I'd been looking for Bennett so I could hit him I had to get out sure But I couldn't get out the front the back was the way out out through the door behind the giant But how to do that? Well watch the pattern of the big fella What exactly did he do was it impossible to get past him The lap and as he did it he bent down and looked at the floor which left a little space along his left side room enough to get through Before he straightened While he stood there not moving you couldn't get by it had to be real fast now. How fast Laugh five times then one two three four five On the count of five he straightened a beat of five between the last laugh and when he straightened And he came up fast and strong enough power to crush anything that got between him and the wall Was it that was it all right now wait for the laugh and as soon as he finishes laughing make a run for it Straighten up before I got a chance to move and now he wasn't laughing He was just looking down at me his glass eye staring and it seemed as though his wooden face moved a little Bringing you mr. 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Frank Lovejoy in Elliot Lewis's production of the giant of Thermopylae a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense I Take it from me, and I've been in plenty of places Hearing that thing talk and seeing it stop moving when I try to get out of there with something I sure hadn't counted on I Got it in my head all of a sudden that the thing could talk and that it could think If I tried to sneak by or rush at one of those big arms that come down against me and smash me against the wall I couldn't stay in there with that dead guy, and I couldn't go out the front way So I had to give it a try I So there I was sitting on the floor next to Tim Bennett who was dead Just kind of looking up at this big ugly giant, and he wasn't laughing now not a bit He was just hoping I keep rushing him until he battered me to death Because he wasn't laughing somebody from out front to come back to find out what was wrong with him And they'd find me in the body of this guy. I've been threatening all day After a while it seemed there were two of me The one sitting on the floor sort of whimpering and crying and looking at the giant the other one's sitting there and saying things to himself things about Giants and fun houses made of wood and metal and rags and a couple of gears well that one didn't whimper He said nothing like this big thing can talk really no giant They got standing up in the rear end of a fun house to scare the suckers can think and those big arms are only Levers and those eyes are only light bulbs and that laugh is only a record and the talk I Decided to find out about that Pilot junk. I'll show you. I'll show you this hunk of frame. I'll get you. I'll get you you I'll take a good look at this four feet of iron as tough as those arms of yours. Let's see how you like this That's it bend and see how you're like this That's so good, huh? Not so good. You'll want some more was right about the laugh. Anyway, it was a record now It was broken and then suddenly for no reason at all the arms started to move up and down again But without any noise and kind of helplessly. I didn't waste any more time I saw my chance to scoot and I did I sprung open the door behind the thing and I got outside Hey, what is this? Huh? What are you been doing you busted up the giant you crazy or something? Hey look buddy Where's Tim? He's in there with What's the matter with you? You're giant He's trying to turn his head. Huh? See he's trying to turn his head You busted I sure did I busted him good. I did he's bleeding look I showed him I showed him go ahead laugh laugh at me. No Catch a liar that and the blood all over the giant I wanted to run but my legs wouldn't have taken me anywhere if you'd given me a million dollars, so I Wind up here the same whole place a jailhouse only this time. I'm not in a cell I'm in a little room and the doctor keeps feeling my for it and asking me how I feel and giving me shots I tell him I feel fine Like to talk to somebody and he looks worried and he walks away I've been wondering about him. Maybe he doesn't feel so good himself I am good talk and he did be and he did scream I know he did I know he did Walters Walters Walters hmm You lie still big fella You got quite a fever. Yeah. Oh, yeah quite a fever Well, I better talk to you before you go back to sleep again May help your sleep. Hmm? Quite a thing out there in the fun house You didn't stay out of trouble at that, did you? No, no, if you're trying to say no, you didn't I get the idea so save your breath Well first off I talked to that girl name of Mary Jane Kennedy Very nice girl She told me how you were out looking for Tim Bennett sheriff. I know I was looking for him But just can't stay out of trouble. Can you got to always be hitting somebody making sure your top man? Well, you're top man this time. All right You know someday I'm gonna ask you how it feels to tangle with a giant, but I'm not gonna ask you right now No But I also talked to one of the barkers over there when you asked about Tim and a couple other people What about Bennett don't try to ace me son, you know Tim's all through talking He was stabbed four times. Well, I I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I was looking for him Sure, I was gonna beat him up a little but I didn't knife him. He was that way when I found him Honesty was and how about the giant? I had to fight with him Guess she did the guy inside him Huh the guy who was inside the giant working him. There was a man inside the giant There sure was but you kind of killed him big fella. You wrecked all the gears and he got caught in them You know who we are No No, he was someone just like you who didn't like Tim Bennett name of Owen Brady He wanted to marry that girl Tim was doing everything he could to louse it so Owen stabbed him and when you showed up He hit in the giant. He thought it'd be a dandy idea to tag you for the job He had no way of knowing you were on his side. He'd never seen you, you know Then he did talk. Oh, yeah, he talked and he bled and screamed He died in there You weren't hearing things or seeing things on it did happen Now Now maybe you can sleep a little better, huh? I Sleep but not much better. I know what it was all about now, but I I Still think of it and wonder about it and I hear it every now and then But I feel better I haven't fought with anybody for a long time now and never will again But my last fight. Oh, that was a pit. I whipped the giant of Thermopylae suspense Presented by auto light tonight star mr. 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It's called the last days of John Dillinger our star mr. Van Heflin That's next week on suspense Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lutton Luskin The giant of Komopoli was written for suspense by E. Jack Newman featured in the cast tonight were Charlotte Lawrence Joseph Kearns Paul Freese Herb Ellis and Jerry Hausner Frank Lovejoy can now be seen starring in the Technicolor picture beach head and remember next week mr. Van Heflin in The last days of John Dillinger You can buy auto light stay full batteries auto light standard or resistive type spot plugs and auto light original service parts at your neighborhood auto light dealers Switch to auto light. Good night The YMCA movement provides excellent Recreational facilities at small cost to hundreds of thousands of young people Why don't you check on the many membership advantages at your local YMCA? This is the CDS radio network